The Morning Stream - TMS 2210: The Millicent Episode

Episode Date: December 1, 2021

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I don't like lava cheese. Tickling, the chode. Unforeign. What's a hot pocket? The Keaton, Hulk, priestie thing. Belt sand her to the back. My spidey pillow is tingling. Bookamentals with Tom. Recommentals with Randy and more.

On this episode of The Morning Stream. And now in cooperation with police and federal law enforcement department throughout the United States, The only national program that brings you authentic police case histories. If you want to be popular with girls, call 976 Guts. The morning stream. No, you better don't. morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is Wednesday, December 1st, 2021. It's, so we got a, let's see, 12, 1,1, 21. So you got 1-2-1-2-1. That's pretty good. That's all right. That's pretty good. That's a good one.

Yeah, I give you a hard time when it's now a good one. This is a good one. Okay, good. All right. I've, I've judged it properly then. I was a little worried it wasn't a good one. Brian approved. approves. Okay, good. Someone mark that off. It's a brand new month. We're excited to be here. It's Christmas month. Happy Merry Christmas holiday business. Everybody, we hope you're already feeling the good times

and the family vibes and the whatnot. And that Omicron passes you over. Let's hope. Let's hope. By the way, if you did the Secret Santa, if you sign up for Tad Santa, you have an email from Tad Santa. If you don't find it, check your spam folder. Mine was in my spam

folder. So I'm glad I'm glad DJ Stangle reached out to me and said, check your email if you haven't gotten it. Sure enough, mine was in the... Look at DJ Stangle spinning those hits, spinning those email hits like he does. That's right, DJ Stangle, coming at you live with a giant head thing on.

By the way, so that's funny. I thought about this last night. Now I'll mention it since this sort of came up. Have you noticed that if you're going to be a popular successful DJ type, you know, spinning the EDM and the whatnot, you have to have a big marshmallow or mouse or some sort of head. Something over your head. Yeah.

Uh-huh. That's the deal. You have to have a big head. Exactly. Yeah. Why is that? Why do you think that happened? That's why an animal crossing, I'm a DJ King Tuts head.

Oh, perfect. Now, okay, quick question about that. Sorry, I'm all over the place. Sure. I tripped and fill. No, I don't have a good price for turnips. Quit asking. Not that.

Not that. I do have to get those. I have to offload some this week. Quit buying turnips. What are you doing? I don't know. I don't know why I did it. So your veggies. What's the matter with you? I saw her in town. She was hanging out by a tree. She had a bugger nose. And I went, you know what? Let's go ahead and buy out your stock. That's good. All right. Anyway, go ahead. You were going to say, you were going to say, I don't remember now. It was good. What was it? It was something. It was an animal crossing thing. It was before that. You said a thing, and it reminded me. I said King Tut's head. Oh, right.

It is Animal Crowsy. Okay. So when I got that, I crafted that head for the first time. Yeah. And I ran around with it. And every time I ran, I'd fall on my face. You fall on your face. Yeah, that's the joy of a King Tut head.

Now, someone told me that it's not just the fun or the joy or the goofy of the King Tutth head. It's the curse of the King Tut. Oh, is that what it is? Yeah, it's a curse of like I figured that that thing is so huge and covers up so much your vision that that's why

you fall over. It's heavy and it covers your whole head. Oh, showjo confirms. Shojo confirms. So it's the it is the it is the curse of the head. Is the curse of King Tut? Was King Tut cursed? Well, it's not just

the, so I thought it's because I talked to the Seance lady in town and she gave me an unlucky brand or whatever. Oh, yeah. And I thought that's all it was. But now that I've cleared myself of all curses, and now when I wear that thing, I still fall. Yeah.

So it's a little useless to me. Like, I spent real gold on that thing thinking, oh, I'll have this cool thing I'll wear all the time. No, I run a lot. No, it's a real pain in the butt. Yeah, forget it. It's more like a joke you play on your friends if they could put on the stuff you have in your pocket while they're over in your town, but they can't.

Yes. It'd be great if, like, there was some benefit that counteracted the tripping, right? Like, you got some perk. You get to go faster, but the head is cursed. But the head is cursed. But it comes with free Froggart. The Froggard is also cursed. I love that episode so much.

You make me want to watch it. All right. All right, I got a quick lesson, and then I want to play a game with Brian. I know we do a lot of Babel Royale, including today, and that'll be fun. But no one ever tests Brian. once in a while I come up with something. I had a little something for you today. Okay.

Before we do that, though, and I haven't told him he's no idea, so there's no cheating here. No idea. I learned that I can actually super hold in a laugh when I have to. Okay. Because sometimes I think I can't control that. If something's really funny, I have to laugh. Yeah. It's just in me.

You do Tina's voice, I have to laugh. Whatever. I have to laugh. So Kim's mom came by, which is never a laughing matter, by the way. They came by to bring us bread. They make bread, and they're super nice about bringing us bread. Did they make bread before the pandemic, or did they start making bread during the pandemic? They were making bread before the pandemic, and these days, they are, they basically are a bakery.

I don't know why they don't just open it up and make a bakery out of it, because they're making bread all the time. They made like nine loaves in a day. It's insane. They're like Jesus loaves. That is good for the weight loss right there. No kidding. It's like they give them one fish and one thing of bread, and now they're Jesus. They got all the loaves in them.

fish you need. But anyway, and this is an appropriate thing because she's kind of judgmental and very churchy and, you know, she gives me a hard time about every little thing. It's fine. It's mother-in-law. It's what you're supposed to do, right? And we love them and it's, you know, no hate here. But, you know, she's got all the mother-in-law traits that everyone, that drives everybody crazy. Anyway, they come over. They bring bread. And we're there. And it was nice visiting. And I didn't hug anybody because I'm still kind of sick. My head cold. hasn't gone yet. And she was asking about my back. And I said, oh, it's so much better. You know, it's like two weeks ago now. And I'm still a little, you know, it's sore. I can't, I have to be mindful of it when I'm moving around and stuff not to throw it out again. But I'm, I'm doing better stretching a little yoga in the morning. You know, I can walk, but, you know, all that. It's, it's good. It's like every two years this happens and every two years it takes about two to three weeks for me to kind of recover. And, and that's where I'm at. And so that's what I tell

And I start walking toward the kitchen to get some water. And she's on the couch just off to the living space there. And she says, Do you have a vibrator? And she says it loud. Okay. That's why I walk into the kitchen and I go, I'm going to laugh.

I'm going to burst out laughing. But I didn't. I freaking held it in. Like, I held it in. I don't know how I did it. And I know why. I know why, because if I had laughed, my brain knew. If I had laughed, I would have had to explain to her why I'm laughing.

Why it was funny? Sure. Yeah. And she doesn't know. She's, you know, I don't know, whatever. She has to know. Does she know? I mean, she is the most like, I don't know how to explain it.

She just is so, she's such a Puritan. She's so like, I don't know. What's the word? She's like a Quaker. She's a Quaker Oat. You know? All right. Yeah, I don't know.

I feel like there are women that pretend they don't know, but every woman knows. And I said, oh, yeah, I got one. I got a vibrator, I says. And I do. I have this back thing that's like a, the gun kind. Yeah, it's the gun, the tutu, too, too, too, too. That was, by the way, the number one recommended gift from Amazon this morning. Oh.

Amazon, my echo, did this whole thing about, it's the first of December. So, you know, ask me for. a gift. And you do that and then she tells you a limerick. And then she says, just for fun, ask me for another one. I said, oh, okay, well, give me another gift. And she's showing you gifts on Amazon.com. I'm like, I don't think that's what you were meant to do. But that was that one of those Theragun things was the number, number one recommended gifts. So who knows? Maybe somebody in my life is going get one of those. Maybe. And those are great. Those are great. And I think that's kind of what she meant. Although she has this thing that looks like a belt sander at home that's like a

You know the old school has two handles on it. And it's just put it on your back and then you itch for a month because it makes it. It's like a big shihatsu, like, yeah, that thing will. It's what, what Don Cheadle used to tunnel his way underneath the Bellagio in Ocean's 13. That's right. Yes. How else is he going to get in there, really? So it makes sense to me.

So anyway, so. Do you want to see what I have, Scott? Want to see how? Yeah, yeah. What do you got there? Oh, this won't surprise anybody. Yeah. Oh, look at this.

Spider-Man-branded pillow? What is it? Whoa. It's a little back pillow. Oh, it's a lumbar pillow thing. It's a lumbar pillow. It came with my gaming chair. Oh.

So that's a vibrator then. It's a vibrator. Brian's got a vibrator in his chair built in. Yeah. And I'm not afraid to use it. But anyway, I was tempted. Let me tell you what I was tempted to say. Does whatever a vibrator can.

That's right. Here's what I was tempted to say to my mother-in-law. I was tempted to say, yes, I do have one. It's shaped like a fist. It's all black. Like I wanted to give her like some horrible description of some awful, you know. Sure. The thing you'd find in like an alley in an old abandoned Vegas parking lot or something.

Just some nasty, decrepit old rubber unit. Of course. I couldn't do it. I couldn't bring myself to do it. So we moved on. I wouldn't be able to resist. I totally wouldn't because. it was hard you're a more disciplined man than i am scott if i'd have had one maybe two other

sons-in-laws in the room it'd have been over we'd have been screwed the whole the whole day would have been just about that and that's how it would have gone but thanks for the bread there francis we appreciate it and uh go get yourself a vibrator all right moving on hey hey look at this i'm gonna do a quiz with brian and uh you're gonna love this because uh probably not maybe you don't love it i don't know i just had this idea And I made this all up myself, right? I had to do my own research into what I wanted to do here. And so let me see if I have, I was going to do a little intro for you.

Hold on a second. We did trivia last night. So my brain is in trivia mode, hopefully still. Hopefully I didn't sleep it all the way. Let me, let me, I'll choose something from a list here. How about this? There you go. All right, Brian, welcome to Brian's pop quiz, Brian time.

All right. Okay. All right. Good. Good. Good. All right. Already loving the name.

Good. And also, this has to do with names. So how prophetic of you. So here's what it is. We all know a lot of characters in like popular culture, TV, movies, that sort of thing. We know their first names, often their last names, but almost always their first names. What we don't often know is their middle names or in some obscure cases, anything but their first name. And so I wanted to just test you to see how many of these.

popular characters are going to mention, how many of them do you know at least their middle name, if not their full name? Oh, okay, right. So, like, and these are characters who, whose middle name has been revealed? These are, yes, these are people who we do know their middle names. I'm not making up any of these. So, for example, if you said Homer J. Simpson, and I'd say, oh, his middle name is J.A. Y. Right.

And you'd be correct. And you would have found that out in that one episode. think they ever brought it up again. I never brought it up ever again. But it's now canon. So it's like that, although some of these are probably more known than others. It could be commune. Yeah.

Okay. All right. So I'm going to throw this first one out. You just kind of give you a softball. A warm up, sure. George Costanza. Are you aware of George? This is actually what's prompted the idea, because I'm watching Seinfeld, and they

uttered his middle name. And I went, what? He has a middle name. I've never heard it before. George. And it was Jerry saying it. Really? If that helps you at all, Jerry's the one that said it.

And he was doing it and kind of like. It was like a chastising thing, like, George Lorraine Costanza, I can't believe you do such a thing, kind of thing. Exactly that. But not Lorraine. Not Lorraine. Although you got scary close, that's weird. A biff. No, is it, I was like close.

Does it begin with an L? Yes. You're going to get it. George Leroy Kistam. No, George Larry Kistanzah. Is that your answer? Is Larry? Lawrence, Larry, George, Leroy, Kistanzza.

The answer. her is Lewis Lewis Lewis Guzance. Okay. All right. So that one's good. All right. How about this one? Really? Because that's, that's Julia Dreyfus's middle name. Well, I guess it's her hyphenate, right? Oh, right. Oh, right. I didn't even think of that. Yeah, that's funny. All right. Because it's more like Louis Dreyfus. Yeah. All right. Harry Potter. Famous Wizarding World character, Harry Potter, his middle name. Harry Potter. This one I felt like it was kind of easy, but I don't know. Maybe it's not. Harry Potter

No, because I haven't watched MASH nearly as much as you have. I haven't seen an episode of MASH in easily the last 25 years. Oh my gosh, you should binge me. I know. I should go back and binge all because it's so damn good.

Yeah, just have it on the background. Get work done. Just watch it. Harry James Potter. You are correct. Oh, my Lord. Really? Oh, I did not.

I swear to God, chat room is right there. No, I believe you. I was licking over here. So the reason that probably rolled off your tongue is it has been mentioned. His dad was James. There's a lot of talk of James Potter in the books and movies, so it's possible that it just was on the tip of your brain.

So I say, well done to you. Well done, sir. I'm going to continue looking this way. Chatroom, you are there. That is chat room. Look at that. They're a bunch of smarties in there. They all got it.

They're like a bunch of them all got it. Yeah. All right. I like Harry, Carrie Potter, Shave Maddox. Yeah, it's pretty good. Now, you may not know this, but Barbie's, Barbie, the doll. Sure.

Her first and last name are Barbara Roberts, but she also has a middle name. This one's kind of hard because you probably didn't know any of these things until I just told you. My Aunt Barb is the biggest Barbie fan you will ever meet. She has, in her house, right now, a regular Christmas tree with regular ornaments on it and a separate pink Barbie tree that has nothing but Barbie ornaments on it. Okay. Wow. That's awesome. All right. So Barbie's middle name, Barbie or Barbara Blank Roberts. Barbara Blank Roberts, correct. Barbara Lynn.

Let's see if it's Lynn. Is that your final answer? That's my final answer. Is it Lynn? No, the correct answer is Millicent. Millicent. David, I've heard that, and I should have remembered that. Barbara Millicent Roberts. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to change it up a little. and since you like you like the horrible game Monopoly

my opinions are well known on Monopoly not a family very well known yes do you know so you know Rich Uncle Pennybags Rich Uncle Pennybags yeah I don't even know his first name Well that's going to be the question because he doesn't have a little name Do you know his first name? I guess you don't His first name is it is it something like Milton

Oh You're tickling the chode here you almost got it Right because it's like a play on off of million, right? It's like Merri-Million, Marion. Look, see, this is Brian's trivia brain at work. He's going, he's going, all right, it's like

million, so we get the M-I-L, okay, all right, and you're actually on the right path, you're on the... Millicent, it's Millicent. No. That'd be great because they'd have mill and scent in it. Penny bags, scent, and, but no, what is it? It is Milburn, Milburn. Milburn,

yes, I've heard that. Milburn, Rich Uncle Milburn, Pennebags. Now, another one with first name, or sorry, this is a last name. So the flip of that is what I'm going to ask you on this one. All right. We all know the lovable toy story one through four character, Woody, played by Tom Hanks, right? Yeah. Do you know Woody's last name?

Manson. Woody Manson. The Manson family. name. Not Woody James Potter chat room. No, but it would be something something like Stetson or Woody, Woody.

It had to be like a really, see, this is why this is a Western contri-fied kind of name. Yeah, but also you're doing it in the right era, right? Like the singing Dale, Dale, what's his name? Dale Evans. Yeah, that era.

Right. Yeah. This is why, this is the brain of a dude, who does a lot of trivia stuff and this is a fun process. I like watching it. It's like watching your brain pop. Woody.

Anyone in the chat? No, nobody in the chat knows. This might be too hard. Woody. Woody Weeners. Woody Weeners. Woody Jackson. Woody Jackson.

Let's see if it is Woody Jackson. The answer is Pride. Woody Pride. Woody Pride. Okay. But that's a very like, I'm going on the prairie with my lady. you on my arm.

Yeah, it's absolutely like a country crooner name. Woody Pride. All right. Like Charlie Pride. I'm going to give you one. I think you know. Okay. The full name of Captain Crunch.

Oh, Captain. Yes. Captain Bartholomew. Oh, no, no. Is it Bartholomew? It is something like that. It is. I'll give you a point if you get the middle name right, even if the first or last.

Well, you know, Crunch, but. Yeah. If you don't know the first name, it's fine. it is oh um oh my god it is like a it is a seafarer like it is a name from that kind of era yep very explorery kind of uh yes yes it is even though he's a pirate captain or is he a pirate i don't know if he's a pirate no he's just a captain okay um i always think of him as a pirate for Captain Crunch. Was he a pirate?

Yarr! Shoot. He's a captain of the pirate. I'm going to kick myself as soon as you say it. I'm going to say Bartholomew, Crunch, and I know it's not Bartholomew. The answer is. Horatio.

Horatio Magellan Crunch is the full name. Magellan, yeah, Magellan. Horatio was the one I was that it was like on the cusp of remembering. I never would have remembered Magellan, oddly enough. Now, here's one that is just a straight up, you know, his real name. Shaggy from the Scooby-Doo deal. Oh, yes. His name is Walton Goggins.

No, his name is, I know this one. Norville, Norville. Yeah, yeah. Norville Roberts? Norville. Oh, you're so close. Norville. Robinson. Norville shit.

Norville shit. Norval shit. Norval shit. You're so close. I know. I know. Rogers, Norville Rogers. You did it. You did it. Cool. Nicely done. All right.

Shaggy, normal Rogers. All right, a couple more here. Mr. Peanuts' real name. Oh, Mr. Peanut. Yeah. He's, uh... Now, let me give you a hint. You have used his first name.

Gilbert Cashew. You've used his first name already in today's stuff in a way. Okay. And I'll say that when you used it before, it was wrong for that one, but it's right for this one. Yeah, okay. Bartholomew Peanut. Oh, you're so close. All right. This one is like, I almost feel like I can't charge for this one.

It's Bartholomew Richard Fitzgerald Smyth Peanut. Oh, good Lord. Yeah, okay. That's a freebie. We're not giving anybody your points for that or not. Okay. The last one. Let's see.

Oh, the Operation guy. The board game, you know? Oh, his name is, yeah, yeah, yeah. His name is Cavity Sam. Nailed it. holy shit my gosh brian all right you did pretty well i think for how hard this is you got three out of him i was open for a skipper or a professor or something like that yeah well you did 30 you did three out of eight uh you got correct now let me give you a couple that didn't make the cut sure um

mr peanut i put down there but uh cookie monster is real name is sid oh really cookie monster actually has an uh an actual first name i did not know that until today i found that out to the monopoly policeman has a name oh really yeah his name is officer edgar mallory the guy who basically just sits on the corner and says go to jail yeah he's got a thing in his mouth and pointing toward jail that's all he does whistle right that's right yeah it's all he does he's got his thing in his mouth i wish we were alive during that time where every police officer was a stereotyped irish guy remember that right yeah no it came from west side story right I know, that was Officer Kruppke.

Well, it was like an O'Malley. Officer O'Malley. It was always like everything. Yeah, yeah. Even like the old Batman series, they had to, Ah, Commissioner, we've seen Batman tonight in the thing. And it's like, what's going on with these Irish guys? Right.

All right. The other one was comic book guy has a name from The Simpsons. Oh, yeah, he does. You know it by chance? Seth. Seth? No. Jeff.

Oh, dang it. No, I can't remember. No, you got Jeff? Jeff is correct. Last name is Jeff. Yeah. Oh, geez. Jeff Winger.

Jeff, uh, Petensky. No, and it's never going to come to me. Jeff Potinsky. Nope, it's Jeff Albertson. Albertson. Albertson. Casper has a name. Do you know what that is?

And I'll tell you, it's a single line. Back when he was, like, when he was a boy, he wasn't Casper, the friendly boy. I assume so. And it's also a single name, normally a last name. I'll say it's Star Trek Next Generation related to help you out. Okay. Well, I'm sorry. It's an actor from TNG.

So don't think characters, think actor. All right. Actor, actress. All right. So it's normally a last name. It's not a date in that room. Stewart. See, that's not bad.

I would have picked Stewart personally. That is incorrect. It's McFadden. So his real, I guess his real name before death. Maybe he's Casper McFadden, I think, is how that is. Hey, we had a trivia question last night that we sussed out because I honestly could remember, but the question was, speaking of Star Trek, and speaking of Next Generation, um, uh, Jordy wears a visor because, uh, so he can see, blah, blah, blah, whatever.

That was worded better than that. Which other, uh, crew member has an artificial heart, human, which other human crew member has an artificial heart? Oh, uh, Picard, because he got the Domjot fight with the, with the alien guy and they hit him so hard in the chest he had to have heart replacement surgery or something. Okay.

See, I didn't remember that episode. I was thinking, we sussed it out as Picard anyway because I thought, well, maybe it came from the best of both worlds the Borg assimilation. Oh, that's a good call, though. That's a good...

Yeah, because then we went through everybody else were like, no, I don't think. And we went, you know, said, all right, humans. So that takes out Worf and, um, and,

uh, and, uh, Gade obviously and Troy. Yeah, it was those Gnossackens. Those Gnossacken buttholes. And they, and the reason I only remember it is because he was constantly, it was a Q episode where Q kept taking Picard back to old memories. And I remember those Gnossikins kept going, you play Dom Jot. Dom Jot, come play Dom Jot.

They kept talking like that. It's hard for me to forget it. I forgot that one. All right. We want one from last night. And this one will, this is, we were the only team in the bar to get this right. This was the final question. Give it to me.

It was the wager question. We were in a solid and second place. We decided not to wager because we were in 100% sure, but we ended up getting it right. Okay. But, um, and well, you know, let's not because I'm looking at this thing. It's a long question. So maybe not then. Well, all right.

I'll tell you. Here you go. All right. Um, put these values in order from largest to smallest. Go. Number of Grammy awards won by Kelly Clarkson. number of people who've walked on the moon, number of seasons that Julio Jones played in the Pro Bowl,

and the number of sovereign countries in mainland, North and South America, not including islands or the Caribbean. Oh, my Lord. Let me try this real quick. Okay. So, Moon, Clarkson, Julio Jones, and countries. Okay, I'm going to go, this is a complete guess.

Sure. Julio Jones, Kelly Clarkson, Moon, sovereign countries. Incorrect. Damn it. There are, Kelly Clarkson only has won three Grammys. Twelve people have walked on the moon. Ten, no, seven seasons, Pro Bowl for Julio Jones. And there are, I think it was 18 countries in the, or 16, is 18 countries in mainland, north, and South America.

So it goes, countries, moon, Pro Bowl, Clarkson. Okay. Clarkson number last. She's on the bottom. The fewest, the only three grandmas. is for Clarkson. I'm mad at her for performing at that Lula Roe thing. I watched that documentary that Nicole recommended. Matt at her for going to that thing. She made a bunch of money from it. It's probably not her fault. I'm still mad at her because those people...

I gotta watch that Lula Rich. Yeah, it's weird, man. Oh my gosh, I kind of hate it. People piss me off. All right. Well, anyway, that was fun. Hey, let's get to Dunaway, man. Now let's do more trivia. I'm in a gaming mood. Yeah, why not? Chatroom says they want me to do this more often. I'll, you know, making up Quizzes is not my life, but I don't mind doing it. I don't mind doing it here and there. I love it. I love, you know, proving that, yeah, even though I do this trivia thing on the regular, I'm no savant by any stretch of the imagination.

It happens to all of us, Brian. All right. That music signals an important part of our lives starting, which is Brian Dunaway joining us from South Carolina for a little Babel Royale. Hi, Brian. How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hey, man. It's nice to have you here.

How are you doing? Are you still mad at FedEx or everything good? Or what's the deal? What's going on? No, I finally got my package. I only had to make a lot of noise. That's all. Okay.

I just had to act like a squeaky wheel to, you know, to get the basics of service, whatever. Yeah. Look, once in a while, well, part of the problem right now is everybody's shipping everything wrong. Nothing's on time. So it's all really upped up this year. That was the first excuse they always give me. Oh, we're experiencing higher. I'm like, it's been a year and a half.

Yeah. And I'm complaining about not getting it. I'm complaining because your communication sucks ass. Yeah. Right. Yes, exactly. I don't mind it being late. Just tell me it's going to be late so I can prepare.

Exactly. Just don't let me sit there the entire window that you said it would be there. And then five minutes after window closes go, oh, we're not making it today. And by the way, we stopped by. Yeah. But we didn't. No. And that's infrastructure and operation.

I don't blame the truck driver. they need to figure it out up top the top 10 CEOs of FedEx make you know up to 10 million dollars a year hey just uh so your answer is you're not done with this yet and mentally mentally you're still dealing with it i get it yeah you know i'm really a long you could have just said no really you just said f those guys i'm never using them again uh all right we got a listener on the line who's going to play with us today let's find out who's been holding very patiently Hi, who's this? Hey, this is Luke and Drednex in the Tadpool.

Hey, Drednex. As always, good to hear from him. Good to see. He's always a name I like to see in the chat. It's always a friendly face. Welcome. You're going to be a part of today's Babel Royale family feud business, but Brian's got to explain the whole damn thing and give it the right title.

Brian, take it away. I do. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that the Tadpool gave us. And it's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Dreadnack's your job is going to be more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian.

And if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes 1111 Memories Retold and Sword Legacy Omen, which I tried to give away a couple weeks ago, realized that it was a carryover prize because somebody didn't win it. So now we're bringing it back. Oh, sweet. Bring it back. And you know what?

I'm going to add one game to it just because it's a snowballed. kind of thing. Middle Earth Shadow of War. I'm adding to that. Oh, that's a good. That's my, I really like that game. That game was shrouded in microtransaction controversy at the time. So some people forgot

that underneath it all was an amazing game and then they also tore all that stuff out so then it was just an amazing game but then people had moved on. It's really unfortunate because that game is awesome and our good friend and listener of the show Liam O'Brien did the voice of freaking

not Frodo Who's the little shit That wants the ring My precious Why can't think his name? Gollum Gollum Good Lord

Couldn't find it Boy that bodes well for today Anyway It should be really good Words I'm trying to use them Words Let's give you guys your topic Now here's a little bit of

Some setup Because I need to do some setup Two things Number one We were going to do this a couple weeks ago And Scott's back went out and uh yes yeah oh scott's fault okay no no go ahead well no so so usually what i do is i uh i get all the the questions i pull them from the spreadsheet all the responses i put them in a numbers document

i sort them i clean up all the answers make sure the correct answers are in there like that they're accurate you work really hard of these i do but but i also you know i take the top 10 but then i keep that spreadsheet open in the background so that if you give an answer 11 or 12 or 13, I can say, oh, well, that one didn't make the top 10, blah, blah, blah. In between then and now, I upgraded Monterey, and when I upgraded to Monterey, I was, like, closing everything in a hurry, and numbers said, oh, you have unsaved documents. Do you like where you want to save them? I'll make, no, click, click, click, and didn't realize that I'd close that.

I'd fortunately had already created the feud board, so I have the top 10. I just don't have a list of what's 11 or 12 or anything like that. That's great. That's one caveat to this. Number two, in a change, I took every answer that the, except for pass, that the Tadpool gave us. Okay. Okay. All right.

So I made sure that answers that were close to each other were combined into the same thing. And I made sure that the answers were accurate. But then there's also some other answers that they gave us. And that is all the setup you're going to get. Have I told you how much I admire your work ethic? Oh, he's a hard-working man. He's the hard-working. Thank you so much for what you do for us.

Not necessary, not necessary. But all right, let's do this. Okay, put your hands on your buzzers. On our buzzards, got it. On your buzzards, 573 tadpoolers responded to this. Wow, that's a lot of tadpoolers. It really is. Name a flavor of Hot Pocket.

Oh, come on. Uh, pizza. Uh, more information. Really? More information, please. Oh, um, pepperoni pizza hot pocket. Very good. Show me pepperoni pizza hot pocket.

Number one. Oh, my gosh. Pepperoni pizza number one answer, 272. That's funny. Uh, all right. It's the only one you, yeah, it's the only one you should eat, honestly. It is the only one you should eat. Yeah, the rest are bad.

Uh, all right. Loon pockets. Not included any of those It's good It may as well not exist All right Well dreadnex That means you're going to be working with Scott

Scott owns the board So Dreadnex You got any top of your head Hot pockets that aren't pepperoni pizza Oh my gosh I haven't eaten hot pockets since college Which is more years away

That I care to remember So I remember eating a lot of like ham and cheese Oh yeah The ham and cheese ones are very popular That's a good one Gross It's gross but I think that's a good call.

Let's say ham and cheese. Let's say ham and cheese. Show me ham and cheese. Oh, nice. Number two answer on the board. That's what I call Ham and Chamberlain. I call him ham and cheese sometime. All right, let's see.

Ham and cheese pizza. What else do we got here? Hamme cheese. There is a... Maybe a cheese pizza or something. I mean, he asked you to be more specific for pizza. It's got to be like another pizza answer. Yeah, good call, dude.

That's actually a really good point. Let's think for a second. What other kinds of pizza? Would it just be a cheese pizza? Oh, geez. This is more thought into hot pockets than hot pockets the brand. You're putting more thought into your answers than they put into their flavors. All I ever get out of it is diarrhea.

There you go. Let's go with, let's go cheese pizza. Sure. Why not? Okay. That's fine. All right. Cheese pizza.

I'm going to get Brian to do this every time we see. say anything. He's back there going doing his best doing his best Jeff Gaffigan. All right. Show me cheese pizza. It is the number three

answer. Trenched Wildfire says that they can't see the board. Sorry they can now. It's less Jim Gaffigan and more all the commercials of Hot Pockets now they sound in my head. Yeah, I mean those things. They always have to remind you at the end of the

commercial which one you won't. Right. This is true. So that has four cheeses. You guys are doing great. got the top three answers. I mean, you know, Brian could come in with answer seven and, uh, totally take the lead. I feel like Dreadnecks really nailed that one. So do you got any other hot?

I feel, I feel like I need to trust in your gut here. Well, that, uh, trusting in my gut seems like a good way to go with hot pockets, but, uh, I am pretty much spent on my suggested answers. Maybe like a, there's got to be like a broccoli cheese or something. Oh, yeah. You know what? You're right. I've had that. I think it is just broccoli cheese.

Oh, is it broccoli cheese? I get brock, brock. I'm going with, yeah, let's say broccoli cheese. Hopefully that's close. Broccoli cheese. All right. Let me finish pouring my coffee here. I'm going to need the strength.

Yeah. We're going to sing this one? Yeah, you're going to go. Broccoli. I thought about it. Broccoli. It's just too hard. You can't do it.

All right. All right. Show me broccoli cheese. It is chicken broccoli cheese, but good enough. I don't think I will take that because it's... That's a big pointer one, number eight. Yeah, now I'll never have a chance of winning, yeah. You still can.

You still... You still... Almost any two of the ones that are left and you're back in this. So far, Dreadnecks is winning this for us. Let me think here. If I've got any of that I haven't thought of, is there's probably a Calzone. A Calzone, which is kind of pizza-like, but, you know, There's an opportunity to make a little

Kelsa. Maybe like a meat lover. I feel like they're always trying to cram different kinds of meat into a pocket. Yeah. I don't know if you have any suggestions. Oh, you know what? I got one. There's a Philly steak one, I think I saw. I'd never eat it, but I saw it.

I know it exists. Whether it's popular or the Tadpole would like that, I don't know, but there's a Philly Steak and Cheese hot pocket. Let's do that. Brian, that's our thing. Show me Philly Steak and Cheese. Number five. answer on the board.

You guys are doing it. You're doing good. This is great. I didn't expect to do well at all here. All right. So we're on a roll. Let's keep this going. Let's do that Calzone.

Let's just try it. Sure. Yeah. Let's just do it. You got it? All right. Show me Calzone. Damn it.

First day. Not among the top 10. And I can't. I don't. no. Oh, no. Calzone in the, I'm not seeing any calzone in the,

in the big spreadsheet of answers that the tadpole gave me. Because isn't a, I mean, the pizza ones are basically calzones because they're in the form of a pocket and it just makes it. Form of a hot pocket. Exactly.

That's better than anything Zan turned himself into on the show, so it's not bad. All right. Five answers are still on the board. that you can now my kids I don't know if my kids ate the same hot pockets these guys in the tadpool did but

my kids used to especially Andrew he loved the hot pockets now he won't touch one because he ate so many growing up you know but I I do remember there being a a meatball when he liked meatball hot pocket all right

show me your meatballs meatball yeah meatballs and mozzarella Wow. Paltz from the Monsorella. Yeah. That sounds like a diary.

Um, all right. So I'm going to go. It was also, um, I'm trying to think what Pat Tapu will think. I think there's like a, there's also one with bacon. It's like bacon and cheese. But I think that was in the, was that in the lean pocket stuff? No, it was kind of like a pretzel pocket thing.

It was a bacon. I'm going with bacon and cheese. Is that specific enough? That is specific enough. Now, this is one where, okay, well, I'll buzz you or ding you or whatever I'm going to do here. Show me bacon and cheese. Oh, you did it. Yes.

It's called the breakfast pocket, but a lot of people in the Tadpool called it the bacon and cheese. There you go. Bacon egg and cheese. Bacon, bacon cheese, yummy. Sausage egg and cheese, breakfast bacon cheese. There was so many different combinations. And I did, for all the flavors, I did go to the Hot Pocket website and confirm that these are all actual flavors. Now that's in your browser history.

It is. You're on a list now, Brian. Now you're going to get advertised all day from this stuff. That's right. There's nothing but Hot Pockets. Three answers left. Yeah, let me reiterate. I took all the answers the tadpull gave me.

Yeah, yeah. Okay, so Well, let me look at the board again Because Scott pulled the board down I'd have to look at my board Um Okay For pizza ham and cheese

For cheese pizza Um, how about we go with Name ingredients in a Mexican Restaurant Oh, like a burrito? What? That's it reminds me of that. The old joke about

is meat, cheese and some kind of tortilla or something like that. And then what's this one made of? I think it is a Jim Gaffigan skit as well. Is it? All right. The Taco Bell's the same seven ingredients, that whole thing? Yeah, I think that's it. Yeah. It's like different things.

I, hmm. How about a taco hot pocket? Some kind of taco meat flavor packet. Inside a hot pocket. All right. Very good.

Okay. Show me taco. No, beef taco or taco just as a whole was, did come up quite a bit. It doesn't, well, there weren't enough to. I warrant a board. Yes. Hey, Dreadnecks. How do you feel about cheeseburger?

Oh, didn't, oh. Yes, cheeseburger is plausible. I'm a little. little confused because Brian said he checked to make sure these were all real hot pockets but he also said he took every answer and the tadpole throws some crazy stuff up there

oh good point look at you with the you're the better trivia champion you're listening to the details and the rules and everything I'm terrible at this so I'm either cheeseburger I'll even say it out loud so Brian has a possible steal but I'd say either cheeseburger or I know they make a dessert one that's like an apple fritter

kind of deal or apple I've never heard of such a thing what is Is that? Yeah, it's gross. I think cheeseburger is likely. I think we go cheeseburger. We're going cheeseburger. I hate you because I'm pretty sure cheeseburger is up there.

That's got to be up there. Do it. Show me cheeseburger. Cheeseburger. Oh, man. Only three, there is a cheeseburger. Only three people said it. What about reverse cheeseburger?

Is that on there? Oh, geez. No, please. Russell Crow is he on there? That's a hot back pocket is what that is. We'll see. we already did chicken and cheese Are there a KFC hot pocket?

No, that's not right That can't be right I would love that though Wouldn't you love that? Yeah, would be I'm trying to think whether ethnic foods They would have tried

To cram into a hot pocket I mean most of these have been What Americans consider Italian, right? I mean Not really, some of them are Why? I'm not stepping on that landmine

No, are you? Get a pocket Um cheese what spaghetti pocket's a thing um that's just what you do when you get too much god that would be so hot

it would just burn your mouth carry spaghetti right in your pocket doesn't count um how about yeah a how about a barbecue hot pocket I do remember Andrew eating

a barbecue hot pocket of some sort, but I'm, is it just barbecue? Is it just, I'm going with barbecue hot pockets. Okay. All right. Put them on the Barbie. Show me the BBQ. Oh.

Let's see. That was an answer, but only five people, barbecue beef. Swear that exists, right? It does exist. Yeah, it does exist. Barbecue beef. Oh, I know one. Damn it.

Oh, too bad, because it's my turn. All right. Yeah. I think we have to go back to breakfast. There's got to be like a sausage and cheese or something like that. Although maybe that was lumped in with the breakfast hot pocket. Well, yeah, so he's got to save you. I will save you, but I did loop that in.

Okay, so all the breakfast ones are looped into breakfast. All right. Yeah. Well, what about the dessert one you were talking about, Scott? Maybe like an apple pie or something like that. Yeah, maybe we call it. I've never seen a dessert hot pocket, but I want it to be up there. Yeah.

I'm not saying they don't exist. We'll say dessert pocket because I think Brian would be kind of. enough to lump in, you know, if there's like a cherry and an apple, we might get a two for here. So we'll say dessert. All right. Dessert pocket. Show me a dessert pocket. Damn it!

I've never heard of such a thing, but I won't one. I swear they exist. Don't they? I believe it. No answers. Some of the closest somebody put was cinnamon. Oh. I don't think that's real. Okay. Because it's a hot pocket?

I thought there was a dessert version. I didn't see. any dessert hot pockets. When I went to the website to look them up, I didn't see anything that wasn't savory. All right. I'm going back with Dreadnecks. I'm going to go with that sausage pocket. Okay.

All right. Good Lord. Show me. Show me the sausage. Show me the sausage. Yeah. No. Oh, man.

All right. That's too bad. Let's get to this. I really tried to lead you guys down the right way. But anyway, the good news is. Scott, you at Dreadnecks, dreadnakes, gets surprises. Yeah, that's awesome. Well done.

All right. The Tadpool, as you know, really likes to put in the funny answers. However, when a lot of people put in the same funny answers, I'm going to include it as the top ten. Oh, yeah. You dang Skippy. That's what the game is. It's the Tad Pooley feud. Number four is...

Gross. Gross. Gross. gross that's fantastic any form of gross like it was like gross vomit uh colonoscopy crap uh anything like that oh my god it was pretty gross that's the sound of a hot pocket right there uh number nine lava dang government i should have i almost went that direction you should have gone that direction they're like pizza pockets pizza pockets and hot pockets they're the exact same like temperature.

Everybody jokes about that. It's full of lava. Yeah, it's either a thousand degrees or cold. Number 10 is probably my favorite tadpool hive mind answer because of how much this came up. Eight people said it. Show me number 10. I'm foreign. What's a hot pot? That is great.

We had no chance of getting those last three, did we? That's great. You did because I kept pushing to say, by the way, I took every answer that the tadpool gave us. Yeah, but I was thinking people would say stupid stuff like pineapple hot pocket or something. I would have never. For actual flavors, I did match them up with, with flavors on the Hot Pockets website. Right. Now, while you were reading those, I looked this up. I just want for my own brain to stop hurting. It is true. Hot Pockett is cinnamon roll hot pockets and Apple Cinnamon Hot Pockets. They're part of their new, as of 2019, so a few years now. Okay. They're part of

their sweet treats line, but it's Hot Pockets. Okay. But it is under the hot pocket pocket pockets umbrella. Hot prockets. Hot prockets. You heard of those hot sprockets. You heard of those hot sprockets. Hold on. There it is, Chad. You can't see it. Yeah. There it is. Cinnamon roll and apple cinnamon. Look at those. Those look good. Yeah. They look just like the old style McDonald's. Apple pies. Apple pies. Which I think you can still get, right? You still can't totally. You can get a couple of those. I thought they changed the formula. So it's not the same. same. Oh, you can, it's still on the menu, but no, I can't speak to what the flavors are inside. You just won't be able to get this. Mm, sausage. You won't be able to get that. Oh, that's a fast. I can't believe it wasn't the sausage one. Yeah. Yeah, I was a little surprised by that. But the important thing is, all that really truly matters here is the dreadnecks is this.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Congratulations. Here's all you got to do, dreadnecks. You know the drill, but you just got to send Brian a email coverville at gmail.com. He'll send you along your codes and you'll be the happy owner of three, not two, not one. Three games. Three games today. How do you feel? Tell us how you feel. Oh, I feel. I feel great. This was, uh, this was great being able to listen live and call in. Thank you very much, gentlemen. It's always good to have you. Yeah, we like dreadnecks a lot. Hey, take it easy, man. Congratulations. All right. Yeah, they stop doing the deep fried apple pies like they used to. Now it's like a baked with, with cuts across the top so that the yes. The heat can escape and it doesn't turn into a, uh, uh, you should have still hot as

anything. A pain grenade in your mouth. Yeah. I feel like I had one of those semi recently and it was okay. It was all right. Okay. You know, everything's so manufactured there. You're just going to get whatever you're going to get. But, sure. Anyway, Donaway, you just did great. And here's the important part of all this is, he was on the boob show this Monday and that was a lot of fun. You guys should go listen to it. We talked about some great games and it's a worthy addition to the discussion over there. But also this weekend on Film Sack, a big important weekend. Why? What are we watching? I don't don't remember aliens four oh right oh i'm so excited yes i'm actually excited about this we're

gonna watch alien i'm gonna heat i'm gonna heat up a hot pocket we're gonna watch alien four resurrection i guess it's called right i think i think yeah because i know that the new matrix is also resurrection so i get a little confused alien resurrection is correct yeah alien resurrection and it uh it finishes out our our ellen ripley core canon the lmd the rippley saga yes yeah And I'm just so glad we did it. I just love that we did it. So do check it out. And that'll be this weekend,

film sac.com, for details. Brian Dunaway. Anything else you want to add? Scott, Johnson, I do follow me on Twitch. dot TV forward slash Brian Dunaway. I am streaming every night through December on Monday through Friday.

You're doing the hot tub stream or what's the deal? We'll see. I don't have a hot tub. That sounds like a commitment. So you're probably not Look a PSP on camera Make a little ASMR noises as you look at your PSP I can probably do like a heater stream

Where I like put my heater close to me I might do that Oh hey So 6.6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. Eastern time. All week. Come on in. We're going to play some games Yeah, nice. Yeah, all weekend.

Go check it or all week rather. Week. Hey, it's Brian, everybody. Bye. Hey. It's time for us to take a break when we come back. Tom Merritt will be joining us talking about the latest in tech news. And of course, Randy P. Jordan. That's not his real middle name initial. We'll be joining us as well. We're going to do recommendals today. Millicent. Randy Millicent. There you go. Everyone's got the middle name of Millicent. But we've got an indie in the middle to play. And Brian will play it now. That's right. We're going to Norlands. Bronx-born New Orleans bass singer-songwriter Alinda Sigara. She goes by the name, Hooray for the riffraff, which I love. She's been putting out stuff, and she's got a brand new album that is coming

out February 18th. So, like, next year, you got to wait, but you don't have to wait to hear this. The brand new album is called Life on Earth. Big Thanks to None Such Records for sending this over to me. Here's the first single from the album that's called Rhododendron. Here is.

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With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is the Internet's own Tom Merritt, who joins us all the way from his studios in Los Angeles. You don't own me, Internet. Oh, that's true. The Internet doesn't know. Look, you can't keep Tom in a corner. No, I guess that's... Yeah, nobody puts Be with Baby. No, ever. Don't be with Baby. No one go with Baby. baby. Tom Merritt is here. He comes on Wednesday. He talks about tech stuff. And boy, howdy. Was there a big bomb drop this week? Hit the road, Jack. Yeah, get out of here. Jack. We don't need your beard. No more. No more.

Yeah. For the second time. This time we mean it. Yeah. This time feels more significant because, you know, a lot of stuff has happened since then. But yeah, Jack Dorsey's out. But we're not going to talk about that because who actually cares? Twitter will go on. It'll be fine. Jack will go off and be a hippie. know that your tweets Hopefully Jack gets to keep his at Jack account Hopefully he gets to still He has the first tweet

That's right Yeah he better keep that he should keep that And then NFT the whole thing Setting up my Twitter account Yeah exactly his Twitter The Daily Tudor But then instead we're going to talk about science fiction And fantasy because

Hi I'm Tom Merritt for sword and laser As I do every Wednesday It's our sword and laser correspondent Tom Merritt who has some recommendations for us. Perfect timing, though, because it's the holidays, man. We need to be reading and giving gifts and whatever. And two books in two of my favorite series, both came out yesterday, November 30th, available in Hardback, Kindle, audiobook, et cetera.

One is, of course, the final volume, the ninth book in The Expanse. Now, we've got the TV series coming up for its final TV season in a few days. year. Not that long, a little less than two weeks. But the end of the book series is out. This is Leviathan Falls. Leviathan Wakes was the first book. Levithin Falls is the last book. So, spoiler, Leviathan doesn't make it. No, Leviathan may have risen. There is no character named Leviathan. The problem is Leviathan is wearing the King Tut head. Oh, and it's one across again. It just runs a little too fast. Yes, exactly. And that's, that's based nine books to get there. No, this is my favorite science fiction series of the past 20 years.

That's high praise, high praise for Tom. James S.A. Corey, of course, is a team of Ty Frank and Daniel Abraham. I've told the story a million times. So apologies to those who've heard it before. But Ty Frank was George R. Martin's assistant when I first met him. and they were very kind in helping us set up an interview for Sword and Laser with him way back in the day. And at the time, Ty was very, very tentatively, actually very politely. I wouldn't even say tentative, but politely like, hey, just so you know, me and my partner, Daniel Abraham, have a new book out.

So if you're looking to fill the schedule in any other slots, let us know, we'll still set up, this is not a quid pro quo. We'll still sell it up George, just letting you know. So I was like, oh, let me, let me take a look at the book, and I'll let you know. Love to the book, had them on. They were great. Of course, it went on to become a smash hit, became a TV series. It sounds like this isn't confirmed that Amazon is going to take the last few books in the series and turn them into movies instead of TV series, which will be interesting. I was going to ask.

Yeah, that's great. If that ever comes to pass. But now is a great time to jump in if you've been like, let me just wait until that series is done. It's done. It's done. James S. A. Corey, Levant the falls. It's out. It's great.

I'm already part way through it. Quick thing about that. Is Ty the one that mostly runs the Twitter account? Yes. Okay. Yes, that's right. I had the most delightful back and forth with him once about, um, uh, what's his name? I can't think of his name all of a sudden.

The, uh, Opie. What's wrong with me? Uh, who played, Ron Howard? Ron Howard. So Ron Howard's got that. He's got that. I thought you've met Obi-Wan Kenobi. Yeah.

He's got, he's got that. He's got that. that ugly brother, Clint Howard, right? And he's in all those, like, B movies and horror movies. And every time Ron Howard makes something, he puts his brother in it, and it's kind of cute and whatever. We had this back and forth of memes and gifts about Clint Howard one day where it went on for like most of the afternoon. So the James S.A. Corey would say, well, what about this?

And he'd post something from like some terrible movie in the 80s. And I'd say, well, yeah, what about this one? And we were just trying to outdo each other with this thing. And it was one of my favorite interactions I have ever had on Twitter. So Jack, see you later, but that was the best thing he ever did is let me do that with James S.A. Corey. All right. Anyway, that's a great recommendation. I'm behind on the series, which is bad because I love it and I need to catch up.

I didn't know about the potential movie stuff that makes sense, like a good way to finish us out. That's just my guessing. That is not, and I've seen some other rumors about it. That is not an official thing. That's just kind of where my head's at. Yeah, but it's really quite the accomplishment for that series. And also, I'm a little bum. They didn't just even it and go 10.

you know, give us a 10th book. Come on. Ten books? Come on. Well, they did a lot of novellas. So there's almost a tenth book's worth of novellas. Probably more. Right. Yeah. It is. You know, three is the popular number. So three trilogies right there. Yeah, kind of. Actually, really good point. I didn't think about that. Read them in threes. Yeah. Do change from base 10 to base three and it makes perfect sense. Yeah. And you want to go full Robert Jordan, just never stop and then die and then have someone else finish. You can do that. But no, these guys had a, they had a stopping point. They did it. And it's an amazing series. It's my favorite science fiction of the last 20 years, I think. I'm trying to think.

Like, I can't count Mad Max of science fiction. It's just more apocalyptic, you know, whatever. There's some really good science fiction out there. Do not get me wrong. But this is the one where others, I'm like, ooh, can't wait to go buy that. This is the one where I pre-ordered. There are others that when the book arrives on my Kindle or in physical form, I say, oh, I got to get to read that. This is the one I started reading immediately as I opened the box. So there's, you know, it's just, it just hits, for me, all the, all the points I want. Yeah. Did you, how far?

Just curious, how far are you in? Did you get? Oh, I read really slow, page 23. I got it yesterday afternoon. Came at like 6 o'clock. So, yeah. That's nothing wrong with that. I have, I can't do audiobooks because I get distracted way too easy with audiobooks.

I don't know why. Just cannot focus on what people are saying. I got you. So I always, when I'm reading, I'm like, I'm rereading Dune right now because I got in the mood after the movie and I've read it since has 15. So I'm way more focused when I read. If I was doing the audiobook, I'd be screwed. So my goal is I finish up Dune Book 1. I dive back into the Expans series, which I'm like two books behind. Oh, yeah. And then I'll catch up to where you are. Yeah. So there you go. Also,

you had something else. Look at that blue book coming up. Since I gave you a sci-fi, I have to give Veronica, you know, equal time for sword and laser and give you a fantasy. This is Jade Legacy. This is the third book in the bone. I always get it wrong. Greenbone saga by Fonda Lee. So again, the end of the trilogy. So if you're one of those people who are like, well, I don't want to wait to make sure all the books come out. They're about there, down, time, jump in. This is a fantastic book. It's set in a fantasy world where wearing jay. Jade gives certain people magic powers. Okay.

And therefore, jade has been outlawed. And so there's this one city called Kwang Loon where most of the people who can wear Jade live. And jade wearers are gangsters. And there's two main clans of jade wearing gangs that kind of run Kong Loon from the background. And so the story is about their fight. for dominance of the city they're sort of plugging into the wider world events

again this is a fantasy planet but it's kind of 70s era-ish like there's TVs and cars and stuff but it doesn't feel like I don't know that there's like smartphones or anything so it's great

it's just so well written so much fun such an interesting world and if you're into Wusha or Hong Kong action flick kung fu flicks stuff like that you're really going to love the vibe in the the greenbone saga sounds awesome okay that's good you know part of me wants to say hey you know we always keep this a tech segment of course but once in a while we ought to have a little book recommendation time for time i can give you a heads up because i don't know that i have one every week but when i do i can

just once in a while just let us know like by the way i read this thing uh the other thing i was going to say finally just to swing it back to jack dorsey for a second I'm sure him leaving is going to mean a gigantic compensation package. I'm just curious, will his beard also experience a pack? Will his beard have a golden parachute as well as he leaves? Do you know? They will likely have to attach a second one. That's what I thought.

Or it's possible they could just weave gold into the beard and use it as the parachute. That's a good point. Maybe they don't need to replace Jack, but who's going to replace the beard? And I think it's John Barrenthal's earlobes. Anyway, there you go, everybody. It's Tom Merritt. Stay tuned to Daily Tech News Show to find out. That's right.

That's later today. And I'll be on there. That's Wednesday. It's my day, damn it. And so we're going to have a good old time on the Daily Tech News show. So check that out. 2.30 Mountain Time, as always, all the details at Daily Tech News Show.com. And anything else you want to recommend to people or tell people about or anything else?

Yeah. We had a couple weeks off on the newsletter. So, you know, apologies to folks. If you're like, hey, man, you haven't emailed me in a couple weeks. I will get back on that this week. So we will have a few more newsletters before the year is out. Just letting you all know a little bit about what I think, what we're doing, links to all the shows, all of that sort of thing. My writing, I just finished up a nanorimo.

So I'm going to be sharing that with the patrons of my writing Patreon now that November's over. So if you want to get access to all that, free tom newsletter.com. Very nice. Tom, we'll see you later this afternoon. Bye now. Oh, he's on Twitter that Jack just left as well. It's Ace Detect. You can follow him there.

Jack is gone. Sorry, everybody. Sorry, Jack. Sorry, Jack. Yeah, sorry, Jack. Here's what Veronica thinks of that last segment. Tough titties. All right, there you go.

Let's move on. We have two Veronica breast clips. She can't be happy about that. No. Sausage. She also has a penis clip. Great. Yes, well, geez.

She doesn't have one of these. Diagiar. All right, let's get this going. Who we call it now? We're calling Randy. That's what we're doing. That's right. Randy Jordan, aka Randy.

Lex. First 4A with Frog Pants is my co-host on the instance. Now a fantastic continual part of the four-headed beast that is Film Sack. And of course, now taking up the robes of the great Nicole Spag and continuing on the tradition of recommendals. Everybody, welcome to the show, Randy Jordan. Oh, whoops, this music was supposed to play. Hey, Randy, what's going on? How are you? Aloha, good morning. How are you? I know how you're doing. I've been listening to you for the last hour and a half. I'm doing great. And it's a beautiful, beautiful day here in Southern California. You know, California, the land of fruits and nuts. And that's just the people. It's wonderful. Yeah, don't even get me started on those people of Orange County.

And boy, my arms are tired. You ever, do you ever see one of the housewives of Orange County anywhere publicly, like at a mall or anything? You ever bump into Oregon? Weirdest thing to me about moving to Orange County 12 years ago, 11 years ago, 11 years ago, the weirdest thing to me was living here for years and then finally going, I want to see what that's about, that O.C. thing. There's a show called, the O.C. And there's Real Housewives of Orange County. I saw I looked into it. And I didn't see anything. I watched for hours. I didn't see anything I recognized even once. That thing. Orange is a big county. It's actually like, if you look at the state of California, like, county map, it's actually really small. Oh, it is.

But it's like, it's just, I just don't see anything I recognize. They're like, they're living in this like little slice of Orange County and they're only filming in this little slice of Orange County that isn't available to the other 99.9% of us, you know? Yeah. Well, like, you're never going to run into Kyle Richards at Rosco's chicken and waffles, you know, the circles you guys travel are all going to be different so uh well and i have run into like some fairly i live in a neighborhood where there are some really rich people right like i went i went on a little drive with my kid the other day and we saw a Lamborghini diablo and we saw maclaren f1 and just like driving like to the grocery store like this you know so like i did you ask if that

Lamborghini diablo is ever going to come out you know the fourth edition of the car we just can't Yeah, the next, the next one about, yeah. But anyway, like, I saw, I ran, I've run into, like, Mike Rowe at Starbucks one time. Really? Was he doing a dirty job, or what was he doing? He was getting Starbucks. He was having coffee. Damn it. Like, you know. He wanted him to be, like, a barista or something, right? I'm just saying, like, real housewives of Orange County.

Like, what bugs me about it is the word real. Because it's, like, I live in a neighborhood. There are housewives everywhere. They are very real to me. I know what they, their names. Their kids go to the same school. as my kid, right? Sure, sure.

These people on TV are not, they weren't real at all, not even a little bit. That's unfortunate. Well, it's good to have you here. We're glad to have you here and representing the OC in a way that's meaningful, like making recommendations for people to watch things that are on streaming services. And surfaces, services, hey, Brian, we're going to throw it to you because you always start this thing out. You've got two here.

Any set up for these? Just make sure you keep your cleaning surfaces, services clean. Excellent. Anyway. I will. Streaming service is clear. Let me write that one down. I'll come back with it later.

This first one is a mini-series. I brought it up earlier this week, but people, so if you've been paying attention, you know I'm going to recommend all this. All right. Let's play it and see what we got. Well, it's still very early, but we've begun looking at something at coffee big. What are we talking about? OxyContin.

Specifically, Purdue Pharma, it's the company that makes it. They've been marketing, the drug, and pushing it on doctors is something that's non-addictive when it clearly is. Is any other U.S. attorney pursued? No, sir. So, litigation? Is it 65 cases?

And how many is Purdue won? Sixty-five. Yeah. Well, going after a publicly traded companies are pretty stinty-pill to climb. They're not publicly traded. It's privately owned by a single family, a Sackler family.

Sacklers? Big philanthropist, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, they give lots of money to museums and, schools rich person style very rich so what do you guys got that no other u.s. attorney in the country is on to well about four months ago i was reviewing our case load when i noticed an unusual pattern almost every case over the last three years i was related to oxycontin nearly every one so i think this is dope sick right that's exactly what it is yes could i just say peter sarsgaard

man that guy really sounds like john malcolm i agree does yeah he totally does i was just gonna say is john malcovitch in this thing and then now now i'm like i don't know what's real anymore because it sounded like him that's crazy yeah all right mr gillan hall himself peter sars guard uh that's who you heard in that clip um michael keaton is also in this he plays uh dr sam phinex uh is a doctor that um uh in the early in the early uh episodes prescribes oxy for his patients and comes to realize that maybe the truth isn't what the Sackler family is promising. And that's what this really centers on. It centers on these great separate stories around it.

You've got Dr. Finnex, Michael Keaton, you've got these DEA agents. You've got Rosario Dawson as a – I think she's actually – I take the back of I think she's a D-A-agent, and then the other guys are FBI agents that are all going after this. It is fantastic. It is so, so good. And it's eight episodes. It's on Hulu. Caitlin Dever, who we've been extolling the virtues of all week long from her time on unbelievable and book smart and...

Justified. He's great. She's great. She's a very prominent character in this. and she's so compelling and she's such a great actress. She's definitely going to get an Emmy nomination for this, I think. It's like one of those things that's important, right? Like, everyone should watch this because there's important things being,

an important story being told that we need to be aware of. Yeah, yeah, there really is. And so much stuff that I wasn't aware of. I knew Oxy was a big problem, opioid epidemic and stuff, but did not realize to what degree. It was having an effect on different parts of the country until I saw this. And it's all based on a true story. Or what degree certain people are culpable.

I don't think a lot of people just know that story. So it's probably good. This reminds me of that other thing, the Keaton thing, the movie that they all won Oscars for. What was that called? The founder or? No, that was awesome, though. That was really good. You know what I'm thinking of with the, with the Hulk in it?

No. The Hulk was in it. I won Oscars for that. It was about the Catholic priest scandal. Spotlight. Spotlight. Yeah. I keep forgetting that he was in that.

But yeah, that was so good. There's a, for whatever reason, I'm getting a similar vibe of like, rip from the headlines, but also extremely well done drama sort of deal out of it. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Wow. Just imagine, imagine if spotlight had been six hours long, though. That's the reason I haven't begun dopesick is because I'm like, oh, it seems long.

It seems really long. It's an eight hour. I mean, it's eight one-hour episodes, but it is so good. I mean, it is, we couldn't stop watching it. Rosario Dawson is amazing in this as well. You've got everybody that they brought in for this. There's this kid, Will Poulter, who is, he was in Chronicles of Narnia. I want to say maybe Maze Runner.

Yeah, he was in the first Maze Runner. Maze Runner kid, okay, cool. Yeah, and he plays a one of the. um, Purdue Pharma sales reps that goes and visits doctors and watching his development as a character is just amazing. He's, he's so good. That's great. Maze runner to, to good is the scale. That's right. Yes, exactly. Uh, so it's on Hulu. It's like you said, eight episodes. It's a mini series. So don't worry. You're not going to have to to wait for a season two. Um, but it is, uh, um, highly, highly recommended. And this will be, you know, you'll see a lot of

dopesick when it comes to the Emmys in 2020. Speaking of such things there's a bunch of huge high profile trials going on right now. Like this is trial season in our lives. And one of them is for Elizabeth Holmes. Yeah. And I cannot stop every day. I'm just like, I need

to get into Elizabeth Holmes Twitter. Because I want to like, I want to be following it in real time. I don't want to wait for the summaries. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm going to watch it. This is on my list. So well done. Brian. Good one. Your second one here. And he says, up for this. Second one is

a movie and this should be also no surprise to people and I think you'll get it fairly quickly when you hear this clip. Okay, here we go. You want to go with Nick. You know, I've got to go with Nick. That's your prerogative. No, we want to go with you.

Thank heavens. We just want to hear you say what you had said. Well, well done. Tundee. Now, now this is our standard agreement. I'm sorry, you're...

You know, you take these girls, you take us all, the whole family. I'm sorry, you... You all want to come to Florida. Not Tundi. She just graduated valedictorian, so her life is here. Congratulations. Thank you, sir.

Yeah, but all that other stuff is in that contract, we need that. We need a house, we need the best school, and a job for me on your staff. Oh, yeah. He says here, a mobile home? Yeah, I mean, we got to get there, don't we? You believe in these kids or why? You bet I do.

You bet I do. Then why are we still sitting here? We're supposed to be in Florida. What are we doing? Let's go to Florida. It's the fresh king of Bel Air. Yeah, I was really surprised that you're recommending this. Not because I'm not guessing it's bad, but because I just can't be.

believe that I'm hearing something other than fresh prints. It just doesn't, you know? It doesn't sound like he was the right casting for it. Really? I've heard nothing but good things about it. They do what, so this is King Richard. It's based on Richard Williams, who's

the father of Venus and Serena Williams. Obviously, the whole family as you heard makes an appearance in this like, or the characters make an appearance. But they do, the thing that I really like that they do at the end of biopics is show you the actual people that the movie is based on.

And you watch these clips of the actual Richard Williams. And Will Smith does a great job of capturing mannerisms, the way he speaks. It's so impressive. And this is really, really good. This is in theaters right now, but it's also streaming. It's one of these HBO Max deals where for the month that it launches in theaters, you can also watch it streaming on HBO. Yeah. Great HBO Max.

So do it. Do it before it goes away because this is excellent. And Will Smith, you also heard good old John Berenthal making his second appearance on today's TMS, the second mention on the show. Wait, his ears there as well or just him? His earlobes were there as well, but you'll miss them because of his huge mustache. Oh, okay. I actually had to ask Tina, I said, is that John Berenthal? He's doing such a great job of hiding his.

his baronthalness that uh he's awesome i just always think about how you know that when they do this shoots they have to have trailers and then they got to have a separate trailer for his earlobes and it's just a lot of work but yeah save your emails i really like john baronthal he's awesome i have a big nose all right there you go i have a slight personal connection to the the venus and serena william story very very like a the thinnest of threads connecting me but But my aunt, Deborah, in California, she was a teacher. She just recently retired, but she was a teacher in the Seamy Valley School District. And she taught elementary school.

And for one year, Venus and Serena were students of hers. And so she met them, obviously. She met Richard. And she said that there was a singular focus for Richard and his daughter. and his daughters, and it was not education. It was not the books. It was absolutely the tennis courts. Oh, interesting.

All tennis all the time. All tennis all the time. But there's no mention, any mention, because they're in Compton for the whole movie. There's no mention of any time outside of that and see me. But anyway, it's really, really good. Oh, Ken Kipper says, Sabrina Williams, Richard's daughter, and Venus and Serena's sister. older half-sister, has blasted the film for sanitizing Richard and ignoring his past. Specifically, the wife and family he abandoned.

No, they touch on that quite a bit. That comes up. And she also accuses him of using Venus and Serena to make himself rich. And that's the other thing. Like, the other thing that kept me away from really wanting to watch this. And by the way, I'm the guy who always says, just watch whatever. I'm not out there saying, you've got to convince me to watch so. you're right like I really really think like if you if you're interested in watching something you should just watch it yeah but like I I don't know there's just something about the main character and the fact it's called king Richard you know what I mean like I'm like is this is this self-writing this man yeah right no it does sound like in and when you see clips and hear the stories of this guy he really does sound initially like he is just using his talented daughters to further his own

wallet and for their own career. And if the movie is to be believed, he's completely doing this for his kids. His kids want to do this. Venus and Serena want to play tennis. And he just goes all in and says, all right, I am going to train you. I'm going to train you hard. You're going to be successful at this. And if you really want to do this, I'm going to get behind you all the way and just make sure you succeed at it.

Well, and one of the things that we're doing here is we're trying to recommend things that pretty much anyone would enjoy, right? Like, you don't want to go so narrow and say, well, there's a recommendation, but it's only for 10% of you. Like, I think you watched Get Back this past weekend, right? I watched the first three hours of it. The first three of 15. It's hard to recommend that to general audiences. It's not for everybody, right? No, no. And I'd say grind, you know.

Yeah. Well, and the first three hours are, and here's what I've heard. The first three hours are very loosely edited. You get a lot of kind of extra stuff. And let me kind of prepare you for what Get Back is. This will be kind of a pseudo-recommental. Maybe I'll use it in a future week when I see the other two parts. But here's what a lot of the first hour is. It's John and George talking about, you know, what they're working on and lyrics and stuff like that. Meanwhile, in the background, Paul is going, long and, long and, long and winding, okay, long and winding room. And Ringo is staring at them with what the eyes from across a drum kit for like hours. He's just staring at them. Ringo is doing exactly what I would be doing if I was in a room with three of those Beatles. Yeah, exactly.

You'd be doing what Ringo does because you'd be. Ringo, right? You'd just be watching and saying, yeah. Like, it's, it's so fascinating to me because of them, like, Ringo is the genius to me. He's the genius, uh, uh, uh, drummer. Like, he's not, he's obviously not like writing lyrics. No. But like what he did, what he did in, in, you know, on the drum kit is just unbelievably cool and different.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love Ringo, but he was not, he was not groundbreaking. Well, but he's just like sitting there staring. Like, it's, it's, it's, it's a bit boring. If you're not, if you're, there's no way. if you don't have any connection to songwriting,

that you're going to find this interesting. No, and that's one of the things that Tim and I said is like, I want to talk to James and Svet of Same Sex-Merry and see if they've watched this because watching the songwriting process and watching these songs that you know by heart, you want to be a time traveler and you want to go into the room with them and say, all right, can I save you guys about an hour? The lyric you're going to use is Jojo was a man who thought he was.

you know it even be better you say they're going there and say hey i'll save me and i'll save the world a lot of pain don't do the whole right right ear left ear business you all think is cool because it sucks don't do it at the outset there's some really interesting things here right so like these are all the most famous and wealthy people in the world at this time right they've they've come into this huge room to sit around together and write songs and they have to they're under pressure but like there's there's a thing here you're not you're not looking at them trying to get a start, trying to get a break. They're trying to recapture something,

and they're all very, very wealthy. And there's like a dozen other people trying to stand around, but not be involved. Except for Yoko Ono. She's hip to hip with John the entire time, but she's like reading a newspaper.

Yeah. It's just like, if cell phones had existed, she would be playing Candy Crush for the entirety of the three hours. You get what I'm saying, right? There's no way that's interesting

to general audiences. Yeah, you'd have to be a big Beatles fan, probably, to get the most out of it. And I get that. Yeah, I think so. I mean, you probably wouldn't watch it if you weren't at least somewhat of a Beatles fan, although the process is amazing. If you're a songwriting fan, I'd say, check it out because you hear these ideas and these germinations of these songs. And some songs that you hear them do as solo artists and not as the Beatles. And you're hearing these beginning. And he's like, oh my God, all right, that's where that stemmed from. That's amazing. Yeah. Did Ringo ever go, hurry up and finish?

I have to show up for my caveman movie I'm in or whatever. Not caveman, but another movie that he was in at the time, yes. Oh, really? Okay. I'll watch it. I'll end up seeing it. It's having you. It's really good.

I'd say this is one of those movies that you might be able to kind of put on while you're doing other things, at least the first three hours. The last few is a big action sequence. Is there a big action sequence in the final? Yeah, the big, right, exactly. Once they get the serum and they need to get it to the white house. Oh, then things really kick off. Yeah, that's true. In watching it, there was a very small part of me who was saying,

oh, you guys probably could have edited this down to like an hour. But then there was the larger part of me saying, no, there is no other way we'd ever be able to see all of this stuff. And so this is amazing. and I'm glad we get the whole, we get the whole thing. I like the scene. I've seen it in a couple of places. There's a shot where you miss it if you blink,

but John is trying to pull weed out and then remembers they're being filmed. So he goes into this bag, pulls out this like obvious marijuana cigarette. And they kind of glances around, looks at the camera and goes, oh, it sticks it back into the thing. I haven't seen it yet, but I could have sworn I've seen them smoking what looked like rolled cigarettes. Yeah. And that's the thing. like, this is the Beatles in their mid-20s.

They're all, like, as gorgeous as they're ever going to look. They're all in the best shape of their life. Yeah. And so, like, when you see Paul just chain smoking and then singing really loud from his throat, and it just made me cringe, I'm like, oh, but then you realize, oh, no, he can do that. Yeah, it's what he does. He can do that. He can totally do that. Yeah, that's what he does. Yeah. So, so it's, it's Paul, John, George. And a caveman.

All right. Anyway, hey. Nice. So, King Richard at HBO Max, watch it before it disappears off of the service. Well, my choice this week is a hilarious choice given yours. Another historical thing that also has the name King in it. Here it is. He will lead my army against the newly treasonous, Harry Percy.

I will assume that this news comes as neither surprise nor disappointment. But it is my duty as king and father to say it to you directly. When do you fight? I set off tomorrow. We fight by a week's end. You need not fight. These feuds need not be yours. I have said what you are.

were summons to hear leave us now oh it's so good oh i don't know but that sounds really good all right so this came out in 2019 and uh i missed it completely i think i saw it a few times it's a netflix original it was also in theaters and um it's called the king uh just straight up the king 2019 uh this stars now everyone's uh you know knows them from dune of course but uh you got your, uh, you're, uh, what's his name? You're, uh, Timothy Shalame. Timotee Shalame. Shalame.

Is that how it's pronounced? Timotee Shalame. He used to do 360 mod videos back in the early odds. Anyway, that's a hilarious side note. Yeah, you can still find them somewhere. He used to, like, mod 360s to play like, what do you call it? Like, uh, games that shouldn't be able to play and stuff like that. Yeah.

Yeah. Anyway, um, Timothy Shalameh, of course, in it, uh, you mentioned him. Also, that voice you heard as the king at the moment that you were hearing was Ben Mendelsohn, who we love in everything. Oh, yeah. He plays King Henry the 4th, and he's in a bad way. He's about to die. You didn't hear him here talk, but this is co-written by and acted in Joel Edgerton as

Falstaff, who's one of my favorite characters in one of these movies. He's so fantastic in this. I like Joel Edgerton, generally speaking. But I like him in this kind of stuff even more. He's really good. You guys know Sean Harris. He plays the character William. You know him from Rome.

he was like the assassin, like the gay assassin in Rome, the movie, the show Rome. I haven't seen that. Oh, you'd know, as soon as you saw this guy's face, you'd go, oh, yeah, that guy. He's in every, if you need a British dude in your cast of like, you know, something set in the 14, 1500s, you hire Sean Harris because he just fits there. He's really, really fantastic. The whole cast is great. This movie is the story of King Henry the 5th, who is played by Chalemay, takes over. the job. And how that all sort of happens. Uh, his war with France, the big surprise of the movie

is that, uh, speaking of Edward, uh, team Edwards in this, uh, Robert Pattinson in a very brief role as the, as the, getting, getting yet another mention this. Yeah. No kidding. He plays the French son of King Charles of France. And he is a real pecker in this. And great. He's really good in it for the brief time he's in there. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, of the opinion Robert Pattinson can act and you know Lighthouse kind of confirmed it for me but this is he's quite good in this anyway it's the whole story of that

how they went back to war with France how for a while there he was going to basically inherit France King Henry was it's very much you know gladiator is style filmmaking you know you could almost say hey did really Scott make this it feels like Kingdom of Heaven or gladiator

but it's actually directed by David Mechaud, I don't know how he say his last name. McCord? I think it's McCord. There's a weird umlaid over the O, so I'm not sure. Anyway, it's really good, and I can't believe I missed it for this long. Kim and I loved it. And the only caveat is, if you don't like historical drama, you probably, probably not, okay? Because it's one of those.

It's very, the language of it is very to the time. And, you know, it's, it's very adherent to the look and stuff of the 14, century and all of this. The only other thing is, like all of this stuff, including the one you talked about, Brian, there's liberties, you know, they take liberties with historical facts and timing and things like that. For the sake of drama. Exactly.

Like this character Joel Edgerton plays has an arc that is completely different than the way it went in real life. But I really liked what they changed anyway. I mean, it made for a much better story than what the historical record was. But it was one of those movies that as soon as it was over, I went. deep diving. I'm like, I don't know shit about King Henry the 5th. I'd like to know more about when he took power, why he did, when he died. All of these people, by the way, die in their 30s. Nobody lived back then very long. It's crazy stuff like that. His wife from France, part of the

deal of France was he had to marry the daughter and she revealed something at the end that just blew my mind. It's great twist at the end. It's a great historical drama and did not get near enough talk. I just don't know why nobody was talking about this thing. It's badass. Well, I mean, we have all the way, going back to Shakespeare, we have, you know, plays and books and adaptations and so forth. And it's, it probably falls into that, that hole of if you do something that's been done enough before. Yeah. People just don't really raise it up to the highest heights. It's a bit of that, you know, like you, like I said, if you've seen, for example, the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven is one of my favorite movies ever made. Um, um,

but not the theatricals, but it's kind of bad. But the director's cut is amazing. It's truly amazing. And if you've seen that and you really liked that, then this is your jam. I guarantee it. If you don't like that kind of thing, probably steer clear of it. But it's still on Netflix. It's an original, so it'll always be there.

And it's only a couple years old, like I said. In fact, I think he was, toward the end of production of this, they were already filming Dune. Oh, wow. But Dune had been delayed forever. So that's why it's so much further down the road that we got Dune finally. but because of the pandemic so this is all pre-pandemic but it's very very good recommended check it out again that is the king and it's on Netflix and it gets you know they're brutal with the war stuff and all that so don't go in there thinking you're not going to get any you know it's bloody when they fight in the battlefield you know some gnarly some gnarly knives go in some gnarly places let's put it in well speaking of kings you guys both recommended a king I'm recommending a queen this week oh you too And, Scott brought up taking historical liberties.

Boy, does my recommendal take historic liberties. Nonetheless, it is probably the most vulgar thing on television for a long time. So I had a hard time coming up with a clip that I wouldn't have to bleep over and over. I hope you like it. All right, here it is. Let's play it. I bless our new leader, Catherine the Great. It's hilarious

Of the great Of course Seems arrogant It is if you're not great If you are If you are It is just calling things What they are

What Sh Darling girl There is a rumor sweeping Europe That you have taken Russia from your husband You're my wife

You honestly can't think You can run Russia Without bloodshed I can I'm winning I love that you think That he's a threat I really really want to kill him

Reason and compassion Can win any argument better than violence. Let's just behead him like civilized men. We must act. Let us remake Russia, my friend. Everyone expects you to

only last a year. I'm safe until the baby is born. It must be strange. A human creature inside you? Do you ever think, what if he has a knife? I never do. This is a dynasty.

If she loves you, you will make more babies and protect the family line. You must make her love you. Should we have sex? I'd rather choke to death on this tiny chicken. I've been trying to change myself

when you are flawless. Exactly. It's time I regain the throne. And then you cannot. Imprisoned until Paul is born. You're a good dad. You're not long for the throne. I've chosen by God.

You were chosen by male order. Ponder that. I have a busy day running Russia, the country I just took from you. Go get him! are you kidding that could have been me she loves me that is certain sure i look at you and go dry like sand all right so we've recommend all this before but i i don't who cares there's a second season guys there's a second season it came out about a two months ago they it's all out right

like it's all they're they're they've just hit the final episode of the second season and the second season is somehow even better than the first. Wow, good. Oh, I'm so excited. If you slept on this show, it's time to start watching The Great. It is, like, I desperately want there to be seven more seasons of this show. It is so funny. It never stops being funny.

And it's just wicked and, like I say, very, very vulgar. Like, that is the one thing. You've got to get ready for basically X-rated talk and hard R-rated visuals. Oh, for sure. Yeah, it's good, but it works in such a weird way. I don't know if it's the actors, the pacing, the one-liners in that trailer are all kind of proof of it, but it's consistent. Kim and I laughed our heads off. We love this show.

And it's got your Mad Max Fury Road connection. Sorry, look, I'm the one who brings it up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Got Nucks in there, baby. Yeah, Nicholas Holt. And he's, you know, he and L. Fanning are the stars of this show. They're, like, the show is, like, it's wrapped around these two characters. And, like, to really, really summarize it, basic, basic.

An Australian writer named Tony Maconamara fell in love with the idea, like, 20 years ago, of writing a book that made the story of Catherine the Great's rise to power in Russia into a total comedy. And the book worked. And then so he made a play, and the play worked. And then so now he's the showrunner and writer for the show. That's funny. You say that. This reminds me of a play, like, in a weird way. it feels comedic play right it's right yeah yeah so like tony macnamara hasn't really done much else that's

been successful but my gosh what a what a singular sort of hit for him and uh so they you know they bring together l fanning who plays katherine is german very young woman who uh gets shipped off to russia to marry the son of peter the great also named peter and uh and then she ends up somehow taking over and the only explanation for that has got to be that some really funny stuff went down right and that's that's basically what McNamara does here he unpacks the all of the ideas like what if what if uh you know her rise to power really came about through sheer incompetence on the part of everyone in the russian court you know and and this kind of thing yeah no that's cool i i'm i didn't know the new season was out so uh i'm glad to hear it uh because we'll we've been looking for

something like this and I'm in the mood so awesome oh it's yeah it's on it's on Hulu as as before and uh man I don't trust Hulu I just can't trust Hulu to to do the the perfect thing here you know like I wish it was on HBO because that would then I'd be like yep we're gonna have five more years of this yeah you never know they haven't really proven any of that stuff with Hulu yet you're right but hopefully they hopefully they stick to it I think it may be my favorite thing they have on there actually I really like that show a lot it's just you know they also are responsible for things like only murders in the building, which, you know, so I trust Hulu to a degree.

They're doing a good job. They know how to do a cool project. They just don't know how to hold the project. Yes, exactly. So, and season two, you would, you would wonder if you came into this thinking, okay, so this is a screwed up historical reenactment, right? You might wonder, well, how can they go very far, right? Like, I can see this history as written, there's not a lot here, right?

She's going to, she's going to kill him. Like, there's just like, sorry, that's, that's in Wikipedia. She's going to kill him. Yeah. Like, how can we tell lots and lots of stories between the, you know, in the scant year and a half between when she gets to Russia and when she kills him? Well, they figured it out. That's the thing.

Like, they've somehow figured out how to just pack tons and tons of fun into that little time frame and in season two they bring in some heavy hitters yeah i uh you know a couple of uh sort of guest stars but not really guest stars like they they bring in a couple of characters played by uh really famous uh actors and uh you're gonna want to uh you're gonna want to go into that and be surprised when they show up well i'm i'm i'm i'm all in for more so uh there you go there's a recommendations for this week if you were like man i didn't catch any of that don't worry. Randy puts them on his Twitter account and we retweet them with the TMS account. Randy Deluxe on Twitter. And Randy, are you looking forward to Alien 4 this weekend?

I am so looking forward to it. You know, what happened is we decided about six months ago that we're going to watch Alien movies this year and kind of spread them out every six weeks or so. And at first, I thought, oh, no, we're just going to watch ever lowering movies. You know what I mean? Like, this is just going to get worse as we go, right? Like, we're going to start, because that's what everybody knows about the Alien series is that it starts really, really great. And then as you add more movies, it gets worse and worse, that can't be a good time. You know what? That's a great freaking time.

That is exactly how you should want it to go. I wasn't expecting anything, but the greatness that we've been experiencing personally. Yeah, and now I'm looking forward to the Drek. And it's great. Yeah, it's great. It's great, Drek. We got to see Ellen through. She needs us.

We need her. Only the best. I knew there was a chance. All right. Alien Resurrection. We'll talk to you on film sack and have a very good day. You do that. All right.

We'll see you. Bye. All right. He's gone. This is an extra long show today. Holy crap. I was. Yeah, we really packed it in.

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Quick question. Are your holiday cards still available? They are. They're up there. I think we're going to keep them up probably through the month, even though I just think people should hurry. Yeah, I know. Feeling the same way about the CD packages, because one of the albums that we did, we did fewer printings of. And as soon as those are gone, I close the deal, close the sales.

So get your Christmas cards over there at frogpants.com slash store. Get the Andrew Allen complete set of discs with digital files, all that stuff, at cover. Veserville.com slash shop. Nice. Very nice. Do it before all of it sells out. All of it. Yeah, it's pretty good. As you can.

And it will. Yeah, her name is just USPS is just sucking it right now. That's all we're saying. Hurry up and get it, we'll get it going. All right. Yep, exactly. All right. Jennifer wrote in, said, it's my husband, Dustin's birthday.

This was on the 26th, so the end of last week. It's my husband Dustin's birthday. And I wanted to surprise him with a cover of the song playing as we waited at the trailhead for our first 14er. He was supposed to have ran the Tahoe 200 race this September, which was canceled due to the wildfires. So we climbed some mountains in Colorado instead. I'm so proud of all he's accomplished and trained for. And this song, on the only station that we could get outside of Silverton, will always mean so much.

Happy Birthday, Dustin. That must have been a really great radio station that you guys picked up, because apparently they were playing tribute by Tenacious D. And you want to hear a cover of tribute by Tenacious D. so you're going to get one and you're going to get one by the only version the only cover of the song I have which is by Lawrence

Welk, no it's by Millicent Von Miguelicuddy Good, Millicent back again Millicent, the Millicent episode no this is by the Pickinon series so it is by either Iron Horse or

oh I can't remember the other one but it's listed just as the Pickinon series, and I wish that they do. They would put the actual band. I agree. It is the Picked-in-on series with the clean version of tribute. This is from, this is just a tribute, Bluegrass, wrecks the music of Tenacious D, featuring the Dust Bowl Cavaliers.

There you go. That's who the band is, the Dust Bowl of Cavaliers. Nice. Excellent. Here you go. Tribute originally by Tenacious D. This is the greatest and best song in the world. Tribute.

Long time ago, Jack and his brother Kyle, they were hitchhiking down along and lonesome road. All of a sudden, they're shined a shiny demon in the middle of the road. And he said, Play the best song. in the world are all each your soul. Well Jack and Kyle, they looked at each other and they each said, okay.

And they played the first thing that came to their heads just so happened to be. The best song in the world. It was the best song in the world. Looking to my eyes and it's easy to see one and one make two, two and one make three was destiny. Once every hundred thousand years or so When the sun does shine

And the moon does glow And the grass doth grow Needless to say The beast was stunned Whipcrack when his wippy tail The beast was done He asked them Be you angels

And they said nay We are but men Rock Oh, this is not the greatest song in the world, no, this is a tribute. Could remember the greatest song in the world, no, this is a tribute. the world all right it was the greatest song in the world all right it was the best off of the song greatest song in the world all And the peculiar thing is this, my friends, the song they sang on that fateful night

didn't actually sound anything like this song. This is a tribute, you've got to believe it, and I wish you were there. It's just a matter of opinion. Good God, God's loving, so surprise we find you can't stop it. firing rain up, firing rich motherfuckers come down to found town. Oh, right. Oh, right. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

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