The Morning Stream - TMS 2219: Gristly Angry Pig

Episode Date: December 22, 2021

Spicy and Huge, Let's Pinch and Scream! Baby Punching Rules and Regulations. Joust 2: Joust the Two of Us. QUIT EATING THE SQUID! I got a bone in mine. He's Got His Virgin Thing and His Deal. Dangly Tentacles of Consent. A Regular Marriage-Themed Wedding. Redundant Second Weiner. Seems Fungible To Me! First Rule of Mom Fight Club. Carter would punch her dad for a hot pocket. Klingons Consummate by Bleeding All Over. Japanese Hot Tub Monkey. Tom's Tech Time! Reccamentals with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, spicy and huge, let's pinch and scream. Baby punching rules and regulations. Joust two, joust the two of us. Quit eating the squid. I got a bone in mine. He's got his virgin thing and his deal. Dangly tentacles of consent. A regular marriage-themed wedding.

Redundance second wiener. Seems fungible to me. First rule of mom fight club. Carter would punch your dad for a hot pocket. Klingons consummate by bleeding all over. Japanese hot tub monkey. Tom's Tech Time. Recommendals with Randy, a hell of a lot of lag,

and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. And I'll hear's that old fishing expert himself, Fisherman Pete. Hi there, welcome to fishermen. I'll be your guide on this fishing trip where we're going to have lots of fun and learn something about God's word too. What you're going to hear about today is nothing short of a miracle. Her name is the morning stream, and she dances on the sand. Good morning, one and all.

Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for December 22nd, 2021. It is two days. No, I'm sorry. Three days till Christmas. Right? Three days. That's right.

Three days. If you count today as a full day, three days. yeah we got that uh it's exciting yeah you all got your weird shit under the tree you got your uh you get your fat neighbor coming over with a with a beard and a you know a bag of stuff and you know you're doing all that questionable uh eggnog some some weird smelling eggnog have you ever been santa claus in any context have you oh that's an interesting question i know you have i've seen photos i've seen video yeah i have to do it again this year um i do it for the little ones I have. I've never, I've never been Santa Claus.

I think you would be an awesome Santa Claus, and here's a couple of reasons why. Number one, I think you're, you're fitting for the beard and head, or the hair part. Be very careful with the next words coming out of your mouth, Johnson. I think that stuff would fit really well, and you wouldn't have to worry about, like, I have dumb hair in the way, so you're shaving your head. I don't have any weird colored hair that would come out under the white wig. Yep, there you go. So there's advantage number one.

And also you're just kind of a happy jolly guy. That's the other one. That's the other advantage. Yeah. I think it could be a good Santa. I like that. Yes. Plus, I like me some hoes.

Oh, ho. Brian likes all the hose. Anyway, so we're back. It's a weird week because today is our final of normal episodes. And then tomorrow we're doing a play date instead in the morning. And so that's a chance for really all of you at home or whoever. If you want to come live, we're just going to play a bunch of a monkey. us and you know we'll wear some little our little among us dudes might have some like uh santa hats on

you know why not i figured i figured i figure they're in there they got to be in there i was just killed by a green among us in a red santa hat uh yeah yeah that could have been like 12 could have been all of you yep no one gets ejected this time this round anyway so that'll be tomorrow uh so today enjoy the the final throws of uh you know organized showmaking because tomorrow all all bets are off uh okay couple quick things Yeah. This question got asked of me yesterday by a friend via text, and I had a hard time answering it. And so I wanted to ask you this question and then get a little philosophical about why we would or wouldn't do the following thing.

All right? Brian, if I came up to you and let's say I was somebody who legitimately had a billion dollars to give away, let's say I'm Elon Musk or I'm freaking Jeff Bezos or, you know, Bill Gates or somebody like that. Branson. Sure. Sure. Go for the Branson. Yeah. You know what?

Branson's great. he's got his virgin thing and his deal and all his stuff right that's right so i'm branson i come up to you with my weird white hair and my funky beard and i say to you hey brian uh i have billions of dollars and you say yep i'm aware of that and i say well i will give you one billion dollars if you haul off and just one all it takes is one but one massive punch to your mom right in the beak you got to punch your mom right in the face. Yes. Oh, sorry.

Billion dollars. Let me think about this for a little while. All right. So, and I'm talking hard here. I'm talking like full. One billion dollars. One billion dollars to punch your mom. Like, define how hard.

Like, well, there's one right there for Jamie, right? Yeah, define how hard. Yep, yep. Well done. Let's say as hard as you can. Like, oh, geez, really? Yeah.

Hard as you can. Punching your mom. No holding back. No pulling punches. Hard as you can. Now, remember, this isn't a question I came up with in my own head. Someone asked me this. Sure. All right. So I'm not the psych over. This feels like a question you would come up with in your own head, though. Let's be honest. Well, fair enough. I might have. But in this case, I had to really stop and think about it for a second because I could do great things for my mother with a billion dollars that includes immediate medical attention. Yes. Immediate medical. help right that would be one thing right yeah uh two uh she would she would never have to worry about anything ever again she'd be able to live her final years and just absolute you know uh luxury if

we wanted or whatever you do amazing stuff for my mom you know um yeah my mom would tell me yes do it you fool uh she was like like yes punch me because i think if if someone's uh offer that same deal to her and said, would you punch your son for a billion dollars? And I heard about it be like, yeah, here, where do you want me to sit? Why wouldn't she? Right? She'd punch you for a billion. Because everybody within your reach would benefit from your billion, you know, you'd be able to really help everybody out. But forever, you would be known as the guy who punched his mom. Right? So this is the, that is the, regardless of her saying it was okay. Because that would be your first defense. Oh, you're the dude who punched his mom for a billion dollars. Yeah, but

she said it was okay. Yeah. Now, I don't think we're on a break. I don't think I'd do it for a million. I don't think I would do it for anything sub-million, of course. And I don't know what my role, my role scale is here. But if you said a billion, I do at least have to think about it. Now, if somebody changed it up and said, all right, it's not your mom. It's a baby. You got to punch this baby in the face. And the only, and the only guarantee that you get in this deal is that it won't kill the baby. This will, the baby will survive and be fine, but it's going to, let's make sure that's clarified, right? The baby will be fine. It won't have any sort of brain damage or, or physical imperfections. Like, it will, it will, it will live its entire life

exactly the same as if you didn't punch that baby. Correct. No, no, no, no, no, no emotional wreckage, nothing. Wait a way to F up. Christmas, Johnson. I swear to God. But you'd consider it, right? If it was in a controlled situation, you're like, okay, here are all your guarantees. The baby's not hurt in any kind of permanent way. No emotional scars. No law stuff.

So you're not going to get arrested. My mom can say, go ahead and punch me. It's totally fine. I'm ready for it, son, do it. The baby is not going to say, go ahead. sir i'm ready this is a good point i totally approve of this even though it's going to hurt but it means i'm definitely going to

whatever college i want to go to and my parents will be set for life all right this is a really good point that you bring in here because that means we're talking about consent the baby can't give it we're talking about consent yeah okay if they could guarantee somehow that the baby was consenting that no you would not be thrown in prison like all of those guarantees this whole scenario has so many little dangly spider webs

coming off and that's spider webs like little tentacles of well okay what if the baby was magic and uh it's a hell of an

end user license agreement that we've created the time traveling baby came back and said it's okay you can punch me I'm fine yeah look at me now this is me from the future

would I look like this if it hurt me yeah like I realize you can't have all these caveats but I realize that even if all of a sudden all of a sudden I hate Richard Branson well done he's the worst he's the worst

he's the worst but here's the thing like if you think of all those things and did have all those guarantees it still would be hard right it would be very hard like the actual physical act of rearing your arm back to punch your mom i that would be i don't think i could even do it in a video game for real because because a video game a video game is next up after glass joe on mike tyson's punch out my mom's the next big boss on punch out next up elton john i mean Scott's mom. Scott's mom. Now, for Zelt and John, maybe I could do it.

But here's the, this is my whole, my whole takeaway is that even in a video game scenario where you are afforded all of those guarantees, every single guarantee that we just made up for the real life version would exist in the game because in the game world, because in the game world, none of that has any real effect. I'd still struggle with it. I'd still have trouble hauling off in a VR game and punching my mom in the face. Yeah. So, 52 years of life, I've never punched anyone in the face in my entire life. I punched one person in the stomach. And that's it. How'd that go?

Dude, is there a story there? What happened there? Yeah, okay, there's a story. So, elementary school. Yeah. I was young. Whatever. And a couple of my quote-unquote friends said,

hey, we're thinking, like, let's, the freshly fallen snow recess here, let's, like, make a snow star in the ground. So, like, we'll all lay on the ground and, like, make star shapes and then we'll get up, we'll move over and then we'll make like another, like we'll basically make a multi-pointed star by laying down in the fresh snow. I'm like, oh, right, that sounds kind of cool.

Sure, why not? So I lay down the ground. They both, each one of them grabs a leg and pulls me through the snow. And that was that their plan the whole time? Was that their whole plan? That was their plan the whole time, yeah. Lame.

This is pissing me off this story. The story's making me mad. Keep going. Keep going. Yeah. So they stop. They're laughing. I get up and I punch Jack right in the stomach. His name was Jack. Where's Jack these days? Now, listeners of this show will remember me talking about going to Outdoor Lab. And later on, this guy was still a friend of mine because he was my bunkmate at Outdoor Lab.

and this jack guy we're talking about being a top or bottom yeah remember like we're oh yeah yes so wait so i don't know what happened to this guy like we we pretty much lost touch after junior high school i think we may have still gone to the same high school but we've traveled in different circles and yeah who knows where he is today that poor yeah so it was a punch in the gut he he doubled over and uh no one ever it was like it was like first day of prison, you go and you punch the biggest guy you can. And no one really ever messed with me after that.

Damn, dude. Well, I, I've told the story before, the only person I ever punched in the face. I've only done that once in my entire life. Yeah. And it was the kid who copied my art in junior high art class, and I punched him as hard as I could. And I broke my pinky bone, stuck the bone stuck out of my, you can still see the little white scar. Yeah, it was a bad punch.

I didn't swing very good. Wasn't much of a fighter, but I broke that kid's nose and got suspended for two weeks, so that sucked. But, yeah, we're not fighters. We're lovers here on the show. We are exactly. Like Michael Jackson said to Paul McCartney, I'm a lover, not a fighter. That's right.

But the girl is mine, bitch. But the girl's mine. I listened to the Beatles all day yesterday. A whole bunch of Beatles. Yeah, I don't know why. But you didn't watch get back. Not yet. Just thought, you know what?

I'm kind of in the mood for some Beatles, pulled up the essentials, playlist and just turned it on and it was nice it was nice yeah and i didn't have it in my headphones so i didn't have to hear the stupid like all right ear all left ear crap they thought was good back that oh yeah they only really did that for a couple albums or like even a couple songs the uh most of the yellow submarine soundtrack music that's not score music has that weirdness in it yeah hey bulldog is probably the biggest offender but um a lot of those albums were mono anyway yeah That's true. The kissing disease, yeah.

Yeah. Well, for whatever reason, I enjoyed the kissing disease yesterday. I really enjoyed it. Excellent, yes. Also, hey, you guys, we're here. We may as well do a little thing. How about this? Take this.

It's for you. It's food. I want to recommend we try those angry pig things. Yeah, I like that idea. By the way, I heard from Terry yesterday. Yeah, how's she doing? From Okinawa. I'm able to say, Tara from Okinawa.

Um, she said that, um, the, let me pull up her email. Oh, yeah, the peanuts that we had, uh, were coated with black sugar, which is a really big deal in Japan. They even eat it as candy, black sugar. Black sugar. What's the, uh, does she get into why that? What's the difference between that? She did not. She did not.

Um, she says, I have nothing for you on the Superman snack, though. Oh, that one's a hard one. Sure. Uh, the first. The fruity tea is only available in Okinawa. So the metal tin is just Okinawa tea. And then the other one, the other tea, is a very Christmassy tea. And it's really good when you add milk to it British style.

Oh, interesting. Okay. We may, you know, I was going to make some of that on the show. I didn't let you know. And so I didn't make it for myself because I forgot to say, hey, you should make some too. But maybe we... You do it Monday. Yeah, Monday, yeah.

Totally fun. The tea. I just looked real quick here. There's a brand called Sandling Black Sugar, Sandling Sugar, Black, Black, 16 ounces for $10 on Walmart.com. It's literally black sugar. Like, I don't know what the difference is. Made with squid ink.

Yeah, maybe. Maybe. Sugar's not supposed to be black. Yeah, they made it black. It's not supposed to be black. Anyway, we're going to try these. So let's get this. These pigs are angry.

What has got these pigs so angry? Yeah, look how pissed these pigs are, you guys. Even the little corner pigs are super pissed. Look at that. Oh, my gosh, they're so bad. All right. We're going to open this here. I can't find the opening.

Oh, geez, Jamie. Just give you a freebie. This one, oh, there we go. There's a match. This has, on the left side, it has three chili peppers. Like, it's the big number three underneath it. What is that out of, though? Is that a maximum?

Okay, if it's three, yeah. If this is three out of three, we're screwed. If it's three out of ten, it might not be too bad. Oh, look at that. Did you have a little, hey, Marvel, hey Marvel fans, look, honeycomb pattern. It must mean something. Oh.

Like the coffee mug and Hawkeye and the Haley Stanfield's mom's couch design. deal yeah by the way uh i guess that finale's on today right it is that's what i'm gonna be watching i'll be watching that as well because we'll not be watching the matrix until probably until film sack this is one i feel like uh you'd be all right it's a one and done yeah yeah that's a good point uh all right i'm gonna eat this though here we go they're little stringy pieces of pig meat whatever it is yeah we're gonna it's gonna be hot isn't it hmm it's like jerky oh yeah there's a Coming. Oh, yeah.

Oh, wow. I've got a bone in mine. Oh, you found the lucky bone. Oh, the lucky bone. Oh, ma'am. That was my wrestling name for a couple years. The lucky bone. Bone, but it's awfully grisly.

That might be the problem. It's just a very grisly piece of it. It is really grisly, angry pig. You know what? The spice isn't too bad. No. It kind of comes. quick and then you're like uh-oh uh-oh and then it's like no no we're good just settle in yeah that's

fine let's see if google translate has anything for this one meanwhile you pick something else i kind of like it if i'm honest yeah i ate those those weird ones yesterday i'm all the um the sweet and sour or the or the peanuts with the brown the sweet and sour i don't know why the peanuts i didn't because it looked like too much sugar but the the other ones were good oh that's a lot of shug a lot of shug all right So the second one's a dude with a guitar with his foot on the amp. Do you have this? Oh, yeah, rock and roll squids. Rock and roll squid.

Oh, are these, this is the squid things, squid strips? I think they're squids. Wow, I'm not, Google Translate is not getting anything from this bag. Huh. Well, that should make us a little nervous, you know. Aim a text. I am aiming a text. Mimigar.

Mimigar. Mimigar. Oh, she was great on young friends. Frankenstein. So, so cute, Minigar. Just love Minigar. Yeah, not getting anything there, so we're going to... Skip that one, let me find my... I hate the art.

Yeah, here we go. David Coverdale pointing at some squid people. I really don't like the art on there. No, I don't either. But also, why is a guy playing... Okay, he's up there playing guitar, being all rock and roll, and then down here, the audience, it's like these little gnomes. Yeah. These little gnomes and little cult clothes.

Yeah, this is, uh, welcome to Squid Town Population U. Is this a stinker? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, this is my jam. It smells like, uh, like the dumb friends league cat section. Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong.

Even though I like this stuff, it totally does smell bad. Yeah, all right. All right. So why, I don't know why these are in this shape. That makes me concern because it means a pretty process, but let's give a shot. processed squid french fries oh I'm eating all these

oh that's really good dude if you like dried squid at all this is heavenly but also if you don't like dried squid I think this might be a more palatable version of it this is a more palatable version of the dried squid yeah it's not

what I didn't like about the other one is that it was really stringy kind of like the angry pig this is like It was real stringy like the angry pig Yeah Actually I really like that It's like leather though Like squid leather

Yeah it is like you're it's like you're eating Like leather shoelace or something Like David Coverdale Yeah Yeah Yeah Let's see if we got anything from the Google translate in this bag

These are stinky My wife's gonna hate me for this Come on give me something Niku flavor N-I-K-U, okay N-I-K-U flavor I knew it No, I didn't

I brought you I knew I tasted some N-K-K-U I knew M-K-U is in there I could tell Oh, for Pete's sake Like, I'm pointing it right at the There we go, Rotamo 5

Lara Lara Laura Maybe Google's given up on their App it's not good anymore I wonder if this sits on the ADWS

nothing i'm not getting anything let me try the back well do it see let's pinch and scream oh my lord really hold on let me see if i can freeze frame on that one there you go let's pinch and swing oh this is this is some beautiful stuff i'm texting i'm sending this to you right now via text all right we're going to put this up for everybody to see here we go here we go this is a beautiful beautiful thing it's why we do these things it's a good time all right i see a dots. I can tell Brian's putting something in. Yep, there you go. Enjoy all of the translation that you get

on this part right here, because there is a lot to take in. Oh, wow. Okay. I'll put it up and then read it here. Okay, chat, here you go. Look at this. This is good stuff. Ethnic. I'm sorry. Terradale Ten Shane. Yo, is I'm Camse aunt.

Ethnic and crisp. Spicy and huge. Let's pinch and scream. Wow. Wow. It's ethnic and huge. It's ethnic and huge? Good Lord.

That's a friend. Oh, right by, right underneath my thumb, it says, please enjoy it. You may see small dots. What? Well, if Google Translate is broken, I don't want them to fix it. That's amazing. I know. I don't want them to be.

be right. That's really stupid. Oh, this great stuff. Ethnic and huge. Um, all right. Let's, uh... God, I'm seeing small dots. So really, yeah, what's what the small dots I can see now? That isn't really a warning, though, is it? That's some kind of misinterpreted. You may... I'll bet. I'll bet it's like, if you look at it and you see small dots on the, on the thing, it's okay. Oh. Like, you may see small dots on here. Oh, on the, oh, I gotcha. Not, not if you eat this, you will then experience the hallucination of small dots. It's Retson. It's what it is. Oh, it's. Oh, it's It's Retson. Cool, cool, clean breath with the flavor of Retson. Fantastic. Yes. There's squid strips with Retson. Yum. All right. We're going to get Dunaway up in it. And we're going to play Bable Royale, a tad Pooley feud edition. This is always fun and a good time. So sit back and relax and enjoy.

Joining us is one Brian Dunaway from the recently seceded nation of South Carolina. Hello, Brian. Welcome back to the show. How are you? Oh, really? Oh, hi. You'd like me to bring that up again. right uh nice to see you how how are you what are you doing i'm gonna i you know what scott you are the king of uh uncomfortable conversation starters yep you always have been and i love you for it yeah and i accept you that's my job yeah that's what i do right i like to keep things fresh keep them hot keep them on their toes you know all those hey man i'm doing good except i'm trying to avoid at all cost any type of uh uh retail shopping no thanks same yeah No, thanks.

Same. God, no. Yeah. If I don't walk in the, well, I'll tell you, I will tell you this. I kind of miss the, a mall environment as just a thing to see. Oh, well, then you haven't avoided it very well. What is your avoid on start? Today.

What do you think the tipping point was? That's it. Going to the mall yesterday. Okay, got you now. I miss a good mall, but I really, then when I get there during the holidays, I go, oh, right, I don't like it during this time of year. This is like really hard this time of year. The mall can eat it. It's not, you know, malls don't make people hate.

People make people hate. Yeah, malls don't kill people. People kill malls. Wait, what? Anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to play this game. And to do that, we need a listener to participate. We have one.

They've called in. Let's find out who it is. Hi, thanks for holding. Who's this? Oh, David, New York. Well, hello? Oh, we love having David from New York on. David.

Oh, great. Got such a chill vibe about David. I always enjoy. Who in the chat room? The work from home, five. Yeah, what are you in the chat again? Quantum feline. Quantum feline.

Oh, quantum feline. Yeah. Quantum feline. That's right. It's a cat what travels faster than your light. I don't know what it means. Shrodinger's cat. There you go.

There you go. Well, it's real good to have you here. We're going to play a little game with you. Brian, you're going to have to explain the rules and kind of how this works before we can do it. So please do. Oh, okay. Boy, it's a two-week hiatus.

Let's see if I can remember how to do this. It's time to play. the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian, you have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those... Quentin the Squid.

How many of those answers they can guess? Quantum Filine, your job is 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 Abomination and Mini Iron Man Funkos. Colin Feline, are you in the U.S.? I am in New York City. He's in New York.

Okay. Oh, you did say that. At the beginning, yes. Then, yes, you are going to get Abomination and Mini Iron Man Funkos. I have them right here. These are ones you can only get at GameStop. And they're un-enboxed. Oh, wow.

Abomination? Wait, you mean they're still boxed? They're still boxed. Oh, I'm sorry, yes, they're still boxed. Un-open. Un-open. There you go. Un-un-unboxed.

Just a little un-unboxed there. Oops. Yeah, un-unboxed. Un-unboxed. Yes, exactly. Okay. So these will get shipped out to you. you at a great expense

at the slowest shipping rate possible. Go get around. These count as media mail. Can I ship these via media mail? I think they're too thick, man. That's unfortunate. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, these are what you get

if your team wins. Ah, right. All right, let's give you guys a topic. This is an interesting one. We had, let me find my numbers here because I did write them down. We had 538 people answer this question. 39 people passed on providing an answer because they're spoil sports and they don't like fun.

I love how you always shame the ones who pass. You could just let it go and not say anything. No, why would I, like you log into the Tadpool survey, you get questions in front of you, like, eh, I'm making an answer to this one. Pass. And so now you know how Ibid feels about you. Exactly. That's right. Exactly.

All right. Uh, here we go. Hands on buzzers. Wait. Buzzards? Buzzards. Okay. Yeah, buzzards.

Put your hands on your buzzards. Yeah, it's on my buzzards. Firmly gripped. All right, you ready? All right, here we go. If you had to have a themed wedding, what theme would you choose? You met. Done away.

Done away. I would, uh, a, a very Hawaiian barbecue themed wedding. All right. So, like, uh, okay. A luwow. Show me a Hawaiian beach, luau. sort of barbecue wedding thing. Oh, it's on there.

Number four. What do you mean? Oh, it's on there? Of course it's on there. I'm just surprised. I don't know why. All right, three answers will beat it, Scott. Okay. Let's do oh, oh, oh, oh, uh, underwater wedding.

Okay, like an enchantment under the sea kind of thing. Yeah, something like that. Underwater thing. Show me. underwater enchantment under the water. Damn it. It's all I could think of.

I love that you think that weddings or proms. Number 16, by the way, on the list. People did say it, and a lot of people did say it. Fewer people that passed, right? Yeah, that's great. Exactly. Damn.

Brian was smart enough to stay on shore where people could hang out. All right, that means that quantum feline, you're going to be working with Brian, Satan Clause on this one To control the board You guys get to start Yeah

Can we get that question? Okay Absolutely If you had to have a themed wedding You've got a gun to your head You have to have a themed wedding What theme would you choose? What does New York say?

Well, I know that I mean it's a 20 year anniversary I know that Lord of the Rings weddings Are very popular for a while Yeah, that wouldn't be bad That is so on brand for those tad A classic, yeah Yeah.

All right. All right. Okay. Show me Amazon's new TV series, Lord of the Rings. Number two. Number two. I'm surprised. Excellent.

Well, that was a really good answer. I think you may be more in tune with the taboole than me. What's another guess? That's right. Maybe you married? Yeah, you married. I am married. It wasn't themed, but it was very nice.

Okay. Just a regular marriage theme. Yeah. Ours was boring, too. Ours was big debt. That was the team for us. Harts was spared, no expense. Yeah.

Waste of money. I mean, keeping in the fandom, I know it's weighing the popularity, but Harry Potter is a big... Oh, yeah, that could be, yeah. Are you marrying a wizard? Yep, you got to put a hat on to find out. Is that you're eating the squid?

It's really good, Brian. I really love. Are you a new podcaster? Do you need to go through A&TP as a contestant? I find whatever it is about dried squid, I find it so addicting. I can't. I can't stop. Oh, my gosh.

I'm going to text to all those. Yeah, we had ASMRTMS is what we're. I apologize. I apologize to all the squid listeners out there. All right. That is the end of my squid game. I've eaten all the squid. Oh, excellent.

Very good. Good light. Eat light. Okay. Show me. Harry Potter. Yes, you're number 10. Yeah, well done.

You want that bottom one. Oh, wow, nice. Yeah, that's the big points down there. Yeah, hitting the last one is the way to go if you can do it. Yeah. If you can do it. Yeah. All right.

Well, you're on the roll. I got some stupid ones. I prefer to hear some good ones you have. What do you got? What do you got? That'd be stupid. Well, mine are more, like, general kind of stuff. like where I live at

you'd be shocked at the number of people who get married on horseback in cowboy weddings but I don't know if that's the tadpool Yeah You know I've got the beach of Louis That's on there

It seems to be by a mix of generic and fandom here Yeah I think you should go cowboy That's what I think Planet of the Apes Focke's in on the cowboy part All right so you say like Western Cowboy

Western. That's a good one. Western, that's a good one. Western theme win. Show me Western-themed. I told you. Anybody have anything like it? Number 39 on the list was Old West. Wow. Those would be huge points if we kept

going past 10. All right. Let's, all right, ball back in the Johnson court here. Let's see what I can do. I'm going to go with the Star Wars Star Wars theme So you want Luke and Leia to get married then

Yeah I do The first episode Exactly Well this will totally age well this wedding won't it Yeah it'll be no problem I give you power converters Here we go show me Star Wars Number one

See, that's why I shouldn't be trusted with Tadpool answers. Yeah, but it's number one. I got one point for that. You get a point. All right, well, that's okay. Low-hanging plums. Keeps me on the deal here. Let's go with, now, how recent is this?

I asked this question in the last three months. Okay. Why do you think there's some kind of, Ammocron kind of theme? No, I was thinking, I was thinking like if there was a big something like culturally that would make people go, oh, we're going to totally do that kind of wedding. Sure, that makes sense. All right.

How about, oh, geez. And, uh, I can't think of anything. They all seem wrong, don't they? Everything seems wrong. All right. Let's go with, uh, let's go with, uh, let's go with. I don't know. An anime wedding.

Anime. Oh, I like that. All right. Show me. Anime wedding. Number. There were people who said that. Kane da!

31 on the list was anime. 31. All right. 31. Yeah. Scott did get me thinking, though. And we'll see what the whole state New York thinks.

I'm thinking no. What about a... Scott's Squid Game apparently is not over. He survived the tugged and he's moved on to the glass bridge. I was just hoping I wouldn't have to say anything for like the next little bit. So I took a little tiny bite.

I keep wanting to do stuff like a winter wonderland or something like... You really are thinking prom, aren't you? POMs. I keep hitting proms. That's the reason why men shouldn't be allowed to do weddings. We should just plan for a... If you want to go... I mean, it's Frozen still really popular?

Oh, yeah. Well, you'd have to be... Hold on. Well, I don't want to help or hurt you guys here, but you'd have to be... I mean, grown-ups doing it, and are they old enough now? Were they kids then? Like, I don't know. That's true. I don't know how much time's past. I know I got my friend, my cousin

got married at Disney. I know... Oh, now see, there. Oh, that feels tad-poly. Yeah, it does kind of. Yeah, let's go... Theme Park Disney wedding. Yeah. I like how Brian left it open just enough in case it's theme park in general.

I like that. It's not my first game. Show me Disney. Oh, interesting. Disney, very popular, though, number 13 on the list. Like, it was just tickling the underside of tickling the taint of the top 10. The taint of the top 10, top 10, top 10. All right.

I'm going to go ahead and throw out one that I can't. I can't believe I didn't think of because I have friends who did this in Arizona. Oh, no, the term just left. Oh, Steampunk is what I was going to say. Steampunk. Oh, see, that's what I should have thought about. Show me Steampunk. Oh, man.

Yeah, again, a really good one that 23rd on the list was Steampunk. A lot of people did say steampunk, but... Damn. Okay. Technically, I guess, tied for 21st place was Steampunk. Okay. I will survive past this. All right. You guys each have one strike left. I know. I'm trying to think really hard here. I mean, if I strike again, you guys just win.

What's that? If you guys strike, then if you guys strike, then it's on me to get a whole bunch right to get points. It's run the board pretty much to really or get some of those low-hanging fruits. um it was such a it was like sci-fi so it didn't copy everything do we want to go like start track

something like that's right oh I see star track versus the overall sci-fi oh that is smart that is actually smart yes we'll go with that we're going to go with

uh captain kirk officiating my wedding okay sure show me trick show me some of that

trek business oh Yeah, those people, uh, Klingon weddings, uh, very big in Star Trek weddings, yep. Wait. Oh, nice. How do they, Klingons consummate by like bleeding all over the place, right? Or something? Isn't that the deal?

Probably, yeah. My memory. But they do that afterwards. You don't go on the honeymoon with us, Scott. They didn't ask. Well, there was a scene in TNG, I think, or somewhere where Worf and another Klingon lady were getting it on. And the way they did that is they, like, bit into their arms or something and then bled all

over each other's arms or some weird stuff. stuff. They're weird. That's the after party. Yeah. They have two peens, too, two penises. Yeah. They have redundant organs. Yeah. Right. You should have just really called this nerdy wedding.

Yeah. Yeah. Because I'm not really talking about. I mean, let's face it. I ask the tadpool. Yeah. They're nerds. It should be implied. It should be implied. I asked the tadpole. It's, uh...

Yeah. It seemed like a given. All right, what do you guys think? I want it. I want to, okay, unless you have a good one, I'm going to go with a dumb one. You got a good one? Let's hear it. I'm going to go with a, I would definitely have to have a Game of Thrones red wedding just to freak everybody out, just to have to question the entire time.

That's not bad. It's not bad. I don't think it's done. Game of Thrones is also really popular. Right, right. It's in the fantasy realm, but yeah. The wedding will start. start out the wedding will start out really strong it'll be a really strong start kind of a little

pervy in the beginning of the wedding and then in the middle it'll be really exciting and everybody be looking forward to it but the ending will the ending of that wedding will be a real disappointment that's right exactly don't stay for the final act all right show me game of thrones oh yeah jury jury had one of those game of thrones weddings i'm not going to win number nine i think we're pretty safe here dang i don't think i don't think scott can't mathematically eliminated, so congratulations, let's keep on going. Let's keep on going. All right, what else is around there?

What other? All right, well, you know what? I'm going to go with, surely, there's at least plenty of tadpoolers who are big into Pokemon, right? Pokemon wedding. You got to drill us up in the Pokemon Alps to do a little. A little ring in the polka ball, I'm sure. Oh, I'm liking this already. I have a new wedding theme.

want to be the very last the last that ever was show me show me the Pokemon oh that's too bad let's see that one was number 30 basically tied for 29th place that's a surprise to me

I don't know why yes all right well Scott let's uh I mean this is kind of redemption time you won't win but you can certainly not get completely shut out. Let's put a furry. Is there a furry wedding in there? Sure. All right.

Show me furries. Really? Furies were on the list. Where was it? Here we go. Tied for 43rd place. Okay. That's about right. Everything on this list has been nerds except for beach.

And that could be generalized. So I'm just curious what those other four are. Yeah, I think the rest are probably some generic stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Let's look at number three. Medieval slash Renaissance. So not quite fantasy, not quite Game of Thrones, but like, oh, hello, my liege.

Yeah, I almost said Renfair and then didn't. Yeah. Let's look at number six. This is interesting. Halloween slash horror-themed horror-themed. Hara. Hara. So hold on a second.

If they were, Halloween, I get horror themed, I guess, well, if you're into horror movies, sure. Yeah, I mean, like a Halloween horror theme, more, you know, not necessarily just straight-up cosplay, but like, what's more romantic than Frankenstein's monster in, in his wife? I mean, sure. And we all want our wives to be the final girl, so it makes sense. A giant list of answers is the answer to your question. There's a lot of things more romantic than that. All right, give me seven.

What do we got at seven? Gaming. So a lot of people said, hey, I want to just do board gaming, like a board game-themed wedding or video game-themed wedding. I was going to say retro. That's a good, cool. You should say retro a few times a day, Brian, because we have reasons to say that word. And finally, number eight, Dr. Who? A Doctor Who theme. I almost said

Dr. Hoo, but I thought to myself, there's no way. That is a theme. Yeah, that's a good fandom. I just, yeah, it's not as in the light guys today at the moment, I guess. I mean, you know, you can basically have all of your groomsmen and bridesmaids dress up as a different doctor and not have any repeats. No. Oh, my God. And not to mention, you could have them come in and you'd like, you could like have a false back on a tartis and you could just like have to pour out.

Like they're all in that of tartis. Right, right. They're all coming out of the TARDis. Oh, that's brilliant. See, that's good. You should start a business of nerd weddings. Yeah, you should do it. You've missed your calling, done away.

So what were the, if I went from answer 11 through 20, tell me some of those. Number 11, planned to the audience, Mad Max, like a post-apocalyptic themed wedding. Number 12, superheroes, 14, pirate, Dungeons and Dragons, Enchantment out of the C, we mentioned. Legend is Zelda, for people who are being specific. a 1920s style flappers and stuff like that 1980 action movie themed wedding

five people said steampunk Elvis just getting married by Elvis I think is what people are thinking there Gothic so like an all black wedding Divorce Court a few people three people said

a divorce court themed wedding Wow hilarious I want a people's court themed wedding that's what I want Yes I want it to be about Indiana Jones, people's card. Indiana Jones,

James Bond, Matrix, two people said a Matrix-themed wedding. I just feel like things are that heavy like a James Bond wedding. That just seems totally

like that kind of favors the groom, right? It kind of does, right? Yeah, because, you know, your bride-to-be is basically just a Bond girl.

Right. Yeah. That's interesting. Firefly, disco, uh, clue, Uh, cannabis, somebody said.

Cannabis. All right. Cannabis. Uh, somebody said Jurassic Park. I don't know. Okay. I was dressed up in those, those inflatable dinners with the bobbin heads. Yeah.

Yeah. It's, uh, it really devolved like the entire last couple hundred answers are one person's, you know, like Swedish minimalism. Ted Lassau, thriller by Michael Jackson, uh, Tron. Tron. A tron themed wedding? A tron deemed wedding. Amazing. You can invite Tron guy.

Yeah. You could have the, you have one of your drink bowl, you know, your fruit bowl, whatever you get your drink in. You can have a full of that Tron water in there. That would be cool. Exactly. I'd be into that. Octoberfest. Never ending the story.

I mean, people really did submit some unusual answers. Do you take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband? Meet the groom. He's charged with. That would be so good. Not coming home on time from his bachelor party. Amazing. Well, here's the real bottom line of today's story.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner. We have a winner. David in New York, you are a winner. Congratulations. How do you feel now basking in the glow of your win? Pretty good. I've always wanted to play Babel Royale. I mean, I have the family feud one.

Yeah, yeah, because we've had you for the other thing. But it's good to have you here, and I'm really glad you won. And to get your prizes, just need to email Brian, coverville at gmail.com. He'll send those out. An mailing address. Yeah. You'll send those out slow boat and you'll get them eventually. Hopefully by next Christmas.

Yeah. Merry Christmas, Dave. We'll see you soon. Okay. There goes Dave. But not done away. Not just yet because I have some information I want to share with people. Oh.

Are you unflurifying those notes? Me as Scott are getting married and our team is going to be. So one of the things podcasters we try to do, try to keep things fresh, you know. We try to keep things fresh. thing's new and interesting. You don't always want to just stick to the old roads that you're used to like the TLC ladies used to sing. Not to say. So, you know, we got a, we're not doing a waterfall, but we're going to do something cool that both of us have a lot of interest in and that we've been wanting to do for a while.

So here's the official news. Boop, here's the sad news. Boop is going to retire or at least be on hiatus status. Okay. And what does that mean? Oh, there's, that's our show about indie games. Okay, well, we're going to push that to the side for now. And we're launching a brand new project called Play Retro. Oh, what's Play Retro? Oh, it's a, tell me more. Think of it as kind of the boop formula, but deeper dives, I would say, all about retro gaming. It's going to be everything from games you played in the arcade and you're a kid to stuff you've got on an NES for Christmas, whatever and everything in between. We'll pick big games, why they were meaningful and magical.

I can tell you right now we're going to hit joust real hard because this is my favorite classic game of all time. I can't wait to get on my ostrich and talk all about it. Yeah, and it won't be just, hey, joust was cool, wasn't it? Hey, remember this game? Yeah, it's not that. We're going to give you stories about where they came from

and who made them and stories that were just crazy about the making of some of these games, the designers that didn't get the credit they should have, the sometimes bad sequels that came out of it. joust too I'm looking at you that sort of thing anyway it's going to be great and we're really excited about it's called play retro and you can actually get subbed early right now if you want to be one of those early birds by going to the website frogpants.com slash play retro uh is that right i think it is yeah i mean double check frogpants dot com slash play retro that's correct and uh

when you get there all the links for uh what we have so far approved we've got Spotify approved um Apple podcast approved. Google takes forever, so I don't know what they're doing. Still waiting for them. They're always slow. It's weird. But the RSS feed is there, so if you just want to pop that into your regular player of choice, whatever you're using, that'll work as well. There's a little placeholder file on there, so the first episode's not there yet. We're going to record it live the exact same time we do boop every week, so Monday's at 3.30 Mountain Time.

All those details are on the site. So go check it out. Get subbed up early to the show and watch for, watch for, watch for, for the coming excitement. That's going to be great. I'm totally excited about this. We've been talking about this forever. We wanted to reach further into the retro scene for a really long time.

And it's our time. It's our chance. It's now. Me and Scott like to tell stories and we like, you know, history bits and trivia and how everything fits into the greater gaming era. And so I think it's going to be perfect. It gives us a chance to really do some, like you said, Scott, some deeper dives. Yeah.

I'm looking for it. Yeah. But if you're, the main thing is, you know, know if you're like oh we're but boop but what of boop and we'll say well what did you come for to boop for did you come to boop strictly to find out what some $15 game if it was any good that week or not well you might miss out on some of that although we may you know we'll do more of that on things like core but but uh what you really came for was our banter our communication our nerd out uh status that me and brian inhabit when it comes to video games old new

whatever you're going to get that plenty of that so same hosts same time uh thing different focus all just different topics yeah and that's what you should do in podcasting find your find the stuff you love and move and keep moving keep moving all right so anyway check it out it's over at frogpance dot com slash play retro and uh should be searchable on all the uh directories by now i'm subscribed right now and we have a twitter too but really haven't started posting there yet but yeah nothing's on there, but it's play retro show on Twitter if you want to do that. And we also have an email address if you want to send early

questions or comments or thoughts about stuff you want to see on that show. It's at play retro show at gmail.com. We're all set, man. And it's happening first of January or first Monday of January. I think it's the third will be our inaugural kickoff of that thing and we're ready to rock. So anyway,

Brian, anything else you want to say about that before you go? That's about it. I'm very excited. I've been playing art. I've been playing some of these games. One of the games I'm interested in is Fantasy Star 4. I wouldn't play the whole Fantasy Star series. And we're probably talking about that sometime in January as well. So you can watch me. I've been playing every day from Monday through Saturday at 6 p.m. Eastern time until I decide that I am too tired and I just stop playing. I'm out. It's a Christmas miracle, everybody. It's a Christmas miracle. Dunaway, kiss our butts. Have a wonderful

Christmas, by the way. Merry Christmas from the TMS family. and you're awesome. We'll see you next. I guess we'll see you next year or next week before the new year. Bye now. That was an awkward goodbye. Kendlin, yeah, it'll have a Patreon. All this stuff's set up. We just have to launch the show. So come in January 3rd is when you can expect the hot new play retro show on the Frog Pants Network. Okay. Brian, what time is it? Oh, it's time. It's that time where we're going to take a break. And when we return, Tom Merritt, you know him is, uh, the internet's technology expert, foremost podcasting technology expert. Tom Merritt will be with

us. So stick around for that. We also have recommendals today with Randy. That's all coming up after this break with this song that Brian will now describe and play for us now. Yes. Let's go up to Maine for a rock band called Fun Fun Rue, F-O-N-F-O-N-R-U. I don't know the reason for their name, if that's like a last name. No, it's Harry James, Jimmy Ladoo, Westers and Cormac Brown. They're from Portland, Maine. This is their second album coming out in February, courtesy of Repeating Cloud Records.

So make sure to take a look at that. These guys get their influence from punk rock, post-punk bands like Shame, Idols, Fonteens, D.C., and, of course, mid-90s groups like Chavez. This is the first single from their upcoming album. It's called Manicure Manager. Here is Fon Fon-Rue. What's the matter what hell you never seen a man taking care of themselves?

I want to be pretty, need to be handsome guy, I need it just like everyone else. I'm here by myself, okay, not for a dare or prank just to get a shape and you just to get a shape and you just They're leopard-frey on top right or purple with solid gold for max and nails Well, there's a few, but not many Sevenly We'll all be a man to cure manager You say you've got no ideas, I've got plenty Cut off my cutteuticles and make my hands beautiful

The magic with the rest of myself So fresh and so clean They boost my self-esteem Yeah, I'm most confident that I've ever felt The jewels on my finger-tips gel with the powder dip or see the nail Last in your eyes Not fastful at all I'll take these puffs to them all

them all and let the grid of code speak for itself. Well, there's a few, but not many. Feminently, we'll all be your man to cure, manager. You say, you've got no ideas, I got plenty. Well, there's a few, but not many. Femone, manly. Well, I'll be a man to cure, manager.

And you say, you've got no ideas, I got plenty. Well, you know what I'm going to be. for a man is a manicure really makes you feel less angry trading your masculine masks a mask mask, is that really so hard well I'm asking you Well the only cut for a man is a manicure

Really makes you feel less angry Trading your mask and mask masks are so masqueras I'm asking you We're going to be. Introducing the Biday Spa by Clean Butt, the new and revolutionary way to cleanse yourself after nature calls. If your lifestyle revolves around convenience and ease, then it's time to pamper your butt.

And you are, if I was, but I'm not. Ladies, we heard you. This is the morning stream. All right, we're back, everybody. Man is just sneak in about an inch of this squid. The squid. In between things there, because... This is dangerous.

We need to do food at the end of this show, Mr. I know. I know. What am I? I've been podcasting. for almost 20 years and I'm over here eating food on Mike. What's this about? What's going on? What is this?

What is the deal with that? Hey, that song, by the way, was Manicure Manager by the band Fun Fun Fun Roo. It's from their upcoming album, which will be released in February 2022. And I don't have the name of that album yet. Oh, well, I'm sure it's to come. So just look for Manicure Manager by Fun Fun Rue. Sounds lovely. Funfong Roo.

All right, we're going to get our old pal Tom in, see what's going on in the world of tech. It's got to be an interesting way. Christmas week is always either like a weird thing. drops or nothing drops, but we'll find out now when we play this sound. With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt, and he has come here to tell us all about what's going on in the world of technology because the Daily Tech News show ain't going to make itself. Tom Merritt, welcome back to the show. Hello.

Well, hello, Brian and Scott. Oh, look at you. Look at this very beautiful background here behind you. Oh, just me in the old fireplace. The weird pixelation around the sides of your head is that's the flames reflecting. Oh, is that what it is? Okay. The weird fish that just appeared above his head.

That was weird. I didn't see a fish briefly. I don't have a problem. Fish and all creatures are welcome. You're not turning anybody down and that's what we love about you. Hey, I guess that means it's also an interesting point of conversation. Discord now lets you put all kinds of goofy backgrounds in your video. So there's that.

Yeah, honestly, this was a last minute thing because it prompted as soon as you called. Like, would you like to change your background? And I was like, would I would. I think I might. Well, good on them, I suppose. I wish they'd make an M1 version of their damn software. Anyway, moving on. Hey, Tom Merritt, what is going on right now?

I know, you know, Christmas week can be a mixed bag of what's going on in tech. It's a lot of end of year stuff. So, you know, what's going on? Anything? Well, I thought maybe I would give everybody enough. update on the old log for shell vulnerability in the log for j that that's kicking around out there but he's hearing about it thought maybe if y'all had questions about it uh i could try to answer them as best i can i've been i've been digging pretty deep into it we're going to have an

explainer about it on daily tech news show today as well uh the short version is if everybody's like yeah kind of heard about that what is it again uh it's a vulnerability that was discovered responsibly that's the thing this is not a hackers came up with a thing and came at us uh it was discovered by a researcher at Alibaba in November, who responsibly disclosed it. The Apache Software Foundation patched it, but it's really bad, and it's really bad in very interesting ways. One of the reasons it's bad is that it's dead simple to take advantage of. It's kind of amazing that nobody discovered it before now, but what it allows is, if I

can simplify this, Log for J is a logging piece of code that you can put in any piece of software that's that's using the Apache software framework. And logging is something important. Anytime you go to a 404, a log entry is being made like, hey, this person went from this link to this link and didn't get anything. And that's how folks can troubleshoot stuff. It's used to troubleshoot all kinds of stuff for analytics to understand how people are using your things.

One of the things it can do is a lookup. It can go and say like, hey, it says user extra live. frog pants came to this website. Be nice if we're reaching out in support to know who that is. Let me go to the user directory on our own server, look up who that is, and just add a little extra information. Oh, he's a

Windows user, and he's from Utah and his name is Scott Johnson. Okay, we'll just put that all in the log. So it's easy to see as well, and it gives people some extra troubleshooting information. It's not a privacy violation. This is all inside the same server and it's just the log software doing it. Well, the

vulnerability is you can as an outside person, craft your message or URL that's being logged, such that you're saying, hey, do that look up on my server? And Log for Jay is like, great, I'll take any server. What's your server got? And you're like, my server has malware. And then suddenly Log for Jay is like, great, I'm apparently installing malware. I have no idea.

I just parse whatever you give me. It has now been patched. But this is the second weird thing about log for shell, even though it's patched, because it's not a piece of software. It's not like, okay, everybody go update their log for J program. It is an object that is used in other pieces of software. Not everybody knows where it is. Yeah, it's just a little Java utility, right? Exactly.

Exactly. So you can paste it into all kinds of stuff. And granted, you know, big companies like AWS and Google and such are, have got their hundreds of engineers on it going like find every instance of log for j we've got and patch it make sure it's it's patched but it's not like as easy as pushing a button and a lot of companies rely on other people's software so they may not even know that it's in there and they're waiting for the people who made that software to make the update and those people are are you know trying to figure out like do we have log for j and where do we have it it's not like you put it in

once. You might put it in in multiple locations to do logging in various areas. So that's what makes it so easy to exploit and it's so widespread. So the cybersecurity company, Tenable, I guess they're based out of Maryland, they said this quote, the single biggest, most critical vulnerability of the last decade, unquote. You think that's hyperbole or true? How bad is it? It's a fair characterization because of just how widespread it is. Let me see. if I can find these numbers here to put on it. But if you go to Maven, which is a place where Java packets packages are collected, Google estimates that there are more than 35,000 Java packages in Maven that have Log 4J in it. And those packages are used in tens of thousands of pieces

of software out there, you know, on hundreds of thousands of servers. So this is incredibly widespread. It's not hard to patch most of them, but it is going to be very difficult to ever think we've patched all of them. Someone in the chat says that, I guess China has said publicly they're mad that this got found. That sounds salacious, Dice Tomato. Where did you get that info? He said he wanted to know if you were going to talk about that Chinese. Yeah, we need a citation on that.

I don't know if that's worth commenting on. Probably not. So, so, what it sounds like to me is that it's a, it's a, it's a volume problem, like a lot of affected. Yeah, it's an ease, ease and volume, right? It's, it's super easy. I, because Minecraft logs its commands in Log for J, if your Minecraft server were not updated, uh, you could just type in, uh, a malicious piece of script as a command in Minecraft and exploit that server. it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's cut and paste you don't have to come up with it if you can find the proper syntax uh and then yeah you know then it becomes more sophisticated because you have to deliver the payroll and are you doing a reverse shell and all of that uh but it's it's no more sophisticated than any other remote code execution attack at that point so it's really easy to get started and it's very widespread you can find it lots of places okay i found the complicated story basically the chinese government uh is angry at ali baba for not telling it first about the flaw because there is a law where i

I can't comment on that. I haven't seen that and I haven't vetted it. Well, right, right, right. Yeah, I'm not actually. Also, it kind of doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. But their point here, their point here is that there was a law passed last year in China required Chinese citizens who find zero-day vulnerabilities to pass those details of the government first. And so now they're going to be mad. But it doesn't really affect any of this. Yeah, it doesn't really have an effect on anything. It's like, all right, well. I mean, if you're not worried about patching log for shell and you want to find a reason to be mad at somebody, I guess that story. it might be interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So there you go. Well, all right. That'll be at least on the docket today. There's always other stuff, though. Like tech cannot be held back by any one man or group of people or country, nation of world universe. Tech happens, man. So be here today at 2.30 Mountain Time for the Daily Tech News show where you can get your dose of daily tech. Tom, is there anything else going on right now you'd like people at home to know about?

I have a newsletter and I have been just giving away my books in it. like for free nice look at you you're like so you're a santa claus of a different strike yeah yeah it's probably a really stupid thing for me to do but the past two weeks uh if you've been subscribed to my newsletter i just gave you links to to free pdf versions of my books figuring like hey man if you have somebody in your life who who wants something uh fun to read and you need a last minute gift that'll deliver instantly with a download uh here you go uh so so yeah uh free tom newsletter dot com And I might be throwing some other surprises in there this week. So keep an eye out it.

Subscribe if you want it in your email or you can just look for it on Twitter. I post it on Twitter whenever I make a new one. Yeah, you're a man about town. Tom Merritt, everybody, Ace Detect on Twitter. Check us out later today. I'll be on. It's Wednesday. I love Wednesdays.

The Daily Tech News show. Yeah. Log for Jay. Log for J. Log for Johnson. Log for Johnson. That's right. Tom, take it easy. We'll see you soon.

Merry Christmas, Tom. Oh yeah, Merry Christmas. Gosh, dang it. Keep forgetting Christmas is in three days. It doesn't feel like it. I don't feel I'm like, I must be a curmudgeon or something. I'm just not in the... No, I'm, well, just speaking for myself, this is a tough Christmas year. Yeah, right? Like, it is for a lot of people, you know, just with the virus and everything too, so. What are you, uh, the funeral stuff? When's that, is that happening? This summer. This summer. It's not going to happen until this summer. Okay. So you guys are doing one of those. I would have, that's what I was going to, if it was me, I would

probably push for something like that. Yeah. It's, you know, a matter of getting family members together and stuff like that. Yeah. All right. Well, the important thing is we have more show to do, guys. Correct, yes. Tom Merritt's out.

So now the new hotness, Randy Jordan, joining us. Where we'll discuss stuff we've seen on streaming services in a little segment we call Babel Royale. Let's get into it. We-ha. We're getting the rings of ring of John Randy, but not the rings of speakage. I'm picking up there, Randall. Answer, Randy, answer your phone. It says he's in World of Warcraft, so that could be, you know, could be in the middle of the

rid. I think it always says that. Does it always say that? Oh. I think so, yeah. Usually that thing only tells you what game you're in, but maybe he's just always in. Maybe he's never not in. I think he's just always in.

Like he has auto fish bot going or something. Very well could be. Very well could be. All right. Let's try the rings of Randy one more time here before I pause and then try again. And it's not getting to him. Oh, I know why it's probably weird. He's in Canada this week. Oh, he's not been in California. So he left his machine in California going with Rold of Warcraft auto fishing for him. He might have, yeah. And it could be. He's got a bot running a fishing. Collecting herbs. He's going to get banned from the game. He's doing some herbs.

hopefully he's not in a place where he can't pick up. Oh, so you probably got like a one of 80 or whatever. Who knows? Yeah, exactly. There were three levels like of rarity and I don't, I don't know. I'm looking at right now, there's no way for me to tell what rarity this one. If it's not a single, if it's not single rarity, then it seems fungible to me. I don't know. I thought that's supposed to be non-fungible.

Anyway, it doesn't matter. Hi, Randy. Randy's joining us. Hi, Randy in Canada. Good morning, morning stream. Hey, how are you? This is how I sound from Canada. Yeah, this is a Canadian rating.

I can totally hear the accent now. Yeah, yeah, me too. Yes, and you should probably hear the echo. I'm in a, I'm in an echo room. It's a, it's a bedroom that has wooden floors, wooden ceiling. It's just perfect for podcasting. Yeah, it sounds like you're in the shitter, where it sounds like, but you're not. Excellent.

Excellent. I will mute to flush. Always mute to flush, push to flush. It's good to have you here, and thanks for doing this on your, during your trip. I can't be easy. I'm so glad. Of course, I've been listening. And I've been just marveling at how I, so it's that time of year when every morning,

after 8 a.m. my time, I check the epic store to get a free game. Sure. I do the same. Yeah. And I just get them. I get them all. I don't judge. I get every epic game.

And it's also, you know, going to Twitch to watch morning stream reminds me of the existence of prime loot, which I'm going to I'm looking at and I just realized I'm spending all my vacation trying to access free things I'm like a I'm like a video game couponer yeah look at you you go all the way up to and all you do is search for good deals on video games I'm not sure quite what to make of that well I'm glad you're up there a chance to see family you know Sam's from up there we wish you well I've been instructed to say happy Christmas to both of you and yours thank you and I'm sure we'll also exchange change. More pleasant trees than a few days. Yeah, I have a feeling. We all have each other's phones. We'll all talk. Well, it's good to have you here. We're going to do recommendals where we talk about stuff we've seen on streaming services, things that we think

are recommendable. And we'd like to start with Brian. Brian, if we're starting with you, then I need a little setup. What have we got here? I'm going to give you a little setup. This is a series featuring Annie Murphy as a person who's stuck in a place she doesn't

want to be with a family that is not who she wants to be stuck with. Wow. All right. On that note, let's check out what you brought. Here you go. I wake up, I go to the salon, I come home, I watch a game with the guys. In between, there are a few donkeys, coffees, and

a pack of menthols. You're okay with that? Everyone knows what their life's going to look like in 10, 20 years. Pretending things will change is how they sell washing machines. I'm just I'm tired of trying. I feel like nothing I do is ever enough.

I really think if I could start over and go somewhere else and just do everything right this time, I can finally be done. Is that insane? You know how many people coming to my swan? Every week, thinking of perm will solve all their problems. I mean, maybe you're insane. But you're not alone. Calling me crazy is the nicest you ever been to me.

You're welcome. I like the idea of a perm solving all of our problems. Right. Ew, David. What is this? I have no idea. Ew. Ew.

That is Kevin can F himself. which sounds like a non-fiction documentary, but no, it's a dark comedy, boy, putting this in, pigeonholing this as a comedy or as a drama or anything like that is a difficult thing, because it is, it is all of those things. It's a part single camera drama. It's a part multi-camera sitcom, and that's kind of the gimmick of the top line gimmick, right? that's the thing that's supposed to pull you in to kind of check out this show. But what you find is something a lot deeper. I actually started watching this last summer and watch the first episode. It was like, okay, watch the second episode.

And I was like, I'm not sure I'm digging this. Then about a month ago, I started seeing her a couple weeks ago, I started seeing everybody's end of year best TV of 2021 lists. and I started seeing this appearing on there. I'm like, all right, well, let's give it another chance. And I'm glad I did. It is a lot better than those first few episodes. The first couple episodes will have you believe.

It's about a woman named Allison who is married to a guy named Kevin. And Kevin is modeled after like the Kevin Can Wait character, the Kevin James or the King of Queens, character of the honeymooners, the Ralph Cramden kind of thing. And whenever he's around, the style of show switches to a sitcom with a laugh track because that is, it's kind of showing you this manipulative, all of his friends love him, he can do no wrong, and she kind of gets pushed to the side of her life. When she's outside of him, like when she's away from him, it switches to a, I'm going to compare it to kind of like a, I'm going to compare it to kind of like a. Breaking Bad, Better Call Sol's style of show. And after about the third episode or the second episode, it starts getting into like, oh, okay, here's how she's going to get out of this situation. Yeah, go ahead. So you're saying it switches from basically a sitcom setup to a prestige drama setup.

Correct. Correct. Anytime you're away from Kevin, played by Eric Peterson, who is. is so hateful as this character. He is, I know what else he's done. Oh, he was Shrek in Shrek the musical. Would you call this, like, it sounds like, what am I thinking of, Wanda vision-ish kind of in a way? Oh, you know what?

That's a really good point. Wanda vision does the whole thing a lot better, but there is, that's a really interesting parallel because while, spoiler alert, Wanda is kind of the one manifesting the reality in Wanda Vision, the husband is kind of the one manifesting, or actually the husband and his friends are kind of manifesting the weird sitcom reality in Kevin Kenneth himself. She, let me just say right off the bat, Annie Murphy is freaking amazing in this. She does such a, she has to do this job. of acting in a way that is the same character, whether she's in the sitcom portion of the show or in the drama portion of the show, and not be a different character in each.

And she does a really, really good job of that. Mary Hollis in Budden plays her friend, who you also heard in that audio clip. She runs a beauty parlor, but she's also got a little business going on on the side that we find out. and becomes kind of an important plot point to Allison and her, the situation she wants to get out of. The only other people you'd recognize, the only other person I recognized in this is Robin Lord Taylor, who you know as Penguin in Gotham from that TV series Gothen.

Oh, he was good in that. Yeah, I liked him in that. But Annie Murphy is like the, she's the standout of this thing, and she does such an amazing job. And I'm glad I gave it another chance. I'm glad I went a couple more episodes in, but... That's good to hear. I probably wouldn't have, based on my initial understanding, which is wrong.

My initial understanding was that this was like, do you remember when my name is Earl started doing these story arcs? And in one of them, for like five episodes, Earl was in a coma. Do you remember that? Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I knew remember that. Yeah.

And so it would flip over to whatever he was dreaming. about and in his dream he was a sitcom man and everyone else in my name is earl was a cast member of the sitcom yeah and so that's what i was reminded of when i first heard about this annie murphy joint i'm like you know what i don't know that i want a whole series yeah that's like that yeah here's and the thing about this is that the um the show itself um i get why they do that because she is she is the put upon sitcom wife character when he's around she's the one who's like in the background while he has all the hijinks and does all the funny stuff and does you know one one thing after another with his friends and and that sort of thing but when um and you kind of

feel that heaviness on her life it's a very interesting way of kind of demonstrating that and putting it into a visual form to show that kind of, um, that kind of treatment, that kind of, uh, uh, uh, why are people arguing about whether it's Annie or Eddie Murphy? They thought you said any Murphy. You know, my adenoids might have made it sound like I said Eddie Murphy at the beginning, but I've been saying Annie Murphy the whole damn time. The Chad thought you said Eddie or was never Eddie. There are a ton of people out there who have never seen Schitt's Creek.

right yes exactly when i even brought that up and that's kind of what i was joking about the beginning when i was saying she's a woman stuck in a place she doesn't want to be with a family that she doesn't want to be with that's kind of like i was making people think why is he recommending uh recommending uh shits creek but yeah she's she's uh Alexis in schitz creek there's also a question in the chat about uh whether or not we have done this show as a recommendal before and we have that it was a rec um or a it was a mechamental right i was like I had watched the first couple episodes based on early buzz and said, yeah, this isn't the thing for me.

And then came back to it. So this is me revisiting something that I started seeing on everybody's end of year list and saying, okay, let's give it another chance. Maybe I was, maybe I judged it too harshly. And it's, it's something that I usually try to do is do the three episodes before I bail out. And I only gave it two episodes. You had to do your own rule, yeah. I broke my own rule. So, Rick, maybe we can call this one a.

We call this one a reclimental, because you've reclaimed it. Oh, reclaimed, right. Reclamation. Yeah, that's pretty good. So anyway, it's on AMC Plus, which is an offshoot of AMC. Obviously, if you pay for AMC Plus, you get all the other things like Walking Dead and Talking Dead and we are walking dead again. And look who else is Walking Dead now, too, or all those other spin-off shows. but you also get as I discovered and I'm totally getting back into

or totally getting into the new season of Doctor Who I won't recommend it because you know Doctor Who people know or they don't apparently a lot of our audience wants to get married like Doctor Who but they've got a lot of British dramas and comedies as part of AMC Plus so it's a good way of seeing all those other things

that come from overseas that you might not get unless you pay for a separate service like Brit Box and yeah and you know here I am in Canada I just turned on the TV and flipped around and I found it's all shit's creek up there right yeah yeah but on in Canada Kevin can go F himself not go there's no go Kevin can F himself is on Apple Plus it's just right there oh really like built into Apple Plus okay interesting watch it on Apple Plus if you're in Canada used I thought I kind of sworn this thing was on Hulu but I don't know what's wrong with my brain. It's not. It was never on Hulu, but I thought it was.

Just AMC Plus. So if you, you know, you can get the free trial seven days for AMC Plus if you haven't had it before. Actually, even if you haven't had it before, you can get the free trial if you started it and then canceled it. And you can easily get through the eight episodes of Kevin Keneff himself through that and, uh, or through that time and even check out some other stuff. And so now you're hopeful, you're looking forward to a second season. I'm looking for to come back. Yes. Yeah. Has this been, yes, AMC renewed the series for a second season,

and it concluded or confirmed that the series would conclude after two seasons. So this will be a two-season series, and there will be a second season. That is, it's funny. I had a really hard time imagining Annie Murphy, specifically Annie Murphy and Dan Levy and I'm to Emily Hampshire I'm having I had a really hard time imagining those three actors doing anything after shit's Creek like I was just like no that's it they have defined themselves into some roles you know and and Dan Levy has kind of been popping up but he's he's not got a series around him yet right yeah but even though he doesn't I think he's I think he's a little screwed here's my here's my take on Dan Levy I really like him but I think he's he's so shits creek type cast he's going to have a hard time i think annie murphy will be fine i think most of that cast is fine has already got giant careers behind him so whatever it doesn't matter but i think of the siblings the chief siblings in that show she's going to have a way better time

spreading out than he is because i don't think anybody sees anything but david when they see him i can't right i can't see anything about him because part of it part of his character is him being him right right yeah so when he talks i want to say he's got some reality thing that he's a host on or am i imagine did i did i dream it like it's some sort of like uh canadian baking spectacular or something like that oh maybe not i could look it up uh it says he is currently involved in the big brunch is that it that maybe that's it yeah yeah all right make the best brunch you can make a big brunch is also in a tv series i don't know what that is but maybe that's it yeah uh schitz creek is the main thing though a couple of movies movie small bits he was on he hosted

snl for a really funny episode yeah he's uh gonna produce some stuff for netflix i just worry i worry about his typecasting i hope it goes better for him yeah i just worry about it yeah but i don't worry that much annie murphy is doing really well and she's really good in this and she can flip a security camera off like nobody's business stage. She can. Oh, you found that clip. I love that. I made a giff out of that. I freaking love that. It's the best flip off in years

what I've seen. All right, let's play your second clip. All right, my second clip, a little setup on this one too. This one features Jason Sedakis as a fish out of water in a stranger in a strange land where he's coaching someone who doesn't talk very

much about the American ways of doing things. Nice. Let's find out what we got there. You're back in focus. The chat room likes to focus on dumb things. Whatever. Here we go. Enjoy.

I know it's weird, right? So I'm heading towards this light, and I'm psyched for my life to flash before my eyes because, well, there's a lot of baller shit in there that I'd love to see, you know, especially the adult content and some of the bloopers, if I'm being honest. But I didn't see any of that. Nothing. No.

All I saw was you. Which is ironic because I just met you, and I'm pretty sure you hate my guts. But, hey, man, we are linked. You know? Linked, but in two different realms. You know what? I'm like Swayze and your Demi Moore. Hello, ghost.

Okay, not a big rom-com guy. All right. Oh, I know. I'm slimer and your Vankman. Nothing, huh? Seriously. Wow. I'm Beetlejuicing your Winona Ryder?

I'm the rotting chicken in the bathtub, and you're Jack Nicholson. I mean, beats me, man. You know, some ghosts haunt a place, some haunt people. Maybe I'm just forced to haunt a dumb animal. I'm just trying to wrap my head around. What the heck? going on with me. Like, is this purgatory sitting on top of a train with a monkey that yells at you the whole time? All right. This has been on my list for a while. Tell me about Hit Monkey if I should

watch It or not. You should definitely watch Hit Monkey. Hit Monkey is the best Marvel series that wasn't on Netflix or Disney Plus. Oh, wow. Okay. So I'm just saying it's better than runaways and cloak and dagger. Oh, and Modoc. Yeah, yeah. And can you imagine getting signing and and producing a show starring a guy who's one of dozens of people whose best thing on their resume is they were on Saturday Night Live. And then between the signing and the release, this guy starts winning Emmys. Yeah. Yeah. Weird how that works.

Amazing. Yeah. That's why you got to throw your spaghetti at all the walls you can. You ever know which one's going to stick, man. So you got to do it. Exactly. Yeah, so this is hit monkey. This one is on Hulu, Scott.

This is a very adult animated series based on the Marvel comic book of the same name. It features a monkey, a Japanese, one of those Japanese monkeys that sits in hot tubs. Oh, we talked about them earlier in the week. We talked about them yesterday, yeah, exactly. I think that's a macaque, but I can't remember. Maccac. You just really want me to keep saying that. Yeah, I like it.

Jason Siddakis is a higher assassin for hire who a hit goes wrong and through a dark turn of events ends up befriending this monkey and befriending in quotes because there's some animosity that happens a lot between the two of them. But ends up coaching him in becoming an assassin to take out the people that caused his hit to go. wrong. Interesting. Olivia Munn, George DeKay. This is quite the cast. Olivia Munn and George DeKay. Those are the two I wanted to focus on because this is, this might be I liked her in newsroom, but let's face it, her

eyes have no emotion whatsoever. I think they're drawn on the front of her face with Sharpie. Olivia Munn is, like the voice acting in this is so good. It's surprisingly really good. And George DeKay is great. He's kind of the

character you're kind of rooting for in the background of everything going on. It is, it's a really, really good series. It's 10 episodes, half an hour episodes each. I'm hoping that this one gets picked up for a second season. Let's see. Generally positive reviews from critics or crickets. Crickets as well.

Yeah. Crickets. The reviews are real good. Like this thing is, I can't find a bad review. No, it's great. I'm trying to think. of another Marvel series that wasn't on Netflix or Disney Plus

that was as good as this. Look at this, Randy. Fred Tadisori, how do you say his name. That guy's on hundreds of Blizzard games. That dude's all over everything. Oh, Tadisori.

Okay, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He's big-time video game voice guy, and he plays the monkey. He's also voiced Yosemite Sam, Taz, Gossamer, and the Hulk. Oh, well, all right then. He's busy boy.

That's right. There's a couple of characters in here that are also pulled from the comics. There's, Bullseye, the lady version of the character that Colin, what's his face, played in the Daredevil movie. And Fat Cobra, who's a sumer wrestler who can shoot lightning out of his feet. Oh, my gosh.

Oh, that's right. You also see Silver Samurai, right from the X-Men comics, who's probably, of all three of those, probably the most well-known. That's great. The comic character you find in that. I love that. That's great. I love how Marvel has kept its universe sort of intact but not exactly cohesive.

You know what I mean? Like, they haven't forced every little thing into every other little thing, is what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and this is the show that you probably would never see on Disney Plus. This would be on the Touchstone Plus network. Yeah, which is Hulu. Okay, wait, wait, you're saying it's not Disney Plus in the States? No, it's Hulu.

This is Hulu in the States. Yeah. Disney gets a little saucy outside our borders with what they'll show. Here they are very Disney. I'm looking right now at articles from all over the Commonwealth about when are we getting Hit Monkey in Canada, UK, Australia, and it's not viewable. Yeah. I usually figure that's got partially to do with the rating.

You know, like Invincible. And when Amazon put out Invincible, they had a hard time getting it out in other countries. Yeah, right. Yeah. Dark material, you know, dark source material, that guy. And this one isn't quite as gory as invincible, but it's, but it's up there. It's more gory than Modoc. I'll tell you that. I only made it through five episodes of Modoc. And that was, I don't know if any end of, end of your list will make me revisit it. Okay. Per your rules, you stuck to your rules there, though. You went as many episodes as you could. I stuck to my rules. And as much as I love Modoc and J.K. grammar can even attest to the fact that I have a modoc that he gave me sitting right up there

on my on my other monitor uh uh i just couldn't make it through that it was just wasn't it's a bummer do it for me well the hit monkey modoc crossover that'll get you don't you worry that might get me yeah every time i think about they'll pull me back in pull you back in here's mine uh this is a short clip from a thing that i watched and it's funny because you talked about a whole other murphy annie murphy let's talk about a different murphy in my clip Simon took her away. He made sure no one could get to her. Hi, my name is Brittany Murphy and I go to Herbert Hoover Middle School.

Brittany was so wonderful. There was nobody else like her. There was kind of a sweet, childish, lost quality that she had. That just breaks your heart. She was successful immediately. You cannot be a teen girl and not love Britney in Eight Mile. Clueless. These are movies that will stand the test of time. the test of time.

Brittany Murphy was super cute, but in Hollywood, you have to be a Gwyneth Paltrow. All right. You probably figured what it is. This is the Britney Murphy documentary on HBO Max called What Happened to Britney Murphy? And it turns out a bunch of stuff I didn't know about. I had heard the story that her and her husband, in my head, the story went like this. Her and her husband had mold in their house and didn't know it and died one night because of the mold. they both died that night. That's what I thought the story was. I have never ever heard that

story. Yeah, it's definitely still part of it. It's a part of the story. But they didn't die together. He died some, I don't know, multiple months later. But they both died of the same thing, which was this house mold. But there's so much more around it than just the house mold. And the dude she was with was this skeezy dude who basically made it impossible for her to seek any help from house mold or anything else. Like, it's a big mess. Anyway, if you have any interest in that actress's life and her success, and obviously, you know, this covers her demise, it's worth checking out. She was only 32 years old when she passed, which is really sad. There's just a ton of stuff around that story that I never knew. And they interview everybody from co-stars of, you know,

Clueless and the director of Clueless and and, which is kind of her big breakout thing and all these people that start in TV shows with her before she got real big. They go through the whole Ashton Coucher phase and all that stuff. And they get into like, you know, when the drug started happened and her mom's really weird and there's just like a lot of weird stuff going on there. This thing was two episodes, I want to say. So it's not a full series and it's not a single standalone. It's like two full, full episodes. I thought it really interesting. And And some of my favorite parts was when they interviewed the actress who plays Peggy Hill on King of the Hill, which Brittany Murphy was on. She played Lou Anne.

And, man, the lady that played Peggy, I just want to spend time with her. She seemed like the most concerned, genuine friend to her and just was so, I don't know, every time they talked to her, I was like, that's right. You tell them, sister. You had her back the whole time and did everything she could do to try to help this girl when she was having a hard time. But anyway, it was really, really fascinating. And I know, you know, true crime, documentary type stuff, even this where there's no overt crime is not everybody's bag. But it fascinated Kim and I to the point that we were sort of riveted and watched the whole thing and really, really liked it.

So, highly recommend it. Brittany Murphy, or what happened to Britney Murphy, it's called. So there you go. Is it what happened to Brittany Murphy? What happened to Brittany Murphy? To Britney Murphy on HBO Max. Yes, yes. Okay.

Now, I just wanted to make a little side recommendation because I'm on HBO. I'm not going to play a clip or anything because we've already recommended the show and we bring it up all the time. But this season's John, what's his name? John, I can't he was last name? Oh, John Wilson. John Wilson. How to with John Wilson. Dude, I love that show so much.

I want to hug it, kiss it, rub it. I love it. I love it so much. I'm with you. And I just want to explain if someone. out there doesn't know. This is a miracle of editing this show. Like you have a, you have a, you already have a genius man walking around the city with his camera all day every day of his life and catching clips of people saying things and doing things and this kind of stuff. And then

all of that somehow is searchable. So there's a genius person. uh making it somehow cataloging all that video yeah his his his B roll we were talking about this the other day Brian and I the B roll his B roll is like I don't I don't know how you did it how you got it all it's insane to me and then there'll be times or moments where I'm like uh very clever very clever and then I'll go what you got video of that happening that day like right there I can't believe you got video of that and then he makes it he integrates it so well it's an amazing thing now season one at an episode where a guy was like pulling his wiener on camera. This second season has had none of that at all.

I feel like they may have tidied things up to be less HBO and a little more max. I could be wrong, but that's how it feels. I'm not saying it's bad or it's good. They just seem to be holding back a little bit on that stuff, which is fine. I found that episode kind of distracting and hard to watch. I wonder why. Yeah. I mean, Guy Yankin on his wiener is, you know, not everyone's cup of tea.

But it was, they've done some really funny ones. like just the one, the episode where how to find a parking spot in New York City, that thing went places. And it's never about the thing he says. Yeah, it never goes to the place you think it's going to start for it. Right. Like it always, yeah. If

he was David Sedaris and he was just writing in his diary every day, you'd be like, oh, I understand how easily he finds the funny stories because it's text and it's searchable. Yeah. Right? Yeah. This is, this guy must get 10 hours of

video a day. Like, how do they catalog it? I don't, it's a miracle. Yeah. And from what I, from what I hear, there's a bunch of stuff I read, that dude's like pretty solo. He doesn't really have a big team. It's just kind of him making stuff. And how he's doing all of that is impressive. Like, it's just really, really weird, low-key, dry humor, but. Loki, I don't know. Yeah, Loki. It's Loki. Check out Loki. Streaming now on Disney Plus. All right, let's move on to Randy's pick. Randy, any setup for your clip? Straight set up. I avoided this show. It's been around for about four years now, and I just started watching it this week. I avoided it because I thought it was going to be

a straight rip-off of some other shows that kind of are very emotional, and I didn't really want that. And then I was told, no, you need to watch because it is one of those emotional family tear jerking type shows, but it's also exceptional. And so now I'm obsessed with it. All right. What you're about to play is from a trailer for its fourth and final season, which came this year.

And so there's another thing here, which is it's over. You can now watch the entire series from beginning to end. So this is, again, this is from fourth and final season. So it's a little advanced if you haven't been watching it yet. but go on here it is you have these parents that support you so much it drives you nuts my mom things me dating girls is just a phase you have a support system I am a support system I'll be your support system oh this is pulling my heartstrings already this here deal also that file got cut off and I don't know why I thought I recorded more of it's the shortest clip

Randy will ever provide us yeah I I thought I made it longer. You got enough to get the atmosphere, which is very, very much, this is us. It's a, it felt so much like a this is us rip off that I just couldn't, you know, like I couldn't process that. But it's not at all. It's its own thing. This is atypical. Atypical is a story about a family of four.

And the older sibling is a boy who is autistic. and that is played by Kier Gilchrist. Kier Gilchrist is phenomenal in this role. It is just, it is, it is a revelation, this actor playing this role. And again, it's over. So there's 38 episodes total for this whole series. And his parents are Jennifer Jason Lee and Michael Rappaport. That's insane to me.

That's an insane combo. I just, I saw him in the trailer and I went, okay, I like Michael Rappapaport. I saw her and went, I like Jennifer Jason Lee. And then later I saw him hugging like their parents. And I went, they're the parents. What? Yeah. They're the parents.

Weird. And his sister is like a year or two younger than him. And that's, she's played by Bridget Lundy Payne. And the four of them just make a wonderful family unit. Now, they're not perfect. And you got to understand, like this, this, this, show is called atypical and you might think oh it's just about this autistic kid and he's turned he's just turned 18 at the beginning so he's about to head out into the world and he's not

at all ready for that right and you might think that's what a but a typical is about all of them and about everyone they know and it's just it's a it's a it's a very emotional ride but it's funny it's heartwarming at times it's um it's a little bit scary like as a parent yeah you know like watching what parents are going through but uh just i i'm obsessed with this show because i i think everyone should watch it and it has such a good message does she ever go uh does does jennifer jason lee ever go full daisy domer goo whatever her name was and hateful late or she's like here's the thing i i just for me love her i haven't seen her in 30 years oh you okay yeah yeah so for you what she's like single single white female for you or something right right yeah

Fast times, Richmond High. Right. And so I see her, I see her in episode one of Atypical, and I'm like, oh, my gosh, she's 60. What happened? Yeah, she got old, it turns out. But she, if you've not seen her in Hateful 8, she got an Oscar nomination for that for a reason. She's amazing in that movie. You know what?

I have definitely seen that Hateful 8. I just forgot that that was her. Oh, she's so good, dude. Man. On the other hand, Michael Rappaport. Michael Rappaport as the man who's kind of observing all of this and trying to figure it out. He is really well cast. Like, he really stands his own in this show as a dad of an autistic son and a daughter who's going through teenage girl things.

You know, he's like, he's just the whole thing. The whole thing, man. That's all I got to say. Watch this series. If you haven't yet, watch this series. It's on Netflix, the whole thing. I've heard nothing but raves about atypical, and I don't know why I held off on seeing it. But so this is it, though.

We're done. It's now a complete series. I can just watch the whole thing. That's what you're saying. Yes. And it looks like, it looks like they finished it on purpose. They weren't like canceled because no one was watching it, although that is a factor. No one was watching this show.

But they, it looks like they made the whole fourth season to, you know, to be the last season on purpose. and you can see why, if you watch it, you can see why this is an emotional show. Like I say, this is us as the best comparison. And you can only take so much of this, you know? Like they should wrap it up. They should know where they're going and get there rather than just extending it for year after year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, that's cool. I definitely want I wanted to see anyway and you've pushed it higher on my list just by talking about it. So well done. Yay. I'm so glad. Yeah, I'm glad too. I kind of need something like this, this kind of show, I think.

Kim's watching Gilmore Girls again. Don't ask. I don't know why. She just freaks, whatever. She loves it. And so every once in a while, she'd be just like, I'm starting a new run. I'm like, no! So then I'm annoyed for a month and a half or however long it takes her.

This would be a perfect alternative for me, you know? Pull up the old iPad, put on my earbuds, pop this thing on, enjoy a family thing that isn't the Gilmore girls again. Yeah. Yeah. And unlike the shows that I thought this way. was this this is not a bunch of stories about people facing unnecessary tragedies

this is just people trying to live their lives and they have normal challenges you know yeah so that's good you know that's good it is good and for everyone in the chat that's like I can't believe no one's done a Witcher season two thing that dude that thing just landed

we haven't had time yeah we haven't had time yeah we'll get there we'll get there give me a minute here yeah give me a minute to get my, I got to put my Henry Cavill hat on and be ready. And also, I think, I think we're going to have to Rochambeau on who gets to recommend a bit. I don't know. We might, we might decide that one of us doesn't like it or something, but I got to come up with a game for the three of us to play privately. Well, I really like season one, and I like what I've heard about two and what they've changed

because of some of the things. Yeah, you can leave. Yeah. Go ahead. You can leave my sham out of that Rochambo. I haven't watched any of it. Oh, you've not seen, you didn't even see season one? I didn't know that. Huh? No. No, I never got into the game, never bothered with it. Well, it's based on the books, but, but yeah, I take your point. The bigger popularity is actually the games, but the show, actually to the disgruntlement of a lot of players is very adherent to the books and not the games. And that annoyed some people because their only entry point was the games. But you might really like it, dude. It's like, it's cool. You don't need to know anything to enjoy that show. yeah it's all based on a polish writer's old novels oh no i'm sure because like i started watching arcane and really have been enjoying that and i don't play any league of legends so it's it's it's more about like whether i get into it or not yeah just haven't bothered with it well you you might you might at one point just end up there i'll give it another chance yeah you'd

like it you should because like it was the biggest show of autumn winter two years ago the way arcane is right now like you should you should watch it just because everybody else did and they they liked it you want to yeah do what other people do yeah you want to do what other people do Brian here oh you know what I was going to say that ended up being Kim and I was our first shutdown per purge uh binge is what I was going to say oh really yeah yeah so when things shut down that that March that's the show we sat down and just watched together uh alone and didn't talk to anyone else for like a week or whatever it was great it was great that shows great the witcher's good uh all right well there you go this entire list of things we've talked about

today we'll end up on randy's uh twitter account and then we'll retweet it on the main account for tms as well that's randy deluxe on twitter randy anything else you want to add i just want to say merry christmas happy holidays happy new year festive festivist to everyone i hope that i hope that your feats of strength are strong. Sure. And that your airing of grievances are low, are small. Yes. Yes. Very, very much. So everyone listening, please have a happy and safe holiday. We love you. Merry Christmas and enjoy your time in, whoops, in. Kaneda. All right, we're, we're done. Hey, Brian, I got good news for you, dude. Tell me some good, tell me some good news, Scott. I need some good news. Here's the great news. Oh, I have a

question for you before I do it. Oh, that's not news. Sorry, this is sort of connected to recommendals, but not really. I have also been watching Foundation, okay? A fan of the early Isaac Asmoff. For whatever reason, things are just getting super choppy all of a sudden. I don't think it's you, because Randy was getting choppy for me as well. Oh, weird.

I'm not hearing anything. Tina's upstairs downloaded the entirety of shameless or something. Yeah. Well, that's a good show, though. Chameas is good. Okay, here's what I was going to say. I forgot what I was going to say. Oh, much better. Okay. Oh, is it better now? Okay.

You were going to ask me about, I think you were talking about foundation. Oh, foundation. So I'm watching foundation. And here's the question for you. Yep. You say, well, you need to watch a show three episodes and by then, you know, if you should keep going, right? Is that the rule? Yes. Okay. That's my rule. Personal rule, yes. I thought the first three episodes were amazing. fourth was

fourth was good five I'm starting to wonder so I guess what I'm saying is do your rules and your laws regarding this is there is there any allowance for like it

you know like certainly if I if I start hating something and it's after the first three episodes I'm not going to keep watching it I think maybe I might be done but I'm bummed because thematically visually acting one

really into it the first three or four episodes. And I got to the fifth or so and went, why is this not working? Suddenly it wasn't working. It's a weird, it's a weird like neck jerk moment in the series that it just, and it's not like something happened storywise. It's just suddenly it felt phoned in. This was one of the shows that got interrupted by the pandemic and put on hold for a big

chunk of time. Maybe I'm seeing the result of that slap dash effort. I don't know. Bums me out, though. So anyway, I did your rule. I liked it a lot. Then I got to the fifth one. I went, oh, well, that's shitty.

It's not as good. You know, good example, heroes. You know, great start, great first season. And then it just kind of. Oh, yeah. That rest of that show. Gosh, dang it. That show had so much potential.

Speaking it, they even stole an actor away from the Gilmore girl so they could make it. And then everything got poopy. All right, anyway, moving on. Yeah. Brian, I'm about to, you know, even per my rules, you can stop watching a show at any time. Okay. So I'm not, I don't have to stay the rest of the way. That's not part of the rule.

I can be done, right? You don't have to stay the rest of the time. Yeah, exactly. Oh, my God. The audio, like, I'm trying to see if there's anything I can do to improve. Yeah, you're lagging bad. My connection here because it is. Here, I'll switch regions.

And I want to hear, and I want to hear this. Oh, so I thought you did that. Okay. I didn't. I'll do that real quick. Okay, now we're on the central region. How does that sound to you there? Oh, it sounds me good, and your mouth is matching up with your sound in Zoom.

Oh, good. Well, we are AWS having East Coast problems. Maybe we're feeling some of that today. I don't know. Freaking damn thing. All right. Well, that's good because I want you to enjoy what I'm about to play. It's the end of year.

I'm excited for this. End of year, Best of Ibit mashup, everybody. Sit back and relax and enjoy this because it's great. I don't know. Actually, I haven't heard it. I don't know who your guest announcer is either. I have no idea. I haven't heard it.

So here it is. Best of 2021, Brian Ibit edition. And I will warn some of you, just so you know, this says it's uncensored. I don't know what that means. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Maybe the swears. Oh, are you lagging again?

Are we lagging? Brian, are we lagging? Oh, it must be. I heard you just say uncensored. So I said, uh-oh. Oh, hold on a second. I mean, we're lagging. All right.

How's my voice to my face? I mean, basically, oh, I can close. Let me close that too and see if that makes a difference. Like, I don't need to have iTunes up to talk about the final song. No. What can I get rid of? Okay. But what honking beast that's taking your bandwidth? I still, it's probably, my NFT is like secretly downloading all of my files. That would be bad, wouldn't it? That would be real bad. All right. I think we're good.

Okay. Let's see if we're good. All right. I want to play this for you. Here you go. Enjoy. Hang on. I got to pause for YouTube because apparently we'll get dinged there. Here we go. All right. Here we go. Brian Ibit, 2021 uncensored Quick forewarning before I start talking if Scott Johnson is listening to this right now Please cover your ears I know how grating my voice is to you But we're not here to talk about you We're talking about the balder side of TMS

Brian Ibit Brian might seem perfect on paper He's got it all figured out All those obscure useless trivia facts in his head He's the master of cover music Self-proclaimed mayor of Las Vegas So with that in mind, let's knock Mr. Ibit down a couple pegs, shall we? Here's the best of Brian in 2021.

Tonight we're doing falcon... Excuse me, Falcon Williams. Hey, Zeus, come in. Zeus? No, I think it's Hey, Zeus. Oh, hey, Zeus. Jesus, come in. I was thinking about going up and doing the ding-dong ditch.

and then if nobody answered, flashing my genitals in the ring cam. Oh, here's what it looks like inside. Very pink. Oh, my chuggin'all, bitch. How do I keep my penis from farting? Oh, do we get a little sacky sack in there?

You get a little reverse cheeseburger. Maybe reverse cheeseburger is what you get. Wait. What's reverse cheeseburger? I need to know what that is. That's exactly what you think it is. You're seeing the meat come out of the bun. Oh, my God.

Through the back of the bun. That's hilarious. Yeah, it really helps to tear it off from the side as opposed to trying to bite it off from the top. I could really use to look at a boob. Right now. I sure could use a booby. Masturbatory fantasy.

So fantasy is about masturbating? No, I assume it's like... The fantasies you think of while you're masturbating. Yes. Who's your daddy? Oh, yeah, that's the stuff. Oh, yeah. Do you feel the hit?

Oh, yeah. I'm getting the contact high just by being on the other end here. This is great. Keep going. Keep going. Oh, my God. That looks infected. It kind of does.

We do reverse scoring then the way Richard Dawson. We're doing the reverse Richard Dawson is what we're doing. That's a sex moment. I don't want to know about it. Would you like me to wash your dick for you? It rubs the lotion on the nips or else it gets the chaff. Chaff.

Chocolate covered fluffy whipped moose. Hey, Rocky, knock it off. That hoarse. Oh, yeah? Here's something you'll really like. Ouch, pull that out of there. I had a rough morning. Ray, and I couldn't see it because I hadn't had my coffee yet.

You know, I tried to pick something up off the ground, but my boobs kept pushing it out of the way because they're so long. Hey, Marge, guess how many boobs I saw today? Thirteen! The fact that they're coming and coming and coming and not stopping means you feel pressure of something that you're not able to keep up with. A receptionist who was with him said she saw King pulling at her vagina. Oh. Pulling at it! You're not supposed to pull at it.

I don't know how those things work, but... You guys and your magical equipment, we don't know how it works. Do you pull at it? You jam it down one hole and up the other hole. I do it voluntarily. I'm peeing right now. Well, I do it, yeah. I mean, we do these long shows, and I have a bladder the size of a fidget cube.

So what am I supposed to do? What a weird thing to say it's the size of them. I love it. Oh, my God, that looks amazing. Claire sent me a picture of her box. Oh, hey, I'm in the toilet. I'm taking a shit. I can't wait for the next expansion when the first boss in the first raid is going to kill you with mouth noises.

Oh, my God. behind a pillar. Oh, Crest Whaler. F*** off. We curse all the time. F*** off, Crest Whaler. What the fuck, man. Jeez, what is that shit?

What Brian's doing, maybe not as much. You know. She was charged with burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and giving a false name. I wonder what name she used. Petunia Pullen-Twant. Send your emails to Brian, not me. I'll take those emails. It's totally.

Oh, my gosh. Tristan had the truck. He'd say, for truck. And then he'd see a UPS truck. He'd call it a Eupus, a Eupus. And one day we're with my grandparents, and we see a UPS truck, and Tristan goes,

You piss, f***ch. How have you not told me this before? That's so good. I think I have told the story before. I think so, yeah. That's so good. Wow, it really did get the fully uncensored Brian in today's thing. There is a, wow, a lot of F-bombie Brian in there.

And it's probably every F-bomb I've ever used on this show, really. There are a couple extras, maybe, but, yeah. Yeah, maybe. I know there's one I had with jury that you like to have on your own. I love that one. You know why I love that one is because there's two things going on there. One, it's your 24-hour thing, and you can hear it in your voice. Yeah.

You're like at the house. halfway point. And you're like, yeah, these are the rules at this point. And you just sound like you're going to fall over. And then to hear you use it in such a natural way. And then jury's response, which is like, oh, yeah, okay. Cool. I got it. Got the rules. Everything's good. Something about it. I just love it. All right. Well done, Jamie. Jamie has done it. He's summed both of us up different days into what we were last year. And boy, howdy, were we weird. So congratulations to him and everyone for hearing that. Don't worry. 22, I'm sure, will yield just as many dumb things coming out of our mouths.

Big thanks to Jamie, though, for that. He does amazing work. And also... I'm glad the Internet cooperated enough to where I was able to hear it all. I want to listen to the whole thing again after the show because I see it's on his Patreon. That would have sucked if you couldn't have heard it. I'm glad you did. I know, right?

No, I was able to hear it all. And I enjoyed every second of it. Good, good, good. All right. That's going to do it for today's show. And that'll be it for regular showness before Christmas. Now, come Thursday, that's tomorrow, we have TMS play date in the morning for everyone. We're all going to be here playing among us.

It's just kind of our, hey, let's chill out and do something different for Christmas. So we're doing that for Thursday. That's tomorrow. So another reminder, there won't be windy. You're not going to have a book segment. We're just going to play Among Us, okay? The other thing I was going to say about that, well, oh, tomorrow is good, or an interesting thing, speaking to Jamie, because if you're listening to the core podcast, which happens

that night, normal time, 5 p.m., he put together a big, huge core mashup that apparently is like the end-all be-all of core mashups. So if you want to hear that, hear more Jamie, check out that episode of core tomorrow night live at 5 p.m. I want to thank our patrons. We have a bunch of patrons we love and want to adore by mentioning their names. We'll start with these three. Over at patreon.com slash TMS. You'll find, find folks like Alan, who joined us at the grade A plus level and Christina, sorry, Christian Nicola, I think is how I'm saying it, I think from Germany, grade A plus level, as well as Jeffrey Jones. Not the one with the gummy bear in his pants during Ferris Bueller, not that actor. Different guy, right? His name is Jeffrey Jones, isn't it? Okay. Well, it's definitely not him. Jones, and he got in trouble for a lot worse things than a gummy parent. That's right. And then somehow still landed the job on Deadwood.

So I don't know how we worked that out, but well done to that guy. Anyway, this Jeffrey Jones is also at the grade A plus level. All of these people are afforded really cool things that they signed up for. And if you want to learn all about those, bonus content every day, ad-free experience. And bonus content every week, you can go find it at patreon.com slash TMS. If you have any thoughts, feelings, or comments, send them to the morning stream at G-M. all right brian i think that's all we have uh it feels weird because this christmas is here and i feel like we're missing something but i guess we're not are we missing anything do you have

anything you want to mention do you have another show in the next day or so yeah no well coverville coverville tomorrow will be uh the first part of the end of year countdown best 40 covers of uh 20 21 started with a batch of about 575 or so songs to listen to and i've narrowed it down to 50 or 60, and now you've got to cut that down to 40 and put them in order. So my afternoon is going to be all tied up with that. So great shows coming for the last two episodes of Coverville tomorrow and then a week from tomorrow. Do you have an album from this year that you think is your favorite album of the year?

Like not covers, but just like new music. Oh, album of the year? Oh, shoot. Yes. Oh, my God. um what is the guy's name it is so good you should write this down because it is we should write this down because i always like the stuff you like um i'll tell you i'll tell you mine while you're finding up you're finding yours my favorite album of the year i thought i was going to be annoyed with

and i ended up playing it a lot and it was greta van fleets at the gate at gardens gate or whatever it is yes i really like that album and i think they they they did what I was hoping they would do. Their two self-produced albums before this, they sounded just like a Led Zeppelin cover band. Led Zeppelin. His voice is impossible not to compare.

But they really went out of their way to sort of sound like one. This new album, which was their first for the record company, I think really good production decisions were made. The music is not as much that. And some of those songs are bangers, man. I think it's really, really good.

So that was my favorite album. Okay, did you find yours? I did. So Molly Fenton is correct about Crowded House's new album this year. Fantastic. The best thing that Crowded House has released in a couple of albums. They had some good albums since Woodface or Private Universe, but the brand new album from Crowded House is great.

My indie recommendation is a guy named Dayglo, D-A-Y-G-O-W, and an album called Harmony House. So freaking good. write it down go check it out it's streaming everywhere and um this guy i've watched him on youtube he's like doing making of how he made the album and he is the most affable nicest guy he's like andrew allen if you're you know if you've ever met andrew allen uh day glow is a lot like him really really cool awesome all right look at that we both gave you good recommendations for our albums of the year and uh now you all have nothing to complain about i screwed up

the title of mine though it's the battle at gardens gate is the album from Greta Van Fleet that I think is amazing. That's very, very good. Cool. All right. I guess you know what I want, Brian, is to return to some Prague rock. I want some real good old school sounding late 70s kind of Prague rock that's new. And that album kind of gave me that. I think that's why I liked it.

All right. We're done. Thank you all for listening. We're out of here, but we do have to play, speaking of songs. One more. Brian, what song did you choose for? going out today. Yeah, this is going out to Dylan Munson, who says, hey, Scott and Brian, first time requesting.

I'd like to request a cover by my favorite cover artist, M-E-M-E-U-T-E. They are a German group that transforms popular electronic or techno songs into brass marching band style music. Most may have not heard the original before. This song was originally performed by Disclosure and Flume, but I believe this cover holds its own without needing to. I 100% agree. Listen to this and I wasn't familiar with the original and this thing is

fantastic. It's all instrumental. He says hope you all enjoy. Thank you Dylan Munson. This is great. This is a song called You and Me. It's a title track of the most recent album from Meut, M-E-U-T-E. It is You and Me.

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Thank you. I'm going to be able to do. I'm going to do. We're going to be. So, you know, I'm going to be able to be. You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be.

I'm going to be. You know, I'm going to be able to be. Thank you. Thank you. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com.

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