The Morning Stream - TMS 2222: Red Matter In The Hole

Episode Date: December 29, 2021

What Was The Name Of The Ship In Star Trek: Enterprise? USS Nistmaru. Chicken Popper Junior. Two Wong's Make a Right. You Can't Handle the Tooth! The floor is now in your mouth. You Can't Go 'Wong' With Benedict! Now You're Playing With Dog Power. Butt-Slapping Tooth Man! Chipolte's Ship? Delayed Gratification. Patrick Romulan Warbirdon. Poking in the bum with your thumbs 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.

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Chicken Popper Jr. Do Wongs make a right. You can't handle the tooth. The floor is now your mouse. You can't go Wong with Benedict. Now you're playing with dog power. But slapping tooth man. The Pulte's ship.

Delayed gratification. Patrick Romulan Warburden. Porpoking in the... Porking? Poking in the bum with your thumbs with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. You also need just enough outside fat to hold the shape of the beef and keep it from drying out while it's being aged, stored, and cooked. We've got to find a way to stop these space children, and I think I just figured out how to do it. The morning's stream.

I'm the captain now. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for December 29th, 2021, a little earlier than usual, about an hour earlier than we usually do. But it's okay. That only affects these people in the chat room. It's nice to see them, of course.

And then, you know, you people at home, you don't know the difference. Why am I even telling you? They don't know the difference because we sound maybe a little less. a little tired, a little less spring on our step. I have a little less coffee than I usually do by this time of day. Oh, yeah, a little less lively. I certainly feel that way. I'm not super jazzed here.

Plus, I was telling the chat earlier, we had the two-year-old all night. He stayed over last night. Long story, we won't get into it, but always good to have him over. And he sleeps on a mattress in our room when he's here. We have his own little mattress set up. And he sleeps like a rock from like 8.30 p.m. up until like whenever you decide to get him up the next morning, 8 a.m. 7. 30, whatever. He sleeps so soundly and so quietly and so immediately. He doesn't fuss. He doesn't get upset, doesn't get

mad. He knows it's bedtime. He gets in, cuddles up and goes to sleep. He's just really reliable that way. But it should make me go like, oh, I'm going to have a great night's sleep tonight because the boy's fine. There he is over there. Fine. Nope. I can't sleep all night because he's so quiet, I'm worried he's not okay. You know what I mean? So you remember the early days of Tristan? I assume all parents go through this where they're like, are they okay? Are they breathing? Are they

Oh, that is 100% new parenthood. It's like, oh my God, he's going to die in his sleep. I'm not going to know. Yeah, like all the SIDS stories come to your head and you're like, oh my gosh, I don't want to be one of those people. And in this case, you know, now it's my daughter's kid. And I don't, I can't have that on my hands. And, you know, I'm just freaking out.

But no, he's fine. He's just snoozing away like it's nothing. I don't know what my problem is. And he's a happy clam this morning. Anyway, so we're here we are. We're here. I got to tell you a very fast story about my dental visit yesterday. So I had to go in to get that crown put back on. And by that, I mean, they literally take the crown that popped off and put it back on. They resement it. Sure. And then, you know, hope for the best. Existing crown. Yes. Because it's in good shape. I've only had it since 2018 or something. And the new one anyway. And so, It was like, no big deal. I go in there, they look at it. I go, yeah, it looks like you, you know, we just got, that tooth's weird because it's kind of flat and not a lot to grip on to. So it has a tendency to be a problem tooth. And it's either pull the tooth out entirely or keep doing this dance with the damn crown.

So I'm like, whatever, keep doing the dance. It's only 75 bucks. They're not going to charge me the full. So cheap, cheapish, a trip to the dentist. People in other countries are like, what, you pay for the dentist? I know, I know. okay we have weird priorities here we understand right yes exactly uh guns are free but we have to pay for the dentist yeah pay for the dentist uh free mk 15 or whatever the hell of guns so anyway uh so i'm in

there and don't send me your emails i know guns aren't free i know you have to be yeah i love that you'll get the emails and i won't yeah just keep them to yourself i get it uh so anyways we're in there everything's being set up very nice girl doing the assisting the regular dentist guy good good guy we always fist bump and talk and he's got some story to tell me always a fine he's great love that they're great i sit down and before all this happens he says uh can you show me the tooth he says to the girl she goes sure she turns around to grab it and in her haste flicks the tooth off the little table thing there and it goes plattering right across the floor like 40 feet just dig-de-le-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d- And I went, ah, and he goes, oh, no!

And everybody's, like, a little bit freaked out, because if, you know, it's not going to break, it's stronger than something that would break. But still, it's on the floor now. The floor isn't your favorite place to have anything that's going to be in your mouth. You don't want that there. If this was a movie comedy, then, you know, whenever they try to pick it up, it would get kicked by a foot, and it would go, like, skater under another thing. And somebody would have brought their dog in the lobby,

and the dog would get off its leash and run through and, and like knock the tooth around. Yeah, somehow, who would be in this movie? John Goodman, he'd be the dentist, trying to control things. If his 80s, it'd be Charles Groden. This would be one of those Beethoven movies. Yes, right, exactly. So anyway, this thing clatters across the floor and he goes, oh, and he says it in the most

professional way possible, he goes, oh, yeah, if you could take that in the sterilization room, that'd be great, get that sterilized, get that tank care. They're running it under the sink. They're running under the tap water in the sink. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. He claims they have some sonic whatever. Who knows? She goes away for a minute.

I hear a little... Be-beard-meet sound, and that made me feel better. She came in. They put it in. He goes, all right, that's as strong as it's ever going to be, which they say every time they do this. They always say these words. Well, that's as strong as it'll ever be.

Which tells me that it may not be as strong as... He's like giving himself. self and out to be yeah he's like now don't eat he don't eat any gummy bears don't eat any uh you know Swedish fish or any of that shit and I said all right I'm good and I don't eat that stuff now anyway and he says okay well we're good thanks a lot slap me on the butt got out of there 75 bucks poorer and it doesn't hurt everything's good it's all in there you know they didn't even have to numb me they blew some cold air on my raw socket though oh oh Brian do you want a little cold you want some cold air on your raw socket you want some of that Oh, God, no, that is like that, that hurts just thinking about it. It did. It hurt real bad, but it was brief and everything's fine now. Hey, how was beer trivia or whatever the hell it was you did last night?

You did something. Well, we did trivia last night, but this is actually a story I forgot to tell on Monday. Oh, very. So, yeah, last week, last Thursday, Tina, I went to a trivia thing called PubPole. And it's different than regular trivia, because instead of answering questions, by the way, while I'm telling the story, log into a feud. Instead of asking trivia questions, they give you poll results and you have to predict the top most popular answers. So instead of it being like, you know, who sign the Magna Carta, blah, blah, blah, it's name the three most popular Bon Jovi songs in a poll.

Okay. Like what would most people say are the three most popular Bon Jovi songs? Things like that. Right. I think we're getting a little bit of lagging. Oh, we want to try a different... Oh, oh, you know, it's a switcheroo. A little switcheroo you're saying?

Is that you're saying? A little, little bit, maybe. Let's see. Yeah, let's try it out. Let's go to the eastern coast. Maybe fine. Okay, now we're on the east coast of the United States. Let's see what that does.

Maybe that'll work. Very fast, because I can see your face moving with the words you're making. You know, and if I was a jerk, I'd do like some, some, some, kung fu movies and make it seem like I'm... Right. Do you do the Michael Winslow Police Academy thing? I know, yes. I will try not to do that. All right, so anyway, keep going.

Our final question was, here are five kinds of beer, or five brands, and pick four of them, the top four, and put them in order as to the most ordered beer in the United States and bars across the United States, right? So they give us Coors, Corona, Budweiser, and Miller, and then A&W root beer, which we immediately threw. threw out. We're like, come on now. Yeah, that's just in there to throw you off, right? Exactly. So, uh, so we're like, all right, well, let's do, uh, Budweiser. Um, we knew three was Coors because of a bonus question that we got right. So we got a, we got a free answer.

So we're like, all right, let's do Budweiser. I don't think, um, uh, Miller's popular, popular enough. So let's do Budweiser Corona Coors Miller. Okay. Uh, answers come. out and it is Budweiser, Miller, Cours, Corona, just like Burgess Diesel has it in the chat room.

Okay, nice. Well done, Burgess Diesel. We got it wrong. Yeah. We've got it wrong. So, uh, we're like, oh, well, you know, Blade had fun, blah, blah, blah. Sunday night, Chris Brown is having a party for his daughter who's getting married today. Oh, congratulations to Chris Matt Brown. Because not everybody can come to the reception. Yeah, if he's here,

yeah, he listens to the show, I know, so big grats. That's awesome. He does. Yeah. Very cool. So, and it's an open bar. Well, it's not necessarily an open bar. We're paying, but it's a very generously pouring bar. And Tina goes up and gets a rum and Coke. I get a gin and tonic, and we're sitting there chatting with the bartender. And Tina's already like four or five sips into a rum and Coke.

And somebody comes up to the bar and says, oh, let me get a Coors banquet. And the bartender gives them a Coors banquet. And Tina, all of a sudden, like, the rum and Coke has settled in. And she goes, you know, what the foremost popular beers are in the United States? Okay. She turned into drunk Cliff Clavin. Oh, wonderful. I like that.

She's so proud of her, so proud of her new pair knowledge. I would take her on an episode of chairs. That'd be fine. Get her on there. Why not? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think that's a great idea. Absolutely.

Well, well done, Tina. you know things now that you didn't know before and uh that means we can move forward with our lives hey uh what if we played a little tad poolie feud what if that happened how would that feel let's do that let's do that okay see if things clear up on this damn laggy network yeah what the heck man just because we start early what's going on world all right done away being added here we go i think he's already in the chat i don't know i haven't seen him maybe well he is he's already in the game Oh, he's in the feud, yeah, he's in there. That's good.

Yeah. Okay, we're doing that. 801-471-0-4-62 is the number to call everybody. If you want to be involved in today's Tad Pooley feud, you'll be teaming with one of us, depending on how a question goes. So get in and get in now. It's time for us to play the Tad Pooley feud with our good pal, Brian Dunaway, who is also in here a little early today.

Hi, Brian. Oh, hi. pal hi pal right yeah it's good to see it how the heck are you how you feeling i do it pretty good man it's uh it's a wednesday and uh i'm on my day what five or six away from work so you can't argue with that no yeah but don't look think of it this way monday you get to do the brand new play retro show which happens at 3 30 and the whole world changes that day it's going to be great i'm sorry i said i was off work what i meant to say was i'm not going to my day job this week oh yeah screw those guys you know i'm always doing something yeah eff those pecker

peckerwoods is what i say hey that that's my that's my weekly paycheck let's not do that come on man yeah that's not f them until you guys properly support you know support me on patreon so i can quit my job that's right i have to kiss ass that's right we're gonna we're our play retro show is going to go full patreon and when it does boy howdy yes let's change the life of brian dunaway oh my god if you guys could change my life i'd be i'd be stoked i kiss yaw's feet every day. Boy, I didn't know you had a foot thing. That's fantastic.

You want to feedlop Patreon? Oh, man, you're crusty too. I'm moving this to the American South. Hold on a second. There we go. Let's see if that helps. No, it's good. All kinds of weird slowdown today. I don't know if it's an AWS thing or if it's a brian thing or if it's a Discord thing.

I don't know if you, I've been talking. Go ahead. Oh, I was just going to say, it's good that it's not just happening to me. Like, it makes me feel better like it's not just my connection here. I don't know. Hey, Hey, Scooch, while you're looking, I've already, I've already helped one person this morning, OBS. Have you checked your advanced settings and OBS under settings and looked at your dynamic change bit rate to manage congestion data and also enable network optimization? Yes, I've done all that. Those are all things I've done. Yeah. Well, that's the question because that could also cause some delays. Yeah. If there is network congestion. Well, there shouldn't be, I mean, well, I don't know. Like, I'm having, I've got pure. I mean, I've got a toss-up.

I've got super fast up and down here, so I don't know what's, I don't know what's up. Me too. I've got, I've got a gig down and, what, 25 meg up. So I mean, yeah. You sound great right now. Like we switch to the southern servers. I have a feeling this may be an infrastructure deal happening nationwide. Well, all right, we're going to play a game. This is really going to happen. And some people have already tried to call, but I didn't answer it yet because we were working on this. so if you want to call in 80147-10462 you're going to want to do that because if you don't, then how you're going to win

that's how you do it here. For some reason, though, hold on. Is Google having trouble? Hold on. What's going on here? Maybe there are... Nope, we got one. Here we go. All right, we have a listener on. Hi, who's this?

Hi, this is Nismerer from the Tadpole. Hello, Nismeru. Nice to have you here. Ismaru. Yeah. Always good. to hear from you. A familiar name in the text or in the chat world room. Chat world room. Yay. I don't know what I'm saying. It's early. Anyway, welcome to the show. Brian Ibit here's going to explain your role today and what you might win if things swing your direction. that's right

hopefully there's not too much lag between your setup for me it's time to play the tadpooly feud I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us I'm going to be playing remotely from Kabul

apparently and Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess Nistamru 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 will get a prize package that includes Katana Zero

and 112 operator of your steam. Nice. Those are, let's see, Catana Zero. Oh, that's a great game. That's a great game. I didn't recognize the other one, though. Yeah, the other one I don't know. 112 operator.

I don't know what that is. That sounds cool. Catana Zero is a really rad action, side-scrolling, animated thing. It's very cool that game. 112 operator is a game where you manage emergency services on a global scale. Dispatch units, take calls, and face situations caused by weather, traffic, or changing seasons. Help

the city survive escalating. That's right. You're the world police. Exactly. I believe in you. It's also on the Nintendo Switch. Nice. You can save the world and have a little ninja man if you win that game as well. I think it's call it America. Come on. Yeah, it's America, damn it.

Well, awesome. That sounds great. Tell us more about the topic and everything. Yeah, sorry. Let's give you guys. As a topic, oh, I'm so excited to see how I love that. And then I bit laughs about it five minutes later. Also, I just cut them off. I apologize, Yvitt, because you are lagging on.

That's all right. It is going to happen. This is going to be so much fun. All right, we asked 580 tadpoolers to give their best response to this. 87 of you bastards passed. I don't know why you passed because this is a really easy question. Put your hands on your buzzers and name a Star Trek space vessel. That is not the Enterprise.

Ooh. Damn it. My mom is slow. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. My head just went blank because I was like, oh, my God, there's probably so much lag that I'll have time to think of the last time. Oh, my God. The nemesis.

The thing. The nemesis. I don't, now I'm just thinking of movies. Say the nemesis. That's his answer. I didn't expect that I would get it first. It threw me off. Well, Scott, you get a chance to steal.

I'll say Voyager. It's the Voyager. Oh, of course. Voyager. Show me Voyager. Number two. Very good. And Scott is going to have control of the board.

And you're also going to have control of Nistamaru. Ah, more like he'll have control of me. And I don't have a problem with that. I'm fine with that. Nismaru, you big Trek fan? How do you feel about Trek? I enjoy my Star Trek, absolutely. Oh, good.

You're perfect for this then. So my gut tells me we should stay in the popular names. And I'm trying to think, like, it'd have to be that are not the enterprise. So I assume it's any of the enterprises, like no Enterprise E, no Enterprise from Enterprise. Oh, that's a good. It's what the Tadpool would say, right? Yeah, that's true. The question to the Tadpool was, name a Star Trek space vessel that is not the Enterprise.

So my guess is Enterprise A through J. A through Omicron is not going to be a part of this. So, so this, Maria, the reason I say to all this is I feel pretty strongly that if we said discovery, we would actually do pretty well because it will be a late point one. It'll be low list and that means higher points. Oh, see, I've been thinking about this all wrong. Okay. Yeah. I agree.

You like that? All right. Let's do that. Let's get the discovery out. Show me the discovery. Oh, it's not bad. Fourth, it's not bad. That's actually good.

You could get some good points for that. Yeah. P. Crum, pass was the number two answer. Right. Oh, is that what they're saying in the chat? Let's go with how you feel about like the the Excelsior. Excelsior.

It's the one that I... It's old. That's old school. And I think Sulu captained it for a long time in the lore anyway. They never had a movie about it, but he appeared in like six. Star Trek 6 is the captain of the Excelsior. Anyway, let's do that one, the Excelsior, Brian. All right.

All right. Show me the Excelsior. Oh, that's a good point. Good points. I can always tell by the laughs like how far back I am. Number nine of the feud here. It does seem to be fluctuating a little, which may affect this. I don't know.

Okay. All right. We're on a roll here. Yes. Nisbrew, anything popping in your head? I can't think of any ships now. What about the Defiant? Oh, the Defiant.

That's the one I had in my head. No, that's good because Space Vessel. It doesn't say what class. That's great. Defiant. Right, right, right. We'll say Defiant. Okay.

All right. Show me the Defiant. Number one answer on the board. Wow. The Defiant is awesome. That's a cool ship. Yeah. It's my favorite in the whole thing.

Space Vessel, correct? Yeah. Or vessel. Oh. Yeah. Yeah, or Wessel. It could be a space Wessel. Oh, it's any vessel.

Oh, my God. It just opened up a whole thing for me. So we could say what, like Bird of Prey, like Klingon Bird of Prey? What do you think of that? Dang it. Yeah. If you want to, go for it. All right, let's do it.

Bird of prey. All right, Clem on Bird of Prey. Burper. Number six. Oh, all right. I can deal with six. Six is good. I think we're going to kill this.

Yeah, you're destroying me. Absolutely. Now that you've kind of figured out the other catch of this, yeah, I think so. Yeah, yeah. Dang it. Now, if I know the Tadpool, some Dingleberry and the Tadpool probably said shuttle shuttles or shuttle craft, I guess. Tad Tragor Shuttlecraft.

Now, they don't have a name usually. They just are part of the ship or whatever. Well, is that dangerous? I don't know, Nismeru, give me your vote. Right? Well, some of them do. The Galileo, if I think that's the right name, had a, had a name. That was a shuttlecraft.

Right, yeah, you're right. Was that on the Enterprise or where was that? Oh, I'm not quite sure. Wasn't that the one that Spock took? Oh, did Spock take the Gallag. Wait, which one in the movie where he dumped the red matter into the hole or whatever he did? It ruined everything? Yeah, red matter in the hole.

That's it. No. Killed all a Vulcan. Is that what he did? Didn't he end up killing, he killed Well, the reaction was that whatever he did Wasted Vulcan Right.

But he did it. And yet he still exists. Come on time travel. That's not how it works. Well, he was just old, right? Because Spock lives for a long, Vulcans live forever. They're ancient.

They're like, but he's half human. Yeah. Oh my God. I didn't mean to get off the topic. I'm sorry. All right. Let's say, let's go. Let's go.

He'll hear it in a minute. Don't worry. Let's do with... I will, yes. Eventually, I'll hear it. Let's say, just shuttlecraft and just see how it goes, what you do, what you say. Sure, all right. Show me, just kind of your generic run-of-the-mill shuttlecraft.

Damn it. Thirteenth on the list. Four people said just kind of your generic run-of-the-mill shuttlecraft. Tide for 13th plays with a bunch of other ones. Okay. Interesting. Brian, that means you get a chance to play this game. Let's see what you got.

Yes, and you know what's funny? I don't remember a lot of the I don't remember a lot of the Federation ships for some reason. I think I just kind of always not that stupid. That's stupid. I always liked the opposition's ships. So I'm going to go with the SS Botany Bay. Botany Bay.

Botany Bay. Botany Bay. Oh, shit. He said. Botany Bay. Oh, no. I'm in trouble. Show me.

Show me Botany Bay. I was pulling for you there. Number 11 on the list was Botany Bay. I really wanted to change the numbers so that Botany Bay could be a little bit higher, but afraid not. Botany Bay just missed the top 10. Yeah, that's when you knew you were seeing a movie because that's where Chekhov swore. He went shit when he saw it and then started to run out of there.

It was great. Yeah. And then later on, he gets the earcrawler. He may have said, he say shit. I don't remember. No, he said shite. Maybe I said, damn it, dang, damn it. Botany Bay, Botany Bay.

Damn it. Not Botany Bay, Putney Bay, not Botany Bay, but not Botany Bay. All right. Yeah, go ahead. Here's a question for you. Is a space station considered a space vessel? Oh. You asked all the right questions.

Shit. Why could you be on my team? I think we test it. Let's say Deep Space Nine. Let's go for it. Yeah. That's where I was going. I agree.

All right. Let's do it. It doesn't matter what the, you know, what's real or not. It matters what the tadpool says. Show me deep space nine. Yeah. Awesome. Okay, you dummies out there.

I love you guys. That does make it mathematically impossible for Brian to win. But maybe Brian will get a point at some point during this whole thing. All right. If you don't run the board. I just thought of one that reminds me of my aunt Connie, who lives in Denver, by the way. My Aunt Connie used to drive a Reliant K, and I remember there was a ship or something called The Reliant. So I'm going to go with The Reliant.

Yeah. That's a good one. Yeah. Was that a thing? Show me the Reliant. Oh, you go? Do you want to check with Nis Maru first? No, you're, oh, I don't know. Nis Maru.

How do you? No, no. Go for it. You good? Okay. I'm trying to psychists out, I'm it. All right. Show me the Reliant.

Oh, it's in there. Sweet. Excellent. Yep. Number five. on the list. It's funny because now I can hear the ding from the game on the delay. So I know almost exactly what the delay is. Oh, it's because my headphones are. You're the most adaptable creature. That's, that's because I put my headphones too close to the mic, I think, and so you can hear

it. Oh. I shouldn't do that, but also maybe it's good in this case. All right, let's, uh, three answers left on the board. Let's see if you can run the board. We haven't done a lot of villains other than bird of prey for Klingons and I'm trying to think if there's any others in Star Trek lore where we're just missing that. Jim Hidar. Oh yeah, the Jim Hidar had cool ships.

They had their battle ships, whatever they were called. I can't think of what they are. Yeah, those were cool. What were those called? I guess we'd probably get away with Jim Hidar ships. Let's say that. Jim Hidar, Brian.

All right. Show me the, show me the Gemadar ships. Jimitar. Whatever the hell they're called. Jigabadar. Jimadar. Gemadar.

Waiting. I've pressed the button. That's on a delay. Oh, no. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. There we go. I think this must be on Brian's end,

this lag. It must be. Because that was also very like. It's got to be. I don't know what's going on here. And I'm connected directly. Like, this is a wired connection right to my router. Yeah.

So it's, it's century link. is just effing with us. Oh, I hate CenturyLink. I'm so glad I'm off those turds. Yeah, they're not great. I wish we could. Wish we could. There's just no other options here where we're at.

Yeah, I hate that for you. I understand that. I do. Hey, Brian, you get some more chances. Yeah, what do you got? I'm going to go, I'm going to go with Viger. That's right. Vigar.

If you scrape the rest of it off, you'll big reveal Voyager, right? Is that what it was? I think Viger. Was it pronounced Viger? I think it's, it kept saying, well, it's according to who you're talking to. Chekhov was like, Vizier. Oh, really? Okay.

I don't know. He may have. Who knows? I think it was in that one. All right. Show me V-apostrophe jur. No, come on. Tadpool.

Tide for 23rd in the list. I just thought of something, and I can't believe how dumb we are. Why not the Borg cube? Go for it. Ah, now is my next one. Okay, good. The Borg, one of the Borg cubes. Oh, sweet.

Yeah. I'm just like going to catch you off. I'm going to interrupt you. Yeah. No kidding. Duh. What are we thinking? Duh.

Borg Cube number three. Um, okay. So then, oh, geez. Two more options here. Uh, oh. What? I remember. It's not your turn.

Uh, well, you're going to fail anyway, so I still get more tries. So there. Hold on a second. Ah, Nismer. Drew, what's jumping in your head? Anything? Nothing. I think I'm out.

I might be out, too. Okay. Let's say, what are the Romulans do? Warbirds? What are the Romulans do? I think they do warbirds. So I'm going to say a Romulan warbird.

Whatever that is. I'm Romulan ship. Okay. Romulan Warbird. Oh, it's on there. Yeah. Because Spock originally blew up Romulus, and then to correct things, he blew up Vulcan, right? Well, he didn't do it, but if I remember right, he didn't arrive in time.

Well, Eric Banna did it. Right. I don't remember when he played. No, no. Spock didn't arrive in time. He was supposed to, Eric Banna was trying to, he was pissed. Well, yeah, because Spock killed Romulus, so I think Eric Banna was. going to get revenge by killing all of Vulcan, right?

Yes, but Spock could have saved Vulcan, but he did. I don't remember Eric Bannan's character at all. It's my turn? Yeah, it's your turn. No. No, it's not. You got the Romney Warburne. Oh, yeah, we did.

We got one last answer on the war. Let's see if you guys can clean up the, clean it up. Hey, Nisbrew, how would you feel about Spock's sunglasses case that they buried him in in the part two where they shot him into space? It's an answer. Yeah. Why not? A Spock's burial ship thing, shuttle.

I like briefcase. Sure. Boy, you just couldn't wait to buzz that one. I really couldn't. I'm trying to do it early because I don't know how much of a delay there is from when they give the answer to. Buzz early and Buzz often is Ibbets. That's right. All right.

I'm going to go in. I don't think anybody even, nobody actually even in the, oh, no, Somebody said Spock, so I think that's what they meant, was the Spock vessel. That's probably what they meant. It was a Spock bullet, right? Yeah, it looked like a sunglasses. It looked like a pair of Raybans in its case, you know? Yeah.

It's flying through space. Anyway, all right. Dunaway, you got one last chance to impress us here. I've got, I've got one more. The whale ship. It comes to Earth. The big, the big chocolate bar in space. Yeah, the one that was coming to check in on his alien base.

It's like, hey, Earth, we left our babies here. How are they doing? Oh, my God. All right. Show me the big Hershey Bar in the sky. Oh. That's too bad. All right.

Well, what do we miss there on seven? The one you missed, I always thought was a delicious snack food. Apparently, it's also a space vessel, Cerritos. I don't know what that is. What is that? The U.S.S. Cerritos. Is that what's is that, is that, is that, is that, Chipotle's that right? That's not even the right way to say Chipotle.

Oh, it's the one on Lower Dex. Of course it is. Yeah. Oh, I haven't seen Lower Dex yet. Okay. Oh, you've got to see it. It's good. Although I haven't seen the council now, right?

Yeah. Is it? Lower Dex? No. Is it? Is it still going? No, that they just finished their second season. Okay.

I may be wrong. Let's see. Lower Dex. I'm probably wrong. Oh, yeah, it's not canceled. Still going. Okay. Still going. Sorry. Sorry to free people up. Yeah, it's got Tani Newsom, Jack Quaid, and the Well, Wells in it.

They're pretty good. They're all right. Well, all right then. So, okay, what else did they put in there that would be interesting? Anything else? Yeah, so some of the other answers that people gave that didn't make the cut, obviously, the Botany Bay. Kobayashi Maru, was that ever, like, in one of the versions of Trek? Was that a ship? No, that was a test. No, that was a test. Yeah, it was a test. There was no ship called. I mean, I guess you were on.

the Kobayashi Maroo I don't know The ship was the When you did the test I can't remember It may have been I don't know It was a ship

Everybody's saying it was a ship It was a spot construct though Yeah But they always said did you pass The Kobayashi Maru So it stood It also stood for the test That had to do with that ship

Right Yeah exactly The Galileo The Intrepid The Phoenix The Stargazer The Vengeance The Excalibur

Oh These are Nerada, Titan. Yeah. Delta Flyer, I think, is one of the shuttles, maybe. The jellyfish. Prometheus. What is that one?

I don't remember that. The runabout. Some of these I just took, but multiple people said it. So I'm like, all right, I'll take it. Adelphi, Constellation, Endeavour. Endeavour. Let's see. Did anyone say this?

I really have a bunch of jokey answers. a Millennium Falcon. Nice. Nice. That's hilarious. The Orville. Did anyone say the saucer section or did that ever get any love? Oh, that's brilliant.

Yeah. No, because that still would be the Enterprise. It's just the Enterprise's Sasser Section. Yeah, but it's a tadpool. Yeah, it's a tadpool. You got to go to the Tad. What was the name of the one that was in the Enterprise? What was the first one?

What was that one called? Oh, did they have a. That was the Enterprise. Was that Enterprise, too? Okay. Yeah, there was Enterprise A. Okay. I thought they did a pre-flight thing.

Wasn't there a ship on some television show called Enterprise? Yeah, what was the name of the ship on Enterprise? That's amazing. But that was one before then that was like the did his, I get them all confused now. The discovery, the discovery. It was the, it was the, was dad flew one and they died. No, I'm thinking it was Captain Kirk. I don't remember now.

It's all just a blur. Yeah, it's a blur. There's a lot there. There's a lot to take in. So don't feel that. There's a lot to work with. Firtle ground. Fertile ground.

Yeah. Well, I think that's great. news because it means this. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Our good pal Nismaru walks away a winner and gets these codes because we knew more Star Trek cool stuff than Brian Dunaway did. And that means you just have to send an email to Brian Ibit over there at Coverville at Gmail.com.

He will send you your codes. Nismeru, how do you feel about your big win? Ecstatic. Thank you so much for letting me play, guys. Always good to have you on, man. Take it easy and we'll see you next time. Nisbaru sounds like a Star Trek ship. It does a little bit.

doesn't he? Mm-hmm. Get on the Nis-M-R-R-U. Yeah, the Nis-M-Ru. The Nis-M-Ru does sound like a ship. That's a great name for a ship. The Nist-Miru. Yeah, Captain, the Nis-Miru is hailing us.

Oh, that's great. I love that. All right. Well, congratulations to him and to us for just having a load of fun, even though there was lag. Who cares, man? We're still having fun. Hey, Dunaway there.

Anything going on for you? I guess we've talked to death about play retro, but that's coming soon. It'll be here in less than a week. Yeah, maybe the only tune in on Wednesdays, and you haven't heard, we're doing a new podcast. Me and Scott on Monday at 330 Mountain 530 Eastern called Play Retro. We talked about retro games, but I've been playing retro games all week, and I'm going to continue to do that today. I'm going to probably still do it in the EmuVR.

I'm going to play some more joust. I'm almost proficient enough to make it. That's so cool. Yes, come on. It's really cool. Stage level five or stage five in Joules. I'm trying to get to that one. I'm trying to get the lava hands to come grab me, but I haven't.

In my teen years, I was well past that and was very good at joust. These days, and I have an actual joust machine in the basement. I'm not great now. My instincts are not what they used to be. I'm going to real quick just give you a taste of the title sequence for the new show, just to give people a little tease here. So here it is. Anyway, it's got a very cool vibe.

Got a really cool jam going on. Yeah, it's... I'm dancing already. Yeah, people are going to like it. It's real good. Who put that together for you? That's awesome. I did that.

I didn't make the music. I found somebody who was willing to give me some copyright-free stuff of their stuff to make it, but I did a little arranging at the top and some stuff. Anyway, did some real tweak in there. Got Johnson. The goal there was to say, hey, a little bit of retro, a little bit of modern. Let's mix it all up. Let's have a sound new and interesting.

It's cool. I'm proud of it. Anyway, that'll be next Monday, 3.30 Mountain Time for the live show. And, of course, the podcast fee can be subscribed to now so you can get in early over at frogpants. com slash play retro. Brian Dunaway, have a fantastic week. Have a great new year, by the way, and we'll see you next week. It's only a few days away before the new year.

And we look forward to seeing you then. suck it brother suck no you okay uh oh we lost brian's video i think you did that on purpose that's fine uh you lost my video i turned yeah i turned off my video to see if that would help things it seems like you're less laggy how are you now let's do a three to one furt just for the live people here here we go three two one sure furt oh it's still long that's okay we're we do our best we make it we make it the best we can and we do what we can all good no worry all right Let's get Randy in here. Oh, no, we're going to take it.

No, we're not taking a break. We're going to go straight to Randy. That's what we're doing. Because we're short today. Got to keep in mind how this is working. Okay, so Randy Deluxe joining us. We're going to get, sorry. Where is it?

There it is. We're going to get our recommendals on, and this should be fun. It might be slightly faster than we usually are. Our recommendals, we'll see, because we want to make sure you get out on time. So here we go. Hey, you guys. Welcome with us. Oh, that was a sound. Join us in welcoming Randy Jordan, aka Randy Deluxe to the show. Hi, Randy. How are you? Good morning, morning stream. That was me turning off a space heater because I am snowed in. I've been snowed in for five days. I've literally not been outside the house in five since Christmas Eve. Are you stuck there? Are you stuck? I'm surrounded by snow. I'm looking at the window at big stacks of snow. It's fantastic.

Good morning. How are you doing? Yeah, we're doing great, but the coffee seems to be rolling. You've got lots of coffee. Yes, yes. We have plenty of coffee. We're not going to run out of coffee for a few more days yet, so it's good. We're good. That's fantastic. Let me ask you this.

Are you stuck there? Something wrong with the lag on the stream because, you know, there's a pause. And then I hear Randy just talking really, really fast because the lag is trying to catch up. Yeah, yeah, that's all it is. It's just trying to catch up. Yeah, that's what it is. Thank you, Brian. But Scott and I sound fine to me, so I'm just going to keep going.

It is 20-21, man. Are you stuck there or are you going to get home okay? Okay. Yes. I don't know yet. We'll find out in a couple days. Oh, my gosh. That's freaky. All right. Well, but we've been having a great time watching streaming stuff. Like, seriously, I've spent the last few days just sitting in front of the TV with my coffee watching streaming stuff. And it occurred to me that we're on our last recommendal of the year. And I want to recommend something today that has been talked about so much this year. But somehow no one has done it. as a recommendal so go yeah no this is great we're going to get straight into it uh Brian let's start with you we always do you got a couple of items here on the list and uh you want to set up anything first we'll go quick first one is a mini series it's a mini series based on a podcast based on a true story all right here we go I feel bad I feel like this is a waste of your time I'm I'm sorry I'm gonna go well look hey you're here

Might as well stay. Just to keep Phyllis quiet, right? True. So fine. Have a seat. Relax. It's okay. We can just shoot the breeze.

Okay. Okay. Is there any particular breeze you'd like to shoot? Mm-hmm? All right. Well, why don't you tell me about yourself? Uh... Well, not much to say, you know, born in New York, live in New York, great job, great life, you know, nothing to say.

You really don't want to be here, do you? Well, you know what? I think you're right. It's a beautiful day. Why don't we take a walk? A walk? Yeah. Together? Sure. I thought I heard Saul in there, Bob Odenker. You're here in Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd playing a couple of Jewish guys, Marty, Markowitz, and Ike Hirschkoff. That's The Shrink Next Door. This is a mini-series that's based on a podcast, which is based on a true story. And watching this and learning that this is a true story is infuriating to no end.

It's really, really good But it's basically about this guy Will Ferrell plays this guy Marty Who's kind of like every Will Ferrell character Like from Stranger Than Fiction And Everything Must Go Where he's kind of Kind of gets walked on

He's a little bit of a lightweight That sort of thing And he goes and sees this shrink From a recommendation from his sister Who is Agatha all along And the shrink starts to slowly Take advantage of him and more and more

like kind of encroaches on his life and has him cut people out of his life and really takes over in a very very manipulative way. Is this like a mystery slash thriller or is this just a straight drama? It is a straight drama. There's very little mystery.

You know what's going on the entire time And you're waiting for Will Ferrell's character to figure it out. And this, like I said, is based on the true story of a psychiatrist, Isaac Hirschkoff, who was determined in this year by New York's Department of Health to have violated minimal acceptable standards of care in the psychotherapeutic relationship. So he is, he's been disbarred, and you kind of get that nice resolution. But, you know, it's not really a spoiler alert to say that that happens because it's really more the journey of this story. And watching these two guys who you know the actors just love each other and want to do stuff together. But it's like playing these characters. I don't know what you put on my screen instead of me, Scott.

But, boy, is it killing the tadpillar? Yeah, I'm going to fix it. I had a glitch cone, but we're good. One more question. Who is the standout performance in this one? Paul Rudd, really surprising because Paul Redd also is another one of those guys who always tends to play the same character. Always the super likable, affable, you know, friendly guy that you just want to hang out with. His ability to compartmentalize and direct that niceness just towards Will Ferrell's character,

but then kind of have this, this megalomaniac side to him outside of it is amazing. It is like, it is a breakthrough performance for Paul Redd. I mentioned Catherine Hahn, Agatha all along. Casey Wilson plays Paul Redd's wife. She's on that, she was on Saturday Live for a while. She was on a sitcom that was really good that I can't remember the name of. Oh, I can't either. I know who you mean, though.

yeah but this this is great it's on uh apple tv plus like you said it's based on a podcast um which i kind of want to listen to now and just see how much of that comes through but um but this is great eight episodes about a half an hour each so okay shorter than usual you could get through this in the evening so um uh the only other question i had for before we moved to the next one is there's very little comedy right these are two comedians two comedic actors and yet very little comedy very little comedy very little yeah very little comedy i mean a little bit because you've got these two guys and you can't help but laugh at just even some of the ways that will feral delivers non-comedic lines in a comedic way because he's freaking will will feral but um uh yeah not so much not so much comedy right uh well all right then there's your first recommendal check that one out uh how about number two what do you got here number two is a brand new film and And I think we're going to have some divided opinions about this one. All right, here we go.

Madam President, this comment is what we call a planet killer. That is correct. Mm-hmm. So how certain is this? There's 100% certainty of impact. Please, don't say 100%. Can we just call it a potentially significant event? Yeah.

Yes. But it isn't potentially going to happen. It is going to happen. Exactly, 99.78% to be exact. Oh, great. Okay, so it's on 100%. Well, scientists never like to say 100%. Call it 70% and let's just, let's move on. But it's not even close to 70%.

You cannot go around saying to people that there's a 100% chance that they're going to die. You know, it's just nuts. And we should get some of our scientists on this. You know, no offense, but you're just two people that walked in here here with... Dr. Oglethorpe. Dr. Oglethorpe.

I've been head of planetary defense at NASA for 15 years, and Dr. Mindy is a tenured professor of astronomy at Michigan State where Ms. DiBiowski is a doctoral candidate. Good. I'm sorry, did you say, did you say Michigan State? Exactly. They have an excellent

astronomy department. Yes. Come on, bro. This is that don't look up, right? I so badly want season two of Space Force. Come on, Space Force. Get with the return. Maybe they will. You never know.

So this don't look up thing is controversial, like, from all kinds of angles from what I hear. So how, I mean, clearly it's a satire of like America sucks and we're not even going to be smart when it comes to comets. But is it any good? I think it's very good. It's Adam McKay, who did the big short, and he's kind of doing the same thing, where he's taking a very real thing. And I'll explain why this comet is a real thing. he's taking a very real thing and then presenting in a satiric way um it's the movie's about a comet like it's basically armageddon but what if armageddon was real and how would how would america

really react and you'd get people who are comet deniers you'd get people who are saying that they've got real news that the comet isn't going to do any damage to earth and it kind of uh is a little bit of a satire about i don't know something that seems to be happened currently for the last 19, 20 months that But, but you know, obviously no mention of the pandemic because it kind of focuses on on how we react to

this comet. That's Meryl Streepie here as the president, Leonardo Caprio, Jennifer Lawrence, are kind of your two main characters in this. Rob Morgan, you're also hearing there is Dr. Oglethorpe, not Dr. Ogle V. Jonah Hill is the

chief of staff, but also the president's son. That's all kind of familiar. A little bit of Don Jr. in there is what I sense. A little bit of Don Jr. Now here's why I think there's a lot of divisiveness.

And I don't think it's purely a right versus left kind of thing. But I think that that's part of it. There's, you know, it is a very sarcastic. Not sarcastic. It's a, it kind of points a flashlight at a lot of the flaws that we currently have in society with social media and our fixation on celebrity and how we'll seem to only

want to take, or some people only want to take advice from either good-looking people or popular people and maybe not from scientists and things like that. So just like Space Force. A little like Space Force. Just like Space Force. This thing won the American Film Institute Award for Top Ten movies, or it was one of American Film Institute Awards, top ten movies of the year. Kate Blanchett is almost unrecognizable.

Tina at one point said, I thought Kate Blanchett was in this. And I had to point out, yes, that person right there is Kate Blanchett. Oh, weird. And what is she, she's not in the administration or whatever. She plays a, she plays a TV, a TV show host, like a, like a View, the view kind of host. Oh, gotcha. Okay.

Interesting. Yeah, but just a two-person kind of host. She is, it doesn't matter who she plays. She can play a dirty old turd and she'd still be beautiful. So there's that. That's the truth about her. She is. Yeah, she's amazing.

Yeah. But let's, um, we've seen the, the, uh, the trailer for her, uh, her, her, her, I love Lucy movie. Yeah. She's, that's not her. Oh, wait, who is it? Nicole Kidman. That's Nicole Kidman. That's Nicole Kidman.

Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. I get them confused. I'm sorry. It's, it's hard to tell when Randy's being sarcastic.

stinker or jimbing white women. Oh, you know what? You know what? Randy props to Randy. I just found a headline that says Nicole Kiddman on why and when she replaced Kate Blanchett in the Lucille ball roll. She was supposed to be in there. And then Nicole Kittman took it over. Oh, really? Kate Blanchette was supposed to be? Yeah, yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. I'll bet that's where her head was that. Anyway. This movie also has the rare distinction of being something that contains both Ariana Grande and Ron. Ron Pearlman. So, um, enjoy that. Yeah, I'm down with that. Does she have rocket boobs? So I highly, I recommend it. Yeah. So, so the controversy around it is, um, is interesting to me because of course it is. Like, of course there's controversy. They're, they're, they're putting up a mirror against some uncomfortable things. And no matter where you land either politically or socially,

you're, you're, you're going to have a reaction. I think that's the idea, though. Like, isn't that the whole idea is i think so too get everybody worked up i think so um you know people reviewers that i really like richard roper didn't like it or i think a lot of people are trying to compare it to things like idiocracy and dr strangelove and oh some of our classic satires which does make sense and it's you know i haven't i haven't seen dr strangelove in about 20 years so i kind of need to kind of need to see it again but um i don't know if you ask me uh This is this. We found this very entertaining. It was very, very good. And it's on par with everything else that Adam McKay has done that we really like. Well, the, I'd say check it out. The, uh, the scores on Rotten Tomatoes are very strong from audiences and very middling from, from, uh, critics.

From critics. Critics are very critical. Yeah. But that's what critics do. That's how they like to, you know. Like, listen to this one. Critics. Listen to this guy. I don't know, I don't think I agree with L.A. Weekly because he would normally, normally people would say the opposite. He says, remember when McKay was making movies like Stepbrothers? Now he's making movies like Vice and don't look up. Glib unfunny infomercials that are closer to TED Talks than Talladega Nights. Is he really arguing

for more movies like Talladega Nights? By the way, I enjoy. I enjoy a good Talladega Nights kind of movie. But I mean, is that what you're saying is you want them to go back to like dumb, brainless comedies? Like, I don't need another stepbrothers. We don't need another Taladagia nights now. Oh, no. I

disagree with that because there's a huge subject here a lot of filmophiles are talking about lately the death of the straight comedy that comedies peaked in the past and they just aren't putting out as many anymore and i think we should reopen reconvene on that subject on film sac because it's a very very interesting subject how we've just stopped you know like no one's making stepbrothers anymore for some reason but yeah i think you're right right uh now here's the big question before i do mine do you want do you you want to go while randy and i finish these up how do you want to do this do you need to pull out um yeah actually oh geez very interesting putting that is that uh yeah it's totally fine i can i can then you and randy can even

do even do show titles yeah well we'll come up we'll come up with a solution here i just want to make sure you're not i don't want to screw you out of your time line here so uh if you need absolutely and i and uh i'm not going to spoil your movie scott but i'm going to say that everything you say about that movie, I second because I enjoyed the hell out of that. Yeah, it's real good without revealing what your movie is. And you're not going to get any argument from me. So it's just going to be me and Scott agreeing on your behalf. Yeah, yeah, we'll all agree.

We'll agree in your stead. Yeah, that's what we'll do. Brian Nibbett, everybody. Safe drive out to there and we'll talk to you soon. Okay, there goes Brian. Busy man around town. All right, Randy, I'm going to play in my clip here. You know what this is because I think we all three saw it.

But I watched this with my wife the other night. Here it is. Guess this is it. What's it, Phil? What's it? All right, that's all. I'll tell you what it is. 25 years since our first run together.

1,900 and nothing. It's a long time. Not too damn long. know what we should do what's that go camping again in the mountains and shoot ourselves some fresh elk liver

cook it right there on the coals like Bronco Henry taught us you got a sword gut no you act like it pains you to hit two words together all right that's a great scene I thought this movie is called

The Power of the Dog and is directed by Jane Campion. You know her from the piano back in the day where you got to see Harvey Keitel's penis. But do you, like, do you know her? Because she is one of the most enigmatic filmmakers of our lifetime. Oh, yeah.

She, like, she swings in, does a thing, makes a huge buzz and a bunch of stuff and then disappears for a bunch of time and then comes back and does it again. And it's so amazing to me that I, if you would ask me one week ago about Jane Campion, And I would have scratched my head and said, oh, I've seen a couple of her movies.

Isn't she dead? I really would have said that. Like, I really would have said, isn't she dead? Because it just, you don't hear from her for so long. Yeah, she turns out alive and well. She decided to adapt a very old book. 1964, I think this book came out called The Power of the Dog and Make It Into a Film. Who knows what inspired her to do it or any of that?

I haven't really looked into it. But I do know that it's one of the best things. I've seen this year and maybe the best thing I've seen this year in terms of performances and just sort of raw acting cinematography is off of the charts. If this thing doesn't win that category, then we're all doing that wrong somehow. I've never seen, it makes me want to move to Montana quite simply. I just freaking could not believe what I was seeing visually. All these movies always do. And I don't think it was shot in Montana. I think it was shot in like Alberta or something. But I'm not, I didn't actually look it up. But I just, I just can't get a

over how good it looks and you're so so right like here we are the last recommendals of 2021 and we're coming in with the heat on the end of this year like the one of the best movies you know you and i both love westerns right and i'm just so i'm so totally with you here there everything about this is perfect western what was the what was the movie that seal's brother made a few months ago oh um the the the the the the the fast and the the Shooterist. I forgot the name of it. Whatever it is. Yeah. But like that was that was I remember talking to you about how that was a nouveau Western, right? It was you take you take all of your Western setting and you twist it. You had a bunch of like fast action and you know and you have people talking to each other in ways that they probably never would have back in then. This this is serious setting. Like they are there is it is a period piece. Oh yeah for sure. By the way so I looked it up. It's all shot in New Zealand. which is where she's from. So that makes sense.

Because that is some sweeping business, and it is freaking gorgeous. Now, I will warn people, this isn't the kind of Western that is a lot of like, I'm going to go down there and show them cattle rustlers,

what for? It isn't that kind of movie. This movie is actually set late in the era we might call the Old West, 1925 is the era or is the year. So you're in the like the middle of flappers and, you know, sort of big cities are taken off and cars exist

and that sort of thing. They're all modeled. tease, but, you know, they exist. And it's kind of the, the last dregs of that era, which adds, I think, to the drama and some of the tone around the thing. Yeah. It's, it's, the thing I would compare it to in terms of tone, so if you know, kind of, so people know what they're getting into is I would say this is a lot closer to the assassination

of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford level of Western. good good comparison yeah very very cerebral not your not your typical shooting toot and western root and kind of kind of movie um and it's the story's complex and and weird and it's it's it's um it's all about these relationships and you think it's going to be kind of going one way and it kind of takes weird turns in in ways uh the i should mention the cast and stuff uh the movie features the inevitable Academy Award nomination and possible win of Benedict Cumberbatch. He's amazing in this.

Simply incredible in this. And, you know, it's funny to just, I just saw Spider-Man. I'm like, oh, there's old Adamster, Dr. Strange again. And boy, here he is. He is the voice of the Grinch cartoon. We watched the other day. And, you know, you just kind of think of him as everywhere. But this is like, like, top shelf class A acting by Cumberbatch.

And he's wearing that hat. And that hat, I don't know the name of that hat, but it covers your entire forehead. It covers all the way over your eyebrows. And so you only see his eyes. And the man has the most beautiful eyes. No, he's, he is like, he is a number of things. But one of them is for sure a striking presence.

The other is a man who can fake every accent and make you forget he's English. Yeah, yeah. He's extremely good at that. I don't want to not mention the fact that in this movie also, you get some people call them Fat Damon. I don't think that's fair. But it's Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst, who are an actual real-life couple.

They met in the production of Season 2 of Fargo, where they were also excellent. And here they are working together again. Very different roles. But Kirsten Dunst plays Rose Gordon. Jesse Plemons plays George Burbank, who owns the ranch that this is all Senator, senator around and then she's got a son from her previous marriage uh peter gordon played by

cody smit mcfee that weird looking dude um weird looking and uh he's uh he's amazing in this and haunting and strange and uh i don't want to say too much else because story wise it's just a it's a it's a it's an odd ball thing and it and it's and it addresses issues that in 25 19 25 would have been so freaking untouchable. Like you just wouldn't have talked about some of the issues that are brought up here. And a lot of it's left to your, you don't really know imagination. Like, I don't really know what went on between Cumberbatch's character, Phil Burbank, and his mentor when they were first, you know, when they were kids and growing up and first getting into cowboy work. we don't know we have an idea and a lot of it's kind of

and we don't you know like it's it goes places is what I'm saying and it doesn't do it in a way that is ever like explicit or anything but it's so evocative and so and the music just is this in this crazy like crawl up your spine intensity even though the thing that might be happening on scene is not intense the music makes it feel like something real bad's about to happen and sometimes something bad does happen sometimes it doesn't and in other in a worse movie that's a cheat and you'd get tired of it and

you'd get mad at the movie right in a movie where there weren't good stakes established or there wasn't really good acting so you weren't really invested in the characters yeah that thing where they build tension for no reason yeah with or with no great payoff that would drive you crazy and I can't think of a good example right now but the in this one no it's it's the the tension due to the sound and sometimes the silence is really well used. And I just want to say one thing about Kirsten Dunst because this is a movie that lives and dies on people doing good performances. And you might see Kirsten Dunst in the cast list and go, oh, you know, I have thoughts.

You know, you might have memories of something. This is an actor who burst onto the scene at 12 years old in 19. 1994 and very quickly in the next 10 years became a love her or hate her kind of actor. And you need to know that over the last 20 years, she has become a rock solid performance. No, she's amazing. She's amazing. And in this in particular, she's like just a level of emotion. I don't give it anything away here, but the, we need to hear you play the piano scene.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. She sold that to me in a way. I just didn't expect her to embody what that would feel like so well. Like she blew my mind. She was really, really good in this. And the thing is, like, if you saw her and her, I guess they're now married, her and Plemons in season two of Fargo, you went, oh, look at these two.

Look at her. Wow. She's not just Mary Jane anymore from Spider-Man. She's something else. And this carries through here. And it's so cool to see those two working together. Anyway, I think it deserves it's 95% approval. on the freaking rotten tomatoes it's uh currently on Netflix that's it's a Netflix original so it'll

always be there and do not be surprised to see this thing smeared all over the Oscars I am going to say though all with all the praise I'm giving it and Kim and I absolutely loved it this is not going to be for everyone there are going to be some people who find the kind of tension in this and the this this sort of discord that just surrounds all of it they're not going to like this they're going to find this. That's why I mentioned the coward Robert Ford movie. If you saw that and liked it, you're going to like this. If you saw that and hated it, you probably you're going to want to not see this one

because it's very similar. And if we were just talking privately, I'd like to talk to you about the portrayal of meanness and cruelty. Yeah. And what that comes out as in some westerns. Yeah. Yeah, like

it's very different here, right? Because in some westerns, it's like, oh, I'll show you the back hand of my pistol. And as an act of cruelty and this movie a side-eyed look across a room is an act of cruelty like it's just a right it's an odd thing it's a very odd movie and really goes places

I didn't expect it to I really really liked it yeah I have a feeling we'll be seeing a bit more here finding out a bit more about this come the Oscars I really do guaranteed all right let's play so that's on Netflix again the movie is Power of the Dog and by the way there is an actual dog in the movie and also a thing that shape like a dog, but really there's no other dogs. I just want to put this out there. This is not

about a superhero with four legs. No, there's no dog, there's no dog central story. Okay, we're just putting that out there. All right, Randy, I'm going to play your clip. Any set up here for this thing? I just want to say, this is one of the most talked about things on this show, on the morning stream this year. It is one of the most talked about things for a while. So no one should be surprised at this. You should be surprised that none of us have brought it up as a recommendal yet. But there's a reason for that. It just finally went to streaming that you don't have to necessarily pay extra money for. And I also want to talk a little bit about actors who are comedians turning themselves into comic actors or straight actors because

this movie, it has one of the best examples of that I've seen in a long time. And again, we've talked about it a lot lately so no surprises you just you hit it hit it and stop when you're ready to keep talking all right here we go i should also probably mention that my name's not technically sean what what is it it's shang chi shan shan shan shan S-H-A-N-G, shang. Shang? Yeah. You change your name from Shang to Sean?

Yeah, I don't. I wonder how your father found you. I was 15 years old, all right? What is your name change, logic? You go into hiding, and your name is Michael. You can go on and change it to him. That's not what happened. It's like, hi, my name's Gina.

I'm going to go into hiding. My new name is Jaina. Yes, okay. Oh, yeah, you can hear me. that's a good scene i'm telling you watch this again go get on it is on apple tv and you should go i know sorry disney plus disney plus and you should go watch it again it was so good scott yeah i loved it we watched as well thought thought shang chi was a huge not a surprise just like a nice i don't know how to look at it this it's obviously MCU and it's got a lot of the MCU trappings and

all of that other stuff. But what really sold it for me was the Tony Luong, how do you say his name? Tony Luong, I think he's saying. Leon. Leung. The guy, dude's, dude's been around Hong Kong cinema for decades, just recognizable as hell. So from one of my favorite John Mooh films, which whose name I cannot think of, hard-boiled before that was another one and he was in that. Or maybe it was hard-boiled. Well, anyway, he's amazing. He blew my mind as the, I guess, villain, but kind of like a sympathetic villain in a weird way. Like, there's so much about him that I'd loved in this. But the whole thing was great.

It's one of my favorite NCEU movies and I didn't expect to like it. I often admit, though, and you're going to argue with me on this. Okay. Aquafina drove me kind of crazy in this. Okay. And that's what I'm here to talk about because for a lot of people, that is they're out. They like start watching a trailer and they see her and hear her and go, nah, I'm not going to watch that. Yeah.

And kind of like you might think of Kirsten Dunn. as a young person who hasn't taken enough acting lessons yet, but believe me, they've matured. Aquafina is following a path in Hollywood that I think you need to get on board with. She has gone from being a regular comedian with a particular voice, right? Every comedian has to find their voice in order to become great, right? And she's, you know, she hosted Saturday Night Live a couple of years ago. Sure. And it felt like, you know, she's, she's really got it as a comedian, but she has to act in this movie.

She has to be both the straight man and the trope of the developing hero, right? Yeah. And it's, you all, I spent a lot of this movie the first time wondering, is she going to pull this off? Like, I don't know if I trust this. And like I say, a lot of people I've read, I just go on Twitter and search S-H-A-N-G and Aquafina, and you'll find people going, nope, I am not even going to watch it. I'm not even going to watch it. Like, wow, because I'm not saying she carries the film.

She doesn't have to carry the film. The main characters all carry the film, every one of them. But she's funny when she needs to be funny. And when it comes time for her to have tears in her eyes and throw her arms around Shang-ji, she is right for it. And I just love that about this movie. Yeah, I thought her. from goofball best friend to expert

Archer was a little too quick maybe However, however by the end I'm kind of with you by the end I think she was fine I don't know Like after I finished the movie I went Well you know what no matter what the movie The way it was structured he kind of did need a stand in for us

Like someone to go along with her or with him And so I started to think well who should that have been then If it's not Aquafina then who is it? And I really didn't. I didn't have a good answer. And she's fine. If you merely want to talk about this movie on racial lines, right? Like the whole movie is basically Asian actors with one piece of stunt casting.

You're talking about Ben Kingsley. And Ben Kingsley could have been anyone. Yeah. No, that's true. Well, he had to have been him because he had to be that Trevor guy from Iron Man 3. And, you know, that was their, yeah, I give it true. I'm saying, like, in the generic role of the white old man comic release, you know? Yeah.

No, that's a fair point. Anyone could have played that. You're right. And that's been true of a lot of MCU stuff. Like, yeah, I'm always surprised by how they cast in those movies. Because sometimes it's overcast for lack of a better term. And you're like, whoa, I can't believe they got so-and-so to be this thing. But yeah, it's a great romp.

I thought this in particular, the effects were really great. I didn't expect to be impressed by that so much because, like, you know, I watched Spider-Man the other day and I liked it a lot, the new Spider-Man, but I thought some of the effects were kind of garbage. And it's, it's just because I've been so blown away by other things. And in particular, I thought Shang-Chi had some amazing effects and fight scenes and the stuff toward the end with the dragons and stuff was really awesome. But, but yeah, we loved it. We had a really good time with it. I just, her voice just eats my soul. I don't know what it is.

It's not. I have nothing against her personally. uh i just find her tone and she uses it in almost everything she's in uh to just take me out a little bit and that's it might be just a me thing you know i don't i don't know but it's something with the way she talks that drives me nuts uh but i think simulub is amazing in this uh role as shang chie it's very cool and to think to think we found this guy on a canadian sitcom right yeah like yeah like seriously what what did he really do to get you know noticed yeah he was in that he's been all he's been like a lot of little

smaller parts in all kinds of vancouver productions yeah i wad he was in an episode of uh the expanse uh for a hot second he was a soldier in some episode came or what happened there he was of course like you mentioned in uh uh the mr kim thing what's it called can't take now kim's convenience convenience uh yeah where i mean how what if what if no one takes you seriously because as an actor, your biggest part was a son of a convenience store owner who is known for poking people in the bum with your thumbs. What if that's your... Yeah, what if that's your whole career up to that point? Exactly. He's super buffed too, which I think probably helped. I probably saw him and went, oh my gosh, that guy's ripped. We need to make him... Yeah, apparently if you're from

Vancouver, Ryan and Reynolds, you have to have awesome arms. Oh, that's the other thing I noticed about MCU lately this movie included and I said it on Twitter yesterday to some controversy but I still stick by it. I think Benedict Wong, the actor Benedict Wong who plays Wong in the MCU yes. He is

the John Ratsenberger of the MCU and I don't mean that as a derogatory term if you watch any Pixar movie you're guaranteed to have John Ratsenberger voice something in it some character or some group of characters something will be voiced by Ratsenberger

who play Cliff Claven on Chairs for those who don't know who that is. That's just a guaranteed with Pixar movies. It's their fun Easter egg they put in every one of those. After seeing the last, I don't know, it feels like 12 MCU movies. It's no longer Clark Gregg. He's out.

He's not the guy anymore. It's now Benedict Wong. He will be in your movie. He'll just be in it. Benedict Wong must live near the Disney Studios in Burbank. Yeah. And it's like, we need something. we can just call on on random

filming days like that's what that's got to be it's just it's just crazy he makes himself very available I guess so the character fits right because he is the archivist he is the librarian of he's he's maybe even more now but I don't

want to give anything away but yeah he's yeah yeah yeah but like but if this if this movie had had Dr. Strange come through the portal right you wouldn't have you wouldn't have blinked that would have been totally expected. Yeah, it would have been fine.

But since it's Wong, it's like, oh, hey, what's up with you? And the funny thing about it is I also just think he's an amazing actor in his own right and deserves every minute of screen time he gets. I love that guy and everything. I loved him in Sunshine. I loved him in, what's the other one? Oh, my brain, the Martian. He was amazing and the Martian.

It was the Chinese rep that was always on camera in there. He's like, he's an amazing actor. He's so good. And the fact that he's this guy now for the MCU is my favorite thing in the world. So anyway, that's a small thing. We don't know, I don't know exactly when this movie takes place. We know it takes place after the end of Infinity War, for sure. Yeah.

And it may as well, you may as well put it in its chronological place, right? Like, it may as well be taking place right now. I think it's post-blink or blip, I think. Right, after the end of Infinity War, right? After the end of end game, yeah, I think. Oh, end game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's post. Everyone's back. Okay. Right. Okay. Yeah.

So, but the thing is, it doesn't need it. Like, the movie could have put a lot of weight on, like, you seeing Spider-Man on the TV or something, and it didn't. The movie tries to stand alone, and even with Benedict Wong coming and going, I think it does a really, really good job in that regard. And the thing is, I kind of want that cheese, right? I kind of want, remember when we talked about the Army of the Dead prequel, I kind of liked that it keeps referring to Army of the Activity's going on in Army of the Dead. Yeah, I also like that. But this one, this is such a good movie.

It doesn't need that, right? Yeah. Instead, this movie leans really heavily on actors delivering their lines. Michelle Yeo, sorry, Michelle Yeo. Yeah. She is, she has a lot of really crucial lines and she's amazing. She's great. As, as you were saying earlier, Tony Leong is he has a lot of crucial lines and it's hard to describe his character. I, uh, to me, to me, he stole the movie in a lot of ways. Like he is, he, he, he, there was so much gravity to his arc. I didn't expect that at all. Like, I didn't expect to get that invested in who he was. Uh, and what he, you know, what he was doing and what, his motivations were that stuff that stuff really worked for me and i also just think it's about time that guy got some damn american screen time like he's just so cool and at the risk of this becoming a mini film sack i just want to i just want to pivot a little tiny bit here back to the fact that

this was a highly watched highly discussed movie because i almost didn't put it into recommendals because i feel like everyone's seen it already but apparently they haven't and you need to see it It's worth watching. That's the whole point here. It's the end of the year. This year was tremendous for streaming, Scott. For all of the, the last 22 months have sucked in so many ways. But somehow, 2021 was the year of Ted Lassow and Midnight Mass and Dr. Death and Mayor of Easttown

and Only Murders in the Building and Reservation Dogs and Falcon in the Winter Soldier. And the White Lotus, you want me to keep going? I mean, you could. You could because it's forever. The list is forever. I get it. Yeah. And so, like, the whole point of what, like, what we're talking about here is trying to help people with their vetting.

Right? You only have so many hours of the day. And you kind of count on people who watch a lot of stuff to vet it for you, right? Yeah. And Masters of the Universe revelation was amazing. And you should watch that. I still haven't seen that. But, yeah, like, that's the other thing is, you know, there's our.

there's arcane and a million it's it's an unbelievable uh embarrassment of riches in 2021 and and 2021 was the year of squid game which whether or not you think it's a 10 out of 10 squid game was the most streamed tv series of all time yeah and and Netflix came out just a couple days ago and said that they're assigning that one show 900 million dollars in earned value now that's a that's a purely imaginary number right you should be laughing at them for even putting that out there yeah but you've got a salute you've got to salute them for their audacity right they they they found something that no one really would have signed up to watch right yeah yeah and they made it into the most stream series of all yeah it's crazy that's crazy that any of that even happened uh one last thing i'd say

about shing chi is that um uh what was it i had a thing to say and i forgot what it was poop dang it it was good and I forgot what it was and I hate that I forgot and so now I've forgotten it I guess I don't know

what I was going to say it was good though whatever it was really important stuff you'll have to check in later when my brain resets itself it fits

I'll tell you what my final conclusion is and that is 2021 had a lot of MCU it had Wanda Vision and it had Hawkeye and it had Changchi and they all work

they work It had a Black Widow. They all work. They're all good, and it fits. They're not a bunch of discordant stuff. They fit. They all fit really well. And they all fit together, weirdly.

So that's the other amazing thing. Exactly. New Spider-Man movie fits perfectly with this. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I ended up loving that. All right, well, there's your recommendals for today. Now, Randy, every each and every day when he does these, I guess every Wednesday, compiles these, puts these up on Twitter.

And we're also going to start putting them on a site that'll, like, show people what we talked about. So it'll be easier to see. But first, we're going to spend a couple more months talking about doing that. Yeah, we'll still talk about, we'll talk about doing it some more. And then we'll do it, is my thinking. But for now, you want to follow him at Randy Deluxe on Twitter. He'll post those up. We'll retweet them on our account and all will be well.

And that's really going to do it for today's show. By the way, I don't know if people know this. A lot of you do because you support us there. But patreon.com slash TMS need you to hop over there and support us. Those that do, thank you. Those that haven't yet, you know, consider it. get over there and throw us a couple of bucks a month. It's no big deal. We're way underpriced. Uh, it's stupid the way we set this up. So take advantage of our stupidity and join

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The morning extreme at gmail.com is our email address. Frogpants.com slash TMS is our regular website. And also, if you're looking for some hot new business happening over the weekend, make sure you check out FilmSack. We're going to be doing The Matrix sequel, which should be. be fun right randy we're stoked about that we are i um i'm going to hold it all for for this weekend we're going to record sunday morning i'm i don't want to say anything more about this movie right now it's please uh watch it and then uh listen to film set yeah it should be very good um also i don't

know what today's song name is all i know is that brian put a prime put a file in the folder called zero one name one dot m4a that's the song that's the name what if it's the same what if it's the song is is name by the band one it could be named by the band one so my plan is i'm just going to play it and hope for the best because i don't know what the shit this is is but uh zero one name one is going to be played today uh for today's outro song uh and i think that's going to do it for us uh randy thanks for sticking around toward the end here appreciate it yeah yeah he's going to help me pick titles as well so should be yeah i am have a have a good day everyone yeah have a great day uh and a happy new for some of you who won't be here tomorrow but oh and we're still doing a show on new year's eve

1 30 p.m. We are part of the annual streamathon that ritual misery does. We're going to get some damn charity done for some kids and have a TMS episode. So that'll be up in live 1.30 p.m. Mountain time on that afternoon, which is again Friday, right? Friday. Friday? Yes. Friday is New Year's Eve. All right. That's going to do it. I'm going to play this song. that'll do it for the show thank you all for listening and i hope you really enjoy song one uh i know i do it's a hell of a hell of a track and uh we'll catch you guys tomorrow everybody within the sound of our voice be good we'll see you then Even though the moment passed me by, I still can't turn away.

All the dreams you never thought you'd lose, they'd tossed along the way. Letters that you're never meant to send Get lost with thrown away Now we're called upon to We don't know offence That never knew their names We don't belong to no one It's a shame

If you could hide at side me Baby for a while And I won't tell no for your name I won't tell me your name Tell me your name Scars the souvenirs

You never lose The pass is never far Did you lose yourself Somewhere out there Did you get to be a star? Don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are? Now there's nothing to believe And reruns or become our history

The entire song keeps playing on a tired radio And I won't tell no one your name I won't tell me your name. I won't tell your name. Just like it didn't need something. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com.

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