The Morning Stream - TMS 2226: Meticulous Meat

Episode Date: January 5, 2022

Kim Jong 2: Burrito Supreme Leader. Cameo Man! Able to Be in Everything! Excelsior! Brian and the Neighborwives. Lara Croft says My eyes are up here. May as well do this. No talkie no soundie. FedEx Deliverty Drivter. Five Angels in a Shoeshine Kit. A French Movie, With French People In It. Tickle Tickle TOOOOOOOO! I want more Wordle but they won't give me any more Wordle! Miserable Garbage. The Playstationwagon with Tom. Putting beans in the hopper 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, Kim Jong-2, Burrito Supreme Leader. Camio, man, able to be in everything. Excelsior. Brian and the neighbor wives. Laura Croft says, my eyes are up here. May as well do this. No talkie, no soundy. FedEx Deliverty Diverty Driver.

Five Angels and his shoe shine kit. A French movie with French people in it. Tickle, tickle, do. I want more whirdle, but they wouldn't give me any more whirdle. Miserable garbage. The PlayStation wagon with Tom. Putting beans in the hopper with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. When I first joined this hospital, I was strictly solo.

You were the first real buddy I ever had. But if you and he wish to be best buddies again, I won't stand in your way. You can also use thumbtacks if you prefer. This is the morning stream. And this is my boomstick. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, January 5th, 2020.

My name is Scott, and that's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hey, Scott. All right. So, new M1 version of Discord, everything fine and great until you played the opening music. And all I heard was, Oh.

Oh, weird. It's got fletper, clear as a bell. So it's doing something to, like, turn music into, like, automatically rip out the music. Oh, well, let's go look here. I bet I could find out why. They do have a couple of more options in here. Like, for example, let's see, I'm being distracted by automatic input sensitivity, noise reduction, echo cancellation, hardware acceleration. No, I can't find why.

No, I didn't see anything in there when I looked earlier. So we'll see. We'll see. Oh, auto gain. Oh, auto gain. We've had auto gain on for a while. Do we turn off auto gain? I always turn that off. But I haven't had any problems with you, so I don't know. I'm going to turn mine off. My old one had it. See, this is good. I like real-time tech things on the show. I have no problem with this. This is the people's favorite thing to do when we do this on the show. Yeah, what's weird is all other, hmm, you should have heard all that. I don't know what that's about.

Oh, automatically determined. No, we don't want that. We don't like automatic. determining of anything. All right. Well, there's probably some kind of, some kind of ceiling or what's the word I'm looking for? A hit, what do you call that? Limiter. That's right. Figuring out music. Yeah, boy, when you're not talking, I don't hear the background music. That's all right. That's all right. I hear you. Are you on auto gain or no auto gain right now? I have auto gain is off. Off. All right. I got to turn you up. I just turned it off. Do I sound different? You see you were quieter, but I've adjusted on this end. I think I got you. All right. Well, hey, look, welcome everybody to our first test of the Discord Canary version.

It's basically their beta version for M1 Macintosh's. We're being reminded it's their alpha. Yeah. Oh, yeah, good point. It is their alpha, isn't it? It is their alpha. Yeah. Thanks, Xavier Tech John for pushing that.

We're nowhere near release. But we thought we'd give it a shot. You know, so far it's been very fast and awesome. And, you know, if it doesn't quite cut it for audio needs and things, then we'll deal with it. So, Brian, for example, if we were to talk about Canadians and I hit this button, you tell me what you hear, okay? So here we go. Cane da! Does that come through?

Yeah, I hear that fine. It's music. Music. So when I play like this, do you hear that? Not at all. No. Weird. If you're not talking, I don't even hear the be be-dee-be-de-be-de-d-d-d-d- thing in the background.

Oh, that's weird. When you're talking, I hear it. Okay, so, well, yeah, there's some stuff to do. We're going to have to fiddle. But hopefully, you know, if it gets too. weird today. We can always switch over. It's no big deal. That's why we got both. We got both on our hard drives now, baby. Yeah, we can operate both. Yeah, we can do both. All right, look at this. I got some, um, I got to text, the tech support morning stream. Exactly. Now, I've got

questions for Brian that came up earlier today. I've been noticing this all over Twitter. People post these weird color grids. I've noticed that too. Christy Kate's posted one yesterday, and I'm like, what the heck is that? Yeah, what is that? And I found out what is that? it's a game and it's so screams Brian Ibit's name I cannot believe that you haven't found out about it and a part of it is the thing almost actively makes it impossible to know what people are talking about because it posts this this social media post of your score and that day's grid but no link nothing you don't know what it's even for it's kind of a crime but it's this one dude what made a game for him and his partner or something.

They love word games. And it took off like crazy. It's not an app. It's a website. I put a link in there. And it's called Wordle. Which sounds a lot like other games I've seen on it on the app store. So the first time I saw it, which was again, Christy Cates, in this weird little grid of colors.

And she's like saying, oh, five out of six, 133. And I'm like, wow, I must find out what this is. Yeah. And then I went to the App Store. and said, oh, there are games in here called Wordle, but they're the, like, they give you a jumble of letters and you've dragged to put them in order

to make a word. Right, which is very different than this. So the way this thing works is, it's a daily challenge, daily quiz. And when I heard that, I went, oh, Brian, I bit, okay, cool. Then I found out that the whole goal of it is to try to spell whatever the day's word is

five letters long. And you're trying to suss out what that word is in one, two, three, four, five, six tries or less. It is, it is a mastermind with letters. Basically, yeah. That's kind of it. But it's apparently taking things by storm, and I'm terrified by it because I don't even

know where to start. They don't give you hints. There's nothing. There's just a keyboard and a grid, and you got to start going. So if we used a word like, you know, let's say it's the word is. By the way, I got today's. Yeah. Oh, you did.

In three guesses. Oh, see, this is, I did, I tried earlier on my phone. Right up my alley, right there. All right. Well, now that I, okay, well, now that we know this, this is a thing I want, you know, I just felt like Brian has to be playing this, and it turns out now you are. So you're good. Do we all get the same word today?

So like if I go there and do it and you go there and do it, do you and I get the same. Oh, I don't know. Tell me, well, I don't want to blow the word for anyone at home. Can you put the word in our Discord chat and then I'll. The answer, today's answer word, yes, I will put it here. And then I'll enter it, and if it gives it to me correctly, that'll answer our question. You're going to have a like, I got it in one guess. Yeah, look at it.

Yeah, this is going to really skew my score. But also, I guess you don't log in or anything. You just, so there's no like. Oh, it keeps it in your cookies. Yeah, I guess so. In your cookies. Oh, everybody's saying, yeah, you all get, everybody gets the same word. Okay, how do you know if it's right?

Do I hit enter? Yes. Oh, I got it right. Okay. Oh, amazing. That's cool. A little. HTML 5 business.

It's great. This has got to be the little simplest thing ever, but great, thank you for one more tab to keep open in my browser every day. I just thought, you know, as much as Brian likes his gamified lifestyle, wouldn't this be a nice addition

to what you're already doing? So that's fantastic. Hank the Crabb says, this is just mastermind with letters. No kidding. Man, I wish somebody would have said that for a minute's again. I know weird, right? I feel like that should have come up earlier somehow.

If only someone would have said, That this is a mastermind with letters a minute ago. He probably just got here. But I'm putting up the red on air light anyway. Yeah, so basically that is it, right? You put in your five letters. It tells you which letters you have correct that are in the word but not in the right place, makes them gold. Right.

It tells you what letters you do have right and in the right place makes them green. Everything else is gray. Right. This is great. I want more of these, but obviously I won't get one for another 14 hours. Yeah, it's going to be some time. You're going to have to hunker down, Brian, for the long haul. That's how that's going to have to go.

Okay. Well, that's all I had for that. Oh, look at that. What do you got there? So quantum feeling, so now I understand the little grid things that people have been posting. It is, they're showing you them guessing the word without showing the letters. Oh. Oh.

So like quantum feeling says, I'm testing the share function here. It shows gray, gray, yellow, gray, green, and then gray, gray, yellow, green, and so it's basically showing you the steps. But I don't see how you share. I have wordle at the top and a little gear, which just gives me settings. Yeah, there's nothing in there that's like, here's my, there's a share thing at the bottom. so you hit you you do you have to have the score first so you have to have your uh your completed uh you know like you did it and then at the bottom at the bottom it'll have a little link score or a little uh share to social thing link thing and you'll hit that and then it create it generates this link that that puts

the grid into your social media stuff oh okay let me see if i can find that yeah because the three words do i hit enter again after it shows me oh you got the right word i mean i think so Maybe not like in Safari might be the situation. Oh, that might be it. Not like in Safari. They must work better on a chromium browser. That's the deal. Maybe, yeah, maybe.

Well. Anybody else using Safari and getting the thing? Yeah. Anybody else out there using a web kit-based browser out there? Yeah, because I have all green letters. Oh, if you close the results window. Oh, you lose the share option. that's it. Okay.

Okay. So then it's gone if you do that. You can't. Here's my guess. With the rapid growth of this and this viral hit that it is, they'll be adding little features and things. So watch for that. Hopefully they won't ruin it and say, make this an NFT or something. Dumb like that. I need to set up a new, like, daily reminder thing.

Do your wordle. Hey, Brian, do your word. Do your wordle. One of my favorite things of the day, actually, is a very funny tweet. by Mike Judge. Hold on. Where is this? All right. It's basically a little pixelated picture of Hank,

Boomhauer, Bill, and Dale from King of the Hill. And they're just like pixelated versions of them. Sure. And he says, this NFT will be available soon for $6 trillion each. Or you can have to, or you can buy all four for $20 trillion.

They're worth every penny. I like Mike Judge. And then someone right below that like, screen capped it, said, I don't know, I bought him. This is proof of ownership or whatever. It was really making me laugh. Anyway, Mike Judge, could follow on Twitter, by the way, if you're looking for people to follow. Yeah, that NFTs actually came up.

We did trivia last night and we won. It was me, Tina, and then two of our neighbor, neighbor wives, or neighbors, but just the wives. Like, they're all the couples, but only the wives came. And neither of them were crazy neighbor. So it's our neighbor next door to the right And then our neighbor across the street You and like three ladies then Me and three ladies

Okay And we And we won And one of our questions was They gave two examples like Bong Smoking Monkey Number 392 And this other one

Are 400,000 Examples of what thing That you'll never be able to explain to grandpa Yeah, nice and ones with NFTs, that's great. That's right, exactly. Because you know, I'm just trying to imagine a scenario where I could sit down with my mother,

82-year-old mom, and explain how they work. Oh, my gosh. What a waste of time that would be. Nobody wins, and that's that game. That's a game of losers. By the way, how come nobody came up with the, just like a Saturday night at Dibbitt's house? Come on now. That was like the three ladies and Brian is more.

Yeah. example of just like a Saturday night and of itself. You guys are slow on the trigger in there today. What's going on? Is it because Randy's making coffee? Is that the deal? You can always tell when that's happening. Oh, I found Randy's recommendal.

He sent it. Here, hold on. All right. Now the world is safe once again. All right. Hey, let's dive into that little fun game, actually. Oh, you know what? I'm not ready for any of this.

Everybody's too busy playing world to come up with it just like a Saturday. United of its house. All right. Let me see if I can pull Randall. Wait, not Randy. Dunaways. No, Brian, Brian, for this part. Yeah, yeah. Sorry.

It's the rest of films say. It's like the two halves of film sack. The two halves of film sack have come together to create one giant Voltron monster podcasting. And we're going to do that now. Hey, look who it is. It's Brian Dunaway joining us from South Carolina. Hello, Brian. Oh, hi.

gotten right oh how are you feeling dude listen to your voice you don't sound great how you doing i'm doing okay hey i'm doing all right i'm making it yeah so let me ask you this so uh brian came became a little ill i think it's all that lead up to play retro and then it happened and it was such a rousing success that your immune system was just not prepared for the aftermath and then you got sick almost immediately now you've had a fever and stuff you're going you're getting a covid test today i hope that turns out to be negative but also it's no fun to deal with any sort of fevery business. Right.

Right. I don't do well with fevers. No. I complain a lot, right? Oh, I'm a cranky piece of garbage if I get a fever. Yeah. I don't feel well. Any sickness, you went, I'm the worst person ever.

I know, right? Isn't that? I know people always, it's a stereotype to say men are this way. But I'm telling you, there's something to it. Men are this way. Yeah. Yeah. Like, not that all women are like happy, go lucky, lucky charms when they get sick or anything,

but it's very, my daughters and my wife. great when they're sick they're positive and upbeat oh i'll be fine in a day or so just kind of getting it done doing what you got to do nick and i miserable garbage just laying around going my life's the worst where's the remote someone get me water like we're just the freaking worst did you imagine if we had to deal with pregnancy boy my my goodness no maybe that's the problem maybe we're that maybe that's at the top of how we don't feel like oh sick is at the top Yeah. Is it, yeah, exactly.

Is it just one more example of what we wouldn't be able to take, or is it like, yeah, we're in place of being able to produce children. We're just going to make men big babies when it comes to. Yeah, big, gooby babies. But anyway, you don't sound like a baby to me. You sound like a guy who broke his fever and is still willing to come on here for some reason. Exactly. Yeah, we got this. We got it.

I got to get my COVID test in about an hour regardless. So I had to be up. So as long as I'm up, might as well do this. May as well do this. Yeah. That's what I always say. May as well do this. May as well do this. We have a listener on the line. Oh, I forgot to. The morning stream. May as well do this. May as well do this. May as well make a show. I'm going to log into the few because I forgot to. Okay, there we go. We got a caller on the line. They've been waiting very patiently. It's fine now who this is.

Hi, who's this. Hey, this is Michael or Badger Williams and the chat in the chat very rarely. Wherever we are. Yeah. Hey, Michael. It's nice to have you here. What part of the country are you in? I'm currently in Grand Junction, Colorado, but I'm moving to Utah. Oh, no way. Oh, that's awesome. Look at this little... Fascinating.

You're going from one host to the other. Nice job. Right, exactly. Brian, how well were you able to hear Michael? Because I'm... This is what I heard from Michael. Hi. Really?

Oh, you know what? I don't blame Michael because Scott obviously can hear it. It's definitely Discord. Okay, so I wasn't sure if it was a Discord or... I think I know how to fix it. Watch this. So this is great. Again, we're doing real-time tech support today.

everybody this is how this is going to go uh okay so i go to the sound okay i think if i take this down uh okay now michael say just say just say anything michael say something uh say anything how about that yeah i think it was probably happy and then it kicked in after yeah yeah it it sounds like it's trying it sounds like it thinks that his voice is noise and it's trying to filter it out up until a certain point okay well well we're going to find out how this We'll get there. Yeah, well, we'll get there. Well, Michael, it's really great to have you here.

We're going to play a little game. Brian's going to explain it and what you could win if you pick the right horse today, Brian. All right. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tad pool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. And it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Michael, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian.

They're going to have to translate your answers to me, though. until we get this thing fits. If your team wins, by the way, you get a prize package. That includes the textorcist, the story of Ray Bibia, and Tools Up. Ooh, Tools Up. Fun games, courtesy of Wesley. Nice. I haven't heard of Tools Up.

I don't know what that is. I haven't either. Brian, any familiarity with Tools Up? You heard of that? It's a game based on the Jersey Shore. Ah, good. Those are all tools and they're all up, so let's go. All right, awesome.

That sounds like a fun little prize package. Yeah, let's give you your topic. We had 577 responses to this. 71 of you chuckleheads decided to pass or say some, you know, derogatory thing. And I'm going to clarify right now that your answer will not be a movie. It'll be a description. And that's what I'm looking for here. All right.

All right. Vagness. Put your hands on your buzzards and give me your best answer to this. What's your favorite? Stan Lee cameo? Oh. Scott. The one in Spider-Verse.

Yeah. What did I say about, don't just give me a movie. You have to tell me, you have to describe it. Tell me the scene. Oh, the scene. He's in a comic book store, into the Spider-Verse, where he's doing stuff and looks like Stan Lee standing there.

Right, all right. Yeah, that's close enough. He stands collectibles. He sells... Oh, right. miles the costume and then he says it always fits eventually all right fair enough i i didn't know if it was enough just to say yeah he's in that movie i do need more than uh the one and into the spider verse otherwise you could just say boom movie titles yeah good point that's that but isn't

that the no you're right you're yeah i see what brian's doing here he's at he's putting a little yeah just give me a little bit to know that you know what they're talking just a little work and i did he's in his little collectible deal there yeah yeah that's a little bit that's a little is our number seven answer, or number eight answer, by the way. I don't even remember what Scott even said. I said, okay, Spider-Verst. Okay. Spider-Verst. So, seven answers will be it at Brian. I remember him being in the Spider-Man, Doc Aquin, where he's, uh, oh, is he, he's kind of like, he's, he's, he's, he's, what is he doing?

I can't know what he's doing. I just remember he's, he's hanging out and he's all like, because I remembered, I was like, oh, because Sam Ramey's going to be there. and then I can't see him talking to Stan Lee because Sam Ramey's a freak. That's why I always remember that one. Interesting. Well, he was just kind of stand on the street. Wasn't he was man on the street?

Is that kind of... Yeah, I'll give you that. He was a man on the street during the Spider-Man and Doc Gok fight. I just wanted to see how much I could get out of you on that one. Show me Stanley stand on the street watching Doc Gock and Spider-Man fight. Oh, man. Oh, no, come on, man. Not a favorite for people, but...

A couple people did say, two people said it, so it did make it into the list. I think every single one of his cameos are in this list somewhere, but only the top ten are on the feud. I like it when he cameoed at the Dragon Con and he took a picture of me. Yeah, yeah. I know, yeah. Yeah, it was my favorite. Glenn Peralta got to ride in the elevator with him. Do you think that elevator smelled like farts?

I think it smelled like aqua velvet. Yeah, probably. A little bit of the old spice in there. well that means it's me and uh me and michael then yeah that's right yeah two of you were playing together and you guys have control the board let's get some more uh let's get you get some more points michael anything jump out at you um i remember the deadpool one i think he's the the strip club announcer oh i forgot about that strip club announcer and deadpool um that's a good one yeah tadpool's gonna probably throw a dead pool in here because of the pool and the whatnot uh Brian let's say

Deadpool. All right. And coming or show me strip club DJ Stanley. Oh, it's in there. And coming up next,

Chastity. Yeah, that's right. That was a memorable one. See, you're good at this. I'm terrible at this. I can't remember jack crap on these. Yeah. It's good that you've got some help.

It's funny, the board for me is like overlappy, but I don't know if it is for you on your screen. It sometimes is and this time is not. Yeah, because the I think it's because they're not used to put in two lines. Oh, yeah, it is a relap of you're right. I wrote some lung answers in there. Yeah, that's fine.

It's okay. It's a little bug test. Look at all the bug testing we're doing today. This is fantastic. I know. This is a Q-A-T-MS. Yeah. All right, so let's think of, um, oh, it just occurred to me.

And you can even describe the scene, and you don't even have to tell me a movie if you can't remember what movie it's in, right? Like, okay, I just remember what he did. Okay, that helps. Okay, that helps. that helps uh all right michael but feel free to uh tell me a better one but the one i'm thinking of is where he's a bus driver uh but i just don't remember the movie that's the one i was uh yes i don't remember the movie he's driving a bus yeah yeah or something or he's in the he's in there

and he went wow spider man went by or some shit i don't remember stuff some stuff hey brian it's the one where he's a bus driver sure sure i'll take it uh show me school bus driver Oh, that was a long one. Sorry, I was looking for what number it is in the list. It's number 14 in the list. He was a school. He was Peter Parker's school bus driver in Infinity War. Oh, right.

Oh, right, right. Okay. Did we, maybe this is a question I'm not, I'm so paranoid about saying Spider-Man things. It's not really a spoiler. I don't remember seeing any Stanley reference in the new movie at all. Is that the first one that we've not had any Stanley kind of? I mean, I know he passed away, obviously, so we can't believe.

It makes it harder for sure. Yeah. Sort of. Oh, Shang Chi probably not either. Yeah. Yeah, Eternal's, Shang-she, Black Widow. I don't know what the last one was. Would it have been in game?

I can tell you the last one and when we're done here. Oh, yeah, because that would get away. Yeah. It's a good point. All right. That was a big fishing. Basically, he was, but not in the way you'd expect. That wasn't me fishing, I promise. I'm just trying.

I know. I know. Anyway, all right. So continue there, Brian. Or no, it's Brian's turn. Because we screwed up. It is Brian's turn. Is my turn? Yeah.

It's your turn, Brian. Okay. Once again, I think the characters, when you think about the characters is probably a lot easier than trying, because I was trying to think of the movie and the characters. I remember him being in like a FedEx outfit at one point in time. But heck if I can remember which one it was where he was, maybe I'm just having fevered dreams i don't know i totally it feels like there was one where he was delivering mail maybe i should say mailman i totally remember that would that be that be easier i'm going to go with your first

answer because fedex delivery driver and mailman are are not exactly the same thing um all right let's show me fedex delivery delivery delivery delivery delivery delivery i have a package for tony stank tony stank tony stank that's right did you oh right tony stank tony stank don't you oh right tony stank It's all coming back. He was FedEx delivery driver delivering a package for Tony Stink. It's all coming back to me now. Number two, answer on the board. Still have control, Brian?

Right. Wasn't there one where he was a... These cameos. I think I get so hung up, I'm like, oh, there's Stan Lee! And I'm like, something that was one where he was like... I remember him in headphones and stuff, and he was doing... like a radio announcer thing, but the heck if I can remember what he was doing. I don't even remember what he even said.

Do you want to go with that, though? Radio DJ. Radio DJ, sure. All right. Show me, Stan Lee, Radio DJ. Now you're probably thinking of the strip club DJ for that one. Yeah, I can't. See, in my head, I'm imagining something similar, but I don't know why I am.

Well, you might be. Yes. Okay. there was didn't he all right Michael you're going to have to help me with this one I think there was a time where he played like a national

like a what am I trying to say like a news anchor type thing yeah do you remember that what was the deal there do you have any memory of that okay can you guys can't hear Michael or can you I think we can't hear him that

I don't give us yeah I don't know what um i don't know what that was i guess we'll just go with it and say a news anchor news anchor all right uh show me news anchor stan lee damn now we're just no now we're just guessing professions that stanley might have had right exactly uh television repair man and maybe i'm crazy right just go down the list of sally struthers uh you know and okay i do remember i'm being like a swinger or something was that like the joke that he was in some kind of spider man he was like a he was like a he was like because you know but he was a swinger anyway because it was always

wearing that 70s you know big old but like collars and stuff like a swinger swinger like a dude on yeah yeah like not like spider man swinger but like a ladies man yeah i have some memory of that as well but i all right yeah does that count brian i'm gonna i'll take i'll take that one let's see what we got here show me some sort of ladies man Ladies Man, there you go. Yeah, I'm going to give it to you. He was Hugh Hefner and Iron Man. I think that's what you're thinking of.

And I'm going to give that one too, because I think that's what you're visualizing. Wow. Well done, Brian. Good job. The first Iron Man? Yeah, first movie, right? That was the first Iron Man. Yeah.

That's probably reason why I remember. That was the one I watched the most. I think I only watched the other Iron Man like one time apiece. I don't think I even gave it a second chance after that. Yeah. Come on. You got, you know, Whiplash. Mickey Rourke,

you killed you. Only I needed to see that once. All right. We'll watch again for Film Sack at some point, I'm sure. That's right. I'm saving up. I'm saving up. Yes, my board.

You killed my bird. I don't know why I'm remembering this, and I'm pretty sure this is, I'm pretty sure I'm getting this confused with Matrix. I'm getting this confused with the Matrix Resurrections we just watched. Okay. I feel like he, I just feel like he was a window.

washer. It just seems like if he's going to be on the street. I can't see the street again, but he's got to be outside so he can witness to all these crazy things. You know what? I'm going to back up. No, I'm going to go with that. I'm going to go with window washer. There's one other one I can think of. I'm going window washer. Stan Lee, the window washer. Stanley window washer. Show me

Stanley Window washer. Yeah, I don't know of any time he was a Why is that familiar to me? Like I said. Michael, does that sound familiar? did to me. What are we thinking of? I don't know. It feels familiar for some reason. But I'm like I said,

once again, I'm running a slight fever. Oh, like a construction type or something. Yeah, there's like a construction. Ah, geez. That and all all that's like, I remember he's like on a bench behind a newspaper. Right. Right.

Oh, wait. I do remember that one. Yeah. Oh, but that is that one too pedestrian to say he's just behind a newspaper? Guy on bench. Guy on bench. You know what? Yeah. To hell with it.

We're saying guy on bench. Bench guy. Guy on bench, maybe reading newspaper. All right. Let's see if we have that. Show me guy on bench, reading newspaper, something. Damn, man. You might be thinking of his cameo in the Ben Affleck Daredevil, where he's reading a newspaper, about to walk into traffic, and young Matt Murdoch, blind young Matt Murdoch, saves him from.

Oh, right. And we've tried so hard to get that on film stack, by the way. We've really worked on it. It's coming up. It's like in the next five weeks or something. Yeah, and Electra back to back, if I remember correctly. Yeah, as long as those don't go anywhere, we'll watch them. We'll watch us. Yeah.

Okay. Well, Brian, we've struck out here. Brian, you're down by three points. Damn it. There are a lot of answers still on the board. That's because they're insane. We're screwed. I really, yeah, I mean, this is a fun topic, but I guess I didn't realize.

how tough it would be for some folks. Yeah. Yeah. On a different day, maybe I'd be able to recall better. Yes, it's fever. You're in NyQuil and, uh, yeah. Sure. God.

I know I'm thinking of Bruce Campbell, but God, I could swear he was a dormant, at least in one of the cameos. But I, that sounds right. Doesn't it? I'm getting that confused. You could tell me that and I would have to, I would probably believe you. I'd say, oh, yeah, yeah, he's definitely a dormant at one point. right okay all right uh show me dormant uh stanley dormant dormant dormant what's his power

excelsia damn uh no i don't think he was ever a dormant i don't have any in my list of uh dormant that means scott you and michael do win congratulations sweet we got a win here folks barely by the skirt of our pants congratulations you beat the sick guy so how's the so give us the rest of these because i am i'm like completely flummoxed by the rest of these the number Number one answer, not even a Marvel movie. And as a matter of fact, was actually filmed before all the Marvel movies. No, he gave relationship advice to Jason Lee in the mall and mall rats. Oh, God, of course.

I forgot about that. I didn't even think about that. And he talks about, he talks to Jason Lee for about five minutes before Jason Lee finally realizes it, Stan Lee. So that's kind of what has happened with those MCU cameos, is that now people would recognize. him, but apparently Jason Lee didn't. This is the one I could not believe neither of you would come up with, but in Guardians

of the Galaxy 2, he's seen chatting with the watchers and telling the stories. And he even tells them, and one time I was a FedEx delivery driver. That's hilarious. I forgot about that. Let's see.

Speaking of Mallorats, number five answer, because it takes place in the past, in Captain Marvel, you see him on a train reading the Mulratt script. Oh, my lord. God hasn't seen Captain Marvel, so... No, I had no idea. You haven't seen Captain Marvel? That's amazing.

You're in for a treat. I'm looking forward to it. That would have been the era, right? Because the 90s would have read a script, maybe on a bus. Who knows? Exactly. All right. Let's see. My hands aren't as steady as they used to be. He was Thor's Barber in Thor Ragnarock.

God, I've got to go back and watch. watch that. I think I'm only seeing that one time, but that's not because I didn't like it, but because I just haven't got back to it. The Rock is probably in my top five favorite MCU films, because it's just so nuts. Taito-a-T-D. I'd say, you know, give everything to him and let him do the entire, yeah. Let him direct Hollywood. Let's be fine. Make him be the new, Fygie. All right, how about you? So when you were talking about the headphones, this is the direction I thought you were going to go in Amazing Spider-Man, the Andrew Garfield, the first

Andrew Garfield one. He's a librarian wearing headphones and doesn't hear Spider-Man and Lizard beating the tar out of each other right behind him. That's it. That's it. Because I was thinking he was a DJ and he didn't hear it. And that's the one of those stuff is going on the background. And that's the one. Yep.

And then finally, Thor gives him some ale, some Asgardine ale, knocks him on his butt as a World War II veteran in Avengers Age of Ultron. Oh, man. Well, Age of Ultron, I only saw the ones. And, yeah, completely forgot about most of it, unfortunately. For a good reason.

Some of the other ones, he's in Winter Soldier. He's a security guard who misses the fact that Captain America steals his costume back. I think that's what I was thinking about the doorman. It was like security guard, door. I should say security guard. He actually played a security guard a couple times. In the first Hulk, he's walking around with Lou Farragno. Fred's dad in Big Hero 6.

You see an animated version of them. In Gardens of the Galaxy, the first one, Rocket is like panning around Zandar, and he sees him and says, where's your wife, old man? What a creepy old guy. In Endgame, which was his last cameo, by the way, he's a 70s version because he's in the past when they time travel, and he says, make love, not war. Oh, right. He was in like a video montage saying that, right? Like it was like a flash of... I think so.

Yeah, it might have been. Something like that. In Thor, he's the a guy with a truck with a tow rope trying to pull the hammer Eulner out of the ground. Larry King and Iron Man too.

Oh, that's the one I was thinking of. In the first two Iron Man, he plays actual celebrities. That's the one I was thinking of because of the reporter thing. That's what I had in my head. Is the Larry King one. Gosh, dang it. A bartender and Ant Man, but he's got

Luis's voice. Spider-Man 3, he actually interacts with Toby McGuire and He says, you know, one person can make a difference. Teen Titans go to the movies. He makes an appearance in a DC property, which is great. He drinks some gamma-radated soda in the Incredible Hulk. He steals all the chips in the Black Panther.

Just seeing if there's some other good ones. You say chips, you're talking about poker chips, right? Poker chips. Yeah, he's sitting at the casino table next to Martin Freeman, and I'll just hold on to these chips. So not bar chips. No. Not potato chips. And then I'll just give you one more here.

Well, Jure, in the trial of the Incredible Hulk, you kind of alluded to that one. Sadly, only one person said that one. And then in Venom, Tom Hardy's walking down the street, passes him, and his Venom boy says, who's that guy? Oh, wow. So you didn't even say anything in that one. He did. He said, I sure hope the two of you end up together. Something like that's talking about Venom and his girlfriend.

I just watched Let There Be Carnage. and I meant to go back and watch the first one. Yeah, obviously no appearance in that one. Some people said, you know, things like Spider-Man far from home. Nope, sorry, wasn't in that one. Stanley with hookers. I wasn't sure if they meant Hugh Hefner or one time he was a judge in a beauty contest, but in any case I didn't give them the points.

The one where he passes a football, don't know that one at all. Oh, what is that? I don't think that ever happened, yeah. and finally my favorite answer the princess diaries too oh what did that happen was he in there princess diaries too? I have no idea if he's in there but it's such a great like

oh my favorite stanley cameo is in the princess diaries too well there's a there's a 3D movie that's not in any of these not in the MCU or anything and I can't remember the name of it but it was like a kind of a Scooby-Doo kind of take off thing and he was he was like a regular character in that

oh really yeah I remember not playing like basically not a cameo but just kind of like a he was the he was just a guy in there um hold on stan lee i'm trying to remember what that movie was called because it was pretty good um he does appear in um uh oh shoot i had it and i lost it he's in big hero six is that what i'm thinking of that's what i'm thinking of oh okay we talked about big hero six that he's that he's fred's dad right but the series oh it's the same in the series too playing same character okay yeah you're right i think i think

I am thinking of Big Hero 6 maybe, which is a Marvel thing, so I don't know. He's been in some of the Lego computer animated Lego films. Let's see, Marvel Future Avengers. Many figure appeared in computer animated Lego films. Oh, Leglo Marvel superheroes in trouble in Wakanda. So different, so not the big ones. Of course, he's been in the PS4 games. Oh, he was in 2002, 2014, and 2017 episodes of the Simpsons as a cameo as himself.

Yes, two people said the same. Simpsons. Yeah, that's cool. I didn't know you said the Big Bang Theory. Big Bang? He was on there? That's true.

He's in a lot of the Big Bang Theory. He's in a lot of the theme park rides. So you see him in Gardens of the Galaxy Mission Breakout and the Iron Man experience at Hong Kong Disneyland. Oh, he was on an episode of Chuck. Yeah. And some movie called Pizza Man.

I don't know what that was. That's interesting. Oh, yeah. Frankie. In the 2011. in Frankie Mune's film, Pizza Man. Weird. Really?

Kick-ass. He's in kick-ass. Okay. But it was cut from the film. Oh, there we go. Lee makes a cameo appearance as the Three Stoge's wedding guest in the 2004 Disney film The Princess Diaries, too. Perfect. That is great.

Perfect. I'm sure while I was looking at all of these, somebody posted the princess, why he was in the Princess Diaries, too. Oh, did you mention the Todd Dog vendor and the X-Men? Yes. I didn't mention him, but one person said that, which was, I think, first Marvel movie cameo? No, I guess not, because... He narrated Incredible Hulk's TV show for a while.

He did, and there were a couple of cartoon appearances, like the Spider-Man cartoon. But was X-Men the first Marvel movie? Yeah, according to this? Hold on. Well, with him in it. Because Daredevil and Elektra came out after that, and Blade came out after that.

I think it might have been the first big thing, Since, well, since Toby McGuire's first Spider-Man movie, right? Wasn't that first? Oh, right. Yeah, of course, because those were in, yeah, those were in, uh, I think. I don't remember now. Well, as, as fun as this is, the main thing here is that you- No, Spider-Man was 2002.

So X-Men was 2000, but Blade was, Blade was before both of those. Oh, Blade, Blade, yeah. But his, his, uh, cameo was cut out of that because, uh, I don't know why, but he discovers a body and, uh, they cut that. Oh, that's too bad. And they didn't know what a tradition they were. avoiding. That's amazing. Well, here's our, here's to our winner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. Congratulations, Michael. You have won. Now, all you got to do to collect your code, sir, is to send an email, covervill at gmail.com to Brian. He will hook you up and you'll walk away a big winner. How do you feel about your win?

Uh, I feel like I didn't do much and I'm going to apologize for that. It's kind of one of those moments where you like, I have never watched a marble movie in my life. I don't remember anything. Yeah, no. That's all good. You did help Scott with a couple of them. I mean, you got the, I don't have the list in front of me, but I think you got the one that ended up giving a Scott a bunch of points. Yeah, I think you did great. I'd play with you again.

So get that email out, get him going, and you are the happy winner. Well done, and congratulations. Don't worry, everybody there in the chat. You'll have a chance to win one day coming up. You just got to be a caller that we pick randomly. Hey, Brian, Dunaway, I'm really sorry. You're sick, but I'm hoping this at least gave you a smile today. You're doing better?

You're all right. I'm drinking my hot honey lemon tea and hanging out with two of the best people on the planet So it's not It's not all bad We'll catch you off so you can go Go back to them Yeah go back to them

No you Yeah you're the oh it's us oh I see You know Brian they say laughter is the best medicine But really take actual medicine Yeah take real medicine Medicine is way better Yeah and let us know when you get your I guess this is a rapid test or you got to wait for it or what's the deal

No it's it's supposed to take a three days or something like that, two or three days. We'll see. So it's not rapid, but it's quick, maybe. It's as quick as maybe it's ever going to be. Well, you guys got a lot of cases down there right now, so who knows? Yeah, yeah. So it's kind of, you know, it's like, oh, you think you have COVID.

Well, so is everybody else. Yeah. We'll see. Hold it in your urine stream. We'll see you soon. All right. All right. All right.

Well, that was fun. Sounds like you guys could hear him pretty good toward the end. Toward the end, yeah. talked for a little while, then it fizzled in and then gave it, gave us. That's odd, isn't it? It is odd. You and I will play around with it. Yeah, we'll figure it out.

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Yeah. I love when you guys have your own little projects and cool businesses and all that. We love talking about them. So keep it coming. This is a great story. I'm glad we're getting to it today. for our probably only story of the day. Kim Jong-un's dad invented burritos.

Oh, okay, good. According to the latest propaganda coming out of North Korea, they're making this bizarre claim as sales of the Western dish boom in that country for some reason. It's very weird. The wild claims follow an equally baddy propaganda story. The alleged Zhang II invented a dish called

John Ill. Or Zhang Ill, what I... I always see the two L's. Or the eye and the L? I know, I'm with you, because they capitalized the eye, and it looks like Jung 2. Yeah, it kills me. Anyway, sorry, John Ill, previous Wackadoo that was in there, invented a dish called double bread with meat, which was uncannily like a hamburger. The burritos, meanwhile, were called wheat wraps.

Okay? The Rodong Simun newspaper claimed Zhang Il's tubby tyrant son, Kim Jong Un. That's their reading, not me. I know, the tommy tyrant. Is following in the footstuff of his dad by taking a meticulous meat in interest in the dish. I don't know why meticulous meat. I don't know what I was saying that. Maybe for title reasons.

I don't know. State TV news footage, North Koreans can be seen devouring the burritos that stand outside of Kin Song Food Factory in the capital of Pyongyang. The broadcast also showed a mural of Kim Jong Il's grinning in the kitchen where burritos. were being prepared. I can pull this photo up in a second. But while the propaganda paints a picture of abundant street food, those who have escaped the secretive state

insist that such dishes are virtually non-existent there, as you might imagine. Jung Sung Lee, who was born into an elite North Korean family but fled the country in 2014, said most of his countrymen couldn't even dream of such a meal. He said the majority of citizens do not have money to buy foreign food.

And in the 1990s, bread and butterloes were sat what's that word satirized satirized oh like like satirical oh i was thinking of like the way you'd prepare it you know what i mean like uh oh i'm putting this in like a saute rise yeah yeah it really threw me um anyway and criticized as socialist traitors unquote in many cases he added there uh simply weren't the ingredients to recreate these foods he says i have never seen any burritos or raps on sale in north korea so it's just a weird thing to A, claim that there's tons of them and they're all over the place. And B,

that you invented it. Right. This is like, so, all right, Scott Johnson, you're on a boat, you're on a cruise ship. Some reason somebody gets you on a cruise ship and you're walking around in a hazmat suit so you don't catch Legionnaire's disease or something because that's probably what it would take. Yeah, you're right.

Somehow you slip on a banana peel on the Lido deck. You fall off the boat. Fortunately, your hazmatian, that suit has enough air in it, but you still sink down to the bottom of the ocean where you discover the lost city of Atlantis, who welcomes you into their city, brings you in and kind of hails you as a leader, and you introduce things to them like burritos and hamburgers because they don't have those things. Somehow they have cows and carnitas, but we don't know how they got them. Do you say that you invented them, or do you say, oh, these are from my,

something are surface people? have invented try a burrito oh interesting i don't know what i'd say because that's kind of like you've got this little sequestered group of people that will believe anything you say have they have no uh reference frame of reference for anything outside of their own world their own little microcosm that's interesting yeah you could say anything and they would have to buy it say anything exactly and i think that is how it is over there like somebody in the chat says he there there there was some propaganda claiming he did 18 holes of golf and got a hole in one for all 18 holes. Wow.

We almost need a game like, did Kim Jong Il say this, or is it a Chuck Norris thing from Barron's chat? That's what it sounds like, right? Like, to me, I hear it and go, whatever. And I'm sure that if you asked a average North Korean this question and they felt safe in answering, honestly, they would say, yeah, of course not. Of course, he doesn't do any of these things. Right. But it's because they're all terrified. Yes, exactly. What a sucky deal that is.

All right. Well, he didn't avoid... No, the way, Ricky Trvese invented podcasting. Oh, yeah, that's true. There's our... Our world example. Well, he invented it, and then later... Adam Carole invented it. And then Joe Rogan invented it.

Yeah, and I think maybe even what's is what WTF, Mark Merrin, he invented it. Oh, sure, he invented it. Yeah. You know, famous comedians, what they do is they... They're famous, and then they go, hey, what's this? I'll go do this because my other career isn't really doing anything at the moment. So I'm just go do this. And now I'm carrying the fame over. Ooh, look what I invented.

Exactly. F off. Exactly. He didn't invent anything. Sam Jane, it wasn't even ELR. It was Scott's, uh, um, the quake show. No, it wasn't quake. Unreal engine.

Unreal, uh, Unreal, Mod show I did in 1999, yeah. Yeah. I think I was ahead of, uh, well, I don't know if I was the first, but I was definitely early. You were early. Except it wasn't, you know, we didn't have RSS and stuff, but putting an MP3 up. on a website and let people listen to a radio show you do. I was probably in a small group then. Oh, for sure, yeah.

It was before I'd even heard of it, so. Yeah. Oh, Sam, it's okay. You missed it. It's not good. Yeah. Maybe we need to find some old audio files of those while you're digging out your tapes. Yeah.

My microphone may have been like wax on a comb. It was so bad. But whatever. I was, you know, it was new. We were trying new things. MP3s were new. We were rocking the joint. see what was up there. We had like, you could, you could stream the show through, um, what was that?

Real player? No, what was that called? Winamp. It was new then. Oh, Winamp. Sure, yeah. Which I guess you can still get a version of Winamp today if you want to. I don't know why you would. Yeah. You could. But yeah, iPods changed everything and that's when I got big. But, you know, these comedian guys were like, yeah, I'm going to bring my millions of followers over here and then claim I invented it. They all try, they all say it. they all do it bugs me you know what props to kevin smith never really claimed that right never did no he just was like yeah this is cool new medium man a minute he did well them yeah yeah i like that i respect it all right we're gonna take a break when we come back tom's tech time tom merit will be here talking about tech we're in the middle of c s week day two i believe maybe three today i forget how it works i think it started monday so it'd be day three we're into anyway a lot to talk about

there uh and then after that recommendals with randy let's first to take a break with a song brian will please present the song. Sure. This is an artist who sends me a lot of their music, and I love the fact that they do because it's all really, really good. We got a singer-songwriter, producer named Papa Satch, S-A-T-C-H, founding member of the band's Black Horizon, Blank Stair, and Mercy Hit. He was an integral member of the wildly popular band Spoof.

But as a producer, he wrote, sang on, and organized a critically-aclaimed actress Doganit album. New York City metropolitan area versatile singer-songwriter producer and musician who's given us a brand new song from his

album, his brand new album or album he came out at the end of last year called Echoes. Here is the song Wanted to Run. I wanted to run, I wanted to hide Escape from the feelings buried inside Wanted to run, I wanted to hide I wanted to go, I wanted to know

Needed to show the love that I hold Wanted to show I'm feeling alone And I know it's just a lot, dream in a place I've never been and it's always on my mind in a world I just can't find every time we try

this amuse me right gives me hope of what we'll find Every line you try To show me what's in sight I wanted to run I wanted a sign Don't want to run Don't want to hide

Hope I finally arrive Looking for joy, the joy of the ride Wanted to go, I wanted to show To prove to you that I just don't know Wanted to go away from the cold And I know it's just a dream In a place I've never been mind in a world I tried to find every time we try to find every time we try to

ride this amusement ride gives me hope of what we'll find every line you try to Show me what's inside Wanted to run, I want to sign There are things I wanted to say These are the dreams I've had all the long Every time I wanted to play And give you this song Every time we try, there's some amusement ride

Give me hope of what we will find Every line you try Show me what's in sight I wanted to run, I wanted a sign I want it to run. I want it to sign. We all know that alcohol makes people think queerly and do some pretty crazy things.

Anyway, since when have you been drinking? If you don't finish today, leave it and continue tomorrow. This is the morning stream. The Daveni-Din-Din news. All right, we're back, everybody. Welcome back. So could you hear that music at all? None at all.

It was like there was silence, and then I hear what you're going. This is the morning stream. It must have some setting where it will block music out because it thinks it's background noise or something. Yeah, I know. It's crazy. Somebody was saying, but. Yeah, we'll figure it. got noise

something suppression Claire Gack is yelling it's noise cancellation but Is it Claire? Because I don't know if you're right I think we tried both ways and it didn't do anything We did too

Yeah well we'll figure it out Anyway hey tell me that name of that song One more time if you don't mind That song is wanted to run By Papa Satch From his brand new album Echoes Papa Satch Papa's got a brand new song

All right That's right Ace Detecting coming You know him is Tom Merritt He'll be here shortly That's how I don't Yeah, I know him primarily as a detect, but also as a, you know, a technological marvel in his own right. I'm going to go ahead and play his intro now.

With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. And Tom Merritt, who continues to have his Christmas background. I love this. Look at this. I forgot how I turned that on. I think it's great. It's in voice and video settings. Oh, is it?

It's in the settings. There it is. I like it. Look how festive. It's just great when he moves And you see Little bits of his real background behind Yeah

That's awesome Well that's even better Yeah that's better Sure better Sure not Why not? We're in the middle of CES Why not the jungle Hey it's Tom Merritt everybody

He is known for his Wednesday appearances here Almost exclusively That's the reason he's known Just kidding He's known because he's like a tech And reports on tech and daily tech news show And all that And we love having him on

So, Tom, it's been a couple of weeks. Happy New Year. Welcome back. Happy New Year. It's good to be back talking to you all. Yeah. You have good holidays. Yeah, it's already.

We did. How about you? It's mostly good. Had a leak start on the 23rd that still has yet to be fixed, but thankfully it stopped raining. But that was a little stressful. Did you just find some Depends or what did you just all that? Yeah.

Yeah. Just went out into the sunroom, stuck some Depends up into the roof. God I hate it. Oh, it was in a room. Okay. Well, we didn't get that for you. I thought maybe it was a data leak because that felt more, you know, that would have been a more technical. It was. It rains data in Los Angeles. Oh, nice. I was afraid of a GDPR violation, frankly, with the amount of data leaking in there. Oh, very nice. Well, speaking of all sorts of violations, not really. CES is happening. It's going on. Despite a lot of pullouts, it's still a show, right? You guys are covering it and things are going on. Yeah. We were going to send our producer Amos and host Rich Drafalino to kind of be on the ground. The idea being they could, they could, you know, wander around and maybe gather some stories on their own, but also set up a place for folks who are at the show to come and connect and be on DTNS until all of those people that we would have had on the show said,

we're not going anymore because all the big companies aren't going anymore. And so the cascade effect was that we didn't send Amos. and rich. So there you go. None of us are at CES. Very few people are at CES, but CES still happening, still happening virtually. It's shortened. They canceled the last day. Frankly, that really doesn't matter. It won't change the number of announcements. Very few people go on that last day anyway. You even see people starting to break down their booths on that last day. So I think that was just CTA saying like, you know what, if we're not going to have that many people, we might as well cut this out anyway.

There you go. CES happening mostly virtually. Well, my two times at a CES were madhouses. And I'm just trying to imagine it not being that. Because it sounds like it just obviously isn't. I was tempted to go anyway just to experience the emptiness of the CES. Right. Because the closest we've ever had was back after the financial crisis, you know, around 2009, I think.

Yeah. Was a very light CES. But even then, it was crowded. It was just light. This is apparently Ghost Town. Sure, sure. So despite all of that, they've had some keynotes, they've had some announcements.

What is the hot thing today? I know PlayStation, for example, last night, I figured we should talk about the PlayStation and the car. PSVR 2, honestly, we knew it was coming. So the news here mostly is that it's definitely coming. And the two things I would pull out

of the announcement that are worth paying attention to are the fact that they are going to include some haptics in there, which is kind of, you know, a differentiator, uh, doing things like, you know, you could feel the, the beat, the heartbeat on your temple when, when a character's really stressed or the wind, like somebody hits you in the side of the head with a baseball on that, you can actually feel like that. Um, when they said wind rushing past your hair, which I'm like, I guess, I guess you could do wind. I don't know. Uh, actually, you actually have to have hair, by the way, for, to be able to, to feel Yeah, that was one of the things they were saying

is it'll make Brian I bit feel like he has hang. Oh, here we go. Where do I buy? Where do I buy? Otherwise, Brian, it'll just feel like you won't understand the input. It'll be like, what's this feeling? The way going by the sides of my head. Yeah, yeah.

The other thing is, foviated rendering is made possible by eye tracking. The eye tracking will be used for some other things like, you know, the characters will know where you're looking and maybe they'll look at the same place or they'll try to meet your gaze. which would be kind of fun. But it also,

foveated rendering is the idea that... Too later. My eyes are up here. Yeah. You'll get a lot of that. The foviated rendering is the idea that you only have to render the pixels in high-res that you're looking at, which can increase the frame rate, because you can use the same amount of processing to do a smaller screen without dropping resolution.

And so if you know where the eye is looking, it can adapt very quickly to render the part. you're looking at. Oh, that's interesting. That's a lot like game, well, game engines in general, let's say you're playing a game like Horizon Zero Dawn or something. One of the most fascinating presentations I ever saw was showing you what you

would see. So the game is only going to render what you see, right? So you see a vista and mountains and trees and all of this. It's in this cone of vision, whatever your degrees of field or field of view is. And then if you could have that just lock and but turn your head

and see what else is there, there's nothing else there. It's all like a big gray empty space because why render all of this when you can just render what's in front of you and therefore spend all your rendering here? And I guess most games are most 3D games these days are like that. You're not actually looking at, you're not in a room where everything's rendered around you. It's only what you're seeing at any given time and it's fast enough to do that in real time. And imagine, imagine if you could if you could just render, if you could render an even smaller amount, right? Because you know exactly where somebody's And that's what foviated rendering gets you.

So those are two features that aren't new. It's not like no other VR headsets have them, but they are not common. Often they're found in enterprise level stuff, not in game-related stuff. So those will be differentiators. Otherwise, it's a fairly nice, you know, 2000 by 2040 per eye resolution,

120 hertz refresh, 110-degree field of view. Fairly similar to the Quest, too, frankly. Except here's the downside. PSVR is wired. Yeah, totally wired. As the PSVR is wired now, the PSVR 2 will also be wired. Yeah, I'm interested, though, to see how this goes. It was successful as a secondary device.

When you sell consoles, it's very rare for you to be hugely successful with your weird offshoot accessory. That's just the history of the business. So when Sega made their little dance circle thing or Nintendo's light gun or whatever, unless you bundle that stuff in the system, they're always not great selling. and this is a case where that didn't prove to be true. It actually sold really well comparatively. It's not a one-to-one, but it's sold really well. So I'm really happy to see them following up and saying, yeah, we're going to move forward and keep VR at the forefront

because Sony needs some big selling points right now to keep kind of momentum going and it can't just be on the backs of their exclusives. They've got to have some other stuff. This is super rad. So I'm interested. It's not going to capture the VR crown for, Sony. I think that's, if you want to lodge some criticisms at it, the fact that it's wired, the fact that it's, you know, just keeping pace technologically with a couple of nice

features means it'll be very popular for people who can get their hands on a PS5 and want to splash out on whatever they charge. They haven't announced pricing yet for it either. But it will continue to be a, if you're a PlayStation fan and also really like VR, it'll be successful. It will not capture new people, is my guess. Yeah, that's my, yeah, you're either already in or you're, yeah. And also, like you said, the install base of the PS5 is right now hindered by its availability. Yeah. Xbox to some degree as well. And so you have that limitation, which is, I can only buy this if I have the other thing. And I can only buy that if they become available and all of that. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see what they do.

Tell me about the car thing real quick. That part I missed. So a couple of years ago, the last time I was actually physically out of CES as a matter of fact, Sony announced it's Vision S concept car and everybody was wondering like, are they going to make cars? Is this just an infotainment system? And they're trying to make a big deal out of it. And so they kept test driving concepts of this for a couple of years. And now they've updated the announcement to say they have created Sony mobility as a division, a new new subsidiary, I guess, a division, a company under Sony to develop car tech. Now, it's still unclear whether they intend to offer a Sony branded car or not, although it seems more likely now, given that they're doing a mobility division. The Sony Vision

S-O-2 is what they're showing off at CES, looked kind of like a Tesla Model S, and it is going to be made by Magnister, who made the first one. So it's not like Sony is building the car itself anyway. It's still working in partnership with somebody else, but it does look like they're moving slowly towards the idea of offering a car someday and doing it more in public than Apple is doing it. Apple's also working on something like this, and everybody has the same questions there. Is it going to be Apple branded? Is it going to be Apple in partnership? How's that all going to work? So it'll be interesting to see in two years if Sony announces that the car will actually come out or if it'll take longer, but this is not something that's coming out anytime soon.

Yeah, that's true. Well, that looks, I actually kind of like the prototype. It looks cool. But these are, that's how prototypes are, right? Exactly. It's always easy to make the outside look pretty nice. And frankly, this one doesn't look that remarkable. Like I said, kind of reminds me of a Model S.

Yeah. But it's nice. It's nice looking at. Yeah, the tires are the real distinguisher, and they're kind of weird. Yeah, 20-inch wheels. This is a 5,467-pound car. So it's a big one. Yeah, it's a big SUV piece of business.

All right. Well, I personally, I love this kind of stuff. I love hearing about what companies are working on, and you're going to hear more great stuff like this on the Daily Tech News Show today at 2.30 Mountain Time. Hey, Tom, what else is going on that you might want to mention? Man, the CES week usually nothing, nothing else is going on. So all I'll say is at Daily Tech News Show.com for all the things that we think are worth knowing from CES. There's always an avalanche of announcements, but we do our best to identify the interesting trends.

the things that are worth pointing out. Maybe they'll ship, maybe they won't, but sort of the significant developments and attempts, even if they are attempts that don't end up in fruition. That's what's fun about CES. We've got foldable laptops and we've got robots and all kinds of stuff. End of the week, we'll get Robert Heron and Allison Sheridan to kind of tell us some of the coolest things they saw. Robert is always great at telling us the home theater stuff. Allison's great at finding those little quirky little products. So tune in all week, Daily Tech News Show.com. Heron's that kind of guy that if you're in the market for a television, which I was a year

and a half ago, he's the first guy I contacted. Yeah. First guy I reached out to him like, hey, Robert, you can't tell me. And I ended up getting the one he recommended. So, yeah, watch for that. That's great that you're going to have him on. Well, that's today. I'll be on as well. It's Wednesday. Can't wait. My first new episode in the new year. I'm excited for a new year of DTNS. So should you all be. Tom Merrittase on Twitter. Tom, have a fantastic week. Thanks, y'all. We'll see you next time. Bye now. Bye now. Why can't I hang up on him? I don't know. Shit. Goodbye. I didn't go well.

He really could be held this hostage for a long time. Like, yep, stand by. I don't know what I did there. So he did it. Yeah, the button's slightly different than on the regular version. Interesting. I'm God. All right. Let's get to the recommendal time. I got to add to Randy. to this call. Yeah. Burrandi. Berrandi. Berrandi. Terrandi. Let's see what's up with him. What's going on? I'm going to play some music that you probably can't hear Brian. Probably don't hear that. I don't know. Do you hear it? No. Okay. How about now? How about right here? Oh, wait, that's not it.

Only when you talk. How about now? Anything? It's bizarre. It's completely silent when you're not talking. Exactly. But when you say, how about now? We hear it. but did you stop saying how about now we don't see that's screwy i'll figure that out i don't like that that's dumb uh hey look who it is it's randy jordan aka randy deluxe joining us today how's it how's it going man what are you doing guess who made an extra cup of coffee today oh uh you like you i don't know what it is about wednesdays man or it's i should say tuesday nights right because that's when i set up the coffee maker i just for some reason i just want more coffee on

wednesday hold on how much what do you do before what do you do tuesday nights do you put the grounds in the The hopper, do you use a filter, you pour over, your French press? What are you? I have a coffee system that grinds the beans on a timer and then dumps them into the basket. And so it, you know, I set it up every night before I go to bed. I have my timer and I put, I make sure there's enough beans in the hopper and so on. Yeah. So, yeah.

So I just every single night, I have this little routine where I go in the kitchen and I set up my coffee for the next morning. It's really nice because it like, it gives me something to live for. You know? Yeah, no, I feel you. Where do you get your beans? What's your, what's your bean purveyor of choice? For about eight years now, I've been getting, I've been getting my Ka'u coffee, which is, which is roasted in Kona, but is grown in the Ka'u region of the Big Island. I've been getting it from Ka'ucoffee.com. It's a, it's a little farm that I've visited a few times, and they make great, great Hawaiian coffee. That's amazing. I love a little, a little place you can support like that. That's cool. Yeah, yeah. And I also have, I also get some coffee from Kona proper.

I actually have a bag here from Greenwell Farms that I ordered over the holidays because, you know, shipping is getting weird. Yeah, it is. I'm sure. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Shipping's jacked right now. Freaking hate it. I, you guys really captured my imagination on the origins of podcasting talk earlier. I, like, I was thinking back to how I used to hang out at the Capitol City Comedy Club.

in Austin, Texas. Like, that was my, my place to go in after hours in, like, the mid aughts and how I, like, when I joined the instance and started working on that with Scott, I found myself talking to Joe Rogan multiple times at the Capitol City Comedy Club about podcasting, because, you know, here I was on a podcast that was like in the top 50 in all of iTunes, you know, and like, I guess I'm saying 2007, Scott, I would say. And that was just like, it was just, it just, it's just. weird to look back there was a time before uh comedians had podcasts like they just didn't

yeah yeah they were and he had no idea what he was heading toward that dude and yeah and like i remember standing around out after he would perform you know joe rogan was just a straight stand-up comedy in a guy like he was just a headliner he was a headliner people eat uh pig anuses at that point or before before after this was this was after he had quit the first time yeah okay after he had left that show the first time right okay yep yeah so i remember that he was trying to parlay that into the car the comedy career make that whole huge again and then a career and uh then the ufc stuff and then and then i could name i could name other comedians that talked a lot about podcasting like we just we talked about it a lot like it was just what they were thinking about

but at the time comedians didn't want to uh they didn't want to give away their jokes is basically they're they're you know the way they all approached it was i don't see how that could possibly be better for my career, right, than doing more stand-up than hitting the road. And so they weren't doing it just yet. But like I could name comedians who were very interested in podcasting that didn't actually go anywhere with it. Like Craig Shoemaker talked to me a lot about podcasting.

Eddie, what's his name? Eddie Gosling talked to me a lot about podcasting. You'd never heard of those guys, right? Like you probably wouldn't have ever heard of Joe Rogan as a podcaster, right? or as, you know, like, as that kind of, like, voice, an interviewer, right? It's like the philosophical question. If Randy drops a name, does it make a sound? Yeah, I've never heard it.

Some of these guys I haven't heard of, but I imagine the comedy scene there was, like, popping at the time. And they, they, it's amazing how many of those guys would start a podcast and then not go very long. Because it's work. It's a thing you got to do. Like, I'll bet you I've seen some of these people, but not realize, you know, who they were. Right. Yeah. And ultimately, like, podcasting is a really fertile territory for comedians, right? They all figured it out in the last five years, right? But like, I'm just saying 15 years ago. And they claimed they invented it is the other thing. Yeah. Yeah. They absolutely, absolutely every comic that I ever talked to 15 years ago was terrified of it, saw no benefit to it. What, you know, was just like steering away from it really, really hard. So it's just, it's funny to me that of all of them, this like dunderhead Joe Rogan

became the you know the king of the world who knew after talk radio which was such a great show that he would parlay that into all of these other things talk radio oh news radio destroy each and every one of them news radio you mean right not talk radio

I'm sorry news radio not talk radio that show was great that's the first time I ever saw him and uh and then I was reminded in the chat tally reminds us that he was hosted that reboot of the man show that was so bad oh right I forgot that even happened I did too. Who was his co-host? It was Kimmel and Corolla

in the first one. Right. And who was his buddy in the reboot? Who was Rogan's buddy? The guy, the short, short skinny guy, Kraft. I'm so many comedians. Doug Stanhope. Doug Stanhope. Doug Stanhope. Oh, wow. Okay, yeah.

That's how I think of comics by their size. Like, I always. Joe Rogan is actually 5'3. Adam Carolla, when he was hitting the clubs. Like I talked to Adam Carolla quite a bit. He's tall. By the way,

difference between Carolla and Rogan. Carolla thinks he knows everything. He's one of those guys who really genuinely thinks he's the smartest guy in the room. Whereas Rogan doesn't. Rogan just has questions. Well, today, I'm glad you brought that out because on my recommendal today, there's a specific Corolla Kimmel thing that comes up.

It's too funny we brought this up. Yeah. So we'll get to all that. Hey, let's do those, though. Hey, Brian, you brought two here. Tell me about your first one here. What are we doing? I've got two.

Both available on Netflix. First one is a movie. All right. Here it is. My oldest son is older than you. I don't think so. Real quick, do you hear that? Can you hear it?

Off and on. Here bits and pieces of it. I want to, I hate that because I want you guys. That's right. It'll figure itself out. All right. I'll just play it. Here we go.

Bold. Oh, what do you mean old? At the most, you're 40? 42, 43, 44, 44, 45, 4th, 46, 47, 48, Lyle. Two grown-up children, daughters, 25 and 23. Martha grew up worrying about me. Poor little thing, checking that I ate, didn't die at night like a little mama. Bianca's like a father.

Well, she made me feel like she wanted to remake me, like her viciousness. was for my own good. Well, my oldest is 50. Actually, 51, so I win. Three times a grandfather. They're so soft when they're young, their little bodies. Are your kids on the island? No.

Oh, hold on. Yeah, Scott, we're going to need you to start talking when you finish these. Because we have no idea when they end. Well, I know because I added that clip. And no, it's not Sesame Street. I know you heard all the counting in there, and you think that this is just a weird British Sesame Street. I heard, I heard the disjointed voices of Olivia Coleman and Ed Harris is what I heard. Exactly who you heard.

Okay. Yeah, I was going to say, this has got to be that Hulu or not Hulu. Maybe it is. No, it's Netflix. No, shit. Okay, tell me what it is. I have no idea. I'll tell you what it is.

Why don't I just tell you the name of the film? It's called The Lost Daughter. And it stars Olivia Coleman. as a woman who is staying on an island in Greece on vacation and enjoying her solitude when all of a sudden a large family from New York shows up and kind of not wreaks havoc, but just basically interrupts her, her solitude and her quietness. Like they take over the whole beach, they even ask her to move, they just, they kind of go a little crazy all over the place.

One of those Americans is Dakota. Johnson, who is playing a mom to a small daughter, and Livy Coleman's character kind of gets a little fixated on her, a little bit obsessed, not in a creepy, sexual way, but kind of like in a seeing a little bit of herself, maybe, and a lost opportunity or lost parenthood kind of thing, and just kind of watches her. Meanwhile, Ed Harris makes a couple of cameos, but I wanted to play his clip because I just love that Harris's voice. He's the owner of the place that Olivia Coleman is renting.

And you kind of see what happens with this weird obsession that Olivia Coleman has with Dakota Johnson. You also get Peter Sars Gaird as a writer in this. This is directed by Maggie Gillinghall. So that's why it's got Peter Sars Gaird in it. Oh, man. I loved her in October Sky. So good. And this is excellent.

This is one of those movies. Like right now we're getting into Brian and Tina watch as much Oscar bait as possible. And I feel like this is going to be one of the movies that gets into the top 10 or into the 10 nominees. And that's why it's showing at all of the little tiny one or two screen theaters in my neighborhood, right? Yeah, exactly. So it can get some film, some theater craft. as well as the Netflix deal. Yep.

Okay. And should people go see this at the theater? No, there's sadly to say there's zero reason. I think everybody gets a Netflix account free with any purchase at McDonald's right now. So everybody has a Netflix account and they can watch this thing. There's, it's beautifully shot, but I don't think there's any reason to go see it at the theaters. There are other movies. If you're going to, if you can brave the theaters, there are better movies.

for the theater experience that you can go out and see. But this one's just fine on the small screen Netflix, and it's really, really good. It's a character-study film probably best compared to something like Nomadland, where you see all of the things that are occurring through the eyes of one character, who's your, you know, a lot of movies have a main character, But this one, like Nomad Land, you're experiencing the thing and the feelings, even in dead silence, that that character is experiencing and feeling. So I just watched Nomad Land again while traveling a couple weeks ago.

And I'm glad I did because I caught some things. Like, there were, there were just all sorts of like shots that I realize are very purposeful that I, that I hadn't caught the first time around. Because, you know, you're trying to understand what's happening the first time you watch a movie. Sure. Does this one have things like that? Does it have, like, do you feel like there's a deeper layer to it? I think so, yeah. And it's, once you kind of know the full story, your mind goes back to a lot of the earlier scenes and those interactions to say, oh, oh, you fill in the, you know, the background that you now know with some of those early things.

And it does paint a very, very deep picture of who Olivia Coleman's character is. By the way, I could watch Olivia Coleman read the phone book, her. the expressiveness in her face alone is the movie, you know, is all the things that she does. She's an international treasure and can do nothing bad. That's her deal in life. Yeah. She's amazing. Yeah.

I want to see that thing with her and Vargas. Yes. Whatever the hell that is. It's called Landscaper's and we finished it last night. And were it not for me already having these two already queued up to go, it would have been an all Olivia Coleman recommendals for me today on the show.

Wow, very well, very good. All right, let's talk about number two then. Any set up here for this? Number two is a series on Netflix. All right, here's your clip. Hopefully you can hear it. I can remember the exact moment

I fell in love with movies. I went in knowing nothing and came out knowing that if I could be in a movie theater, I didn't want to be anywhere else. I was 10 years old that summer with nothing ahead of me but a whole life. On June 20th,

one movie opened that changed everything, and not just the future of Hollywood, but the lives of an entire generation. I know because I was there. I came of age in a dark theater, staring up at that big screen, watching the same movie over and over again. It was not just a movie, it was the movie, and that traps it in amber along with the best things I remember from that summer. The year was 1975, and that movie was Jaws. Oh, the movies we've, the movies we grew up on. The movies that made us is what you're thinking, and that is exactly not what this is.

This is like, if you took that and said, give me a hoity-toity, high-brow version of that, you'd end up with. Wait, hi-brow. V-O-I-R, V-O-I-R. this is a David Fincher deal on Netflix it's a limited series six episodes each one focuses on a different either on a different aspect of movies the things that we love about them or or trends things that have evolved this one is specifically is Sasha Stone who's a a film blogger who's written for Hollywood Reporter and variety and the rap talking about her experience watching Jaws as a kid and being kind of like my Star Wars experience and a lot of our Star Wars experiences where your parents would drop you off at the theater

for the first showing in the morning. You'd pay by your ticket and then you'd sit in the theater and watch it over and over again until the closing time and they'd come pick you up that night, that summer. Oh, wow. I had that experience anyway.

So she's in the first episode. Each episode is like under 20 minutes long. These are nice quick. essays, basically, visual essays, but they're brilliant. The first one's good, the one I just played about Jaws.

I didn't want to, you know, there was some I didn't want to pull from because I feel like it wouldn't have given you need the visuals on screen to fully appreciate it. This one's called the Summer of the Shark. The one I really liked the most was the ethics of revenge, which is the second episode.

And it talks about revenge in film. And it's it made me go out and watch another movie that I might recommendal next week because it's always been on my list to watch and this one kind of pushed me into watching it

like remind me that I want to see it. There's another one about anti-heroes, how we'll always watch the films and kind of root for the guy that maybe we shouldn't be rooting for. There's a great one called The Duality of Appeal about animation and how, when you draw a character,

what makes them appealing and isn't the same thing as what makes them attractive or likable. It's a completely different thing. And that, if there's one, if you sit down and watch one of these, Scott, that's the one you need to watch is the duality of appeal

because you do this so much in your art that I think you'll, you'll scream and say, that's exactly right. That's what I've been trying to explain. Okay. No, that sounds fascinating. I didn't even know this was a thing. ever even heard of it sounds great yeah it's david fincher uh produced um it's it's really really good

one's about film versus television anyway uh it's called v o i r um yeah think of it as a the movies that made us they don't always focus on one movie like the movies that made us do but um i'm gonna watch it only because you previously said the word highbrow which is really stuck in my craw i thought this was a bunch of like film bloggers and you know like want to be critics talking about themselves and their past like a well why can't it be that too okay all right is it is it is it is it you know I mean it's obviously a deep dive into what these movies are and stuff but it's also I don't know it's if this feels like film class to me is what you're describing yeah yeah and it's a it's a higher appreciation um So Tony Zow does the one on revenge films. And he also did the thing, the Every Frame of Painting. He, what is he? He is Vancouver, British Columbia.

What is his deal? He's a man about town. Yeah. Johnny on the spot. He is a filmmaker, freelance editor based in San Francisco. He makes video essays about film form, but he did that. The thing he's best known for is the Every Frame of Painting, talking about cinematography and stuff.

That's cool. It's really, really cool. And I feel like, you know, pairing these people down to just being maybe film bloggers and want to be critics will diminish the impact that some of their stories have on you as you listen. Let's call them buffs, film buffs, you know? Film buffs. Yeah. We would consider ourselves that to some degree, I suppose. For sure, sure. All right.

Here is mine. Where is that, by the way, streaming? Oh, both of those. Both of those are on Netflix. Okay, awesome. This will all be part of Randy's post later, but I know people like to hear us repeat it on the show. We'll also be on quicktms.l.I is where I'll have those as well. Very nice. All right, here's mine. Hopefully you guys can hear this. It's a documentary, and I loved it. And I'll play it. So here you go. Sat down a night of a heart attack. I hear about it on the radio in the morning. Right. So I am. Are we good? It's a lot of.

Okay, I'm just concerned about the sound. I just got to telling this story. It almost makes me cry, and you turn to ass wipe and say, are we good? We're getting this okay. You're getting the shit saying, let's make sure it's on day because I'm like, oh, I go on with your story. That sounds like, I'm thinking that's George Clooney's voice after 18 cigarettes and gargling some. battery acid? You're so close. Nope, you're actually real far. That was Super Dave Osborne, aka Bob Einstein, who passed away a couple years ago now at the age of 75. It's been three.

Oh, really? It's been three. Oh, my gosh. Seventy-five, I think he was his age, a very quick battle with cancer. And it's a bummer because of you're a fan of Kirby, your enthusiasm. You know who this guy is. If you've seen any of this old Super Dave stuff, when I watched Letterman back in the day, Super Dave would come on all the time and do these dumb videos. And it was fantastic. And I'm really, never really quite understood this dude like i was just like where did he come from but every time i saw him i thought he was hilarious i thought the super dave stuff was just weird and i intrigued the crap out of me when i was younger but again didn't really know who he was didn't really follow him and it's really not until oh gosh like um not curb but before that um uh arrested development

he shows up as as what's his name senior's uh uh surrogate and i was dying. I was like, oh my gosh, it's Super Dave again. He's back. I have no idea. And then Curb and all that. And I came to Curb kind of late, which is why I hadn't seen him on there as Funkhauser. Anyway, he was an amazing comedian with a very interesting style and apparently very influential because this documentary, which is called the Super Bob Einstein movie, is just about his life and his comedy and where he comes from and his family and all this sort of stuff. But it's interviews with Letterman, Sarah Silverman, freaking Jimmy Kimmel, which I'll get to in a second because there's a funny thing I want to say about that.

Because Kimmel has a long history of this guy all the way back to the man show. Larry David, most of the cast of Curb is interviewed on this thing. Steve Martin, who I didn't know was a writing partner of his when they were both very young on the Smothers Brothers Hour, Comedy Hour thing. That's cool. Yeah. So that's where, I guess, his first foray and even being on screen was that Officer Judy character, which I don't remember at all because this is our, you know, this is before us.

But if you're of that generation, you think Officer Judy is the greatest thing ever. So Pat Nosswald's another one that shows up. There's like a whole litany of like comedy supreme around this thing talking about how much they love Bob Einstein. And they talk about his personal life. He was like really nice dude, super faithful and sweet to his wife, had like this amazing marriage and his, had these beautiful kids and grandkids. kids and the grandkids get interviewed and it was really sags the little girl just crying

misses her grandpa anyway i'm really really glad you said all this because the clip you played made bob einstein sound a bit like a jerk no this and this is but this is part of the deal part of his thing is his delivery is this it's somehow angry good-hearted and and and kind of like dirty at the same like he's this weird combination of things and that's what they all talk about the whole documentary is everybody just trying to dissect what is his thing why is he so funny and how come he can hold his face in the most hilarious situation he can deadpan his face for an hour and not twitch or smile like he's just the strangest kind of comedian and it lends itself really well to what he was able to accomplish anyway it's on hbo max i thought it was fantastic i really enjoyed it

and uh if you have any you know interest in that sort of thing uh do check it out it's also nice to see Steve Martin, like, doing interviews and stuff. I haven't seen that a long time. By far, the wildest thing I can think of about Super Dave is that his dad was a comedian and his dad died on the stage at a roast. Yeah, that was the story he was telling with Dave, or sorry, with Jerry. So Jerry Seinfeld's another one of the people day interview. And Jerry did two episodes of in cars getting coffee with comedians or however the hell

you say it with Bob Einstein. They're two amazing episodes. And one of those was him telling his story about it. his dad having a heart attack on stage while doing his bit, not knowing it, walking off stage, sitting down, and then dying. And it was at this huge thing with like Milton Burrell and, you know, all the famous comedians of the day were there. And he just died in this thing.

That was the story he was telling Jerry when Jerry wanted to do a sound check. And then he made fun of Jerry for doing a sound check during his sad dad story, which is just a great moment. But you're right. Now, that reminds me, I'm so glad you brought that up. one of the major twists to all of this. I didn't know this. Bob Einstein, his brother is Albert Brooks. Albert Brooks changes his name because nobody wants to be called Albert Einstein, right? Yeah. But that's what his name, his birth name was Albert Einstein. Him, Bob, and then

another brother were very close growing up. Clifford. His other brother is Clifford. Clifford's mostly behind the scenes kind of guy. But they interview both Clifford and Albert Brooks. Albert Brooks is a freaking legend. I didn't know they're related. Had no idea. Zero concept of that. And they talk about the stuff they worked on together, the rivalry they had, the closeness they had later in life. It's just a great look at this dude's existence, basically, and where he came from, what he did. I really, really liked it. I really identify with Albert Brooks in this brother ship because he and I are basically the same height and Bob Einstein and my brother were basically the same height, like, which is to say, we, we each have a brother that is way taller

than us. There's a lot of focus on people's heights in today's episode of Recommendals. That's true. Look at all of the height, heightest. Are we hightest? What are we? Hidest. I don't know what we're.

Anyway, I can't recommend it enough, loved it. It's great. Some squares. So, you know, if your kids are little, maybe you don't have much, but it's the super Bob Einstein movie. I think you want to know Bob Einstein story anyway, the kids. Oh, what I was going to tell you, the whole thing with Jimmy Kimmel, I almost forgot. So Jimmy Kimmel's on there, interviewed a lot about it, telling stories.

And he used to guest on his show all the time. And since he started a show in 2003 or whatever it's been. And I don't know if you guys have ever heard him do it. But his impression of Adam Carolla, so I'm talking about Jimmy Kimmel's impression of Adam Carolla. No, really. I've never heard anything. It was like a revelatory moment of like, holy crap, he's like he's in the room. It was the weird.

And of course, they were close and worked together for so long. and it makes sense that he would know his partner's voice. But damn, it blew my mind. And he can also do a good Bob Einstein voice as well. So it was great. Anyway, I just had a, I came away going, ah, Kimmel's got some chops more than just hosting stuff. You can actually do impressions and stuff.

Anyway, all right. So that's mine, the Super Bob Einstein movie streaming on HBO. Max. All right, Randy, the file you gave me is a little quiet, but I'm ready to play. Do you have any setup for this? I, so, I'm, I just want to say, up front, I want to apologize.

I am recommending this. I'm recommending this. I'm asking people to watch this because I want to talk to people about this more than it's good. Oh, all right. It is something that just, it really captured me. I watched it kind of by accident. It was kind of like it came out of nowhere for me. It's a movie.

It's a feature length film. It's only 82 minutes long. I am not saying I think it's great. I don't freaking know. I can't tell you what this movie is even about. It's an experimental indie film. And so I just captured the first minute of it because why not? No part of it is going to tell you anything really valuable.

All right. Well, here it is. Let's find out what he's talking about. She told me that the pig told her to have the angels and go to Tambo. I thought you said she didn't talk. She doesn't. Sign language? In a way.

What do you mean in a way? When she was little, I tried to teach a sign language, but she didn't go forward. So she made up her own. She made up her own sign language. She told you that the pig told her to go to Tampa. And take the angels. the angels and take the angels what was supposed to happen with the angels and team nothing when she got there the pig was going to tell her any angels how to find the baby jesus yeah the baby

jesus i have no idea doesn't that sound so much more meaning than it actually could possibly be it sounds artsy you know yeah so this is a this is a film that i could only have been shot on like iphone i can't like that's my best explanation for how it looks but anyway this is called los angeles right the angels and the the basic story is there's this mute woman uh young woman early 20s maybe and she is our protagonist i guess but it's really hard to call her a protagonist because she's not really the subject of the movie. And yes, she actually has a box that she keeps five angels in, a angel, literal angels. But you don't really, like, that's not a surprise. There's no mystery there. Like, it's just stated right

at the very beginning. And off we go. And she visits a talking pig in Tampa, a pig statue that only speaks to her. And she catches up with this escaped convict. And escaped convict steals a car. She's in the car. Off they go. They're going to drive across the country from Tampa Bay to Los Angeles. What the freak is this thing?

It's just one of these things. So all of that dialogue is her adopted dad played by Kevin Jackson. You don't actually know him. I thought over and over, oh, I know this guy. Nope, didn't ever really place him. But really good actor. And there are these FBI

agents who are trying to catch these people and they're talking the whole movie they go from town to town and they're talking and they're just behind our escaped convict and his uh his carry along this mute woman who has angels in a box and needs to get them to los angeles to uh save the baby jesus or so it's i'm telling you it's not a great movie but my gosh it's one of the it's like it is prototypical indie experimental film like i've i've i've I've rarely seen something that checks all the boxes of, okay, so you made your first movie. It's bizarre. Wow.

I've never even heard of this. How did you discover this? Yeah, where'd you find it? I was just sitting on Amazon Prime video bumping around, like just bumping around, bumping around. And I saw the title caught me, the title, Los Angeles, because I'm like, that's not a very meaningful title, right? Yeah. And, of course, then you find out in the movie. Oh, it means the angels a lot more than it means Los Angeles, the city.

And it's just like, I just, I don't know, something about the description. I guess the description tells you that Jojo is a young mute and she thinks she hears God calling her. And so she packs five angels in a shoe shine kit and goes to Tampa. And it's just like, okay, I've been what? I need to. And I'm telling you, it's well acted. Like seriously, the escaped convict who, slowly gets to know Jojo and then becomes a part of her like path is really good. This guy,

um, again, no one you've ever heard of, but he's really good. I want you to watch Los Angeles so I can talk to you about this guy's performance. It's really good. But the script is not, I don't even know. Maybe the script's brilliant. It might be brilliant. Sure. Sure. Yeah, for all you know, it could be incredible. I kind of, I have to admit, I'm a little curious. I'm a little curious about this based on your review. Yeah, it does sound wackadoo. I'll say that. Yeah.

Yeah. This guy that I'm talking about is named Christopher Corbyn. And he was in Jane the Virgin. He was an American vandal, which that kind of helps for me. I love American vandal so much. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, but he's not a, you know, that's the most famous stuff.

But I'm telling you in this, he's really good. Like, I can't stop staring at his face and his expressions. and I'm telling you, it was shot on a relatively cheap budget. It was shot on a budget, you know? Like, there's a bunch of shots in this movie where they tell you something and they show you something else because they just couldn't, they couldn't put what they're telling you in front of the camera, right? Like, it's a budget movie.

Yeah. Yeah. Samantha's actually saying in chat, he was really good. He's really good. I don't know why. I can't tell you what. Look, I like the obscure. This sounds obscure.

So I'll have to check it out. All right, that's on the list, too. Los Angeles, like the city, everybody, except in movie form, but also taken literally. In movie form. Yeah, L.A. in movie form. Finally. So that's going to do it for today's recommendals. All of this is procured and put up on, what is it now, Brian?

Sorry. It is quicktms.l.i. Just like quicksack dutley, we now have quicktttm. All right. I will be linking that to the main side as well for anybody who finds everything there. haven't done it yet. But anyway, that'll be there. But also, Randy posts this stuff up on his Twitter account, Randy Deluxe, which will retweet as well.

Yeah. And check out the Reddit and the Discord. By the way, if you're listening to this, you know, it's good. Like, we have all kinds of cool channels in the Discord and people talking about this stuff. Yeah. We love those people. Keep those people in your mind, everyone. All right. Randy Jordan,

Randy Deluxe, aka the Randy we know and love. Have a fantastic week. And we'll see you this weekend. Bye. Oh, yeah. We should have mentioned. and this Saturday we're doing Mad Max Road of Thunder. Road of Thunder. Road Warrior, that is correct.

The Road Warrior. In fact, really the movie that started it all for me. The first movie I never saw until Film Sack, I think. Or something like that. But Road Warrior is awesome. We are doing that this weekend. So watch for that on Film Sack coming up sooner than you think. Okay.

I think that's it for what we got here today. Yeah. Oh, I think that's it. I think it's about it. We got one quick email from Tony and Buffalo. You sent this email to the morning stream at gmail.com and says, Hey, Scott and Brian Ibbotson. Happy New Year to you and all of your crazy neighbors.

It's mostly Brian, although I have a few. It's mostly me, yeah. I got COVID neighbors. I got two people in the ER. I got, or not ER, I see you now, and they're unvaxed. And I have two vaxed neighbors who got breakthroughs that are fine. They're just home dealing with it. So get faxed.

Interesting. Yeah. It's almost like. There's any sort of correlation you could draw there, but, uh, yeah. It's almost like on the whole, on the larger number of scale of things. I know there's going to be a few one-off weirdos, but for the most part, it seems like maybe it's working. It looks like a pattern. Yeah.

Gosh, dang it. Anyway, I'm behind on listening or on my listening lately, and I hope you're all well. And we've saved a seat for you next to the fire. Have you watched Oxygen on Netflix? It's a French film we watched last night. It was surprisingly good, wishing you the best of luck in 2022. Take care, Tony. I've not heard of oxygen of you.

I haven't either. No. know nothing about this. French movie is all we know. Let's see. Oxygen. Hold on a second here. We got an IMDB right ready here for me.

Here we go. 2021. It is a film. A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there. As she's running out of oxygen, she must rebuild her memory to find her way out of this nightmare. Oh, I kind of like the sound of this. I do too.

Let's see, a bunch of French people. Oh, well, I'm out. Yeah, you're... Oh, the French. Oh, forget it. Oh, this is... Yeah, people seem to like this. All right, I'll put this on the list.

So check that out. Oxygen is the name of the movie. Thank you very much. Tony from Buffalo, New York, for your recommendation. If you'd like to send emails in like Tony, you can do it at the morning stream at gmail.com. Support the show at patreon.com slash TMS. And for everything else, just go check out Frogpants.com. MS. Okay, Brian, I think that's it. We need to play a song, though. Do you have one, please?

I do. And this one's not a request unless you count Med the Pirate on Twitter who said, just call this a request so you can play it. Yesterday on Twitter, you said, you know, I feel like listening to some churches. Oh, I love Chiburches. They're so good. I love them. And I said, you know what you ought to do is listen to their new cover of Cry Little Sister, originally done by Gerard McMahon for the film The Lost Boys. this came out as part of a and I did have it in front of me at one point but I don't now but a brand new Netflix series with Kristen Ritter kind of a youth young adult kind of thing my habit right here while you're talking because I just listened to it as because you

recommended I listened to it and you were right it was awesome hold on it is called damn it see all hold on let me see what I got here Oh, Nightbooks. It's called. Night books. Thank you. Yes, night books. Some new thing on Netflix called Nightbooks.

I have no idea what it is, but it looks like it's geared towards the younger audience and might be like a goose bumps kind of thing. Anyway. Kind of a Harry Potter thing happening on the front. It's like a little Harry Potter kid. Yeah. It's weird. A little bit. Anyway, churches or chiverches recorded this for that show.

And it's so damn good. This is a cover. This was in the top 10, by the way, of the Coverville cover countdown. this year. So if you like this, maybe you owe it to yourself to go check out the last couple episodes of Coverville where you'll hear a lot more great stuff. Anyway, that's my shameless plug. Here is Cry Little Sister by Churches. Boys don't lie Immortal fear

That voice so clear Through broken walls That scream my ear Cry, little sister Come to your brother Unchained me sister Love is with your brother That shall not come

Blue masquerade, strangers look on when will they learn this loneliness Temptation heat beats like a drum Deep in your vein I will not lie Cry, your little sister Come, come to your breathway Don't show you're going

Untray me, sister What is with your brother? The shower can't. My shanry love, I can't forget. Why you were? Why you were mine I need you now Come, come to your brother.

Take me a sister Love shall Love is with your brother Oh Come your little sister Come Come

Come to your brother Oh Love show a Love Who is with your fronle This show a Network. Frogpants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. It's terrible time. It's terrible time. Terrible time. Terrible time.