The Morning Stream - TMS 2230: Popcorn Zombies

Episode Date: January 12, 2022

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The natural taste of squirtfruit gives you a great taste without the calories. This is the morning stream. The hell you say. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, January 12th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott.

Hi, Brian. Well done. Good catch. I have to really push that extra two out or else I'm screwing it up. That's how it works. Look, I love that theme. Okay. Don't get me wrong.

I love that, that theme. And I love the way that our live chat room responds by typing in the letters TMS, T, T, T, T, T, T, T, T-T-M-S, et cetera. Can you work in the up, up, and away, in our beautiful balloon 70s version of it at some point? We did that yesterday. Did you miss it? Oh, did we really? And I missed it.

I think, look, we do all these shows. We do these shows every day, and it's easy for this stuff to bleed into each other. I completely forgot that you did not even catch that you played it yesterday. It's like, all right, okay. What about the, what about the Bo Schwartz's guitar, heavy guitar version? Now, that one we have not. We haven't played that in ages. So you're right on that one.

It's been a very long time. That's what I meant. Hey, Brian, we'll fix it in post. Of course, I remember that we did the 70s version yesterday. I was talking about the Bo Schwarz version. Yeah, yeah. We're just going to fix it in post. Don't worry.

Everything you said just now, it'll sound like you meant that one. And no one will be the wiser. It'll be fine. Yeah. Not really. I don't edit. Hey, we're back, everybody. Welcome to Wednesday's edition of the show.

Brian and I are both coming off of very little sleep for some reason. You had an excuse. You had windy stuff hitting the house. Yeah. In my case, I just couldn't. sleep. I don't know what my deal was, but I'll tell you this. Maybe this is the problem. I didn't start Loki this week. I didn't

start Parasite this week. But somehow I fit in two watchings of Mad Max Fury Road. One of them was in the middle of the night because I couldn't sleep one of those other nights, so I watched it like at two or something. So one of them was right after we watched Road Warrior. So that was the first one. And the second one was middle of the night. I couldn't sleep. So it wasn't like

prime time viewing or anything but yeah you know i just loved me some fury road so i watched i also found some new stuff that i hadn't seen in my 30 or so viewings i couldn't believe it you pointed that out yeah that's crazy there's a couple others i'll mention a different time but there's that and then i got in the mood for blade runner so i watched blade runner 2049 yesterday and so you know uh i got a problem clearly uh my genre knows me and i know it and it wants all of my time and uh listen i will i will confess that I had a recent watching, rewatching of Armageddon, which is one of my favorites. One of my, one of my, I'll always, you know, I'll always watch it if I can find it. I love Armageddon.

It's great. Yeah. And after watching, don't look up. It felt like I needed to see the other Hollywood version, the, the fantasy version of what would happen if an asteroid were to come towards Earth. Man, that thing is it a divisive thing, isn't it? Nobody, I've never heard so much of a thing where people either really liked it or are angry at it and don't want anything to do with it. Yeah, I wonder, I don't get the hate.

I mean, it is, um, it feels like every other recent Adam McKay film, right? I mean, it feels like the big short and it feels like, uh, it feels like vice. Yeah. Vice. Very much. Plus there, I mean, here's my only, here's my theory. They're taking aim at ignorance. yeah and if you are currently in a whatever your station in life is if you've taken a

position of pretending things aren't real or whatever um maybe maybe that's offensive i don't know maybe i don't know i don't get it yeah it's definitely that um and you i think you even have a little bit of this right like your your take on the walking dead uh i don't want to think that people would band together in these horrible groups and kill each other for uh disson any water. Yeah. Yeah. To me, it feels like we would be, I've always had this theory, and I still, I still kind of stick to it. Call out the weird optimist deep down inside me, but they would figure out a way to work together first. There'd be pockets of humanity that we're actually making it work. There'd be crime. There'd be problems. There'd be issues, but it wouldn't be everybody's

going to just stab everybody, at least in my opinion. But, you know, I know you had that theory two years ago. How are you feeling about it now? I still feel, I still feel that way. I still feel like the majority it's still a majority of people i think was still right okay so you don't think we'd end up with uh half the people saying that uh zombies aren't real uh they go ahead and infect me so we get hurt immunity well they'll be outside the gates of whatever cool community we've built so i just don't think we're going to be roaming bands of stammers i love your optimism and i support it i never want that to change i want your optimism is the is the thing that i need to to balance out my my skepticism and my, uh, well, just frank, frank honesty and disappointment in

the world. Sure. I feel you. I just, you see things like, I know they're not the same, but you see like a hurricane or, uh, any natural disaster happen. Yeah. And you immediately see a whole bunch of people band together to help each other. And I mean like, I don't mean like the government steps in and helps. They made, they made it some level. Yeah, people, a guy out getting his truck and rush down to where the tornado hit and help dig somebody out. Like, I think that's our first and better instinct. It's when we get, it's when we go long tail on existing that we start infighting and hating each other for no reason and causing conflicts that shouldn't exist.

But when something like a zombie thing's happened, I just think it's not going to be quite, the Walking Dead is a work of fiction is what I'm saying. So is Mad Max Fury Road, which I love to death. You know I love it. I love it. On a scale of one to ten, it's like a 28. but I you know I also don't think that it gets to that level but I sure like exploring it it's fun and sure enough I mean between the two of us when the zombie outbreak eventually happens I'm going to to brave the zombies to go to the theater to watch Avengers 9 and you're going to stay at home and be safe so yeah I mean it's you know yeah it all works itself out in the end it's all be the zombie who's you know roaming around looking for brains and popcorn you're going to be safe at home sure but you'll really enjoy Avengers 9 phase 7 of the Avengers yes exactly phase 7 in which

modoc is now an Avenger can't wait it'll be so good um but also uh not to be under underspoken of here blade runner 2049 is really a modern classic people should be watching that movie it's so good i freaking love it i was gonna bring over my thor oh well oh you forgot your thor i left it over there i finished thor um odinson thor yeah odinson and uh i still need to do his base but the but the Thor himself is done and did some more shading, did some more fun stuff. Nice. Finally getting the hang of it, made his hair. I did a cool thing I tried for the first time on my wet palate, which sounds like a gross thing.

It does. I put a dollop of yellow and a dollop of light brown, and then I went, like I did, like, with my brush, kind of merged the two. So I made like a ribbon of color, a gradient going from dark brown to yellow. Oh, nice. And then I used that for his hair. So I started on the left side with the dark brown and went for the bottom and then about a quarter of the way in and did that for the next layer of his hair and then went to further further the way in.

So really created some color layering and shading and stuff like that using that thing. Oh, man, you took – I really wanted to talk about that. Were you going to talk about that tomorrow? No, I just took it to the bottom down here. We'll just shift it. Okay, good. All right. Yeah, we'll talk about the end of the shift. That's very cool.

Do you sing to yourself the, what do you call it? Oh, yeah, the immigrant son. Yeah, do you do that while you paint it? No? No, because the design of this one, it's not really based on the MCU Thor. It's more based on the Siege, Marvel Comics, Siege, Thor, when Asgard was a floating island above Oklahoma or something. I just remember that being like a Asgard was this little floating island. It was Negrand.

Oh, Negrant. Oh, Negrant. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Now I can picture it. That's very cool. And so that uniform or is current, the costume on this mini is based on that look, which is cool. Yeah, it's a cool look.

Nothing wrong with that look. There's a lot of better looks. I don't like classic Thor look. It kind of bugs me, so anything else is fine. I, there's parts of it I do like. There's parts of it I don't. I don't like the bright yellow boots with the black leather straps going all around them. Yeah, yeah.

those are bad. I was half tempted to just kind of base this purely on on old original 60s, 70s, ass Thor. Yeah. My, I've got a storm figure coming up, right? A storm mini figure. She's all primed and everything.

Here's the problem. It's based on the 90s cartoon storm. Oh. And for me, the classic Dave Cockram black, cape a weird little head dress symbol thing on her head

that's a kind of I kind of want to paint it I kind of want to paint it black I want to take a blue storm and I want to paint her black Yeah she looked like I don't know like silver surfer ran into her real hard and left her

some of it in itself I was never a fan of that all white dance club disco leather look of of, uh, uh, but it had those cool, I had those two cool X symbols that held her cape on. That's kind of cool.

Yeah, do you need that though? No, can you find a better way to attack your, your cave? It's like Cyclops in all of those pockets. Yeah. And by the way, the Cyclops figure I have has all those stupid pockets. Oh, you got to draw those there. You got to paint on those. It's like, that's where he puts his fidget cube and his, uh, wordpress pop socket

and his his mixtape. Yeah, he's got a lot of little pockets. He's got to put shit in there. He saw Batman and went, ooh, I want to be like that. And so he started taking it.

So I think Storm, when I get to Storm, she's going to be, there's a black version of that same 90s cartoon costume that I'll probably go with and I just won't go with the white. All right.

Well, I look forward to it and seeing what you do. Thanks. Hey, guess what, everyone? We're going to do Babble Royale, freaking Tad Pooley Feud Edition, and I got to get Dunaway in here to do it. So let me go ahead and do that. And then we're going to have some fun, see if you can win some prizes.

You guys know the phone number, 801-47-1-0462 in case you don't. You can call in live right now, participate yourselves. Let's give it a whirl. You may have started the music too soon because Dunaway hasn't picked up yet, so we're watching him do the rings of ringage. I feel good about him picking up at some point here. I do, too. I feel like he's going to pick up at some point. Yeah. The other day, we were trying to do play retro, and he was in the shower and just forgot what time it was.

Really? So maybe that's where he is today. I don't know. I was just talking to him as morning, so hopefully he answers. Oh, poor guy. We were just discussing something. Oh, there he is. Hi, Brian. Hello. There he is. Oh, hi. Hi. Hi. How are you feeling there, COVID survivor? Are you feeling all right? Oh, hi. Okay, so I'm in the part of the COVID that is the part that not everybody talks about, but the part that sucks the worst, in my opinion. Oh. Yeah.

Yeah, what's that? It's the part where you're like, you're just exhausted. It's like, why am I so tired? Are you sick now? Yeah. But I just can't. I can't move. Yeah, man.

That stuff, that's tough wrecked you. I was talking yesterday. I'm very glad this isn't you, but back in April of 2000. May or April of 2020 I have this neighbor who got it and he ended up

really getting hit hard by it his lungs are just like grated cheese and it's just so bad and so he's still on oxygen all this time later oh my God barely moved

is this whole thing and he just the other day found out that he's now developed out of nowhere and he can't control it and he just know why but he has a stutter he can't get rid of

oh that's the worst I know and it's so I know I came on a little dramatic at the start when I first started the call. Like, it's the worst part. I know, I know. No, there's always somebody worse. Yeah. And I don't, I don't mean to say, hey, buck up, bucko.

Someone's got it worse. That's not what I mean. But he's got this like this, you know, everyone calls it long COVID. But it's just stuff we haven't figured out yet. And there's like neurological stuff. And he regrets. We already have a immune, immune issues anyway with, with psoriasis, which a lot of people think is just a skin disease. but it's a lot more...

Yeah, it's a reaction that has to do with your immune response and stuff, right? Yeah, yeah. So my immune system has already jacked up all the time going, hey, what you're doing? It's like, let's try to heal you. And I'm like, I don't need to be healed. I got it.

Too bad. We're going to overheal your skin. Enjoy. Yeah, so he wishes he had gotten vaccinated now, that guy. At the time, he was like, whatever, I don't need it. And then now he really wishes he had. So anyway, I hope you're,

I hope you continue to do better. and that you're full of energy and vim and vigor and piss before you know. Gross. I'm not any of those things. Well, they'd say if you drink pee, you can overcome COVID now.

That's what they tell you in certain circles. Who is they? Who was they? And why would they say that? A giant idiot said that. Some idiot. Proof right here. Kevin Costner as the mariner

does not have COVID. Oh. Science? Yeah. You never saw him get it in the movie. I'm pretty sure the other guy I did with the eye patch. I think it was name all of a sudden. Dennis.

Hopper. There you go. I've ever seen COVID. You ever seen COVID? You ever see COVID? Why am I not able to connect to the Tapuli fuse? Sometimes it takes a while. It's taking a while today, yeah. Yeah, sometimes you have to let it sit and log in and sort of spins for a bit, and then you'll get in. There it goes.

Oh, it's in, good. All right, so we're going to, oh, I should take a call. Shit. Hold on. I haven't done that yet. Take a call shit. Here's one. Let's find out who called in and is now on the phone now. Hi, who's this? Mark, I'm in Dayton, Ohio. Well, hello, Mark, in Dayton, Ohio.

How are you? What's going on in Dayton? Anything hot and anything cool? No, just working from home. Ah, that's nice. That's pretty cool. Sweet. You read the Dayton Daily news, Mark?

Is that a... The Dayton Daily. Did you at one point read the Dayton Daily news? Yeah, at some point, papers were a thing, and you read the paper. They were a thing back then. Well, awesome. It's good to have you here. David, I have high hopes for you and your winning status today.

but Brian here will have to explain how this works. Did I give him the wrong name? You called him David for some reason. Oh, what's his name? It's okay. Mark. Mark, shit. Why did I say David?

Because it sounds like Dayton. Oh, okay. Sorry, Mark, David. Hey, we're allowed to have you here, Chuck. All right, go ahead, Brian, and explain the rules, will you? We'll do. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics.

And Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. And it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Mark, David, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Larry or Pete. If your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes Hive swap friend sim. Hive swap friend sim. No idea what it says.

Hiveswap I know of, but friend sim? I don't know what that is. And Black Future 88. Ooh. Which seems like the past to me, but maybe. you know. Maybe it's $2,000. Yeah, 2008. Maybe.

Anyway, those are the games you can win, courtesy of Wesley. And let's see how these guys do. They need a topic, and I will tell you that this topic, we had 580 answers, and over a fourth of them were pass or I don't know, which is by far, by far the largest number of passes and I don't know's. that we've ever had in this sort of thing. I still think it's weird they even bother if they don't know. Do you know what I mean?

Like why? They have to put something. Yeah. Once you've seen the question, you have to do something. Yeah, you don't get to see it without. Yeah, but you don't leave it blank. You could just close the browser window. You know what I mean?

Well, then you don't, then you don't answer anything. And I gave them a survey with like, you know, multiple questions. 20 questions. Oh, it's not just, okay. In my head, I'm like, oh, it's just one question. Yeah, no. Okay. Now I get it.

All right. Yeah, no, this is a lot of past, but that's okay. It's a lot of good answers. Can I pass too? Pass. Sure, sure. I almost included his answer, and it was like the number one answer. The number one answer would have been pass, by the way, if I did that.

Or I don't know. I just combined a ball into one. All right. Hands on your buzzards. Here you go. Name a movie that kills off its main character before. Scott. Before what happens?

I'm not going to finish the question. you can executive decision show me executive decision I made it that's great I made it number five

I'll repeat the question for Brian name a movie that kills off its main character before the third act oh wow um kills off the main character for the third act

or the third act that's assuming of what that it's a three-act arrangement. Right. I'm trying to think of what kind of weird gimmicky thing has happened. An executive decision was the one that jumped straight to mine. Sure, sure. Mine too.

Five seconds. Yeah, you're going to be, you can give me 10. They're going to matter. COVID head and then just is a really hard question. Hard question is not the answer. I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with Home Alone. Home Alone. Okay, good.

Thank you. Oh, another button. There you go. All right. Scott, you've got Mark on your team. The two of you are at control of the board. All right. Mark, anything, jump to your head?

Oh, man. It's maybe the hardest question. I think it is one of the hardest questions we've ever asked. And once you get through a couple of these, you'll be like, oh, yeah, okay. Now I get it. Exactly. Made all the more awkward by me calling somebody David. So there's that.

So what do you think? Is anything jumping to your head? Oh, man. I'm trying to think. Main character, right? Main character? I would say in, let's say, a main character before the third act. Okay, okay.

The question was asked to the Tadpool that kills off its main character, but I will say a main character before the third. All right, this is, I'm not going to use this one because there's no way it's on the list anyway. But as an example, as it's fresh in my mind. Yeah, let me guess. Mad Max Fury Road. Well, when Nucks dies toward the end, he dies before the film ends, but it's in Act 3. And that wouldn't count, right?

Because it's got to be before whatever this arbitrary Act 3 begins, right? In question world, it wouldn't count. That didn't stop one person from putting that. Okay. Oh, man, there's a hell of a moment. I've seen it twice this week. We've got to play the game. Name a movie that is not Mad Max Fury Rhone and see how long it takes Scott to come.

And this is, regardless of genre or any of that, and it's no TV, just movies. Because there's no third act, unless you count episodes, I guess. I will say, you know, I'll help you out here. There are no documentaries in this. Okay. No, it's too bad. It's too bad. Hold on.

let's do I don't know if this is going to count so many characters die or maybe they do or don't because it's all timed weird but I'm just going to say Pulp Fiction Oh that's a good one Is it?

Is it though? I don't know if it's good All right Show me Pulp Fiction No but that is a good answer That one Pulp Fiction was number 23 on the list

Oh wow The way, yeah, I mean, the way things are timed in that movie, there is, you see a character's death before, you know, before, or do you, let's see, you see a character's death before the time, the chronological time they die. Am I remembering it correctly? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Because he's pretty much, yeah, right, it's John Travolta. Troultz is killed on the toilet right, right away, right? Right. Before you see the diner, the continuation of the.

diner scene. Yeah, it's all mixed up on, that's why that's a screwy one, but yeah. Yeah, but I think it's a good answer. It is a good answer, and three people agree with you. Brian, you're, you've got control. I'm still trying to think of, you know, big movie deaths that were really impactful in, I think, the Lion King maybe, because, you know, he dies. Yeah.

Okay. I mean, yeah, so I mean, that's kind of like the inciting incident that kind of pushes stuff through, but that happens in a lot of movies. Anyway, go ahead. Sure, one could argue, one could argue, that the title character dies before Right, right All right

Show me the Lion King Oh number four Damn Geez, done away Simba becomes the Lion King I know but Mufrasa is Yeah yeah yeah there's

It's an important distinction sure And in that vein I want to say since that worked I'm going to go back to Star Wars A New Hope Because Oh that's good Old Ben Kenobi

Before the third half Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Show me Star Wars Episode 4, A New Hope. Oh, come on, Tampo. That was your... Number, literally, number 11. It was just didn't make the list. Obi-Kinobi?

Well, all right, then. Obie-Kadobie. So this gives me... That's a name I haven't understood in a long time. Um, all right. Let's think here, Mark, we got, we got an opportunity here to steal this. Oh, yeah, you do. And this is a stretch, but what about Robocop?

Oh. Oh, that's a good one. He doesn't die. He's dead. He gets messed up really bad, and then they bring him back. Yeah. I mean, yeah. He's not the same for sure.

He's barely, he's barely officer Murphy by the time he gets. back. Apper burpee. Let's go with, let's do it. Let's throw this thing out and see if a fish is there. Go. Sure, sure.

Show me. Upurper murpy. Damn it. Tied for 41st place. One person said Robo Cup, but I would totally, it totally fits. I would have allowed it.

Tied for 41st. That's a long way down. It is. I feel like we're just going to open this up suddenly. We're just going to figure it out here at a minute and it's going to be. Yeah, you will. It's going to flood. yeah maybe we'll see um oh i just thought of one all right go ahead brian oh what was it

nope not telling you i always say you know what go back this is a little hint that will just help you this is what just helped me go back in time on film sack movies it might help you right well that's what that's what i've been doing that's how i kind of but i don't know how i got where i did but um just thought of one see this feels right but it's not it um um um um uh oh Did Deadpool actually die? Did Ryan Reynolds actually, and would the tadpole think it? It's the second question. Did the tadpole think it?

Right. That's the more important of the two questions. Yeah. All right. No doubt. Is that what you're going to say? Yeah, is that your answer? I don't like it.

It doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel safe. Yeah, Deadpool. It's in the name. All right. Deadpool. It's in the name. Show me Deadpool.

Yeah, I didn't think so. Technically, it's Deadpool 2. You see him blow up. But Deadpool, Deadpool 2. Let's see. Also, tied for 41st place. Tied for 41st? That's amazing.

All right, you want to, Dave, here. Dave, shit. Mark, here's the one I thought of. Alien 3, Ripley dies in the third act. And she's more main character than you ever get. And I realize they brought her DNA back for four, but that doesn't count. She died in the end of three. So give me Alien 3.

Well, also Newton, what's his face is also dead at the very beginning. Oh, right. Yeah, that one's got tons of deaths. But if we're talking third act, oh, wait, before the third act they died? Before the third act. Once again, it's what the Tadpool thinks. Yeah. Right.

You know what? Let's stick with Alien 3, but it's those other characters. So I'd give just any alien movie. Yeah. That's how confident I am. Everything but the first one, pretty much. But yeah, I'm going to say Alien 3. Okay.

Alien 3, Brian. Okay. All right. I just was waiting for you to take your finger off of the checker so that I can jump you. Here we go. Show me Alien 3. Oh, come on. Strike 3.

What if you see dead people? Does that count? I'm going to go with the six cents. The six cents. There was two of them I thought about at the same time, and I'm going to try this one because Scott's out anyway. So yeah, I'm going to know with the six cents. Yeah.

That as well. All right. Show me the six cents. Oh. Yeah. Bruce Willis is dead in the first three minutes of the film. He's dead. He's already dead.

It dies before the opening credits roll. You just don't know it. I think we can say, spoiler alert. Yeah, spoiler if you have, 1990, a long time ago. I've got another one here. Patrick Swayze was dead just about the whole time in Ghost. Roadhouse. Just like the wind.

Sure. All right. Show me ghost. Number 10 answer. Oh, nailed it. That ensures a win, I believe. Yeah, it did. Actually, once he said six cents, it ensured the win. Actually, once I got three strikes, it insured it because he was, oh, no, no, no, because

we had the lower score. Yeah, we would have still had a chance. Damn it. Six cents. Six cents was his deal. All right. Brian, you can keep going with your COVID brain that seems to be better than mine. Well, I was just trying to think of every dead movie that I could think of. Every dead movie? Every dead movie. Like where the main character walks around And is a ghost the entire time kind of thing Yeah, yeah

Like ghost dad Can I do Bill Cosby? Ghost dad, no Yeah, ghost dad Can I do Bill? Is that what you're going to go with? You go with Ghost Dad? All right.

Go ahead and go. I've already won. I'm already one. Why not take a shot at the three point line? Yeah. Show me America's dad. Ghost Dad. Yeah.

Oh, man. I'm shocked by that. Shocked to tell you. Yeah. But that somebody actually actually did, again, tied for 41st place. Nice. Let's go through the rest of these. Probably the biggest

shocking main character death of all time occurred back in 1960 with Psycho. Oh, duh. Oh, the mom is dead the whole time, yeah. Oh, damn it. No, no, not the mom. Oh, Jim for Jason,

no. Vivian Lee. Vivian Lee's character dies like, you know, you think she's going to be the main character. They're right. Yeah, what's her boobies mom? What's her boobies? Can they give her name?

The one that showed her boobs a lot when she was in horror movies. Now she's great. Oh, Jamie Lee Curtis. Yeah, Jamie Lee Curtis's mom. Or Janet Lee, right, not Vivian Lee, Janet Leigh, I guess. There you go. Thank you. Someone in the chat getting after you?

Is that what's going on? A couple people in the chat are getting after me. How about get these damn sharks out of this damn submarine facility? Samuel O'Nexon, the DEC. That's a good one. was that before the third act? Yeah, it's like, because it's sudden,

it's like, oh my God, it's way early. That's one of those movies that's one of the first deaths in that thing. It gets worse. The bigger his career got, the worse that movie got in terms of him leaving early,

because when he made that movie, we didn't think of him as like main character type or even main secondary character type, but he earned that subsequently. So when you see it now, it's like, wait, you got rid of Sam Jackson in the first like 10 minutes in his movie?

It's like he's, what are you doing? Uh, uh, here's the one that, uh, I kind of throw a little question at, but, okay. Scream. Scream. I'm talking about the Drew Barrymore character that answers the phone at the beginning. Okay. Oh.

Yeah. Yeah. See, that all fits in when the executive decision, it's more like a, scream, psycho, all that. Yeah. Yeah. It felt like stochasting more than anything, but whatever. Yeah. Right.

Here's, um, no, she's not the main character, Dice Tomato. Dice Tomato is having a, um, uh, uh, a tantrum in the chat room. about who's the name character and who's not. Let me pull up chat. Once again, it doesn't matter is what the tadpool says. Yeah, it really doesn't. Right. Facts don't matter.

Exactly. This one is a good one. Godzilla 2014. Brian Cranston dies. Oh, yeah. That's right. I wouldn't really got in that one, though. I never think about that.

So really some of these answers are top-billed, one of the, you know, biggest names in your movie you're dying, not necessarily biggest characters in your movie you're dying. Yeah, I think that's probably a good way to put it. um this is great because scott you literally at one point said um anything but the first movie and in alien john hurt who you think is going to be around for a long time dies but back then john hurt wasn't like some huge name or anything he was just a again it's the tablo it doesn't matter we're huge names yeah you know he's like you're following his character and he's like oh okay well i guess he's you know he was shocking yeah he must be

important that's a good one That's a good one. And then finally, your number nine answer, the Godfather. Oh, wait. Who dies? Godfather. That was what I was trying to visualize. I know Sunny, maybe they're talking about Sunny.

Nobody explained, you know, sometimes they'd say Brian Cranston or John Hurd or Sam Jackson. But I think it's Sunny's death in. It could be. Maybe it's the horse. It could be the horse. That was a really, that was a really. That was a really good question, but it was just... It's hard, man.

Yeah, it's a hard one. I got to go with some of these other ones because they're great. So number 11 was Star Wars A New Hope. 12 was, and again, six people put this exact thing, or some variation of it. Anything with Sean Bean. Oh, wow. I thought about that, but I was thinking, what specifically? Right.

13 was Edge of Tomorrow, A.K. Live, Die, Repeat, in which, you know, Tom Cruise dies about 20 times, anytime. in the first act that movie is great movie lord of the rings fellowship of the ring contagion groundhog day weekend at bernies Bernie's Bernie dies that's a good one

American beauty is an interesting one three people said that I mean Kevin Spacey says that he's dead in the opening narration oh that's true but he dies near the end Thanos dies pretty quickly

in Avengers end game yeah that's true that's true Dylan and Ted both die at the beginning of bogus journey. Great. Let's see. Transformers the movie, I guess Optimus Prime dies really early on in that.

Oh, not the first one. The animated. Oh, is that true? 1980, 1986. Yeah, I haven't seen it. They have a giant fight at the end with him and Megatron. That can't be right. I don't know.

I haven't seen that, so I can't speak to that. I love that. Twelve monkeys, big hero six, knives out, pitch black. Saving Private Ryan, there's a good one. Oh, yeah. The Suicide Squad, we get like, you know, eight characters dying. Yeah.

The Suicide Squad. Yeah. Oh, by the way, I was going to tell you guys, so I'm watching Blade Runner 2049. And in that movie, of course, there's all these, you know, you got your famous actors or whatever. But in one scene, you got Princess Bride from Princess Bride standing there. You got, you know, your, you're, you're Gosling, whatever. He's there. But then standing next to him, the Dasmaltrow.

chain guy from everything, from Suicide Squad and everything else. Pocodot Man, he's there. And then next to him is the guy that was in charge of the biggest drug distribution thing on the wire for like four seasons. It was great. It was great seeing all those guys there doing stuff. That's cool. Don't we get Drax.

He got Drex there, too. Oh, yeah, Dax. He just wasn't in the same shot. But, yeah. He's good in that, by the way. He's really good. Dave Batista, like, legit good in that movie. It's really, it's short, but it's, you know what?

That would have counted because they kill him early. He's dead in like the first scene or something. True. Yeah, two scenes, yeah. That would have counted. Nobody said it surprisingly. Yeah, weird. Weird.

Sadly, this means that Mark, you did not win. Yeah, but we kept you on the line for a real long time. That's like a winning. We called you the wrong name. Kept you on the line. Yeah, this is great. It's been great, right? You loved every second of it.

Tell us how you feel about your win. It was a hard question. It was a hard question. yes well i really like yeah i liked having you on and uh look if you ever go down to the courthouse and change your name to to david i'd be honored that you did it uh we'll see you later by all right there goes him hey uh well done done away that was fun and uh COVID brain or not i think you did just fine considering how hard uh today's thing was uh this weekend we're all uh gonna sit down and watch a film sack movie, which escapes me. What are we watching? We're watching Batman Begins.

Oh, right. Batman Begins. Yeah. In our preparation for the Batman. Yep, that's where if you've only seen Dark Night, you'll wonder who this other lady is playing the girl that dies in Dark Night. You'd be like, wait a minute. How come there's a different actor playing this person? But that'll happen. Anyway, so that's this weekend. Christopher Nolan's 2005 epic beginning to his A trilogy of Batman movies, Batman Begins. That's right. It was A-Cee from Dawson's Creek or Pacey, what was her name in Dawson's Creek? I never saw an episode of Dawson's Creek, but I know there was a Pacea up there.

Probably, oh, man, I never did either. If you've seen the meme, you've seen all you need to know. Yeah. I know. The meme is the best. You've seen Vendrbeek? Yeah. And she was with, she was with, uh, she was with, uh, she was with, um, Cruz at his

most Scientology time. His most couch jumping, couch jumping phase. Yeah, yeah. And then she got out of there. And now she's wrecked for a lot. I don't know. I have no idea what she's doing. I'm sure she's fine.

She's probably fine. She's a mother. She's a great mom from all accounts. She's fine. Yeah. Anyway, that's this weekend on FilmSack. And then, of course, don't forget to, if you have not yet checked out Play Retro from Monday. We had a great time on there.

I love Play Retro. That was so much fun this past Monday talking about Fantasy Star for. Yeah. And this next week, we're going to be doing a Donkey Kong. If I can. instruct Scott on the nuances of emulation. Yeah, I'm having an emulation brain block, but I'll figure it out. But yeah, we're doing Donkey Kong 1, Junior, and 3.

And we're talking about not just those games in what they mean, but also like their legacy and what they led to. And it's going to be a big fun show. So do check it out. It's going to be great. Yeah, we're having a great time on there. It's Brian Dunaway, everybody. Stay out of trouble and go suck on a tur.

I shouldn't tell a guy who's dealing with COVID to go suck on a turd. No, no. How do you think he got COVID? It's not very nice at all. Hey, before we take a break, I wanted to mention that Carter Johnson, my progeny, all right, one of my kids. I think she's in the chat. I thought I saw her name. Anyway, she wants to let everybody know that there are new items in her store this week,

Animal Crossing Family Pack, Froggy Skater Girl stickers, and Squid Game Dallel Alligona. I don't know what that means because I've seen Squid Game. Those, I look to those keychains. I'm like, oh my God, I think I want to get one of those. Those are so cool. They're pretty rad. The Sugar Challenge, a sugar cookie challenge thing, Dalgona. Oh, I see. I don't know anything about this stuff. You need to watch that. Kind of the biggest, biggest Netflix thing of 2021.

Well, she's got a bunch of cool stuff in there, and it's worth checking out because it's all brand new this week. And there's a ton on sale. So go and get some at Miss Carter. Art. Sorry, Miss Carter. Dot Art. So that's M-I-S-C-A-R-T-E-R-A-R-T. Miss Carter Art. Ah, did it again. Miss Carter. Dot Art.

Gosh, dang it. And get something cool because they're very cool. And, um... Final Fantasy Star 4. Final Fantasy Star 4. Mark David.com. All right. That's it. We're going to take a break. When we come back, it'll be some time spent with our good pal tom for some tom's tech time and of course recommendals after that so stick

around uh brian we need to play a song though so do you have something let's do let's do that exact thing um this is a band from london and uh this is these guys are going to be your new favorite uh kalimba led psychedelic pop band i'm i'm going to call it right now as far as your colimba led psychedelic pop bands these will be at the top of your list when you're making your list okay um these guys are so good and they have a brand new album coming out, I'm sorry, brand new EP coming out this Friday, it's called New Works. Here is the first single from the album. Here are Tiger Cats, all one word, and the song The Reason.

You thought this was the way out, still waiting for a payout. What if you got to use it? You thought you lived for music and you can get it if you don't pursue it. So shut down what you'll let's have You won't forget this You won't forget but You won't give it hate And I want to celebrate that

You grab the camera and you you turn it back to you Got something you want to let me know This chair Let me down and let me go I'm going to be able to be. I thought this was the way out, still waiting, I'm still waiting, and yeah, we have music, it shows us that you didn't choose it, the world is real, and we're walking too late. As

God produced Jesus in the womb of a virgin. I believe the Antichrist will be produced in the womb of a harlot. Oh, I wish I'd said that. The morning stream. I'm still stuck on Pumba. All right, we're back. Brian, that song again was? That song is called The Reason by Tiger Cats from their brand new album, which is called New Works.

Very, very nice. All right. Guess what, guys? It's time to find out what's going on in the tech world. And there's only one way to do that. America's source. No, I'm sorry. The world's source of technological infotainment coming right up here if I play this first.

With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt, joins us in this post-C-E-S world to tell us what the heck is going on. Actually, Tom, how did CES go on the hole? Do you have like an overall on it, like a take? Like an over-under? Yeah. How did CES go on the hole? Yeah.

I don't know. In person, it went small. I did not go. But there are about 40,000 people did, which is down about 130,000 from what you might expect if there was no pandemic. So it was a ghost town. And I almost regret not going to Las Vegas just to see that, just to walk the show floor with no one on it. But overall, the announcements were, I think, pretty good. Now, if you compare this to 2019, 2018, it might feel a little light, but not a lot.

If you compare it to, say, 2007, 2008, even 2009, 2008, I guess, you know, during the financial crisis, might even be a little better. Yeah. We had a lot of smart home announcements, a lot of TV announcements. And CES has been trending the last couple of years to be a little less, like, crazy, cool, big, new, weird thing and more. you know, solid base hits, which I think might be emblematic of the tech industry as a whole sort of plateauing a bit, you know, the way it sort of did in the 90s. Like we're hitting a level where there are interesting things, but there's, we're not getting like the, the big dot com boom era stuff. We're not getting the smartphone era stuff. Right now we're kind of in a period of, of just

a lot of smart home stuff seem to be the most interesting stuff to me anyway. Yeah. So we're a little bit of the long tale of things. But that usually means that maybe not right away, but in coming years, that's when you start to see a spike in new technologies, new uses for those tags. You know, everybody thinks it'll be sort of metaverse stuff. That's the

hot talk right now, but maybe it won't be. It'll be some mixed reality headset thing would have the best chance of shaking things up is my guess. That will likely not come at CES. That's the other thing is companies over the past 10 years

have taken to announce in their best products themselves, going straight to the public instead of waiting for any kind of show, CES or otherwise. Yeah, that's a good point. Is there anything going on today? We were like, oh, man, Wednesday. Look at the tech bounty in front of me today.

Yeah, there's an interesting thing that didn't happen. You know, sometimes, as they say, it's the dogs that don't bark. In fact, it's really weird when a dog says, I'm going to bark on January 11th about the Exenos 2,200 chip. And then just doesn't have an event, doesn't tell anybody why, just leaves the entire tech journalism profession wondering what happened. So yeah, back earlier in the month, Samsung had posted that, you know, coming on January 11th, playtime is over.

The gaming marketplace is about to get serious. Stay tuned for the next Exenos with a new GPU born from RDNA2 on January 11th. In fact, that tweet was from December 30th. So not that long ago. And then January 11th came and went. And Samsung didn't say a peep about the exodus or anything else. Finally, at around 2 p.m. Korea time today. So very early in the morning, my time.

Yeah. Samsung said, we are planning to unveil the new application processor at the time of launching a new Samsung smartphone. Oh. There are no problems with the AP's production and performance. we'll be taking no further questions he did not that that's weird isn't that weird it's weird there's a lot of speculation a lot of folks saying their sources say this has been a rocky launch and has struggled to really like get this uh get this together

but they definitely their social team definitely didn't get the memo because geez louise if you're going to announce a date for a thing like you got to say something at least on that day. It wasn't just the social team. Samsung across the board was like, yep, January 11th, we're going to have an announcement. Boy, howdy. Look forward to it.

It wasn't like a social team gone rogue or somebody. You know, they created a video, Scott. There was a video that ended with Cia January 11th. That's a really, really odd thing. I don't know. Do we have any, I can't think of another time where this has happened with that level. Like, this is Samsung. It's not like some small podunk oops company.

It's a big giant international conglomerate. can't do this, or they can, I guess, but this seems crazy to me. Doesn't this affect things like, however they're, I don't know how their stock stuff works over there, but you would think it would like ding them for being weird, right? Maybe? Samsung is such a huge conglomerate that, you know, this kind of thing doesn't push the entire needle

because don't forget Samsung does white goods and financial services and so much more than just phones. But it's not good. It's not a good look. No matter what. Ars Technica passes along. This is from Ron Amadeo that Ice Universe saw on Sinawebo or said on Sinawebo that heat problems with the GPU, with AMD's GPU that goes with it, might be the issue.

And there's a lot of infighting in Samsung about who dropped the ball over it. That's just somebody with who's been pretty credible in the past saying what their sources are saying. So we don't know for sure if that's true or not. But something's going on, right? Like, there's no doubt about it. Something weird is happening when a company announces an event and then just doesn't even cancel it. Just doesn't show. Just doesn't tell anybody where to call or what link to click or anything.

Yeah, it's like ghosting your date you met online and you went to the place and they just never showed up. Yeah, it ghosted the world. It just didn't show up. Sam fished. Yeah, Sam fished. Sam fished. so so like uh here's here's the thing though like if they uh maybe they are so paranoid about exploding phones again because we mentioned the heat thing maybe that's yeah that that would be

enough for me to be real cautious over there there doesn't have to do with the battery though and that's so far in the past yeah that's a good point but what if that gp. just like melt and handsets the samsung lions were good and then bad and then good again yeah like it's yeah well also them claiming that your gaming's about to change forever. That's a little tall for a phone, you know. And I'm not saying it's not... That's typical for these, you know, come on in. We've got the best thing ever.

And then they show you something that's not the best thing ever. But, you know, because they've hyped it up, maybe you think it's better than it was. Yeah, that's true. I get that. Playtime is over. Yeah. But at least in most cases, you would actually have them get up and show you

why they think they have an awesome new GPU in their phone. But instead, they just ghost to this. I think that's really funny. And mobile gaming, you know, you saw it take two interactive, just bought Zinga. Like, mobile gaming's hot. Yeah. Apparently, too hot. They paid almost two Bethes for that company. Yeah.

Almost $15 million, was it, almost $14 million for that freaking thing. It just blew my mind. And now I know that, you know, a lot of us in the sort of core gaming market, we get into our little bubble and we forget just what mobile's footprint is. so when this sort of transaction happened you're like oh my gosh that's so much freaking money but still people are not leaving the house as much as they used to these days but if you were to leave the house

and walk around look at how many people are playing a game and what kind of device they're using to play it it ain't a console it's phone it's phones and so I'm not saying console gaming is dead or bad or anything when I say that I'm saying like mobile gaming is just vast

yeah because they have a phone no matter what it's about who made the best game it's about who makes the games that everyone is playing and even if you're monetizing it a small amount when you've got that large of a market it's huge well that's what surprised me though is on that point i don't know what zanga's making anymore and i just must be oblivious to it it doesn't matter they don't even need hits right now they just they just need to keep people are still playing farmville for good to say right like and and and i i think that's where you know i also couldn't tell you what zinga zinga's biggest game is right now but it is making money because it's in mobile and we don't talk we don't get buzzy about mobile games you know but it could just be solitaire I know a guy who's a game developer

for a smaller game company and they make bank just making solitaire type games because people love those kind of games and they play them. You don't see them get headlines on Polygon but they're out there you know it's like the silent majority of people are playing solitaire yeah I'm looking here on their side

the big push the main splash here is still Farmville too so Maybe that thing is just so big. I just didn't know. There's a sequel? Oh, yeah. There has been for a while. You can actually log into it with your Facebook account,

and it will move any progress you made on your original Farmville for Facebook, which is where that took off, and it'll move it over. Excellent. So I don't have to start over with the new farms. This time, it's fertile. But it looks like now you just play it on their... Electric Farmaloo. There you go.

Now you just play it on their site. You just go straight into your farmville. It's not a Facebook anymore. I mean, look at what the biggest game in the world right now is probably Wordle. Yeah. Yeah. It's not even an app. It's not even monitored by a guy named Josh Wardle.

Yeah. The best thing ever. It's not even monetized. So here's the problem. I feel really bad for that guy because a bunch of people like literally overnight made apps for the app stores and put them up and are making money hand over fist. They would have, but they all of them got pulled on the app store. Oh, did they get pulled? Yeah.

They all got pulled out. Oh, good. Because one guy in particular... Especially the one called Wordle. Yeah, that guy's a... He was a jerk. The 2999 annual pass game. Yeah, he was a jerk because he was bragging on Twitter.

Like, look what I did. And he's like making this huge deal. It really pissed me on. Yeah, super dick. But anyway... I feel like, like Wardle just did this as a favorite of the internet, right? He's like, because he's the guy did the big red button on Reddit. He just likes to do fun stuff.

Oh, really? I didn't realize that was him. Oh, that's the same guy. He's smart dude. Knows what he's doing. I love it as a phenomenon. I think it's really cool. The game doesn't do much for me, but I think it's crazy how this stuff can still happen on the web.

And I wish it happened to more. But, boy, there were people ready to jump on that and make their quick bucks. Yeah, like plant a flag and try and make money off of his deal. Yeah, that feels like NFTs a little bit. Anyway, hey, Tom, later on today. I'm just kidding. I'm not trying to kick up any NFT stank here on the show. We're going to meet again over there at the Daily Tech News show.

We're going to talk about this and other stories. It'll be great. There's plenty of content coming out of Tom these days, though. So you want to tell people what that is more to get it. Yeah, yeah. It's a, all I can think of are metaphors for vomiting. So I don't think that's appropriate. But yeah, a lot of good stuff.

And you can keep up with all of it on free Tom newsletter. You get a nice note for me every Friday, links to all the stuff that I do, books, podcasts, and everything. And a lot of nice folks respond to those newsletters. And just let me know. they just want to say, hey, which is great. And I'll respond back. So it's a fun way to just have a conversation, free tomnewsletter.com. Very nice. Tom Merritt, everybody.

He is Ace Detect on Twitter. We'll see you later this afternoon. Bye now. Bye. Well, there he goes. There he goes. Now we got to get Randy in it to win it. Boy, he must have a great recommendal because it's a long file.

It must be awesome. Gosh, really. Well, it's, you know, as lengths go, I mean, you know, we're going to be listening to 14 minutes of a show. But, you know, it's about width, not length, right? That's what I've always been told. Yeah, it's true. Let's get into it here. Look at him in space.

Oh, yeah. Look at this. Ooh, wait a minute. Randy using the new, hold on, I've got to pop this out. This is great. Using the new Discord background stuff. Nicely done, sir. Looking nice.

Oh, that doesn't sound right. Nope. Yeah, there's audio is all left up. But your microphone is not. All we heard was, whee-sh, yeah. Yeah, still nothing, don't hear anything.

Say something. Oh, there you go. Now you're good. Now you're good. That was weird. This background, this green screeny kind of, I know it's not a green screen, but in small version,

before I, before I zoomed you in, it looked like you were wearing a nun's habit. That's because of the... That's... Yeah, over at my place of business, I am trying to establish myself is the king of the Zoom backgrounds

and we're not doing this in Zoom so I have to go with what Discord is offering me but I'm going to level up my Discord game without giving them money somehow I don't know how but I'm going to figure it out. Can you not add your own backgrounds to Discord's new background? You can't you just have to give them money and so like I'm going to

but I'm still I'm going to figure this out I'm going to figure out like hijack one of their provided backgrounds or something yeah you can pay it's the turbo thing you pay the night or whatever it's called you pay 10 bucks a month and you can put bigger files up. You get access to your own. You're going to

unlock, you're going to open the package of the application file, find the resources, look for the graphic, and just replace it with the same name with your own. That's what you're going to do. That's hacker stuff, is what that is. Leit hacker stuff. Yeah. Can

you pull out your lead hacker skills? Can you do that? I can pull anything out that you want. Well, there's one thing we won't be pulling out. But we will be pulling out our recommendations today, our recommendals. It's going to be great because we're talking about streaming things we've all seen and we're going to recommend them here on the show. Sometimes we mehimental them, but usually

they're recommendals. We're going to start with Brian, as we always do. Brian, you've got two this week. Set me up for the first one here. What do you got? First one is a series. It's a season. Let's just call it the final season of a series. Oh, all right. Here we go. This is about the boat, right? Yeah, the part where you were driving, the part where you were driving. the other guy you yielded, the part where you rammed him anyway, the part where five people died because of you. All right, all right. I did everything you said on the boat, okay? It's true. I admit it. I was wrong. I was wrong. Just, please, please. You shot, my dear. And you almost killed me. I promise. I promise. I will never do anything like it again. I, I swear to you.

I promise the same thing, and look at me now. wait wait wait wait wait wait wait you don't understand it's not my fault it's not my fault okay my mom died when i was eight my dad he was never around he was always working i i had a i had a shitty childhood okay you're blaming this on bad parenting so i've written real that's quite a scene without the visual but uh i've heard a lot of good things about the new dexter so tell us how this is really good yeah Dexter New Blood. This is the tacked-on final season of a show whose final episode kind of left a lot of people, including me, wanting more and wanting a better resolution. We've now watched the final of the 10 episodes aired this last weekend, and I'm happy to say that I feel like they stuck the landing. There are a few people, like, when you search for Dexter New Blood on YouTube, aside from the umpte.

Dexter New Blood finale Explained, which once you see the ending, once you see the ending, it's like, you need somebody to explain that? I hate that stuff on YouTube. Freaking hate it. Yes. But then you also get,

why Dexter New Blood was a disappointing dumpster fire that was worse than the actual ending that they gave us in season eight and all that stuff. Boy, click bait much. Anyway, this one, the role of Dexter's dad that you had all through the original series

as kind of his grounding or his what he called that? The devil on the shoulder, the angel on the other shoulder, his conscience. Yeah, James Remar was the... James Remar was his conscience for the whole thing. But in this season, you get Deborah Morgan, his sister, Jennifer Carpenter,

who Michael Seahull was married to for like 18 minutes. Are they not still together? I guess they're not together. I don't think they're still together now. But you get her as a as his conscious throughout this. And she's a lot meaner of a conscience than James Riemar was, which is great. But it's all about how, you know, he went up to Alaska, became a lumberjack, and then found his way over to Iron Lake, New York, upstate New York, to become a clerk at a little mom-and-pop art.

eye kind of shop with guns and knives and things like that. And he's got his dark passenger at bay. He's got things kind of calm down. He's been there for a few years. He's even hooked up with the local police chief. But things start

happening that kind of unleash his true Dexter nature. And I thought it was great. Probably the best part of this final season is the addition of Clancy Brown. who eats like choose up every scene he's in he is like you can't stop watching i love him

yeah i do scott was going to say that he's one of scott's like list of 20 character actors that he scott thinks no one has ever heard of but like are like super good i love it well i don't think anyone no one's ever heard of him but i'll just i'll see anything he's in it just doesn't matter to me it could be bad and i'll watch sponge bob just because it's a heavy mr crabs episode like i just think he's awesome and of course and of course he was the uh he was the the heavy in Shawshank Redemption, right? Yeah. Shawshank dude. He was in, of course,

no one lives forever. What's that? What's the movie? Highlander. Highlander. He was the Kyrgyn. Yeah, it was the Kyrgyn. He's amazing.

I love Clancy Brown. So in this one, oddly enough, he owns a diner that sells crab, crab food. Shut up, really? Yeah, but very, very secondary. Like, he happens to own a lot of things. And one of the things he owns is a diner,

and they just happen to have, I'm sure, crab on the menu. That's pretty great, though. That's great. But anyway, it's never really brought, you know, announced, but it feels like it's pretty them funny. Anyway, this takes place 10 years after the final series or the series finale that wasn't and gives people a chance to get a better ending. I like the ending of this one.

I don't care what YouTube click, smash that, subscribe. cry button dude clickbait says but I really do like this so check this out he was married to Amy Spanger from 2002 to 2007 then he got with Jennifer Carpenter from 2008 into 2011 divorced oh they let they live

they lasted longer than I thought they did yeah a little longer like a year or something and then more now he's go he's with somebody oh they got married in 2016 Morgan McGregor I think it's funny he named a Morgan don't you think? No kidding yeah

that's really funny or he married a Morgan Morgan McGregor Guys, I don't think I would marry Dexter. I think that that's like, that seems like a stretch. Not a good idea. A little bit. But you know what? It's interesting to me, though, that if he was married to Carpenter until 2011,

is it weird working with your ex on the show revival? You know what I mean? It's got to be. Yeah, it's got to be weird. That was at the, that was, um, no, that was still during. So if they divorced in 2011, there were still two years of the original Dexter run. Oh, yeah. together working together. That's a good point.

That's probably used to it then. That was probably a lot worse than those two years. I wonder if he, well, the lesson is don't make out with your sister. That's the lesson. Yeah. Give me the final, let me have the final big question to answer. Do you want, do you see, could you imagine a Dexter New Blood 2? I could.

Yeah. Oh, you think they got some, because this did pretty well, ratings-wise, is my understanding. So they could do some more. This did pretty well. I could see. I could see something continuing after this. This is on Showtime, so your best bet is to sign up for a free Showtime account for seven days. Watch all of this and then do it.

Or if you have Apple, you can get a combo Paramount Plus and Showtime deal for whatever you're probably already paying for Paramount Plus. So like $7 a month gets you the combo of Showtime. And then you can watch Yellow Jackets. You can watch. Star Trek Discovery. What a list. Man, you're really. Yeah, you're selling us.

Star Trek prodigies. Star Trek lower decks. Uh-huh. Maybe a Love Island or something. I don't know. You can catch that Picard you might have missed. Oh, Picard. There you go.

Yeah. Anyway. Wait, isn't there, there's a new special forces thing that everyone's raving about. Oh, really? Seal Team something. Not Seal Team 6. but it's like SEAL Team TV show. Yeah, here it is.

It's called SEAL Team. And apparently this is like really good. Like people are like, whoa, this is like Homeland good. Unless you didn't like HomeLet. Or what's it on? That's something looking for her. It's on one of the things you said. Oh, CBS would be on that Paramount thing.

It'd be on Paramount Plus, yeah. Yeah. And I just looked at it up. Paramount has some great movies too. They've got Amistad, Hugo, Master and Commander, Interstellar, Election. Like they're, you know, they're a movie studio, right? Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, and I'm hearing, and one person said it's not good.

Matuba says Discovery is kind of crap this season. I've heard that, I've heard the opposite. I've heard that Star Trek Discovery have finally found its legs of the season and is now back on the main storyline, start and end per episode, kind of like TNG. Oh, really? Discovery was a real hard start. Like, that first season was Game of Thrones in space, and they just really, like, the writers were trying so too. hard. Yeah. I like, I like what's his name a lot.

Joe Jones? Yeah, his character saves the whole thing for me. I love the reason. I love that. We're scholars of what Scott Johnson likes. I love that. I also know that he likes the actor that played Malarca, Captain Malorca and

yeah. All the guy, all the, the people that play characters are the names I can't remember. Harry Potter's enemy's dad. Hold on. We know him. His name is, His name is Jason Isaacs. Jason Isaacs, yeah, exactly. All right.

All right, anyway, Dexter Newblood, go sign up for the free showtime thing. Watch it. You get seven days, I think. All right, clip number two. What do you got here? Clip number two, limited series on HBO Max. And there's at least one voice in here. You will have no problem recognizing.

All right, here we go. It's just, I need you to promise me something, Tabitha. You see, I've done something rather silly And it might sound bad Might sound very bad even But it's not what it seems Not at all It's not what it seems

And just needs a little bit of clearing up That's all So that's why I need you to promise me I need you to promise me That you won't tell the police There you go Can you promise me that, Tabitha? Because I can't, I can't let Susan down.

Do you understand? She's very fragile. Finally, the VM Varga spin-off I've been waiting for her. Okay. I just want, before you even say it, I just want to ask for, please, heavy, heavy, no spoilers. I am right about to watch this this weekend. I've been really looking forward to this, so please. I won't give any spoilers at all.

You know, I don't. Brian's not a spoiler guy. That's not a thing that I do, Randy. Yeah, you only worry when I say things like, all right, this isn't a spoiler, but, and then I'll screw up. So don't listen to me, but I haven't seen this yet either. So tell us about it. Yeah, this is a great quick watch to four episodes an hour long each,

HBO Max. It's called Landscapers. And you're here in David. David Thuleus right there. Lupin, V.M. Vargas, the shame wizard. I mean, that's a voice that, you know, that'll punch you in your dreams. He never, he never is bad.

He's good and everything. He's just amazing. He's never bad. He's always good. The other person, this stars is Olivia Coleman, and I played so much Olivia Coleman last week for her movie that I decided to focus on David Thuleus for this one. But they play a couple.

Christopher and Susan Edwards. And this is based on a true story. This is based on this murder of Susan's parents that took place in Mansfield in the UK and how things came to be from them. How these two got accused of those murders. And for people who are being accused of these murders, it's amazing. how daft and clueless these two can be. For example, you heard that audio clip right there, which is in the trailer of David Thuleas saying that he's done something rather silly

and don't call the police. That's in the first 10 minutes of the show, Rantley. So you're still safe. You're still good. Okay, okay. That's all I'll say. But this is, here's what's really cool about this. There is a lot of dark comedy in this,

which surprised me for the subject matter that it is. It doesn't surprise me when you see, you know, Olivia Coleman's involved, and even to some degree, shame wizard David Thulis is involved. But there's a little bit of dark comedy, and there's a lot of fourth wall breaking. I will say there's even a point where they literally break the fourth wall. And it's great. It's amazing. It's a lot of it is told in flashback,

and even some of it is told in, in Spaghetti Western. So, Scott, you'll enjoy that as well. Oh, yeah. You know, I like the spaghetti westerns. Did you guys know? I didn't know this, but David Thuleau-Lis played Lord Darius Crowley in World of Warcraft Cataclyism.

I did not know. I knew this. I did not know that. That's very cool. All right. That seems like a, that's one that's been on my radar. So I'm excited to see it. Yeah, this is really good.

And if you're not a fan of like the, what was the Kate Winslet recent crime drama thing oh it's Mayor of East Town Mayor of East Town If you're not a fan of that stuff You probably would still like this Because there's a little bit of a twist of comedy to it

And it's not as dark and heinous as things like Marevistown and stuff like Marevistown I love Marevistown though was so good Yeah so good So good All right. Well, there you go. One really cool thing about this.

Usually in movies or TV shows that are based on real events, at the end of the movie while you're watching the credits, they show the real people that the actors are playing. In this one, you get it during the end credits of every episode, but it only goes so far as what's been uncovered in that episode, which is great. It's such a cool thing, because this mystery took a long time to solve. So anyway, it's really, really good. Escapers, HBO Max. Go watch it. There you go. All right, here is my clip. This is for a series on HBO Max, another limited series. So one and done kind of deal. The finale airs tomorrow, but I'm going to give you my full as much take as I can before I get the finale now. I'll say before I start this, it is easily my favorite thing I've seen in the last couple years on TV. I love this. So anyway, here it is. Uh, hey, excuse me. Is this because of that thing? Uh, should I go somewhere?

Uh, should I go somewhere? You should go home. this strange and awful time was the happiest of my life all right i kept it nice and vague i want people to see this and not have any idea of what they're maybe getting into except um some broad themes which i'll get into in a second but this is station 11 on hbo max and it's based on a best-selling book from 2015 you're going to hear me say the next thing and be oh i'm i can't do that right now and i understand But the entirety of that story is based on a big mega super flu that ended up taking out 9,000 people for every one or 900 people for every 1,000 people. Wow.

So it's a, you know, pretty lopsided in favor of the virus kind of scenario. But it's, uh, it, it's, uh, it, it's flu leftovers is what you're saying. Kind of, except this move or this show is not at all what you might think it is. It, it's important. That background's important. to know what happened to the world, but it doesn't actually matter. Once, it does matter, but once it happens, it's the lives and the story of the lives that are told after that are just absolutely fascinating. And there's, there's, there's, it's way, this is not walking dead or a movie,

you know, that's apocalyptic in the sense that everything's bad and now we're going to kill each other. And it's, it doesn't go those places. Instead, it tells these really interesting stories of these various characters, and that does it over a 20-year period, but it jumps around. And normally, I don't like jumping around timelines, not my favorite thing in TV shows or movies or anything, but this is so unique to the degree that they will sometimes do a recap from the previous week's episode. And the recap has stuff in it where you're like, I don't remember that last week. How come that's in there?

And they do it on purpose. They put stuff in there you haven't seen yet. and then that episode you might see it, or even two episodes later, you'll see the thing that the recap showed two weeks ago. Oh, weird. And it's not confusing. It adds to the experience in a way that is, I'm just never seen anything like this. Like, I don't even know how you get away with it.

It's crazy that stuff. But even if you skip those recaps, and it's okay if you do, you'll still get everything. But them doing that really messes with your head. You're like, now, wait a minute, is she there already? And like, ran, like these kind of weird questions in your head. it's got that girl oh i don't have the imdb up and i forgot her name mackenzie phillips phillips no mackenzie no brandy did what i did uh mackenzie davis davis she was yorky in the black mirror episode san junipero yes she is incredible also halton

catch fire and also uh blade runner 2049 anyway she's in all sorts of things she's great she's amazing she is a high point of this thing she plays the adult sort of young adult version of this character, Kirsten, and the girl who plays her younger self, like 20 years previous, is played by this girl named Matilda Lawler as young Kirsten, that girl is a freaking revelation in acting. She's really, really good. And you know how some stuff just hinges on a child's acting? Like, if you're going to make me want to really not be taken out of your show, your movie, or whatever, if the kid actors are on point, or they're directed on point, or whatever, It makes such a huge difference.

This kid, freaking amazing. She's so good. This has, this has Hamesh Patel, who we mentioned a couple weeks ago and don't look up, right? Yeah,

he's in that. Smaller role in that, but he's definitely in that. He plays a big role here. His arc is incredible. Lori Petty's in this. Very interesting character for Lori Petty. Enrico Kalatano, Tony,

the guy that plays the, We are so happy to have. of you that alien guy he's also a Veronica Mars dad he's in this very small role but one of the most interesting things I've ever seen him do um freaking Tobias is in this right and it's a dead it's a dead serious role and it's great like like it's almost like he finally got around doing something like his old pal from the the the man oh yeah mart david mr show with uh mr show yeah like he finally got to do something serious like his old buddy there and he's really really good in this there's this running thing about shakespeare that affects everything the way the story is told has

shakespearean elements to it they are willing to take the time to be slow and quiet about these characters and it's not just your tip this is not your typical end of world scenario it's something different and i don't even really know how to quantify it but i love it love it and you had me sold at Lori Petty, man. I just hope that she gets some, you know, action sequences. She is, she is the lost action star of our lifetimes, in my opinion. Lori Petty is the action star that didn't happen. That didn't get to you.

Just Tank Girl. Just Tank Girl's about it. She's extremely good in this. It's a very different kind of thing for her, though. It's not what you expect. In fact, when you first see her, you're not even sure you're looking at her. She's made up to be very different looking in this. Oh, man.

I can't. Oh, yeah. That's right. You have both David Cross and Enrico Colitone in there. Vacuum tubes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's true. It would be perfect. That's true. I don't know that they ever share a scene, but that's a funny connection. It is just an amazing. It's amazing. I now I kind of want to go read the book and find out what all the fuss was about about the book because that was a big deal back in 2015 when it was published. But this is really something. I will say that it's best. absolutely it's best bingeed. I could see why some people would see that first episode and not quite know what the heck we're doing. If you see them back to back though, which is how I did it, it's just a beautiful symphony of TV. It's just really well done. I love it. This is a thing now. A new new miniseries and limited series and so on. They have a choice to make on the script, right? Does do we put it all in the first episode to hook you? Or do we make the first episode a garbage? of things to figure out and and that will attach to later things like that and and they all go one way or another and it's when that first episode is like do I am I being entertained right now? Those are often the best right. Oh yeah. Because they they have they have a lot to to give later. Oh yeah. Big time. And they the way they tell story in this is a lot of oh, here's a thing. And then they'll show me 20 years previous. You're like, oh, that's why that's it makes things more meaningful. It's not done like prequels and how people's lives cross. They cross in ways that you

don't, are unexpected, but are believable. It's just awesome, you guys. I freaking, freaking loved it. And I know, I know as I say this, there are going to be some people who watch it and go, oh, I don't know if it's for me. I get it. But for me and those like me, this is a gift. This is one of my favorite things I've ever seen. I just absolutely loved it. I can't wait for either of you to see it, so we can talk about it more. Nice. All right. That's on HBO Max, by the way.

Station 11. It's spelled out with the word 11. We've been waiting to binge it as soon as the last episode dropped. Oh, the other actor I wanted to mention was Danielle Dredd or sorry, Deadweiler, I think is her name. She plays this a Miranda Carroll person, a very pivotal character in it. Never heard of her before. Bleu my mind. She's amazing in this.

Oh, and you know the guy, you know the guy that hangs around in Veep, who's just, so annoying um everyone hates him uh he's he works for the he works for the president's office and he always has to come over there and go hey you guys what's going on big tall goofy dude oh yeah yeah yeah yeah he can think of his name right not Jonah but the other no it is Jonah it is Jonah okay Jonah all right the guy that plays Jonah is in a couple episodes I changed my entire view of what Jonah can do he's so good really okay oh you guys will love it. I freaking love it. And by the way, your Danielle Deadweiler was in The Harder They Fall. Oh, okay. I like her. How do you describe that like in three words without calling it the

Black Western? I don't know. I love that movie. That movie was great. Yeah, it was so good. And Danielle Deadweiler, she's not a main character, but she's like a top supporting character. She's really. Well, in this, she just just blew my mind. It's great. So watch it. I'll quit fawning over it. But I really liked it. All right. Randy, let's get to you. And you set up for your clip. So this is an action comedy soap opera. And it's something everyone's seen.

But when we say everyone, like we're only talking about 10% of people who watch TV and movies, right? Like if a show catches 10%, that's a huge hit, right? And that's why we do recommendals. No matter how popular

something seems, there's millions of people that are on the fence. And those people they wait and they're waiting and they're willing to wait for years to be convinced that something's worth their time. And when the something is an ongoing TV series, you know, additional seasons come along, right? So then it becomes even more difficult for the fed sitters, right? Because now it's a bigger commitment. So. And you thought his clip was long, Scott. It is. It is long. All right, here goes. I'm a play it. I just want to say, what you're about to hear is a clip from the latest season of this action comedy soap opera. And what's happening here is there's a high school debate

going on in a gym, and a couple of high schoolers are sitting in the bleachers, and an adult, they know, sneaks in to talk to them while the debate carries on. All right, here we go. Capital punishment is a legal penalty of the U.S. state of California. As of March 2019, further executions are halted by an official moratorium ordered by government officials. Sensor, what are you doing you? I thought debate was for nerds.

It is, which is why we're ditching it. You're right. I'm not giving up on the girls' competition. They got outside the box. Take a look Okay Sensei You ever see the movie

Ladybugs? I had to sit through it One night with the baby It's a long story Anyway, this coach The guy gets no respect He's got this all-girls soccer team That totally sucks

So he gets his own stepson To dress up like a chick And they start winning So you want me to dress up like a girl? What? No, I need you to win the boys' competition They get a penis breath He's not the best fighter

But I think he stands a decent shot Against the Checks What do you think? I'm thinking a lot of things I don't know where to start My point is completely full of crap His evidence is garbage His arguments don't make a lick of sense

And I was bored to death Which is ironic Considering we're debating The death penalty You're not going to deduct points for lack of decorum Screw decorum Want to know when I really think of the death penalty I don't see my book

Choke on it I see my time that's the girl I told you about and she loves extracurricular I just found the most badass girl in the valley no idea what this is oh really wow okay this is this is cobra Kai

and I need you to watch I still haven't watched any of it my wife watched the first season and this is the thing like this is what I'm talking about There, it's, it's now, it's now completed its fourth season on, on Netflix. And by the way, Netflix is a flat out a TV studio. Like, Netflix is, is the biggest TV network around, right? Like, they're, they're making more TV like this than, than any of the traditional three channels, right? Yeah. So, like, this is, you know, this is a, this is a ridiculous, it's a farce of a thing. But I think that a lot of people who haven't seen it yet aren't going for it because, uh, they think that it's just, um, one of those one of those like extra unnecessary things that that people have been doing lately like a passion project's like that those recent seasons of arrested development or like you know you know what i mean like where you you watch that and you go oh it's just it didn't recapture the original i i'm telling you cobra kai is a whole other thing this is not at all a an attempt to just recapture the karate kid you know it's it's it's a soap opera for starters and you got it you got to give uh you got you're kind of like check your brain on that right like it's ridiculous the way the characters get along with each other

or don't the way it has rules like soap operas do in this particular one in cobra kai one of the rules of the show is that every single episode has to have a premier fight between two of the main characters and and there's a point like in you're in the fourth season now and you're like i don't know how they can shoehorn a fight into every episode i like you'll start an episode going who's going to fight this time? Jesus, but they always figure it out and it's always fun. That's the main thing here. It's a fun show.

Well, I need to get around to it. I just haven't done it. It does so many different things that you'd expect with the characters and it kind of makes Johnny Lawrence a little endearing a little bit. Yeah, somehow they figured out a way to do that, which is crazy. He's by far the most interesting thing about Cobra Kai, right? Because he is sort of

of the main character. It sets out to make Johnny Lawrence and Daniel Leruso the, you know, the main characters who can't get along. They can try to get along, but they really actually, I can't ever get along. And so you might think that it's, oh, it's just a story about middle-aged Daniel Rousseau and he has kids now and his business and so on, but it's not. It's actually, I would actually say he's kind of second fiddle to Johnny Lawrence as character development. Do you think it turned out that way over time, or do you think that was their intent in the very beginning is to make him more of the focus and well remember it's called cobra kai yeah and uh that's something that you have to keep reminding yourself in this show like because every now and then you're

like you might think what's going to happen next it's called cobra kai they're going to keep on keeping cobra kai around is what's going to happen um and and you know so like i say it's the fourth season it's um good like that's the main thing i want to get out there like everybody i've talked to who watched the show has just been like four seasons my favorite they love how it ends they even though the end of the four season is uh troubling to say the least you know like it just it's like it's a show that's firing on all cylinders for what it is that's really really clear this is not high drama this is absolutely cheesy soap opera crap i hear that they brought the third dude back the third movie bad tell yeah ponytail tary silver that's great

Basically, everyone who survived the movies is going to come into this series. I'm just, I'm expecting Hillary Swank any minute. Yeah, I was surprised. I'm surprised we haven't seen her yet. Yeah, why not? She'll probably be down. The show's a hit, so why wouldn't she pop her head in there? That'd be fine.

Let's get all this cannon together in one place. And by the way, the guy who plays Terry Silver, you might remember him from, you know, karate kid three as not a good actor. And he wasn't. that was you know 20 35 years ago he wasn't a good actor he me he like karate kid three is a is a piece of crap right yeah but that guy has become a very good actor for this you know for what he's called on to do here like he's so much better than he used to be as an actor he kind of he kind of pushes people around with his acting prowess it's it's really cool did he

he gotten a teen witch though right uh the the love interest in uh karate kid three that goes down to get the the bonzai tree from the crashing waves with Danielson. Who was that? I know the actress from Teen Witch, but I can't remember. Robin, Robin lively. I see that was. Robin lively.

That's exactly who does. Got to get her back, dude. That'd be cool. And remember in this series, this story is about a Daniela Rousseau who is married and has kids. And so there's not really much room for him to even revisit old love interests, right? Yeah. Whereas Johnny Lawrence, you know, this is a guy who,

You know, he's single. He's single and ready to mingle. Yeah. Yeah. The guy, the dude who played Terry, Ian Griffith, Thomas Ian Griffith? Thomas Ian Griffith. He looks like somebody's, I don't know, agent in his IMDB photo. Did he, did he don't know the ponytail in this?

Did he pull, get that going? Yes, but, but he looks so much better now. Yeah. I think he looks great. Yeah. He looks like a, I don't know, a dude I'd trust with my financial reports. I don't know, something about him. Uh, is that a, uh, I don't know, like an accountant type guy. There's like, here, take my papers. I got the Penske file in there. You take care of it. And one more thing I just want to say for people like Scott who haven't watched any of it yet. Yeah. This for the first season of COBRA Kai was not recommended. And it was, it was on a shoestring budget. It's a passion project that was really not like it's nothing like the subsequent seasons where Netflix gets a hold of it and pour some money into it. So watch. Watch.

the first season just as a perfunctory path to getting to the rest of the series. Oh, right. It was a YouTube thing. I forgot they did that. Totally space that. Yeah. It's it it's got all the same actors, which is really a miracle that they they managed for that first season to get the actors that they would stick with. Right. But anyway, it's and and by the way, speaking of that in the fourth season, we're now at a point where all of the teenagers are in their 20s, late 20s, some of the actors. and so in the first season they're making they're making a dedicated effort to introduce new younger actors as main characters and that's going really well you know so like we we we're now going to have the ability in season five in the future to graduate some of these kids from high school and not have them be our you know our main young adult characters yeah it's consistent with the movies though like back in the day everybody looked 25 and they were all playing 16, but what are you going to do? All right. Well, these recommendals today, like always, will be coagulated and

put up on, uh, it was a quicktms.coms.com. They're already up there. They're up there now. Right now. Cool. Randy also post them on his Twitter account over there at Randy Deluxe. We put them on Facebook. We put them everywhere. So if you didn't catch up. Yeah. Yeah. You can't miss them now. That's right. Randy, anything else going on? You want to mention. No, man. I'm looking forward to this Batman begins thing because I don't, I don't know, guys. I don't know.

You don't have it holds up. You don't know. Yeah. I don't know. I saw one time in movie theater 20 years ago. I have no idea. I don't know either. It's been a bit.

So we'll get together. Julian Murphy, don't we? Yeah. We do. Yeah. And what's his name, a Japanese actor? No. Oh.

Liam Neeson. Nope. I can't think he was Ken Watanabe. Ken Watanabe. Oh, he's like, you know, one of, one of Christopher Nolan's favorite. I'm shocked Nolan never made a movie where Watanabe was the lead. The lead, yeah, that would be cool. I loved him in Inception, but he needs to be a bigger, he needs a bigger role.

Yeah, so that'll be this weekend, FilmSack.com for details. Randy Jordan, AKA Randy Deluxe, have a great day. We'll see you later, bye. All right. Always leave him, you know, not able to answer. Yeah, that's my, exactly. It's well done. It's my goal, and I think I'm pretty good at it, to be honest.

All right, here's a, whoops, sorry, I didn't mean to play that. I was on the wrong tab. Hey, look at we got here at the end of the show. It's a couple of quick things. We got a bonus mashup. Brian, do you ever wonder what the origin of the indie in the middle was? Have you ever wondered? No, I remember that we started doing it,

but I don't remember even why we called it India in the middle. I remember we just decided not to have two covers per episode or a cover and a mashup. We started doing an indie song. Well, good news. Jamie has been paying attention and tracking this sort of thing, and he knows the origins, prepared this so let's listen and find out the very beginnings of the indie in the middle um one more

thing i wanted to yeah tell me about the music this week is this is rad and i'm excited this is a special week this week so we are taking off half our covers this week oh wow uh every episode this week is going to have a cover in the middle of the show but we're going to end with a brand new independent artist or label or i'm sorry independent artist or band um this is really Cool. And I'm really excited about this because I get so many emails from labels that I have to say, well, yeah, those are great songs. But if they're not covers, I don't really have a way to promote them. And I don't want to do a whole new podcast of stuff like that. So this is something we're trying this week. I want to see what you guys think about it. And we should do them in the middle of the show. Because then I don't have to worry about YouTube. Oh, that's not a bad idea. Yeah, because the last song I was cut off anyway for the YouTube part, not for the audio. Oh, we'll swap them. All right. The song I've got, the song I've listed his first song,

Swip Swap. Swip Wopin. Or Swat that. You know, Brian and I are into song swapping. I don't know if you guys knew that or not. Sometimes I'm with his music. Sometimes he's with my music. Yeah, I know. Okay, so yeah, so put the song I've listed his first song into the last spot.

Okay, awesome. No, that's cool. That's a really good idea in that way. Yeah, at least this week anyway, or however long we do them. Yeah. And now we do them forever. I don't know when we coined the indie in the middle term. but that was the origin of it.

I mean, it was practically there, right? Because I said, all right, we'll have the cover in the middle, and then we'll have an indie song at the end. And we did everything but say, all right, the indie will be in the middle. Yeah, that was great. Wow. I didn't realize that it was because of a technical, you know, like a YouTube issue that we said,

let's put the indie in the middle. Yeah, and then YouTube started kicking me in the butt and canceled my freaking account because the indie started flagging it. And so now we don't play either live, but we put him in post. so I mean he's got Brian pays his dues we have I do I pay my dues and these are like the indie songs are ones that get sent to me to say hey please play this on a podcast yeah please play this and YouTube's like robot detected a thing we do not like to comply I hate it hate it all right a couple quick things an email from Jeff Eck ECK is his last name he says he has some math for us here you go

S and B I'm listening to you talk about states that allow riders in the backs of trucks and the math that came with it. There's a great mental math trick I want to share. X percentage of Y is equal to Y percentage of X. All right? From Brian's search, it was 30% of states. On the show, we learned that 30% of 50 states could be 17 or 18 or almost 20. But if you apply this trick, you'll find that 50% of 30 is always 15.

L-S-L-T-S-T-T-S-T. Love the show, though. Jeff Eck. Okay. So 50% of 30 is. is always 15, but 30% of 50 is not 15. No, it's not. You're right.

You're right. So I'm actually questioning this now. So hold on a second. X percent, so X percent could be anything of Y. Y equals Y percent of X. That's not right, is it? Because that's like saying, it doesn't seem like it'll always. Because if you say 50 percent of 30 is always 15, but 30 percent of 50 isn't

15. So let me, let me, I want to do some really quick. So 50, or 30% of 50 would be 50 times 0.3. Correct. One would agree on that. That's how we did it in high school. So I assume so. Hold on a second. Yeah. This is absolutely right. Is it right? Is it right? I seriously thought that 30%. Oh, you know why? Because we were saying I was coming up with a third of 50. I was doing 33% of 50. And that's why I was getting, that is totally on me thinking of, you know, Getting 33 confused with them. Yeah, this is totally right. Now I get it. Okay, well, now we've learned. This is fantastic. Thanks, Bobby. Look at 30% of 50 is absolutely 15 dummies, he says.

I'm going to miss. So what's our new segment on Tuesdays? Yeah, Tuesdays. We got a big hole opening up. Anybody want to? Maybe somebody would like to do a math class on Tuesdays. Or science segment. A math segment.

Yeah. Bad idea. William also sent in a correction to our email address is this. He says, just so you know, the Taco Bell pass isn't a subscription. There is no recurring fee. You just have to buy a new pass when your old one expires. Wow. That's weird to me because why wouldn't they want to...

Dumb. Yeah, dumb. Why would you make it automatically recurring so that you capture people's money? Yeah, I don't understand that. That blew my mind when he said that. And I went and checked and he's right. it's not recurring. That's great.

I just assumed it was when I signed up. You still haven't gotten a taco yet, have you? I did. We met yesterday. You got one yesterday. Okay, so good. Yeah, I forgot to mention that. So I got one.

It was after the show, so obviously I couldn't tell you to us today. But I got a, I got a taco supreme. I got a soft taco supreme because I had a reward for one. And Kim got a burrito. And they have, they have chicken wings at Taco Bell. And they're good. Really? They're legitimately good.

I was Brian I was beside myself I still don't know what is real anymore I couldn't believe it I couldn't believe it I saw that and thought well there's no way those are going to be good they blew my mind

they're crispy crunchy outside after 2 p.m. in store or on the app from January 6th through January 12th so today is the last day that you can get crispy chicken wings from Taco Bell

I might have to go try to get them one more time then I didn't know they're ending it they're fantastic is it just a trial right now Really? Yeah. It surprised me. Do you have different flavors or is there like... Oh, that's a good question. Kim did the apps. I'm not sure. But I think it's, they may do like, man, I got a luck now. Why the heck wouldn't you make that lunchtime thing? Like, why available after two? Great. So there goes half of your potential purchases of crispy chicken wings. Very weird. Yeah. I get maybe getting them at night. I don't know. But they were, oh, I couldn't believe it. Still, still shocked. They were as good as they were.

All right. There you go. That's your emails. Send us your emails. The morning stream at gmail.com. Join us on our Patreon. Patreon.com slash TMS. And a reminder to check out Carter's store. She makes really cool stuff up there. And this is an awesome new bunch of stuff at miss carter.art. So I will be that dad one more time and tell you to go support my kid. Miss Carter.org.com. That's it. We're out. Brian play a song. What do you got? Yeah, you know, I was about to buy a, I was about to order some Taco Bell for lunch, get some wings in my free Taco, and I'm not going to do it now. So you just lost a sale, Taco Bell. Jerks. Run for the border, you A-holes. That's right, exactly. Hey, Thomas Bro wrote in. He is from Denmark, and he says, hi, I'm from Denmark.

That's what he says right there. The country with real holes in our coins. And today, I am a level 45 nerd, so why not hear some good music? Thanks for all the shows, love Tomas. Nice. Yeah, to play a birthday thing for me. Happy birthday thing for me. I got really good at interrupting you with it, but now when you give me space, I forget.

Is that weird or what? It is weird. The continuing our happy birthday on the 13th of January cavalcade of 13th birthdays with number two of four, here is Tomas's request. So he wanted to hear any cover of the crazy. Bamberries. This, the one I'm at play here, these guys had my favorite cover of 2018. It was a song, it was a cover of, um, Heart of Glass by Blondie. It's a band called Twisted Pine, and they use a lot of, I mean, they're, they're a analog instrument band, right? Lots of guitar picking and violin, and I think maybe even banjo. Ooh. Could even be washboard in there at some point, I think maybe. Anyway, um, I love these guys and I love the lead vocalist's voice. She's is just incredible. Here is their cover of the Cranberry's dreams. See you guys tomorrow. Oh, my life is changing every day

In every possible way Oh, my dreams It's never quite as it seems Never quite as it seems like this before now I'm feeling it even more because it came from you and I open up and see the person falling here is me a different way to be I want more impossible to ignore They'll come true Impossible not to do

not to do So now I tell you openly You have my heart So don't hurt me You're what I couldn't find A totally amazing mind So understanding and so kind You're everything to me

Thing to me All my life is changing every day in every possible way I know my dreams It's never quite as it seems Because you're a dream to me dreams are me I don't know. This show. Frog Pants Network.

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