The Morning Stream - TMS 2233: Koi Are Carp

Episode Date: January 19, 2022

Is it too early for a fish Tattoo? Where Are They On The Smashmouth Scale? But What Does It Mean For Clippy? Definitely Plums. WHAT IS YOUR TACO STREAK? 69 Billion? Niceeeeeeee. Blindfold A Turkey. What's The Streak For Pooping A Poop The Size Of An Avocado??! Nudity? Swears? Adult Situations? Where is this streaming again?! Where Is The Bat Man? No reward, No Closure. And No Lieutenant Yar. John Cena's Noodle Comedy. Which Gunn? Peter? Timm? Chad Kroger is my death angel. Tom's Tech Time! Reccametals with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, is it too early to get a fish tattoo? Where are they on the smash mouth scale? But what does it mean for Clippy? Definitely plums. What is your taco streak? 69 billion? Nice. Blindfold a turkey.

What's the streak for pooping a poop the size of an avocado? Nudity. Swers? Adult situations? Where is this streaming again? Where is the bat man? No reward, no closure, and no lieutenant y'ar! John's seen his noodle.

comedy. Which gun, Peter, Tim? Chad Kroger is my death angel. Tom's Tech Time. Recommendals with Randy and more on this always questioning episode of The Morning Stream. I dealt with a boy to abbreviate it who wanted to kill me. The name of the demon

that was inside the young man was named Azrael. I later found out that Azrael was Lucifer's personal death angel. Not only that, but I also found out that that was the same name as the cat on the Smurfs. And what is his primary objective is to catch the little smurps and kill them for gargamel.

Hmm, what is this? Squirt. Your eyes are like two big blue eyes. This is the morning stream. Good morning, everyone. day, January 19th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. He's Brian I'm Brian. Hi, Brian. Chad Kroger is my personal death angel. Oh,

Chad Kroger. Didn't they impress you this year with some cover or something? They did. Yeah, they got together with lottery winners and did a sea shanty cover of rock star. It moves them slightly ahead of Limbiscuit. Okay. Where are they on the smash mouth scale? Oh, they're also ahead of smash mouth.

Okay. That's not bad. Barely, though. They're all kind of in the same place. Weren't they kind of always? It's surrounded by a thick coating of right said Fred. That sounds right to me. Hey, you guys, welcome to another show.

It's me and Brian, we're here. We're doing it. And it's a good thing because, well, we'll give you some, we'll give you a little programming info. Yeah, exactly. We've got some programming info coming up. We'll let you know what's going on. but expect nothing today but just an amazing, full-length, incredible experience. Jam-packed show.

Oh, it'll be, you're going to tell your friends, your family, you'll go to your mom's house and go, mom, you won't believe what I heard today, and she'll be stoked for you. Exactly. Because that's what moms do. Exactly. This is, when you write your Christmas cards at the end of the year, that recap what a year you've had and what all of you've been doing, you'll mention January 19th as a great day of TMS. you'll put that in your never forget is what we're saying never forget today's day not really how to play the piccolo and january 19th was an amazing TMS did your mom do the

the wall thing where you'd say how tall you were all the time she'd measure you're oh yeah yeah totally yeah yes was that was required and we did that with tristan too we had that in uh in this house we did the exact same thing with our kids and then i i don't know why but taylor and dylan aren't doing this and they didn't know why they're not they just like oh yeah we didn't think about it I don't know if there's a break in that generation where they're just like, nah, kids going forward. They can start at any time. I mean, it's, you know. That's true.

He's not one of those things that's like, uh, we didn't start doing this. So there's, but he has, again, unless it's a, uh, a streak. How are your, how are your kids with streaks? Do they care about the streaks? They care about, well, they know they're, they're sick of my streaks, just like everyone here is probably sick of my streaks. So they know about my, you know, my puke streak from 2005. They know about other streaks. But for the most part.

they don't have, they don't do streaks like I do streaks. Gotcha. They're not into it. All right. Although Carter is on a streak now of, uh, the most nature tattoos of the household. She got a, she's, I don't know if she's in the chat, but she got a tattoo on her inner arm on the left side here. That is a big carp fish, like a Japanese carp fish. Yeah.

Like a coy. Oh no, I guess clay is goldfish. Japanese carp fish. Carp. Yeah. It's like a Japanese carp and I don't know if Japanese carp are like trash fish the way ours are like the one. Oh, she is here. She can fill us in, but they're super trash fish. When we used to go to, like, this amusement park in Utah called Lagoon, there was a whole pond of these things.

And all you had to do is spit over the edge and they would eat your, they'd eat your spit because they're gross. Yeah, whatever. Like, you could throw gum wrappers and cigarette butts and. Yeah, no kidding. Chatroom says, Koi R. Karp. Is that true? I thought Koi were just like big Japanese goldfish. Okay, so Koi R. Karp.

so that she's got a koi that's a fun three words to say koi r carp koi r carp cori koi r carp i'm going to say that all day when anyone asked me anything hey do you take the garbage out coy r carp just see what kim does divorce me probably anyway so she did that and it's very nice and so she's now got the record the streak in the house of the family of having the most nature-based tattoos everyone else has done like you know nick did like a, like a skull or something. I don't know. He did like, you know, boy things. And Carter's all naturey.

So, well done, nature girl, Carter. Tristan's got forests and a moon and a tooth and, a no face from spirited away. Oh, he can't think of all the tattoos my boy has. That thing vomits furniture is my memory of that character. That's correct, yes. He's more tattoo than man at this point. Wow, that's awesome. It's their, you know what?

Their generation's the first one where they just have zero hangups about it. They're just like. Here's the thing, and I don't care if I'm going to like it for the rest of my life because I like it right now. I'm going to put it on my body. Yeah. I mean, our generation, it's not like you were just really rebellious if you got tattoos. And it was still fine. No judgment here.

We're Gen X after all. We don't care. But you're hesitant because it meant you were going to mark yourself for good. But there's a whole generation of 20-somethings that don't have any of those hang-ups. They're just like, yeah. That's whatever. Put them a get them, get them going. Let's get some cool earrings and some cool tats going. You know what? I'm totally happy for them. Am I ready to go brand myself? No, but they can do whatever they want. It's fine. I don't care. I still need to do mine. I'm 100% planning on doing mine. It's just a matter of A, designing it and then be going and having it done. Yeah. Why don't you self and do, like buy the gun and do one yourself? What about that be? Because I want to put it back here. I want to put it where you can't see it.

It reach easily. Otherwise, you know, otherwise I would. Otherwise, you know, I'm sure I could probably rig up the 3D printer to just print the tattoo on my wrist that way. Well, that's what I'm waiting for. That one they showed in that Jeff Goldblum deal, his first season, they showed that tattoo printer. It's permanent until you decide you don't want it anymore. Pretty cool. That's what I want.

I do that all day. If that was the case, my arms would be sleeving it, dude. Full sleeves of something because I'd know I could just go change it. Right. You could just undo it. any time. Undo! Yeah, E-ink tat or whatever those things are called. I don't know what they're called.

That's interesting. Anyway, hey, Brian, I got a fun quiz for you this morning. Okay. I like quizzes. I like, I like these things. Yeah, we need a little, let's see, what's this? No, that's not it. I'm trying to, I thought I had a theme for you. Let's see. How about, oh, I know, I got a good one. Let's play this for you. Here we go. This, no, that's not it. Okay, great. This is great. This is working out great.

Oh. Hold on. I thought I had music for you for this. No, no, no. Okay, well, on that note, we're just going to go for it. On that lack of note. Yeah, well, on lack of note, we're just going to play this game. Now, I got a little wild hair at my bum because I was paying attention to some Batman coverage for the new movie, The Batman.

Sure. The Batman. Or is it just called Batman? No, it's called The Batman. The Batman. Okay. The Batman. So the Batman.

Or as, as Killian, Bruce. if he calls it the bat man where is the bat the bat man and then if he spraise you with his goo he goes where's the bat man exactly with blue black goo coming out of his face yeah kind of enjoyed that anyway uh so they revealed the joker and he looks like uh it's a very different take on the joker he's the ridler or the ridler i'm sorry keep saying joker paul dano yeah paul dano who i like a lot he's creepy as hell who's had his milk chick uh he had his milk shake uh he had his milkshake drink you will drink your milkshake and there will be blad yeah i love that guy so he's cool and uh but he's in like a mask and like a he looks like vigilante style and i like it personally by the way

i think a stupid green jumpsuit covered in question marks as stupid as shit okay uh you mean like a like a three-piece suit uh yeah like i don't like it with a tie and stuff like i wore it a nerdtacular uh no that one's fine that one's fine but that like the i'm thinking of the i'm thinking of the i'm thinking of in like old school like the one piece right i mean that's absolutely 60s batman yeah it's good for that but it's uh yeah it's a big jumper suit with a where you're you don't want cameltoe as a villain all right that's what i'm saying no cameltoe no there you go yes good so uh they showed him and i like it and uh it got me thinking about riddles so i'm gonna riddle you today okay and you're gonna yeah and you're gonna struggle with these i hope or they're gonna be too easy i i don't actually

know where you're going to land on these. I don't have a good prediction. Oh, okay. But they're riddles, like as in the chicken crossed the road kind of thing. Kind of, except, yeah, more like, a little more like our two plums thing that we did forever ago. Oh, God, okay. Not exactly like that, but more in that neighborhood. I hope you have these written down and from a reputable source as opposed to trying to pull them from memory. Oh, 100%. Yeah, if I did these from memory, we'd be scared. I'd forget part of it. All right. So here you go. Number one.

Only one color, but not one size. Stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain. Doing no harm and feeling no pain. What is it? All right. Let's see here. I can repeat any of this.

Yeah, repeat, repeat, sorry, I'm going to have you repeat one more time. That's fine. I'm going to put it in the chat so you have a visual reference. Oh, good. Yes, thank you. So there you go. Only one color, but not. one size stuck at the bottom yet easily flies present in the sun but not in rain doing no harm and

feeling no pain and don't look at any chat room replies oh well the chat the the item right underneath it i should have put it in discord is absolutely correct yeah all right so you know what that was a warm up we got it shadow that's a very good one shadow well then well done kelly 138 that's uh yeah nicely done all right so brian i'm putting this in this in the the discord because the chat. Okay. That way, I won't look there. Okay.

So the new one is, who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it? Who is that with a neck and no head, two arms and no hands? What is it? Yeah. Why does it start with who is that and ends with what is it? Yeah, that is a weird sentence. I would like the redundancy and screwing up the question.

Yeah. All right, well, a bottle has a neck and no head, but no arms. Two arms and no hands. Arms. Arms. Arms. What's another like weaponry, arms, neck? Something that has a neck and two arms.

Uh-huh. Uh, a neck. A headless, handless, Dwayne Johnson. My dad would laugh at that. No. The incorrect answer. Sorry, that is incorrect. I'm a minute.

I love you there. The answer is a shirt. Oh, of course. A shirt has a neck and two arms. Yeah, very good. A shirt. Well done. I happen to be wearing one of those today, even. Yeah, you're going to wear a shirt today. I'm wearing a shirt. Dang it. TRPW said sweater. I think that's pretty close. Primera got shirt. Yeah, good job there, dude. I got coat. Nicely done. All right. Here's your next one. I'll paste this in here and read it. Hold on. Here we go. This helps because these things I need to read. Clearly helps me so much, right? Yeah, it really helped with that last one. So here it is. What is it that given one, you'll have either two or none? Oh, interesting.

Okay, so something that you're given, and once you're given it, you either have two or none. Yeah. Given a blank, you'll either have two or none. Someone in the chat said plums. Plums. Plums. What is it?

A given one, you'll either have two or none. It's a tricky one. It's got to be something intangible like... See, this is why you're good at these. Your brain is good. Yeah. You have a Riddler's brain. Yes.

Something intangible. Robin, it must... It's got to be something intangible. Given one, you'll have either two or none. You know, it'll take me too long to come up with something. All right. Your answer is, wait, let me buzz you. The answer is a choice.

Oh, look at that. Given a choice, you'll have either two or none. Yeah, because you'll either choose between two things, possibly more. So they don't really say that here. Either two or none. No choice. Wait, so hold on a second. If you're given one, if you're given a choice, you'll either have two or none.

So no choice? Yeah, it means you have no choice. okay but if i'm not if i'm given a choice i cannot be not given a choice uh let's think about that what is given you so if you are given a choice if you're given a choice you can't say that one of the options is no choice well what if what if it's like a mobster says i gave us the money she and that's your only choice oh okay gotcha all right maybe that's it i don't know yeah all right final riddle let's see if this one one does not equal zero i'm going to just it's a fair point it's a fair point um here's a new one or here's the final one okay all right oh wait i got to put it in the hoo-ha all right so

here comes in the hoo-ha i'm going to stick it straight in the what goes in the hoo-ha has cast no shadow up and here it is if 11 plus two equals one what does nine plus five equal oh geez all right if 11 plus two equals one what does nine plus five equal nine plus five then would equal two let me think here uh so 11 o'clock plus two hours would be one o'clock nine o'clock plus five hours would be two o'clock so i'm gonna say two oh my lord you absolutely nailed it you figured it out you figured out that a it was a it was a clock reference and not some math thing that was broken and b you did you read it here let me show you what the answer is you read it as if you had this that is exactly Exactly verbatim what you said.

I'm impressed. I'm super impressed. I think that makes up for your t-shirt and shadow deal. Yeah, I should. And that stupid choice one. Yeah. That terrible choice one. Gosh, dang.

All right. Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, you did it. Thanks. I'm glad to at least have gotten one of those and ended on a positive. Yeah. And again, I'll just say it for the record. I think that riddler looks cool. I don't think it's a problem.

Like, you're talking about a movie. These things are hard to make where, you know, you can't have Jim Carrey. Yeah, I was going to ask. you so you know we we obviously don't know how paul dano is going to be but we can probably guess he's going to be damn good because he's freaking paul dano he's a great actor um who is your favorite riddler uh in movies tv uh animation etc probably the one well i mean we're not we can't count comics because there's plenty of good examples in the comics you can't count comics right you know because obviously it's just who you know who draws yeah and he's all you know

who writes him it matters if it's a better writer and that sort of thing but probably sure i mean frank gorson's fun to watch but he's he's set the bar yeah but just kind of he's he's a cartoon you know like it's not really doing it for me and probably actually you know what the ones the ridler and the arkham games i like that guy oh that's a great choice yeah who did the uh i don't know who the voice is he's really good though yeah yeah But he is a great riddler. Apparently, Jim Rash was the riddler in Harley Quinn. Jim Rash from Community, Dean, Dean, Dean.

Really? Wow. Yeah, Dean Tulton. Yeah, which is great. Like, talk about perfect casting. He makes a good one. I got to say, I kind of don't mind the riddler from the Gotham TV show. Corey Michael Smith.

Oh, he was pretty good. Yeah, he's all right. He's all right. I just feel like there, you know, if you're going to do a modern incarnation of the guy, you've got to get creative. and it feels like that's what they're doing. That was a show that had great villain actors and kind of garbage hero actors.

Yeah. Commissioner of the Gordon, Jim Gordon was boring as hell. The kid who played a young Bruce Wayne, boring as hell. Yeah, super boring. But the guy who played Penguin, who's got three names.

Jasper Walton, Gergerkin. Jasper Walton, Walton, Gurgan. Yes, he was great. He was great. Never forget. Oh, something, Robin, something, because he had Robin. Robin Taylor Lord. Robin, what is it? Taylor Lord, I think.

Robin Taylor Lord, yes. Oh, there's the chat saying it. Free Ranger says, Robin Taylor Lord. Is that correct? Was I right? I think it's, I know it's Robin something, and I think Lord was in there as well. Yeah, Robin. Batman Robin Lord. Nice, Benjin.

Nice. Yeah, I, it's a tricky. So whatever, Matt Reeves, I have trust in Matt Reeves. everybody's got all these stupid worries about a Batman movie and they do this every time there's something new like when Nolan was rolling around they were like oh I don't know about this and everyone always feels this way and says these things until it happens and then when it happens we're like oh this is pretty good that's how this will be it's Matt Reeves he makes great movies he knows what to do both visually and tonally the guy's got it going on it'll be fine okay

because it's Warner brothers and Warner and HBO Max are you know in bed together doing the thing. Are we going to get day and date streaming release with the Batman? I don't know. That's a good question because I know they said they were going to do that through the end of 2021, but I don't know if that extends to anything. I haven't heard any 2022 doings of that. I would like that, though. That would be really good. Well, I would too. Yeah, Claire, I don't count the Ben Affleck stuff. He's bad in those roles.

No offense to Ben Affleck. The guy can do things. We'll hear about him a bit today, I'm guessing. We will. You will hear about him shortly. Yeah, a little bit of something, something. All right, we're going to play a game with, speaking of games. Let's just keep the games going. Yeah, keep the games going. We just moved from the Bryan Arcade Machine to the Dunaway Arcade Machine and plunk a quarter into him. Listen, Ellen Generous's game of games got canceled, so let's have them here.

Oh, was that a thing? That was a TV show. She used to have, like, giant spin the bottle and blindfold the turkey or whatever games. Blankold the turkey. Primetime game show. where she played a bunch of games with contestants who are clearly unmath. Well, so she's done. She's kind of retired.

She's off. She kind of is, yeah. Okay. All right. Well, there you go. Off she goes. Hey, that music means that Brian Dunaway is joining us. Hi, Brian Dunaway.

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How are you guys? Hey, man, we're good. Thanks for joining us. How are you doing? We're in week two now of your COVID recovery. You're doing all right? It's been six months.

I don't know how long it's been. and time has lost all meaning. I don't think it's been six months. No, definitely not. So that's another side effect of COVID is the inability to tell time, right? No kidding. What happened? That's the idea is it's super goofy.

It makes your head weird and you're, we got a lady. Brian, this is not to freak you out because I think you've been doing all the right resting and everything. I just like the fact that before you continue, we've got, we've got a lady. We've got a lady. We've got a lady. We've got a lady. It is a weird way to start. But this poor lady, she's in our neighborhood.

She, uh, prior to this was not so much anti-vax as she was, didn't care, Max. Like, just sort of, hey, whatever, life is, whatever it is. And since that attitude, uh, they have lost her son-in-law. I'm sorry, her son almost her daughter-in-law almost died. Um, she is now paralyzed in the waist down and they can't figure out why. She has no physical reason why. There's no other medical reason. and their doctors are hesitant to just say,

well, this could be one of the neurological dings of COVID, but they're hesitant because they don't know that for sure. But she's in a wheelchair now. She can't feel her legs out of nowhere. Two months after COVID, she had it, and now she can't move her legs. Now, I'm not saying that you're going to, I think you've been taking all the proper precautions and rest.

That's the important thing. That's why I'm telling everybody this story. Plus I had two of the shots. I had not gotten my booster yet, but I wasn't slated to. so it's all good. Yeah, you got a booster all right. I did what I could control. That's all I could do.

You got a booster all right. It just came through the air and up your nose. That's how you got this. You need a booster. It's kind of your booster. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, I hope you continue to climb the mountain of wellness. Yes.

And you don't already have immune issues anyway. So I've been afraid of the moment that it would arrive. But I knew it would because of the, the secondary exposure I get because the people I'm around are all around a lot of people. I am very isolated. That's where that happens. Yeah. That's where that happens.

That's the problem here in Utah. Everyone's like, why are Utah's numbers higher than any other state around them? It's just a simple math. We have way more kids in our state. Right. And they're all in school. Well, now they're not. They're all take, as of yesterday, it's all virtual again because it's so bad.

Oh, is it? They're going to school. They're getting it. They're coming home and giving it to everybody. exactly. And everyone's acting surprised. The government, the local government's like, well, we just can't figure out how that's happening. I'm like, really? The most of the least well-ventilated buildings in the state and you've got people crammed in by the 30s and 40s in there. Are you kidding? Oh, dad. Guess what I got at school today? You wouldn't believe it.

An A? No. No, COVID. That's a C. Anyway, uh, hey, Dunaway, we're glad you're here. That's what matters. And we're going to play Tad Pooley Feud today. That means we've got to take one of our listeners in here. Let's find out who's been calling. Hi, who's this? It's Guwokmar. Well, Gwakmar. How are you? Gwakmar. I still think you sound like a backup player for Guar. Yeah. I know. You basically take the LKMA out of his name. You've got Gwar. Yeah. It's pretty cool. Don't forget. They're from Richmond. That's right. They are from Richmond, aren't they? Yeah. That's a weird thing to say, Because in the lore of Guar, you'd say, well, no, they're from the planet, Zontar, or, you know, some nightmare hellscape. I mean, you could even say, you know, I'd expect Guar to be from Seattle or Atlanta or Miami or, but, oh, yeah, they're from Richmond, Virginia.

Yeah, it's just a weird birthplace for such a weird, weird band. Athens or something, yeah, Detroit, exactly, yeah. And just as an offside, don't forget, Dave Matthews' bands from Charlottesville, so. Oh, are they? Oh, that's true. They are. Yeah. That's my, that's my inversion. He's also from Pittsburgh, and he's also from... I talked to Dave Matthews once. Yeah, what was that about? What happened there?

I said, Eddie Dave, and he was like, these guys coming up are awesome, and then he walked away. I was like, cool, dude. That was it? Really? Oh, like talking about the upcoming band or something? Yeah, the upcoming band. In other words, it was a couple of hooligan. and he's like, I have nothing for you. Watch these guys.

I'm going backstage. Leave me alone. We call that deflection. Does he actually talk like that, though? Like, he said, Oh, you're going to really like the people coming up. They're good performers. Not at all.

He was resting his voice, I'm assuming. Okay. Is it weird that every time you guys say Dave Matthews, I picture Mike Judge, just can't help it? That's perfect. To me, they're the same people. I don't know why. I've always associated with a similar look.

Yeah, I never even think about that. Interesting. Every time. Don't know why. When I picture Mike Judge, I just picture, like, picture like a cartoon, squiggly line, dude. I don't even picture a human thing. You don't picture the guy. You've dehumanized him.

I love it. I think I picture Milton from the old, from the original Sari Nat Live Short. Oh, oh. Right. Oh, it's hilarious. Martin Short, right? I forgot that's where that started. that is where that is where milton started yeah the office space came from a a saturday

live animated short and it wasn't uh stephen root wasn't voicing it right it was okay no no no was it my judge voicing in the original animation and that's what i'm thinking it might have even been modeled after him it might have been like a self-portrait kind of thing but maybe not i don't dude well uh that's all good but water under the bridge really when it comes to games We're going to play. Yeah, you can ask your favor. Sure. Yeah, go ahead.

Whatever the prizes are, give them to somebody else. Oh. You sure? Are you sure? You haven't heard what they are. These are real good. They may not be what you think they are. Well, okay, I'll tell you what.

Gentleton manipulation. Here's what we'll do. When Brian tells you the prizes, then decide. If they're not for you, we'll definitely send them somewhere else. So Brian, why don't you explain all this? What's going on? Sure, it's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpullie feud.

I've surveyed the tadpillar. on some nerdy topics, 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. Guacamar, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you have a prize package that you have the option of giving up if you want. That includes one of Scott's bat stickers and a sketch on a TMS card, a hand-drawn one-of-a-kind

sketch on a TMS card, as well as some stickers sent for me as well. still want to give it up for what's behind door number two? Yeah, what do you want to do? So I already got a card from you last time. I'm happy with what I had. I still say give it up to somebody else. All right, you're a generous dude. You're a really generous guy.

All right, so here's what we'll do. We will... Oh, here's what you have an idea. Here's what we'll do. Go ahead. Once we've gone through the answers, if there's any answers left, we'll open it up to the chat room.

They type an answer, the first person to type, the highest answer left on the list gets the prize. Oh, I see. That's not bad. Yeah, yeah, let's do that. How's that, Sam? Gwarkmar, you get first refusal here.

Do you like that? Absolutely fine. Okay, cool. He's given up his opportunity to have any say on how we give out this. Fair enough. I like talking to you guys. All right, well, let's lay into it. What are we, what is our topic today?

All right, your topic. Well, thank God we're done talking about COVID because put your hands on your buzzers. I'm on it 580 Tadpooler's answer 22 of them Wimped out and said pass Gave their answer to this

Name something you'll miss When the pandemic is over Scott Um Shit it just left my brain Uh I'm too late Brian take it

You can steal I screwed up I had it It was in my head I lost it. I lost it. Question. Give it.

Yeah. Well, you need me to re-re-re-do the question. Name something you'll miss when the pandemic is over. Being alone. All right. Show me being alone. Kind of what I was trying to say. Yeah, alone time or peace and quiet.

All right. Well, that means he got it by default. I have to. Yeah. That does mean that Guacamire, you're going to be playing. playing with Brian, you guys have control of the board. These, so here's, here's the situation with this one. I, again, as always, I took all the answers and I, everybody has a different way of wording

the same thing or something similar. So I, I grouped them all into things that were worded the same way, okay? Correct. But these are all of their answers to things they'll miss when the pandemic is over. All right, so Brian and Guacamar, named something else that our Tadpool will. miss when the pandemic is over. I think a lot of them have been working from home, Gwakmar,

and I think they'll miss that. What do you think? I would be that or pajamas. Why not both? You could combine them, yeah. How about, let's go with the work thing. Yep. And then we'll try pajamas next.

All right. Sure. All right, show me working from home. Yeah, that's number one answer. And I will tell you that because so many people said stuff like working from home in shorts or sweatpants or pajamas, I'd lumped all of that. Okay, so pajamas all together then. Pajamas are included in that whole thing. Because if you don't have to go to work, you don't have to get out of your pajamas.

Right. My favorite limited series on HBO is pajamas are included. I really enjoyed it. Yeah, that's such a good series. I think around. Oh, I really was. and around award season. If it gets ignored,

we're going to have words. All right. You guys are still winning. Keep going. Glock, what's the way? Got another one? Uh,

so how about not getting cleaned? Okay. Okay. Not showering every day or not for a day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I miss the filth. Sure.

I'll miss being dirty. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Uh, show me negative effects on personal hygiene. There you go. Oh, man.

People did say stuff like that. So I did lump that all into something along those. lines, hygiene-related, not shaving, having to shave every day, not having to shower every day, stuff like that. So people did say that just didn't make the top ten. Good guess, though. Yes, a good guess. Things will miss about the pandemic.

Miss. Yes. All right. People miss when the pandemic is over. When it becomes endemic is what it's probably going to do. All right, I'll say, well, this will stick around as the problem, but I'll still say it because I think they may have said it. So grocery delivery, food delivery, that general category.

Sure, sure. All right. Show me DoorDash, Grubhub, contactless delivery, curbside, pick up all that shit. No, look at that. That's good points. You people are weird, though. I mean, I was doing it before the pandemic, and I'm going to keep on going. Absolutely.

places offer that like getting yeah being able to just pull your car up and have people put groceries in the back of your car that you've already bought online yeah and by the way they really like that they actually they really like yeah i've heard from a manager at our smiths over here and they're like yeah we we we this will stay we're doing this we prefer it yeah um all right what else you got scott how about right now you're in the lead because of one big answer yeah that's crazy describes that one listener that we have crazy um yeah he always has something to say about this he might have stopped listening to the show because uh this game is stupid the storing of of tadpool feud bothered him so much um what will i miss

i can think of so many things i'm not going to miss you know like it's so hard for me that that's what screwed me up in the first answer that's what's messing me up too it's like Yeah. Things I'll miss. Things people, things the tadpole will miss when the pandemic is over. Um, more, this is a terrible answer. More video game time. Don't miss that.

Oh, that's a great answer. Yeah. I think it's bad, but go ahead. Um, show me more video game time. I'm going to give it to you. I was hesitant on this one. So staying home as an excuse to get out of things, but I also lumped, you know, staying home playing video games instead of going out to social. So avoiding social crap, yeah.

Yes. Well, I'll tell you mine. Because I don't want to like have somebody said, well, I said something kind of like that. There we go. Tom Norm, Tom Norm disagrees. Yeah, he disagrees. That's okay. He's all about the norms.

All right. I'm going to say for my next answer. I'm going to propose this. Flying on airplanes, which I know people can still do and have done, but I don't plan on getting on one until I feel better about things. So airplane travel. All right. Show me flying on airplanes.

Damn it. It's actually one of the safest places to be right now. They're so careful that it's actually not the hellscape I make it out to be, and it's unfortunate that I feel that way. And you might get some entertainment of somebody getting duct tape to a chair because they're refusing to wear a mask and to slide their mask back up after they take a sip of their jack and coke. That has been a cool new thing we've started doing. Yeah. Get out the duct tape.

Yeah. All right. Glock Mar is back to us. All right. Brian and Gwarkmar got control. I have one unless you have something like Gwock. I had something on the lines of binge watching or daily watching for daytime. All right.

But is that lump in the ear? The TVs, the tubes, the shows. All right. Binge watching. Okay. Show me getting to binge watch all the shows. Oh, man. People did say that, but did not make the top of the list.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right. How about? Jeez, this is hard. I know. It kind of is, yeah.

But once you hear these answers, be like, oh, yeah, that makes sense, yeah. Because there's so much we're not going to miss, like, the things we aren't going to miss. And it's just hard for me to think of something that I'll miss. Okay, I'll miss. Shit! No, you can still shit. I mean, I guess, you know what? Somebody probably said this.

I wouldn't have said it because I don't, as much as I will, wear them because I think it's important. I don't want to wear masks after this. So masks, I'll say. Someone somewhere's going to miss that. He has benefits. You can kind of keep yourself. Show me your mask, Gotham. Yeah, people said masks.

Mostly because of not smelling stinky co-worker's breath, not seeing ugly faces, and also because how you wear a mask, it makes it easy to identify idiots from a distance. Yeah.

hilarious so it's like they're they're going to miss mask but not on themselves right some people said they'll miss masks like um being able to you know create an outfit with a mask as an accessory right um people will miss uh there was one what was the other there was another mask thing like um uh just keeps me warm in the winter so yeah my daughter loves that walking i were i was wearing mask before i started because when i would walk in the cold uh i'm kind of sensitive to the cold so i was always wear a mask, didn't. Yeah. Carter does that now.

She likes to wear a mask out there. And I'm like, well, why are you wearing it here? And she's like, because it's warm. All right. So I'm on a little bit of a roll here. Let's see if I can have this up. How about hugging, shaking hands or hugging strangers? Okay.

Sure. That's a good one. All right. Show me. I'm sorry. I guess it's not doing that. Yeah, is what people will miss. That's what they'll miss.

It's not to do it. Show me handshakes. Not having to do handshakes, hugs, that sort of personal touching crap. Number, what was it, 13 on the list, just barely out of the top 10. But people, yeah, people really not missing handshakes. I mean, if it's people that I know and like, I miss that. But if it's just a stranger who you're just expected like, oh, I heard some of that much about you, squeeze. Like, I don't want to do that anymore.

Sam Jane will always get a hug. Oh, always, yeah. But we know her. We know her. You know, I'd shake her. I'd hug her now because I know how careful they've been. Exactly. She could squeeze a toad out of me. All right, keep going.

So, Brian and Gwakmar, back over to you. I have one. I'm going to try. This will be our last strike. I don't want to take it with me. I'm going to miss spending time with the immediate family. because they were always forced You're stuck in here with me

Everybody's home Kids are doing their school at home You know You and the missus Working from home So hanging out there All right Show me family time

Oh no That's number 11 Number 11 just outside the top 10 All right I have one chance to see if I can unearth this We will still give the prize away To somebody in chat So don't worry

Oh yeah we're doing that no matter what Sorry, G-Walk. That's fine. G-Walky. G-Walky. MacMarr, we're going to come. Eight hours in South Carolina, everything's fine. Sure, sure.

Okay, so I'm going to just going to scrape the bottom of the barrel here. How about? Drench Wildfires. Why is Scott looking at the chat during the quiz? You know, it's totally fine if he does. That doesn't mean it's going to have. help. You guys all said family time and stuff like that. I'm not reading your answers. I don't read their answers when I'm answering. I mean, I could, I guess, but I'm not. All right. Let's go with,

this is hard. It's still hard. I mean, I know what I'm going to miss, but I don't know if that's everybody, because I already work here. Sure. All right. Oh, I got it. I'm going to miss going but see we'll probably this is a thing you want to stop doing but we do we make we go out of our way now like extra out of our way to be nice to people especially people who are like frontline workers

people who deliver things people who are like in retail like we go out of our way to like tip more friendly or two if they f up it's still okay oh damn it shut up damn it

yeah recognition of health workers was on the list but uh yeah all right so chat room i'm going to type start now or guess now and oh look at this don't guess don't guess until you see me say the words guess now in chat because i'm only counting answers that you give after that but we have a number four answer the first person to type the number four answer is going to win these prizes as long as they're in the u.s otherwise you get steam games okay guess now all right so the chats get oh look at that oh look at that Uh, direct to streaming movies, streaming movies, gas cuss, movies, online doctor, socially distancing, KZ Pugs is correct. Social distancing is, uh, I almost said personal space, but that makes sense. I would have, I would have taken personal space as social distancing. Uh, I like having people staying six feet away from me in lines. I do too.

You know, stuff like that. Yeah. Nothing wrong with people. I like that plenty. I don't want to be all up next to you like subway style. Freak enough that. I don't want that. That's right. KZ Pugs. Send me an email, Coverville at gmail.com, and let me know your mailing address. And I know Greg on TV, but you didn't say it. Oh, shoot. No, Greg on TV shows, it shows Greg on TV right after KZ Pugs on my list. Oh, well, we got to go by. We got to go by your list because I...

I got to go by my list. I'm going by my IRC. Don't worry. There's always future chances their name. I forgot the name. So the social distance also, do you pull in? the toilet seat between thing they're doing in men's restaurants. Oh, right, where they tape over a toilet seat?

Yeah, yeah. Is that true? I actually just pee on the tape. I go out of my way to avoid the damn place I don't care. I go out of my way to avoid public bathrooms, so I didn't know they were doing that. Didn't realize that was a thing. No, I do like that. I just wish they would, like, come on, by default, start with the urinal that's two feet lower than the other urinal.

We'll start with that one. Yeah, exactly. It's for kids, but come on. Whatever. What if a little, what if Peter Dinklage's got, you got Peter Dinklage in town? He's got to pee real bad. What are you going to do? What's he going to do?

He's going to jump. I don't know, get on somebody's shoulders. I don't know how it works. All right. Well, hold on. Let's get through the rest of these answers here. Things that people won't miss. Less traffic.

Roads were great during the pandemic. they're just starting to get bad. You don't live where I live. Oh, are they bad the whole time? Oh, no one ever got to stay home. We don't do work from home. It's considered lazy. You can't work from home.

That's lazy. Yeah. That's just the, it's going to vary. Here it's a little bit of a mix, but the one thing, the statistic that freaked me out is 33%, no, I'm sorry. Yeah, 33% drop in overall traffic in the United States during the pandemic. And a 7% percent. increase in accidents.

What is wrong with everyone? That's because everybody's pissed. Everybody's way more pissed. So there's more traffic and pissed. Right. Well, those drivers that had the roads to themselves now are just treating it like, hey, I'm still going to drive like I've got the roads to my roads to myself. All right.

Let's get to number seven. Again, we said, Tadpool, name something you'll miss when the pandemic is over. And 33 of them said nothing. Nothing. That's a good one. Not pass, but they will miss nothing. Dang it. See, that's kind of where I kept coming back to, and I wish I'd just said it.

Because that was in my head to say nothing. Number nine, fewer crowds when going out. So restaurants, theaters, more open and not having everybody right next to you. God forbid you needed something from Lowe's during the pandemic where I live. My God. Yeah. You've never. Lowe's has in our area Lowe's has made.

out like they hired so many new workers it was ridiculous yeah there's a lot of businesses that are killing it like if you owned like pizza hut stock you're you know dominoes whatever you're you're in your your investment has gone way up in two years like there are certain businesses that just absolutely benefited and i guess home improvement is probably one of them because a lot of people got that stimulus check and they went straight to fixing that bathroom or putting in a new floor or whatever yeah exactly number 10 kind of piggybacks on six but enough people said it that I made it a different answer but not getting the cold or flu because you're already doing all the things that you to keep from getting

COVID also helps you from getting cold so instead of your typical one or two day sick vacation days when you get the COVID it's like yeah you're gone for two weeks see you buddy yeah exactly I ended up with uh you know that cold but it was 20 months I think but uh so well not longer than that because the last time i'd i'd actually gotten any kind of sickness or cold was in 2019 right and then please tell me you keep a calendar i'm not keeping us this isn't a streak this isn't a streak but i got to say i did notice that when you have a year go by or more and you don't get sick it's kind of amazing it's great oh i know yeah i still feel like i'm you know i've had the occasional uh sniffle and that sort of thing but nothing

Nothing since March 2020. Hey, Scott, what's your streak for pooping the poop the size of, I don't know, an avocado? What's the record on that? I don't know what that means. How long has it been since you've pooped a poop the size of an avocado? That's what Brian's asking you. I haven't checked. I didn't check.

I don't know. The size, the shape, the color. Hey, some other great answers people gave us. streaming movie releases day and date movie releases number 12 saving money by not eating out so much cooking at home zooming with friends like virtual happy hours and board game nights and things like that that you know you got so desperate for company you started up a regular zoom thing cleaner air watching tms live day drinking a lot of people said day drinking which is great sourdough bread people are going to miss like they have no excuse to randy's here to make sourdough bread lately I've been using a fennel

an oregano dough and I won't miss crypto talk or sour dough bread talk yeah

yeah exactly I don't think that's going to matter on the pandemic one person said drive through strip clubs sure we're all going to miss those

easy to hit pokey stops let's see oh that's right they loosen the rules on the poca stop They did. They did a lot of things to make it easier for you to play the game.

QR codes. I actually am with this. Like, QR codes were hanging by a thread. They're ringing the bell, told the who the bell tolls for, and QR codes were the perfect thing for this. I agree, but I'm not sure I agree with its death sentence before that. Because they were... Oh, really?

Because now, like, if I go and I install a new device on a TV, like a PlayStation or an Xbox or something. something. Yes. Gone are the days where I got to manually write that stuff in. You literally just take your phone, scan the QR code on the screen, and bam, you're logged in. There's a few things.

I mean, I still, like, if I'm activating. Disney. Yeah, Disney does it. Yeah. Oh, really? So, like, Disney, at least on Apple TV, you get a four-letter code and then a website. You go to Disneyplus.com slash activate, and then you enter a four-letter code. Yeah, some of them do it different than others.

I noticed, so the other night I noticed, the easiest one, was the hardest one was HBO Max. It made me put my whole password in. Oh, that sucks. The easy ones were Netflix, Hulu, I don't remember the other one, maybe Prime. All of them let me do the big fat QR code on the screen. That's pretty. Yeah.

So that's that, but there's use cases for the thing. And I hope it doesn't go away because I really like it. No, I like, I like QR codes. But, you know, who is it? Simply East Square says, why does Brian think QR codes are dead? I don't think they're dead now, but I think that they were, they were starting to wane. or they were waning, like they were only used for very, very specific things, and now they're everywhere. It was usually like, here's a can of Coke, and if you scan this QR code in, you'll get a reward at the Coke site.

Right, exactly, or a lot of advertising. Less stuff that was like less. I miss getting products through those kind of methods. Yeah, it's a good time. My buddy, Tim Coyne, who does the Hollywood podcast, got the QR code for his podcast tattooed on his arm. when he's out and about and somebody says, oh, what's your, what's your thing? Or they might just scan it just to see what it is.

But because there was a bad, a bad blop in the tattoo artist or something, occasionally it pulls up a different website. Oh, hope it's a good one. That's not good. Nobody wants a bad blop. All right. Well, congratulations, everybody involved in Guakmar for your generosity,

giving that down to the... A quick question. Oh, yeah, go ahead. Yeah. Have you guys tried that Diablo sandwich from Arbiz yet? no is it good is it hot so my wife bet me 50 bucks that i wouldn't finish it i had it gone in less than five minutes it's about the heat of uh when i go get far oh that's no big deal yeah i i like fall when i can't do my lips okay i'm getting it today's the day i'm going to arby's

today diablo can i get can i use my free taco pass there like can i say no no i can say give me a diablo and a free taco no no it's pepper cheese it's habanero sauce It's jalapinos. It's a Chipotle bun. Sounds amazing. Oh, that sounds so good. You're going to have to wait until Diablo 4, Brian. That's when they get it. There you go.

You're at four tacos, right? On your Taco Pass. Four total so far, yeah. If you don't count, if you don't count the time, I had to make up for it at Del Taco, but yes, four total. Right. Tacco substitution. Yeah. So we're both at four. Do we want to have, like, let's see who can game the system more for the next 26 days or however much time we have there?

Yeah, how much we should figure out, because we were. We signed up the same day, I think, right? We did. We did. All right. Yeah, we probably ought to have some kind of contest. This is a competition where really nobody wins. Yeah, we're all losers, including the people at home.

You all lose with this contest. All right, we'll figure it out. Gwockmark, congratulations, but also thanks for being so nice and giving away your thing. Hey, Dunaway, how are you feeling? I guess we know how you're feeling, but how are you doing about shows and stuff? We got FilmSack this weekend. We did a great play retro on Monday. So much good content.

You're streaming all the time. Tell people what you want to tell them. I'm going to tell them to tune in tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern Time. I'll be streaming some retro games. Maybe some seven-up spot. Oh, I wonder if that'll be part of our Monday slate. Hmm, interesting. Cool spot, everybody, cool spot.

Remember that dumb game about the seven-up spot that was actually a good video game, but it was like, you know, advertising as hell? Well, we're going to talk about that and other games like it next week on Play Retro. going to be really good. Brian Dunaway, everybody. Bye now. All right. The Diablo chicken comes with a free vanilla shake to cool off your mouth after

eating the Diablo chicken sandwich. Really? Yes. Even more of a bad idea, but I think I want it. I know, exactly. Oh, good. The breaded chicken sandwich, not bad enough for you? How about a free shake?

I think I'm going. All right, let's take a break. You know how it is. When we come back, we're going to spend some time with Tom Merritt. and some recommendals after that. So all kinds of fun stuff. Stick around. Before that, though,

a song break from Brian. What do you got? Well, Ice Warm is going to be super excited until he looks a little bit closer because we're playing a song from King Garbage. Not just Garbage, but King Garbage. This is a band that has a contemporary take on American Soul. They've got a brand new single that they've released

and a brand new video. This is all coming from their forthcoming album, which is called Heavy Metal Greasy Love, which is going to be released on April 1st via I, Ipecac recordings. This is the first single from the album. It's called Busy on a Saturday Night. Here is King Garbage.

appear lightly to argue all your innermost finding sighting conversations to me and ruin all your perfect timings come midnight silver line Oh, push away at your whole tiny And from my hands I'm twill lining Don't tell me what I need And just give me money on the wall

Maybe I know what I need You know what I want is what I want Don't tell me what I need Just give me by the power I know I know what I need What I want is what I want Everything I want to move Is busy on a Saturday night

Everything I need Step away so fast Homes on light Shaking off your cars Forgetting what's needed Um Deal with what you have Sure sounds easy

Lonnie down, lonely down, lonely down. A shiny watch with tails to tell while some perfect debarates higher air, blinking as the clouded moon, In conversations, silent tones Shadows stands upon the wall behind you. World guarantees reside their lives. Very custom sounds fitting timely.

How they stand me like a Friday night. Don't tell me what I need. need just give me what I want to want. I know what I need. And what I want is what I want. Don't tell me what I need. Just give me what I bow. I know what I need.

What I want is what I want. Everything I want is busy. I'm lost Saturday night. And everything I need leaves for me. Leaps for holiday means trying Shaking off my calls, forgetting what's needed We'll deal with what to hell Show sounds easy

La-de-da La-da ooh la-de-da Ooh La-de-da La-da, ooh Oh Speed. How can we get faster? How can we get quicker?

I maybe cannot make you faster, but I can make you quicker. You've been listening to music for all invalid. No, not the buttons. Not my gumdrop buttons. Switching up some Fletcher stuff. Hey, that song once again was. Sure, that's busy on a Saturday night at its house. By the band King Garbage from their upcoming album,

Heavy Metal Greasy Love, which comes out. April 1st. And is it really epicac records? Ipecac. I pick. It's the thing that you take, it's like a liquid you take to help throw up bad stuff. Makes you barf, right? Makes you barf, like if you accidentally ingest something you shouldn't, you do Ipecac to help it.

I think that's funny that they named their band after that stuff. My parents, or my mom gave me that when I was younger. I remember it, but. Oh, it's Mike Patton's record label from, um, you want it all, but you can't. Faith no more. Oh, yeah, we like the Faith No More. You like Faith No More, yeah, EpicTac record label under Mike Patton. That's pretty cool.

I wonder if they have faith now. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. Well, they said no more, but I don't believe him. Speaking of somebody, I do believe, though, a expert in the area of technology joins us on Wednesdays is Mr. Tom Merritt. Tom, welcome back to the show. How are you? This is a public service announcement with guitars. Oh, very nice.

Tom, would you cut it out with the... ugly virtual backgrounds. I mean, come on. Enough is enough, man. He's kidding. It's your natural background. It's lovely. It's nice. He's got real... Look at him. Interact with it. It's interactable. Is that a copy of Station 11? Where did you

get that? I thought there was only one copy. What the heck? You know what? Screw the Metaverse. Tom is already... Tom is the Metaverse. He's interacting with his virtual space. I'm not even here. That's amazing. It's a bot. very cool

so uh how are you what haven't you talked about regarding microsoft's acquisition of activation well to be honest most of what is what does it mean for clippy most of the discuss well clippy is in charge now i don't know if anyone knew that um no i'm i'm so i'm holding a lot of it back for both core in the instance this weekend so we haven't had a ton of discussion on this show we did some pre show yesterday where we did some of the basics um but you know it's all Scott made a video where I congratulate him. He accepted he, if you can't beat him, join him and did a YouTube screenshot thumbnail with a white border around him and a big eye-catching block letter title.

Asking a question. It's the thing. And I hate to say it. I hate to say it. It actually worked. I got more views on that. You got to play the game. I guess so.

I don't like playing the game, but I played it just on a fluke. I'm like, you know what, screw this. I'm going to do a dumb background. And I did it. And for some reason, went up in the algorithm. I don't know if it's YouTube. It's like looking for those and like putting them ahead of things. I don't know what that means, but it's very weird.

But it's all been broad stroke stuff, Tom, on this show. So we can nitty gritty or do whatever you want. How are you feeling about that whole thing? It's a giant acquisition. It's no joke. That thing. It's big. It's no joke.

It's a big, big deal. Well, as Vice President Biden would have said, a big effingale. Yeah. The take that I'm bringing to it is not so much about the size or the people, you know, there was the Penny Arcade comic today as like Microsoft just realizes this is their world and they can just point and someone will join their team. And I think that's, there's some truth in that, honestly. but it's not as big as some people think even. Remember, Microsoft is right now, because this acquisition won't happen probably until next year,

keep reminding yourself that. They don't own them yet. Right now, the number four by game revenue, number four, they're behind Apple. It's 10 cent by like two Sonys, then Sony, then Apple, then Microsoft. So when Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard, which I think they're down there at number five or six, or probably number six, then they go past Apple and get nearer to Sony. But Sony, you've got to remember, by game revenue, still huge, huge. So this is Microsoft, I think, taking Xbox seriously, saying, look, we had to focus on Enterprise for a long time.

We've focused on Azure. I took a big cue from Satchanadella's statement yesterday where he said this is part of our strategy on cloud, content, and community. And I feel like this is the new Clarion call of like, all right, we won cloud. I haven't won it yet, but they feel like, okay, we're good on cloud. We're cruising altitude on cloud. And so now we want to diversify away from that because we don't want to be too enterprise specific. So let's do something consumer-facing.

Gaming is a huge industry. We have a big leg up. We have cloud. Remember, Sony is a customer of Microsoft Azure for its cloud streaming. Right. So buying Activision Blizzard and Zanemax before it and everything else, the 30 game studios they have, gives them leverage. They see the future. Honestly, I keep getting impressed by Sachin Adela because I wouldn't be too surprised if this was his strategy.

They see the future as game streaming. game against cloud gaming they know that they have the early mover advantage with with game pass so now is the time to conquer platforms to say hey sony wouldn't be it'd be a shame of call of duty was exclusive to to microsoft platforms wouldn't it i mean that would hurt us but i think it might hurt you more why don't you allow xbox game pass on playstation we'll maybe give you a break on azure maybe we'll allow playstation plus on pc I don't know if a lot of PlayStation Plus on the Xbox or not, but I kind of feel like that is the arena in which conversations are going to happen. I'm not saying all of the things Microsoft is asking for they'll get, but I feel like that is a big part of what's going on here. Yeah, I think so. I think that is their ultimate endgame, their future that they're counting on,

and they're making, this is a big bet in that direction. I think that it's crazy, the valuation, it's impossible for me not to go 68. Whatever, billion, 0.7, I think, whatever it is. That number is just such a big ass number that it's impossible for me not to see how many Star Wars purchases

that is. How many, you mentioned it before, but how many Bethesda's that is. Right. Like, to me, it's just this colossal number. And the biggest argument I get into people with it is where is the value in it or where is there that much value in it? And I would say, well,

you don't make deals like this unless you think you've got the value. Number one. Number two, they may have gotten a little bit of a deal given the recent strife. Nobody knows for sure, but there's some stuff leaking around on a couple of sites. Wall Street Journal has a thing up about it. So, you know, that'll pan out over time. But I think they maybe got a little bit of a deal. And even then it's worth this much money to Microsoft to buy them. But what are they actually getting? And people get annoyed when I remind them that the biggest moneymaker they're getting in this deal is King's Candy Crush. That thing is a monster of revenue compared to everything else.

You think Apple is the number of three game developer. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You said it early. He said Gaple. Apple's at number three. And the world kind of gasps at that. And it's like, no, no.

Why do you think 10 cents at number one? Right. Yeah. It's massive. And mobile is massive. And this is another thing is Microsoft does two things there. One, they acquire an already incredibly profitable thing. He made more revenue than Blizzard did in the prior year, which is insane.

But it's the truth. You may not like it. You may not like it. candy crush, but it's just the truth of it. Now, Microsoft also notoriously bad at getting into mobile. They just haven't ever had any kind of grasp there, one that had stayed. And this gives them one immediately and room to grow. So I don't like to harp on it too much, but that is really the chief. It may not be the number one thing here, but it's a huge part of this acquisition, like it or not. And it is not flashy, so it doesn't get as much attention. But that is really,

the spur towards cloud gaming is realizing that everybody's playing on their phones. And the Xenos 2020 processor that Samsung finally announced yesterday shows that even the chip makers know like, oh yeah, people are playing on their phones.

They're going to want ray tracing on their phones because whether they're casting that phone to a big screen or not kind of doesn't matter. That's where the gaming is happening from casual on up. So that is the battleground and if you have a cloud stream gaming service, much better positioned to win on phones than you would be if you didn't have one.

And that's why Sony's kind of scrambling with PlayStation Plus to catch up. And Microsoft has some leverage, both with Azure and now with 30 game studios and possible exclusivity to get ahead of Sony in that race. A couple of notes to what you said, Scott. According to the Wall Street Journal, the valuation of Activision Blizzard was based on pre-sexual harassment allegations. So they didn't get a discount. In fact, they overpaid.

They said, look, we assume that this is a blip, especially if we acquire it, we'll be able to solve it, and you'll come back to value. So we'll pay you on your value based on that, not on the current depressed value. But you're right, the Wall Street Journal also reporting that Microsoft kind of came to Bobby Kodick and said, I think we can solve a problem

for you and your shareholders. The shareholders seem demeanable. Kodick and the shareholders are all flatly denying that. To the Wall Street Journal. Wall Street Journal quotes them saying, like, you're wrong. Your timeline is wrong. That's not what's happening. Nobody's leaving.

We haven't announced anything. But every Bloomberg Wall Street Journal, you know, sources say, says, Kodick leaves as soon as this is over, cashes out with $400 million worth of stock. He'll be fine. Don't worry about him, but he'll also be gone. Yeah. Yeah, which is, I think that's both important.

I know that people will see that as there's zero justice in that. We can't get into that today because there's no winning any of those arguments. But from a pure business transaction, I like the idea that they, Golden Parachute or not, that he'll be shuffling on after this. That'll be important to people who want to see Blizzard in particular come back with roaring, you know, with roaring potential. and I think that's an important step in that direction. It's not going to be perfect for anybody.

It's also really impossible for people to hear us talk about mobile in this way and not cringe. I know who you are. Your core gamers like me. I know how it feels. We don't like to be told that all our favorite, cool, high fidelity ways of doing things are being usurped by mobile or that mobile is something so big that actually exceeds what we think is gaming. I know it's hard to hear. I don't like it either.

But it's true. So accept it. Yeah. And you can yell and scream all you want. The person playing solitaire over there won't hear you. No, he won't. He will not hear you because he's deaf. No, he actually just isn't listening.

He's hoping to get that win percentage up to 95.7%. That's right. Well, anyway, I'm cautiously, I keep using the term, it's such a tropey thing to say, but I'm cautiously optimistic about this acquisition given Microsoft's recent handling of these sorts of things. For me, it started with Minecraft. They treated that really well.

I've done nothing but shore it up, make it better, give players what they wanted. They didn't turn it into something players didn't want. I think they know that. I think Phil Spencer is a gamer at heart. I think he knows that. I think it's important to them to try to do right by players during all of this transition. And that includes possibly just not caring about some exclusivity. I mean, I know there's a lot of talk about what they're going to do with the Bethesda IPs.

and none of that is set yet. They haven't said for sure what exclusivity they'll keep and what they won't. But I don't know that they care. I think they just want to have their stuff everywhere and having all of us paying that monthly fee to play wherever we're at. So I think the console of boarders don't exist to them. Microsoft's end game here is like cross-platform compatibility, no exclusivity at all.

You can play all of our games on every platform through Xbox Cloud Game Pass name. Yeah. I really do think that's where this is supposed to be headed. Or whatever it's called. And everybody like, you know, there have been some people yesterday were like, well, what about the Mac? Blizzard games on the Mac. And I'm like, you think they're going to stop?

They barely do it now. Like the last game that was Mac compatible was Diablo 3 in 2012. Do you know how many years ago that was? Like, yes, they have games they maintain for it. But nothing new has happened. Overwatch came out, not. They've already said Diablo 4 will not support Macs. Mac gamers, I know.

you exist. I'm one of you, but they're not, that's it ain't so, Scott, say it ain't so. They're not going to swoop in and go, I'm sorry Diablo 3 no longer works on the Mac. You know what does work on the Mac? Game Pass from Microsoft. That's right. Use it in your

browser. Is it an old MacBook from 20 years ago? Doesn't matter. You've got a browser. You don't even have to spend thousands of dollars on a brand new Mac. Our Microsoft game pad. That's the pitch. And granted, if you're a serious, you know, like, I want to maximize my gaming, that doesn't, that doesn't play with you.

But in that case, were you buying a Mac anyway? Yeah. Also, does it play with you? Right. And even the idea of stream games that doesn't play with you now, but it may one day, there's a lot of things that didn't play with us 10 years ago, but now we're doing it. We're all fine with it. So, I don't know.

I think they're being really smart about it. It's a lot of money. Maybe not. And, you know, for them, it's not a lot of money. I don't know. They have deep pockets. But it really shook things up. It's been a hell of a week.

as a result of that news and lots more content coming of course from not only things on the frogpants network but of course daily tech news show covered yesterday and we'll talk some more today i'm sure um tom is there anything else that you would like to mention today uh no just the free time newsletter is is back in swing after a short holiday break so if you'd like an email from me just telling you what's up uh i was talking about my roof last weeks but uh more often than not i'm talking about technology news or sci-fine fantasy stuff uh you can get that at freetomnewletter.com and email me in response and we can have a little combo. Tom answers. He does. Yeah. It's, uh, it's, uh, it's, yeah, it's me or Brian, Brian Brushwood, you don't want to try to email and get a quick answer from. It's not going to be great. Anyway, Tom Merritt, everybody, Ace Detect on Twitter. We'll see you later. Oh, he, he saluted us. Did you see that? He did. He did. I felt, uh, I feel seen. I feel seen and

recognized. Recognized honored, maybe, maybe honored. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. No, not so much. All right. Let's get our old pal Randy DeLex in here. Randy Deluxe. I couldn't pronounce his name for a second there. I don't know why. There's no stroke. It's just me not talking very well.

Let's get him in here. Let's see what we can do. It's time for recommendals, everybody, with our good pal, Randy, Jordan, aka Randy Deluxe. Randy, welcome to the show. Good morning. Morning stream. How you doing it? We're doing pretty good.

Full disclosure. Randy has no opinion today on the acquisition of acquisition. Activision Blizzard by Microsoft. We're not talking about it, okay? We're not doing it. He hasn't even heard about it yet. He hasn't been informed. What's this?

This appearance by me on the morning stream contains certain forward-looking statements with the meaning of safe harbor provisions of the United States private securities litigation reform act of 1995, with respect to the first. I'm sorry. Yeah, that was good. That was really good. I was afraid you're going to do the Graham Pacer physical test thing or whatever. I'm just, I want to say one thing that has nothing to do with all of that subject.

it has to do with the media. Why can't we say $69 billion? It's $69 billion. And from the very first reports, everybody's reporting $70 billion. Come on. Yeah, no, I was going to do a post about this yesterday, but I felt like I was being petty. So this is a good place to do it. I don't like that either.

Because when you say, oh, it's close to $70 billion, this isn't the same as saying I have $7. But really, it's $6.70. That's okay to round up. When you're in the billions, you're going to round up $2 billion? Like, that's insane to me. It sounds insane to hear that. But whatever. It's 68.7 equals 69 if you're going to round.

And why are we so afraid to say 69? You sad, sad journalists. I don't know. Okay. I think we know why. I'm here to talk about things that are on streaming. And it's been. I just want to point out, guys, it has been such an incredible autumn and winter for new streaming.

I mean, it's been, it's been insane. I can't get over. how much thing how many things we talk about every week that we don't end up talking about on the morning stream that we saw and it was real good but it wasn't like the number one thing we want to talk about this week you know yeah it's incredible yeah there's a lot of and my list you know we've teen and i maintain a list and a shared note and we keep adding to it and we're not taking things off off the list as quickly as we're adding things to it yeah my list goes forever somewhere and there's loki i got a problem whatever i got a problem i'm gonna pay Can I binge, can I binge Loki in one night? Can it happen? Do you think? Yes. Yes, you can. Sure. How long is the night? I mean, you know, a night technically is, well, like 12 hours from 6 p.m. Let's say I started at 5 p.m. on a Friday. When would I be done? You'll be done by 11 or 1130 midnight. You'll be done. But you'll feel so much better for it. Yeah. I didn't know it was only that. I could do that. All right. What's what? 11, 12 episodes? How many episodes? Ten?

Ten, isn't it? I think it's ten. No. I'm confirming. I'm confirming with the person upstairs. Hold on. He says that there are eight. Where the hell is it?

Eight episodes. He says there are eight episodes. So four hours. You'll be done by nine, nine, three. All right. And I'd like to point out, you could also binge the records suitable for framing. What are you talking about? Six episodes at Loki.

You'll be done by 830 if you take a break to pee. Why is the chat sure it's eight? I don't know why they. Because the chat is wrong as they most often. are six episodes of loki okay six hours of loki basically five hours actually but they are 42 to 54 minutes so i'm gonna up i'm gonna go back up to 11 o'clock with p breaks with p breaks all right good well all right let's get started then uh brian you have two of these here let's start with your first you want to describe this before i play it this is brand new on streaming services and um the pedigree between actors and

directors just speaks for itself. This is something that is... And I just want to say again, what I'm talking about, how are we getting this level, right? It's an embarrassment of riches, Randy. It's an embarrassment of riches. Well, this was released to theaters first. This isn't like something brand, like this isn't something that was made just for streaming. This went to theaters and now is available on streaming.

Which is true of a lot of stuff right now. Well, yeah. They kind of had to with this one, if it's the one I think it is, because they, it tanked in theaters it did not do well but it should have and we'll probably find out why from Brian here shortly so I'm going to hit play right see what we got uh when when you were gone there was a day when your mother had business in see to be here yes she took the servants with her on her errand and I was left alone did she not leave alice I told her at no uncertain terms She took all the servants.

Shortly after a man came, unannounced, I knew the man, so I let him in. But he was not alone. He attacked me. He pinned me down. I protested. I screamed, I cried out as best I could, but there was no one he was overpowered. There was nothing I could do.

Who? Who did this? Who? Jacques-legris. Hey, it's, uh, Jacques-le-Gree. It's, uh, Ray's mother there, right? It is Ray's mother. She's also killing Eve.

Uh, what else? She's, uh, free guy, the love interest in free guy. Yeah, that's Jody Comer as Marguerite de Carouge. And talking to her husband, Matt Damon, Sir Jean de Carouge, who can't, the only complaint I have about this film is Matt Damon's inability to keep an accent throughout the whole thing. It's a weird pick, isn't it, having him? It is a weird pick. But he does everything, like everything else about his character is, everything else about

his acting in this role is so good. This is The Last Duel, stars Matt Damon, Jody Comer, who you just heard, They're also stars Adam Driver as Jacques Legree, the man that Jody Comer is talking about. Ben Affleck is in this as Count Pierre de Alonsohn. I'm just going to try and butcher as much French as I possibly can. He looks like Justin, like Justin Bieber's uncle or something like that. He just looks a weird. Yeah, Ben Affleck, blonde hair with a chin, like a chin beard.

And it's just such a weird look for Ben Affleck. this is directed by Ridley Scott and it's a it's done as three chapters of a story and you're seeing the story from Matt Damon's side you're seeing the story from Adam Driver's side and you're seeing the story from Jody Comer's side the same like three perspectives on the same story and so it's kind of like a he said he said she said kind of thing which is a really really clever way of presenting this, this, um, uh, the story. Uh, you kind of hear what the, the central, um, um, conflict at the center of the story is. And it's, you know, uh, Jody Comer's character getting attacked by, uh, Adam Driver. Um, and it leads to the last

duel, basically a, uh, it's, this comes in the very first seconds of the film. So I'm not giving anything away, but a then outdated form of resolving a dispute by having a duel to the death because God will make sure that the person who is right and who's being truthful will be the person who survives the duel. Yep. I also saw Firefly 17 times. I know, I know this little motif very, very well. Yeah, very common. Yeah. Anyway, this is, it's really good. It takes place in medieval France 1300's France and the acting the cinematography as you'd expect from

this cast is really really good the story is great it's getting some great reviews that's got like an 88% or 86% on Rotten Tomatoes 7.3% And I don't think you've said it out loud yet but written by Matt Damon right? Oh is that true?

Oh is it really? No screenplay He and he and his life partner Ben Affleck were on the Tonight like back in October and they were you know like Jimmy Fallon was like hitting them like why don't you guys write together anymore like you know that was supposed to be a thing in your careers and you you didn't ever write anything together after Goodwill hunting and it was kind of awkward you know like they don't really have a good answer to that

you get the impression that Matt Damon is just a better writer and likes writing more than Ben Affleck does the chief chief credit went to some lady named Nicole Hollis Center And that's the screenplay. Screenplay was written by Nicole, Ben Affleck, and Matt Damon. The book is 2004 book called The Last Duel A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France by Eric Yeager or Eric Jager or Jagger. So it's based on a book. I forgot to say, this is based on a true story, which is even crazier when you see the way this thing is presented. It is really, really good. It's, you know, it's really Scott. And for the most part, Ridley Scott hits on all cylinders. And in this case, he does as well. For the most part. Yeah. Listen, I, I maintain this. Randy had a little, we had a little to do in our, in our text earlier. But I maintain, there's not a single bad at Ridley Scott movie. There are movies that aren't as good as his best, but I don't think he's made a, I think even G.I. Jane is fine. It's fine. But there's a glowing review. It's better than most is what I'm

saying. I think Ridley Scott is a freaking genius and I love him. I'm biased. A friend of mine reviewed this movie and called it the best Ridley Scott film in 40 years. And I was trying to figure out what is he, what is he referring to from 40 years ago. And then I tried to imagine what he's jumping over. Like what he's saying, not as good as this, which is just, it's a huge state. It's too much. It's a little too much. And if you get a second, this is my one, I get to do this every once in a while. If you haven't seen it. Find the director's cut. The director's cut, okay, of Kingdom of Heaven.

One of the most amazing films you'll ever see. Don't see the theatrical release. That was effed up by the studio. See his director's cut version of that. Amazing. Amazing. Anyway. Yeah, and you can actually watch it all in one night.

Yeah, it's long. It's like four hours. But it's still worth doing. Don't forget that Prometheus and Covenant were both directed by Ridley. And I love them. I love them. Do you love them? apologetically. I've told you this before. I don't have any problem with those two movies. I love

those movies. Black Rain. I don't remember seeing, I may not have seen Black Rain. Remind me, Black Rain. What is Black Rain? Michael, Michael, what's his face? Married to Catherine Zeta Jones. Michael. Michael. Douglas. Thank you. He's a, he plays a Japanese cop on the edge, catching catching yakuza. Oh, no, I guess he's an NYPD officer who's like going after the Qusa in New York. But look at this cast. You got your Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Kate Capshaw, John Spencer, Luis Guzman, Stephen Root.

Look at Bonfire of the Vanities. That had a great cast, too. But who directed that? What I'm saying is... Not Ridley, Scott. Yeah. The one, the only one of his movies that I kind of didn't like while I was watching it was that Gerard Depardue Columbus thing.

What was I called? 1492. Yeah. I didn't like that one. Yeah. I mean, it just, if you just look at how audiences reacted, like Hannibal wasn't that great a movie. Boo, I loved Hannibal. Keep going.

You know, the, what's his, what's his beak, Robin Hood? What's his name? Russell Crow. Russell Crow is Robbins. Oh, I haven't seen that one. Is that just bad or is it okay? But look at this cast. Kate Blanchett, William Hurd, Mark Strong, Oscar Isaac.

Dude, cast makes a big difference. Like, I would argue. that I saw your recommendation for Don't Look Up and while I really like Don't Look Up, I think it hinges on those performances. I think Cass matters. Yeah. Totally matters. I want to talk about Don't Look Up a little bit more

with my recommendal. Well, oh, you are. All right, so we'll save it. We'll save it. Ryan, Ryan, tell us about number two here. Last duel. Yeah. Yeah, last duel, HBO Max.

Definitely worth checking out really, really good. Yeah, a bunch of drama behind the scenes about them going to theaters and then not we're having it not advertised really poorly and all that it was it was um yeah i mean we saw trailers for this thing forever and it kept saying coming soon coming soon we're like oh yeah let's go see that and then by the time it came out it was gone like in two weeks um during the pandemic of course a lot of theaters were still closed at that point and just uh had a had a hard time getting any sort of traction theater so hopefully you know does better with word of mouth and it won't make any

money or as much money on streaming as it would in theaters, but hopefully get some recognition. Yeah. All right. Give us number two. All right. Number two is an older movie. I was reminded of this because of a, my recent

recommendal of voir, the series on Netflix about movie genres and styles. One of the episodes is all about revenge films and it reminded me

that I'd never seen this and that I've always wanted to I watched the remake but I still watched and I hope it reminded you of why we're probably never going to sack it right? Well I think we should sack the original

but we can talk about that on the other side of this. All right, here it is. I will put a bullet through my brain and you can watch answer two questions. one who am I

and two why did I imprison you for 20 years if you provide satisfactory answers to both of these questions in a little more than 46 hours from now you win

refusal of the challenge brings the same result as failure you stay a fugitive from justice you get no reward no closure and I kill your daughter no idea

I love that I love that Claire in the chat was complaining about the accent that was Charlto Copley wasn't exactly from District 9 Charlottocoply or as

Scott will pronounce Charlito Coper Chopper Coper Coperly oh yeah chopra that's right you do go into kind of a chopra Deeprock or something like that

Deeprock or Deproch Galactic. I don't know what it is. It's a weird thing. Charlton Copley, who is kind of the main bad guy in this thing, whereas everybody else is MCU, right? You've got Thanos hooking up with Scarlet Witch while getting the crap beat out of him from Nick Fury. What's the movie? What's this called? The movie is called Old Boy, O-L-D-B-O-Y. This is a remake, a 2013 remake of a 2003 Korean film, I believe. I'm looking at the old one here, it is Korean. You're right. The original is the one I think that should get sacked because it's a classic, like of the two, it is the better one, but it's still widely regarded for its innovations maybe, or, you know, the over and above violence that it kind of made it a recognized success.

This one tones down some of that violence. It's got some other violence in it that's pretty hard to watch. But like a torture scene with Samuel L. Jackson that is who, he can do those. I don't like it when he's evil. It really throws me. Yeah, boy, is he evil on this one? And he's, and it's, it was almost my clip. And then I realized that it would take me two hours just to edit out all the F bombs in it.

Oh, wow. Wow, wow. Okay. Yeah, this is, this is regarded as the lesser of the old boys, but it's still good. Lance Reddick, Josh Broll and Elizabeth Olson, as I mentioned. Oh, this is the one where Thanos and Scarlet Witch get it on. They're like naked and doing it. Oh, I wish I would have mentioned that.

Shoot. Did you say that earlier? Did you say they were naked? Like verbatim, I said that. You didn't say they were naked. Do you say they were naked? No, well, I didn't say they were naked, but they are. No, you said they were in the movie.

And I said, no, I said you can watch, you can watch Thanos hook up with Scarlet Witch while getting the crap beat out. Yeah, but that can mean a lot of things in movies. I'm saying, like, I heard there is, like, first time for Elizabeth Olson, like, major full frontal, like, going for it. Yeah, there is, there is, yeah, if you've ever wanted to see, if you wanted to get your one division on, then this is the movie for you. Okay. All right. And while we're, while we're talking about directors who have been consistently good, I mean, we got to, we got to give it to Spike Lee.

I can't get over how this guy made, you know, great. Right. Again, I forget to mention this is a Spike Lee. Lee joint. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, 30, 35 years ago he was making just truly great movies. And he's still doing it, right? Like, he's recently had Black KKK Landsman and Five Bloods, right? And like this is, this movie is only like eight years old or something like that. His best old boy? 13, yeah. This is nine years old. Yeah. Oh, it's that old? I didn't know that. I thought this was newer. So who's, what's that one he did about the bank robbery? That's an amazing. Inside Man. Which is so, so good. So good, man. And that's more recent. That was what, 2018, 2019?

Oh, was it? I don't remember. Yeah. I'll look it up. This is streaming on Netflix. It is, it didn't do well in the box office and was probably, it's considered, well, it is one of the worst box office performances of Spike Lee's directing career. It's good, and it's probably going to make, like me, it's going to make you want to watch the original. Oh, no. Inside Man was 2006. I thought it was more recent than us.

Oh, I must be thinking of something else then. Yeah, that was a long time ago. But, well, in the larger scheme of things, but that's such a good movie. Another, like, little funny, interesting thing about Old Boy is that it was the screenplay, which, you know, you have to imagine there was some language adaptation in addition to just straight up screenplay writing. The screenplay was by Mark Protocevic. This is the guy who wrote the, Cell. Remember that movie? Oh, yeah. Oh, the Jennifer Lopez? Yeah, he wrote The Cell. He wrote the screenplay for Will Smith's I Am Legend.

He's, like, he's a, I don't know, he's an interesting writer to me. And so I'm glad to hear from you that you found the, you know, like the movie was understandable. Yeah, I liked it. I'd like, you know, I really, like I said, I really want to see the original. This, I guess I can't say that I think the original is more saccable because I haven't seen it, but it's, it's well known for that, just that one long unbroken take scene of the main character, uh, going down a hallway, like basically, uh, karate

champ, uh, arcade game style with a hammer taking out thug after thug after thug after thug. Um, just a long like eight minute scene of this guy going, like getting attacked by, uh, bunch of guys but taking them all out with a hammer anyway it's uh just for the record the currently not streaming anywhere so i'm trying to see if we could find the original i know that's if i if the if both of them were streaming i would have absolutely watched the original um because i everywhere you see it it says this it's the better of the film but this this version is or this uh the remake is good yeah okay all right i'm excellent boy don't do an image it's not a huge you know it's not the glowing

recommendal but it's good and it's it's I you know I enjoyed aspects of it yeah careful doing

an image search at work everybody just so you know on what Elizabeth Olson old boy yeah I looked up I just looked up

old boy did they get some screenshots and boy howdy are they getting it on like you said earlier oh really so the image search

features all the Elizabeth Olson stuff and this is a good one to compare Google image search to Bing image search so I'm going to do Oh, boy.

I wouldn't, I don't know if I'd go there. Wow. I'm looking at it. I see a lot of violent shots, but I've scrolled down and I've not seen, and I don't have safe search on. I have not seen any. Yeah, I just did Old Boy and then I put in Elizabeth Olson. Let's see. Oh, okay.

Well, there you go. Yeah. If you have safe search off, who. All right. Well, good for her and good luck to her. All right. Here is my, oh, where did you say that was streaming? on Netflix. Okay, cool. I watched a couple of things and didn't like them. So I'm going to recommend something that's old because I do like this. And I said I'm with my wife and my daughter and we decided to watch this together. And while Carter ended up having plot hole problems with it, I was reminded why it's one of my favorite John Hughes movies. So I'm going to play a clip and you guys can decide which one it is.

Let him go. Why don't you do something right for once in your life? Forget it's worth it. You can't talk to him. What do you want? You know what I want? Okay. Okay, you want me back, I'm back. Oh, ha ha ha ha. Come on, it's not that easy.

You're gonna have to convince me. I want you to beg. Let him go. Come on, you're back. Big. Oh. Bastard. You're gonna have to beg.

I don't think it's going to be necessary. No, I didn't know Jen's lived in a henhouse. Did you know that? It must be a house because I don't see nothing but chicken shit. I don't want any trouble with you, all right? My parents are going to be home in a little while. You leave now and we'll forget everything. All right now.

I just got the bullshit, right? Please. I'm here to write the floor with your ass and you know it, and everybody knows it, and you deserve it. All right. Guesses? That's a great scene. It's some kind of wonderful. John Hughes.

It's amazing. It's where he remade his pretty and pink. Kind of. With new actors. Kind of, yeah. Like, it's not that, it's definitely in that vein, right? Like, it's pulled right from it.

A little bit. Yeah, not, you know, that's, that's, that's, that's, pinning down a movie that I really, really love into a. Yeah. Because I really do love this movie. Yeah. This is the dead center of the baby boom generation of filmmakers.

trying to aim right at the heart of Gen X. And, you know, it's like, 1987. It's, you know, like the cast is, at least they're trying to make them appear they're the same age as you were in 1987 and so on. Like, just every, you know, everything about it is pandering. That's what I'm saying. Like, I can imagine that Carter's complaints are that the movie isn't pandering to her. No, I don't think that's it.

Her problem was the love triangle and how it all sort of, have panned out. Like the, the, the, the, the, him ending up with Mary Stewart Masterson at the end, it just seemed unlikely, really, really unlikely to her. Sure. And it kind of fucked her. Oh, really? Yeah. But I, I, I really liked it. She wanted the pretty and pink ending. She wanted Molly Ringwall to end up with Blaine. Um, I mean, I don't know. We ended up watching that, too, uh, the same night. Uh, really? Yeah. We got, we got, we went a little nutty on the, on the, on the John Hughes movies. But, um, while this is, isn't my favorite John Hughes movie. That goes to Breakfast Club. This is one of my, one of my guilty

pleasure. I really like it. I feel like nobody, nobody got us the way John Hughes got us for that age range. When I watch, for example, Breakfast Club, it feels documentarian to me. It feels like my time in high school. And that's also when I saw it. I saw it when I was 15. And I remember thinking, this is our, this is our anthem. And as it turns out, that movie, as we've talked about on film second other places holds up kind of across the board to matter who you are my kids love breakfast club my mom loves breakfast club breakfast club has a multi-generational sort of arc to it well and this is not that's not the only movie that you're you're talking about like you ask people what their favorite john hugh's movie is you're going to get uh ferris bueller's day off right fantastic movie

yeah it's a great movie you're going to get planes trains you're going to get uh what's um the the the one with john candy no that is uncle uncle uncle bullers Uncle Buck. That's a lot of them of John King. He's a few of them in there. But here's the thing. Like I don't, I kind of agree with that, but I kind of disagree with it. And here's what I'd say. I really like Ferris Bueller a lot. But Ferris Bueller was that guy I wasn't in high school. The kids in detention on Breakfast Club, that was who was who was a combination of some of those people. And so that one just spoke to me in like a really true way, whereas this, this Ferris Bueller guy who could just do anything he wanted anytime he wanted. It was like a nice fantasy. but it just didn't match. You know that other kinds of people exist, right? And that they, like, grew up maybe in a city and that kind of thing, right? You know that, like, there's a reason for other people thinking Ferris Bueller is his best way. Yeah, but also there's this creepy thing where the library and where they all spend all their time in breakfast club is almost exactly like the one of my high school.

So it's like this multi-level carpeted thing. And so it was weird visually to see that and know that it felt so familiar. but also I spent time in detention in high school for dumb reasons. There's a difference between having a character that is the one you want to be like Ferris Bueller and then the character that you are like the characters in Breakfast Club and Some Kind of Wonderful and Pretty and Pink. Yeah, basically that's it. So I relate to that more. Some kind of Wonderful is a little bit closer to that thing that happens in Breakfast Club.

And I really like it. I think it's heartfelt and fun. I think Eric Stoltz is underrated. I think the music of the time is really represented here. And there's tons of like new wave. Yeah, it's a great soundtrack. Yeah. And the guy that plays the gang leader dude that he spends time in detention, becomes friends with.

Elias Codias. Love that guy. Yeah. And now today, like in stuff he's in now. He's amazing. He's still great and everything. Yeah. Yeah, he's really good.

So anyway, that's what I watched. This was on HBO Max. looks like HBO Max has everything yeah they kind of have everything right now and um we went down a bit of a rabbit hole and I'm fine I'm really glad we got to finally show that one to Carter but it was very good and uh I don't know sweet and from my youth so I appreciate it all right Randy you got the final word here I got a clip here and you got any set up for this what do you got it's uh it's a short clip because what I am recommending this week is uh X rated it's I mean like I don't want to I don't want to push around. It's hard. This is NC17. This is X rated. And that is kind of the reason why

there's a debate right now. There's a debate about whether you should watch this. Like, there are people saying, I'm not going to watch that because it's because it's so full of swears and nudity and violence. The violence is unbelievable. I can't wait to Google image search this one. Yeah. So it's a short clip because I had a hard time finding, I had a hard time finding something I wouldn't have to do a bunch of bleeps on. And I just didn't feel like bleeping it. So the short clip. All right.

Here we go. I thought you're in prison for life. How did you get out anyway? I work for the government. Okay? Post office? Dude. I kill people for him.

Okay? Oh, it's sick. I used to think God put me here for peace. Now I said I didn't care how many people I needed to torture or kill to get it. But I don't know. I'm having feelings about things. That is John Sina, who is, who has. has risen up to the pinnacle of his career at this point.

He is just really like firing out all cylinders. And he is talking to the actor who played McClagin in Harry Potter and is now his wannabe sidekick, want to be best friend, vigilante, but is having a really hard time connecting with him. I've heard nothing. How is this X-Rid? This is really X-rated. I know it's a series on...

I wouldn't call it X-rated. That's probably our The third episode has a shot of a woman spreading open her labia. Whoa. It is, wow. It is, he is, he is nude in huge swaths of this show. And rightfully so, rightfully so. This is a guy who looks freaking fantastic and has spent his career in little tiny tight tights, right?

So like you can, you can understand he's comfortable with nudity. But man, the whole second episode, he's just nude. the whole time. Okay. That's great. And the violence is over the top as they can get away with. Like it's like it just like how do you how do you go more violent than violent, right? It's that, you know.

Sure. But, but the point, the whole, all of that NC17 stuff is in service of comedy. And I feel like peacemaker really hits it. Like James Gunn really knows how to make you laugh. Yeah, no. He's, so he's full on showrunner here. Is he just like starting the thing off and handing over the keys or what's the deal. Well, we don't really know exactly yet, but it looks like he's going to be full creative

control, at least for the first season. Hopefully, hopefully there's more seasons and hopefully it, you know, it carries on to other things. Like, it's, it's that example that we were talking about with Army of the Dead of where before Army of the Dead even came out, the filmmakers and other people who knew about the whole thing pointed at this one character and said, we need more of him and started making, you know, more about that one character. In that case, it was was like that goonter guy right in you know peacemaker comes from the movie from the suicide squad movie and like you could just tell like when he first appears on the screen in that movie you're just like oh they've got more to tell you about this guy right yeah yeah well here it is

yeah i'm i've heard nothing but good things about it i didn't realize it's so explicit but i've heard a lot of good things about it and there are like i say there's there's just a debate there's there are people who like critics who jumped up and said i i watched the you know i started screening this movie, you know, weeks, this show, like weeks ago when it was sent to me and I'm, I'm not going to continue. I can't, you know, I can't abide by this. It's, it's got a pretty stark political message. And that's why I wanted to talk about, don't look up, because don't look up has a very stark political message, but it's a part of the whole movie, right? The whole point of don't look up is that you're supposed to see the current political landscape, right?

this movie and see how there's a certain like aspect of the landscape that's going to lead to our doom right and so it's like it's it's all throughout whereas peacemaker peacemaker has a way more blatant right the fascists are fascists the racist or racist the misogynist or misogynist every one of them is T1,000 uh what's his name T1,000 uh Arnold Schwartz oh I'm sorry Patrick Robert Patrick is all of those things yeah he's I love him and his at his current age I love the things he's in. There's something about a crusty Robert Patrick that really does it for me. I don't know.

Did they make him look bad for Peacemaker? I need somebody to watch it and tell me. Like, if Robert Patrick really looks this like old and grizzled and like full of like scars and like the like or or maybe they're making him look this way. He looked a lot like that in that Perry Mason thing that was on. He looked real old in that. All right. All right. Yeah.

Really strong supporting cast. the you know the the peacemaker himself is surrounded by a whole team who's of people who are his handlers basically and the the show is as much about them and what they're trying to do is anything and like like i say just absolutely love every one of those uh lots of lots of like straight man comic relief stuff in that got steve aji in there right coming back from the movie is in there yes yes he is in there um i think most of them like daniel brooks is the is the character of interest here in that in that group because she's she's in the movie and she's uh you know she's also got her like outside relationship with her wife and but like I say the this is a show that beats you over the head with its political message and that's another reason why I say there's people who just absolutely hate it like like the people who saw don't look up and we're like no that's that movie is making fun of me and I don't like it peacemaker is the same thing there are there's a whole faction out there

there that this show is punching in the nose and they don't like it. Would you put this like, would you compare it to say the boys is probably a good comparison, right? It's pretty violent. It is, it is, it could have been in the same universe and made by the same people. Like, they could have

a crossover if they really, really want it. It feels like James, sorry, who's the director? My brain just went dead. James Gunn. James Gunn. It sounds like James Gunn is like almost purging his baser. instincts with this whole suicide squad run and peacemaker so that when he gets back to Guardians 3, he can do a little more of the PG-13 life. Do you know what I mean? I get it, but at the same time, I don't know if I would let James Gunn do Marvel anymore.

He's doing it. He's signed up in pre-production now, so it's happening. DC desperately needs more of this. And if I was, if I was, what's the company? Universal. Warner Brothers. I would lock this guy down. I would throw as much money as it takes to make James Gunn your creative head of DC movies, DC movies and TV. This is precisely what DC needs to be doing. I mean, in every one of its properties, right?

Like, James Gunn could save Wonder Woman. You know what I mean? Right, right. Oh, I mean, I think he's really creative and smart. But yeah, he's off back to Marvel, so at least for now for his next movie. so we'll see how that goes. Yeah. Hey, I'm fine with him having, you know, doing double duty and producing stuff for both places because his stuff, I've enjoyed his DC work more than any other DC thing. Yeah, for sure.

Speaking of Guardians of the Galaxy, once again, James Gunn's team has found a way to infuse peacemaker with music, like actual music, not music made for the show, but music that they've gone and picked from, you know, from great recording artists. And it is not like Guardians of the Galaxy. Guardians of the Galaxy was a very specific band of like 70s rock and pop, right? This is, this is very different. This is very, very, very different. This is like, this is like 2010's college radio stuff. It's, it's fascinating. Like, I highly recommend that you listen to like bring out Shazam on your phone while you're watching this show.

and check out what all the different music artists that you're hearing. I'm hearing some great. I'm hearing some great music stuff. Yeah, this will be one that I get to watch on my own terms without Tina. She has no interest. She did not enjoy Suicide Squad, either of the suicide squad. So I get to watch this at whatever my own pace is. And I'm guessing she also didn't like the boys or.

She didn't even watch the boys because I knew she wouldn't care for the boys. Yeah. It also reminded me of Invincible from, you know, last year. Oh, for sure. All that's kind of dark side to the superhero thing that is all abolished. With a huge dollop of comedy, right? Like, that's the thing. Like, it's, you, I can't overstate how funny this show is.

And again, like, if you're the target of the comedy, you're not going to like it. And that's a shame, you know? Well, it seems less cynical than the boys. And that's probably good because I really should use less cynicism at the moment. Also, filmed in Vancouver during the pandemic. So there's a lot of this like Vancouver City streets with no one on them, right? Because they've closed it off and you're sure. And that's, and it's really, really cool.

They're like, they're hitting landmarks around like Richmond and Surrey and all around the city. And it's just, it's really, it's a good looking show. I keep hearing the intro is crazy great. Like them all dancing like a big dance number or something. Okay. And that's a thing. Like they've put out three episodes and the three episodes all have the same intro. but you're already starting to see the cracks in that.

And I'm like, are they going to have a different intro at some point? Like, as characters sort of come and go. Because, like, I don't want to spoil that. But like, every character in the show is in the intro, you know what I mean? And it's like, oh, that's weird. Yeah. So, like, maybe they'll tweak it. They'll tweak it as the story goes along.

I don't know. I hope so. I hope that's what they're going to do. And they're not just going to hit us with the same intro every time. The intro is wild. It's like, it's one of the few examples of I'm not touching the skip intro button on this one. Yeah, it looks pretty, pretty nuts. And the eagle's cracking me up.

I know he's a CG eagle, but I've heard good things about the eagle. Thank you for bringing up Eagley. I almost forgot. Eagley is a peacemaker's best friend and his, you know, his companion is, what, familiar. Yeah. And Eagley, Eagley is one of the stars of this show. and it's so it's so wonderful that they have a HBO it's an HBO joint right so they have a companion podcast the companion podcast is called podley oh adorable yeah that's great

he cracked me up somebody on Twitter asked James Gunn if his brother uh what's his name gun the one that always does body doubling for Rocket and uh in the oh yeah right Peter Peter Gunn no it's not Peter Gunn Tim Gunn there you go no it's not Tim Gunn there you go no it's not Tim Gunn he's the that's the that's not it it's I can't think of it Sean Gunn John the guy that played Kirk on Gilmore Girls anyway somebody had asked him is he the stand-in for the eagle since he uses him for all this stuff he was that rat thing or vermin thing in the last one or in the suicide squad I came over the name of the damn character anyway but he's always using his brother as a stand-in for these CG characters and he said no I don't even know he goes I don't even know

how that would work he goes how would that even work having him do that. And he probably makes a good point. All right. Well, I'm, I was, I was really planning on saying this anyway. Is it done yet? Or are they still? There's three episodes in. Yeah, we're three episodes in. Okay. There's a lot more to come. They're pushing them out every week. And that's okay. This isn't one that you absolutely need to wait and binge. You can, you can watch it every week. Okay. All right. I mean, Station 11, I found to be the most bingeable thing I've ever seen in a long time. And I have two episodes left of that. Oh, so good. Isn't it great? It is great. It really is good. Everyone is so good in it. That little girl, was I wrong? She's amazing.

Oh, she is amazing. Like Tina Arbo saying, God, she needs to be in everything. And if they were going to redo some kind of wonderful, you know that McKenzie Davis would be the drummer. 100%. Yeah. That's what she reminds me of. Yeah. That's too funny. Yeah, that's, it's, oh, that shows so good. All right. Well, there's your recommendals for the day. Now, here's the fun part. If you didn't catch any of this stuff, you can check out Randy's thing over there. what's it called his Twitter account? Twitter post. So he'll put that up at Randy Deluxe and he'll stick it up on the TMS, what is it?

QuickTMS. It's already up there. Quick TMS. It's already up there now. Quick TMS Lee. Yeah, TMS Lee. It's also linked on the website. So if you need it, go get it.

Randy, anything else you'd like to say? Nope. Looking forward to the Max Payneiness with you guys on film sec. Oh, yeah. Max Payne, baby. Coming up fast. That'll be this weekend.

Marky Mark, the slow-mo bullet time. Can't wait. Randy Deluxe, aka Randy Jordan, have a good one. We'll see you. Oh, oh. He knows how I work. He knows how I work. He knows I'm going to hang up on you. Oh, I love it. By the way, some kind of wonderful on Hulu, not on HBO Max. Oh, my bad. Yeah. I wasn't able to find on HBO Max just on Hulu. Oh, thank you for that. And everybody's named after a Rolling Stones person.

I didn't know that. Is that true? I didn't know that. That's true. Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, you're right. Look at that. And they're rentable everywhere, but yeah, I don't know why I thought it was.

Oh, I know why. Because we were doing the whole talk to the remote thing. And whatever we watched previous to that was on Max. Yeah. And so that's what I did. You can also get on a Paramount Plus. Leah Thompson's Amanda Jones, the name of a Rolling Stone song. Mary Stewart Masterson is Watts, the Charlie Watts, the drummer of.

Oh, and she's a drummer in the. that movie okay yep now it makes sense uh when they they played that amanda jones song in the movie and i remember thinking well that's awful convenient that her name is amanda jones and the song that's playing about her jones that's such a it is such a great soundtrack i have that actually have that on vinyl over there look at you mr old school anyway paramount plus as well everybody if you're looking for it oh cool denoises there too uh let's do what we do now at the end of the show which is get out of here some programming notes however all right so the first one is i want to mention this tomorrow no show here's why okay don't get mad don't get mad but it's my fault um i have a thing going

i'm not even allowed to really talk about it yet publicly but i'm doing a thing with a let's call them a news organization and it's big chunks of this entire week have been taken up by this and tomorrow will be the biggest chunk and it starts right ahead of tms and runs right through it so it's destroy it as a result. It's a one-off this week, so I'm done with it after this, and it won't affect anything else moving forward. It just got in the way of TMS, these East Coasters with their schedules and everybody just couldn't get a better time. I tried. All right? I tried really hard. So there's no show tomorrow. However, Friday, we are doing a play date. Okay? Yeah. Because the following weekend, Brian's out of town, and we want to make sure to get one in before he does. Correct. Yep. So,

and don't worry, all next week, regular shows, except for Friday PM, but yeah, no, no show tomorrow. Yeah. Well, no TMS tomorrow. I'm thinking I might bump Coverville up to the morning. I might do it as an a.m. That's great. That's perfect.

I have you hosted, auto-hosted, so it'll even play there for people that stumble in. So that's great. Perfect. Cool. Let's do that. So tell people about that. What's Coverville all about tomorrow? Well, 30 years ago, a little album called Nevermind by Nirvana made it to number one on the

Billboard album charts. It was released the previous year in, 1991, but 1992, January, it became the number one album and kind of launched, you know, turned grunge into a serious thing. So I'm going to cover, we're going to cover

every song on the album, including the hidden track. So everything, of course, smells like teen spirit in bloom, come as you are, lithium, all of the nirvana hits that you love all in one episode of cover. That sounds like a great time, but also I'm a little shocked at that that's 30 years. That's insane. That's 30 years,

yeah. I don't like it. No, sir, I don't. I don't like it at one bit. So that'll be, I'll do that at 9 a.m. Mountain time. So normal TMS a.m. time. Just come here like you normally do, it'll just be with 0% Scott. 100% Brian, though. 100% me. I will screw things up, so don't worry. I'll make up for it. The lack of Scott by mispronouncing band names and getting stuff wrong. All those things that I do. Do all those things. You can watch me fall down holes in Astroneer, which seems to be what I do best in that game.

It's like, tumble down holes that I make in the ground and drop all my belongings. I was going to ask you if there are holes that you've made that you're following. Oh, yeah, there are absolutely holes I've made. It's like, oh, let's make a new hole down to the caves, and then I fall into the cave and all my stuff falls off. Fantastic. Well, look forward to that. That'll be tomorrow. Very cool. Quick note, I want to thank some patrons, newer patrons, who have signed up for the the old Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. People like Chip

Callum and Thomas Sorenson. You guys are all awesome and we wanted to mention your names because you guys are cool. Be like Chip, Callum, and Thompson Sorensen or Thomas Sorensen. There I am right now. Already messing up a name.

If you want to do that, jump over to Patreon.com slash TMS for as low as a dollar a month. You can get all the cool benefits. And there's even better levels after that if you want more stuff, so go check it out. Patreon.com slash TMS. Everything else you can find at frogpants.com slash TMS

except, well, until he mentions it and then you'll know about it, but tell us about the song we're going to play today to get out of here. Well, okay. Yeah, so next week when I'm in Nalens, it'll be Shane Maddox's birthday, and he hasn't submitted a request yet, but I'm going to use his request from last year because he's never made a birthday request. He says, oh, hi, Brian. I've never made a birthday request, nor a cover sung, but mine just happens to be on the 20th of January. I'm requesting this the night before, so I certainly have no expectations on timing. Yeah, I'm playing this a year late, Shane. I hope

you appreciate that. Metallica and Lincoln Park are my two favorite bands, and if there happens to be a cover of or by them that you really enjoy, I leave that decision in your extremely capable covervillian hands. Thanks so much and please, for the love of God, say staf out there. Shane Maddox. A year ago, we were still seeing the say staf. That's right. And and shaved for you. Happy birthday to you.

In a happy new year. There you go, buddy. That's right. So, Shane, I don't know if you were going to submit a request for this year for your birthday, but I'm using last year's, happy birthday next week

when I'm going to be out of town. All right, Metallica cover, of course. I got to pull another track from this amazing Metallica Blacklist album that came out last year. We've played the Inter-Sandman with Alicia Car, which is excellent, but let's pull another one from that album, another one that's excellent,

and this satisfies your Metallica vibes and your Depeche Mode vibes. Dave Gahan, one of the lead singers of Depeche Mode, covered Nothing Else Matters for the Blacklist. This is so good. Here is Nothing Else Matters by Dave Gahan. So close, no matter how far, could I'm being much more from the heart, couldn't be much more from the heart. Forever trust in who we are

And nothing else matters Never open myself this way Life is ours we live it our way All these words I don't just say And nothing else matter Trust I seek and I find in you every day for something new I'll put mine for a different view and nothing else matters

Never cared for what they do Never cared for what they know But I know I So close No matter how far more from the heart forever just in who we are and nothing else matters I never cared for what they do I never cared for what they know but I know

I know I know Never open my shelf this way Life is out We live it our way Don't just say that nothing else matters. Trust I seek and I find in you every day for something new. Open mind for a different view and nothing else matters.

Nothing else matters. Never cared for what they see. Never cared for games they play. Never cared for what they do. Never cared for what they know. I know So close, no matter have far Could I be much more from the heart?

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