The Morning Stream - TMS 2240: SHOW ME FLESH!

Episode Date: February 2, 2022

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Coming up on TMS, remote server returned code 500. No country for old Ricky. In VR, everyone can hear you fart. I don't like digital rupees. Sushi, market, sweep. That'll do. Cocaine pig, that'll do. Everything jumps like RAM. The following program is brought to you with unexpected airplane nudity.

I woke up in the middle of the night and kicked my wife. More popularly. Centralizing the decentralization with Tom. Goldenrod was my porn. name. Nobody's seen this recommendal with Randy. Squirt me some brown. Bit clam with Tom. Randy won't talk about

cannibalism on recommendals and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. How did we double up on them? I don't know. When Hunts asked me to introduce their new barbecue sauce, I said I don't know, fellas. And the thicker, the better. And it's all natural. Hmm. Boy,

is it better. Hey, you put down that gun before I get mad and make you eat it. The morning stream, the morning stream, morning stream. The morning stream, welcome stream, welcome back to the morning stream. I'm so excited because today is 2.20, no, I'm sorry, 2.2. 22 or you could say two no i'm sorry you say 22 to for the europeans or whoever does it backwards sure sure but all the twos are in there the only thing that would make it better they would still do they would still do 222 because they would just put the day then the month in the year oh yeah yeah you're

right but if this if the hell happened there oh thing finally logged in uh if this were uh tuesday it'd be perfect right but it's wednesday that kind of sucks don't worry 22 22 22 We'll be Tuesday. Yeah. Will it? Wait. Yes. Yeah.

2222. Oh, you're right. Yeah. We talked about this. This is happening. I forgot. It's happening. Yeah.

Oh, man. You know, it takes a lot to get me excited in 2022, but I'm excited now. Boy, boy, howdy. If you can go somewhere and get two for one tacos, then what are we doing? Yeah. What are we doing? Oh, they'll do that, right? People have some deal.

Who will do it, though? Twins Day at Disneyland, like all the employees who are twins that were both twins work at Disney World and Disneyland are doing some weird thing today. Really? I had no idea. Is that a normal? I guess they only have to do it when this happens, I guess. They only have to do this when this happens. Yeah, let's see. Once in a Millennium Day 2-22, we're celebrating all things to by highlighting some of our very special cast members, those who came as a pair. Where is it here? how many twins do they have work in there apparently quite a few uh that's interesting like lu like luke and lea well in that first movie sharpay and ryan and even tweedledee and tweedledum cast member twins share a special connection blah blah blah uh so i guess they're just honoring them at the park for some reason

they mentioned luke and lea yeah but but they're not twins they came out of pad me amadala the same time they were they were fraternal twins i thought they were oh yeah they did didn't they you know i there's things about the prequels i just straight up block out of my memory i really did i don't remember shit from those things by the way guess who twins who kiss is that cool it's so cool guess who's really into that this will be a real shock to you to hear this but maybe lannes no no this little guy uh van loves the prequels and he loves wado and he loves All of it, and it reminded me, oh, yeah, George Lucas made this for kids. That's right.

This is a kid's trilogy. He tries to do the voice, too. I go, what is he really? What does he say? He goes, it gets all low like that and tries to do it. It's pretty funny. Anyway. Darth Marcus, Obi-1 tells Luke in Return of the Jedi that he has a sister.

I don't think he says twins, though, does he? No, he says sister. Or six. Yeah, I think they just say sister. Or he says, well, Yoda says there is another. And then later on, Vader figures it out and goes, sister, whatever. Exactly, right. But we never knew if they were twins.

But then the prequels, you know, Natalie Portman shoots them out at the same time. So there you go. Oh, he does say twin sister? Okay. No, I know, Zoe, I know a sister can still be a twin. I just didn't think we learned that the two of them were twins until the prequels. Yeah, there could have been years apart as far as we knew. It could have been a couple years apart.

Which is what I kept assuming. And because I don't like the prequels at all, I just kept assuming it. Because it's kind of gross if you kiss your sister and she's much older than you. Yeah. If you're the same age, it's a lot better. It's way better. Yeah. Way better to kiss your sister when you're the same age.

For luck. That's what they said it was for. I had the entire roadmap with Star Wars planned out, all of it. Wait a minute. I didn't make anything up as we went along at all. Ken Crats is he wrote Star Wars. Is that what happened there? He did, yeah.

Would you like to come over and see my legal briefs? Are they going to ever give me a third one and finish that damn thing so I can get it out of my head? Look, I'm done with your making a murder. Not if nothing happens. I mean, did Massey get out? Massey, Massey. The kid? The kid.

I think the kid may have. It's like 30 now, but, yeah. Making a murderer. There was something that happened, right? Yeah. I don't remember now. He put up a poster of, what's her name? Someone threw a pebble through it, and they found out he crawled through a pipe of poo-poo and came out the other side.

Right, yeah, poster of, what's her face? What's her name? Again, they give her name. Raquel Welch, right? Raquel Welch was one of the posters because he had the 10,000 BC poster, Rita Hayworth. That's in the title of the Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. That's right. the original book title.

The short story by Richard Bachman, a. Good old Richard Bachman. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. No announcement of another season. All right.

So we're maybe, we got to wait for something big to happen there, probably. Yeah, exactly. Chat room, is there any writers in the room? Why do people write under pseudonyms for a period of their career?

You always hear about it. So Stephen King was Richard Bachman for all those years. And then. A.K. Rowling, did a, the artful Avenger or whatever. ever. Oh yeah. And she didn't even need to, except the, the systematic Democrat. What was that book called? Yeah, what was that? That was something weird. The efficacious penumbulum. Okay, so, but it wasn't a different, oh, Jay Fantastic says different genre. Shawshank

definitely is a different genre than the usual Stephen King. But Bachman, under the Bachman name, he wrote a bunch of other horror stuff. I don't know. It was contract reasons. I guess Ghostwriters do this? Who's calling, that's it. Robert, Robert Galbraith. Robert Galbraith. Good old Robert Galbraith. She did it as a man's name.

Interesting. Given all her recent history. It's just interesting. Well, all right then. Robert doesn't have to be a man. No, I've never, I mean, I've never met a woman named Robert, but they can exist. Bobby Draper. Isn't Bobby Draper on the expanse?

Is she or Robert? Is she? Yeah, I mean, there's Bobby's. There's Bobby's. There's Bobby's and there's, oh, Roberta, yeah, probably. I didn't think of that. It's probably it, yeah. Anyway, well, good luck to all the Roberta's out there.

Yes. You've been handed a raw deal. All right, moving on. We're going to, oh, a couple things here. So I was telling the chat room earlier, I'm kind of cranky today. The show will help me, but a little cranky. And I think part of it is because I woke up in the middle of the night and kicked my wife in a dream. Wow, usually you do that while you're sleeping.

Oh, yeah, I should mention. Woke up in the middle of the night and kicked your wife. Yeah, let me get the chronology correct here. I had a dream. There was a guy on top of my car. I was trying to kick off in the dream. I have no other memory of the dream, but I was trying to kick him. Get off my car.

And I started kicking violently. And then Kim goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And I went, oh, shoot, it's me again. So I'm kicking her in bed. I don't know what that was about. But then I couldn't go back to sleep. So I'm super cranky as a result. She's going to make you want to sleep.

Like, she's going to want to sleep in separate beds like the, the, the, the petries and the Riccardo's yeah did they address that in that Lucy movie at all did they go into that okay all right just curious about that era and why they starts with the two of them having sex which is really weird oh really yeah with Lucy and Desi having sex does he make does she make her called a coin in the air before he does anything yeah exactly I was wondering what the uh where we were getting with the I can't help it with him I can't help it it it's just No country for old Ricky.

I love that movie, so it's hard for me to separate him from that movie. Anyway, so I was in VR yesterday for a thing that I still can't talk about. It's taking a while because this is how the regular... You forget how the corporate world, the world, the world of, you know, media and lawyers and all that. You forget how slow that boat can go. Yeah, well, look at that. Podcasting, we poop out a show in the morning. You have it in the afternoon.

You have it in the late morning, really. Yeah, you have it about 35, 40 minutes after I'm done after I edit it. So you... Take that old media. Yeah, old media. Take that right in the shorts, the old farts. So anyway, I'm in this VR thing and we're in a social space, right? Floating around there with our avatars and talking and stuff and doing this interview thing.

And as we're getting ready for the main part of what was happening, I'm standing next to, I don't know, three or four other people. some are in production, some are there from a certain organization, and then there's me. And we're all just standing around, and I, they're all having a moment, which is basically all quiet on the set. They're trying to test some, because they're going to, they're filming this in VR with virtual cameras. And so they want to check audio, and they're making sure they're not getting any weird feedback next to anybody or anything. So we're all sitting there very quietly. Nobody's saying a word. And then I hear this. And it's not the actual sound because I didn't record it. I wish I had.

Whoops, I got to find it. Hold on. Where would I have put that? Hold on there. Is it this one? No. Oh, I don't. The one time I can't freaking find my fart sound. All right. Well, anyway, it was like a really...

That one? When did you play occasionally? It's a real short one. But it was, I hear in the silence of VR, I hear, just a little. somebody in there farted and it picked it up on their microphone and it's all I could do to not I was I thought that was so funny I couldn't stop I was like holding in the laughter you have to mute your microphone and I did but

here's how you do it in that world you have to hold up your your left wrist at a certain angle on a little menu pops up and one of the options is a microphone you hit it and you mute it with your finger but in you know in VR if you're when I'm in the middle of trying to to hold back laughter, I'm pulling up my arm, I'm not looking at it right. The thing sort of pops up and then goes away, wait, wait, wait, come back up. Where's the button? Oh, I hit the wrong one, shit. Then I finally hit the right thing. It was nearly impossible not to laugh. And I'm sure a little piece of my

laughter got out there. But somebody cracked one off. It was great. That's great. They thought they were alone in VR world. And, oh, microphone won't pick this up. Yeah, apparently it did. No, I'm telling you, those things are sensitive enough in those quests to pick up your toot. yeah it's it's much easier with the mixer set up here right i can always just you know that sort of thing to like cover it up uh when you're in zoom i've noticed the little icon comes up with the mute and so if you see a little mute icon of the little microphone with a slash through it come up for like a second in uh in one of my zoom meetings yeah it's because i'm farting oh all right no that's good to know that's good

to know because you know i always wondered what you were doing now I know. That's why. Yep, exactly. That's fantastic. Listen, folks, we have a lot of fart jokes here on TMS. Sometimes we have poop jokes. Those will do in a pinch, but fart jokes plenty here on TMS.

They will do in a pinch. Oh, boy. Thank you very much. All right. Hey, what's going on? What's your cat? What's going on? Yeah, so you know that thing where you have a piece of string and your cat doesn't care about it?

They're acting like they don't care about it. Sure. And the more the string kind of pulls away from them, the more they just want it. They just want it. They have to have it. They need that string right there. Yeah. So they're biological imperative to have that string.

Biological imperative. Anyway, so last night, I went to a sushi conveyor belt with Tristan's birthday, so we took him out for sushi. Yeah. And, yeah, the struggle is real. I felt like the damn cat. Like, you know, when it's right next to you, not sure you want that, that tuna, you know, that Maguro piece right there. Yeah. But then the further it goes away from you're like, no, no, don't go away.

I think I want that. And so. So wait a minute. It's one of these loops, though, right? So you have a good chance of it coming around. You'll get the. Yeah. So, and especially a good chance last night because there were only three tables loaded in the restaurant.

and we were able to get everything we wanted. The way we were sitting, by the way, was great. So imagine a, not a full loop, but a, oh, good comparison is like a modeling catwalk at the runway. Okay. On the catwalk. Do my little turn on the catwalk. So it comes down, there's a wider loop that goes around some. table's bar style at the very end.

And then it comes back down kind of right alongside, right parallel to the same loop. So we had the first spot next to the kitchen. So when the stuff came out of the kitchen, freshly, freshly prepared, we had first dibs and they would make it a little way around. And we have a chance if we really liked it on the way out, if there was another dish of it, we could grab it on the way back. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense.

It's all in this cool metal, refrigerated metal conveyor belt system. Oh, this thing is so cool. And I'm guessing, because we saw them pull stuff off after they'd made it around like two or three times. I think they must have some sort of RFID chips in the plates or something because they knew the things that were on there. Oh, yeah, they probably do. Multiple times. How else would they do that? They would have, unless they were, yeah, they'd have to know, or they'd have to have some way of tracking.

That's pretty neat. Yeah, it was really cool. So we walk in there at about, let me say, let's say, 555 p.m. Okay. That's important because as we sit down, our server comes over to us and says, hey, you guys can just start grabbing whatever you want. I'll bring your waters and anything else you want, but start grabbing because there are five minutes left of happy hour. Oh, okay. Oh, wait, so is it anything we grab before 6 o'clock or just because we're here now, we're locked into happy hour prices for as long as we're here.

She's like, nope, anything you grab for the next five minutes is happy hour prices. Really? So we were Lucy and Ethel and Fred and Des, I mean, basically it was like, you know, the scene that AV Tech John put in there of Lucy and Ethel at the conveyor belt candy factory. Oh, wow. Going nuts. Just grabbing. We're going nuts. We're like, anything we think we're going to want, we're grabbing.

And it's like hand over fist, like, ah, yeah, that one, that one, that one. And our booth is lined up so that only Tristan and I are directly next to the booth or to the conveyor belt. Yeah. So Tina and Kay are saying, oh, get that. Ooh, caterpillar roll. Yeah, get some of that. Get a spider roll. Oh, spicy tuna?

Yeah, get some of that. And we're just basically like, grab, grab, grab, grab, grab. Wow. Oh, you're making me hungry. And so they came over at six and they added up all of the plates. You know, they're on, they're on different colored plates based on their price with a really cool see-through plastic dome over all of them. That way not everybody's, you know, somebody with a cold didn't breathe on my sushi before I got it. So you basically grab the plate, you lift off the little plastic dome, put that on the side for Stephen King later.

And then you eat your sushi, and then at the very end, they count up the different colors of plates that you have. And so she counted up our plates at six, and then she counted up our plates, the remaining plates afterwards. Between the four of us, we had, I think our final tally was 41 plates of sushi. That's a lot. It is a lot. Now, you know, the rolls are just two pieces of a roll. It's not a whole six-piece roll. No.

And then when you get regular sushi, it's just two pieces of sushi. But still. And I'm just going to say, Kay didn't have that much. She's not a big sushi eater. So she did all the California roll and Caterpillar and stuff like that. Yeah, Tina, well, let's just say, Tristan and I probably did more than half of those plates. You did the damage. Probably two-thirds of those plates were Tristan.

I don't know what a caterpillar roll is. Why do I not know that? Caterpillar roll is eel on the inside, cooked eel, Unagi. Okay. With maybe, I don't know if they put, what else they put in there. Roalded in rice with layers, slices of avocado across the top. Ooh, that sounds all right. Yeah.

Oh, so good. Okay. And they had like, uh... We need to go to a proper place, I think, because the last place I went to. You need to go to a proper place. Yeah. There's a good, we have a really good sushi place near us that, We haven't been to since the pandemic, but this is making me want to go there.

Maybe we'll go there. You should go there. This is my favorite sushi place in Denver now just because of the novelty of the whole conveyor belt. But also, it's like, oh, that's what that looks like. Yeah, I'm totally eating that, as opposed to looking at, I don't know if I want this Alamigordo roll on the menu. Yeah, the Alamagordo. Hmm. Well, all right, then.

Once you see it, it's like, oh, yeah, that looks good. I want that. Did he have a nice birthday then? It was all good. He had a great birthday. It had a really, really good time. That's good. Enjoyed that tremendously.

25 is old, man. He's old. 25, quarter of a century, man. You can now rent a car, I think, is the deal at 25, right? Isn't that the... Yeah, it's weird. A milestone? I don't like it.

No, sir, I don't. I had my first kid and I was 25. That's freaky. I already said that yesterday, didn't I? I already brought that up. Yeah. Well, I'll just bring it up again. I'm glad he didn't have his first kid at 25.

No, that's, yeah, well, I don't know. You know what? In that scenario, you win. That's true. Worked out well for you. Yeah, but... You win, if he has it now. I'm telling you.

He's, he's not ready. He's not ready to be a parent. No. And, you know, look, who is at 25? Very few people. But when they are, they'll know it. Speaking to know it. Oh, Haven's Daddy, I love sushi done on Pearl.

I think I've been to 90% of the sushi places in the Denver metro area. Yeah. That's your job. Brian wouldn't exist without it. He has to do all the sushi. Hey, speaking of sushi, we haven't done. There's some sushi right over there we've never done. It's South Carolina's own Brian Dunaway. Hi, Brian. How are you doing there, buddy? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How are you guys? Good. How are you? Hey. Good. You know that deal? Sorry, this is a total inside baseball thing about play retro,

but you know that deal they had on Steam for that collection of the Contra games? Yeah. So I was like, well, that's only four bucks. I'm buying that. It's like every Contra game ever made. I'm going to go get that. And I went and got it. And that thing is effed. It's got all kinds of problems.

And I had to return it. Yeah. Well, I got it as well because I was going to, I thought about getting on the switch because it's 20 bucks on the switch. Yeah. And I said, eh, let's just see if I'm interested. And no, I haven't had any trouble so far. Yeah.

What is your problem? The controller problem? No, sound drivers is like, it's just effed. It's just like a big messy, broken mess. Really? And yeah, so I returned it. It's okay because I'll just emulate it and play them all, you know. Right.

Yeah, you're returning. You got your four bucks back. I got my four bucks back. Take that. Take that world. But anyway, hey, it's you and you're here and we're going to play a game. It's time for the Tad Pooley feud. And, oh, I guess we probably have a caller coming in.

Let's see. No, not yet. I bet we do. Oh, no, we do have one. Here we go. Hi, who's this? Hey, it's Tom Norman in the chat. Hello, Tom Norman the chat.

Welcome back. It's good to have you here. you're going to play a little game with us, which will be a great time, and Brian's going to explain how it works. Brian, what are we doing? That's right, Tom, I'm a mum, mum, mum, norm. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics.

And these two guys are going to have to predict the answers that that Tadpool gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Tom, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you know, your duo, not really a team. If you win with the player that you're assigned to, you get a prize package. That includes not Contra on Steam, but includes Turnip Boy commits tax evasion. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, it is good.

And simple rockets, too. Nice. So you get a very complicated sounding game and a very simple sounding game. Yeah, no kidding. Now, that's a good one. That first one's actually kind of new. That's not a... Yeah, that was last year.

We talked about it on the other podcast we did, the indie podcast. I completed it. It was pretty neat. It's pretty good. It's not bad. All right. Awesome. Nice, nice quality content today is what you're giving away.

That's good stuff. Cool. Yeah. Cool. Well, let's do, let's get in here. What's our, uh, what's our, yeah, Brian's got to get in the game first. Brian, get it in the game. Brian's been clicking on the pinned message for almost 30 minutes now.

And every time I click on it, it says, invalid room code. Try again. Invalid room code. Let's see. Mine did finally let me in, but it did take forever. I don't know what that's about. Mine just instantly passed back invalid room code. Let's see. How are we going to fix that, Brian? I'm going to give you, let me give you a different, well, let me give you another link and just see if that makes any difference.

I would love to join your game. Click the link in the Discord I just post and see if that's different. Yeah, yeah. Sounds like a plan there, done away. You got that? You got that there link there? It is different because this has a different name to it. Maybe you have.

But it still says invalid room code. Well, that's weird. How come I'm in and he's not? Can I give him mine and maybe that works? Here, here, let me do this. You should be able to. It should be the same, but yeah. I'm trying another computer now to see if there's an issue there.

Try the code I just put in, just for the heck of it. That's a different one. That's interesting. It's different, yeah. Yeah, it's, it's letting me, I mean, I'm in there. Now, you have a, there's a message that says, waiting for player to finish the latest episode of some Marvel show is what it says. So there's some fun going on there.

Al-Kabab has been adding those, and I love, I love that. Those are pretty good. I like it. Now I feel like maybe I've crashed the server because I'm getting an error now in development mode. Turn off your ad blocker if, uh, if you've got that on. That's the first time I've seen that one come up, so. Could be your ad, by you block you block an ad. Are you trying to keep the man down?

That's what you're doing? I didn't on the old link. Yeah. Yeah. Well, look, you know, ads, they're going to exist. And you have to sometimes face them. You have to sometimes be told that the floby is the next thing you need to buy. Floby.

Why don't you just tell me to me? We shall all have the same haircut. Yeah. Floby. Floby. Same haircut. You know what? That's like the future.

of what movie has everyone has the same haircut in Logan's Run. Logan's Run. Yeah. I look forward to my Floby future. Except for Fair Fawcett. Somehow she missed that, uh, that, that mandate. It never surprises me when you remind me, or it never not surprises me when you remind me she was in that. I always forget she was in that until you say something.

I'm going to try doing it on my phone now. I've tried every other device. Okay. Let's see if it's a Windows problem. Okay. Okay. Probably is, but it's okay. Windows 11.

Oh, sure, probably. Yeah, I've had, I haven't had huge issues with 11, but I've had a few little weird things, mostly audio related. I don't know what that's about. Maybe that's why that game didn't run, right? But it's, yeah, it's a little fishy. Well, you showed them. Yeah, it's a little fishy. It's okay.

I'm sure they'll patch through it, just like every Windows version, they'll patch it for like seven years, and then it works. So that's a good time. Oh, Amazon Web servers might be down? Is that the deal? Oh, so some people access, some people. some people don't. I don't know if that's... We can always play the pencil and paper version of the game.

I can just have you guys. Buzzer is really the tough thing. You've just got to be able to remember what's been guessed before. All right. We'll just say me and make it work. Brian, so your phone didn't do it either, right? You're out. Done away.

Brian, I think in using his phone he hung up. I'm still here You guys are not hear me No we didn't hear you for a second You guys are breaking up for me too So I don't know I don't know what's going on You got some weird ass shit going on down there

How about this? How about this? I'm gonna change us to a different zone All right Donaway How do you feel now? How do you sound in there buddy? You guys are still a little bit Krusty but you know Sometimes that happens and then it you know flows through

One thing that I'm having trouble with The stupid Discord app on the phone It doesn't get pens, so I have to, like, I'm over here, and it's like, what's that password? Oh, good. That's a good one. Very secure. We'll do the pen and paper version. Is there a library nearby with some public computers you can rent?

There's a good idea. I put my headphones on and. What? Sir, you're going to have to leave, they'll say. Sir, you must leave now, sir. You need to, well, let's just do the paper, pen and paper version. Do the, yeah, we'll just do the... Let's just do the pin and paper type.

Yeah, that's fine. I mean, it's so weird because I'm getting an invalid room code, that just doesn't seem like... That just seems like a weird message to get, you would think that I would get, you know... You'd think. Something. Yeah, you'd be wrong, but you'd think. That's all right. It's all right.

It's all good. All right, Brian, we'll take it away then this way, and let's do it this way. Sure. All right. Put your hands on your virtual buzzers, and you'll guess you'll just shout your, just go, me. Let me try, let me try Okay, all right Just real quick

I'm just gonna try something It's good radio It's a good radio for us to be For some reason Every time I put it in here Oh, this is why old media does it their way Oh right It translates the room code

Into an abbreviation So Okay, there it goes Okay, so whenever I click on the link That was pinned to Discord It would translate it to part of the URL

for some reason. It's the room code, but if I copied and paste the room code from the URL, it worked. I don't know. I don't know. Shut up. Okay. Good, you're in. All right. We're in. Okay, no, I'd do it the stupid way. The old-fashioned way. Did I win the game?

Yes, you won. We all won. God. We all lost. All right, so now it's up. All right. Cool. Let's do this. Here we go. Put your hands on your buzzers now that you have them. Yeah. And be exact. Okay.

I'm just going to tell you that. Be exact. Okay. We asked the tadpool. 580 of them responded, 10 of them could not come up with an answer to this. Name a Crayola crayon color. Scott.

Burt Ciena. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, they have that. Number three. Brian, two answers will beat it. Can you name a Crayola crayon color? the tadpool said more popularly more popularly more popularly more I'm going to go um with flesh color flesh that one always that one always gets the that always gets the ire up it does

exactly right flesh because you know there's only one color of flesh out there show me show me flesh show me some flesh uh it's lower that means I win number six so uh Scott and Tom, Mamma, Mamma, Norm have control. All right. Tom, you and I, buddy, we got this. Do anything jump here? Yeah, do you got a color that you want to get on there? I feel like blue is fairly popular.

Yeah, people like the blue. I almost meant something good. That's a good smart one. Yeah, I'll say blue. Show me blue. Yeah, number two, two blue. All right. What is odd here is that you want to be very specific about the colors.

Which is something that Crayola is very specific about, but then the Tadpool, did they know it? Yeah, good question. Right. See, that's the thing, right? Like, did the Tadpool make up things, or were they real? Oh, crap. Let's go, uh, goo, let's goo. Let's do, uh, yellow.

Yellow. Yeah. All right. Yellow. Yeah. Oh, they're shining for you. Uh, kill me. Well, they were all yellow.

Oh, no, no, no, no yellow, no yellow, no yellow, so, uh, all right. No yolo, how about yolo? No yolo. You only crayon once. I'm going to go with, uh, red since blue was on there. Sure. That, you know, that's, let's go, let's go with the primary colors and see if that was popular. Oh, are you kidding me?

Go ahead. Okay. Oh, all right. Show me red. Yeah, number one answer was red. Oh. You were so slow on that. I was like, oh, really?

Oh, you sound like you're still talking, so I didn't know if you were back to it. You were so slow, and I'm like, oh, crap. Well, for all the primary colors except yellow. Yeah. Right, right. That's true. Except yellow. All right, you still have control, Brian.

All right, there are six answers left on the board. You can't color your Muppets coloring book unless you got some green, so. Sure. All right. I hear it's not easy being this color. Show me green. Number four. Number four.

Look at you. Damn, dude. So we're just naming it. I like this one better because sometimes you say, give me your favorite. And this is just name one. No, name a creola crayon color.

Yeah. Right. So I'm going to go. Bless you. Bless you. I'm going to go with the. Sometimes I just get the button. Sometimes I just walk away.

Walk away. Just walk away. I'm going to go. go with the worst crayon because it's pointless. It's pointless

because almost all color in books are like a light color so white. I mean, you try to color on top of something else, it's not going to work.

Yeah, exactly. I hate that one. And this is where the name of Creole of crayon color versus name your favorite

Creole of crayon color comes into play. Yeah. Because there's no way would this be up there. All right. All right. Show me white.

Oh. Number 22. People did say, white. A couple people even said the most useless crayle or crayon color. There you go. There you go. Yeah. Okay. Did I mention yellow was number 31, by the way? Yellow did make the

board. Oh, yellow was on there. Yellow is one of my favorite crayons. Now, we're just talking the basic box, because there were other boxes that had like tons more and like weird metallic. I mean, I think there's 20, was it we're looking at the 64 box. I go 12, 32, and then the 100,

was there 128? Was it did it? I don't think they jumped. I don't think they Was it like RAM? That was why I was trying to remember. I was like, am I making that up in my head and a memory? Everything. Everything jumps like RAM. I love it.

Yeah. The doubles, crayon, they double every so many years? Yeah, that's right. So, yeah,

I kind of feel like, like the tabful with gold, like a maize or a golden rod or something weird. Oh. Oh, was there a golden rod? The cold crayon was cool. That was the C-3-Po color.

Yeah, that was cool. I love that one. Let's see. Yeah, you know what? Why don't we say golden rod? That sounds right to me. Let's say, because if they're not saying yellow, they had to have said something in the yellow range, and that would certainly be golden rod.

Let's say, we'll say golden. Also, that is oddly specific. Yeah, yeah, I agree. Yeah, exactly. Let's say it. All right. Show me golden rod. Now that I say it out loud, it sounds perverted.

Yes. Number 28 in the tadpoles overall list. They did say it, but not, uh, wasn't super high. Damn it. Um, unlike, give it. Um, um, let me think here. Ruff, let me think of, zub, zub, uh, they didn't go with white, so I wouldn't think they'd do the other one. How about, give me some of that brown.

So I can color my zoon coloring book. All right. Show me, squirt me some brown. Oh, man. Squirt me a song from your... I can't imagine how Microsoft... Wow, we were surprised that that didn't take off. Squirt me a track.

Yeah. Brown is new black, apparently not. I remember a burnt orange. Yeah. But I don't know. Since we got our burnt sienna out, I don't know if anyone's going to say burnt orange. I don't know on that one.

But Tom, save me. Yeah. I mean, I was kind of thinking silver? I love this. So you're like me, Tom. I love the gold and silver. All the metallic ones, those were cool. Uh-huh.

Yeah, those are really fun, huh? But were those in the initial, I guess they were in the initials. They weren't, I don't think they were in the 24 pack. Oh, you just mean like the initial one? Definitely were in the 64, yeah. Yeah, but the 64 they were. You had to get the 64 to get the metallets. Yeah, yeah.

We got the crayon sharpener in the back. Yeah, that's right. Hilt in. Yeah, paper sharpener, holder, deal. All right. Why not? We'll just say, ugh.

You know what? I'm going to change it up. I remember, I remember cobalt blue. Oh, that's a good one. I remember Colbilt blue, too. Yeah, that's a good one.

I'm not going to get it. Show me Colbult blue. Damn it. Yeah, sure enough. Now I'm worried. Blue was, where was it? Let's see here. I think somebody said it.

Oh, yeah, it's tied for 46th place. One person said it. Wow. One person. After you got out of the top 10, how many unique answers? Yeah, that's a really good question. There were unique answers, 102 unique answers. Wow.

That's pretty good. So bigger than the big box. Yeah. Right. Yeah. All right. So what do you got there, Brian? Now I'm worried.

It's yours to win. Actually, I think you've won. You've won, but... Right, right. I'm going to go with secondary colors, even though I'm a little worried about this one. Orange. You're glad I didn't say banana.

All right. Show me orange. That does bring our game to a close. Congratulations, Brian. Sorry, Tom Norm. Oh, Tom. Those prices will carry over to next. week. But let's

see what's remaining on the board here. Orange, well, this is the new orange, clearly. Right. You should have said you were hesitating on black and white or when you said white, you were thinking, oh. Yeah, they're not going to have black, but I guess so, yeah. Always been on black. Always.

Yeah, that's a good point. 24 tadpuller said black. Then we get into the weird stuff, right? You've got your your blue, green, yellow. Yes, blue green was my favorite. Right, but then we get into this kind of stuff. One of the newer colors in the Crayola Box, macaroni and cheese. When did that get added?

You can't eat that right. People do know that right. No, yeah, you can't eat that. They're non-toxic. Wait, when did that get added? Do you have that data? 90s, I believe. Oh, the 1990s.

I did look it up to make sure that it was in the... Wow. And how about is it a Nuggets color? Is there nugs in there? Yeah, chicken nuggets. Chicken strips? Yeah. Hold on. I'm going to look and see when

somebody look that up, because I'm not going to look up when mac and cheese got added. I'll look it up. Why not? Keep going. All right. Next up was number eight. Brick red. Brick red. Okay.

Brick red. I don't remember that. Don't remember that one at all. Number nine, you were, you were dancing around burnt orange. There was one more burnt, and it was burnt umber. Oh, okay. Raw, umber. Raw umber. Oh, that number is raw.

I like my, I like my umber somewhere in the middle. A little bit of pink in the middle. Yeah. I don't like it so roll. Not raw, but also not burnt. Yeah. I don't like rare umber. Too bloody.

And finally, I like it roll. A very popular. 1993 was macaroni and cheese. Oh, shit. You're right. I just look. I just saw it as you said it. All right.

Yeah. Okay. And then lastly, Surulian, which is just a fun. It's a favorite. Like, it's a high up. in here because the tadpole really just likes to say, Surulian. I don't even

know what that color is. What is that even? It's blue. There was a whole wasn't there a whole X-Files episode, not a whole one, but the beginning of an X-Files episode when somebody was realizing they could see the future and they're in this car and they go cerulean and

the driver says, I don't know what you're talking about and then they come to a stop sign that they were about to go through because they're distracted by cerulean and a big truck that would have slammed into him goes by. I don't remember that. I got to go back and watch it.

It's a Rulian on the side. Oh. Oh. That's, I don't remember that at all, but that's kind of cool. It sounds like a pusher in the 17th episode. Okay.

Yeah. Identity Force says pusher. Interesting. It's that actor that we've seen in everything, too. And I can't remember his name, but we've seen him a bunch of stuff. Some other ones that did make the top 10, cyan, periwinkle, cornflower, blue.

peach forest green magenta we had sign we have magenta yeah um orange purple brown tickle me pink midnight blue fire engine red then you've got your red orange not to be confused with the orange red which was right next to it in the box right uh eggplant means a whole different thing now electric blue razzle dazzle rose apparently is a newer one screaming green uh orange atomic tangerine uh orange atomic tangerine Butterscotch. Yeah. Fart gas, somebody said. I don't think that was in there.

There's a Robin eggs blue in here. I never even heard of that. Robin egg blue is one that somebody said. Hot pink, Indian red, laser lemon. Laser lemon. Oh, you doing laser lemon? I like that. Laser lemon.

That's awesome. I want to see a laser lemon. Sunset Orange. There you go. All right. Well, there you have it. Our Crayola version of the feud today. Well done.

I'm seeing a 120 bucks. I want that one. Oh, it comes with stuff. Oh, that's cool. 120? They didn't go 128? Nope. Oh, that's what I said.

But they had to squeeze some memorabilia in there, too, so I don't know. There's one called that came out, or they put in here in 1926. It was pulled out in 1944. So it's not there now, but it was called Max... Everything was made out of lid. It was called Maximum Red Purple. That's cool. Oh, Maximum Red Purple.

Maximum Red Purple. That's what color. that's what color your toe is if you shoes are too tight. Yeah, right? Oh, that's awesome. They should have one in here called. Oh, there's a Van Dyke Brown. That was pulled in 35, so you don't have that anymore.

Anyway, well done. To everybody except Tom, you lose. But that's all right. Tom knows, Tom's been, he's been down this rodeo before. He understands how this works. And he'll be back again sometime, Tim. Tom, thanks for playing. And Brian Dunaway, thanks for being here to be a part of it all.

Man, what a, what a, what a. a party it's been once again. And Brian, I'm going to let you know. Keep this link handy because Monday we're going to be playing a new game that uses another interface in this thing. In this format. Okay.

Keep it handy. Oh, interesting. So I don't get any more squirms? Well, no. Maybe in the future we'll have some more squirms. But I think we had our last squirm. I have a stack of cards that I can't use for morning squirm because they're so disgusting.

really well you know i'm talking i mean this is morning the morning puke let's do that yeah the morning puke yeah uh excellent brian dunaway uh sure look forward to seeing you this weekend for uh film sac where we get back together and we watch a thing which i don't remember what it is we're going to watch the hearts in atlantis isn't that it oh right right the another richard bachman book yeah stephen king yep uh anthony hopkins in there doing a thing uh i've never seen it so excited to see how that goes that's hard I scrubbed it

yeah and it was yeah okay yeah I can't wait I can't wait to watch it you're real excited I can tell you're stoked about it all right well good a lot of times I'll scrub movies like that don't it's kind of scrub just kind of look really quick through it and I was like waiting for some kind of exciting

event or anything and it's mostly people talking maybe the dialogue's really good yeah maybe it's supposed to be a good book I don't know how the film adaptation is It's a, it's a, it's one of those anthology books, isn't it? Like, it's a, it's a collection of short, or novellas, right? Well, it was part of a collection of short stories, yes.

The movie itself is, or the book itself, is its own, it's its own standalone thing, but it's part of another collection. Yeah. So, but that's okay. Sometimes Stephen King, like Green Mile and Shawshank were both short stories in a collection, and they were amazing. So, you know, who knows? We might be able to get something great.

If not, we'll blame Randy, because he picked it. It'll be fine. Oh, did he? Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, he didn't pick it. We all agreed to it. Yeah, we did, but he still picked it.

By the way, I'm moving Mars attacks over to the left side because that is on streaming now. Oh, nice. Oh, is it really? I saw a bunch of Hulu just picked up a whole bunch of old crappy movies. There's a few things I was going to tell you guys about. Oh, all right. That's great. Well, we look forward to that this weekend.

That's right. FilmSack.com. You know it. You love it. Bye, Brian. All right. He's out of here just in time for us to take it. a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here.

Going to do a little tech talk this morning. And then after that, recommendals with the aforementioned Randy and more. So stick around. Brian, hey, hey, Brian, play a song, Brian. Sorry, I'm in the process of Mars attacks, Netflix. I moved the losers. Catwoman? Oh, you moved the losers. Okay. I moved the losers down one. Don't worry. Losers still happening, but we're going to do Mars attacks between wild things and the losers. All good.

All good in the hood. Yeah, it's time for a little indie in the middle, and it's an indie that is submitted by a listener who is the person responsible for making it. It says, hello, Brian and Scott, Patreon and occasional Tadpooler Thomas from Norway here. This summer, I released my first EP in a decade called Tears in Rain, filled with songs about powerlessness, loneliness, all that good stuff. I'm going to request that you play TKO, a strangely jubilant song about feelings. your age. I'm sure you can relate. We're roughly the same age, as seen through the eyes of an ex-pro boxer.

I've already submitted this song once since you said you'd play any music from the community as long as you didn't completely hate it. So either you thought it was horrible or you didn't get to it yet. I just didn't get to it yet. Either way, I love the show though, and I'm dedicating this to Tonya, my kind and patient partner of 28 years so far. Oh my gosh. That's great. Long time. Yeah. All right. So this is from Tadpooler and listener Thomas Herloffson. This is from the... Hold on. I want to play this for his Tanya. Hold on. My name is Tonda.

All right, go ahead. Well, and I'm guessing that's how it's pronounced. It's T-O-N-J-E. Oh. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I'd say that. I would guess that that's pronounced Tanya. Somebody might correct me and if, you know, we'll have to find another audio clip if I'm wrong. Here is Thomas Herlofson from the EP, TIRS in Rain.

and the song T-K-O. I'll try to come out of the corner. I tried to get off of my knees. He used to come out swinging now I'm just a former. memories There's mud in between My temples My brains where my bowls used to be

And if I had a horse He would kick me And if I had a friend He would see Come Just pay no attention I have no complaint I have no complaint

Nothing worth mentioning But every time I fall down But every time I fall down They count on to tell I don't know if I have the strength to ever do it again When I get up there's a creaking and a cracking and a ticking Still I just throw myself back in You can try to get out of the corner

you can try to get off off your knees you can try and make for forgiveness the only thing you'll ever be is what I'll become just pay no attention I have no complaints Well, nothing worth mentioning But the last round is mine

Unitedness decision and bells are ringing and bells are ringing and bells ringing I'm rolling because I want to show you what to do if your clothes ever catch on fire because the fire won't just burn your clothes. It'll burn you. You're magical. All right, we're back, everybody. Brian, remind us who that was just now.

Sure. That was Thomas Herrloffson and the song TK.O from the EP Tears in Rain. TK.O. TK.O. A technical knockout. Yeah. By the way, I'll give you the question and not one of the answers from one of the cards I will not use for trivia for morning squirm. Oh, okay. Let's hear it. What does it mean when you give somebody a Pekipsy inhaler?

I've never. idea do you even want to tell me is it horrible uh uh well see that's the thing uh so somebody while you were on your vr yeah could have been giving somebody a piccy inhaling oh like tooting in their mouth if there was a oh my god person involved what is that about who is doing that someone Somebody's doing that. It ain't me. Holy Moses. Somebody does it enough to give it an am.

Sorry, Poughkeepsie. You got roped into that deal. Whatever that is. That's one of the questions we won't be using for the morning squirm. That's fantastic. All right. Let's get Tom in here on that note and have a little bit of tech discussion. Always a good time on a Wednesday morning.

And, you know, we need to know. We need to know. With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. Celebrating Sony buying bungee week. we have Tom Merritt here joining us from the Daily Tech News show. Tom, look at you and your cool sweaty. I like your sweatshirt. That's a good look. Look at that. DTNS and everything. Thanks. Look at DTNS. It's a Lenn design. Anybody who's a patron at the very top level gets one of these sent to them every three months they remain a patron. That's amazing. It's also, I think like, I can't afford the top level. We also have other things like a mug. Oh. Look at that. Yeah, these are these are Lenn Peralta designs, I believe.

Yeah, this is a Peralta, a Peralta original. Yeah, a print, if you will, an NFT. Not really. Hey, it's, uh, Tom is here to talk about tech. We always do this on Wednesdays where he comes in, talks about the latest tech headlines that are happening that day in preparation for the daily tech news show, which happens later today. Uh, so Tom, what's going on? Is there anything big out there going on happening? Well, uh, I'm, I'm looking into the fact that India announced it wants to launch a digital rupee.

on April 1st A droopy A droopy A droopy Oh You know What was the droopy say? Call it a digital rupee on April 1st

I don't know I just Yeah Interesting So And not to be confused With the actual digital rupees That already exist in Zelda games

We're talking about their currency These are distinct They are non-fungible With the with the rupee you find in Zelda Sure So this would make them the 10th country to launch a digital currency, and no, El Salvador is not one of them. Everybody thinks about El Salvador because they made a big deal about accepting Bitcoin as legal tender.

That is a different move than issuing a central bank digital currency. The idea with the CBDC is that just like the U.S. Federal Reserve issues dollar bills and $10 bills and $20 bills, there would be a digital currency issued by the government for use. It would not be like Bitcoin. In other words, it wouldn't be decentralized. It would be centralized. It would be issued by the government. But it could take advantage of some of the efficiencies of blockchain technology to make things more efficient, to make things a little faster.

A lot of people are skeptical of whether it really is more efficient or faster. I guess we'll find out as more and more countries do this. But the theory is that even when you centralize the blockchain database, you can get some of the advantages of decentralization that you don't have from a central database. So the decentralization in Bitcoin means nobody owns the servers. The centralization in a central bank digital currency means the government owns all the servers, but they can be in multiple places and they can take advantage of some of the efficiencies of decentralization that you don't get from having a central database. They're more secure. They're less hackable, therefore. They're not bulletproof, but they're less hackable.

and right now the system requires a lot of checks and balances that a digital ledger has built in to kind of authorize and confirm and avoid fraud. So if you can take advantage of all that, you can make transactions a lot faster. Anybody who's done that waiting three days for a check to get digitally transferred into your account, that stuff could be done almost instantaneously with a digital currency. It also means that you could issue currency directly to people instead of having to do it through banks, although it looks like the banks are going to say, yeah, but we don't want to go out of business. So please issue them through us. That's certainly the case in the United States.

So we're going to check in on that on DTNS, kind of the state of central bank digital currencies. But this is something that is coming. And it has the potential to help the unbanked. In other words, you could have a wallet with digital currency in it without having to qualify for a bank account. So even if banks are helping to administer the system, it could make it a lot easier because you don't have to pass credit checks and background checks and things like that. So there's a lot of potential upsides. Obviously, a lot of potential downsides in centralization. Is it really more efficient?

All of that. But it's something that 87 countries are investigating and nine countries have already launched. So we're going to see more of these. So here's my question. centralization, my initial thought is when you centralize your digital currency, just like if you centralize your physical currency, it automatically will make it a more stable, less volatile currency. Correct. By that, I mean, you know, you hear about these huge pumps of, I mean, ish, depends on the country, right? Depends on the country, right. People's currencies

collapse all the time. Certain fiat currencies are very volatile, but yeah, in general, the yacht currencies tend to be more stable. Right. So if you're, so if you're already, rupee market is pretty stable. Chances are your digital rupee market will probably be more stable than say something that's more of a speculative Bitcoin or Ethereum or something like that. Is the U.S. anywhere near something like this? Do you think? Like if you had to guess. Yeah. Yeah. The U.S. is investigating this. The Federal Reserve is conducting an investigation. It's very early on. They're already trying to negotiate congressional opposition to it. There is opposition on the environmental end of people worried that it would use too much power. It doesn't have to. It doesn't

have to use any more power than a current data center does. If you don't do proof of work like Bitcoin does, which you would need to in a centralized system. There's also people opposed to it on the grounds of it, you know, put in the banks out of business. They've got bank lobbyists who contribute to their campaign. So they want to make sure that that the banks don't get cut out. And there's other people opposed to it just on on on grounds of of being I don't know kind of anti-technology sentiment we don't need it it's not more efficient so so there's some opposition in Congress but the Fed is taking a very measured approach saying we will not issue this until Congress grants us authorization to do so we will investigate it and present all the facts to Congress so it can make an informed decision

that's where we are on the other end of the spectrum is the Bahamas that issued one in October 2020. They were the first one out of the gate. They've had one for a long time now. And China is the biggest country that's the farthest down the road. They've issued one that is in a test phase, but they've got millions of users of it. And they're really going to try to push it to be used during the Olympics to try to move that test farther along. Yeah, that's the great thing about China. Your tests can be millions and millions of people, maybe hundreds of millions of people, and you're still only talking a fraction. In just one city, it could be millions of people. And that's what they've done. They've tested it.

it in Shanghai. They've tested it in Beijing and got millions of users. So, yeah, that one's the biggest currency that's farthest down the road. Korea just finished their phase one. And, of course, India just kind of came out of nowhere and said, we're an issue in one April 1st. Not giving you any details on how it's going to work or anything like that, but it's coming. China should just call there's the 10 cent. That's what they should refer to it as, you know? Oh, yeah, no. They're not definitely, they're definitely in the mood in China, if people out there don't realize is, is that the government is cracking down on tech companies for having too much power. So that's funny because Xi Jinping would not want to call anything after a tech company.

It is the digital yuan, if anybody wants to know that. Oh, that's what they call it. Just digital yuan. Okay. Yeah. That's boring. You need to have a cool new name, man. You got to like droopy. I know, right? The Bahamas called there's the sand dollar. That's cool. See? It's be it. Yeah. Everybody else is just calling it the digital rupee, the digital euro, the digital dollar. Yeah, I don't want digital dollar because that's boring. You got to call it the dollar, digital digital digital dollar. That's still thing droopy. I'm liked him droopy. Yeah, droopy's not bad. The digital euro. The digital shekel. That's lame. Well, all right, but covering it will not be lame. That'll be today on the daily tech news show. So do check that out. Check it out all week, in fact,

because it's daily tech coverage. It's right there in the name. It's got D in the name. It's for daily. And I'll be on today because Wednesdays are my day, damn it. So watch for that. It's not the digital tech news show? No, it's the day. Okay. All right. You need to start your own currency, Tom. We could get off the hook of having to do this every day if we change our name. There you go. Bit clam. That's a good one. I see you. I want bit clam. That's good. That's good. It has to be some coastal, you know, clam farming town or cities, state, whatever. Shells have often been used as currency in history. So there's something there. big clam that's amazing um all right hey tom anything else going on you want to mention to

find what you mentioned you're going to be on the show today and one of the things we're going to have you talk about is is kind of the overview of all the the gaming upheaval with uh sony wanting to buy bungee microsoft wanting to buy activision blizzard uh this sort of announcement from sony that they want to get into uh 10 live platform games by 2026 after they acquire bungee so uh we're going to get scott's take on all of that be sure to check that out daily tech news show com and as we mentioned if you become a patron every three months at the highest levels if you stick around you get some cool stuff yeah like this rad sweatshirt you got on today it's really nice and uh if you if you're at the mug level three nine months in you get this one with sarah's

face on it oh well then why wouldn't you want what is even the reason not to you just convinced me so go get in there you guys it's tom merritt ace detect on twitter if you're trying to find him then. Tom have a tantatastic few hours until I see you again. Bye now. If I can just say words, it'd be great. Hey, we're done with Tom. That means that it's time for us to recommend some shit.

The low-key Randy Deluxe. Yeah. Sleepy Randy, I think, is what we call him. Yeah, he's probably no coffee in his system. Probably super chill today. And we're going to dive right in here, folks. Time for us to do recommendals where we

take streaming stuff and recommend it to you find folks at home. Sometimes we tell you to stay away from things. Will I be doing that today? I don't know. Maybe. Anyway, hey, it's Randy Deluxe. Randy Jordan. Hey, welcome to the show. What's going on? Good morning. Morning stream. I am so

glad to be here. I'm happy to say I did not blow $3.6 billion this week. I did, however, I did however really, really wonder what is up with the tad pool not knowing the number one cryola color, which is goldenrod. It's goldenrod.

It is goldenrod. A few people said it, but yeah, it was surprisingly low numbers saying goldenrod. It felt like goldenrod was everywhere. Like you would have extra golden rods and packages. That was my porn name, by the way. Oh, was it goldenrod? Four people, four tadpullers said goldenrod. It's just unbelievable.

It was the color. It was the one that if you looked at anybody's creola box when I was a kid, it was way down. Like they were all, you know, because you judged by how far down the color had been used, right? Sure. That's how you judged it. That's how you know if it was good. Yeah. That one, burnt sienna was always way, way down. I'm pretty sure. I'm pretty sure my daughter's dog. Was it Ripley or maybe Rainer? One of our dogs ate a crayon recently. Can't remember which one now. Do I have that right? Is Carter in the chat? She could clear this up. But I think one of them ate one. And I don't remember if we got it out.

If they ate the whole thing. I don't know if you're supposed to do something special. burnt sienna wrapper i mean it should be just it's just waxy nothing right it's not gonna hurt yeah yeah it's kind of a wax or something you say it's waxing nothing but i just two weeks ago had a a load of laundry that included uh some shorts or pants from my kid with a crayola oh no all melted in there and it managed to go through the wash and the dryer yeah and uh that's no good ruined like hundreds of dollars worth of clothes. Yeah. Totally.

Some new shirts of mine, you can't possibly get that out. When there's a will, there's a way, I always say. Hey, Carter in the chat says it was Ripley. Okay,

I did have it right, but I couldn't remember which dog. But she was fine. She pooped it, right? Or she yak it? I don't remember. She usually throws up

something gross once a day. Anyway, hey, Randy, it's good to have you here. We're going to dive right in and do these recommendals. The grand tradition is Brian starts,

and we're not changing that. He's starting today. Brian, anything to set up here. Yeah, not us. First one is a series, and, boy, it gets summed up. The crux of the series gets summed up in just these first few seconds of what you're about to hear. My goodness, here we go. I know what you want to hear, but the truth is, the plane crashed.

A bunch of my friends died, and the rest of us starved and scavenged and prayed for 19 months until they finally found us. And that's the end of the story. And I think we both know there's a bit more to it than that. I can't imagine what you guys went through out there. Nobody can. And that is worth something. It's worth a lot, actually. I can guarantee you a seven-figure book advance right here, right now.

We could write it together, but it's your name on the cover. Not interested. Sorry. What if I told you the others were? Then I would say that you're lying. So you are still in touch. I haven't spoken to any of them in years. I would not know how to get hold of them, even if I wanted to.

I moved on, and I genuinely hope that they were able to do the same. No idea what this is. That is a series called Yellow Jackets. Oh, right. People have been raving about this. People won't shut up about it. who won't they won't they won't just people love it that's just like people freaking yeah it is it's great um this is a series about a uh a group of teenagers a high school soccer team that is on their

way to the state championship or sorry the national championships after winning state and their plane crashes uh in the mountains and um it's how they survive but you you get a lot of like the lost kind of thing where you get instead of flashbacks you get um the flash forwards right you're you see you see them as teenagers actually surviving in the mountains and then you see them in current day and age where um they're they're experiencing this like uh book deals and like a little mystery that's going on there's a very there's a very lost kind of feel to parts of this but i don't want anybody to feel like this is this is super um losty it doesn't have that um oh we're creating this weird smoke monster

looking thing that creates screeching noises in the jungle and stuff like that. But bottom left to this for me was their cannibalism. Yeah. Is this like that a live movie with the soccer players in it? Is that what this is? Since you see the answer to your question

within the first minute of the show, the first couple minutes of the show, I'm going to say yes. Okay. Wow. Okay. Yeah, since it says not a spoiler. That's a subject right there. You know, like, you know, when we've had, we live in a time when we've had like Game of Thrones already.

And so a lot of, a lot of taboo subjects have been put front and center and like our most watched shows, you know. Yeah. Wow. This, uh, okay. Interesting. Yeah. For sure. But it's not, it's not super, you know, it's not, uh, there's blood in it, of course, but it's not like over the top kind of stuff.

Um, your cast is some great folks in here. Juliette Lewis and Christina Ritchie are, well, and Melanie Linsky are the adult versions of some of these teenagers. Melanie Linsky, people might know she was one of the girlfriends on two and a half men, I think the most consistent of the girlfriends on two and a half men. Oh, I know which one that is. You definitely know her. When you see her, it's like, oh, yeah, I totally know her.

She's from New Zealand, and I never would have guessed that, although the big hint should have been she was in that Peter Jackson movie Beautiful Creatures with Kate Winslet. Yeah. She was the girl that was not Kate Winslet in Beautiful Creatures. All right. Sure. This is, so far, it's great. It's a 10 episode, first season.

It has been renewed for a second season, so we will get a continuation of the story. Thank goodness. It is on Showtime. So here's what you do. If you haven't done this already, get the Showtime Paramount Plus combo. And it's the same price as just getting Paramount Plus alone. You can watch your Picard. You can watch a Star Trek Discovery.

You can watch all that stuff. And then you can watch the Showtime stuff and watch Dexter New Blood and Yellow Jackets. Is this the girl? I'm going to put this in our Discord. Is this the girl that I think it is from two and a half men? Is that her? Yes. Okay.

Yes. That's the one I always think of. Is that not her? I'm not 100 sure. I'm not so sure. Oh, she's always the one I think of when you say the regular girlfriend, but maybe I've got the wrong one. She was the stalker, I should say.

Oh, that's Padgett Brewster that you put in the chat. Oh, not her then? She was the one that was added to that horrible Yahoo season six of community, but was one of the best parts of that horrible Yahoo season six. No, Monica reminded me it's the one who stocked Charlie and... Charlie Sheen. A thing that would never happen in real life because no one likes Charlie Shane. Yeah.

I didn't watch that show very much, but I always remembered her for some reason. Melanie Linsky, I'll just give you a little, let's see here. Copy image paste, here you go. A lot of people in the chat watch two and a half men. Geez. I know. I know. I've never seen a single episode of that.

Okay. There you go. Oh, the girl that. She was also in up in the air, the perks of being a wallflower. They said, the chat says Linsky was in that, I just watched it. Don't look up. She's the wife. Oh, okay.

I know who that is. She's great. I like her in that. Yeah, he pissed me off so bad in there. I really felt bad for her. It's a long story. Go watch. Don't look up if you want to know what I'm talking about.

Anyway. So is Yellow Jackets a starring Christina Ricci and Juliette Lewis show? Or is it a featuring once on one episode, Christina Richie and Julia Lewis? Featuring in every episode. It's, you know, they are the adult version. Like you, you spend half your time in the show with the adult versions of some of the characters. And, you know, of course, that does let you know a couple people. people who survived, but you still don't know how many of the rest of them survived.

I think Randy's point is like, they're not, they are regular cast members. They're regular cast members, but they're not, I wouldn't call them stars of the first names you see in the credits. And that's like, I guess we're just still not to the time yet. And I keep predicting it and it's not happening when, uh, the de-aging tech and all of the, you know, CG makeup and so forth is so good that you just have one actor, play multiple ages at all times like here's here's the thing um christina ritchie's character the teenage version of christina ritchie's character is pretty good looks a little bit like her

whoever i mean the woman that they found to play the young version of this woman we put i put in discord perfect casting really like yeah um because like you know what i'm but you know what i'm talking about right like totally know what you're talking about yeah absolutely we have the tech now for the run-of-a-mill TV show to have full CG exteriors and interiors. You only need to put people on a soundstage surrounded by green, and everything else is made by computers. It's all video game. It can be done.

Sure. It's expensive, though. So if you're going to do your drama like this, it's probably less expensive still to do it this way, but I take your meaning. I want to talk about this more with my recommendal. Isn't there? Okay, because it's very, very, you know, like, It's very seamless, and, you know, many shows, so many shows, shows you wouldn't expect.

They're, they're, you know, CGIing in, you know, cars and buildings and so on and so on. Yeah. But like the people, we're still, we're still casting different people to play 20 years apart. Yeah, yeah. It will be cool, yeah, once we're able to do that. And that, because then it just won't take you out of the film when you see, oh, yeah, that's totally, what's great is when they use, like, they show the person's adult life and they've got the photos on their wall. And you can look at those as they walk by them and say, oh, that's clearly photos of

that actor as a kid that they've like Photoshop or put on the walls. I just want to stop a minute and say, I love that. If that is a job, I would like that job. I seriously like, like I am so attracted to the task that whoever has in a show of making, talking to your media artist about making. I don't know why. I just love that. That figuring out how to how to put pictures on the white. And again, it goes to my thing about what we do in the shadows. Man, the beginning of

what we do in the shadows gets me every time. I so want all those pictures of me and mine. Oh, the intro? All the young versions of this. So Drenched Wildfire asked, is this a horror genre TV show? I would say it's dark humor,

psychological dark humor. So maybe along the Dexter lines um uh you know where there is there's some gorb there's you know some horror elements but for the most part it's kind of like a dark humor kind of thing okay i'm this one has definitely been on my radar everyone keeps talking about it

i got to watch it yeah i don't i don't want to keep talking about cannibalism but i realize there is there there's cannibalism and there's cannibalism right there's like uh referencing something terrible that happened and you don't see it and we don't talk about it yes there's depicting it, right? Like, those are very different. You get the former. You don't get the ladder on this.

You don't see them eating a finger that's been cooked or anything like that. That's unfortunate. Forget it, I'm out. All right. Let's move on to number two. All right. Number two is a film. This is going to be a very short clip because it's a Swedish film.

And there's maybe five English words and the whole thing. But, hey, if your Swedish is on point, Then you're going to love this. Oh, sweet. All right, here you go. I'll send it to Wendy. Here you go. Tewaire,

that we not longer can steer Aniara. When we passer an tilleptly strong Himla Crop, so we will, with help of gravitation from it, can turn to back in Curs. Exactly how long time it can be the question of can you now-like to not be able to answer.

All right. Sounds like some Swedish business going on. It is some Swedish. Now, the reason I picked that clip and just didn't say, didn't leave Alpha Cliff and just say, oh, it's a Swedish thing, is because that clip really does sell the fact that this is a science fiction, dystopian. We talked about Logan's run earlier in the show. And this has a Logan's run, but done in 2018, look to it, vibe to it. Sort of. I mean, just in style and technique, not in what people think the future is going to look like, kind of thing. The movie is called Anyara, A-N-I-A-R-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-R- and you hear and mention that. That's the name of the ship. And it's a ship where in the future, this dystopian future, where the climate finally decides to swallow the earth hole, they start the migration of Earth to Mars to recolonization on the planet Mars. And they need to get a bunch of people onto these big ships to get people to Mars. The fact is, you know, these things are massive.

And to give them a steering system and this propulsion system to direct them to Mars would be expensive. So they calculate everything to the millimeter and project these space. ships to Mars, these colony floating cities, these big slabs of cities. And something happens to one of these ships, the Anyara, and it goes off course. Some space debris makes it go off course. Because it doesn't have any propulsion, all they can really do is, and what they plan on, and what that guy was explaining in his beautiful Swedish language, was that they're going to find a star or a planet and kind of slingshot around to come back to Earth or come back to

Mars like redirect it. Gotcha. And that's all I'm going to tell you about this film. 2016, it looks like, not too old. So this is a horror because they're trapped on a ship together? This is just straight up some science fiction. Okay. All right.

Yeah. But horror, the smell that that place must have after a couple of weeks. Oh, yeah. It must be horrible. uh this is some really cool sci-fi like this is um science fiction character study or science fiction character elements this is uh this is a film that i watched on the flight back from i downloaded to my iPad and watched it on the flight back from new Orleans and that said I'm going to let you know there's some nudity uh in there that I wasn't expecting and I

had an aisle seat and so i had to do the thing where i where i basically swipe the video down to picture and picture i didn't have a towel handy over it yeah yeah swiped it down to where people around me couldn't really see what i was looking at but i could still see the subtitles for the talking that was going on during the nudity i haven't i haven't been on a lot of flights the last few years but i have been on multiple flights the last few years where someone near me that i could see was just watching porn i mean it wasn't just Yeah, yeah. Really?

I feel like that guy needs to get off the plane. That's what I think. Yeah. I mean, what's he doing watching it for the story? Yeah, what? So, but again, this, uh, Anyara, this is not like Avenue 5. This is not at all. No, but, but you know what?

This is like the drama version of Avenue 5, really. All right. Yeah, if we're getting compared it. So this came out in 2018. It's based on a 1956 Swedish poem of all things. but then in 2018 it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and Magnolia Pictures gave it a theatrical release in 2019 so right before the oh interesting because the date on the thing here is 2016 they don't say much about where it came from or how it got there

where did you see this Hulu this is on Hulu and Amazon it looks like it's on Amazon Oh is it oh cool excellent I'm glad it's available in multiple places because I feel like people should see this. God, and I don't want to say yeah, like I said, I don't want to say much more about it because saying more about it gives some things away and all that stuff. It's, you accept, right, that it's a really hard sell

if it's in a foreign language. I do. I totally do. Because I know people hate reading and subtitles and clearly parasites. Yeah. Nice. I don't know that I still don't think it's the reading. It's the quality of the subtitle.

that's always suspect. Yeah, well, I mean, Squid Games is a great example of that. Tina watched Squid Game and had the subtitles and the dubbing up, which for me would just be super distracting because you'd be comparing what they said to what was written. And she'd point out really funny things like, yeah, he just said this, but the subtitle said that. You know, it's a, there isn't a lot of subtitling. this. I mean, there's a fair amount, but it's not like a super

talky film. It's more about the reactions and this futuristic decision making that they have to do. I just want to note, you know, I'm trying to build my follow-up. All this like I'm putting down the name of what you and I'm looking for a leg to it. And

my browser just really, I start typing in the name of this thing. My browser is like animaniacs. No, we need to talk about animaniacs. Randy, you like Animaniacs. Let's go. Very, very different content, animaniacs compared to this science. Very much so. Yeah. All right. That one's on Hulu. Go check it out.

It's on Hulu. Or on Amazon and on Amazon. Or Amazon Prime. Yeah. And, you know, I can't tell you. Oh, yeah, there's this actor in there and there's this other actor. I mean, sure. It's got, you know, everybody likes to see Bianca Cruzeiro and Arvin Kanan and Nel Martini. Yeah, Borka, Borka, all of them. All right. Here's what I did. Now, a very busy couple of weeks I had.

As a result, I've been able to watch new stuff. I just haven't had time. So I did watch a couple of previous recommendals. Well, one of them was my own. I rewatched with my wife because she hadn't seen it. She wanted to see nobody with Odenkirk. So we did. We watched that on HBO Max, which just landed there a couple days ago or a few, maybe a week ago now.

That movie's great. It's John Wick for retired middle-aged. guys it's great uh really enjoyed that and then we watched brian's recommendal for um the last duel yeah and it was awesome uh we loved it uh jody comer makes that thing work i think without her performance it's not nearly as a good of a film um but that being said because she's so good i think ridley scott built a hell of a movie around uh that story and i thought everybody was great in it i can't believe ben affleck was actually really good in it and the role he was in just freak me out. I can't believe how good that was.

You know he can do it because he's done it in other movies. Argo's great. He's great movies. But, man, that was awesome. I love that movie. So, so quick, you know, recap there. But I had really no other time for anything. I watched a thing that I don't think regular people are going to like. So I'm not going to get into it. But instead I'm going to tell you one, this rabbit hole.

Hold on. No, no, I'm leaving you there. Leaving you hanging. I'm not going to get into it. I know that's your job. Your job is to pull. Johnson, but... Yeah, my Johnson has been pulled...

Regular people? Regular people, the broader audience is not going to like this other thing. I'm not even sure I do yet. So I'm going to... Like documentary or... No, it's a TV show. It's not porn, no. I'm going to finish it when it's done. I'll say

that it's still ongoing. When it's done, then I'll report back, because right now I don't know if I want to recommend it. But here's what I did instead. I had a moment where I had to do some work, and I thought I need something just to play in the background. I ended up loving it and laughing my head off.

And I went through, I don't know, 50 of these. I'll play a clip and you can guess what this is. All right. So here you go. I'll just say, I'll put it this way. It's a playlist on YouTube. Okay. So here it is.

Now, if we had to have a fight between a Wolverine and a hyena, what do you think? I'm sorry to say, if whoever gets the first bite. But I'm just telling me, stretching power is unbelievable. Yes. And you know how you track them? No. Their poop is white because he bones, they eat everything. kill you, you won't even have a bone. They wouldn't even find you.

And are these full grown? No, no. These are babies. So how large will these hyenas get? About as big as they can get. They get about 150 pounds. Is it all the Jack Hanna Letterman? Yeah, so I did a

I got on this kick where I found basically somebody somebody online had assembled a huge playlist on YouTube of most of Jack Hanna's visits to the Letterman set, both from the NBC years and the ABC years. And he, I'd never seen the 2015 final episode he was on.

The last time he would be on, which was that final week of shows for Letterman before he retired. And that was great. It was a totally awesome visit. And it was also kind of sad because Jack Hanna was crying at the end. He also is, you know, kind of handed a raw deal. He's dealing with Alzheimer's now. And pretty far gone to mention.

It's really sucks because I think. Jack is as sweetest dude ever. I hadn't heard about that. But anyway, he, and that's all been in the last couple years that happened. But anyway, he was always my favorite thing to watch back in high school and I'd stay up late and watch Letterman. I just loved the Jack Hanna visits. Turns out he was there the second most times on the show as a guest at 103 appearances.

Hold on. I know. I know. That does bring up the game. Let's play. Okay. So it's maybe Chris Elliott. Yep. Nope.

No, he was like, he was more of like a... He was very early and not that long. It was featured actors sometimes. Was it, uh, Dave Grohl? Not Dave Grohl, no. Okay. No. Any other guesses?

I'll give you a hint. It's a, it's an older guy who we kind of just lost, someone who died recently. Oh. Regis? Yep. Regis Philbin. Oh, really? Well done.

Jesus. Good, good bull range. 150, 150 appearances by him. Larry Bud Melvin. No. No, 150 appearances by Regis. So he has a very comfortable lead. Then it went Jack Hanna.

And then behind that was like, I don't remember. I forgot the third one. No one ever remembers the third one. Anyway, it was just really delightful. And they were always hilarious. And Jack just naturally is funny. And the rapid fire way they would have to get animals out and then back and then out and then out and back.

Like they were always just on fire to show every. animal they brought in there. Funny stuff just happens when animals are out in the middle of an audience. And, you know, Dave had the perfect chemistry of them. It's an amazing, amazing run. So I just got on this tear where I watched that. So there's my streaming recommendation for the week. Go watch a bunch of Jack Hanna appearances with David Letterman, which you can find a

million of them on YouTube. I found a list just by finding. I have exactly one friend in my life who sends me YouTube playlists. And I want more. That one friend, by the way, is. a Mexican fellow who is working on a degree in English right now. And so the YouTube playlist he sends me are often kind of related to his realm of study, right? And so, like, I need friends to send me fun YouTube playlist.

Can you, can you, can you mean he's an Amigo, right? He's an Amigo. Sure, yes. I love your accent. I'm glad you appreciate that. Oh, it's so fun. It's really good. I need, I work hard on that.

Thank you. I'm glad somebody appreciates my. I'm asking you to, and anybody who's listening, really, if you, if you, if you, if you, if you, if you, if you, if you, if you, if you, if you're ever text me, send me some YouTube playlists. I need more. All right. If you want to learn how to create a, uh, a power system in Astroneer, I've got quite the playlist for you. Oh, excellent. Excellent news. All right. Well, that's what I watched. Hey, Randy, uh, any setup for your clip. What do I do with this, Scott? And quick, quick TMS. L. Like, do I put David, Jack Hanna, David Lerman video? I don't know what you do there. I have no idea. I have no idea.

I think Scott did not put it in a proper entry this week is what I would think. I mean, you guys, if our, if our recommendations have to adhere to the way that thing works, I don't know if we're doing our jobs right. But all I'm saying is, look, if you got no time, I've had no time for anything extra. I've given you a hard time. So you just got to do what you can do. And it was really entertaining. Like I found myself like, oh, man, I'm so glad I watched this.

I needed this. And I think other people might find that as well. There's a real. And go back to even the oldest ones. just some moments of like drop dead hilarity from that show it's so good anyway Randy just wanted to give you a hard time for a second it's all good I've recently I've recently been recommending things that are like everybody's already seen this come on right like it's even if it's new everybody's watch this stuff that I've been recommending recently

so I'm going to recommend something this week that I'm sure no one has seen and they haven't seen it because it's brand new and it's not being advertised much at all and This is prestige television, by the way. So that's a whole thing. I think maybe we might want to unpack what that even means, but it's prestige television. The clip Scott's about to play, the only setup you need is that this is set in 1882, and it is a conversation among a young woman and her two aunts who she has just moved in with in New York City. All right, here you go. I will say what I like in my own house.

Not to me. I thought I might find a job. Would that be out of the question? Only if you wish to live with me. Well, I don't want to be idle. Perhaps there's a charity that could use my services? How generous and how suitable. That depends on the charity she chooses.

But first we must attend to your clothes, my dear. You'll go tomorrow with Ada to my dressmaker, and no black. But I'm in mourning. People here won't know when Henry died. You're making your debut in society. You are young and pretty and need to be sure. shown to advantage. I don't want you hanging about on the edge of things like a lonely crow. Ada, remember, I want cheerful colors, whatever she says.

But we must look out for some people with sons and daughters your age. That's true. I don't know anyone. Now, you need to know we only receive the old people in this house. Not the new. Never the new. What's the difference? The old have been in charge since before the revolution. They ruled, justly, until the new people invaded. It's not quite as simple as that. Yes, it is. Well, I'm you.

I've only just arrived. Marion, never mind that the Brooks have been in Pennsylvania for a century and a half. My mother, your grandmother, was a Livingston of Livingston Manor, and they came to this city in 1674. You belong to old New York, my dear, and don't let anyone tell you different. You are my niece, and you belong to old New York. new thing the downtown abbey dudes working on that would be julian fellows is the creator of this show that's the also the creator of ghostford park and downton abbey and uh from time to time um that you heard uh the voice of

christine baranski yeah uh there was also just a just a little smattering of um cynthia nixon in there uh you're your your charlotte yeah you're charlotte uh but the main character uh the young woman who's sort of returning home, although she's never been here before, is played by, in her first screen role, Louisa Jacobson, who is Merrill Streep's daughter. And she is, she's also gone by Louisa Gummer, I think, that her dad's last name. She is a revelation, absolutely incredible. And of course, I mean, she's Meryl Streep's daughter, so you have expectations. but she doesn't always work right like some people no one no one talks about like robert denaro's

kid you know like they have to have a talent of their own but it probably doesn't help it probably doesn't hurt that your mother's like the greatest actress of all time so yeah so this is like i mean the summary doesn't do it justice at all it's it's imagined downton abbey 50 years earlier in new york city and instead of being about one household it's really about two households that are across the street from each other all of the upstairs downstairs stuff both the it's about both the you know the masters and the servants in both households um that just doesn't do it justice this is a uh this is a very complicated drama it's it's much more complicated than those other things that uh fellows has made before and we said the name it's just the gilded

age right have we said that the gilded age okay the gilded age on hbo yeah uh just just two episodes out at this point um but the first one's a feature length film at length feature feature film length and uh feature length film yeah so your your two episodes are going to take you like two and a half hours to watch yeah and uh if you you know if you're not into it after two and a half hours uh then i guess you just won't you won't get it because they put it all in the first a couple of episodes like the whole the whole setup yeah um and the and the setup is by the way new money versus old money in new york city during the gilded age interesting the The primary avatar of new money is a couple played by Morgan Specter.

Maybe you've seen him on Boardwalk Empire Homeland. He is phenomenal. He is tasked with playing a new money railroad baron. And he is just, he just chews up the screen. He is everywhere in this thing. Just absolutely amazing. And his wife is played by Tisa Farmiga. Um, yeah. The, uh, Vera's little sister. Yes. Yes. Exactly. And, uh, and her job is to be sort of the villain, but she's super under, like, relatable. So she's not really a villain. Uh, guys. Yeah. I really, I really want you to watch this show. I like everything that dude's ever made. So I, I, I loved Downton Abbey. Just loved it. Kim and I did. So this is definitely on our radar. And I love that era. I love that like late 1800s. Things are about to.

change big time in the in the country you know there's still a lot of western expansion and cowboy bullshit going on over on the on the left side over there and on the right side it's a bunch of hoity tooty city folk getting ready to get cars and industrial age and i i came into this thinking oh no i'm going to see a period piece and that's really really hard to pull off nowadays like you need to you need to really make it look right and boy do they it's it's filmed mostly in Rhode Island and in yonkers and that's just that that doesn't even do it justice it's a lot of green screen stuff where they have built a New York of 1882 just I it's it's phenomenal like you just can't like you can't see the the difference between you know where the actors are walking and the

long like backgrounds that are clearly computer generated um they you know they they have done just enough, and you're going to remember New York City is kind of not populated yet. And so it's just, it's like, you know, dirt streets and a lot of empty spaces, which I guess is easy to generate, right? But like, it's just like there's something about what they've done here that really captures what you might think. I don't know for sure, right? I've never seen New York City in the 1880s.

But like, this is just, it's just really well done. You can tell that HBO is willing to pass the budget. that makes this thing, you know, look right. I don't think enough people talk about how Meryl Streep's been married to the same dude since 78, and there's no, like, drama or weird divorcey stuff. I think that's cool. Also, just looking at Louisa Jacobson's stuff here, she's 30, and this is her first role. That seems odd to me, coming out of that family, I guess.

I just would have, I don't know, I don't know why that's so weird, that it's suddenly at 30, she has this like you know revelatory job is in this new show that's just a strange thing i mean who knows why but uh anyway i'm gonna watch it i'm in i'm all in bring it on yeah i'm all excellent someone said in the chat more people lived in new york city then than now that can't no that can't be right uh like that new york city uh is currently something like nine million people yeah and uh at the turn of the 20th century it was something like three and a half million but it's again like just watch this show seriously if even if you even if you're like no no no that's chick chick stuff you know like oh no that's not Julian fellows does not make

I mean you know chick stuff is obviously it depends on your definition of it but the he makes period piece drama like nobody's business like it's so good and it's is good I mean I love period piece stuff anyway I don't care who does it like you know if I want to watch some medieval thing. I'm super glad Ridley Scott makes it because I really like his take on that sort of stuff. And it's the same thing here. It's just if you like good drama, this is not a, this isn't a chick flick or a chick show or whatever your definition of that is. It's just a really well made drama set in the 1800s. And I, and I do want to say this is for like this is for that audience. Like a, that audience is often described as a chick audience, right? Like that's what I'm saying.

it's it's for it's definitely for them like trust me this is uh but what i'm trying to get across is it's not a soap opera you know this is prestige television what is prestige television i don't know i don't have a good definition for you but that's what that's what this is don't be surprised if nine months from now this thing is winning emmys well in uh citywide population just for just to clear this up in 1900s as close as we have to this in terms of census three million 437 people or 437,000 people, 2028,8,804. So, yeah, there were not more people.

Hey, look how close I was. Yeah, you were pretty close. Yeah, and Shojo just said, this ain't Bridgerton. I agree. That's a really good comparison, because in some ways it is like Bridgerton, right? There are a lot of ways, the costumes, the acting, right? Like, there's a lot of things there.

But Bridgeton knows what audience it's going. going for, right? And like this, this is for everyone. It's a romance. Bridgetton and no shade here. It's a romance novel story. Like in the very traditional sense of like really steamy, sexy scenes for the ladies. And then the rest of it is a lot of hoity-toity backbiting and that sort of thing. And it's fine. It's, it is what it is. And it's obviously very popular. But I don't think this fits in that category or anything he's done previous to this. Downton Abbey was not this at all. So. And the, the one one last thing I want to say about this is a bunch of Star Trek connections. It's so fun. And that's probably true of all of these shows, right? Like if I, I've never really thought about it before this one. Yeah. But, like, just to give me an example, one of the, one of the sort of, they'd love to name drop in this show, right? We're going to go, we're going to go see the Rembrandts later, the, you know, the McAffellers or whoever. I love their theme to friends, by the way. Oh, it's so good, right?

You know, and one of the dropped names is constantly the Astor's, right? The famous rich Astor's of this time in New York City. And people hush, hush, talk about Mrs. Astor, and they really want her to make an appearance. And she finally, she does make an appearance in the second episode. And it's played by Donna Murphy, who was Picard's love interest in Star Trek Insurrection. And I just love those little things. Oh, I like her. Wait, is that, not Crocey, what was her name?

She had a weird name. Picard's girlfriend. Gosh, dang. She ended up running off with Q in the end, right? Oh, yes, right. It was like a weird name. You're thinking of, you're thinking of the show. Oh, Vash.

Vash. Vash. Bash. Isn't that her? No, not her? No. In Star Trek Insurrection. The archaeologist.

Oh, in the movie. In the movie, right. Different lady. Yeah. We're thinking of TNG. Yeah. In Star Trek Insurrection, her name is Anij. and she's a she's just a one hit and she's uh you know so like an immortal and beautiful and

wise woman that of course Picard just like falls for immediately yeah because why wouldn't anyway she she she has this role in this show and she has a lot a couple of lines and they're really good she's like she's really good at this yeah and i just i just love that you know who's also great and shows up and stuff like this all the time it's not this in particular but she shows up and shows like this and that's the borg queen i can't think of her name but she's great she's so good the Borg lady. What's her name? Borg lady. Borg lady. I don't know her name. Cringe. Something Creeg. Alice Creeg. There it is. She's awesome, dude. Oh my gosh. I love her.

All right. Well, there you have it. She was in Deadwood also. The Gilded Age, get in on the ground floor, folks. Don't wait around for this one. Yeah, get in there. And also follow Randy at Randy Deluxe on Twitter because he's going to post all this stuff up. And, of course, over there at quicktmS.lee, we will also have listings for all of this. I don't know if mine will make it in, but maybe it will. But yeah, go check those out, watch these things, because that's why we recommend them. And come back next week for more. Randy, anything else you'd like to say before we go?

Nope. Oh, well, that was simple. Bye now. Wow. Because last week, he had stuff to say and then I cut him off, remember? Yeah. Oops. All right.

just prepared for that like you just said yeah not uh might have been not again never again sir all right that's it for the show big thanks to everybody who came uh here and watched it today uh we'll do another one of these tomorrow got my sister here and some other stuff all lined up very much looking forward to tms tomorrow uh a reminder that we are supported by you it's a brand new month it's time to throw a dollar our way or more if you want some cool benefits uh but even the dollar get you a ton it's super cheap and we're dumb for doing it but take advantage of us like we've said before and go over there now to patreon.com slash TMS and sign up

today. For everything else you're looking for, it's at frogpants.com slash TMS. And I think that'll do it. Hey, Brian, you got music to play at the end of the show here? I do. And I've also got all of our recommendals up there at quicktms.l.I as well. Nice. All right, so this one is,

and I closed the window. Why did I close the window? No, you're a tab guy. No tab. You don't have a tab open? No, I'll close the tab by me. I closed the tab, not the window, the tab. Gotcha. Let me really quickly reopen the tab,

because this is a request that we had. All right, here we go. Victoria Perry wrote in, said, Hi, guys, I need a song. It's cold. It's dark. Where's the sun? What day is it?

I live in Cornwall, Ontario. Canada. Oh, Canada. Fantastic. There you go. Yes, I request the birthday anniversary birthday song in October, and it's been a brutally cold winter so far. I'm not picky on the date.

I'll leave that up to you, Brian. big fan of Matthew Good. So something good, surprise me. Take it easy, guys. Don't forget to test the ship's phasers. Hey, Burtum, Vicki. Oh, my gosh, let's see. Let's test the ship's phasers.

I don't know where the Burtum clip is. It's a long, you know what? That was like year one, wasn't it? Like, you're... It was early two or three years in. Oh, here it is. Hi, Burtum. There we go.

Ah, it's been a while. Yeah. All right, well, all she needed to say was Matthew Good. There's a great cover that I have not played. played by Matthew Good on this show. So we're going to play it now. Came out in 2005 on his album in a coma. Here is Matthew Good and his cover of Depeche modes.

Enjoy the silence. See you guys tomorrow. Silence, compression Into matter of world Painful to me Piece right through me Can't you understand Oh my little girl

All ever wanted All you need is here I've been loud For the time that we Unnecessary They can only do Howe Fathers were broken, to be broken, feeling dark dance was a trivial, pleasure dreaming, so

the pain was the least and forgetful. All ever wanted of me is here in the house Words are never in unnecessary they can only do Are you Are you Are you Is here? I'm

To be To be Oh, everyone is Here is I'm For the time but I'm very unnecessary

need to kill me to home I've never wanted I'll need to hear be in mind but I'm very unnecessary make you're going to love

You know, and so. Oh, Yeah. And Yeah. You know, I'm going to be. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network.

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