The Morning Stream - TMS 2243: Loogie's Mantion

Episode Date: February 9, 2022

Pumpkin-Spice Covid. I can't quit you Richard Marx. All Olympic snow was made in China. How Did You Fix Boise??!? That Game Made Me Pee a Little. Starring... WESTERNVOICE! Doing Her Usual Stiffler's Mom. The one bird you want to suck is a duck. Is Curling worth the money? RT if you......Delete! Please send Hate mail to Brian. Nellie Furtado. You know. For the Kids. Ms Moggle's Pretend House of Funtimes. I'm Playing a Carniboss. So Many Notes with Tom. And Recommentals That Aren't For Everybody with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, pumpkin-spiced COVID. I can't quench you, Richard Marks. All Olympic snow is made in China. How did you fix Boise? That game made me pee a little. Starring Western voice. Lugie's Mantian, doing her usual, Stifler's mom. The one bird you want to suck is a duck.

Is curling worth the money? RT, if you delete. Please send hate mail to Brian. Nellie Furtado, you know, for the kids. Mrs. Moggles pretend house of fun times. I'm playing a carnivoss. So many notes with Tom. And recommendals that aren't for everybody with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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The morning stream, mock death at your own peril. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back and to the morning stream for Wednesday, February 9th, 2022. Scott Johnson here, Brian Abbott there. Good morning. Correct. Hello. How do I know that I'm here and you're the?

there. How do I know that I'm not there and you're here? How do we know if anything is here or there? We really don't. This all is a simulation run by Big Pharma. Is that it? I don't know. I don't know who's running it now. Who's running this show? Who knows? But welcome back. We're glad to have you all here. It's Wednesday, right? Yeah, it's Wednesday. It is Wednesday. It is, yeah. A lot of stuff. That's why. Wednesday is the is the who doggie day. Make sure you go out and hump, go hump something, right?

That's what we do on hump day. We hump things. Okay. I know what I'm going to hump later. At least that's what that camel on the Geico ads told us that it's hump day. Oh, yeah. He did. He sure did.

Did you see the, so commercials are already starting to have pre-commercials for the Super Bowl? Oh, sure. I don't know if I like that trend. It kind of bugs me, but whatever. You know, start with movies, right? We had the teaser before the trailer. And the teaser says, the trailer coming March 15th. Make sure you tune in.

for the trailer of the movie. Kind of annoys me. But I saw the Schwarzenegger one where he's dressed as Zeus and he was a BMW ad or something. Oh, really? Yeah. I haven't seen that one. Shows that up at a Beamer dealership and makes a face and I don't know what happens. I can't tell.

But it looks dumb. I kind of dreadn it. Like sometimes I like those commercials and then sometimes really you're going to put Arnold in a freaking Zeus costume and I'm supposed to think it's just naturally funny by itself. It's like not enough. The only one I've seen is the Jennifer Coolidge one. Oh, what'd she do? She, she takes, she's in an airport and she takes a drink off a counter, but she does something to get a drink and I can't even remember. What the hell?

Like, I saw it and I said, oh, there's Jennifer Coolidge in a very different, well, no, I'd take that back, in the very same Jennifer Coolidge role she usually does, which is her, oh, yes, let's give me a drink, please. you, that sort of thing that she does. That's why, so this isn't a recommendal, but I told you about this Udo Kier movie that I saw the other day where Udo Kier is like this flamboyant hairdresser. Yeah. You get a Jennifer Coolidge in there that I've never seen. Oh, weird.

And it's, I assume, closer to the way that she normally talks, she's like, yeah, well, you know, this person doesn't deserve the hairdressing treatment you're going to give her. Well, it's like her masseuse character on Seinfeld, kind of just normal. oh yeah maybe yeah right I forgot about the masseuse holy cow yeah probably closer to that because she doesn't do any of that like

I'm keeping the dog dumbass she doesn't do any of that I mean I love her don't get me wrong her thing she does is great and I love it and everything she's great at it and it should you know it's it's like the the Emo Phillips character

or the Super Dave character or whatever right she's you know that's what her thing is yeah I love it I think it's been thinking it's good, but that's interesting to see her break character. Maybe you see her out of that role. It's like, oh, wow, okay. Hey, Jennifer Coolidge. That's crazy. You do normal stuff too. It reminds me of who was out of, oh, anytime Gilbert Godfrey goes out of character, it really throws me. Oh, yeah. Like, you forget that that's just at all, like, he even exists in that realm. It's not even

possible until he does it. And you're like, oh, right. Bobcat Goldthway, that was another one. Yeah, TV Z. You know, like seeing Bobcat Goldwater, that was another one. Yeah, TV Z. going. Like, seeing Bobcat Goldthwaite, uh, just speaking normally was just such a weird thing. Yeah, that was weird. What was that, uh, awesome movie? You recommended it. Then I went and saw it and loved it. And it had her in it. And she was married to, oh, he was also a famous guy. Shoot. I don't remember who it was. But anyway, the girl was like having a, he was all revenge. And she's getting revenge on all these dudes. Oh, oh, oh, yes, it's the perfect young woman or a something like that, a something young woman. Perfect young woman or something.

That was such an amazing movie. Gosh, dang it. I love that movie. Loved it. That was really, really good. But she was doing her usual, like, you know, her usual Stifler's mom voice in that, which was weird. Oh, right. I forgot.

Yeah, she was in that. Yeah. Promising young woman. I don't remember the dad. The dad was also famous. I want to say it was like coach or somebody, somebody like that. I don't remember who. Right, because the only time you ever saw them was sitting at the table, right?

Like when she would come and sit with them. Wait, was it Clancy Brown or something? It was Clancy Brown. Was it? Okay. It was starting to come back to me now. I love that movie. Gosh, dang it, that was good.

That one shocked me how good it was. All right, hey, here's a thing I wanted to mention today because is this really through me? And so I got to share it. Well, let's catch you then. If you're going to get thrown, let's plan on catching. All right, everybody get ready with your nets, your pad. whatever you got to help me land softly here. And I'm saying this with all honesty.

I really truly did not know that the Olympics had started or even was a thing. I really didn't. And it was probably started a week ago. It started Wednesday or last, I'm sorry, last our time Friday morning. Friday morning was the opening ceremonies and then they rebroadcast them Friday night. So not even a week yet, like five days. Okay, so five days ago, it started. Now, normally, I check my Twitter feeds.

I pop into Facebook just to kind of see what's going on. I pay attention to things. I don't have TV, so, you know, I don't have NBC. Exactly. I don't like TV, so that's not going. So maybe that's the problem. But I didn't see a single thing, not a meme, not a photo, not a piece of news. Until last night, I'm laying there in bed at like 10 o'clock next to Kim.

She's reading, or watching something, and I'm reading. uh my news feed and i see a thing that says sean white to do his last thing on the snowboard deal and i went wait a minute and i looked at her and i said the olympics are going and even she says yeah for like five days yeah i had no idea i'm surprised so i'm not surprised that you weren't aware of like you know all right opening ceremonies and and this has started but the news about the u.s and a lot of countries boycotting by not sending anybody but the players to China because of the human rights violations and stuff that they've been doing. I'm surprised anyone heard about that because I figured, all right, well, he may not know about like, oh, this game started and this

game and da-da-da-da. But the news about the China thing, the China boycott. I did hear, okay, so prior to all of this, the only thing I'd heard is that NBC had asked, I asked Leslie Jones not to tweet during the Olympics. Oh, really? Yeah. Why is that? Because she is, her commentary, I guess, is so uber popular on Twitter. And everyone loves it.

And I don't know if they felt like it was competing with the coverage or something. I don't know, something like that. It was some weird thing. That's a weird thing. Yeah. It was very weird, very strange. Please don't tweet during the Olympics because people pay more attention. your tweets than the Olympics.

Plus, I don't know why they think they have any control over what she tweets. That's freaking lame. Like, sure, you're on S&L, but doesn't mean they can tell you when you can. I don't know, that's lame. But anyway, oh, maybe that was it. She'll spoil replays. Maybe that's it. And she has a huge following.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right. Because she is watching stuff, right? She's watching stuff when it airs as opposed to when, or when it happens as opposed to when NBC finally gets around to, or gets around. So here's my theory. I have a theory on this. What is he's egon and is all kept wrong. Oh, is that not what happened? I don't know.

The robot issues, he says. I don't know what that means. Robots. The robots. Well, anyway, so here's the deal. I think I have a theory on what happened to me. Okay. All right.

Okay. Why you missed the start of the Olympics? Yes. Toward the end of last year and all of this year so far, I have tried really hard to curate my daily media intake. Sure. And only have it be things that I want to deal with. or, you know, otherwise just like trimmed things down.

So I've muted a bunch of words on Twitter. I've muted stuff in Facebook. I don't really use Facebook that often because Facebook says cesspool. I stopped. I unfollowed people on Facebook, even old friends and family who are idiots now. And I can't stand what they say. So I'm not hearing what they say anymore. I'm not subjecting myself to that.

On Twitter, I no longer follow anybody who does anything remotely connected to politics or anything. It's just not there anymore. So I think maybe what I've done, it's all artists, creators, writers, painters, you know, people making stuff, YouTubers who I think are interesting, like, you know, gamers, game designers, developers, I've surrounded my, my media intake with the stuff I like instead of things I hate and can't do anything about. And that's the main reason, because I can't do shit about it. And so I think what happened is I just, I just didn't get exposed to people talking about news things. It just didn't happen. Do you still get your news from a source though? I mean, do you, I know, muting politics and stuff like that, commendable and, damn it,

I need to do the same thing. But, uh, I had to. It's from my own sanity. I was going crazy. Do you, I know for a while you were doing the BBC news, um, you know, online, you would check that or what do you So I listen to, in the morning I listen to not all things considered what's NPR's morning show whatever it's called.

Yeah. Because it's the most dry, bare bones. Right. Almost opinion free. It's 100% opinion free. It's just like, good morning. It's today is Thursday.

In the news today Vladimir Putin seems to be pushing further into the Ukraine. Like it's just, the most bland-ass thing. Now, I haven't heard that in a few days, so I probably missed a lot of Olympic talk. Oh, Morning Edition. Morning Edition, yeah.

So just boring. Now I've listened to Morning Edition. It feels like my whole life. But now it's kind of like, okay, I've caught up on what's going on. But honestly, even that I don't really need. What do I need? I need what's on the ground. I can't do anything for any of these bigger issues.

I just can't do anything. If I've learned anything. You need to be aware of them. I mean, you know, being aware of what Russia is doing to Ukraine. That's good to be aware. Absolutely. It's good to be aware. You can't do anything about it.

But I'm not going to rush online and suddenly become a podium. You can't live in a hole all your life, Scott. Yeah. I just can't. What I'm saying is I don't want to interact on things I have zero, zero control over. Like if somebody brings up and says, I don't know, oh, what do you think of the U.S. boycott and the China, hypocritical, this and that. I don't want to talk about it.

There's nothing I can do about it. So I'm not going to talk about it. But you go do your thing. If I've learned anything in the last five years, these culture wars get you nowhere. So I'm not doing it anymore. I'm out. I think that's good. And that's got anybody out there who's feeling stressed and feeling just overwhelmed, that's a great thing to do, right?

Like go and just trim your social media down to just like the things you care about, the things you're interested in. Get your news somewhere else besides social media. is a great, like, mantra, a great thing to live by. Sure, unless it's a place you trust and like, and that's fine. Like, people should do whatever they want to do, but, like, you know, chat room said, or who is it, the Wraith says, head in the sand mode. No, it's not heading the sand mode. No, it's not really, no.

No, it's me standing. I'm still on the sand. I'm looking at everything, and I'm going, all right, well, there's stuff going on. What I'm not doing is when another bird walks over to me and goes, hey, did you hear about the thing with the Trump and the deal and the whatnot? I don't want to talk to you about that. You go away, I don't have anything to say. Whatever I say, there's no action on it.

What am I going to do? Go, yeah, I profoundly disagree with that point. Something's got to be done. What? I don't know. I'm going to have lunch. You know what I mean? You know, I'm almost 100% there with you, Scott.

So two things. The Olympics is a bigger deal here. I think I'm hearing about it more here in Colorado because as of Monday, maybe even as of Tuesday, the only people who have won medals, U.S. medals at the Olympics, the Winter Olympics this year, are people from Colorado because it's all like skiing and... Oh, that's not... Well, see, that's good, though.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with, you know, again, like the Olympics, I don't mind the Olympics. I'm fine with it. I don't think there's a great way to watch it these days. I mean, yeah, I get Peacock and pay for it. The Peacock app is the best way to watch it. Like, you can actually just click on, like, oh, I want to see 10 minutes of curling. Clicked on curling, watch 10 minutes. Ah, done.

I've watched people play the weirdest damn Olympic sport ever created. And now I'm satisfied. Yeah. Yeah, I get that. But I got to pay for that shit, though, right? I got to pay for it. Oh, I don't know. I'm already paying for peacock.

I don't pay for peacock. Yeah. I don't have free cock. There's no free cock. Is that not on the freecock? No, free cock. You got to pay six bucks a month or else freecock gives you nothing but commercialism. Okay.

Bummer. So anyway, so we're already paying for that because there's Tina's shows. Like her, oh, what the hell is she watching? I think the Bravo stuff now comes through Peacock, but she's also watching a million little pieces and this is us. Yeah. I'll probably fire it up for when I get caught up with, wait, or is that Paramount. Who has Yellowstone? Is that Peacock?

Oh, Yellowstone is Peacock. Yeah, I think Yellowstone is. Yeah, I think that's an NBC joint. So, yeah, I need to, at some point I'm going to catch up on that. So I'll probably do a month or something. But anyway, the point is, and I have nothing. So there you go, you get Paramount. Yeah, and I'm, because then you can do your discovery.

Yeah, yeah, all your Star Trek all day long. All your Star Trek. Yeah, that thing is Star Trek all day. That's all their time. The other thing I was going to say about that, I'm almost there. Like, almost have everything like pruned to the point where, yeah, if somebody says this word, like I still have my wordal updates, fine for people I don't care. I've stopped doing mine.

It's fine. I don't care. Whirdle's great. There's nothing, it's a positive thing. I have no problem with wordal scores. It is. But still, it's like, I don't want, I don't, I don't want to get inundated with a ton of worldle things, just as I don't want to inundate people with a ton of

wordle things. But my mom is into it. My dad is into it. Opposite sides of the country. So it's like I'm sharing my wordles with the two of them over text. Yeah. But I can't, I can't quit Richard Marks. I never thought I'd be able to say that I can't quit Richard Marks ever in this lifetime.

especially, you know, holding on to the nights in the 90s when that mullet was everywhere. But his Twitter feed as angry as it is, as political as it gets, that's the one Twitter feed. That's the one you're hanging on to. I got you. I had to unfollow all that stuff. And here's the main issue. It's like, you know, the Olympics are a side note. Me not hearing about it, I think, is just because I'm just tuning out from so many sources.

But also, it's not. I mean, if I was really into the Olympics, I would know, you know, I'd be into it and I would be ready and it would be off to the races. So I'm not, I'm clearly not that into it. But then somebody yesterday told me Salt Lake got him again in 2030. Is that true? Can someone confirm this? That they're coming here again? In what year?

In what year? 2030. Really? Yeah. Oh, I hadn't heard about that. That was some thing I heard last night. Is that true? Because if that's true, we had a great time with that.

That was fun in 2002. That was a fun time. Although, I don't know. Yeah, I'm sure there's a little sarcasm there. Yeah. Oh, it was. No, for real. I loved it.

Oh, really? Yeah, I loved it. It was great. It was, it was awesome, too, because. Traffic issues and. Oh, we, yeah, I mean, yeah. Crowds and stuff. Yeah.

Do you even want that? No, I mean, yeah, that's eight years away. Which, which variation of COVID do you think we'll be on it? Alt. we'll be done with Greek letters Are we moving on to We'll do it like hurricanes Brady Bunch characters or

I think it'll be like hurricanes It'll be COVID Larry and COVID Henry COVID Archie Yeah that'd be fine Let's do that But anyway I'm not going to complain about the Olympics When they come here

Because here's why It's really a nice little boon for the economy We do quite well that we did before anyway Mitt Romney was in charge and got work done when he was here. But anyway, it meant a big infrastructure increase for all our cool places in Park City and, you know, Snowbird and all these places got awesome upgrades. So I'm just saying it's not a bad thing to have happen when it's local, but when it's in China, I guess I'm just out of touch.

I don't know. I don't know. It's weird. It's fine. And, you know, again, these are a little bit lower key Olympics. Even their opening ceremonies were, you know, only 3,000 performers instead of the 20,000 performers they had when it was in 2008 in Beijing. Sure, sure. Here's the other thing.

I didn't know this, but I guess all of the snow is artificial in these Olympics. There's no actual snow being used. Yeah, it says 100% of the snow that athletes in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are competing in is artificial. pumped out by high-powered snow machines, not produced by mother nature. And they go on to say this may, this may determine other places getting the Olympics that don't normally get snow or places that are suffering from climate change-based, less snow. This would be a way to get the snow for whatever. But that's kind of interesting, you know.

There's no actual snow there. Well, it's snow, but it's all man-made. Yeah. And some of the places are as, I don't know, even when they're up high. it's still like 52 degrees Fahrenheit. So it's just not cold enough to have your own damn snow. And it probably ices. Like it probably melts and then freezes and ices.

And people are saying it's faster. Like it's dangerous because it's faster than regular snow. Oh, is that true? I didn't know that. Yeah. So how do you... Which is great if you're on a luge. But does that...

So you have records and things you got to keep track of. Does this affect that? Do you account for that? Although probably also causes problems. for skiers, snowboarders, uh, you know, the, the snow-based sports.

Sure. No, I assume so. Oh, that's true. Luge's ice. Yeah. So I mean, ice skating and luge and curling, all that stuff is, is going to be fine. But yeah, the skiers probably will have a lot more, um, well, even, even, uh, Michaela, uh, local Colorado, Michaela Schiff. Vanderbeen. What is her name? I don't know. Mikaela Schiff. Why am I, why am I blanking? I don't know.

Her name is all over the damn news. Michaela Schifrin. Shifrin? Yeah, okay, sure. Chifrin. Why not? She went out of bounds twice, which she's never done before, and actually had a breakdown on the snow on the course the other day. It's like, oh, man, it's a breakdown.

Oh, like a mental breakdown. I thought it meant like a called AAA. Just curled up on the side of the course, head in her hands and just, uh, uh, uh, uh, It just stopped. Wow. Well, that'll do that to you. Michaela's shit retrieved her. But if she rips down that hill and breaks a record, okay?

Yeah, right. Do they say, oh, well, it's, it doesn't count because it's fast snow. It's man-made snow. Or do they take time off? Do they say, oh, trim three seconds off her run? I don't think there's any way they could do that. The, that's a good point because the records stand across all winter Olympics, even though for this Olympics, everybody's

playing on the same high-speed surface. That's true. Yeah. So I don't know how they do that. But see, once again, not a lot of knowledge about how the Olympics work, I guess. It's just how I am. Fire up your six bucks a month and watch a little on the peacock. Watch a little curling on the peacock. Oh, I don't know if

curling's worth the money. Curling's boring. It's like watching somebody do chores. Hey, I'm sweeping. I'm sweeping. Sweeping, sweeping. We're pushing a rock and sweeping. I do like the hockey. I get into that.

That's always fun. Oh, yeah. So we'll see how that goes. All right. Enough about the Olympics and my inability to hear about them. Let's get done away in here. Yeah. He probably heard about the Olympics, I'm guessing.

He's probably heard of them. Yeah, he's probably where. Yeah, he's familiar with how they work and what they do and why. He's the blue-ray box set of last Olympics, the summer Olympics. He found him at Walmart and a bin, and it's good to go. So let's bring him in. Hey, look who it is. It's Brian Dunaway. He's joining us, as he always does, on Mondays and Wednesdays to play a little Babel Royale here with us and others. Hi, Brian. Welcome back to the show. How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. How are you guys doing? Doing all right. It's Wednesday, and I knew the Olympics were going on.

Yeah, did you? Have you watched any of them? I get all my news through the memes. You know that, right? It's all memes. That's the only reason why I knew because there's all kinds of memes going up about the Olympics and said, oh, the Olympics must have started. So everything, so basically your feed looks like the agony of defeat from the wide world of sports. Yeah, sure. Pretty much. That's how I live my life. I live my best meme life.

That's how I live. That's cool. Did you, are you lugging into a few? It's trying to. It's hanging. Are you going to bugging in the feud? Eventually you do plan on logging into the feud. You are going to have a.

You are going to have a tad bull feud in your Babble Royale, aren't you? It's just hanging forever. I don't know what the deal is. Sometimes I get in, I click it, and it goes right in. Other times I have to sit here and wait. It always gets there, but it usually takes like, and I should have started it before, but I didn't. Anyway, but Dunaway, what was that sound? What are you banging on there?

Oh, I was spinning my chair around real quick. Trying to get all the last drops of coffee out of the pot. That's right. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. No, but I do, I do get my, I don't, I stop reading the new. as well. And once again, I get the same complaint to, you can't just put your head in the same. Well, I'm like, okay, I only get news that I can, I can do anything about. So I mostly read local news. I have a local news that I read. It's, you know, except I just stay away from the opinion

part. That's the problem in most of the news sites. They pretend like the opinion piece is news. And it's like, mm, it's all on the front page. The front articles are the opinion pieces. And I'm like, mm, that's not how news works. The opinion needs a little section. They also mix it too much. Like they'll mix them together. I don't like it when they mix them together and pretend like that's news. That's why I go to all sides.com. They call everybody out.

Yeah, I like that. They say, this is left. This is center. This is right. The center didn't, you know, the left didn't cover this. The right didn't cover this. They're bitching over here. Yeah, it's kind of, yeah.

But here's the main thing. People that say to me, don't put your head in the sand. To me, those are just people who haven't hit the, hit the wall I hit. They just, they'll get there. They'll get there. Yeah. Because at some point, at some point, you'll get there and you realize, oh, I can't do shit. I'll bet they get there sometime between 2023 and 2024.

Right. I mean, when you're in the public eye a lot, it's a lot more difficult to put yourself in a bubble and only stay in the bubble. And so everything we say is criticized from both sides. And so there's not much of a bubble there. It's also everybody's got a damn microphone now. So whenever one has one, no one has one. It's just noise. It's like, who am I supposed to listen to?

How about the guy, hey, you want to ensure I either block or mute your tweet? Here's what you do. You say, I can't believe the thing with the stuff. RT, if you agree. If you ever say RT or retweet if you agree and you're in my feed, you're out. You're done. You're out. All right, let's get to it.

I'm just going to leave this here. Yeah, exactly. I freaking hate that. That's fine. People want to be heard. No, let them do it. Let them do it. But guess what?

Other people have now decided I don't want to hear them anymore. And it turns out I have the power not to. So, yeah. F off everyone. That's the weirdest thing. Yeah, we all think in social media you have to listen to everybody. You don't. Yeah.

I got to, I mean, I still have to get emails from terrible people sometimes. And I got one the other day that pissed me off so bad. It made me wish that person was in front of me so bad so I could kick him in the nuts until he forgot his last name. I really wanted to do it because it was so mean and so mean-spirited about a co-host of mine,

not you guys, somebody else. And it was so like pointing. I never get any hate mail. And it wasn't even like, it wasn't even like criticism. It was just the meanest most awful thing to say about somebody else.

I was so angry. Gosh, dang it. The good news is John Jagger, isn't it? It's always John Jagger. He's the worst. It's always John. I find that, you know, we've known this for a while, but I think we are constantly forgetting that the internet makes us all a little bit more emboldened,

whereas when you say you wish he was in front of you so you could kick him in the nuts, but if he was actually in front of you, y'all might would actually have a discussion. No, and he wouldn't say what he said. That's the other thing is he would never have the guts to say what he said in that email. There's no way. Had he had the guts to say that, we'd have had our own golden corral fight over no stake. We would have gone down. look look i'm old i don't fight anymore only if it's for my life yeah that's it that's it that's all

you got left i understand i don't fight for drinking i don't fight for none of that stuff only fight for my life that's it there you go fight for your life today on this contest we're about to have hey brian uh we got a listener on here who's going to play with us let's find out who it is hi thanks for holding who's this this kelly from idaho kelly from idaho what's going on in idaho you know what i may be coming through there around my around fall time for a trip up to the oregon coast it's still being decided upon so anniversary thing kim and i are thinking about but uh uh we're going to go through idaho because uh boisey's super rad now and no one ever believes me when i tell him that but if you haven't been to boise in a while that place is awesome what do you what happened

there uh how did you fix boise i'm actually closer to canada than i am to boise oh okay so you're up north that's cool well i may if i I'm in the pain handle. If I drive through there and you're anywhere, I'm anywhere near that area, I'll wave and then wish you well. How's that? Will that be all right? Well, I love Cordillane. Cortalane is gorgeous if you're anywhere near there.

Beautiful stuff in Idaho. People forget. They think Idaho is just potatoes and dummies, but it's not. It's Kelly and beautiful scenery. It's Kelly and beautiful scenery. Brian, why you explain to us and him what this is and how it's going to work? Sure. Well, as we've mentioned, it's time to play the Todd Pooley feud.

I've surveyed the tadpole on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Kelly, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. Who knows who it will be? If your team

wins, you get a prize package that includes wrath aeon of ruin and man eater. It's a game about hollow notes. Okay. Eaton men. Got it. Hey, did you see that trailer for that new? Oh, here it comes.

So it's not the Nelly Furtado song then, okay. No. Oh, look at that. Yeah, that's for the newer kids, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. The newer kids. The ones in their 40s. You don't get me wrong.

We're old. The 40s. It's the middle ground. Yeah, sure, why not? Trying to meet you halfway. Yeah. I bet you, I wouldn't say that stuff about Idaho if he was in Idaho. No, Idaho's great.

That's my point. It's cool. I like people in there. They're great. And I'm telling you, Boisey is like this awesome art town now. it's really cool anyway so quick quick update by the way surveys uh not any time really soon because

uh uh i still have 15 questions from the last survey that i haven't used yet so if you haven't filled out the current survey go fill out the current survey go to the facebook group or the discord i think it's pinned in the discord um but i do need to start writing some new questions for next time from about uh i don't know 15 weeks from now uh i haven't checked them all to make sure that they're all really good questions there's one that I'm like, oh, this is so good, but there's, every answer is different. I can't use it. Nice.

So, anywho, let's get to this one. Quick little thing for you guys to know. Sequels, I've lumped in sequels with the original, so whatever the hell of that means. Okay, it's a sequel thing. All right. Right. So anyway, you know, don't separate out sequels from the original. Okay.

Okay. Hands on buzzers. I asked the tadpool. 577 of them gave me an answer, but 119 of those were, I don't know. We asked the tadpool, what is the scariest video game you've ever played? All right, and Dunaway. I'm glad you finished that. Resident Evil?

Show me Resident Evil. Boom. Number one answer on the board. Oh, look at that. Nailed it. Because it includes sequels. that's the way to do it. I'm glad you didn't say sequels

because I was trying to think of which one they would have said so I'm glad it's together. Surprisingly, the original got the most mentions. Seven was next and something that didn't have a number or is an evil

afterlife or something? I don't know. Well, I'll tell you what. They're not wrong. The village. The village was the... Oh, Village has... Well, Village is 8, so it has a number.

Oh, is it eight? The way they do it is the V or sorry, the I-I and the V, No, how's it work? Well, anyway, they hide a Roman numeral of eight inside the name of Village. Gotcha. That would make sense, right. I was going to say, I agree with that order.

The first game is still scary as shit, partly because it's really janky and hard to play, but it's scary as crap, and seven is horrifying. So it's the right order. They're right. All right, so, well, since there's no answers that can beat it, Brian, you and Kelly have control of the board. you guys can keep giving me answers

All right, Kelly So I've got another one in my head I've been watching somebody play this recently But unless you have one you want to use Well, I've got to go at the one that always scared me Which was Silent Hill Oh, dude There you go. That's a getting

Silent Hill made me throw a controller down And leave all the lights on and go to bed Silent Hill Show me Silent Hill Number two Oh, look at that That's proper placement yeah all right well i got i got one how about

go for alien isolation that game made me pee a little for sure i've been watching several people play that lately it's scary it's still very good that game holds up it's very good some people well that's the thing the people i'm seeing play it say eh not so scary but everybody in the chat keeps going yeah that's so

scariest ever no if streamers are saying that they're lying it's a scary game there's no it's okay one that has Ripley's daughter? Yes. That you're playing as Ripley's daughter, right? Yeah. She's, uh, it's, it's during the time where Ripley is gone for the 50 years or she's in cryosleep and, and, and, and, and, and, I forgot our name, Aiden or Cajun or something.

Uh, yes, between one and two then, right? Or no, two and two, oh, wait. No, between one and two, because she's in a strong mo for 50 years, yeah. Oh, right, right, right. Yes, that would make sense. Because she, yeah. Because she wakes up and Paul Reiser, Paul Reiser's there. She talks to Burke and Burke says, oh, yeah, you have a, you have

a daughter and she was a video game yeah yeah yeah all right show me alien colon isolation uh it's number seven some good points there guys that's what i was hoping for i was i was going to be a little bit lower but not off the list it wasn't three yeah i was sweating that game just came out on tablets and phones and apparently is very good in that format and i cannot figure out how really that blows my mind you know like high reviews everywhere people are like we can't believe this works so well on a phone and I just can't even imagine You still have to play with a controller, right? There aren't...

No, it's screen controls and stuff. Screen controlled, really? Yeah. That might be the way I finally play that game. It's scary. It's scary, man. Don't play it at night. Okay. Don't play it during the day either.

Yeah. Play it at dusk. Yeah, it's the best alien movie that is not an alien movie. It's really good. That's cool. Well, Kelly, I took one. How about you?

You got another one in the barrel? I'm kind of curious with it, Ted. might have said, I don't know if they're how big as scary gamers they are, but I like Outlast. Oh, yeah, dude. That's a good one. Yes. I was forced to play two of those. Outlast one and two, and they both made me

shit myself, so great. How shitty is your chair, Scott? It's bad. You don't want to be anywhere near it. It changes his chair out every couple weeks. Show me Outlast. Number six. Nice. You're going to run away with those points. This is a scary, a scary game here.

Yeah, I don't, I mean, I've been forced to play a few of these, but you're almost at the end of my list because I kind of avoid these. I try not to play too many scary games. I actually like scary games. So maybe this is why we're doing so well. I'm going to go one. I'm going to say that the Five Nights at Freddy's really freaked a lot of people out. Oh, yeah, that's got to be on there, dude.

Sure. Yeah. All right. Show me that's what I'm hoping for. Show me that wacky, chucky cheese rip-off thing. Oh, really? Shocked by that. It surprised me, too.

It actually was number 14 on the list. A lot of people said it, but, which it surprises me, too, that it wasn't higher because I think it's scarier than a couple of the other things on this list. Yeah, it's intense. It forces you to lean into the game and then boo! All right, let's do little nightmares. Is that on there? Oh, that's for me. Little, little itty-bitty nightmares.

All right, show me little nightmares. Oh, come on. That game scared me. Number 23, little nightmares. That's some of mine and Scott's favorites. I love that game. That thing is fan-frikin-tastic. Scary, man.

Well, Kelly, I blew it last time. Do you have anything? Dead space has to be ours. Oh, dead space. Gosh, did it. Sure. In space, no one can hear you dead. All right, show me, show me, hey, I'm walking around this derelict spaceship and oh my God, there's a gooey monster.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Number three. Good job. Dead space two in particular, man. Holy Moses. That game scared the hell out of me.

To this moment, I'm scared. Just bought alien isolation on the iPad. Can't wait to play it. I needed something. So that was the perfect timing for you to tell me that was available. All right. You're going to like it. I think you'll really like it.

It should perform really well on there. I'm going to play it at night, too, and just show you. Just show you. Yeah, do it at night. Have Tina film it and live stream it. Do it. Cool. I always found the amnesia games to be pretty unsettling with a small little.

Yeah, I'm going to go to amnesia. It's a good one. I can't remember what that is. Well, I like to, go ahead. It's an indie, it's a small indie game. it was made by, they've made some other stuff since that, I think Tacoma game is what they made, that space one's also very scary, but I may have given you an answer. Oh, that's a, that's a good one. I forgot, yeah, I probably shouldn't have said that. Anyway, they, they, the small team and the idea was that you, you have kind of an insanity system in it, and the closer you get to insanity, the closer you get to dying. And so you're, the game never really, you were never sure if anything was after you or not. But that was, that was what made it so scary. And it was, you know, first person. and a lot of like go down to the end of a hallway,

look back and you swear you saw something at the end of that hallway and you just like, I don't want to play this anymore. Turn this effing thing off. It's really scary. Yeah. Cool. Well, let's see if it's on here. What were you talking about again?

What was the name of this game? Okay, all right. Show me amnesia. You got it. Yeah, that's on there. Number 10, and I think with that might. Yeah, you win. There's no way I win.

Yeah. I quit. There's no way I win this. Yeah. That's true. Yeah. There's no way. That was mine, Kelly. Do you have another one? Yeah, keep going. Clear it out.

Newer one of Phasmophobia. Oh, yeah. There you go. That was when I was kind of holding on to. But yeah. Okay. That's a torture. That's a torture simulator that game. Gosh, dang it. Oh, my gosh. Played it with TV's Travis and Alex Al-Bisu. I was going to say Alex is a huge fan of that game. He likes making other people.

people play it while he watches i think he's the torturer in this scenario yeah right that's his thing show me phasmophobia there we go could not close missing the button now a phasmophobia a lot of people said it but it just didn't make the uh didn't make the cut all right i'm gonna mention when you said amnesia left for dead uh also received the same number of votes so i decided to do something i haven't done before i put them both in as a tie so oh wow oh okay you would have said left for dead or amnesia you would have gotten 10 points left uh wow they're very different games but i get why you did it that makes sense um okay so let's say uh let's uh let me i know

i'm not going to wait anything here but we'll keep the ball rolling um fatal frame there's some old school for you fatal frame oh look at she put on the old stuff oh i'm taking pictures of ghosts all right show me fatal frame number nine yeah wow people like taking pictures again I made it. There was one I played on the PlayStation forever ago that scared me real bad. It was a Japanese game called the Clock Tower or Clock Tower. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I remember that one.

Oh, that tells me it's not on the list. But go ahead. Is it on the list, Brian? Whoops. Show me. Show me the giveaway. Clock Tower? Damn it.

They had that scissor guy. Do you remember the Scissor man that would come after you and you'd have to hide under beds? Oh, my gosh. Clock Tower did not. even make the list nobody said clock tower surprisingly it's a rare yeah it's kind of rare i'm not that's rare when we're done here i'm going to tell you something about the uh tadpool uh but i'll wait until we're done talking okay or until we're done playing this game all right uh Brian and Kelly you have control did did we say alone in the dark yet did we say that one no I don't know I'm trying to

think of some old ones I don't think so I don't think we did alone in the dark all right just like Scott pooping his pants show me I'm alone, and it's dark. It's dark and her. It had its moments. There were moments of scaring that. I was trying to think of classic stuff that people might have mentioned. 21st on the list, three people agree with you about alone in the dark.

Okay. It's an oldie, but a goodie. Except the movie is one of the worst things ever made, ever. Luigi's Mansion. Yeah, we should film sack that. Luigi's Mansion, really? Is that a tad? But the Tadpool, right?

is that what you're saying is that your answer no I've already done my answer oh that's right because it buzzed he got buzzed this is your oh all right um this is your tag what's the one with the tall somebody wrote luigi's mansion but they spelled it lugies mantion m-a-n-t-i-o-n-o-n-d they don't they wouldn't even look at the fonts yeah that's right that chinese knockoff homebrew version you can buy for your genesis all right um I'm going to go with um Uh, I don't, limbo kind of scared me. No, yeah. Yeah. Limbo, yeah.

Very good. All right. Show me limbo. Oh, you know what? Dead by daylight's going to be on here. Shit. Sorry, go ahead. 22, limbo, by the way.

Same number of people mentioned that as alone in the dark. And I agree with you. Limbo, you start seeing those shadowy things floating around. It's like, oh, crap, this is getting kind of scary. Yeah, there's a spider in there at some point that made me want to die. Yes. Yes. Hated it.

All right. Well, let's see what everybody gave us their other answers. Congratulations, by the way, Kelly, you are a winner. Yeah, well done. Show me number four. Doom, any version of Doom. That's good. Yeah.

Three is the scariest one, right? In my opinion. Three is definitely, well, and it's definitely aimed to be more scary. They were kind of aiming for that kind of, I don't know, dead space vibe back then. But there's nothing. I mean, I remember the original Doom and Doom 2 in the dark at night, playing that on my 386 or whatever. And it was pretty freaky, you know?

Yeah, you play, like, any, a lot of these games that are listed on here, you wouldn't think are scary. Until you play them alone at night. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, for sure. Something about that. Anyway. A lot of people said this was their first scary game and,

uh, scared the crap out of them. It is number five, fear. Oh, fear. Yeah, that's the one with a little, little, uh, all you got's a freaking flashlight, right? There's that one with the weird girl in it, the freaky girl that shows up all the time. It's a shooter. And I played for threeer because it had, for the E, they put a three.

Three, yeah. For three. That was the first experience I had too. Yeah, and three, and it was pretty good. And it had this weird mech sequence. I don't know what that was doing in that game. That was a weird game. Yeah.

The fear's good, though. It's a good call. Cool. I'd like to find out what the accidental scariest game is. Like, oops, we didn't mean for it to be scary. Too bad it is. People suggested that it was E.T. for the Atari 2,600. I don't know.

Lately, I'd say Donkey Kong Country, because that thing pissed me off. All right, we got one more to reveal here. This one I agree with. This one did get it to get me. Number eight, Bioshock. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. That's a good one.

The original getting more votes than Infinite, which I agree with. Infinite wasn't scary. It was a great game, but it wasn't scary. It was airy, right? Two is, two is Biocon. Bioshock 2 is kind of scary, but the first one really established the tone. Yeah. The second one wasn't the same developers, but there's, here's the thing about two. Bioshock 2, which a lot of people don't even remember, wasn't amazing in the campaign, but there was DLC for that thing that was better than anything they'd done before.

It was so good, and I can't remember the name. It was like a lady's name, Miss Moggles, pretend House of Fun Times or something. It was like something weird, and it was really good. I'm with the chat. I'm a little surprised. Slender Man's not on there. I was surprised. So Slanderman Man was number 25 on the list. The Last of Us, Until Dawn, Eternal Darkness, Sanities, Requiem,

Half-Life, and Half-Life 2, Half-Life Alex, Alex, Alex, also. Quake, Quake, I know. World of Warcraft? Boy, how wow is scary. I'm just going to name a video game. So a lot of people would say, World Warcraft, and then parentheses, I don't like scary games, so I don't. I don't play them.

So it's like, okay, well, that makes sense. Subnotica, Wolfenstein, seventh guest. I think my first scary game was seventh guest. Yeah, that was a pretty scary game. And by the way, I don't want to skip over it too fast. Subnotica scared the shit out of me, so that's a good call. Yeah. Okay.

Metro, and then we start getting into where the Tadpool thinks they're funny. And it's great to see so many of the Tadpool think that they're the funny, clever ones when everybody did this. The Sims. Let's see. Lego, any Lego game, Aquaman. Wow. Assassin's Creed pre-patch. Barney, Battle Toads, Bubble Bobble, Sim 6.

I think next time we have a runaway like this, maybe you should give the loser an opportunity to guess one of those. Oh, that's good if you get, like, see what the lowest, yeah, no kidding. Did somebody say, really said Sim 6? because that doesn't exist. Sivs, a civilization. Oh, civilization. I said sims.

Sims, six. Okay. Yeah, not Sims, six. It can be a nightmare. The scary part is how many hours you spend. Yeah, that's a truth. Good Lord. Dokey Dokey Literature Club.

Is that really even a... Yes, that is a game. Somebody, and this was a genuine one, said, In television B-17 bomber, and then sent me a YouTube clip of the game and said, this freaked me out late at night, playing, you know, after everybody had gone to bed, it was late. night and I can see it. Unitationally scary.

I like those are the best. I liked Hello Puppets. I don't know if you guys played that, but that's... I watched you play it. Yeah, I watched you play a little bit of that. What's that one? Everyone's trying to shove down my throat right now. That's like a big blue Muppet guy chasing you down a hall.

Does anyone know what that's called? Everyone's saying, oh, Scott needs to play it. That's not five nights is, uh, five nights at Freddy's. That's it. Poppy playtime. Is that the one? Poppy playtime. Okay, that was on here as well.

Mist, actually, I can see that. Because when you start getting those creepy, the Rand brothers and their video debuts, saying, Bring me Holy the Blue Pages. Night Trap with Dana Plato, got a vote. Oh, man. Nice. Pokemon Go. Pokemon Snap.

Full motion video that was like that. Yeah, they, well, I mean, you know, the full motion video stuff like, like Night Trap. It was like a Fanta something, but it was a PHA, what was it, 3DO? something, I think. Fantasy star. Phantom. No, no. Phantom.

Shit. I don't know what it is. That was it. Orange. There's an old, there's an old, there's an old, uh, phantasmagoria. That's it. Was that it?

Yeah, because I made sure to separate people who misspelled phasmigoria with phantasmagoria because there were people who said, or phasmophobia versus phantasmagoria because there were people who had typos that almost went either way. There's a game for the, super nintendo called nospheratu that no one remembers that gave me nightmares to this day i still think about that game yeah it's gross it's weird and dark so yeah check it out nosferatu not based on the movie it's just a vampire guy and it's scary anyway anything else brian uh no that's it's it's it's

it's all that's all you know again you go down the list and it's super mario brothers and zelda and you know everybody it's so it's funny how many tadpoolers thought that they were the clever ones putting a a cute game as a joke answer for this one. Well, the important part is we have a winner. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. And that means, Kelly, you just got to send an email to Brian Coverville at gmail.com. He will send you your codes. You have won.

How do you feel about your win? Hey, it feel fantastic. Now I get to hop off with another 10-hour session of Lost Ark. Oh, that's a good time. Oh, okay, wait. You're telling me I'm going to be a happy time then if I play that. I got to play that. I'm loving Lost Ark.

It is a lot of fun. It's super satisfied. All right. I'm getting in then. Well done. Thanks for being there today and playing. And Brian Dunaway, as always, wow, what a pleasure it's been. You know, this weekend we'll be doing Film Sack and don't remember our movie. What is it? What are we doing?

I can't. We just did Hearts and Atlantis and we were doing two things in a row that I was like, oh, what? I know Mars attacks is not next. Oh, the Losers is next. Oh, the Losers. So we get Chris Evans. Chris Evans, another comic book adaptation featuring Chris Evans. I don't remember us saying at the end of the show. I don't remember saying that either.

That is weird. Oh, I'm sorry, no, no, no, no. I take that back Wild Things. All right, we did talk about that. That's my mistake, Wild Things. Yes, we talked a lot about Matt Dillon's Wiener on the last episode, the end of the last episode of Film Sack. Two ladies, that whole thing.

So that's, look at Randy's sign. Randy makes his debut in the chat room with sigh. Yeah. Like, you know, well, whatever. We're all busy. We're making a lot of content. It's easy to forget these things. All right.

Dunaway, the pleasure has been ours. Tell people where they can find you stream in this week so they can watch you do some old retro stuff. Absolutely. Twitch.tv. Brian, Dunaway, I'll be doing some Hexon? No. Heretic. Yes.

Heretic beyond Hexon. That's it. Yeah. Hexon. Both are great, by the way. And we're going to talk about both. But next play retro is all about that Hexon-Heretic era of post-dome and early quake engine stuff

and how amazing those early Raven software titles were and why they matter so much to me and Brian and others who played them and finally we're talking about retro on PC so check that out that's Monday and Brian will be playing a bunch of it I will be as well at some point

uh look for it Brian done away hey you you suck a duck see you later wow if there's one bird one bird you want to suck it's a duck I've heard that. That's the one to suck. That's the one to suck.

It's a duck. Yeah, it does. It's very good. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back. Tom Merritt will be here. And we're going to talk to him about some tech.

After that, some recommendals with Randy. That's all coming up soon before that. This song break presented by Brian Ibbett Industries. Yes. All right. So I'm going to set this up and I'm going to tell people, look, you, you know, you're going to hear me talk about this, the song.

I don't want to scare you away because it is fantastic. But when I say, you know, A, it's all in foreign language, not always Spanish, but sometimes French and a little bit of English. So don't let that scare you away. It's kind of a poppy, certainly not a popy love song. More of an indie pop song. What I want you to listen for are two incredible things. Number one, just the beautiful arrangement of this song and how cool it is. Number two, I want you to pay attention to the lung capacity of the lead singer, a woman named Mon La Fert, La Fert, Le Fert.

La Fert. Let's say it's La Furt. Awesome. She actually has the word Furt in her last name. Yeah, it's literally the Furt. That's great. It is Mon the Fert, L-A-F-E-R-T-E. She has a brand-new album called 1940 Carmen and the chorus.

She does in a single breath. And if you watch the video, you'll just say, oh my God, she's incredible. Here is Mon LaFert with Pleacer Hollywood. Right now on Indy in the Middle. Pizza the habitation What important

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Oh. Oh. Mother will have a fit when she'll have a fit when she sees the grocery bill this month. I'll bet we've consumed 10 pounds of cookies and just gallons of lemonade. You shouldn't have sold the tree. That tree was not for sale. morning stream better than a straw tart blowberry pop torch all right we're back everybody hey brian remind us who that song was again i will do exactly that that was man le ferte or la ferte with a song called placere hollywood uh this is one i'm going to have to go make sure i listen to because that sounds

interesting. By the way, I loved that cover last night or yesterday that the show ended with, the weird version of, um, oh, what was it? Why can I, I can't think of names today. Names are dumb. It was, I'll tell you, it was Blitz Creek bought by a little big, the Russian dance band. Yes, I really liked it. Like, it was weird, but I dug it. It was awesome. You got to check out more of their music. They are, uh, they are kooky coconuts is what they are. All right. Those people. Well, I'm, I'm down for more coconuts. in my life. By the way, I'm linking people.

When you look for Mon Lafert on YouTube to watch the video and say, oh my God, that's all in one breath that chorus. Make sure you look for her Tiny Desk concert version of this song. Very nice. Tiny Desk concert. Is that like a...

It's NPR. NPR does these things called the Tiny Desk concerts where they bring in an artist and they perform in the Tiny Desk studio. Oh. Which is literally they're surrounded by racks of CDs and they have a tiny desk in front of them

that they usually push out of the way to make room for a drum kit. Well, speaking of tiny desks. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. At his own tiny desk in his massive studio, Tom Merritt joins us all the way from

Los Angeles, California, and the studios of the Daily Tech News show, Tom Merritt, welcome back. How are you? Well, you know, one of the guests on Tiny Desk one time was BTS. BTS is from Korea and appeared at the end of the Samsung Galaxy unpacked video, which was announcing the new

Samsung Galaxy S-22 Ultras today. Oh my. Way to bring it all back. Look at you. This is great. You tied in tiny desks and tech. Yeah, this is good. Tom does this better than any human being I've ever known. He can

make any transition you need. Hey, here's the question about that. I got bombarded. In my various social media sources, bombarded with Samsung ads, preparing me for this announcement. Like, they really went nuts with it. Do you think it's because of the

BTS thing in the back end? Like, they really wanted to make sure they got their money's worth, because this cost them a pretty penny. That was a stretch. The BTS didn't even open their mouths. They were just at the end holding up cards going, save the whales from plastic, please. Samsung's good at that. Because they're making some of their cases

and stuff out of recycled fishing nuts, which is... Oh, okay. Well, that is actually cool. So, yeah, the star of the show was the Galaxy Note. You know how how big a fan people are of the Galaxy Note. They're wondering, where is, what happened to the note? Are you stopping

making the note? We love the note. And Samsung said, the new Galaxy Note is the Galaxy S-22 Ultra. And you know what? As dumb as that sounds, they made a pretty good case for it, because they've already brought all the handwriting

recognition and stylus integration to the S-21. And the S-22 Ultra includes the S-Pen. They improved the latency of the S-Pen. quite a bit, too. It went from nine milliseconds down to like 2.8 milliseconds. Oh, that's good. That's really good, actually.

Now, the other thing they're trying to kind of gently push is, you know, the real note experiences inside of us. Because they're saying the S-22 Ultra, obviously, is the perfect phone for note fans. But don't forget, the stylus also works on the new Tab S-8 Ultra, and it works on the Galaxy Z-Folds. So really, we're all the note now. I see. Actually, that isn't a bad, it's not a bad way to spin it because...

We all note down here. Noted. So do the, does the pen achieve that kind of latency on those other devices or just on this new phone? You know, that's a very good question. They said the S-Pen included with the S-22 Ultra has the latency. I don't know if you took that pen and paired it with another device, whether you'd get that latency or not. That'd be a good thing to find out because they, you know, if there's one area that has boomed for Apple and not so much for Android tablets, it's been the art side of things

and it's due to the latency or the lack of latency on the Apple Pencil. It's very, very good. If they could make one, you know, go one better there, they could, you know, they could get a, they could get in there. They could wedge in there a little bit, which would be good. I think that would be great to have a little more competition than that space. So, we'll see. It's, it is good. And Rehan asked a really good question. Is that a real measurement? That's Samsung's claimed measurement. Now, Samsung is not known for, you know, big hit pieces where they're like, Samsung claimed 2.8 milliseconds and it turned out it was 12.

Like, it's probably pretty close to real. Yeah. I could see that. Someone in the chat asks, well, what's the number on the Apple pencil? I don't actually know that. I wish I did. But I know it's very fast. I know it's fast enough to I barely notice.

of Apple. Apple's, one of the big advantages to live in an iOS is you get updates to your phone for five or six years. The Samsung Galaxy S-22s, as well as the S-21, the fold three, and the flip three are all going to get four years of Android support from Samsung. So not quite the five or six you get, but getting a lot closer and a year longer than what pixel owners get, which is three years. We're talking about full Android support, not just security updates. Oh, that's great. Are they still doing their voice thing? They're Gimley or whatever its name is. What do they call theirs? Now that you said that, I can't remember. Ghibli or Grimpy or something like that.

Have my sword. Oh, Bixby. Bixby. You should be thinking of the Holt. Hulk. They talk about that at all? They didn't. Okay. I think it's still in there.

But they don't make a big deal. They did make a big deal that the Google Assistant has come to wear OS. which isn't even a new announcement, really. So I think they're more in the like, yeah, we give up, Google assistance better. Yeah, I was going to say they're probably, they're doing a little bit of a Microsoft with Cortana. They're just like, okay, fine, whatever. Just use what you're going to use. And I guess we're stuck with our echoes and our Google homes for now and Siri to some extent.

But did you, I didn't get a chance to ask you this because I guess it happened when you weren't, or between when you were here. Did you, did your echoes freak out at all during that weird outage day that they had? They didn't freak out. out, but I couldn't use them. So, like, they didn't do anything weird except say, like, I'm having trouble answering right now for, you know, an hour or two. And then they came back. Well, the best part, I didn't even mention this on the show, the best part of that one night that it woke up and said, with that, it's dead in middle of the night. Everybody's asleep.

And I forgot to mention, Van is in there on a tiny mattress on the other side of the room. He stayed over that night. So a little two and a half year old, almost three year old laying there. This thing goes off and goes, I'm sorry. I can't understand what you're saying. right now, it says. And I'm like, oh my gosh, do not wake up the baby. And I hear this over in the other side of the room. I hear him go, music, music, music. So he knows what that's for. He was ready to start saying, hey, play Baby Shark. He's like, oh, midnight party, let's go.

Yeah, he wanted to, he thought it was time to play. But anyway, good for Samsung. This is good to see their lineup. And they actually, hey, they stuck the date, Tom, when they said they were going to do it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Unlike the chip announcement. yeah that got weird yes yeah they they scheduled the announcement and made the announcement yeah the day they scheduled crazy cool well that's good uh that and a whole bunch more will happen later today on the daily tech news show it's wednesday i'd like to call it my day um because i get to be on and it's always fun so make sure you check that thing out live and find out what's going on in the world of technology i'm sure you've got some other stuff you're

working on though do anything you'd like to tell people here oh let's see what old sarah lane's cooking up there in the document yet uh we do uh have uh have we have some other stuff. She hasn't nailed anything down, but I know we've got something coming up later this week from a captain. Captain Brian Hoffman, a pilot. He's not a sea captain. He's an air captain. He sat down with us to talk about the pilot's perspective on that battle between 5G carriers and the USFAA over interference with landing equipment. And there's lots of headlines talking about like, all your flights are going to be canceled. and airplanes will fall from the sky and all this stuff. So we actually talked out with a pilot. It's like, okay, now that this stuff is happening, how's it work for you? So look for that, probably Friday on Daily Technation.

Ah, very nice. Cool stuff coming up as usual. Tom Merritt, Ace, Detect on Twitter. Tom, have a great week and day, and we'll see you next time. Thanks, man. Bye now. I can't hang up on him, though. Why?

There we go. I can't quit you, Tom. I can't quit you, Tom, Merritt. All right. Do you guys want to stream shit and enjoy it? well yes oh you do well then all right oh you're asking me or i'll ask you ask you i don't want to ask them they'll they'll just go on and on and on and all caps it won't be terrible uh no we're gonna get what's his name his name's randy we're getting randy in here kivax i do i do like that r has an r

recommendals has an r so we have a double r and it's pretty great hey look it is it's r and joining us from California. Hi, Randy. Hello, an hour ago. How are you? Good morning, morning, stream. How are you? I'm doing great.

Oh, that's fantastic. It is a beautiful day here. It's going to be, it's going to be beautifully, it's going to be beautifully, it's going to be beautifully hot here. We're having a heat wave over the next few days. Oh, tell me temperatures. Getting ready for predicted the hottest Super Bowl ever held. What's your, what's your temps?

What are the high temps supposed to be? Well, I, I live near the ocean, so it doesn't actually get as hot. here as it does inland in in southern California, but like where they're playing the Super Bowl. Yeah. Like today and tomorrow, it's going to be in the high 80s. Oh my. And, you know, they're predicting high 80s or even hotter for Sunday, which is

awesome. Yeah. That's very cool. I got a we're at 45 today and we're normally in like the 20s. So that's no that's no 80, but I'll take it. Snow will melt. I'm good. And I just want to wrap up a couple things with you guys. So yes, Fatal frame was objectively the scariest game, but when I think about actually being scared while playing a game, for some reason, it's always FPS multiplayer games, like, when they have long-range guns.

Oh, yeah. So, like, from, like, Warzone recently going all the way back to, like, ghost recon 20 years ago, you know, if I'm pinned down, like, behind some rocks, and there's another player half a mile away with a sniper rifle, and he's shooting and I'm hearing the incoming rounds, like, thudding into the dirt, man, that is the scariest thing in video games. Total, total. Yeah, no, that's a good call. I feel like there's a certain kind of intensity to that that's very hard to duplicate in any other way,

especially if the game favors snipers, which often they do. Snipers are a problem in most video games, shooter games. Which is why I like playing snipers. Yeah, a lot of people do. It turns out. So I have been following the Winter Olympics. I always watch all the Olympics and stuff. And I'm kind of fascinated by the future schedule.

And I just wanted to lay it out for you, right? Sure. So like the future schedule is the same. Summer Olympics in Paris in two years, right? Yeah. And then Winter Olympics in Milan. And then the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028. And then we skip.

We don't know yet 2030, right? But then we do know that 2032 Summer Olympics is going to be in Australia. Okay. And so it's like, why are we skipping? Why do we not know yet? Because they usually decide 11 years in advance to like give the host city time to, to prepare. And apparently like the four places. that have made a huge bid for the 2030

Winter Olympics are Barcelona, Salt Lake City, Sapporo, and Vancouver. I was in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics. It was fantastic. Yeah, yeah. But apparently, like, you know, like the Olympics are a massive albatross around the neck of any place that hosts it, right? Like, the whole

country suffers because they spend tons into billions and billions of dollars and get nothing out of it, right? Yeah. And so, like, these four places, Barcelona, Salt Lake City, Sapporo, and Vancouver have all made a bid, but they all don't they don't really want it like they're all kind of like acting like they want to lose yeah and salt lake by the way is acting like they want it so i have a feeling we may get it they claim

they're poised and ready both financially infrastructurally like all that stuff they're like we're good let's go and i don't know if that'll bump them ahead or not i have no idea would be very unlikely in my opinion like i've been following this my whole life for them to have the summer olympics in the United States and then two years later the Winter Olympics in the United States. Don't they do that? They do that sometimes, right? Yes, but the IOC really likes, for the last 30 years or so, really

likes to jump around the globe if they can. Yeah, that makes sense. You don't want to get stuck in my place. This isn't the 80s anymore, I get that. I'm, I think Spain is the forerunner for the 2030 Winter Olympics. It's all the time. All right. Let's, we'll have to wait and see how this pans out, and I'm sure

I'll hear about it four weeks after it happens. All right, hey. Let's get to it. We're going to do some recommendals. We're going to start with Brian. Brian's what I meant to say. He always starts these. You got one this week.

Well, actually, while Randy was talking, I was able to watch something else. So I have two this week now. That's a good one. That's a good one. All right. So it says nothing here. So I have no idea what we're getting into you. Do you want to give anything away?

This is a movie. This is a remake. And it's an adaptation of a book and a remake. So, there you go. All right. Went from book to movie to new movie. All right, here it is. You tell them, I got a little job for you.

It's a temporary job. Make sure you emphasize that. Just temporary until we get ourselves another game. You spike it with that opium tincture, one drop per bottle. That's all. But oh, ow. This is what he thinks is happening. So, you say one like this, you say to him,

well, I got to get me a real geek. He says, ain't I doing okay? You say, like crap, you're doing okay. You can't draw a real crowd faking a geek. You're through. And you walk off. Now, that night, you drag out the lecture. You laid on thick.

All the while you're talking, he's thinking about sobering up, getting the crawling shakes, screaming, terrors. You give them time to think that over while you're talking. Then you're throwing the chick. You geek. Of course so. So it's obviously Willem Defoe, but I have no idea what this is. He's talking about becoming a new geek in the carnival in Night,

Mayor Alley. This is Guillermo del Toro. A brand new film that's a remake of a film from 1947 and Neo-Noir psychological thriller. You heard William Defoe there,

you heard teeny tiny bit of Bradley Cooper and you also see a teeny tiny bit of Bradley Cooper in the film. You're also going to see Kate Blanchett, Tony Colette, Richard Jenkins, who is awesome in this. He's never got good.

That guy. always good love him yeah uh runy mara ron perlman mary steenbergen who's or steenbergen who's in everything and david stratheran who is also never not good yeah holt mccallany you got i forget and hope mccallany who plays a very bill tinchish character i'm in uh finally yeah a little bill tension uh closure however i can get it is fine it's good yeah you're not gonna ever go yeah it's as much you're going to get. So Bradley Cooper plays a loner, a drifter who ends up joining a carnival, join there hired by Willem Defoe

to work in this carnival. Not as a geek, because they already have a geek, but just as kind of manual labor. He takes to some of the people in there and even becomes a little bit of a grifter and a con man himself. Actually, a lot of a grifter and a conman himself and kind of sets the stage for all the things that happened in the latter part of the film you've been holding back tim blake nelson in this you've holding back on us a tiny bit of tim tim blake nelson okay but he's like his his his character name

is carny boss which just sounds exactly like the only character he ever plays right i'm playing a carnie boss that's perfect i love him also i see there's a there's a stargate connection david hewlett is on this as yet another doctor that's all he ever does is play doctors but Oh, yeah. He was on Star Trek or Stargate Atlanta. Yeah, he's great. We love him. Dr. Rodney McKay and now he's Dr. El Rood in this one.

This is great. This is, so it's less weird than a lot of the stuff that you usually get from Garmad del Toro like Pan's Labyrinth and the ladyfish water dating thing, dating simulator that we got a couple of years ago. But it is, there's a little bit, there's enough of that because you're in a carnival, so you kind of get to evoke the del Toroness with the mood as opposed to with actual weird-looking characters. Did I say pants, labyrinth? No, no, no. Pants.

You pants-labran. I was just doing that for my daughter's sake because her and I were having a joke the other day about it. It should be called Pants Labyrinth. Or no, we were doing the whole thing where if you change one letter of a movie title, you make it less weird. Oh, okay. Pants Labyrinth, actually, I think, made it weirder. For sure, it works. Yeah, it's a little weirder case.

Sure. Anyway, it's really good. And here's what's great about it. You can watch it in theaters or you can watch it at home on Hulu or you can watch it at home on HBO Max. It's everywhere. It's really weird that a brand new movie like that that's also in theater still and is like Oscar contender is on two streaming services. That's nuts. It's on two streaming services.

Yeah. Yeah. And what's our Oscar? It's Best Picture and four other number or three other nominations. Let's see here. I'm pulling it up. I think. Oh,

costume and probably yeah, a costume design makeup and hair, no. Cynetography. You didn't tell me Jim Beaver's in this?

Jim Beaver. Deadwood and a million other things. I love that guy. I love that. How do I know Jim Beaver? You know him from Deadwood. You know him from Breaking Bad. You know him from Crimson Peak.

You know him from a million things. Yeah, yeah. Watchman. He was in. Hey, did I mention James Norman Beaver Jr. is in this. So please make sure you check that. He was Sheriff Shelby Parlo.

Oh, he's so good. Anyway. And he's playing another sheriff. He's playing Sheriff's Jedediah Judd. That's his whole job from here on out, playing sheriffs. That's it. One guy plays only doctors. Another guy plays only sheriffs.

So, you know, Guillermo del Toro movies kind of all start to look alike if you're watching them. And so I'm just curious, like, is this like in that hellboy shape of water area? you know what um you brought up hellboy that's a really interesting yeah all right i would throw i would say closer closer to hellboy um i've never seen it but the carnival or carnival um uh tv show those in hbo had what i saw of it had a similar look to this i've never seen a full episode but i've seen clips and i always meant to watch that what if that's worth seeing there's nothing creepier i think than a 1920s carnival oh yeah right Because there were no rules, there was no regulation.

It was like, here's a bearded lady and a guy with three wieners. And you were just had to live with it. Exactly. Yeah. All we need is Alan Tudic in here, playing a little three card Monty. He would have been better in here than he did in Hearts in Atlantis. I'll tell you that. But you loved it.

You love this movie. I really love this movie, enough to recommend it. And like you said, it's a two and a half hour watch. So prepare, sit yourself down, get ready for it. But it is really, really good. You know what? I'm a little shocked. I barely mentioned Bradley Coooo.

Cooper, he's great in this. Like, it's a, it's a, it's a really good role for him. Yeah, no, I've heard great thing. Well, he's always good. And he got, he got nominated for the Oscar, right? No. No, and people were sad that he didn't, I guess. But he wins other things.

Best picture, production design, costume design, and, um, I would have sworn he got nominated for something this year for an Oscar. I, he's, he's nominated every year he's in an autour film. It might be, is it for, um, uh, is it for licor pizza? No, yeah, I'm only seeing him. No, no, he just found an article about how he was snubbed. Bradley Cooper's been snubbed. Yeah, I would say he should have gotten if he was going to get anything.

His role here was good, but I don't think it's anywhere as good as like Andrew Garfield and Tick-Tick, boom, or Cumberbatch and Power of the Dog. Right, right. He could have replaced Javier Bardem in that list. But I think supporting actor for Lickrish Pizza, he is great. He is the, oh, God, what's his name? The End of Boogie Nights, waving the gun around, Dr. Octopus. Alfred Molina. He is the that.

Flickrish Pizza. I love that your first go-to is waving the gun around in the Wiener movie. I forgot about that. I totally forgot he was on that. Well, no, he's because he's that character in Boogie Nights. Oh, I see what you're saying. He's the that character. Gotcha, gotcha.

So let me ask you this. This is like the first time Doug Jones isn't in one of these del Toro movies. What's going on with that? And it's a carnival with freaks in it. They do have a snake guy and it's not Doug Jones. Oh, man. Was he too busy doing a spider lady and it's not Doug Jones? Too busy doing alien makeup for Star Trek to be in there?

What that hell is going on? He's too busy being Saroo. Yeah. You know, he's in a new make. Speaking of Willem Defoe, he's going to be the new Count Orlock and the new nose Noseferatu remake they're making. Oh, perfect. Geez.

Yeah, that makes me want to poop up brick. He actually was pretty damn funny on Saturday Night Live a couple weeks ago, too. I like that guy. Nothing wrong with him. He talks about how he always kind of plays a similar character because he's got a look. He's got a certain look. Yeah, that's like his entire monologue on SNL was being mistaken for other actors, which is bizarre because like Willem, there's no one like Willem Defoe.

You know, like that's a like, what's wrong with you if you don't know? know the difference between him and all these other actors. And then of course they used him, they used him mostly like an old man throughout the whole episode. Crazy old man. Yeah, that was like his major roles throughout the skits. And it was good. Yeah, he's great.

I'll never get over those eyeballs in his hands and Pan's labyrinth. It's a hell of a thing. All right. So that's my one and only recommendal this week. Why? Because, well, I watched Randy's Recommendal, uh, Cobra Chi season for, which is just as beautifully stupid as the first three seasons of Cobra Kai.

I would argue it's getting more beautifully stupid as it goes. It's just amazing how they like they sit, they must have a writer's room where these guys come in and sit down and they're all like blindfolded. All right, or let's just talk. Just talk out loud. And see, like, I'll come up

with the craziest shit you can. And let's see if we can make it look like teenagers are doing it. That said, uh, I was not at all. expecting the ending. I was kind of surprised by the direction it took. And I really appreciate that the, that a show that I feel is the most predictable piece of crap that I love, still had a way to surprise me at the end of the current season. So that, like I said, a few weeks ago, it has these rules. And once you fall in love with the rules, you're, you're stuck forever. You know, like, it's wonderful to be able to know what you're expecting and get it. Cool. The other thing I watched that I just decided not to recommend it was the newest season, the newest half season of Star Trek Discovery, because they decided to do it as a half season. And finish the half season and it was really, really good. But hard to recommend all that when I've recommended the previous seasons. So I'll give Star Trek Discovery arrest. Doug Jones is the best part of that show. I love him. He is. And this was really good season. They almost start to get to the problem a week.

kind of thing oh did you guys see the uh we're getting finally orville coming back in june speaking of our our star trick problem of the week and it looks like it's going to be really good i hope so i haven't watched any of it so i'm ready to binge let's binge this baby i'm pretty sure this is the longest a an in-production uh like like feature television show has ever gone between seasons. Yeah, for sure. At least in my lifetime. I have never seen somebody put out two seasons and now it's been five years. It really has, hasn't it? Has it been five? Oh my gosh. That's crazy. Yeah, it has been five. Oh, Madman did? And again, it's got something to do with Fox. I'm absolutely certain that something to do with that freaking studio is making it impossible for these guys to just

make their show and put it out. Yeah, Atlanta's a good example of a long break. The better call Saul takes too long. It's not quite five years, but it's too long. Yeah, there's examples. You've got to find out what happens to Kim Wexler. I need. Kim Wexler better be on top of a heap of bodies with a gun and winning when that's over. Yeah, there have definitely been shows that wrapped and then came back later.

But this is, this is just like remarkable because they put out two seasons. And then we're all set for a third. And then it's like, we can't get this done. Nope. Yeah. Well, all right then. So go to Hulu. Go to Netflix.

go to Hulah, HBO Macs, and get your damn thing. Or go to the theater if you, for whatever reason, want to spend more money and possibly get COVID. Yeah, and deal with horrible people and have weird smells. It deals with the horrible people. All right, I'm going to play this. I very, remember last week? I said I was hesitating on something.

I wasn't sure if I was going to recommend it. I decided to recommend it because the most recent episode almost feels like required viewing. I'll get to why in a minute. But I'm going to go ahead and recommend it. So anyway, here it is, TV series. We don't eat carbs, too, please. Who's that?

Nate Jacobs' dad. That's Nate's dad? That's Nate's dad. No, fucking way. You're full of shit. No way. Full of shit. I don't think I have an attention span for real life anymore.

Should not be smart ass. All right. I pick the most... It's Mary Jean Watson, right? Yeah, of course. Of course. I picked the most unassummed. little clip there possible.

So I watched binge and then been watching week to week the new episodes of the show Euphoria on HBO Max. And the reason that I was hesitant to recommend this last week after binging the first season, hadn't gotten to the second season yet, was there, I mean, there are still times where I'll watch the show and go,

by watching that scene, am I on a list or something now? Like, am I in trouble for seeing what I just saw in this show? Like, it is really hard to describe. really how shocking this show can be um so so i'll just give you the some of the basics uh this is this is your mj from the current umc u spiderman yep yep um zendaya plays your main character rue who is uh the whole thing sort of not seen through her eyes but she's sort of your main character and uh she's a high school kid with a drug addiction that comes and goes um she lives their mom and her sister dad died of cancer that has a big part of what's happening

in this current season. None of these are spoilers, but there's also some significant things in the show. One of the main actors and most important actors in it is a trans actor who is really, really compelling. I forgot her name. I don't have it up here right now. Shoot, Hunter something. Let's see, I can find it real fast. Hunter Schaefer, that's the name. She's in this thing, and she is something about her is just really, really compelling. I suspect Emmys are in the works, like that sort of stuff. I really like Angus Cloud plays a character called Fezcoe.

They call them Fez for short. That's kind of the breaking bad half of the show. Now that me sounds strange to everybody to hear that, but the show definitely has a little breaking bad in it. I will preface all of this by saying 100% this show is not for everybody. There are times when I wasn't sure it was for me because, again, it's depicting high school-aged kids

doing things that these 20-somethings are doing. It's fine because they're all actors. in their 20s, but they're depicting things that make you go, oh, my gosh, did I just see what I think I saw? And I'm talking weaners out, man, like all sorts of sexy time stuff. And you see weeners, lots of man weeners, lots of lady boobies. And it's all in the context of these are high school kids. One thing in particular is Eric Dane, who plays the character Cal Jacobs.

He is, if any of you out there are Grey's Anatomy fans. You'll know Eric Dane as playing Dr. McDreamy or Steamy. I think it was Steamy, McSteamy. Right, because Dreamy was Patrick Warburton, whatever. No, whatever it was. Patrick McGuin. Yeah, that's it. Eric Dane, you'll never see him in the same light again.

And part of it is because it's an incredible performance, but part of it is, man, what a messed up effing character that guy is. And he's really the one big adult character with the big problems. everybody else plays young in high school and they're going through this stuff. It's the worst high school on the planet. These are some of the worst human beings to ever be in a high school. One of Judd Apatow's kids,

Maude Apatow plays Lexi Howard. She's very good in this. This kid who plays Nate Jacobs, who is a complete douche monkey. Like the worst jock, he's a horrible human being in the show. But he's really good and perfect for the role. And there's a lot of that going around in this.

here's what I'm just what this is all leading to. I was hesitant to recommend it because I think it is a very hard thing to see. It does not pull away from very hard, difficult topics, and it's just rough. The most recent episode, if you know anyone or are a drug addict yourself, it feels like necessary viewing. Because where they go with this drug story, freaking blew my mind. mind. It's really, really something. And I don't know if it's brave or if it's, I don't know what it is. But it's really compelling. And obviously, I'm not alone. This thing's a big hit for them. And people talk about it on Twitter endlessly. Like, you know, water cooler talk is

hot on this, on this show. Part of it is because there are a lot of wieners. But the point is just a lot of mentioned winners. A lot of intense stuff going on. And I think I'm far enough in to say, okay, I think I get where you're going. One thing I wanted to mention, do you guys, have either you seen Baskets before? No, no, but I want to see it. I know I've heard great things about it, obviously. So the lady in Baskets, who's like a male carrier, I think,

a really strange woman who's a comedian. I'm going to find her name. Baskets. I have to mention her because not since, The Chicken King, Freak and Gus Fring, have I encountered a more interesting villain in television history? Like, I don't even know, I don't even know how to explain this. I wish I knew her name.

I can't find it. Someone in the chat will find it. She plays a character named Lori in this, who is a ex-teacher, a drug dealer. And she's like the big deal drug dealer in L.A. somewhere, wherever they're at. And I don't even want to say,

say anything else. I just want to say that not since Gus Fring have I been this in love with the villain. She is so good at this weird ass thing they're doing. And it's really hard to explain. So there are shades of like Breaking Bad, little better call Saul notes of that,

but also really trippy stuff going on with the way they film everything. The shots are crazy. The music is insane. The soundtrack is great. Real interesting mix of things. They go back in time to the 80s for a chunk of Cal's story and during those episodes they played just like nonstop in excess like stuff we were in high school

for um so it's really nostalgic in a weird way but just dark again not for not for a lot of people this show but it's pretty good so i'm gonna recommend it euphoria season two is halfway done uh season one's already up they've got another four episodes or something left and uh we'll see how they stick the landing this this season but um in particular i don't know if it's a trigger warning or a must watch but that drug the drug episode that just happened

unbelievable I've come across this series a few times and just been like eh that doesn't look like it's for me or anybody I'm just shocked

that Scott Johnson recommended it I can't quite believe it myself it's one of those things where I really do it's very uncomfortable it's the kind of show

where none of what they're portraying either in sex stuff or any of it none of it's glorified or good. You know what I mean? Like it's all, it's meant to be shocking and uncomfortable and like wrong. You know, you're meant to go, oh, really?

We're doing this? Oh, my gosh, why? And then, but there's something about it. I can't really explain it. I don't even know what to compare it to. It's a really, really weird thing. And I will say Zendaya, who I already liked, is just killer in this. She's so good in this.

Like, she should win whatever Emmys. give out for acting next time. I think she did. Did she? I don't think she got an Emmy, but she got some nominations for something. She should. And again, Lennonade, not interested in that.

Other people, not interested. No, I get it. And no judgment here. This is not me saying that you should watch this. I'm saying it was a hard, it was a hard watch for me, but there's a compelling thread through it all, and I really want to see these characters through,

all of them. even the worst Barbie-looking, you know, want to be Kardashian girl in high school. I want to see how that resolves, even though on the surface, she's horrible, but there's something in there. And this showrunner just is, he might be a genius or I might be getting fooled. I don't know which it is, but I'm kind of blown away by it. Anyway, yeah, right, Jay? The last episode in there gave him a panic attack.

I mean, that was something. like I can't even explain it so so yes if you if you do get around to it you be prepared to be initially shocked by it and then if you carry it through I think you'll find that this is something extra cool that again is not for everybody okay it's a hard watch all right speaking of not for everybody yeah actually actually mine is pretty straightforward but there is it is fairly violent movie all right um i uh i actually didn't tell you guys uh in it i know you didn't because i so i couldn't prepare the uh the quick tmsd i thanks a lot randy i am sorry but but here's the thing this is a relatively

new film uh not like it's a couple years old this film and i i came across it this past week and i'd never heard of it i didn't know it existed it's a western and so that like right out of the gate like maybe go what how have i never heard of this and then i went to rotten tomatoes and it's like you know 84 percent so pretty good but it got no it got no awards it got no nominations it got no notice i i i'm blown away and i thought to myself i wonder if scott johnson has seen this and i decided you know what i want to find out if scott johnson has seen this by playing a clip from it because like it just that's way you didn't okay it's just one of it's just it's this weird thing now it's a western it's a 20th century western so a western with cars and stuff and um it's a very

quiet film there is not much dialogue in this movie so i just grabbed i just grabbed a quick discussion between the leads the leads are an older married couple let's say they're in their late 60s something like that yeah okay and they are having dinner and she uh he has just asked her about this time that he had to put down her horse and It's Western. You're a bad horse. Yeah. Yeah.

He had to, he had to, something happened to the horse. It was sick or something. He had to put down the horse. And he has just asked her about that because it was a, it was a, there was a mysterious thing that happened at the time. And she's just described it. Yeah. And now they're, and now they're talking a little bit further. Your horseshoes are stupid looking.

That was the put down. That's right. One of your legs is shorter than the other. Yeah. Dumb horse. All right. Here it is. Let's play Randy's clip.

I wanted to send her. on her way with happy memories. I'm sorry. Sorry. Why? I made you sad. That's not what I wanted. You didn't make me sad, George.

What I wanted is to tell you, tell you what sticks with me. Strawberry and you. This woman I married but can't figure, doesn't believe there's any world, but this one doesn't believe there's any world, but this one still believes our horse has got a soul somehow. that's a gal for me that sounds like costner that is kevin coster well done i was going to say starring western voice western voice yeah that's kevin costner he's talking to diane lane his wife they've been together their whole life oh i know this is good keep going i know this yeah this movie is called let him go and it's by a guy who hasn't done much of anything before named thomas bazooka and it's based on

a novel by Larry Watson. Hold on. I don't want to skip over how awesome that name is. Thomas Bazooka. Thomas Bazooka. Amazing. Sorry, keep going. That's great. That's the guy's name. That's his actual name, Thomas Bazooka. Yeah. And so Kevin Costner and Diane Lane are, like I said, an older married couple. They're living out on a ranch in Montana. And this is in 1961. Their adult son falls off a horse and dies. dies in the fall yeah and they're left with his wife and their grandchild uh you know and so wife is not blood related to them and so she remarries and then mysteriously disappears uh with the grandchild yeah uh diane lane and uh kevin costner uh decide they're going to go find that uh those folks and see their grandkid and so they end up traveling across the country and they

wander into a small town where their daughter-in-law, so to speak, and their grandchild have moved in with basically the family that runs the town and it gets real gruesome. It's a Western. Oh, okay. I'm in. I'm already in. You've convinced me at Kevin Costner, honestly. I love that. I've seen

this a million times. I thought it was a modern thing and didn't look like a Western on the cover. Maybe that's because it's in the 60s and in the 19. It's about 19. The majority of the events are about 1963, 1964. And the film does a really good job of portraying that. There's no anachronisms anywhere in this movie. You are really, really in 1963. And again, it's very quiet. There's almost no dialogue in this movie, but

they get to this town and the family that's got their grandson is run by a matriarch, a woman their age and she is just freaking evil like it is just you are not prepared for how evil this is

this woman is and it's played she's played by an actress who I've only ever seen as a nice old lady in English television her name is Leslie Manville and seriously

like a very nice old lady actress and she is playing a freaking villain. A violent villain. It's like I was just not at all prepared for this turn. And so it's so of course it sucks you in. They meet, they meet an Indian kid who lives on his own out in the prairie.

And he's got a part, a little tiny part to play in all this. And just a fantastic portrayal. Hey, Jeffrey Donovan's in this. I love him. he is he is one of the creepy super creepy like lieutenants of this family sweet and he is I oh you just want to you want to kill him as soon as you meet him that sounds like his fargo season two role I love having those roles that's awesome yeah just one of those one of those roles where seriously like as soon as you meet him and you got Kevin Costner Kevin Costner you know former retired sheriff of his Montana county he's like you just want Kevin Costner to just shoot the guy in the face as soon as possible yeah like that's the kind of role that Jeffrey Donovan plays and he plays it brilliantly.

The Native American is played by a guy named Boo Boo Stewart. Again, another fun name. He was in all the Twilight movies kind of a not a huge role. He played Seth in the Twilight movies.

And he's just, he's very interesting. Like this is, to my mind, the best thing the guy's done, he's like on the upswing, Bo Boo Boo Stewart is his name. I'm all in on this. I don't know what I thought it was. I thought it was more of like an old people romantic comedy, not comedy, but like a romantic drama thing where it's like, oh, we're old now, let him go.

I don't know what I thought it was. But this sounds great. It is a serious Western. Again, it's weird because it's set in the 1960s and it is just a wet. I don't know why they didn't just set this in the 1890s. It would have been as as interesting. but I guess there's a whole thing here where we're now we're now in the civil rights era but there's still people like this young Native American living out on his own and you know he's got a story to tell about having grown up in a residential school like the I feel like the last few prominent Westerns have all kind of played around with this this the temple or temple of the dog sorry way of the dog or whatever it is power power of the dog that thing is set in the what the 20s late late 20s 20s, which is a weird era for that.

And what was it? Brokeback Mountain was in the 60s. So yeah, you got to, people are experimenting with what they think of Westerners. Hell, Yellowstone with Kossner and it is a Western, but it's like now. And then that 1883 thing is like, all right, we're doing a prequel and it's the true Western. Like, I'm fine with them playing around with that stuff. But I think what kept me away here and not just an auto watch for me was they don't really sell that on the cover. It just, I don't know what it is by looking at it.

And that's the thing. that's it never got any nominations or awards or anything and i i don't think it really deserved them but it definitely deserved notice as a straight down the middle western you know like like we talked about several months ago uh when we're talking about that movie land there's two kinds of westerns right there's you are fighting against nature and nature gonna win and you are fighting against other people who have guns those are the two kinds of westerns this is the latter kind this is the other people have guns and you got guns and there's going to be a showdown.

But it's like, you know, the overall, the overall thing, you can't really like do much with that, right? Yeah. Like there's a gunfight at the OK Corral. It's just like, that's so tiresome, right? Yeah. And at the same time, we have movies like,

open range where it's like you just, all it is, it's just gunfight at the OK corral. That's all it is. Like, you know, we have to build up a conflict. and then ultimately have men shoot guns at each other. Yeah, which I'm into. Yeah, I know.

But it's just remarkable how they keep coming up with ways of telling that story like this that have just this little twist of uniqueness. Just this little thing that sets it apart. In open range, it's Michael Gambon, right? The freaking new Dumbledore. Yeah, the Cattleman wrestler guy that wants to take it. And in this one, it's Leslie Manville, this nice British actress. doing a

She's doing a She's doing a This is Gary Oldman too. Oh really? Yeah. Yeah. Maybe now we know what he left. She's doing like a Rocky Mountain accent and it's real good.

You just hate her. You hate her guts. So I don't want to get to get this past us because no one's mentioned it yet. But we at least have to mention the fact that this is Ma and Pa Kent in another movie together because they both played. That's what they were in.

I was trying to think of what we've seen those two together and before. She was Martha and he was. Yeah. What made you say that name? Clark's dead. Well, yeah. What made me say Martha? I'm not, I don't want to fight, I don't want to fight Batman anymore suddenly.

That's weird. Um, yeah, that's just a funny thing for them to do like in the middle of their, uh, of their Batman, or their Superman run. They're just like, yeah, we'll do another movie. It'll be together and we'll be married. And just like circling around to our original point of through all of this, this is not for everybody. This, this movie is, you know, it's a, a Western. It's a violent. It goes to a gruesome end.

Yeah. And, uh, yeah, it's like, I, I don't, I'm not recommending it for, you know, my kid. But for people who like westerns in general, this is a must see. It's so beautiful and exactly what you're expecting it to be. Are any of our three movies today, any of them work for kids? I don't think so. I was going to say, no, no, I would say Nightmare Alley probably has, of all of these,

the most broad appeal, but still definitely not for kids. Well, look at us being all adult, everybody. Yeah. You got your Enkanto a couple of weeks ago that you're good. You're fine. You guys said we never grow up. Don't let your kids watch Euphoria. Please don't.

Oh my gosh. Don't let them watch it. Holy shite. I can't believe I watched it. Don't let your kids watch it. All right. Well, there you go. Those are our three recommendations.

I'm absolutely watching that one, Randy. That one sounds like my jam. Do I mention the parasites of Western? Did I mention that? Yeah. It's weird. Suddenly that movie is all the genres I like. Everyone keeps telling me.

It's weird. Exactly. Hey, by the way. You know, it's post-apocalyptic. They drive cars. That's right. Exactly. Start Kevin Costner. Yeah, it's a bunch of Koreans trying to get to gas town.

You hadn't heard? Anyway, if you want to follow more about these, we do the QuicktmS. Lee has these up there. But also, Randy posts about these all on Twitter and on the Facebook groups and everywhere else. So make sure you follow him at Randy Deluxe. Randy, anything else you'd like to mention today? Nope.

No? Okay, then. Bye and have a great. Okay, just just one more thing. go ahead i didn't hang up on you go ahead i see i'm prepared for this this time now he's out of here now he's out run randy run run be gone all right thank you all for that that's fun uh moving on to our patreon mentions i want to mention some folks who have helped support the show and they're awesome the nalick is one of them he's great yeah at the at the less

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You'll find it at frogpants.com slash TMS. You want to request a song. There's a link right there. You just go in and there it is. It'll say, request a song, question mark, hit it. And it lets you do it. Easy as that. Easy as that.

All right, Brian, speaking of that, why don't you play us a song here now? Let's talk about somebody who did that very thing. Peter Fisher did that very thing and said, Dear Sword and Balliste, another solo rotation, another request. Once again, I'm not picky about the song that the covermeister plays,

just as long as it's flipping fudging good. And if any poolers are at a loss for what to do at night, around 11 o'clock Eastern, they're invited to watch me play Assassin's Creed, Civ 6, and possibly some jackbox games at Twitch.tv slash G-A-U-A-U-R-Thron! With 2-A-A-A-W-N. Peter, that's what I call a variety streamer, nicely done. I like it. No kidding.

I play whatever. Whatever's on my mind. I'll play it. Exactly. So we wanted to hear some odd, good, weird juxtaposition of genres like metal, big band, ska, reggae, bluegrass, Prague, jazz, etc. Well, all right, let's combine

because I'm kind of in a guns and roses mood because tomorrow's episode of Coverville will be Guns and Roses for part of it because of X Rose turning old. This is a cover of Paradise City done by German country, German Western

band, handsome Hank and his lonesome boys. So old school country by a German band covering heavy metal. It's great. From their greatest hits album from 2003, which is all their hits or all their songs. Here's Handsome Hank and his Lonesome Boys covering Paradise City. Take it down to Paradise City where the grass is blue. and the girls are pretty Oh, won't you please take me home

Take me down to the Paradise City Where the grasses flew And the girls are pretty Oh, won't you please take me home Just an urchin living in the street I'm a hard case that's tough to be Charity case, spend me something to me I pay you at another time

Take it to the end of the line Rocks and riches so to say You gotta keep pushing the fortune of faith It's all again The lady's all the game Treat it like a gab, but don't cry Everybody's doing the time Take me down to the Paradise City

Where the grass is full The girls are pretty Oh won't you please take me home Take me down to Paradise City Where the grass is full And the girls are pretty Oh won't you please take me home Strapped in a chair in my city's scout chamber, why I'm here I can't remember.

Doctor says it's how's the priest. I have another cigarette you see. Tell me who you're going to believe. Take it down to the paradise city when it wraps us full and a girl. are pretty oh won't you please take me home take me down to paradise city where the grass is blue and the girls are pretty oh won't you please take me home This, oh, won't you please take me home Take me down to the Paradise City

Oh, won't you please take me home When the grass is blue And the girls are pretty Oh, won't you please take me home To the Paradise City Oh, want you please take me home When the girls are blue And the grass is pretty

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