The Morning Stream - TMS 2261: Rank Fish

Episode Date: March 16, 2022

Ground-Up Fish Bricks. Team DunaWalkman. It's Ugly and deserves to be Eaten. Deeper Into the Lotion Hole. Literal Nose candy. Drillbit Johnson. Can make a Peen out of anything. Kevin Pollock Fish Mist. The Elway or the Highway. I do not like Walgreens screeeeenss. The Giants are Dying off. Dunwalkman. Condoms, Flu Shots, and Back Massagers. Yummy Lee. Reading Tech Tealeaves With Tom. Such a supple wrist 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, grounded up fish bricks. Beam Dunawakman. It's ugly and deserves to be eaten. Deeper into the lotion hole. Literal nose candy. Drill Bit Johnson. Can make a pean out of anything. Kevin Pollock fish mist.

The Lway or the highway. I don't like Walgreens screens. The giants are dying off. Dunawakman. Condoms, flu shots, and back massagers. Yummy Lee. Reading tech tea leaves with Tom. Such a.

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Welcome to TMS. Wednesday, March 16th, 2022. Scott Johnson here. Brian Abbott there. Good morning. Hello, Scott Johnson. Did I tell you I'm four days, Sands, caffeine right now. Did you know that? Oh, look at that. No, I did not know that.

Yeah. So if I, uh, today it's starting to hit me and make me feel really tired. It's interesting that you choose to do this, uh, the week where daylight saving time happens. I know. It seems super dumb, but like a lot of things in my life, I have poor, poor choices and timing. Was this, uh, was this a recommendation from your doctor? No, it's just me. I think, uh, it makes me jittery. It makes my sleep worse. Uh, it's just never, caffeine and I've never really gotten along very well. And so I have, I have, for now anyway we're gonna you know basically the idea is you get off the daily and the and the regular all the time and then sure when you sit down to a meal you're like yeah bring me a coke zero no problem or you know yeah i'll have that tea before bed once in a while like it's it's more

of an occasional thing and less of a like all everyday thing and for me i don't know i just caffeine have always has always been so with me just always really bugging yeah some people it's like nothing you could drink brian here could drink 15 cup to coffee and just not even blink an eye. And I do during the show. And he does. And he does. And I really won't blink an eye after the 15th cup. Yeah. And I would, I would, I'd probably die on that many cups. I'd probably have a, I don't know, some kind of weird connection and you have to go to the hospit, a pittal.

Anyway, it's good to see you all here. We're happy to be doing a show. And it's time to rank the fish. As you know, yesterday. Yeah. It was ranked fish. Brian went and did some of this. Hey, two are I going to fish sandwich? And did a great impression of that dude every time. Thanks. I did lose it on one of the drive-thrues when I got up there. And the guy said, hey, how are you doing?

I said, oh, I'm fine. I forgot to do like, hey, I'm fine. Thank you very much. It's hard. It's hard. You had to play that persona all the time. It's not easy. I respect it.

I feel bad for the poor, you know, minimum wage Wendy's employee that. He was grumpy. He was grumpy. It's like, come on. It's funny. I'm making a job. joke would you like one of my fish sandwiches yeah be like the dude in the who is the your favorite guy wasn't he the uh the jack in the box guy was the best or something or no

burger king who was the nice guy what are you talking about yesterday who was the nice guy that you talked to oh nice guy was burger king yes the nicest of the uh drive-thru people was was burger king did i say something weird he said what was i talking about what did i say see i'm i'm confused i'm concerned the caffeine lost who's the nice guy who's the nice guy and i'm like What are you talking about? Because I didn't know you were talking about the people in the drive-thru. Oh, oh, all right. I thought I was losing it.

And it's possible I was because, again, the caffeine makes me get off of it. I get a little weird. So don't mind me. I tend to, I call teen out on all the time because she'll have half of the conversation in her head before she says anything to me. And then she'll ask the question that pertains to what all the things that she was just thinking about asking me. and it'll come out of, you know, it'll seemingly come out of nowhere. There's a logical transition, a logical path to that question like it was with yours, but it's like, what?

What are you talking about? Well, I do. It is a thing. So, all right, so we've got to rank them, though. You ate them all. Yeah. Or tasted them all, right? I tasted them all.

I said, I'm not wasting. All right, well, let's rank them, first of all. The, we had the jack in the box, the Burger King and the McDonald's, the B.K. Big Fit. is the Burger King one, and I'm putting that up on top. That was like the best. There's something about the eggy bun they use. It's different than I think the Whopper bun they use.

You know how you've got certain rolls and buns that have a yellow hue to them? That's the one they use for the fish, and it was really good. Okay. I'm surprised by that. I would have thought they would have used the same bun across the board. Yeah, I would think so, too. It would be cheaper, right? How much extra does it cost them now to maintain.

and transfer multiple buns. The jack-in-the-box, I would put second. Tina actually said she preferred the jack-in-the-box over the Burger King. I think the Burger King, you got a bigger piece of fish, and for me that carries a lot of weight, no pun intended. Like, it adds to the score. These are all ground-up fish bricks, though, right? None of them were like some kind of special cut of fish.

All of them are, yes. Although one of them, let's see. Both the Jack in the Box and McDonald's were cod. I think the Burger King was Pollock. Pollock, all right. Kevin Pollock, ground up. Jackson Pollock. Yeah, comedian talk show host, Kevin Pollock, ground up into a fine mist and then put into your fish sandwich.

I think so. I remember looking at the label, and if you go to, yeah, 100% white Alaskan Pollock. Yeah, if you go to Snack Network. I recorded a video of all my, the whole tasting process and ranking process there. So you can see the inside of my kitchen, and you can watch me eat a fish sandwich. Nice. I would rank the McDonald's last, and I think I showed you why, that all the tartar sauce was on the inside of the box. There was very little on the sandwich itself.

And get this. I never realized this before. There's a piece of cheese on the flay of fish. Oh, yeah, it's a square of fish and then a, and then cheese, because you always think, oh, fish and cheese go really well together. Yeah, no, I don't, look, that's always been, I wondered about that, and I forgot to ask yesterday, because it's been so long since I've had one, but including a piece of fish and a piece of cheese together, any kind of cheese even. Yeah, yeah. It's just an apocalyptic idea. What are you even doing?

Yeah. It's a terrible idea. Don't do that. It's bad idea. I guess the people in the chat room are saying that McDonald's is a Pollock as well. Oh, okay. On the, I just put up a... Pollock's in a cod.

I put up a picture of a Pollock for the chat room so they can see what that fish looks like. It's a pretty big gnarly fish. It's a big old fish. Yeah. It's ugly and deserves to be eaten. Yeah. Underbite. I would have liked if proximity-wise, Arbys and Culvers were nearby because Culver's, I've had the fish sandwich there, and I remember it being the best fast food fish sandwich I've ever had.

Gotcha. Do we put Culver's in a couple notches above all of these, or do you think they're... I would put Culver's a couple notches above all these. I mean, obviously, you know, I didn't include them in the taste test, so I can't compare them one right after the other like I would like to. Right, right. But I mean, isn't Culver's like more five guys? You know what I'm saying?

Like on the ladder of fast food chains, you got your base level McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and then you go up a couple of rungs and you got five guys, I don't know, in and out. I mean, I'd still put them on the lower, on the lower rung. They're, um, their regional is the problem. Uh, they're Wisconsin and I don't know how far west they go. If you guys, do you have Culver's in your, we do. I always thought, I've, I guess I've never been to a Culver's, but I always thought they were supposed to be like, you know, smash burger level.

Yeah, no, no. So those places I kind of, like, the way I'd, uh, uh, uh, distinguish between all of them is do you have to wait at the counter for your food or do you go to your table and they bring it to you and that's kind of like the five guys on the smash bar i take that back five guys you have to go up to the counter they call you yeah but it's just it still feels like a cut above i don't know yeah i mean okay let's here's food's where would you put uh where would you put in an out burger uh i'd put them i'd put them with the cut above group yeah i think it's the quality of the food i guess is what's doing it for me because both of those

places are just better food the McDonald's or, you know, Burger King or whatever. And then I put Culver's in whatever group you put in and out burger. Okay. Because I think that there's, you know, there's Freddy's, which is also cut above. It's still, you know, it's still go to the counter, get your food. A bunch of minimum wage kids making your food behind the counter. Yeah, but they got that sauce with the jalapeno. That's such a great sauce.

So, yeah, if we do a fish smackdown two, then fast food fish smackdown two. And then I'm going to position myself to be near Arby's and Culvers. I'm sure Popeye's has a fish sandwich. I know they've got a spicy chicken sandwich. Yeah, probably do. I don't know. Did they mix the, get the fish over the white fish at the chicken places? I would think they would, right?

I don't know. Because Popeyes has a lot of Louisiana seafood, right? Yeah, they got the shrimp and the stuff like that. Yeah. So why would they help fish? I don't know. That's an interesting, let's see here, flounder fish sandwich currently. Popeye's reveals. Then at the time, US only were available.

So it's probably just a Lent thing. Okay, yeah. So they're doing it like the McRibb sort of bring it or bring it out when they want to kind of deal. Yeah, or bring it out during Lent. Yeah, yeah. Well, there you go then. Yeah, so it doesn't look like they've got, let me see if they have a regular fish sandwich. No, they have the classic flounder fish sandwich and a spicy flounder fish sandwich.

Neither of those are like, you know, they don't look like a square brick. So that's good. That's a plus for Popeye's right there. Do you think they shape it or do you think they actually have a fish shape, or an actual fish in there? Yeah, I think I would bet that it's still shaped. It's just shaped in an unusual, like a more organic looking shape because otherwise you're at the mercy of, oh, well, this piece is bigger than that piece.

And this, you know. Sure. That makes sense. They should make them into little puzzle pieces and then everybody could try to fit them together out in the restaurant. Perfect, yeah. That'd be end of that. So, you know, some other time we'll do fast food fish smackdown too

and I will bring in a couple other contenders for the crown. Nice. For the big fishy crown. Nice. It might finally get me to go to Culver's never been. So maybe I'll eat there. You know, their butter burger is really good too. And even though you're off the sugar, boy, they, they, they,

um they give freddies a run for their money on the custard the frozen custard stuff oh yeah i've heard that stuff's pretty good i've heard their fries are a bit of a grease pit is that true yeah they are yeah the fries are nothing to write home about okay well neither is but i guess in an ounce are pretty bad too yeah good fries are hard come by the shoestring fries no me neither give me give me red robin fries all day long but sadly no fast food place has those kind of fries or the big That quality anyway. I agree. Even though when they try to go big, they're not, they're bad.

Yeah. All right. I would like to, I don't know if this is a real new segment or not, but I'm going to play a little theme here. Scott would like to register a complaint. All right. Yeah. Fight. Pick your champion.

Yeah. I'm going to register a complaint. This is to the big lotion. Okay. All right. Big lotion. Big Juergens. Big Juergens.

Whoever's in charge of the lotion. lobby, whatever, the big people in lotion, okay? Here's my complaint. You people need to figure out your formula because two days in a row now, two different brands of lotion, I went to go do the pump on one of them and the squeeze on the other. And if you haven't used lotion in a few days, you get the little lotion clot out in the front. All right?

And when you hit that thing too hard, the clock goes flying and then it spooze all over the place. and it's bad. It happened again this morning. I'm annoyed. Fix your damn thing. Why is this so hard? I swear there's other... So you're saying that they need to come up with a formula that doesn't coagulate,

doesn't turn into a hard plug when it dries up. That or come up with a cap that has some kind of better management of the clot, you know, like something that lets you gouge it out or, I don't know, like a little grinder at the top or something, something let me get rid of that thing. Your pump is kind of, you're kind of screwed with the pump. Right? It's like, oh man, that's just like ready for Jamie. I just like package that up and put a bow on it. But yeah, you can't like the pump, you're not going to have something that clears out the pump. No. Not that I know of it unless they change the stuff.

You're talking about the little flat, almost like a toothpaste tube, but it's got a wider opening and thing on the end. Yeah, a little pin. Yeah. It, uh, yeah. really just having a cap that has a little peg that goes deeper into the lotion hole. Yeah, exactly. That would keep the dried out lotion plug from, oh, my gosh. I know, it's nasty. So here's the deal.

Like I can go in there with like some sort of toothpick item or whatever and I can jab it out. Welcome to great night, everybody. Yeah. I can dig in there if I want to with a stick, you know, if I want to, but I don't want to. You don't want it just to work. You don't have to keep a toothpake handy just to use the lotion. Yeah, and I'm trying to moisturize, okay? I'm trying to take better care of my skin.

They ain't getting any younger. And, you know, when there's a big old freaking lotion clot to deal with, it just pisses me off. Well, you need to, that's probably a sign that you need to be lotioning more often, right? Because that stuff won't dry out if you are applying lotion a couple times a day. You probably should be. This is a good point. I've been using this stuff we've got to Trader Joe's that I like a lot.

Oh, really? Yeah, it's great. Great lotion. I forgot the name of the thing. But it's, the problem is it clots. So whatever, quit coagulating, you damn lotion. All right. That's my complaint. I'd like to hear what the world has to say about it. We heard back from H. AKA, dude, what I met with when he came here to Salt Lake a couple weeks ago. Oh, yeah. Actual police officer in the Nashville area. Yes, this is a perfect person to answer our question. Yep. Sent me a private DM on Twitter to answer the question we asked yesterday about would you still be charged for the drugs. We're buying not drugs because you thought you were buying real drugs.

You thought you were buying real drugs, but you were buying not drugs. And he says, in relation to your question about drugs, they could be charged. But likely, depending on the amount, we would just seize the drugs and not charge the person. So it sounds like it's not worth the rigmarole in that particular case. If you had a sting, it's different, obviously. you're doing a big sting operation and you got a whole bunch of people involved or you know the main dealer or something like that you got gus fring on the line whatever you're gonna you're gonna go for the throat but in these particular cases it sounds like they would they could but they don't but they probably won't so there's there's some mitigation of like a you know yeah let it go the dude bought but uh non dairy creamer thought he was buying meth yeah maybe keep an eye on him but you know he's he's got enough problems and we don't need to overload the jimmy you'd think he'd guess by the color that he bought crushed up sweet tarts but no no he didn't figure it out tell you about the guy in high school that snorted those crushed up sweet tarts

that snorted crushed up sweet tarts yeah yeah for what uh like what was their goal was it to he is a psycho so he ended up in like hard drugs later and i think he might be actually odied and gone now i don't know it's very sad story but back in high school there's this kid uh who was really really into motley crew got all their like t-shirts and swag, and he was so into Motley Crew, and he always wanted me to draw the band, and he actually had, who's the one that had

the two stripes under their eyes? Nicky Six, I think. Is it Nicky Six? Might have been. Yeah, so he had that going on and he'd show up at school with that on. Just super into it. Anyway, there's nothing to do this story, but at one point, he pulled out a box of these sweet tarts, and

he goes, dude, watch this. And he crushed him up with his, I don't know, pan or something, made a little fine dust, and then took a card, like his, ID card and made a little line and then full on snorted a line of candy in class. And I remember going, that can't be good for your nasal

unit. Yeah. You know? I don't know what it would do to you, but it can't be good. No, there's no way that's good. And he thought it was great. He said, oh, it gives you such a rush. The sugar goes straight to your veins and you just... Sure. Yeah. He's mainlining sweet tarts.

I love it. Yeah. And at that time, he claimed anyway, he wasn't doing any other kinds of drugs, but then after high school, he got hurt all these stories about him going down some deep holes. I don't think he's around anymore. From the fruit punch eight balls to something a lot harder. Someone says you were friends with a Curtis Armstrong character.

Actually, I believe the kid's name was Curtis or Kurt. Oh, really? Yeah. I think so. It was the same class where Patrick Nagel, not the artist, caught his hand on fire with the rubber cement and flinged rubber cement balls all over class. Jeez. Yeah. Those brushwood

snorted crushed up alt-oids is a great night punishment. Did he or did he? He probably faked it. He probably, like, come on, the dude, the dude makes it look like he's pushing a nail from one tear duct to another across through his nose. Come on. Do you think he really did that, please? Yeah, he's doing a, he's doing a gig. The dude is a modern rogue.

He tells you that right at the beginning. Also, if he did really do it, he really shouldn't do that. Sinuses are going to, you're the, you know what, if it's the, if the audience made him do it, they're mean. That's mean. Yeah. I don't think you should do that to yourself. It's bad. all right well thank you h for uh giving us some clarification it's time for us to play a game

let's get done away all involved yeah let's find out what the weirdest thing is that he's snorted yeah i bet he's got some he's had some things in his nose i mean the weirdest thing i ever put in my nose was that drill bit or that uh screwdriver bit did i tell you about that i think i did you put a drill bit up your nose yeah it was like a screwdriver you know the screwdriver magnetic bits that you stick into the screwdriver hole yes i got bored one day it's like junior High Era. I'm laying on my back in the living room, TV's on, and I take a screwdriver bit, and I just let it sink into my right nostril as far as it'll just go gravitationally, just kind of go into my head. And then I just sat there and thought, well, that's interesting.

I wonder how far up that is, and then I took it out. The problem is, all these years later, I still have issues with this side of my nose. Oh, really? Yeah, I get like weird. This is the side, if I get a sign infection, it's always over here. If I get a cold, head cold, it's always over here. Uh, if I get stuffy, it's always over here. It's always my right nostril. So, well, I can't imagine that it's related because what, it might not be. It might not be. You know, obviously, immediately there's crud and, and who knows what kind of bacteria and stuff on the drill bit, but yeah, I don't know. I don't know. It was thick. And, uh, hey, hey, Hey, Dunaway, welcome, first of all. Yeah, hi, Brian Dunaway. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi, it's nice to have you

here. Uh, welcome to Babbel Royale. How are you feeling? What are you doing? What do you put up your nose in South Carolina? Yeah. Have you ever snorted grits? snorted grits, that would be a terrible idea. You don't want to grit up your nose. You know, there might be some special waffle house motions. We don't put grits up our nose. That's insane. Might as well.

Do you snort hot dogs? What is your big food over there in the Colorado? Don't do that. No oysters, Brian. And yes, we do snort them. Yes. That's on you. Well, you smell them going in.

I can tell you that. Hang. Has anyone ever snorted tang? I bet somebody snorted tang. Oh, God. I've accidentally snorted tang many times. You don't mean to. It's just kind of like you, the powder scoop, you put the powder scoop in there.

There's that little, like, floaty, like, the little, like, you drop the powder scoop in the cup. Yeah. And then there was that little, like, almost like, cloud. Where it comes up, the cloud that comes up and you snort it. No, that's bad. Oops. Oh, I'm made a mistake. Don't drink the can cloud is what we're saying.

Hey, we have a listener on the line. Let's find out who's waiting. Hi, who's this? Hello, there, gentlemen. It's Greg for Walkman. Well, hello, Greg for Walkman. It's nice to have you here. I used your Walkman yesterday capturing some old tapes.

How you feel about that? I'm glad it still works. It is. It does. It's fantastic. Those things never break. Are you calling us from a Walkman? I guess he's a little.

Here, I can turn him up a little, I think. Here, I guess I can't turn it up. Hello, hello. They're a little better. It's way better. You're good. You're good. Hey, it's good to have you here.

You probably know the drill, but we're going to have Brian explain it anyway. Brian, why is he here? I'm treacherally obligated to explain the rules of this game. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us, and it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Greg, for Wockman, your job is more important than ever,

because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian, depending on who wins the toss-up. If your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes Company of Heroes 2 and Hyper Light Drifter. Ooh, both games are great. Great games, courtesy of Matthew. Matthew Bach. Yeah.

Excellent quality products, right? Both of those games are very good. Yeah. But you need a topic. The gentleman need to win the toss-up to figure out who you're going to be playing with. So let's go to this one. Hands on your buzzards, please. Okay.

On the buzzards. We asked 518 tadpoolers, 58 of them really just couldn't be bothered. Couldn't be arced to come up with an answer. We asked him, name an NFL quarterback, past or present. Ryan Dunaway. Can I win it early?

We got the whole question. NFL quarterback passed a president. I'm going to go with Tom Brady, who just unretired himself and ruined that guy's good time with the football. Yeah. He did. Yeah. He retired and then unretired. Show me the goat.

Is he on here? Of course he's on here. Number one answer, Tom Brady, the goat. He spent like two months with his kids and said, nope, going back to football. I think that was it. Right. Exactly. He really got tired of.

wordle really quickly and so i'm going back to football yep you like said i've built out my animal crossing island i finished wordle uh time to go back to uh i think he even he even like signed up for a a series or something on tv i believe how's all that going to work out i guess it's going to cancel all that crap wait where's he going back to is he back to um yeah yeah it's a hell of a thing retirement yeah he's like nope not doing it i don't think he can't he's got to throw that football I get it. He's got inflate and then throw them footballs. I mean, deflate.

I mean, I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, what are you talking about? Who knows? So, Greg, for Walkman, you're going to be working with Brian Dunaway since he got the number one answer. No answers can beat it. The two of you are going to be working together to see how many of these you can name before you get your first strike. And the play goes over to Scott. So, Brian and Greg.

And Walkman. Warren and Walkman. Ryan, Walkman. Donnell Walkman. Dunnell Walkman. Team Donald Walkman, name an NFL quarterback, Pastor President. Now, obviously, you have to be thinking of what the Tadpool is going to say, right? You can name a bunch, but it's what the Tadpool says.

That's what I was trying to figure out. I think a couple of them are going to be no-brainers. I mean, you can't mention Tom Brady without Peyton Manning, right? I mean, that was a rivalry for years. What do you think of that, Greg? What do you think, you Bostonian? I have a bunch of my head, but, yeah, Peyton Manning should be on the list. So speaking of, so hold on here, you'd have been a Patriot, were you a Patriots fan

given that you live in Boston in that area? I born and raised a Patriots fan even through the bad years. Even through the bad years, okay. I had season tickets when they were like one win. Nice. What choice did you have? Yeah, you didn't have much of a choice. The reason I asked that is everybody has ever known that lives in Boston has to be Patriot fans. And if you're not, you're just dead to everyone, right?

Like, you guys are hardcore about it. No, there's a long, there's still a history with the Giants. Oh, yeah. They're dying off, though, but a lot of Giants fans still. Yeah, they're not so giant anymore. They're dying off. They're all getting too old. All right, what are you doing?

We're talking 60s here. Yeah, there you go. All right, you two go for it. What do you want to do? Did you say Peyton Manning? Is that you said? I said Peyton Manning. I mean, I know I'd say Peyton Manning because he was in Denver here, but,

Yeah. What the Tadpools say? Let's find out. Oh, God. Show me Peyton Manning. Yeah, number five. Oh, you made me nervous on that one. Oh, yeah, sure.

Dude. That's the point. That is the point. Yeah, yeah. Greg, I've got a million on my head. I'm trying to think we'd be better going more recent or some of the older school guys. Oh, okay. What do you think, Greg?

I'm thinking Brett Favra. Yeah. That was where I was going next to. Kind of mill the middle. Roved there. Favorite. All right. Okay.

Show me a former Packer and, and selfie taker, Brett Favre. Old Man commercial man. Yep. Yep, exactly. Remember the time he was in? Remember the time he was something about Mary? Remember that movie? I do remember that.

That's where the whole Brett Favre came from. I'm remembering when he did commercials for like dockers or Lerger. Lee jeans or something. Some pants thing that he was doing ads for. Yeah, he was all up in big pants. My wife's got her driver's license from his dad. That's kind of cool. It's her claim to fame.

Very cool. Does he know that? Yeah, well, I don't know, but they spent one year in high school. She was a freshman. He was a senior in the same high school. Anyway, it's our one claim to Brett Farr of Fame. Nice. Yeah.

That's all anyone needs is just one. Yeah. Right. All right, Dona Wachman, team Dona Walkman, what you got? What else you got a few? Do you get another one you want to throw in there, Greg? I think Patrick Mahomes is probably on there. Okay, we'll go Mahomes. Yeah, why not?

Mahomes. Tadpool. Sure. Let's go Mahomes. What's up, my homies? Oh, yeah, believe it or not. Patrick Mahomes, number 11. This is telling of the tadpool.

Okay. Just one last. person said Mahomes, then said our number 10 answers, so just missed. Oh, man, close. Yeah, very close. Give Scott a chance to play those. So Scott. Yeah, I'll go with Steve Young. See if they got him on there. Local, local boy, Steve Young. Yeah, local hero. Yeah. Steve-o. All right, show me Steve Young. Ooh, that's low. We now have a tie game. Steve Young is one there? And not, okay. No, this is good because

I get more points That's what might be in Utah connection. You just tied it up. It's BYU, right? Yeah, I went to BYU, was a huge star here. There's a few of those,

but I don't think they're going to know the other two because they're too old. Yeah. All right. Oh, geez. Where do you go from here? My brain. Where do you go from here?

Who is the, oh gosh, why is what's, footballer gym? Hold on, hold on. Quarterback, though, right? It has to be quarterback. Yeah, it has to be a quarterback.

Well, it has to be someone that the Tadpole thinks is a quarterback. There you go. Oh, now I'm thinking weird stuff now. Now I think there's something weird in there. Oh, no, don't let me convince you that there's something weird in here. I believe all of these people were quarterbacks. Okay. Are or we're quarterbacks.

Let's go then with Troy Aikman. That's a good one. Oh, Troy Akeman. The Akeman. He was a good quarterback. Show me Troy Akeman. Oh, come on. Really?

Made the list, but he was number 13. Well, I think, I think, Greg, if Steve Young is on there, I mean, how could you not remember Joe Montana? Oh, I love Joe Montana. Yeah, that's, I was thinking that, too. Yeah. The guy's got a whole state in his name. It's fantastic. Yeah.

That's he was named after him, wasn't it? Like they didn't have a name for the state until Joe Montaans. Yeah, that sounds right. That sounds legit. Yeah. Possible? Yeah. All right.

Sure. All right. Show me Joe Montana. Pooh. I don't know if you had a nickname. Number two. Low-anging fruit, not a lot of points, but at least you're, you still have control of the boy. It wasn't a little Joe.

It's how he said. A little Joe. Little Joe. Makes me think of, but does it remind me a big Ben. Yeah. Ben Rothless Berger. Oh, Lothl. I'll give you an extra point if you can spell Rothlessburger.

Ro, O-R-O-E-F-E-F-E-Berger. Close enough. All right, show me Rothless Burger. Toothless Burger. Oh, damn. No, Ben Rothlessberger was number 15 on the list. What? And that's after I counted every single different spelling of Rathlisberger that the Tadpool typed in.

Okay. Yeah, I didn't think about that. That's probably one of the reasons why people didn't do it is they started typing it in. I'll go with Ben. No. Let's go with it easier neck. Right, exactly. Yep.

Okay. Well, on that note, let me see if I can. A whole lot of high fruit on the tree to. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. All right. I'm going to see if I can. he's so old though this is a bad one but if we get it right

tadpool I've been trying to figure him out I'm not sure there's two or three already on there they're old all right let's go with Dan Marino it's like of the 80s are just back here just Dan Marino that's so good Montana was on there why not

why not right all right show me Dan Marino number four on the Oh, the dolphin. Not bad. We're keeping a nice little, you know, keeping the clothes in the gap. Dan, the Dolphin Marino. Yeah.

Laces out. That's right. That was his whole thing. Laces out. Which I don't get. Like, how do you tie your shoe with the laces in? It's tough. You have to do it.

You have to put your foot in after you tie your shoe. And I can't do that. How about the, he's kind of, you know, famous for other reasons recently. So maybe his name came up. I'll just throw it out there. do Kaepernick. Colin Kaepernick. All right.

Yep. Colin Kaepernick. That's a good one. Show me Colin Kaepernick. And we could spell that one too. Damn it. He was on the list, but much lower. 26, Colin Kaepernick.

Oh, man. 2013, that dude was unstoppable. Oh, he was. Yeah. Greg, I thought you was since you were saying. I have one. I think Sharon Rogers should be in there. Aaron Rogers.

That's what I was going to say, because when Scott said, you know, been in the news lately, I was like, oh, Aaron's been all over. That's what I said. I said, oh, dear, that was my pick. That's kind of what I was, where I was thinking you were going to, Scott. Like, he's been in the news for other reasons recently. Aaron Rogers? Okay, let's see what we got.

Show me, maybe he's playing. Maybe he's not. Oh, he's playing. Okay. Aaron Rogers. Number six. Dang it. You guys are going to get this.

We have a four-point game. Boy, it's close now, though. If we get one more wrong, Scott could get another low hanging one. He'd be out of here. That's right. Exactly. It would be high-hanging fruit. Oh, yeah. Three answers on the board.

Three answers left. I know a bunch more, but I just don't know if the tadpool would pick any of these guys. Sure. Yeah. Greg, you have another one? I mean, I have, I mean, if it was done more recently, there's certain quarterbacks that moved around, but I don't think it was that this pool was.

the poll was done earlier so right uh sure i think the i mean terry bradshaw is uh is a is a is a pop you know he's he's had a reality show and bread show yeah oh bradshaw gosh dang it freaking uh morse dillers right bradshaw's probably uh yeah he's got a documentary on hboh max is supposed to be good i meant to watch that this week and i didn't i was going to recommend it but i thought for sure you're going to bring up to you saw his penis no but i have seen his butt i've never seen his penis but We saw his butt in that movie with Oh, that's what it was. It was his butt.

Yeah. He hid behind a fish tank with his butt out. Nice. Yeah. How is that actually your guess? Are you going with Terry Bradshaw? Yeah, let's go with Bradshaw. All right.

Okay. All right. Show me Terry Bradshaw. Oh. Number 10 answer. Damn it. Excellent. Well, with that.

It's not impossible. No, no. Scott could still win. If you guys, if you guys fail out on this one and Scott gets the remaining to answers then. Right. How about some, how about some Drew Breeze?

Oh, Drew. How about some Drew Breeze there? Greg, you got something else besides that? Yeah. I was bouncing between Drew Breeze and Bradshaw on that. There you go. Yeah.

He's a good corridor. Good with Drew Breeze. All right. Show me Drew Breeze. Oh. A third strike, which means Scott has a chance. He's saying there's a chance. Chance.

Two answers left on the board. If Scott gets both of them, then he wins. Otherwise, then the team of Brian and Greg for Walkman win. I'm all out of them, so I'm just going to say... Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. That one might be one thing, though, but I can't remember the name. Hold on a second. The Rock in that one movie, The Runaway.

What was it? The Runaway. Run down. Was he? I don't know. The rundown? No, the rundown was an adventure movie where they were fighting bad guys. I don't think it was a football movie.

Okay. Why can't I think of this guy's freaking name? He went to BYU. He was the... BYU. He was the quarterback for the 85 Bears. He's a big deal. Did he do a shuffle?

He did a shuffle. And it sucks. He threw, the fridge was there. Remember the fridge? He threw the fridge? Yeah, through the fridge. Perry. Hey, yeah.

That fridge guy was, was down here, man. He's from down here. Yeah. I can't think of his name. A real pissed off looking face all the time. Sunglasses. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, oh.

Oh, no, uh, um, uh, no, no, uh, no, that has. Helped. Oh, no. Didn't mean to help. Uh-oh. Fowl. Jimmy McMahon, Jim McMahon. Jim McMahon.

There you go. Ah, shit. Dead McMahon. Yes. Frick. It was so fun to, like, get him all the way there, and he finally gets at it. Number 20 on the list was Jim McMahon. Okay.

The Super Bowl shuffle. Bid-a-Bud-a-Doo. So, that means that, that, Brian, you win, and so does. Greg, for Walkman. Congratulations, Greg, you're getting these games. Let's see these remaining two answers on the board. The chat room had this, like, they were pounding their keyboards, all saying these two answers. Let's see what we got here.

Number seven, Joe Namath. Oh, Joe Namath. Dude even appeared on an episode of the Brady Bunch, if I remember. Yeah, Hollywood Joe. He wore the furs, right? Oh, yeah, he wore furs. What was his name? They called him Hollywood, Joe.

Was that it? or no you got it probably that sounds right something like that Hollywood Joe something like that

yeah I can't remember I know Jolton Joe was Joe DiMaggio so that's not that's definitely not it uh the last one here

the local boy oh this is Elway I'm gonna shit a brick oh yeah prepare away you may want to pull your pants down first

Scott because number eight is John oh why didn't I think of Elway oh Broadway Joe that's right Broadway Joe Broadway Joe yeah

Broadway Joe and John John Donkey Face Elway is his nickname, I believe. Oh, is it? John Otto Nation Elway. There you go. There you go. What's he doing these days? He doing commentary or anything, or I don't know what he's up to?

He was a Broncos manager up until recently and kind of got maybe asked to leave, asked to be fired. He left. I don't think he, I think he was given the choice of leaving or being fired, I believe. So he said, look, it's either your way or the L way. And they said, it's our way. And they kicked him out. That's right. He said,

Bhrer, okay, all the need. He ran out the room. All right, well, that means this, guys. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. I couldn't be happier, though, because Greg deserves to win things. He's a good guy, and we like having them on. Greg, how do you feel about your big win? I feel really good, and I can't wait to see you guys in Vegas.

Yeah, man. Oh, cool. We're going to see Greg for Walkman. Hell yeah. I'm looking forward to seeing Greg a whole bunch. Yes. So look forward to that. Greg for Walkman, everybody. He's the man. Don't mess with him. All right. Speaking of that event, by the way, that's still all happening. Everything's good. Yeah. Some of you have already gotten hotels, but not your tickets. So get over there to frogpants.com slash store and get those damn tickets because you're going to need those to get in there.

And if you're just looking for the swag and you can't come, we have that too. So go check that out, frogpans.com. Yeah, we need you to buy the tickets so that we can have the ballroom so that you can get in. into the ballroom with those tickets and play board games with us. Exactly. Things, things, it's, you know, we're not, we're not billionaires. Not that we need a billion dollars, but you know what we mean. You just got to go grab them. Anyway, so there's that. Hey, Brian, done away. You did great. And you know what was even better was yesterday's episode of Play Retro where we went into a deep, deep dive into the Metroid universe and the Metroid series of 2D games. And I really enjoyed that. thankfully that means we're following that right up with a Castlevania deep dive next week

so that we can complete the Metroidvania subgenre. Yeah, we're doing the Vania next week, and I'm super stoked about it. But yeah, Metroid was, that was episode 11 for us. And I'm going to tell you, that was probably the most fun I've had. Oh, wow. I love all my children, but that was really good. That was your favorite kid. It's okay to say it.

The other kids won't be jealous in this case. They're autonomous and they really don't know what's going on, so it's fine. Well done. Donaway, everybody. He is the Brian Dunaway on Twitter. Kiss our butts. Hey. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That was awesome. All right. What time is it? It is time for some news. Here comes right now. I don't watch the news. The news today is brought to you by. You like snacks, like the ones I ate on the show yesterday. Craft beer, goofy people, like I am. The snack network is the place for you. Dave Moore and friends have been tasting new things on YouTube for just a over a year now. Almost every day, we taste something new and try to keep you up to date on the latest in snack and fast food news. Come taste stuff with us. The snack network YouTube channel can be found at the snack network.com. We can also be found on TikTok, Twitter, and Instagram at

The SnackNet. And if you'd like to taste something for us and share your channel, Twitch, or other socials, just send us a DM on Twitter. Hope to see the tadpool in our comments. Very nice. All right. So this is interesting. It turns out people don't like screens very much Unless they're in front of them Or they're using it to play a video game on or watch TV on Case in point, Walgreens You know the Walgreens there?

We have one block away from me We have a Walgreens I get my flu shots there almost every year Yeah, I get my condoms, my flu shots And my back massages all at Yeah, all from the same checkout woman Same lady Walgreens

Replace some fridge doors with screens And shoppers hate it. You know, when I first saw you at the headline, I honestly thought, like, screens that's going to let all the cold out. Yeah. Yeah, no, like screen doors is what you're thinking. Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking? Yeah. What's the point of that? Yeah. Instead, it's these actual long LED screens. Like big tall video screens. Yeah, video screens. It is silly. It is silly. I don't quite understand. It seems very expensive as the other thing. Yeah. Because all it's doing is, well, I guess let's talk let's read the story because yeah this is what they're saying they're doing it and a few

people are doing it not just them wall greens and other retailers have swapped out the clear fridge and freezer doors at thousands of stores instead adding opaque doors with iPad like screen showing what's inside some customers really are not into it the screens which are developed by the startup cooler screens uses a system of motion sensors and cameras to display what's inside the doors as well as product information pricing deals and most uh most appealing to brands paid advertisements So that's the main reason for this. Okay. The tech provides stores with an additional revenue stream and way to modernize their shopping experience.

But for customers, we want to just peek in the freezer and grab their ice cream, Walgreens, risks in angering them by solving a problem that shoppers didn't know existed. The company wants to engage more people with advertising, but the reaction so far is annoyance and confusion. Why would Walgreens do this? One befuddled shopper who encountered the screens posted on TikTok said, Who on God's Green Earth thought this was a good idea? That old chestnut Yeah

I don't you love it though When they're also when people report on Twitter posts Oh, the marketing changes they came up with this Yeah Here's another one The digital cooler screens at Walgreen Made me watch an ad before it allowed me to know Which door held the frozen pizzas

Said someone on Twitter I think it's annoying and dumb And I don't like it If there is a benefit Other than just having a bright display That shows you what should be in each row. Yeah.

And I do like this little shot that they're showing up here looks like, you know, there's some Perrier water flavors that are missing up on the top right. Like it shows you a little ghost image of what should be there. Yeah. So that's kind of cool. The phanta flavors in the bottom of center that are missing. If you can like tap on one of those items and it shows you like calories or. See, they're not doing.

doing that though they're just it's all for advertising pricing yeah and then you know like you said it's showing when one's not there but you can do that without a screen they'll just not be there well you can just look in there and see what's not there yeah it's just literally not there so i i think this is too much that direction i understand the need maybe put a small screen above it all like i guess i don't know i mean if they need to have the advertising yeah yeah i don't know it just feels like funny money i'm waiting for it to say hi tom cruise your you're you know You really could go for a Red Bull right now. We know you're tired because you snoozed your alarm four times.

Isn't that the minority report adverse screens? Yeah, everything you walked past, it would like a hologram would pop up and go, oh, hello, Tom Cruise, or name in movie. I forgot the name of this guy. Whatever his character name. Yeah. Yeah, I see you have new eyeballs or whatever the deal was. Didn't he get new eyes from, oh, yeah, from Peter Stormary.

He got him. From Peter Stomari or Stomari. Yeah. Tomari. Stomada. Stomara. He guess it's not Italian. Stomara. He's definitely not Italian. Definitely not Italian. No, he's Dutch, I believe. I think he's Swedish? Swedish?

Swedish? Yeah, I'm sorry. Because Andreas Eckberg, remember Andreas? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Used to be in here all the time. He told me, yeah, his mother actually knows Peter Stormara's mother and says, here's how you pronounce it. You pronounce it, Stomara. Stomara. Okay.

Okay. He was born in. Cumla Obro Ian Sweden, wherever that is. Sure. Here you go, Swedish. He's amazing. I love that guy. He should be in all things ever. And he kind of is.

He's sort of had a lot of stuff, so there's no shortage of Peter in his movies. All right. We got one more story here, I think enough time for this one about all this. Insulting and out of touch, says Australians, about the government's new phallic women's network logo. This is great. Okay, got to see this logo now. Yeah. That's a big old weaner.

It's not a good logo, period. Like, even if it didn't kind of have weenerness to it, it's pretty bad. Anyway, Australians have slammed a new logo for the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's Women's Network, describing it as degrading and tone deaf. The purple logo shows a curly purple W and a purple bar, which together carries a strong likeness to the male ween, two bowls and a peen. Yeah. Um, um, yummy, yummy Lee at the older, the older women's network described the logo as

ludicrous and insulting, but had no comment about her own name. Uh, let's see. They have designed, he spreads to you me, by the way. Oh, is it you me? All right. Not yummy? Like yummy. Yeah.

Uh, quote, they have design and used a logo for the women's network, which when you look at it is so insulting to us. It just totally justifies or illustrates just how out of touch they are. She told SBS news. Uh, it is demeaning. It is degrading. It is a massive slap. with the face.

I'd probably term, I'd said that a little different. Maybe that's the wrong way to phrase that. You know, now that I look at it, uh, it's, it's also,

I mean, maybe less phallic and more like, oh, we tried to emulate boobs here. Yeah. A little bit. I wonder if that's what they're meaning. Also,

it's just, it's just not good. It's just bad. It's a bad logo because there's no, that purple oblong, uh, you know, shape is for no reason.

There's no, like, it doesn't symbolize network. It doesn't symbolize women. There's not like a clever way of the, you know, the lettering playing off of that. It is just like a shaft. It's just a shaft coming off the right of the boobs. It's a shaft on the boobs.

Here's what I would have done. And I would have done it before the show if I'd have thought about it. I would just go in there and take off the shaft, move that curly W to the middle. You're done. That's it. There's your logo. Yeah, but then you get the, then if you look in the chat room, you see what people can do with the nipples. Just put the nipples right on the curly W.

Well, that's a good point. Yeah. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Everything's phallic at the end of the day. I don't know. If Third Eagle has taught us nothing, it's that you can make a peen out of anything. Yeah, you can make a peen out of anything.

But I also... See a peen wherever you look. I just think this is, even if you don't see the peen, you just see an ugly logo. It's just ugly. Yeah. So go back to class. It just feels like women's network. You've got some really cool parallel angles with the shapes of the W and the shape of the

diagonal in the middle of the end. you could kind of do something really cool with that where those those you know those two kind of make an equal sign or something or whatever like a parallel couple parallel lines i don't know knowing how government what do i know i'm just an artist that that fell into a crevasse in prehistoric times and got thought out by your scientists i wonder if uh does anyone get that reference but me did we all did we all get that sure i bet 30% of the audience got that got that reference all right No, that's good. That's a healthy percentage, actually. I think that's fine. I aim for 30% joke efficiency or joke. It's not bad. The other 77% can, you know, you're just uninformed. Okay. Player is currently asking around. She's currently Googling. Ask your dad, she says. Yes.

All right. We're going to take a break when we come back. Tom Merritt will join us. We'll also have recommendals after that. Lots of stuff coming up. So stick around. We need to play a song, though. Do you have one? Yeah. These guys, I believe, are from, are they from Nashville? All right. This coming album comes out, for the sake of Bethelwoods, comes out Friday. And this is an album. I highly recommend you pick up. These guys are great. And if you, if you like Crowded House, as I like Crowded House, you will really get a kick out of the sound because it, to me, reminds me a lot of the most recent album by Crowded House, which is excellent. But I can't play it on the show. They're going to be at South by Southwest 2020 coming up later this week. So make sure you check them out. The band is called Midlake, and this is a deeply personal song written about the drummer, the drummer's son, the drummer's name is McKenzie.

His son was born with a rare brain disorder, and the song was kind of written in his honor. The song is called Noble. Here is the band Midlake. So, I'm going to be the The President, and then, you know, and... ...and...

...that, ...that... ...and... ...and... ...this... ...and... ...and... ...and...

...and... I stayed up for hours and hours, wondering all the while, wondering how we will get by. Who would want to hear about the wanderings of my mind? my mind, this wasn't supposed to be my life. You gave her like a cheruburned, like a cheruburn, holy near, everywhere I'm scared.

skill Oh please stay by my side your life your joke is easy and bird You can always laugh while I struggle to crack a smile, struggle to keep it all inside.

When I look into your brown eyes, I struggle to pull aside. I'm wanting you more within my life You came in Like a cherubin Holy Inn Every way life Oh, please stay by my side. You know, your peace is easy and burning life.

days I try to find the reason on the line Your yoke is easy and burn light Oh, you know, born. Oh, you know, born. Oh, you know, boy. Oh, you know. Oh, you know. Oh, again.

Oh, I can know. I'm on it. Oh, oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

We're going to be. No Oh Oh Oh No I'm Oh

Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh

Oh so You know, I'm going to be the You know, Oh, Oh, Oh.

And you know I don't know what I'm going to be. You make me angry, but I like you very much. Um, I'm thinking I'm done plugging stuff in. All right, we're back, everybody. That song again, please. The band is called Midlake, and that is the song Noble from their upcoming album for the sake of Bethel Woods. Nice. So I had a question about the fish sandwich I forgot to ask earlier.

Sure, sure. Ask away. Did you eat the cheese, or did you take the cheese off? Oh, that's right. I was going to tell you what I did, right? Because I had three fish sandwiches sitting in front of me, and I had lunch. So I, for the snack network thing, I cut each one of them in half so I could show. show a cutaway view. Yeah. I was inspired by Bobby Frankenberger talking about the cutaway views of the earth. So I did that with my fish sandwiches to see if there really was an unrecognizable

glob in the middle of each one. Yeah, a gelatinous lava glob in the middle of your thing. Exactly. Tina and I each ate half of the BK and half of the jack-in-the-box fish sandwiches. And after the initial bite that I did for the snack network video, I threw the rest of the filet. biofish away because why waste those calories? Yeah, why? Why would you on cheese fish?

What the hell? Cheese fish is just wrong. It's so wrong. Plus, there was a little to no tartar sauce on it, so, yeah. These are all crimes against food manity. Oh my God. Claire says, why waste food, though? Because if I eat it, I get the calories and I don't need the calories.

Yeah, who else are going to give it to? The cat, cat ain't can eat that cheese fish. I'm at the lowest weight I've been since I saw. start at noon. So this morning we'll go up with the lowest weight. Nice. Well done. All that fish sandwich pukin. All right. Check this out, everybody. With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. My internet tech expert, Tom Merritt, is joining us. He is here as he is every Wednesday to discuss

the headlines that we are considering for the Daily Tech News show today. Tom, it's always good to have you here. Welcome back. Thank you for having me, Brian and Scott. Thank you. We're happy to have you and to be had by you. It's a two-way street. That's right. And we're, as let's announce, we're going to have you in Vegas on

the Wednesday, right? Is it official? Yeah, yeah, I booked the flight. That's pretty official. I might be sleeping in one of our rooms, but that's fine. I'm not staying, I'm not staying overnight. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, uh, the way my

schedule is, uh, this was all I could eke out. So I'm flying in in the morning. Who wants breakfast? And then I'm flying out at 7 o'clock. All right. Yeah, we should go to, you know, what we should do, Scott, is we should do a producer's breakfast and take him to that place where we ate with Misha, where she says she likes her eggs cooked. Yeah, she liked, the lady asked her, how do you like your eggs? And my sister said, oh, cooked. And she meant it. She was serious. And I've not been able to not give her crap

since then. Not Wendy, my other sister. But yeah, that place, that place is good. It was really good. And it's a little walking distance. way and we should do that okay these are all good plans um yeah i'm just going to be itinerant for the day so we will handle your itinerary yeah yeah i'll go where the winds take me you you being the winds all right i love that yeah it's a good use of uh the english language which tom is very good at he's also very good at digging up tech stories what's going on today in the world of technology i would ask uh well i'm sure we'll we'll have a good explainer of this on d tns but i know folks are hearing lots about the chip shortage and there's a lot of confusion because it's a very

complex thing. So you might hear one piece of it and not quite know what it means in the grand scheme of things. Obviously, the war in Ukraine is complicating the recovery for the chip shortage, partly because it just, you know, war disrupts supply chains. There's a lot of tech companies in Ukraine. Specifically, we've focused on the fact that 50% of the neon gas that is used in the chip lithography process. In other words, making chips. You need neon gas as part of that process. 50% of that had been refined in Odessa, Ukraine,

and that has been disrupted. And so there were some worries about how that would affect things. There is good news and bad news coming out of Foxcon, one of the world's biggest, if not the biggest chip makers. Foxconn has plants all around the world, not just in China, but the majority of their plants are in China. And you may have also heard that Shenzhen, shut down completely because of COVID.

Remember, China had a zero, zero COVID policy for a long time, so Omicron is tearing through there because they don't have the exposure that other countries have had. Foxcon says it had to shut down its production yesterday, but it is restarting production with a bubble. So they've negotiated new protocols with the government. They've got dormitory set up. And they, they are back in production in Shenzhen. So they say this is definitely going to affect things, but they're still, I want to get the words right here, cautiously, is it cautiously optimistic?

Uh, a cautiously positive. Oh. Uh, about 2022 sales, citing continuous growth from sectors, including 5G smartphones and cloud products. Uh, they say the pandemic has not eased, where they are, obviously. inflation is high and global politics are getting tense which is a very safe way if you're in China

talking about the war in Ukraine so these complicate supply and demand in what they call a very challenging year but reading the tea leaves having followed Foxcon a lot this is them saying we don't want to promise

but we think we still see a way out and if I were to add my own interpretation on this one of the causes of the chip shortage was unpredictable demand in other words everybody thought

no one would buy stuff and then suddenly everybody was buying stuff because everybody was working from home that has mellowed demand has gotten back into a more predictable fashion

now there's currents buffeting that which is why I think Foxcon is like it's still uncertain because we don't know if that demand's going to change suddenly because of inflation because of a resurgence

in the pandemic etc and certainly having the pandemic running through China is going to disrupt demand there, right? But it does seem like the demand is settling out the worldwide logistics problems that were caused with containers getting backed up in ports. That is starting to ease up a little bit. And so they still think that the second half of the year might be okay. And again, this is the world's biggest chip maker. So it could be okay for them and not okay for other

companies, but they're a big part of the market. Yeah. That's interesting. interesting stuff. I heard about the shutdown over COVID and I hadn't heard the perspective that I assume this was like, oh no, what are we talking about? Maybe a new version of the thing, a new variant. But it hadn't occurred to me given their zero top zero, not tolerance, but zero whatever you call it. Like they're, it's shut it down. Zero COVID. They were in New Zealand and a few other countries took a zero COVID policy. Yeah. So given that policy, it kind of makes sense that they just haven't had their turn with. this bit yet, right? Like, it's just not, if Omicron was, was so spready everywhere else. And when it came to China, it wasn't, you know, they were so shut down, it never took hold. And now it's taking hold. That's better news than it's a new variant. You know what I mean? I haven't seen good reporting on how effective the vaccinations are. There were some, there were some rumors kicking around that maybe the Sinovac is just not as effective. And I think that the actual percentages are more like in the Johnson area than they are in the Pfizer or Moderna area.

And so that could be part of it too. I know it's hitting Hong Kong very hard. So I'm not trying to put a rosy set of sunglasses on that. But it's not incredibly surprising with the increased transmissibility of Omicron to see this take off because it's just harder to keep out because it's so easy to to transmit. And I'm not trying to be rosy about the chip shortage either, which of course, you know, next to people's lives

is less important. But I do think that Foxcon's reaction to this is certainly partly meant to calm shareholders. But again, reading the tea leaves, it's like, okay, this could be a lot worse. I'm not seeing a lot of the really bad

warning signs of like, oh, it's going to get bad. It seems like it's probably, they think they have a way out. Whether that will hold is the question interesting well uh you you didn't you didn't know you did this but you just coined the title for my new podcast uh the johnson area look forward to coming coming this week or this file works at so many levels it really does yeah it'll be don't worry it'll be uh it'll be a clean tag on on apple's podcast network everything will be fine uh well great we'll talk about this and so much more uh later

today on the daily tech news show at different time today though for the live show right or slightly Yeah, we're 15 minutes earlier. We used to start at 4.15 Eastern. We now start at 4 o'clock Eastern. And the DTNS itself used to start at 4.30, it now starts right at the top of the hour. So if you've been thinking about tuning in live and you're like, no, 430 is just too late for me. But 4 o'clock would be fine. Well, try 4 o'clock. And by 4 o'clock, of course, I mean 2 o'clock mountain. Yeah, 2 o'clock Mountain, the only time's on that matters. 1 o'clock Pacific, if that's where you are. And look, if you're one of those poor suckers in Central Time, I don't know what to tell you. I grew up in Central time. I always feel like we were trained from birth to convert Eastern to Central. Oh, do you, I don't know if you have a quick take on this or not, but this bill that passed the Senate with 100% votes goes to the House to get rid of or to make it permanent daylight savings.

What's your take on that? I think it's going to happen, finally. You know, I love, I love that this is the, this is now the litmus test for how partisan are you? Right. How outrage focused are you? Because before the government took action, it became, it was like, of course, everybody wants to get rid of daylight saving time. Then the government took action on a bipartisan basis. It was really confused people.

Yeah. And now there's people who are like coming out against it because it is their brand to be against things. Yeah. I wish someone would tell me which side to be angry at. Right. Yeah. Yeah, this is one of those where I just wish everybody would calm down. There's plenty of other pitchforks to pick up before this and after this. Let this one just breathe and be, okay?

Right. But anyway, we actually talked about this quite a bit on Good Day Internet yesterday, and where I landed was there are downsides to all three ways of doing it. Standard Time all the time, which is really how, that's why it's called Standard Time, is they decided like, this is the best time. This is the one that works the best. Daylight saving was a hack to try to like, you know, get a little more evening light or going to, going back to a new standard time, which is an hour later, which is what this bill would do. There's downsides to all of them.

I prefer the same time you're around and not having to go through the change that throws everybody off for a week or two. So I'm fine with this. I don't care. Just pick one and go. Exactly. Exactly. Well, whatever, whichever one you pick. I'll get used to it. We get used to it for six months already.

So we're ready to do that permanently. And then I can tell people in my lifetime they got rid of it. It's going to be a little darker in the morning under this one. But it would also be a little darker earlier in the evening in the summer under the other ones. There's bad sides to all of it. Just let's not change. That's where I'm. I'm against change. Put me down. Tom Merritt. Against change. You heard it here on this show first. Let's bronze this episode as the place he did it. There's a separate bill here for Colorado to do it. So, you know, basically saying, well, if it doesn't get past for the whole U.S. We'll just go Arizona and do it ourselves. Right.

Which then is like, oh, crap, do we want that then? Because I know what a pain in the butt it is for my Arizona friends every year to say, we're in Arizona. So what's three o'clock today will actually be four o'clock for you tomorrow kind of thing. It affects. But Arizona and Colorado touch. That's true. It'll be nice.

So you can start a movement. Maybe you can get Utah. to join in and then New Mexico. We have a bill as well. We have a bill every year and I don't, well, every time they can put a bill through. And we have one again and I don't know if it's going to do anything. But if enough people do it. What if you get the entire mountain time zone?

Yeah. Just unite and not your daylight thing. Oh, that'd be great. Yes. Yeah. Let's all come together. That part of Canada, just you're with us. Yeah.

We're not going to take it. I'm on in, Albury. Florida. Yeah, Mexico, South America, however far down. sure. We're good. All of us. One big stripe right up the thing. I like it. All right. Tom Merritt, everybody. Ace Detect on Twitter and, again, Daily Tech News show. Oh, anything else you want to mention? What's going on? Yeah, free time newsletter.com. Last week, I asked people, what do you like in my newsletter? And basically, the answer was musings. They're like, just write whatever you're thinking about that day. It's nice to get different perspectives than what you do on your other shows. So, So that's what we're going to keep doing. If you want to hear my musings and be able to email back,

it was great being able to email back with people this weekend, freetomnewsletter.com. Go do it. Tom Merritt, Ace Detect, have a fantastic afternoon, and I'll see you later for the Daily Tech News show. Bye, L. Bye now. Bye.

I don't know why I can't hang up on Tom. You can't get rid of me. Something's going on with the same of him. This is where he hangs up on both of us. Oh, there we got it. Oh, he hanging up on me. Now he's removed. Nice, good.

As he showed up. As he should. Okay. Are you ready for, are you ready for recommendals? That's the question. Yeah, I'm ready, Scott. Are you? I don't know if I'm ready.

Let me hold on to something, though, for when Hurricane Randy joins the call. Yep, Hurricane Randy coming in from the West Coast. Get ready, because here we go. Hey, look who it is. It's Randy Jordan, aka Randy Lux, joining us all the way from Orange County, California. Hello, Randy. Good morning. morning stream how you doing both i know you're doing fine you've been talking for over an hour now i'm

here to uh say man they're just not enough dallas cowboys fans i agree i need more i need more i desperately need more dallas cowboys fans it's america's team that you didn't first think of troy achman when you when you were asked this question is just mind i i agree like why no troyickman votes well some but not enough to make the top 10 is uh weird to me totally weird but whatever look i i forgot about uh elway and that's a mistake you know yeah yeah i mean the whole thing is first ballot hall of famers right and like that's just uh it's just mind boggling there's people out there who have never seen one down of NFL football who knew all those names yeah yeah that's true and don't know what a down is by the way that's another thing and they still know who those people are all right so much

fun it's good to have you here yeah like tom i'm also here to talk about things other than uh what you brought me here to talk about great um i just i just can't uh i can't get over what the time zones boundaries look like if you if you want to see something weird look up an u.s time zone map and look at the boundary between central and mountain time as it goes from el paso north it is it is absolutely hysterical and also look around Idaho and western Washington and Oregon it was done before like it was done before certain current cities are where they are but obviously it was done to so that certain cities would fully lie within the um And also towns out in the country that get their television and radio from those cities.

So you have these weird carve-outs like Western, like I say, Western Oregon is my favorite. Where they're looks, if you look at it, you're like, they must be getting their TV and radio from Boise. And that's why they have this weird curve into their area. It is really weird for sure. But yeah, see, another reason to just get, well, I guess that wouldn't affect. time zones would still stay the same we just wouldn't do like that boundary from el paso as you go north it goes stair steps stair steps stair steps stairs steps and then at some point it's like oh wait we've gotten way too far away from from our what the hell those are mislabeled every one of them is mislabeled no wonder no wonder people think that um yeah that is mountain on yeah who did this this is the wrong this is a bad chart that i just put up but but the line around utah uh i guess what i'm surprised is that people are people are surprised that Utah is not central time

they always think it is or that Brian is for that matter and it's because they got this weird cut out man it's weird and I feel like I feel so sorry for the upper peninsula of Michigan because again the problems are on the far west or far east sections of these things right

if you're in the middle of a time zone you're fine but it's like Maine Maine has a problem and they should probably move out to a wholly different time zone but anyway I just I love that everybody's been talking about this for a whole day now. And I love that we're all talking about it in the fog of the most recent time loss. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because they're just like also angry. How the hell do you take an

hour away from me and I somehow lose three hours of sleep? How does that happen? How does that work? That's what I want to know. Well, we'll get to the bottom of it eventually. But for now, it's recommendals. It's where we talk about stuff we saw on streaming services that we would like to recommend to you find people at home. Hopefully you'll get some enjoyment out of these things as much as we did. We'll start with Brian. You got two this week. You want me to... I have two. and surprisingly they are both documentaries. I don't know if we did a little freaky Friday thing.

Did you, during that most recent lightning storm, did you put your hands on an old relic skull and say, you wish you were me? Because I think I did that. I actually drew a circle around your house. I don't know if you noticed it. I did, yes. Using pixie dust, which is really interesting.

Which is all sugar. It's all sugar. You don't trust it. And I started it. Anyway, my first documentary is from 2016. All right. I'll hit play. He's good at Pimball because he puts the time in. Who studies 20 pages of rule books to figure out how to play a Pimball game? For as long as I've known, Robert and we've had games,

that's been his ultimate goal to get to the Wizard Mode. Wizard mode is the ultimate in a Pimball game. It's your final destination. it's almost like a special type scoring mode where everything is running all at once and you unlock that by completing certain tasks all in one game for example all multi-balls or super jackpot or score a hurry-up and that's really difficult to do sounds like some pinball involved please please tell me there is a certain song somewhere in this documentary.

I get to hear the greatest lyric ever committed to popular music. Such a supple wrist. Yeah. Believe it or not, you do. They do change the lyrics a little bit because our hero of this story is not deaf, dumb, and blind, but he does have autism. And you heard him talking there at the end, Robert Gagnow, who is the focus of this movie, which was right there in that clip, I figured you'd never get him. at it from because it wasn't that prominent this movie it's called wizard mode came out in

2016 and this is the story about this amazing pinball player like this uh tournament competitive pinball player named robert gagno who is autistic and um he uh he grew up with pinball his dad you know once once he gravitated towards that and his dad saw that as a way to to really connect with him. He started getting pinball machines in the house and really like fostering that direction for him. But the movie is not just all about how he's playing pinball. It's also about how he's trying to get out on his own and move into a life where he can be independent, live on his own, support himself. And of course, that's a tough thing when pinball is the first and foremost thing your mind. Sure. Sure. There's an obsessive angle to people on the spectrum where if they are

hooked on one single thing, it's pretty much all they ever want to do. It is. And it becomes such a focus on him that when his counselor is trying to say, okay, well, let's talk about jobs. There's this job and there's this other job. Yeah. And you can just, you know that he's thinking about Black Knight 2000 or something, you know, some other pinball game. I love Black Knight's So my favorite of all time. Yeah. The first time I ever saw a ramp, like on a second level with extra flippers on that second level. Yeah.

I would drive 100 miles right now just to play Black Knight for a while. Oh, you should just go to Vegas and play Black Night with us. It's more than 100 miles. That's true. By the way, Captain Kipper found that this guy, Robert Gagnow, has a YouTube channel where you can watch him play. These, I'm sure, all the machines in his home. And there's one specific one called Simpson's Party, Dance Party, Simpson's Dance Party, which was referred to in the pinball community as one of the toughest pinball machines ever,

especially toughest to get to this wizard mode. And he played that thing day and night until finally he, he, like, calls his dad and says, hey, bring the video cameras, I'm really close to hit in wizard mode. I think we're going to be able to do it. And so dad comes in and records the whole thing, and it's just amazing. um so this movie wizard mode uh like you said came out in 2016 you can find it on a bunch of different services when we watched it it was on peacock and um you can watch it on free peacock also known as free i see it's also on amazon prime with commercial it's also on amazon prime via the i mdv i mdb tv channel the benefit of peacock is that you get two or three commercials at the beginning and then the rest of it i believe is commercial free no matter which mode of peacock you have. I don't know if it's the same way with IMDB,

but this is such a great, uplifting, positive documentary about this kid. And you're just rooting for him the whole time, and you see him playing against all these other, like, sweaty, well, people look like me, pinball players that he's going up against in tournaments and stuff. So often documentaries about obsessives are not uplifting. No, right.

Like every now and then you get a hero dreams of sushi, but usually it's like, it's like exit through the gift shop, and that is just not uplifting, you know? No, you're, what was the, what was the video game one? Oh, the King of Kong. No, that wasn't really. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, with Billy Mitchell at all. No. No, you're hating that, that poor, the poor guy, uh, Weeby, who gets crushed by Billy Mitchell in his freaking USA flag ties and his smarty hair.

Stuff end up being, I can't remember. There was some controversy about the way Bill and Mitchell was portrayed. I can't remember what the deal was. I love that documentary. Yeah, but I met the guy. I met both of them. I met Steve Webe at a look with Denver Comic-Con, took my picture with him. And he's just the nicest guy ever.

Oh, he seems super nice. I don't think he was mispertrayed, but I think maybe they went a little villain, maybe more than they had to with the... Yeah, but then you see all this stuff that Billy Mitchell has done since. And it's like, oh, okay, well, sure, they may have played up that. villain angle, but either Billy Mitchell steered into that because he realized it was on brand or there was, he was just a dick anyway. And regardless of the clever editing, there's just some things you can't hide. Especially the recent cheat stuff. Yeah. That's good points. Yeah. Have we talked

about people who live stream Midway games on TikTok? No. No, we have not. It's so freaking weird. Why won't we talk about that, Randy? Well, I guess right here. Yeah, here's what I can do it. It feels like it's something I talk about every now because like if you if you look at my TikTok for you page and scroll a little bit you will end up watching a coin pushing machine and it's just like people have pointed a camera at a coin pushing machine and they've got it unlocked so they're just playing as fast as you can possibly play it and it's like why is that so interesting why am I looking at this why I'm wasting my life life away watching a coin pushing machine I would I would say that is correct that is a waste of time however I understand why

something like that would intrigue it. Yeah, I get it. I get it. Totally mesmerizing. Well, there you go. That's totally one I'll watch. That is on my list of for sure sees. I'd love that kind of stuff. It's great. We didn't even plan on watching it like, oh, well, let's watch this before we go to the Dallas Pinball Festival. But it just seemed to work out. And now I'm going to be kind of looking to see if any of these people that we see in the documentary are there at. Well, they very well could be. That's a really good point. Plus, this was not planned, but yesterday I started doing, it's for a future episode of Play Retro. I didn't even talk to Dunaway about this, but I did a little, you know, informal Twitter poll about everyone's favorite video game based pinball games.

Oh, yeah. Because we're going to do those at some point and there's lots of talk of like Kirby pinball land and I don't want to, but it was called, but a bunch of those. And that just so happened to be asking that yesterday. So it's, everything's coming up football. Oh, I'd be curious as to which one won. So far, that Kirby one is. is that for the Game Boy is like crazy in front. And I shocked.

Oh, okay. So you're like talking about a pinball game you play on. Yeah, pinball video game. Pinball video game. I'm sorry. I thought you were talking about a real in-person video game based on a video, or in-person pinball machine based on a video game property. Right, right.

No, it's like the ones that are, you know, Sonic Spinball for the Genesis or. Yeah, or Pokemon. It was a good Pokemon. Yeah, the Pokemon game is very good thing. It took me that long to get unstuck. I was like really fucking. like, could I, could I ask like Star Wars pinball machines or there's like one really, there's this amazing guardians of the galaxy pinball machine?

There is. And there's so a pretty good, amazing. They're a pretty good Guardians video game. I was trying to put those together. No, seriously, if I had the, if I had the money in the wherewithal, I decided at the Colorado pinball festival after playing that one, I said, this game has everything I want in a pinball machine. If I had the money, this is the one I would buy is that Guardians of the Galaxy.

probably cost you $10,000. It would easily, yeah, or I think eight, when I was looking at prices and stuff, $8,000. Jeez. Yeah, it's not happening. But I'd like it, too. Holy crap, that's that's expensive thing. You can't even buy, I used to be able to buy a Hyundai for that.

Yeah. Not anymore. All right, give us a setup for number two here. What do you got? Sure, number two, I'm giving you the English dubbed version of a movie that I still recommend you watch the subtitled version. But this is a current, this came out last year and is up for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. It's a documentary as well, you say.

It is a documentary as well. All right, here we go. This is where my story begins. I wrote it down when I got to Denmark. Can you try and read it? It won't be easy. are that good at reading diary anymore

Mm-hmm But there's Amadan, the Mujahideen Shush, half-throes I can't read my own hand right I really can't After After the Mujahideen

The Mjahean Seast the power in Afghanistan I'm all my family I was in the game and the Chatharbo. They killed my father, abducted my sister and murdered my mother and brother.

If I want, if I had stayed, they probably would have killed, have killed me too. Okay, no idea. Sounds serious. It's very serious. Boy, more serious than pinball, for sure.

This is a movie called Flea, F-L-E-E. This is a Danish film where they interview this guy, Amin, about his childhood growing up and being a refugee from Afghanistan after the Mujahideen, the Mujahjadine. There you go. No, I'm butchering that, is causing a civil war to take place in Afghanistan. It's kind of parallels to a lot of the stuff that we're seeing currently with the. Ukraine. Because he's trying to get out. He's trying to get out with his family. And this documentary would put him in a lot of danger because of a lot of the stuff that he says. So they keep him anonymous and turn this into an animated film. So instead of seeing Amin on camera as himself,

you see an animated version of him telling his story, but also they animate the story itself. So it's an animated, like on the truck trying to, you're working with human traffickers to smuggle him out of the country or get him onto a plane or things like this horrible boat story that he has to go through trying to get across the Baltic. It is fascinating and brilliant and poignant and touching and really, really amazingly presented for for whatever reason it reminded me a lot of mouse m a us the uh the you know which obviously came under got a lot of attention recently when it was banned um just because it takes a very serious topic and presents it in a a very easy to digest way the animation helps

with the um with with conveying this story of this horrible you know terrible stuff that happens to this guy. Add on to that the fact that he is gay and it's the Afghani custom that gay just doesn't exist. Like, that's not, they don't even have a word for homosexual in the Dari language. So, yeah, this is a flea currently on Hulu. And I feel after watching this, I haven't seen any of the other international features. films except for drive my car. And I believe, you know, it's got to be, if it's up for best picture, it's also got to be up for best international feature film. But I believe Flee is going

to be the winner. And rightly so should be the winner at this year's Academy Awards. Nice. All right then. This subject is just like, I think it's just so important. And like, the younger generations might not even know that all across the Western world, we have completely changed our attitude toward refugees of war over the last 30 years. It's like Samantha's best friend when she was 20 was, you know, was born and started her life in Central America and her entire family fled war.

And they were able in, I think, the late 1970s or early 1980s, they were able to gain citizenship in both the U.S. and Canada. Her family lived at different times in two completely different Western countries. And they, you know, were able to be successful and so on. And, you know, like, they didn't have to hide anything. They did all of it very openly. And nowadays, in all the Western world, including Denmark, which is like really, we think of as very progressive, right? And like, in all the Western world, it is, there are just millions of people who are, you know, hiding from huge risks because they're a refugee from some other place. It's just, it's just wild. Yeah, well, I'll definitely watch that one as well. That's, I'm sorry, you said where it was streaming. It's a Hulu. It's on Hulu, and, yeah, it is, man, it is great.

It is, it is so good. Flea, F-L-E, don't look for the Red Hot Chili Peppers basis. No, no. Go watch that documentary on Woodstock 99 because he's. Yeah, there you go. That will give you flea. That'll give you, all the flea you need. Too much flea, way too much flea.

All right, here's mine. This is a short clip. It's a film. It's 2019. This movie came out. And for some reason, I never saw it. I've not read the book it's based on. But I've been meaning to see it forever. And I really liked it. Here it is. Snake bite, Andy, that's who you are. So, who am I? You're some crazy bitch who kidnapped me. Just the truth from now on. You will only speak the truth. You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. I can't work so little too well, don't know. All right.

Sound familiar to anyone there? I know Brian's familiar, but I don't... Yeah, I don't know. I know you've seen it. It is Dr. Sleep by director Mike Lanigan based on the Stephen King book, which is a sequel of sorts to The Shining. Although the movie and the book,

just like the original Shining in the book, had some differences, they had to make this movie be more of a sequel to the previous film than it is in the book. And so it's an interesting thing. But the reason I was drawn to finally see it is because since this time, I have been all about Mike Flanagan and his work. I love everything about everything he does, including Midnight Mass from last year. It was one of my favorite things I saw on TV. I loved his Gerald's Game Take. I really liked his preview. is house on haunted hill or whatever it's called or how a house of haunted hill house hunting of hill house there it is hill house i was getting mixed up at that old movie anyway um

blithe mad blithe manor uh hush all these really cool things and i think mike flanagan is obviously is stars on the rise for everybody but for me he he is a new kind of horror director and it's working for me in a way that nobody else does i can't really explain it but his style is exactly what i like and this is not this is not This is not new. This came out like pre-pandemic. Yeah, 2019 was the year. And it's, you know, Danny Torrance is now an adult and kind of messed up. He's an alcoholic. The reason he's an alcoholic is because that pushes down the shine. And I don't want to give too much away because I think this is really worth seeing as a thing that kind of in my own head, probably the book as

well shouldn't work like this should not be a thing to do a follow-up to the shining it just shouldn't be a thing kind of in my head i'm like how are you even doing this seems like a bad idea um it's really good really really good is i liked it a lot the performances are amazing in particular rebecca ferguson who plays rose the hat is amazing she's always good though um go watch dune again because she's amazing as jessica and dune uh youan mcgregor's great he he looks like what Danny Torrance might look like when he got older.

The one thing I didn't expect in this thing and it's not going to surprise you guys in a Mike Flanagan production that he has got Henry Thomas working for him because he's in all of those right? Everything he does Danny or Henry Thomas from the old from E.T. is in this.

And in this one he plays Jack Nicholson's character in both flashback form and in a form I don't want to get to into. And it's great. Not just an impression of Jack Nicholson. It's not that at all, in fact. It's more of an embodiment of what that character was and what he looked like. And also, same goes for this lady. What's her name? She plays her mom, Kate Parker. No, no, no. I'm sorry. Hold on. Not wrong lady. Here it is. Jocelyn Donahue plays Lucy Stone. And she looks a whole lot like what's her name.

Can I think her name all of a sudden. Kelly Deval. Shelly Duvall looks just like her and she even reenacts the scene where we're getting the here's Johnny moment with the door through the door and it's so well done you'd think it was just old footage but it's not the idea that anybody in the world looks like Shelly Deval is kind of my way. I know right and she looks like her but not so much like her that you're never like oh my gosh spitting image but it's the embodiment of the character just right it's just the way it should be and I love the tone of it I love how the whole thing feels. feels um one of my favorite character actors of the modern day is uh zan mclaren he plays crow daddy uh he is from season two of fargo um he's the he's the native american hitman guy that works for the the family uh crime syndicate thing i love him and everything he's in that new um uh reservation dogs he's in that as well that guy's just awesome and uh he's in this he's great. Cliff Curtis plays Billy Freeman. You know him from

Fear the Walking Dead. He's great. That guy is so great. Oh, yeah, Longmeyer also for Zonan McLaren. Anyway, I'm way late to the party here, but I really love it. I'm interested in how you've been watching a lot of horror on Netflix lately.

Well, this was HBO Max, but, yeah. A couple weeks ago, you were talking about Texas Chansaw Massacre. Yeah, I did watch that. I don't know, I'm in the mood right now. It's weird. Yeah. I'm, uh, I don't know what that says about me, but we're nowhere near October and I want to watch horror movies. I like them to be a little more cerebral. I'm not really looking for hack and slash. And Dr. Sleep definitely fills that void. This was HBO Max in this case, although it may be in both places.

I'm not sure. It's on, yeah, it's on Netflix. Nope. It just says, remind me. So it's not currently not available on Netflix. So, yeah, HBO Max. Where I got it. I think it just got added. So you got plenty of time on there if you haven't seen it. I know a lot of people have it if you haven't it's a perfect mix of new old uh throwback and not um it's a very different focus than the first film and they go back to that hotel and holy shit that thing that hotel yeah it's well done like also well done recreation of the stanley hotel from uh or the overlook from the first movie yeah they make it i mean it seems like i'm there it's just dilapidated and old and no one's there anymore it's abandoned yeah but it really got me when he stares through that

hole his dad made with the axe. It's just really cool, man. So anyway, y'all should watch it. I liked it a lot. If you like cerebral horror, um, it's not that, there's not a ton of gore or anything. It's just, it's mostly, you know, it's, it's typical Mike Flanagan fair. If you like what he does, you're going to like this, uh, available again, HBO Max. All right, Randy, we got, uh, something cute up for you, sir.

What do you, what do you got here? Yes, we do. I am, uh, I'm always bringing the controversy, I guess, but I, you know, I didn't make the controversy. I just really, really enjoyed a new film. And I hope everybody watches it. This clip is a young woman, a teenager watching TV with her mom, and her dad is making food in the kitchen. All right, here we go.

You should have listened to his mother and married Ling Yi. Totally. Suu Yi is so two-faced. She's just using him to get to the throne. She'll probably stab him on their wedding night. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Hmm. Perfect. Yes.

And now you get to experience them live. The worldwide optimization Fortown will be kicking off their North American tour. Tickets on sale now. Oh, my gosh. Who are these hip hoppers? And why are they called Fortown if there are five of them? I don't know. Some of the kids have school like them. You mean, Miriam? That girl is odd. I assume this is that red or what is it turning red

turning red man came out of nowhere I realized like there have been people tracking the making of this movie for a couple years now but I really feel like it sort of burst out last week among my peers and it is so freaking good I hope or seriously I hope everyone listening to this

watches this movie and I say that because you're probably aware of certain factions in the world who are trying to get you to not watch this movie and that's very reminiscent of don't look up right where yeah right there are just there are people who they watch this movie and they realize oh what i believe is kind of being made fun of here and this is not like don't look up in several regards but the the main one is it's just a nice story it's just it's a disney movie it's like

you know like it's i would say it's very much like frozen or incanto it's you know it's about a family and it's about people like maturing and finding superpowers you know like they always are for some reason it was just you know wonderful use of magic in this movie it's just like it's so relatable

and that's the thing that a lot of people are like saying they go well I watch this movie and I couldn't relate to it all well maybe you should watch it again and understand that there are a lot of people out there that you might not be relating to and you should get to know them they're really cool and interesting people yeah well I'm

I want to see it. We met two last weekend. We and Carter were going to sit down and see it. And then things got busy. We didn't get a chance. But it looks great. It's, I know it's, you're not wrong about it coming out of nowhere either.

Like, the first thing I ever saw about it was, um, on the latest issue, Disney 23. And I'm like, I don't even, how, how did this thing come out and not, have no idea that it was happening? I think, I think there's a, there's kind of a little systemic racism problem here. Gotcha. I mean, Domi Shi is a rising superstar of a filmmaker, right? So she did that, what was the short Pixar did a few years ago? What was that called?

She wrote and directed at Bao. And Bao is like at the time, that was, it overshadowed whatever movie it was on the front of. Because it was just so incredible and it was so heartfelt and personal. Why did she eat the baby? It was bow. So Domi She was an animator for, Pixar and worked on Incredibles 2 and Inside Out

and then got a chance to make Bao and Bao is a very similar story to Turning Red by the way. Bow is a story about a woman who wants a child and dreams of having a child and dreams of every aspect

of raising that child all the way up to the child disappointing her and sort of leaving her to go on and live its life and that's like wow it's just really like it's sad and moving well turning red is not you know it's like in the same vein and i think there's a lot of people out there who like they see something like this like that's too heartfelt that's too personal that's too emotional you know like i don't know that i so the

controversy isn't that uh it's communism the red in there like turning communist okay all right i just want to make sure turning turning red what what it refers to in this movie is just magic It's just a young person finding that they have some magic inside them. And that's part of them growing up. Domitis has said repeatedly and publicly that this is based on her experience. And one of the coolest things about this movie is that if you remember 2002, it's going to take you back. It is like, it is set in 2002.

It is chock full of 2002. And like she was, you know, I guess she was about 13. years old in 2002 when you know she found herself uh changing and uh finding herself at odds with her parents a little bit yeah and like so it's just like you know based on a true story but that doesn't you know it's like saying frozen is based on a true story you know it can't be right like that can't quite be yeah yeah but uh my goodness it is so it is just so beautiful um there are so many things in this movie this movie is packed to the rafters with little references and things that are scattered all over every scene and so like it's what's one of those things where it's really really fun to notice like

the little things um like the thing that i noticed the most was that the the quadro of girls that are all best friends uh they all have um friendship bracelets on and uh there's a there's a point where our main character falls out with all of her best friends and she's no longer wearing the friendship bracelet and then they get back together and she's wearing it again and they add a fifth person to their crew and suddenly that person who has not been wearing a friendship bracelet the entire movie is wearing a friendship bracelet and it's never spoken of it's that you never see a like a zoom in on it it's just like this extra little thing that you can catch and there's tons of stuff like that to catch throughout this movie awesome i want to see it i uh so unlike

you guys are in contrast to you guys i've known about this one for a while and i'm not sure why i think maybe we saw the teaser at the end of something years ago like uh what was the one with the van what was that called onward oh onward yeah i think onward's teaser was turning red oh really at the end of it at the end of it i don't mean the movie itself but at the end there was like some teaser or something or maybe it was before the movie i don't remember exactly but i remember thinking oh that looks interesting some kind of werewolf but you're cute i don't know what this is but then the controversy was why is disney not going to theaters with this why is this coming to to disney plus day one whereas they are putting some other mainline animated

Disney thing out in theaters and so the the filmmakers including her they were a little upset that Disney decided to do this distribution change because they really wanted it in theaters first and anyway that's the only reason I will bet you a lot of money that this is in theaters right now in Asia in like all kinds of you know non-English speaking regions I'll bet you yeah it's like this is this is a classic Pixar movie yeah Carter in the chat my daughter says yeah Carter, didn't we see this? Maybe she'll remember where we saw it. She says she's been excited for a very long time.

So somehow you guys found out about wonder. I think part of it is I have a very progressive, smart animation-minded daughter in the house and she probably told me. That's probably what happened. You know, and I'd like to come full circle on this thing, there is, there is controversy here. This is a very personal look at a very specific kind of culture.

And there are plenty of people who they, don't see themselves in this movie and it angers them oh screw them screw them then they can go eat a poo and then eat the poo again and then when they've done pooping the poo they can eat that poo they can do all the poo you could just yell at them scott but i i i'm saying uh that i would like to see more movies like this because at some point you got a you know you got to look at it you got to you got to accept that you are different than other people in the world and that people have different experiences than you and those experiences can be very valuable to you.

Yeah, 100%. I want to watch it, and I'm going to. So Carter this weekend, no excuses. Somehow we're squeezing this in. All right. Excellent lineup today, everybody. If you want to follow more about what we talked about and you missed any of it,

don't worry, because in both Discord and Twitter and Facebook and all the places, Randy will post it. Follow him on Twitter at Randy Deluxe, and it'll be there right away. And don't forget to tune in this weekend when a film sack does a bonus thing. Or no, wait, we don't do that yet.

We're watching an episode of Night Rider. Oh, that's right. I just think it's really, really funny because we ended the last episode talking about something and we didn't actually deliver. Didn't pay it off, yeah. So people have been on pins and needles all week.

I'm promising you right now, if you listen to this next episode, we're going to pay this thing off. I'm going to answer the question, what were the first tweets that we each made. Yep, I'm looking forward to. to it. Well, Randy, uh, take it easy. Have a great day. And, uh, thank you, Scott. Bye. Okay. Hey, uh, real quick. A tiny thing that someone just mentioned, uh, Disney Plus launch parental

controls today in conjunction with those former Netflix shows. I wonder what they were going to do because they got like swears and some blood and some right. The Marvel. Yeah. I'm a little, actually I'm a little surprised they got him. And I thought they were going to censor him or something. When I was getting a link to, uh, uh, to turning red for. for QuickTMS.L.I. That's the first thing that said, hey, you haven't set your parental controls yet. Do you want TV14?

What do you want? I'm like, oh, give me everything. What the hell? Yeah, yeah. That's how, that's how you get your Deadpool in here. There you go. There you have it. Okay, so Brian and I are done.

Yeah. Did they hit, hold on a second. I also heard something about Deadpool 3 today. No, Deadpool's not. No, no, not that. Not that. Not that. Deadpool 3 news dropped.

Oh, really? And hold on. What was it? full frontal Ryan Reynolds nudity No it's oh Oh it's Today it was confirmed there was rumors Remember Sean we talked to

Sean Levy Now it's confirmed It's real Oh okay cool Good That's actually happening It wasn't just a hint But dropped by

What's his handsome Turned out to be real All right Let's get out of here Hey big thanks everybody for watching Listening hanging out and being part of the show today If you'd like to support the show patreon.com

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Is that all true? Is that a reference I should get? And I don't get that. I don't get that reference. No, I'm just like, you know how I like to make up stuff about the patrons when you give us a few names? I like to say. All right. I like to give it like. Instead of just singing their names, we get a little backstory. No, no, no. I like this. From now on, I will not, not only will I understand that, but I think we should do that actively. I think that's a great way to get to know these people. Well, I have been. And thank you for noticing, Scott. Every time I thought, why, Brian sure knows a lot about this two people. I've never heard of. Like, wow, these three people all co-worked and invented the disposable fork?

Yeah, how did that happen? The disposable fork? That's huge. All right. The site to go to for all things. You want to request songs. You want to do, get Brian's some money for his bike thing, all that. You want to do all that?

We got links to all of it at the website, frogpans.com slash TMS. And if you're coming to Vegas, get those ticket swag combos. They're up there. They're ready for you. You got to have one, so get it. It's over at frogpans.com slash store, or you can find it linked at VivaTMSVegas.com, which has all the Vegas details. That's right. All of it.

So go get there and get it done. Yeah, you even have a link to submit your TMS film for the TMS Film Fest. I can't wait to see what we do with the TMS Film Fest. Oh, it sounds like I should edit the page and get rid of that. Yes. And it doesn't have a link to support my bike coverville 2022. Tiny. 20.CC slash bike coverville 2020. I'm going to swap all that out today. One thing real quick here. You mentioned the film thing. We haven't done that in a long time. I think after Vegas, we kick one off. We should do a new one. I agree. I miss it because I feel like it was so much fun. So for sure. Really good time. Also, do we have a time yet for our play date on Friday?

I was thinking normal showtime, but if you want to do it early or what's your deal? What do you got? If we could start it earlier, that'd be great. And that way I still have time to do, I guess, the connection afterwards. Why don't we do, let's bump it up an hour. Do you want to do it at one? Perfect. One o'clock. All right. One o'clock, play date here. Don't know what games yet.

We'll figure it out. There's a lot of chatter about more among us. Maybe we'll do that. I don't know, but we'll do it this week or this Friday. All right. Cool. Okay. I think that's it.

Yeah, that's it. Oh, send us your emails. Love your feedback. Need more of them. The morning stream at gmail.com. The morning stream at gmail.com. Brian, play a song. We've got to go.

What is it? Yeah. Well, this one's going out to Dan. Dan the Tabletop Man wrote in and said, Hey, thanks, buddy, for my lobster, my split apart Janice, who's been the better half of mine for 20 years. They got married on March 16th, 2002.

He says, I love you, and I wouldn't be half the person I am without you. Thanks for putting up with me. Signed, Dan, Dan, the Tabletop Man. Can confirm. He's way cooler with her around, I'm telling you. No kidding. And who knew he had a heart?

No, I know. He's not just a pretty meeple. Anyway, he wanted to hear a cover of the, The Way You Look Tonight, the song originally done by Fred Astaire, probably most connected to Tony Bennett or Frank Sinatra. I've played this cover a couple times on the show before at least once, but it is my favorite cover of that song, and I can't put another one in front of it. It's so good. This is from Jules Holland and his rhythm and blues orchestra and features vocals by an incredible singer named Sam Brown. She had a big hit in the 80s with a song called Stop.

You might remember that. Anyway, this is her vocals with Jules Holland, his rhythm and blues orchestra, The Way You Look Tonight. Someday When I'm feeling low When the world is cold I will feel a glow Just thinking of you

And the way you look tonight But you're lovely With your smile so warm And your cheek so soft There is nothing for me But to love you Just the way you love tonight With each word, your tenderness grow

tearing my fear apart and the love that bling close your nose but it touches my foolish heart oh you're lovely never ever change keep that breathless

charm won't you please arrange it because I love you just the way you look to know the way you look tonight

the way you love tonight Where you look tonight Tonight Why you look at This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com.

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