The Morning Stream - TMS 2269: Noodle Duty

Episode Date: March 30, 2022

Winner Winner Panda Dinner! Alicia Squad-car. Brian's Nude Hole Tasting. Beef Slivers and Fish Cheeks. You're A Camel Nerd!! Is it too early for a Hawaiian Punch? I NEVER forget a wiener. Briefcase Dude! With The Power To Eat ALL THE NOODLES! Peacocks are Zoo Pigeons. Zebras: Light and Dark meat? It's Always Sunny in Attack Quest. Pale and Slimy. Didn't like it. Crystal Stripper Dinos. You're Like a Walkin' Phonics Guy. Trusting The Plan with Tom. Reccomentals With A Significantly Less Caffeinated RandyDeluxe 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, winner-winner, Panda Dinner. Alicia Squadcar. Brian's nude hole tasting. Beef, slivers, and fish cheeks. You're a camel nerd. Hey, is it Dorley for Hawaiian Punch? I never forget a wiener. Briefcase dude, with the power to eat all the noodles.

Peacocks are zoo pigeons. Zebras, light and dark meat. It's always sunny and attack quest. Pale and slimy. Didn't like it. Crystal stripper dinoes. You're like a walking phonics guy. Trusting the plan with Tom.

Recommendals with a significantly less caffeinated Randy Deluxe and more on this episode of The Morning's Dream. When you're dreaming, it's great to dream in circles because you are the circle of your dream. You're right in the center of it. That dream is all about you and everybody in your dream is you. So dream in circles, take what it gives you, and utilize and become a circle of freedom in yourself.

It ain't got no gas, Andy. The morning stream. It's a road buster. This is where you get off. Hello, everybody. Welcome back. We're to the morning stream for Wednesday, March 30th, 2021-2020. Yeah, right.

Exactly. Yeah. All those numbers. just to confuse you and scare you all. It's the year 2022. I'm Scott, and that's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott. How are you? Happy, happy hump day to you. Yeah, it is a hump day with all that that means, you know?

Yeah, yeah, do a little humping. Going to do a little moon-nighting tonight. That's what I've got looking forward to today. Oh, yeah, moon night. That's a thing. Moon night. It's moon night time, baby. Are they doing a, how many did they release at once, just the one?

Oh, I don't know. That's a really good question. Somebody in the Tadpool will answer that, but... I feel like I need to start this one on time and watch all the way every week, is what I should do. So I don't have another Loki problem and another... So you don't get harassed by the Tadpool about finishing it. Just one episode they released. You kept up with Hawkeye Day and Date.

I did do Hawkeye Day and Date, and I kept up with the One Division. Yeah, Juan Division. Yeah, love that. Watch that every night. I just, if I don't start it on time, then it's usually okay. So it's like, well, I'll binge it. But then other stuff comes up and I don't get around to it. And I get this attitude of like, well, it'll always be there.

Yes, right. And it will. It will. Also, Moon Night is cool because it's apparently very, it doesn't require all the other MCU stuff to happen. Like, they've gone out of their way to make it so it's not like all connected to the other things going. on, which I don't know, your, your, your, your, uh, your, uh, your, uh, your, uh, your, uh, your, uh,

, your, uh, your, uh, you're, uh, you're, uh, you're, uh, you're, uh, constantly go, oh, look, it's so and so, oh, look, it's that reference they made in Morbius. Oh, look, it's the, exactly, all that stuff. So, anyway, oh, yeah, more, you also get the Morbius this week. That's a thing. Yeah, um, we're seeing it. Uh, we're seeing it, uh, we're seeing it tomorrow night. Hmm. That's good. You'll, uh, if, uh, if, uh, uh, what's his name. I can't think of his name. Jared Leto. Can he do it?

Yes. Can he pull it off? You know, the Joker. You know, the Joker. He was a great Joker. Never forget. Jared Lett. Dallas Pires Club's own, Jared Leto.

I hear he's good in that new, the We Work movie. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, with, who is it? Jenny was saying it? Somebody was watching that I really liked it. I can't remember who now. And said that he.

Oh, wait, who was that that said that? Oh, it was Sarah Lane on DTN. She said that it was really interesting, because that whole story is crazy anyway, but it's mostly the movie's about him, the leader of that company, and then his wife who was kind of behind the scenes was kind of the one running things. And before it all blew up and got nasty, it's more of a story about them and their relationship. So maybe that's a little more interesting to people than just, hey, why is this company weird? So I don't know.

I want to see it. It's on the Apple TV Plus. They're having a bit of a run right now. They are. Well, you know, Koda is going to hopefully get some people to say, oh, okay, I could plunk down five bucks a month and get some pretty cool stuff. Yeah, and there's finally enough of it or a lot of the original stuff. I think this is a great time to get in. I think so, too. Yeah, five bucks. The Rob McElhenney, McElenny, McElenny, the guy from, it's always Sunny in Philadelphia, his video game thing, which I keep on to call Vision Quest, and it's not Vision Quest.

it's oh attack quest now that you said visiting quest i know i know once you get that in your head it's a mythic quest thank you mythic quest there you go yeah that's a pretty good show i'm watching a thing right now i'll recommend today on there that i'm really liking so far like it's there's stuff to see and severance is killing me i'm freaking loving oh i'm so excited about severance i can't wait we we we tune and i uh hovered over severance and i was like yeah let's watch severance And she's like, oh, no, let's finally finish up search party. Because there's one brand new and maybe hopefully last season of Search Party, which is the one with what's her face from Arrested Development.

Alia. Oh, what's her name? Yeah. Alicia Skachwakwat. Skarquad, squad cot. Squat caught. That's it. Alicia squad car is her name.

Yeah. Wacket, something like that. I don't know what it is. Oh, here it is. Shawk hat, I think, right? Shawcat, hang on there you. Shockat, yeah. Anyway, Alicia Squatcar.

Yeah, she has a hard name. I just want to put that, like, a photo of her on Twitter with the name. Alicia Squadcar. Yeah, I like it. Anyway, we enjoyed that series. There's one final season. We're like, let's knock this one out, and then we'll get to Severance. Because Severance has one episode still left to hair.

Yeah, tomorrow's the finale. yeah you got we wouldn't have we wouldn't have caught up we wouldn't have been like no i'll tell you what though search party i was hearing that the it goes off the rails in a good way for this final season it went off the rails i think it went off the rails pretty hard last season oh really okay i'm maybe you're in for shock because i bet everyone keeps going oh this last season is like another level of like really oh great okay cool and but but all in a good way like nobody's reviewed it poorly it's just like i can't believe they went there kind of kind of thing so we'll see good luck to a lea squad car and her future uh her hot future as anything

but maybe all right uh let's move on how would your nude hole tasting go yesterday you you've been waiting all day to do that haven't you oh i'm sorry noodles i said it wrong noodles so this was great so uh just to kind of really catch everybody up i got invited to a noodles tasting panel i'm on there their, not just their rewards thing, but because they're local, I'm on their tasting panel group, and this is the second one of theirs that I've gone to, where they invite, you know, normal folk in to come in and taste new things that they're introducing or whatever. This was an interesting one.

So I go in there, sign in. She's, oh, okay, great, go have a seat over there in the lobby, and I sit there with 10 other people or 9 other people who just aren't talking to each other looking at their phones. like, I'm about to do. She calls us in, takes us to a conference room right next to a kitchen. They have like this big, full-sized deluxe kitchen in their offices. I mean, man, lunch and parties and stuff there must be epic. Oh, they must be.

Is it all noodles, though? That means probably all they make. Well, I mean, imagine you could probably take your own food in there and cook it in their kitchen for lunch or whatever. But why would you? They probably just provide it every day, is my guess. probably just provide it. And they have a big enough menu that's like,

all do a salad today or a soup tomorrow or whatever. Sure. So we all sit down and we've got a little Android tablet in front of us. And she says, all right, go ahead and sign in, please. And so you sign in. And says, all right, we're going to be giving you four items to taste today. And we're going to tell you the letter and don't eat them until, you know, it says in the survey and when to eat them.

You're going to get four of these. So make sure to pace yourself. and uh and and uh here we go that's good advice by the way it totally is i type my name into the thing and by the way uh anna cracket house says was there one way mirror no this was like a this was a you know office 2.0 uh conference room which means there are no walls there's me well i take that back there's one front wall but the rest of it is completely open to the rest of all the cubicle farm that is uh noodles so it's not like a room full of people staring at you guys on a camera or something weird like that as far as you know as a matter of fact the um for three o'clock on a weekday

i think there are still quite a few noodle folk uh working from home so um this was a fairly empty office wow okay yeah so uh so she was you know we fell out a thing then they come around with the first entree to try now these are not little like little tiny sample cups like you'd expect like a thing that you get ketchup in with your fries at a place that is I would have thought like that or like Costco samples or something like that. Right. Oh, no. This is like a, probably a little smaller than their regular size bowl.

Okay. And the first thing they bring me is a Caesar salad with grilled chicken on top and big old chunks of parmesan cheese. And so first I have to evaluate. How does this look? Is it visually appealing? I think, yes, it is because I'd like to eat it right now. And then we get to the next one. All right, taste it.

And now tell us what you think of, blah, blah, blah. So I taste it. It's like, oh, all right, this is good. I'm going to fill out the form. And I have, like, three or four bites because I know, all right, we're going to get four of these. Meanwhile, dude up at the front who, for some reason, brought a briefcase to a taste. I wouldn't trust you that. I don't know if he came straight from work and Marcellus Wallace's soul was inside that and he couldn't leave it in the car or what the deal was.

But he decided to bring the briefcase in. He is devouring the entire bowl of food. Wow. And we're all filling our things out. I fill mine out. I, you know, indicate that I'm ready for the next one, as do most of us, except for briefcase dude. And then they take that bowl away and bring us another bowl.

We basically repeat this. Briefcase dude, like by the time we get to the fourth one, briefcase dude has three bowls in front of him that he's still working on. He's still working on number two by the time four comes, and he's like, he's going to make sure he eats every bit of it. Now, they were asking us about a very specific part of it. It actually wasn't even the noodles. They were asking us about the grilled chicken on each of these because I think they're trying different ways of cooking the chicken, and they just want to say, all right, what do you think of the grilled chicken on this one?

But they still brought us four different entrees, a mac and cheese, a pesto, kovetopi, a Caesar salad, and then another kale and arugula salad or something. But all the questions were focused on the grilled chicken. Okay. And so I, you know, I focused my tasting on the grilled chicken. I'd get like a couple noodles in with it because it's like, well, I'm not going to just eat the chicken. Sure. But so I'm, you know, doing a bite.

No, no, briefcase dude is scarfing all this down. I'm thinking that if he can't finish, he's going to open up the briefcase and just dump the leftovers in there. That's what I was going to ask. Maybe he's got Tupperware in that briefcase. maybe yes exactly that's fun of course you've also got the uh i mean you look at these people and i'm one of them scott that's like these people had nothing better to do today at three p.m. then come into an office and eat noodles no no other pressing engagements for these folks no they're all just chilling you probably had more work to do to get home to than they did is my guess

well who knows but yeah uh and then you know half of them kind of them kind of couldn't figure out how to work an Android tablet or tap, you know, like find a menu item or drop down, how to operate a drop down menu or whatever. That's not good. But in the end, I did my duty as a noodle taster. Yeah. And we'll see. It's like jury duty. You got to go.

It's the law. You got to go. You got to go. You got a couple of free entree coupons for my time. So did they give you, okay, so did you walk away going, boy, that one thing is going to be amazing when it hits the menu? Like, did you have a moment like that? All four of the things they served us were already on the menu. Oh, okay.

None of these were new dishes. It was just, I think, like I said, the different ways of doing the grilled chicken that they were testing. Gotcha. Okay. This one's a little spongy or this one's a little tough. This one, I don't know, looked pale and slimy. Didn't like it. Yeah.

No, that makes sense. Okay. Well, that's interesting because I've never been to one of these, always wanted to. I've heard about them. You know, like McDonald's does them. Everybody has like a thing with this. Everybody has their little taste test focus group kind of thing. And usually you think of it in being like a conference room with a flickering fluorescent bulb and a one-way mirror.

Yeah, which I kind of want. So how did that burger make you feel? Yeah, no doubt. So like we're the headquarters for a couple of places that are at least regional, if not national. And I would, I should probably just go to their websites and sign up. There's got to be. Yeah. It's got to be. There's the, we have a place called Arctic Circle, which is kind of local, but they do, I know they do taste test stuff. And then there's Cafe Rio, which is now kind of all over the west. Yeah, we've got Cafe Rios here. Those are headquartered in. Yeah, they started. They started here. It was a husband and a wife and a wife and a husband. I can't remember. Got so pissed that they went and started a restaurant chain called Coast. DeVita.

Oh, yeah, we have those two. Those are spin-offs. That's the pre-nup of Cafe Rio. So now those two companies actually both doing really well. Yeah. Head-to-head, but it's total of spite, marriage spite thing between those two. Oh, that's cool. I like stuff like that.

But I like both their food, although the last time I puked 2005, July of 2005, was because I got food poisoning at that place. Or at Cafe Rio. Yeah, Cafe Rio. At the time, at the time, I don't think the other one existed yet. I don't think they got divorced yet. So that was still, those were still happy marriage days. It was still the salad days of the salad days. Yeah, the salad days. That's what I had. That's what made me sick. Oh, really? Well, that's funny. You'd say that. But yeah, I'm going to try to do this. It just sounds like fun. Sounds like a fun distraction. It's fun. It just feels like,

you know, I'm contributing. You know, they're really just going to tally my votes in with the faceless horde and a full day of bringing people in. I think it was like every 45 minutes or every hour. And it was from 10 o'clock until 4 o'clock. So they had a whole thing. That's a big thing planned to do that. Yeah. That's interesting.

It's basically focus groups that you would do for movies or TV except this case. It's food. Yep. A lot of people do. We could do that with TMS. Here's a new segment. Brian shows his wiener. Use your Android device.

you feel. Yeah, use your Android device. Here's how a drop-down works. Now, choose, I felt weird or I felt good. Wait, and why between the two of us, am I the one who has to show his weir? I don't know. I think, all right, chat room, flash pole. You're

ready? No, we're not doing this. Who's weiner? No matter, no matter which favor, like, whose favor this goes in, it still won't be good. It still isn't something that we want. You know what? You're right. We don't, none of this data is going to work toward anything so you are winning by the way yeah the

flash pole is off yeah rasputin's wiener we can we can see that on full display that's fine exactly uh well that's awesome i i had a a great eating experience yesterday i was mentioning i got stuck in the car pre-show uh playing scrabble after but kim and i were like let's get away for a minute we just need a minute it's been a hard week and i don't know just need time with kim alone and so we took off and went to this uh vietnam place that just opened up and they make amazing like fah and

rice noodle salad type things and bowls and all this sort of thing and they have a to die for steak bon me there oh my god I haven't had one I haven't had a bond me in so long these are so good oh my gosh you go to like I go to Vietnamese

place and my go to is always the fah and I always I never never go further down the menu and I should I need to get a go get a on me. Yeah, but I wouldn't hold that against you just because, I mean, Fuzz is always good, right? Fuzz is never bad. It's always, you know, like get a little, what's the tender, what you may

call it, the, what does that call that meat? The beef slivers that they put in there and the shavings. Fish cheeks or whatever. Yeah. You know, fish cheeks. Fish cheeks. I love a good fish cheek. But, yeah, we had a really good time over there because it's always good. The food's always good. I wish I could remember the name of it.

one-off place that's just owned by a family over here, but man, that bond me just about put me in heaven. It was real good. I wish I remember the name. I don't remember the name. I give you guys the name. If I knew it, it's like, uh, uh, golden noodle. No, none of the goldens. Dragon noodle. None of the dragons, none of the goldens. Fist cheeks of the east. I have no idea. It's not foe king. It's something else. Oh yeah. That's right. No kidding. It's the, you know, they've got to have the fah and then the two-digit number because numbers are lucky in the Vietnamese

was that true? I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we talked about this. Especially double digits, right? Like fah 88 or 56th or whatever. That's right. We were talking about this once on the show. We were trying to figure out why they had numbers at the end and either you or someone told us and was like, oh, right. Oh, Fah Lake City would be amazing, but that's not the name. Fah Lake City, that's great. Yeah, I'd love that. It should be called Fah Shah.

P-H-O-S-H-O. It'd just be like, it's a fush show. Anyway, so there's that. Hey, Crystal wrote in. Got an email from Crystal. On the center stage, everybody, Crystal, on the center stage. Put your hands together for Crystal. Oh, great.

She writes in and you turn her into a stripper. Yeah, that's what you do when your name is Crystal. Anyway, Crystal says, hello. This is a recommendal, basically, on a Wednesday from her. Interesting. Highly recommend checking out Velasapaster, a movie on Amazon Prime. This isn't the first time somebody's done this lately. Like in the last couple of weeks, we've got three or four of these.

It says it's been trending on TikTok before being hilariously bad. Here is the synopsis. After losing his parents, a priest travels to China where he inherits a mysterious ability to allows him to turn into a dinosaur. Although he is horrified by the new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. Now, here's my only concern. after hearing this and various other recommendations

for this for FilmSack or just to watch in general it sounds Shark Natoe to me It does right Like tongue and cheek humor Like we know we're being cheeky and funny Right The whole point is to be

Almost a parody of a A parody of a B movie Not an actual B movie So I worry about that And I haven't seen it So I can't speak to it Oh they say that's exactly what it is Yeah I don't know

And we don't really, we did shark nato because it's a cultural, it's like a cultural tent pole of that kind of thing. Right. But we would never, we don't feel like after doing that, we have any need to do any of the further shark natos or the sharktipus or things like that. Yeah, none of that, none of that really drove us to do that. And it's, nor should it, because the whole idea is that we, we want to see earnest bad, not purpose bad. We want to see movies that somebody thought. you know, this could actually be pretty good. Let's make this film.

And, uh, yeah. Chat room asks, uh, or Benjana, did, did film sec do toxic avenger? Yes, we did. But I don't think that, I don't think that one applies. That was, those, those were people trying to make an earnest attempt to make a creepy weird. Yeah. And I think, I think to that degree, it was also like a cultural tent pole that we had to, had to see. Exactly.

Everybody thinks of these, you know, those old movies by, um, what's, uh, forgot his name. Yes, not asylum. No, old guy. Right. Goofy looking dude. Trauma. Trauma films, yeah. So our goal was to say, hey, trauma, what is it known for? Lots of stuff, but Toxic Avengers is like way up here. So we're going to watch that. And then, you know, we're never going to watch another Toxic Avenger, but we're going to watch the one.

So, yeah, it's, I, my take on this is I'll reserve judgment. Maybe one of us needs to see it. Maybe one of us has. Like, Dunaway may have seen it because he's weird. He may have seen it. Yeah, he'll be able to tell us if he's seen it. Eddie and the Cruisers is on our list, Bulls, Iu, not the sequel, but Eddie and the cruisers, I believe, is one that we've been...

Got a list somewhere. It's been circling the drain as far as making it into the show, and I don't know if that, if it's been added, polled, what the deal is. I can't remember what that even is. I'm not coming up. Why is that not ringing a bell? Oh, Eddie and the Cruiser's 83. This is old.

It's old. It's about a rock and roller who disappears, but it's not. It's the movie that gave us, Here's this time, nothing is real. And I don't know how I feel. That's the origin of that. That song, you know, the dark side. Here's, I cannot remember the actual lyrics because at the time,

whenever it would come on the radio, my uncle and I would sing, Here's a little song from the movie scene. Movie was a flop if you know what I mean. You had your own lyrics for it. That's good. The director thought they could make a little green. If I came off seven like Bruce Springsteen.

Wow. I didn't know this was Tom Barringer's, not first movie, but one of his early ones. This is him. Early, early Tom Berringer, yeah. Yeah, look at him, all young and hip looking there. Yeah. Well, anyway, yeah, we'll, we'll see. We'll see.

We'll see on this preacher. Yeah, we'll see. The streets day law fire. It's been moved back to our. the must-see list. Boy, that list is just getting long. And I question whether or not somebody is actually monitoring to make sure that when something becomes available from our must-see list, it gets moved over into the right there. Here's what we should do with that. Somebody somewhere would be fully willing to manage or to be our notification on that. We should just share that list out and let people find those movies. That's what we should do. We should do that. And those same people should have the list of movies, DVDs that we have already. and then bug us to watch them once in a while. Yes, exactly. Say, dude, you guys have had heavy metal now for three or four years.

You need to finally sit down and watch heavy metal. We've had it for so long that I was sure we'd seen it. And I know we haven't, but it still feels like we have. We almost need to just, I'm going to just slot that in right now. I'm just going to say, screw it and put it in. Put it in. Why not? Here we go.

There we go. It's right after steel. Nice. Steel. Which is really kind of funny. steel, then heavy metal. Yeah, steel heavy metal. What's the next metal one we could do?

It'll be Iron Eagle. Eagle. Oh, yeah, even better, Iron Eagle. I said Iron Giant, but that's a good movie. We don't want that. We might want that. We like to do more animation here and there. That might be a good one. And I love that movie.

It might be a fun one. But we're just saying, you know, metal. The theme is metal moving forward this year. We did full metal jacket already, Matuba. It already happened. Right. All right. Let's get Dunaway in.

Let's get him in here. Let's get him in here. He needs to be in. And he's logged in, so I know we're good. And then we'll play a game. And this is one where you guys call in. So I have that number handy. 8014710462 will be your possible entry into today's Tad Pooley Feud.

Let's start it now. Hey, look who it is. It's everyone's favorite guy. from South Carolina, maybe even more than Bobby Frankenberger. Oh, hey, watching out. Oh, wow. Fighting words. Right. Don't get me in trouble with Bobby.

Oh, hi. Look, he doesn't know where you live. You don't know where he lives. It'll all be fine. Oh, I know where he lives. Oh, do you? How far is Columbia, South Carolina from you, by the way? Oh, too close. Within driving distance.

Oh, is it? You could drive and meet up and hang out and stuff? Oh, totally. I mean, It's very close. It's not very far at all. You guys should do that. You guys should hang out. Less an hour. We totally should do that.

Yeah. Why don't you guys do that? But now, now that you've put the wedge between us. Well, look, we're, Brian, if anything, Brian and I are facilitators. We're here to help you two get together. Have that date you've been waiting to have for so long. Yeah, you're a filitator. I'm a filetter.

South Carolina date. You guys can go to crystals. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So that's all we have. Yeah. That's all I see.

Yeah. That's everything. I didn't know I was calling into the insult. You guys could sit around. You guys could. You guys could sit around and talk about the Carolina Panthers, you know? Oh, there you go. Yeah.

No one wants to talk about those guys right now. What happened to them last year? That was a rough season for them. Not a good season. What happened? We're going through a moment, man. Yeah. You know how it is?

We're just having a moment. We'll be back. Would you call it a rebuilding, rebuilding moment? Is that what you'd say? Yeah, is this a rebuilding year? Yeah. I think what's going to tap in first is a change of ownership or something. I don't know what's going on.

But I won't talk about sports ball too much here. Yeah, sports sucks. Forget it. Actually, I like sports. But instead, we're going to find out who's been waiting on the line very patiently. And let's see who this is. Hi, thanks for holding. Who's this?

Hi, this is Shama fan from the Discord. Well, hello, Shama fan from the Discord. What's up? How are you today? I'm doing great today, guys. Thank you. No, it's good to have you here. Where are you, uh, where are you, uh, hail from?

I'm from Detroit, so Lions fan here. Oh, Lions fan. Sweet. I like Detroit, Detroit. Don't insult you. Don't tell him. Yeah, don't tell them. I had to do a stopover flight in, uh, in Detroit.

And the, my favorite thing about the Detroit, uh, airport was Detroit International, I guess it is, or maybe it has a different name. Anyway, uh, they had a, they had dueling piano dudes in there. Hmm. So there were two guys back-to-back pianos playing like competitively. and like the crowd was into it and I was eating french fries and smiling it was great it was a good time anyway go Detroit uh hey Brian why don't you explain to to uh Detroit Larry here what we're doing and what he might win we'll do it's time to play the tadpooly

feud I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us and it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess Shanafan, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian, and if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes NeverSong and survivalist Invisible Strain.

Oh, these are good. Those are good. Yeah, Eversong's a fantastic game in particular. Yeah, very good. I love that. We talked about that last year on the Boob Show. I think we did. Yeah, it's new. Yeah, new wish. And then it makes me think of Everlong, and then it makes me think of that tribular for the

food fighters. And then it makes me think of recent death of the drummer and that makes me sad i know i know very sad i don't like any of that i did a lot of you because i saw i was watching trailers last night and they had the uh foo fighters movie that horror movie thing they did oh yeah and uh and and they killed the drummer in the in the in the freaking trailer oh dude i'm like oh that is way that that's probably you know that trailer is probably going to get redone i'm guessing yeah that'd be my guess does that movie um is out right people can see that now i came out in february i believe I did. Okay, so it's already out.

All right. I kind of want to check that out. We may film sack that or something. Anyway, well, all right. Look at the winnings here. This is great. Let's go. Some great stuff to win. All right, let's get your hands on your buzzers here.

And this was a slightly controversial. Oh, those are my favorite. Tad Pooley Feud topic. So just preface this if you had a gun to your head. Preface the question I'm about to ask you with that. All right. So, we asked the Tadpool to give their best answer to this. 542 of them responded.

50 of them said pass with a hard pass for many of them. A hard pass. A hard pass. What zoo animal would you most like to try a steak from? I'm going to go. Give me some of that lion steak. Line steak. Show me a lion.

Oh, are you kidding me? More on the board. Three answers will beat it, Scott. Okay. That surprises me. I'm a little thrown off here. Yeah. I would lie in me.

It's like the top of the line, right? That's what you want. The top of the line. I'll say gorilla. Gorilla. Show me gorilla. Oh, come on. Too human.

Nobody wants to eat gorilla. Three people said gorillas. It's too human. Well, it is too human, but I was doing the whole gun to your head thing. And I thought, I went too far. right. Yeah. Now, I'd also like to preface this by, this is one of those questions that somebody sent in and I put in the survey. The entire survey that I did last time, and I'm getting, fortunately getting closer to having a new survey, but this one has just been, we got so many questions last time. Right. It's all good. Anyway, so, Brian, you are going to be playing with Shanahan and you have control of the board. Yeah. You got a big one there in Detroit that you want to throw out on the board early?

How is the Detroit Zoo, by the way? Yeah, what kind of zoo Elip, zoo y'all eat over there? Yeah, Zoo meat. What kind of zoo meat? We do have the Detroit Zoo, and I love the giraffes. Maybe a soft meat, so I'm thinking giraffe. Yeah, they got those long, firm necks.

I'll bet there's great meat in those necks. Oh, great neck meat. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you'd be like, I'll take the neck. So, like, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Zoo dinner. Yeah, I'll take the neck. Zoo dinner. Good neck meat.

Okay, all right. show me giraffe Oh very nice Two on the board Higher than lion I'm shocked Well the giraffes are higher than lions It makes sense

Yeah they do more weed Shannon fan How you feeling about How you feeling How you feeling about the elephant meat Feeling good about the elephant meat Give you a big old foot I'm not sure I would eat elephant's foot

But maybe somebody would Right I'll bet someone had to go with it though I like a big old fat-backed slice of elephant meat. Elephant meat, okay, all right. Let's see if I can do this. I'm holding a cat right now. I'm a guy has me on screen, but I got a, I got a kitty.

Oh, look at this kitty. It's a fuzzy kitty. The kitty has no idea the horrors we're talking about right now. I need a cat. I need a cat from the zoo. My name is Alf. I need a zoo cat. Zoo cat.

All right. Show me, what did you say? I said I would like to have one of the big, gray elephants. I would like to deep fry one of those ears. Yes, like pork rinds. All right, show me elephant. Number five on the list.

You guys are doing well. Not bad. Not bad. What else we're going to eat over there, Shanna? Now, Brian, would you eat monkey brains? How about if they were chilled monkey brains? I would totally do that, but I'm a little concerned since they

didn't go for guerrilla only two people but we could try monkey brains I mean think about it monkeys are less humanoid right they're they're shitty little bastards you'd probably want to eat them

they're jerky yeah I bet they have some good arms aren't you always wanted a monkey monkey oh god had to pluck all that arm hair meat off oh shock the monkey all right

I think you should go monkey we're going on monkeys show me monkeys shock the monkey oh no monkeys no monkeys no monkeys jumping on the plate that's too bad all right I'm going to throw in here with uh

I feel like a hippo would provide some good fatty marbly meat yeah a lot of meat on a hippo yeah give me some hippo meat uh Scott wants a hippopotamus for dinner It doesn't actually, oh, it's in there, sweet. Number three. Wow.

It's not great on the points. 41 people said hippo meat. Yeah, you did, that was fry up so nice. Oh, man. No offense to hippos, but y'all are going to get you. No offense to any of these animals, because, I mean, we wouldn't, we wouldn't do this. No. Dude, let me tell you something.

You would not talk smack like this to a hippo in real life. Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I got to think there's some poultry on here. They've got to be poultry. So I'm going to go with, well, I don't know if this is true of every zoo. The Hogle Zoo here in Salt Lake City, they're walking around everywhere.

I'm just going to say it. The peacocks, a peacock. Yeah, because they walk around, they go, they're mostly, they're like the pigeons or the rats of the zoo. They're just everywhere. They are. They just stare at you as they walk by. Yeah, I kind of hate it.

All right. All right, show me peacock. Damn it. No, not the Beacock. Let's see. Did people say Peacock? I don't think we had any on the list, surprisingly. They probably don't, they don't pay for the no ads version.

It's called Freecock. That's why. That's right. It's too bad. All right, Brian and Shannon. How are we missing number one? I don't, I can't even think of what number one. But I did like what Scott said about the poultry.

What are you thinking, Shannon? What are you thinking? Well, I'm thinking, when I go to the zoo, my favorite reptile is the alligator. Oh, that's good. But if it's dead, what I want to eat it, maybe. I've had alligator meat. It's fantastic. It's really good.

Yeah. It's a good answer. It's a Mississippi thing. All right. Okay. Show me alligator. Oh, that sucks. Number 20 on the list is alligator.

But I'm with you. I like good. I like alligator. I do, too. You get this alligator cheesecake at this place called Bubba's downtown? Oh, my lord. It's so good. Alligator cheesecake.

Yeah, but it's not what you think. There's no sweetness or cheese. Well, there's cheese, but it's not. They call it cheesecake, but really it's like a casserole kind of thing. Yeah, so they cook it in pie form, but it's not like pie. It's a different thing. It's so, it's so freaking good. They got this tomato sauce on it.

It looks like cherry sauce, but it's tomato stuff. Oh, my God. What are they trying to do? Like shock your palate? No, dude. I'm telling you it is fan Freakantastic All right

Let's see here Tiger We didn't do tigers Let's get another cat on there Sure All right We've had lion Let's see if people

want to eat some tiger Show me tiger Number nine Now we have ourselves a game One point game right here I mean not that I want Chan a fan to lose Because I really

Sounds like a nice guy I'm liking to win Of course let's see here let's I got you cover Shanna Fane Oh do you All right let's no pressure on me Okay

Somebody probably And I will tell you I took it out of the list But our number three answer If I would have taken all answers Number three answer would have been some form of Ew Because it was

About 45 people all had some version of Ew gross or no or whatever Oh That's Yeah you guys are great with your answers. All right, let's do a rhino, a rhinoceros. Oh, yeah.

Then you could pick your teeth with that big old horn when you get through. Yeah, those people those people think they're, most people think rhinos are the mean ones. It's totally the opposite. They're like docile and kind, hippos will eat your face, man. Hippos suck. Yeah, yeah. And it's, you don't know how, because hippos seem to only have

four teeth in their head. I know, right? And they're, but they're big teeth. They're big, blocky bars of soap looking teeth, yeah. Yeah. Rhinos are practically unicorns. I mean, come on. They could just move that horn a little bit. They'd be set to go.

Well, Paul Giamatti was kind of a dick. All right. Show me the rhino. Oh, six. Wow, the rhinoceroses. The rhinocericuses is 18 to 11 points wise here. Wow. Let's see.

Oh, man. I wonder what a good camel hump will get you these days. Let's do a camel. Camel. That's fat, too, by the way. That's not water back there on those homes. That's good. Those fry up nice.

You can dromedary. You're thinking Bactrian? Which kind of camel you're thinking? Oh, what's whatever kind of, uh, I'm not going to say, what? Two humps and I want two hump. Two humps. Yeah. I want a Bactrian.

Okay. Yeah. That's what I want. All right. Show me, well, any form of camel, please. If it flexing on his camel knowledge, whatever. You know, I'll tell you why I know. Because if you turn the letter on its side, it tells you how many humps of the thing is.

So Bactrian has, if you turn the B on its side, it's got two humps. So Bactrian counts in two humps. Oh, you're a camel nerd. You turn the dromedary, the D on its side, it's one hump. Oh, you're like a, you're like a walk-in, what do they call that, phonics guy? It's not phonics, but you've got like a reference for, I would have never known that. That's insane. Who taught you that?

It's like, I wish the, I can't remember. I learned that, but I wish everything in life were that easy to keep track of. You probably learned it at the Dern Zoo on those plaques. I might have. I might have, actually. Now you say that. Mnemonic, that's what it is.

That's what I meant to say. Nnemonic. Nomenic. Right. Shannon, how about we, how do you feel about either a bear or a penguin? This is going to be our last strike.

It's either going to get it and keep moving or we're going to lose it. So I don't mind giving my next. two guesses. Well, you should guess, but penguins are kind of cute. With someone who's a penguin, I'm not sure about a penguin. Yeah. Very cute.

So we're going with, we're going with bear then, huh? You got something else. I would think go for bear. Yeah, go for it. Okay. Let's go for bear. Go for bear. Always go for bear.

If you can kill a bear, then you deserve to be able to eat it. Go ahead. All right. We're go for bear. All right. I mean, we've got lions and tigers. Why not bears? Oh, my.

You're going brown bear. No, black bear. I don't know. How many humps that they have? We'll take any bear. How's that? Okay. All right.

Show me bear. Oh, you can't. Sometimes you get the bear. That means I've won and I feel bad. It does. It does mean you've won, yeah. Oh, I feel bad about this. Okay.

You can run the rest of the board with four answers still remaining to be seen? Let's go to the reptile. I think we should have like a final, if you guess number 10, you just lose. How about that? Oh, it's like an automatic loss. It's like a strike. What do they call it? They do this in Wheel of Fortune.

There's like a bankruptcy thing. Yeah. Yeah, whatever. All right. I'm going to go with, let's just, let's go to the reptile farm place, dome deal, and let's go with an iguana. I can't think of anything else. Aguana, sure.

All right. Show me iguana. You can eat in a Mexican radio, but. Yeah. A little barbecueed iguana. All right. Well, excuse me, that means that Scott wins with 18 points to Brian and Shanahan's, or Shanahan's 11.

Listen, I'm from Denver. We had, you know, we had Shanahan here for quite a while. Yeah, I like the name Shanahan. It's kind of cool. Yeah. Nothing wrong with it. Yeah. So unfortunately, that does mean that Shanahan doesn't win, but of course you can always come back

and try again. Let's look at what you missed. Number one, it even has the grill marks. Zebra. Oh, a zebra. Except when you cook him, they'll go, oh, la-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l. Do it really?

Is that what zebras sound like? Zebras have the weirdest. Have you not heard of zebras? No, I must not have. Oh, you got to hear this. They don't have vocal. No, that's giraffes. Here, here's a zebra sound, just so you can experience this in life.

Here we go. Whoops. Oh, my gosh. YouTube, I don't want a trial. Here you go. Wow. Isn't that crazy? Hyukes or something.

They sound like hyenas, yeah. Yeah, hyenas. They don't sound anything like the horse that they resemble. It's really weird. I would expect them to sound like, well, now it makes sense why people want to eat them. That's horrifying if they make that noise. It's the only way to control the whole thing is eat them all. Would you like a black stripe or a white stripe?

Exactly. Dark meat, light meat. Dark meat, light meat. All right, number seven, bison or buffalo? Oh, my gosh. Yeah. You can get that. Who has a bison or buffalo there, zoo?

Not us. We do. Yeah, I guess we have a buffalo or a bison here. So, yeah. It's a west thing, though. It is. It must be a west thing, yeah. Yeah.

But buffalo is good. Buffalo burgers. Go ahead, sorry. You go to Ted's Montana Grill and get those all day long. Number eight. Panda. Panda meat. It's a bear?

Panda bear. Well, I had people also said bear, and I didn't love. lump all the bear. Yeah, but aren't they, they're technically not even in the same range as a bear. We just call them that, right? No, they're a bear.

Are they a bear? So people said polar bears, people said pandas, people said red pandas. I kept those separate. A lot of people are saying it is a bear and a lot of, I thought they weren't a bear.

I'd be saying pandas are not, panda are not bears. Yeah, I thought there was a whole distinction between a panda and a bear, but we just think they look like bears, so we say pandas. panda bears? I could be wrong. That's just a weird memory I have. Maybe Bobby is channeling on me here. I don't know. Bobby. Bobby. I don't know. I'd have to look it up. Are pandas bears? Our pandas bear?

So then, Bobby, I'm right to keep panda separate from bear, right? Yeah, you did the right thing. He begins this thing with Coverville is wrong. Yeah. She's Bobby. No, I think you 100% have it right. The separation is the way you're supposed to do it. Yeah. So good job. Yeah. yeah yeah whatever says the man trying to defend his win like we can believe you kangaroo I'm surprised you guys didn't because kangaroo meats not uh not too not too far out yeah not bad at all I would eat

I eat kangaroo that's a good one I would totally eat that I wonder if they get a little bit of that pocket meat you can't eat baby kangaroos don't eat roo pocket meat yes let's see they are all one distinction is bears are cornuc carnivores are you still on that We're on kangaroos now. No, I can tell you this, though. This is interesting.

So they're carnivorous, but pandas are not. Pandas only eat, they're vegetarians. So they just eat, that's a big distinction. Okay, so vegetarians are not humans because I'm a meteor. Well, they don't make a choice to be vegetarian. They just are vegetarian. If there's nothing to eat and they choose to die. The tadpool has stopped listening because they are fighting over whether panda or bears.

So there's a... Oh, yeah, there's a whole thing. Addle going on. It's good, so it's all good. I love it. I love it. Let the arguments begin. Well, this is great news for me, terrible news for our poor listener. You've lost, but it's okay because, listen, Shannafan, you get more chances in the future.

What? What Bobby said? What Bobby said? Wait, no, Coverville. I'm actually wrong. Pandas or Bears, recent genetic studies have shown they're part of the bear family. Give me that new score. What does that mean you get?

I'm like a formal retraction on Twitter. Well, if you gave them the panda points, what's the difference in the score here? Let's see. That would have been eight. Well, let's see here because, yeah, that would have, if I would have said all bears, because then polar bears, I would have lumped in there as well. And there were two people that said polar bear, two people that said red panda. So that would be four more for regular panda.

that would have been 22, yeah, 22 points. So it still would be number eight on the list. So would that put them? So eight points would have let Brian win. So I think since there's dispute, I think Shanahan wins. Oh, I totally think so too. I completely agree with this. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

The judges have spoken, Shanifan, you're getting these codes, man. That's just the deal. That's the way. That is awesome. Justice finds a way. We found a way to make justice happen today. This is fantastic. All right.

Well, I actually feel better about everything. though. Yes, Shannafin. I will admit, when I was thinking panda bear and when Brian said bear, I'm like, yeah, Panda bear, right? Yeah. Panda. See, there you go. You so infrequently think of putting, I mean, I know pandas, you know, they're in the bear, as we

found in the bear family, but you don't often, it's like pizza pie. You don't often say pizza pie. You say pizza. Let's go get a pizza. Right. And you don't often say Panda Bear. Right. I'm not going to blame Ibit. I'm not going to blame Ibit. I bet. I don't know, because bear, you know, because Bear, bear, you know, I did even say it when you said bear, I said, you said black bear,

grizzly bear. I'm like, all right, any kind of bear. So I should have at that point said, well, wait a minute, we do have a distinction in the bear. Oh, this is good. We did the whole thing without any post editing or anything. We just made this happen. That's right. Exactly. This is awesome. So congratulations, Shannon fan. All you got to do is send Brian an email, coverville at gmail.com, and you will get to claim your prizes. And, uh, yeah, you were, you were an awesome sport today, man. Thanks. How do you feel about your big win? I'm sad. Thank you so much. Well, no problem, man. We'll see you soon.

All right. So there you go. Well done, everybody. I like that. I like in the end, everybody won. Yeah. And did it finally open up a dialogue about what is a bear? Yeah, what is a bear? You know, finally get to address the elephant in the room with finding out of the hand as a bear. I have some friends in Idaho that have an answer for that. But that's a whole other thing and we won't get into it now.

Hey, so Brian, Dunaway there. We had a great play retro yesterday, and as a result, more people discovering an old Disney game than I thought would happen. I heard from all kinds of people going, I played that all night because you guys talked about it. That game's awesome. I can't believe I missed it the first time. That's great. Yeah. It's duct-tales.

Pretty great. This weekend, though, we got a film sack coming up. We did the losers last week. This week, we're doing another watch-along because we have Randy out of town this time. Right. And I can't remember what we are watching. We watched an episode of The X-Files entitled Jose Chung's from Outer Space featuring the delightful Charles Nelson Riley. I really liked him in that.

He was a very subdued. He's like in comparison to how you always see Charles Nelson Riley. He was a very subdued Charles Nelson Riley. And it features this very famous noise from Mulder. Yeah, on Mulder's screams. So look forward to that, everybody. That's this weekend. Ventura, that's right. Thanks, David Travis, for the reminder.

And Alex Trebek. Oh, and yeah, a very small cameo from Alex Trebek, rest of soul. Hey, Brian Dunaway, anything else you'd like to tell us about before we hang up on you in a very unceremonious way? Absolutely. Tonight, I'm doing the community event for my patron supporters, so at twitch.tv. 4.S. Brian, come hang out. You're invited to Scott and Brian.

What time is it? Ooh, cool. When do you do it? 6 p.m. Eastern Time. Let's see. Where will I be? I might be there. Yeah, you may see me. That's not a bad time for me, I think. Maybe. I'll have to check with the wife. I'm not sure what we're doing. But that sounds great. Good luck to that. It's Brian Donaway, everybody. Kiss our butts.

Okay, he's out. He's our butts. He had no room to say anything. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back. I think Tom Merritt's here. He's actually not here for DT&S today. I'm doing that with Sarah today. So I haven't heard. Oh, maybe I did. Hold on. Checking my text here. Oh, he says he thinks he'll be here. So if not, no big deal, but I think he'll be here. If not, we'll see if we can't get Randy early. Well, a direction will come from the man.

Who thinks? The man. So that'll be right after this song that Brian will now describe in detail. Yeah, I'm going to tell you, this song is brought to you by America's next top podcaster. Guess what? If you're a patron, you're getting the first episode of a very electrifying season of AMTP today for free. It's right there on the feed. If you are a patron, you're probably downloading it right now.

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It's top podcaster. That is what it is. So yes, Patreon.com slash top podcaster. And you can get the very first episode. today right now, just a little contribution, just all we need, which is great. Very nice. Very nice. Yeah, all right, let's get to the music here. This is an artist whose real name is Sasha McLeod. She is a 20-year-old from Brisbane, Australia, singer-songwriter, producer, an artist. But she goes by the name Psycho, and it's spelled S-Y-C-C-O. Why, you may ask? Well, it's because

she tends to produce a lot of psychedelic pop. This is some great stuff. This is following the success of her 2021 EP, which was called Psycho's First EP. I'm not kidding. This is her brand new single. It's called Superstar. Enjoy Psycho. All right. We're going to play it now.

I may have been texting Tom right then, so I'm a little slow on the uptake here. That's all right. But don't worry. We're good. It looks like he will be here. And listen to this song that Brian just introduced. We'll be right back in just a moment. Keep saying, I say, not saying, I say nothing, so did every time.

Playing, I'm playing my games. Blurring through the lines. Will I find a way out? Alarms ringing silly dead. I'm going to be a superstar. riding new and fancy cars flying high sign all the grass Gucci dripping off my clouds God bless my soul

I'm on a step down I'm weighing up paying up big To cover up help Level line triple nine from good for bling Throw out my old self Will I find a way out? Not pressure, not pressure, I don't feel it down. I'm sitting with less than I've to sweat it out. Sunny devolved and quick, I need some time to clear my mind.

Kicking up tensions with me, myself, and I'm not be a superstar, riding with my fancy cars. High in high side on your grass Hitchie, dripping off my clouds, God bless my soul sanity vault and quick I need some time to clean my mind kicking up tantrums in grocery souls I'm not a line

Ever roll up the hay weighing down on my mind on my mind I'm going to be a superstar riding in fancy flies flying high and on the ice flying eyes

Gucci jumping off my clouded house That's my soul I'm a big superstar riding with a fancy boat flying high in high sidewalks flying high siloic grass Gucci dripping off our clothes god bless my soul Spirass, Superstar, Superstar, yeah, and the stars,

superstars, yeah, oh. Oh, my, my, me, I'm a superstar, super star, super star. Now, I'm not be, I'm going to be, my super star. Now, I'm going to, my be,

yeah, yeah, yeah, superstar, super stars, super stars, yeah, yeah, now I'm my be, I'm a super star. Don't get me wrong, I know that you can't put an electric car in a car wash because car wash is wet and you can't get an electric car wet. For a ghost, you bleed just fine. This is the morning. This is the morning stream. all right we're back everybody thank you for playing that brian tell me who it was again yeah that was psycho and her brand new single called superstar wow i bet she's not nearly as psycho as she says you know what i mean no i think she's i think she's less psycho than she would

probably would like us to believe yeah it's just part of her name what are you gonna do exactly like i's listen to the system we're all a little psycho we're all a little psycho you're right a little psycho what's that like that song. There's a pop song called A Little Psycho. It's very good. Oh, really? Yeah. I can't think that the name or the lady now, but there's a lady in it and she sings a thing. Hey, look who else is here singing things? This guy right here. With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt. He joins us as he does every Wednesday to talk a little bit of tech right here on the show. Tom, welcome back. Good to have you here, sir. Thanks for having me. Yeah, man. Oh, he does sing. Looks

that oh wow it's uh yeah forget about west side story i'll be singing all my commentary uh this is good to have you i won't do that to you no it's all good hey uh you you're you probably i know you got some stuff going on but i uh you probably got some interest in what's going on with these sony pricing tiers this has been a long time uh coming um what do you think of all that stuff do you want to talk about that yeah um they're nice they're okay you know i'm from the Midwest uh There are three of them. Yeah. And they all have good things in them.

That's my review of that. No, I'm just, I described these. We talked to Jen Cutter about it yesterday on Daily Tech News show. I described these as a rearguard action. I would imagine these are not the last, you know, like, this is it. This is the plan forever. This is the please don't leave. We don't expect to convert any Xbox Game Pass fans with this offering.

But this should at least keep people on the existing plans from switching off, maybe get a few Sony partisans to jump on board because we added a lot more to them. But it's sort of the minimum you could do if you're Sony. And I don't mean to say that it's bad. I'm saying, like, they did the basics. Like, they had to do these things and they did them. I don't see anything in these plans that raises an eyebrow or makes me say, well, that's really interesting. What a bold move. Nothing like that. Yeah, same.

The biggest problem most people have that I've been communicating with, and I've just been trying to mull it around to see what our takes are going to be on core tomorrow. But basically, the first tier, the main tier, is exactly what it is today. So there's a $9 a month, and you can pay less if you pay yearly, but $9 a month option that is currently PlayStation Plus, and that will continue to be what that is. And you don't gain anything really, but you don't lose anything. There may be a few more games in there, but there probably would have been anyway.

So, yeah, to me, that's the, that's the epitome of what I'm talking about. They're sort of like, don't go anywhere. We're not raising your price. We're not taking anything away. It's all good. Stick right where you are. Yeah. And I think the middle plan is most interesting to me because the middle plan is a 400 game or so

focus on, at least they say 400 or so games, focus on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5, up to exactly that may take a while to build out but PS4 and PS5 games we have zero idea what that list is we know this though it's not day one releases that is not a plan here the way it is of Microsoft none of this is yeah none of this is

big one yeah that's the biggest they're going head to head yeah yeah the top tier the top tier even less so the top tier is more about a thing Sony kind of in theory hates they don't like backwards compatibility or they don't like it as a focus and yet the third tier

is like, hey, some PSP games, some PS3 games, some PS2 games, PS1 games. Play some Vita games on your PS5. And in some markets, lots of streaming to kind of ease you over to that. You know, this is what you do when you're the leader. And you may criticize that, but when you're the leader, you go cautiously. You don't want to kill the Golden Goose. They get a lot of money from their first party titles. They get a lot of money from the existing subscriptions.

So they want to go slowly. They want to go easily. they don't want to blow it. And I think that's what you're seeing there. Yeah. And for me, the value in those older games is certainly, it's there. And I think it should be available. I think having them at a higher tier is a little annoying.

I think that's them saying, boy, we sure hate doing backwards compatibility so much. Man, you guys are all going to pay for it with a little bit of blood here if you want it. Yeah. Doesn't it feel like, like at some point somebody must have suggested that they swap those and say, let's make the middle tier giving them a lot more old PS1 and PS2 games that they can play on their on their machines. And then top tier would be, and we're going to add all these PS4 and PS5 games on top of it. It does feel weirdly switched, yes. Well, if you look at it, it's downloadable in the lower tiers streaming in the top tier.

Yeah, oh yeah. To me, that signals that they're going to continue to slowly expand streaming and move people towards that top tier. If you ever see a first-party title available on day one, it would be in that top tier for streaming, not downloadable. So Tom, you're absolutely right about one aspect of this, and I think it's important to reiterate it. They have a leadership position overall, especially during the transition of PS4-25 in terms of software install base

and all this other stuff. And they make a lot of money on first-party titles. They're not going to change gears so hard just because their competitors doing a thing isn't enough to make them in a leadership position suddenly change. And Microsoft wouldn't either, these roles were switched. And they have been in the past. Yeah, right.

So that's how business goes. But I don't think this change is going to, if anyone thought the idea here was to either get people to jump, ship and go that direction or at the very least add a new subscription, I'm not sure it goes that far to make that big of a dent. Not now, not yet. But time may, you know, like you said, this isn't a finished. project they'll keep tweaking it in fact if anything they've given it more breathing room and i think that was smart because right previous to this plus was just a locked down weird thing um Xbox is equivalent which comes with game pass is called Xbox game for gold for games is that what it is whatever it is it's a horrible name they're used to making the horrible names over Microsoft but yeah but they have a

thing where they'll give you every month you get like two three games for free it was basically what plus was doing and so that's staying and not really changing at the bottom tier is a little is a little concerning for me so for me am i in the middle one don't care about the high in one i think that middle one will be interesting i'm going to get it try it test it you can't do it till june that's the other thing right right um you can sign up now but there's a message on the site that says we're about to change everything but if you buy the and june in asia uh it may not come till july or later in europe and north america right right so anyway we'll see what happens with sony yeah yeah i i i i i i

I feel like the other thing to keep in mind here, too, is Microsoft also runs one of the biggest cloud providers in the world of which Sony is a client. Yeah. So it's easier for Microsoft to take bold streaming moves because they have it in-house. You know, they know the folks who do it. They can, they trust it a little more. They're more familiar with it. I think that plays into this, too. That's the only other thing I'd add.

Yeah, I think that's true. Speaking of adding things, you're always busy doing cool stuff. I know you're not on DTNS today, but I will be. and I can't wait, it's going to be great. I never feel very comfortable in your shoes, but by the time the things end, I feel pretty good in those shoes. I'm going to tie them up and take them home with me.

Yeah, I keep telling you, you can wear your own shoes when I'm not on the show. And if you do wear my shoes, just lice all over when you're done. Like a bowling alley. Like a bowling alley. Yeah, those always grossed me out so bad. Anyway, your shoes do not, Tom. You're fine.

You're a nice, clean man. Tom, tell us what else is going on around. your world that you'd like people to know about. You're Joe Biden. I don't know. What else are you doing these days? What's going on? Well, the reason I'm off Daily Tech News show, just in case someone was thinking like, ooh, what cool thing is he working on? It's a funeral. It's not a fun thing. It's a family thing. But I will be putting out more, No Little Moors. I was off the show on Monday

working on No A Little More. We've got one coming out about, or actually one just came out about Pluton, the security chip from Microsoft. We're going to have one on Wiki. If you've ever wondered where the Wiki came from, was Wikipedia the first? No, it was not. Not by a long shot. That's coming out this week. We've got one on free ad-supported streaming television, one on QD OLED TVs.

And there's a ton in the back catalog about Arm and Unicode and Mac addresses. So go check it out. Know a little more.com. Do it today. You won't be sorry. Tom Merritt, everybody, Ace Detect on Twitter. Tom, take it easy. We'll see you soon.

Bye now. Thanks, y'all. I did not know it was a funeral. I would have been less, uh, what are you doing today? What cool project are you working on? Yeah, I know, I know. It's all you had to move Tom Time to yesterday and I was like, ah, I'm not going to mention. Yeah, I completely, I had no idea, but there it is. Totally, totally. Well, we freed him. He's out of here. Yes, he's free. Yeah, we freed his newsletter. All right. Let's get, uh, let's see. Randy. Now, here's the question. Randy. Yeah, will we have a Randy? Yeah, he's in a different time zone at the moment. He's online. He's, what, seven hours ahead of us?

What is it for? No, I think it's only... It's a seven-hour flight over there, but he's one hour earlier in the Pacific, right? So he's... Oh, is it only an hour? Hey, Randy, how far ahead in the future are you? Aloha Morning Street. I mean, it's an hour earlier than Pacific, right?

Or two hours earlier in the Pacific? Okay, so if that's the case and we're mountain... Let's just be specific. It is 6.30 a.m. right now. Oh, okay. That's not so bad. I woke up this morning at about 4.15 local time. Yeah.

And I am very comfortable right now. Yeah. Good morning. It's a very different, Randy, than the one we usually get for recommendal. Yeah, it is. Yeah, no kidding. But I'm sure you're relaxed, having a great time. I'm more thrilled for you, man.

Kauai is a perfect place. Perfect place. That's the, you know, it's God's backgarden or whatever. I have been trying to, I have been trying to wrench my mind back into a frame of mind in which we can talk about this thing I'm recommending. Oh, good. Which is, which is not at all Hawaiian. It is not, it is not chill. Wow.

All right. Doesn't have an umbrella in it. Good morning. How, I've, I've been listening, but I wanted to ask, how are you? We're fine. We're fine, right? Are we fine? We're fine. We're totally fine.

It's been a weird week, but we're fine. Yeah. It has been a weird week. I was amazed to kind of watch the Oscars a little bit here. You know, because of the time zones that you're talking about, the Oscars started at 2 p.m. And it's, you know, it's not a thing. Like all entertainment, there's no entertainment.

That's really a thing that gets in. I mean, why would you watch TV in Hawaii, right? Like, if you live there, it's like, no, I'm going to go out and watch the sunset because it's a brand new show every night. Damn straight. Yeah. And like I told you, on film sack last week, this was the first year in well over 20 years that I haven't like been fixing my choice bracket the day of the Oscars and watching and, you know, patting myself on the back for making great predictions and so on. But it was, you know, like it really was kind of sort of.

surreal like the Oscars are happening and I'm I'm a couple of blocks from Honolay Bay and I'm like I don't really care oh look a crazy man stormed the stage and attacked a comedian that's nice pass me another pineapple drink please yes yes they still they still had some of the lowest viewership they've had in 20 years well they did be last years which was they beat last year's okay oh yes this year's was way up 58% higher Oh, well, how, so hold on a second, though. Is that... Are you getting your news from Trump? No, but here's my question. If he, it's not the punch that did it or did it. No, no, no, no. It's the fact that it just wasn't that crap last year with the...

We're all just going to sit in a nice, cozy conference room and do Oscars. Oh, I am. That's right. Scott just blew my mind because I've been drinking a rum punch ever since Saturday morning. And it started on the flight here. The Hawaiian Airlines comes through the main cabin. and gives you a free alcoholic beverage if you're 21 or over. And they had this thing called Koloa Rum Punch.

And so we tried it and we loved it. And so then we got here, every grocery store sells, you know, coloa rum punch. So we stocked the fridge with it. And that's what trying not to consume it before like 8 a.m. Oh, yeah. It sounds like a dessert punch to me. It does.

Yeah. You can't drink a whole day if you don't start in the morning. It's so true. that is true man so true all right well let's get to our recommendals and see if randy remembers anything about what he watched it'll be really interesting when we talk the same time next week because by then by then i might just be a puddle on the beach which you know you at least you saw the sunset as the beach puddles let's uh let's start with uh brian ibbott here he's got some uh two clips here you want to set one of these up for me these are both again documentaries i don't know what's wrong with me but um but they're documentaries of things that people will not be surprised at all that I like.

So this first one is a documentary that came out last year. I had to go back and make sure, Scott, that you didn't recommend to this because I know you saw it and really liked it. And I did not find you recommending it. I might have missed it, but I didn't find it. Well, here it is. Let's see if we can figure it out. I'm actually not sure either.

So I'm going to listen and see if I can guess. Here we go. Okay. The mystique and that whole thing is part of what makes them cool. no matter what. They don't owe us anything. They give us the music. That's all we mean. It is symbionic. It's like the two of them make up this hole that is sparks. Those of us have been lucky enough to come and go in that. It's an amazing and very cool thing to be around. I don't feel a kind of ownership with them. I think it's really important when people come

along 20 or 40 years later. You don't say, oh, I was there all along and where were you? You You say, welcome aboard, and here's more. There's something to be said for the fact that sleep is success and will keep people talking about them a lot longer than artists that are a lot more popular. I think the fact that they've always kept hungry and consistently pushed the envelope is exactly why I wanted to make this film. Their songs are worlds that you really need to delve into. But once you delve into them, the rewards are incredible.

I feel like Patton Oswald gets hired for, everything for just whatever he just because he's got that voice and people will believe whatever he says he gets hired for anything he's interested in yeah yeah like he's made it very very well known that there are specific things he's super interested in and so if you're doing anything about showcasing that you you're gonna get patten oswald he probably works for free if somebody makes a fugazi documentary it will be narrated by pat and oswald yeah i think that's probably fair yet i still couldn't finish Modoc. I don't know what's wrong with me, but I got five episodes in

and couldn't know. They're always there for you, Brian, if you ever get a hankering to go finish him out. I am actually kind of guessing. I think I heard Sparks. Is this the Sparks Brothers movie? That's exactly what it is. Yeah, Edgar Wright's movie Sparks Brothers, which is a documentary that came out last year about

the band. This was the first thing that I saw in theaters during the pandemic and I had the pretty much my uncle and I had the whole theater to ourselves. The The band has been around since the 70s, back when they were half Nelson, and been through lineup changes, but it's always been centered around these two guys, Ron Mail and Russell Male, one with the weird Hitler mustache, the other one who looks like your typical glam rock pop star. But their music is almost indescribable because sometimes it's really weird and irreverent. Sometimes it's really poignant and specific about a thing or a person or an event.

But I've been a fan of these guys since my uncle started playing them for me and said, I love this band. The interviews you get in this thing, you heard Pat and Oswald, you also heard Edgar Wright. You also get Beck, Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols, lead singer of Franz Ferdinand, Alex Cappernos, Stephen Morris of Gillian Gilbert from Joy Division, New Order, the guys from Eurasia. Radal-Yankovic does a great version of this town

isn't big enough for the both of us, or ain't big enough for the both of us. It is a cavalcade of rocks kind of A-lister's talking about this D-List band that is a favorite... Why is my phone talking to me? Wow. It's a favorite of... artists, but maybe not as well known among the regular populace.

This movie will make you a fan, though, if you haven't seen. Oh, I totally agree. So, Brian is right that I had seen this. I didn't do a formal recommendals on it because it was in the context of you saying, oh, yeah, I saw in the theater with my uncle, and it was great. What'd you think? And it was, oh, yeah, it was awesome. So we never did it for recommendals for me. But this was my, well, you were my first introduction to sparks. I'd never heard of them before you talked about them. And then this, when you recommended it, I thought, well, let's see what's going on. I like weird stuff. It's great. It's really, really great. And I came

away with like two feelings, one of regret for never knowing anything about these guys. And two, I'm really glad this documentary exists because for those who are like me, you're about to, you're about to see something kind of special. You had no idea how influential they are. It was like massive. Right. Yeah. And so many bands that were influenced by them and love them, but yet, you know, they're kind of like the secret muse kind of thing, right? bands know them and they're influenced by them sadly the general public is not

but make no mistake these guys are artists as much as they are musicians their songwriting process their attention to the craft of a clever pun or a really witty two ways of saying something

in one lyric is spectacular and if you go back to some of my favorite albums, Propaganda and Camono My House, and that whole set of albums when they were with Island Records are just fantastic. I've always felt like documentaries about music acts have, they have to win on two levels. And the one is, do you connect with the music, obviously? You're not going to love a documentary about a band whose music you hate. But the other level is this thing where do they let you in and tell you a more personal story than you would

have known about that band about that music artist because that is the that is the thing that really cements it as a great documentary right so like i felt like this recent beetles thing didn't get to that level right it i mean there was some personal stuff but it was really it was more beatles home movies yeah right and and and the and the thing where you finally saw how it used to look and how the you know now computers made it now look it was just incredible but I didn't feel like I I didn't feel like I really got a new personal story about the Beatles whereas that that four hour long documentary on the the Eagles that Scott and I watched a few years ago that was that I thought that was way better than I expected it to be

because it was so personal like we you finally got the like insider story of Joe Walsh's you know mania and and all that stuff you know and so like my question for this I haven't seen it yet I've been waiting for it to come to streaming I'm excited But my question is, am I going to get, you know, some personal stories that connect me with these guys as artists? Lots. Oh, yeah. You're going to get a ton of them. You're going to find out their upbringing, what got them into music, but not just that, but what propels them?

Why they, why when they have some successes and some failures, what makes them actually keep going and say, oh, man, that album did not do well at all. let's do another one you know what makes them continue to um to do what they do yeah it that's the part that blew me away is yeah for as little as i'd heard about these guys i the documentary as a way of making you feel like i was the only one that didn't know because everybody else was like you know my life changed or we don't even do music if it wasn't for these guys or you know like yeah pretty crazy plus i i like i like that they don't they seemed really down to earth and like normal to me totally yeah for a band that kind of presents themselves, at least through music, as being really weird.

They are so genuine and, yeah, you know, we wanted to write a song that repeated, my baby's taking me home 112 times, but have him sing in a different way that made it tell a story throughout the, throughout the song. Yeah, in fact, they're brothers, and they do get a bunch into like their upbringing and their parents and all of that. That stuff's always fascinating to me when a brother group can last this long. yeah and one of them dated one of the go-goes that's a little teaser right there you'll never know which one until you tune in and they have some home movies to show them they do uh so yeah once again this is on netflix it's called the sparks brothers it's by uh Edgar Wright and so yes you do get a little bit of um Nick Frost and uh Simon Pegg in there of course what of course you get nothing to do but that and you never see them but but you never see them but You hear them.

You hear them. It has to be during a Beatles reference. Right. We want like great filmmakers to make these kinds of movies, you know? Oh, I love it when a big filmmaker makes a documentary and some of my favorite stuff. Like I went, Scorsese always does these great documentary films. I wish you'd do more of those. All right, Brian, I'm going to play your second clip here.

What do you got for a setup for me here? So this is also a music related, but in a completely different way. Okay. Documentary still, though, eh? Also a documentary, yes. All right, here we go. Some big faceless corporation trying to put on a musical like a Broadway show. How pathetic a whole musical about diesel engines or Oldsmobiles or sneakers.

Thank you, comedy gods, because this is hilarious. These weren't jingles. These weren't commercials. This was a full-fledged Broadway-style musical show for a private audience of people within the company. You did it, and we are here today to pay tribute to you. Some were live recordings, and you hear audience going, woo-hoo. And sometimes you'll see a letter tucked inside. Here's the souvenir, the fun we had last May.

You just think, well, that's kind of sad, isn't it? What kind of people worked on this stuff? That must be the strangest dead end of show business that anyone's ever wandered into. do you get out of that i have no idea that's a guy named steve young steve young uh was a writer for the late show with uh david letterman um for for a long time and then when that ended he kind of got more time to focus on his his other love which are these weird industrial musicals now years ago there was uh we lost randy hopefully he comes back oh okay years ago there was

There was a video that circulated around that was recorded at a Starbucks shareholders conference where they sang, we built this city by Starship, but they did, we built this Starbucks. We built this Starbucks on hard and so. And it was accompanied by a big musical number and people in green aprons running around and being, you know, wacky. And that was, and I'd heard that. I'm like, oh, yeah, okay, that's really this weird little one-off thing. Oh, no. This is a thing that apparently is rampant throughout all of conferences and trade shows and things like that where everybody who goes to this Walmart conference sees this weird musical play performance of how they help the customer and how they get products from point A to point B or things like that.

And this guy, this writer for David Lennerman, has been hunting and searching these out because a lot of times, as he mentioned, they'll record the album at the press conference and then send it out to them afterwards and say, hey, remember the fun we had watching this as an audience altogether back at the shareholders meeting? This is amazing. It's called Bathtubs Over Broadway. This is also on Netflix. And like the Sparks documentary, you also get people like David Letterman, Martin Schen, short, Florence Henderson, Jello Biafra from the Dead Milkman, or I'm sorry, Dead Kennedys, all talking about this weird, this weird world of industrial musicals. Jello Biafra is actually also another collector of these albums, and he would fight via eBay

with Steve Young over who can bid on this weird diesel-dazzle musical that came from some conference. I, this is totally my jam, had no idea it existed. I love stuff like this. Oh, God, you are going to love this. This won so many awards, the Tribeca Film Festival, in Cooper National Film Festival, Heartland Film, like all of these different film festivals,

it won top honors for Best Documentary Feature. And no idea why it never even made a blip in the Oscar radar, but it absolutely should have, even at least got a nomination. But it's so, so. good and so funny well i'm in uh totally my jam where is it streaming again do you say that's also streaming on netflix so sparks brothers and bathtubs over broadway we just watched both of those for uh patreon episodes of uh soundography hammond and i did and so watched them both again well watched sparks brothers again and then this one was the first time watch and it's so it's great is really

good is there anything like controversial here or is it just whimsical it's I'm just curious. I would say it's, I would say it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, you're not, you're not, you're not going to walk away with a smile on your face. You're not going, oh, man, well, that was interesting, but boy, I feel really bad for, you know, so and so or boy, this was really hard to watch this other moment. No, I mean, this is a good, you know, uh, put it on while you're, while you're, while you're on the plane flying back from Hawaii kind of, I want to feel good after my great vacation kind of one. I listened, I listened very closely to the We Crashed podcast when it came out. This was, I don't know, a couple of years ago now. And as I was listening to We Crashed, I was thinking, you know what?

I'll bet they make a TV series out of this. Sure enough, they did. And I'm not that interested in watching it, you know, mainly because I've already heard the whole story. but also because it's like so controversial there's a there's like an element in there that I'm just like it's tedious I'm I'm tired of of people ripping off other people you know yeah yeah I can see that well cool that's definitely one I am going to watch fine recommendal all right here's one I'm just diving into I'm only three episodes in we usually try to get more under our belt with stuff like this but man I'm hooked so bad I think I'm going to recommend it here good for from the start. Yeah, and this is probably going to freak Randy out a little, because we have talked about this before. So there's something to say here.

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I guess I told you yeah I used to We used to do this way more guessing And I forget now We tell you Yeah I don't And I'm okay that we don't because then we get less like, you know, accidental.

And also, this was my second recommendal when I started in doing recommendals with you guys. Was this really? Oh, I don't remember you doing a full recommendal. I thought you said something like, hey, this is, we had a whole conversation about how this was a show. So this is C on Apple TV Plus. And you had said, has there ever been a series that was more reviled in its first season, but redempted or, you know, everybody loved it in its second season? I don't remember you doing a full recommendal of it, though. Yeah, because season two had just come out, like the whole season came out on Apple TV when I started with you guys on Reconventals. And the fact is I had stopped like a long time

before. I had stopped after a couple of episodes in season one. And then I had my in-laws telling me, you got to watch this. Like they're calling it like the best show they'd ever seen. like all time and I'm like okay hold on that's I can't let that just lie well my sister or my sister sorry my daughter Taylor was also telling me this she's like dad you have to watch it this is so up your alley it's everything you love about like genre fiction and blah blah blah get in there get it done so I finally started watching it and it is totally up my alley I can see why people may have been initially put off by the early goings of this because it's very self-serious it's It's hook that, you know, everybody in the world, 500 years from now, is blind.

And this isn't a spoiler. The idea is that if anybody can, if anyone's cited, they're considered basically heretics and witches and they have to be hunted down and killed. And so, you know, you follow this clan of people headed by Jason Mamoa. Alfre Woodard is also in this group. Anyway, there's a whole story there. But they have to navigate this world and be at war. with other factions and all of them, something like 2 million people that were left after the great horrible wipe out of civilization, have no sight. Everybody's blind. Once you accept that

premise, I think that things do get really interesting and have a lot more to say than just wouldn't it be weird if it's not one of those. So so far, even in season one, the season that people were iffy about, I'm really, I'm having a ball with it. And like I said, like I said six months ago, and I guess I just, I wish I was your daughter, so you would actually take my advice. Brian, do you remember this either? I remember him talking about it. I didn't remember. I didn't lick it up, though, to see if he'd already talked to me.

Yeah, I don't have it. I just don't have it. My memory is like a full recommendal, but you must have. Like I said, the problem at the beginning of this series is that it does not try to get you on board with the big problem of everybody. blind it doesn't it doesn't try to explain it it doesn't try to justify how they do what they do and you as a viewer are gonna come into this and stamp your feet and say no I hate this I cannot I cannot accept that this show isn't trying to tell me the science of this story and then and then you eventually you just turn your brain off

it's great it's like it's almost like you have to do with soap operas right you you just turn your brain off and then you realize wow these people are really good actors they're telling very interesting personal stories it's the adventures of it are really adventurous right it's it's like you know but at first man it's who i have rarely been so repulsed by something because like i say the show the the the writers aren't trying at first to to satisfy you no they they were in it for more of the long haul and you know there's like a really active uh reddit group around this like there is most shows but uh this reddit page that's dedicated to see viewers uh these people are into it man i've never seen so much postulating and theorizing and you know what is what if this

and what if that and i've stayed completely unspoiled on any of the major story points including you know whatever happens with dabe batista's character in season two i have no idea I don't even know what he does yet. So I'm waiting to get there to see what I think of it. But so far so good, I really like it. It scratches on my inches. We are now hitting film sack levels of, did we watch that yet? Problems?

So we're going to have to start checking that list more. Yeah, this was apparently Randy did recommend it before I started doing the quicktms. So we have a sort of a. Oh, that's a good excuse because I didn't have a list to check. So there you go. Yeah, we should probably start a Google Doc or something just to make sure. I'll bet our quicksack. I would probably swoop in and do something cool.

I don't know. Maybe. I'm really happy for you, Scott, because I'm telling you, getting into the first half of season two is where this thing really actually picks up. Like, it really goes places that are just incredible. So I'm really happy for you that you like it already, you know? Because, like, there's no doubt in my mind. you're going to love see, you know, as each episode goes by. Yeah, I'm digging it a lot.

By the way, just a quick shout out to Sylvia Hoax, who plays The Queen. You know her from Blade Runner 2049. She's the android who's like kind of the hit Android that's going after Deccard and going after, what's his beak, 69 or wherever's name was. I can't remember the name of the guy. Anyway, Kay, that's who it is. she's she's really wicked evil in that movie and she is insane in this just creepy as crap we won't even get into how that lady prays you know what i'm talking about randy what the hell's

that about uh anyway it's a it's a thing man uh and i'm really liking it season three coming it's already uh they've already greenlit that so i guess that's being filmed soon and jason moa is really good in it i that's the one other take usually he's kind of like just i'm jason Mamoa, big, scary dude, 6-4, look out, I'm musselly. And it's kind of his role and it's fine. I like him as that. But this is more nuanced than that. He's throwing more into it than his usual.

So I really like it. Yeah, like the thing we've seen from Jason Mamoa all along up until this is that filmmakers don't ask too much of him, right? I'm not saying he's incompetent. I'm saying he is limited. And therefore, we have, yes. to see anyone really ask him to act to really, you know, like, emote more than anger and frustration, you know, and he, he is, he has to do a lot. He kind of carries the show.

Yeah, he's great. Especially, like I say, especially later, you'll see. And he's up to it. He's totally up to it. It's awesome to see his, his development over the last 15 years. Yeah, I agree. You completely root for him in this as well. He's really great. All right. Randy, let's play this clip. Do you, any setup here? Just play it? Or what do you want? Yeah, I'm not going to make it too mysterious. This is something that everyone is watching lately.

I'll just say, this is a movie by Malcolm McDowell's son starring Phil Collins' daughter. Phil Collins' daughter. All right, there we go. All right. I need to just sit down on the couch. Okay, but how about you let go of my wife first? I'll let her go

and he sit out on the couch. This isn't a negotiation. Sit down. Sit. Okay. Okay, I don't want to hurt her. Sit down. Sitting down. Good. Now you sit down. Not there. Sit over there.

You're not going to fuck with me either. Do we understand each other? Yes or no? Okay, you can talk to me. Can I help you with something? Money? Is that what you want? Let me make that happen for you. You don't want to hurt anyone, right? You're not the kind of guy that would have hurt someone. You already know what kind of guy I am.

Is that right? That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying, what do you want? Let me help you. What are you doing? Hey. Hey, what are you doing? Buddy, you really don't.

Buddy, I'm trying to cooperate with you, okay? I'm trying to cooperate with you. I'm going to tie your feet together, and you're not going to move. You don't have to tie up. Are you on staff? Where are you on staff? Is that what this is? Not everybody works for you.

No idea. Oh, man. I was actually unprepared to rehear that clip. I watched this obviously before my vacation, and I just, like, I forgot how intense this movie is. And it has no right to be as good as it is. This movie only has four actors in the whole thing. You heard Jason Siegel as the Home Invader, the guy who's basically holding up the other two. Jesse Plemons is the rich young CEO of a company, and it's a Lily Collins as his new wife.

And they are supposed to be at a big tech conference, and they quietly left and went to a vacation home that he has in the, like, San Bernardino wine country in California. and Jason Siegel is a sort of mysterious home invader, but he went to this vacation home knowing that they wouldn't be there to find out what it's like to rob the place, just to hang out for a while, knowing he would be alone at this vacation wine farm, and then finds that Jesse Plemins and Lily Collins suddenly show up, and now he's got a he's got a deal with them and he's got a gun right it's the simplest story

tiny script there's practically no dialogue in this whole movie i don't know how this works so well i really cannot i cannot explain except freaking charlie mcdowell has learned how to make a movie this guy um he like because it's all shots of this one home and and farm out in wine country and you're just like well i that'll get old right i after i've seen the place but jason segal uh photographs really well jesse plemens and lily collins are just they're just incredible they really you really forget that they're actors you you really feel like you're watching a rich couple being, you know, held up and, and fearful for their lives. And, uh, the entire movie is the story of the 24 hours following, it could have been an episode of 24, by the way,

the 24 hours following, uh, them all finding themselves in this situation and Jason Siegel trying to figure out how to get out of it safe, right? Yeah. Right. Um, I love Jesse Plemins. Is he, is he doing just regular Jesse Plemins? Because not, that's not a problem. him because I like him and everything, but he always seems like he's sort of the same guy. Is it happening here? Is it different? So my Jesse Plemons is him as

the main character in the Black Mirror episode USS Callister. That's my Jesse Plymouth. Oh, wow. Yeah. God, I love this. It's so hard to watch, but I love that episode. Yes. And Lily Collins, by the way, is very similar to the woman.

And I'm forgetting the actress's name. It's like Kristen. Tristan Maladi. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Very, very similar. So like that's kind of... Yeah, that's, I was thinking when I first looked at this. I'm like, oh, that's the mother of how I met your mother. So no wonder it's got Jason Segal. Yeah. But, but yes, Jesse Plemons is playing like, he's playing like a Jack or a Mark Zuckerberg type. But he's not, you know, he doesn't look like them, obviously. He looks like him. And, but he is clearly. He is clearly. clearly, you know, someone who is used to always getting his own way, always being in charge. And this, he plays it really well. It's a, it's a tough role. You know, like this is not, he doesn't get to just be blustery like he often is. He's, there's, there's some nuance here. Jason Siegel has the opposite problem as an actor, right? Like when you, my Jason Siegel is, um, how I met your

mother, Jason Siegel probably, or Luppets Jason Siegel. I was thinking of forgetting Sarah Marshall because he's sort of upside down in a lot of his roles. He just doesn't know what's going on, right? He showed his wiener in that one, by the way, total wiener show. Yeah, yeah, never forget. You're like the Mr. Skin of Wieners. I am the Mr. Skin of Wieners. I see a movie and if there's a wiener, I remember, dude.

Cannot get it out of my head. I hate that about me. But I'm not going so far as to say this movie is important. I wish they would have released it later in the year so we could have talked about whether it gets nominated for things that it's a bit weird on that level but it is so good it's so intense and it's so minimalist

that I just feel like everyone needs to watch this if you have any liking at all for very well-crafted movies you've got to watch this movie it's windfall, it's streaming on Netflix it's you know Would you say genre-wise it's a horror or thriller or? It's absolutely a thriller.

Okay. Like, it's 100% is a thriller. Okay. All right. It has a, it has a. Oh, as you see. So Tina, who doesn't like, you know, traditional horror movies would probably be okay with it. Right.

McDowell has made this as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock. Oh, okay. That's, I don't want to say. say too much about that because you will see what I mean. I don't need to sell that aspect of it to you. You will see. You will feel what that means. Like it is, it is. And that's probably another reason why no one thinks of it as being, you know, necessary for like awards. It's, it's, you know, as an homage to Alfred Hitchcock, you're kind of like, you kind of have a playbook that you're going to, that you're going to play from. Sure, sure, sure. It has a big ending. That's another thing that, like, I spent this entire movie. It's not a long movie.

It's only an hour and a half long, but I spent this entire movie hoping for a big ending because, like, it's kind of quiet. It's kind of tense, you know, and I need something. But you still felt like it was satisfying, satisfying. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Yes. I thought about this movie a lot in the days after I watched it. And so that's why I'm recommending it.

Oh, I'm adding it to the list right now. It sounds really cool. Yeah. I got a Plymins thing, too. I got to watch everything he's in. It's just a rule. It was a Fargo, right? Yeah, well, Fargo, and I loved him on Friday Night Lights.

I think he's just weird. His breaking bad character was amazing. He's just... Yeah. Twisted. Yeah. He's just an interesting... I loved him and...

What was it? Was it Greg? I'm sure I remember his... Oh, no, it was like that, though, right? Yeah. Tyler or Greg or Kevin or something like that. I just know that he was able to get his hands on some... summarizing and uh he did uh and i love that in the follow-up pinkman movie he's gotten bigger

you know he's kind of a pudgyer guy now yeah and they were just like that's fine come on in just do it like you know whatever we don't care you're jesse plymonds will take you todd that was it todd yes right he was amazing in uh you know power of the dog was incredible in that yeah but it's kind of always the same incredible thing so it's not that i i don't want to diminish his work because I don't, but he does a certain kind. He's like a lot of actors. They have a certain thing they play, and it's kind of the same across the board,

but it works every time. I don't know. It's weird. Yeah, quiet massacister. In this one, I hope that you watch Lily Collins. I'm predicting that Lily Collins will escape her, you know, being called Phil Collins' daughter by people like me

and will be, you know, standing firmly on her on two feet in the future. She is fantastic. I can hear it coming in the edge tonight or in the air tonight. I can feel it coming in the air tonight. Got to rehearse those jokes in your head, Scott. Whatever.

I workshop everything in real time right here on the show. That's how it works. Exactly. I know. Well, all right. This is all real good. I'm jealous of you and all that you get to do there in Hawaii. Were you planning on posting these places or I don't want you to do work on your trip?

You know what? No. All right. He's not. You guys hear that? I've already got them on quickttms.l.I. Yeah, go to twicktm. Do that. It's 6.51 a.m. and the coffee shop down the street opens in nine minutes, and I'm going to put on my flip flops and walk over there. Very nice. Oh, it's already up. Look at that windfall. Already there. That island life right now is what I want. It is so good. Brian, did you do that already? Did you already post these in here and say what happened? Yeah. Oh, look at you. It's fantastic.

You did it as Randy was talking, I was doing this. Perfect. It's real time. I want you to know, Brian, I walked over to the store, the grocery store, and I bought the biggest local pineapple you can imagine. And it was a dollar 50. I don't know, because I can imagine a pretty big pineapple. Yeah.

It was a dollar 50. Oh, geez. Wow. I'm cutting that thing up. It's going to, it's pineapple for 10 people. Yeah. And it was a buck 50. Mix that with your rum punch or whatever it is.

yes that is correct that sounds all right we'll have fun be safe we'll see you next week for another check-in with randy while he's on vacation uh have a have a fantastic time man stay out of trouble see you buddy don't shit sorry i didn't mean to do that once in a while i quit the whole show and i mean exactly i don't know what that was about so dumb anyway uh thank you randy for that that let's uh let's sew things up so i guess there's some breaking news about bruce willis we were wondering why he takes these weird roles i don't know that the two things are connected though the weird roles i don't think have anything to do with this apparently he's been diagnosed with aphasia

which after a quick little look up here um is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of a damage to specific brain regions it's always brain damage it can be uh usually from trauma like you've hit your head or you know gotten in a car accent or something but it can be stroke as well. Yeah. They don't get into any of these specific, so we don't know, but he's stepping away from acting as a result. And that's a bummer.

That is a bummer. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, it's possible if he knew about this sooner. That might have been why he'd been accepting so many roles just to make sure his family had money in the long haul, but who knows. Yeah, it's hard to, hard to say. It does say, let's see. results in motor or sensory deficits which produce abnormal speech it's not related to the

mechanics of speech but rather the individual's language condition so really it'll be a lot of like he knows what to say but the words aren't coming out right oh man that's a that's a serious bummer yeah well anyway wishing him luck and uh yep it's a long long career with a lot of cool stuff so you know sure from a professional point of view he did good um all right There's that. What else? That's it. We're done. We're done. We're done. We're done. We're done. We're done, you guys. That's it. We've talked noodles. We've talked Alicia Comquat. We've played a game. We've talked movies and tech. Well, there's nothing else to do, Scott. Yeah. Carter calls me out for not trying the cool thing. She basically has an, she has an animation. She wants me to watch. Yeah. What is it again? Mob Psycho. And I haven't watched mom. Start eating mashed potato. I was on the show, are you?

No, I'm putting this over here. She made me a nice egg bowl. But I don't, I haven't watched this Mob Psycho yet. And she, or which one? Mob Psycho 100 is the full name. Oh, interesting. All right, I'll get, I'll get to it. Someone in the chat.

I also say, make sure you watch Parasite. Oh, yeah, Parasite. Okay, thank Carter. Okay. Loki. Do Loki. Loki. Huh?

I do listen. I watch brand new cherry flavor because Brian loved it. That's why I watched it. I watched the Sparks Brothers things. Because Brian liked it. It's true. It's true. I do feel like, yeah, I do feel like of all of the people like.

I watch more of Brian's recommendals than I do anyone else's. Hell, I forgot Randy's. So. Right. You recommended this? Okay, okay. Cool. Thank you for the egg thing, though.

I appreciate it. All right. Moving on. Let's get out of here. Hey, patreon.com slash TMS needs your help. We're about to start a brand new month. Is it tomorrow? Wait.

Day after tomorrow. Tomorrow we have a 31. Oh, that's right. We get 31 days this month. Some lousy, smart weather. Make it your April Fool's Day joke to back us on Patreon. That's right. Speaking of which, we will have, this is not an April Fool's joke.

We will have a TMS PM on Friday the 1st, so be here for that. I'm hoping Dan's around. I'm not actually sure. I'm going to check in with them. If not we'll do our own thing. Because otherwise, I better find something on mobile that I like. Actually, I did pick something up. So I am ready for the next time we do an app slap.

Oh, good, because I've spent so much time in Scrabble. I don't even know what I'm doing. I love that. I'd love it. I play it every day now. Yeah. I'm getting frustrated by it because I watch people get all these great words. And then I get letters like, A, oh, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I.

Oh, it's the worst. And the only way you can swap out your tiles is either pay in the crystal money or you got to do a commercial or an ad watch. Right. And that's lame. That's a part of that game. You should be able to just swap them. Lame. Lame.

If it's all vowels, give me a break. Right. Exactly. Anyway, Scrabble, it's a thing. Anyway, so other than that, what else? We mentioned shows and stuff. Oh, A&P is today, right? The first episode today?

NTP is going up on the Patreon today. So if you are a patron of America's Next Top Podcaster, which you can find at patreon.com slash top podcaster, you get an introduction to everybody who's playing this season and their first challenge. So all of that stuff. If you want to see me pretend to be Tom Merritt today, That'll happen on the Daily Tech News show.

So check that out at 2 p.m. Their new time, 2 p.m. Mountain Time. And I always see a bunch of you there, so I look forward to seeing you then. I guess that's it. Frogpans.com slash TMS for everything else. Send us those emails, the morning stream at gmail.com. And let's get out of here. You got a song we can play?

Yes, I do. This one's going out to our good friend, Ben. Ben said, I'm requesting a song in honor of my 20th wedding anniversary to my dear wife's summer. She makes my life complete, and together we've grown our family to include two wonderful boys, Van and Otto. I love you so much, he says, and hope a cover of a special song might make this milestone even more special. Love You Forever Summer, signed Ben. He gave me a couple choices here. Sugar by Louis Armstrong.

Actually, it was done by a few people before Louis Armstrong. Didn't have a good cover of that that really changed it up. They all sound crunery. The other choice was the Proclaimers I'm going to be 500 miles, and that's the one I settled on. This is from an album that was my album of the year in 2013, an album called Mockingbird by a singer named Kendra Morris. Kendra has this ability to take covers, at least on this album, I think is the only album she's done of covers, and I want her to do more, where she twists it around into something completely different. She's joined on this song by a singer named God Forbid, who adds this kind of weird, I don't know, maybe Tarantino kind of feel to it.

It's really good. It's, I'm going to be 500 miles, Kendra Morris. You've got me interested. All right, here it is. Let's play it. We'll see you guys tomorrow for another episode of TMS. When I'll wake up, yeah, I'm going to be the one going to be the one who wakes up, I'm going to be the one who wakes up next to you. When I go out, yeah, I know I'm going to be, I'm going to be the one who goes along with you.

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