The Morning Stream - TMS 2284: Truman Show Face

Episode Date: May 4, 2022

Potato Wally-Tacker! A Mystery Wrapped in a Riddle Baked in a Conundrum Smothered in Secret Sauce. Biting the House that Feeds You. Not pooping for 7 days is not great on the back-end. Look in its little butthole. Lost in a field of Heathers. Sprinkles and the Donnettes. The Sound of THX Silence. Celebrity Slapped Hot Sauce. Offending the dog's organ. Oh Winchester you're such an a-hole. Krull, Cruller , Krullest. Friend of Pie Boffer. Twitter's Circle Circus with Tom. Recommending Sammy Hagar with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Oh, hello. Lost in a field of heathers. Sprinkles and the Donnets. The sound of THX silence. Celebrity slapped hot sauce. Offending the dog's organ. Oh, Winchester, you're such an a-hole. Krull, Krull,ist.

Friend of Pie Boffer. Twitter's Circle Circus with Tom. Recommending Sammy Hagar with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. That's the only thing that keeps me from marrying you. What's that? I bet you're only 18. That's a lousy excuse. I guess what really worries me about being 18 is what I'm going to do after

high school. We have to go out and get Johnny. The morning stream. The morning stream. Good morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's Tuesday, Wednesday. Tuesday, Wednesday? It's Wednesday. Tuesday, Wednesday. It's Thursday, Wednesday. My favorite two days of the week. Wednesday, May 4th, 2020. Now, you very carefully tiptoed on your pronunciation of May 4th. Fourth. Yeah. I want to, look, I want to be clear. Happy Star Wars Day to everybody. I love me some Star Wars. Even my prediction Monday, which Stephen thought I wouldn't get, but I did. A brand new trailer for Obi-1 Kenobi. It came out today. I'm excited for that and all things start. I love Star Wars. Star Wars is great. It's part of my blood.

It's in me. My reasoning, I said this to the pre-show, I'll say it again. My reasoning for not liking, may the fourth be with you, is it sounds so stupid when you say it. That's the only problem. I love Star Wars. I just don't like sounding like I'm forcing a speech impediment all day. So I hate it. I hate that.

It sounds like when Scott Fletcher says, Keith Rofloven. It's like, you know, may the fourth move with you. Yeah. I feel like I'm just, I'm screwing it up, and I don't want to feel that way. So there it is. I'd rather, I'd rather we celebrate May 25th, right? Like, you know, the day the first movie came out, we were all like, our lives were forever changed. Yeah, they should do that.

It was as if a, it was as if a THX trailer played, and then everyone went silent. And then we're suddenly silenced. That's what it is. There you go. Sudden silence. Although I guess they didn't have THX trailers back then. No, they didn't. No.

I should have. So here's the deal. That's like Christmas. Because Christmas, we do on December the 25th, right? But that's wrong. Jesus was born in June. What the hell, man? Right.

What are we doing? You can't celebrate a birthday in winter, but no one's going to change that. I mean, President's Day? We've never really argued about President's Day. Washington, neither Washington nor Lincoln were born on February 21st. Yeah, we're elected, for that matter. You know?

I mean, they were elected, but not on that date. Like, why is that the weird day? I don't know, man. We got to change stuff. Well, they were actually weren't elected because the voting booths, it was proven that those were fraudulent voting booths. Somebody hacked the paper. Yeah, exactly. They were hacked.

Yeah. By some deep state. By Benjamin Franklin. Yeah, Benjamin Franklin. Look it up. Look at up, people. Do your research. Prove it you can't.

All right. Hey, moving on. We got stuff to talk about. I got a weird question for dog lovers out there. Oh, okay. I'm a dog lover. I was going to bring it with me. So we have a number of hot sauce types here at the house, you know?

Sure, sure. I don't feed the dog's hot sauce. A lot of Alice Cooper. Oh, yeah, I loved those. I eat, I think two bottles of that are already gone. That's how much I love that. Really? Yeah, I've got, I think I've got two and a half bottle. Like, I use it on everything, but I still have like three, or about two-thirds of each bottle left.

Were you surprised like me? that it was, I always feel like when a celebrity slaps their name on hot sauce, I'm like, eh, whatever, but this was really good. No, it was, in my opinion, better than Tabasco. And I know that says a lot, because I, you know, I like Tabasco. Yeah, Tabasco's all right. Put that in your eggs. Anyway, so we got this, we got the Red Hot brand is one of them, you know.

Franks, the Franks Red Hot, the, you mix that with butter, make some great buffalo sauce for your wings. That sounds so good right now. But yes, you are correct. And then we got, you know, the Chalula and the, I don't know what else, saracha, all the things, right? We got all these hot sauces and we love them all and whatever. But for some reason, the Weimeriner, aka Rippley, Ellen Ripley, the dog that Carter technically owns, but she's one of our family dogs here.

She is just in the other, kind of a cross from me in the other side of the room. I grabbed this thing a red hot and I turn around to walk the other direction, lock eyes with the dog, and she proceeds to lose her mind while I'm holding that. Really? Yeah. Like she is threatened by the bottle. I think so. And she got, like, so aggressive.

She's just, and her ridge went way up, and she was like, all in the stand. And she's not, you know, not at me, but at what I'm holding. And so I hold it higher and over to the right to make sure it's not me. And she's, her eyes follow it and just look at it and go, you get barking at it. And for the life of me, I don't understand, except other bottles. She also barks, but less that if it's the red hot one, it's louder and more upset. But she's never had it.

She's never tasted it. No, we don't know what's in that bottle. As far as I know, Carter would never do that. I've never given it to her. So I don't think so. We did use to, for our chocolate lab, we used to use that as a deterrent. Like if there was something, our dog would chew on the baseboards. That's the worst.

it is the worst is like no you're ruining the house you're eating our house stop it it's one thing when it's like a a leg of a chair because it's a chair but it's literally the house you're biting the house that sucks don't bite exactly so basically we just you know we would put a little tiny little on our finger and go dab dab dab in a couple places and we just watch her and the first time she goes to like all right i think you'll get you on the baseball boards and she looks and she's like wow something just hit me in the nose She just smelled it before she tasted. She never did it again.

We also used Vicks Vaporum that got her stuff too. Okay. Yeah, I know they don't, you know, they got that really sensitive organ there, the most sensitive organ dogs have. And so they tend to do that. But in this case, I hadn't even opened it. That's crazy. Wow.

I didn't do anything, really. And she just freaked out. And to confirm that it was not just a fluke, later on I took this thing and just nonchalantly, while she wasn't really paying attention, set it on the counter, made a little ding noise. She turned around and looked at it and went. Wow.

Just stared out and growled at it. Crazy. My theory is, I don't know. I mean, I have nothing to base this on. But before we got her, she was like, I don't know, four months old. She was a rescue. Maybe some weird experience with hot sauce with some owner or something. Yeah.

But I mean, to be able to recognize the bottle. Yeah. That's crazy. Wow. It's really weird. Holly Wood in the chat says she's 100% smelling it. oh it's his first time chat thank you for chatting oh welcome holly the vood okay well that i believe you entirely but why if that's true she's always smelling it because it wasn't even open

yeah it's just on the counter and i walked maybe a foot from the counter so it's not like it's not like you know i had it open it was wafting it around or pouring it on things or whatever and also here's the other thing carter makes uh rice bowls in the morning sometimes for everybody yeah it's like egg in there and all this stuff and she'll she'll she'll do they are good She'll put hot sauce in them, and the dog doesn't freak out when she's doing that. Oh, interesting. Oh, that's the test, right? So you holding the hot sauce bottle sparked a reaction, but when she sees Carter holding the hot sauce bottle, no reaction?

Oh, good question. Carter's in the chat. Did you end up, I don't know. I can't remember if she ended up trying to do it as well, because we had that thought, and I don't remember what we did last night. Maybe she did. It's like you're troubleshooting macOS 7 extensions. And it's like, all right, I'm going to disable these extensions.

Let's see if we still have the problem. Remember having to do that? Oh, my God. Yeah, totally. Totally. Oh, well, anyway, we'll see what happened. Oh, Hollywood's good to have you here. Well, anyway, Carter-Man.

Really, Hollywood. I mean, we know you're doing the V-Vich thing, but Hollywood, yeah. Oh, yeah. I can't get over the V's. They always mess me out. Oh, I know. Or the 0-0-0. Oh, there it is.

She held it and she got nervous but didn't bark at her. Interesting. So she did have a reaction to it, though. That's crazy. Really weird. so weird anyway now i'm all curious about it i want to do further test carter's like no don't tease her i'm like i'm not teasing her i just want no other bottles though like so that'd be the next test hold a bottle of tabasco or a bottle of um chilula or something like that and see if you get the same

well i held those i did do that and she growled but didn't bark um interesting wow or got less worked up i should say okay all right but she's still got a little bit worked up the real trick now maybe is some bottles that aren't hot sauce related you know yeah maybe a Ketchup. There you go. A ketchup bottle. Because it's red. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or I could do. I can never remember if that's like a really true, like a dog's color, being colorblind or if that's the case.

Don't they see, I thought I saw a YouTube video where they tried to recreate it. It all looked like blues and grays or something. So maybe they don't even see this color. I don't know. Dogs, man, they're a mystery, wrapped in a riddle. They are a mystery. Yeah. Baked in a conundrum.

Wrapped smothered in secret saw. There it is. So anyways, there's my sauce story. Don't let it wear you out. I heard you went to the doctor. I did. I went to the doctor yesterday afternoon. I've been having some back problems.

Started up Sunday morning, woke up with just like a pain. And let me describe exactly what this is. Upper back, totally fine. Yeah. But right on my, right on the top of my left butt cheek, like just where my back turns into my butt. Yeah. It's almost like a little, like a little hammer and chisel. Like it's my Russian neighbor tapping on that one spot, but I am too much hassle.

Too much hassle. They pound on your back until it feels better. It's Russian way. Exactly. No other, you know, doesn't go down my leg. It's like, well, could it be sciatica. It could be, you know, who knows? Talked to the doctor yesterday and said, hey, just wondering, I've got this problem,

called them up, said, should I go to see you guys or should I go to a chiropractor? They said, you know what? We're going to have you come in because just to rule out at being a cyst. It's like, oh, thank you for being WebMD and causing extra alarm. Yeah, no kidding. No kidding. Like, suddenly there's a cyst when you thought maybe it was just a little backache. We're going to make sure it's not a tumor that's going to slowly eat you up from the inside.

Yeah, you got to be careful, you know, but I don't like it when they talk like that. And that bugs me. Exactly. Yeah. So I go in and lovely doctor, new doctor or PA that I've never had before there. And she was great. Right to the point. Boom, boom, boom.

She wrote things on a pad for me. And she had excellent handwriting. So it's like, oh, have you been a doctor for very long? Because I can read exactly what you wrote there. And it doesn't, you know, it's not a bunch of scribblies. But, you know, she said, all right, lay on your back. Going to bend this knee. How does it feel?

now try bending it this way or lift push with your feet or whatever um anyway we deduced that it's something called paraformis syndrome oh and this is uh there's like a a flat wide um muscle in your back called the periformis and apparently it is like it's compressing my sciatic nerve oh i could be getting a lot of this i could be using incorrect terminology forgive me if i do but whatever we're not back. We never will claim on the show that we are back experts. So Brian is telling the story the best he can and really the best I could. So everything else

you know, hey, Jerry Tolbert if you got issues, send us an email. Let us know. Oh, yeah. I'd like to just ping him in our little medical group chat that we have in Discord, which I love. Yeah, we've stacked that pretty good with smart people. We have. Oh, my gosh. I like it. Only medical professionals allowed in that chat.

Yeah. And then us, I guess. But yes. None of you crazy sheep doctors or anything like that. Just, uh... Yeah, I don't need Ackermans in there telling me how my cloned heart is going to get working or whatever. Forget it. Anyway. So, uh, she basically said, all right, uh, here's, I'm going to give you a list of stretches

that I want you to do on a daily basis. I'm going to prescribe you an anti-inflammatory and I'm also going to prescribe you some muscle relaxants. And, um, sure enough, did the, did all this stuff for the first time last night. that muscle relaxant took her right before bed, as you're supposed to, not during the day. Boom, knocked me out. Like, basically, I'm used to, I go to sleep at about 10, 10.30. I wake up maybe about 3 o'clock, kind of wide awake, can't get thoughts out of my mind of what needs to get done the next day, even though I have a to do list that has all that stuff written down on it.

I do this too. Whatever, I'm awake. Let's watch an episode of MASH. Oh, Winchester, you're such an asshole. And then back to sleep And then I get up at maybe like six Or sometimes I'll sleep until five or sometimes You can tell when someone's in the back half of MASH

When the overarching storyline is that Winchester's an ass Exactly yes But last night like zunked out at 1030 Woke up to my alarm at 6 o'clock this morning It's like, okay, wow, that's a little foggy Muscle relaxes are legit They gave me those two when I threw my thing out And I used them sparingly, but when I did, they were good nights.

I'll put it that way. Oh, yeah, for sure. So. You're right out. So working on that, the good news is forward, like leaning forward, not a problem, which means still bike training, no problems there. That will not hinder the preparations for MS 150. Nice.

That's good. Second good thing is, boy, am I glad this didn't happen last week. Yeah. Because this would have been, this would have been a pain to, deal with on top of all the other TMS Vegas stuff. Oh yeah, you don't want to be limping around that place with your thing. Do you think this caused it though? Like flared it up or

you know? Possibly or just lifting you know, did a lot of heavy lifting when we were out there, suitcases and getting things set up for the actual live show and climbing, you know, climbing up and loading and pushing up a little platform to get projectors up, stuff like that. So yeah, who knows?

Projectors we didn't end up meeting. We can't count this. You know, you always say, oh, Brian, you always come back sick from from the trip no not this time thank you i'm not counting this yeah you can't count this doesn't count it needs to be viral or bacterial that's the only way that counts exactly speaking of which like i never get sick after trips i don't know why i just never do not you do really well like uh cleaning your hands or whatever i guess so i don't know what it is i don't touch my face although i did a couple times and kim smacked my hand away when i did it but um yeah like some there were blizzcons where everyone i knew including people i sat

and yelled two inches from back and forth in a loud bar in the Hilton. Everyone I knew went home sick. I never did. I don't know what that was about. My, my, my, whatever was up. My, my, what do you call it? Your immune system? Yeah, or something.

Like, it goes into overdrive. I have this camping mode I go into when I, when I travel where it's like, you know, if I go, if I go camping, if I go camping, if I go camping for seven days somewhere, which I haven't done in years. But when I used to do that, I wouldn't have to poop for seven days. It was great. It wasn't great on the back end, but, you know. I don't know what this, how this translates to not getting sick. I don't know either. I'm just saying, like my, I think my, I think my body just changes for, for the duration.

It's weird. I can't explain it. It's not even just that. Talk to Dr. Tolbert about how regular bowel movements are good for you. Yeah, no kidding. That's all. Trust me, about day six, I'm like, this is stupid. I need to poop. But then I just don't. I don't know. It's weird. Anyway. Uh, yeah, it's great on the back end.

No, I'm telling you it's bad because then I get home and then the hellfire comes and then I'm, then I, that's all I do is poop for another seven days. Anyway, too much information. TMI is the kids say. Uh, let's move on. Oh, we are, by the way, Gen X is at that stage where we talk a lot about stuff that hurts. That's what we. Yeah, yep, that's, uh, we've moved into, uh, the morning complaint here. Our generation, it's our turn to have the Bursitis or whatever we'll get. Exactly.

Anyway, I got some good news here. Tell me some good news. I'm always, it's a good day for good news, Scott. Here's some, let's see, do I have a theme for good news? No, I'll just do, I'll do this. No, not that, this. There you go, that'll work. Later today, so everybody's in the chat right now.

You didn't realize that you were here on a special day. This is the day where one of you, at the end of today's show, but you got to stick around for the whole thing. I have a little plug-in that's tracking who's here and who's not. You will win a free Frog Pants Fun Pack, and here's what's in there. One lucky chat person will get a can from Fred and Can Fridge Magnet. All right. Those are pretty cool.

I gave a few of those away at the event. A custom orc art fridge magnet that I drew, it was inspired by the Mordor games. Those Lord of the Rings games. Meth Gator Drink Coaster, if you don't know what that is, of my Twitter avatar. It's basically that. Bat Boy sticker and a sand person print to help celebrate Star Wars Day. I did a sand people dude, a little 4x print. I will send this fantastic little package for free to a lucky winner in the chat.

That includes out of the country people because it's in a flat-out. I won't make that promise, by the way, on anything I ship out. Yeah, you can't these days. Sorry, if you're outside the U.S. you get steam games. It's so expensive right now. It really is. It is. It's like, you know,

I mean, people go on coverville.com and order t-shirts, by the way, the Coca-Cola coverville t-shirt back in stock. It's one of my favorite coverville t-shirt. Yeah, I wear it all the time. I still wear it.

I love it. I've had it for years. Anyway, obviously those, if somebody orders it from Canada or Belgium or whatever, I ship it out there. But no, if you're winning prizes in Ted Pooley feud

or something like that, you get Steam games. Something in the last few years really changed in, international shipping and I don't really know who to blame I don't know where that came from maybe it was you know just a long time coming the immediate inflation I don't know but sending things anywhere outside of the states is disgusting at the moment it is it is redonculus I don't like it no sir I don't okay let's move on oh my gosh we got a big babble royale today we got to get ready

for this we do yes a big controversial babble royale with a great prize start calling start calling now um i'm also oh let's see that's done away calling okay so we got done away coming in uh we got we got the we got the whole thing planned here a lot of second okay i'm going to go ahead and take an early caller here but i'm going to have them on hold for a moment and then i'm going to say uh this hey look who it is it's your old pal brian dunaway joining us once again this week for a little babel roy altad poolie feud brian hi oh hi scott and brian brian Hello. Are you at work right now? How are you guys doing on hump day? Oh, we're good. We're good. Oh, sure. Are you, uh, do you celebrate?

Like when Luke almost humped his sister. Shut up. I'm not talking about, not giving Disney no more free advertisement. That's another point, you know, I hadn't thought of. If you're, um, you know, if you're sick of the dominance. A little Star Wars franchise. You better get every, make sure everybody is aware. Yeah. Star Wars Awareness Day. If you're not loving the idea that one media company is starting to own everything i get it i get it i get it i'm gonna see if there's any uh anything on uh you porn or you porn or what's the what's the big porn hub that is uh stepbrother catches step sister playing with lightsaber there you go yeah you know that exists oh there has to it

that has to exist yes of course gross all right there's a there's a kink there's definitely a kink for that yeah if you here's my old phrase if you can think there's a kink yeah yeah That's what I say. Oh, look at that. Yeah, not bad. Write that down, everybody. Let's find out here. Why you're talking to me.

Gross. Let's find out who is on hold of this here and being waiting so patiently. Hi, who's this? No, King Samuel Johnson. Oh, weird. I'm getting the wrong, hold on. They get the wrong sound output. Why?

Why, why, why? Hold on you. It's not your fault, listener, hang in there. It's not you. It's us. Why is that happening? I was having this problem earlier. I thought I fixed it.

I did hear them say something. I did too. Yeah, I just am hearing it through an external speaker. So it's the wrong. The sounds are coming from inside the house. Why can't I find the settings for this? Web, verify. Hold on.

Don't go anywhere. Oh, I found it. Default. Okay. Microphone is fine. Oh, here we go. I found it. Default, external.

Okay. And then I hit okay. Okay. Now let me try it. Hi, say your name again. It's Talia. I still do it. It's Talia.

So you guys can hear, but I can't hear. I can hear kind of. Sort of here. Oh, hi, Talia. I was going, Talia. See, you're in Canada. What do you think you're going to win today? You're going to win Steam games.

No, we'll see. You know, we'll figure it out. How do you feel about, oh, yeah, she is in Canada. Are you in Canada? She's in Canada. Yeah. Okay, I want I can hear her now, too. That's good.

Well, then, how do you want to handle that, Brian? You want to do you understand? I want to, I mean, the person giving us the prize says just so long as it's in the continental United States. Oh, I don't think Canada counts. oh man tell you you're not you can't win this prize what i got parents in the states if it's that good it's pretty good we'll figure that out all right all right so let's do it let's go for this hey brian why don't you just describe today's goofball thing we're doing and let's do it sounds good uh it's time

to play the tadpool a feud i've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics and scott and brian left predict the answers that they gave us it's scott and brian's job to see how many of those answers, they can guess. Now, Natalia, I love putting the at the beginning of your name, 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 a copy of the board game that everyone was talking about at TMS Vegas. It's called Secret Hitler.

And it was the favorite of almost everybody that I talked to at TMS Vegas as far as board games that they were having. Mine included. I loved that game. It was some much fun. Yeah. I played that three times.

This is courtesy of Jaina, who came to the event and ended up with an extra copy after going to Vegas. And so she's being generous enough to donate the game and shipping. And I think it looks like Sam Jane has offered to pay for postage. So we'll get it figured out. Yeah, if you win, you will get this game. Yeah. Side note, Jane is awesome.

Just couldn't have been a nicer meat. I really enjoyed meeting her. She was great. Anyway, that's awesome. Congratulations if you win, because this is a big deal. If you lose, well, that's just the way those cookies crumble. All right. All right, you guys need a topic, and I've got one here.

Why don't you go ahead and put your hands on your buzzers and get ready for this question? We asked 567 tadpoolers. I think only eight whist out. This was a great turnout for this question, yeah, because this is a very popular, like this has some answers to it. People won. Okay. Their opinions. All right.

Opinion based. All right. What's that? Opinion based. Opinion based. Actually, it's not. It really isn't. This is like, this is fact.

These are all proven. Okay, as we've learned in the last couple of years, everybody thinks their opinion is fact. But whatever. Yeah. Okay. I got you. Go ahead. You're right.

Okay. Sure. All right. Hands on your buzzers. Name a style of donut. Scott. Come on. Sprinkled.

Is that a style? I don't know. Oh, man. How is that not a style? That's the accessory. Brian, full board open for you. Name a style of donut. A style of donut.

How about? See, you got me scared now. I'm going to go with the glazed donut. It's a style. Show me glazed. Damn it. Yeah, either traditional glazed or chocolate, you know, your basic run of the,

Well, crispy cream, puffy, puffy doughnut. So sprinkled donut. Poofy donut. Sprinkled donut is an accessory. I can see where the controversy is going to come in. Yes, because there's a lot of things with donuts, right? Oh, yeah. Yes, there are.

This was difficult for me to group answers, right? Because so many people would say, oh, this one specific kind of thing that I like that I always get from my donut shop. I'm like, all right, well, that kind of fits into a couple of these categories. And then there's like, ooh, these are very close, but different. Oh, man, yeah. This should be a lot of fun. All right. So, I agree.

Brian, you and Talia are working together. Talia, you got, you have donuts up in Canada, yeah? You know, I've got Tim Horton. Oh, yeah, they got Tim Horton's. That's right. Yeah, no. Are they, so, are they as. How many extra letters do you spell donut with in Canada?

It depends on what province you're in. Okay. Do you say Donets or Donets with the little ones? What would you say? Oh, throwing a little shade on the Randy. No, no, no. I'm just looking for more, you know, I'm trying to get a consensus here. So would you say...

Well, you know what the answer is. If you said someone said Donnets or donuts, which would you respond to more positively? I'd probably ask them what the hell they're talking about. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, because I'm guessing you guys don't have these things. Some don't, some donets. Donuts, right.

Exactly. People call them, but don't you, donuts is fine. Yeah. We just, it's just a film sack. It's a film sack thing we can't let go. It's fine. Yeah. Exactly.

All right. All right. So, Brian, Talia, you guys have control of the board. Let's see which you do come up with. Timothy Horton. Dahlia, you want to, you want to give an answer? You want me to, uh, reaching in my bag, my big bag of Joey donuts and pulling out. Well, go ahead and use that one.

That's a, you just gave Scott an answer if we don't use it. Oh, is that a thing? Right, right. I've never heard of Joey Donuts. Is that a thing? Yeah, wasn't that a character from Goodfellas? Yeah, yeah, it's a good question. Will they do that?

I'm going to go with the thing that I'm always, the surprise donut. I'm going with the jelly-filled donut whenever they bring them here in the office. It's like, do I want to get the jelly-filled donut? No, tell them what's in there. Do you look at its little, do you look at its little but hole to try to figure out of what kind of flavor? what kind of jelly it is if it's like a reddish you know you're probably

going to get some kind of berry it's going to be raspberry that kind of thing but then if it's like a off color it's probably going to be some kind of cream could be wrong though could be limited

jelly fill let's go with jelly filled show me jelly filled number nine that's a biggie that's a lot of points that's a lot of points bastard it is

all right you got one you got one in your mind now uh well i wasn't the survey uh let's go with boston cream that's what i could oh that is so good is it i don't ever had a boston cream donut i don't really yeah dude you're asking a guy who thought sprinkled was a category of donut so basically any one of these on the list could be sprinkles yeah i don't know why i thought that was like homer homer loves a sprinkled donut now he's yeah but he doesn't go he doesn't say oh give me you a sprinkle donut there's a specific kind he

likes. That's true. But we're talking Boston Cream now, which personally is my favorite donut. But how does the Tadpool feel about the Boston cream? Let's find out. Show me Boston Cream! Oh, number three. Number three. Yeah, it was huge, hugely popular. This is

your cream-filled donut with chocolate icing. Oh, just so, oh, so rich. Did that come out of Boston or something? Is that a Boston native thing? It's based on the Boston cream pie, right? Which is a sex move.

Sex, me. I'm my favorite sex move. No, it's it is based on the Boston cream pie, which is chocolate and cream. Right. All right. That's correct. Custard filled, not cream. You're right. Thank you, Joe Guy, Art.

I'm still thinking. Get it right. This is where the controversy starts. Yeah. Because some of these donuts can be regional. Oh yeah. No, exactly. Yes. Yeah. I'm going to go tell you you want to go

another one. You have another one. You have another one. You may pick one. well what are you going to say I was going to say I was going to say if I'm going to provide you an answer what are you going to say yeah I really like and this is the personal opinion I really like the surface area because there's so much surface

area on a cruller or cruller I think is in it I like yeah I like I like those pretty good especially once we were talking another day doesn't host us make one of those because those are the ones I was trying to remember yeah they all day everybody makes it Yeah, they're common. Pretty common.

Yeah. Actually, I think, no, it comes in the, I think it comes in the Dunkin' Donuts. No, it's the Krispy Cream. It's the Krispy Cream one, Coolers. That's the one I like. Kruller, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kruller, yeah, yeah. Kruller, yeah.

Kroler, yeah. Kroler, yeah. Kroler, Krolaher, I say Kruller. Yeah, show me Kruller, Krola, DeVille, whatever. Yeah. Number two. Yeah, these, for the un-initiated, these are the donuts that look like, if Ruffles were a donut, they'd be a Cruller.

Because I love the surface area. It's got so much crispy surface area. Oh, I know. It's like a lot of place for the glaze to sink in and crisp up. For someone who can't really eat very many donuts, I sure think about donuts a lot. Yeah, I know. I can't even either. I work in an office environment.

So almost every day, we have, we're a small town. Every day somebody brings donuts. We have like three donut places in town. It's insane. It's just the amount of donuts. places are you just grabbing like you know duncan or something or what do you what do you guys get there what do you got uh well we used to have a duncan but it it left all the ones we have are like these non-chain uh people have decided they're going to make no that's what you want

that's what you yeah yeah so hold on right it's nothing like california california seems to have a donut shop on every block i don't know yeah why california has the highest it feels like it's got the highest population more donuts per capita than any state in the union Good luck trying to find a bagel here, but donuts? Are you kidding me? Everywhere. You don't like the Jewish people there? Is that what you're saying?

Is that what you're getting out? You don't like the Jewish? No, I'm saying I do like the bagels, and I can't find any. So here's, I got a quick technical question about the rules, Brian, of it. Is any, did anyone, are we allowed to say brands or, you know, I guess we're allowed to say anything. You can say whatever you want. It's the tad pool. All right.

Yeah, I know, because it's really name a. style of donut, not a vendor of donut or a purveyor of donut. Okay, so probably nobody said Duncan or versus Krispy Green. Of course, somebody said Duncan, but did enough people say Duncan to make it on the list? I'll tell you right now, no.

Okay. Not enough people. One person said Duncan. What's wrong with them? Whoever you are, we worry for you. All right, keep going. Talley, you have another one, or do you want me to go? I have another one in my head. Well, this just sticks with me because

it's the one thing that Weird Al has the guy at the donut shop have to go check for in his on Albuquerque, Bear Claws. Oh, shit. Oh, bear claws. Oh, yes. Grab them by the Bearclaw. Frick. All right.

Show me. Oh, yum. Show me the illustrious bear claw. What? Oh, that was a good one, though. Popular enough to make it number 11. Oh, man. That would be good points, Talia.

Not enough to make it. into the top. Our donuts only is this limited to circular pastry? Torruses? No, but see like a bear claw's not circular. No. It doesn't have a hole in it. Come on. And a Boston cream isn't a torus. It's circular, but it's not a torus. No, this is not limited. I will tell you right now. This is not limited to your regular. You said this was fact-based. Once again, I'm going to go with opinion-based.

Yeah, but look, like some of these we already have on there, Kruller and Boston Cream and even Bearclaw, which didn't make the list. None of those are rings. Those aren't tourists. The Kruller is a ring. Is it a Kruller a ring? Yeah, it's a twisty. It's a twisty ring. Oh, I always think of it is not. But again, isn't it just like a circular ring.

It looks like a tractor wheel almost. There you go. Perfect. It looks like a big tractor wheel. Oh, it's got like, um, it's got what do you call that tread on it, kind of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People are saying Cruller isn't circular. I beg to differ. I think crullers are, are circular. All the colors I've seen.

I think there's a, I think there's maybe variations on that thing. Yeah, here comes, so there's your controversy. Yeah, here's our controversy. Oh, yeah. Right. We make them here. Yeah. No, because I do see some crullers that are twists. Oh, twisty crullers. Twist, twist.

All right, let me go, then I'll go with, I just wanted to establish the ring rule or not. So I'll say any Claire. I don't even know if this can. Oh, sure, sure. Nice. Yes. Show me and, oh, all right, hold on. I'm going to need a judge on this one.

Let me see here. I'm going to make sure because I do want to make absolutely sure All right, okay, okay, all right ruling the judges have ruled hold on a second Yeah

Show me and Eclare Oh That took a long time Also known as a Long John or a Bismarck They're the long Cream filled I never heard them called that Yeah

Long cream filled chocolate topped I mean it's almost a Boston cream Just a long form Yeah Long form of that, yeah. Long, long donut. Yeah. Okay.

Claire has gone full Veronica in our chat room, by the way. That's not a donut. Why? Because in her life, she's an electronic, Claire. That's what E-Clair stands for her. Okay, so let's see here. Boy, I'm going to go ahead and say, I don't know, this is a whole category, though.

If I called, okay, I'll just say it. cake donuts like the cake like Duncan Duncan is a cake donut and you'll tell me if I have to narrow it down because I know there are a number of cake types yeah um no I'll let's see if that let's see how that one goes uh all right show me a cake donut

yep your traditional cake donut some people had chocolate cake donuts some people had double chocolate cake donuts it's like you think of it as the denser more dense than a glazed usually frosted um sometimes not nothing gross there I said nothing gross Nothing gross about a cake donut.

Cake donuts are gross. I mean, you know, they can be. All right. All right, yes. You know, when I do a search for cruller, Google images, most of them are circular little torus shapes. But yeah, there are the twist. Like, I think of the twist when I think of a cruller.

Yeah. Yeah. You can argue all you want to, whether it's a donut or not. But the real question here is, does the tadpole think it's a donut? It doesn't matter what. Exactly. Yeah. Who cares for the rest of the world.

Yeah, the reality. Reality and Tadpool are not the same location. Exactly. It's right. Eclare is right. Eclare Gak says that Clare's our shoe pastry as opposed to a raised full yeast dough and like Long John's and Bismarcks. But I think I'd get more arguments from people saying that Eclare, Long John, Bismarck are roughly the same thing. There's more passion involved with this subject than anything I've seen. There is. I told you it'd be controversial. I warned you. I've never even heard of a shoe pastry.

What the hell is that even? If you watch British Bake Off, they're usually a little circular shoe pastry spheres that you glue together with like caramel or or or on and make like a big tower of them. They're really cool. Oh, geez. This sounds all right. Yeah. Okay. Well, here's my next answer.

I'm going to go. I'm still trying to get back to my Homer problem. Sure. And so I'm going to call those. I guess I'll just call those frosted. Frosted donut? Sure, like a strawberry frosted or just regular frosted. Yeah, yeah.

Okay. All right. This has always seemed to be strawberry frosted. Show me a strawberry frosted donut with or without sprinkles. Damn it. Those were on the list. So number 17, strawberry frosted with sprinkles. Okay.

People put it, but, uh... Right. Poop. Um, yeah. I... By the way, people did separate and a lot of people did say Eclares, but, you know, that, like I said, I had to make a judgment call on that one. So, yeah, very good.

Send your emails to me. I'll take them. Fine. I'm going to go, I'm going to go with the, not a donut, but still a donut. Donut hole. What do you think, Tully did you think? We should go with a donut hole? Yeah.

Because those are always deceptive. You think, you think, oh, I'm just going to eat a donut hole. And the next thing you know you've eaten 12. Yeah. It's like the equivalent of Krisp creams. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good coin. Let's go for whole form.

I like whole form. Yeah. The whole solution, yes. I like to take my donut holes and stick them in a regular donut and just go. Oh, look at you. Like Voltron. It's like, do you try to match them or do you like, I'm going to put a chocolate hole in a vanilla donut? I didn't think about that.

That's, now I got something new to do. When you said match them, I thought you meant, like, find the one where the hole was taken from. The actual real one where the hole came from. Yeah, if I went similar in size. Sure. Sure. All right. Some people call them timbits.

Some people call them munchkins. Boy, I remember those days when you had that weird little red-headed kid who was in every TV commercial in the 70s advertising Dunkin' Donuts Munchkins. But they're a donut hole. Show me donut hole. Damn it. Number 10. So many points. So many points.

Out of the list. Is it 19 points? No, 19 people. It's 14, 14 points. to catch him, but there are 14, there are more than 14 points to left on the board. Okay. All right.

It's your game to lose there, Brian and Talley. Give us your worst. What do you think, Talley? You get some. Holy cow, Claire is going to have a heart attack. Yeah, she's losing it. Did we know that pastries are going to send her? Timbitt is a donut hole, Claire.

Timbitts, Donut holes, munchkins. I'm sure in Ireland, they're called Wellie Tackers or something like that. Yeah. Yeah, you get some sort of what the hell's a long john, she says. I'd like a straw. I'd like a potato-flavored whileie tacker, please. You have those fresh out of the oven this morning Because I sure could go for one

All right You guys got me Where do you got there? Well The donut shop in Albuquerque It's also out of fritters Fritter I was going to say fritters

I love God I love Apple fritters That is my absolute Favorite when we go to the donut place It's a good one God they're so good Is that you're going with I think we should

because it's been on my mind, but I've been chicken to say it. But no. You've empowered me, Talia. Listen, it's a delightful pastry and a verb. Show me, fritter. Yeah, apple fritters. One person said cherry fritters. I just lumped them into the apple fritters game.

No, apple fritters are so good. They are the best, yeah. Apple fritter number eight on the list. So two answers left, Scott, I believe, is out of contention, which means, Atalia, you have won the prize. But let's play this out. we got two more answers. Yeah, see if you guys can do it.

Oh, Joe. Oh, and. I got so excited, accidentally backed out of my thing. Oh, Talia loses because Brian Dudley closed his browser. And that's the rules. Them's the rules. Just kidding. Well, now it doesn't matter, does it?

If you can't get in? I mean, they still win, but, uh, yeah, yes, Talley, you still win. Let me, let me try to, can I guess one of these since he's out of there. Back a back and back. Hold on, Scott. They still have control the board. They can, they can. Yeah, go ahead.

Talia, you go. All right, let's see if there's a box of starving weasels. I don't know what it is. I don't know. You can look to hear my Venmo descriptions? Because that's, like, that's kind of one of the things that I usually put on there is, like, briefcase full of weasels. All right. Show me box of starving wazels.

What? What are those? Okay. I'm going to say a churro. Oh, churro. It's like a donut that's disconnected. All right, sure. Yeah, a broken donut.

A broken donut. Show me churro. All right. Talia, you again. The people did say chiro. Let me say, how many people did say churro? One person said chiro. Okay.

I mean, that's wrong. You guys are wrong. It should be in there more. There should be tons of churro. What's wrong with this chat? I feel like there's some stuff in the center like. I will say the last two are donuts you can get at, you know, your Dunkin Donuts. And both of them are circular.

Okay. Okay. Well, I was going to say blueberry donuts earlier, but I was like, I couldn't get frosted. But I, I, I, that's my favorite is the blueberry. I do love the blueberry donut. Yeah. Hey, Brian. All right.

Yeah. What do you think? Did someone, did someone actually put inflatable? Inflatable donut. Someone with hemorrhoids put that as an answer. Yeah. Nobody said inflatable. I'll save you the save you the buzz on this one.

Nobody said inflatable, but I really like that answer. Yeah, inflatable donut. Brian might have to sit on his back. So you're going with your blueberry? I'm going to go with, you know, let me take a look. Yeah, I'm going to go on blueberry. Sure, all right. Show me blueberry.

All right, how about a benie? It was number 21 on the list. Like enough people did say blueberry because it's usually like a cake donut, but it's got a different texture to it. It's got blueberries in it. Yeah, that's true. Give me Benier. Can I have a Benier?

you can have a bignet show me a bignet oh shit yeah i mean you can have it you just can't have it on this how about those benye was uh also one person said bignet which surprised me not enough people said ben yeah but that is the game we do have two answers left let's see what those were show me number five what's that powdered sugar maybe uh powder donut damn it no surprising no only two people said powdered donuts Like, people hate because they're a freaking mess. They are a mess. Nobody likes a powdered sugar donut. Because you look like Charlie Sheen after a bender.

Show me number five. Old-fashioned. That's what I consider a cake donut pretty much, right? No, no. It's made differently because they have a, the dough kind of breaks out of the side and gets crispy. Oh, okay, I got you. I do like that. If they don't have a Boston cream, I usually look for an old-fashioned.

Old-fashioned, yeah. That's my second favorite. I think I did know that. Yeah. Yeah. Now, here's where, here's, let's start the, uh, here comes the controversy. Here comes the, all-caps, angry texts. Show me no, six.

Bavarian cream. Wait a minute. Bavarian cream. Right. Is different than a, uh, than a Boston cream. Because it is, it is filled with the custard, but, it is powdered sugar covered as opposed to chocolate covered.

Oh, okay, I'm looking at one now and you are totally right about that. I don't think you should get any controversy on that. I think that is a unique donut, or that is a unique version of a donut. Yes, I stand behind the difference between. Oh, look at it. It looks good.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Son of a goat. I want all these things in my body, but I can't. There's two things we always have at the office. Pop-Tarts and. Donuts. Why Pop-Tarts?

Really? Sugar bread. Why Pop-Tarts? The Pop-Tarts thing cracks me up. That's weird. Crazy. Do you guys like toast them and stuff or you just eat them out of the box? Oh, yeah.

Oh, dude. We got like, we got like an eight-slice toaster for Pop-Tarts and everything. I mean, it's crazy. That is crazy. I'm impressed with your local government where you work. That's amazing. Well, congratulations goes out to Talia here for winning this rad board game. You are, you will get this.

prize come hell or high water and you'll get to play secret Hitler with all of your friends. Don't play it drunk because you won't understand the rules. Yeah, that's true. It's really fun though. I had so much fun with this game. I think I played three total rounds. Complete blast. One of the game, our first

game, in fact, Tom and I had the perfect strategy. Just wrecked people. It was great. It's very, very good. And here's the cool thing about it. This is like the official game, and so that's awesome to be getting that. But if anyone out there wants to check out the game in another form, they open source the rules, and you can actually print all this stuff out and skin it however you

like. So there's a really popular variant called Secret Voldemort. There's really, I think there's a Star Wars variant where basically, you know, someone's secret Vader, essentially. But it kind of just works like that. You just need a villain. It happens to be Hitler in this case. But for those worried about its content, it is not a, how do I put this? It is not insensitive to the, to the Hitler years. It knows what it is and does a really good job. Basically, it's Among Us. So that's a great thing for Talley, because she's a really good Among Us player. It's basically Among Us, the board game in a lot of ways. Yeah. So I think you're going to love it. And Brian will get with you to arrange all the stuff. We'll get that

all figured out, Jane. I'll get that out to you, and I'll pitch in for shipping to be sure it gets out to you. And thanks, thanks Jane F, again, for donating the... Oh, she's great. She is great. Can I tell you guys a fun fact? Yeah, do it. Yeah. So in Canada, Tim Hortons has the donut holes called Tim Bitt. And they're called that everywhere except in Quebec.

In Quebec, they're called Tim Migny. Tim Mnys? Oh, really? Huh. You can't trust the French. Bit is one letter away from BIT, which is French slang for Dick. Oh. Oh, that'll do it.

Tim Dix. That makes sense. Quebec, so they're changed. Oh, the French. What are they doing? They just don't know what's. going on. I blame the French once again. Well, well done. It's always fun having you here and I want you to have a great day. Okay. So there you go. Congratulations. I forgot to play this.

Winner, winner. Chicken dinner. That went great. Partly because Brian done away such a good sport and helped your team to victory. Brian, how do you feel about your win there? I feel pretty good and now I want donuts. You want Tim Dix? Is that you want some Tim Dicks? You said it I didn't. Yes. You talked about, it's funny that you talked about Pop-Tarts a minute ago because at the donut bar in Vegas, their most popular donut, the thing that they're most known for, is a donut with a Pop-Tart inside. Oh, my God. I guess it makes sense because I've had donut Pop-Tart, so I guess why not? Why not the reverse? They were like describing it to Tina and I, and I said, oh, my God, that sounds so good.

She's, oh, it's so good. It's like, it's a pound. And I said, oh, okay, then I'm going to pick something else. I'm not eating a pound of donut. That's a lot of donut. You don't want to eat a pound of donut. All right. Hey,

Dunaway, it's always good to talk to you. Is there anything you'd like to promote while you're here? What's going on? We put up a show yesterday. Yeah, we talked about Play Retro on Mondays. It's still a great show.

We post it. It's fun. This weekend, we're watching heavy metal for a film. Yeah, the 1981 film, I believe. You might think,

you might think we're watching Showtime because that's what we said on the last episode, but it got yanked. So, now we're doing heavy metal finally we finally after all these years we've had it on DVD from a fan forever ago we're just going to do it so it's happening doing it you're gonna watch that uh they're gonna watch that nasty anime yep that uh john candy starring it's really weird it's a very weird lots of divo blue oyster cult yeah yeah it's

some great animation in there besides the the animated boobs the animated weird taxi driver sex scene Yeah, I don't like that scene very much. We'll have that to talk about. So very exciting. Watch for that. That's this weekend, FilmSec.com, for more details. Brian Dunaway,

we hope you have a great day, and I would like to say to you, kiss our butts. No, you. I like doing that, where he trails off into digital, like, broken land. That's great.

I'm going to do that from now on. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt, we'll be joining us. We're talking tech today, because it's Wednesday. And then after that, recommendals with Randy.

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is Tom Merritt. Always in question that Tom Merritt. He joins us now from Los Angeles, California. Tom Merritt, welcome to your Wednesday regular segment. How are you? I am an embodiment of a question. And that question is, are you secret Hitler? Yeah, dude. Dude, I'm telling

you that first game that we played it just kind of worked out this way. It wasn't like you and I had some master plan. No, it was great. There was no collusion. There was no talking. It was all done with gut feeling. Yeah, and it worked so well and fooled so many

that I felt a little powerful when we were done to the point that I had to step away for a game just to kind of get back to normal, you know, bring myself down and be humble again after our massive win. But it was really fun. It was really great seeing you, by the way. Yeah, man.

It was great seeing you both. Oh, so great seeing you. You're seeing everybody. Tom popped in for a day, which he is just good at. You're good at that. You're good at just popping in. There he is. An Irish entrance and an Irish exit all in one.

What is an Irish entrance? I don't know. You just show up unexpectedly. When did you get here? You basically show up in mid-conversation. Right. You just start answering like, wait, where did you come? And that's when I found out I had two.

Pinky toes. There you go. The thing I want that I cannot get after that day is inhuman conditions. That robot detection card game. Oh yeah. That is impossible to find. Yeah, Ducey said, I guess you talked to him as well, but I guess it's, you can download and

do open source on the thing, but the actual... At least there's that. The finished product is no longer in print. But yeah, if you want to find the thing with the nice metal badge and all that stuff, it's not out of print, but nobody's reselling it. Everybody who has it wants it. Yeah, that was a really cool thing, too. It was short. I like games that are short. You can just like rip through. And

that one was kind of like that. A very cool game. If you have it out there, someone knows what we're talking about, see if you can get a copy. And you only need two people for it. Yeah. You can, you can cycle through and have a group, have fun with it. But if you only have a couple people and you want to play a game, it's perfect. Yeah. It reminded me of a life, a real life, a way of playing like Blade Runner interrogations. Oh, totally. Yeah. Just question. Why aren't you flipping it over, Leon?

Why aren't you flipping it over? Yeah. It really did have that vibe to it. It had all this kind of weird cyberpunk stuff. Also, I was violently killed. Yeah, you were. You were murdered by a robot. By a robot. Who slammed his fists on the table and that's when you knew. You were in trouble. Well, anyway, I can't remember who that was, but shout out to that

dude. He played well. Anyway, Tom's here. We're talking tech. You're always scour on the internet and world for what's going on in the world of technology. Of course, today Daily Tech News show is the Wednesday edition, which includes me and you and Sarah and Roger and everybody. Very excited about all of that. But what is brewing at the top of the list? I give you a choice. Would you like technology, hard technology, advance, new stuff that will affect your life or Elon Musk?

Oh. Let's see. I think the latter I was joking about the yawning. but uh i think yeah i kind of want i mean look why not what old Elon is up to yeah i'm a i'm a sucker for tom's this is basically a this is tom's link bait he's not he's not really a link baiter but i'm going to take the bait and say what's going on with Elon Musk this week well okay i will mix in a little of actual Twitter since Elon Musk does not own Twitter as i you know it's kind of hard to remember uh that deal has not closed yet uh so i'll finish with something Twitter's

actually doing, despite all the rest of the story. But yeah, we're going to clear out all the Elon Musk stories on DT&S in the quick hits today. The UK's Parliament Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee chair, Julian Knight, invited Musk to testify about his plans for Twitter. I'm sure Elon will rush to appear. It's a voluntary invite. And it was an open letter. So it's definitely a political move. Musk has also been talking to private investors, to bring them in on the deal. Right now, he's got financing. He's got loans, but it would all be him. He's talking to other people to sort of say like, hey, I can do this on my own, but do you want to join me? And that apparently includes people like Jack Dorsey. And Musk saying, you know, I would

like to let everybody who has a stake keep their stake, even though I'm going to take the company private. And then he also apparently is saying, while he intends to take the company private on day one, should the deal close, he will then aim to do an IPO three years later. So the idea is take it private so you can fix all the stuff without shareholder intervention, get it running really well, and then IPO it again. Because he's not against public ownership. Tesla's a public-owned company. He just doesn't think he can fix, he doesn't think he can fix things with shareholder intervention.

Interesting. So like, okay, let's say one of the things he always talks about wanting to fix is open-sourcing or being open and transparent about the algorithms algorithm transparency so let's say he takes it private they do whatever work it takes to do that then if they like where they're at they go public again but what's to stop them later down the road going oh we didn't foresee this change in the way something works we now we got to oh we can't change it because of the board shoot better go public or better go private again and then we'll go public it feels a little like that nothing nothing stops you from doing that any company could do that what stops most

most companies from doing that is it isn't the best move. A great example of this, if you want to clear your head of any musk bias that you have, either positive or negative, is go look at Dell. Michael Dell took Dell private in order to revamp the company and then took it public again. And it's a great test case of like, you know what, it got to a point where it just had kind of lost its way and it kind of lost its maneuverability. And so it's a lot of effort to get shareholders to cooperate with taking something private again. But if you can get it done, you can fix things.

It's like taking the car into the garage, closing the garage door, fixing it up, and then taking it back out for a drive. That's essentially what they did with Dell. And you could see an argument to say like, yeah, you could probably improve Twitter by doing the same thing. So the downside of that is what you're in the car analogy, you're taking the car off the road for a while. expensive process because you've got to redo a bunch of things. This isn't unlike that where it's expensive and time consuming. It doesn't mean Twitter goes down, but it means that there's like this period of,

of, almost like a team, like, oh, it's a building, it's a rebuilding year. You know, we're never going to run. Yeah, it is. And the shareholders intervention is kind of like the clubhouse chemistry, right? You hear about sports teams having bad chemistry in the clubhouse. and even though they're all talented, they just can't win because of that. And you clear out all those people

and you refresh the clubhouse and suddenly you start winning because people play together. There's another analogy of like, if you take it private, you get those shareholders out. Maybe there's bad chemistry with that group of shareholders.

But then he's also talking about keeping the shareholders involved. So he obviously doesn't think the shareholders themselves, maybe it's the board that's the problem. In that case, I don't know. Yeah. So if you, okay, so what,

is left to do before this deal can go through? Is it just an FBC thing? Is it a something else that we don't know? You have to get the full shareholder vote. Right now, the board has approved it, but it does have to go to a full shareholder vote. And then it has to just go through the regular Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory process,

which it is expected to pass. So it's expected to get shareholder approval. It's expected to pass regulatory approval. That's why they're saying, that's why they've been saying six months. So we're talking probably October. uh would be a likely closing date should should all go as expected but you know especially where mr musk is concerned things don't always go as expected but uh but yeah uh that that's that's the

trail that it's on right all right well uh interesting times ahead for the social media oh and i promised i would finish with a non busk thing uh twitter uh launch something called circle it has nothing to do with google plus uh it allows you to choose up to all 150 people that you can tweet to without everybody else seeing it. So it's like, I want to tweet this at a subsection. And the way it works is once you've set up your group, your circle, and it can be a small group, it doesn't have to be 150 people. 150 is just the max. You can, you know, say like, oh, I want my circle to just be my family or whatever. Once you do that, you can choose in a drop-down menu, do I want to publish this to everybody or do I want to just publish it to my circle? And that way

you can say things online on Twitter that maybe you're like ah, I don't want to get the wide open populist view of this. I just want to tell it to my friends or my family and you can do that. Instagram does a similar thing called close friends. And you only, you're in charge of choosing

and they are so it's not like somebody can pretend and troll to be in there and then to go screen cap anything he said and, you know, be a jerk to these are people you've chosen. One of your friends or family could, but yes, you have chosen them to be in there. And it's not. It sounds like nothing can go wrong with any hurt feelings about who's not included in anyone's circle.

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, nobody gets messages when they're added or subtracted from the circle either. Your messages just show up. It does say this is, you know, a limited circle thing. So when you see it, you know you're in. But if you don't see anything, you wouldn't know. There's a gaming group I would love to, that I play with all the time, that I would love to have as a circle. And I'm guessing this is rolling out slowly because I don't see any options for this.

yeah it's a it's a select number of people have been it's a test so not everybody has it yet it's similar to the communities thing that they're doing yeah which also allows you to publish to a private group of people that doesn't go into the main feed uh for a gaming group it feels like that community thing would be more more to the to the order whereas the circle is like uh this is my tight group this is my friends my family etc that's a good point um and so you don't think there's like a I mean, it feels like there's not a lot of confusion about this. Does it feel confusing to you as someone who has both features? I don't know why, but I got the functionality and it was really easy. It gave me a pop-ups the first time I went to post something in the Twitter app. It doesn't show up in tweet deck. It only shows up in the Twitter app. It said like, hey, you got access to circles.

Want to hit some circles? Circle it up. And then it recommends people for you to add to the circle. I can't tell how. at first I thought it was just everybody I followed, but after a while I started to realize this, this must be the people it thinks I've interacted with the most because there were some people that were not in there in that recommended list where I'm like, well, I would definitely want that person in there. But maybe I don't at reply them very much. I don't know. So there is a little bit of work in figuring out, you know, all the people that go in there. But once they're in there, they're in there. It was pretty easy to go edit it when I realized, oh, I forgot somebody. And I added it, added them to it. And then I posted and those people saw it and I saw how it works. Unlike communities, which I find a little clunky and I always forget it's there, this feels pretty smooth and pretty seamless. Yeah, I was going to say, I'm not super stoked about the way communities has been rolled out, but maybe they'll improve that or maybe this will help inform that.

I don't know. And Claregak asked a good question. Do non-followers see stuff if posted to circles? I don't know the answer. In other words, if you add someone to your circle, but they don't follow. you can you is that a way to force them to see something that they otherwise wouldn't see and i don't i would guess no but i haven't put it to the test interesting wow so this has not just for the record walk mar i see i saw your question this has nothing to do with the 2017

pg13 rated uh emma watson tom hanks movie the circle yeah the circle is not correct or the book or the or the reality show the or the reality show yeah so many circles that's in shape really yeah yeah what a bummer it's not a bummer it's not a It doesn't have anything to do with the shape. Nope. Well, great. So lots on deck today so far and more coming, of course, for a daily tech new show. Check it out at 2 p.m. Mountain Time.

It's no longer the new time because it is just the time now. That's just the time. That's when we go. Time it happens. When we do it. We go right off the gun, DTNS, followed by an extended conversation of fun. As the kids say, bim, bam, boom is what we do over there. They do it a lot.

Especially even a hollow notes. There's a daycare center near me. They're just all you hear when you walk down. Bim, bam, bam, boom, as soon as you walk back. Yep, I get it. All right. Hey, Tom, I know you got other cool things going on. Why don't you tell people where they can go find some of that?

Yeah, freetomnewsletter.com will keep you up with all the good things. I've got a new podcast in the works, kind of a talk show idea. Not much to say about it yet, but we're making good progress on getting it started. So maybe next month you might hear about it. And the first place you'll hear about it is freetomnewletter.com. So go check it out. And we'll certainly talk about it here as well. Tom Merritt, everybody, Ace Detect on Twitter.

We'll see you later. Bye. Bye. Bye now. I think I might want that circles thing, but I don't know how one would get in line to get it. Yeah, right. I mean, you'll get it eventually, but I just checked. I don't have it on mine either.

But I'm guessing, I mean, this could be a really good extra Patreon level, right? Like, and you've only got 150 spots for that upper, for that inner circle kind of thing. Sure, sure. Well, it's, I don't know, I just want to try it. I want to put, there's a bunch of people who I talk to all the time in all these other ways. And it might be a fun way to like just get quick stuff to people I care about. Exactly. You know, I don't know.

We'll see. Let's move on. We got a, we got to pull our old pal Randy in here. Yeah. Oh, he's old. I mean, he's, you know, I mean, I guess he's old. He's not old. He got a little gray in his luscious beard.

Yeah. But other than that, still have the best hair on the internet. And he'll be joining us shortly as soon as I push this. Yeah, sorry, Bobby. I mean, look, Randy was the OG cool hair frog panter guy. That's just the way it is. So you're going to have to live with it. Randy, thanks for joining us.

How are you? Good morning. Morning stream. I'm doing great. Oh, that's fantastic. I have such hair. And my hair led me to a fun Yelp conference. controversy recently, which I can share with you very, very briefly, basically, after not going to

get a haircut for two and a half years, something like that, I decided a couple of weeks ago to take my kid to the barbershop. And I chose a barbershop that's really nice here in Irvine, California, where they do online reservations and you get to pick your services, right? And so I picked two different barbers, one for him, one for me, lots of services. I signed up to pay a lot of money for uh you know for us to get you know our hairs washed and our and our faces like uh massaged and all everything they do right sure i was even i was looking forward to getting like a a beard shape like where they they take a shaver and go around your beard right yeah right all that yeah we go uh haven't been to a barbers shop in a long time we talk to the barbers uh they don't like us

like they're just like we said like my kid has long hair and almost no boys his age have long hair so like they they just don't understand what we want to do i have ridiculously long hair and i'm asking for you know i'm asking for a trim right yeah uh and she a woman literally says to me uh wow i haven't done a trim for a man in a long time and like okay great geez so we sit down uh i i have booked an hour uh for each of these barbers right because of all the stuff i i i put in uh we're there maybe 30 minutes uh we go to check out. I get charged a lot of money. And I'm like, I'm standing thinking, do I want to argue with this person who's checking me out? And now since I, I mean, I, no, I don't. So I paid a

lot of money and we left. And I went to Yelp. Yeah. I just wrote like a really plain review. Like, you know, oops, tricks on me. I'm the idiot who, uh, uh, reserved a bunch of stuff and paid for it and didn't get it. Yeah. You know, you win some, you lose some, but I won't be coming back here. Today, have they replied to your Yelp and say, oh, Mr. Jordan, please come back and we'll take care of you. I got a phone call from these people within five minutes of posting that Yelp reviews. Wow. And I have gotten many more messages since. Wow. They just can't, they can't let it go. Like they refunded me my money. I mean, I didn't really ask for that. I didn't need that. I, you know, I was like I say, I'm the one who spent the money, right? I, you know, I obviously was okay with

them nope nope they refunded my money i've gotten multiple calls messages they replied to the yelp review and it's just like man i'm am i supposed to take this thing down am i supposed to like because that's what they're trying to to do right sure yeah it was a two-star review right like i will be coming back here yeah oh my gosh it's like this has become a big am i the asshole and i'm like i i i didn't like it makes me not want to ever put on yelp what happens you know like when well yeah you get single down things that make me but hold on did they did you remove the review as a result or how is it still there

like what's the deal there how do you do that it's like listen I haven't answered a phone call I haven't replied to an email I haven't replied to the help you know what I'm saying like I don't care I did my thing and I went on with my life it's just like making me feel bad you know so personally

and this is just me I think you should have said something at the time to give them an opportunity to to provide you the services that you reserved and paid for. Yes. You walking out of there without saying anything is on you more than it's on them. Yeah. Because you didn't give that the chance at the

time to. Yeah. At the moment, I'm like, man, I just reserved these guys for you know, an hour. Like they can't they can't bring in someone else, right? Sure, sure, sure. But it's just I just like, I'm dumb. It was, it was fine. Yeah. Well, look, we're all dumb. We're all dumb. We're all dumb

once in a while. I explained, I explained what went down and freaked him out. And it's it's really really funny i would rather a business be that active in you know in a follow-up you know what i mean like it stinks when uh things don't go right and you tell the world and nothing ever happens for sure yeah they've been yeah the fact that they've been so quick to like say oh man how can we make this good how can we take care of this for you and and uh yeah Brian you should go you should go in and ask for a trim Brian yeah should I show you other and say just a little more off the top yeah just do like

plain just plain face it just like they'll just take they'll just take skin off my head yeah i'm telling you and i said this before i envy you though because like long hair like this it's such a pain in the ass yeah oh my gosh it takes it takes me half an hour just to brush my hair yeah you know you're like uh because you're basically you know what it is is a good lesson as to what you know women with glorious hair have had to deal with for for sure hundreds and thousands of years to ask like at hotels does the room come with the hair dryer because it's like I don't care. Whatever.

Does it have a towel? Perfect. That's all I need. You know, I use that hair dryer. I don't even do much with my hair. I just kind of ruin my hand through it. You just want the hairdryer. Yeah, but I like it because when the window fogs up,

or sorry, the mirror, which definitely happened at the plaza this year, I can get out and go and I can like get the fog out of there. So that works. Yes, right. That's another good. It's a good use for it. Yep. We almost brought one for that very reason, but nope, they had one.

Anyway, well, Randy, it's good to have you back on. We're going to do recommendals. It feels like it's been a bit. it has it's been a bit a little bit a little bit of a time thing we did put up a film sack last weekend and had a blast and i'll use this opportunity once again had a blast talking about things other than the movie yeah hell yeah we always do willies wonderland and tangential conversation yeah stuff around it um and this week we did have to make that change just another reminder showtimes off the table uh we're doing heavy metal okay the 80s uh animated based on

the magazine thing heavy metal which i know i only know one thing about heavy metal. That's awesome. So you are our heavy metal virgin, right? Never seen it. I know one thing about it. What is the one thing you know about it? My favorite rock and roll artist of all time Sammy Hagar wrote it wrote the song heavy metal and performance. And I know every note and every word of that song. I did not know you felt this way about Sammy Hagar. I didn't know that. That is that soundtrack

is one of my favorite soundtracks of all time. Like it is it is up there easily in the top five. And I'm trying to think of what if there's anything that I'd put above it because it's such an amazing soundtrack I feel like I haven't visited that a while I should check the other way I just want to praise Sammy Hagar because you grow up with people that you came to like as a kid right yeah and then some some of them turn out to be not good not good people sure good not good like they don't do well with their fame and fortune man Sammy Hagar is who I want to be when I grow up like he has turned out to be such a cool you know friendly old

rocker he still performs and sings he hasn't like gone the way of the of the you know uh mute or like a john bon jovi or something like where you know he hasn't lost it is what i'm trying to say yeah and like like i follow him on ticot and the guy just like he'll just talk to the camera hey he's pretty chill i'm out here on the beach we're having a little tequila yeah like you just that whole combo that Cabo vibe is real with that dude he's he's he's uh the the bar name may not be his anymore but boy he still has the he still has the Cabo vibe looking at this album this album's crazy sammy Hagar riggs divo blue o'clock a cheap trick couple of times in there Donald Fagan Don fielder Nazareth oh my lord journey cheap trick again black Sabbath oh man stevie nix

it is it is an unbeatable soundtrack I'm gonna have to listen to this later I'm actually coming excited. All right, let's get to it. Brian, you've got some clips here for your recommendals this week. Both of these are series and both continuations. I may have recommendaled the series when they first came out, but these are new seasons and I've fallen in love with both of these shows again. And I will also say, whatever, I can totally do a second season of a show on

recommendals that I did the first season for. Of course you can. I full on did a move. movie Randy had already done. So you can do whatever you want. Right, exactly. Not today, though. All right, here we go. I'm going to play this first. I'll see if we get what this is. I'm sorry, that's impossible.

Please don't use that word, Wendy. What other word could I use? I think what Wendy means is that the FBI, they don't make any agreements that aren't advantageous to them. I am aware that I will have to make some concessions. Concessions? Yes. Concessions.

Isn't this exactly what you were doing, Wendy? With your foundation, the brand. You can transform yourself into a pillar of society where you won't do the same for me? You know, to be fair, we're not, we're not global. recognized cartel leaders on every most wanted list in the world. Well, do this when you were free of your obligation to me. I don't know what that is.

Oh, I know exactly what it is. It's not better call Saul again or something. I know exactly what it is, and I only watched one and a half seasons of this. Well, now is the time to go back to Ozark. Oh, Ozark. Same. I watched the, yeah, that was Laura Linney and Jason Bateman. you're hearing they're talking to a new character that I can't remember his name.

This is, so the final season, the final half of the final season just got released. And so now you have the complete series available on Netflix, which I would say is the better way to watch it. If you haven't watched any of it, I would say binging is better because we gave the second half or the last season, first half and second half, saying, all right, now, who is this guy? again oh yeah yeah he's that guy but when you binge this that's the way to see this thing because it is it is the new for me the new breaking bad if you love breaking bad you haven't watched ozark great awesome of all the breaking bad rip-offs this is the one this is the the winner it is it is absolutely breaking bad breaking bad i also never finished i watched you know oh really uh maybe two and a half season oh geez there's a point there's a point where uh it's a

in Breaking Bad what's his what's his name the younger idiot gets a girlfriend Jesse Thank you Jesse Yeah Jesse

Are you about Jane The younger idiot Yeah And then the main character comes along And has an opportunity To save her life When she's dying

And he doesn't Is that the point That was the point you left The James That's enough I've you know This is a stupid show That was a

It was such a turning point for the character, both characters. Their dad was Q. Massive. John Delancy was like, I was so excited. Oh,

wow, John Delancey's in this show. I think I might like it. And then the most ridiculous thing ever happens in terms of, he's like an air traffic controller. It somehow magically causes a plane to crash. And I was just like, this show.

I'm sorry. Whoops. You've got to go back, man. It's one of the greatest shows in the history of television. It is. but Ozark Ozark was like

Ozark was like we're going to do this we're going to let a couple of people be like not good but like smart I guess is what I'm looking for mainly I mean Ozark gives us Julia Garner

is what I'm saying which yeah I was going to get to her she deserves every freaking kudos that she gets her Emmy wins her her success with this show and outside this show. She is amazing. And this show is such a showcase for her talents. Yeah. There was a time

early on where she was rumored to be the Furiosa pick for the for the Mad Max Fury Road follow-up. She would have been, I think, very good in that role as well. I'm sure, I'm sure praying mantis lady, you'll do fine. I'm not worried about her. But I think, I think this one. It's like the big, you know, the big question, like the reason I stopped watching Ozark is because, you know, like it was, it was headed in a certain direction. I was like, mm-hmm. I don't know about, I don't know if this is going to, if they're going to be able to, like, stick the landing at all, you know, like, if you, if you ask a lot of people who previously loved Game of Thrones, you know, like, if you, if you hadn't seen it at all, but knowing what you know about the last season, would you watch it? And they were like, no, I wouldn't get so invested in something, knowing that it's, it's going to blow it, right? So, like, you know, the quick, the big question is Brian Ibitt, tell us what you thought of the end. Yeah, what you think? It definitely, for me, sticks the landing. It, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Obviously, I'm not going to do anything to even reveal any spoilers that could potentially be spoilers or anything like that, like who's in the final season, who's not in the final season, that sort of thing. But I will say that for me, it was a very satisfying ending that still left me, it left me satisfied with where the story went, but still does the right thing where it's like, oh, I would love a spin-off or I would love a movie in five years that continues with these characters.

here to see what's going on with them. Oh, guess what? They don't all die in the end. Okay, all right. Thanks for telling us that. Yeah, yeah. It didn't. Oh, like every character on the show does it.

That's true. Every character on the show does not die in the end. That's the only thing that... That's the only spoiler you're going to give us. Okay. The only spoiler everybody will give you. Yeah, it is, uh, you know, if you haven't seen any of Ozark here is just kind of a quick setup, there's a, uh, a couple, Chicago couple.

Um, she's messing around. He's, uh, working for a company. financial company that's helping on a drug cartel. All of this is in the first five minutes of the show. Things go wrong. And like it does happen with these shows, the main characters try to fix the thing go wrong by doing what they think is a slightly less bad thing that turns into a much worse thing.

And then they try to fix that much worse thing by doing a slightly less worse thing that turns out to be an even worse thing. And Scott hasn't seen it at all, any of it? No, I saw season one. Yeah, I saw season one. Okay, okay, okay. But it's been a bit. I feel like I almost made like I need to rewatch season one because I'm kind of, I think you need to rewatch season one.

There's four seasons. There's a total of 44 episodes. So it's best watched binge. I wish I had binged the last season as a whole as opposed to the two halves. I don't like it when they do that. But now it's like, I kind of want to, I want to re-binge the entire series because Julie Garner as great as she is. Jason Baitman is fantastic in this. Laura Linney, who always seems to play characters that I don't like, but I really like her as an actress for making these characters

that I don't like. Case in point is the Truman Show. Yeah. Yeah. She has Truman Show face in the show, in my opinion. What I mean by that is there's like this like, ah, Truman face, like always trying to play the role of the wife on Truman Show or in the movie and just always, and in this thing, she was always making that face. Yeah, same face, all the time. Anyway. But anyway, she's an amazing actress, and again, it speaks to her talent that she can always create these characters that I've like, oh, stop it, you.

Yeah, stop it you. So anyway, Ozark, season four, second half on Netflix, bin, if you have not watched any of it, I envy you, binge the whole thing. You will love it. It is wild that Jason Bateman got wrapped up in this for the last five years. Yeah. Like, it is just wild to me because, like, he could do, he could have, he could have. could have done anything he could have been like he could have ended up being the lead in severance or

whatever like it just the guy the guy is like the every man but the the way he delivers lines and the way he looks when he's talking or listening to people it's it's got this rye like comedic sensibility to it that just goes everywhere right like i could i could see him in star war's i could see him in star trek it's the mc u right like he could be uh yeah yeah yeah You know, he's got kind of the Martin Freeman vibe that, uh, uh, that we get from, uh, but, but we can still use another one like him. He could be another shield agent or something. Yeah, he's all right.

Okay. He's great. Let's do your second one. Uh, you got a second one. I'm in the way furiously so the people in the chat room who've muted so that they don't accidentally hear any spoilers can, uh, come back. Yeah, you're good. All right.

Let's talk about number two, which is another series that I gave us, uh, another season recently. And see if you'll get a voice. You'll recognize a voice right away in this one. All right, here we go. For the last time, that key is for emergencies. You cannot just come by whenever you're in the neighborhood and need to use the bathroom. How's this for an emergency? The universe finally found something worse than death, being my mother.

What? Cool. So, just happening to me then. Hey? I wish I knew what to say, but I'm just not taking this. six train into my mom. Look, all I'm saying is maybe we have unfinished business.

We have spent your past three birthdays on DefCon 1 just in case we start dying and I'm standing here looking at us and we're both very much alive. Ask yourself this. Are you happy? I'm fine. I just, I think this is what life feels like.

Is it, though? Look, you believe me, right? Yeah, of course. I believe you. Proof! I've got proof. You can tell I was really. in the 80s because I got a nuclear war pamphlet from some fucking weirdo who was like really into nuclear war pamphlets.

Oh, it's what's her name? Dichols from Orange is the New Black. Yeah, she always sounds a thousand years old. She does. Yeah, it's so weird. She's a woman when Joan Rivers died, she left her voice to Natasha Leone. It was a really nice gift left in her will. That is Natasha Leon.

This reminds me that I want to have a discussion with you about you, going down to only doing one recommendal a week. Damn it, you're, you're taking up all the good ones. Eating up all the awesome stuff. So hold on, alumni from,

I was thinking of her as one of the friends from, no, from American pies that I was thinking of because she was an American pie. Yeah, I mean,

she's like, right, she's the, the friend of a pie boffer that doesn't seem to get any action during the movies. It's more like the wise sage.

obi one canobi figure in the american fire yeah that's what i was reminded me of and it's funny i never put the two together but in the oranges of the new black that was a reunion of sorts because uh saving silverman what's his name was the husband in the early seasons uh right jason silverman silverman no no jason short name jason begins with a k a k i think jason schwartzman jason jason jason biggs there you go. Anyway, well, so how is this? I was worried about this one because I just thought, how would they going to do a sequel season to that? This seems crazy. If you're unfamiliar with Russian doll, it is one of the many Groundhog Day kind of shows, right? It's a time loop TV show where the main character experiences the same things over and over until they figure

out a way out of it. The first season is absolutely that. It's that groundhog day. Season two, without giving anything away. Good luck. I know. Season two becomes a quantum leap. That's all I'll say about that. I mean, yeah, I guess that's the best comparison, but it really is a miracle, Scott. Like, they came up with a way to do a second season without just redoing the first,

which I actually think they should have redone the first entirely. I think it would have been a great meta joke. That would have been funny. but yeah they really i i i've just blown away at how they nailed it with this concept because i mean it is it yeah you're right it is it is kind of a quantum leap concept but it isn't it really really really isn't it's got to it's got something to do with your ancestors and i like it's just that it's really clever how it does it yeah it's uh again it's it's a clever it's a clever way to follow up a season that you think you understand that you think you know what's going on and a good

way of like, okay, have we really wrapped up the first loop and how is she doing in the second loop? Also, the first season takes place in bathrooms a lot because of how it's structured. This season takes places on trains a lot, and I loved it. I am here for that. Yep. And not so much of that song that we heard every single episode, every time Natasha Leon died in the first season.

The story, the producer, one of the writers is Amy Poeh, So it does have a nice little sense of humor, but it's kind of a cosmic sense of humor as opposed to a, here's a bunch of funny situations. By the way, if you want five minutes of laughing your head off, find the YouTube thing. I can't remember who did it. Maybe Vanity Fair. Interview with Amy Poehler and Natasha Leone. And it's specifically Natasha Leone teaching Amy Poehler how to impersonate Natasha Leone. Oh, really?

And it's great. It is a hilarious little YouTube short. You've got some additional characters who are aware of things happening in her life and who aren't aware of things happening in her life. Chloe 70, who plays the mom. Oh, I love her, dude. She's great. Yeah, is that how you say that? Okay.

That's how I say it. I don't know how that way to say it. That's how I'm going to say it. Okay, good. She's much more prominent in the second season, which is great because she, you know, she brings a lot to the to the characterizations and stuff

anyway it's excellent no that's actually not at Claire that one there's a different one that's got Amy Polar it's where they're standing with a white background right is that the one it's the two of them in front of a white background yeah that one I have seen that's so that one is Vanity Fair interesting anyway so

Russian doll season two oh you guys have found this topic without praising Annie Murphy oh my God oh I love Annie Murphy I forgot the, yeah, she's great. So Schittreeks, Annie Murphy's in this as well. I love her. She is great, yeah.

Of the young set coming out of Schitt's Creek, like, as Schitt's ending, you're like, ooh, every one of these younger actors is going to get a lot of, like they can do anything they want. They can literally anything they want. And for some reason, Dan Levy's like, eh. Yeah, he doesn't seem to care. I'm going to do American Express commercials with the, you know, the other guy, though, the guy that plays his husband is in that.

that new thing I really want to see. I think that might be my recommendal next week, so warning. But I want to watch that Outer Range thing that's on Prime. And he's in that and looks real, he looks real creepy in that. So I'm excited. Okay, for the record, here's how you say her name so we don't have any emails. Oh, good. Please do.

Chloe, Seveny. And now he'll say it for really. Chloe, 70. I think that's what I said. That is what you said. Yep, you were 100% correct. Congratulations, Ryan. You nailed it.

Never heard it said before. Sometimes I do get it right. Savigni. Chloe Savigni. If I've never heard someone say something before, I always try to pronounce all the letters that are there because they should be there for a purpose. Yeah, they should exist for a reason. I'm with you there. All right.

I picked a weird thing this week. You guys are going to think I'm a goofball. But I got in a mood, okay? Some of you may predict this from Twitter and some stuff, but I got in a mood and I'll play a thing and then I'll tell you what I did. Here you go. This is a story of one of America's great unsung heroes. I mean, you've seen him, but you never knew who he was. You've cheered for him and cried for him.

Women have wanted to die for him. But did he ever get any credit? Or the girl. No. He was what we call a stuntman. And the reason I'm talking so fondly about him is, well, because it's me, cold severs. Okay. So I got to watch and I got to binging for some reason.

Finging the Fall Guy. Now, it's happening in the background kind of. I'm not super focused on it, but, you know, it's a kind of show you don't need to be really anyway. This is a Glenn Larson produced written thing from back in the day. That guy made every show you ever heard of, including this. And I remember loving this back in the day because it was not only, you know, Lee Majors, aka the $6 million man, doing something very different, doing a little more comedy with it, but it was still like this adventure every week. Think a team. Think, think, you know, I mean, it is like, it's in the, it's in the ilk of Dukes of Hazard and Simon and Simon and Magnum P.I. That whole era, right? DJ and the bear. Sure. Night Rider to some degree. Like, this is just, and most of those we just mentioned are Glenn Larson production. So it's, you know, it fits. But there's a pedigree. Yeah. And I, you know what? I think the show is just delightfully stupid and fun. And it doesn't take anything too seriously. And there's some real dumb action. It's like a gift production machine. I can make some of amazing gifts from the stupid show. Excellent. And I also hit me how ironic it is that a show about a hitman has a hitman doing all the stunts in the hitman, or not hitman, sorry, a stuntman. Stuntman. He has a stunt man doing all his stunts. It's not Lee Majors out doing these stunts. It's some stuntman doing them.

Oh, yeah, good point. That's a really funny thought. I never even thought of. Yeah. So it kind of lays in on itself in a weird way, but the supporting cast is kind of funny and goofy and just, I don't know, it's just a dumb throwback that I remember really like. as a as a young dude and you know i was probably i don't know this is 81 so i was like 11 or 10 or something was this our introduction to uh heather locklear um she's not in this she's in you're thinking of um uh t j hooker i am thinking of t j hooker yeah but there is a blonde interest in this

one you're totally right that there's a blonde Heather Thomas yes there it is Heather Thomas Heather Thomas the other Heather yeah uh who boy did we have a lot of heathers in the 80s man We did. We did. These are people, she was one that was definitely on one of those posters and Spencer's when I would go in there. Remember that it was like a big wall that you had to flip each poster like it was the most giant book of bikini women ever? And then a cat's saying, hang on until Friday. Totally 100%. She kind of left acting in 1998 and has not really done anything since. But she's actually quite good in this. She's a really great character and it's fun to watch.

Lee Majors is just, I don't know, some about him. I like that guy. He's a million years old now. He's still alive. But anyway, he feels older than he is in the show, right? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

There's something about him. Like, he just springs out of the ground and he's, like, weathered and full of ancient knowledge. You're not wrong. He's in his, like, I don't know, young 40s in this. That's his age, his real age. But he always struck me as like, oh, look at this old guy doing old guy stuff. Like, I don't know.

He still seems old. but they all do back then so whatever it's just a weird thing of the time now i did capture something about this i wanted to share with you too because i thought you guys would enjoy it we've all heard this song i've been blown up for Cheryl teeggs and something for rockdale welch or whatever you know that whole part of the intro yeah here's this part i never heard of and it came out of the pilot because you know pilots are weird and different and they didn't really kind of stick whatever they're going to do long term yet the pilot had this extra bit to the song that i'd never heard so enjoy I might fall from a tall building

So Bert Reynolds don't get a dirt I might leave a mighty canyon So he can't kiss and flirt While that smooth talker's kissing my girl I'm just kissing dirt Yes, I'm the lonely stuntman That made a lover out of Bert It made a lover out of Bert

Awesome It's so good Why does it I guess he uses that same refrain And I'm the lonely stuntman who makes other guys look so good or something like that. Or help make Eastwood a star or something like that. That's what it was. Yeah.

Okay. So they're interesting. So there is the, wow. And they keep having these. The other thing I noticed about the show that I didn't notice when I was younger, every episode, there's a low rent kind of loveboat-esque guest star. Yeah. And they're famous at the time, but they were like, you know what I'm talking about?

The class of TV, you know, what's the competition network stars thing? whatever that was a battle for the network stars which was everybody from fall guy basically yeah yeah and it's like that love boat's the best example of that too the love boat was a different person every week or different two or three people every week yeah but like my my only memory of the fall guy

is that there that I wasn't allowed to watch it I was too young when you know like I was I was always sent off to bed as this kind of show was coming on sure sure but then like years later I was old enough to be watching like the WWF all the time and there was going to be a rerun of the fall guy and reruns used to be advertised right yeah and in the advert we got to see that Andre the giant was going to be on the fall guy and I told my parents I need to watch this and they and they let me watch

this rerun of the fall it was like one episode with Andre the Giant and by the way under the giant has a beard in this episode it's freaky and I remember it I remember it really really well now quick note here that's important to note about the streaming status of this this is not streaming for free on anything which is usually our rule here but i wanted to point out that for some reason there's only one season available anywhere and you have to buy it it's only nine bucks that's why i bought it or eight 89 is all they only have it in standard edition i got that on amazon they have it on apple and everywhere else but they only have a single season available even though there were five seasons of the show so i would like to just put a put the thing out into the ether to say whoever

owns the rights to this what are you doing give me all of it paying all those guest stars for residuals that's what's happening they're just not paying them I can't even find it on Plex with additional seasons like all my Plex friends no additional seasons only season one so something's tied up and something something's bunged up that's why

we were talking about watching the love boat for a film sack a couple months ago and I went and checked it out as it's now streaming on Paramount it had never been streaming anywhere in its entirety and of course it's because it's chock full of guest stars so I went and looked on Paramount And the way Paramount is getting around the problem is they're running so many commercials

throughout your streaming experience of the Love Boat that it's unwatchable. But those commercials are paying for the residuals that we're preventing them from ever streaming it in the first place. Sure, sure. Well, so there you go. Again, not an easy thing to find, but I would recommend it for $9,000 total no-brainer if you're into old 80 shows and you want to... For sure. Just have a little nostalgia poke, you know, whatever. some of you look gen z years and some of you millennials you're probably not going to care but if you're an ex

an ex boy like me get in there i would think i would think the like younger generations would care like even more you know well my kids are weird but maybe all the gen zs are like this they love old stuff nick just finished a rewatch of taxi before that uh the dick van dyke show again he loves this stuff so he would watch this in a heartbeat and love every second of it he watched the a team all the way through. I always just thought I had weird kids. But maybe the thing is, is we have a generation who came up with so many sources for stuff that isn't just their generation stuff that maybe their access is making them different. I don't know. I'm not, by the way, I'm not saying all things like this. Like Hulu recently started streaming the 80s Thundercats. Yeah. And I sat

my kid down. I'm like, I need to show you a few minutes of this show so you can understand why it's so bad. Yeah, I love Thundercats. And he absolutely agreed. Like, it was almost unwatchable. It's pretty bad. Absolutely agreed. It's pretty bad. Yeah. So a lot of that stuff was bad. But I also like watching those things anyway because I know they're bad, but whatever, it's all we had. So I just watch it. I don't know. It's weird. All right, Randy, let's get to yours. We got a clip here. Any set up here before I play it? Just I can't believe we haven't recommended this yet. It's been, it's been streaming for, I don't know, four or five months now. All right. And may the fourth be with you. All right, here we go.

Did you catch any of that? Something about friendship. We really need a protocol droid. Presenting Doc Strassi. He were the Transdotion family protectors of the city center and its business territories. That's weird. I used to work for him. It's even weirder for him.

A thousand hidey. to the new dime yore it's an honor to be welcomed to marcespa by you docks drassi may you never leave morcespa even when a trend ocean pays you a compliment it sounds like a threat star wars names are so dumb they have a dumbest man so i still haven't seen it so tell me why i should see it okay so here's the thing uh John Favreau and others. Like, we got to give credit to, like, Robert Rodriguez, Richie Cunningham's daughter. What's her name?

Bryce Dallas Howard. Thank you. Bryce Dallis Howard. Jeez, that's embarrassing. But you got to give credit to a lot of people who have been turning out just the best Star Wars content that has come along in a very long time. And I think a lot of people didn't watch this, like you, Scott, maybe because they

didn't know in advance that they shouldn't have titled these shows as they did because this is the third season of three seasons of all the same stuff. This is not only specific to Boba Fett. This is season three of the Mandalorian, basically. You could call it that, but I wish it was season three of the John Favreau rescue Star Wars experience

because that's really what's happening here. And by the way, this season, this Boba Fett season, has more fan service than the first two combined. Yeah. And that fan service just comes at you in huge punches. It's insane, Scott. Like, seriously, it's like this is what when you were a kid and you finished watching Return of the Jedi, this is what you hoped you would get then afterward.

Yeah. This. Is that the right mindset to have because everybody's like, you know, everyone becomes an adult and we get all weirdly cynical about the prequels and then stuff we don't we never say this is too this isn't for me or whatever and i kept hearing a lot of that around this uh it sounds like i just need to park my my my 10 year old brain in front of this and watch it and not think too hard about it you know oh yeah but also like it's it's smarter like this is all all of all of this all the three seasons are smarter than anything george lucas ever wrote i mean why it should be right you have 30 years of

of people thinking about what it should be, right? To make it great. I just can't, I can't overstate. Like you heard, I tried to capture a clip that included, you know, Mingna Wen,

because she's, yeah, and it's just, she just doesn't do a lot of talking. She's a, she's a quiet assassin. Yeah. And this season has a couple of instances of her being the most

badass thing that ever happened in, uh, Star Wars in, and I'm including Mace Wind do in that list. Yeah. I'm like it's just I I don't know I just can't I can't overstate like that you if you missed it you need to watch it today's May the 4th you need to you need to see this so that you can understand um and I'm trying to not name anybody that appears here as a surprise because it really is a season that has like for my money a big surprise mm all right that's Randy money that's pretty good uh and and you saw you saw you You saw the second season of Mandalorian? Oh, yeah.

Okay, so you understand that at the end of it, there's a deus ex machina that's just like straight out of every Star Wars ever? I have heard this. Well, I know that one is, but I've heard that there is a... No, no, I'm saying at the end of season two, you remember that they get cornered into the worst possible position and basically God comes down and puts his thumb on a bunch of dark troopers. Yeah, yeah, yeah, basically. a god a living god comes out of nowhere for yeah for uh okay so that same kind of thing in season three only not as uh questionable i love that we're just calling it season three of the mandolorean i think that's yeah it is appropriate yeah it's got as much mandolian as uh season two did yeah like yeah yeah

all right it's but also by the way there's a whole there's a whole backstory here shown in in flashbacks for Boba Fet for how do you get from Boba Fett the bounty hunter who works by himself to the Boba Fett that you know now who is trying to work with people and help people and so on yeah and uh that explanation is it's actually kind of subtle like it does they don't beat you over the head with this character transition you know like he's got some character growth to do and you're going to see what got him there do you think it's weird that every time I see um or I hear him talk I hear Moulon, or not Moulana's dad, because he plays Mouana's dad. And so it's all I hear, it's like, Mwana, you want to stay on the island and make it cool

again or whatever. And I hear him talk and I'm like, that's just him on like a transistor radio. It's the same damn voice. It throws me every time. It is a miracle to me that Tumwara Morrison was cast as Boba Fett 20 years ago. And they still have him and he's still able to carry that character like he does. does. I just think it's, I just think it's awesome. And, uh, and by the way, the clip, I tried to capture a clip that included the voice of Matt Barry. I love Matt Barry. Uh, yeah, he was the

droid speaking, Scott. Oh, oh, oh, that's Matt Barry. No way. Yeah. Okay. I, uh, Matt Barry is one of my favorite people in the world. And I just love that they put him as the voice of a droid that has no personality whatsoever. Because Matt Barry has too much personality. And, like, I hope they do something with that. Like, I just, I want them to, I don't know. I want them to give him a different brain. And so then he goes nuts or, I don't know. I love Matt Perry.

You can listen to him, read a phone book. All right then. There are your list of things you can get to varying degrees. I think Brian's and Randy's are obviously the easier too. Of course. Of course. Oh, is that on Disney Plus? Oh, is that who did it?

What do you know? Oh. Is there any other Star Wars stuff there? It's so funny But today, you need to go to Disney Plus today It is just like, it's May the 4th Hey, we have a thousand hours of Star Wars for you.

Yeah, I'm excited about that. I got to think this morning from them with the official Star Wars timeline Just showing like all of the movies And TV shows and stuff like that And where they all fit in this in the order. It's great. And that new, that new Obi-1 trailer's awesome.

People should go look at it. It's really good. Oh, and by the way, I love the various people, we talked about this before with Mandalorian, how they just cast various people and see what happens. You know, like Amy Sadaris. Oh, yeah.

No kidding. Right. Oh, right. Yeah. She's great in that. I love her. This one has Jennifer Beals. Oh. Like, seriously. It's just so hysterical. Who has still never, not even aged a minute. Like, right. Yeah. Her skin is like Teflon d'Ringles, whatever it is.

Does she get in a chair and have stuff laying on her, like water land on her or anything like that? episode four she does yeah oh fantastic very excited oh man did she take her bra off through her shirt somehow and magically and make a 12 year old boy think that

he's seen everything you never ever needed to see from a lady um this one this one also has the trope of the next generation uh i i don't want to say too much more about that but there's a gang of kids in in book of boba fat and uh basically the most

prominent of them is a young woman uh played by Sophie Thatcher, and you will not be able to take your eyes off her. She commands the screen whenever she's... I need to watch it, I guess. I need to get in there, get my Star Wars on before Obi-1 hits. All right, well, there you have it. As always, Randy puts this stuff all over the social stuff.

So if you want to go find that, you can. You also puts it on our Discord. And while you're in there, join the FilmSack Discord, because there's always good conversation happening there. And, of course, this weekend, we will be back with heavy metal. Randy, have a great risk. of your week, man. Oh, I'm going to. Yeah. Also. Yeah. Also. Hold on. Shit. I wasn't ready.

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Or one of them? Let's absolutely test them tomorrow. Okay. We'll discuss off air how many, if we do both or one or whatever. We'll figure it out. Or maybe we'll each do one of each. I don't know.

We'll figure it out. No, we have the same one. Oh, they are the same. I got two. Oh, you know why? I got one for, there will be dungeons and one for TMS, that's why.

Gotcha. Yeah, the TMS one is the only one I got. So we'll do the TMS one. We'll do that one. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Let's do the dungeons one that you don't have. Let's do that. Exactly.

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No, I don't. Oh, A&P is going up, the judging of the tight format news podcast where we give them the headlines just a couple days before they have to come up with a show. And for the first time this season, somebody goes home, find out who it is. Ooh, that's when the dominoes start to fall is when things get crazy. The dominoes and like a lot of dominoes falling in that. episode. Yeah, never seen so many dominoes. Anyway, that's coming soon to that feed.

And, of course, that's it. We got a song, though. We got to play. You got a little thing here, request, maybe. Yeah, Gene K. wrote in and said, People of Earth, hello. Play this song whenever you want. It's for no one in particular and for no particular reason.

Keep up the good work. Signed, Gene K. Yeah. So that means that I'm into the area where, hey, if you've got a request for May, it's got to be May. It's got to be May. Please get it in. and, you know, make it for any date, birthday anniversary, new child on the way, new job, whatever.

Because May is already starting out a little bit light. Okay, Gene wanted to hear this one. Great cover. I played this actually, I think, on the very first episode of Coverville. No, I played another cover from the same album on the very first episode. Oh, that's a historic moment here. I like this. It is a historic moment.

Yeah. This, a favorite of mine, Blue Man Group, saw them both. saw their live show twice, once in Vegas, and then once off Broadway, but then also saw the concert tour that they had, the Megastar tour, and both incredible, all three incredible experiences. This comes from the album, their first album, which was called The Complex, came out in 2003. It's a cover of the song by Donna Summer and features guest vocals by Venus Hum, who I went out and got albums from right after hearing this. Here is Donna Summers, I feel love all right that's gonna do it we'll see you guys tomorrow wendy'll be here back after a bit

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