The Morning Stream - TMS 2288: MC Julia Child

Episode Date: May 11, 2022

Round Up the Fruit-Haters! Don't Disparage Those Frosted Tips. Never mix your fruit beer. I hAtE tHe TiNA vOIce!! No Gummies... Brought to Utah... By Me. A Sockfull of Coke. Fill Thanos' void. I had THREE BEERS! I'll have a scoop of Wet Dishrag. Lauren Butter Becan. Isn't there a Julia Child documentary called Julia something? Bill is Laserbutt15. Loops and Holes, Baby! Loops and Holes. One Math or Five Math. iO You An Explanation with Tom. Poipu Caffeination With Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, round up the fruit haters. Don't disparage those frosted tips. Never mix your fruit beer. I hate the Gino Voice. No gummies brought to Utah by me. A sock full of Coke. Phil Fannos's void. I had three beers.

I'll have to scoop. Shit. I'll have a scoop of wet dishrag. Lauren butter bacon. Isn't there a Julia Child documentary called Julia something? Bill is Laser But 15. Loops and holes, baby. Loops and holes.

One math or five math. I owe you an explanation with Tom. Poipoo Caffeination with Rendy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. This is chicken in red wine and this is chicken in white wine. Although one is brown and one is white, they are sisters under the skin. Never, never back up. The morning stream. One, two, three.

Links to get to the center. Good morning, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's Wednesday, May 11th, 2020. Scott Johnson here. Brian Abbott there. Yeah. Listening to that intro makes me want to take the brown acid.

Oh, does it? Yeah. Does it? Don't take the brown acid. But then, but then Grace Lake told me not to. Hey, that Julia Child thing, that should be put to a wrap. I agree. This is chicken and red wine.

This is fucking in white wine. White wine. I found a treasure trove of her just getting stoked about the food she's making. And it makes me want to watch that HBO miniseries about her. I guess there's anything. What's it called? It's just called Julia. It's getting some really good reviews.

Yeah. And it's nothing like the, it's not. the other one they put in theaters years ago, right? Julia, Julie and Julia, I think it was what it was called. Yeah, different deal than that. Yeah. Okay. It's making sure I'm not actually going to watch a whole thing or something, but I think

I might watch it. And you know what? When I was growing up, I used to think she was the most boring human ever. I didn't want to watch anything to do with cooking shows. But I don't know. Now I got all this respect for her. I think she's great. It's funny what maturity and adulthood do to you, I guess.

Is she kind of the Bob Ross of cooking? A little bit? Could we say that? Except, I don't know if her voice would be considered an ASMR-style no no not in that aspect like very very different in uh in calm and soothing but you know just that that uh um there's a a homie kind of quality to it yeah you know it doesn't feel like you're watching mario battali or or i guess maybe don't watch him but uh you're watching oh that's right he's in he got trouble for something i forgot about that he actually just got i think

he just got exonerated about it or whatever the... Oh, did he? Is he still wearing the crocs all the time? Stupid crocs. Good Lord. Yeah, he liked the cross. He is trying to make fetch happen with those orange crocs is what he's doing. The guy that always seems like he might be a huge jerk in real life. I could be wrong. I don't know. But the guy that always seems that way is that Bobby Flay guy to me for some reason. Oh, Bobby Flay does seem like he's got a little, a little irritating arrogance to him.

I think Camero Lagos would be fun to hang out with. Yeah, he'd be all right. And I hate to say it. As much as I think he dresses and has made himself look like a tool, I think Guy Fieri would be a blast to hang out. Oh, he seems fine. In fact, it seems more than fine. A guy shows up and feeds firefighters when California's on fire.

He does so many great things for people that it's, you know, it's hard for me to disparage his frosted tips and his, you know, Always got to have his, like he's inside. Why do you need sunglasses on your neck? What's the deal? Take those off. You're filming, buddy. Get those off your neck.

Carefully crafted goatee frost-tip thing. Seems like a decent guy. You know what? And I'll say this. His food is damn good. We've had his lollipop chicken wings at Planet Hollywood. I think it is where his Flavitown is. Yeah, I think so.

Last time I tried to go there was closed. They had some kind of redeemed. go. Oh, really? Yeah. Piss me off. That's Vegas for you. Yeah, I don't like it. No, sorry, don't. Constantly changing. Would you think if I walked up to Emerald Agassie and I said, Hey, Emerald, what's your favorite, who's your favorite person in the jackass?

You think he'd yell, bam? I could see this coming. Yeah, he'd yell, bam is what he'd yell. You'd say, Johnny Knoxville. Oh, he said, Knoxville. He's probably a nice guy, that guy, too. Like he said. All right. Hey, I got to tell you about it. I had a dream. Yeah.

Do you like to hear this dream? It's got to be better than mine. Here's my dream. Oh, I even have some dream. Oh, no, I didn't do it yet. I have some dream music. Oh, we need to set up dream music. Yeah, I got something.

I'll put it together later. But anyway, here's the deal. I had a dream. And this is important for our listeners to hear this because it involved one of you, someone I don't think I've ever met in person. If I have, I apologize for not remembering or matching the name with the real life human I met. Because that happens. Some of you guys are named, you know, Laserbutt 15 and maybe your name is Bill.

I don't know. Right, right. So, me and J.C. Calhoun. Oh, okay. Now, in the dream, he was... Yeah, I don't know if we've met J.C. Calhoun at a Nurtacular or anything. I don't think so. As far as I know, we have not.

And in this dream, he was represented as kind of an android-looking person. Didn't look like... Which makes me think I've not met him in real life. Is J.C. here? He is. Oh, he says he was at the last Nertacular. So we didn't meet him. Yeah, and just for whatever reason, my dream, nor I can picture. you in my head yeah but for some reason dude you were in it and it was me and you and we were out

rounding up in the dream made sense we were rounding up what was referred to as fruit haters these were people that hated fruit so it was like uh mangoes and grapes i hate them and they were that was against whatever laws we had in this world and we in our job was to go around and round up these known fruit haters and then take them into custody and then after that i don't what happened to those people probably something terrible but it was me and him going like it was really weird so weird like why would i even have that i'm waiting for j c calhoun by the way come up with a photo from nertacular where like he's rescuing us from you know we fell in the creek and he's got his arm and he like he was the one who saved our lives and we can't even remember yeah i'm waiting

for one of those photos one of these major moments that we should absolutely remember all of us you know waking up in bed on sunday morning like oh jc calhoun but what is it about him in particular what is it about i love fruits great i love fruit nothing wrong with fruit like this dream makes no effing sense to me it's really it's really bizarre yeah and i woke up and i actually wrote it down because i could feel this one fleeting as soon as i woke up i was like oh this is going to leave me i want to talk about it on the show so i immediately wrote it down on a pad of paper and that's the only reason i remember it because all the other details are very fuzzy all it was was there were fruit haters and we had to get them we had to get the fruit haters

I will take your dream over my dream any day of the week because the, I don't know what crept into my mind. I think I must have been thinking about that Zach Began's haunted museum tour in Vegas, but I was on a ride like Pirates of the Caribbean or something, right? A little boat ride, and it was Zach Began's haunted boat rides like that. But it was only the serial killers from his haunted museum, right? So you've got like Manson and Bundy and John Wayne Gacy and stuff like that as, you know, represented by these like animatronic, you know. But the victims, again, what did I? Well, I had beer last night. I usually don't have beer and that's my damn problem.

But all the victims that were with these animatronic things were real people getting slaughtered as we went by the boat and said, oh, look, There's John Wayne Gacy. Oh, you can out. It's a splash zone. It's real blood. And oh, my God. Here's Charles Manson. Ew.

I've got Sharon Tate on me. Oh, man. So these are, so it was like a, uh, it was like the tour except real, real victims were inserted into the, uh, it was real, yeah, exactly real people. Maybe they, you know, paid less to get into Zach Began's haunted boat tour. But seriously, I have no idea what I had to drink, but it was, uh, uh, uh, uh, or what I ate or whatever it was, but I did have a, I had a soft pretzel yesterday and, and three beers. Oh, three beers. So maybe the, uh, what were the beers? Do we know the, uh, yes. First one was a blood orange

habanero. The second one was a blueberry ale. And the third one was a, um, a pineapple IPA. I kind of stayed in the fruit. Maybe I felt like I was eating healthy, drinking healthy because, they were all fruit related. Oh, blood orange. Good point, Claire. There we go. That solves it. It was blood orange. It was blood orange. You know what? If I hadn't a JC and I would have skipped over you because you like your fruit. That's what we would have done. Oh, look at that. There's the weird combination or the weird point of synchronicity. Are those things made with those? I'm not a beer drinker and I have zero idea. Yeah, they are. So we went to, last night was puzzled pint. It was a great one. Man, we had our fastest, I think our fastest time ever. We did all five puzzles in. an hour exactly from 637 to 737 and i rode my bike out there i did a 13 mile ride to this place called the oasis brewery in um central denver and um uh i got there before everyone else and so i was like well you know uh i've got like 20 minutes before anybody shows up i'm going to have a blood orange habanero beer and a hot soft pretzel so that's exactly what i do i like a hot soft pretzel you're going to like you there so good

like brown mustard with it really spicy brown mustard and uh oh my god it was it was fantastic big fan of that that's cool that they have those there uh well good so yeah you probably probably a beer dream who knows it was definitely a beer dream i i haven't had much to drink since Vegas like since since we got back from Vegas i've kind of been a little bit of a teetotaler yeah but uh so that's probably like oh i remember this we had some of this in nevada blah blah la And then my brain just goes, you know, nuts. Do you think, I mean, you have a good excuse. You drank beer and it gave you a dream.

I don't have, I didn't do anything. Yeah, you didn't have any more checks mix or yogurt with the honey bunches of oats in it. I didn't eat anything late. Let me think. Yeah, I didn't eat anything late. I got a little week before dinner because I realized I hadn't eaten anything since like 11. And so I ate last night, but I didn't pig out or eat late or anything. I don't know.

I don't have an excuse. I have zero excuse. I don't get it. People think, oh, I did have a, yeah, I snorted that Coke, Claire, that's right. I did snort some Coke. Oh, you brought some back from Vegas? I left all mine in the room. I left it all on the mirror and I forgot to, you know, sweep it back into a little baggy.

Yeah, mine was in a sock and that was a bad idea because it's gross and comes out of the sock. I'll do that. And then I put it up my bum and it was there for too long. Got like a contact high and all that. So here's a question. Obviously, you know, you had an edible during the TMS Live Vegas. I'm sorry, you ate a regular gummy because you said you were parched and for some reason you thought a gummy would quench your thirst. Yeah, it was all, it all made perfect sense at the time.

Absolutely. Yes. But you also, you know, at the time, you can't just buy one. You have to buy. You got to buy a little bag. Yeah. Yes. Did you bring gummies back to Utah?

Hmm. Let's see. Did I bring gummies back to Utah? Let me see if this. I guess I don't want to say anything that's going to indict you, like into a committing a crime by, you know. I'm going to say no. I did not bring. Incriminate you.

I did not bring any gummies to Utah. Okay. I will say that that I brought. Okay. All right. There were no gummies. Hold on. Hold on.

How I say it. There were no gummies brought to Utah. by me there you go yeah no I can say that all right I can say that I did not bring any gummies to Utah there you go done wow there's so many loophole like you drew that you wrote that in cursive with so many loops loops and holes baby loops and halls right yes all right real quick before we get to babble royale today I do want to rip through an email here from Bob I'm sorry Rob he goes by not Bob he could if he wanted because that's how weird that name is you could be Bob or Rob or Robert or whatever you want you could be richard or dick did you know that you'd be dick or richard

crazy sure that's my middle name yep uh is it really always forget that yeah yeah richard which is long for dick brian richard ibitt man that's right b r i've told that story a million times that you know my dad had this whole like oh well he can be b r i are his initials in the first three letters of his first name and then r i are the first two initials of his middle name and then it's like a whole he did like a like a magic square with my name when they were coming up with it. Nice. Nice. I love it. Well, here's what Rob says.

This is about words and how we pronounce them. Uh-huh. He says, Scott and Brian, first they would like to say, I love the show, and this is not a criticism. I just find it weird,

but I am a Brit, so maybe it's just me. All right. So there's a little caveat at the beginning. Following on from the Craig debate, Brian's correct, by the way, it's Craig,

he says. I think it really just depends on the Craig, right? I mean, there's going to be some Craigs that are Craigs. Yeah. I have a car.

I have a Craig, and my cousin goes by Craig. That's just how it is. He says, I just wanted to bring up a few more words, which you guys use on the show that kind of bug me. Okay. Niche or niche. I'm not sure what he thinks we're saying. He says, again, maybe it's just me,

but I would say niche rather than niche. Where's the T? I'd say niche. I always say niche. Yeah, I say niche too. I think we both say niche. It's my niche. Yeah, I don't think I say niche.

I don't think we say niche. niche is this is a other I know other people say niche our niche in time saves nine but we but my heesh has a niche in it or something anyway I think we say niche all right next step aluminum is an obvious one you guys say

aluminum we say aluminum yeah yeah so you guys are all like what's his name from Apple what was his name before he left Jonathan knives yeah he's sitting around going oh the aluminum finish oh do da-de-b-do it sounds so exotic yeah we don't say it that way. We say aluminum, but again, you say a lot of words differently than we say words here. So this is not that big a deal. He says, addicting. Now, this isn't a pronunciation issue, but I would say something is addictive rather than addicting. I totally agree. 100% agree. I screw that up a lot. I say things like, oh, it's super addicting. And I don't mean that. Is it matter? Or does it? Maybe it matters. Maybe it matters.

I don't know. Gun to your head. I don't know if it's a, you know, an allowed grammatical thing like supposedly has become a word and allowed. So maybe addicting, you know, something that causes you to be addicted could either be addictive or addicting. I think it's, I think it's, yeah. It's swappy. We can swap it. Okay.

Let me ask our friend this. Like, how come you guys go to? university instead of the university. Yeah, right. Exactly. A hospital. Yeah. Or why do you study maths instead of math?

Right. Right. Maths. Maths. Come on. Learn your plurals. There's math is math. Whether it's one math or five math. Yeah, I think that's annoying. Wait, maybe not.

He says, anyway, just some random thoughts. You guys have kept me sane during some recent sad time. So keep it up, please. Is it too early to get a fish sandwich? And he wants the Brian version. So I'm going to find that real quick here. Okay. While you're finding that, I'll say that Christine Fletcher and I during TMS Vegas got not into a heated discussion, but she called me out on pronouncing F-O-R-T-E as Fort.

Oh. And she says, you know, it's Italian, Forte, right? Like Will Forte. Right, exactly. And I said, oh, no, actually, and I had to look it up to prove it. But the name comes from the fencing sword, and the middle of it, the part that is the most stable, the best part of the sword, is the Fort, F-O-R-T-E. Oh, I didn't know that. But it's French and it's pronounced four, or probably more accurately pronounced four, you know.

Oh, right, right. And they probably drop the key. Yes, in music, it is Forte. But, no, no, look it up, folks. Both Forte and Forte are allowable pronunciations of F-O-R-T. T.E. because of its introduction. Take that, Christine Fletcher. I know you're listening. Take that. No, I'm certainly never going to say that.

To her, I would never say. She also told me that she absolutely hates it when I do the teen voice. She makes her, her words, it makes me so mad when you do that voice. Well, I like this. This conversation is great because she's a speech therapist. And if anyone is going to give us heat on words, it's going to be. Christine, I love it. Yes, totally, absolutely. So nice seeing them. All right, here's the deal.

Oh, here's Brian saying the thing. Okay, here you go. Hey, is it too early to get a fish sandwich? What I like about Brian's? He adds an extra in there, and it actually makes it better, in my opinion. So listen to the difference. Yeah, here's the difference. I'll play the, here's the normal one.

Hey, too hard I get a fish sandwich? All that guy does is a hay. We get a couple of us out of Brian. Hey, is it. Too early to get a fish sandwich? I know I've got limited time with these people, so I want to get it as much as I can. Yeah, no.

I love it. I don't think it should ever be different. All right. That's... Fention points out it was a missed opportunity. Christine Fletcher said, Brian, I hate it when you do your Tina voice. Christine, feel free to email the show,

and we'll talk about it. We'll talk it through and see where we end up. All right. We're going to call Dunaway. We're going to have some fun here. Let's see what we can do. Hey, look what time it is. It's time for the Tad Pooley feud.

Joining us, as always, is Mr. Brian Dunaway all the way from South Carolina. Hello, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hey, man. It's nice. Hello. How are you guys? Oh, you know, pretty good.

How are you? It's Wednesday, my. dudes. Yeah, it is Wednesday. Yeah, you're right. It's Wednesday. And it's good to be here on a Wednesday. With you. Callers call in. Somebody called and then hung up as

soon as I grabbed them, so I don't know what happened there. Oh. Oh. Oh, are they still callers if they're not calling in? Well, they're former callers. Yeah. They're ex-collars. They're ex-cullers. Uh, ex-men. Ex-ch chickens. Anyway, if you guys want to call in and be a part of the show, we would

love it if you did. 8-01-471-0-0-4-6-2. X-chicken. You can be the next X-Chicken right here. That was weird. You hear that? That was cool. That was wild.

That's because I was using my... I thought I forgot I had it on delay and not on echo. Do it again. I want to hear how that sounds again. Do that again. X-Tekin, Echon, Echon, Echon, Ech, oh my gosh, that's crazy. Whoops, I didn't mean to push that.

All right. Anyway. Welcome to a litany of sounds. That's right, everybody. Our experimental album, TMS. For some reason, here, let me refresh the, I think Google Voice might be something weird going on. There we go. Okay, it should be okay.

Okay, there it is. Now I think we've got a caller. Okay, hi, who's this? Hi, it is Raven CTG from the chat or formerly Boko and Sagi. Oh, look, you've got a name change in your history. Wow. Tell us why you changed your moniker online. What happened?

Well, I work for Chip Theory Games. So now that I'm doing stuff on Discord and Twitch for them, I changed it. That makes sense. My mom works for work. Yeah. No, that makes sense. You've done the right thing, I'm going to say. Is there going to be a conflict of interest with us giving you Steam games if you work for chip theory games?

Are you allowed to play other games? We are strictly board games right now. Oh. Oh, good. Oh, good. Dodge that bullet. Man, I didn't want to get wrapped up into this litigation. shouldn't have to like go to court and you know get asked questions i don't want to do that

no these look great yeah they do look cloud spire and too many bones oh these look great yeah i'd say that about me too many bones um dan patrice can tell you all about that yeah you can dan knows his stuff uh oh sure yeah played all that stuff um well it's nice to have you here we're gonna use uh brian dunaway and myself as a way to hopefully win some prizes Brian if it's going to explain the whole thing Brian how's this work oh I guess I could do that yes it's time to play Oh, hold on. Let's see if I can do it. The Tadpoolie feud. Very nice.

From the toilet. Somebody let me out. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Chip, CTG, Raven. Let me get one of these names right. 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 System Shock 2 and Broken Age.

Oh, Broken Age is great. I'm playing that right now. That game's great. It's awesome. Yeah. Very exciting. Good stuff. All right.

So, let's give you guys your category. And I'm going to say right now that I did a lot of parsing and I did a lot of going to the source to make sure I got things accurate from the tab. Wait, wait, wait. Who's the source? Yeah, what's your source? I'll tell you in a second. I'll tell you the source wasn't like the internet, right? It was the internet, but it was an official.

Okay, there we go. There we go. Okay, okay. I'm trying to make sure that I know where the data flows. Sure. Sure. It's a good thing to be sure of. All right.

So, hands-on buzzers. I asked 595 tadpoolers, 29 of them just couldn't come up with anything. But the other ones did. I asked him this question. You're at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop. What flavor do you order? Damn it.

Brian Dunaway. Vanilla. Vanilla. Show me. Vanilla. It's down there. Middle of the board, baby. That's not bad points-wise, but let's see if I can beat it.

Let's do chocolate. Chocolate. Just plain old regular chocolate. Show me that one over there in the brown tub. Chocolate. Yeah. Scott has control of the board. That's what I was kind of debating on in my head.

I was like, oh, I don't want to get too high, but then if I... To get too high, then the crash comes. You don't want to crash. Yeah. Oh, well. Exactly. Well, all right. It's me and our listener.

Hey, do you have anything that pops into your head for... Go ahead. What about Rocky Road? Oh, well, well, that's... Oh, everyone loves Rocky Road. He's got some chunks in there. So good. And Askin Robbins makes a good Rocky Road with lots of stuff in it.

I agree, but if you noticed when you go in there, that place always smells like a wet dishrag. Have you noticed that? Oh, really? That's because there's a wet dish rag that wipe everything down with. I guess so. I don't know what it is. It always smells like a death. It's actually what it is, is the coolant condensation creates a lot of water on metal.

Like a musty smell. Okay. That explains a lot. I don't know. The one. the one by us, and I say by us, it's, you know, it's about 12 miles away. It's really close to where I rode my bike yesterday. It smells great.

I haven't been in there in about five years. It's been a while since I've been, too. Don't they make their own, do they make their own sugar cones, waffle cones? Because that would definitely, that's too bad. That would improve the smell of that place. It would. Oh, it totally would. Yeah.

Yeah. Ever since we discovered and it has grown Little Man ice cream here in Denver it that's where we go so if you please tell me no one over five foot tall is allowed to work all they're all under five foot munchkins they're right they're all uh sweet umpal ump I see I know I stayed safe it just said five foot no classification just people to under five foot yeah Brian we're trying to put label on it stop and here's why I say that because their Colfax location is it feels like you're walking into the Willy Wonka of ice cream shop There are, you know, buckets swinging by you overhead, zipping back and forth.

They've got a slide that comes down in the middle of the place. All the windows are, like, they have windows where you can see them actually making the ice cream. It's so damn good. Sounds awesome. Love it. All right. If you come to Denver, visit Little Man Ice Cream. They are not a sponsor.

No. But you said Rocky Road. Let's see if the Tadpool said Rocky Road. Show me the Road of Rockiness. Yeah. Number four. Nice. Well done.

Some good points from that one. Okay. How do you feel about mint chocolate chip? Cool. That's a kid. Yeah, you're okay with that one? I feel pretty good about that, too. Let's go mint chocolate chip. Sure. That was the kind of thing I was only, I could only get if I was in the right mood, but I often was, so I'd get that. Yeah. It's funny because the dairy won't leave your breath smelling great, right?

It'll taste minty, but boy, you don't have minty breath when you're done. Show me mint chocolate chip. No, number one. Uno and 100, exactly 100. Wow. I'm shocked by that. I wouldn't put that high. Okay. I wouldn't have either.

Do you have any others that leap out? Well, in Ohio we have the Buckeye ice cream, but what about moose tracks? Oh, moose tracks. Everyone loves a good moose tracks thing. I do, or did. I can't eat those anymore, but yeah, moose tracks. All right. Show me that Ben and Jerry's flavor moose tracks

cheques that was a bad sign that was a good way to say it too let me show you the Benigerie's flavor moose tracks now that still didn't stop four people for tadpulers from saying moose tracks so it was number 27

I thought that was a standard thing not their name but I guess not huh I think it's unique to to them and I try to find an equivalent like whenever go ahead we have like briars here in Ohio and they have smooth stride.

So I don't think it's, maybe it's, maybe it's a Breyer's flavor, not a Benin-Jerry's. Yeah. Yeah. But it's not a, yeah, it's not a Baskin-Robbins flavor. Now, but still, if enough tadpullers would have said it, it would have been in the top ten, regardless of where it came. I didn't take any out saying that they're, they're not Baskin-Robbins. Sure, sure. All right, Brian, now you can try things.

I don't live near a Baskin-Robbins anymore, but when we used to go, um, um, uh, We always got the cotton candy. I can't see everybody loved it, but I certainly loved it. Does it taste like cotton candy? No, but it was... All right. Now, hold, here's... Okay, I'm in the backup for a second.

As I just looked it up, so Moose Trek's ice cream is vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cups and... Oh, by a different name. By a different name. So you're going to wait until I give my best answer away? Raven, you win automatically. I've got to do it. A whole game is blown. Yeah, peanut butter cup, I'm giving you that one because it is, there is a peanut butter cup.

It may be, yes, it is. That's what Moose Tracks is. Moose Tracks is peanut butter cup. It's got moose in it. So I'm, I'm, uh, changing the, going back into the multiverse and coming back to the Scott universe. All right. The rule is we will not use cotton candy for us if he still wants to use it. You can use cotton candy.

No, because who eats that? That's garbage. do it's delicious it's terrible um all right i'm gonna but i am i do kind of lean toward thinking a lot of people get bubble gum because that's what my kids always wanted there uh what do you think of that raven do you think that's a bad idea sure yeah it's no long time since i've actually been to a baskin robin same it's been ages for me but uh i haven't smelled that sweet dirty rag smell for a long time so uh i can't wait to get in there um let's let's go for that let's try the ice cream one.

Sorry, the ice cream one. Sorry, the bubblegum one, that's what I meant. I'll go with ice cream. Pink bubblegum from Baskin Robbers. Robbers. Show me. Robbers. Bubblegum.

Yeah, I'm giving you back your first strike. Did make the list. Let's see. There it is. Number 12 on the board. Yeah. So people do like that because you end up with really bad bubble gum in your mouth when your ice cream is.

done. Yeah. Unless he's swallow all that. It's horrible. That gum is worse than like the kind you get with trading cards. It's so bad. Wasn't there one, wasn't there an ice cream that you could get from the ice cream truck that had gum at the bottom of it?

Wasn't that a thing? Like in the comb or something? It was, it was the Mario. And his nose, yeah, his nose is a gum ball. Interesting. It's a popsicle shaped like Mario. No, it's not shaped like Mario. Nothing off the ice cream truck ever was shaped like it was.

supposed to be. I'll take the Mickey Mouse. What is this? Lusely shaped like a somewhat Mario shape. Yes, good point. You definitely knew it melted at some point. I'm sticking with the cotton candy. Good plan. I'm going in.

Show me cotton candy. Oh, man. Not that good a plan. Number 24 on the list. Four people said that one. There is right there. There's four people that are my people. There's a photo of it. Captain McKepper just put it in there.

The Super Mario. bar has a gumball for a nose. Does this guys remind you of your childhood here? Oh, the ice cream man's coming. Quick, run down the street. I have the worst. I have the worst audio location

built into my head. I could never tell where the hell the ice cream truck was. There's no bat in Brian Dunaway. Yeah, ours plays Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. Not, doesn't play that happy Jonti sounds. That's cool. I love that.

It is some weird song that's not, wasn't what you played. But it's weird. Yeah. Weird. I like that, though. It's discordant. All right. Let's get.

Back to Raven and Scott. We get four or five left. All right, Raven, anything, uh, jumping out at you there. I can't think of anything at the moment. I mean, there's different variations on chocolates like we could go, uh, like a, I don't know, you know, oh, um, oh, no, no, what about one of the, uh, uh, uh, uh, They always had the, oh, what's it called? It's, it's, it's, it's, uh, oh, it's creamy.

Oh, no, it's not creamy. It's the, sugary. It's the sherbet, sherbet, sherbet, whatever. Sherbet, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the shabit. Let's do the sherbet. I need more. I need more information. Orange, orange, okay, orange sherbert.

Orange sherbet, okay, all right. And it's pronounced sherbet, isn't it? You don't pronounce that. Even though that second R is in there, you don't pronounce it. It's a, it's sherbet. It's sherbet. It's sherbet. Like, fortation.

Forte Sherbet. Yeah. Machetee. Got it. Okay. All right. Show me orange sherbet. Damn it. Did not make the cut. Hoop.

I don't even think anybody said, oh, there it is. Yes. Two people said Orange Sherbet, number 37 in the list. Damn. Okay. All right. All right. Back over to Monsieur Dunaway.

Still lots of high point ice creams on here. Oh, yeah. He could win. I'm going to go with my least favorite. I always think I like, there's parts of this ice cream that I love. Anyway, it's Rocky Road. Sometimes I like Rocky Road.

And other times I'm like, what am I eating? Why are there marshmallows and all of the kind of weird stuff in my Rocky Road? What is that all about? And you've already said Rocky Road because I'm seeing it now on the list.

Because I just look back at the board. Yeah. Whatever. I'm glad you did that yourself. It's been really fun to you. I'm going back to the other one we used to get. We used to get a cake-flavored ice cream. I didn't actually get

it. My significant other really liked the cake, the batterer. The cake batter ice cream? I can't remember. It's cake. It tastes like cake. Yeah, icy. All right, okay. Show me, I think they call it icing on the cake. Show me that. Or birthday cake.

Oh, man. Yeah, did not make the cut number 22 on the list four people said birthday cake. Raven, how do you feel about I can't believe we're missing so many. We really need to get to Baskin-Robins. The cookie dough.

Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's go with the cookie dough, Brian. Everybody loves a good cookie dough. Everybody loves a good cookie dough. Show me, cookie dough. Yeah. Number two, chocolate chip cookie dough.

Okay. Second most popular flavor among the tadpool. Feeling pretty good about this. With 7, 8, 9, and 10 are still unaccounted for. Well, here's the time. Those mystery cardboard tubs. Yeah. Go ahead.

Raven, what you say? Did they have like a cookies and cream? Oh, I wonder if that counts. Yeah, you know what? That is different. Let's say cookies and cream. It's usually like an Oreo style thing. So yeah, we'll say cookies and cream.

I like it. All right. All right. Show me cookies cream. Number eight. Yeah, very different from chocolate. Nice. Nice.

It's Oreo versus chocolate chips. I agree. Yeah, it should be different. Okay. How do you feel about this? This is the kind I don't like. My parents love it, though. They would always get butter pecan.

Oh, butter pecan. That was the other one I was thinking of. I don't love butter pecan, but it's probably on here because people like that, that's garbage. I like butter bacon. It's good. Let's do it. Let's do butter bacon. Did I say bacon?

Is that how you say it? It's Lauren Piccol and butter. Bacon. I got this, right? All right. Show me butter pecan. Oh, shit. Number 11 on the list, just outside the top 10. Damn it. I like butter pecan, actually.

I don't know why I don't like it. Two flavors that I like, but I just don't know if like the freaking Tadpool likes them. Tadpoo would like them or not. Yeah, they're weirdos. Who knows? You do need to run the board in order to win, by the way, so. Oh, I'm screwed in. There was like one with, like,

like cherries in it and I always I always said let me let me say let me sample that one and it was like a cherry it was the ice cream really cherry I don't know but there was cherries definitely in it sure I'm gonna go with yeah chunks of cherry like almost whole cherries that were smashed down there and those cherries maybe were

I don't know maybe not traditional like red cherries but maybe they were black cherry there you go yes black cherries or black cherries yeah all right All right, show me black cherry. Oh. Number 17 on the list, black cherry ice cream, which was... There's also a cherry, there's a cherry chocolate chip. There's, like, various cherry variants, but I don't think any of those are on this list.

So what are we... I should have said strawberry or something plain, but nobody... No, number nine, strawberry. Dang it. That's big points, too. Number seven, which is absolutely my go-to. When I walk in there, this is almost always what I get, and like I said, it's been five years, is jamoka almond fudge. Oh, man. Oh, they smell a jimoka?

Yeah. Oh, I love the jimoka shake at Arby's. I didn't know they had a chamoca. Yeah. Oh, it's great. It's got chunks of almond in there and a fudge ribbon stripe through the whole thing. And then finally, good old classic chocolate chip, number 10. Oh, duh.

Oh, what? Duh. What were we thinking? Chocolate chip or chocolate chip cookies? I would have thought that would have been it. Yeah, it's just chips of chocolate. We should have known that one. I don't know you people at all.

And that's only 10 of the 31 flavors. What were some of our close-ups there? Yes, some of the ones that didn't make the cut. And by the way, I just linked you to the menu, the Gaskin-Robbins menu. And keep in mind, you know, I didn't just say, well, these have to be the current 30-year. one flavors. But pistachio, cheesecake or strawberry cheesecake,

prelines and cream, which is something you only think of with Baskin Robbins. Chocolate fudge brownie, rum raisin, salted caramel. Daccarry ice is another popular one. Because it's like having a dacri without the alcohol.

Ooh, good coconut. Ooh, that looks good. Gold metal ribbon, cherries Jubilee, separate. It's a different one than black cherry. German chocolate cake. It takes two to mango. uh black raspberry i hate that one butterscotch ribbon caramel macchiato rainbow sherbet that's the that was the highest ranking sherbet was the rainbow sherbet so why did they steer suddenly into that one what would you say it was the mango thing what was the mango when you said oh it takes two to mango why would they do that suddenly they're like all straight lace for the most part right they have icing on the cake which is their birthday cake flavor one they have moms making cookies which somehow is

different from chocolate chip cookie dough, I believe. Yeah. They have a separate, even though they look almost identical. Um, Oreo and cold brew, no show, just looking for any other unusually named. Well, they got wild and reckless sherbet, which is weird. That's a weird name. It does. Looks like a Cimony, right? With that dark green and the pink. Yeah. That's enough to make your kid turn. Your kid's tongue is going to be brown all day and they're going to get it all over their Close. Don't get them that flavor. Totally unwrapped is chocolate peanut butter ice creams twisted with fudge covered pretzel pieces, fudge and caramel covered peanuts, and salted caramel swirls.

How about baseball nut? The sweet-you-sinnis, the watermelon burst sorbet, that looks like trash. It does. Doesn't it? Yeah. It's like, that looks like, that's the, the ice cream you get at the end of the serial killer ride that I was talking about. earlier, but I drank. No, thank you.

That's pretty bad. Jason Vorhe's favorite flavor. Was there a lemon? Because I love lemon. No, surprisingly, no lemons, which, you know, you think like a lemon sherbet would be really good or a lemon poppy seed ice cream would be really good. I want to go to Ibit's ice cream store. No kidding.

If you want no sugar added stuff, you can get a no sugar added pineapple coconut. That sounds all right. There you go. You want to get vegan. You can get daugory ice. that's it. Oh, Decrease is vegan? That's cool.

That's all they got. It's also not a very good picture. It looks like it's black and white and all the other ones are color, right? Because they even put it in front of a bland gray background. Yeah, it's like a, I don't know, it looks like a piece of stone, you know, like a stone ball. All right, well, don't try the baseball nut. That's my only recommendation. Baseball nut.

Well done. You've won, and that means this. Winner, winner, chicken dish. And when you hear the Tussones girls say that, that means Brian is going to send you these codes and he's just got to get your email. Or no, you need his email. Coverville at gmail.com, right, Brian? Right. We need each other's emails.

Yeah. Like the flowers need the rain. Yeah. So yeah, email me your email address or just email me and I'll reply with these prizes. Yeah, we'll hook you up. So congratulations and well done. It was really nice having you go on. No problem.

We'll see you next time. Bye now. Now I'm going to go get ice cream. See you. See you, everybody. Sounds all right. I know. I would love to get ice cream.

My favorite is this going to get a vanilla cone from the Dairy Queen because it always tastes the same. Listen, my grandmother, anytime we went to Baskin-Robbins, I'd be all over the place with flavors. She would always get French vanilla, and I'd be like, vanilla, boring. Boring. And then I tried their French vanilla and, like, oh, my God, this is awesome. Yeah, their French vanilla is damn good. Yeah, it's, I love all that. um what i really want though is always something chocolate that's my thing my jam got to have chocolate

don't care don't care what we're doing how we're doing it make sure it's chocolate and everyone's happy sure uh done away having you on is also a very happy thing and uh i would like to remind people last night we did our really cool dragons layer and beyond sort of discussion yesterday uh you can't see it on youtube because uh they're weird but uh you can hear the podcast and uh see the vaid on Twitch of course if you just go check them out and you should find Play Retro wherever you get your podcast if you want to hear that discussion. Yeah. Play retro

show. That's what I try. I will say this. I tried to play retro show this morning using Siri in my car because I was wanting to see, I had the latest episode here and everything and I was like I couldn't figure out the right incantination to say to get it to play it. Yeah. Because it's got play

in the title. Oh, right. I kept... Oh, how do you think of Right. A word play, play retro. Yeah, exactly. Oh, that's crazy. Let me try it here. Let me see if this works. Play, play, retro.

Let's see what she says. Oh, that's a song. They don't know. I think if you do play the podcast, play retro. I think you'd be able to do it. I think that's what I ended up doing. Play podcast. Or play the latest episode of Play Retro.

Yeah. I think that's what you have to do. Pretty cool. All right. Well, Brian, it's been a pleasure having you here. We look forward to Film Sack this weekend with you. And use. What are we watching?

We're going to watch a movie. We're watching Showtime. Shouts to know. Eddie Murphy. No, we're not. Didn't they get pulled? Are we going back to it? No, it's not.

Let me hold. That was a week ago, yeah. That was the one that got pulled. You're right. We are not. We are watching Zathura, Zathura. The Space Adventure, which is available both on Hulu and HBO Macs

in case one of them pulls it. That's right. Got it. Aren't you excited? I am. That'll be fun. I'm stoked. Hey, Brian, kiss our butts.

Oh, he didn't go. I was hoping for a little. He didn't. That's right. It didn't happen. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom, Merritt will be here.

We got discussions to have. I think Google I. Oh, is today, isn't it? I think. Oh, is it? Okay. Let me just check. And my guess is that it's going to be a lot of that.

Is that today? May 11th through 12th. Yeah. Today's the day. So this is when they'll do all their stage. stuff and we'll be discussing it on DTNS but of course something will come out of that this morning probably anyway stick around Tom will be here in a minute but we need music before that yes well let's go to to Montreal to four guys with beards and a band called brand new lungs they have this is their first single since the release of their 2019 debut LP called like wildfire listen this is some as they call it and I agree aggressive but heartfelt 90s influenced punk rock with infectious hooks and an uplifting message. I agree. This is really, really good.

This is the song Stand Alone from Brand New Lungs. I'm just to keep in just to front of none I don't know I don't know I won't stand alone I won't stand alone Man when our hope is gone And when to cross our turn

Whole world all around has become That I won't stand alone Corrie came along with September So ain't all the weight on your shoulders Don't let them let you a doctor You're strong voice, but it's dug down you're thrown now The shadows walk away past in front of you It's hard to rise from above

You're just a key, just a front of your god You're gonna lock out of line, but not yet stand alone you've got these arms that's around you you won't stand alone then when our hope is gone

and when the cards are drawn our world all around has become that you won't stand alone We're going to be. I'm going to be. And so

We're gonna save myself We're gonna save myself We're gonna save myself Keep inside this hole It's hard to see you're not alone And we won't stand alone We got these arms around us We won't stand the road

And when our home is gone And when the gods are drawn All around has we come back We won't stand alert Good night to everyone To everyone Except for Asians That sounded racist

It's not It's because it's mourning for them now Good morning Asians Right you are, a little Charlie. A ticking time bomb spells trouble for Scott and Brian. This is the morning stream. Back, everybody. Welcome back to the program. Brian, remind me who that song was again, please.

That was brand new lungs in their new single, Stand Alone. Nice. Yeah. I mean, look, if you got to stand, yeah. May as well stand alone. Might as well stand alone. If you don't have anybody to stand with,

stand alone. Yeah, stand alone. And then do what you got to do to make that stand worth. From Canada. From Canada, exactly. Oh, the Canadians, we love them. Canada.

All right, check this out. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. The man in question is always. Tom Merritt, he's always in question. He joins us It's kind of tiring to be honest Are you Canadian?

No, I'm not Canadian. No, definitely not Canadian. He is as American as pie Or wait, American is apple pie Is what I meant to say. I'm not my favorite pie, but I'll eat it. Yeah, Tom loves pie. That's the thing I know.

I love pie. Yeah, he's a huge, huge pie fan. Tom joins us on Wednesdays. He talks about tech and today happens to be Google I-O, their big yearly conference effort thing where we get new announcements and all sorts of stuff. I don't know if what you've got on your mind this early is something about that, Tom or not, but I'm just glad you're here. What's going on?

Yeah, I've been busily preparing to cover Google I.O. In advance of having Apple fan Scott Johnson on, trying to continuously turn the conversation back to Apple. So, you know, I always gird myself for that. Yep, it happens. I'll admit it. Well, we've got Roger Chang. I am an Android and iOS user, and we've got Roger, who's an Android user. So we'll be able to balance it out.

But yeah, there's also more than just Android coming. We might get a pixel watch announcement. Oh, really? Yeah, that's cool. Yeah, there's good rumors out there. There's also good somebody left a prototype in a bar kind of situation, which is usually a good predictor that something's actually coming out. So I think we will see some kind of pixel watch.

And the question will be how much Fitbit has Google mushed into it? Oh, interesting. That was one, wasn't there, Gizmodo gotten big? trouble years ago by leaving a prototype. It was an iPhone or something? iPhone 4, wasn't it? Yeah, I don't know if Gizmodo got in trouble or if Gizmodo reported the story

and the person who left it. Yeah, I think that's it. Not in trouble. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And it was an iPhone 4, if I remember, right? They had... Was it four? I couldn't remember the model. Wow. It was a while ago, because it was the one they showed it and everybody was trying to figure out what the metal ring

was around or the metal die. Yeah, right, right. That's back when they made iPods. Yeah, it's back. See, and look what we've done. we have turned the conversation to an Apple conversation. We've already done it. Now, to my... Who did it this time? Yeah, to my defense, it was I'm just wanted to point that out.

It was me. Sorry. Yeah, it's all good. Pixel watch, wasn't there an Apple thing one time? Are they, do you think there'll be a new pixel phone announcement at this as well? Yeah, I think there probably will be. It's a little early for the subbrand, the A. They usually, the Pixel 6 is out, so we're expecting a Pixel 6A. which normally would come later in the summer,

but there's some good indications that it might actually be announced at I.O. Obviously, we'll get all the updates on Android 13, which is already in beta, but they usually save some nice feature announcements for I.O. We'll get updates on WearOS, Android TV, Google TV, all that sort of thing. Yeah. The maybe announcements are possibly new PixelBuds Pro. Right now they only sell the PixelBuds A series, so there might be an update there.

There's a likely announcement around foldables in the operating system side of things. Android 12L is in development for foldables. It's less likely that we'll actually get a foldable announcement from Google about its own devices. We might get a new Nest Hub. There's rumors of a

Nest Hub smart screen where the screen is detachable and then you can walk around and use it as a tablet, which would be good for smart home stuff. Those are cool. Yeah. I like that. And then there's always the surprise. Last year at Google I.O., they announced project Starline. Nobody remembers that? Nope. Nope.

What was it? That's the one where you would sit in a booth and it would project you into a space, a conference, video conferencing space, you know, in full 3D avatar situation. These are the research projects. There's some rumors of a project, Iris, augmented reality headset. Maybe they'll give us a sneak peek at that. It's certainly not ready yet. But sometimes they always like to tease ahead on something like Google Duplex was at Google I.O.

That's the one where it can make the call for you and the robot can make a reservation. Oh, yeah. I like when they do that. Even if something never comes from it, I just enjoy, you know, some of the. Yeah, getting a little, like where we're headed sort of situation. And Google Duplex did eventually launch. It has not caused any of the problems people predicted, nor any of the uptake that I think Google hoped. It's just kind of out there

and some people use it. Just available. Probably not for long because they never seem to hang on to stuff for too long. Do you think they'll say, speaking of those sorts of things, do you think we get anything about Stadia at all? Probably not. Probably not. I wouldn't be shocked. I won't be stunned if they address

it. But my guess is they're going to hold that for its own announcement and they are moving that to be more white label and enterprise and less developer focus. Remember, this is a developer. Remember, this is a developers conference so there's there's not a lot for developers uh on stadia unless you're signing up for the white label project so so there's a there's a reason to have it uh if they're going to announce

some new API or or something but uh i kind of feel like they're keeping that in its own category yeah and and they should white label it because i think there's real potential there i think that stadia as a brand is probably i don't think anyone i don't whatever i never hear about stadia stuff right now and I have my ear to every single source of video game talk that you can possibly have on the internet, no one's talking about Stadia. Now, Stadia is going to power things, is my

guess, which I think is smart. It's good technology, and Google isn't great at customer-facing stuff. They're better at technology, and that's what they got there. So getting people to use it to launch products, I think is a smart move. And today is the

being like stagey sort of presentation stuff and then tomorrow is just like a dev day type thing. Or how does it? Yeah, and later today as well. The couple hour Sundar Pichai leads the circus of stars telling you all about the amazing stuff is the keynote for the beginning today. That'll be on YouTube as well as the Google I.O. website. And then all the developer panels will be on the Google I.O. website continuing throughout today and into tomorrow. Okay.

Well, plenty of that will end up on the Daily Tech News show. So if you're looking for a great source to kind of sum that stuff up as it happens, that is the place I would go. and I will be on there today where... Yeah, and you literally will go there. I will be there today. Part of whatever discussion happens, and damn it, I'm not bringing up Apple, not even want you watch.

We'll see. We'll see. You can't resist. Someone else will do it. Sarah will do it, and then I'll go. Yeah. Dodges that bullet. Yeah, I'm good now.

Or I'll do it. I'll just... Yeah, Tom will just let it. Then you could call me a hypocrite. Yeah, we'll let Tom spill that popcorn. Anyway, that's later today, two o'clock mountain time. We're there where you can watch it live.

Or just check out podcast or become a patron. There's a million ways to support great tech coverage. And I think the best way to do it is to help out the daily tech news show. So do that. Tom, aired anything else going on you'd like to mention today. Yeah. The greatest thing ever happened to me this week. Yeah. So, you know, I always talk about the free Tom newsletter and I talk about the fact that if you subscribe, you'll get a little note from me about what I'm up to and you can respond to that note. Last week I went to the urologist, and I promise this is not going to be a disgusting story. And so I wrote about the fact that after I went, I had a little song about it stuck in my head.

And I was like, it is not a song that I will willingly share with anyone. But I decided to write the lyrics down in a simple note and then put a link to it in the newsletter. Wow. A few people were disappointed that it wasn't a link to me singing it, to which I say, are you though? however Matt went the extra mile and recorded it oh my lord put it to his own tune a little different than the tune I had originally had in my head and sang it it's a very good song with very very bad words that I wrote the melody the melody is great so I will definitely be linking to that in this week's newsletter it put the biggest smile on my face when I click that

I was like, oh my gosh, he's actually singing. He's saying it's so serious and he's a good singer and a good guitar player. It's the best thing. I love this. When that happens, we will gladly sample that on the air here on TMS once I see it. Please do. Yes, link coming this Friday at Freethadnusletter.com. Oh, that's fantastic.

So go check that out, you guys. Tom Merritt, as always, a pleasure. I hope to see you in a few hours. Have a fantastic rest of your day. You two. Bye now. Boy. Okay.

Where's the there? There we go. All right. Well done. Look, I don't, I'm not, yes, I like Apple stuff, but I'm not, I'm always interested in what Google's doing, you know. Sure. I use a lot of Google services on my iPhone. Listen, it gives Apple some great stuff to steal and claim as their own in a couple of years. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Google, you know, Google will do something rad in their iOS and then soon iOS will do it and they'll claim like they have this amazing idea and say it's, our products are better than ever before, and then we'll get it. Right.

He's like, we've just invented the Apple Pixel. It's our newest exciting. I guess they'll have a thing soon. They got something coming up. Yep. June something is the WWDC, I believe. That'll be a good time for probably... Something, yeah.

Probably an iPad refresh, pro refresh, maybe. I don't know. Right. We'll see if I do that this year. All right. Randy Jordan Randy Jordan aka Randy Deluxe

in coming for a little segment we call Recommendals Yes that's right A chance for us to recommend cool streaming stuff we've seen and think you might like as well

Welcome to the program Randy Jordan hi Randy Good morning morning stream I am doing great Thanks for asking Oh that's very nice Are you in the car? I'm here in urban California

Is this a recording? 9.9 a.m. And we're pointing the hits. It's a beautiful morning. I am on my third cup of Kauaii Coffee Company coffee. Specifically, the Poipu Estate espresso roast. Poip, I'm sorry, Poi Poo. Poipu.

Yeah, Poipu Estate espresso roast. Is it purple or brown? Your coffee. Oh, no. It's dark. It's dark brown. Dark brown. All right.

It's my favorite brown. Of all the browns, dark. Oh, yes. I like dark chocolate. I used to hate dark chocolate. No, I like it because it has so much less sugar in it. and I can eat it, and now I love it. The thing is, you can't do much with it.

Like, you just have to just eat it, right? You're not going to use dark chocolate to make, for instance, hot chocolate. No, if you did, you'd want to sweeten it, you know, you'd still want to sweeten it more. So you're totally right. If you're going to eat chocolate and it's dark, just eat the chocolate and quit trying to make something fancy out of it. Okay, everybody? Okay. Randy, it's good to have you here.

We're going to dive right into these recommendations this week that we found on streaming services. And we're going to start with Brian. He's got two. Oh, okay. I know it's weird. I don't want to freak you out, but we're starting with you today. Yeah, this first one is so surprising to me. And I'm still not 100% sure that you didn't recommend this,

and I missed it completely because this feels like a Scott Johnson thing. I just want to say, I did not, I did not recommend this. Oh, okay. I know you did not. I know I did this. Yeah, and I purposely ignored what you guys typed for your thing this week, because I knew mine would not conflict. I'm not saying I don't like it or I don't like that idea.

I just, I'm just saying I haven't watched this guy. Okay, good. I definitely didn't recommend it. So unlike me recommending C after Randy did it, hopefully whatever. Well, it doesn't matter because if all this will mean is that Brian and I have shared taste and we like that thing, it's totally fine. Exactly. I'm recommending a Western series, but not just any Western series, a Western series with sci-fi elements. What?

Now I know what it is and I haven't seen it yet, so you're safe, but I do want to see it. It seems like my jam. Play and let everybody else figure it out too. Enjoy. I want to pray for the supper. All right. Daniels? Dear God, we pray for Trevor, for his family, and for our boys, our family.

We ask that you forgive us, I guess. We are desperate. You made this crazy world. Maybe you can give us some sort of hint as to what you're up to, because I don't have the first fucking clue. Maybe it's that you have nothing to do with us, or maybe you're not even there. Who knows?

There is a big distance between you and us, a gap of void. There is a great void. I'm asking you to fill that void. I'm asking you to fill that void. I'm asking you to come down here and explain yourself because this world of years isn't quite adding up, and I hate you for it. I really do, and I don't even think I fucking believe in you, but I really hate you.

It's like a, like a Thanksgiving. We all been there. Yeah, we've all been there. Well, he says, amen. At the end of all that. So that's, is this that weird? Now, outer range, yeah? Outer range, exactly what it is.

Yeah. So that's Josh Brolin as Royal Abbott. The only, only the second Royal I've ever heard of after Gene Hack. Man's Royal Tannenbaum. He's a rancher in Wyoming, and he's got a big ranch, and one day he discovers a giant circular hole in his ranch, and it seems to be a bottomless hole. He looks down in there, he throws a rock down there, he can't figure out what the deal is with this damn hole.

But indeed, he has this hole, and that's what this series is about, this weird hole in his ranch. Well, it's primarily what this series is about. You've also got some land ownership. Will Patton is a rival. And Will Patton at his wackiest. This is like the dude at the end of Armageddon going completely batch shit crazy. I love Will Patton.

I'll watch hit that guy. I'd watch him till soil. Don't care. Love him. Oh, yeah. And one of his sons is Saracen from Friday Night Lights. Really? That actor's name.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then you've got Lily Taylor from Say Anything. We haven't seen her in a while. And to top it all off, another favorite of Scots, which is like, why hasn't you seen any of this? A good old Imogen Poots. Oh, I love her. We love us some Imogen poots. We love Imogen poots. Sometimes I'll watch the 28 weeks later just to see Imaging Poots. There's something else that she's, she was in that caught my attention. The Mark Rufflow thing a couple of years ago or last year. Oh, yeah. And the dude from Schitt's um oh my god what's like david's boyfriend david's boyfriend yes husband yeah um he's he's he's he's great he sings a lot in this one and it's not songs you'd ever expect to hear your character like this great yeah it's so i'd assume by the way i made noa reed there you go

noa read yeah no read he's awesome he's he looks 12 years old permanently um i used to so when i saw shit's greek i went well that guys clearly we had another awesome gay performer here is an amazing, you know, a gay actor. And then I found out, no, he's not, he's not gay. It's the only David's the gay one. I mean, you kiss a guy in front of cameras. You kiss a guy not in front of cameras. Same thing.

Yeah, that seemed like same thing. I was, I was wrong. But anyway, he's great. Is he creepy in this? Because the commercials make it look like he's creepy. Yes, a little creepy. Yeah. Now, qualification here, or whatever the thing, you know, need to be.

clear. I have not finished the first season. I'm five of eight because I couldn't sleep last night because of my weird serial killer of the Caribbean dreams. So I got up and watched another two episodes last night of the eight. So I'm

almost, you know, more than halfway through this season. I'd really, really like it. I don't care how this season ends. I'm satisfied with what they I love it when that happens. I absolutely love when that happens. Yeah. So like my big question for this, I haven't watched it yet for you know for for reasons but there it's not that i'm not very very

interested in watching but my big question is is this as sci-fi as it was advertised i'm hoping not no i'm hoping it's not like super sci-fi it's not super sci-fi okay good there are it's like some sci-fi elements um i you know to resolve some of this stuff they're going to have to go into some sci-fi in my opinion. However, it's, uh, um, it really focuses on this family and, um, and even some things that happened to them before this whole was discovered, uh, which is really, really cool. So no, this, you're going to like this. If even if you don't, even if you're like, oh, I don't want any real hard sci-fi. Yeah, you're still going to like this. It's like, you know, it's Western. I heard, I heard, uh, someone said, what if the sackets were

visited by crop circles and I'm like oh I'm in if that's what this is who is this way who are the sackets remind me I don't know um the louis lemore family uh that evolves across the western united states for 150 years okay it sounds like a book's uh thing I used to man I've read some louis lemore and I really love him but I did not now I feel dumb sackets I should know that uh without any spoilers by the way for um for out of range if has anyone finished the season they can just give me a yay or nay, does it, does it finish as well as it starts? I'd be curious about that too, but the same thing I've asked, I can't ask this because we can't be in the future, but I, like, severance has the potential to have a real moment of, are you going

to stick this landing? It's one of those kinds of shows. But it's, but would you say outer range is good enough the way that severance is good enough that you kind of don't care? Let's say they blow it. Who cares? I just want to. I actually, I actually, I actually, had this immediate reaction like oh i could have done without the last five minutes of severance or the last 10 minutes of severance or whatever like you could just cut it off earlier and i'm fine because it was so good all the way up i'll just i'll just take whatever you give me with severance and then if it's if you nail it in the third season great if you don't it's okay i would have recommended devs in any episode i'd like if i had stopped at any episode of devs i would have recommended it so that kind of thing i'm

getting with uh out of range dev still stands i think devs is still my favorite favorite thing you ever recommended on the show. You saw it first, and I loved devs. Gosh, dang it. So, freaking good, yeah. All right, so anyway, out of range, prime video, all episodes, eight episodes in the first season have been released, and it's doing really, really well. I would be really surprised if it doesn't get picked up for a second season. Awesome.

And Amazon seems pretty free with their. They do, yeah. Seem a lot more. Netflix is getting weird about that. And it's Josh. Josh Brolin has to make a, it's like, it's like Kopsner has to have his own Western show, right? Josh Brolin needs to have a Western show. Oh, of course.

Yeah. It's the law. It's all he should do. Yeah, it's the law. He should be, I mean, I've seen no country for old men, I don't know, a thousand times. And he's, he is meant to be in these. This is his job. For sure.

Yeah. He should do nothing else. He's currently holding an 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is really good. And he's a good cable and a good Thanos, too. we'll get him that. Yeah, he is. All right. Here's your second one. Any set up here? I'll say that this one currently holds a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's a brand new TV series, and I'm six of eight episodes through this one. Okay. This is one of Tina and I are watching together. But again, this is one that I can't imagine is not going to stick the landing because it has so much to work with. All right. Here we go.

Colton Hotels. Priority client for this firm itching to go public, but their evaluation needs an adrenaline shot. They need that hotel. That's in Tokyo. Where one landowner, one, holds the entire deal hostage. She's Korean, the landowner. It doesn't mean anything to you, I know, but I'm telling you, I can close that deal. So, what do you know? A 300-plus room hotel at a 150 to 200 million bill of cost.

Back of the napkin calculations, say 10, 15 million payday for us. And this land owner, or being Korean, you think that'll give you an end? Wait, wait, I'm confused here. I thought you were Japanese. No, I just grew up there. And once I close this deal, I want to be transferred back right away. I want that VP title and the race backdated to today's date. And I want my year-end bonus to reflect just how much Colton Hotels means to this firm. I just want to say, I just want to say, this show had the best trailer for an upcoming TV series that I've ever seen.

When this trailer hit in like February, I said to Samantha, we have to watch this. And we haven't yet, but we have to watch this. It was so good. This was on our list and we just kept saying, nope, we got to wait. I want to wait because I want to binge this. And finally, the last episode dropped. I think, yeah, the end of April. And so I said, okay, go.

And this is a show called Pachinko. This is on Apple TV Plus. This is a story of four generations of, or three generations, me, four generations of a Korean family that originally was part of that whole occupation of Japan. that you know in in the early 1913 i think but japan occupied them though right the other way around japan occupied korea exactly yeah and um and the way they got treated and the the way that this the original roots of this family um sprung up just some really really hard times but then you kind of follow this main character uh sunya uh who is is um you see her in multiple generations

It's so good. Like every, every generation's story is captivating. There's not like one where you're going, you know, we could skip over this era of this family. No, every generation is really good. As far as recognizable people, the only person you'd be able to say, oh, I know that guy is Jimmy Simpson, who you've seen in Mr. Robot. I think he was in House of Cards. he was he was in the walton episode of black mirror okay all right jimmy yeah oh the walton okay yeah right uh it's always sending philadelphia uh he was lyle the intern on late show with david letterman oh he's the west world guy

i played william oh west world too yeah yeah yeah okay now i knew that name but i was like wait a minute why do i know that name that's that's he's great yeah um but everybody everybody in this is just really, really good. And I thought, you know, I thought Peacemaker was the only TV show we were going to get that had a really weird dancing theme song intro with all the characters dancing to it. But no, here comes Pachinko to do that same damn thing. Really? Let's live for today by the grassroots. Weird, weird. So let me ask you this. First time I heard it, I went, oh, that's what that name made me just think that's what Konami does instead of make video games. They're all involved in the Pachinko market.

They make Pachinko those vertical pinball machines. And those do play a role. In one of the newer generations, the patriarch of the family owns a Pachinko parlor. And so that's kind of where it is. But obviously, it references the ball bouncing in all these different places that it can end up and the different choices you make in your life that causes the ball to bounce here or there or. Because it's very, the game.

is like peggle basically right where it's a little bit random and yeah i could pull a tom and pull up a i have a pachinko machine just right there on the other side of the basement do you really i didn't know you had one i am i do yeah okay uh cool yep it's anyway so brian did it make you want to read the book uh it hasn't yet although um there it's only because i have so many other books stacked right here that i need to read first. But no, I really, I really, so far love it. And like I said, we're six or seven episodes into the eight. So we're almost done with the season. And this is another one that I can just safely say, they won't have any problems sticking the landing because they have got so much great material to work with that if the last episode I watched is the last episode of the

season, I'd still feel satisfied. So the book, and I assume the TV series, takes place in three different time periods, right? Yes. It's like all through the 20th century, right? Correct. Early, middle, and late 20th century, basically. Correct, yeah, the 1913, 1960-something, and 1989 is the, is the newest year.

How much reading do you have to do to watch this series? Well, here's the thing. We've actually, we've been doing the, trying the dub on this one. Yeah. And the acting is really good, except for one character that's like, oh, God, this person. Unfortunately, they're not in very much, but the dubbing of the main characters is actually really good. 1930. 1930? There we go. And after you started it, did you try going back to only reading subs?

We haven't. No, because we felt like the... Now, that said, they do subs in a very clever way, even with the dubs, because, again, these are Koreans who are either still in Korea or in Japan, and sometimes the Japanese characters will talk to each. other without the Korean people knowing what they're saying right so in that case to help you feel like like there's that divide they'll do the subtitles even in the dub with the Japanese people talking to each other and then it's like oh okay the this Korean character has no idea what they're saying because they're kind of like and you know talking is it normally is the movie normally if you did just subs is it like English with some subtitles when people are talking in korean or japanese but there's lots of english or is it just all is it all foreign

language film all non-english it uh and this is a series and it's um no there there are the piece i played for you was actual english because uh one of the characters is a businessman who uh comes from america or who he's originally korean but he's living in america working for this firm and goes to japan to help close a deal that was the clip I played. That's not dubbed. That was the actual actor. Okay. So that's where he's and I asked if all of that was dubbed but that sounds, I don't know, it sounds like

it's a good combination of like you can kind of make a choice and it'll sound fine or look fine. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't mind, you know, I like I'm fine with subtitles. Tina kind of will do both subs and dubs interchangeably. As a matter

of fact, for Squid Game, she did both and she says it was distracting because a lot of the times the the subs wouldn't match the dubs. Yeah, you want your subs to match dubs. I don't like it when video games do that either. Even if it's being spoken in English and the thing

is in English, if the lines aren't the same, I'm like, what are you doing? It takes you right out of it. Yeah. I find that as years go by, I become more interested in watching shows that have subtitles, like, that I have to read in order to understand what the

characters are saying. I just feel like, those are good actors. And I need, to be hearing them in their voice. You know what I mean? And also the subtitling demands your attention. And I realize for a lot of people, that's the problem with it. But I'm like, I kind of need, I've easily distracted. And I kind of need something to demand my attention.

It really does. It really forces you to put the iPad down or, you know, quit playing Scrabble Go for a minute so you can actually read. Wait a minute. Scrabble Go. I need to hold on just a second. Stop it. We have a recommendation in the middle of

recommendals here. Wait until I tell you about wordle, Randy. Oh, I play wordle every day since last year. You should get into Scrabble Go. We're all,

everybody, the whole freaking tad pool, I swear, is playing this game. Although I've been bad at my games lately, so I think a few have probably expired.

You've let a bunch drop. I'm stuck alone with games with people where it was the three of us and you dropped. It wasn't on purpose. I just got busy. I just got busy.

You know what happened? Vegas happened? And then I like, like fell off and it wasn't on purpose it just totally totally happened yeah no i i totally get that um anyway this bachinko apple tv plus uh whether you go subs or dubs you know rest assured the the the acting in the uh dubs is is pretty good but um personally i think if it was just me watching and not teen i probably would do just subtitles because i'm i like hearing the actual actors voices uh myself that's what i did with um

Squid Game I did subtitles and for most of money heist, which I still, I love that show. I don't know why I love it so much because it was so, it was so like, oh, we've just gotten into this thing that we can't get out of. Oh, wait, I planned for this and I did this thing a month ago that, you know, solves this thing that, uh, hey, look, if they assemble it, right, it sounds like fun. They did. They did a really good idea. Anyway, uh, Pachinko, Apple TV Plus, uh, highly recommend.

Very nice. Here's my clip today for my recommendation. It's just a single one. This is on HBO Max. It's an HBO Max original, I believe. I think it also had a brief stint in theaters. I'm not entirely sure. It should have, probably. I'd like to see this movie come up later in award season. Here's the clip. What are you doing here? I just need some photos. You must be Pepe? Yeah. Emery Anderson. I wrote the story on your fighter that's got the whole city talking. I just need a few photos before. the big fight, ask some questions. What do you say? That's good. That's good right there. By the way, I heard about you looking for your girl. You should have told me I got contacts all over the world.

I could help. Why would you do that? I had been divorced three times. I'm clearly a romantic. That's great. Right there. Right there. So tell me about the Nazi.

All right. God, that place sounds familiar. Who am I hearing? That is Peter Sarsgard. So you are correct in knowing the name or the voice. That's a good, good poll. This movie is called The Survivor, a 2021 film starring Ben Foster, is the main character called Harry Haft is his name,

although his Polish name is much different. This is like mentioned Peter Sarzgard in a very small role, actually. It's not a huge role for Sarasgar, but every time he's on camera, he's kind of hard to forget. Danny DeVito's in this in a also smallish role, but amazing. he's very good in it really okay totally totally uh dramatic role for him nothing nothing comedic

about it uh john legozamo also in a non comedic role uh not again not a huge role but enough to to leave in an imprint um your main cast though is uh ben foster who in my for my money i'll watch ben foster in anything anytime anywhere i love ben foster he's amazing 310 to yuma is twice the film it should be because he's in it um hell i'd even say he's his tiny turn as angel in that third horrible X-Men movie made that movie slightly better. Partially save it. Yeah, right. But like almost everything, hell or high water is an incredible film.

If you haven't seen that, speaking of modern westerns, just a few years old now. Well, 2016, so it's getting on. But just Ben Foster, in my mind, is one of the greatest actors working today. I just love watching him. And he's amazing in this. He absolutely nails the Polish accent. The story is he is a guy who, very early. in his life. He's probably 18 or so when the Nazi occupation happens in Poland. And he is

whisked off to Auschwitz with his girlfriend, but they're separated. And this is being told in kind of flashback form because it's in the 60s that things are sort of the current day would be represented as the 60s, sometimes 67 or so. And then a bunch of this movie's being told, like here it is in the 40s. Here it is prior to the war. Here. It is prior to the war. is during the war and he's one of these actors that has no problem losing like a shit ton of weight to do a role so he lost a ton of weight while he was in the camp and this character called Schneider uh he's one of the camp commanders uh played by billy magnusin this guy what a freak show uh he's scary as hell like i when you think of good nazi portrayals by good i mean you know well

well-performed. You often go back to, like, you know, saving Private Ryan and how well Ray Fines was in that movie or how good he was in that movie. I think this is up there with that. Like, just a menacing, complicated, just a hell of a performance by Billy Magnuson as this character.

And you've seen him before in things like No Time to Die and Into the Woods and the Big Short, he's in tons of movies. So as soon as you see him, you go, oh, that guy, I've seen his face before. He's amazing in it. and what happens he he recruits ben foster while in Auschwitz to be a boxer in these little boxing matches that him and the other Nazi officers are putting on for money so they kind of have a little side gig on the camp where at night they'll get one of the prisoners a Jewish prisoner to fight another Jewish prisoner and then whoever wins a bunch of money goes to the winner and that box who's down ends up getting shot and in their mind it's better to go that way than end up in

the gas chambers so so a lot of these guys volunteer to be in there and ben foster just turns out to be really good at this turns out to be a natural boxer and this is all based on a real story about a real guy and uh so he boxes his way through there but it's really a torn thing for him because on the one hand he's being told we're just going to kill these people if you don't fight them at least if you fight them you'll give them a better way out than if they were in the chambers so on the one hand the jewish the other jewish folks in the in the camps are seeing him as like a traitor because he's in their mind he's getting special treatment because he's going in there and fighting and doing this and kind of being the puppet of this guy but this guy is making such

horrible threats against other people that he's actually saving people they just don't know it but He has horrible survivor's guilt. That's why they call him the survivor. And that's what the whole future of his life deals with, how to deal with that survivor's guilt. Okay. And why did he make it through it? He literally saved his brother from getting killed because of his position as this

boxer that couldn't be beat, but he just feels terrible about it. But the brother wouldn't exist without him and they're very close. Anyway, there's a whole plot I'm not going to get into about all of it. But I think if you, you know, it's about the Holocaust, so, you know, know, know that you're getting into some, some dark business. But it's, it's very good at handling all of that and not being exploitative with it and telling this really unique, intimate story about this one guy. Special shout out to Vicky Creeps, I think is how you say her name. She plays Miriam, her, her, his eventual wife.

And she's just fills the screen with Steen's. scene stealing beauty. I don't even know what to say about her except she's amazing and I want to see her in more things. I came away from this like saving Private Ryan level or not even that. Oh gosh. I can't even think movies right now. Why can I think of them? Oh, Schindler's List. I mean Schindler's List. And I keep saying that. I mean Schindler's List. You're right. Oh, yeah. I don't know why I do that. It's that level in my mind of a of a Holocaust story and worth every second. and people should see it. And if Ben Foster doesn't get recognized

for his acting in this, that's a crime. I mean, it's already, it's already too late, right? It is too late. It came out last year. You're right.

It came out last year. I don't know if you wanted anything else, any other side stuff. He should have, uh, I barely knew about it. That's the other things. He didn't really push this thing.

It just suddenly showed up on HBO and I went, oh, this looks interesting. I'll play it. He's really, really good in it. And I, and you haven't mentioned it's directed by Barry Levinson.

Oh yeah, totally spaced it. Barry Levinson, one of the great directors of all time. And you haven't, you know, you don't hear a lot about him in movies lately. He does a lot of TV production, good TV production. But, you know, Rain Man and freaking wag the dog and, oh gosh, a million movies I can't think of it at the moment. Good morning, Vietnam. Good morning of our favorites.

One of the greatest movies in my mind ever was Avalon. I love that movie is about, you know, his family coming to America. He's an incredible director. And, you know, toys. notwithstanding not toys toy the Robin Williams one that's kind of a weird movie yeah toys I don't love that movie I do for its

weirdness but yeah yeah but for it's Thomas Dolby but Barry Levinson doing some some kick A work here oh yeah bugsy Wizard of Lies he's just great anyway if you if you have HBO Max and you are

okay with you know some depressing subject matter but some real life affirming moments of of redemption and trying to come to one's own understanding of oneself and one's experience. This is a great, great movie. Yay, recommendals. Yes.

Randy, I'm trying to find my energy again. I know. It's a little, that one's a bit of a downer, but it's really, really good. And it's a true story,

which is nice. All right, tell me about your clip, Randy, what am I playing here? You're about to hear a character talking to another, you're about to hear a couple of characters that you know. You're going to know who they are because,

they've appeared before in many things, these two characters. And actually, there's going to be some more voices. But anyway, this is a new thing, very new thing, with some very familiar characters. All right, here we go. Seems like a million years ago. Three months, ten days, four hours, five minutes, actual. I asked how you were, Spock. I am well, Captain.

Although I confess each time I return to space, the weight I carry over the loss of my there feels heavier. I'm sorry. I miss her too. Bridge. Okay. Nuke that. Medical.

Oh, good. We needed that. Uh, security. Security. Security. Okay. What is it, Captain? Um...

Well, I just assumed that in his absence. Forgive me, Kevin. Command believes that I would best serve the mission as Chief Science Officer. Oh, no, I understand, Spock. I just, uh... I just... Didn't think about having any. A new number one

Captain on the bridge Captain Pike Lieutenant La Arnune and Singh Chief of Security I've been assigned as acting first officer Welcome aboard number one You've got some pretty big boots to fill I'm aware

So I can't wait to start this thing It's such a shock When she says her name Yeah that's a little bit weird How come Spock has an accent Or is that, or am I hearing that wrong? Is that weird? It does have a little bit.

bit of one yeah yeah i don't know because Ethan Peck is uh I guess he's trying to approximate what um uh Spock has always sounded like and like he's his natural accent is kind of a sailor not sailor uh surfer dude you know like he's a bit he's got a bit

of a California going you see him interviewed right he sounds like he sounds like he just rolled up from the streets of L.A and uh you know he's played this role for a while now so this is not like his first words as Spock in a series.

Sure. But yeah, so this is Strange New Worlds. And we talk a little bit about, can you recommend something when it's just gotten started? And for my money, the answer on this is absolutely freaking yes. Yes.

And I want to try to establish that for you because a lot of people didn't watch Discovery and for good reasons. There's reasons you didn't watch Discovery. There's people, a lot of people haven't watched Picard and there's reasons you haven't watched Picard. this is an event this is great and you want to get on board right now so you can uh talk to people about it each week is that a new episode's come out star trek back to being star trek is what i'm hearing from everybody who who has seen it like it's like we a villain of the week's type stuff which

you know that show was famous for it's uh got this like discovery not discovery for that's a bad term given the other show but like a feeling of like wow we're going out to the unknown strange, literally finding strange new worlds, new life, new civilizations, like we're back to what Star Trek kind of always was or should have been and what TNG was, what TOS was, to some degree, DS9. I'm so excited. That is at least what they're saying, what the, you know, the Paramount people are saying, right? They're, they're trying to market it that way and they should, right? Yeah. I mean, that's what we want, isn't it? I think most Trek fans just wants Star Trek Asked Star Trek, yeah.

I went around. Don't let Norville hold all the, you know, all the great Star Trekiness. Yeah. I actually dug around in like our communities and stuff for questions that people are asking about this, right? Like I actually found some questions and I want to answer those questions, right? So like I saw a lot of people ask how connected to the original series is this. Yeah.

And my answer is so far not at all. I think it's a good thing. This is an enterprise that has been like highly, affected by the events of the alternate timeline of the last 13 years of Star Trek. It looks absolutely incredible. And I don't feel like they're making any effort whatsoever to like replicate aspects of those TV shows from 40 and 60 years ago. And the best example of that for my money is the hairstyles of the crew.

Everyone on this show looks like they walked right off of the set of like 20-somethings or outer banks. Like the story is straight up a sequel. to Season 2 of Discovery. And I don't want to spoil that. So let's just say season two of Discovery takes place in the prequel times to the TOS, right? But Discovery does not at all act like a prequel to TOS. So that's, you know, you know what I'm saying?

Totally, totally know what you're saying. Okay, all right. Yeah. So another question is how's Anson Mount is Christopher Pike? Like if you haven't seen season two of Discovery, you might be thinking, well, this is a particular character. and it's a character that was set in stone by people like Jeffrey Hunter and Bruce Greenwood

right? Yeah. And so like it might be jarring to you to suddenly have the main character on Discovery be played by Anson Mount. But in my opinion, he is perfect. Anson Mount is like miracle casting I love him for Christopher Pike.

He was Cullen Bowhannon in Hell on Wheels, right? Yeah, he was amazing on there. Honestly, this guy looks like someone took Nicola costor Waldo and crossed him with 20% Vigo Mortensen and that's perfect. That is perfect for the role of Pike. He's the one guy. He's the one guy in this world I think my wife would leave me for if she could. She loves him. As long as he's better in this than he was in that in humans TV show a couple years ago. 100% yes. He's a leader. He's dashing. He's powerful. He's brilliant. But there's a

subtlety to his PTSD. And you can see it simmering below the surface at all. all times, which is a completely different portrayal than like Patrick Stewart's Picard, right? Picard is a guy who wakes up screaming in the middle of the night and sweating profusely, right? But then he spends his waking hours looking completely in control. Pike is 180 degrees opposite. He is integrated with his demons. So another question I saw a lot was, does this series appear to be a big story arc, like

the first season of discovery, or is it more like episodic, like TNG? which Scott was just bringing up. It's really hard to know for one episode, but the first episode was kind of episodic, kind of had a beginning, middle, and an end. So there's hope, right? Yeah, yeah. I'm excited.

I can't wait. I mean, how far are we in? Like three episodes or something. One episode, just one. That's it? A second one just came out today. What am I thinking of? Something hit three.

There's too many shows to keep track of. I know. Yeah. All right. One other question I had, which I went and found the answer to, was is TIG Nataro in Strange New Worlds? And it looks like the answer is no.

Without spoiling anything, they're basically discovery characters and there are enterprise characters and her character, Jet Reno, is a discovery character. Plus, aren't they, I mean, they're not even in the same time, exact timeline, right? Because this is earlier. They absolutely are. This, again, Strange New Worlds is a sequel to the second season of Discovery. Oh, it's after those events. Okay.

I thought it was before that. then season three and four of discovery are uh well i don't let's not even talk about it because that's that's that is our connection right right yeah okay well i'm in all in on this you should be and i again i'm telling you you want to get on on the ground floor of this don't wait around uh for six months because people are going to be talking about each new episode as they come out and also also the other thing i want to say is for the people who have been waiting and waiting and like i'm not going to subscribe to Paramount Plus, right? It's time. You've

finally gotten there. This is the reason to subscribe to Paramount Plus, just like you subscribe to HBO in the middle of Game of Thrones. I've got another good stuff too. I'm watching Halo. It's awesome. I recommend it. It's very, very good. I think we're going to differ on that. We might, we might, but some people are precious about the Halo game story

and they shouldn't be because it's bad. This is actually a story worth watching. I really, really like it. It's very good. But my point is, there's not there's lots of new things on there it's not just hey we got discovery and some old episodes of murder she wrote like it's it's a bigger deal now paramount's finding their feet if you haven't watched any of the star trek series all of picard and lower decks and so on of of the last 13 years and the movies of the last 13 years if you haven't seen any of it this is the

the time to subscribe to paramount it's all there and you can just watch it all yeah yeah it's all And they're starting to, you know, everyone's starting to squirrel away their exclusive stuff that you used to be able to just get on Netflix or get on Hulu. And that's going to happen more and more. It's not a good thing probably, but at least Paramount's got some stuff now. Apple TV Plus having a real moment here. Like all of them seem to be thriving, which probably explains a little bit why Netflix is losing a little bit of their traction. Yeah. Yeah.

Even though they're still way ahead of everybody. It's still like, I don't know. It's something. Well, all right, fine recommendations today. And as always, you can find these recommendations in Randy's tweets as well as in Discord and other places where all the tadpooligans meet. Yeah, get in that Facebook tadpool group. The tadpool on Facebook is the best place. It's great.

It's a place I'm glad exists because I hate the rest of Facebook. I hate it all. I truly hate Facebook, but I love that. It's a hive of scum and villainy. It is. But I really like that we have our little space. there and that's awesome so uh do that it's randy deluxe on twitter of course randy anything else you'd like to mention uh just uh getting ready to watch as a thorough which i have never seen

never even heard of really uh it kind of kind of like passed under my radar yeah and uh i'm i'm excited about it yeah you get your fabro on right another fabro i'm one i'm a true believer in john fabro i mean this is like 17 years ago so i don't i don't know if he quite got there at this time but yeah it's a good movie if i remember right it was kind of like, you know, Jumanji meets space travel sort of stuff. It's always like the best things for film sacker when we don't know for sure. Like, was that good? I don't know.

Is it though? Willie's Wonderland was one that we didn't know for sure. Yeah, now we're all pretty sure. We're all pretty sure it was bad. Although that was a much better film sack episode than a movie for sure. That's the truth. So look forward to more of that this weekend. It's Randy Deluxe.

We'll see you next time. Oh, just. Nicely done. I mean, I know we're all in, we're all in on the joke now, but it's still fun to do. I like it. So fun. So fun. All right. Sometimes I get fooled by it. Yeah, sometimes. And even I do. And I'm the one doing the hanging up. All right. We're out of here. Thanks everybody for listening today and being here for us.

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oh I found one oh good okay good good our friend Amy who will hear on the show tomorrow says hey splat and bam hey bam again little emerald agass thing sure or emerald no who's the guy

I said bam yeah that was Emerald is it Lagos or Lagosi I always said Lagosi is that wrong maybe Lagasy could be Lagasi I don't know on May 11th 2013, I got to marry the best friend I could ever hope to have. Happy 9th anniversary to my Chuck.

You're my favorite. If you could play a cover of either such great heights by the Postal Service or in an airplane over the sea by a neutral milk hotel, I would greatly appreciate it. I can definitely see why you like it, signed Amy. Oh, well, okay, okay, happy to do that. And happy anniversary, you crazy couple you. You chuckle heads, get it, chuckle heads, get it? I can definitely see why you like it. Sorry, that's for you, Amy.

Those two got to sit there and watch me eat the most incredible donut, I think I've ever had. All right, Such Great Heights. Let's go with that one because I love covers of that song. From the album, Rock and Roll from 2008 by a band called The New Standards, rose from the ashes of semi-sonic and Trip Shakespeare. Here is Such Great Heights. I am thinking it's a sign that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images

And when we kiss they're perfectly alive I have to speculate The guy himself did make us into corresponding Shapes like puzzle pieces from the tree It may seem like a stretch But it's thoughts like this that catch my troubled head When you're away And when I'm missing you today

When you, you're out there on the road For several weeks of shows And when you scan the radio I hope this song will guide you Then we'll see us waving From such great heights Come down now They'll say

Everything looks perfect from far away. Come down now, but we'll stay. best to leave is all on your machine but the persistent beat it sounded thin a partless a name that frankly will not fly

you will hear the shrewdest highs in the lowest lows with the windows down when this is guiding you they will see us waving from such great heights come down now they'll say

Everything looks perfect from far away, come down now, but we'll stay. height come down now there's everything that's perfect from far away come down now but we'll stay we'll see us wet from such great heights come down now there's everything that's perfect from far away

come down now but we'll still I'm going to be. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. It seems so trivial. Doesn't it?