The Morning Stream - TMS 2292: The Gnight of the Gnats

Episode Date: May 18, 2022

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Hey, everybody. Good morning and welcome back to TMS. It's Wednesday. MACH. It's MACH. It's 18th. 18th, 18th, 28th, weather. May 18th, 22. I'm Scott. He's Brian. Hello, Brian. Hello, Scott. Look, man, it's Wednesday. We got shit to do in here in this show here. Yeah, yeah. I mean, come on. Mache is more than halfway over. And what are you accomplished? Yeah, what else are you going to do? When Mache ends, we're all going to have to do. dive right into juper or whatever name i give that month what are we going to do for juguist juguist um jugist weather i love jugus weather speaking of which i am a convert i would like to tell you yesterday you ready sure a full convert to something and that conversion happened in the world of landscaping and home lawn care oh because when i read this in the show notes i thought

it was uh you're like it was a marijuana switch okay all right No, no. So, all right. Oh, because my, okay, here's what I wrote in the notes. I wrote, I'm about to become a clover evangelist. This shit is so much better than grass. No, I am not smoking anything. Smoke in the clover. Yeah, it's definitely not a clove smoker deal. It is, although the way I write things sometimes, you think I don't notice how. Oh, I really did figure out what you were talking about. Come on now. So here's, so here's what it is. My daughter and my wife had decided that the side yard thing that we have, The grass over there just doesn't grow right. It's every year it gets a little banged up by the dogs. It's just not great. And there's not enough sun where it hits and all this other stuff. So they had this bright idea of like, well, look, let's put down clover. This is like an old school pre-lawn method of like greening up your space.

And it grows like grass. It stays, you know, kind of nice and low. You don't really have to mow it. It's like, yeah. Yeah, just a nice. Less water. I don't know if it does. Actually, that is true.

it uses less water as well. It does. Okay. And so we planted it and I was a little skeptical because I was like, yeah, right. Let's see how your stupid clover goes. And it's blooming and it's freaking amazing. It's beautiful. Like this gorgeous little strip of space over there makes me want to do the whole yard in it. And then I found out, well, H.O.A. doesn't let you do clover for instead of grass.

You got to do grass. But man, Clover's badass. It looks beautiful. It makes the backyard look like some kind of fantasy realm. You know, I got to go find some, I got to find some elf queen to get a quest while I'm in there. That's how it feels. It's really cool. So, like, when you mow it, obviously you take off those leaves.

Actually, the question is, like, how long, if you leave clover for longer, how tall will it get? Or will it just stay as round cover? I think it stays as ground cover. And I think you literally never have to mow it. You may have to, like, trim, you know, it may try to over. grow into other places or something so you have to kind of keep it trim but as far as like growing up like grass does i don't think it does i think it just chills yeah that's what i'm guessing and and when you trim it like when you mow it obviously that takes off the top level of of leaves does does it look

really bare when it's just kind of a bunch of your lawn is a bunch of clover stems until they leaf up again yeah well that's what i mean like i don't think you as far as i know you never have to know Yeah, I think it does flower, but the coronas, same jane. So we actually have this unintentionally to the left of our driveway. At some point, some clover got in there, and it just went, it just kind of went nuts and spread like crazy. And so, but we, you know, we haven't decided, we're like, you know, I don't want to spray it. I think it looks fine, and it's green and it, you know. Yeah, it looks nice.

Looks natural. Yeah, just for me, I don't know, I'm completely converted. If they let us do it out in front, I'd do it. Maybe they'll let us do like kind of a half zero scape, half clover thing, because you can kind of get away with that. I don't know, but it's really rad, and I love it. And I'm a convert, and so Carter, I owe her an apology because I was super skeptical. I don't know if she's listening right now.

She totally is, and she's in there saying flowers are good for bees. They are good for bees. You know what else is great? Kim planted all this citronella, you know? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And she did that to keep away the nats and the bugs. The mosquitoes away, yeah.

Yeah, and so what we had the other day was the weirdest thing. The neighborhood, it's not here now, so I don't know what happened. But for a night, the neighborhood was just buried in gnats. Nats were everywhere. I don't know why. I don't know why they were so prominent, what the problem was, but Nats, as far as the I could see, clouds of Nats. In fact, I took a, see if I can pull this out. I think I can.

Yeah, I'm going to show you this, Brian. And this is in... Is there a cloud? Oh my God. Yeah. So it's a gift I made. It's a gift I made it to everything. Yeah, look at it.

Those are gnats. Here, chat. You guys can see it too. Geez, really? Wow. That was just in my backyard. Me looking up the sky. That's insane.

Like, there's usually so tiny that you wouldn't be able to pick him up as well. How is this? Wow. Right. And you know what? Have you ever heard a bunch of gnats? The actual sound they make? Because I never have.

I never have either because they're never enough of them. Not my dreams thinking that they've now make sounds. Yeah, but there were enough of these where you could hear this low hum, like, it was really weird. But here's the beauty. In back there where the Citronella plants are, everything was like a 10-foot buffer away from all these. The Nats stayed that high away. It's like a little force field. Yeah.

I love it. Yeah, it was great. The rest of the, you know, if you came through the front door, you were just breathing those things in. But that was really crazy. Anyway, they're not here now. I don't know what happened. It's like one night of Nats. The night of the Nats.

And how's it? It's like a horror movie. The Night of the Nats. The Night of the Nats. Yep. Some black and white Vincent Price shit right there. Anyway, so there's that. That's a lot of fun to deal with.

And yard stuff is always a good time. But yeah, I'm a convert. It's very nice. All right. I need you to look something up because I got questions. I would like you to look up Alexander Scarsgaard's IMD listing. Alexander Scarsgar.

Yeah. And help me explain. why he why this is his photo okay um so glad that his name comes up is the first choice when i type in alexander scars by the way before i even select his name yeah uh so i'm gonna send you a little picture this is what it looks like yeah this what it looked like um so here's here's the top of my i just put it in our discord oh good here's the top of my this is exactly why I'm having you check this out because it looks like he's not wearing pants

yeah and you're gonna yeah that's the whole thing he's not wearing pants so go look at that and check out what sweet outfit he's got on okay because now that I look it's like at least he looks like yeah he is wearing tidy whiteies oh yeah he's got undies on this is like some weird red carpet Zoom meeting where he only thought he had to dress

from the waist up well what's weird about it it looks like it's probably at an event the backdrop He's in front of a container Yeah that's what I was going to say This thing is banged up A bunch of wires on the floor Back there like looks like a bunch of AV

Or whatever But this is his main photo Now I just The point of this is whatever IMDB photo you want This guy's a big time actor Everybody loves Alexander Scarsgard He's in that new Northman thing

Yeah Or Northman as I like to say Northman The Northman Anyway he's I think I want I respect a guy who gets to a certain places in his career where this just doesn't matter to him. He's just fine with it, you know?

Yeah. Who cares? It's so what? I'm in my underwear on the leading database of movie things. It's fine. So the photo credit is Larry Busaka. BTV 1415. So maybe this was for an MTV event or something?

Oh, let's see. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I'm going further down the rabbit hole. I clicked on Giddy images, but it just gave me the main page for it. Yeah. That doesn't work. Boy, when you search for Larry Busaka MTV 1415, this is the first picture that comes up,

and this is like a frequent picture that comes up. But People Magazine, Alexander Scarsguard, reveals story behind his panceless IMDB photo. Oh, good. We get some, oh, this is good. This is what I wanted. All right. This is what you want, but unfortunately, I have to go to People Magazine. Oh, Brian.

What are you going to do now? That place. I'm going to read it like I'm on entertainment tonight. Okay, give it. All right, everybody. Enough about Kim Kardashian. Hey, Alexander Scarsguard is ready to explain why he's missing his trousers on his IMDB page. Are you ready for this?

Okay. The Swedish actor, 45, is featured in his main profile photo on the famed movie database in a tuxedo jacket, bow tie, and shirt, but no pants. Guess what? We can see that because the photo's right. above that text. He told the site in a recent interview that it comes from a 2016 appearance at the MTV Movie Awards.

The year before Zach Efron had taken his shirt off on stage and he is so sexy, Scars Scars said, remembering the evening where he presented a word alongside his Legend of Tarzan co-star Samuel L. Jackson. I decided to show a little bit of skin. I couldn't take my shirt off because Zach had already done that. So I thought, well, I'll take my pants off because it's equally sexy, the star added. Yeah, I don't know about equal. I don't know about that.

I don't know about equal. Equal seems like the wrong word. It's, it's, it's differently sexy. Yeah. But I, but I admire a guy, I didn't think, and maybe it's just my knowledge, but I didn't think people still wore those like garters to keep your socks from falling down. Yeah, that is a, that seems old-timey as hell. It does, yeah.

But those are on. I've never worn that. Have you ever had that wear those for anything? Oh, gosh, no. No, I mean, I, I just get socks that. have elastic in them, and they stare on my legs. Yeah, there's nothing in my life that is fancy enough where I need to be wearing sock garters. Yeah, right.

I mean, ladies. Yeah, ladies, we heard you. And men, and men who like Alexander Scarsgaard. You know, he invites you back to his place after pizza and seven up, and you go up to his room, like he's living with his mom or something. And he starts taking his clothes off. and he's wearing socks with garters. Do you say, you know what?

I think we're done here. Or do you say, oh, leave those on. Yeah, never take those off. That's right. Alexander and your stupid things. Yeah. Let me snap those on the backs of your calves. Oh, geez.

Why is that so weird? Something real weird about that. What that is. Claire says yes. Better keep those socks on. Garters are lovely. fancy red fraggle says fancy silk socks slipped down more easily I'm thinking yeah that's true I mean my fantastic four socks that I got from loot crate probably don't need don't have that

problem fancy silk socks sure sure real quick here I just noticed just to continue the deep dive his next movie after the Northman is something called infinity pool oh now this is what's interesting. It's directed by Brandon Cronenberg, and you would be correct and assuming he is the son of David Cronenberg. Although the way it listed it says, parents, David Cronenberg.

Doesn't list anybody else. Just, David Croninberg is the parents. Test tube. Yeah. I think his real... Probably cloning machine. I think her real name's Carolyn, but I don't see... Oh, there she is down lower in trivia. But yeah, under family, it just says

David Cronenberg. That's all it is. Anyway, we'll see if he's weird. He does weird things with like body horror and, you know, penis-looking stuff. Yeah, I hope so. People be really disappointed if it comes out. It's like a rom-com or something. Oh, that'd be a real bummer. Yeah, we don't want that.

You know, check out the latest Kronenberg rom-com. I also have a little follow-up from our old palbi who was just here yesterday talking about the science of where your sweet spot. Oh, yeah, black holes and stuff. But we also, we brought up that thing about your sweet spot when you're on your bike. Oh, yeah, yeah. He has a follow-up, and I'm going to play it. It's audio. Okay.

And this is him while he's out. running and he sent me this and said you know play this especially for Brian because it was upcoming MS-150 ride this will tell you right where you need to be so here you go let's hear what he had to say hey Scott and Brian remember the other day last week I was telling you guys about endurance training I'm on my run right now and I talked about the seven-word test to determine whether you're in the right you know zone to be increasing your endurance and I said you know it's the idea of speaking a seven-word phrase and if you don't have enough breath to do it then you're you're going too fast well on my run today i figured out a phrase that might work

it's a little bit more than seven words but it's about the right length here we go ready this is what you say hey it's too early to get a fish sandwich see that i did it so that means I'm right in the right zone. That's nice. Love the show now. Bye. All right. Well done, Bobby.

So you just got to yell, hey, is it too early to get a first sandwich while you're out running? No one will think that's weird. It'll be fine. No. No, exactly. Yeah. People hear that and just think, oh, that's normal.

If you run through the drive-through, then it's two birds, one stone, right? Like you can maybe get a fish sandwich, and you can see if you're in your sweet spot. Yeah, there you go. I feel like if you want to slow yourself down and have a bad run, maybe get a fish sandwich. A fish sandwich? Yeah, maybe that's it. Yeah. Seems like a bad idea.

Anyway, thanks, Bobby. Hey, you know what I had for lunch yesterday, Scott? I threatened to do this, and I done did it. What? Did you get the Mexican pizza early? I got the Mexican pizza early. Oh, man. So is it good?

Scott, let me tell you something. I'm sending you, I took a live photo because this was live photo worthy. Yeah. Here we go. Sending it to you right now. I don't know why I didn't send this to you earlier. But the Bobby thing made me think about it, actually. So it should be coming in your text

Okay, I'm looking, I'm waiting Oh, there we go Now it should be coming in your text I wish there was an easy way And somebody's going to say Really, there is an easy way I wish there was an easy way to turn a live photo

Into a GIF It is like made for Oh, there totally is Very easy to do Yeah, is it? Okay, yeah, yeah Well, there's a Export it into this file format

And then you take it into this No, none of that, none of that It's actually super simple You can, I think you can, actually I think the phone has a tool to do it directly, but then you can also, like, if you post it to the Giffy app, it just does it for you and you don't have to do anything. Okay.

All right. How do you make it? Good. Can I just hold my mouse down and see? Yeah, if you put your thumb down or I guess, oh, I don't know how you do it on. Yeah, there it is. Look at this. He opens it.

Oh. Yeah. You can see the Mexican pizza and all its beauty. I'm going to tell you right now, Scott. Yeah. Those Taco Bell people didn't miss a step. This is like, this tastes like it was from 2019. So wait a minute.

And someone in the chat says they kept the old art, is this what it looked like and everything? Oh, that's not the old art. I don't, that's absolutely like new weird. All right. But okay, it described to me, I'm very briefly, it shows me what sauce this is. What is the sauce on here? It's, um, it's, it might be their red sauce that they use for their bean burritos. Um, the red chili sauce.

I'm not sure. It's, uh, uh, I don't know. I mean, it's all right. You've got your two deep-fried wheat or flour tortillas. Inside there they put, I think, just beef, maybe beef and bean. Okay. Oh, bless you. Thank you.

And then put some cheese on top. Then they put it in the steamer for 30 seconds or 15 seconds or whatever. Pull it out, put some pico de guy on there, And then that's when they squirt the red sauce. And it might be different. Yeah, there we go. Graham Cracker says the Mexican pizza sauce is much different than the red sauce. Trust me.

Oh, okay. So it's not just normal red sauce. Yeah, because the red sauce, at least when I was working Taco Bell, way back in 1986, the red sauce was ladled on, like you ladled it on to everything. And so they'd need to put it in a squeeze bottle. And if they're going to do that, they might as well make a different sauce for it. Sure, sure. There's no time savings there.

We got you. Okay. I mean, it looks It looks edible. Yeah, thank you, Doja Cat. You know, in Dolly Parton, working on the musical based on the Mexican pizza for TikTok because the world is ending.

Yeah, the world is ending. We're almost done. We decided that this is why she declined her rock and roll Hall of Fame nomination. She's like, you know, before you give me this award, I'm just going to go ahead and say, you probably want to take it back because something's coming out later this year

that's going to make you question why you gave it to me the first place. So I'm going to go ahead and say, nah, not this year. Yeah, there you have it. It does look like I would eat this and enjoy this. So, you know, I feel like in a weird way, this is just their, isn't this just their tostada with a different name? No, tostattas a corn tortilla and it doesn't, isn't steamed. Like you don't get the mix of the melted cheese and I don't even think they have a toastat anymore. But toastat is usually corn tortilla, ground beef, lettuce, tomato, sour cream if you're nasty.

I like a little sour cream. Yeah, I do too. It's just how Janet Jackson gets it. Yeah, that's how she always gets it. I always get her mixed up that it's not her song, but Paula Abdul for some reason. I always do that. Oh, yeah, no. Just the nasty part.

Yeah, right. As soon as you say it, I go, oh, Paula Abdul. No, wait. Not her. I don't know what I do that. But wasn't there, did a cold-hearted snake, doesn't Paula Abdul do something about nasty something? Nasty boys, don't mean, nope, that's still the other one. That's Janet Jackson still.

Hey, dancing, dance. I don't know. I don't know what it is. That was a long time ago, Brian. I try not to think of those days too often, you know? Don't have a lot of nostalgia for the Paula Abdul days. No. What about DJ Scat-Cat-Cat?

Do you still think about DJ Scat-Cat? No, but I do think about those fat boys sometimes, you know? Because they were fat. That was their thing. And when you're fat, I guess that makes you a popular rapper just because you're fat. Hey, you know, the Reverend Puck points out something that I'd forgotten. But yeah, Paul Abdul was Janet Jackson's choreographer before she went on her own. And she's in the nasty boys video or in the nasty video.

That might be why I conflate him. That might be it right there. Could be. Yeah. And now I remember that now that he says that, I'm reminded that, yes, they had a big collaboration. In fact, her whole start was dancing. background-y stuff and then suddenly she had her own a career. Yeah.

Right. And then she was such a damn softie on American Idol. She was. She was me on AMTP. No, you're far, you know, you still have a you bring in criticism, actual criticism. People will be able to hear that today, by the way.

Oh, today, eh? Our new episode went up. Allie Spagnola, our special guest judging the podcast interviews. Nice. You know, if you don't know who she is, get run out and watch her videos on YouTube. You'll be amazed. If you don't know she is, then, yeah, exactly.

Yeah, what's wrong with you if you don't know? She made somebody's car transparent. She, like, did a Wonder Woman car recently. And it looked amazing. It was her car. She keeps doing it to her own car. She has this car that's been through hell, man. That thing's got like...

She cheered it, and then she put pop sockets all over it. Yep, and then made it transparent, repainted it. I don't know, that car is going to die. I don't know. The poor thing. No, somebody's going to buy that car, and, you know, they're going to pay $100,000 for it, $100,000 for a $5,000 car. Yeah, for a crappy Hyundai or Kia or whatever it is.

Right, just so they could say they had L.E. Spagnola's car. Yeah, why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you want to? All right. Dunaway time. That's right. It's Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah. Can you feel it in the air? We had to postpone. I just smell it, really, more than anything. You can smell it in the air. We had to postpone the show to today, our show. So we'll talk about that again because that is happening today instead of yesterday. But having him here is always a treat. We're going to now play an intro and

do a game. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the program, Mr. Brian Dunaway, who joins us for another edition of Tad Pooley Feud or Ted Pooley Fude. Hi, hi, Brian. Hello. Is it my turn to speak now? You can speak now. Oh, I've gotten, Brian.

Hi, you can say words anytime you want. Say words. I'm a treat. Yeah. I'm good to eat. Oh, geez, you're a rapper. And you didn't even know it. No, that's a poet.

That's right. I feel like this music you're playing. I feel like Colonel Tom Parker is about to introduce Elvis. Yeah, check it out. He's about to come out on stage and go, oh. Banana Eater himself. Yep. Elvis Cresley.

That's right. It's not bad. You do a pretty good impression of that. Hey, it's good to have you back. We're going to do our Wednesday shenanigans here and have a caller right in as a right in. Call in as well. The phone number to call is 801-47-10462. So if you're in the live chat and you would like to participate in today's Tad Pully Feud,

then that's the number to call. 41 47104.62. All right. So far, no rings. Six two. Oh, you know what? I did change browsers. Just make sure this is okay. It should be okay. Should be fine. I just don't see any ring yet. Call now. Anyone want to call? That's what she said. Yeah, that is what she said. I just don't see any ring yet. Oh, I see the ring now. Let's see who this is. We've got somebody already calling in. We're going to allow this person. Hold on. Yes, use my microphone. Hi, who's this? Hi, this is a really hoopy fruit in the chat. You really hoopy fruit. Oh, man.

Really hoopy fruit. He's the hoopiest fruit food in the galaxy. Yeah, that's fruppy hooty fruit. Anyway, hey, it's good to have you among us. We're happy to have you participate today. But none of this works until Brian explains what the hell's going on. So Brian explained. Well, okay. It's time to play the tadpoley food. I've certainly made the tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian, you have to predict the answers that you guys gave us.

It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Hoopi Fruit, it's your job. It's going to be more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian, really depending on who buzzes and answers and blah, blah, blah. Hey, look, if your team wins, you get a prize package that includes no time to explain

remastered, which means they had more time to explain, right? Because if they remastered it, it gave them more time. I agree. Now I don't know what to think about anything. It's good point. It's like the never-ending story. You'll also get the game StarCross. I'm still watching it.

Oh, StarCrossed. I don't know what's I don't know why. I don't know what that is. Both of those, big thanks to Matthew Bach, I believe, gave us those. Yes, he did. Big things to Matthew Bach for those. All right, let's get to the game. I polled.

582 tadpillers. Oh, I've been holding this one for a while. And ask them to give their response to this question. Okay. Name a magazine you'll find in a doctor's waiting room. Damn it! I'm right and done away. I'm going with the classic highlights.

Show me highlights. Number one. No one answer on the board. No answers can beat it, which means that you automatically get to play, and you get a real hoopie fruit as a partner for this. Good job, you guys. Those highlights magazines. Step in the Heart of Gold.

I'm at the doctor once a week. We're going to win this one. Do they still make that? Is that still an ongoing concern, that magazine? Is that a thing? It must be. I think it is. Although, who could tell, right?

I mean, it's not like, like, you know, kids are saying, oh, this is an old issue. Things aren't current in here. Gufus and Galant are talking about the new Google Pixel. Yeah, good point. you probably could recycle forever and never know one to know the damn difference they're just trying to match or trying to find hidden objects

that's their whole job exactly all right I like to think my doctor made bad decisions and you know subscribe to magazines like in a magazine club and they can never get out yeah that's a good point yeah that's a good way looking at it

all right well you guys control the board what do you want to do I got a I got another good one unless you got a magazine over there what do you think I've got I think time is like an obvious choice, right? Time is good.

That's the one I had. So let's load it up. All right. Time magazine. Shoot it in there. Featuring Man of the Year, Bill Gates. All right. Show me time.

Indeed, number three. They always have those dramatic covers. There's always somebody overlit and black and white. Their eyes all aglow because it got. It's always weird. That's what we do. The opioid epilite. epidemic or i got another one lined up yeah all right what you got i'm going to go with the people

because i'm trash oh people yeah people magazine i'm trash i don't i don't go to good doctors they're worse by the by the way i told me all about that uh alexander scars guard photo this morning that's right people people sucks but i don't know if they're the worst at the select maybe they are maybe they're the worst i don't know i don't know i'm not going to make a judgment let's see if four out of five doctors recommend people for for their patients who's sitting in their waiting room. Show me people. Number two, you guys are the top three answers.

Not a lot of points for you, but you are working. I like the idea that someone sees a magazine and goes, oh, oh, it's people. I'm people. This magazine is for me. This has got to be for me. Made for people by people. Yep. Right.

I miss the people call that stuff rags. They still do that. Yeah. Well, I think you can call it. I don't know. Why don't you ask her daughter that question. Hey, you need some new rags out here. Yeah, I need some new rags in the waiting room.

New rags. Your rags are a little old. Dated. I've got another one unless you got another one. Well, I was thinking like, is there like a country living or something like that? Oh, that's a good one. Are you living where I live? Are you reading my mind?

Do we go? to the same doctor? No kidding. Country living. I think you guys should go for it. I'm going to go with that. Yeah. Let's go with country living.

I haven't, yeah, country living. Let's do it. All right. Okay. All right. Show me that country living. Oh, your first time.

I was worried about number 24 on the list. Or not country folk. Not too big on the country living. They do survive. All right. I'm going to go with a now.

National Geographic, I think, is what I would think of. I haven't seen those in a while, but my doctor always used to have National Geographic, but I don't know if they just stopped because of, do they still, like, visit tribes, lost tribes? I don't know. It was what we all think of when we think of national. So when I was younger, my brother called them Ski Sloper Magazines, and I never knew what he was talking about. He'd say, ski, oh, you got one of those ski slopers. I'm like, what?

There you go. And what he meant was the ladies in them with the no shirts on because they were some tribe somewhere. had ski slopey boobies like they went like a ski slope. It's not a weird thing. It was a weird thing for him to say. You know, that's how boobs work. But whatever, okay. Yeah, no, they do work that way.

My brother was just weird. But anyway, I'm going to go with the ski slope or favorite National Geographic. Ooh, this must be a special issue. It's got an outline in yellow. Show me National Geographic. Dang. Number six, which means you're tied. Look at that.

With one response, you've tied the game up. Ooh, we've got a charge of the game. Yeah. Part of me thinks the Tadpool will be joking around about some low-hanging fruit, but I don't want to risk it just yet, so I'll stay mainstream and say Us Magazine. Might be in there. Sure, us.

People, they're just like us. Yeah. Yeah. All right, show me Us Magazine and their preponderance of Fuchsia. Damn it. Really? Us was number 16 on the list. It was up there, but not in the top 10.

I should have just gone for the weird one. All right. Well, we went with the country living. How about we go with catering to men? How about that? Do you see some sports illustrators in there? I know they keep the swimsuit edition. You never can't get that one.

Yeah, that one the doctor keeps for his own personal waiting. His own personal, his own personal ski sloper collection. He keeps that. Right. Oh, Kathy Ireland again. Sure. Show me sports. It was straight.

More ski slopers. Oh, man. Number four. I'm hitting the good ones. I was hoping to be further down. You'll get it. I believe in you. Although I really want to win.

You got another one over there? You got another magazine in the barrel? What about men's health? Men's health is good. That's actually a really good one. Actually, you're right. I think every time I go to the doctor access to see a men's health. I actually subscribe to men's health at one point in time because of that.

Well, plus you're a man and you're there for health, so it makes sense. Yeah, I was in the waiting room for such a long time. I read all their men's health, and I didn't need to go to the doctor anymore. Nice. Nice. Great. Show me men's health. Man.

We're just working your way. You're now taking the left side of the board, but you've only managed to get 15 points. You got another one? Um. Not yet. You got one? I, well, yes, but I don't, it's, these are, this is the problem. Now we're getting into the ones that we need for the higher points.

Exactly. So there's going to be less likely. I haven't seen. It's almost as if those should be worth more points because they're further down the list. Oh, interesting. Maybe we finally. You'll lose your turn. We finally sold, Brian finally sold that guy on the rules, that guy at home who always hates

our rules. You know, he complained once and he's got so much crap for it. I'm going to just, I'm going to go. What about Life magazine? Oh, yeah, life. That's another good one. Dadgummit, all these magazines and their relative titles. I'm people.

I have time. I like men's health. Us, people? I'm alive. Sure. All right. Let's go with Life magazine. Life, okay.

Show me. Mikey, he likes it. Life. Oh, man. Sometimes there's an automatic delay in the board. Like, it's not even me trying to be dramatic. It is like... Wow, I thought that was you in that case.

I did, too. All right, how are we doing with the Cosmos? The Cosmopolitan. Oh, that's a good one. It's a good drink and a big, thick, heavy magazine that... It's also a nice. nice, it's a nice casino. Smells nice. Oh, it is. Yes, this is true.

Correct. Now owned by MGM Resorts. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, it just got bot this year and, uh, I'm hoping that that means I can use some of my points and stay there. Yeah, that's where I want to go. Let's, uh, let's find out. Uh, take this survey.

Ten reasons why this should be in the, in the, uh, Tadpoly feud. Show me Cosmopolitan. Oh, come on. Oh, there we go. Oh, my gosh. Cosmo.

Cosmo's too sexy for my doctor. Yeah. It's too sexy for your doctor. Um, okay. Uh, let's swing the other direction in the traditionally more manly direction. Doesn't mean women don't enjoy what I'm about to say, but, you know, let's go with, uh, golf digest. Heck, gum it. You know the doctor just reads that and then he's like, put that out in the lobby.

Yeah, that's right, yes. Hold on me work on my back swing. I guess back swing would be tennis. Let me work on my short game, and now I'll put the old issue out for the riffraff. Yeah. You wish you had enough money to golf. Here you go. Yeah, here.

All right. Show me the golf digest. Oh, God, oh. Oh, God, oh. One of he works on the side of the board. The other one works the other side of the board. Guess who's going to have more points. Um.

let's stay in the digest you can be too good at a subject i suppose sure now this is lucky this is a stretch because i don't even know if there's like a whole generation or two that don't even know what a reader's digest is but i'm going to go for it yeah that's yeah let's just do it i remember those being in my dentist office so i'm going to just yeah what's the big stupid dog that was in the back of those oh um cliford was it no it wasn't marmaduke right it was like a big fluffy dog yeah it was like there was it was there was there was there was a time there where if you had a big dog either Marmaduke or the other one

you were cool. It was the other dog, right? Because we had Garfield and Heathcliff were the two tabby cats and then there were two dogs that was Marmaduke and Clifford. Right? No, there was another, there was another that was a kid story. There was another it was a big stupid dog.

Big stupid dog. Big fluffy, he had like a big fluffy dog. What the crap was in time? Anyway, go ahead. I can't remember. All right, well, Rita's Digest. Uh, these, these, these, these military times. Oh, fun in the military or whatever it was. Uh, show me readers digest. Oh my. Oh, my God. That's going to kind of put this game to bed. Really. That's freaking ridiculous. Yeah. I think you're out. Well, you're, you're still in this. There are three strikes left. If any of you can figure out what number eight is, then you win the prize.

Oh, that's right. Oh, that's right. Oh, a new game. Okay, now we're all on the same side. It was even better. Right. Now you're all playing together. I was going to say there's a bunch of, that was always travel magazines whenever I get to my doctor, but I'm trying to figure out which one it is.

Well, you really get to say it yet, does he's still my turn. Well, I know, but we're on the same side now. We're both trying to win. Oh, we're trying to win for him. You want Scott to, you're going to give some answers to Scott. I have personally lost, but our player can still win. Yeah, yeah, yeah, good point.

You're trying to help. You're right. You're right. Okay, so what do you, sorry, what was brewing there? What did you have in your head there? I was saying there's like, there's like a travel magazines, and I can't, but the problem is I can't remember the titles of them. Yeah.

Travel fancy. It was probably just called travel. Yeah, probably. Just like all these other dumb names. Just like, travel, golf. Golf. I travel. Well, you know what?

Let's try that one. Travel. Okay. All right. Show me. Travel. Yeah. Travel.

How about, uh, I was like looking through to see what if it was. on the list. I don't even think it made I'm surprised because I absolutely see travel magazine in my doctor's office, but I do not see it in the Padpool's responses.

Interesting. How about we got to have some kind of news thing. Oh yeah. What's the one with the... Newsweek? News week. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's say Newsweek. Yeah. I read news this week. Is that

Brian Dunaway's answer? Oh, yeah. I'm up. Yeah, Newsweek. That's great. Okay, all right, Newsweek. Show me Newsweek. Oh, come on. Newsweek was number 12 in the list.

Come it. Damn. Yeah. Life was number 11. Did I mention life was number 11? Yeah, life was number 11. So one strike left. Scott's got the response.

If he can name number eight, then Hoopie Fruit, you win the prizes. If not, Scott, you've got all the rest of them the side of the board. This is you. Well, we're all. working together here so what do you guys think of uh well i keep wanting the tadpole to be stupid and say something dumb like you know just to irritate us like cat fancy but there's no way that's in oh no i wouldn't think so no because no one ever has it i'm just trying to think does the tadpull sit around i think i well i think like one or two smart asses probably said it but it's not enough

to make it number eight i don't know because 18 smart asses would need to say it for There's always in the list here. That's right. I've noticed this more as I've gotten older and as these stupid buttholes have started to send me these, the stupid old people that had to go to the doctor and their AARP stupid crap. That magazine's always everywhere I go honking me like some kind of... Teenagers, why you should be definitely afraid of them. Yeah, why they're going to kill us all.

How about a... Oh, you know what? Oh, I just thought of one and it left me. Hold on, hold on. Oh, Scott. Oh, Oh, Scott. Oh, Scott, my Scott.

I had a good one. Oh, shit. Does the fruit dude have any? Yeah, fruit, you got anything since we're trying to win for you here? I don't know. I like that AARP answer. I thought that was good. I wanted to be there.

I kind of do to. Because it feels right. I wish it was like Nintendo Power or something. I know, right? I know. I don't think it's going to be that. I don't remember the one I just popped into my head and then left. It was a good

one. And I just don't freaking remember it. So oh no, I remember. Do you guys remember living? Living. That's very doctor-office. Yeah, living magazine. It's a like country living, but just living. What's that auto?

What is that automobile? What is that? The car magazine, what the crap? Automobiles and what the crap is called oh uh car car and and table no hold on uh car automotive uh shit my dad used to get all those why can't think of them car uh car month car and car and truck driver driver driver car and driver car and driver car and driver car driver okay i knew something sounded i knew what in truck driver no it's car and driver i think car and driver i think car and driver i don't know what was your guess i don't be in there

I don't know I can't think of it All right On the third hour Of Tad Pooley Feud Let's do You're just joining us Day 5 in our standoff

Let's just go I mean What am I thinking of With living Yeah Yeah Maybe it was something Living magazine

Yeah you can do living Oh am I thinking of Martha I might be thinking of Martha Stewart living That might be what I'm thinking of Yeah but Would you, would you, would you, the doctor? Now you make me think Oprah's there. Oh, yeah.

That Oprah magazine? Yeah. I hear she's on the cover this, though. She's on the cover this one time. I think it's only happened one time that she wasn't on her, right? I can't remember. Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah, only one time was she not on the cover.

She knows what sells. Oh, it was a printing, printing error. All right. If we had to choose between Martha Stewart Living and the Oprah magazine, which do you go with? fruit what you think yeah fruit you tell us i'm i'm thinking martha stewart's probably more yeah martha stewart okay martha stewart yeah she's always featured a snoop dog every week so this makes sense yeah that's right exactly all right show me martha stewart living

damn it damn it perfect nobody said oh and nobody said actually one person said living and i'm assuming they meant martha stewart living right uh no this last one. It never even was one that you guys came up with, but boy, the Tadpool was yelling this one a lot. Show me number eight. Better homes and gardens. That was the other one. I was thinking some kind of gardening magazine, but I couldn't think of it. Frick. Frick. Yeah. That seems easy now. Now that I hear that, I go, oh, of course. Freaking that's one on there. All right. Yeah, shoot. You know what that means. Got to hold these

codes for the next one, but we tried and we always try to. We, we, listen, the bets in this, this casino favor the guest. That's always your goal. So even then, though, once in a while, you got to take a big loss. How do you feel about your loss there, Frood? Oh, I feel great just to have been playing. That's, you know, that's really the surprise. You're part of one of the longest tadpulli fused ever. Yeah, this one is a beast. So tell your friends and thank you for playing because you were awesome and I hope you play again in the future. All right. Hey, Dunaway, we had to change our schedule a little bit, but don't worry everybody. Play retro tonight

3.30 Mountain Time instead of yesterday. So if you showed up live and went, where are these guys? Well, I put a post out, but maybe not everybody saw it. I don't know. But the point is, it's today. So today, 330 Mountain Time, we're getting our golden eye on big time. Yes. And you found

a really weird Elon Musk meme that flume that blew my mind. I love that. I can't believe that. I love the Elon Musk mod. There's a mod made for golden eye. I don't want to give it too much away, but trust me, you're going to want to tune in. We're going to talk all about that crazy crap. It's really weird.

But there are a lot of other weird stuff in there. It's an amazing topic in general. So if you are interested at all in that kind of classic game talk, today is your day. Play Retro is happening. And check it out wherever you get your podcast. We would rather listen to it later. Hey, Dunaway, anything else you'd like to say? Yeah, man.

I love you guys and stay safe out there. Oh, thanks, man. Bye, no. Thanks. That was nice of him. You probably saw those gnats. Let me rip through a couple of these, by the way. Women's Day, good housekeeping.

Enough people said hustler slash penthouse slash playboy, one of those three that I just combined him in one category. Nice. A.R.P. was on the list number 18. Let's see, Boys Life Entertainment Weekly. Consumer Reports. Field and stream. Really?

Motor trend might have been the car when you were trying to remember also. Auto, mortar, and sport, and car and driver also on the list. And then somebody just said, I live in Norway, pass. In other words, we don't have doctors or magazines in Norway. So I cannot contribute to this conversation. Well, thanks for letting us know. I don't know what we would have done without you letting us know that you have to pass because you live in Norway. Actually, maybe magazines in a doctor's office in Norway is just weird.

Maybe they don't do that. Maybe a lot of places don't anymore just because of COVID. But, you know. Yeah, people have their phones now. They can look up whatever they want. Exactly. Why even bother? You don't have to.

Keep them entertained. Candy Crush or something. Yeah. Why the hell not, I say. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, it's a little bit of time with Tom Merritt. He's going to bring some tech to the table, which will be fun. We've got recommendals with Randy after that.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, woo, woo, woo, whoa, woo, all right. Hey, put your heads down on your pillows and relax, because the old, silky, smooth, voice, Jim Job McGillicudy coming in hot. Here we go. the computer as with any tool the concept and direction must come from the man that man is indeed tom merritt joins us on wednesday's and talks tech tom merrick good morning how the heck are you yes member of aARP yeah are you so do you get their magazines and stuff now i do yeah yeah i don't like it i feel weird why oh i signed up the minute i turned 50 what did you get that free trunk organizer yes i did really actually that was worth the price of admission right really i haven't i i haven't i I put mine in the trunk. I haven't used it a single time. Oh, it's great.

Like, if you've got, if you're bringing home, like, a bunch of melons, it keeps them from rolling all over your trunk. It's great. I haven't brought home enough melons. That's my problem. And you didn't read, apparently, you didn't read the March issue of AARP, which told you eat more melons. Wow.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I saw that. I just didn't take it to the ice. I don't know. I feel like if I get the magazine, I would just feel like I've given in, like I've given. I don't know why. I don't know why.

Isn't that weird? I've always wanted to be old. So I was excited when I, because I actually got an AARP card sent to me when I was in high school. And I thought it was hilarious. I carried it around in my wallet. I tried to get a discount of McDonald's on my coffee and they were just, they just laughed at me. And so, yeah, I was, I was like, ah, the dream of my teens is alive. It's finally here.

This will surprise all of you. I joined AARP so I could get the card to get discounts everywhere. Yeah, that too. I'm shocked. I'm shocked by this news. I don't know much of this information. Well, all right. Speaking of technology for 50 and older,

we're going to do a little of that today. Tom Merritt brings the hot tech news of the day on Wednesdays, and today's no different. What's going on out there? What should we be looking for? Well, as many of you know, Scott Johnson appears on Daily Tech News show on Wednesdays later today, and I prepared a treat for you, Scott. Oh, I don't even know what to say.

What can I get it? I don't even know how to guess. Give me a hint. I've got a cryptocurrency story. Oh, good. Does it have the side of NFTs? No. But stable coins?

Can I interest you in some stable coins? No, even though they were named to sound more stable than they are, which annoys me. Are there horses on them? No, sadly. They're named Tara, Luna, and Tether. also elements of Neil Stevenson novels oh well then give him money uh yeah so uh you have you have you been seeing the headlines of uh the crash of cryptocurrency and the lawsuits and stuff flicking around oh yeah yeah seems pretty hairy right now a little bit so i so today we're

going to take a deep dive into what's actually going on and it and it revolves around two stable coins stable coins are coins that are supposed to be tied to an actual currency uh usually the u.s dollar so that they always are worth a dollar. And we have two very different cases of stable coins. One, that sort of was trying to be maybe tied to a dollar, but not really. And that's the one that crashed in everybody's suing. And then there's another one where it actually sunk below a dollar and then bounced back. And it caused a little bit of panic when it did that.

But I can explain, and we'll explain it on DTNS, why that happened and why that one was constructed properly so that it didn't actually end up crashing. Does it work the same as if these were FDIC insured that level of protections? Interesting that you should say that. In both of these cases, we see what it looks like when something isn't FDIC insured. Because there were essentially bank runs in both cases, but you didn't have deposit insurance, which is what the D&EI and FDIC is. In Terra's case, or Luna and Terra are tied together.

In Luna's case, that was very bad. In Tether's case, they had constructed it in such a way that it weathered this storm. Now, it may or may not weather future storms, but this run didn't get serious enough to bring it down. Interesting. So what's next step for those that took the bigger? Like, let's just talk about the broader market. there's so many cryptocurrencies took such a giant hit in the last 30 days or so, even less than that. What is the path forward for them?

Do they aim for? Yeah, so it's a little bit of a chicken and egg situation. It was the decline of cryptocurrencies across the board, Bitcoin, ether, everything else that caused these stable coins to face their challenges. And that's caused just by the economy. You know, as the economy gets worse, investors leave riskier assets. And cryptocurrencies are some of the riskiest assets out there. So they started pulling their money out. Bitcoin declined.

Ether declined. All the cryptocurrencies declined. The stable coins shouldn't decline. They're meant for this situation. Right. They're supposed to weather it. When everything else is declining, you move your money into the stable coins because they're stable. And you know you won't gain value a lot, but you won't lose value either.

At least that's the theory. With Tether, that held up with Terra. Turns out short version is when you make the reserve that backs your stable coin, all of the cryptocurrencies that are declining, then that doesn't help you maintain your stable value. No, that probably seemed like a good idea at the time, though. I could see why that would jump out as like, oh, yeah, well, you know, this is never going to collectively be a nightmare. Exactly. Exactly. We're diversified against all the cryptocurrencies. Oh, wait. All the cryptocurrencies are now declining. Proud. Yeah, that's pretty bad.

Whereas Tether backed itself with actual money, dollars and securities and bonds and things like that. It is interesting to see some be surprised by this. And my answer to that is always, well, look at what we had. I mean, FDIC and that deposit insurance stuff came about because people wanted stability in the way the market works. Your money's not here, Scott. Exactly. And crypto going through that learning phase. separately. It just seems like there were some history to look at and go, oh, yeah, well, of course. And they're going to have to figure out a way in this growing concern to come up with a way to insure it. Like, that's just the bottom line. Nobody, you're never going to have like the vast acceptance of a currency. It's bigger than ever, sure, but you're never going to have the vast

like overall, like the whole country's in on it or the whole world's in on it without some kind of stability that's just baseline, you know? Yeah. And Tether had that stability. without it being legislated. Again, there's still questions whether it has enough stability to weather future challenges, which it may or may not face, but whether this one, whereas Luna did not. And so now there's talk about regulation and whether stable coins should have to be backed by actual currencies, whether they should have to be transparent about those. That's the problem with Tether is they say, oh, we're backed by a mix of these kinds of backings,

which are all the right things to say, but they don't tell you how much and which ones and all that sort of thing. So they're transparent up to a point. And they got in trouble with the state of New York for doing some creative accounting a year ago in February 2021 and had to pay a fine. Now, they say it was never that they weren't able to back their currency. It was a lack of transparency, but they still aren't extremely transparent. So a lot of questions on all this stuff, but it is evolving and you're also seeing the first proposals for legislation there's a senator wanting to put forth that so yeah i'm glad you brought this up today because i got an email last night and this is true uh his name the person or the sender is crypto king 850 all right and he tells

me he must know me for real it's not just a bot or something because he says to me now is the time to take all your artwork off of my drawings dot com and convert them to nfts because they're so low right now now's the time to like get them ready so that when gas fees are low yeah yeah so when everything goes back the other way i'll be ready well what do you expect he's he's uh 849th in succession for the throne uh i mean i i don't know if that company or what company is the one to trust uh but the principle of like buy low sell high is is still appropriate so if you can buy a place you trust then then sure yeah yeah this idea that i go i need to go take thousands of drawings and convert them immediately is a kind of a hilarious ask.

But whatever, like, you know, I would like to see whatever the future of crypto in general, the technology, the currency tied to it, and all the other millions of uses for blockchain and all that, I'd like to see it figure itself out and thrive. Like, I'm not rooting for this death nail. Everybody seems to be super stoked about all that stuff crashing. I think it will hinder whatever the eventual progress is. But that progress is slow and it comes after time and you've got to learn these lessons. Some of them are hard.

I still think this stuff susses out to be sensible one day. It's just right now it feels like chaos to me. Yeah, I would urge people not to condemn the technology that's being used because of the companies and not to condemn any company from ever using this because there are a majority of companies that are shady. And I think this Tether and Luna story shows that. The Tether and Terra story shows that is that there is a way to do this where you can look at it and go, I don't know, that doesn't, you know, it'll never drop is a scare word for me. I'm like, yes, it will.

So I'm backing out of there. The like, no, no, no, we're being responsible. We're backing things up, which is why I trust Coinbase for things because they were very like, no, no, we're going to work with governments, we're going to work within the system. We're going to follow the rules. I'm like, okay, that seems like the right way to go. The ones that sort of sell you something that's too good to be true, like, we don't even need to back it with dollars. We can just use lots of cryptocurrency.

Well, those are the ones that seem riskier, and I'm not saying you shouldn't ever try them, but just know that those are incredibly risky and they might not work out like this one did not. Well, there you go. That and a ton more conversation about how all this works, why it's happening and what you might do about it will happen today. on the Daily Tech News Show at 2 p.m. Mountain Time, I'll be there, like Tom indicated, along with Roger, Sarah, and Tom, and it's always a fun time on Wednesday. So do check that out if you get a chance. Tom Merritt, as always, there's probably something else going on. I don't know if you're still trying to free your newsletter. If you are, then... Well, sure, I am, but I also started another newsletter. Oh. Yeah. It's, in fact... Expensive Tom newsletter.

It can be if you want it to be. The tech tom, techtom.com is the place where I'll be posting longer form writing on tech. And in fact, I wrote a full article on Tara, Tether, and Luna that went to the paid subscribers yesterday. So if you were a paid subscriber to my substack, you would know all of what I was talking about. Like, oh, yeah, yeah, I read that article already. And then the free subscribers, you can be a free subscriber, you don't have to pay, are going to get that article after DTNS today. and that article is the basis for our discussion on DTNS. There's lots of free stuff.

I've written something on comparing the energy usage of gold and Bitcoin. I wrote something on the Texas social media law. Those went out to the free folks as well. There was an explainer on variable refresh rate in monitors. That went only to the paid folks. So if you're interested in that kind of stuff, techtom.substack.com. Very cool. It's Tommerd, everybody.

You know him as Ace Detect on Twitter, you know, the hot new social media platform. So go check him out there. Tom Merritt, I'll see you later this afternoon. Have a great day. Thanks, y'all. It's good, Tom. Bye now. All right.

Crypto man. Crypto man. Crypto man. That's got to be a thing, right? Somebody's made a fake hero. Somebody's definitely, and it's like just used to sell crypto and it's horrendous, I'm sure. Yeah, we're not talking about like a good entertaining sort of animated. No, no, not talking about something from one of the comic companies.

I'm thinking somebody CryptoFarm 522.com. What's in but crypto bale? It's so exhausting all of this. It is. All right. I'm going to find Randy in here somewhere. Oh, here he is.

Okay, we're adding them to the call. We're going to do some recommendals where you spent real money on a streaming service and then watched a thing, and we're going to talk about those. Hey, do-dib-dib-do. Hey, look who it is. It's Randy Jordan, aka Randy Deluxe,

joining us as he does everywhere. Day for little recommendals. He's on video today. Look at this. Look at Randy. He's on video. Good morning, morning stream. How you doing? Good, man. I'm doing just great. I've had a great time listening so far. What a show. That's good stuff. You got that weird filter on. Blurry back there. Randy. How do you do that? Is that a thing in Discord now? I didn't know you could do that. Yes. Discord added that like, I don't know, a couple weeks ago. I missed it. That's kind of cool. Well, there you go. Make yourself look underwater? He's a boca. Yes. Yes, but I'm not going to. he's not gonna

underwater levels are the worst Brian when's the last 10 who played Mario it's the worst this is 100% true yeah this is all true well it's good to have you here Randy we're gonna get cranking here on our oh go ahead do you have a thought I just want to say yeah because I can now you can't cut me off just yet you're not going to dump me right now so I don't tempt him I just want to say I realized

earlier in the show that I am very very lucky and privileged like I you come up with the idea of magazines in doctor's offices and I'm like I have no idea I don't go to doctor's offices I never have oh that's good which are where they exist well for sure and and I wasn't like I wasn't totally stymied I was just like what even I just don't go there's the good here's the good thing uh the answers that we gave today would be the answers we would have given 20 years ago probably yeah I probably think so and the other thing is Like when AARP came up just now, my first thought was, oh, I'll worry about that in 20 years. Uh-uh. What's going on with you, man? Why do I think, I don't know why, but I just somehow think I am so young and so healthy.

Like, that's my initial thought. Yeah, sure. I just feel really, really lucky. No, trust me, man. Just like, there were years where I thought, nothing will ever hurt me. I'm good. And then, you know, eventually it'll catch up to you. Don't worry.

You'll get there. Yeah. And by the time that happens, they'll give you your own personal tablet in the office. You won't need a magazine anyway. So you'll never have to deal with this, this lifelong tradition. I have been to the doctor. Yeah. I just don't, I don't go to.

I'm in Kaiser Permanente, which is an amazing health organization, like that should, should do all of our nation's health care, quite frankly. They should just apply Kaiser Permanente to the whole country. But like, you go in there, there aren't magazines. Why? I mean, I haven't seen a magazine. I've been going to Kaiser Permanente doctors for 11 years. I've never seen a magazine. I just love the name.

I just love the name Kaiser Permanente. It's just amazing. Do you have those here too? Kaiser Permanente. I don't think they're here. I could be wrong. It's like a hybrid German Spanish. Kaiser Permanente.

Yeah, Permanente. All right. Well, excellent. You're the permanent Kaiser is what it means. You're never getting voted out. You're the Kaiser for life. Culture just means Caesar, right? I don't know, does it?

I have no idea. I think it's just a, I think it's just a dramatic way of saying Caesar. at two Kaiser at two no that's Brutei anyway well it's good to have you here let's get diving in here Brian you got some clips and there's two it looks like you got a way set up for this first one here sure this first one everybody saw this on Netflix and they immediately said oh well Brian's you can watch this one for sure he's going to probably watch it and recommend to it so whatever let's get to it all right all right here comes here is the question According to the National Park Service, what should you do first if you are being charged by a bear in Yellowstone National Park?

A, stand still, B, sing loudly while backpedaling, C, run toward it, D, shout, and wave your arms, say the word. Superfluously, yeah. Right. There you go. Answer the question. Lock it in. She locked it in. It sucks it in.

I love that. She and only she knows whether her answer is right. So the answer actually once again is D. I was a Girl Scout. And as part of the training, we obviously talked through, you know, what it is to do when you wave your arms. Fortunately, when I went to Yellowstone with my family, we got a repeat of that lesson. And so, yeah, I've heard it twice now. Well, more times in Girl Scouts.

But it's shout and wave your arms. You want to make yourself look big to scare the bear. look big to scare the bear. Katie? Yes. Let's start with you again. Were you telling the truth? Or were you bullshitting?

I was lying. I was bullshitting. Is this Hattie Mandel? That's Howie Mandel. That's Howie Mandel. 100%. The most game showy host of the 2000s, I think. Former Gizmo, former Gremlin,

Howie Mandel. Yeah, that is Bullshit the Game Show on Netflix. And with, you know, with any new thing like that, it's like, all right, if you've got a really clever twist to it, then I'll watch an episode or two. Did that with the Chase, did that with the box, did that with, you know, all these other things that have cropped up in the last few years. This one hooked me enough to get me to watch like five episodes. And it's, the premise is this. You've got somebody kind of in the center in the hot seat. They're the ones answering the questions. That's the woman answering the question about what should you do.

if you're charged by a bear. She gives her answer, and then regardless of whether she gets it right or wrong, she needs to convince three people who are standing in front of her that she gave the right answer. And to do that, if she gave the wrong answer, she needs to bullshit. She needs to really come up with a reason why she knew that. She needs to slumdog millionaire and say, oh, yeah, in my life, you know, when I was eight, I saw a bear and I waved my arms and the bear went away and it worked.

And so that's how I know that you wave your hands to scare away a bear. that's kind of the funny part of this the questions themselves are probably like 20% getable they're they're very difficult you can you know I felt like I was getting about one out of every four or five so they're tuned to be hard they're tuned to increase the chance that you're going to have to bullshit your way out of it but it's watching these people trying off the cuff come up with the reason why they said George Bush and no new taxes or whatever um that's the entertaining part of it and you know game shows not for everybody and if you're not a fan of game shows this one certainly won't change your mind about them but if if you kind of like that uh um that unique style of trivia that that introduces some other gimmick to the concept and isn't just a straight up trivia show then this is a pretty clever one okay yeah would you would you put it on par with like i mean it sounds like i'm listening to some game show like it doesn't sound like here's and here's where the big

difference is and here's what I really like about it is they've this for whatever reason they don't edit this thing like a typical game show there is very little fluff you know maybe every couple questions how we will say okay now it's up to these people to figure out if you're telling the truth blah blah blah but way less of that and there are so many game shows that do this whole thing where on the next episode it's like previously on bullshit the game show this person went up and they lost and then this person came up and they made it to 10,000

blah blah blah blah this one when one show ends you get some credits you press the little watch next episode button and the next one begins and within 10 seconds you're kind of right back where you were like it's that quick this is one of those things Randy we were talking I think it was you suggested why doesn't Netflix just make things like this one long show

and you just go into it leave it when you want as opposed to 30 minute chunks. Doesn't need to be 30 minute chunks. Yeah, for me, that came from the Eric Stone Street show on Hulu, and I don't know the name of it now, but it's a it's a game show where people set up

dominoes and knock them over. Oh, I remember that. I remember this too. Trust me, terrible premise. This is a show for nobody, but a lot of these shows, they live and die on is the host really, really fun and funny with the contestants and with the other, like the co-hosts. And, I mean, I love Eric Stone Street so much. And he can't help but be really charming, right?

But I didn't keep watching it. Like, it was like, you know, if they had just run this all together, if it was eight hours of this, I might have kept watching. So did not, did Netflix not drop this all at once, Brian? Or did they? They did. They did. They did. And so, yeah, you can binge the whole thing.

and we've basically kind of been putting it on as like filler like while we're cooking dinner, we'll throw it on there so that, you know, we can, we'll watch one person's path through before they get replaced. That's kind of the other thing. The three people, whoever is the most accurate of those three people, if the person gets called out on their bullshit by all three people, they become the new person in the center. So there's incentive for them to really fine-tune and say, oh, yeah, I think this person completely full of crap.

There's one guy. It's worth seeing just for this guy who gets a question about planets and he's like, okay, well, so yeah, there's the planets. And then so you've got this thing with the different planets that are, and I went to, I took science in school. And so I know this. That's this whole thing. Nice.

I know this whole thing. It was like just bullshit, bullshit, bullshit. Okay, you're out, dude. Get out of here, man. That's great. Some people are bad liars, you know. They really are. And it's really funny watching people kind of see the crap that they come up with as they're doing this.

You really, you know, the right strategy is the first question, which is usually kind of an easier one. They do scale up a little bit in difficulty. What you do is you create a thousand different tells and you use them on that first question that you got right. So that everybody thinks, oh, well, he stands back from the podium or he shakes his head. said no or he he looks up to the right or things like that and are you okay with that developing meta in shows like i that's the thing that always takes me away from a show like the first few seasons of survivor are freaking awesome and after the meta develops i don't care about that show at all i can't watch it oh really what i don't think it's fun what survivor has done well with that

is they keep moving the target so yeah this you know forming an alliance like they figured out like it was such a brilliant thing in the first one that whatever the the survivor producers didn't think oh these people might group up and actually form a voting block that you know gets them to the end once they did that then it's like okay well let's add these um hidden immunities in the jungle or we'll add this thing where somebody goes off to an island and leaves the rest of their team behind they just keep reinventing i'll stand i'll stand by uh survivor this is amazing to randy's point this is why this is why i won't play a hearthstone anymore because i can't stand the idea of I need to know a meta to compete.

I hate it. I hate that. And game development is a very interesting thing, right? So like I could see there being like a... Did you lose something, Scott? You're looking all around like you lost something. I have lost something. But continue on.

Keep talking. I'm good. I'll find. Anyway, I'm glad you brought this up because I would have never known that it existed. So that's why the main thing is I'm really, really glad you brought this up. Like, if you go Google how to watch bullshit, you will get nothing. you will not get led to just I'm at this point I'm vamping thank you sorry and he's back sorry I'm back I'm back everybody don't worry I found what I was looking for oh good yeah I still haven't found what I was looking for well you're you and you too you guys got something in common

all right tell me about clip number two Brian what he got here Netflix bullshit any other one this also is on Netflix and it's great when you can find a a 90s movie that you haven't seen before that is like that complete 90s action thriller with some horror elements, with stars you love, and all that sort of thing. And then you realize this movie's from 2013. Okay, play the clip. All right, yeah. You promise you're going to find me?

I can promise you this, sweetheart, okay? You've got the best team of people in this whole city working to find you. But in order for us to help you, I need you to help me. Now, can you do that, sweetheart? Can you do that? Okay.

Okay. Okay, good girl. Good girl. Now, Casey, the first thing I need you to do is look inside that trunk and see if you can find a release lever. Call the cat. Okay. Usually it glows in the dark. Do you see that? No, no, it doesn't even have one of those. It's not Henry. Okay. Okay, it's okay, sweetheart. What mall were you at when you were abducted? Fashion Plaza. Fashion Plaza. Okay. Oh, I thought the one that's downtown, right? Okay, okay, it's okay, sweetheart. Calm down. What's your last name? Wilson. Wilson, okay.

Oh, my God. Okay, I see that. I got all your information right here in front of me, okay? Oh, look, you're a Capricorn. Me too. You know what that means, honey? What? We're fighters.

That means we were born to fight. So you know what I want you to do? I want you to fight. Okay. Can you fight for me, Casey? Yeah. Okay, good girl. Okay, tell me that.

Is that Hallie Berry? that is Hallie Berry Wow And Abigail Breslin is the The Crying Girl in the Trunk This is a movie that so easily could have been a 1998 or something late 90s kind of thriller It's called The Call

There's a lot of movies called The Call This is The Call that came out in 2013 starring Hallie Berry Yeah, that's a common one I've heard that name of many times, sure Yep, exactly And there's even a band called The Call Don't look for that call either

Um, this call is coming from inside Netflix. Ah, anyway, there's even two, the calls in Netflix. So make sure you're picking the one from 2013. So, uh, this one, uh, good, right? Like, it's a, it's your good, solid 90s thriller. Very tense, very well, uh, well, well put together. And it has a really clever premise that, uh, Hallie Berry's a 9-1-1 operator. She, uh, works, you know, the kind of the 9-1-1

dispatch thing, but it's her job while the police are on their way to calm the person down, get as much information as possible. Unfortunately, the person she's talking to is a girl who's been abducted and put into a trunk, and her cell phone is a disposable that doesn't have a GPS on it.

So she has to figure out ways to determine, all right, what are we listening to? Are you on the highway? Are you on the highway? Is there a lot of stops and things like that? Plus, you know, because it's a movie like this, there has to be some thing that happened in Hallie Berry's past that haunts

her for this one. It's the I'm sure Randy, you know the TV trope name for that one. I don't know it, but it's the, you know. Whatever it is. It's the Hitchcockian. I can't see the color red, but everything's red and kind of thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's interesting.

Now, here's, we saw previews for this and, you know, like, oh yeah, we'll have to go see that. We completely forgot about it for nine years. and then we were looking for something to watch, and I said, oh, that Hallie Berry movie that we kind of always wanted to see is on Netflix, let's watch that.

We watched it, and if there's a satisfying ending to the film, I'll tell you that. And then there's some other bull crap that happens after that, that I want you to forget. I want you to forget that. But you get this great, satisfying conclusion to the film, and then for some reason they feel like, oh, you know what we need to do is something a little bit more.

So it sounds like you've answered my question. My question is always, why is this 44% on Rotten Tomatoes? And it sounds like you're saying, it's that secondary ending. Like, it definitely better, which is that the critic reviews or the audience reviews, that's the 44%? The critics, the main. Oh, really? Okay. Well, it's better.

I feel like it's better than 44%. Yeah, the audience gives it 65. Really? Okay. See, that's what I'd say. say it deserves is more like a top two-thirds. Michael Imperioly's in this? I like him.

Michael Imperioly from the Sopranos is in this, yeah. I like him a lot. And he's great. This is a really quick roll, but a very important one to the story. So he's great to watch for. I'm trying to think if the, I don't think the

director, Brad Anderson, has done. Here's a funny bit of trivia. This is his lowest rated movie on IMDB. Every movie Brad Anderson has made has come in better than this. Not IMP, on Rotten Tomatoes. And his highest rated movie is called... Probably a machinist.

It's called Trans-Siberian. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Oh, that was great with the... Yeah, this is like... This is another one to see. They're on the Trans-Siberian Railway. It's Woody Harrelson and somebody.

And murder takes place or they're... You know, they're basically... The whole movie, I think, takes place on this. trained and that one's really good too. His most the machinist, but his most upside down movie on Rotten Tomatoes is Beirut and I forgot this existed and now I want to watch it.

It's a, what's his name? John Hamm, right? Oh, okay. John Ham. Sure. I think it's John Hamm. And anyway, on Rotten Tomatoes, it's got an 82% but then the audience score is 57. What did this movie do to you? So I can never trust them.

So Drew Nelson or Nielsen says, There's no spoilers, but it sounds like it might be the kind of ending where at first you think the killer is dead or slash gone, but then suddenly the hand reappears and then cut to credits. No, I will tell you it's not that kind of crap ending. That would piss me off. Kerry, the old 70s, Carrie did that great, and no other movie should ever do that ever again. But, no, it's, you know, you get resolution and then you get, hmm, we're going to take matters into our own hands kind of thing. and for two minutes, things, you know, get taken to their own hands, but whatever. Blah, blah, blah.

So, uh, exactly. Oh, that Brad Anderson here, this is weird. Brad Anderson, hold on. Let me find this again. Yes, yes. Is, uh, the nephew of Holland Taylor, uh, from the practice. And I think she was on West Wing. She was, uh, she's, uh, she is dating.

the actress from all the American horror stories that I can't remember. Oh, this lady. I know this lady. Everybody knows her, right? Sarah Paulson. Yes, but Holland Taylor is the, she's been around forever. She has been around forever. She's been in everything you definitely know, Holland Taylor.

I feel like you've seen. Oh, yeah. If you go look at her thing, look at her INDB. She's in everything you've ever seen ever. Exactly, yes. Yeah, you know that face. That's neither here nor there. I'm talking about the movie The Call from 2013 starring Halliberry and Michael Imperioli and Abigail Breslin.

And I just want to insert, Brad Anderson directed an episode of Peacemaker. Just one. Oh, really? Okay. Well, see, there you go. Oh. Yeah, I think, like you said, this thing is better than a 40% rotten tomato score, but I think it is on par with like a 65% rotten tomato score. Well, now I want to watch it and I never occurred to me.

So thank you. Yeah. you've never seen the machinist by the way that's what i try to do here is give you something that you'd never heard of maybe or something you've been wondering about and then and then watch it yeah see the machinist if you haven't if you want to see just left and he's going to go watch the movie now apparently all right right right just took off just left the discord said i'm going to go watch that movie right now oh there he is we got him back he's back did you watch the movie and then it came back that's great what i don't know you disappeared for a you left i said oh i guess you went to go watch it right now

No, you disappeared from our, from our list of videos. It was like for a second. I was gone for one second. Yeah, you're back now. You're good now. It's an important second though. Yeah, that's really, it's maybe the most important second of the day. And I don't know how we're going to recover.

All right, let's move on to this here. Wait, what do we have? Oh, do we do your number two yet? We did, right? It's my turn. Yep, he did a number two right in front of us. Yep, we all took a number two. Here we go.

Get ready to be depressed with mine. So enjoy. Here's my clip. Nobody wants to accept what that. how I say. Because what I tell you is what I know. It's bad. I have nothing to gain.

I have nothing to lose by telling you something that's not the truth. But I'm getting to the point that I keep going over and over and over and over. And I'm at the breaking point with it. I don't know how much more of this shit I can take. Well, what do you think happen to? I don't know. I don't. any any recognition of that voice i is it i i i feel like mine hunter taught me that this is what john wayne gasey

sounds like you are correct this is john man gasey's voice was it mine hunter some some show no mine hunter didn't i don't think yeah that would have been a lot of earlier yeah i think although if they come back for another season which now is rumored again um that would be cool if they if they got into some of those 80 early 80s deals but yes there's some show that dramatized him and that's exactly what he sounds like. Yeah, I think he's probably, well, John Wing-Gacy, one of the most notorious serial killers in the history of this country. I'm not, look, I'm not like a rabid true crime fan, but I'll watch a good documentary here and there. And I do like them to be good, like well-made and not just shock value or, you know, music is supposed to make you feel a certain way or whatever.

I don't like that. I'm not a big fan of that. I like when I just get a really well-researched and and presented documentary and sometimes true crime falls into that category. In this case, I did watch it. It's called Conversations with the Killer, the John Wayne Gasey tapes. And this came out, I want to say a couple of weeks ago on Netflix, is a short run of, I think only four episodes. Might be six. I think it's four.

Crap. I can't remember. It's short, though. Shortish. And anyway, it's all up there now. and it's a bunch of tapes that no one's ever heard of before until now where he gets interviewed at various times and is sometimes acting like he never did anything wrong no idea what everyone's talking about i don't have anything to lose like that tape but then just a clown yeah it's just a clown doing clown stuff and then later another somebody also interview him or even the same people interview him and he's just admitting to everything left and right like oh yeah i kill all these people and these people and these people and here's where you find the bodies and this is where you find this body and i ran out of room under my under my floorboard so I had to take bodies to the river and and then he'll do another interview later going I don't know if that was me admitting that maybe that wasn't me saying those you know like just the total freaking psychopath in every freaking way and um this just shed some light on that process the police at the time who were involved are now you know part of this documentary talking about the investigation and how they figured it out and what they did to you know try to get restitution or or closure to some of the families who couldn't find victims that sort of thing it's a really good one of those so if you like those and you're fascinated by human behavior and uh and just kind of all that minutia this is going to be for you if you don't like anything to do with true crime uh documentary is probably stay away don't worth it are you fascinated by human i am very fascinated by human behavior but i think i make an exception for psychosis i think i don't find much interesting in what seems to me like buggy code oh for me for me it's

It's the opposite. To me, it's because it's buggy that makes it fascinating. Like, if they, like, I, I don't, I don't go, ooh, rubber necky, what's the, it's not like salacious to me. What it is to me is like, why does a person do this? Right. And the better documentaries are the ones that really dig deep into those questions and provide at least some answers. And it's the reason I like shows like Mind Hunter and even dramatic stuff like that. Because again, they're exploring this part. humanity that I otherwise I'm just like what the frick is this why is this guy so broken I think

it's interesting to try to learn that and I think it's I don't know I think it's valuable to society to come up with ways to understand better so that we can prevent better you know like it's all it's all high fruit on the tree but I don't see to me this stuff helps your reach for there was a lot of his stuff too at that uh Zach Began's haunted museum there was a whole room that was serial killer so it had some mans and stuff and Ted Bundy's stuff. And then there was a whole thing of John Wayne Gacy's stuff, his drawings. And, and, um, like he was, uh, he fancied himself a little bit of an artist with a lot

of kind of really weird drawings. Yeah, especially the clown art was very odd. Um, and some of that stuff, they talk about it a little bit in the, in the documentary, but some of that stuff sold for like ridiculous amounts of money. Yeah. Um, but he didn't get a lot of it, a lot of it went to victims. Like, there's a whole. whole sub-story about that weirdness

but dude was defiant right up till his death he was killed in the or you know he was executed I can't remember what I think it was just the the injection lethal injection

lethal injection if I remember right but that was like 94 he was only 52 and they put him when they took him out but it's a fascinating interesting story as historical record and again like I'm saying I will say this 100%.

If you're at all squeamish about such subject matter, I totally get it. Like, why would you want to put yourself through it? But from a more, I come at it from a more clinical perspective. I suppose if I had been kidnapped by a dude and shoved in his basement for four days and beaten within my life, probably have a different feeling about, you know, how, how easy it is for me to approach it academically. I understand that too. So keep your emails, you know, you don't need to spend your ones and zeros on me today. I think you're really weird, Scott.

I think something awfully wrong with you if you think this is okay. I get more of that than I'd care to admit. I'm sure you do. But anyway, it's real good and on Netflix and available now. Again, it is called Conversations with a Killer, the John Wayne Gacy Tapes. All right, Randy, let's return to something probably more lovely. This is going to be way different. There's a, I've been doing a thing where I'm kind of like,

recommending something the instant it comes out. And I promise I'm not going to do it every week. This is just so good. And I captured a random moment because they're all random moments. Oh, all right. Here we go. Hey, man. I'm sorry about coming over at 2 o'clock in the morning drunk,

but I just really needed to talk. But it's only 10 and you're sober. Oh, damn. Okay. Well, I'll go get drunk and I'll be back in four hours. Okay. Hey. Oh, come on in.

All right, thanks. I'll tell you what. I'll make us up a pot of coffee. Oh, that'd be great. Thanks for let me come over. And what's got you so upset? Well, I think my imaginary girlfriend is cheating on me. Are you crazy?

Camille will never do that. She loves you. it sounds like you just played a clip with my two favorite guys from that Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald and by the way I don't think this is a spoiler because a lot of people have been talking

about this online you're going to see Dave Foley and Kevin McDonald's full frontal nudity in vivid high definition Oh I heard that didn't happen in the new season I thought it was like later

because I kept seeing friends pop in on Twitter going Oh, I hit the episode. I thought it was like later in the thing. But no, it's, it's early. It is like the second sketch in the first episode. Okay. This is the new season of the kids in the hall. These guys were, I think they are better now than they were 30 years ago.

I feel like, I feel like 30 years ago they were young and they were trying everything and just seeing what happens. And, you know, they were making a lot. They were making, they were making like 10 hours a year, right? and this is like real tight real well edited um it's it's so good guys and and this also might be their last hurrah right like they might we might not ever see this again so this is the kind of thing where i just want everybody to watch it so we can talk about is it just called kids in the hall or is it what's the title they yeah it's the kids in the hall on amazon prime it's they amazon prime also has the original seasons and i think they also have uh brain candy but

uh anyway just kids in the hall on amazon prime i've got a i've got a link correct so they just jumped right back in kept the name and everything like kids in the hall a new generation or whatever they remade the intro and they remade uh they made all new interstitials that are exactly like 30 years ago so it is a trip back in time man if you watch the kids in the hall in its native format like it is it is trippy how they just jump right into doing the exact same thing they used to do well i love those guys and everything they do and this is definitely going to be a watch for me. So penises or otherwise, I'm in.

I don't care. It's the same crew. They bring in a bunch of stunts. They bring in people that you're going to recognize and go, oh, wow, that's a famous person. And they do it. They do it just for the sake of doing it. It really looks like they went on cameo and paid people

that are famous to join them. And we haven't lost any of them, right? They're all still with us. So it's all of them. That's correct. It's the original five are all still there. They're all early 60s now. Scott Thompson is a slightly older, exactly the same person. It's remarkable how he's.

He's the one who looks exactly the same, whereas everybody else, especially Kevin. Right. Kevin McDonald has aged dramatically. Bruce McCullough has, you know, not changed much, but every one of them shows their age. Mark McKinney is the one that, you know, has aged the most as far as you're going to see. But like if you watch Superstore, you, you know. You're already used to, yeah. Yeah, you already, yep, exactly.

And they still kind of pair up the same way they always did, right? Like, it's still like Bruce and Mark, Dave and Kevin pair up, and then Scott is kind of like this, this guy who floats around and sometimes is doing his own thing. And they make, they make actual use of that. They have like sketches where the two pairs are separate. They come together and then Scott is the fifth, the extra. Like there's a, there's an incredible sketch, I think, in the second episode. where they're all working in a restaurant together. And Scott Thompson is the eccentric chef.

And it's just, oh, my gosh. Like, we got to, I want to talk to people about this. And so you have to watch it. Yeah, it's Dave Foley, youngest of the crew, born in 63, everybody else, like 59 and 58. But he doesn't look the youngest of the, doesn't look the youngest of the crew. Like I can say, they've all aged. Everybody's, everybody's 30 years older now than they were. That's what happens to people.

Yeah. You get old, man. That's what happens. And like I say, I could see them. They also had a reunion in 2010. And I could see them doing another one 10 years from now. But like I said, at that point, like Scott Thompson is pushing 80. Yeah.

It's just like it's not going to be. You know what I'm saying? This is this will never happen again. This thing with these guys fully nude walking around out in public. It just, I can't see this ever happening. It's never going to happen again. Yeah. It's just like this is amazing to me.

and I'm so happy for it and I was so glad I came I was a little trepidacious and I'm sure you were too right you're like could they and they do I'm telling you absolutely they do that makes me happy to hear that's on Amazon Prime everybody it is literally just I mean it's kids in the hall and they have the seasons I just check they have the seasons all together they just run it like it's a new season which is kind of hilarious to me I don't know I just thought they would have made it like separate somehow or you know I don't know what they would have done like but but uh Odenkirk and once his beak did that with Bob and David the Mr. Show. And it was so they made it stand out from the other stuff. And then this is just like,

nope, it's just like we took 30 years off. I'm showing it as just called season one, but it's the same name. The kids in the hall season one. Oh, mine says season. Oh,

I guess it depends where you look. I looked around to see if they're making more. Like if this is successful, are they going to make more in 2020, 2020, at least currently they don't have any plans like that it's a smart thing to do right because it's like yeah we won't you know if this isn't received well if it doesn't do well then we're not saying oh well wait maybe we get better in 2023 not like it uh not like it isn't going to be great it seems

like it's it's great yeah the other the other question that came up uh that i was looking around is do they revisit some like some of their more famous characters and sketches and the answer my answer is kind of but not really there's not like they don't really lean into things that you might have seen 30 years ago they they've got a lot of modern takes on their kind of humor uh you know like uh the clip i i hit you with that could have been 30 years ago but it wasn't they didn't do jokes like that exactly 30 years ago there's just a thing here where you can tell these guys as comic writers have lived to the last 30 years. They have, you know, they have, they've better, like, fine-tuned and, and honed what they're making fun of, you know? Sure.

I miss, I miss, I miss news radio. I miss, uh, I miss all their side stuff. I miss Superstore. Yeah. Even though it was recent. So good. I forgot Lauren Michaels produced the whole damn thing. And it's still.

Yes. Yes. And that's, so then you know the connection to some of the more famous cameos. You can kind of guess what, what you're going to, what you're going to run into. Lauren, basically, it's all people that he's attached to. Oh, well, I hope that means Bill Hader shows up. That's what I want. You're not going to tell me and it's okay, but I'm not going to tell you.

I'm just saying I really, I would really like it if Bill Hader showed up. Awesome. All right. Well, there's your three big deals this week, four or five, no, four total things this week. Brian, your two again, so we can tell people at the end of the show. Sure. Bullshit the game show and the call. Mine is called The Conversations with a Killer, John Wayne Gasey tapes, and of course, kids in the hall from Randy, which,

I think of the week's things. That's the one I'm thinking of probably watch next. I don't know. Again, I'm just begging you too so we can talk about it. That's my only reason for ever recommending something that's brand new. Yeah. Good point.

Well, all right then. Oh, and also Randy puts all this stuff all over the place. He smears it everywhere. And we also have some pretty good news. Coming up in June, when school's over for one Nicole's bag, the uh well the family just got bigger on wednesday we're going to keep randy here and nicole's going to come back recommendals becomes four people it probably means brian can only

do one of his i'll just do one i'm totally fine with just doing one so we'll have a little less in that regard but actually in total we'll have we'll have as many as we ever have so that's right but we'll have a bigger variety because we'll have 25% more of a different perspective on on streaming content yeah i can't wait i i can't wait i i know know it's only going to be like 10 weeks, but we're going to save her every one of those 10 weeks with Nicole. Yeah, it's going to be great. Also, she's moving to where Missouri, right? I believe. Yep. I'm so jealous of that barn he's getting to convert into a shop. Right. I know. Isn't it the dream of any podcaster to have like a separate studio outside of their basement in like a little room in a beautiful backyard?

You know who absolutely nailed it? Bo Burnham. No, not Bo Burnham. The, because, comedian who did the inside. Oh my God. Go burn him inside. Okay, thank you. All right. During the pandemic. Yeah.

Yeah, that's a great. But, like, he totally nailed it with this, like, guest house next to a pool. Yeah. That concept is, like, amazing that you could have that on your property. I want to do. I want to do that now. So anyway, that's going to happen. Watch for that.

In the meantime, Randy Deluxe on Twitter. Of course, if you're part of the Tadpool group on Facebook and all these other places, he'll post that stuff there. Help me, help me, help me. Why is, does my brain not want. that young comedian to be named Bo Burnham. Why do I think Bo Burnham is a slightly older puppet comic? I don't know. Oh, like a like a like a like the puppet guy with the troloquist. Oh, I don't know. I don't know why. Is there a little bit. Oh, Jeff Dunham. Jeff Dunham.

Okay. All right. You know what? I don't blame you. But Dunham burn him. I'd do that. I'd mix those two up. Yeah, Dunham burn him. The human brain was not ever meant for English. I agree. English is hard. Randy Jordan, everybody. We'll see you next time. Bye. he got a little he got a little he got a little out it was well done

yeah feel pretty good about that all right look everybody it's time for a mashup now this is a bonus

we don't normally do these on Wednesdays but we are today this is a TMS mashups TMS origins from September of 2017 Phil's so long ago now

it does anyway let's see what this is I think this is maybe the first thing he ever sent is the deal but I haven't heard it so I don't actually know So anyway, let's find out together when I hit play.

All right, we have a fan, send something in that I want to play before we move on to the news. Cool. Jamie Brand. I got this this morning from Jamie Brand in my email. Didn't know what to expect. Apparently, he's been collecting sounds I make. And this is going to be as bad as you think it is. Oh, great.

All right, cool. In a good way, of course. But it's horrifying. So I want to play it now. I want to thank him for this. It's 46 seconds, but I know it took him a long time to make it. Here is me in all the wrong context, making terrible sounds. Here you go.

Oh, whew! Now. Ooh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, I farted. Oh, yeah.

Oh, Nellie. Oh, thank you can I have another. No. Oh, yes. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Woo! Yes. Hubba, hubba, hubba. Oh. Beer chips. Yeah, poo candy. Oh. Don't forget to bring a towel.

When did I ever say poo candy? Poo candy. Probably because we had those donkey nuggets. those donkey nuggets. Oh. Oh. We're probably eating those right before that segment. So this is, wow.

So it's every time you play that fart thing at the end of the news intro. Yeah. Oh my gosh. That's really funny. That's so funny. Anyway, well done, Jamie Brand. I don't know where you came from or who you are, but you've done it. So well done.

Yeah. And now he's forever a permanent fixture here. He did so well that I actually responded to you saying, I don't know why I said Pukin. along with my recorded response to you. You thought, well, I mean, you know, it sounded like me saying it. And it looked over at your Zoom. You're like, wait, your lips aren't moving.

That was great. Freaking great. Jamie, it's good reminder to us that having you around is great. So thanks for all your hard work, dude. Sure is. All right. He's also given me completely legal and normal access to the remaining seasons of the fall guy

that I can't get anywhere else. What? 100% legal, zero issues, access to files that aren't illegal at all. It's completely legal. And you didn't even have to figure out some complex way to access them, is what you're telling you. No, not complex at all. Wow. Yeah, I was a little perplexed at first.

But then I, you know, bought new plexy glass. I'm all out of Plex. Yeah. I can't do it. You had to do a right one, though. The Plexiglass is a good turn. It was as good as I was going to get. All right.

Big thanks to him. We'll have more from him, of course, next Monday for our Monday morning mashup. In the meantime, I'd like to remind friends at home that we are supported by you and your good graces at patreon.com slash TMS. If you would like to be one of our great supporters, then be great. And go sign up. Patreon.com slash TMS.

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and as always frogpants.com slash TMS for everything else. Brian, let's get out of here. Do you have a song we can play? I do. Anthony from Minnesota wrote in and said, I'd like to request a song to commemorate the birth of my first child

after many years of trying and some help from IVF. I guess that's somebody's initials. Ignatius von Furstein. My daughter, come on, I know what IVF is. My daughter, Raya, was born on May 5th. Although my father annoyed the crap out of me by singing You Are My Sunshine to

wake me up as a kid, that is the song that comes to mind. However, I leave it in the covermaster's capable hands to choose an appropriate song. I can't wait to share my love of cinema with her and perhaps my love of film sack as well. Love the show, though, Anthony from Minnesota. Oh, that's nice. Super sweet. So, you are my sunshine. Well, we haven't yet watched it for film sac,

but the movie Mr. and Mrs. Smith feels like it's just made for film sack feeling. And I don't know about you, but I feel like this Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie coupling, I feel like they got the chops. They're going to make it. They're going to go on forever those two. Not since like some of the old Hollywood couples, are we going to see a stick to it? It's right.

I mean, you know, the only couple that could give them a run for their money I don't know, Johnny Depp and Amber heard, but... Oh, I know, the strength there coming out of that. You can just feel it. You can tell. They're in it for the long haul. Yes. Anyway, in that movie, on that soundtrack from 2005,

there is a cover of the old classic by the Pine Ridge Boys. You Are My Sunshine performed here by Stein J. Stein. I love it. Like Stein Erickson. Stein. I love that name. All right, that's it for us. Thank you very much.

We'll see you tomorrow for another Thursday edition of the show. Be good. We'll see you then. head and cried you are my sunshine my only sunshine you make me happy when skies are grey you never know dear how much i love you please don't take my sunshine away You told me one's only one's dear, how you really love me, that no one else would come between. left me you love another you have shattered all my dreams

but you are my sunshine my only sunshine you make me happy when the skies are grey you'll never know dear how much much i love you please don't take my sunshine away now don't you take my sunshine away

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