The Morning Stream - TMS 2305: Outpipe Spicy

Episode Date: June 15, 2022

Single Syllable Suck It. Late Spaghetti Dreams. Star Trek is My 19th Favorite Star Wars. What the F(ood Tr)uck. Slappin' the Bantha Meat. I Don't Like Angry Zeeeeeeeeebras. Mara Jade? Like Mara Jade? No Mara Jade? A Custom Barn for one's Giraffes. Commit To The Hat. Bunker Ho makes the food truck go! Rag Wringing Humidity. Calm Down Steve. A Match Made In Fargo. And now with Sports, Tom Merritt! Personally Interacting with Zebras with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Rag ringing humidity. Calm down, Steve. A match made in Fargo. And now with sports, Tom Merritt. Personally interacting with Zebras with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Well, I get knocked down. But, you know, I get up. again, man. You are a robot. The morning stream, the morning stream, the morning stream, the morning stream, morning stream. for Wednesday, June 15th, 2022. I'm Scott, and that's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott. Hello. Hey, man.

I slept so bad last night. Don't know what's up. I think I maybe ate spaghetti too late, you know, one of those deals. Yeah. ate later than usual because I was on Steven's show and they went really long. Oh, right. Yes. So I was like, oh, I got to eat. I'm starving. And I ate this really great spaghetti Kim makes with chickpea noodles. It's not real pasta. It's made out of chickpeas and it's very good alternative. That would be way better for you. Like low, way lower on the carbs. Oh, way lower. Yeah, yeah. And they're, you know, they're a bean, a legume. Good for the, for the fiber and the what-nots.

Anyway, uh, did that too late, I think. And it just kind of effed me up. In fact, it led to this horrendous dream I needed to tell you about that you were involved with. Oh, man. God, is there, is there a way I can opt out? Can I, can I unsubscribe for your dreams? Nope. Nope. You're in it for to win it. This is it. You're part of it now. You're going to retire from casting from auditioning. It's usually a bunch of strangers. So when my dreams involve people I know, I always have to tell the tale.

So here's how it went. You and I were running a food truck. Okay. You were the chef type dude because the only reason I say this is in this. You were wearing one of those comically tall chef hats. Oh, yeah, the actual white hats that look like a little souffle at the top. Yeah. And it was too tall because we're in a little.

little tiny truck and I and you were like rubbing it against things always dip in your head and you wouldn't you refuse to take it off there was some tone in the in the dream that was Brian's not taking that hat off you no matter what you're telling me yeah exactly keeping the hat on no matter what listen when I commit to a hat Scott as we all know I stick to the hat yeah now that isn't that weird you know Brian right strange hat food truck it's not that weird however here's where it starts to get weird I'm there and my job is mostly serving everybody like handing the food to them we'll get to what the food is in a minute taking orders and sure all that and you're just sort of walking around making sure all the base

ingredients are good and again that'll sound even we're weirder when I tell you what we're serving people but I'm in an upper body cast so waist up to my neck and then my arms are also in a cast they're out like this kind of T-po style and uh I have to Again, the comically, like the stereotypical, I fell off the side of an awning or building onto an awning, but still broke the upper half of my body. Totally. Yeah, it's like every old 70s slapstick comedy you ever saw. And I was unable to serve them with anything but my feet. So I had to serve food with my feet.

Okay. So that's not good. That's also pretty weird. Now, here's where things get really weird. This is where. That's right. Our entire menu was an assortment of mud sandwiches. So sandwiches with mud.

That's it. There's just bread and mud. Just bread and mud. Yeah. And it was a big menu, but at the end of the day, I was just handing mud sandwiches of people with my feet over the hole in the side of the truck. Just kind of like giving people food with my weird freaking feet. Wow.

And then this whole time, we would do a bunch of this and serve a bunch of this. and then we'd move to the next place. And we had a driver who was just told, like, you would go, all right, next stop. And you'd go, brr, take off. And then we'd go to the next stop. And his name was bunker ho, was the name of our driver. Bunker ho.

So you'd say, bunker ho, to the next stop. Brin, he'd hit the gas. Usually, usually, you know, because you don't need to drive and serve food at the same time, usually like either the chef or the person who takes the money is going to be also the driver of the food truck. but we are we are so efficient that basically on the way to the next location we are prepping food while I'm prepping food cast boy yeah I'm serving it with my feet yeah yeah yeah so here's what's funny the idea of a well I think it's funny the idea of a of a dedicated food truck driver who like you say normally you'd drive it because you run the truck nope we had a guy on standby and his

was Bunker Ho, and that dude was ready to rock anytime you needed him to hit the gas and get out of there. Well, you know, with you and a cast, maybe you normally, you would be the driver. Let's face it, you wouldn't be the driver. No, I don't want to be the driver. Kim would make me, or make herself drive because I'd make her sick if I drove. Right, exactly. So this guy, here's what's weird too.

Never saw his face. So I don't know what this driver looks like. The driver, we don't know what Bunker Ho looks like? No, but you would go, Bunker Ho next stop, and he would go, like that. And then hit the gas and drive. Is that weird? That is? Oh, yeah, that's weird, Scott.

I mean, there's nothing about that that isn't weird. To add on to the weirdness. Yeah. Because, you know, we went to Puzzled Pint last night. I rode my bike down to Westfax Tavern, which is a couple doors down from the not yet open Casa Benita, hinting at possibly a December 22 opening. Oh, all right. It's not too bad.

So not too bad, but not that soon. But, you know, hang on to your butts, folks. It's common. But there was a food truck outside of this brew pub, and they had a big menu. None of the items were mud. And fortunately, nobody served with feet. Yeah, good. But it was a really, really large menu.

Weird. But it's weird that I, you know, ate from a food truck the night that you dreamt about working in a food truck. Yeah. We didn't coordinate this at all. In fact, the only knowledge I had of this is you sent me a photo of Casa Benita in the background, and then that was it. But you didn't see a food truck in the foreground or anything like that. There was no way you could have known that I was going to be eating at a food truck. The first food truck I've eaten at in probably, I don't know, three, four weeks, whenever it was that I did that fish and chips that a listener recommended the...

Oh, yeah, the one I missed on the 12th. I was supposed to go and forgot about it. It came back and we didn't realize it. It was back at that same location. I told Tina, oh my God, let's just... forget what we had planned for dinner night, eat there. And we couldn't, because we'd already been thawing some chicken to use. Do you have a place around, like we have a place up the street who occasionally, not a place.

It's like a pad of dirt. And a bunch of park, a car, or excuse me, food trucks will come and just park there for like a Thursday night. And then that's like food truck night. And we all, everybody can truck down there and get whatever they want. Is that a thing you guys ever have? I don't know why we do this. It seems like an odd thing to have in my neighborhood. I don't know. I mean, number one, it's, it's, it's, you're supporting, you're supporting the little guy directly supporting little guy as opposed to a chain.

Yeah, that's true. Because it's a food truck year, they're not having to pay overhead. So the money, like, they're basically able to offer, um, food at it, but maybe a reduced price than you'd have to pay in a restaurant. Sure. And they're getting all the profits themselves. Like it's, you know, I think it's great. You know, if the, if the food quality is good, then yeah, I'm all for this. There is, um, down the bike. path about two minutes. Like, I can get there on bike. I can be there five minutes from my house. Probably driving about the same because I'd have to go all these other roads to circumnavigate around where this place is. Sure. But it's a Colorado Tap House, and they have food trucks there.

I want to say, like, four nights or five nights a week. Oh, my gosh. That's a lot. They, yeah, and it's a great, like, they just built this thing. I'm going to open it up here and take a little of Colorado tap house. So it's like they just open their parking lot to food trucks and say, come on in and let's go. They've got a, no, they've actually got a special area that they have room for two food trucks in front of them. Or, you know, one in front of the other.

And, yeah, so today is flavor of Tabasco. So it's a Mexican taco. tacos, empanadas. It's funny. Flavor of Tabasco serves always fresh, always homemade cuisine, including tamales, tacos, impanados, tacos, casidias, and more. Probably more tacos. Wow.

I think they focus on the tacos, is my thinking. They're really, really pushing the tacos. And then tomorrow is a place called Lucky Bird, which is hand-bredded chicken tenders, fried chicken sandwiches, wrapped salads, and sweet potato waffle fries made in-house. this place so like and again you know that's a a wednesday and a thursday obviously they're going to have friday saturday sunday food trucks as well usually two on friday and saturday nights so it sounds really good i'd check that out we had that great we have a chain well it went from little guy to now big chain but this cup bob food truck used to be the bomb it was like

korean rice bowl kimchi chicken beef various hot sauce stuff amazing bowls. They were incredible and they got really popular, very fast this food truck. And you always knew it was around because it was bright yellow and had this big black logo on it. It was really like easy to see. Anyway, they did so well now they're everywhere. We got in fact, within

walking business like two of these. We have a cup that I just saw a couple of weekends ago downtown. It's not in a full on restaurant space. It's its own little stand in the middle of the walking mall but the pedestrian mall but it was closed. Otherwise I was said, hey, Tina

Let's get some cup bump. Yeah. It's nice to hear they're expanding so much. They're doing really well, I guess. Yeah. Mark Cuban owns part of it now. Are you kidding, KT data? That's crazy.

They were on Shark Tank. I didn't know that. This is news. That's cool. Well, anyway, get the level three spicy. You go much higher? Oh, you're going to feel that later through the outpipe, if you know what I'm saying, Brian. Oh, here we go.

Let's see. So what's 52nd Avenue. There is one here in close to our. Varvada, Scott. Go get it. I didn't even know about this. You got to go get it. Korean barbecue and a cup.

You got to do it. Where is this location? Where, where, where? Where, where, where. Okay. Oh, I know exactly where that is. Yeah, you got to. Oh, my God, that is so damn close.

You should get it. It's not, it's, well, it's like, you know, there's things in there. Rice is obviously high carbs. But the rest of it's, you know, it's like cabbage and, you know, meat. I guess there's some kind of spicy mayo type thing in there. So you want to, you know, I don't know if it'll fit your bike riding regimen for the month. Well, if I get brown rice, I imagine they have a brown rice option. That's a little bit better.

But it looks like this place is a combo, cup, Bop, Korean barbecue in a cup, and ramen 930. Oh, that sounds all right. What a combo. How will I decide what I want to get? Because it's like I want both of those things. Yeah, you've got to get both. Brian. Both.

Both. Both of them. Yep. Get both while you're there. That sounds great. Yeah, I know exactly where this place. and now I will go there and consume this food. That's fantastic.

Hey, you guys, guess what? It's time for us to call Brian Dunaway. Yeah, you know it. You love it. Here it is. Why won't it play? There we go. Hey, look who it is.

Brian Dunaway joining us as he does every Monday and Wednesday. Today for Ted Pooley Feud and a chance for a lucky caller to win some prizes. Hi, Brian. How are you? oh hi scott and brian how are you guys good man good man how are you do it fantastic if we could just take the humidity down just a little bit if somebody could just go out there and take a rag just kind of hold it in the air and then bring it and then ring it out and just if they could do that a couple of

million times and get that humidity yeah yeah you just want that down a little little tiny bed that'd be that'd be all you need all right yeah just just everybody go outside hold your towels up until they uh until they're soaked and then go uh ring them out Well, let's see if we can get that done for you. That's fantastic. Let's also find out who's on the line waiting very patiently for us. Hi, who's this? Good morning.

Hey, is Steve from Kentucky. Well, hello, Steve from Kentucky. How are things in Kentucky? Really hot and humid. Yeah. Calm down. I mean, calm down, Steve. I know.

This Stephen guy is full of energy. Whatever, man. Agreed. I like it. It's the Kentucky way. I've been watching Kim. I should say Kim is, but Kim is rewatching, justified. and every time I watch that show,

I think of all my friends in Kentucky who are probably nothing like any of these characters on the show. Yeah, I really like it, though. I want to come up to some of your haulers, as they call it. There you go. Where you go up there and you get the meth and the... That's what the food trucks serve in the Kentucky haulers. They get the meth trucks.

Yeah, they're famous up there. Meth and Mountain Dew and, yeah. Yeah, it's normal. It's common stuff. Well, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a game, try to win you some prizes if possible. And Brian here's going to explain all the rules. Brian, how's it works?

I will. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that those tadpoolers gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Steve, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if you and your partner wins, you will get a prize package. that includes the prize we were not able to give away last week,

which is City Skylines and all that damn DLC. So much, so much DLC. I can't even name all that D.C., but I'll try. After Darkman's Trent, the Sunset Harbor and Park Life, I guess it's just those four. It's not too bad. It was actually really quick, naming all that DLC. It's not bad at all. It's an amazing package, though.

It's the greatest city builder of all time. It's such a great game. Yeah, it's so good. Really good. All right. Well, let's give you guys your topic. We're finally into the new batch of questions, and holy cow, the tadpool really came through with providing their answers, really, you know, giving responses, 765 of you, or at least, or at least a large portion of you got in and maybe entered twice. I don't know.

Who knows? There were some suspicious misspellings that I seem to find. all the way through that, hmm, well, I wonder if one person just went and, like, loaded the, loaded the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the possible. Yeah, nobody would ever do that. Uh, and then nine of you, for whatever reason, couldn't even bother to come up with an answer to what is possibly the easiest question we've ever asked on, uh, tad boy food. Great. So, wow. Okay.

Uh, all right. Um, put your hands on your buzzers and give me your answer to this. Now, remember, this encompasses. everything, including books and video games and all that stuff, TV, movies, et cetera. Okay. You know what? I'll just say, I'll just say...

All entertainment. Yeah, all entertainment. All entertainment. Okay, cool. All right. I like all entertainment. Hands on your buzzers. Give me your answer to this.

Which Star Wars did it better? Oh. Scott. Did it better. I'll just say, Empire Strikes Back. All right. Show me the Empire Strikes Back.

Number one. Yeah, number one answer. People do love that episode five, of course. But Star Wars did it better. Which Star Wars did it better? That's a weird question. That's the way somebody submitted their question. I said, yep, let's just go with it.

I mean, isn't this basically, this is just going to come down to who's... Yeah, what's the best iteration of Star Wars that we've got? All right. Well, now that I am teamed up with... Steve, Steve, there's a chance here that, because Brian's making this big deal about how it covers everything, video games, TV, movies, all of it. Do we want to, should we get Mandalorian out early? Feels like that's strong.

Yeah, that was what I was going to say. All right, let's do it. Steve and I agree. We're going Mandalorian. Show me the Mandalorian. Number three. All right. Very nice.

Wow, not two. That's interesting. Not two. What do you think, Steve? what jumps out of you? What about this episode four? Episode four. Oh, I like that.

Brian, Brian Donaway introduced me to a song yesterday called my name is Steve. Have you heard this, Brian? It's called My Name is Steve. It's, I am Steve. Or I am Steve. Yeah, it's the weirdest. I can't get it out of my head, and then you just brought it up again.

Fantastic. I don't know if you've heard this song, Steve, about your namesake, but you should check it out. It's pretty great. Anyway, let's say, yeah, episode, four feels like smart talk here let's do that all right show me you know that that first one that first one that wasn't called episode four a new hope until uh later on sure nice it was number two well these are the good low-hanging fruits also the yeah they're not great points but uh you're getting them out of the way right oh man let's think what would be that's when the rubber meets

the road is what's going on here yep um when was the survey taken yeah when to how how recent Um, like within the last, uh, three weeks, month. Oh, so yeah, you're thinking Obi-Wan, right? Well, there'd have been some hype for that three weeks ago, right? Like a lot of excitement. Um, I mean, you know what? That may be some, some of the lower, or the higher point, but lower list stuff. Let's go for it.

Let's say, you know, he'll say, Kenobi. Sure. Let's do it. Show me, Obi, Ob, Bob, Bobby, as a van would say. Yep. Oh, be able to play it. I'm trying to find it, damn it. Where is it?

Ah, come on. I know I kept, I mean, obviously I kept this. I'll never like, I'll never not have it. Yeah. Oh, here it is. Uh, here he is. It's good, oh, we get, obi. This is his best he's got it. Oh, man.

Oh, no. Even though it already started, uh, one person said Obi-1 canobi. Boo. Which is a bummer, because I feel like it deserves a little better than that. It's not, you know. Is it a Mandalorian level? No, but is it, uh, it's fine. Is it good? I think it's very good.

It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Those bounty hunter guys chasing the girl, those guys are broken. They don't know how to run. Yeah, they're one-note villains, but... Plus, they don't know how to run. I don't think Ewan McGregor is phoning it in. I think he is doing a great job. He's always good. He may as well be raised Stussy in this. He's very good. Yeah, and I like the things that... The things that this sets up in the beginning of episode four, that it's like, oh, okay,

yeah that makes sense why that would happen that's right plus is he okay sorry side note he went after the end of Fargo season three where he played two roles his brother Ray and the other brother right Emmett

he and him and the and his co-star can they give her name we love her three names yes Mary Stewart Catherine Catherine Juniper Billingsley what

Wait, ah, it won't come to me. Anyway, Mary, she was a Scott Pilgrim's girlfriend. She was, uh, yes. Yes. Yes. Cloverfield Lane. Yes. That's, that's the her. That's the thing remake or prequel.

That's her. That's not it. It's none of these names. Mary Elizabeth Winstead. That's it. Mary Elizabeth Winston. There you go. Anyway, she, her and him got together after that.

And I wondered if they're still together. maybe not or maybe i just heard that and it was wrong maybe it was never a thing because i know that's how that's how that's how well that's how fat fat damon and uh fargo was the great the great matchmaking uh series in the sky yeah that's true anyway all right you know what i feel oh brian it's your turn what are you going to do do it oh oh oh oh you said it are you saying clone wars yeah i'm going with clone wars okay clone wars for the big points yeah show me clone wars only to I've been watching it lately.

Boom. Number seven. Boo. And already, with one question, you take the lead by one point. Yes. I'm going to go back to the Rogue One. I don't see Rogue One on there. People seem to have a love for it.

It's a little different. So, yeah, Rogue One. It's a lot different. Yeah. All right. Show me the Rogue One. I can't wait for Rogue 2. Rogue 1, number four in the list.

you're a real rogue one all right I'm so you keep going you keep going you keep winning I got the last one and so I still get to keep I want I want Steve to win that's what I want our listener to win I think we can run the board to be honest with you

so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to take a risky one I I like rebels I just don't know if it's going to be on there Rebels is great. Rebels. All right.

Show me Rebels. Oh, man. You can't have the rebels without the Mandalorian stuff. I mean, right? You got to have all across the streams, right? I mean. Yeah. You just jumped at 20.

Jeez. 20. I know. Holy shite. Can I even win? Can we win this? I guess we'd have to get everything, wouldn't we? Yeah, we can run the board.

Scott, we can run the board. I have complains about the scoring right now. I was going, say, say, see, see, see. It's broken. I told you was so dumb. Some people in the chat, somebody says, I'm not understanding the scoring. Well, that's a long story.

Just look at the number in the box and add that. Yeah, add that. Don't worry about the scoring. Don't you worry your head about the scoring in it. So I'm thinking, surely there must be some smart asses on this thing, right? Really? In the tadpool? No.

Yeah, in the tadpool? Don't reward them. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, please do. We love them. They're weird. They keep it weird, man. Is episode one on there?

I mean, I'm going to be so disappointed if there wasn't at least a high enough ratio of people to say episode one. Sure. I just can't. Show me Star Wars, episode one, the Phantom Menace. Oh, my. Yes, you bastard. You could not fail me. You best.

That might be the last nail in the coffin, I think. Unless we run the board. If we run the board. Right. Yes. And you guys could easily run this board. Run the board. Yeah, let's run the board.

Brian, give it another good one. I'm just going to go Jedi then because you know. Which one Jedi? Oh, we're trying to Jedi. Yeah. There's multiple Jedi. There's last Jedi. Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. You are correct. I'm not saying those are good. Yeah. Revenge of the Sith Jedi. Sure enough. Uh, yeah, that's the one. Return to the Jedi.

Return to the Jedi. Okay. You know, the Muppet. They made that Muppet movie. You know the one. 11, 11 movies, you kind of just named there. All right, show me episode six, return of the Jedi. There you go, number five in the list.

Yeah, that's a lot of Muppets. People love the Muppets, dude. They love Muppets. They do love the Muppets. But the thing that's kind of worrying me is you did say the all-encompassing of everything. And we've kind of hit T-EUts. TV. We've hit some of the cartoon stuff. And so then I'm thinking maybe some of the books.

So I kind of think, or oh, kind of makes it. You heard of noise? I will. Okay. So, I mean, yeah, people answered across all media. Did everything make the top 10? Who knows? Yeah.

Oh, I guess. Included everything across all media. Well, I know the books. I know the series of books. that i like so i guess i better back out of that um we want to win here we want we want we want steve to win uh yeah we do oh shoot yeah so i mean i mean we're we still hot on uh nobody liked boba fit not to the point they said he did it better i don't know maybe they did i'm going with boba fat the book of boba fat all right from the disney the book of boba fit show me

the book of boba fat oh no that was a different song it was kind of like that, though. May as well have, because by the, well, whatever. Yeah, exactly. We've only got two strikes, so we still got four. Yeah, we got plenty of room here. Okay. Two answers left on the board and four strikes in which to get them.

So I feel like you guys have a really good chance of still winning from Kentucky. Here's what I'm thinking here. So a lot of gamers in our crowd. Oh, there you go. Knights of the Old Republic is a massive lovely thing. everyone loves Knights of the Old Republic. I'm not talking about the old Republic MMO, talking about the original Knights of the Old Republic one and two.

So I'm going to say, let's go with Knights of the Old Republic. Sure. Cotor. Show me Knights of the Old Republic. Oh, come on. It was number 14 in the list. It was just outside the top 10. Boo.

Yeah, people do like it and did enter that as an answer. It's really good. it's really good yeah yeah it's one of the greatest things ever star was ever did and they're doing a remaster of it compared to everything else on the board is it better than than the other eight items it's pretty damn good they are they're doing a not a remaster a full-on remake of that first game i'm very excited yeah yeah and putting it on the switch yeah the switch make sure to undock your switch well well since since people were excited about episode one to get that on there.

Could be first in the third part of this of this reimagining Star Wars, the rise of Skywalker, could that be in the list? I don't know. Are you asking him or are you telling him? I'm telling you my answer is the rise of the Skywalker.

Okay, so you've seen episode nine, the rise of Skywalker. Right, right. Okay, all right. Show me, show me episode nine, the rise of Skywalker. No, those movies are poop. Yeah, that was number 15. That was actually right below. Actually, it was tied with Knights of the Old Republic.

That was, that was, oh, that's right. That was, okay, that was. You said nine and you're right. That was nine. That's the one I liked, but you're right. I should have said eight. I liked eight, too. Eight was controversial, and everyone said they hated it.

But in retrospect, it was the best of the three. Yeah. Okay, that's also true of the original trilogy. That's what these middle bits, man. I'm telling you. It's weird. okay well we got one strike left steve what do you think does anything just like roll off you and go oh yeah of course why didn't we think of that well the uh with a tad tool thing the uh was that the christmas or holiday special or that oh yeah dude more trolling you know what that's that's the ultimate troll i think the christmas special is a really good call let's go for it please be on here okay all right show me the come on now it's not a christmas special it's the star wars holiday special it's the star wars holiday specials Holiday special. There you go.

Damn it. Number 11, just outside of the top. Yes. Yes, the Tadpool did troll on that one and say, oh, no, we want that thing with B. Arthur and, uh, you know, wait, was B. Arthur in that? I thought it wasn't B. Arthur in that or who am I thinking of? I don't know. Was it her? I don't remember. I love that it might have been. I know that Harvey Corman was in it. Yeah. Yes, of course she was. Yeah. Was she? I don't remember. remember? Why?

Why would she put herself through that? Why did she do that? I want to say what, not Art Carney. But there was another, like, old... Yeah, it was Art Carney. Yeah, Art Carney, B. Arthur, uh, Jefferson Starship. Wait.

So... Wait, wait, wait, wait. Jefferson Starship was involved. Is that true? Jefferson Starship was involved as well. Yeah. Did they change your name just as a special? That's crazy.

Oh, you're right. There she is. Okay, who did the one where they're slap in the Bantha meat or whatever. Who was that? That was Harvey. That was Art Carney. Cooking the thing on the TV was, I think, Art Carney. Okay. Well, this is the... You know what? Let me tell you. It's been 40 years since I've seen it.

It's really bad. Whatever. Whatever it's about. It's such garbage, you guys. It's so bad. All right. Oh, Harvey Corman was cooking on TV. That was Harvey Corman. Okay. We got to, whatever it takes, we just got to watch. it for film. Like, even if we're watching like a skungy VHS, VHS tape transfer of it or something. Well, there is a version. YouTube has a version that's pretty crappy.

We could probably watch that. Oh, that is scary. Yeah. But I want that pizza. Look at that thing. No, it's Bantha meat or something, isn't it? Is it Bantha meat? That's pizza.

She well, she goes. That's Pizza the Hut. You got to know how to use the bantham meat. I forgot what he says. Hold on. I have this clip. Hold on. Bantha.

Yeah, here we go. This is it. I'm going to be using the tenderest cut of the banter, the loin. The loin is very tasty and serves four nicely. Yeah, so that was Harvey Corman. Sound like his voice is sped up. That's weird. You think?

I mean, I assume it is. I don't know. Yeah, definitely is. Weird. All right. So we're down to, we're down to Brian. You got to save the day, dude. Yeah, please.

Your job is to make this all of it's happening. It's kind of in the middle of the board, so I'm going to think that maybe, The Force Awakens. Okay. All right. Maybe. All right. It feels logical, isn't it?

Episode seven. Should I say final answer? Is that what your final answer? Yes, my final answer. Yes, yes. Show me episode seven, the Force Awakens. Oh. Number six.

Okay. Now you just have to nail one, dude. Whatever number eight is, if you get this, Steve wins. If not, then it's your phone. And Steve. Then nobody's putting the cities in their mouth. Nope. no city skylines i think solo would be too much of a troll to land anywhere people actually just

really do hate that one uh and what else you even have for tv i can't even think yes i i i know and i wanted to say uh the the the uh the the thron trilogy because the books but i don't know if that would be enough to hit theirs It might be on there, though. It might be. But do you think maybe the Last Jedi? Because it was more recent.

It's still in people's heads. I don't know. I had that cool salt planet. All right. Okay. We're locked in. We didn't already use it, did we? Okay.

It hasn't been guessed that. Nope. All right. Okay. I've said so much Star Wars. Show me for our final answer or a strike. Come on. The games are hinging on whether or not I

press the X button or the checkmark button. I hate you. Literally hate you. Show me episode eight, which if it's right, would actually be under the eighth spot in the tadpoole if you'd board.

If it's, you know, if it's there, it's ironic that it's there number eight. All right, here we go. Show me episode eight subtitled the last Jedi. Oh my God. Oh my God. Are you kidding me?

I was so sure we were wrong. Oh, my gosh. That's hilarious. Oh, my God. Well done. My gosh, Brian. Your gut has never been more correct. That's amazing. Well, that means Steve wins. That's great.

Brian, what else is on this list? So, yeah, rounding out, as you might guess, like I said, the Star Wars Holiday Special is number 11. Episode 3, Revenge of the Sith was number 12. Solo actually did make it all the way up to number 13. Really? Yeah, Cotor. episode nine, I mentioned.

EWalk Adventures got up to 16. Any iteration of Lego Star Wars was number 17. Oh, that was great. Spaceballs was number 18. Star Trek was number 19. Star Trek was 19? You guys, what a bunch of shows. That's amazing.

And then everything else was one vote. One person said, one person said episode two, Attack of the Clones was the best, was the best Star Wars. I wonder if they meant that. you know? Did they really mean? I don't know. It's so hard.

There's a lot of factors. There's a lot of factors. Maybe they just, maybe it was the first Star Wars movie they saw. There's a lot of factors. And then one person said, I've never watched any Star Wars thing ever. And I just,

I just want to shed a little tear for that person who, you know, the good and the bad, there's a lot of good out there. And to not see any of it feels like, like, you know, you're, you're missing out.

Look, at least that person, was honest about a thing and for some reason felt like telling us all. I don't know why they did. Oh, Thron trilogy, by the way. Someone did, one person did say Thron trilogy, which is, I think, I think the best of the book series. Now that that book, I mean, now that those, those books are no longer canon, you know, people get weird about it, but still. I say, whatever, they're going to keep, they kept Thron. They put them in, um, well, the tail end of, uh, Clone Wars or something, didn't they? Yeah. It's still there. I mean, it's not totally 100% there, but it's still

there. Yeah. I just don't, I didn't like it when they first announced all this stuff is going away. We're doing our new stuff. I'm like, that seems a little rash. Yeah. But then they use some stuff and it's fine. It's okay. Yeah. There is no, there is no clone of Luke called Luke Luke with two U's. Uh, uh, any more. That used to be a thing. That is not a thing. Oh, right. It was a comic thing. Did Marajade get moved into, uh, canon? I think she's a, I think she's considered canon, right? Yeah, because you see her, don't you see her during the pod race like standing on a or no that's not Mara Jade you see

somebody no no Mara Jade no oh no is that true that's terrible she's a great character she's a great character bring her back there was a character that you see in phantom menace during the pod races that's like standing on a on one of the rock pillars uh and I can't remember it's not just a sand person it's not a

no it's not a sand person it's like uh it's like somebody that was introduced in the books like a pre luke oh weird puke That's what I call pre-leuk, puk. Well, anyway, you did great, and that means you've won despite the weirdness of today's thing. But Brian, really, you made it happen. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. That means that Brian's going to send you these codes.

All you got to do is send him an email, coverville at gmail.com. And Steve, you'll walk away. The biggest winner Kentucky's ever seen in there. And you even have the-winner, Kentucky dinner. Yeah. And you even have, you guys have the Kentucky Derby. and you know all about winners, right? But now you're the real winner.

How do you feel? Amazing. Yeah, do you? Man, I can tell. Well, congratulations and well done, and I'm excited you're getting your prizes. Good job. All right. Hey, Donaway, good job on your end of things there.

You won that for him. We did it. Yeah, you did. Yesterday, we talked at length about the mini consoles that are currently in a lot of gamers' hands. People like this old stuff, and they like their little NES minis and their SN mini and they're a little weird looking mini genesis and all this thing we talked about those the games on them what we think the future might hold all that stuff yesterday on play retro and if you have a podcast player of any kind you can find it anywhere you get your podcast so go check it out

and see what me and brian done away had to say about the retro minis uh also hey remember how that we had that whole conversation about hey wonder if i could find myself a playstation uh classic without having to do too much hard work yes well a listener is sending me a brand new unopened one for a very reasonable price and I want to give him quick credit hold on I am super excited about this I saw the

notification as well Justin's got Intelligent Cube on it Intelligent Cube is great Brian you are right to be excited because intelligent is the best game and and to get that on this new PS5 deal I'd have to do I'd have to do uh send no premium

you have to do premium to get and it's only streamed you're not actually installing the damn thing you have to You only stream play it. Which is fine. I don't mind. It's not like it takes a lot of, that thing. But yeah. Yeah, because extra, it should come with extra, damn it.

Yeah. I'm telling you right now, if you guys are all doing that new PlayStation Plus breakdown, do the middle one. Don't do the high one is not worth it yet. Low one is just what it used to be. Middle one, that's where the money's at. Anyway, so, yeah, it's on its way. And I'm going to probably hack it because you told me it's very hackable.

Oh, it's, yeah, it's very hackable step by step. I can send you an ISO of all this stuff, basically, you'll just throw that on the thumb drive. You plug it into port, USB port two on that thing. And in a matter of no time, you'll be up and running. Awesome. Do this. We're doing this.

This is happening. So anyway, go check that out and follow Brian on Twitch and stuff because every night he plays these retro games and does stuff at like 6 o'clock or something, his time. So check that out over at twitch. tv slash Brian Dunneway. Brian, anything else you'd like to say before we cut you off? Yeah, suck it. Oh, damn it was fast.

He got it in. He got it in. That was so fast. Fast. He almost single-syllable suck it. That's really good. Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right. Well, we have a little time for some news, so we may as well jam it in. Here we go. I don't watch the news. Today's news is brought to you by. Remember those old console racing games we grew up playing on small CRT screens?

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Yeah, Super Sprint is the one like the one where you stand around like with four steering wheels around an arcade machine. I love that. I did too. I had a real taste for top down racers, especially ones that let me drift a little and something about that format. I'm absolutely in love with. And this dude made a really cool game. Even got, like, the screen has like the little slight curve to it. So it looks like you're playing on an old arcade. Oh, yeah. It's a love letter to those old games. So definitely check this out. And it's so cheap.

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And the world will change For the better All right Here's your quick news stories Here for the morning Let's check this one out Oh this is for you Because you're a cyclist

See Oh okay I got a little cyclist I'm on my cycle right now Scott Cyclist on California Mountains Chased down by Angry Zebra Oh God that was my favorite mobile game, Angry Zebras.

Oh, I know. You had to fire them at the docile pigs. How are there zebras running around the California mountains? I don't know. I mean, that seems weird, right? They feel like I didn't know they were native to the area. Apparently, and they don't really address it here, which is weird. But anyway, a cyclist going through a mountain range in California,

Central Coast ran into an unexpected foe, a seemingly pissed off zebra. News Hock in Santa Barbara reported Monday. news hawk with N-O-O-Z News I hate it I hate it I hate it I'm sorry

I have to get over this after the end of the day I'm just have to stop thinking about this stupid news name the stupid name NewsHawk they reported Monday that Marcos Chavez

a 48-year-old bike rider from the small beachside tent of Carpentaria Tenaria Terriah Carpeteria Carpentaria Carpentaria

I don't practice carpentaria I don't know tiny balls. Let's see. He was biking down a familiar route, and he was just doing a routine four-hour trek. It's kind of his workout. It's awesome.

Four-hour trek. Yeah, four-hour trek. He went through West Camino, Cilow, a massive path that cuts through the Santa Yanez Mountains. There's a nice green there, by the way. Is it? Oh, that sounds nice. Yeah, and the West Camino, Seelow green.

It's really, really nice. I see what you did there. They encountered the black and white and equine. Really? I thought they were part of the, not part of the equine family, are they? Sure they are.

Absolutely part of the equine family. I didn't know that. Why did I not know that? Anyway. They're the horse before Ted Turner got his hands on it, basically, as they are. And they go, who, woo, woo, woo, woo, lo, lo,

exactly, yes. I hate the sound they make because they don't feel like they're anything close to a horse. They're alien horses. They're just weird. What are you talking about? They look like a horse

that's just, yeah, but they're striped all crazy. crazy and they go, whoo, like they're aliens. They're aliens, Brian. They're from another planet. Okay.

Let's see. It says here, um, he seemed mad. As soon as I rolled up to Zebra, he saw me. He heard me and he saw me and he kept looking at me. Those are his exact words.

I mean, I, you know, I could see this being a little scary, right? This animal, you know, you're thinking, oh, well,

you know, it's a zebra. It's super docile and cool and whatever. Mm. But it starts running at you, and it's like, well, crap, what do I do? What's this thing going to do to me when it catches me? Yeah, well, I've never been attacked by a zebra. I don't know what standard protocol is around a...

We shouldn't have to be worried about being attacked by zebras in the United States. I agree. They're not native here. What happened? No. They get out of the zoo and make babies, and now there's a whole, you know, what is a group of zebras? Is that a herd? It's probably a herd.

What's a horse? A group of horses is a It's not a herd, is it? No, not a herd. Hurt is cattle. Horses are a A stampede of horses. A striped.

Genie. A stripe of. A stripe of zebras. Is it a stampede, Carter? Is that right? Is it a stripe of zebras? I want it to be a gallop. No, you got none of you know.

None of you know anything in there. A syndication of zebras. is what it is. A shitload. I like matubas. That's a good one. Well, anyway, he says, the zebra started running at me.

It looked like air came out of its nostrils. You know what? Well, I'm going to go ahead and say, it did. Air came out of its nostrils. I think it wasn't just looking like air came out of its nostrils.

I'd be willing to bet that actual air came out of that zebra's nostrils. In fact, I'll go one step further, Brian. It went in and out. Whoa. Look at you. I think they have to breathe.

I'm just, I'm almost sure of it. Uh, anyway, fortunately, the zebra tripped over itself, and he was able to escape. Oh. So that's a little embarrassing. It's a little like, uh, the fawns, thinking his guns loaded under the table and then a bunch of bullets were up. And I caught it on my TikTok. Weh, we're, we, we, we, we, we, we, we're, we, we're, we're, we're, we're. I don't know what music that was, but it was.

The TikTok music is what that was. Uh, he says he took three steps, then the zebra fell. That seems like a dumb zebra. Whatever. They don't, they don't get angry and stupid. Yeah, you're a dumb zebra. They don't really get into why it was up there, which I'm still really curious. Like, why is there a zebra in the California Mountains?

Yeah, well, somebody had a really good theory on that. The Hurst Castle has a bunch of weird animals like a menagerie of weird animals up there. And so this one might have escaped. And maybe that's why it was so pissed off. Tell me about this Hurst Castle. What is that? I don't even know what that is. It's a tourist attraction.

I thought it was closer to San Jose than... Because this guy was Los Angeles, right? Or no. Or no, it's still saying Carpinteria, which I don't know where Carpenteria. Yeah, I don't either. But it's a, like it's the William, the newspaper guy, William Randolph Hurst. Oh, you had a castle out there? He had a castle built up there.

That's kind of cool. It's like a big old tourist attraction there. You can go in it and stuff and tour it? Yeah, I think again. I think so. Okay, so none of the Hearst's, Hurst Jr. lives there or anything like that? They might be, they might have parts of it that are still residential that you can't go into, but, um, yeah. But that place is expensive if you had to buy one.

Oh, where, so it's, it's actually further, it's funny, it's Sam Simeon, which is further south than I would have guessed. Have you been to the, it's still north of less, like, it's still north of Santa Barbara, but, um, had you ever been to News Hawk in Santa Barbara? No. I've been to Santa Barbara. There's another newspaper. Oh, yeah. News. No, O-O-Z-Hoc. No, definitely not. I don't think that. There's probably some web thing. I have been to Santa Barbara. Yeah, I'm sure it is. Yeah. Yeah, I've installed all over California, like all freaking over California, all the way from the Reading Times up top or whatever, not Redding. Yeah, Redding. R-E-D-D-I-N-G, Redding. Like Reddit, but with Eng. Right, exactly. Bulletin? Redding Bulletin? Oh, wish I could remember all the way down to the San Diego Union Tribune. Union Tribune.

You know, newspapers. I've been everywhere. They're back, baby. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back. Tom Merritt will join us, do a little tech news on a Wednesday, as we always do. And after that, recommendals, we'll have Randy back. No, Nicole this week. She'll be here next week, though.

Looking very likely, the next week will be her triumphant. We keep pushing that date, but she's had a lot going on. I mean, what a bummer, man. Last week was my fault. I'll take that. I got sick and we had to change things around. Sure, sure. But she was also, I don't know how she was going to do it anyway.

Like, the poor spags, they drove out there, thought the house was settled. And then the whole thing, the house thing fell apart. I don't know the full story, but imagine that. You're moving states and you're in the car and you find out the house fell through. Yeah. That's effed. What do you do? What do you do?

I guess we go back to our. almost home yeah which is yeah you hope that you can arrange the closing date for your own house

it's intense man they hate that stuff so much I never want to move again yeah well anyway so there's that let's take a break down play a song

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brand new album called Afterglow something in the air is the song we're going to be playing the second single that they've released. This is about the rules of attraction, kind of about the electrifying connection between two future lovers. When there's a desire and

connection unspoken, where the spark lingers in the air. Anyway, it's a pretty damn good song. I'll say that right now. This is Oscar and the Wolf from the brand new EP, Afterglow, and the song Something in the Air. And there's something in the air in your eyes glow

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And your fire shows But I need something Around stone walls And maybe the guys Worth falling for There's stars in the lights On the other end There's something in the end

Are there something in the end? Oh, there's something in the end? There's something Oh my dream And there's something in the air. But I know I need you like someone to love I could just breathe in the air

ask you for more like the summer and the rain on the stormy morn there's something in the air Oh. Oh, my dreamer. Oh, my dreamer. Oh, my, dreamer. Oh, my, boy, you're a dreamer.

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Shut up, baby, I know it. All right, we're back. Hey, who is that song again? Well, hello. That song was Oscar and the Wolf from their brand new EP Afterglow. That song is called Something in the Air. Nice. There is something in the air.

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I don't want to hear about these fires yet. All right, look at this to everybody. With the computer as with any tools, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt. He joins us on every Wednesday morning. Who you call it man? like you are if there was ever a man that I ever knew it's you okay that's just sure whatever whatever whatever you it's ever a man that I ever knew it's you sounds like a shanty yeah it does yes

it's pretty good well you get bored on the sea and you got to come up with songs uh and salt your beef anyway hey it's uh it's Tom Merritt he's here on Wednesday we talk about tech and find out what's going on in the tech world and I usually have like kind of an idea in the morning like what's going on and check headlines and stuff no idea today I don't know what's going on. Yeah. So you're going to tell us? Well, I am.

Good. Are you ready for you? I'm so ready for this. I've never been more ready in my life, Tom. Yeah, you're going to get the U.S. Soccer League, MLS, Major League Soccer, on the Apple TV app, not quite exclusively. Oh, what does that mean? How's that work?

So this is a very interesting deal. Apple and MLS are partnering so that all the matches. will be available worldwide without local blackouts through the Apple TV app as an add-on channel. They haven't put a price out for that yet. Is this unlike what they're doing with the MLB with the baseball stuff? Because that's just on there. It's different than that. It's got one element in common, but it's very different. So this is, if sports fans know, you can subscribe to MLB at bat, for instance. And then through the MLB app, you can get all the games, except for the ones in your local market.

And, you know, so if you're worldwide, you get all the games. NFL has NFL Sunday ticket, which right now is through direct TV, but that's up for grabs because that, and that contract is ending this year. And so MLS has had their own version of that, and it is now becoming part of Apple TV's app. So the only way you'll be able to get it now is through the Apple TV app. Also, they're partnering with the teams so that if you're a season ticket holder, you'll get access to the add-on channel through the Apple TV app. interesting does it feel like i feel like it's apple and amazon are the two that care about live sports deals and everybody else doesn't seem to be interested in it do you think that's like a i would disagree my friend really who uh yeah yespn plus obviously well yeah exactly

yeah yeah yeah has the spn plus peacock is adding all kinds of live sports uh including premier league soccer and hockey um well actually not hockey i'm sorry HBO max is adding hockey oh really Oh, is that where I'm going to be watching my Avalanche championship team compete for the Stanley Cup? Yeah. If they win it next year, possibly. No. Yeah, not this year. Not yet, right?

Well, I'm not sure which games are there because HBO or Warner and Disney are splitting the rights. So some of the games are on ABC and ESPN and the Stanley Cup's on ABC this year. And I'm not sure how many of the hockey games show up on HBO Max versus, you know, showing up on just Turner and whatnot, but some of them do and more will, they say. So yeah, we are seeing live sports, sport by

sport be split up. Hockey, all hockey games are part of ESPN Plus. So if you were to pay for the NHL version of this service where you get all but your local games, you don't have to pay extra. You just get them

through ESPN Plus now, and that's what Apple's doing here, except it's an ad on, channel. So we don't know, my guess is they won't include it under the 499. It'll be an additional charge of some sort, but it'll be an add-on channel. If you don't want to pay for the add-on channel, there will be some games available with your Apple TV Plus subscription. My guess is that's where it will be more closer to what they're doing with Major League Baseball, because there will also be a couple free games, select free games. We don't have any details and schedules or anything like that. But basically, a few matches will be shown for free to anybody who has the app. You don't

have to have the subscription. That's very similar. That's what they're doing with Major League Baseball, right? Friday night, they show two baseball games for free to anybody with ads. Then if you're an Apple TV plus subscriber, you'll get more games, you'll get access to more games. And if you want all the games, you'll pay, I'm guessing, extra for this MLS add-on that will be an add-on to that, unless you're a season ticket holder for an MLS team, which case you just get it as part of your season ticket package. Oh, that's pretty cool. So it does seem like, though, we're heading toward a future or a present, I guess, we're getting there now, where it's rolling out a lot like it used to. Sports deals were struck with networks. So, you know, NBC seems like

they always pay enough money to get the Olympics and, and freaking T&T has some basketball deal with NBA. Meanwhile, some NBA games are shown on NBC in the finals or some, you know, a big deal CBS or Fox or whatever. It's just interesting to watch the streaming services start to position themselves for live sports. Where this wasn't really part of the conversation a few years ago and now suddenly this

is like, you know, part of it. If it was part of the conversation a few years ago, it was like, yeah, I'd cut the cord except for sports. Now it's becoming, oh crap, I haven't cut the cord and I need to install an app to get certain sports because Thursday night football is only on the prime video

app. These Friday night baseball games are only on the Apple TV app. These major league soccer games are only going to be on the Apple TV app. Asterisk. So that's the other part of this deal that I haven't mentioned yet is they are allowing local markets to air games of local teams. Details on that are yet to be released as well. But you will still have games showing on local channels so that somebody with an over-the-air antenna or cable will still be able to get some of their local games. But if you want national games, you're going to have to get the Apple TV up. So there's obviously a big movement in soccer, hockey, baseball, and basketball to some extent. What is the NFL doing?

The NFL Sunday ticket is up for grabs at the end of this year. NFL Sunday ticket shows you all the games through direct TV right now. So you pay a fee, you get your, your, your, your, games, still subject to some blackout restrictions. Apple and Amazon are rumored to be leading the bids for that. And that would be a coup for Apple. If they got some baseball, all of soccer, and all of American football, be huge. Amazon would like it because they already have Thursday night.

They're not going to lose that. They've got a long-term contract, you know, it goes a few years for that. So if they could also get Sunday ticket, then that would just broaden out their offering. So they're pretty motivated to grab it as well. It's not impossible that it goes to somebody else. There's still cable channels, you know, like Comcast and folks out there, possibly bidding as well. But the smart money apparently is on Apple and Amazon as the leading bidders for it. Yeah, it's an interesting movement in that area, I think.

Like I'm hearing some of the sentiment in the chat. Some people are like, well, what's the difference in this in the old days where everybody was fighting over rights and exclusivity happened and blackouts happened? It's the same. We're just moving into a new medium. I mean, yes and no. I would argue that it only feels worse if you don't think of these apps as fragmented, right? If you think of these apps as they're all on my Roku, then you've still got access to everything, especially the fact that there are free streams of all of this. so far. Right. There are, there are definitely, uh, you get two baseball games. Don't have to pay a dime.

All I got to do is have an internet, uh, service and, and install the app. Uh, before you had to pay for cable and you had to have cable installed to get those games. Uh, so it, it, it isn't that different, but it also is a, I would argue, probably slightly looser than it was in the past. Although there was over the air, free over the air games as well, but those have been diminishing over the years. So putting them free streaming kind of brings back a little bit of that free access. Again, if you don't have the internet, then you can't get these. And that does leave a very small percentage of people out, but it does leave some people out. But let's say somebody, let's say Amazon got like the full NFL thing.

Okay, you subscribe to Prime until you don't want to. That's the other difference here between this and cable. Cable was always contractual, usually multiple years. You had to get everything, nothing. everything the way it worked. In this case, it's like, no, I'm done with Peacock because these four shows I care about are over for now. So I'm going to put that on hold. And you can. And it's great. And then when you want to put it back, you can. People want to say this is no. And Peacock has a free service. Now, I may not have all the sports on the free service, but, you know, there's still

stuff you can access. Yeah, we call that Freecock here on the team. We do. Yeah. Peacock and as you should. Yeah, we should. Well, I don't know, you can make an argument that we shouldn't. But Anyway, hey. All the good portmanteau. Later today on the Daily Tech News show, this will be discussed among many other tech topics. So you're going to want to tune in for that. It's at 2 p.m. Mountain Time, wherever you get your Internet. And I look forward to it.

It's going to be great. Tom, anything else going on today that you want to mention? I would like everyone to know that I've got a tech newsletter where when stories like this break, I will send out write-ups of them. It's a substack. So you can get some of the stuff for free. And I do some extra write-ups for folks who want to kick in a few bucks. And that's at tech-tom.

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Have a fantastic rest of your morning. Thanks, ma'am. See you later. See ya. Bye. All right. He's gone. And now,

yeah. Randy Jordan will be joining us for the morning's festivities known as Recommendals, which start now. Everybody, doing that dance again. Oh, no, you got fingers this time. That's better. It's better than this.

Listen, I, yeah. I don't do this. I do this. Yeah. Like this is the, this is Peter Scalar. at the beginning of bosom buddies in the opening credits dancing to Billy Joel's My Life.

There you go. Welcome to the program, One Randy Deluxe. Hello, Randy. How are you? Good morning, morning. Stream. How are you?

I'm fine. Thanks for asking. I was super disappointed that Obi-Wan Kenobi didn't make the top ten in the Tad Pooley feud. Oh, are you loving it? You know what I realized you misunderstood the votes, Brian.

Those voters were talking about old Ben Kenobi. Oh, oh, Ben. Now, that's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. One other note, I need you to know that I have personally interacted with zebras, and they are assholes every single one of them. How of you personally and all that is a second? Yeah, tell me, I want to know more. Yeah, was this at a zoo or what happened?

What'd you do? So, kind of, yes. So growing up in South Texas, my parents' best friends had a lot of money, and they had this big mansion out in the country with lots and lots of space and cotton farm sugar farm and so on

and my dad's best friend he became a huge benefactor of the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas and because of his ranch area he was able to handle some overflow for the zoo basically the zoo

had its space And sometimes you had a situation where, like, some rogue rancher in West Texas had died and left a bunch of zebras out on a ranch. And so they were all sent to the Gladys Porter Zoo. And the zoo's like, no, we can't take more than three of these. So the other three would go live on this property that my dad's best friend managed. And so he had two, he had two exotic animals out there most times. they were giraffes and zebras. And he had a custom barn built for the giraffes, which was really cool because you could see it from the road between San Benito, Texas, and South Padre Island.

This is this highway that ran through Los Fresnos, Texas. And as you're driving down it, if you look to the left, there was this very unusually tall red barn. And sometimes you would see zebra a giraffe come walking out of the barn and walking around it. and inside the barn they had these stairs that went up to a landing so you could so like a veterinarian or whatever could deal with the giraffe face to face and next to it there was a pen with some zebras in it and the zebras would also use the barn for shelter and you know I was a kid and I was like man I want to get to know these zebras they're so cool they're cool and every adult's telling me you really don't like you're trust me like well we'll take you up to the fence you can say hello but No. And, you know, like, every time I would be like, I want to pet the zebra. Nope. You try to, just try to pet a zebra. You're going to get your hand bit off. Why are they so jumpy? I don't get it. What did we do to them? Why are they so freaked out all the time, these damn things? This is just how they've evolved. They've evolved to be opposed to humanity.

We've raised them to hate us. Yeah. Well, they're pissed because the horse has got all the love and nobody's riding zebras. I get it. We came up with that phrase, a horse of a different color. and they're like, well, that's this. And by the way, do European people call them zebras? And we call them Zedbras. Zedbras. Yeah. Zedbras. Okay.

Zedbras. Zedbras. That's fantastic. All right. Well, interesting stuff, as always. Let's dive into our recommendals this week. We're going to do a few of these. Brian, you're going to do two.

We're going to make up for Nicole's absence with an extra today. What do you have to say about your first clip? My first one is a comedy, a dark comedy. comedy that, boy, do you like a lot of people in this and you're going to recognize one very specific voice that does most of the talking in this thing. Oh, all right. Well, let's find out what we got here. Okay.

There's too many of you to take down to the station. So I'll be interviewing you all here. And I want to talk to every single one of you. Because the truth is, any one of you could be the murderer. Now, you all went to your high school reunion this evening for what? Second chances at life, love, something else. Emotions are high. Someone pushes your buttons, and all of a sudden, snap.

Bam! Blah! Blah! Blu! Blu! Blu! Blu! You lose it. So it'll take a few hours. What? Are you serious? What else you got to do in the middle of the damn night? Why? We all know that Nanit killed him. Oh my God. No, I didn't. I'm guessing you're anique. She's good.

I have no idea who that is. Should I recognize that person? Who is that? That's Tiffany Haddish, the main voice you're hearing there. She is the investigator, the detective, police detective that's brought in to solve a murder in the after party, an eight-episode series on Apple TV. It came out at the beginning of this year and features, here's some great names you're going to, you know, in addition to Tiffany Haddish, You've got Zoe Chow, Ben Schwartz, who is hilarious in this. Ike Barronholz, Ilana Glazer from the comedy,

Oh, God, Broad City, Broad City. Broad City, I love Broad City. And Dave Franco. And then Sam Richardson, who, if you don't recognize him by name, you absolutely know him as one of the funniest additions to Veep in the last, the last you know five or six seasons of that show the the black guy who uh always had the best single lines that he would deliver uh the inept delivery oh that guy i loved him yes he is great and he's kind of your main he's unique uh who you hear about in this so here's the premise uh you've got a

murder right you've got uh uh d'afranco is uh Xavier uh this this celebrity former uh high schooler that went off and did good, became a big celebrity, and is hosting this after party after high school reunion party at his house. He's murdered, and all of his former friends are the suspects. And over the course of eight episodes, Tiffany Haddish interviews each one who gives their interpretation of the same events of that night. And it's great because each one is telling the same like roughly the same story but delivered in a very different perspective

and those perspectives are done as different genres of movies and TV shows for example one of them is a rom-com another one is an animated show another one is like a you know like a fast and the furious

style action movie so what you're saying is this is like one of many many remakes of clue only it's the episodes of my name is Earl where Earl's in a coma. It's knives out, but those knives are stabbed through different departments in the

blockbuster video. It's interesting, too, because I don't think, I think murder mysteries are hard to make into comedies, like actually be funny. So what you're describing to me sounds like they figured it out. Sounds like it's good. They do a great job with this. And I will tell you, without saying anything else, that there is a satisfying ending. This isn't like that crap

one of the crap clue endings where everyone did it or nobody did it you get a satisfying oh it was this person and maybe there were clues and things like that so okay okay all right all right you kind of got me on this one it sounds like it's pretty good where is this great streaming this is on apple tv plus so um if you don't have apple tv plus uh just go buy an iPhone folks and you'll get apple TV Plus free for a year. Or you can just pay five bucks and get Apple TV Plus for an entire month. And then you can see awesome stuff. And you can run it anywhere.

You don't have to have an Apple device to play it on. You can run it on your, I have it on my Xbox freaking Series X for heaven's sakes. And I was just saying the other day that it seems like the last few years, everything, either has Tiffany Haddish or Ben Schwartz. So let's have it together. Let's have it together. Ben Schwartz. You know, that thing he did with Thomas Middletch, I need to finish that improv comedy thing up

those on Netflix because that was really funny. And you know what? It is best to watch it in bits, like to watch a bit and then come back to it a month later and watch another episode. Because like if you just binge it, it kind of all starts to be the same, you know? It melds together, as the Vulcan

say. Exactly. Excellent. So, there you go. The after party on Apple TV Plus. Tell me about clip number two. Clip number two is from a streaming service called Apple TV Plus. It's another series. This one based on a book, and tone maybe, you know, quite a bit different from the after-party.

Okay, let's check it out. Memories are fragile. I want us to sketch out the right man. We just need enough details for someone who knows it. It won't work. No one knows him. For this morning, the city workers found a body from a young woman called Julia. Six years.

ago, I was cut up like her. When someone did you, Julia, they tried it into you. If you're trying to be a reporter, then this is your story. After what he did, things aren't how they should be. It starts with little things, and then big things. And nobody remembers anything different. There are multiple women dead over multiple decades. He's the one connecting them.

There'll be more. I don't know how. But he's been watching me since I was a kid. Very serious. I couldn't make out any of the voices, but the music was, and the sound effect was, to take it really seriously. Is this that Elizabeth Moss thing? Is that Elizabeth Moss doing her thing? It is Elizabeth Moss.

Yes, exactly. She's your main character in this. She plays a character named Kirby, who is an archivist for the Chicago Sun-Times. And she starts noticing feeling like little things are changing in her life to the point where she has to start documenting, like, I live with my mom. I have a cat named Rendell, and I do this for a living. And on my desk are, you know, is this Godzilla coffee mug? and this yellow pen and da-da-da-da because things in her life keep changing and she doesn't know why well it turns out oh yeah how much do I want to yeah I was gonna ask you to like yeah stop here because like I mean for starters it it's a Mandela effect movie right and that's the new Groundhog Day movies and I'm all for it I'm all for it is yeah you know it but it's yeah and I will stop there because it does go it goes deeper than a Mandela effect thing because of this serial killer that that is described there on the trailer you Usually I don't play a trailer for something.

I'll go in and I'll find a really good clip of audio from the show. But the trailer sets everything up so beautifully without giving any other spoilers that it's like, no, I feel like the trailer is the way to experience it. Yeah, I was going to say you don't normally do that. And I couldn't, and I didn't even really occur to me. Oh, Brian sent a trailer this time, but that makes sense. You're trying to avoid spoilers. I am.

Yeah. Let's see. Who else do you know in this? You know, Amy Brennerman. You know, you've seen her a thousand different things. things. Jamie Bell is in this, creepy Jamie Bell. And then you also get, oh, where is it? Let's see.

Yes, Madeline Catherine Brewer, who you know from Orange is the New Black, as well as Janine from Handmaid's Tale. So, you know, she's worked with the... Oh, I like her a lot. She was awesome. She's a great actress. She really is, and she's got such a distinct look and delivery. you know, Janine with the eye patch from A Handmaid's Tale. This is, oh, and Wagner Mora, who feels like somebody I've seen before,

but he just kind of reminds me of other actors like Oscar Isaac and, oh, why am I forgetting the Mandalorian's name again, and within the span of one week, maybe tell me, Pedro Pascal, Pedro, Pascal, thank you. He reminds me a lot of Pedro Pascal. Al. Anyway, this is really good. Also, eight episodes, also on Apple TV Plus, and also all eight episodes have wrapped up. So you can binge the whole thing. And that's a great way to watch this because you're going to, you're going to want to jump from one episode just right into the next and figure out what the heck is going on. So the only spoiler, the only spoiler we should mention is her name is Kirby. And that means that she can suck other people into her and then

have their power for a while. Right. Dang it. Yes. All right. all right well fine okay there's that whole there's a whole episode of that okay good well she's very adorable Volkswagen beetle and she drives around the city streets of Chicago good good be a car where they Carby now she's Carby fantastic sorry Randy okay so that guy's Pablo Escobar and Narcos Wagner Mora oh that guy's great yeah yeah we talked about him months ago yeah he's a very compelling dude yeah and he's like this this show is apparently filled with actors who I want to see escape from the sort of like ethnic bounds that they have been in previously. Right.

Like he has been, right? He has been Pablo Escobar. He's been a little typecast. Yeah. And I think he's so good. And I want to see him in stuff like this where he's not that, you know, that sort of strict one-note character. Yeah. Chris Chalk is in this, right?

And like I, I'm so excited like to see that guy get out of the lane, you know, like where he's he was in 12 years of slave he was in when they see us you know what i mean yes and i'm like yeah newsroom yeah it's cool i'm glad that's that's not the only thing people are casting him for is what i'm saying he actually speaking of justified he was in uh justified and he's young luci fox if you watched the gotham godthum yeah tv series oh he's uh one of the understudy dudes that hangs out with um uh bubba gump uh the guy that's like the kingpin holler guy that threatens to kill her oh yes sorry Yeah, Kim's watching this again, and we're right in the thick of that. And I was like, why don't I know that actor?

Yeah, he's great. He's really good. And he's just got such a cold stare. But he plays a very, very nice guy in this. And you know what? I don't want to call it typecasting because, I mean, if you're going to make a movie like 12 years of slave or a series like Narcos, you have to cast people in those roles, right? And good people, you know, like it's like, it's when the actor seems to keep getting that. work. You know what I mean?

Yeah. Or only get that work. They are very clearly talented, you know, and should be doing other things too. That's what I'm trying to talk about. I agree. I totally get you. All right. So there you go. My two recommendals, the after party and Shining Girls. I don't know how many, if I even said the name, but it's called Shining Girls on Apple TV Plus. Nice. Here's mine. I got this on HBO Max. And it's four hours long, two episodes. It's all the hint you're going get everybody but you figure it out immediately here you go comedy traditionally has picked on people in power people who abuse their power i don't like orthodoxy of the left any more than i like orthodoxy of the right i don't like anyone trying to control the language and behavior of people these moral commandos

who want us to think their way and want to change what we can hear and see and think in this country are dangerous it's called freedom of choice and it's one of the principles this country was founded upon look it up in the library reverend if you have any of them left when you finish burning all the books All right, that's clearly George Carlin. Clearly, so good. George Carlin's American Dream is the name of this documentary. It's a two-hour per episode, four-hour total affair. And I loved every freaking second of it.

Brian's watching it is almost done, right? You said he had like 10 minutes left. Just about done like 10 minutes, 15 minutes left, yeah. It is extremely good. And if you're a Carlin fan at all, it's a must watch. but what you may not be expecting and the reason I'm actually recommending this is this is not just simply look at this genius guy with his jokes. It is a very personal deep down look at the man, his history, his family, where he came from, where he ended up, what his mindset was

at different parts of his life. And it doesn't pull any punches. It doesn't hold back on the harder stuff that he experienced. It doesn't even hold back on some of the stuff where he's clearly just being a nihilist a-hole at some points in his career and other points in his career where he's really figuring himself out and kind of changing the way people see the culture. It's just fascinating end to end. And I really, really liked it. Judd Apatow co-directing this with, I can't remember who the other director is. Crap. I meant to write it down and I didn't. I'll find it. But I watch, I, um, I was just talking about this. He co-directed with a dude named, hold on. Jeez, Louise. Carlin.

Michael Banciglio. There it is. And they interview a bunch of really great comedians. They interview Letterman and Bill Burr and Paul Reiser. Alex Winter from Bill and Ted. Yeah, Alex Winter's on there who's doing a lot of production stuff now. And, you know, it's kind of a successful director in his own right. They talk about his time on that.

Eugene Levy's in this, although he's not interviewed, but they show a bunch of old stuff. And it's not just other comedians fawning over George Carlin, either. no no in some cases they're they're mad at him like uh there's a there's a bit where um not patten oswald um he's in this but it's uh i again he was named took dave's place on late night oh john stuart oh i'm sorry no not john stuart he is in this but um no jevin colbert jeez sevin gobert basically it toward the end he says you know one of these final specials he did before he died he says this is the special where george carlin lost me and prior to this he was talking very just flowery about how much he had an influence on him. And he says there was this one point where he was just so nihilistic that he just, you know, I couldn't go there with him. And it wasn't, in fact, for me, it stopped being funny

at that point and started being like, oh, man, you're just, you want to watch everything burn. And they don't hold back from any of that stuff. And they see, you get to see parts of his personal life. I never knew about any of that. No, his whole relationship with his wife, was first wife. And, yeah, had no idea.

man yeah the the roller coaster those two went through holy cow yeah it was crazy it's insane stuff it's really really good and his i'd like the stephen wright interview for some reason yeah that was especially what he's talking about you know you've got rembrand up here and he's like you know you're he's great he's great he's like a thousand years old now but he's just freaking great i love him how does he have such a nice house what's what it does what stephen wright done in the last several years. Was he just good with his money? I think he was good with his money.

He wrote some things. He was a writer on, um, oh, I forget. I don't remember either. He got, he got some,

uh, he got some residuals coming. Gotcha. Okay. Well, that makes sense then. Trying to find his freaking IMDB profile and see what he's done lately,

but, oh, here he is, uh, he is, um, let's see, he,

oh, he's still, oh, he narrates some new thing called chilling island. I don't know what that is. Boy, if there was any, you know who who needs no like oh I wonder who that voice is yeah he was in uh let's see oh

he was in that horace and Pete thing that was well regarded right before uh lots his name got in trouble a whole bunch of other stuff anyway I guess he's been busy doing things but uh I just love that he was in this at all and to hear how they were all sort of shaped and influenced by this dude was really fascinating I loved all four hours of it could I couldn't recommend it more if you like documentaries and sort of biography-based stuff his story is fascinating

so yeah I feel like this movie really clearly draws a distinction between comedy fans and comedy students right like I don't think I recommend it to people who just they like stand-up oh yeah no this isn't for that

this is not about like the trailer you played this is not about that the trailer has a bunch of him just make a jokes and yeah it's like if you're a student of comedy then this is really really interesting because there like carlin was uh he was unique in his ability to sit down and write out an hour and and rewrite it and edit it and tighten it and make this incredible script for himself and then memorize every word in every possible order right and like and then refine it and so forth he was like you know like he was doing for stand-up comedy

what like David Sedaris did for a novel comedy you know what I mean like this this thing that like other comedians just don't do they just don't like they you know they all write their jokes in advance but like no one made it as as strict as he did and like that's really interesting to see and to see how the other successful comics you know talk about that and what they what they think of it yeah it's it's really interesting his transition from you know up not uptight but you know, suit wearing kind of Danny Kay style comic to like, I don't think this is me anymore. And then him just shedding that and then doing some of his most revolutionary stuff. It's really fun to watch the underpinnings of it, the stuff you don't hear about normally.

It just reminded me how bad I felt for stealing my stepdad's copy of class clown on vinyl when I moved out and went to college. And I still have it over there in my, uh, in my record collection, but yeah, on vinyl. Something, you know, comedy albums like that, you don't get in a, by it by the single kind of world, right? And you, you're basically saying, well, I'll just go watch one of the streaming shows on HBO Max or one, you know, like a live show. It's like, no, there's something to having, to listening to a comedy album, a comedian's live album and not watching it as a, oh, now I'm watching the audience laugh. And now I'm watching this. His stuff on stage was just so good. That's why I'm so mad at Bill Cosby, because that was my teen years.

I just sit and I listen to Cosby albums over and over and over. I had to memorize freaking love that stuff. And there's something more, you're right. There isn't like this weird, intimate way of experiencing funny material just with a pair of headphones and a record player and nobody else around. Like there is something to that. And I feel like Carlin, those old Cosby albums, maybe even Eddie Murphy back then because it was such forbidden fruit for our generation. Everyone's like, oh, no, my mom was. like, we, that's not allowed in this house.

No, anywhere. Right. What's wild to me is that the album generation ended, uh, late 2000s, right? Like it was, it was still, there were still comics putting out albums that people bought as albums all the way up until, you know, streaming really just destroys it. And the last of them, the last of the great albums that, you know, went platinum and so forth were made by Dane Cook. And I just find that so fascinating that Dane Cook now, because of his,

his family issues. Dan Cook is sitting on TikTok streaming to 200 people, you know? Like, poor Dan Cook. It's just wild. Well, his rise and fall, whatever. I mean, these, these guys are still putting out albums, but you're right. They're no longer the circus tent that they used to be. Like, you know, Bill Burrow put out a new special on Netflix, but it'll also make a record version of it. And those are streamable. We can get them on Apple music or, you know, Spotify, other places. So it's not like comedy albums are dead, but they're not, they're not the big moments that they were

you know when you buy Eddie Murphy raw and it was like holy shit look at this album cover oh my gosh all that leather oh he's going to swear it's going to be great I had one more one more thought this thing brought up out of me and I really want to express it for all of his faults and all of his mistakes

at the core of Howard Stern is some really interesting philosophy about comedy and I remember Howard Stern like 20 years ago was saying over and over that he had a feeling that Jimmy Hendricks dying young prevented us from finding out what a terrible person Jimmy Hendricks would be as an old man and like that that sort of thing like it sucks when people die young and the greats are were robbed of what finding out what the greats would have done later in life but that a lot

of times old people are just not good you know and like so Howard Stern was just like he had all these examples of like sometimes you just basically you don't want to find out what you know what that person would have said and believed later in life and I just thought of that over and over with with Howard Stern I'm sorry with George Carlin because it just felt like George Carlin he was changing a little bit here and there at different times in his life he would evolve a little bit yeah oh yeah for sure that's what makes this fascinating because you know that his 70 plus whatever years what was he 72 and he died or something whatever was it was so marked by that it was like he is here for this time and then he's here

for this time and then the times where they all thought he dipped and was out of favor was when he was going going through all this personal introspection about being relevant again and then him finding a way to be relevant again and it was usually just leaning into what he was and not trying to be something everyone else expected and by the end I don't know which series or which comedy special was it was an HBO one and it was toward maybe the last three he did But man, that thing gets quoted more and talked about more and referenced more than almost anything I can think of when it comes to like dealing with modern culture. And if he was here today, he'd still be doing that. That's a point.

The point is you don't know if he would still be doing that. Like, yes, there are people who are super, super consistent, right? Like, watch all of David Letterman is, he's all over Netflix. David Letterman is the same guy delivering the same kinds of jokes and reactions. that he's been doing for 50 years but like you just don't know like what if you know George Carlin in elderly years

went off the rails like what if he you know became a Fox News viewer or whatever like it's just you don't know and that's interesting that's a very interesting thing for people who change over their over their lifetime sure sure well anyway it's very good HBO Max is where you're going to get it

highly recommend it again is called George Carlin's American Dream and it's available now. Randy, what did you bring? What do we got here? I was hoping that Nicole would be here because this is something that you guys talked about in its previous season.

Years and years ago, this is a show that it was very, very good and then went on a multi-year hiatus and is now back. And it is better than it ever was. What you're about to hear are the two leads, the two most main characters. in the show. And they are

in this new first episode, they are talking to a new character to the show. So in this new season, this show has brought in a new character. And she is a bundle of tropes and she's also very interesting. And it's

yeah. So that's what's what you got here. Here you go. The subject of Isaac is obviously complex. But what she described needs to be addressed. Permission to speak freely, sir? Granted.

You have a big problem. Go on. A whole lot of people aboard this ship are still angry that you reinstated, Isaac. And I mean angry. I'm aware of that. And just about every member of this crew knows at least one person who died in the battle with the K-Lon.

And the number is usually higher. Friends, colleagues, family. And the fact that he just sits on that bridge every single day as if nothing happened is a kick in the teeth to every single one of them. You don't think he should have been reactivated? No, I don't. Even though he was also the one who saved us. Too little too late. And on top of that, how do you know he isn't carrying some

sleeper program just waiting to fire up and take over the ship? People are scared, Captain. Your crew is scared. It's heresy for a captain to admit something like this, but I don't know that you're wrong. I made this decision, and I'm still not sure it was the right one. But regardless of the ethical question, there's a more pragmatic reason that Isaac is still on board. We barely fought off the K-Lon without losing our entire fleet. Next time, we might not be so lucky. Isaac is the only person who might be able to help us devise a potent enough defense that we can all feel secure again. And we'll have him to thank for that security?

Will it be worth it? Dismissed. I think I better start working up a plan to improve morrow. how no clue i'll organize a talent show if i have to but we got to nip this in the bud man that show i feel like the orville got serious it really did yeah it was always serious and like i've watched a bunch of set mcfarland interviews because he's out doing all the shows right and uh like he points out over and over it was always like this it's just that they you know they were constrained by fox to keep it to a time limit right and now now they are free they have

They're on Hulu, and Hulu has given them money and set them free. So these new episodes are feature film length. Oh, really? Oh, wow. Yeah, that gives them that space to really have things like discussions about what they're doing instead of just showing you what they're doing. And he just, he's just like the jokes are, have always been there, but they've never been the point. Like the jokes, like he has this really, he has this really clear belief that. that humor in a show like this should come from the ridiculousness of the characters in the situations,

that the humor shouldn't come from them just spouting one-liners, right? Yeah, yeah. And it does. It still does. Like, I almost pulled a completely different clip because there's a really funny joke in this first new episode, but I decided that, no, you need to watch it and you'll enjoy it when you hear it. um the second episode of this new series of the orville is uh a completely different thing right it's a it's it's almost a bottle episode but it's really like it's just it's just a completely

different thing it's a standalone beginning middle and end thing and that's why i'm i'm so excited about this like i want to talk to you about it i would really like for you to be watching this right now so we can uh we can talk about like it is the best sci-fi on tv right now wow More than the new Star Trek deal, what's it called? The Strange New Worlds? So, yes, and I'm saying that because Strange New Worlds has its own confinement, right? It has its own stuff that it has to steer through. And like, yeah, the Memento Mori episode of Strange New Worlds is an instant classic.

Like, it is stunning how good that episode is. But some of the episodes around it are like, oh, right. Yeah. So we have to make sure that we're telling Spock stories. And like, I don't know if I really, you know, like, if I really love this iteration of Spock and so. You know what I mean? Like, like you can see how it, it's not going to perfectly capture its audience. Whereas the Orville doesn't have any of that.

The Orville can do anything it wants. And it is. That's what it's trying to do, you know? Sure. Sure. Well, I mean, I'm still. I've seen the pilot and that's all I ever saw. I know.

you do need to go back to it because it's it scratches the the itch the vacancy left by tn g that discovery and picard um can't uh can't scratch you know it's it's basically that that problem of the week solution of the week everything nice and shiny you know uh i need you just watch it why don't i binge that that seems good well you're binging you're binging berry season three which is what you should be doing first i am doing Yeah, yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm binging Barry, which Barry, of course, I'm only two episodes in, but those usual, Barry's amazing. That's an amazing show. That's so good. Yeah. And they got green lip for fourth season, so I'm very excited. Yes.

Well, I hope so, yeah. Oh, did it end in a way that we need a fourth season? Well, we'll need a fourth season for sure, yes. Fair enough. Yes, Randy. What were you going to say? So, yeah, that I just want to clarify. That was, of course, Seth McFarland, the show's creator and main writer.

And by the way, he always in every episode, including the New Horizons episodes, he always credits John Favro. So you can tell that John Favro is on the horn every time. helping Seth McFarland with figuring out where these things are going. And there's other writers. Sure. That was, you know, his second in command is played by Adrienne Pallickey. Oh, I love her.

She is. I think I knew this. She is as amazing as ever. But the show doesn't really give her a lot of the emotional heft. It really focuses on some of these other characters like the doctor on the ship, played by Penny Johnson is really the emotional heart and soul of this show. And

not only does the character get a lot of time, but the character gets a lot of story. And, you know, she's got two sons, two teenage sons on board. And they let them grow up by several years for, and with no explanation between reasons. And it's

totally fine, you know? And, you know, so like, uh, they, they mentioned Isaac a couple of times. Isaac is their android data but but he's a he's an he's an android he comes from an android race of people he's not he's not a unique thing he's one of a whole planet full of of scary androids and that that character is played by an actor named mark jackson who just nails this this thing that like where it's a it's an android talking to you and we've all heard that no there's something about

this particular guy that it's just like it's it's scary but it's interesting and it's like he's you know he's emotion free but he's got every now and then he says something that's just funny and it's just i don't know there's i really really like that guy um i just need to watch it gosh the new one the new character basically they the previous season ends in this massive battle and they they end up with a new character and i want to say the actress is anne winters and her job so far this new one is just to be mad Oh, all right. Angry or crazy?

No, that's not, it's not Anne Winters. It's, um, oh, I can't, I can't. Elizabeth, uh, uh, Pontoneo. That's it. I have no idea. No idea of this. Oh, I can't remember. I can't remember her name.

Anne Winters is another character entirely. Uh, but, um, there, uh, this new character, this new character just comes over from another ship. Yeah. And, and like, and like, now she's a part of this crew. And they're like, you know, it's just a bundle of tropes, like I said but it's a it's a very interesting bundle of tropes because you can tell really thoughtful people are are talking about how do we how do we use what we know about writing and and directing shows like this to make this character interesting and fun and and intelligent without the bundle of tropes being too much like without you uh feeling that and and like they're they're really nailing it they're just nailing it man well i'm excited to see it finally i'm gonna do it I'm going to do it, you guys.

I'll finally do it. I'll watch that before Parasite. I'll bet that happens. I'll bet you'd be it to do. They'll both happen in 2025, but you'll watch, yeah. I'll be playing Diablo 4 by then. It'll be insane. All right.

Hey, Randy, good stuff as always. Yeah. One last thing. They have really good directors on these episodes of the Orville. Like Jonathan Frakes. Yeah, he's great. We love him. And you can feel it.

Like, as you watch, if you pay attention, you can feel. you can feel the depth of direction, you know, where there are, I'm not going to say unusual, like, camera angles, but there are interesting shots, interesting ways of hearing somebody when you're not seeing them necessarily or, I don't know how to really explain it, but the direction in this thing is top notch. I really, I'm actually kind of hoping that New Horizons gets some Emmy nominations. Because there's like, I want to find out more about what's going on behind the camera. Well, there you go. I'm sure they will. And you get bonus content for every DVD release they ever do. Is that still a thing? DVDs?

Do we do DVDs? Nope. What was this? 20 years ago? All right. As I was seeing a couple weeks ago, the thing now is to make bonus content and just put it right out on like YouTube or whatever. So you have, you know, you have like the studio's official podcast and you watch this episode

and then listen to that. Yeah. And I don't know that the Orville is really doing that. Nothing like Paramount is doing that. Well, they may, you know, maybe toward the end of the thing, they'll do a bunch more of that as things wind down. I don't know how many seasons they have planned, but I don't know.

I'm excited that it's even a thing. So well done. I hope people watch it and subscribe to Hulu and like make it worth their time and money. Yeah, go check it out. All right. Those are our recommendals today. Randy will be posting these later on his Twitter account

at Randy Deluxe. You can also find it on our our Discord, the Facebook Tadpool group, all this business. So go check all that out. It's Randy Jordan, AKA Randy Deluxe. Randy, any other final words before I cut you off?

Yeah, film. Okay. We're doing, he was going to say something about film sack. He's right. It's this weekend. We're watching something new. We're not doing Warcraft. We watch seven sun instead of instead of Warcraft. Warcraft got pulled, so 7th Sun is the replacement.

Netflix, right, I think? I think that's right. Yeah, Jeff Bridges, Julianne Moore. Something done away sussed out. Yeah. And I have no idea. I've never heard of this thing. I'm surprised because it's got a decent cast.

It looks like it was made well and it's fairly recent. Yeah. And also, kind of a train wreck is my understanding. So perfect for us. Very low 13% of rotten tomatoes or something. Oh, man. All right. Well, we're all in unless some vetoes.

That's the thing we're doing. So watch for that. Alicia Bikander. Oh, I like her. Yeah. Oscar winner, Alicia McCannery. Kit Harrington, who was on the throne of games, I think, is something that he was did before.

Digimon Hansu. Yeah. Like Digimon, Digimon Hansu. He's my, collect them all. He got to catch them all. That's right. He did my favorite meme face in Guardians 1, where he goes, who. Who?

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