The Morning Stream - TMS 2311: Swamp Water Slurpee

Episode Date: June 29, 2022

Teens Are Often Hard On Hoses. Neuro Somethin' Somethin' Protein Dillywhacker. Roll for Initiative Against Your Mom. Untitled Breastfeeding Mom and Goose game. Would You Like A Casserole Or A Puppy? Always a Slush Component. Dungeons, Dragons and DINGS. Del Taco Just the Tip. Steam coming out of my Trunk! Maverick Rage. Toddlers are Gibbering Mouthers. Uncle Puberty coming to ruin your life. Tom Had Cherry Pie, Cool Tech Time Such a Sweet Surprise. 30 Minutes of Screaming with Randy and Nicole. and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, teens are often hard on hoses. Neuro-something-something protein dilly-wacker. Roll for initiative against your mom. Untitled breastfeeding mom and goose game. Would you like a casserole or a puppy? Always a slush component. Dungeons, dragons and dings. Del Taco, just the tip.

Steam coming out of my trunk. Maverick rage. Toddlers are gibbering mouters. Uncle puberty coming to ruin your life. Tom had cherry pie. Cool tech time such a sweet surprise. 30 minutes of screaming with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. This morning, Billy looked like any other boy, but as the moon rose, he turned into a werewolf.

He used new Pa's Halloween makeup kits. His friend did too. Look, Mike's a vampire. The morning's dream. The morning stream. The morning stream. It's Toots Fat. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is Wednesday, June 29th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian. Hello. So wait a minute. If it's the, what's tomorrow? Is it the new? No, we have 30 days in June.

We do, right? Not 31, though. Let's see. Not 31. No 31. The only time we have a month that has 29 days is every fourth year, February, has a 29th day. Yeah. I couldn't remember if we had a 31st, though. I guess not, because Monday would be the fourth, and that wouldn't be enough days between that. Wouldn't be enough days to get to the fourth on Monday.

Yeah, good point. Speaking of which, we'll not be here. That's a national holiday here in America. Yeah, go enjoy some time with a fan. Barbecue something. Put something on the grill for Pete's sake. Yeah, get in there, make it done, get the heat out, do what you got to do, watch some fireworks. don't burn down a forest all those things okay do that right right uh someone in the chat reminded me

that it's come it's gonna be canada day what tomorrow or when is that uh Friday I don't know what it is but you guys are about to celebrate that'll be cool Friday is Canada Canada yeah do you want to celebrate here in any way should we do anything to honor our friends in Canada or or just uh we could do the whole episode like Bob and Doug McKenzie great yeah looks like you're drinking uh it really looks like you're drinking whiskey Scott like it's like a like a little whiskey glass I guess it's V but yeah spicy tomato juice this is my choice

my beverage of choice on an airplane that's what I would get almost every time if I'm on a plane it doesn't even matter what time early late doesn't matter if they say would you like anything I'm like do you have spicy tomato juice they're like we sure do boom that's what I get nice

nice yeah my wife thinks it's what you're having kind of a bloody Mary without I mean there's no alcohol but at least I hope not yep it's good just tomato Kim made one the other day that had all the stuff in it Oh, she put pickles in it and, like, uh, olives and all of that. Everything with the vodka. Everything but the vodka.

It was still very good. Worcestershire sauce and, uh, pepper and I'm a savory drink kind of guy, man. Yeah. Like if I did, if I did start going nuts with the cocktails, it'd probably be a lot of that. A lot of, a lot of bloody marries. Like the cucumber, uh, cucumber lime kind of stuff. And not, not big into the rum, the cold, the, well, other than, you know, virgin, uh, virgin daqueree vina colates.

Yeah. Or yeah, whatever the heck that was. Yeah. I always say dachry. What is a dacry? What is a dacry? Dacry is very similar. It's lime, rum, usually frozen.

I don't think you can, I've never seen a non-frozen. It's always frozen, right? It's like a frozen, lime slushy with rum. So there's always like a slush component to it? Yeah. Okay. Never, never, never. Yeah, I was trying to think if I've ever seen a dacry that wasn't frozen, right?

They're always, they're always frozen. Well, look, the next time you guys look, for us. Go get a slushy and then put a little rum in it. Boom, you're done. You're done. It's all really it takes. Yep. All right. So we've got the Coca-Cola slushies too, the slurpees. Oh, yeah, slurpee. I used to love a good Coke slurpy man. God, I did. You do the thing where you do the cherry slurpee first and then fire in the Coke slurpy right. Oh, yeah. We did. We make full swamp water when we'd go in there. Yeah. Yeah. We'd mix everything you could. You'd take all three flavors, whatever they had. You'd mix those in. You

put a little bit of Dr. Pepper in there for flavor. Oh, you would head over to the Big Gulp machine too and like that some other things? Yeah, we would go, I mean, it was real dumb, but we did it. And we thought it was great, but it's not great. It's bad. You can't understand why the Shug is, uh, why you're off the Shug now. Kids in the 80s, man, that's all we did. Just pound it down.

And I would usually, to add to that, I would usually have a big hunk or a Charleston chew with that. so you know all the sugar that was that was lunch basically in high school mm-hmm wow oh yeah wow paying for it now um anyway hey uh we got some follow-up we got to get to here okay all right business that piled up while uh while we were away for a day uh you know this whole conversation we've had about drinking out of the hose and yeah you know generations whether it's bad for you whether it's uh you know whether it builds strong bodies eight eight ways or whatever exactly the phrases and that's the question

Like, is it, you know, is it really that big a deal? Was it just because kids are kids and that's what you do? Is it help to build your immune system, whatever? Got some emails. You're going to read these. Cool. In fact, here, just to celebrate it. Send and receive email.

Here's one from Sierra, who says, I assume this is Sierra, the old video game company that published the original Half-Ly. Took a break from Kings Quest 5 to answer this question. You know, they were like, man, we can do these point-and-click adventures, but really, we've got to answer this question. So he says this, whoever sees this. whoever Sierra is, he or she.

The reason we don't drink out of hoses anymore is because most of them, especially in the old days, contained lead. It says even today it's dangerous to drink out of a hose unless it says drinking water safe because of the lead and chemical risk. Old hoses that have been set out in the sun and been abused are worse. How do you abuse a hose? It just means you don't roll it up or... Totally, like kicked and, you know, tossed into a pile and... Hose abuse. Hose abuse.

It's a real thing. And, you know, maybe it's time to... start wearing a green cylindrical ribbons on our shirts everybody be nice hose abuse be nice to your hose that was uh listen when i was 14 there was a lot of hose abuse going on yeah we don't we don't we don't we mean ladies of the night everybody we don't we mean we don't no no we don't anyway oh oh's got you yeah i get it hose get it i get you now yep old hoses have set out in the sun and been abused or worse uh as once the material start to break down more leeches into the water. My stepfather actually had to have multiple treatments for lead

and his blood due partially to drinking out of an old damaged hose every day at work for a decade straight. Love the show though, Sierra. So I didn't even think about that. I never even thought about lead being in those holes. Like they were lined with lead or the metal components on the ends were lead or something? Well, you know how the, so I think what it is, you know how tires are like rubber on the outside, but then there's that mesh. Yeah, the mesh to make it stronger. What do they call that? Radial?

There no. Whatever that's called, the mesh stuff, the metal that's like basically crossed that, crossed that stitch. And we all learned that by that commercial

that showed seven, surrounded by two, wrapped by one. Oh. Do you remember those tires? Yeah, I do remember those. What was that?

They showed the, who was that? What was the brand? Like Bridgestone or, wasn't the guy in the, not Mr. not Mr. Clean

Michelin. Could have been well anyway I can't remember but I know the only reason I really know about those

is because my Maverick my Ford Maverick used to it was pigeon toad so the tires were all worn down in the middle

and it had these horrible like all that metal webbing was just sticking out on the outside it was awful yeah it's bad

oh my God wow a piece of shit instead of instead to rotate would you just swap the left and right front tires

and I mean if you ask me now. I don't think I can tell you what I did. I spent like 200 bucks on that car. I bought it from a guy named Juan who I knew at Chi-Chi's. He's like, I have a car. It's 200 bucks. Do you want it? I'm like, yeah, I'm 16 and I have no money. Let's do this. So I bought his car for $200, got the title. And it was a piece of HUD for the whole time I had. It never, it was always like something was wrong. Always. Just always something wrong. Although I did, I did escape a, a, um, a, um, a, um, a

mini car chase one night where some let's call them thugs, I don't know what they were. Okay. Some guys were mad at us because we cut them off or something. And so I had to floor it through this neighborhood and try to lose, we had to lose a tail basically because these guys were gonna they were just mad and they were following us, having

road rage or whatever. And I did it. It was like 2 o'clock in the morning. I got away from these guys. But when we were done, there was steam coming out of my trunk, or out of my hood. It was awful, man. That car sucked. Oh, my gosh. Wow. piece of little literal crap.

Anyway, all right, so there's one take. Here's another take from Marl Prime, aka Jerky Jesse. All right. Okay. Jerky Jesse. Jerky Jesse. I'll see Marl Prime all the time in the chat and stuff.

Yeah, I've never known them as Jerky Jesse, but, don't be so hard on yourself, Jesse. You're probably real nice. I don't know. Yeah. Anyway, it says, hey, boots and slacks. I guess you're boots and I'm slacks. Boots and slacks.

slacks. This has been a mobile refuse relocation engineer, aka Garbage Man, for almost eight years now. Aside from getting COVID last month, I have not been sick for five years. Common cold nor flu, none of that. I also drank from the garden hose as a kid from the 80s. I'm no Bobby Dan or Dr. Tolbert, but I think you're on to something about immunity being linked to being germy 80s kids. Cheers, Morrow Prime. I mean, maybe. I don't know. I'd blame that more on just social distancing masks. isolation for the last, well, maybe five years, okay, but, you know, the last two years, certainly. Yeah. Colds and flus up until recently have been minimum for me because of the, or minimal for me,

because of the isolation. I still haven't had anything major. I had that ear infection, that's it. I haven't had anything since 20, oh my gosh, 2018, early 2019. Really? I could have sworn we missed a few days because of you. Oh, we did. My ear infection thing knocked.

out for three days. Yeah, that was bad. That was just some bacterial thing and I don't know. Who knows where those come from. But yeah, the pandemic has made Scott way less sick. Yeah. Ironically. Take it from me. Once you get your first flu after the pandemic, it's going to be a doozy. Yeah. I had a feeling. Plus everybody I know has got COVID again. It's all like everybody who went to VidCon, you all had an outbreak at VidCon. It was bad. It was really bad. Like they didn't have any precautions in place. so you know you get what you get but i guess there's this um bobby'll have to maybe clarify next week we haven't had an update on this in a while but there's something about a new variant that has neuro something something protein dealy-whacker i don't like that at all yeah i don't like the word neuro in there at all attacks brain cells and brain cells are susceptible to damage and so it's not like everyone's going to have a hard time is that b5 is that the name anyway this thing like goes straight to like that stuff so you can end up with like short term memory loss or you know other shit i hear you can uh now get the monkeypox vaccine too is that true can i get that

yeah yeah i think they didn't they already had that you just didn't have it here i think you could get it they had it if you could prove exposure to it oh okay okay you just more prove or just say yeah i've been around somebody who has monkey pox better give me the the vaccine but uh um i had sex with a monkey in the jungle. Give me the vaccine. Right. A monkey, the zoo said, I put a pucks on you. Yeah. I got cursed by a monkey. But isn't that, that thing's been around for years

and years and years. This has never come here, I thought. Isn't that the deal? Is that the case? I thought that was the case. Like, it's a regular occurrence in certain African countries. Well, you know, maybe if our science guy wouldn't spend his whole time talking about little wormy bacteria and you could tell us about something important

that we could actually use information we actually need. Yeah, not some worm i just ate i don't want to know about that yeah oh this worm is super tiny and it's probably fine all right great yeah tell us about monkey pox yeah let's get a let's get that monkey pox going anyway here's another one from uh so it's so interesting point morrow prime about being a germy 80's kid maybe problem is we don't really have any direct data to support this so you know it's just a gut feeling uh ziggurat finally writes in and says or is our final emailer says hi scott Brian, I am 33, and I drink from hoses growing up.

My kids have two. I think that kids don't think about what's in the hose like adults would. Nowadays, I don't even like drinking from the bathroom faucet. And my water doesn't have any weird taste. I drink it fine from the kitchen faucet, same water. Glove the flow, though, Ziggurat. Yeah, part of it is when you're a kid, nothing's, it's nothing scary. You're just like, right.

ah what happened i dropped my hot dog in the dirt where'd it go well i ate it of course because i'm a kid exactly yeah because that's what you do you don't freaking any brief even had a whole bit about that right the kid the kid's ice cream falling off his uh cone and he's making fun of the other kids and then he picks it back up says i have some ice cream yeah yeah yeah so why why why stress about you know when you're a kid this is what you do and you don't think you're ever going to die you don't think you're ever going to get sick and when you do it's just kind of a weird anomaly and your parents worry like crazy but you're just kind of laying there watching cartoons you don't care yeah exactly all right more chicken soup cool seven it up ginger ale

whatever bring it yeah being a kid man so good let me tell you the two best ages you could ever be and then if i could stay there i would 10 and 11 those of the years because puberty uncle puberty hasn't come yet to ruin your life that hasn't happened yet and up to that point you're still too little to really be smart enough to have any fun but by the time you're like 10 or 11 The world, your oyster, you are just a, you are, you are, it is awesome time.com. It's an amazing time to be a human being is 10 to 11. As long as you're not being eaten. You can have your 10 and 11.

I'll take 21. I'll take 21 as my. You know, the kind of fun I had at 10 or 11 is nothing like the kind of fun I had at 21. Yeah, but that kind of fun at 21 leaves awake, you know, it's like, oh, that girl's mad at me or this guy oh did i do that when i was drinking shoot uh sorry oh i have to pay insurance now like 21 oh i didn't have to do that at 20 well i guess i did well 21 things get expensive yeah i had to worry about uh uh cheap apartment payment and uh yeah yeah i don't know i don't know something about something about my memories now again you know memory can be you can't drive anywhere

at tendil you are stuck you are basically reliant on everybody else to like get you places and Yeah, but it's okay. Unless it's biking distance. Because you're okay to hop on your BMX, go all the way down to the arcade. Yeah. Go to the arcade. Spend the five bucks your dad gave you three weeks ago. Just play joust all afternoon.

Get back in time for dinner. Mom made you something rad. You eat that. You go over to your friend's house playing television until your eyes bleed. I'm telling you, it was a great time to be alive. It sounds kind of like to replace Mom with Kim, and it pretty much sounds like your life now. Kind of, yeah. She drives me everywhere, too.

right she does yes for the record she just playing jous scott and come up and have some jambalaya there's literally a jous machine i'm looking up the retro in television just a second i've got to play some astro blasters or something i have kind you know i mean i'm not gonna i won't deny it i kind of still aim to live that life like i still want to be that kid where everything's exciting and new and cool and creative and and all of that it's the world that just keeps telling me not to but but i But I, you know, I want to be a kid forever. Freaking love being a kid. And when I see a 10 or 11 year old out in the street screwing around doing whatever they're doing, making jumps for their bikes or, I don't know, just some nonsense, I just grin and go, yeah, dude, freaking enjoy that, revel in that. You're going to look back on these days. Yeah, love it.

Love it while you can because it's going to go away. And then one day you'll be an old fart in a radio show talking about it. That's how it will. Well, anyway, thanks for all your feedback about the deal there. Yeah. I don't know, we don't, again, I don't know that there are any sort of serious scientific peer-reviewed studies that say anything about drinking hose water and your immune system, but it has to have had some effect on us, I'm sure. I mean, I'm sure that, you know, there was some, even if it may not have been lead, but there might, there was definitely something in those hoses that we were drinking along with the ice cold water. Yeah, but also just in general, when you're a kid, everything you run into, you know, is building.

That is how you build your immune system. And if you were kept in a hermetically sealed room from age zero to 20 and then they suddenly let you out, you're screwed. Yeah. Like, you'll catch everything all at once. You don't want that. So drink from your hose, but don't do it if there's lead in it. I'm not encouraging that because lead is no good. I don't care who you are.

No, no, please don't eat the paint and don't drink from the hose. Yeah, don't drink from abused hoses. Yeah, these abused hoses, man. Who's going to speak for them? who's their spokesperson, these abused hoses. Abused hoses.com for details. All right. There's probably a site.

I mean, what about that fourth nipple, Brian? Could that have been caused by drinking from the hose? Hey, I don't know. Why don't you ask it? It can talk. Oh, geez. You got a whole mad ball back there. I got eyes and everything.

I've got to succeed in business without really trying going on back there. So I just did a search for abused hoses and there's nothing. Oh, geez. No abused hose.com. None of that. It's abused horses is all I get. oh yeah turns out horses have abuse and uh they abuse horses don't they can all right done away time have you heard of this guy this done away guy i've heard of them oh yeah yeah me too he's a he's a guy

we're familiar with we know his ways we're going to call him we're going to play a game we're going to get a caller on the line all this stuff is true that's right everybody brine johnnaway joins and joinaway. Hi, Brian, Joinaway here. Hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Waiting for player to finish the latest episode of some Marvel show is what it says in the tadpooly He's not, he's not join away the game. No, yeah, that's right. You got to get in there, buddy. Get in there. Are you not in there? Are you not in there? Are you not in there? Are you not in there? I'm in there. Wait, I'm in there. I'm in there. Wait, I'm in there. I'm not in there. I'm not in there. I'm not in there. I'm not in there. I don't know what's going on. You got that tab closed, bro. for like 30 minutes. I don't know, man. Seems like something's going something fishy.

B-Boy G is in the house. There he is. All right. We also have a listener. Let's find out who's waiting for us. Hi, thanks for holding. Who's this? It's Jojo.

Showjo. What are you doing? Let's roll butt holes is what she'd like, she'd say. Let's roll buttholes. It's one of my favorite things ever. I always love hearing her say that. What are you doing? How are things in Vegas?

I'm doing good. Oh, it's actually really not bad. It's like, it'll be like. like in the 90s on 4th of July. Oh, my gosh. Wow. That is what we're having today, about 98 or so. We're almost 100.

And I don't know why you guys are colder than us. That makes no sense to me. Although when you're in the 90s saying you're colder than us is kind of a weird thing to say. Right. Well, it's good to have you here. As you would say, let's roll butt holes. Brian explained to her how this works, what she could win and why we're doing this. Oh, that's right, Scott.

Yes, it's time to play the tadpool. I've surveyed the tadful on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Shojo, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian

and if your team wins, I'll just hand-deliver these prizes to Vegas in July. You'll get a prize package that includes Ring of Pain and Pop Up Dungeon. Oh, those are both great games. Okay, Ring of Pain, Turn-based, Cool,

kind of excom like but with a crazy art style and then pop-up dungeon is this rad almost like paper craft dungeon crawler thing that you can also make your own like levels and stuff it's really cool it's awesome. Oh right on

I'm excited up your alley both could be yours both good all right well let's give these guys their category and let them start playing we'll see who you're going to be joining put your hands on your buzzers

give me your answer to this. We ask 739 Tadpoolers to give their best response to this question. What's the weirdest Dungeons and Dragons Monster? No. The weirdest.

I'm going to go with the eye of the beholder. Oh, that's a good one. I guess they're just beholders. Show me the beholder. Who's just got his eye. Number two. One answer will beat it.

Hmm. One better. Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. I don't know one better. All I know is Al-Bair. Al-Bair's a good one. I like Al-Bair's.

All right. Show me Al-Bair. I thought you were like talking about somebody named Albre. You're saying it funny like French. Show me. Show me Al-Bair. Number eight. Good points, but doesn't get me the contest.

Nope. So Scott, you and Shogho are going to get control of the board. Eight answers are still left up there. What's the weirdest Dungeons and Dragons Monster? Now Ibbett's question is starting to make more sense that he just dropped in the chat room earlier. Oh, did he do that? I didn't know that. I wasn't sure if Denoway ever played D&D because we're going to talk about it.

I even played a, we even, I was even on the D&D show that Scott does. Yep, true story. Oh, drugs. Yeah, you did. You dirty bastard. Oh, you were. So, Sarah, I got this, I have this feeling. Well, do you any jump to your head first before I say anything?

Well, I can share with you my answer because I remember it. Okay, go for it. I chose, I believe, the gelatinous cube. Oh, that was the other one I was going to do. It continues to be a very odd thing. So, yes, I'm going to go. I'm going to agree. I concur.

That's number one. Damn it. show me almost always room for the gelatinous cube yeah number one answer number one

okay 124 tadpoolers said that one which is still less still less than the number of tadpoolers who said some variation of pass I don't play

and I'm not a virgin oh oh man dark I know shade throne dark and cold dark and cold I don't like that

all right we have this one, actually there's a I don't know if anyone's using it because I have the chat, not here, but I actually created an emoji on Twitch that I hand drew of a thing we fought

a lot in our campaign called a flump or a flumpf. Ph. H., I believe, is the thing at the end. So I like that one a lot. It's just kind of a gangly spaghetti monster and that might be on here. Sounds like the noise it makes when it hits the ground. Flumph.

Available in many colors. Show me. Flumpf. Who number three? It's got it. Yeah, but these is... It's almost like he has a podcast once a week about touches and dragons.

Yeah, it helps, I admit. Right. All right, Sarah. Do you have anything? Okay. Jump into your head. I don't know the name of this, but like the fake treasure chest,

like you go to touch it, but it actually like attacks you. Yeah, it's the mimic, right? Mimics. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's an... Good one. Yeah.

All right. Show me that fake treasure chest looking thing that has teeth and it's about to bite you. Mimick. Oh my gosh. You guys are basically just going right down the line on the last night there. I love it. All right. Another one I did.

I drew this one. So it's stuck in my head. One of my favorite things to ever fight was a gibbering mouther, I believe, is the full name. A jibbering mouther. Just a bunch of big flesh beast with a bunch of mouths and talking and mumbling the whole time. I think toddlers are gibbering. mouters, aren't they? A little bit.

Except their other mouth is a butthole. Speaking of a rude. All right, show me a jibbering mouther. Number five. What the fuck,

we are just like doing the list. You are, you really are, yeah. Still in it, though, I've got eight points

with my alber. Albar. That's right. Albar. Um, oh, now's where things get weird. Now is,

yeah, now is when the rubber meets the road. It's also kind of hitting the ends of, I remember. Yeah, I know. Oh, I know. Oh, well, the other one I drew, I'm basing these all in things I drew.

Because maybe that's a good idea, because they all jumped out at me as weird. Oh, what's it called? It's got a bunch of tentacles, and it's sort of. Oh, oh, like Jack Tripper's, the people that ran, the ropers, roper, roper. Larry the hairy guy Not Larry the hairy guy, no

Roper Roper, all right, show me Mr. Roper. Oh, no, roper, come on. Does that even, let me see if that even made the list. Yep, number 18 18 was the roper.

I would have thought that would have been higher. All right, fair enough. All right, over you, Brian, you've got to check. Just describe what the character looks like. Nope. I'm kidding. Doesn't work, okay.

So I'm going to probably go with, since my childhood DM hasn't responded to my messenger that I just sent to ask him what the weirdest one was. I guess I'm going with a litch. How about that? How about I go with a lich? Sure, yeah. It's not really weird, but it's, I'm kind of running out of a monster. in my head.

They can be a little weird. Yeah. A little moody is really the problem with those guys. Yeah, a little moody. All right, show me a litch. Oh. Yeah, it's hard because now, because we're, the question here about weirdest is what's throwing everybody, because who knows what people consider to be weird?

They're all weird. Chojo, how do you feel about a mind flare, not weird enough or weird enough? Damn it! that's my next one. Stop sitting the only answers I have. Okay, we're doing mind flare. Mind flare is pretty weird. Yeah.

Those are pretty weird. All right, show me. What's that? I said, I totally forgot about that. All right. Show me a mind flare. Number seven. I think I went to this.

Stakes always ruining my life. I know, right? Oh, hello. Are you there? See, 14. Yeah, you're not. You haven't locked it in yet. As long as

as Chojo wins, that's really the important part. If we either got to do one of the three things. I got to win or we've got to run the board. Come on. Scott's got to win or you got to run the board. No, I got to win. I'm a little selfish. Do you know the one that's like a half bird, half floating brain?

Do you know the one I'm talking about? Oh. Ring a bell at all? No. No, it doesn't. We fought one of these in our campaign. It was like a. If I can remember this name.

Half brain. Yeah. The name I'm thinking of is like krill, but I don't think that's it. That's actual stuff in the ocean, right? Oh, is that, yeah, that, that's not bad. Isn't there a krill though? Isn't there? Is there?

Hmm. I don't know. All right. Hold on. Don't do that one. There's the half, there's like the weird spider creature that's like half man, half spider. We fought that recently. That's called a.

Oh, my childhood DM is typing. You're in trouble. now. I don't remember these names. I don't, I'm so bad with names. The dragon, like the multiple heads. Oh, yeah, but what's the version in here called? It's not like the Greek one.

It's something else. I know, that's why I'm like, I'm so bad with names. I just remember what they look like. Oh, who are the, I drew a, that's another one I drew. They're common. They're like dirty. They're dirty. Not knolls.

Dirty feet. Noles? What is it? Is it Noles? They're ones that are... Oh, yeah. Oh, bug bears. There's one thing that I'm going to have.

Bug bears. Bug bears. That's a good one. Show me a bug bear. Damn it. Oh, bug bear number 13 on the list. My childhood DM is really type and slow, so I'm going to have to go with my, my, my, my, my, hell Mary of Netflix, Demogorgon.

How about that? If I only could. This weekend, baby. Second half the season. Finally. Jeez. All right. Show me.

Oh, I rolled a 20. Demigorgon. Oh. Number six. Back on the board there, dude. Brian's making a game out of this. Yeah. You get these next two.

You can win. I did my call. I did, even though I'm not supposed to, I did call out to my DM. And he did say an answer. He says Russ Moll. Rust monster. Rust monster? Rust monster. Yeah, they normally dwell in dungeons and actually hunt for metals to turn to rust and consume.

It looks like a cross between a roach and a crawfish. I'm going with rust, rust monster. Those things definitely drink from the hose, the rest monster. All right, show me a rust monster. Oh. Controlled back over to Shojo and Scott, who can lock this thing up with one answer. If you get one of the last two answers on here, this game is locked.

No pressure. How about it? So the nickname, Kyle's nickname on all his internet stuff is the name of the one I have in my head. So I'm going to share it with Sarah as if you two aren't here. And then her and I are going to decide together. So the term is, I believe, Tarasque. And this is a big and boss kind of fight kind of creature. I don't know much about it except that Kyle's named after it.

Or he named himself Tarasque. So all his online, like, you know, names or whatever is always tarasque. So I'm going to say we try that because it seems common in our community and possibly that's a memorable one for a lot of the end. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll say the tarasque. Sure.

Show me a tarasque. Damn it. Oh, man. Number 23 on the list was the tarasque. All right. I showed you. If I win all the way through, then you win as well. So let's do it, right?

So if Brian names one of these, you lose. If Brian names two of these, you lose. you win. That's where this thing goes. If Brian gets zero or two, you win. I don't like that. Oh, I don't like that. No, I don't. Yeah. Somebody at home is losing their mind about these rules again.

They always do. Yeah, they are. Let them. Yeah, let them. I'm going with. Email me at I-D-A-I-D-G-A-F at Brianabit.com. There you go. It's a good moment you should do.

I'm going with, we haven't mentioned any drive. dragons. So I'm going to say maybe white dragon freaks everybody out. That's a weird one, right? There's many, many colors of dragon, but the white dragon, I feel like that would be the one that would weird people out. It's a privileged dragon is the problem. Yeah. Yeah. It's not this one, though. Black dragon. It's not a black dragon. It's a white dragon. Yeah. All right. Show me the dragon whose order takes four minutes to place at Starbucks. Oh, that's six strikes total. Just plain, believe it or not, just playing Dragon was number 11.

Are you? Well, it still wasn't on the board. Yeah, we'll still it on the board. Dragon? Dragon is so weird. So weird. Never heard of that. Yeah, all right.

Show me number nine. Oh, it's going to kill me. The abyssal chicken. Oh, gosh, of course. Fritz. Yeah. Which you'll eventually replace with a Dyson chicken. Yeah, we actually.

we actually bow has a version of that called the oh what does he call it it's an amazing take on the abyssal chicken but it's his own thing and i forgot the name of it shit never mind then i won't tell you i don't know what it is and finally we've seen one of these in our campaign chicken lord the crap out of us chicken lord sorry go ahead chicken lord okay uh show me number 10 an intellect devourer oh is that the bird brain it's a brain with legs four legs that's not i guess is that the one you was They're kind of chicken leggy. Yeah, that might be the one I was thinking of. Yeah. Might have been. I'm not sure. Let's see. It doesn't look like this. I'll put in the chat room. Let's take a look. Where? Where?

Oh, yeah, that's it. That's the one I'm thinking. No, well, the one I'm thinking of has a beak, but maybe these do in this picture just doesn't. I don't know. Oh, really? Yeah, I'm not sure now. But whatever. The important part is she won. That's the important part. Yes, that is. That's the important part.

And I'm going to play this because every time I play this, I get a note from Christine Fletcher reminding me that this is not the correct file but I'm going to play it anyway because I don't know where the real one is if it exists at all. So, uh, whoops, I lost it already. That's fantastic. Hold on. What happened? Why? Now I don't even have it. Oh yeah, I do.

Congratulations. You're a winner. She says there's a different one than that. And I don't know where it came from. Yeah, of her own husband doing a thing. So I have to, Christine, get with me. I swear that's it. I swear that's the one. Christine hasn't, uh, emailed or texted me Since I said her voice sounds like this. I hate it when you do the Tina voice, Brian.

Yeah. Well, look, you know, the Tina voice. It's a treasured thing. It's going to happen, whether you like it or not. Yeah. So what else did we miss? What else was on here? Yeah, I was going down the list,

the roving Muller. Okay. Nash Magrott of the Solar Mines was number 14. Nice. Yeah. Creature nobody wants to deal with. I don't blame him. Abileth, orc.

Cobold, Madron, Otyug, Zorn with an X, X-O-O-O-O-R. Yeah, number 25 was your mom. 26 is Bo Schwarz. Bo Schwarz is Lord. Nice. That is hilarious. 27 is duck bunny, frog hemith, gaspore, grell, nerd, ooze, truck door, acid rods, and then a whole bunch of single responses. Strong bad that proves.

So, Jen, the chat room did find the one I was thinking of. It's the floating one. on the tentacles called the crel or grell sorry grell okay grell yeah that's the one i was thinking about because that's still like oh that's that is cool that is cool looking it's kind of cool looking i have to i have to agree with that it looks that looks like the all the bad parts you don't want weird beak yeah it's got like a bird beak which yeah i don't know i don't know about you but things with bird beaks that aren't birds kind of weirds me yeah yeah how does it see uh to bite you with that beak or or even eat some seed it doesn't care i just use those those tendrils that just gets in you

I think it might have like a real low perception modifier or something. Yeah, something like that. I can't remember. Oh,

it's telepathics is nice to me. I'm sure that makes sense. Oh. Yeah. I just don't like how it's like a big old freaking eagle beak right in the middle of that brain tissue. Yeah. There's no lungs.

How can it make noises? Exactly. Just be floating around going. Yeah, how does it do that? Telepathy. You don't think you hear the sound that it makes. Yeah.

It's breathless. lepathy or something. Anyway, hey, Sarah, you won. That means you get these games. And all you got to do is email, Brian. That address is Coverville at gmail.com, as you probably already know. And he'll hook you up. And in that same place, you can make any plans that you want to about his little Vegas trip.

That's right. You know, hang out, whatever you're going to do. How do you feel about your big win? Let's roll butt holes. Yeah, let's roll butt holes. We'll see you later. You're awesome. Talk to you soon.

Okay, why won't this thing up on her? There we go. All right, well, hey, Brian Dunaway, that was a lot of fun. You know what else is fun is that show we did yesterday for Play Retro, where we talked about F-Zero and Wipeout and all the anti-grab hover racers of yesterday. Yes. Yep, it was great. Don't worry.

It's still there. You can still there. Did you guys record it? Oh, good. We did it. We saved it to listen live, so. We recorded it. We put it, there's video.

It's up on YouTube and on the Twitch pod. Yeah, yeah. I know. We archived it proper. so people can hear it, see it, live it. It was great, though. And if you haven't listened to Play Retro yet, it might be your favorite little ancillary video game podcast.

So go check it out, play retro everywhere you get your podcast, or, of course, over at frogpants.com slash play retro. Brian, you play a lot of these retro games on the nightly. You want to tell people where that's happening? I do. Are you still there? I'm still there. Are you here? Twist out TV, 4.S. Brian Dunaway. Do it. Did we go away for a minute or something? What happened there?

No, but every time you cut me off, why I'm talking so. Oh, I see. You just are used to that. Well, what do you say about this? I say, no, you. Okay, he's out. That's it. He's gone. Well, that was fun. I enjoyed that greatly. Yes. And I like Sarah a lot, so it was easy to play with her. Much, much fun. Much fun. Yeah, Sarah was a great asset on that one for sure. She was. Let's now move to this part of the show. This part of the show, which is the news, is brought to you by. Are you looking for? For more Frog Pants Podcasts, go to frogpants.com slash podcasts and have at it. They're all right there.

That sounds grand. All right, check this out. Immediately stop using, says Costco for a massive recall. This is a public service thing here. All right, everybody pay attention. Recall, recall, recall. It's very important. Costco's warning Canadian people specifically.

So it's a recall. Well, excuse me, in Canada, or as you may know it as... Canada! Multiple umbrellas are catching on fire. Oh, geez. Yeah, these are ones you can buy in the Canadian stores. Let's see, Health Canada. I guess that's what you guys call your health services?

Just Health Canada. Is that the deal? Health Canada. We warn you of exploding umbrellas. They'll catch on fire. Yeah. I think we should keep going. As far as I guess.

This recall involves more than 32,000 Sun Villa. Sorry, going to go ahead. Sun Villa. These are 32,000 is a lot. That's a lot to be recalled. No kidding. Sun Villa, these are 10-foot solar LED market umbrellas, the patio umbrella. So these aren't the ones you'd walk around in the rain with.

These are, you know, patios. You basically mount onto a table on your deck like my crazy neighbors have that have LED lights underneath that they bought it American Costco. So you know. it's safe. It must be fine here. It says the lithium ion batteries, because these things have LED lights in them and stuff, so they're powered. The lithium ion batteries may overheat, posing a fire and burn hazard, according to Health Canada and its recent issued warning that happened on the 23rd.

As of June 9th, 2020, the company had received one report of a battery overheating and umbrella catching on fire in Canada with no reported injuries. In the United States, the company has received five reports of batteries overheating with four reports of umbrellas catching on fire and one report of smoke inhalation injuries. So this happened once in Canada, but five times or four times, you know, five times in the U.S. I think it's a per capita deal. What do you think? I don't know.

I think we just are worse at using umbrellas than Canadians. That might be. It's clearly the problem. So consumers should stop immediately using these recall umbrellas. Or sun in the U.S. Yeah, there you go. Or sun hidden at those solar panels. says, let's see, remove the solar panel from the top of the umbrella and store the panel out of the sun away from combustible material and do not charge the panel with an AC adapter.

He reported 32,702 units, the effective product are sold in Canada and 222,303 were sold in the United States. That is a numbers thing. That's vastly more than they sold in Canada. Oh, for sure. It also feels like, all right, well, can't you just. take the LED parts off and the battery part and still use it as, I don't know, an umbrella? Doesn't that part still work? Well, that's what they're saying.

They're saying, store it, like, store the panel out of the sun. Yeah, the panel. They're saying take it off the umbrella. So the umbrella should stay. Oh, the panel. I'm sorry, you're right. Store the panel out of the sun away from. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm misread that as store the umbrella out of the sun. It's like, well, great. It's like, don't use, though, that escalator. It's not working. Yeah. Basically, you're just going back to a caveman umbrella and just not using any fancy features. So you're doing it like the Neanderthals had to use.

Or sorry, Neanderthal. Is it tall or thall? Because we said it as Neander tall, yeah. We used to say thall growing up and it's hard to get me to change. Same here. Yep. Neanderthal. That's what we said.

And then there's Neander short. Neander short. Neander heat up. All right. Let's move on to this. A breastfeeding mom. Nothing wrong with those. It was great.

I've got nothing to say at that part. So far, so good. Fights off a bald eagle to save her pet goose. Did she use a frying pen? Because that would be great. No, that would be consistent, wouldn't it, with the recent stories here on the show? But no, this is Kate Oakley, breastfeeding her daughter, Willow. A little tiny-looking thing looked like Wicket from the Empire Strikes Back.

Right. She heard her pet goose Frankie squawking at the front of the house. That's what a geese do. So, anyway, whatever. Oakley could tell that there was something. something wrong. So she peered outside and saw that an eagle was circling her beloved pet goose. She rushed outside half naked with Willow at her breast. And the drama heightened as the bird of prey grabbed Frankie who furiously flapped her wings to try to break free of the grasp of the

eagle. Oh, my God. Yeah. This is gnarly. Went to the front door with Willow latched on me, just thinking, I'll take a peek out the window. And that's when that split second, or in that split second, the eagle came down and was at my front door. So I threw open the door. There was nowhere to put Willow down at that point. Oakley, 29 of North Sandwich, sorry, Snitch, Sanich, British Columbia. Yeah. It looked like sandwich. It does look like sandwich. Maybe you're hungry. Made me hungry, dude. I might have to go to, I want to go to Firehouse today. That's what I want. Oh, don't say it. Brian, a hot sandwich from Firehouse. What is wrong with that idea? Nothing. Nothing at all wrong except how many carbs is in that, all that bread and melted cheese and deliciousness and mayonnaise and mustard and the caloric intake is going to be rough.

If I rode my bike over there, because Tina has my car right now, so if I rode my bike over there, there'd be a few calories taken off. Oh, little report, speaking of cars and people using cars and stuff. You know, I told you yesterday about Kim's weird battery problem. Yeah. She took it to the dealer. the dealer charged her less than half of what the Biggo was going to charge

and knew what they were doing. Like we were worried that if we were going to get it cheaper at Bigo or somewhere else. Right. Usually the dealership is way higher than although Biggo, you know, I think of like the little mom and pop repair places. Just hard to find one that you trust, you know?

It really is, yeah. Finding one it's like, all right, this is a place I feel like I can go to. We do have one of those. Tina's car might be having battery issues, but I did a search online. It looks like what it's doing is, yeah, just replace the battery. Yeah. Well, I got swapped. Everything's good. We paid way less. We aren't all. Because Biggo was like, it can cost you about 350.

But we don't really know for sure what we're doing. So we actually recommend you check the dealer out. We check the dealer out. And they're like, yeah, it's 100 for parts and labor. Oh, well, then here you go. And then she brought a big bag of cookies and fruit or something to the, to the, guy in the back who did it. Of course she did. It's like, she just must like carry that stuff around.

Like, oh, let's see. Have you got your choice of a casserole, a tray full of rice, crispy treats, or the blueberry muffins? What would you like? Yeah. Or a puppy. I have a puppy now. Would you like a puppy?

Exactly. We don't actually. I came in front of them and line at the bank. She's like, oh, well, here's lasagna. Yeah, have some lasagna. She's weird that way. She's always prepped for it. She gave the nicest tip at a Del Taco the other day.

well you know if you don't tip at del taco then you don't get the i don't know like these guys were fried hohoes or whatever they are she just says she always says i'm like well that was a rich tip and she goes i just have my gut tells me i sometimes i need to do like a specifically this guy needed that tip i don't know why i just go with my gut she's not claiming to be some kind of you know uh extraterrestrial freaking mind reader or anything but she is pretty she has good instincts for when people need a little extra something. And I'm like, all right, sounds good to me. That's ten bucks I'll never

see you again. Moving on. All right, look at this here. We've got this here. Oh, yeah. So she successfully fought off this bird, is the important thing. I would hope so. You know, and this is British Columbia. They hate bald eagles up there. They hate anything American. So no wonder she's like fighting off a bald eagle.

If this happened in the U.S., they'd be like, sorry, bald eagle. Take my goose. Take your nationalistic. Maybe. Take whatever. You're a bald eagle. You get it all. You know, he always think of those birds. I think of eagles going, like, or whatever, like the big thing. That high-pitched, yeah, that they always show. And, like, in westerns, they show it circling or they show it flying overhead and you hear that same.

Yeah. But what I found out the other day is they mostly click. They don't, but they barely ever do that sound. It's almost always just like this weird little click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click thing they do with their beaks. And they don't, they hardly ever caw. What does that tell you? By the way, Sam Jane had to jump in and defend Canada saying, dude, that just isn't true. She's taking issue with the fact that I said, Canadians hate everything, anything American and hate bald eagles.

I think Brian was kidding. That was my take. That's how we got our comedy trophies. Yeah, we got our comedy trophy. Look, they're back there. There's a couple of them right back there saying in carved out glass that we were the best comedy podcast of a couple of those years. thanks Todd Cochran

Yeah thanks legacy podcasters I don't know I skipped three flames ahead And gave everybody the answers I let the labor of love this year Gilbert Godfred Rest his soul Yes

That's it for this morning's news We're going to take a break When we come back Tom Merritt will be here We got a little tech to talk about This morning that'll be good We got recommendals after that Who knows he'll be here for that

That might be everybody It might be just some of us I don't know No longer committing to anything until I know. It might have, yeah. It might happen. But we don't know until Brian plays this damn song.

So what do you got there? Well, you might have heard of an actor by the name of Bruce Willis. And you might have also heard of an actress by the name of Demi Moore. Well, those two made a baby. And they called her Scout LaRue Willis. And fortunately, she doesn't have her dad's singing talent. So she has a brand new album. Um, she's actually, uh, you got a self-titled debut album that came out last week.

And it's really good. She's got kind of like a deeper Adele voice that I really, really like. Kind of a, uh, Patsy Klein, folk kind of sound tour. Well, why don't I stop talking about her so that you can hear her? Uh, her brand new album is called Listen Here. It's a scout Leroux Willis. Here's the first song from that album. It's called Woman at Best.

Soft, simple sidney. Wanting and will are with you Whisper in mildly But not like I wanted you to What is a problem Solutions abound Don't try and solve it You'd rather just mess me around

I'm a woman at best You did not make me weak I won't falls my knee Call your name in my sleep Lost in the moment Avoiding the truth And blue condescension Is painting the room

Invisible lighter I want to get high I still remember Before there was you and I and I will pass his tails Because I know I am strong Won't call out your name I'll just sing out the song

Infetamine in motion Perpetual myths And no unique poisons Inherent in this Don't try and touch me You'll gain no control You'll gain no control Be here if you must be

But each minute takes a toll I'm a woman at best You do not make me weak One faults my knees Call your name in my sleeve And now it passes test Because I know I am strong Won't call out your name

Just sing out this song Sing out this song Sing out this song Sing out this song Sing out this song Sing out of this song Sing out of the song Sing out of the song

I'll sing every song I'll sing happy song In America they say that if you're not ready to do the time, don't commit the crime But in Iceland we just say don't do the crime Because nothing rhymes with glaibur Greetings, Earth Lady. May I interest you in some guacamole? This is the morning stream.

And we're back. Hey, remind me of come out to L.A. and have a few laughs. Who was that, they said. That was Scout Leroux Willis from her brand new album. Listen here. That is a song called Woman at Best. Very. Very nice.

I guess I take that back. The album is released by Listen here. It is her self-titled debut album. So guess what? The album also called Scout Lerue Willis. Oh, okay. Self-titled. Self-titled means it's titled after herself.

Yeah, that's what the kids call it. Self-titled. That's right. All right. Well, at least that's what the rumor says. That's what the rumor says. With a computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. Isn't one of their kids named rumor?

Yes, that's the joke, right? Okay, just making sure I heard the joke right. Hey, look who it is. He just wandered in. It's old Tom Merritt. And I say old because he had a birthday yesterday. Happy birthday Tom Merritt. Well done.

How was your birthday? Hey, thanks. You know, it wasn't my fault. Don't give me credit. I just didn't die. No, you didn't. And I'm glad to hear that. But how was your birthday?

Did you celebrate in true L.A. style by, I don't know, going to go into the big Hollywood sign. And I don't know what you do. What do you do? Well, I don't know if it was true L.A. style. But I celebrated by going to my favorite local Korean joint, getting some Dwyng and Mondu and then heading home and having some cherry pie and a glass of wine.

That's fantastic. Wow. That sounds awesome. Yeah. It's pretty great. Especially that pie bit. That's a tomism right there, some pie. It is. Oh, yeah.

It's from the old Twin Peaks lover in you. I had cherry pie, a little late for the, you know, hot coffee, but I did that in the morning, so it was all there. Well, well done. I'm glad that you're here, one year older and wiser and one day more tech savvy, because I'm sure something's going on in technology today that you're already all over. So what is it and why should we care? Oh, well, yeah, there's a ton of stuff going on. And I'm not even sure what Sarah's going to line up for us this afternoon on the show. but I did want to point out that yesterday on the show, we had a couple of good segments that people should check out.

One, Sarah Lamar and I broke down privacy technology protection. So ways to use technology to stop your location from being tracked, stop your medical data from falling into the hands of someone you don't want, being able to keep your data private, you know, turning off certain location tracking, et cetera, et cetera. Uh, so if those are of, of interest to you of concern, which they might be for multiple reasons, uh, then, uh, definitely listen to that show or check out my substack because I wrote it up there as well at tectom. Um, substack.com. Uh, on the lighter side of things, though, uh, Lamar and I reported back from our trip to the whole food store with no cashiers. Oh, my gosh. You guys went together, had a little day date and went and did that. That's fantastic. Yeah, we had a little grocery date. It was super fun. So I have to say it worked disconcertingly well. We go into details on the show, of course, but you do scan something to walk in. We scanned our Amazon apps. They gave you a little QR code. You scan it. You could also just use the same credit card you use on your Amazon account, apparently. You wouldn't even have to pull out your phone.

If you want, you can sign up for their whole palm recognition thing and do that. And because it's whole foods, they know there's some folks who are not comfortable with any of that. So you can just walk in and then do self-checkout. But then you can't do the Just Walkout thing. You actually have to go to the self-checkout thing and scan it like you would at a normal grocery store. But we did the Just Walkout. And, you know, I was putting oranges in a bag and pulling stuff off the shelf and then putting it back. You have to show your ID if you want to get any booze.

So there's a separate section. That was a little awkward where you have to talk to a person. Sure. But then once you're in there, you just pull whatever you want off the shelf. They had the hot bar there. The weird thing about the hot bar, though, you don't pay by weight anymore. You pay by carton size. Oh.

Oh, okay. So as Lamar pointed out, when I put one roasted sweet potato in a bucket, he's like, what do you do it? Fill that thing out. You're paying the same amount. As much as you can fit in this carton, sure. Yeah, yeah. But then when you walk out, unlike the Amazon Go convenience stores, you don't just walk out.

Amazon Go convenience stores, once you're scanned in, you don't have to scan on the way out with the whole food store, I guess because it's bigger. You do have to scan again on the way out the same way you scanned on the way in. But then that was it. And that was the part I found most disconcerting was there was no beep, other than to say your scan was thing in the little gate open. But there was no beep saying, yes, we've confirmed all your charges.

You didn't get to see your receipt yet. You're like, I hope you charged me correctly, I guess. And I didn't get my receipt until four hours later. Oh, geez. That feels like something that should be immediate. Like, you open your email. Yeah, if you find out you got overcharged for something, you could be miles away by the time. Right, right.

Yeah. So Lamar's theory is that Kelly is sitting up there in the booth. looking over all the footage and double-checking to make sure everything is accurate. I wouldn't be shocked if there was something like that going on because Amazon Fresh has the carts that you scan your food as you put it in the cart. It's kind of like carrying self-checkout around with you, and that would occasionally throw up an error of like, hold on, I'm not sure, did you pull something out, all that? I wouldn't be shocked if the Just Walkout technology has little conflicts like that,

that somebody has to review and then, you know, sign off on and approve. But yeah, once I got the receipt, my receipt was perfectly accurate. Everything was on there. Nothing that shouldn't be on there was on there. And Lamar even handled a return, which you may be thinking like, oh, what if there is something wrong? You can do that online. So he had some cookies that were stale.

And he's like, yeah, I want to return these. And they said, great, here's your money back. Just throw them away. You don't have to bring them back to the store. Oh, weird. Just throw them away. if I was Lamar, I'd eat them. Eat the stale cookies?

Yeah, I mean, that's just because I'm weird and bad. I hate throwing away cookies. I can't possibly eat them. I can't possibly throw them away. I can't throw them away. What a world do I live in where I throw things away? So two things strike me. One, I love Lamar.

He's one of my favorite internet personality dudes. I think that's great. And going to the store with him sounds like a delightful outing. Yeah, it's super fun. Yeah, he's great. Number two, it sounds like from this. And I don't know if they're doing this nationally yet, because our local Whole Foods, I don't know if I can go do this or not. Maybe I can. Yeah, it's just two stores

so far. There's one in Glover Park in D.C., Washington, D.C., and the other ones here in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood. So this is, the goal here, I assume, is to do exactly what you guys did, experience this. Have you been asked for feedback or anything so that you can say, well, yeah, it was a little weird that we didn't have any kind of confirmation that everything was good or my receipt came late or whatever? Do you think you're going to get tapped for any of that? info? I only looked at the prices and everything on the receipt. There might have been something on the receipt that said, like, if you'd like to, you know, let us know about your experience. So, yeah, I'm guessing they are collecting that kind of thing. Because the reason I ask is even if

it's like some of it's performative, I could see them doing some more processes that just make people feel better about this new experience. Sure. And these two stores are really a test run of this, both for them adding it to other whole food stores. But, but also for showing it to other prospective clients. Because what Amazon wants to do is what they did with AWS, they want to make a platform that they can sell to all kinds of stores. Yeah. I'm all for this, by the way.

I think this is great. Some people are like, oh, it's like a dystopic, whatever, no, whatever. I want to walk out. I don't want to talk to you. I don't want to have you scan my stuff. Less interaction, the better. Yeah. Let's go.

Yeah. So a lot of times the objections I hear are that. It's dystopian with all those cameras. and granted, a lot more cameras than sensors than you would have in a normal store but you don't think they're watching you at a normal store with video cameras? They are constantly. So I'm not sure that I feel like it's that much different, to be honest.

And the other one is like, oh, it's going to take away people's jobs. From what I can tell, they had plenty of people in there. There were like three people at the door to help people as you came in. You know, in case people, oh, is it your first time? do you know what you're doing? There was obviously the person who had to check IDs to get into the alcohol section. There were people at the hot bar. If you wanted to get like a slice of pizza or something,

you could go up to that section and ask for things that were extra fresh. The butcher shop was still the same. I actually got some chicken wings, talked to the guy there at the butcher shop. So there were lots of folks. And there were also people manning the exits in case you had a problem on exit and also to assist people who are doing the self-checkout, who didn't want to do the just walk out.

Yeah. Well, you know, opinions may differ, but I'll tell you what. Yep. The day we will come where I can walk in, grab my stuff, walk out, and not even think about it. And we're all going to be used to it and we'll do it. It'll be fun. Except for the scanning the phone on the way in, which I guess if I did the palm thing would be even faster. Yeah.

I mean, it really was just shopping. Like, I was just throwing stuff. A few little quirks here and there, like, you know, the bananas were only in bundles of six. I guess the technology doesn't allow for pulling bananas off. I didn't try it either because they had them pretty nicely wrapped. Oh, got the sirens would have gone off. Yeah, yeah. flashing lights.

Right, right, right. You would have been a cleanup on aisle five, Tom. You don't want that. You don't want that. I should have asked. I should have been like, hey, if I just won five, is that possible? Or yeah, but I didn't. Well, it's interesting.

I'm glad that you got the on the ground experience. And I'm looking forward to our, we call it dystopic if you want, but I'm excited for this kind of convenience. I think it sounds great. It really was nice to just be able to like. And here's the other thing. Lamar did this. I did not. They say, just put it in the bags as you go. I didn't trust that. And so I get to the end and I'm like, oh, I guess there really isn't anything. No one's questioning me. So I had to bag all my stuff right before I exit. Yeah, now all that extra time now to bag your stuff. But the next time, I will. I'll just be bagging stuff as I walk through and that'll be extra fast. And what tells me the future we'll always have a human component is this. We've been doing self-checkout now for decades, or at least couple of decades. And self-checkout still has somebody there. Oh, yeah. Like, oh, you're machine jammed. Oh, you, this happened. Oh, it's because of your apples are on sale. Let me

fix that for you. Like, there's always, and they always want to check your bag as you walk away from there. Like the human component stays. I think this will, you're never going to walk in and it's going to be a bunch of robots going, good day, sir. And then you walk out. That's not happening. Yeah. Eventually, the human component will will be used for things that nobody thought you could bother paying a human to do in the past. Like, well, we couldn't possibly do that. That's too, you know, we have to have humans do all these other things. That is generally what automation has led to in the past, which is, you know, we obviously can't just, you know, have people sitting around managing projects. We have to have people computing all of the stuff.

And like, then you got computers and you had, you had freedom to make more positions for other things. Yeah, there was just, there was a lesson in, I know I bring it up a lot, but it always works for me. The Lotus 123 slash Excel world coming and everyone afraid it was going to decimate the jobs in the accounting industry. And the opposite happened, it just did nothing but create more jobs. Like automation sometimes means, oh, the long tedious thing we had to wait for Grandpa to do for six days. Now it can be done in three seconds. So now we can do all this other stuff on top of it. And for good or for ill, you know, people got more jobs.

So I'm not saying that, you know, suddenly there'll be a boom in grocery store hiring. but there'll be people there. It'll always happen. Beating hearts, sweating pores, hairy people, you know, it'll be there. Smelly, sweaty people will always be there. Smelly, sweaty people with beating hearts. It'll be fantastic.

Tom Merritt, speaking of beating hearts, there'll be a bunch of those beating at the same time today at 2 o'clock Mountain Time when we do an episode of the Daily Tech News show. I'm on Wednesdays and I can't wait, and I'm glad Lamar held me a seat because that's fantastic. Anything else going on today with that or anything else you want to mention? before you go. I have a new podcast.

Oh, what? Oh, I may even know about this, but I didn't know what I had launched. Is it out now? It, uh, the, the subscription is available. You can go, uh, sign up in, in the podcast app of your choice. It's on Spotify. It's on Apple, uh, which means it's also on pocketcast and overcast and a bunch of other services.

Uh, it's called a word with Tom Merritt. Uh, you can find it at a word podcast.com. And it is me sitting down. with interesting folks and talking about how they think about stuff because we have so many shows out there that are like tell me what to think including daily tech news show which we actually try not to tell you what to think but we try to explain things right to help you understand what's going on this show will not be that this will be like all right how do we sift through all this information out there how do we think about the world so we've got Lamar Wilson we'll be talking about being a creator I've got professor Dave a doctor I think Dave Broadbeck talking about being a free will. He's a psychologist, professor of psychology. So he'll be talking about free will. I've got Annalie Newitz on talking about categorization, how we categorize ourselves.

And the first episode is coming out tomorrow with Andrew Heaton talking about tribalism. So go check it out. A word podcast.com. That's very cool. I'm excited about that. Congratulations on the launch of that thing. And everybody go sign up and be ready for more of Tom Merritt in your life. Yeah, if I can land him, I want to get this long-time podcaster to come on.

I'll bet Brian, if it would be happy to do it. He'll be thrilled. There may be some talks. You know, the agents are talking. Yeah, let's see. People are having a conversation. Now he hasn't responded to my latest email. He must be busy doing a show.

Yeah, you sent that email while I was podcasting, Tom. Weird. Well, Tom Marriott. It's an occupational hazard, right? Gratz and exciting stuff ahead. We'll see you later this afternoon on the Daily tech news show all right thanks yelp bye see you all right there he goes well there you got you have a nice hint everybody one brian embit perhaps tapped to be on perhaps yes interesting all right we're going to uh get well i don't know who we're getting on today we're about to

we're getting all four because i've been all four of them are in the uh the chat like we're all four of us this thrills me to hear this i don't have a clip for uh No end. Or maybe I do. Nope. I don't. Oh, my gosh. Look at this.

Wait, let me play this first. Where are the hell is it? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the program. One Nicole Spagnolo, who is on the phone right now. We can't believe it. It's happening. Oh, my gosh, Nicole, hello.

Can you hear? Oh, good. You've got tech problems. This is the part I've missed the first. Yeah, I missed this. this. Mark probably up. Hi, how are you? Hi, can you hear me?

Yeah, can you hear us? You can, but you're definitely, I don't think you're on, well, I don't know if you're on the mic. You might have it all packed up. I'm on a speaker mic because Mark has packed everything. That's what I was guessing. Yeah, everything has been packed up. I had a feeling. Also, yeah, you sound okay?

Yeah, you sound fine. Can you hear us as the question? Can you hear us okay? I can hear you. Yeah. Okay, fantastic. It's great to have you back. I hope those kids didn't completely drain you of all life when it came to school and everything. I have gray hair now

I am not kidding Some of that comes naturally But yeah maybe it accelerated Over there at the school I know you worked really hard while you were there So you know It was weird It was a weird and wild experience

Weird wild stuff Speaking of weird and wild Randy Jordan joining us as always Hello Randy Good morning morning stream How are you doing? I'm good for asking I come bearing information

I want to give you just a little bit of backstory in case. I mean, you guys know this, but I want everyone to know this. So, as you know, I spent all my years in higher education studying biology and chemistry. And then when I got out of college, I worked as a chemist for a couple of years. And being a bench chemist, ruined my soul. So I went into a career in communications, which I've had ever since. Because I love biology and chemistry, but there wasn't a place for me in that world, in that field. And nonetheless, I've always maintained this thing where, like, if I see anything questionable, like on the news or whatever that has to do with biology and chemistry, I always go research it.

And I love, I love, like, looking at Google Scholar and stuff to, you know, find out what the hell is going on. So I come today to answer your questions. I have two answers for you about monkeypox. Oh, go. Number one, monkeypox is not a problem. and it's probably not going to be a problem because it's really hard to spread. Yeah. Okay?

Yeah. So we knew this. I think we knew that, though, from, uh, Bobby gave us at least that much back in the day. Bobby did, Bobby did do a science segment on monkey pox. Yeah. Okay, good. You need to know you've got to go wrestle with someone to get this disease. Like it doesn't, it doesn't just, you know, spread like a lot of other viruses.

What if I have to wrestle with a monkey? Yeah, you have to wrestle with a, no, it's casual sex with a monkey. Casual sex with a monkey in a public place. Brian. That's how you get it. Okay. All right. That I can do. Yeah. Number two, and you may already know this, but it needs to be known. There is a freaking vaccine

and it is a solid vaccine. It's called a Giannius vaccine. This thing was developed recently. It was approved only three years ago. There's a whole new generation of vaccines being developed, right? Because of MRNA technology. Sure. Sure.

And this vaccine was designed to treat to prevent both monkey pox and smallpox. They're both part of the same genus. It is a movie. I just want you to know. We've really changed the segment to let's the call.

We have a lot of front-loaded information. Yeah, front-loaded information. We brought this up earlier in the morning stream and then said, we're going to, I guess we'll talk about this some other time. I want you to know, it's everything's okay. It's all good. It's not to be worried about.

Yeah, don't look up pictures of it, though, if you're trying not to panic, okay? Or smallpox or measles or any number of things. Like they're terrible, terrible. Any of the pox. My only stance on the pox thing was at least monkey pox, you see somebody and you go, ah, I don't want that. And then you wear your mask.

I wish COVID had an outward sign. It doesn't, but I wish it. Not that I want it to be worse than it is, but just something on a person. So it's like, oh, they've got COVID. I think we'd feel very different about masks. A little warning, a little heads up. A little something, yeah. All right.

Let's get to our recommendals today. It's really great having to call back. I know you're in various states of trying to get moved and set up and all that other stuff. Yeah, I can't believe how long it's taken to get, like, school ended in May. Yeah, I was going to say. But you guys have been swamped. I mean, now there's a house now, right? It's happening.

Yeah, yeah. If you're not familiar, we're moving to Missouri from Colorado. Tomorrow night is our last night here. We'll see Brian and Tina tonight. Yay. That's so nice. I'm so happy about that. I'm jealous about it.

We're expanding the business. Yeah, we're expanding the business in Missouri. And it's scary and exciting and sad and all the things. Yeah. Now you're going to have to import your weed. Just kidding. That's a joke. Well, they do have their medical is past.

Oh, they got medical, do they? That's awesome. Not that I smoke weed. No, I know. I know. But that's usually a step toward legalization anyway. Everybody wants they go medical. Medical, because there is a lot of medical benefits.

But that's another segment. Yeah. No, there was Friday night benefits for me in Vegas while I was there. Anyway, hey, let's get to these recommendals. What hasn't changed is we like to recommend stuff. We're going to start with Brian like we always do. The order today will be a little bit different. We're going to go with Brian first, then me, then Nicole, then Randy.

And between us and you at home, you're going to find a whole bunch of shit to watch, all right? So that's how it's going to work. I've got to change everything around in quick TMS. No, just kidding. I just stop cussing. Yeah. Oh, you missed that. I've been doing plenty of it.

Don't worry, you'll get a mouthful today. All right, Brian, what do you got? What did you bring? Sure. Mine is a series, a comedy series. And it is full of awkward moments like the one you're about to hear. All right, here we go. What are you selling me?

Okay, I got it. All right. Well, I hail from Cleveland, the birthplace of rock and roll. And if you're looking for, you know, a really good friend who also is very professional, honestly, and loves her job. You know, she's a working, she's a working girl or whatever. Then you should just call me up because I love working and I love to party within reason. And so, yeah, you know who to call for, woo, a friend and co-worker of a lifetime, yeah.

Wow. okay honey you're going to be selling to millions of people and if they're going to buy from you they're going to need to know who you are this isn't a fucking sunglass hut oh my gosh dude i don't know what this is but i love it already what is this yeah this is called i love that for you and uh yeah i actually saved you that that yeah i think scott it's in the same folder i got it right here you guys want to hear it by itself here you go yeah who is that by the way that is Vanessa Bayer yeah Vanessa Bayer or Briar sure that's the other thing I've missed about this segment yeah mispronunciations and spelling right off that yeah

Vanessa Bayer who is as you know from Saturday Night Live people probably remember her as she would do the little Jewish boy on weekend update she does a great Miley Cyrus Riley Cyrus is amazing. Near the end of her tenure on SNL, she did this weather reporter for the news, which was this same kind of weird, awkward character that she plays in this show. She plays a woman who as a child had leukemia, but it always dreamed of working for a home shopping network style thing. SVN is the fictional one in this.

And she really idolized Jackie Stilton, who was played by Molly Shannon. another SNL alumni. She finally gets her chance to audition for this shopping network and gets to meet her idol. But they don't immediately take to her, as you can kind of hear in that clip I play it, until she reveals her cancer diagnosis, which is long past, yet she decides she's going to make it current. And that's the story, basically her telling them that she has cancer is the story of, love that for you. So very awkward hilarious comedy. It's also

got let's see, Jennifer Lewis, who you heard in that clip, talking about the effing sunglasses hut. You know her from Blackish. She's the mom who lives with the family on that show. Oh, I love her. She's great. She's great and she plays the CEO of this

home shopping network. Isn't that the one you always do with Tina's voice? I might know. It's Blackish. It's what's bleakish. Not a lot of other people that you recognize except Jason Schwartzman makes an appearance

not a regular but just pops in a couple times. Paul James Aedian, Mieri. This is on Showtime and so if you've got your Paramount Plus you can tack on Showtime

for free if you're already paying to watch Star Trek you can... I didn't know that. Yep. Look for the double deal. You might have to cancel your Paramount re-launch it with showtime but well we are going to a place that has no internet 1.5 download oh my gosh that's that seems like it's good for people whose entire career is on the internet that sounds wonderful as long as you're not going to a place that doesn't have wood I guess you'll be okay yeah you'll be

fine it'll all work out I'm guessing he's going to run he'll probably run something special to the shop or do something I'm sure shop has fiber our house has 1.5 down okay so it'll just be Your recommendals, it'll be slow and chubby. That's hilarious. All right. So my understanding is that I love that for you was co-created by Vanessa Bear and Jeremy Baylor. Jeremy Baylor being a longtime writer of Saturday Night Live.

Basically, he was a writer at Saturday Night Live for the entire time Vanessa Bear was at Saturday Night Live. I didn't realize that. And so I just like, I just like my first thought was, is this like just a kind of a gross comedy? Is it a dromity? what like it's a it's an awkward dark comedy uh okay uh but not man i mean as you know it just from the subject matter of somebody pretending they have uh cancer there's it's not quite as dark as

something like it's always sunny in philadelphia maybe kind of along the lines of um that nick uh kroll thing the um uh children's hospital was that what it was called one on comedy central that was... I don't remember that. That was adult swim. Was that adult swim? It might have been. Yeah, maybe even a little, yeah,

little, well, not quiet as as constant jokes as big mouth, but but not, you know, certainly not as wholesome as Abbott Elementary but not as dark as, it's always sunny. So there's kind of like that. It is a comedy.

It is a comedy. Yeah, okay. Absolutely. It sounds like one. I do recommend Abbott Elementary because that is an amazing. Ryan recommended it. We watched it. We binged it between the week you mentioned it and the very next episode. And gosh, dang it, we loved it. Some people who did not like it. They bounced. Oh, I'm so glad you watched it. Yeah, I loved it. It was awesome. It scratches that Superstorage for me. Yeah. It was very very sense because the same showrunner. Yeah, yeah. It's weird that you just brought up Superstore because just this morning I was reading this Reddit thread about what, like, the question was like, what show did you start out loving and end up hating? And Superstores. was and like people were talking about how they you know ended up like it failed for them and they stopped watching it or some point and I'm like who are you people yeah it's like very consistent

show it totally is yeah I like that Mark McKinnon character the awkwardness of his character then you'll like this uh the Vanessa Bayer character from from the show so this reminds me this like getting an SNL writer and an SNL performer doing stuff after they both left SNL reminds me of like Adam McCain Will Ferrell or something where they're like going to Yeah, and it's, you know, it's funny because unlike other things like Keenan, which I tried to watch and just couldn't get into, there have been a couple of these other ones where former or current S&L people have done spin-off shows, and they've all been produced by Lauren Michaels. This one surprisingly isn't. Like, it's co-produced by Jeremy Baylor and Vanessa Bayer. and actually by Michael Showalter

who we do know from the state and wet hot American summer oh I love that guy he's great yeah yeah he makes me laugh every time he does anything yeah but no but no no Lauren Michael's involvement on this one

like you usually see it with former SNL no Lauren is old now I actually like I'm starting to see discussions about who's going to replace Lauren like he could retire at any time. Oh, wow. And that's a fascinating little discussion. Like, imagine a show going 50 years. And then you're like, you're Tina Faye and they make you the executive producer of the thing. You're like, geez, the pressure. Oh, he's in his 70s. It'll probably beat Davidson. Yeah. Pete Davidson. Oh, my gosh. Don't let Pete Davidson run SNL. That's a terrible

idea. Don't do it. I'll take that. I don't want that to happen. All right. Well, that sounds awesome. Remind us the name one more time. It's a little bit hard to remember. I love. I love. that for you, and it's on Showtime. All right, very nice. Here is my pick for the week. It's a documentary. I even hinted at it last week, and I ended up watching it. Speaking of Paramount Plus, that's where I found it. Here you go.

Then I said, we've got to lower the price of Genesis. We wanted to make it very competitive against Nintendo. And I wanted us to take on Mario, and so I wanted our best character to be included with the hardware. Nakayama's face toned,

very white, and And he said, what, crazy? Okay, so that is a clip from a documentary called Console Wars. And it is all about the Nintendo Sega showdown of the 90s and those two companies sort of jockeying for leadership positions in video games. And Sega kind of coming up from the bottom and at one point exceeding the sales of the Super Nintendo when the Genesis was at its height. And then they kind of get a little bit into the later sort of continuing growth

of Nintendo and the fall of Sega, which now they're a very successful publisher, but they don't make hardware anymore. And it's all about that time in that era. People's names, people might remember from the Sega versus Nintendo era like Howard Lincoln, the CEO of Nintendo. He's part of this. All of the people that were kind of the movers, the shakers, the CEO, COOs, the Japanese side, the American side, all this stuff are represented. And it's great. If you loved of that thing. If you were into it, if you were part of that, you know, that gaming era, you'll know it was, you know, famous for being kind of the Coke and Pepsi of video games. Totally was, yeah. And how they came up with marketing and who actually came up with the term

blast processing was hilarious to learn, which is total BS. It doesn't mean anything. Really, we get the origin of blast processing. Oh, yeah, yeah. And they, and they go really deep into how the marketing that they chose to do for Genesis and for Sega in general really did make the difference with older players that really pushed Sega to a leadership position at one point. But then they get kind of into, well, Sega and America, Sega of Japan, Sega of America could never get on the same page for anything. They were just like the, they were their worst own enemies. And this gets into that and why that probably alone, the lack of cohesion between the East and the West was why Sega really lost their tread. And whereas Nintendo had a really solid kind of vision

across region so anyway it's very very good it's on paramount plus i really enjoyed it highly recommend it it's called console wars and it was enough for me to resub to paramount plus uh to go so there you go wow you've really spent the big money i did the full five bucks for my first month yeah it's real expensive stuff i also got shuttered this month for reasons i'll talk about on film sack anyway just one one quick question um was this mostly archive stuff or was there a lot of new interviews in this. Oh, almost entirely new interviews and and then mixed with the archive stuff. So, so all of everything that you're getting, um, you know, like like retrospect sort of thoughts and whatever is all coming from these same people, but now. So like Howard Lincoln's

probably pushing 80. Um, and he's, he's, he's, he's sharp as a wit still or sharp as a tax still talking about all the stuff that happened and remembers everything. Like, you're getting all firsthand from, from people who were there. Um, it, um, the, that are still alive, I suppose. And then lots of archival footage as well. So it's a great mix of that sort of stuff. And not sensationalistic. It's really just documentary style telling of the era and the time and what,

you know, what motivated these business people to do what they did and what gaming was like then. Like the idea of releasing, people don't realize this, but Sonic Tuesday, which was famously the day they decided to put Sonic 2 out. They did it everywhere across regions. So Europe, Japan, and America's all,

Everybody got it at the same time. That was unheard of back then. Nobody did that. Everything was staggered. Releases were never the same day. These days, it's normal, totally normal, especially digital. It's just like, boom, it's done. But the hoops you had to jump through, like retail and just making it work back then logistically, total nightmare.

So just learning about that and how it used to be versus how it is now, fascinating. Loved it. Couldn't get enough. So go check it out. That's Console Wars on Paramount Plus. All right, Nicole, I don't have a clip for you, but you put. probably have a link or something. Oh, she put it in the recommendals planning.

Yeah. I missed it. I missed it. Hold on. It's just the trailer. It won't give it away. All right. Here we go. I'm going to play part of this year trailer, everybody.

Check it out. Wait a minute. Here we go. Really, really cool thing that only nerdy people were ever going to be into. 3D printers are on that same kind of arc. We're out to fuel the next industrial revolution. by putting the power to manufacture things in your hand. 3D printing has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything.

Some of the developments that come from the 3D printer might put the first person to create that device on the pedestal of major social innovator. Every day I get inspired by people who have makerbots and are doing amazing things. All right. Tell us more because this looks great. Didn't we talk? I thought we talked about this forever ago. It's been that long that Nicole's been wanting to talk about this. That must be it. Yeah. Because I think you recommended it, didn't you, Brian?

Uh-uh. I don't think I did. No, because I haven't seen it. Oh, I know who did. It was Bill. Bill Durand talked about it years ago. That's what it is. Oh, right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's interesting is this is, this was made in 2014. So the documentary, it's on Netflix. It's called Print the Legend. I couldn't show this to my students, because it gets into some, I mean, they could have watched it. Doldows or something? Yeah, they're printing weeners.

Well, because it's TV 14, I found out you can't show anything but G movies to kids in school unless they're older, like you can do a PG or like a PG movie, but you have to get their parents' permission. So I had to do indoor recess a lot, so I learned all these little things. So I could not show this to them, but I did tell them about it. It is interesting to me how much time has passed, and things are kind of still in the same place. There's still some really cool stuff. Prusa, which is my favorite manufacturer of printers, isn't even mentioned in this,

but they've kind of taken, I feel like, the whole printing industry, kind of by storm. For sure, the affordable print industry at least. And they just work. Like, I kind of hate MakerBot because they have cornered the education market and they make really terrible printers. And half the time, these brand new teachers that are getting into 3D printing, they're like, what am I doing wrong? I'm like, it's not you, it's the printer. And it's like, it's 20% up and 80% down most of the time for them.

I'm sure somebody will tell me otherwise because they have such a large line printers. But the ones I, you know, from the teachers I've talked with, MakerBot, I mean, they've pushed forward the industry. They're just, they're not where I would want to buy a printer at this point. So did you, did you with the kids or at school get into any of like the resin printer? stuff or any of that sort of thing? Oh, no, that's too toxic. You've got to have gloves. Yeah, breathing like it's cleaners and all of that. We just stuck with the additive layering. I had, with the help of a fellow tadpole member, we got two Prusa minis. And then I did this thing where there was a big fad that was going around, the dragon.

Did you see the dragon? Oh, yeah, the one, the super flexible, like, what is that called? Multi-Ratigin dragon. Ritigir, I think, is his name. McRibir, I think. Like, McRober or McIver. Like, it's a play on McGuiver, and it's like McBeer or something like that. He's from Spain, and he's an amazing design.

and I actually reached out to him and I said, hey, I absolutely love your designs. I'll pay for your, your designs, but I really want to use these in my 3D print store as a fundraiser to help keep this program going at the school. And he's like, yeah, sure. I made almost $4,000 in these prints. That's awesome. Those things are so cool. I was able to single-handedly fund the,

program at the school with all the little dragons and kitty cats and dogs like the kids could not get enough of it yeah they're like slinkies you know where you pick them up and you can't put them down you just you know got to keep playing with them so it was just amazing to me and then with the fifth graders i actually taught them how to design and tinker cad and we made just spinners and we made bookmarks, and we did, you know, self-watering plant holders. And it was just so much fun. And then we printed them. And so I got to expose, like, a ton of kids to thinking this way.

And then we, it was actually a really good kind of the history of 3D printing on YouTube that I was able to show them. And we got to see houses being built. And, like, the bio stuff is really. wild like the skin 3D printing skin stuff like that so who knows the seeds I planted but I was just really excited to do it

and if you're interested in video printing the documentary is really good it kind of paints a Brie in a not so good light you kind of the innovators are always weirdos it's been my experience

yeah there's a lot of A cut fort going on with makeup. Nicole, I just heard you say if you're interested in, what if I'm not interested in 3D printing? Is this still like a really good documentary to watch? That's a great question. Well, I think so because it gives you, it might be too much in the weeds. I mean, if you're really not interested in no.

But I really think 3D printing eventually we're going to see it in more of the industries, the fact that you can just prototype something like, have an idea you design it you print it like and the market to getting a printer now is like you got 400 bucks you can go buy a Prusa mini or heck you could get a Ender 3 pro for $100 for micro center yeah that's a decent it's a really decent 3D printer too yeah so that's cool I meant to watch it never did 3D printers what were you saying I just said I never watched it I was meant to watch this now I feel it's not too late I'm not going to feel like oh this tech is so old now newer, you know, everything's new.

And that's what was surprising to me that it was 2014. All of the information is still pretty relevant. They've missed the last, you know, what, eight years or so. Sure. Because things are getting so much cheaper and it's, and better. And I'm curious to see where resin printing goes because that's really detailed. Yeah, the stuff Brian does, the stuff Brian does on his resin printer blows my effing mind. It's so incredible the quality.

This is the, I don't know how well you can see it, but it's Spider-Man noir that I don't think they can see it because they're on Discord, but it's a beautiful, I mean, the stuff he sent me, the Batman bust and all that, it's absolutely gorgeous, that stuff. Can you do multiple colors or only one color, Brian? At a time? Yeah. Because I can change the resin and do. Well, all right, so somebody figured out a way that you can actually put two colors of resin in the vat and it'll, it'll kind of marbleize or it'll if you don't mix them

then it'll kind of do two color printing but you don't have any control of saying like oh yeah make the eyes green and make the hair black or something like that. I'm fascinated with the multicolored one. I was on the wait list for the Prusa XL

because you can have up to five different filaments on it at a time. like oh my god and it's absolutely huge and i was like all right this is too much for me i'm gonna cancel that and just get an mk3 well with a with five you could 3d print your own classroom full of kids it'd be amazing yeah little little miniatures of them so i love it check it out available now this uh is streaming of course still on netflix so it'll always be there uh randy let's fly over to you here i've got a clip here from you anything to set up before i play it uh yeah

So ever since, like, months and months and months ago, I sent you a clip that had music at it, and then you got a strike on YouTube. I have, I have been only pulling clips where people are talking and there's no music. So this is, this is from a limited series. It's a very short series. It's brand new. It was amazing. Probably my favorite TV series of the last year. I'm not sure about that yet.

Oh, wow. But in this clip, which is right at the beginning of the first episode, we have a, a man. who is an incredibly successful chef and has moved home to take over his dead brother's restaurant and is dealing with all of the mayhem of that. And a brand new employee who is also a chef walks in and tries to get his attention. All right. Here we go. Hi.

Hello. Hi. I'm Sydney. I called about the supposition. I'm saging today. Right. I'm sorry. Yes.

Yeah. Carmi. Um, here, you can be. Yes. Thank you. Uh, linear smoke, a vect, that's some serious heat. What's UPS? That's in Chicago?

Uh, United Parcel Service. Shit. That's the UPS. Yeah. What'd you do for them? Drove. Pinned my way through culinary school, so. CIA?

Yeah. Okay, so what are you doing here? You know, this was my dad's favorite spot when I was a kid. When I was a kid. Come here every Sunday. Special place. Good. Um...

Okay. So, you know the drill? You're gonna make family. It's meat, plus three, and we eat around two. Yeah, heard. Dope. Cool. What's up? Can I just, like, ask you a question maybe? Of course, yeah.

I know who you are. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I mean, you're a question. I mean, you're the most excellent CDC at the most excellent restaurant in the entire United States of America. So what are you doing here, I guess? Making sandwiches. So this is that bear thing, isn't it? Yes, yes, that is the bear.

And it is incorrectly, and I mean incorrectly described as a comedy everywhere you find it listed. It is absolutely not a comedy. what you just heard was the only joke in the entire series. I made sure of that. I'm glad that you capture that because that's been one of my big struggles. Kim's been watching this and it just seems intense and hardcore. It doesn't seem like a comedy to me at all. I see some places it described as comedy.

Other places it's just described as 30 minutes of screaming. It is serious drama. Yes, it is very intense. Again, it's about a young man who arose to the level of being one of the most acclaimed chefs in the world and then found himself moving home to Chicago to take over the restaurant that his brother had been running and his brother killed himself. And so this guy steps into a world of difficulty, like every kind of difficulty you could have in his situation. And it is so beautifully made. It's by a creator named Christopher Storer, who has made some other things, has directed some comedy specials, has, he directed a show called Rami. It's so well made that I've shocked this guy is only just now, you know, coming to, coming to light as a creator.

Like the cinematography, again, the music, like I say, I had a hard time not catching music because they licensed so much music. that you know like the very first episode ends with um a pearl jam song and it is uh it like used so perfectly it's another one of those things like garden state where you're like wow they really picked the perfect song for this moment yeah i'm um can you tell me about like i saw a scene where this chef guy has one of the most realistically portrayed panic attacks i've ever seen on screen Jeremy Allen White, you will know him as Lip from Shameless. He has no business being this good, you guys. I didn't know he was such a serious actor until now.

He is suddenly up there, like he had just like, he has just leapt into the ranks of like Ewan McGregor and like this kind of like level of ability. He embodies this character with like I've never seen in a while at least. And yes, he goes through all kinds of emotions and all kinds of moments in this, in this series. I'm kind of shocked that it's eight episodes. They're only, they're only like 22 minutes long each. I'm, because there's so much packed in here, it could have been more. And I, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a season two, but there doesn't need to be. It's a complete story.

It's a fantastic little story. It's all about characters. And so, like, I can't really explain to you, like, yes, it's a drama. but I don't really know what to compare it to because you're going to meet each of these different characters. They're coming in along like that woman who is talking to him and trying to get a job here. And they all have their own stories and they're all intermingling. And at the same time, this series is a love letter to the city of Chicago. I can't overstate that enough.

This is like someone who has been living and breathing Chicago, their entire lives, decided, I want the rest of the world to see this city. And so it's like the interstitials in this show never stop. It's tons and tons of looking at the city of the main character standing on the shore, looking at the sunrise, you know, with Chicago behind him and so on. It's like, and it makes Chicago really look like something. Like I, you know, I've been to Chicago many times. I know that city.

I've never really thought about Chicago as like a place where I just want to go be. until this show like it's really that like powerful and how it's created so the only consensus i've seen across the board everyone i know who's watched it and said anything to me including this conversation we're having now and people in reviews and things while it's it seems to be reviewing well all of them agree this shouldn't have a comedy label so why does it why is it on there like is it to is this for award season because you'll have an easier time or so i don't know how it works but it just seems odd that you would call, you know,

it's like saying Fury Roads or romantic comedy. It's just, it just doesn't fit. It doesn't fit. I don't know. I honestly, I can't explain that. There are moments of comic relief,

but like, I don't know, the, like any series, any series, like super dark, like they have moments of comic relief, right? I mean,

would you call strangers things of comedy? Yeah, but it's like from the clips I've seen and teen watched this and loved it. And I came in a couple times while she was watching it. The comedy isn't like, hey, we're, you know, here's a joke. Here's another joke. Or here's a funny response from somebody.

It's, uh, wow, this, this shop actually runs like this. And oh, my God, the, the, the situation that he's kind of stuck in with having to, you know, get out these hundreds of sandwiches out to this, uh, this client kind of thing. But you know what I mean? Like, like Ozark has moments of comic relief, right? And you would never call it a comedy. So, like, that's just, that's just all shows, it seems. That's true. I mean, Breaking Bad has moments of comedy relief.

Oh, my gosh. Breaking Bad, like, every episode. There's something, yeah. It's like ludicrous. And you might laugh out loud, but it's not a comedy. So anyway, like, the main thing here is the characters in the city, and they're really beautifully interwoven. It is very intense.

Like, if you don't like shows where people scream at each other, stay away from this this is this is some of the most character conflict i've seen in a long time you know yeah well i'm my wife is really she's enjoying it but she's also very she can't do with long stretches of it she has to watch like an episode and then do something else because it's intense and the way it's filmed is very intimate the cameras are like right up in your face and a lot of movement and especially when there's like a slammed moment at this restaurant it's chaos like it would be in a real a real situation but it's so much that i had to kind of like go man What are you doing in here?

How's this comedy going? I hope you sit down and watch it, Scott. It's less than three hours long. You can binge this thing. And I want you to look for something that just blew my mind. This series, it's eight episodes, it starts out kind of dark, like visually dark. And with each episode, it gets a little bit more bright and a little bit more white and clean. And it's something that, like, I wonder if that is something you couldn't have done at

a certain time in the past, because no one would have noticed if they were only watching one episode a week, you know? Yeah. Well, that's interesting. Yeah, it's just amazing. It's called the bear. There's these artistic qualities that are just mind-blowing. And it's the bear. Is that correct?

It's called the bear. That is a very esoteric name for this thing. You will, at the end of the whole thing, you will understand why it's called that. But it is not called, the the bear as a name is not really significant. Okay, and nothing to do with the Chicago Bear,

or any of that it's not exactly that's the thing like oh I wish they hadn't called it that yeah yeah they should have called it like Nicole says duh bears and uh yeah you're all set all right well all of these things will be coagulated and posted all over the internet by uh Randy maybe even Nicole I don't know if you're getting back to that yet probably not I'll I'll do it too you need to move once you get moved this will all be easier but you know whatever once I get internet because uh I don't know what I'm going to be able to do this again right You can't do it from the shop? Well, we don't have the shop yet.

We're still closing on that. I might be able to do this from my car. I have an internet in my car. Sweet. That's fine. Do it from your car. I'll test it out. But if I can't, I wanted, I had recommended a long time ago a show on HBO Max called Made for Love.

Oh, yeah. I remember that. The second season came out and I binge watched it. it, and I loved it. So if you are looking for a sci-fi comedy, dramedy show, Ray Romano, isn't it? I like Ray. There's not going to be killed it after season two,

but it was a decent ending, so I don't feel bad recommending season one and season two. All right. A little extra there, a little bonus in case we don't see you next week, but maybe we will. We don't know. Maybe for love. Well, it's great having you both on.

and check them out randy deluxe on twitter nicole spag on twitter uh you'll also find this in our discord and all the other places of the tadpole group on facebook and so on and so forth yeah may you both have a ms dot la have a fantastic rest of your beautiful day thanks god and good luck to both of you by now i'll have to remove two people at once it's kind of hard there we go oh yeah who do you move first how do you choose who to get rid of first out of this it's hard right i don't know i don't know what i should just hung up on everybody and start it over i don't know faster to do that. So real quick here,

just speaking of things that we'd seen and then a new season came out and then we kind of follow up on them, I'd recommend that Love on the Spectrum. Oh, yeah, yeah. There were already two seasons

set in Australia and it's a reality show about these autistic kids learning how to date and deal with relationships and all this. And I shouldn't just say kids. There's adults in it as well.

But anyway, their season three hit, it's a, it's a U.S. It's based in the U.S. with the same showrunners, directors, all that, or not writers, but people doing it. It's awesome.

I love that show. It is heartening in all the right ways. I want to be around these people. I loved it. That's cool. Yeah, we just finished up watching the last season of Killing Eve, which I've recommended before. They stuck the landing on that one.

I thought it was a really satisfying ending. Nice. And the most recent season of Breeders, if you ever wanted to see, Bilbo from the Hobbit movies, Martin Freeman. If you ever want to see him just get angry and scream at his kids, sadly. That's a great show for that. It actually is really, really good, and there's some amazing heartfelt moments in that. He doesn't hit his wife with a ball peen hammer in the head.

He never does that, fortunately. It also stars Daisy Haggard. Again, I've recommended this before, but the newest season just wrapped up. and um okay uh daisy haggard uh was on that that matt leblanc show called extras or not extras um episodes episodes where her only job was to make faces in pitch meetings and she's great she is great and hearing her like she has got some amazing comedy chops like she is hilarious that's great yeah that's all like in episodes that was kind of just her making faces but that's good that was all she did yeah it was just like that show was bad

better than it should have been. It really was. All right. Well, there you go. That's it for today's program. If you'd like to tune in tomorrow, good, because we'll have stuff. We'll have Amy here. I don't know about Wendy because I'm not sure when she gets back from Iceland or wherever she

is right now, Finland, somewhere near Russia, which makes us all nervous. Anyway, I don't know when that'll be. It could be tomorrow. It may not be tomorrow. If it's not tomorrow, it'll be next week. But whatever, tomorrow, full Thursday, full of fun. So check us out and come back then and hang out. with us. In the meantime,

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Hey, hey, hey, Brian, play a song. Hey. Oh, you know, I'll tell you about one quick thing. Oh, yeah, go ahead. The judging for the full interviews. So our contestants on America's Next Top Podcast are interviewed folks like Will Wheaton and Stephen Toblowski and oh I'm having a hard time remembering the the Phillies announcer guy but anyway they interviewed those all those folks well now you get

to hear the judging so you'll find out who's going home that episode just went up at america's nextop podcaster.com perfect now now a song yeah yeah dean wrote in said dear scott and brine it's my mom's 71st birthday this week and she loves rogers and Hammerstein musicals, our Hammerstein musicals, her favorite being The Sound of Music. I was wondering if you could play a cover of a song from this musical classic. For the woman who gave me life and put up with my nonsense over the years, love the show, though, Signed Dean. Also wanted to give a shout out to Jordan M for his late buddy, Andrew, and to the folks

who are celebrating an anniversary. Couldn't get everybody's request in. I'm going to try and fit them in in July on days that we don't. have requests so we had a bunch of stuff all queued up for june 29th and i couldn't get everything i couldn't even get it couldn't even get one song that fit two or three you know two or three of them so uh so we're going to go with the song from the sound of music how about my favorite things it's one of the most famous songs from the sound of music but how about a rock version this is by the brooklyn run funk orchestra uh orchestrada this is from a tribute to the sound of music called

the hills are alive this thing came out in twenty 11, and it's absolutely amazing. The Brooklyn Run Funk Orchestra, it's such a bad name. Come up with something that's easier to say, guys. Cover the whole album, but they did each song in a much different style. And it's good for people who love that soundtrack or people who kind of couldn't deal with that soundtrack. This is my favorite things. It's by that band that I kept saying the name about i'm not going to say it again uh from the hills are alive all right we'll see you guys tomorrow Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Brown paper packages tied up with string These are a few of my sleeper mittlings Yeah Green colored ponies and crisp apple strudels Dumbels and sleigh bells and schnitzer with noodles Wild geese that fly with the moon on These are a few of my favorite things When the door fights

When the bee stings When I'm feeling When I'm still in sight Simply remember my favorite things And then I don't feel So bad I don't feel so bad You know what

I got a few more Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Silver white winters that melt into spring These are a few of my favorite things Went from coalites Went from these things When I'm feeling

When I'm feeling sad Simply remember my favorite things And then I don't feel And then I don't feel so Don't feel so bad Remember my favorite things I'm going to be. I'm going to be.

I'm going to be. I'm going to be. Please, please, please have you got to remember, please, please are a few of my favorite things. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network Get more shows like this at frogpants.com Give my regards to King Todd asshole. Jeez.