The Morning Stream - TMS 2318: Hey Bird Dogs

Episode Date: July 13, 2022

Catches fleas just like flies. South Pahk The Cah. Doing Edibles In The Van With Shaggy. Kirkland Brand Buffalo Wild Wings. Knowing All the Prominent Korean Families of the Valley. Tony Shalhoub, bless you. Two Open-Faced Chicken Things. If Charlise Throws Up, I'll Be Excited. From Chunks To Cream. The Elon's Musk be Crazy. Tom's Twisted Twitter Tales. Everyone in Hamilton is dead. Don't Be Doing It In London! Gross Kitchen. You won a Birthday. Recommental Musicals with no singing 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, catches fleas, just like flies. South Pack the car. Doing edibles in the van with shaggy. Kirkland brand Buffalo Wild Wings. Knowing all the prominent Korean families in the valley. Tony Shaloo, bless you. Two open-faced chicken things. If Charlize throws up, I'll be excited.

From chunks to cream. The Elon's must be crazy. Tom's twisted Twitter tales. Everyone in Hamilton is dead. Don't be doing it in London. Gross kitchen. You want a birthday. Recommmental musicals with no singing with Randy and Nicole

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The morning street The morning stream, the morning stream, the morning stream. Welcome to the morning stream. Welcome to the morning stream. It is Wednesday, July 13th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi. Hello. It's Wednesday. How do you feel about Wednesday? It's Wednesday, the 13th, Scott. And you know what that means? It means absolutely nothing. Say it again. Okay. Say it again. War. Do do, do, do, do. All right. Hey, welcome to the show, everybody. It is Wednesday. I mean, recommendals later. We got Tom. We got all kinds of fun stuff. So park your butts and get ready because it's going to be great. I do have to tell you a brief story that confuses me. It flummoxed me. I need help. I need advice on why this was or what the trend is. We noticed the other night, okay, so at first I need to admit to a guilty moment. Kim and I got a little peckish one night and we're hungry. We're just like, oh my gosh, we ate already. Why did we want to eat again?

She's like, well, it's because we were out with the dogs and it was hot all day and we were tired. And I think we were just a little underfed for the day. So she's like, you know what? Let's just get something quick. I'm like, all right, fine. Open up DoorDash. We're like, what's easy, what's cheap? What's, what's just something, something small, something to get us by.

That was the mood we were in. So we do this. We open it up and we notice there's a bunch of new names in there. Like, oh, what's this place? It says it's only like 0.8 miles away. It's called bird dogs. What's that? And I thought, well, that sounds all right.

What do they got? Oh, they got these big open-faced chicken sandwich things and they got this like other stuff. And it's like a new name and it's very close. I'm like, I didn't even see that pop up. Interesting. Maybe we should try them. and it wasn't just then there were like a handful of other names that we'd never heard of before that were just suddenly existing and we thought oh wow really look at the booming you know

trade going on here in the in the restaurant business here locally I just couldn't believe it oh no yeah I'm predicting I think I know what's going on but I'm gonna I'm gonna let you finish all right because when you because you maybe you'll have a good answer for this because I don't so here's what happens we ordered the bird dogs thing or whatever I may have that name not exactly 100% right it's something like that i think that's right because we have birded on here do you okay so that might be it so we order that and ding dong the bell rings like 20 minutes later go grab the bag the bag on the side has a big giant buffalo wild wings logo and i'm like oh did we get the wrong well let's look inside so we opened it up and inside are these two open-faced chicken things

like we ordered. Okay. It's exactly correct. This place doesn't exist. It's Buffalo Wild Wings using a different name to get other stuff. So you can go to Buffalo Wild Wings on the app and get food from them. That's not a problem. But there's like these Ghost Rider stores. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. I've never heard of that. That's weird. Either use their kitchen or just are different, like a same thing, different brand. Well, it could be. that it could be the kitchen right could be like yeah like you said i think i had heard of that where they'll lease because crumble was that for a while before they started opening up spaces uh crumbled cookies right like they were um you know they were just uh mockingbird mockingbird restaurants that would go

into other restaurants kitchens and cook cookies or bake cookies so that's the thing where what the other restaurant leases the kitchen just says yeah i think so yeah okay um that's not what i was expecting because like you, I opened up, uh, well, I opened up a food delivery service, but I opened up an app that I haven't opened in a long time because we wanted, uh, cup pop. Oh yeah, cup pop up. Oh, yeah. Hold on a second. There's, Alexa, stop. Stop it already. The F is wrong with you. Uh, so we had the Moors over last night to do puzzle pint. It was squid game theme this month, which was awesome. And we said, oh, well, let's get cup bop.

I haven't had it. Clark loves cup bop because they had a restaurant downtown that he would always go to. So I'm like, all right, well, look in DoorDash. Oh, it's not in DoorDash. Look in Grubhub. Oh, not in Grubhub either. Okay, well, I'll just Google search cupbop delivery. And upcoms Uber Eats.

And it's like, oh, I have a Uber Eats account. I haven't used it since like, you know, 2019 or 2020 or something. But let's go ahead and fire that up. So I open up my app. I log in. And I'm seeing a bunch of restaurants that I don't recognize. I'm like, oh, my gosh, there's all these places that we could order from Uber Eats. It hadn't figured out where I was in the world yet, Scott.

So these are all restaurants in Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri. Oh, that's no good. although I bet the barbecue was real good while you were briefly in the Kansas City. It looked really good in there. I'm like, oh, wow, very cool. And then finally it blinked off for a second and then came back up and said, here are restaurants near you. And there was cup pop. We got cup pop. I got the combo bop, which was the fried chicken and beef combo. It was damn good. And I went with a five. Oh, that's what that's daring actually. Five's a little hard. You know, it goes from zero to ten. And I was thinking, all right, well, let's try five. Five was. was I could probably go a seven and still be fine. Five was like, oh, I feel there's a nice little bit of heat. Tina did a two. And she's like, wow, is this hot for anybody else?

Yeah. I'm like, it's not hot for me. Yep. I guess it just depends on your, I usually go a four. I've done a five before. It's a little hot for me on a five. But yeah, it's, they're great. I love those little glass noodle things in there.

Yes. Yes. And so you get the cup, Cop-bop? What was it? Cock. It's spelled. Coco-bop is how it's pronounced, but it's spelled K-K-A, K-K-A with a dash. Okay, I think.

It's a weird way of saying it. But I like that one because it's like marinated chicken. It's better than Cockabop. Yeah. And I'm trying to avoid like fried chicken. Kim likes the fried chicken one. I forgot the name of that. Maybe it's the one you got with the combo.

It's the one I get well as Rockbop is if you just want the chicken. We just want the chicken. But if you want the combo of the chicken and the beef, then it's the combo bob. Yeah. But if they're ever. Listen, everyone listening, if you got a cup up in your area, they started here as a food truck and then just sort of exploded and then spread all over the place. What's funny is, so you know, you know, like half my family's Korean, adopted Korean siblings. My brother Matt, who just knows every prominent Korean family in the valley.

It's the weirdest thing, how he knows them all. And part of it is because he works for UPS and does a lot of traveling around. and so he sees these people when they see each other like, oh, fellow Koreans, hey, let's get to know you, and whatever. And he would take a lot of stuff to various cupops. Ended up getting to know the owners and can go there and eat free anytime he freaking wants.

Wow. Because he's Korean. Who's the racist now? Right, exactly. Yeah, that seems a little racist. Yeah, anyway. Like a white restaurant that only gave discounts to white people? People would be up in arms about that.

Freak out, wouldn't they? Anyway, but it's really good, and I would highly recommend it if you have it in your town. There seem to be spreading pretty quick, so I don't know if that's good or bad, but I really like him a lot, so there's that. I mean, a white restaurant in a foreign country that gave discounts to white patrons probably wouldn't be as big a deal as it would be here. Yeah, you do not here. I feel like, well, I don't know, but it probably would be a big deal anywhere if I had to guess. I don't know. like all right so you go to uh you go to you go to south korea and there's an american restaurant run by

americans and they're like oh hey american yeah no problem we'll give you it would tell you what what do you want we'll just it's on the house race you want a cheeseburger you want uh loaded fries i could see that sure yeah yeah it's some small place where you're the absolute minority then you start then the tables turn a little bit exactly and it makes sense yeah but don't be doing this in like london or here i would be right a little bit a little bit a little bit a little bit It's sketchy. Or Australia. I don't do any of that.

But it's fantastic. Welcome to our American restaurant. Yeah. Hope you enjoy. Every purchase comes with a handgun. Purchase. Every patches. I like the way he said Purchase.

Oh, speaking of which, a bunch of photos leaked from the Mad Max set for the new movie. Oh, I'm losing it. I'm losing my mind. Oh, my goodness. I'm losing my mind. So there's shots of Chris Hemsworth not looking like Chris Hemsworth at all. I don't know who he's playing. Oh, really?

Looks nothing like him. he's got like I don't know what I don't know I don't know anything about it I can only speculate what they're what they're doing but um it also leaked around the same time these photos came out and there's a bunch it's a combo of things like there's a kind of warboy looking person and a bunch of I don't know they look like a shamanistic something it's really hard to tell no no sign of Furiosa herself a big eye no on you Taylor joy not yet not in these shots no joy in mad maxville yeah but apparently the other the other Hemsworth brothers are in this somehow. I don't know.

Oh, really? I don't know what they're doing. They make an appearance in a in, uh, in, uh, gas town where they're putting on a play based on the events of, of, uh, Thunderdome is what they're doing. The MCU just cannot spread far enough, you know? So anyway, so I, these pictures are amazing, but one of the, the details that leaked out about it is that the movie,

unlike Fury Road, which takes place over three days, uh, this movie takes place over 15 years. Uh, this movie takes place over 15 years, which is very weird. Oh, interesting. Unusual, right? Like, I worry a little of that breaks up your frenetic, your frenetic actions. Does the movie take place or are they just flashbacks? That's a good question.

I don't know. All I know is it's, all I know is they've been cagey about it, so I'm not 100% sure about this, but Charlize Theron is apparently not in it at all. But they say that, and I don't know if I believe them, because they've said this about other things before and they lie because they want you to be surprised in the movie theater. Oh, Infinity War is a standalone movie, not a part one of a two-part series. Yeah, exactly. My guess is, oh yeah, that was one of the biggest lies ever told in film.

I'm glad they did it, though, because if they would have said it was a part one, we would have been expecting a cliffhanger ending. And the fact that we got all the way up to the end and like, oh, my God, they just wiped out half the Marvel universe. Yeah. I'm being sued in part two is like, okay, all right. Yeah, super, super, I'm glad they did it the way they did. Yeah, and I will be glad if I suddenly, Charlize shows up, throws up.

If she throws up, I'll be really excited. Oh, sweet. Woo, she threw up. Anyway, who knows much more? We don't know much more, but it's happening. So anyway, long and short of it is, I think there's a bunch of stealth, stealth restaurants pretending to be other restaurants. Okay, so just be careful, know what you're doing. So that explains why I've seen Bird Dog, too.

So they're just camping out in the Buffalo Wild Wings that literally is two blocks south of me. Yeah. And they're either not real and it's just Buffalo Wild Rings spreading. You know, think about it. If you're trying to maximize your attraction on there, it might make sense for people to go, I don't want to go Buffalo Wildlings, but boy, does this look good? And that turns out it's from the same place. It just seems a little disingenuous because the bag shows up with the wrong logo on it.

I don't know. I don't know what to make of it. Right. Why not why Buffalo Wild Wings? Why don't you just add open face chicken sandwiches to your me? J.C. Calhoun found a Wikipedia article about virtual restaurants. Ah, there we go. Okay. Let's see. Specials on online deliveries via Uber Eats, other similar services.

It's a warehouse like a parent's not typical. So basically it's just a place where they make stuff and ship it out under different names. I still doesn't explain the Wild Wings thing, but I don't know. That's fine. You know, it's fine. If the food's good, I don't care. Whatever. Ghost kitchen versus a ghost restaurant.

Right. Different things. So ghost restaurant, yeah, is the warehouse deal. And then Ghost Kitchen is professional food preparation cooking facilities set up for the preparation of delivery-only meals. Some ghost kitchens have allowed takeout meals or included drive-thrus. So it just might be Buffalo Wild Wings' gross kitchen. And I guess we won't be getting a sponsorship from Buffalo Wildlings. Nope, that ain't happening.

Although, I would gladly discuss it with them if they were interested, because I like Buffalo Wildlings. Anyway, there's that. Hey, let's talk about some of those Emmy nominations that happened yesterday. There's some good ones. I mean, this is good because a lot of the stuff, it's like, you know, our tastes are finally rubbing off on the Emmy of the Television Academy. Because now. Finally, after all this time, it feels like it does actually feel that way. Plus, somebody you know might have actually voted for a lot of these.

That's right. I forgot about that. How do you know if you're like, does it feel like your... Well, there is a lot of overlap in the Venn diagram. I'm looking at like, you know, Outstanding Comedy Series. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I mean, these, I would have chosen these as well. So here's your nominees for, what's this?

This is for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Oh, jump back one to go to Outstanding Comedy Series. So we got Abbott Elementary, Barry. That one's a tricky one given this season, but whatever. Yeah. Curb your enthusiasm, hacks, only murders in the building, Ted Lassau, Marvelous, Miss Maisel, and what we do in the shadows. If you were to pick one right now and walk away with it. Oh, geez.

I do shadows, personally. That's what I do. Yeah, as far as what makes me laugh the most. Yeah, let's do it that way. This is outstanding comedy, so what makes you laugh? the hardest. Only, what we do in the shadows is of all those. Like if you said, you can only watch one one comedy series from now on that's in this list, then I would go what we do in the shadows. Kirby enthusiasm still makes me laugh. I agree with you. Barry, Barry is so teetering on the edge of

this list as far as belonging here, but I did vote for it. I mean, I mean, somebody you know did vote for it. Yeah, and I did laugh in it. I mean, they're definitely funny moments. Freaking, no-ho Hank is always funny. I say in a surprising upset, Ted Lassau will not win this category, but Haxx will win this category. Oh, I've heard good things about Hacks. Thanks to the brilliance of Gene Smart.

Well, she's great. She is. I like Gene Smart. She is smart. She was accurately labeled that Gene Smart. She was really good in Fargo season 2. All right. Yeah. Now you got your outstanding lead actor in a comedy series.

You got your Donald... They don't have photos up yet. That's funny. Oh, really? Unless I'm blocking them somehow. I don't know how I would be. You might be blocking them because I'm looking at it. photos.

Oh, weird. They're all just blanks for me. Anyway, Donald Glover for Atlanta, Bill Hader for Barry, Nicholas Hout for the Great. I think that's a great. That's a good one. Good poll. Steve Martin for only murders in the building. Martin Short for only murders in the building.

And Jason Siddakis for Ted Lassow. My guess is on this one, you give it to Bill Hater. I'm going to predict Steve Martin for only murders in the building. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. Most of these are, hold on a second. All of these are streaming.

Every one of these are streaming originally. Every single one of these are streaming, as was the Abbott Elementary, was that ever offered terrestrily? That's a fox thing or something, isn't it? I think so, but it's, I don't actually know. Yeah, don't know. I watched it streaming. What happened here? This is weird.

Okay, next category. I mean, this is, for once, like, all of the major categories, I can, T, and I can say, oh, we watch all of these shows. There's not one in this we're saying, oh, yeah, I don't know that one. Maybe it's one we need to check out. But it's like, oh, yeah, no, we watch all of these. Here's your actresses. Rachel Brosnahan for The Marvelous Miss Maisel. She's great.

Quinta Brunson for Abbott Elementary. I like her. She's also co-creator, right? I think. Yes. She's on a good year. Along with the woman who plays the principal. Yeah, yeah.

The ride. She's great. I know some people are annoyed by her. I think she's great. Yeah. Kaylee Kuko for the flight attendant. Ellie Fanning for the Great. I would love to see her get it.

Issa Ray for Insecure and Gene Smart for hacks. I'll bet Gene Smart gets it. It's my guess. I think so. Yeah. Let's see here. We got for your supporting, outstanding supporting actress in a comedy. Anthony Oh, I'm sorry. I keep reading that bottom thing. It's his actor.

Anthony Kerrigan for Barry, sweet dude Frank, no, or Hank, noho. Noho Hank. Woo-hoo! Love him. I hope you. I want him to win. I probably won't, but I want him to. I love him. Let's see. Brent Goldstein for Ted Lasso. Red Goldstein, by the way, just put

in this Herculean effort for Ted Lassau this most recent season. He's great. He's fantastic. Love him. This podcast is good, too. Let's see. Toheeb Jammot for Ted Lassau. That's, isn't that, what's his name?

The young upstart used to clean the place and now he's a co-op, whatever's name is, Kenny. Nick Muhammad for Ted Lassow, Tony Shalub, bless you, by the way. Thank you. Tony Shalub for The Marvelous Miss Maysall. I love him, too. Tyler James Williams, Rabbit Elementary, Henry Winkler for Barry. I really hope Henry Winkler gets it.

He is stunning in this season. He's stunning in it. He's so good. He has to do so much in this season that he needs to win this one. He's fantastic. For your outstanding guest actor in a comedy series, I did it again. This is Supporting Actress. I keep reading the next category. It's the way their sights laid out.

Alex Borstein for Ms. Maisel, Hannah Inbinder, from Hacks. Einbinder, yeah. Ein binder, yeah. Ein binder, that means one binder. Janelle James for Abbott Elementary, I think that is the principal lady, I think. Maybe. That is, yes, that absolutely is. By the way, Janelle James, fantastic and Abbott Elementary.

I decided to check out one of these new stupid Hulu game shows. Which one of them we got to pick for a couch party at some point. But there's one called Last Straw, Final Straw. Oh, she hosts that. She hosts that. Yeah, I saw something with that. The game is like Jenga, but with a whole bunch of weird objects, they're all related to one another. So one of them is like a Renaissance thing where you've got loaves of giant loaves of sourdough bread,

shields and swords, and a roast pig. and stuff like that. And teams take turns pulling items from that list with the eventuality that all this stuff is going to completely topple over on top of them at some point. Does that happen? Like, I assume that's a big mess. All the damn time.

Yeah. Like, you know, you get five or so topplings every episode. And that part of it, very satisfying. Janelle James, again, reiterating fantastic on Abbott Elementary. but her her really dry humor does not translate well to a game show host position

and she comes across as being disinterested and unprepared That's unfortunate So if you win the $250,000 What do you plan on doing with it? Interesting

I saw her face on an ad or something And I went oh okay cool What is that? And then I forgot all about it. Real quick here, I don't see, maybe it's too soon. I would have thought Shorzie would have been on here, to be honest. That show surprised me so hard this year. Too soon, yeah, this is...

Last year stuff, right? Right, right. That makes sense. I mean, the 2021, 2021, 2022 season, so everything that wrapped up at the beginning of this year. You got your Kate McKinnon from Saturday Night Live. That's an interesting category for actor. I don't know. Supporting actress, that's where all the SNL people,

because Bone Yang was in the last category. You can't call anybody a lead actor-actress on SNL. That's true. There's no such thing, right, man. Sarah Niles for Ted Lassow, Cheryl Lee, Ralph for Abbott Elementary, Juno Temple for Ted Lassow, and Hannah Waddington for Ted Lassow. Boy, a lot of Ted Lassow. Wait, that's not, I thought that was Annie Lennox in Ted Lassow. No?

Okay. Nope. I love Juno Temple, by the way. I feel like I could hang out with Juno Temple. Don't know why. I don't mean it in a weird way There's something about her Oh, I mean in a weird way

I could hang out with Juno Temple Oh yeah, baby Mm-hmm I'm gonna skip ahead to the big Yeah, let's go to like dramas maybe This This is a little frustrating This is a little frustrating this

Here we go drama series Yeah Oh I have no photo The setup for the Emmys page is a little It's lame And also I'm still once again I'm only seeing blanks here So it doesn't actually tell me

Oh, no, really? Abbott Elementary. Oh, it'll do if I click on them. Barry. Oh, you're on the wrong thing. You want an outstanding drama series. I thought I was. Oh, sorry.

No, not if you're seeing Abbott Elementary, my friend. Yeah, good point. Better Call Saul. They'll probably win it. It's final year. That's what you do. Ozark, let's see, Euphoria, Severance, Squid Game, Yellow Jackets, still haven't seen it.

Succession, amazing show, Stranger Things. That's a big list. I lean better call Saul just because that's what you'd do. Like, why wouldn't you? Right? Certainly, right now, with it being so fresh, yeah, I think better call Saul. The only one in this list I haven't seen is Euphoria. And I know you've seen that one.

Severance, it's hard not to love Severance, though, right? I love Severance so much. I mean, I wanted to win, but I don't think it does. Yeah, but I think in this list, better call Saul. And you still need to see yellow jackets. Yeah, I heard nothing. Nothing but good. Yeah, it is...

That's coming back, too, right? Yeah, it definitely is. So good year for AMC. AMC's got all kinds of shit on here. Good job, AMC. You were like one of the only actual cable that works with anything on here, I guess. Wait a minute, so let's see, better call so what else is AMC? Because Euphoria's HBO.

Ozark is FX. Yeah, so you got... Severance is Hulu. No, severance is Apple. Oh, Apple, that's right. Squid Game is Netflix, Stranger Things is Netflix, Succession is HBO, Yellow Jackets is Showtime. Is Atlanta? Oh, is Yellow Jackets AMC or Showtime?

I don't know. I thought that was Showtime. It is Showtime, yeah. So what else is, what am I thinking of? You're thinking of like... Better Call Saul. There was another AMC thing that I thought was just amazing this last year that I talked about, and I can't remember... Oh, everybody hates.

No, F, F my husband. F, Jeff, or something like that. F, yeah. Shoot, what was that show called? I don't remember. It stars, what's her face from Schitt's Creek? David. Oh, David.

Jeff, only Jeff in the building. Go away, Jeff. F, my husband, Jeff. Kevin. Kevin can F himself. Kevin can F himself. That's it. Killing Eve?

Where's killing Eve? That's on something else. King Eve is FX. well never mind i was wrong amc has one show in here all right okay that's fine that's fine though you know it's fine yeah well good luck to all of them and uh we hope interesting i'm excited for this you know there's so much genre stuff and holy crap did um moon night do well in the technical categories like it uh oh really it kicked butt

yeah still i haven't seen that of course you have scott of course you have of course i have not of course I have not eaten one more Marvel thing today I'm sorry you're gonna say something I played the music Hey Dunaway is that you Oh hi Scott and Bright Oh hi hi hi how are you we were just fine We were just talking about you know Hollywood and things Do you care about that? I was I was listening

Yeah do you care about any of that any stuff or what's your deal there I'm not a big do I don't care much for awards Yeah I don't care unless They just their cash prizes. Yeah. For me. Not for you. I don't even think they get cash prizes.

No. Right. I think they just get to... Who needs it? Who needs it? Who needs it? Who needs it indeed? I want Nobel Prize money, cash prize.

All right. That's what I want. Today you're going to make it so that someone hopefully wins a prize in our tadpool. Yes, that's right. It's time for the tadpooly feud and we're about to take a caller. Let's find out who's on this line here. Hi, thanks for calling. Who's this?

Hello? Oh, hey, it's Greg for Walkman. Oh, hey, Greg for Walkman. It's Greg. Thanks for Walkman. Wait a minute. Didn't you play last time? I don't think so, didn't he?

Oh, no. No, no. That was Shane. That was Shane. Yeah, it was Shane. Shane Maddox. No, no. You know what?

It was recently I had you, you won on, uh, guess the connection or something, didn't you? No, my birthday was on Monday. I had a request. Maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. You want to request on Monday. That's why. That's amazing.

why I know you recently. Yeah, that was amazing. I know you recently because I found out you're actually older than me and you look younger than me and I hate that. I hate that about that. You're a rat bastard. My glorious beard.

Yeah, it's beautiful. It holds up, man. Well, we're going to play a game and try to win a little something for your Boston ass, but we can't do it unless Brian explains how this works. So Brian, take it away. Hang up on him, Scott.

He won already. Get somebody else. Hang up on him now. He's already won. Don't even give a chance to defend himself. It's time to play the tadpool, a feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott

and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. And it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Greg for Walkman, once again, I mean, you know this because you win every week on this show. Your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team

wins, you get a prize package, that includes out of space and we need to go deeper. And if that sounds familiar, yes, we try to give those away on Monday And the person who won them, a pair from Norway, said, I already have these, give them to somebody else. So we're giving them to somebody else. Pair from Norway with all the fancy games already. Right, exactly.

So, if you guys are ready, let's give you all your topic. Let's do it. Hands on buzzers, we asked 782 tadpoolers, their answer to this. 13 of them said pass. All right. We asked them. What was that, Peter Griffin? That was my, that was exactly what my laugh was.

This is a goat boy, actually. It was Jim Brewer. What's your favorite TV cartoon theme song? Scott. The Simpsons. Oh, nice. Her little Danny Elfman. Show me der Simpsons.

Oh, down further than I would have that. Number four on the list. Three answers will beat it. Brian, what's your... It's the Tadful's favorite to be directed themes. I've been playing a lot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and I just keep hearing it over and over again. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Goes on the half show. Real power! Show me Cowbunga dudes. Number five on the list. Oh, Scott, you are going to be playing, and you've got Greg four Walkman. Maybe some TV themes are on that Walkman of his. Yeah, what do you think, Greg?

Anything flying out of your head right off the bat there? SpongeBob jumps out. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one. SpongeBob's great. He lives in a pineapple under the sea. Exactly. Let's do...

Oh! Oh! I think I'm pretty sure that singing is Clancy Brown, I think. I know, well, I know Clancy Brown for sure plays Mr. crabs, but I don't know if he does the opening song. I think he does. Facts. Yeah. We'll call it a fact. All right, show me SpongeBob SquarePants.

Boo. Number 16, I will say. This, you know, usually we get like, oh, you know, there's about 30 individual different answers. I will say for this one, 154 unique answers to this question. Oh, my Lord. Really? I can't leave SpongeBob. It really tells you how old this.

crowd is um but i i guess the next one i listen to all the time is probably going to be the scooby scooby do where are you we got some place to be now not sung by kacy kaysel by the way i don't know who's saying that one but it was he's doing he's doing he's doing the answer is he's doing edibles with shaggy in the van so that's the answer right right yeah all right uh show me scooby-doo where are you you're at number seven that gave you the lead man nicely done

wow clear this board so Greg wins that's what we want there you go well I mean he's barely got a lead Scott don't give up just yet I think you might still be able to turn things around here

12 to 4 feels like a bad lead whatever let's see what Brian's got seven answers on the board with lots of points yeah there's so many that I love But I just can't imagine that the tap pool left.

There are so many different ones. I'm going to go with Hong Kong Fui. He's the number one. This is Tom. By the way, Tom Merritt's favorite. Favorite kids car or Saturday morning cartoon was Hong Kong Fooey, by the way. Yeah. I hear he's faster than the human eye.

Yeah. That's a rumor. That's a rumor. Yeah. All right. Show me Hong Kong. A little racist foo. It's racist foo. Hey, hey, Greg, how do you feel?

Oh, did it, was that on the list at all? Was it, was it a scatman? Did scatman do the voice for that? Am I remember that incorrectly? Oh, I think you're right. Yeah, number 23, by the way, was Hong Kong Fui. Eight people said Hong Kong fuey. So, you know.

Scabman was, he's the one that took the axe to the gut in the Shining, right? In the Shining, yeah. Correct. Boy, you got the Shinden. All right. Hey, Greg, how do you feel about the, the Futurama is a pretty rad intro. Oh, that is, yeah. I have a couple in my head, but Futurama sounds good.

All right, let's go Futurama. We'll see if we can snag one. All right. Show me. Bung, bong, bong, bong, bong, bong. Number eight, and just like that, we have a tie game. Oh, you're right. We could easily make up the ground.

That's fantastic. All right, Greg, you said you had a couple in your head. What do you got? I mean, I'm just thinking of the things that I like. you know X-Men Oh yeah That's a great theme song

I love that song Yeah I love that one too All right All right All right Show me X-Men 90s The animated series Yeah

Number two Holy cow That says so much About the Tadpool Very popular Number two That's a Hmm

That okay So That tells me something that tells me that leads into my second one oh what you got what you got uh i was thinking spider man going back a little bit spider man spider man does everything the spider did yeah let's do that does whatever a spider can yeah clarify because there have been many spider man uh cartoons over the years which i assume it's that one the spider man yeah okay that's when you're thinking okay all right just want to make sure okay 60s this uh does whatever a spider can catches right thieves just like flies

Getch's just like flies Catches, please, just like flies. I was going to say, catches flies just like these. Look out, where is it on the board? Please be there. Over nine. Oh, nailed it.

That's a nice little lead right there. Yeah. Okay. Oh, Greg, this is ours to win. Greg knows. Yeah, he knows. He knows what's up. That's why he's got that youthful beard.

All right, let's see. I watch a lot of cartoons. Yeah, it'll help. I love cartoons, so I'm with you. Let's do, um, oh, geez, uh, the G.I. Joe, great American hero, G.I. Joe's there. That thing. Sure. More you know. Show me go, Joe. Shit! Oh, um, number 15, and coincidentally, 15 people said G.I. Joe.

Yeah. Don't do drugs, Scott. It's a good one, though. And now you, and knowing is half the battle, okay? Knowing's at the battle. That's right. Help computer. Apples have cyanide in their seeds. The more you know.

Is that one that they did? Yeah, I love that episode. Is it really? Yeah, that's the one they beat the giant gelatinous blob or whatever it is by feeding it apple trees because it has cyanide. It's a great episode. That's amazing. I got to watch some of those.

Well, by the way, sorry, real quick. on their YouTube channel. They have 24-hour Hasbro has a 24-hour streaming G.I. Joe episode channel, and it just runs 24-7, and it's nothing but G.I. Joe, highly recommend it. Nice. Yeah. They need to do that

with Transformers. Maybe they do, and I just haven't noticed. I don't know. Yeah, right. Oh, transferor sounds like that'd be a good one. Yeah, oh, too bad scots running his mouth. Oh, no. Oh, man. Frick. I kid. I'm going to go, because I think

with the X-Men, I think we're going to have a flip of that with people watching the duct tails. These seem like 90s kids. So, duct tales, woo. You can't get past the soundtrack of Ducktails. I had a little comeback here recently, too, so it's on their minds.

Yeah, all right. Show me Ducktails. Number one. Give us your woo-hoo again, Ibit. Here's the thing. As soon as I saw the popularity of this. I said, oh, I've never watched an episode of DuckTales. Let me hop over to YouTube and watch

the intro. And that is the most 90s-ass sounding like, bang, dang it down, bang it and was waiting for listen Milano to come out and start dancing to it. Up down, do-do, dude. Yep.

All right. You know, it's still your turn, yeah. Yeah, still my turn. I'm going to go with the ones that I always get stuck in my head. and from about that same time period, even though it's in repate, repeats.

Repets. Inspector Gadgett. Oh, yeah. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Hey, guys, I'm Inspector Gadget. Show me. Oh, my gosh. Show me that.

that Don Adams thing that wasn't get smart. Oh, number 20 on the list, Inspector Gadget, by the way. It's pretty old. And lame. And lame. It's not great.

It's bad cartoon. Oh, I disagree. I think it's good. It's so good. I do not like. All right. How about, Greg, what do you got? Anything that's burning a hole there?

When you said Futurama, some South Park just came into my head. Oh. You don't often hear the Boston come out of Greg for Wachman's Greg for welcome to this place, but South Pack. That's right. You know what? It's a good one.

Who's the original? I know Jerry was a race car driver or something. Primus. Primus, yeah, I love Primus. All right. Let's do it. Do you know he was almost hired as the new bassist for, he tried out for Metallica as a bassist.

And they turned him down because he was too good. They said, in this documentary, they said, look, you're too good. Go do your own thing. So he did. Crazy. Crazy. All right. Show me South Park. What do we say yet? Surprisingly, number 53 on the list. I think it belongs a lot higher, honestly. Going down to South Park, I'll have myself a time. How do you not put that on there?

All right, that's fun. Yep, that's great. All right. screw that back over to uh that's your third strike brian here's the deal you are behind by 10 points uh if you get uh the 10 pointer you tie things up if you get any combination of two no that's not right because that could be nine points hey three answers on the board see what you can do how's that i look forward to robbing gregg from walkman i look forward to robbing gregg from his games so let's see here i'm going to go with um

Um, they're the Animaniacs. Oh, that's a good call. Annamaniacs. Damn it. Hello, nurse. Show me. Hello, nurse. Number three on the list.

It's a low one though. Oh, boy. No score. Still got this. The 90s had a lot of great catchy ones. It did. I'm going to go with, but I, I can't get away from the freaking Pop-I theme song. Oh, sure.

I just, yeah. I'm going to go Popeye. Popai? Like Popeye? Not Popeye? Like Popeye? Like Popeye? Sure.

All right. Show me. Show me. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. Oh, come on. That's a classic. Popeye, let me see if he's even on here, actually. Oh my God.

What are you? A thousand years old? Are you not even listed Popeye? How about that? Wow. Crazy. It's just some Looney Tunes in. That was three, right?

Congratulations going out to Greg for Walkman. You get these prizes. But let's see what else is on the board. They're the modern stone age. Oh, no. The Flintstones. Oh, you all do the Flintstones? Oh, fine.

And that's not as old as Popeye. Popeye is like, you're talking about the 20s, I think, for Popeye. It went way back. I mean, the 20s. Come on now. It was old. It was really old. Flintstones to Popeye is.

is a lot closer in age than Hobbs Burgers to Simpsons. Here it is. I was right. 1929, technically the 20s. Yeah, okay, the ones,

oh, come on, but we're talking about the later stuff. Really? Yeah, and that one used, holy cow. Yeah,

and that song, and they used the, bo, but it was slow and lame, but they used it. I'm telling you, you're old is what I'm saying. But yeah,

but it's also, but that's like, but Popeye ran for decades and half a century, So, yes, there was later Popeye things. There was. I liked Popeye. Don't get me wrong. Wait, wait, wait. Was it Flintstones that was 1929 or you're talking? Flintstones wasn't 1920.

No, no, no, no, no. Flintstones did start out in black and white, though, right? That's true. Yeah. And they had smoking commercials for that thing. You didn't smoke in commercials? Yeah. I love these. No chest to field cigarettes. Hey, Brett, these are great. I'm getting cancer of the lungs here. All right. Show me number 10. They've been shouting in the chat room finally time to see it

chippendale rescue rangers i heard that new one's real good i heard i heard i heard i heard i should watch that new disney plus uh rescue rangers deal revival it's supposed to be good it's another another 90s cartoon series i never saw along with uh gummy bears

jetsons transformers number 13 thunder cats 14 g i joe sponge bob dark wing duck uh Pokemon adventure time loony tunes Batman the animated series King of the Hill Should be a lot higher

It should be so much higher Yeah Yeah refreshments I believe Doing that one Tailspin Captain Planet Doug fairly odd parents Cowboy Bebop

He-H man Rick and Morty Speed Racer Gargoyles Gravity Falls Stephen Universe Johnny Quest I mean so many on here

What was the Gargoy's theme I don't even remember that It's good It's just Cinematicy good You know Yeah I do

to thank the person who said Airwolf. Not a cartoon. No, no. Definitely not a cartoon. But kind of cartoon-y in a weird way. Cartoonie. Surprisingly,

Spider-Man 90s, only a couple people preferred that one over the 60s version. I couldn't even... That's not even in my head. How does that go? Do you know that? I don't know. I'd have to...

That was the one with the Hulk Spider-Man, right? That was really good. No. No, it was the one. It was the 90s animated series. Boy, I'm trying to think of what's unique about that one that I could differentiate. Not the Spider-Man is amazing friends.

I'll hear Spider-Man is amazing friends. I'll play this and let's see if this is it. I think I've got it here. Yes. This is it? Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, it's in the vein of the X-Men style. It is.

It might have even been written by the same guy. Who knows? Yeah. It's true. I used to like that cartoon, but I don't remember the theme at all. If you didn't have lyrics to your theme, unless you're talking Futurama, or The Simpsons, I guess, I kind of forget your song. But if you've got lyrics, King of the Hill, you know, they could some put that thing. That's what was weird about that one is the first, those early seasons, the early seasons had a guy going,

yeah, ha, in the background all the time. And the old season, or the later seasons, they took that out of there. but anyway, nazzy, scrazy. Well, well done, Greg. You know what that means, Greg? Oh, my gosh. Let's make it official. I'll fight back, butt naked.

That's not it. Hold on. Congratulations. You're a winner. You're a winner, dude. We knew that already going in, but you're officially a winner, and you're going to get these games. And all you got to do is email, Brian, coverville at gmail.com. You know the address. You know what to do, and he'll take care of you.

How do you feel about your big win? I feel good. I'm glad I didn't have another guess because it would have been banana splits. I don't even know what that is. You know what the hell is. You know what Bannas splits is. That's how far back I go. That song is a Banan Splits song.

Buffalo Soldier. Oh, my Lord. Well, Greg, you're the best. We wish you nothing but good times and the best Walkman experience you can possibly have in 2022. We'll see you later. All right. By the way, as people are pointing out in the chat room,

that was not an animated series. That was live action, yet it still made it to number 46 in the tadpool. That didn't stop the tadpool. No, that's the important thing we always have to remind ourselves is the tadpole. Yes. You know, you can't mess with them. Whether it's right or wrong, it's did the tadpool say it. That's right. A reminder that me and Brian Dunaway here, we did a show yesterday called Play Retro. We did it all about Mega Man or if you're in Japan, Rock Man. And turns out there's a lot of Mega Man's, tons of it. And if you want to hear all about that and also, yes, we did play Mega Man 8's horrible voice acting. We did all that.

we had a blast it was a really fun episode do check it out play retro wherever you get your podcast uh the archive is also on youtube and twitch and all that so go check it out today he done away had a mega blast we had a mega blast you're right we did this weekend we're all watching the quick and the dead for film sack oh yeah sam ramy sam ramy film 1995 uh russell crow Leonardo decaprio lance hendrickson one of my favorite things he ever did um oh and i can't get um he's 94 now transforma no jean hackman thank you

jean hackman amazing role for jean hackman it's an amazing movie oh and the star the whole thing uh lady pants sharon stone lady pants i'd say known for not uh lady pants more like lady nonder pants yeah it's my favorite it's my favorite Sharon stone role as well it's very very good can't wait that'll be this weekend brian done away anything else what's that what's that

You want to say anything else? Go ahead. Now that's it. I think it's good. I think it covered it. I had it fun today. How about that? How about that?

That's good bite. Okay, he's gone. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here talking tech. After that, some recommendals with our old pals, Randy and Nicole. That's all coming up. But first, a song break from Brian Ibitt. Yeah, somebody that we've played on this show before, but they are just announcing new tour dates for Europe, UK and Japan, Canada, and the U.S.

in support of their brand new. album called Ali Ali Oxen Free. Listen, you know these guys. They've been a punk band for 20 years, and their first album, A Passage in Time, is what they're going to be doing in Arizona at the hometown

show for September 9th. They have a brand new single. It's called Fire Off Another. Here is Authority Zero. Does it seem strange to you? I had the best intentions away with you. All these weighted questions too much too soon. You know your sight coming.

No surprise you blew. The coupons just kept running under your thumb, pressing your intentions. intense. Run, run, run, typical reaction. One by one. One by one. One by one. Taking a beating and attention.

Fire off another, you're in over your head. Fire off another from the moment that you said. I'm right, you're wrong. We can do this all day long. I'm right, you're wrong. Fire up another, you're in over your head. Fire up another from the moment. up another from the moment that you said, I'm right, you're wrong, we could do this all day

live, fire off another, I'll be right here. Why, spotted as a joke, took quickly two confessions from the second that you spoke. Immediate distraction, such a cataclysmic rogue, feeding our reflection, no exception your reflection, needs immediate attention, attention under your thumb pressing your intention Run, run, run, run Typical reaction One by one Yeah, one by one

One by one Taking a media attention Fire off another You're in over your head Fire up another From the moment that you said I'm right, you're wrong We could do this all day love

I'm right, you're wrong Fire up Fire up another, you're in over your head. Fire up another from the movie that you said, I'm right, you're wrong, we can do this all day long. Fire off another, I'll be right here. It's been cold outside, there's a storm rolling in. It's going to take a while.

To reprehend what has been It's getting cold outside There's a freeze in the air It's gonna take a well To reprehend what has been It's getting cold outside There's a breath on the air It's gonna take a good while

To reprehend what has been Fire off another, you're in over your head Fire off another from the moment that you said I'm right, you're wrong We can do this all day long I'm right, you're wrong Fire up another, you're in over your head Fire up another from the moment that you said

I'm right, you're wrong, we can do this all they long Fire up another I'll be right here I'm right, you're wrong Jimmy says he knows the safety rules I wonder if he really does What your kids turn into the creatures they really are If you'll excuse me, it's time to make the world safe for democracy. This is the morning stream.

And we're back. Hey, who is that? One more time? Yeah, I'll tell you. I'll tell you. It was Authority Zero from their brand new album, Oli-Oxon-Free, a song called Fire Off Another. That sounds freaking great. All right.

Everybody sit back and relax because this is happening. computer as with any tool the concept and direction must come from the man that man is tom merit and he joins us all the way from los angeles california in the studios that he inhabits uh he does this every wednesday and we talk about some tech tom good morning and welcome how are you feels like a like a cave it is like a little cave yeah mine's definitely like a cave uh just sometimes it smells in here of a cave i actually have bats you do you do you do you let's see you wow Let me see your bats. What do you got there?

You got a bat? I don't have a bat. I'm always trying to keep up with the I bits. I know, right? I suppose if you'll see if I had a baseball bat. I have a hammer. I'll bet Tom has a baseball bat. You don't have bats.

Why don't you have bat? Let me guess. Tom Merritt has a bat handy. You probably do. Some kind of bat. I do. It's in the other room. Oh, man.

It's not within reach. See, this is the, you're busting the magic trick when you call it out. That's true. It's like saying, well, let me see the back of your hand. And then, you know, no, nobody. That all falls apart when someone else requests something. That's the problem with magic. That's why I do it on stage because you can just ignore people yelling at you.

But if it's one person... I do have two actual baseball bats in the house. They're just not here. I have a plush zoo bat, but it's on the other side of the basement. Oh, well, there you go. A little Pokemon Zubat. Safety first. Two bats is a good idea. A gavel. That's the closest thing.

There you go. Tom Merritt, let's talk some tech. What's brewing out there? What's going on? So, I don't know if you all have heard of a guy named Elon Mavis. must. I have, yeah. Oh, yeah. That name sounds familiar. It's a vibe of vague memory. Kind of a balding, balding co-founder of PayPal is my memory. He has been called by some politicians an African American. He's from South Africa. He is an entrepreneur. Once worked at PayPal. Yeah, he sure did. Him and Peter Thiel were the big PayPal brains. He and Peter Thiel. That's right.

Yeah, no, they were together. Anyway, uh, we, uh, we're together. Anyway, uh, we're, what many of you probably haven't heard is he was going to try to buy Twitter. You don't say. Yeah. And fix it, right? This is where the story gets interesting.

He started by buying less than 10% of a stake in Twitter and they were kind of upset. Then he went to wanting a seat on the board, which they gave him. Then he turned down the seat on the board and decided to try.

to buy Twitter and Twitter tried to put what's called a poison pill in effect, which would flood shares to prevent him from being able to do a hostile takeover. But then he was able to convince them to agree to let him buy Twitter. And in the process of that, he waived due diligence and agreed to a billion dollar breakup fee if there were regulatory problems, depending on which side was responsible for the regulatory problems or other things. One side of the side of or the other would pay a billion dollars. Then suddenly decided he didn't, wasn't sure he wanted to buy Twitter.

So he decided that he needed them to give him more data on spam bots. He thought that maybe they were overestimating the number of active people on the platform, which would change the fundamental business estimation. Although he had way of due diligence. So it would have to be very serious for him to be able to go to court and convince a judge that they had basically, you know, defrauded him. However, Twitter responded by giving him the fire hose saying, here, here's all the data. Enjoy.

Find yourself whatever you want to find about our bot accounts. To which Mr. Musk responded, well, that's not the same as telling me what the bot accounts are. You're just flooding me with data. I don't think I want to buy your company anymore. I'm withdrawing my offer. To which Twitter responded, you can't withdraw your offer because you're you. you have no legal basis. And so we're going to sue you in Chancery Court in Delaware over your withdrawal and make you buy the company that we once tried to stop you buying and also tried to

stop you being on the board and then gave you a board seat about. So, such a weird, twisted, freaking thing. I mean, I half expected the story to end with. And his Tesla Model 3 ran over a family of chickens because the autopilot didn't see them. Or you know what I mean? Like, it could just, how much, how could it get weirder than this? But it is pretty weird. I mean, do you, Okay, so the court thing's happening then? Yeah, yeah, Twitter has filed a lawsuit in Delaware court. So that is the news today. And Daily Tech News show, I plan to do kind of a slightly longer version of what I just did,

kind of recap everything, because I think people forget all the twist and turns along this, where Musk originally just kind of secretly bought a bunch of stuff, and Twitter was shocked and tried to stop him. And now they're turning around and trying to force him. So yeah, Twitter filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court saying he refuses to honor his obligation to Twitter and it's stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interest. If you have a side, if you're pro-Elon or if you are anti-Elon, you can certainly cast this battle as good versus evil. But as someone who really doesn't care one way or the other, I stand outside of this going, man, this is just weird. I just don't know who wants what in this situation, right?

There's a lot going on under the, under sea level that's murky and hard to figure out. That's been my take through all of this tumultuous weirdness because I don't know why he wants it so bad. And I don't know why he doesn't now. And I don't know why they. Why did he start this in the first place, right? That's got me too. That's really weird to me. And also, on the other hand, you have a company that was extremely resistant to this in the beginning.

and then agreed, I guess they're the most understandable position because in my mind, them agreeing was them saying, okay, well, we'll get over our problems with this and okay, fine, let's do it. This is agreeable. So now they're like, no, wait, you don't just pull out of that after we all caved here. So I kind of get their position and their litigiousness after the fact, given what's transpired. But I don't know what was ever in this for him. Is it just, it's easy to just simplify and go, well, you know, billioners.

They don't care. It's just it money. But I think I think there's more to it. Like, did you really want it? Do you not want it? Why don't you want it now? You have the data he asked for. Did it tell you what you didn't want to know?

Did you just have a change of heart one night? Did you have heartburn? Because you ate too many pizza rolls one night. And that's what made the decision for you. And now you're like the rest of us. You'd like have regret in the morning. Like, I don't know. I don't know.

Yeah. I think there's a lot of like, you know, Monday morning quarterback sort of analyses of this that you can discard. I don't think this is just. just him being stoned and making an impulse buy. There's too much that has to go into it for that to be the case. I don't discount the fact that he might have changed his mind along the way for various reasons.

And we'll talk on DT&S about what some of those reasons might be, but some of it may have to do with the changing financial landscape, right? He might be upset that Tesla lost value after he started this process. and he might want to get out of it for that reason. He also might want a better deal because Twitter's stock is now well below what he offered, some of it having nothing to do with him, just the general financial landscape,

you know, inflation and the economy. And he may be trying to get Twitter to adjust that price down. And the way to do it is take him to the mat and then say like, well, all right, fine. I won't drag you through the courts because he's going to sue them too, I'm sure. if you agree to discount my price by X amount, you aren't going to get more from somebody else.

It's possible that he just wanted Twitter. Then when he got a good look at it, realized that he couldn't fix it the way he thought. It may be as simple as that. And I don't think that you got too many bots on the platform is terribly legitimate, but it's a gambit that can get him to a negotiating position where maybe he can get an agreement to break up at the billion dollar fee or less

because right now a lot of people think well he just needs to pay the billion dollars and he gets out he waived due diligence the billion dollar breakup fee has to do with someone else preventing the merger or the acquisition he can't just say I don't want to do it anymore

I'll pay you the billion dollars Twitter would have to agree to that for that to happen Twitter is saying there's no cause for you to break up this agreement. So we aren't just going to take the billion dollar fee. The most likely case of the billion dollar fee would be if the U.S. Department of Justice came in and said, ah, you know, this doesn't pass regulatory muster because Musk has too many holdings that are similar. They're not going to do that.

So that billion dollar fee is probably never going to be in play unless it's a negotiating tactic where he says, okay, fine, I'll pay you that or a smaller amount. Anyway, it's a lot more complex than people think, and yet a lot more unintelligible than people think. Because I'm still not sure why the shareholders pressured them to switch from going poison pill to accepting the deal, other than maybe they were like, well, the stock's probably going to go down. The economy's in the toilet. Let's cash out. Let's get this puppy sold while it's hot. Yeah, there's probably something to that.

And it just, what if it passed judicial musker? Hmm. Hmm. Think of that. Yeah. Think of that. Or as Drenched Wildfire said, do-do diligence. Ah, do-do diligence.

My favorite of the diligences. Well, anyway, we'll talk more about it today, obviously, but it is, it's a, it's a weird one. And I don't know. I know people love the theater of it. But I think at the end of the day, this is about maneuvering and business at a level that none of us are used to working in and we don't know. We really don't know how this stuff works. So we'll see. I mean, do you think, what do you think the ultimate outcome is though? If you had to guess, just Tom Merritt putting on a hat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I might have a different

answer later today once I've really dug back into this and created the timeline. We've tended on DTNS to avoid talking about it too much, especially of late, because a lot of it's just speculation and people wanting to cheer for a side. And that's not DTNS's role. We're here to help you understand no matter what side you may or may not favor. So the reason I'm doing the timeline today is not because of the controversial aspect. It's because I want to give everybody the tools they need to make up their mind about where they think this is going and what they think might happen. Because a lot of people are following this for many reasons.

Either they like one side or the other or they're just like Twitter. They like using the platform. There are people who actually enjoy it. Yeah, good point. I know. It seems odd. So when I get done with the timeline, I may have a distant answer. But that's a long way. way of getting to answering your question to say, I think the most likely scenario for me right

now is he pays a smaller breakup fee. The second most likely is that he ends up acquiring it at a lower price. And those are close in my mind. I kind of waver from minute to minute, which I think is more likely than the other. All right. Hey, look, this is the kind of answers we expect out of DTNS's own Tom Merritt. He doesn't, uh, he ain't playing around, man. He's got, he's got logic behind him. Logic is his friend. It's his pet. It's his familiar. I thought you're going to say that's the kind of answers you expect that of DTNS, which is to say he doesn't pick one side or another and won't commit. No, no, no, I like, I prefer your way. So I'm, I'm all in on this. So this is later today. We'll talk about that. Many other things. It's my day, which means, uh, you know, Wednesday,

tune in. Now, you should tune in all week, but Wednesday's, you know, it's just got a little extra Johnson laying there. So if you're interested in that, go check that out. Tom Merritt. You have a million other things going on. Anything in particular you'd like to remind people about. Sure, yeah. TechTom.

Like tech time, but tech tom. TechTom.com is a newsletter where I will send you the write-ups. As I'm doing stuff for Daily Tech News show, I make more extensive write-ups that I send to folks. If you pay for the substack, get a few more, but you can get stuff for free, like yesterday, when I set out the

explainer on Bluetooth LE audio and why you're going to want it. It's coming devices, and it's pretty much nothing but positive. So I'm looking forward to it. You can catch that article at tectom.com. Would you say if you were in the mode of like, I need to get some new smart Bluetooth earbuds? Would you say wait until this pans out? Or this, you know. Probably. It would all depend on what you want out of them. But yeah, if you can wait, I would wait because you're going to get better battery life, which is the big thing. And some other cool features like the ability to share sources. So you can, you and I could be sitting on your phone and both have our wireless earbuds paired to it. Oh, I love that. That's great. So we could be like

those cute couples with you got one earbud and your left ear going to my right. Yeah, we wouldn't have to do that anymore. Right. Now we can be separate buds and still be buds. That's amazing. Exactly. Yeah. Well, that's fantastic. Tom Merritt, everybody. He is Ais Detect on Twitter if you want to follow him over there on the possibly, you know, Musk may own him

too one day his account. I don't know. But go check it out. Who knows? No one knows. But Tom Merritt, we'll see you a little bit later. Have a fantastic week. We'll see you next time. Thanks, y'all. See you, Tom. Bye now. Okay. Okay. All right. I enjoyed that. You know, if he pulls out of this deal, it'll be a real grime against humanity.

Oh, jeez. Get it? Grimes? Oh, yeah, I get it. I get it. They're not together anymore, though, right? They're done, I think. Is that true? I think so. Yeah. Because while he was having her baby, he was, he had the executive over at Tesla, was pregnant with twins, and he didn't tell anybody. This is a new thing. Really? That I didn't know.

Yeah, he's got like nine kids that are all from all these people all over the place. Like, that guy's, he's putting his wiener in whatever hole. have it. All right. Cyber wean. Cyber wean. Okay, I got to remember how to do this because I have to add extra people. Here we go. Okay. Okay, there we go.

Oh, Nicole's showing offline, but we'll see how this goes. It wouldn't be Nicole if she wasn't showing off there. Of course she is, yes. We'll give it a shot and see what we end up with. Let's start with this. Welcome to the program, at least so far. And Mr. Randy Jordan.

Hello, Randy Deluxe. What are you doing? Good morning, morning stream. I'm doing great. Thanks for asking. Sure. It is beautiful out here. What a great summer we're having. It's just awesome. No smoke or fires or anything yet. Are you guys in the clear that way? You good? Oh, yeah. No, no, no, no fires. We've got all autumn to burn to the ground. Nice. No worry. That's out there. Yeah, we have plenty of time for that as well. Hey, I have a question for you. Isn't there some way that we could make Tadpool's poll results more scientifically accurate? Like, we could impose some demographics on them. Wouldn't that be interesting?

Because, like, the fact that family guy and Stephen Universe didn't make that really high on that list, it's just like, it's insane. It is insane. But you're, I think, unfortunately, I don't know how many Zs or, you know, low millennials we've got in our crowd who would point to those. Oh, hi, Nicole. Hello. It works, works, works. It totally works. Hi.

How are you? Do you have internet? You have internet. I do, and I'm on my ear, uh, air buds or whatever the airbud, what, what? Airbus, yeah, airbud, the dog that we can't play basketball. Yeah. Well, you're fine. You're good.

You guys just move. Don't worry about it. Look, all you need to do is look outside of that beautiful freaking lake thing. You're sitting on right there. And, uh, it's crazy. It's beautiful. My gosh. It's gorgeous.

I want to go there. Yeah. Sound okay. Yeah, you sound fine. Yeah, you sound fine. It doesn't, like, they're in my ears. I'm like, where's the microphone? Not bad.

Yeah, you just sound like you're on earbuds, but it's totally fine. It'll work at a pinch. Well, let's get going here. We got some recommendals to get out to the world, and we're going to do it today. So here's the deal. We start with Brian, and we always do. Brian, you have a little setup for this? What do you got?

I do. This is a film, and I don't know. For some reason, I think Scott is really going to like this clip. Oh, well, all right, then. Let's find out why. I believe I'm the DQ to ride. It's funny to think how everyone in this movie is dead. We're like,

Millie's very old. He's probably got a motor scooter now. She pees in a bag. She's an obligation to her family. They take turns visiting her, and when they sit next to her bed and this movie comes on the TV, she goes, my, what a pretty young thing.

You're bumming me out. Um, do you remember that stuff you were saying to Tim the other day? What's her? The stuff about how his life isn't worth living. Yeah? Do you ever ask that question about yourself? Like any of our lives? Like, in a philosophical sense?

your life in particular. Is that someone revving an engine in the back? What is that? That's a very key point of the film that I won't spoil that noise that you hear in the background. This is a thriller, kind of a dark comedy thriller from 2017 called Thoroughbreds. And you might have recognized the voice of Anya Taylor Joy. The two voices sounded almost identical.

I was thinking, like, man, they don't make movies to be listened to, do they? I'm really, yeah, you need the visual. The two people look different, right? You need the visual. They look absolutely different. And having seen it, obviously, I'm having no problem telling you the two different voices, but, you know, now that I think about it, it may be. The other voice you're hearing is Olivia Cook, and you might know her as she was the friend of Norman Bates on Bates Motel,

the one with the oxygen. Oh, the AMC one. I like that show. Yeah, that was good. She's also, I mean, she's been in a ton of, a ton of stuff. Ready Player 1, Sound of Metal, Fireheart, Little Fish, I mean, modern love, slow horses, lots of stuff. X-Cop. She was the Luckness Monster's Voice in Axecom. Well, there you go. Her highest achievement. Did not know that. Anyway, this is the story of a couple of upper class students, school student, high school students in Connecticut, suburban Connecticut.

And one of them just is incapable of feeling feelings, like can't feel joy, can't feel anger, guilt, frustration. And that's Anya Taylor Joy, yeah? Wouldn't that be great? Wouldn't that be great if Anya Taylor Joy could feel no joy? No. Is that her, though? Is that her character? Sadly, it's Olivia Cook.

Oh, okay. Is she the one that was like me saying everyone in this movie's dead? Yes. Okay. Yes. All right. I do that all the time. A lot of her character in this is kind of that perspective.

And she wants, I don't know, well, let me flip over to Anya Taylor Joy's character. She wants something to be dealt with, committed in her life. I don't want to say any more than that She wants a murder She wants a murder committed This is really really cool So I think it's one of the first films by Corey Finley He's only done

Let's see three For TV he did We crashed That Jared Leto and Hathaway thing about We work But also bad education He's got something new coming out called Landscape with Invisible Hand so very early on

director here but I think we're going to see a lot of great stuff from him this movie also stars the late Anton Yelchen this was released after his death I was going to say he was 2016, 2015 he died

the year prior the year prior so this came out the same year as I think the Star Trek the last Star Trek film that's really really true It is streaming on on HBO Max. Yeah, HBO Max.

Yep. Very, very, very well-acted. Incredibly well-acted. And this is a movie that has to kind of be supported by its actors because it's almost film noir. Very sparse music. The music that is used in here is used to great effect. But it's not a constant score. And so you really rely on the acting and the acting is top-notch.

You've also got Paul Sparks, who you might know from, House of Cards, Boardwalk Empire. He was Mickey Doyle. Oh, I like that guy. He's great, and he, this feels like, like they wrote the role and said, yeah, it has to be played by this guy. Has to be played by Paul Sparks. Something about him. He's great.

So throw this one, throw this one on your list, and you really, really enjoy it. It's called Thoroughbreds, 2017 streaming on HBO Max. Very nice. Go ahead. Is it funny at all? Is there any fun moments? It's some dark comedy, yeah, for sure. Okay.

But it's, and the whole movie doesn't sound, the whole movie is not as dower as that clip would have you believe. There was another clip that I liked until it came up that she said everybody in this movie is dead. I said, well, that's the clip. Oh, you have to use it. Yeah, of course. Can't help. I've been doing this. I did this yesterday with an old movie.

I can't help it. It's just impossible for me not to notice that everyone who made it is dead. All right. Let's get to mine. This is very, I won't say I'm cheating this week, but because I am really recommending this. But you'll see why it's a little bit of a cheat. I'll play the clip and then I'll explain. You and I must come to an agreement.

Most importantly, I am the only one who can keep this ship on a straight keel. Me, you need intact. Unconsumed Do you understand Good Now there is one more thing You have Which I shall require

Okay Brief clip Thanks to you Thanks to you Scott this past weekend Bringing this up on film sack I think Yeah I just I just watched this episode like so I yeah it is it is really rad and I watched it again after

we talked on film set because I liked it that much and I thought you know what I haven't had time to watch a ton of new stuff I'm going to recommend this thing because I love it so much it is a segment of love death and robots from season two which I've taken way too long to catch up with so this recommendation is an overall kind of refresh recommendation on that everybody should watch bad or I almost said bad robots love death and robots It's incredible. It's inspiring. It's one of my favorite things on this planet. And this segment called Bad Traveling, which came out in season two, as I mentioned, features that voice you heard was Troy Baker, who you know from a million video games. He's extremely good in this. And I didn't even know it was him until I went and looked it all up. It's like, oh my gosh, that was freaking Troy Baker. They have a bunch of directors listed on this thing. They range mainly from people. who work at, not Boom Studio, what's the name of the studio that does lots of video game stuff? Crap. I can't find it. I think it's boom. Maybe it's boom. Anyway, they do a lot of like intros for,

they contract out of intros for video games, cinematics, that kind of stuff. Like if you see Elder Scrolls online and intro, you're watching something they did. Anyway, this is them, but it's also directly involved in this is David Fincher, who essentially directed it and adapted it and David Fincher's all over the production credit for the entirety of love death and robots. So this is kind of, you know, his thing anyway. But this one in particular just really jumped out at me. I want a whole movie based on this, please. It's weird. It's kind of gross. It's a giant crab that comes aboard a ship somewhere in the, I don't know, it's depicted as maybe the early 1800s, late 1700s, a bunch of British shipmates have to figure out to deal with this

giant man-eating crab in the basement of the ship. And in the basement of the ship, he's taken one of the corpses of the bodies. He's already eaten and consumed. And he's kind of using it as a puppet so he can communicate. Now, you didn't hear any of that. But he's like talking with him like a puppet. It's freaking freaky. But my favorite...

Oh, go ahead. Oh, no, go ahead. You're about to... You might have been about to answer my question. My favorite thing about it is stylistically, they made a really smart choice here. A lot of Love Death and Robots, CGI presentations are definitely ones where go, oh, well, I can tell this is a studio that does video game stuff, or I can tell this is a studio that, you know, does that intro for that mobile game I play or whatever, because

it just kind of has that look. This is stylized in a way where the faces are just a little weird and off. Their eyes are slightly apart. The faces almost look like wood. It's a really unique look is what I'm getting at. And to me, it just sings. It's so good. It's so, it's just it's dark okay so get that in mind if you don't like kathulu like weird you know mega monster kind of content then maybe don't watch this but if you're inspired by just the artistry of this sort of thing and storytelling and again amazing voice work by him kevin jackson fred tascori i think is how you say his name these are you know people you've heard it before and a million other things mostly again a lot of video games but it's so

freaking good oh my gosh it's based on a short story by neil asher yeah go ahead can you rank the uh the seasons of love death and robots like what is would three be oh gosh i'm your favorite season i don't know i'm torn on that i like that the whole thing feels like it just runs together now they kind of made it do that so it doesn't feel like it's broken up they just keep adding to a pile and in a way i think that's good so i would say i love it all um i think i was told that two wasn't as good i disagree i think this along with others and two are amazing um this is part of two. I feel like you can break out the episodes the way you do like Black Mirror, right? Yeah, you could do. If you were trying to get someone to watch it, right, who just

kind of didn't want to. Maybe, maybe, you know, like this, this one bad traveling, like is a really good, you know, like go start here and. Yeah, I agree. That's actually a really good point. Like, if I knew people are, they're comedy fans, I know what I would do. I do those three robots a lot. I would do, um, what's the other one where the, the zombie outbreak happens and they do it in the style of the cameras way up here and you just see these little people running around. Absolutely love that one in the new season. Like you could make a playlist. I think that's a good point.

And I like it that way. But I think too weirdly, I think it's just underrated. I think it's fantastic. It's short, you know, but three is also short. That might have been the biggest complaint that people had with it, right? It wasn't that, oh, these are bad episodes. We just didn't get enough of them. Oh, this season sucks.

Yeah. Yeah, kind of. Because two and three kind of equal the amount of content that one was. But now that they're all just sort of in there, it just feels like one big pile of amazingness. And I'm just saying, if any of you grew up on Liquid Television or went to the Spike and I animation festivals

or care about short stories being realized in these fantastic ways, just go spend your time in there. It's so freaking good. So anyway, Netflix is where it all is. Bad traveling from season two. I would definitely check that one out, but there is a ton of other stuff

that I would also recommend. So you've brought up Spike and Mike's many times because it's an honest comparison, right? Like, you really do feel the connection between them. But I just want to say, this is so much better than that movie festival. And the reason is that movie festival has a lot of misses. Oh, yeah, tons of misses. Sure.

You go sit in a movie theater for two hours and like an hour and a half of it is, eh. Yeah, no, you're right. This is like a refinement of that. I mean, it's like the since, you know, this was originally designed to be a follow-up to the heavy metal movies. And then they backed out of it and did this instead. I'm glad that they did because I think this just gives them more creative opportunities. But, you know, we live in a time where you can consolidate and pick the best ones. And you also are doing things with certain technologies to make even traditional animation look better.

And I just watched the one with the two ladies in space that crash. One of them dies. And what's her name from? I can't think of her name all of a sudden. Brian loves her. I can't give her name. I love her too. She's in, she's in Station 11. Oh, McKenzie.

Mackenzie Phillips. Phillips? No. McKenzie Davis. Davis. Yes. She's in one of those. And it drove me nuts and all things. I was like, how do I know this voice? How do I know this voice? And I had to go look it up after. But it's just breathtaking work. It's amazing. And it's the kind of stuff no one commits to for a full season or a whole two hour movie.

Just no one has the guts to say, hey, we're taking bad traveler and making a two hour movie and putting it in theaters. Then never do it. It's too weird. Sure. So I'm so glad it exists in this format and highly recommend it. That's bad traveling from Love Death and Robots. You can watch Liquid Television on Amazon? I did. I saw those were all there.

I haven't done it, but I'd love to do that. Yeah. I did watch that. You got to buy the season. I did watch that Beavis and Butthead movie last week for Recommendal. And it's great. It's like if you're a fan of that old stuff, they nailed it. It was real good.

Speaking of last week's recommendals, which one of us is going to recommend the Orville this week? Oh, yeah. And we keep having oral recommendations. I'm guessing Nicole is not doing the oral today, but we'll see. What were you going to say, Nicole? Sorry, we cut you off. I was going to say, I didn't realize there was only five episodes of the first season of Liquid Television. Oh, really?

I know. Isn't that weird? It's like, it just, I don't know, we saw it. Then it was so innovative and new and crazy. I thought it went on forever, but no, it was short. And even the episodes, I think they were a half an hour and it was maybe five or six shorts or something. Something's off with this because it says 1999. and I know it was not 1990 when I watched that.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe we're Mandela affecting. I don't know. Listen, if you want more liquid television, just watch cake. That's kind of, it started in the summer of 91. I remember.

I remember exactly where I was. Yeah. I remember, what's the other thing I'm thinking of? Ah, I can't think of it. There was another thing like this in the 90s, but I just love it all. Aon flux or? Oh, Ian Flux was so good. But more anthology is what you're thinking.

Yeah. And that was part of, what's the one where there's a guy, there's one where's a guy's in a race car or something. And he goes so fast and so furious. Sorry, you don't mean he to say fast and furious. But he goes so fast in this car that he eventually becomes like a skeletal ghost because he goes so fast.

Does this ring a bell for anybody but me? Oh, I'd love whatever that was. I got to find that. Someone in the chat, listen, we got chat people are crazy. They'll find this and they'll tell me what the hell I'm talking about. So if you look at this liquid television, on Amazon, all the reviews say, this is not the original

liquid television. Really? Yeah. It's not it. All right. Never on. All right. Well, somebody has it, though.

Maybe Paramount's the one that has it. Somebody's got it. Yeah. Somebody who has the old Viacom stuff, I think has it. But I have to check. It looks like it's on archive.org. Oh, well, that's cool.

I can watch it there. Oh, that's interesting. They're trying to shut them in the chat because it looks like it is what I'm looking for. They're trying, someone's trying to shut them down right now. I hope that doesn't happen. I love archive. Ouch.

All right. Nicole, let's do you now. Sure. So I got a clip here. Do you want me to play it first or do you have anything you want to say about it before I start? So I've talked in the past about having chaser shows after watching a scary show. This is my chaser show. I don't know if I would watch it without the scary show in front of it. but it is a really good like chaser like it's a lighthearted silly funny a palette cleanser yes yes yes so we've been watching stranger things and getting and trying to catch up on stranger things and this season is for for it's really scary it's a lot more scary I feel like than

the past season so I'm like oh absolutely is yeah stuff's getting real man i need a chaser i need something to call me down so i go to sleep all right well this is that something that we've been watching after every episode all right sweet and so everyone at home knows this is someone whoops sorry they recorded this from somebody did it from a phone yeah from a tv so just so you know that's why the audio is a little tinny here you go okay so here we go god is real and god is good and everybody is actually quite right about God, meaning Jewish people or Christians or Hindus or Muslims or the other organized religions or even the disorganized ones, or people that are just spiritual. As long as you lead with love and you do no harm, you're perfectly right about God.

I think God wants to be a lot less fighting between people about their religions. God wants everyone to love each other and to respect each other. I have so many follow-up questions, but Clark, can you glow for me right now? Oh, shit. All right. So tell me more. What is this? So this is a Netflix show called God's favorite idiot.

Okay. So who you heard talking is Ben, the actor Ben, is it Falcone? Malcolm? It's Melissa McCarthy's husband. So you might have remembered, if you've seen bridesmaid, he was the marshal, the air marshal in the airplay. You've seen anything with Melissa McCarthy.

You've seen Belcalfalcone because he's always their husband and wife. They're a husband and wife team. So this is his, so apparently he wrote this show in his 20s. He wrote it as a book. And Melissa told him, you should do something with this.

And like, let's say that this character, his character is named Clark. He is touched by God. And the first clip that I sent you, Scott, was like the trailer, and it's Melissa McCarthy, and her character is silly and crazy. She sees Clark glow, and she's like, what is going on?

So he glows after he was touched by God. And so everything happening around him at this, he works at an IT support center, people are coming to, like, get him to touch him or to tell him he's the devil. Like there's all this stuff going around. And then the show has a really great supporting cast. Everybody's really funny. And then, of course, there's Satan. You have Satan. That's.

Leslie Bibb, it says here. Leslie Bibb. Yeah, she was in an American housewife. I loved her in that one, too. She's in all sorts of... But she always plays, like... Remind me, though, Brian, is she the one from Lost or not? No, that's Maggie Grace.

Maggie Grace. They are identical freaking twins, I swear. They are, yeah. Yeah, anyway. That's cool. So she plays Satan. There's this whole concept of good versus evil, and it's... It's not the best show, but it's funny.

There's moments where I've laughed. Um... And, yeah, I enjoy it. So I'm going to recommend it. Okay. Nice. I like everybody you mentioned. I like Kevin Dunn.

He's in this. He's a good actor. I like him. There's a lot. You can tell there's a lot of improv. There's, like I said, the whole cast seems to work really well together. And there's times where I'm like, I think they're improvving right now, especially Melissa McCarthy.

She seems to do that quite a bit in the show. Well, she's pretty great. All right. Excellent. Randy, we got a one for you here. Yeah, and it's another shot chaser. I love this Nicole Spagg patented shot chaser concept. Oh, good.

Yeah, right now the shot that my crew is all, you know, having to down is the boys season three, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's intense. That is an intense freaking show. Yep. And I, you know, like every week for weeks, I've been, you know, jumping into Overwatch with my friends. And they're all like, did you see the, oh, did you see that?

Yeah. And so, you know, you need a chaser for it. And this is delightful. It is so pleasant, my friends. Please, you're going to know exactly what you're listening to. The instant it starts. This is the very first scene. It doesn't tell you anything.

It really does try to establish a plot in the beginning, but it really doesn't. This does not spoil this at all. Okay. Here we go. I'm going to play it. I already know. this is for all of us so here we go what you doing jean i'm making an instrument out of spoons

and a napkin holder and dreams and magic obviously Tina how's the burger bob it's okay i put an egg on it why is dad making a burger at 8 a.m is he on british time he's making it to bring to mr dowling at the bank we have a meeting this morning and we're going to ask for an extension on a loan payment oh fun and we really really need to get that extension all the restaurant equipment is wrapped up in that loan so you're giving him a burger well I mean, we can't give him money, Tina. Because we don't have any.

Pretty much. How about you playing some of this? What? To scare him? No, to enchant him? Bob, you know I love this. Bring him a burger idea. But isn't it a little early to be making it? I mean, our appointment isn't for a while.

This is a practice burger. Why are you whispering? I don't want it to hear him feel bad. Okay. Wait, I'm a what? Nothing. What? You're great.

Shh, shh. That feels nice. I know, I know. Don't rub my sesame seeds off. I won't. Don't, don't worry. They're a cute couple. I give him a year.

So where, tell me this is streaming. Did you go in and edit out all the spaces between, uh, no, that's how fast they, they have it edited. That's really funny. I have, I have before with recommendals. I have edited out spacing. Oh, yeah. I did. But this is, that is just straight.

The very first scene in this movie, it's the Bob's Berger's movie, guys. It is not special in, in the canon. of Bob's burgers. I want to make that really, really clear. This is just more Bob's burgers. It's an hour 41, which already is going to make you go, how? How could they, you know, like what in the world kind of story could they tell to go 101 minutes? The answer is, it's just a big, complicated story, really. They have a lot to tell. It touches every character that you've ever seen in the show, right? and it's just nice it's pleasant it's funny it never stops being funny it's a musical they're you know like they're clearly trying to do uh what you know disney does with a movie right Disney movie

uh everybody breaks into song every 10 minutes and you kind of you kind of hope that the songs are memorable and a couple of them really are there's some real hits in this movie so it's great that's good I love Bob's burgers I was wanting to see this and then you know I when theaters got weird i just you know thought well maybe i'll wait until this comes home i didn't know it was home where is this where can i see it it's on it's on hulu right now oh um i found disney plus no no it's on hulu yeah hulu would be where yeah i mean i think it even i don't know who well whatever hulu's hulu's now disney's dumping ground for things that are a little really weird yeah because i did a search for it it it uh i need to redo that icon yeah you're

right hulu only yeah oh bundle disney subs hulu is probably why that came That's why it is. Yeah, there's so many things you can integrate into Hulu, right? Yeah, they all do that now. But that, I didn't know it was already here. So I'm all in on this. Carter and I'll watch this like this week. I'm going to make that happen.

Yeah, it's just, I just like, it's the shot chaseers. It's brilliant. Nicole, thank you. Like, I felt that I should have had a chaser for the bear, right? The bear is so intense. Oh, yeah. The bear needs a chaser, dude, for sure. Yeah.

It needs a dessert. Also on HBO people are saying Cool. Bosburgers? Oh, interesting. Okay. That's weird. That's a little side thing.

I'm so glad that we're now in the age of you make a movie and it's not a massive summer tent pole like Top Gun Maverick. And you go ahead and say, we're putting this in theaters. But then like five weeks later, we're going to give it to you on streaming. Because after it's been in theaters for five weeks, a movie like Bob's Burgers, no one's going to go see it. It's not going to have right this thing, power. like a Dr. Strange or a Thor or something like that. Yeah, I just hope everything ends up being like that, right? I do too.

I mean, Dr. Strange came home much faster than I expected. That thing being on Disney Plus felt like almost overnight. So I don't. But it was about six weeks, I think. Yeah, which is nothing though. Remember when we were kids? You waited a year. We were waiting months.

Yeah. Yeah, sometimes a year. It used to be the concept of second run movies. You had to, you, it wasn't going to be on videotape until it had a second run. Yeah, yeah. Something like Indiana Jones in the Temple of Doom, you'd see it in theaters. It would go away for a long time, come back to theaters, then go away for a long time, and then maybe VHS for 80 bucks, maybe.

Like, man, we're living in new times, faster times. If you're on the fence still, like if you like Bob's Burgers, but you're just like, I don't know if I need to see this movie, the cast is just insane. There are so many people that got pulled in to voice, like, not new characters, but like they were the voice of a one or two episode character at some point, and they're back in this movie. That's great. And a bunch of them, I can't even remember them all.

So many voices where you're like, oh, was that, was that Zach Gallifanakis? Yes, it was. That was Zach Gallifanacus. That's Kevin Klein. Yeah, Kevin Klein, his brother, right? Fish Otter's brother. Yes. Fish Otter's brother is Zach Galvanakis, who, there's just, oh, man, how am I forgetting

them all in? Is Bill Hater in a bunch of stuff? Kristen Whig, I think, has been in as a voice. Yep, a number of times. David Herman, Nick Kroll, Gary Cole, of course. He's in everything. You know, my other thing,

if you're on the fence about Bob's Burger, specifically because you hate Teddy. I love Teddy. Who hates Teddy? I love Teddy. There are people, I have read people go, I love this show, and I hate this character. There's a whole Reddit thread on people who hate him. They're lame. Those people can go pound sand, man. Teddy rocks.

Yeah, anyway, this, like, if it's, if it's like that for you, don't, don't worry that there's no, like, there's no annoying character that gets too much of this movie. This movie is mostly about the, the five people in the family. Okay. Well, there you have it. Because I actually don't like the singing. Oh, you're not a fan of the singing. That surprises me to hear that. Some of the most delightful moments in the show. I like musicals, but I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't.

I skipped over those episodes. Oh, well, I can't, I can't fix it for you then. If that's, if that's your, if that's what keeps you on the fence. Is there a lot, but is there a lot of singing? How much singing is it? Do you feel like a movie like Frozen has a lot of singing? Is it? So it's like frequency of frozen.

It's a frozen, it's a frozen cadence in terms of how much singing, right? Is that what you're saying? That's how often they sing. There's, you know, like there, you know, like the, again, I try to avoid. getting clips with music in it and so like that's why you got that but there are tons of scenes like the one you just heard yeah yeah it's just they use songs to uh they mostly use songs by the way to let you know about the characters like who who feels how they feel so that if you've never ever seen any bob's burgers and you just come into this like you're watching serenity and not

firefly they do kind of let you know who everybody is and and how they operate through song yeah I don't hate Wizard of Oz I know you love it somebody put that in the in the chat like oh here it comes I get it if it's not your I mean because you're these some of these characters it's not like they're professional singers

I mean Linda does a pretty good job of sounding that way I guess sometimes but I don't know it just doesn't fit it doesn't fit for me it takes me out of it I mean John Benjamin and Kristen Shaw have no business singing ever and they're hysterical I love the

one of the most touching episodes ever is one where they kind of, they had the outdoor garden thing and they get really apart as dad and daughter. They just lose their connection. And by the end, they're doing the singing bit together where they, you know, they kind of come back together. I think it's one of the sweetest things I ever saw on TV. But if you don't like musicals, that whole scene is so. I never said I don't like musicals. I like musicals. Nicole, why do you hate everything with music ever? Why do you hate joy? I don't like cartoon musical. Oh, okay. Gotcha. So do you like, do you like Stephen Universe, Nicole?

I do like Stephen Universe, but I didn't like it when they sang either. Oh, yeah. So it's a cartoon singing thing. So you're fun, see, I have the exact opposite problem. I don't like real people singing in my movies. That's when I don't mind the real people. I don't know why I don't like. I don't like musicals with people dancing around.

I'm starting to evaluate like when I don't like the singing. And it's usually with cartoons. The only exception I make is Moulin Rouge. I love that movie to death. from top to bottom that's the one that's the one there's a now i want to probe this like la la land what what won't see it haven't seen it because i don't want to see them singing he's hey he's blade runner he's he's he's supposed to be catching replicants so you're not supposed to be singing what about hamilton how are you with hamilton hamilton i like i like hamilton oh okay so old

people singing well but that's a stage thing that's different than a movie hey hey brian you know though everybody in hamilton is dead now especially hamilton Spoiler letter. Hamilton died. I hate to tell everybody. Well, all right, here's the fun part. All this stuff we talked about, it'll be putting a big ball and shared with everybody. I got it.

Nicole's Twitter, Randy's Twitter. Everybody's Twitter is all firing off on all cylinders. Find it wherever you get it. And it'll be great. Of course, Nicole Spag and Randy Deluxe out there. It's great to have you both back this week. And Nicole, I'm so happy you're settled and, you know, there and all that. I'll find my mic next week.

All right. You said, you know, this worked. So in a pinch, we're all good. Yeah, it's not too bad. We will see you on the next recommendals. See, we're doing the singing. We got the singing. And we're not cartoons either.

They all go. That was fun. All right. Hey, everybody. That's going to do it for the show. But a quick couple of things. Hold on. I lost my.

There it is. Lost my thing. We got a quick email to read right here. Send and receive email. Hi, Scott. On today's TMS says Snap. This was episode 2317, so that was yesterday. You talked about gas prices and the different narratives being put forward on cable news.

As much as I detest those talking heads, I think you were missing the point about gas stations. Most gas stations are owned by franchisees who scrape by with razor-thin margins selling condoms and cigarettes. Favorite 80s band. Oh, they're amazing, right? They would bring down the house when they would come on. They would, yes. died of cancer and sexually transmitted diseases. St.Ds and cancer, yeah.

There's nothing you can do about it. The criticism on the right is that Biden administration is making them into a scapegoat, even though they don't really control gas prices. I would also caution against demonizing the oil companies and executives, do you think they were any less greedy a year ago when gas was $2 a gallon? Gas is a commodity, and its price will fluctuate with supply and demand. What we're seeing right now is mostly the supply shock from the cutting off Russian exports after the invasion of Ukraine.

Love to show, though, snap. All good points, fair points. You know, I don't know. I do not know the ins and outs of how oil companies work. I do know that when they post record profits during a time where gas prices are super high, what else am I supposed to make of that? That doesn't make any sense to me. When McDonald's says our fries are going up two bucks,

yet McDonald's has the best quarter of their existence. Again, what am I supposed to make of that? So you understand the reason why I'm skeptical of billion and millionaires, but, but, uh, but yeah, uh, fair points all around there. Snap is skepticism, for sure. Yeah, skepticism is a healthy thing. If you want to be like Snap and send in your, uh, email, you can. The morning stream at gmail.com. A couple of quick PSAs. Play retro last night. Go get that episode now. Uh, Brian, anything going on Coverville related until tomorrow? Uh, not till tomorrow, but today is assembling music day. So, uh, I've got to

figure out what, what, uh, I've got my, I've got my plan for what it's going to be. We just got to see what I get for it. There you go. Also, tiny update about the Friday plan. So we talked yesterday about, this is for patrons. So patrons pay attention. Everybody else, you ignore this. We were talking about doing our couch party this weekend.

We're still doing it. However, based on a bunch of your feedback. One p.m. in the day, a mountain time is a little early. You know, kind of hard to get as many people there as possible. So we're pushing it to three. Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't possible changes down the road. We're fluid here. at TMS Central.

So we're always willing to wiggle around and figure out the best things. But this week we're going to start at 3 p.m. Mountain. That's 4 Central 5 Eastern. It's not perfect. 2014's Edge of Tomorrow, which should have been called Live, Die, Repeat. That's right. But we're going to love it because that movie's awesome. So we're going to watch that together.

That's at 3 p.m. Not 1. 3 p.m. is the schedule. All right. That's it. Patreon.com slash TMS. If you want to be one of those people, if you sign up now, you're still eligible and we'll make it real easy for you to get in. That's patreon.com slash TMS for Lois a buck a month.

You can be part of that and all the other benefits that come to patrons. Frogpants.com slash TMS for everything else. Hey, Brian. Yes, sir. The song to song time. Oh. Oh, yeah, okay. I've got something. I've got something. Mrs. Taffy guy, Lois, wrote in and said,

hello, Stitches and Band-Aid. Mrs. Taffy guy here. Lois, I'm requesting the song for my husband. Mike, you're from Tad Taffy dealer. Scott, can you give me 13 random three second clips? Oh, gosh. Why 13? Oh, because it's the 13th? I don't know. Oh, well, because it's the 13th. Okay. Here. Um, all right. You know what? We'll do this. That's fine. Let me see. Uh, we'll do. She said three seconds. I can't do it by seconds, but I can do it close. I can do under three. How about that? Here we go. Okay. Do that. Yeah. Okay. That's Nicole laughing weird.

No. That's Gabe Simpson saying no. That's Bo Schwarz making a weird. now and sound. Crap. That's April Ness saying burp or yep or whatever. Here's a, no, here's Amy. Puber. What?

Pup. Oh, that's Arnold, not Amy. Arnie, is what I wrote. He said Pube. Here's, Nick Cage. Here's me yelling. Okay, here's high birdham.

Hi, bird him. Okay. And then, is that I'm at 13? Let's see. Welk me later. Okay. Last one. Here's the last one.

There you go. Oh, and then Trump snorting at Herman Cain's thing. There. That's it. That's all I got. Fantastic. Well done. Lois says July 13th, I'm having a paniculectomy done.

Extra skin and fat removed. I just want to remind Mike that in our hard times, I can't help falling in love with you. Thanks for taking time off work to supervise me and make sure I don't do anything I'm not supposed to. Love the show, bro. can definitely see why you like it, Lois, a.k.a. Mrs. Taffy Guy. Happy birthday, Taffy Guy. That's the one right there. All right, so her request is a cover of Can't Help Falling in Love with You.

Her version that she requested is the Tommy Prophet version. Now, this album covers Volume 1, it came out in 2019, and actually features two different versions of this song. And what's cool about it is they do a minor key dark version and a more upbeat, positive, kind of like the original, major key version. I'm going to play the dark version, because that's the one that Lois linked to.

Here is Tommy Prophet, neither of those words spelled like you think they would be, with a cover of Can't Help Falling in Love featuring, this is featuring the vocals of Brooke, the dark version, from 2019. Awesome. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Have a great day.

We'll see you then. Wise men say but I can't help falling in love with you. I find out falling in love with you. fools brushing But I can't help falling in With you Falling in love with you

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