The Morning Stream - TMS 2332: Dungeons, Dragons and Dives

Episode Date: August 10, 2022

Podcast Trophy measuring contest. The Bluey Cinematic Universe. Teachin' Grandma to Suck Eggs. Eggs are technically eggs. Show Without Merritt. Two Smokin' Hot Barrels and a Monkey. Your list is wrong, Monopoly sucks. Number 198 is Your Mom. Library of Alexandria on Sale at Wal-Mart. Cards Against Huge Manatee. Tanning Shatum's bum. Puzzled Pint: No pressure, only fun. Avoid the Jawa Clusters. Kids Can't Clean Crockery. Spreading it around with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Eggs are technically eggs. That's true. Dungeons, dragons, and dives. Show without merit. Two smoke and hot barrels at a monkey. Your list is wrong. Monopoly sucks. Number 198 is your mom. The Library of Alexandria on sale at Walmart.

Cards against huge manatee. Tanning Chatham's Bum. Huzzled pint. No pressure. Only fun. the Jawa clusters. Kids can't clean crockery. Spreading it around with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. No, girls who park in cars are not really popular. Not even with the boys they park with. Not when they meet at school or elsewhere. This is the morning. MorningStream.

Shut up, baby. I know it. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, August 10th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott.

How are you? A little shock that it's the 10th already, if I'm honest. Right, yeah. Hadn't really thought about it until I just looked at that number and went 10 days in. That's weird. Yeah, it is weird. Yeah. I come to you, though, today with an open mind and excitement.

You mentioned a pre-show, there's Groot dropping today, but I also want to mention that a brand new season, full season, well, I guess it just, I don't know if they do it on Disney Plus, but a new season of Bluey happens today. Cah Bluey! Oh, not Cah Bluey. No, just Bluey. Bluey, the finest show on television, truly. Wow.

True, Bluey? It's a wonderful, it is definitely not true. truey, bluey. It is a wonderful, wholesome, wonderful thing. I cannot wait to watch new bluey episodes. Even as a full adult knowing it's a kid show, but I don't care. I love it that much. Nice.

All right. Hey, I got a story for you. In fact, I even have a clip for the story. So here's story time. Okay. All right, today's story. And bear with me. This one's a little, well, whatever.

I'll just tell you the story. Yesterday, somebody, I saw a tweet in my timeline. Okay. And here's what it said. I'm not going to call the guy's name out or anything. Well, I guess the thing I show up you'd like. No, it's totally fun.

He says, here's what he says. It's messed up how our society values a PS5 more than a book full of knowledge. All books should cost $700 was his statement. And I just thought that was a weird fallacy of comparison and just an odd thing to say. I mean, I get what he's trying to say. Yeah. You know, books, books are important. Of course.

Playstations comparatively are not as important. Yeah. Or it depends on who you are and what you value, which is different for everybody. So it almost makes his argument moot in the first place because not everyone is going to be him. So I said, here's my, my, I quoted it and said this. I said, this is a weird take. Like saying it's messed up that society values a car more than lunch. All lunches should cost $40,000.

At least, or sorry, all things cost what they cost. You can bind and print a book in bulk for $12 retail. You can build and ship PS5s for $4.99. I don't know where I got $700 from, maybe scalper market. I said, how are you comparing them? And so I thought maybe we could have a... This is clearly somebody who's pissed off that he can't get a PS5 still. Clearly, that's what it says to me.

And I said, so I was hoping for an engagement, you know? Sure. A conversation. He replies... A discourse, if you would. Yeah, here's what he replies with. I have three economics degrees. as well as more podcasting awards than you.

I implore you to use facts and logic, and soon you will ascertain the true value found within books. Perhaps if we had read more of them, we would not be having this discussion, question mark. Okay, so a whole response. Well, he put a question mark in it. No, I know, but he didn't phrase it as a question. I agree.

It should be a period. Perhaps if you would read more of them, we would not be having this discussion. Perhaps if he's read more sentences with proper punctuation. We would not have this question at the end of this thing, which is not really a question. Right. I wrote back because it irritated me.

Right. That first sentence just pisses me off already. Yeah, the whole thing irritates me. Here's what I said in reply. And maybe I went a little far. You guys can judge. But I said, you sure about the awards? I have 10 plus a Hall of Fame award.

I don't usually bring them up because I don't need to overcompensate for anything. If you're done swinging your micro penis around, maybe you can address the actual tweet and your understanding of value versus cost. is what I said. Nicely put, very good, yes. His reply, I will now present in the form of a screen cap. All right, you don't have to send this to me as well. He didn't address, yeah, I'm going to send this here right now. He didn't address the question or my statement or any of that.

Sure. Of course you didn't. No, he didn't. But he did send this. Chat, here you go. He says, this one says it all, he says. Oh, really? It's one of those cheap, really cheap plastic.

Trophies with a mic on it that says, his name, podcaster of the year, 2021, I don't know who gave these out or what the deal is. That's the only reply I get from the guy. That's really funny. I wonder if his multiple degrees in economics could tell me how much a $4 trophy net to turn the clout. That cost at least $14 of things remembered. Yeah. I guess so. Do they still have things to remember it?

I don't even know if they do. Do they? They might. That's somebody else's thing. But anyway, what a dumb interaction. It doesn't even work. There's not even a cable attached to that microphone.

What a piece of crap. So my lesson here is this. Yeah, that would say it all. If someone says something that you think is worth engaging with online, don't actually do it. because you're wasting your effing time with people like this. I mean, the first, yeah, you know what, you're right. Because that first tweet, you can read the way that that first tweet is written and

know that he's found his soapbox. He's going to stand on it. And there's no way he's going to say, oh, you know what? You're right. Good point. Let me step off my soapbox. Yeah, he's going to die on that hill for sure. Yeah, exactly.

agree with that. I don't, and I, and, and great, like, I'm glad you got your fun little idea, but why did I think I could have a conversation with that person? Why? Yeah, I think, uh, you should send him a foot of your Hall of Fame, uh, trophy and say, uh, oh, really? This is podcaster of all years. Well, and again, my, you know, I don't like to do that. I know, yeah, this is not a, this is not an EP, you know, this. No, I don't really get into that. But the fact that he brought that up. It was just like, really, like, what does that have to do with knowing, like, oh, I have more podcasting awards? So therefore, I know what, you know, why a PS5 is, uh, less valuable than a book. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's incredibly annoying. Like, everything about my interaction with this guy. And obviously, you know, if you were really good, you'd only need one economics to be. He apparently had to keep going for more because, uh, one of my followers, though, in line with the, with the conversation said, um what what this tells me oh no how did he say it he said it was really funny he goes he goes i'm amazed that multiple oh yeah i know what it is um what i've learned is multiple economic degrees

and multiple podcast awards don't stop you from making a really stupid tweet is what he wrote back to that guy so and i wasn't looking for that kind of fight right i was just sort of like right of course i just wanted to discuss this with you i did have one guy who kind of thoughtfully and chimed in and said, well, for example, would you say that the value of a PS5 is greater than the Alexandria Library and all that's contained within? I said, of course not. That's, it's priceless what you're describing. And also, I can't go to Walmart and go to the section that has the Alexandria Library on sale and compare the price to it. I mean, like, the fallacy of comparison is just stupid. It's like saying, I can't believe you paid $4 for that coffee. That coffee should be worth $16 million a

cup. Right. Exactly. Well, no, we place whatever value we place, right? We just do what we do. right anyway it's a dumb it was dumb what happens if you read books on your PS5 whoa oh what Brian oh my gosh what if I get a book about the PlayStation 5 oh what then all right all right uh anyway long and the short of it is don't engage all right we've given we've given that guy way more attention than he deserves I mean clearly he's had enough attention with his podcaster of the year award yeah he's definitely and you know I'm you know I mean I say this was absolute sincerity um um Um, that might be, that could easily be some sort of prestigious thing that is in a different circle than the ones we are because there are all these different little podcasting circles of like the, the Todd Cochran Awards and then the podcasting Academy Awards and all that sort of thing. So that one is, you know, what it's, I'm sure it is very highfalutin in his area and good for him. Yeah. Yeah. And it just goes to show you when I went up there with Chris Jericho and, you know, showed a, came off that night with like, six awards, curing, juggling six awards

in a photo, Medzula took. And the head of IHeart Radio came up to me and said, I don't know you, but it seems like I should. That's kind of the way

that, you know, I feel about this Charles Austin or not, maybe not the way. I don't feel like I should know him. No. But I feel like, yeah,

that's how these circles work. Yeah, it is how they work. And whatever he won it for, for all I know, he went and had it made. I really don't know. I have no idea. All I know is,

Congratulations, because you got one that you don't have to worry about at the TSA. It's not going to make any alarms go off. Okay? It's just nice plastic. Yeah, don't lick it, though. Probably Chinese lead in there. Be careful. All right, moving on.

Hey, Brian, how'd Puzzle Pied go? Do you get all drunk? I did Puzzle Pine. No, I didn't get all drunk. I had one drink, Scott. God, what are you, my wife? I know, right? No, last night was Puzzle Pint.

And as always, you know, it's a great thing to go to. If you've got one in your area, there is zero pressure. Like, there is no, like, oh, everybody's rushing up there and, you know, turning in their sheets and stuff like that. No, you show up. You show up when you want to show up. You get a packet of puzzles. You, you know, turn the first four in to get the fifth one. If you, you know, if you've got all your answers right.

There's, yeah, they keep track of times, but only there's no prizes. There's no, they don't even at the bar say, oh, congratulations to team brain yaks because they've won, they've gotten it in first, blah, blah, blah. But every month they do a different theme, and this month's theme was the expanse. You don't have to have read the books. You don't have to have seen the TV show, any of that stuff. But they just have a theme so they can tie all the puzzles together. And this one was a relatively easy one for us. We get it done in one of our fastest times, which usually just means that it was easier because we're not that good ourselves.

And so if you're thinking about checking them out, you can, again, as always, download them for free from the puzzle pint.com website and checking them out and trying your hand at them. And each of the first four puzzles are named after characters, you know, your four main Rosinante. characters and God, it's so good. It was such a clever set of puzzles that So when they, so let me get this straight. Because it's not explicitly

about the expanse, in other words, the questions aren't, how many times did so-and-so do a thing? Famous, right, exactly. Instead, it's just like dressing on top of regular questions, or could be regular questions. Exactly. Like, they have a puzzle there where you have to figure out the placement of

several asteroids in a grid, based on numbers along the side. It's almost like a P-Cross or there was another name that I think Amy or somebody had talked about for that type of puzzle. Cicorogram or something like that. I can't remember. And you have to figure out the placement of these asteroids in this grid. And then you fly the Rosanante through them based on some qualifiers.

But that could have easily been driving Fred Flintstone's car through a field of boulders. It could have easily been, you know, Star Wars, pilot your droids, make your droids go through tattooing and avoid the Jawa clusters and things like that. Yeah. Now, that's awesome. I love that. Yeah. And it's a free PDF. Download it, print it, and have some fun with it. And if you need any hints or nudges, because occasionally we do too, we didn't last night, but occasionally we do and we need to go up to the front and say, we figured out this part of the puzzle. We don't know how to get it to this part of the puzzle. um then you know hit me up on on twitter discord wherever and i can give you a little nudge

that won't give you the answer but it'll get you get you point in the right direction yeah well i'm uh i am very i am very intrigued always when you talk about it and then i never i never do i should probably try it you know it would be it is a it would be a great thing for um you and and kim and carter and nick like some you know get together yeah after john belai after the plates have been cleared. Yeah, let's do a few of these puzzles together because doing them as a group is the best part. I need to get, I need to work on my kids clearing their plates still. They've never really gotten that down. They just expect no dessert for you. They expect me and mom to do it. Oh, I get you clearing, clearing their plates that way as opposed to, uh, they're terrible at it. They don't,

they just, they just see it miraculously. Somehow those plates move, go to the sink, clean themselves, uh, rinse themselves, get put into dishwasher and get cleaned. Weird. I don't know how that happens. How does it happen? Just magically. They magically fly into the... How does it work? Anyway, Carter, I am looking at you. All right, let's go. Let's... One more thing I want to tell you about. The most recent episode of Fly on the Wall with David Spade and Dana Carvey

features guest star Mike Judge, who of course did a few shorts for Saturday Night Live in the 80s, one of which was the inspiration, well, three of which or four of which were the inspiration for the movie Office Space. Office Space was one of these things that started out as a SNL cartoon, a short, and got turned into a movie. That's true. Milton. And Mike Judge talks about Hank, King of the Hill. He talks about Milton, Beavis and Butthead, Silicon Valley.

But he also does all the voices, which some of these I didn't realize were him. He does Boomhauer and, no, is it Boom. the mumbly dude that's that's boomhauer and that's definitely him yeah he did um he does well in bevis and butthead's case he did everybody he did everything yeah I mean he's Hank Hill he uh yeah

it's great stuff and and you hear the genesis you hear where he came up with these characters and it's great because he talks about uh Hank Hill and where Hank Hill came from it's one of the funniest parts of the whole show is him

talking about the genesis of that character. Oh, there it is. I just found it. I'm going to subscribe in here. I want to hear that. Yeah. It's so good. Yeah.

Something interesting here. We were, I was talking to, well, it's okay to say his name, I guess, but we were talking about Tanner. Yes. And Tanner's got this podcast. He's been running with some friends and somebody with the same or similar name. Oh, yeah. Call them with a cease and desist or whatever.

Right. Or not our official one. It was more like a. please take it down or I have to get lawyers involved kind of thing. I just noticed when I search for flying the wall, there's no less than, I think we're close to 30 shows all called that. Yeah. Yeah.

Like how in the hell do you do it? That's why, you know, Coverville is named what it is. I wanted something that was searchable that didn't have, you didn't have to try and remember if there was a the or a no the in front of it. Yeah. You know, it was like, I just want something that no one else is going to be like, oh, the, the, uh, two guys talk to. podcast or the husband and wife chat podcast or whatever exactly that's why we did the instance that way

or my idea at the time was i come everybody's called the wow cast the warcraft cast right everybody felt like they had to have cast in the name i hate that so much anyway um so tanner that's for you dude it appears that everybody does this and i think you should tell those guys deaf off and do what you want that's what i think well yeah i mean look if they're going to just send you a hey, we're doing a thing. Okay. I mean, if they've been doing it longer, yeah, they probably will never,

never act on it or anything like that. Yeah, if they send you an actual cease and desist from a lawyer, fine. But until they do that, forget it. Just do what you want to do. Yeah, the other advantage, though, is that, you know, then it's going to make it easier for people

to find you if you switch it to a unique name, but who knows. That's true. The hard part, though, is, well, whatever. Like, it is always this balance. Changing horses midstream is a, is a dangerous proposition. Plus, it just sucks off.

The horses will drown. Yeah, the horses don't know what to do. They're horses. They're stupid. They're going to drown and then when the river dries up, you're going to send them. Changing horses mid-race. Why is the phrase changing horses midstream or am I just conflating two phrases? I don't think it's horses in midstream, is it?

No, I don't think it is. Changing. No, changing Webster, Merriam-Webster. Changing horses in midstream. Oh. Okay. Why is that a phrase? That's weird, isn't it?

There's no stream. Very weird. Yeah. To change plans or approaches in an inopportune time, such as when an effort is already underway, generally considered to be an inadvisable thing to do. Yeah. I don't know what the history of this is, but I would have said, no, that's wrong. But that's right. You got it right.

Yeah. From a 1864 speech by Can't be. Abraham Lincoln? Really? This is where I'm going to put up some. fake information on the paper. I wonder if... From an 1864 speech by Abraham Lincoln

and replied to delegation from the National Union League who were urging him to be their presidential candidate, an old Dutch farmer who remarked into a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams. Oh, don't change horses midstream because you're crossing a busy river and if you do that, you're going to fall in. Yeah, exactly.

Okay. I did a dally mini-surface. for this idiom we'll see what it comes up with oh god okay maybe it'll be good who knows i do like but one of the related searches is don't try to teach your grandma to suck eggs i know that comes from ren and stumpy but it's such a weird it is weird is that where it came from i didn't even know that i thought it was a just thought it was but maybe not i don't know what it is from but i just remember hearing it before i didn't know it was red and stumpy no it is attributed way earlier way earlier than

Renan Stimpy who first said it the notion of advising that offer advice to those who are older and more experienced well okay so it's saying 1542 but then the 20th century

with this quotation attributed by the reader's digest to Mark Twain though not proven to be authentic when I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could Hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished. No, that's a different thing. That does mention grandmas and sucking eggs.

I don't know. I don't know. I'll keep your grandmother suck eggs. I can't find anything on it. That's just because my search food is bad. Happy, happy, happy, happy joy, joy. The space one, where they're in space, right? Is that the space one?

I think so. No, no, no. Well, it's from the song Happy, Happy, Happy, Happy Joy, Joy. Oh, I thought that first appeared in the space episode where they first said that. Oh, maybe it did. That I don't remember. It's been ages.

I don't remember. And now I feel weird watching him because John Kay's gross. Oh, here we go. Oh, really? Oh, shit. Oh, he's super gross, dude. That sucks. Damn it.

Yeah. Letter from Percy Biz Shelley to Lee Hunt 15th of August 1819. But what am I about? If my grandmother sucks eggs, was it I who taught her? that's how old it is dude it is it is nearly no it is 200 years old 200 years old that phrase but when we say suck eggs it sounds it hits us different than they would have said the 1800s because they're actually talking about taking it like a boiled egg and sucking it right is that what they were talking about I assume so I assume so

I can't be like 80s vernacular of like oh man that guy sucks eggs like I don't I still think it comes off the same right probably I don't want to look at Urban Dictionary, but I do want to, I do want to know where suck eggs. Here we go. Sucking eggs. Yeah, it was a way to eat them raw, so not even boiled. Oh, geez. This is like, you're at the Orange Julius and you're like, ah, don't bother putting it in my, uh, my drink.

I'm just going to suck that egg raw. That sounds horrible. Yeah. Horrible. Cretz 89 says eggs are testicles? That is incorrect. They are not testicles of any kind. kicked me right in the

uevos. They're technically eggs. All right. Well, there's that. Yes. Let's do something fun. Let's do something fun. Yeah, I like that.

Let's do that. Hold on. I got to add them to this call here. I'll shoot them in the coal groups. Oops, I'm in the wrong group. Man, there's too much shit going on. Jeez. I know.

We need icons. Can we make an icon for our... We have one. It's got our logo and everything, but... Oh, oh, the TMS one. You know, I was looking at the Brian Dunaway one. Oh, right, right. Because you don't use that one for you.

for this, use the TMS one. Right, right. For some reason, Nicole's in that one. I got a done- well, no, that's a third one. I got a Nicole done-away one going now. I don't know what's going on. Nicole sent us a message, Scott.

Oh, my gosh. Let's find out what that message was. Thanks to Cole. Apparently, I'm not involved in that one. I'm looking real quick here. Were you a part of the final score? No. Oh, it's an old final score thing.

Go suck eggs. We have inappropriate that. one for TMS yeah we're working on it yeah i have that very she so she was showing off the whiskey flask from that show that someone made for us i always forget his name probably joe gates i think it is joe gates and i have that somewhere but i don't know where uh well anyway well no joe gates yeah joe gaits what's what are you doing what how are you today how are you feeling oh hi i've gotten brian i'm feeling pretty good today the humidity and the atmosphere has kind of kind of gotten a little less involved so i can actually go outside and go

is that air i breathe yes it is that air you're breathing you think it's air you're breathing yes instead of soup like i've been snorting for almost a month now you don't want the soup i agree uh we have a listener really sometimes all you need is the air that you breathe i agree with that song song singing song man all right here we got a we got a listener on the line let's find out who this is hi who's this hey this is a really hoopy fruit in the chat it is a really hoopy-free for your chat. Yeah, it's good to have you here. We've had you at least once before, right? Once before, about a couple months ago. Okay. Yeah, my memory is serving at least some purpose these days. Anyway, welcome to the show. Here's the deal. Brian has to explain what this is and how it works and what you'll win, Brian?

I am legally obligated to do this. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, really, hoopy-frewd, uh, Belgium, man. Uh, 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 F-1-2020. God, I hate one. F-1. Oh, F-1.

Oh, F-Murray, Abraham. Exactly. And, uh, uh, main assembly, which is, uh, that's where they have the, uh, the spirit, you know, the, the pumb, the pomms and stuff like that. That's in the main assembly. Oh, God. The other assembly is where they've got the magician. Wow. Yeah, you're right.

It's so that I can really quickly type a really hoopy fruit into the table here so I can so I don't forget who played today. Nice. Very well done. All right. Let's get to the game. You guys need a topic. Put your hands on your buzzers. Oh, hold on, chat.

Let's show it to you. Okay, we're there. We're there. All right. Look at it. Somewhere around 700 cadpoolers. answered the following question, 23 of them for whatever reason, couldn't be bothered to come up with an answer. And I think that they're, they're just no fun. Here's this question. Here's

your question. What is your favorite tabletop game? Oh, God. Jesus, it took forever. Wow. I know, it was like a weird leg on it. It's a tough one, right? Because you're thinking of the tadpool. Did you need answer? Yeah, I'll give you an answer. Gloomhaven. Someone will say Gloomhaven. Gloomhaven. Show me Gloomhaven. Blue Maven Number nine, great points But there's eight answers Didn't beat it. Brian, the D

Brian the D All right, right The D I'm gonna go My kids are always Bothering me, Andrew You know who you are Let's play settlers of Catan

Settlers of Catan Sure, all right The Catan Show me getting those those sheep resources. Number three. So, very good. Brian, you get possession

of both the board and a really hoopy fruit. You've just taken possession of one of our listeners. How do you feel about that? Nicely job. Hi, Hoopie Fruit. I feel pretty good about it.

Yeah. You guys are a match made in heaven. So what do you guys think? Yeah, yeah. Hoopie, what do you think, man? I'm happy to be with Brian here. Yeah, yeah, no, it's a good call. That's right.

That's right. You got a tabletop game in mind, or do you want me to pull one from the hat? I'm surprised that Katan wasn't number one. I thought that would have been the first one. Yeah. Which kind of makes me think that a more obvious one is up there. Yeah, I feel like maybe a classic, like, monopoly or something has got to be up there. No, I think if nothing else, it surely is on the board somewhere, and surely we'll get us some points.

give us some monopoly surely yeah don't call me sure wait wait wait oh oh you were still talking was he still was still talking i think i think monopoly is one that people just love to hate yeah i do i love to hate it yeah i'm with you i don't love monopoly all right show me monopoly number one number one answer on the board wow look at you nail it you know so all those people that say they hate it are lying their line. Maybe. Well, or, you know. Or trolls. The whole whole. Or troll. Vocal minority. Always a vocal minority when you hear people who play. It's true, including me. I'm very vocally, but minority about how much monopoly sucks. I know a lot of people really like it. Not a fan. Yeah. I like it.

I like it. I like it. That was a good one. I'll tell you what. You get monopoly deal out. You got a deal. I'll play that. That's a good game. This thing. I will, I will say, well, no, I won't say anything. I was going to say it. It doesn't, it doesn't hurt help the game if I say one person said Monopoly deal. Oh, they did? Really? Well, once again, Vulcan minority. What are you going to do? It's a great game. Why not? Anyway. Do you have another one you want to try?

Or you want to pass it back to me? Well, I guess I have a clarifying question here. So what are we considering tabletop games? Is that including car games? Is it like board games? If you can play the game on a tabletop, then it's a

table top game. So so everything fitting into that is fair game, right? Other than setting up a PlayStation console on a tabletop. I'm going to keep my Beavis and Butthead comments to myself today. I've consumed a lot of Beavis and Butthead this week, and I'm just trying not to. Anything you can do on a tabletop is considered a tabletop. It's fair game, yes.

Why don't you take the next one and I'll think of one? All right, then, you know what? this may be controversial, but I'm going to say, I like to play my 20-sided dice on the top of the table, a.k.a.a. The D&D. Please. Oh, duh. The dungeons and the dragons. The dragons with the dungeons in them. Yes. Uh, all right. Uh, show me dungeons and or dragons. Uh, number two. Of course. Not a lot of points, but that's some low hanging. Yeah, I'm still ahead, funny enough. I'm still, I'm still in the lead. I'm out. You're right?

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Three points. All right. What do y'all's got? Yeah, another one. All I'm doing is, go ahead. What do you think about, like, cards against humanity?

Is that still big enough? I think we should give it a try. Why not? Let's spin it. I think it may not be as popular as it once was, but I think it's probably still going to be on the board and maybe give us some points. I hate that game, so much. All right, show me cards against humanity.

Oh. Number 11. Oh, I felt like you should be there. Yeah. It should have been there, yeah. I hate that game. All right, let's go with, I do have control for the moment.

Why don't we go with just left my brain. Shit. Hold on. Oh, uh, munchkin. What was it going to say? Munchkin. Oh, Munchkin's great.

Yeah. All right. Which, which version? Oh, any. Uh, well, do I have to be specific? No, you don't have to be specific. I like vanilla. I like vanilla as well.

Vanilla munchkin. It's the tastiest. Show me munchkin. I like going to Dunkin' Donuts and getting a whole box of munchkins. Oh, they're the best, aren't they? Good old John Covalic art. I love me some munchkin. Number seven, by the way.

for those listening and not watching. Oh, man. Scott's killing it with his obscure answers. Yeah, if he picks all this stuff on the right side and you pick all the stuff on the left, Hoopi Fruit is not going to walk away with a couple really hoopy games. I'm just going to say it. I'm going to go ahead and guess that some, okay, I want to make a disclaimer.

Let's pick all the games you hate, Scott. I'm just going to do a disclaimer here. I'm about to say a thing that I promise you is not, this is not. self-promotion. I just, I have a feeling that maybe it got mentioned. Maybe level, maybe 10th or something, but I'm just going to say it. Did anybody put Rock Runners on there? Rock Runners, maybe. You know your audience. It's pretty smart. Show me Rock Runners. Damn it. You guys. Number 15 on the list. All right. So, yeah. That was a pretty smart.

Yeah, I'll take that. It was a smart run because you know your, you know your audience, right? Yeah. Maybe they'd sneak it in. It's all good. All right, back over to Brian and Hoopie Frood. Hoopi? Do you have a... Hoopee? Well, we know that the Tadpool is pretty nerdy with their tabletop games.

If Dungeons and Dragons came in second, what do you think about, like, Warhammer 40,000? Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Oh, there are a lot of Warhammer fans over there in the Tad Pooley. So, yeah, I think it's a great guess. I love 40K. Listen, for all my hate for Monopoly, all my love is for 40K. Love it. Oh, cool. Look at that. All right.

Although I've never played the tabletop game. I've only played the video games. The video games. I like all the video games. I like the lore. I like everything about it. I've read three books. It's all great, but I've never actually played the tabletop game. And I even have a bunch of tadpullers made me a bunch of pieces. And they're over here beautifully sitting looking awesome, but I don't play. I should probably do it. Anyway, did they get it? All right. Show me.

Just waiting for you guys to see. Stop talking. Show me Warhammer 40K. Oh, come on. Number 12. Again, another one just out of the top 10. Every time I think I know the tadpool. Right.

They disappoint me. I know. Just a bunch of disappointing Fs is what they are. Scott, control back over to you. Okay. What's the railroad game, German game? Shit.

It's called Railroad Thomas I'm trying to remember the name of the damn thing Thomas the tank engine No You're gonna put them on the table I suppose What's it called? Ride my ride

Ride my train train ride Remember the guy Oh Sorry I just looked at it I'm ticket to ride Ticket to ride All right

Ticket to ride Ticket a ride Uh, show me ticket to ride. Scott, again, right in the right side of the, uh, the chat there. I hate you so much. Or right side of the, uh, board, I mean. All right. Um, hey you.

Oh, boy. Uh, may your, may your ticket to ride be straight to happy town. Yeah, straight to happy towns where I want to go. Straight to happy town. Um, okay. Boy, howdy, am I running out of ideas here? uh let's go with um i mean there is

you know you guys certainly can look at the chat room by the way because they don't know they know what they put but they don't know what uh i've always told you that they don't know what i didn't think we could look there but they can you know the crap they throw in there might actually throw you off oh i like this so we went from we went from jeopardy to will a four what is it was yeah yeah exactly there's like listen this is this is family feud you remember like all having those other family members all yelling stupid answers at you while they clap like seals at the circus. Yeah, that's true.

All right, let's do the one with the disease and the whatnot, the pandemic. Let's do that. Sure. All right. Show me a big pan of Demic. Yeah. You know, like I said, don't always follow Charming. Number 14, pandemic, by the way.

I was worried when he said, look in the chat room. Why not? You're not going to get anything. I mean, every once in a while Something they says is, you know, is an answer, but I'm getting up, pulled up, hold on a second, okay, do you have one? I have, look, how I've been playing it is just going through my mental closet. So I have a closet in our living room, and it has all the board games in it.

And I'm just kind of like flipping through those. But who mean, if you have one. It's a good way to do it. By the way, you are going to need a lot of points. You're going to need that 10 and some other ones or the 8, 4, and 5 just have a fighting chance. Scott's going to run the board.

It doesn't matter. That's a terrible answer. I think you should take this one. I've gotten this so far 1 point and 23 almost points. Now I'm worried. Oh, my God. I just feel like, I think it's just in the, when did you ask this question? because it's been the public conscience lately.

Operation has been everybody's mind because I forget who said it, but I heard it one time about a year ago. Someone said, the guy on the operation, you ever notice he's wide awake? And it seemed like everybody seems to be making that observation now. It seems to be...

By the way, his name is Cavity Sam. It's not just called the operation guy. He's Cavity Sam. Exactly. Don't touch his funny bone. May I play? Says the mom on their way downstairs. Come on now.

Right. It's also, I mean, you know, with the shortage in the medical industry, right now, they are taking people who just played a lot of operations kids. Do we have an emergency? Anybody here play operation? Operation anyone? I could really quickly find a red bulb. All right. Show me. Don't touch his funny bone. Oh.

Operation. Where is it in the list? That one's not as high. surprisingly. Oh, I thought I figured the Tadpool out. Well, now if I run the board, he wins, right? If I get all these? Oh, yeah.

If you get all these, yes, correct. So, all right, so here comes phase two, Del Boca Vista. I was going to follow up with, like, King of Tokyo, because it's like one of my favorite games. Well, you can't be giving me answers now. You're three strikes down. I can do what I want. You can suck a duck. You're the only one that can play, and we've got to run the board.

That's right. You do what I want. So here's what I'm going to say. I'm going to say, The obvious one, I can't believe it took me this long to have it popping in my head. I was thinking of Wizards of the Coast and other stuff they do. Magic the freaking gathering. Gosh, dang it.

Of M. T.G. Really? T. T.J. Put it out on a tabletop. All right. Show me all those land resources that you're never going to get out of your hand. What?

No. Magic the Gathering, by the way. Number 20 on the list. I said King of Tokyo, Scott. Wait a minute. How did Brock Runners beat freaking Magic the Gathering on the list? That's insane. me yeah see you people uh king of Tokyo i mean you'll be king of Tokyo by the way surprising also uh not higher because the game is so good uh yeah not even uh there it is 61st in the list i've never played king

Tokyo you should check it out i don't know what that is it's a great game yeah yeah uh well surprisingly the last four on the list are all games that are older like you know the the newest one on here is one that came out in the 80s. Number four. Connect four. Got a risk for the biscuit for the biscuit. Risk. Number five, of course, getting a nice boost recently from a mobile game that I think most of us played. Scrabble.

Yeah, Scrabble. Number eight had a movie based on it. Clue. Clue. Oh, get a clue, Scott. That was in every, okay, okay. I mean, that makes sense, right? Yeah, it does mean. It's popular. People like it. What's number 10? People like those old. Listen, Monopoly was number one. So you got to think that a lot of these older games are still super popular, including number 10. Oh, come on, turn. There we go. Trivial.

Oh, man. Hey, was, what's the drawing one? Pictionary. Pictionary, not high on the list. I'll run down the rest of these. Carcassan, number 13, rock runners, as I said, number 15. Sorry, betrayal at House on the Hill. Chess, code names.

Again, another one that I thought would be higher. Terraforming Mars, life or the game of life, wingspan, backgammon, dark tower, or return to dark tower, since some people pick that one up. Root, Secret Hitler, Uno, Yahtze, Axis and Allies, Exploding kittens. Exploding kittens. Seven wonders, hero quest, splendor, checkers, dominion, Lord of Water, Lords of Water Deep, which is MTG, so that actually should, that would have moved Magic Gathering up to 18th place. Oh, sweet. It would have helped. It would have helped.

One night, Weirwolf, Parchisi, poker, sushi go sequence, apples to apples. Oh, really another covalic, right? Yeah. Battleship, beer pong, candy, beer pong, candy land, Chinese checkers, mansions of madness, dominoes. It goes on and on. And nobody said, your mom. Nobody? actually one person

I swear to God because one person said it and alphabetically it's last the hundred and ninety-eighth entry in the list is your mother oh who wrote that you chuckleheads Amish Overlord no One Night Werewolf and Secret Hitler are very different games there's some similarities in the way

they're played but Secret Hitler has a lot more variety and depth to it and movement to it than one-night werewolf. Yes, indeed. Well, here's the sad news. No winner today. Yeah. So I have to play. Do I do a thing for that?

Hold on. Loser, loser. Chicken, user. Chicken. I'm trying to find one here. Oh, you know what? I'll play this for you. Where is it?

How about that? I can't. You lose. Dragon beef. No, that's dragon beef. I can't find any of that. But I do know that it was awesome having you on because who doesn't like a little hoopie fruit in their life and one day you'll win.

I'm sure of it. I won today. But don't worry. This thing will be carried forward, guys. Yeah, these prizes will be available next week for somebody. And then you compound them, right? You add something to it? I do.

I add something to it every time. Nice. All right. So watch for that. You mix them up in your little medical thing there. What do you call it? A little grinder thing. What do you call it?

I grind them up. Hassel. Was it? I grind them up like my extra Pikachu's and make something new out of them. Yeah. His little medical thing. He calls it. What is it called?

What is it called? Oh, mortar and pestle. Sure. Mortar and pestle. Why is that a medical thing? You mean like making herbs? Because you grind like, well, herbs and they used, you know, alchemy or in, uh, creating a paltus, creating a nice poultice. Yeah.

How do you want to grind this up? Do you have a medical thing? Use that. That'd be good. Use the medical thing. Uh, done away. Always fun having you on last night. We did a play retro.

Everybody go check that out. It was great. Good time. We talked about the Beavis and Butthead video games of the 90s and how those tie-ins paned out. Now, if they're any good today, if they're even worth your time, well, you might be surprised what we had to say. So check that out.

And, of course, Brian has a stream. He does all the time. Where do people get it? How do they get it? What do they do? No, what they do is go to twitch.tv. 4.S. Brian Donaway. I stream most every night.

6 p.m. Eastern Time, but not tonight. but tomorrow night, yes. All right, we'll kiss our butts, bye. All right, he's out. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be joining us, and we will be talking some really important, cool tech stuff. So stick around for that.

We've got recommendals after that, but we need this song before we do any of it. Well, let's go to The Syndicate, who sent me this one, and thank you to the label, the fine label, The Syndicate and Shane over there. This is a brand new album by a performer named Wow.

Why am I saying it like that? Because there's two A's in it. So it's W-A-A-A-X. It's a five-piece from Brisbane, Australia. Led by Maz DeVita, lead singer Mazdavita. This is great. Like, if you like, as I do, if you like some of the harder-edge stuff from Olivia Rodriguez

or even the new stuff from Willow Smith, two artists that I never thought I'd like as much as I do, or a little bit of Paramore. If you dig that stuff, you probably don't like the brand new album from Wax called At Least I'm Free. Here is the first single from that album. It's called No Does. I just like the stuff you buy to keep awake as you cram for that test. Just like What's Her Face from Saved by the Bell.

Here is No Does from the band Wax. I don't want to die Get a no dose from up the street Up to straight Hit it that I always take you back Hit it that you want to just change me I don't need a map Because I'm too dumb to ever leave

Ever leave Speed into a red light Thinking that's a green light Waiting for a car girl crass we can't try, we can't see no one's in

the driving scene no world control no world light so bad wind don't shake watertight watertight

it's back the brain no no world No Oh I'm I should Never should have let you call me

I never should let you take space I don't want to die And I hope you forget my name Forget my name You If we run We never know We fall around

I'm sicker looking at we shields I want to know how clear it feels To be in the door a light Thinking it's a green light Waiting for a car crash We can't shop We can't cheat No one's in the dry

The chief No, oh, whoa Chawley No, oh, chow. So why we don't change One in twice And the crains No world

It's odd No world's shot Running from night Running from night Raleigh Running from night Running from night We can't see

No one's in Try to see No, oh, oh strong Oh, oh Oh Light so wild Window shade

Born and rise Just what the face No Oh Oh Oh You know, that's my lady. Oh, la, you say it's your birthday.

It's my baby, too. Don't do that, okay? You know, my favorite type of weed was cocaine. The morning stream, the next best things in sliced bread. All right, we're back, everybody. Regale me in the information about that song, if you don't mind. I shall. That was the song No Does by the band Wax, WAAAX, from the brand new album.

At least I'm free. Oh, I love it. It's great. It's really. good hard-edged stuff. Nice. All right. Yeah.

On that note, maybe Tom Merritt isn't here today. I thought he was on vacation, but maybe not. I don't know. Maybe he is, and I'm just dumb. Well, let's see. I just texted him. Oh, he won't be there.

Oh, shit. I forgot. My bad. No worries. Okay. You're right. He's gone. He's not here today.

He's, uh, there's something. One of us pays attention. You really do. did, because I completely forgot he said anything. He must have said something. I didn't remember until I got his Freetam newsletter last week that reminded me. So, yeah, I shouldn't, I don't get, I shouldn't get any, any credit. Yeah. Well, for whatever reason, I spaced it. But that's okay, because we'll see if we can get Randy and Nicole in here early.

Why not? Do you think we can get them? It's a little early. It's a little early, but I'll bet we can because it's not that early. I mean, if not, we could do, we could answer three, quick questions from the tadpool. We could. Oh, we got a Randy. We already got a Randy.

Let's see if we get a Nicole. If we don't get a Nicole, then. Then maybe we'll, and we could still answer those with a Randy while he's here. Randy, do you like being called the Randy? Do you like that? How do you feel about that? I just know that I, that I don't, I don't know. I don't know, man.

You don't know? I wasn't ready for that question. I know. Nobody's ready for anything. Well, I'll tell you what. We're going to, okay, here's what we're going to do. We're going to, and while we bring Nicole, who, who Probably needs to be texted.

I'll do that real quick. Okay. Because she doesn't know we're doing this early. Yeah. Whoops. This is not early, by the way. No. You guys usually get to this segment about this time.

Well, it's usually around. No, no, no, you're crazy. It's a lot. The problem is usually 10.05 to like 1020 and we pull you in. I am crazy. You're correct. You're crazy. I'm not crazy.

You're crazy. I know. Yes. Thank you. Okay. All right. Good. So are we going to have breakfast when I'm out there?

I've got to figure out my schedule because we're doing. a ugy-buggy night, one of those nights that I'm in. What's Oogie Boogie? Tell me what the hell's that? What's Ogie-Buggy? That is, oh, it's, it's, uh, cool. It's like a, um, so they're closing the Disney California adventure to the public and, uh,

opening up to a portion of the D23 Expo attendees. And it's basically Disney California Adventure, you know, nighttime. They've set up trick-or-treat trails, but done it as Disney, as only Disney can do. so like really done up you're going through the enchanted forest and stuff like that and uh um the rides will still be running so you do guardians of the galaxy mission breakout at night you're doing cars land at night uh should be really cool and then we give boogie is there okay he's the one he's the big uh ghost-looking burlap dude that from uh nightmare before christmas yeah yeah so to answer your question yes uh i have been i have been

all up in the oc uh subreddit lately And it's like, there's just something about it. It's just wild. It's like, I wish everyone had their like local, not local local local, but like their area subreddit with crazy people in it. Just like, you know, like it's just so fun. So anyway, like the, you know, what happens in a subreddit like this one is every single day, someone says, where's the best Thai food in the O.C? Where's the best Hawaiian food in the O.C? And so what I'm aiming for is where in the Anaheim area is the.

the legit breakfast. I don't want the buffet. I want the legit breakfast. I want an old woman with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth, serving me pancakes, and calling me sweetie. God, I wish there was a DuPars close to Anaheim. I don't know why there isn't, right? Like, acts that sad chicken and waffles place that was really good the first time I went

there and then just went downhill and put a change it to a due to Pars. Sure. Yeah. DePars, it sounds like the only place to ever eat ever. talk to Brian. It sounds like they're almost amazing. If you want a pancake, it is the only place to ever eat ever. Yeah. Why would you want anything else, honestly? I mean, it does sound good. I would eat it right now.

Like, let me have some. I have had so many mediocre breakfasts in Anaheim, California. It's unbelievable. That's because they know it's like people there are trapped, basically. They know that people have taken a super shuttle or a lift or a taxi to Harbor Boulevard, and they're stuck there, whatever it is. harbor or you're just like staying in a hotel area and there's like a buffet every block and you're just going to you're just going to pay whatever oh 47 dollars for some breakfast foods or sitting in a warming tray yeah let's go i'll go out on a limb and say i think the breakfast at the

hilton uh there in anaheim just right by the convention centers actually the breakfast there's actually pretty good it's not bad yeah it's all right it's like the marriott the one we always go to the on sunday morning oh the buffet yeah it's not bad but it's very expensive and I just want the old lady with the cigarette hanging out of her mouth. I think Shojo Beach should contribute to this conversation. I think Tom Robinson should contribute to this conversation. Yeah, you should tell us what we're missing out on because you guys live right there now. You know, what do we?

I mean, Shojo lives in Las Vegas, but. Oh, that's right. She does now, but she used to live in central California. Oh, that's right. That's right. She was more in the Bakersfield area. That's right. That's where all the meth is. That's where all the meth is.

Oh, hi. Tom Merritt is out today. Hi. He called him sick. Thanks for letting me know. I did. We didn't know until right when the show started. Right when the hour started. I know.

It's our bad. It's the only warning we could give you. I think he told us last week that he was gone today, but for some reason, it slipped my mind. So anyway. But here you are. You're fine. You're good. Right.

How you doing? It's a need to know basis. Right now, I need to know. You need to know. Welcome to the, it's a shortened version of our. our theme since we're starting a little bit weird. But it's good to have you here. We were just chatting about living in the O.C.

versus other places and where a good breakfast can be found. How is, how, if you had a great Missouri breakfast since you moved? Have you been like, oh, man. Well, no. Sort of. Okay. Well, thanks. I was, so, we found a great diner. It was a really good dinner.

I have to imagine it's going to be a great breakfast. Okay, got you. So you found a place here. Was there a cigarette? hanging out of your waitress's mouth? No. Oh, that's too bad. Is there a cigarette... Is there a cigarette hanging out of any other part of her?

She just... Oh. I mean, I don't know. I don't know what people do. I'm not here to judge. Can't kink shame. Well, anyway... Did you hear me?

I said there were ants on the table. Oh, my gosh. There's ants on the table. I don't... I mean... There's ants everywhere in the state. Oh, is it an ant... It must be a very anti...

What's up with that? What's up with that, Nicole? Is it... Is it like an outbreak? like an ant outbreak? I don't know. An ant outbreak. There's a bunch of ants.

According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, they, let's see, they have more than 700 species representative ants in the state, it says. And it says, they will come black, brown, reddish, or yellowish. They live in colonies.

Let's see here. There's a prominent kind of ant where you live called the acrobat ant. So watch for that. Does it do flips? It doesn't say, it says, it doesn't say. The kind of ants that show up in like kitchens and, you know, restaurants are these teeny tiny little ants and you just kind of smush them with your finger.

Yeah. It's a fun game. Yeah. Smush them. Do you lick your finger out? It's either that or you do the mayas on the placemat, but one of those two. Well, all right. This has all been good.

Let's do recommendals. We're going to start with Brian. And, I don't know, we'll mix up the order a little today after that. But, Brian, why don't you explain this here clip and what we're doing? Well, okay. This is a very, this is an introductory clip to a TV series that I watched. And I've talked about a little bit, I think maybe even talked about on the show, wondering if I was going to like it enough to recommend it.

And I'm still, you know, it's like a recommendal with an asterisk. I enjoyed it, but this is definitely not going to be for everybody. and it really it was a satisfying season season two might be the next one to kind of like our son everything is satisfying I love that

that's so satisfying all right let's do the by the way the clip does say the name of the show so listen for it and see you can find it okay here we go little game while we listen all things change

how we respond to change is our choice to fear it or embrace it resisting change leads only to one fate our own extinction the moon a universal symbol of freedom and peace chosen by icon as a setting to learn from the past in order to grow toward a brighter future The global mission has developed I.O.

An unprecedented machine learning technology. The tool to repair centuries of damage here on Earth. To bring home real-world solutions to problems we had thought unsolvable. However, we cannot rely entirely on technology. We, too, must evolve. Those on Moonhaven offer us a new way of living, a bridge to peace, to health, to the future, a path forward that will not only begin to heal our Mother Earth, but also ourselves.

The bridge offers us each a second chance to play a crucial part in its success. On the brink of this new dawn, ask yourself, what will the bridge mean to you? Oh, sign me up. I want to go there. I want to live in that. Sure. And by all accounts, looking at it's beautiful, right? This is Moonhaven. And it's an AMC Plus series that just wrapped its first season finale about a about a group of scientists who are sent up to the moon to work on atmospheric problems and basically solving some of the problems that we're experiencing on Earth using an AI called I.O. The company sends them up there is Icon. You heard that PSA from Icon there as the

clip, basically getting them up there in a way to not get distractions or affected by the political stuff going on on Earth, not, you know, in the actual atmosphere of Earth, but actually get them up there to try and solve the Earth's problems. And they're up there for generations. Like, this is not like a, we sent them up last week. How are things going? This is, no, they've been up there for a while, up there long enough to develop a different kind of

moon speak, you know, some different slang and some different terminology and things like that. Making it very similar, like I'd basically say this is Lost meets the expanse, but not as good as either of those two shows.

But it kept you going. Kept you watching. It did keep me going. And I'm, and I'll watch season two when it comes out. It's got you know, it's got Dominic Monaghan speaking of Lost. It's got Charlie from Lost. It's got Emma McDonald is your main character, Bella Sway. She is a pilot that is hired to bring this envoy, Indira, from Earth to the Moon to kind of like herald

the bridge that is being, basically the bridge is this event where they're going to start disseminating some of the information that they have created with IEO to the Earth to start start using it. Were they just sent there and left there to their own devices then? Like, are they... Kind of.

Yeah, there's been... It feels like there's been little to no communication between the Earth and the Moon during this whole process. It seems really odd.

It does. Just from a premise standpoint. It's kind of a big jump like, all right, we're sending you to the moon. So far away, we'll never be able to communicate with you.

Let's see how things are going. But this idea that like, we know that this is going to work to save the Earth, but also it's generations, which I presume is hundreds of years probably at least 100 years. At least 100 years is like you and you have no tie to what they're doing it. That doesn't make any sense to me.

That's weird. It's a little bit of a jump right there. And not the biggest jump in the series, but certainly a little bit of a jump. There's a murder in the very first episode, the very first scene of the very first episode. And one of the first ever, maybe even the first ever on Moonhaven. And that kind of sets this stage for Bella's arrival, the envoy's arrival. Joe Mangonello's in there, freshly shaven Joe Mangonello, or at least at the beginning, he's kind of a freshly shaven Joe Mangonello.

Other than that, Cardine Hardison, not a lot of other people that you'd recognize. But, I mean, obviously, Mary Brandy Buck. And, like, is he the star of the show? Yeah, of course, Mary Brandy Buck, yeah. Well, you should have asked me to mention Mary Brandebuck. Is he good? Is he good? Dominic Monaghan?

Yeah, Dominic Monaghan. Oh, oh. Oh, I was thinking of like an actor. I never realized that was Mary's last name in Lord the Rings. I was thinking M-A-R-Y, yeah, Mary Branderbuck. I don't know who that is. Yeah, who the hell's that guy? He's good.

He's one of these mooners. He's basically a one of a pair of detectives that's hired on the moon to solve the murder. and so but he because they don't have crime on the moon or haven't had a lot of crime on the moon

he's he's basically completely inept at solving crime even though he's really excited about he really wants to solve this murder he's you know not not very

not very good at it did they do the whole thing wherever if you're on the moon you develop differently your bones are different you got the gravity deal and all because this IO has managed to create

IO and I kind of managed to create this atmosphere, this bubble around this one section of the moon where everybody lives. It's kind of this weird green patch that kind of rotates around. And so what's kind of cool is they can open that bubble selectively at any time to, if there's a fire, for example, they can open a little section of it right above the fire and go and that fire is immediately snuffed or or suck somebody out into space or whatever. It's a cool. It's a cool. premise. And then like, you know, this artificial, not artificial, but this amplified gravity means that they don't have to worry about people floating around, that they'd have to spend some extra special effects money on and that sort of thing.

Sure. So it's good. Like, it kind of reminds me a lot of those things that came out after Lost that all tried to do the thing that Lost did, whether it was Flash Forward or Terra Nova or, you know, a handful of other things that all came out the same time. This one's better than those, better than all of that. Still not as good as lost, still not as good as the expanse, but probably as far as like what it feels like, it probably borrows the most from those two things. Interesting. Yeah. I feel like I would. Earthers meeting mooners and having this whole language barrier, language difference that they have to get past.

I feel like I should always be grateful for just whatever science fiction we can get because it's rare these days to get a good series. whatever. It kind of is. Yeah. I'll watch this. That seems all right. What was the Apple? Was Dominion? Was that the Apple TV one? No, that was Foundation. Foundation. Yeah. And that's based on some really, really like important science fiction novels. And I don't think they nailed it. In fact, I think they really struggled, especially toward the end. That thing was great right up until a point. And there was lots of talk of like COVID interference with like production and stuff. But it was great until one day it just was bad. And it just fell apart from like, oh, right. Because,

that had the pie man in it had what's his face yeah he's great in it yeah he's good as he ever is but and everybody was good in it it's just like you could tell there was a production glitch at some point and they just had to phone it all in to get it done and it's really unfortunate because it started well and it's of course you know revered source material and that thing was a bummer that's too bad uh i've had you know a few things that i've uh recommended recently that are AMC exclusive. So, like, if you go on and you basically pay for a month of AMC, watch Moonhaven, watch Duel, of course,

better call Saul is on there right now. What else have I? Kevin can F himself, I think, is really good. Hearing good things about Rogue Agent. Oh, I really haven't watched Rogue Agent yet. Madman is on there, right? there's the old that was a show yeah yeah definitely i don't know if it's the only place you can see madman but if it is i think if you haven't seen it then yeah damn right go watch madman damn straight uh

well all right then i'm gonna probably watch this so yeah it's it's good and i'd love to get a second opinion from somebody else who's kind of along the same sci-fi mind as i am to to see what they think of it i i just i'm always so glad that rotten tomatoes wasn't around for star trek the next generation because like moonhaven is currently at 65 and 45% on rotten tomatoes. It's like, hey, it's their first season. Imagine if Star Trek the next generation's first season had been rated by everybody. Yeah, and had it been the only season. We would not be looking back very fondly on that era. We probably wouldn't have we probably wouldn't have had multiverse of madness cameo the other day. You know, like there's a lot of things

that would have changed. Right. Yeah. All right. Well, excellent stuff. Let's mix it up here a little bit and go Randy next. Randy, what do you got here? What am I playing? A show that has a show that has put out two seasons over the last two years is awesome and I desperately want people to watch it what you're going to get here is to two main characters I don't know main characters the two most prominent characters and they're kind of meeting each other she is a renegade and

this is a sci-fi show by the way she's a renegade she's gone to a planet to do something that she wasn't instructed to do and he is a moral relativist and chased her down to try to stop her from doing it and it's a, yeah, it's a sci-fi show. And hilarity ensues. All right, here you go.

Yes. Enjoy. What's it doing? It's shooting butt webbing at a tree. It looks pretty piss. Well, I hope you're happy. You lift your post. Oh, I'm so sorry. I made sure that some humble farmers who can't afford to wait for Starfleet bureaucracy to notice them

got some help so they didn't have to starve. How did you even know these guys exist? Because I was here for first contact, last year on the keto, before I got my ass demoted and transferred to the Cerritos. Well, I didn't know that. I have served on five ships, man. I have seen stuff. One time, I got trapped in a sentient cave for weeks. You ever been trapped in a sentient cave?

That's a dark place that knows things. I almost got my head taken off by a singing crystal. I've been in a Klingon prison where I had to fight a Yeti for my own shoes for no reason. He was just being a dick. You've been on what? Four planet? Five. include Vulcan? Of course I don't include stupid Vulcan. You may as well count Earth. I was

counting Earth. You don't know anything except what's in your manuals. Since you can't think for yourself, how about you follow my lead? And maybe we'll get out of this alive. Ensign Boimler to Cerritos, too, for emergency treatment. Oh! Are you insane? We can't just beam out of here? These guys need that animal. Even if it eats us? General order, fine. Fine. Okay, how about we stun it? We'll just stun it. No, that could spoil the milk. Spoil what milk? These guys probably milk it. Oh, like you even know. Oh, Take off your pants. Mariner.

Five ships, Yeti shoes. I am always right to take them off now. All right. This is lower decks, right? Is that the deal? Oh, my God, guys, if you have not seen this yet, it's lower decks. It's the Star Trek animated series. It's an adult animation.

If you have not seen this yet, it is the time. You are now required to watch the first two seasons of lower decks because season three starts on August 25th. And I'm here to tell you, this is a show that has no right to be as good as it is. This is the first animated series that is fully in canon for Star Trek. So everything you see here crosses over constantly. It references all of the other canon series constantly. And in the, is it in the second season or the end of the first season, you even have some next generation characters show up.

and then they're they hang around for a couple of episodes sure um it is just so fun it's so funny scott please watch lower okay i'm gonna do it uh i noticed jack that was jack quade talking yeah from having a real fresh from the boys yeah having a moment here in his career he's in that uh oppenheimer thing coming out uh oh cool with killian anneson nolan christopher nolan movie killian killian the man murphy murphy he was he was talking to uh tawny news Um, Beckett Mariner, who is a ensign by choice, so to speak. And there's some, if you haven't seen this, there's some interesting little secrets about this character. But lower decks is obviously, but the title, it's about the people who are not in command, not working on the bridge on a starship.

And of course, their starship is the saddest starship. The Cerritos is literally named after a California town that everyone considers nondescript and sad. and um like it just everything about these folks is it's so star trek yet at the same time it draws on so many things that you've seen in other adult animation right show creator is one of the rick and morty writers um there you're like if you've seen things like bob's burgers and archer and so on like you get you get where the the humor is going to be coming from sure i'm i'm all in on this one now that i actually now that i actually surprised I was subscribed to the damn service.

I can watch the freaking thing. Because for a long time, I was a holdout on Paramount Plus. I don't know why. Just kind of held out. It's like, eh, you guys can't make me come over there, you weirdos. And I finally did it. Hey, is the Spag family, a Star Trek family? Mark is a Star Trek fan.

A newly Star Trek. Yeah, he's, I mean, he binge through. He likes this show so much. He ordered the monthly T-shirt. Really? Wait, they make a lower-deck's loot crate or something? It was a lower-deck t-shirt monthly subscription. Really?

So every month you get a different shirt? Yeah, you got a different shirt every month with different characters from the show. I'm ordering this right now. Yeah, I kind of want that. That sounds all right. I'd say this is, you know, second to strange new worlds, which is excellent. This is the next best thing to come out of the Star Trek world since. And the rumor, the rumor is that Strange New Worlds is going to fly right into Lower Decks in season three.

Really? Oh, my God. That's the rumor. Okay. I'm in down. I can't, I have a hard time really believing and understanding that because, uh, oh, lower decks. That's right. Lower decks takes place, uh, so far after a Strange New Worlds. Like, like, we're talking about like a hundred years or something.

Like, it's a, so I don't know. Yeah, that's right. We talked about that. Maybe it was Stephen or somebody that said that somehow the lower decks folks are going to appear. And we didn't know how that was going to be if they were going to show up as an animated thing on the screen or, yeah. Yeah, but they make references that are so blatant that sometimes you wonder if they want to keep any kind of continuity. Like, there's a, there's a reference in one of the early episodes of Lower Decks to the Enterprise theme song. Oh, wow. And it's like, okay, I get that you're referencing the Enterprise, but apparently you also know there was a TV show. I don't know what to tell you.

Yeah. Huh. That's good. I don't know why I've been putting this one off other than, I don't know. Like, I didn't have a service for a while. Yes, Nicole. So I have a special guest standing next to me. Oh, you do.

And she wants to recommend something to you guys. Oh, I'd love it. hear it cool you want to talk to them i'll give you my headphones here my little free of blueie came up i know blueie's brand new yay blueie season three i'm so excited are you excited yeah i'm watching it are you watching it already finished it or you just started it okay well there's lots you like blueie oh i'm so excited i love Bluey too. That's awesome. And is Bluey your favorite? Yes.

Yeah. How about your brother? Does he like Does your brother like Bluey? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Say bye bye-bye. We made the mistake of asking yes, no questions. I apologize. She woke up at 6 a.m. this morning. She goes,

level three, Bluey is out. Oh, that's level three. Level three. We've been pretty I'm excited about it around here, but I think she maybe takes the cake. If she got up early for it, she's the one that's the most excited about Bluey. Bluey's just so great. I think it was Nicole who introduced me to Bluey years ago. Just on a show, you said, yeah, my kids love it.

You should check it out. It's way more than... This was on an early recommendals, yeah, I think so. You were raving, and I thought, oh, it's a kid show. How good can this be? You were like, you undersold it. It's so good and so wonderful. I can't wait to dig in myself.

And I don't even know if they'll be there for it. It'll mostly be me, I think, sitting there. Oh, I'm surprised he's not watching it right now. He loves it. He's into it. It's all he wants to watch. But what I'm saying is, do I have to wait for him to come over to see it or can I just start it? No, you can't just watch it.

You watch it again with him. Yeah, that's what I'll do. Then I'll know what's coming. They better not make me cry because some of those episodes make me cry. Yeah, they're good. I mean, especially if you're having, I know for me, I have challenging moments as a parent. And there's times I watch it. I'm like, all right.

Okay. I don't know. I just feel a little better. Yeah. There's something about these cartoon dogs. We get a balloon. Yeah. And that's all he wants to do, by the way.

He comes over and asks where the balloon is because he wants to play keepy upy. It's insane. It was being very impatient right now because she wants a popsicle. Oh, well, popsicles and bluish. I'll be right. I'll let you go, Scott. Oh, okay. I'll swap with you.

I just want to say one more thing about lower decks. It's, you know, we're two seasons in. and they've cast this show so great. And it's a lot of voice actors that you might not know. It's Eugene Cordero, it's Don Lewis, Jillian Vigman. But they also like, they've got Jerry O'Connell in the right role for Jerry O'Connell. They use Paul Shear as a walk-on in a few episodes. Phil Lamar.

It's just like the voice work is so good. It feels like everybody wants to be on this show. show right so it feels like they didn't have to go ask jonathan freaks to be on the show like he was he was asking them you know because he was down to clown yeah sounds like he was in no matter what uh well all right then i'm going to go ahead and start this one so um i thought about doing pray today i didn't do it because uh as much as i loved it i know everybody in our circles are kind of watching it and certainly the audience or are planning to watch it or planning to it's not like so if it hasn't seen it yet Nope, not yet.

It's great. I just, I really can't wait to talk to you about this movie. So like, please. I'll have it watched before we meet on a Film Sack Saturday. Oh, that'd be a good pre-show discussion on Film Sack. There you go. That's a really good idea. Yeah, let's do that.

I'm telling you this is, it is not important, but it is great. It's really great. It's great. If you like anything about 80s, action, Arnie, stupid, cool IPs that were established then, And where they are today, the good news is, it's in good hands right now. It's real good. Oh, yeah. Cool.

All right. So instead, I watched an older thing that I never saw when it came out. I always meant to. Lately on FilmSack, we've been getting like our fill of Jason Statham for some reason. Just Jason Statham wall to wall with these transporter rewatches and all this. And it made me think, it's actually our show that inspired me to watch this because I thought, you know, I haven't seen some of his more recent work when he's back working with Guy Ritchie making movies and Guy Ritchie and him of course famously did two smoking hot barrels in a monkey

or stocked into smoking barrels and I love that movie he was also in Slit or Crank or no not crank what was it called the one with Snatch Brad Pitt Snatch that's the one it's not slit at all is it's not slit at all And I really and I really really really like I really like Guy Ritchie movies like I'm a kind of a sucker for them especially when he does like hard-hitting mafia, British action-y stuff. Yeah. And there was a movie that came out a couple years ago that I finally decided to see. I'll play the clip and then we'll talk about it.

Here you go. Yeah, no, please. Don't get up. Good to meet you. Let's see. Hill. Hill. H.

I'm going to call you H if that's okay. They call me bullet, which is ironic because I certainly don't move like one. You ready for target practice? Ready. I saw you had your pistol license already. So this is the pre-assignment training course. We got eight hours together, popping cans off walls and the like. You need to hit the 70% pass mark.

There's some fitness, which by the looks of it shouldn't be a problem for you. We just need to see how you are under pressure. Should we get started? Whatever you say, Bullet. Whatever you say, Bullet. Okay. The movie is called Rath of Man. This came out in, where is the year?

I don't. So it's 2021. 2021. So just last year. It's a movie starring Jason Statham in the main role. That was Holt McAllenny, who you heard there. Get some Bill Tanch all up in it. Trench.

Yeah. Love him. Josh Hartnett in a role I would never expect him to be in, but he was in it. Scott Eastwood, complete dickwad in this thing. Oh my gosh. What a bastard. Oh. Now, it's good.

He's good, though. He's really good in it. I need Scott Eastwood to play good guys. It didn't happen. Jeffrey Donovan and Andy Garcia. bunch of other people. Las Alonzo, we were just talking about the boys. He plays MM or Mother's Milk and in the Boys. Big imposing black dude. I really like him. Anyway, really good cast. And the premise of this thing is basically, it kind of gives it a way to say, so I'm not going to

really give it away. I actually think this is worth watching and it's new enough. I think it deserves some spoiler avoidance. But it's told, the story's told from these different perspectives. and movies that usually do this, I don't like. Like when they tell a story, you go, oh, okay, that's what happened. And then later they retell it from a different view. And you're like, oh, that changes things. And then a third time different view entirely.

You're like, whoa, that really changes things. And I usually don't like that. But I liked it here, and I liked it in that recent Ridley Scott movie with what's her name from Killing Eve. And I can't think of the name of the movie. Anyway. Oh, Jody Comer. Yeah, what was the movie called?

Yes, it was the last duel. Last duel. That was really well done version of that. This is a bit like that. Same story told three different ways, maybe even four total. And I think it's really well done. In fact, I would say the middle section of this thing felt like heat in terms of quality. I won't say this is as good as heat.

All right. I'm not saying that. Heat is an all-time classic heist movie. But this has some trappings of heat, we'll say. are the are the different retellings are they do they change facts or are they just different perspectives it's new it's different perspectives and then those facts get revealed so what you think is going on at the first part you're like why and then later you're like oh that's why and and who you think is good is not and who you think is bad might not be and statham i think is

putting in his best work there's still a lot of oh oh yeah i know we need to get down there there's a lot of that but he's very good at this i think it's probably his his best acting i've seen i can't think of something i liked him better in in terms of acting because he's given a lot to do here and everybody's quite good in it um uh freaking jeffrey donovan always mesmerizing to watch i don't know what it is about that guy but i just love watching him do things and i forgot to mention niama algar who plays dana you know her from uh Uh, raised by wolves. Um, she's not the main girl, but she's the one hanging out with Vikings guy at first.

They're the two that's sort of escape together. And she's, she has a really, really thick accent normally, but she plays. She does this American thing just fine. Anyway, she's very good. Her, her name is Irish. So you have no idea how to pronounce it. I don't know how to say it. Nyama Algar is the best I can give you.

It might be pronounced like Nish or something. You have no to you. Right. Yeah. But they're all really good in it. Some of them are smaller parts than others. I think Holt McAllenie, just I find him mesmerizing, even though he's always the same guy.

Like, it's really not. He doesn't have a ton of range. But he just is just great to watch. Anyway, highly recommended it is the pronunciation. Yeah, there you go. See? See? I wouldn't have never known.

Letters in there that aren't even there to start. That's right. It's the lucky charms, everybody. That's what they're called. Rath of Man, available now on, where did I watch this? HB. Amazon. Amazon Prime, thank you. That is correct.

And I think if you like that kind of stuff, mobster, heisty, action, one of the coolest soundtracks I've heard in a while, definitely see Wrath of Man. It's very good. All right. And, yeah, dude with tattoos on his face. What's his name? Post Malone. Post Malone. That's right. He gets, he's a very small part, but Post Malone gets a bullet in the face. And he's not there very long. Thanks for telling us. It's not a spoiler because it's a total throwaway character. There's nothing about it that matters.

I can promise you that. You'll see it and go, oh, Scott was right. There's nothing to this post-malone roll. Except he looks the part. He looks like some freaking scuzzy bank robber type dude, and he fits it well, and he did a good job. I just looked it up. His character is named Robber No. 6. See what I'm saying?

Yeah. They don't even give him a name. So there's that. Poor guy. He deserves a name. Do check it out, though. Guy Ritchie at some of his best, I think. I'm going to watch the gentleman next, I think,

which is supposed to also be very good. All right. Hey, Nicole, you're back? Yeah, you've got the Popsicle Bill situated. Awesome. I'm going to play your clip here. Anything you want to say before I play it? I almost brought it up last week,

but I decided to save it for this week. All right, let's see what we get here. It's kind of, it goes into the trivia game that you guys were playing the movies that need to be remade. oh yeah okay right oh right these movies 80s movies that are ripe for a reboot this is a romanceing the stone type remake i mean it's not but it's very very close and i loved it all right let's see what we got hit and play now Oh, holy Christmas! Are you okay? Are you okay?

Do you think you could get me out of here? Yeah. Oh, okay. You just flew out the car. I did. I did. Indeed. Okay. I got you. I got it. Can you get me out of the chair? You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. You're right. Is that a nail filer? Yeah. Can you just whip it? It's working. Maybe next time I toss a gun at you, you can catch it instead of ducking.

How about the next time we toss a gun in you say, hey, Alan, catch! And then, you know, maybe do that before you throw it. Well, here is a synonym for catch. No, here is not a sentiment for catch. Okay, in a colloquial kind of way. Yes, it is. You say, here, I toss you a sweatshirt. You say, here, I toss you a pen.

How about just, hey, catch, gun. Anything that you want to throw, and I'll catch it because you've said catch. So this is, I didn't see this, and I keep hearing, I should see this. So tell me what's your love of Sandra Boy. Oh, my goodness. I didn't know anything about the movie. We were over at my mom's eddick. It's on Amazon Prime.

So you can watch on Amazon Prime. Okay. Hold it a second. Why did this movie get taken off of Paramount Plus? It's a Paramount movie? I don't understand that. Money. Yeah, licensing.

Money and who knows. It's the same way with Disney Plus. There's so many Disney movies that aren't on Disney Plus because they're licensed to other streaming services for that period of time. That's true. Yeah, they want to make the money, man. They got to spread out. Spread it around is what they do.

So we didn't even tell them the name. What's the name of it? So the name of the movie is called the Lost City. You heard Sandra Bullock and Tatum or Channing, Tatum Channing. Tatum Channing. Roll with it. Roll with it. It also stars Daniel Radcliffe and somebody else famous that I'm not going to tell you because it's actually a fun part of the movie.

Mateo and I were just kind of hanging out. I was like, I wonder, yeah, this is. is a PG-13 my mom had seen I go so it's okay and she's like yeah yeah there might be one scene that you need to you know shield his eyes from

um was it was the the scene with the drop trow the drop trow oh the leeches scene no I let him see that yeah that's fine it's just chase he's got one of those yeah as long as it's not

Stephen Lang's butt I see he's in this as well I like him, Stephen Lang. Anyway, keep good. Yes. Yeah. So I said it reminds me of romancing the stone because Dander Bullock plays a writer. She writes, you know, romantic novels and Chatham Chattem. Channing, Tadham.

Chatham. Channing Taitam. Chantam Tating. Anyway, he is the Fabio of her book. he's like the model on the books. Okay. So she's trying to come back with another book and they meet at this convention. She gets kidnapped.

Hilarity ensues. Yeah. I really enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun. I was, I was, I mean, don't expect the world from this movie, but it's fun. Yeah. I've heard a lot of people say it looks that it's, they went in thinking it just be a throwaway, romantic comedy thing and they came out going that was great i would watch that again i would

recommend it to anybody i talked to which seems like pretty good you know going with low expectations come out pretty happy that's a great yeah it's a great description yeah yeah yeah it is it is you're romancing the stone reboot that we we didn't know we were getting basically yeah and you're by the way your secret uh co-h or co-star that just shows up is apparently yeah in the trailer. In the trailer, yeah. They're not hiding. But it's still, I mean, if you want to have a little surprise,

not go looking for it. Just watch the movie on Amazon Prime. Yeah, go into me. You may have a little pit in your stomach or something. Don't worry. You'll feel better after, you'll no longer have a pit in your stomach after you see it. I will recommend, I will recommend watching the credits. Oh, yeah.

There's a little extra bonus scene. Oh, yeah. But my mom goes, oh, I didn't know that happened. And I just turned it off after it was over. Yeah. And how fun is it that Sandra Bullock is 16 years older than Channing Tatum? It's such a reversal of how these things usually appear in movies. That's true.

True. She's still so, she is so, still so attractive. My gosh, she's pretty. And yeah, you're right. She was born in 64. He was born in 80. So, yeah. God, that guy is in his 40s now.

That's amazing. He's in his 40s. Right. 40-year-old Tatum chanam ching. How's Daniel Radcliffe? I heard he was good. Is he pretty wackadoe in this? What's his deal? I feel like Daniel Radcliffe plays a good bad guy. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. I'm pleased. Sorry, I gave it that away. He's a bad guy. He's a bad guy. Yeah. Also in the trailer, so totally fine. Yeah. I feel like they say that pretty early. He's the bombastic bad guy. Like, he is. He's the Hudson Hawk bad guy. yeah which is totally and you kind of hate them and it's like yeah sure good he's gonna get it

well uh check that one out where is this one again i'm sorry you said where it's on prime em was on prime boy a lot of prime today yeah no kidding i finished the boys season three last night oh it's good man did you like it yeah i love the whole season but i've been waiting for all of we finally started obi won uh yesterday oh i'm not i only got two episodes into that so i'm you're of me probably well yeah you already finish it yeah no no it triggers my oCD to start have you hear you talking about starting a series and not finishing it like you're i won't be able to sleep get a full night sleep until you watch that last episode of loki scott i know it's gonna you know what keep not sleeping because i know you're so good i know it is i really like it i just got to finish i got to watch

the last one and tonight tonight tonight uh-huh please let me know so i can sleep tonight there was a kid at my son's school that dressed up as a variant and I thought oh that's cool that's great I don't want to spoil anything I was about to ask which variant but I don't want to spoil anything anyway so check that out soon you'll hear me say I watched the last one and Brian can finally sleep that's what we're looking forward to Nicole and Randy go and smear these things all over the internet once we're done so if you're trying to figure out what we watched they'll put them up on their Twitter accounts in the Facebooks and the groups and all the stuff.

So watch for that. Not my Twitter account. I'm 10 days off of Twitter and it's been. Oh, look at you. It's been nice. Yeah, it's been real nice. I need to be. I've got a quick TMS.

Like if you guys, I don't know, one of us should be saving all the work for everybody else and sharing the links that we get from putting these up so that the rest of us don't have to keep searching for weeks. Maybe we should just create a spreadsheet. Yeah, everyone loves a good spreadsheet. Spreadsheets solve everything. Yeah. No, look.

played eb online. But anyway, it's also on quicktms.l. Yeah, quicktms.coms. As if we needed a place, it already exists. Go check it out. Uh, that'll do it for us. Thank you both for hanging out with us and, uh, have a, have a really great week. You know? Oh, okay. All right. Still don't know how to hang up on both of them well, you know? No. There's no, there's no, there's no hang up on two people option in, uh, a discord. There's not. Hanging up on all three of us. I have to do them one at a time. And I can't be even unceremonious about it. It's all weird. I'm going to figure that out. Workshop it. All right. That's it for the show. Thank you all for listening. A reminder, just a small reminder,

that we're powered by your contributions over at patreon.com slash TMS. You'll always get an ad-free bonus episode laden version of the show every day, plus monthly stuff that comes straight to your door, among other things. Go read all about it at patreon.com slash TMS. And for all your other inquiries or needs, head on over to frogpants.com slash TMS. And as far as shows go, what's going on today? I have DT&S. I guess not with Tom, but with whoever's covering for him. With some sort of substitute. Tom substitute.

So I'm doing that. Do you got anything today coming out or anything going on? No, today I prep for tomorrow's coverville, which I can tease will be in Olivia Newton-John tribute because I kind of have to do that. So if you've got a request of a cover of or buy Olivia Newton-John that you want me to consider for the show let me know coverville at gmail.com nice to get that to me zanadu can't wait for the zanvue yeah well that'll definitely be on there there's a great venus hum cover of that song oh venus hum venus hum although i have a version of it that is completely by

electric light orchestra without olivia it's jeff linds singing instead of uh weird john weird weird weird yeah i mean he wrote all that so why not right yeah exactly i think he did my sisters my sisters were obsessed with zanadu growing up So was Tina. Tina used to roller skate to the music and jump up and down on the trampoline to that music, and she loved it. Yeah, they really knew their target back then. It was that, and the anti-musical that was out at the time. Sure. And, oh, one other thing my kids were all into, or my sisters. Oh, ponies. They're really into ponies.

Oh, into ponies. Yeah, ponies everywhere. What's this? Sorry, someone's a ride with, oh, it's my breakfast order. Thank you very much. My chef, compliments to the chef. Okay. May tanning Chatham, watch over you. All right. Let's get to the song here. Do you want to take us out?

Yeah. This one was sent in by Mike Andrews. Hello, Stitch and Bubbles. One month ago on July 9th this year, two days before her 20th birthday, my beautiful, amazing daughter, Gabby, passed away from a brain aneurism. You two have been a major part of me learning to be a father over the past 10 plus years, and I'm so appreciative of that. I'm requesting that you play a cover of Jimmy World's song,

Here You Me. This song has been in my head since she passed because, like the song says, Gabby had a heart so big, God wouldn't let it live. Thank you so much for being there consistently and for sharing your stories about parenthood so that all of us in the audience

can learn what it means to be parents. Rest in peace, Gabby, may angels lead you in sign Mike Andrews. Oh, man. I can't even imagine what you must be going through. and, of course, our hearts are all heading your way. You know, we're all thinking about you and sending you our love and support.

This cover that you requested, Mike, is a great one. It's a cover of Jimmy Worlds, Here You Me, covered by the band's Sad Boy from a single that they released in 2019. Here is, Here You Me. There's no one in town There's no one in town, I know, you gave us someplace to go

I never said thank you for that thought I might get one more chance what would you think of me now so lucky, so strong, so proud I never said thank you for that Now I'll never have a chance May angels lead you in

Here you me my friends On sleepless roads the sleepless goal May angels lead you in What would you think of me now? So lucky, so strong, so proud. I never said thank you for that. I'll never have a chance. May angels lead you in?

Here you meet my friends On sleepless roads the sleepless go May angels lead you in And if you were with me tonight I'd sing to you to you. Just one more time, a song for a heart so big, God would let it build. May angels lead you in, here you meet my friends on sleepless, sleepless, go. May angels lead you in.

May angels lead you in. Here you meet my friends. On sleepless roads, the sleepless goal. May angels lead you in. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. What's the window situation?

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