The Morning Stream - TMS 2340: Red On Air Fluff

Episode Date: August 24, 2022

Fingering the peanut butter. Mmmmmm Vie-eeee-na Sausage. With Great Front seats, comes great responsibility. Real Seaman. Hazel Newts. Mayo On It's Own Is Questionable. Fringe Dox. Ba-Na-Na (Minion voice). Zarik, ally of Lur from Omicron Persei 8. Double check your Hoo-haa password. Bad Acoustics on the Grassy Knoll. Nick Lowe, Fifth Row. You remember that time in Vegas? You might have been drunk. Talking to games With Tom. Less Gunfighty Recommentals with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, fingering the peanut butter. Mmm, vine a sausage. With great front seats comes great responsibility. Real semen. Hazel Nutes. Mayo on its own is questionable. Fringe docks. Zeric, ally of Lure from Omocron, Percy I. 8.

Double check your hoo-ha password. Bad acoustics on the grassy knoll. Nick Lowe, fifth row. You remember that time in Vegas? You might have been drunk. Talking to games with Tom. Less gunfighty recommendal. with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of the Morning Stream.

Well, I noticed it was a little bit cooler out today. Is that a trend of what's going to come, Jim? We can expect that little bit of cooler weather for the next couple of days. We're going to have a good weekend? I think so, Lee. I know I will. Whether the weather's good or not. Come on over to the swamp.

Everyone is welcome. Sit down and listen, punk. This is the morning stream. Good morning and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, August 24th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. And that, as far as I'm aware, is Brian Abbott. That.

I'm a that. I am, I'm that. That's how you identify now. You're a that. I'm a that. My pronouns are that and this, I think. Welcome to this and that. Yeah, that's how I feel some days. I'm a bit of a this and a bit of a sometimes. And so are you. A little bit of this and a little bit of that. Speaking of songs, you went to a concert last night. And I'd really like to know how Elvis Costello is in 2022. And also, you know, did you have any weird experiences? Anybody die or, you know? Nobody died. It was amazing experience. No, first off, holy crap, the show's incredible. I've never been to the Leavitt Pavilion before, and that is a really, really good venue. Basically, it's got all of the

advantages of another venue we have here called Fiddler's Green. The problem with Fiddler's Green is the acoustic stink, right? You've got all these seats in the front area and then a big grassy wraparound lawn behind the seats. And so if you have lawn seats, you just bring your chairs, you bring a blanket, whatever. And Fiddler's Green, the acoustics are horrendous if you're not in those front seats. And even if you're in the front seats, the acoustics are kind of crap. Levin Pavilion, acoustics were just fine. We went, we had seats, we had seats fifth row.

Jeez, fifth row. Can't complain about that. How'd you work that out? Was that a random thing, or did you know what you were getting when you bought it? No, that was Chris Brown buying tickets as soon as they were available. He snatched those up like they were. uh chocolates coming down the line in front of ethel mertz what he did that's intense um and uh uh yeah so that that part of it was excellent but at one point he went in the back to to go get some uh wine or beer

whatever and um uh he said the acoustics in back in the grassy area were great as well so very nice very cool and this is an outdoor deal no matter what it's outdoor outdoor deal no matter what even even the seating area is outdoors it's not even covered if uh if there's rain or anything. The only people that are protected from the rain are the performers. On the stage, there's a, of course, an awning with lights and all that sort of thing. Yeah, you'd need that because you got your electronics up there. You can't get those wet. That makes sense. Now, fifth row, you'd think, because the opening act was Nick Lowe and L'Straight Jackets. L'Straight Jackets, and I've seen those guys before as headliners. Lestray jackets are the, um, the surf rock band

that dress as luchadors basically they've got Mexican wrestling masks on I knew this name was familiar I'm looking at pictures

now I've seen this before I don't think I've never seen them on stage but I've seen this they're fantastic they do

they do a great cover of my heart will go on by Celine Dion from Titanic it's all all instrumental and so they're

the backing band now for Nick Lowe and they've even done they've done a couple albums together and Lostrayjack it's even did

an entire album of instrumental Nick Lowe covers in surf rock style. So, cruel to be kind, half a boy and half a man, what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding, all that stuff covered in this surf rock style. Yeah, there's Nick Lowe, and that photo you just posted. That's Nick Lowe right there in the center. Okay, I was going to ask if that's him in the middle there. It makes sense.

One of the freaking coolest old dudes you could ever see, like, he's got these big old buddy Holly glasses on. Sounds as amazing, you know, just as good. as he did back in late 70s and early 80s with the songs like, And So It Goes, and I knew the bride when she used to rock and roll and all that stuff. Yeah, he looks cool. He's got, even his jeans are cuffed in this. I know, yeah.

I mean, he's, you know, he may be getting on in years, but he's still, I don't know. Like, he still seems like a guy you'd want to hang out with. And he's Johnny Cash's, what, son-in-law, I guess. Oh, I didn't know. related? That's crazy. He married Anita. Oh, I'm getting, no, no, he married Carleen Carter. Oh, okay. Yes. So maybe

somehow. I'm sure I'm going to think it's maybe not a son-in-law, but anyway, there's... They might go to Thanksgiving, but they're at the kids table, is what you're saying. There's just a little... Right, yes, exactly. They may not get to sit with June and Johnny. But, uh, so we're fifth row. And, um, even with, with, you know, a headliner that is, that is Elvis Costolo, Jason.

And so if you're a fan of Elvis Costello, you're kind of automatically a fan of Niccolo because they, they traveled in the same circles. They produced each other's music. They inspired each other, et cetera. Was still surprised that there were so many seats around us that were empty. And we had a friend who came with us, a guy named Craig, a friend of ours, and he had seats. He had his own seats, but they were like four rows back. And he said, well, why don't you just, you know, we've got these empty seats around us. why don't you just come up and hang in our seats and you know hang with us in one of the empty seats next to us

and if the people come back who own these seats then obviously you can go back to your own seat but for now hang out up here and we did this kind of between acts uh he he sat back there for nick low and then uh when we met up between bands we invite him to sit with us yeah makes sense he was sitting there for maybe half a song uh like you know how they play music while the bands are you know one band's coming off the other band is setting up yeah Yeah. He basically was there for half a song and somebody comes up and says, so I don't know if I'm crazy, if I have my ticket wrong or something,

but I think you might be in my seat. No. And we're immediately like, yes, we totally are. We're not even like, what? Oh, let me see your ticket. I mean, obviously, we know this is exactly what we had planned for. We knew it was happening. So I was like, yep, we just invite him to come up and sit with us during the intermission.

And I thought if the seat never got claimed, then he could stay with us. Totally cool. he's going back guys is all right cool he comes and sits sits next to us yeah show starts

Elvis Custle comes out does does a bunch of stuff from his new albums he's I think he's put out like two albums just this year alone and like one or two last year

he's been so prolific during and since the height of the pandemic that it's more album content than we've had in previous years from Elvis and he even did Veronica

It wasn't on the set list. He threw it in, but the dude did Veronica and I made sure to record a little bit of it for you. So I'm going to send that to me or something. So the fact that it's not on the playlist is that significant? Was there like a moment of like people yelling, play Veronica or whatever? No, it was like he's finishing up one song and he's kind of looking back to the band and he puts up his hands and he's like, Veronica, Veronica, Veronica. Like you're like making sure the band, yeah, because it's, it is, um, Pete Thomas and Steve Naive, who are the drummer and bassist, no, I'm sorry, drummer and keyboardist that he's had forever since Elvis Castell in the attractions since the 70s.

They added a second guitarist, Charlie Sexton from Austin, Texas. There's a big name, like, you know, that's a... That's a name I know, and I don't know why I know it. It's a name, yeah, exactly. We kind of all knew Charlie Sexton, but none of us could say, oh, yeah. Yeah, his big song was Yeah, it feels like his name has come up, though, lots, and they just don't know why or where.

Exactly, yeah. So, uh, wait a minute, you said one of the guys, his last name was, uh, Naive, Bill Naive. Is that right? Steve Naive. Steve naive.

So, yeah. Do you think he has, do you think there's like a little brother in the family and they call him little naive? You know what I mean? You think that's a thing? No. All right.

No. Okay. Continue your story. Dad's out there. I don't want to insult them by calling that a dad joke. No. So the show's going on. He's kind of doing his newer stuff.

And the crowd is probably a good mix of, hey, we're here for the greatest hits versus, hey, we're here because we buy every album and we know every track. So once he's done with the few greatest hits, watching the detectives, angels want to wear my red shoes, pump it up, radio radio, whatever. People start sitting down because it's like, oh, here's something. He doesn't actually say, here's something from my new album, but he starts playing something from the new album. And so people sit down. Dude next to us, who was the guy who, you know, asked about the, you know, if he was in the wrong seat or said, you know, he had my seats.

He said, hey, what can I bring you guys? We're like, what? He's like, I'm getting you guys some drinks. Like, we took your seat and you're buying us drinks? Wow. Okay. Sure. So, yeah, we took him up on that.

I had a vodka mule, baby. Not going to turn him down, you know? No. But it just goes to show you, like, you know, there's, there's an interaction that with a different scenario, different people, a different level of defensiveness or smugness or whatever, could have been a much, you know, much worse interaction, right? Sure. Oh, yeah. Dude, just let us have these seats. You don't need them.

Yeah, his seats are empty. They're like three rows back. Go take those or whatever. I can't imagine ever say that to somebody. But just the fact that, like, we took the guys, you know, we had the guy's seat. He came up in, and we talked the whole rest of the concert. He was super cool. But just, what a nice guy.

Like, hey, I'm going to the bar. Can I bring you something? And it wasn't, he didn't say, okay, give me cash. He bought us the drinks. He wouldn't even take, we were trying to hand him money. And he's like, nope, pay it forward. Get somebody else a drink or do something nice for somebody else. Oh, that's nice.

That's good. You guys ended up right next to the perfect empty seat. We kind of did. Yeah, we totally did. Yeah, that's awesome. But, yeah, sure enough, they did do what's so funny about peace, love, and understanding as a duet, as Elvis and Nick Lowe on stage together. I've never seen that. I don't think, I was trying to think of I've ever seen as a cover connoisseur, as a connoisseur of covers, Scott.

I don't think in any concert I've been to, I've ever seen a band cover a song with the artist who did it originally, who was the opening act. Oh, weird. This is a first then. Wow. I think it's a first, yeah. Do you, do you, what do you, I don't know, I feel like that needs to be recorded or something, isn't there like that? I'm sure it was. A lot of people had their phones out. Yeah. Even, even that, like people were really good about reading the crowd, with a couple time exceptions, you know, with people standing up when nobody in front of them is standing up and people behind them aren't standing up.

It's like, you kind of look around and say, oh, no one around me is standing up. All right. Or specifically, you know, the people behind me aren't standing up. up i'll go ahead and sit down for this one you pay for your ticket you can do whatever you want you can stand up if you want to stand up if you love a song freaking get up and do whatever but but there is kind of like a oh you know i'll sit so people behind me can sit and and uh yeah i'm always thinking i can't stand when i'm in someone's way i hate that feeling no no i can't either as if you're people who like thrive for the front row seats they don't realize it comes with a lot

of responsibility. Yeah. You, you directly dictate an entire wedge of an audience behind you whether or not they're going to sit.

Yeah. Uncle Owen or whoever the hell it was said with great seats comes great responsibility. Uncle Ben, I don't know why I said Owen. It's converted rice.

I don't know why I said Uncle Owen. Because you thought Peter Parker was going to Tashi Station and get some power converters. Yeah, yeah. Come home and find his uncle all burned up like a skeleton smoldering in the,

the night, tattooing night. Why did I let that stormtrooper run past me in the hallway? Could have stopped everything. It's your fault, Luke. Why do those stormtroopers walk single file to hide their numbers? Do we know, so are Allison and Veronica? Veronica, like old girlfriends of his or something? No, Veronica is about an elderly woman.

It's about his mom. Oh. She's in a, the song is about a woman in a nursing. home who has all these stories but is disregarded there by the by the staff because of her age and you know and and sometimes they get her name right sometimes they don't and um uh you know it's it's such a sweet song and i think it was influenced by his mom alison has to have been an influence uh of a girlfriend because that's that song is just so uh man it is just so powerful in its lyrics.

It feels like a story behind that. Here's what he says. He says, I found a quote. Good. Allison is a song written and recorded by Elvis Costel in 1977. I can't believe it's that old. It's crazy. Yeah.

For his debut album, My Aim is True on stiff records. Costello, see, he claimed the song was written as an ode to a woman he saw working at a supermarket, though he has remained vague on the meaning, though his song never charted has become one of his most famous tracks. interesting so i guess Linda wrongs so really we don't get an answer

no we really don't there's no answer there not really it's like oh there was a lady I mean he goes in deeper and says something about purting prices in the cash register for some beans he was buying but they oh really so it you know it could easily be Elvis being coy because he does that right

like he's got a very wicked kind of sense of he's a coy fella for sure he is a coy fella he did give us some background on a lot of the songs he taught like when he performed watching the detectives he had this whole instrumental bit in the middle where he talked about

the the as a kid coming home from school turning on the TV and there was some like afternoon detective show on on TV and it inspired him to write this song watching the detectives what basically describes all the things that he was seeing in this movie interesting yeah oh my gosh he was his third

his third marriage he was married in Elton John's house. Weird. Was that the one to cranberries, not Dolores or Reardt. Who was it? Cato Roardon from the Pogs?

Cato Reardon from the Pogs. That was the second marriage. Let's see. His third. Diana Crawl? Diana Croll, yep, that's it. Elton John's house on Incredible singer Diana.

Yeah, so he's married a Pogue. He's married Diana Croll. Yeah. He's a vegetarian, it says here. He likes soccer, big fan. okay uh oh he had uh always had cancer surgery i didn't know about that oh i didn't know about that either in 2018 he cancered all's european tours because the doctor said don't do it he was recovering from surgery to treat cancer uh doesn't say what cancer he had though well anyway

oh grandmother by the way Elvis castello's grandmother uh had Alzheimer's and that was the inspiration for Veronica oh and her name is Veronica that's cute and her name is Veronica co-written by the way with uh paul mccartney oh i didn't know that either yeah man dude gets around dude gets around they've collaborated on a few things yeah from in that era that's pretty cool well all right so there you go brian concert there you go concert thumbs up people at the concert respectful and cool and um but my goodness i hope i hope this is a trend and not just a fluke i mean i mean it could be anomaly do you think i mean you know i don't know there's always there's good people everywhere right there's good people everywhere they just all happen to be here at this concert yeah they were

getting you bear so right that's where they all were today if you're all wondering why your hometown was so shady last night's because they're all at this concert with brian that's right exactly if anybody went to the movies last night and everybody took their socks off socks and shoes off and put their feet up on the glass then then you know why i had such a good night at the concert oh yeah good would you call that a vodka mule i don't even know what that is vodka mule it's vodka and ginger ale oh okay that's just that's it just straight up those two ingredients nothing else we don't we don't call them moscow meule these days god oh it has i didn't realize it's the freedom fries of 2022 oh my gosh is that is that true it's usually called

a moscow mule it's usually called a moscow mule but it's this uh it's this brand called cut water that makes canned cocktails and it's not like it it's a malt beverage that tastes like a vodka mule no it's actual vodka and ginger ale in a can oh interesting oh speaking of vodka and ginger ale in a can i hear one rustling over there let's see what we got here hey do do do do hey it's our very own moscow mule it's uh brian dunaway joining us from south carolina uh probably at work he's he's taking a break hi brian oh oh hi scott and brian hi i had a ristle my my headphones were on backwards i was like oh no i've done that So were you hearing this in reverse?

Yeah, absolutely. Actually, I was hearing Scott on the left-hand side, and you on the right-hand side. Oh, weird. I'm like, I can't do that. Oh, that would mess me up. Yeah, I can't have Scott in my good ear. It's like an old, what do you call it? A Beatles song is what that reminds me of.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. My speakers, bro. Yeah, exactly. I freaking hate that stuff. We have somebody on the line. Let's find out who's hanging out with us today. Hello, who's this? Hello?

fine don't talk to us we don't hear you we miss you perhaps you're listening to our radio I've been having issues with the Google voice so hopefully this isn't representative of that but I don't know hello hello hello whoever's calling from the 740 thing zone I'm not going to give your whole number I gave him a full area code that's all you get

that's like just just skirting the what is that That's, that's, that's, that's, um, fringing, subverting the, uh, the, uh, yeah, the thing. It's a fringe docks is what it is. It's way out there. Subverting the issue. Yeah, he's not here. So I'm going to hang up on this person. I feel bad, whoever you are.

Bye. Bye. Okay, whoever else wants to call in, now would be the time. Uh, 801, 471.0462 because we're going to play a game with Mr. Brian Dunaway here. Yeah, I'll tell you, you know, while you're waiting, I'll tell you the prizes are call of the sea and the Spongeobobob Square Pants Battle for Bikini Bottom, rehydrated. So two ocean-related video games. Oh, my gosh.

Ooh, is this a hint at the tadpoli view? No, it's completely not. There's zero connection. That's a shame. Surrey. And you have failed? You failed just horribly. All right, we haven't somebody else on the line now.

Hi, who's this? Hi, this is Eric, otherwise known as Vampire Monk in the chat. Well, hello. It's nice to have you here. Hello, Eric. Where you from? Oh, hi, Eric. Is it a vampire monk?

Is that what you said? Vampirate. Oh, vampir. Vampir. Don't leave out the pirate there. I love it. You put vampires and monks and a pirate all in one thing, and boy, how you want to suck your blood. Silently.

I hate this thing. Silently. This thing, this thing added call. This thing, no, this thing added call waiting. And it sucks because when it rings, I can't do anything about it. And I can't, there's no option to turn off the ringtone. It's really annoying. Uh, gotcha.

Anyway, hey, well, it's good to have you here, man, because we're going to play a game. Brian right here is going to explain what you could win and how it works. Yeah, it's time to play the tadpulli feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Eric, you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. It's so much more important than, you know, days where we just hand out prizes to random bozos.

No, you're actually going to have to work for these things. If you win, you get a price package that includes the aforementioned games. Call of the C and SpongeBob Square Pants, Battle for Bacany Bottom Rehirted. That's actually a good game, by the way. That's a fun platformer, shockingly. Yeah, it's like you worry about those things. You're like, oh, what a directed TV kind of garbage shovelware. Yeah, exactly, like franchise, based on a franchise.

It's really good. It's actually really fun. Has the voice actors all did work on it. It's great. It's really good. exactly all right so i've been wanting to play call the sea myself for a while interesting yeah you've had you've had call of the call of the sea yeah it's on my wish list but what ain't look brian dunaway's a real seaman i've learned he loves it he's a seaman at heart anyway i'm a seaman all the way back to the to the

genesis game no dreamcast yes go for it yeah why haven't you given me any worms today It was so weird. It really was. All right, let's get to this thing. Put your hands on your buzzers and get ready for this. We asked 813 Tadpool members. This question, two of them passed, chumps two. Just two.

Oh, geez. Come on. Seriously. Aside from jelly, name something you eat with peanut butter. Oh, Scott. Nutella. Show me. Nutella.

It's on there, and it's a good point. Look at those points. That's pretty good. It's Nutella, not Nutella. Isn't it Nutella because it's made from Hazel nuts, not Hazel Noots? Not Hazel Noots. It's a good point. We have always said Nutella here, and it's in me now, so I don't know how it.

It feels like it should be Nutella, right? Because if it was Nutella, there'd be two T's. Yeah. Oh, my God, this is definitely a discussion we've had before. I feel like it. I feel like it. All right. Well, good news is Eric and I are together.

It's not full of frogs. It's not a nutella. Yeah, you're right. Newtella. I don't think five. There are eight answers that'll beat that one, Brian. Right. What do you got?

What goes good with peanut butter? How about Elvis? No, going with bread. Bread. Show me. Show me bread. Oh, yeah. Bread.

Suck it, Johnson. Shuck it. Mine's higher. I wasn't clear when I was trying to get people to avoid peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, but they stole sad bread. Okay. That's fantastic. I love it.

I do that you have to. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. You're higher on the list. So you have Eric and you have control of the board. Oh, I have Eric. What are you going to do with that control of the board? So you've got eight answers still on the board, including that ever popular number one answer.

Right, right. I know several things. But Eric, if you want to give one, I've already given my dumbass answer bread. Well, first thing, by the way, my name is Zerick with the Z. Oh, Zerick. Oh, Zerick. Okay, sorry about that. Zerick.

Oh, you're all right. I'm sorry. Yes, cut in off the top part of that. Is it like Z A-R-A-E-K or is it Z-E-R-I-C? Not that it's so important, but. I spell it weird. It's Z-A-R-I-K. Oh, my gosh.

You're like the Lord of Planet Zebulon 3. I feel like we're on film sack and we've got a Star Trek connection. No kidding. Zerick. That's awesome. That's very cool. All right. All right.

So Zerick. Well, see, the problem is when you tell people your name, you can't say my name is Eric. You got to do, oh. Right. Yeah, I know. I've had to have that. That name would be Zerick.

I'm sure this is nothing new to poor Zerick. Like, how do you get around it? Because that phrase, my name is Zerick. You shout, yeah, what do you have to say? My name happens to be. My name be Zeric. Yeah, my name be Zerick. Yeah, my name be Zerick.

I like it. I let Eric just fly if it's, you know, just strangers like people I'm never going to talk to again. Yeah, screw those people. Yeah, screw them. We don't need them in their lives. Totally fine. All right. All right.

Eric, I think Zerick has that for, for an answer for this. Zerick, who is, I'm so proud of, not everybody would stand up and go, you're saying my name. Right. Yes, you know what I appreciate it. That means he doesn't see us as strangers at a Walmart. He sees us as a. as fellow compatriots. Yeah.

There you go. Absolutely. We're honored. All right, Zerick, what's your pick? What do you think here? So, first thing in the pot in my head that I can't get out is like celery, like Antonal Lodge. Oh, yeah.

Oh, I love, I love celery with peanut butter. It's fantastic. Oh, it's not at all. It's horrible, but people do like it. Wrong. You don't like having Antsona, what is it called? Ants on a little chocolate drops, ants on a log. Yeah.

No, it's disgusting. Idea and concept and execution. you're an idiot it's gross it's nothing's good i'm on team zunaway uh celery that's right that's great but did the tadpole say that is that your is that your guess right right yeah i think so is eric said it if zerick says it all right okay i've already been wrong about his name okay all right show me celery oh yeah yes that's number five which you guys guys scott now you guys uh tie game no zerick you mind if i I take one.

Oh, go for it. Yeah, that was my biggest one. Do it. I live in the South. So if you're not putting you're not putting the jelly with the peanut butter, you're definitely mashing up

some banana. You've got to mash up the nanner. How did we? Sure. That's what Elvis died from, eating a fried banana sandwich. Right. And doing drugs.

And fried banana sandwiches. Yeah. That'll happen. When you mix it with heroin, that works that way. That's how it works. Exactly. It should be peanut butter, bananas and heroin, baby. Yeah, I'll be in the bathroom, baby.

Elvis is left this plane. And a good B&M. Elvis's left consciousness. All right, show me bananas. Oh, number one. Uno, yeah, number one. My southern tadpullers. Thank you. Yeah.

Do you do that, Scott? Do you mess nanners? Or does that offend you like the celery? No, no, no. I like bananas and peanut better. It's a good combo, yeah. Celery is just gross in every context. Unless you make...

Oh, you don't like celery at all. I like it. I like it cooked. Jumbalaya, celery's fine. You know, that kind of real cooked stuff. You like it softened up a little bit. So you don't like it when you're eating hot wings? No, because it's like stringy and weird and negative calories, and I don't like it.

What's your take on dental floss? I like having to use it. when i've eaten celery so i have to use i hope uh i hope dr ross never invites you over for crudette no i don't ever want to go there anyway that guy's a dope all right xeric i took one or do you would you like to take another or would you like to give another answer um thinking maybe chocolate oh shit that was my next one yeah yeah yeah yeah oh you got my peanut butter yeah this This reminds me this time I was just walking down the street and I round this corner and somebody's just eating peanut butter right out of a jar and I'm trying to eat this

chocolate bar and my chocolate goes in his peanut butter and he gets chocolate on my, yeah, show me, boy, a lot of people have no idea about those stupid commercials. Show me chocolate. I wonder if they're, that's actually a good question. That commercial is what, 30, 35, 40 years old. Easily 30, 35 years old. Yeah, exactly. I don't think they.

It's understandable. Plus, it was iconic. It's how they tried to convince us that, well, no, Reese's peanut butter cups are good because these two people ran into each other and they decided it was good. So that's, yeah, that's how it happens. Yeah, that's how it was invented that they would lead us to believe. Yeah. Recy's pieces.

Yeah. Go ahead, Ryan. Yeah. It's weird, though. I mean, I don't think I would judge anybody for walking down the street eating chocolate bar, but I definitely would take, you know, issue with somebody having a whole peanut butter. A hundred percent. If they're walking around with a jar of peanut butter with a spoon, I don't, or however they're doing it. They weren't even using the spoon where they

weren't they just using this? This was like lay 70s. Were they using their fingers? Was it freaking puck? Yeah, we didn't have, we didn't have spoons in the 70s. What do you think this? Oh, Caddy Chipper found the commercial, commercial, by the way, if we want to. You know what? Why not? Let's take a moment here. I'm going to play it. Yeah, let's take a look real quick. Here you go. I'm not going to show it because I'll get pulled down some out. Chocolate. Peanut butter. Yeah, she's just using her finger.

Hey. She's a peanut butter on my chocolate. What? You finger in that peanut butter? Is she eaten it out of a saxophone? And then they got, then they had sex. So, worked out pretty good for both of them.

That's what we were trying to imply that he was sticking his chocolate in her peanut butter. Oh, is that? That she was taken out of the tub with her fingers. Anyway, I'm not going to get on that wrap. Yeah. I'm going to go. So, Zerick,

I, can I have one? Can I do one? Oh, yeah, go for it. I love how Brian, Brian's so courteous today with his, with his co-worker here. He's like, no, may I do one? May I play? May I? May I have one?

I've got to make up ground. I called my friend Zerick the wrong name for almost 20 minutes. So my favorite thing to mix in with the peanut butter is the honey. Ooh, honey. I love to put the honey and the peanut butter. All right. On this, we agree. That's a fantastic combo.

I don't like how Ibitt was surprised by that answer. Oh, no. I thought you were calling me honey. I was just surprised. Oh, honey. Oh, we're in the middle of a game. Yeah, keep your private. They even sell it on the, they even sell it on the freaking, you could buy it with the honey flavor yet.

Do you, what do you, like, do toast and then do a layer of peanut butter and then squeeze your honey bear upside down on it. It's funny that you say it's the honey bear because I actually do have the honey bear, because I can't find any local honey right now. And so I'm having to get the honey bear. Did you guys, what was that weird thing that had the jelly mixed in? What was that called? Oh, yeah. It was, uh, it was horrendous.

It was, uh, B and J for lazy Fs. Yeah, it was totally lazy. You got to buy Guber. Goober. Yeah, that was gross. It was not. The problem with Goober was, it was not good peanut butter and it was not good jelly. Exactly, yes.

And they were together. Miner jelly was okay, but Goober's peanut butter was not great. None of it was. It was a bad combo. It was bad idea. They shouldn't have done it. Give me Peter Pan or give me, give me Peter Pan or Giff, and I'm happy. Yeah, give me gifts.

Either of those I'm completely happy with. Ah, Giff, I loved a big jar of GIF. Give me some Guber great. Yeah. Show me, honey. Oh, you guys are going to win. Sweeping the left side there, number three. You worried me a bit there.

Don't do that again. Okay. The team of Zerick and Brian have completely eliminated the left side. All that's left are 6, 7, 8, and 10. Those are all big points, though. Listening at home and drawing this out on a Post-it note so you can keep track. Yeah. And those are huge points if I get them.

So the game's not over. Yeah, yeah. That's what worries me. Yeah. Like basically, any, if you miss and Scott gets one of those, he either ties or starts leading. So never, never tell me the odds. Okay, all right, then. All right.

I'm not going to tell you the odds. But you have to tell us another answer. What do you think? What do you got? Yeah, I'm going to give Zerick the opportunity to go again and let's take a shot. I haven't tried it, but I know some people put peanut butter on pancakes. At least I've heard of that. Oh, yeah.

I haven't either, but I'm going to. I've had it before. It's good. It's actually really good. All right. Scott, like I've had it before. Yeah, I've done that. It's very good.

Yeah. Yeah, I did it a little bit in college. All right, show me pancakes. Surprisingly, nobody said pancakes, which I would think somebody would have. There's that whole, you know, if you don't have firm pancakes or your, if your peanut butter is not soft enough, you're just going to rip the crap out of your pancakes trying to do that business. Yeah. But just kind of like, don't you warm up the peanut berries a little bit? Isn't that what you're supposed to do? And then you put like that and then you put like, then you're like cut back. bananas on top of it, isn't it? No, I've never tried. That sounds awesome. We did do that. You want it a little

melty and it's quite good. You've got to do smooth. Yeah, you can do it, but it's not as good. You'll rip up your pancakes. You're absolutely right. And by the way, waffles are, waffles are a better place for it. I prefer it. Oh, sure. Yeah, because you get a little bit of a Yeah. We're not going to get in a waffle pancake argument here, Brian Dunaway. All right. I'm going to give you my answer, which I'm going to say is apples. I like a good sliced up apple with some Apple, slice up some apples, put a little peanut butter. Do you dip the apples right into the jar of peanut butter? No, my wife would murder me.

I have to do it on a plate or something. Wow, all right. Which she ain't looking. Yeah. All right. Show me your apples. Yeah. How do you like them apples?

Oh, we're tied. Oh, geez. Tye score. Look at this. I don't like that. I don't like that. No, you don't. I hope the person who doesn't like our scoring is watching right now.

I hope they're watching going, look at this neck and neck game that hinges on these last three answers. Okay, remember that time in Vegas? Actually, you were, you were super inebriated that night. You were very inebriated that night, so I'm not sure you remember this or not. But when we went to that restaurant, we had burgers with peanut butter on them. Do you remember that? This was the night we went to Holsteins and had shakes.

No, no, no, not Holstein. It was one. It was one in MGM, and you guys were running a little late because you were just getting done with the jump off the thing. And we met Jury and me and everybody over there. Do you remember this? Tom was there. Oh, yes, yes. We had that long table.

Alex Albisu was there as well. Yes, that's the place. And Hammond, yes. Yeah, and they had. Well, you were too drunk. I don't know if you had. I just remember you were super out of it. I was sorry if you remember of it.

I think it was the adrenaline. Might have been. It had, so they had burgers with, with peanut butter. So I'm going to say that because I can't think of anything else. A burger. That sounds good. They were good. They were really good.

They were fantastic. Yeah, kind of replaced the mayo, right? That makes sense. I like that. Yeah, it was yummy. All right. Mayo alternative. Show me.

Show me burger. Oh. Number 10. Look at those. What? Oh, I thought I was screwed. truly, truly thought I was out. Here's what it comes down to.

Yeah, there's a great, there's a place here in, we're going to run it called the Dark Horse, and they have peanut butter burgers that are fantastic. I will never shy away from peanut butter on a burger. No, we've only got one strike, and we've got two middle things. I mean, we probably could run the board this thing, right? Probably.

That's what I want to see happen, because I'd like to see Zerick win, or else we'd go back to his planet and a Seminole and Army and attacker. all right oh my gosh kind of out here and we can use it and we can use the the chat room too right of course you can yeah they don't know just like you guys

they have no idea what the last two answers on the board where they know what they might have put but who knows if they were you know if their answers were popular ones all right crackers i don't know what else to say crackers crackers sure like some saltines yeah Ritz. What is? Zestas. Zestas, yeah.

Those would be good. Pretty much any Cracker, I think, could be all right. All right. Show me crackers. All right. So, mathematically, like, basically, you've eliminated Zerik winning on a points. He can only win now if you get this last one. You've got five strikes between the two of you.

There's no way Brian can win. there's no way Brian can win There's a possibility It's here it could steal Exactly Absolutely Good, yes Great way of putting it

Yeah, yeah, yeah All right My next answer is going to be Ice cream Oh, sure Either combined with or used in And we used to stir it in That's what we used to do

As kids I was to stir it in Because peanut butter Wants to get hard Yeah There is a blue bunny flavor Or maybe it's a Maybe it's a Ben and Jerry's

That's got a ribbon of peanut butter In it And it's like a vanilla ice cream with peanut butter, and it's really, really good. All right, show me ice cream. Come up, baby. No. All right, back over to Zerick and Brian.

Zerick, I've seen a lot of people screaming, pretzels. But you consider pretzels and crackers the same. No, definitely two different things. Okay, that's good to know. So go pretzels then. Well, I thought so. Yeah. Go for it.

What do you think about that, Zerick? Some pretzels? Oh, absolutely. Yeah, that's the next one. Yeah, do the pretzels. All right. Show me pretzels. Damn it.

Come on. Pretzels number 13 on the list. And I forgot to say ice cream number 16 on the list. Okay. So it was on there. Yeah, it was on there. The first and last time I'm using the chat room. I'm kidding.

Yeah, yeah. All right. Three more, three more strikes between you. you three and one answer left on the board. The lucky number seven. Punch it, Scott. A bunch of people keep saying Thai noodles. I could see that.

I do love me some Thai noodles. I don't know if... Lots of peanut sauce and peanuts and things like that and different options for that. Sure. Like a satay. That all sounds so good right now. I'm so hungry now. All right.

You know what? Let's go Thai food. I'll just say a general one there. General Thai food? Sure. Noodle. All right. Show me.

Thai food. Shitballs. Thai food. I mean, basically, people did say, yeah, noodle, a Thai noodles slash grill chicken kind of thing. Yep. Okay.

Frick. All right, you guys, we both have a strike left, so we have two chances here. What do you say? What do you got? I like putting, this is one of my go-to little.

I like putting. I like pudding is what you said. I like pudding. No, I like taking, I like taking, I like taking, I like taking oatmeal and peanut butter and a little bit of honey and stirring that all up. Wow. And then going, it's so good. Does it just become one big mass on the end of your spoon, though? It does.

It does. And if you put it in the refrigerator and let it kind of firm up a little bit. Oh. Good. Uh-huh. Drop those things. So are you, what are you saying then? Are you saying

I'm saying Unless Zeric Like rolled oats Kind of thing Or Oh, I don't like it When you start

Getting that kind of area When it sounds like You never heard the idea That always worries me Zerick, What do you think? Yeah, what's your heart tell you?

Zerick. Uh, I want to say cookies. Oh. Oh, that's great. That's a good answer. Going cookies. That's a really good one.

Peanut butter cookies are good. Cookers. Cookies. They've made a whole cookie out of those And they called them nutter butters, sure Is that what you're going with? Cookies

Cookie tastes good Okay, all right Show me cookies Damn it! Are you kidding? Number 18 On the list. All right.

Can I ask a tactical question? Yeah. Did we already blow our chance at anything with, like if I said milk, I'm thinking like a milkshake, that falls in the ice cream category. right? Or does it? Yeah, I would, I would, uh, I lumped, uh, milkshakes into, uh, into I yard. Okay. Okay. I loved all the milkshakes into my yard. That's right. It's better than yours.

It's better than yours. Absolutely it is. Yeah. All right. Um, um, really? Um, really? They got some fluff. They got some fluff in there. Man, if somebody put, if somebody put jelly, I'd be pissed. Oh, do we not say jelly? Oh, do we not say jelly? Oh, jelly, duh No, no, no, don't say that Don't say jelly Because I would have deleted I deleted any answers

Nobody said jelly A few people said jam I had some Those two Okay We had some great yogurt and fluff Yesterday like that marshmallow fluff stuff That's always good

How about cheese? Okay No No You said listen to the chat They're all saying cheese They're not all saying cheese They're all saying one very specific thing, and you keep ignoring it.

It's being said by 90% of the people in the chat room. Here's what they're saying. I got jelly. I got. And at least one, Brian. I got jelly, cheese, milk. What the hell is fluff? All right, fluff.

Give me fluff. Marshmallow fluff. Why don't you say what 90% of the chat room is? Well, they did. I kind of scroll down. I didn't see it. I don't even know what fluff is. is what the hell even is that what is that it's marshmallow fluff no it's how you make a fluffer

nutter show me fluff oh so good oh it's on there damn it there's the stuff that's your number seven oh my god it's that it's that it's that i can't do it because it's too sweet but it's that marshmallow it's like a it's great whipped marshmallow um mass and you have that yeah we combined it yesterday with some uh with some yoga you were saying that's interesting yeah you know what that would be good way to do it because it's it's uh it cuts the sweetness of the fluff the yogurt exactly but a fluffer nutter yeah 31 people uh extolled the virtues of the fluffer nutter which is um peanut butter i've never heard of it it was like totally new to me because i couldn't even see it in the chat room i know it's like serious i'm not even exaggerating why i say

every other person like every second message in the chat room was fluff i was scrolled up pretty high and then I started to see the fluff but then I'm like. I thought they were talking to some guy fluff. I'm just like what is Fluff even mean? What does Fluff even mean? Like now that I know it's a food item I guess that makes sense but I didn't know.

You've heard the term fluff like fluff a pillow. You see the picture of the jar that Captain Kipper put in there? No, is there a jar of it? Yeah. It's more like that one's a plastic tub. I could have sworn I've seen. Yeah, always get the one of this kind of shaped heavier in the bottom. I guess I don't still even even this

You thought they were talking about Fluffy the comedian is what Scott was. Or the fluffing that's done to actors in a certain style of movie. You guys make it sound like the chat room's reliable. That's what you make it sound like. Well, that's true. This is one of the cases where so many people in the chat room were saying it that I really wanted Zerick to win the prize. Zerick, you win. The overwhelming crowd support puts you in a winner's circle today.

And Scott Fletcher has this to say to you. Congratulations. You're a winner. Brian, what does he get, and how does he get it? He's going to get, well, he's got to email me, but he's going to get a copy of SpongeBob SquarePants, Battle for Bikini Bottom, rehydrated, and Call of the Sea. Some of the other answers you could have said, by the way. And I want to question some of these, because a lot of people said them, butter, a popular thing to have with peanut butter in the Northeast.

So peanut butter, we did that growing up. We had butter on one slice with butter and the other slice of peanut butter. For some reason that worked, I can't explain it. The saltiness of the butter probably goes really well with the sweetness of the peanut butter. I think so. It was also, it just made it more, it was a bad term, more luby, like you could chew it. Could it be, are you looking for the term, more buttery? More buttery.

Yeah, it had more butter. Yeah. It was 100% more butter. Both of those things are butter. Dill pickles, which I think means that seven people in the Tadpool are pregnant. Congratulations. People like that. People like that, but I don't know, man.

I've never tried it. I can't, I can't knock it. sounds horrible uh seven people said mayonnaise and i think you need to have your head examined but yeah no that's that's how we that's that's that's the most common one we use uh peanut butter banana and mayonnaise in your mashed banana sandwich that's typically really as a mixture we has a mortar like is it just there for the it's adhesion properties if if your if your banana is too dry and your peanut butter is too dry than the mayonnaise specifically duke's mayonnaise Yeah, kind of walls it up a little bit.

If your banana's too dry, I don't know. I mean, I'd certainly try it, but I don't know. I don't know if I'd be able to get through a whole sandwich. Very much a southern thing. J.C. Calhoun is the only one in the chat room currently that's defending it. He's defending it. He's defending it. It's specifically got to be Duke's mayonnaise.

I've never tried anything else. Really? It's got to be Duke's mayonnaise. It's got to be. They're even heard of that. Six people said, just flat out more peanut butter is what you have with peanut butter. Bacon, epi-pen, four people said epi-pin, or some variation of, I'm allergic, I need an epi-pen. Oh, if you have, yeah, if you get peanut, but I have to have it with an epipen, okay, I get it.

That's right. Potato chips. Two people couldn't figure out. Right, exactly. Cheese, a couple people said cheese, condensed milk, hot dogs, maple syrup, rice cakes. Hot dogs. Hot dogs. What?

And the person, by the way, one of the people who said hot dogs, in parentheses, said, don't knock it until you've tried it, Brian. So you're going right at it. I'm knocking it right now. I'm knocking it off my plate. I'll try it. I'll try it. That seems like something I could make work, actually. I think I'd try it.

Yeah, and your doggerito? You know, peanut butter, tortilla hot dog? Oh, yeah, well. I would try it. Did anyone say tortilla, by the way? Because I do peanut butter on tortillas. One person said tortia. Yeah, it's good.

You know what's great, Scott? What? Vinas sausages and peanut butter. You got to try it. Well, here we call them Vienna. Don't knock it to try it. Did you call them Vianna sausages? Viana.

Viana sausages. Viena sausages. When you go to Italy, do you go to Vaina, Vina? Austria. No, they only sell these at the Piggly Wiggly. You don't understand. You were thinking of a totally different product. No, I'm talking about Viena sausages from the Piggly Wigley.

No, they don't say it differently. It's the same Vienna sausages is what they're called, right? No, no. No, no. Bigley Wigley or else where it's pronounced v.N.S. No, no, no, it's not. Go into Pickley Wiggly and ask them for what you just said, and you will get a look. Okay.

They'll be like, I'm sorry, sir. We don't carry that. We do have Viena. Well, look at shitty slicker who came to town. Well, well, well. Let me just go get your fancy Viener sausages. Byener. That's fantastic.

All right. So you're the big winner is the important point here, Zerick. So don't go back. your planet and tell them bad things. Tell them you visited Earth and we were nice and we gave you things. Send Brian that email. Covervillage email.com. And thanks for hanging with us, man. Brian Dunaway, that was a lot of fun. You know what else was fun? Our episode of Play Retro yesterday. People should go listen to it. We talked about although the cool peak of Sega's arcade time racers from Outrun to the Virtua Fight or Virtua Racing to what else. Daytona.

Daytona. It was amazing. It was amazing episode. So you're going to want to go check that out play retro wherever you get your podcast anything else you want to tell us before you go great tv brian done away no you nicely done all right uh that's gonna take us straight to the break when we come back from this break we'll spend some time with tom merit a little bit of time with the recommendals crew so stick around for all of that brian what song do you have for us i have a brand new song uh from a brand new album the the album is called called Flood? No, and I'm sorry. The album is called Ever Crashing. And it just came out. Big things to flood the source of this music and Grandstand Records had to, like, parse their cleverly

worded press release for this one. Sure. The artist is SRSQ. It's a woman named Kennedy Ashlyn, but she performs under SRSQ, which makes it really easy to find her, because you don't have to worry about How is Ashlyn spelled? But SRQ, you can spell because it's right there. This is the brand new song, Save for Summer. This is awesome. Really, really dig this tune. And I can't wait to hear the rest of the album.

SRSQ and Saved for Summer. I'm wasting time has become a lover affair. I'm wasting time has become a love affair. grace this time where that God was never there I bet her for relief oh oh you're too good to me

It's sad for To be When wasting time Can I get sick of the summer At the same size Nothing less for I. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. I wasted time Is it finally your despair Or somehow in between I waste no time It might know you shouldn't care Your fall past all serene I changed my mind

Affections are Deferee Too late sometimes I am not Emily there Deception is the bridge Oh

Oh you're You're too good It's so good to me My mother It's so good to be When we used to take time Can I get safe

of the summer At the same size, nothing else will be a safe size. Nothing less without. We're wasting down You might get safe for the summer And I'm a rhythm of your soul divine Nothing else forever La

Oroo La Oroo La Oro La O O O O La O

O They're called Peppermint Paddies because they look like little burger patties, not because of some woman named Patty. I think I'm dumb. What's your name? Phillips, sir. You're fired. Their milkshakes Bring all the boys to the yard.

This is the morning stream. And we've returned. Oh, look at Brian doing the wave or the... Doing the web, one of those inflatable, uh, floppy things in front of a car dealership. Oh, yeah, zero percent down. I'm getting that new Toyota Tacoma. because I got this big old wavy guy waving at me. Exactly. Skydancers.

For people who can't afford 1,800 fish windsocks. Hey, Scott, that song was SRSQ and the song Saved for Summer. Very nice. Real quick here, that's called a Skydancer? Skydancer. Apparently a couple people saying it's Skydancer. I never heard of that. I didn't know that.

I didn't know what to call him, but I guess I haven't. I like wacky, inflatable arm flating tube, man. I think that's from family guy. like the inflatable arm flailing tube, man. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. I don't think I've ever known an official name. But, you know, it's not important in this day and age to have that name.

They're used to great effect in the, in the, uh, the peel movie, nope. Nope. Oh, well, fantastic. I look forward to it. With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt. You know him, you love him. He's here on Wednesdays to talk about tech.

And man, we just wouldn't want it any other way. Tom, welcome back. That's true. Well, thank you, Brian. and Scott, it's good to be here. It's good to have you back, man. You, uh, you, uh, I know you've been, you've been busy. You've had stuff going on, but you come here on Wednesdays and you go, you know, I've seen

some tech today and I'd like to share it early with these guys. I've seen things. I've seen so many things. That's right. Um, if you could see what I've seen with my eyes. With your eyes. My own eyes. Yeah.

I, uh, have been sifting through some of that gamescom news. Oh, you've been hearing about the old, the old game. Com? Yeah, Cologne, Germany. We got the stuff and the things. They did announce a few things that came as a surprise to me. That new Dune game, for example. No idea that was in the works.

Yep. A few other things like that. But yeah. And as far as DTNS goes, we tend to look more at the underlying tech, the consoles, the machines, things like that, than the actual games. But this one caught my eye. Amazon announced a thing called Alex A game control

except you pronounce that first word really fast Ah okay If I do that now And then it sets off your Amazon egg Yeah

I don't want to do that But AGC As I will refer to it From here on out Is voice control and games So if you have an Amazon account Don't need to pay Don't need to be a prime member

Just an Amazon account And you connect it to a participating game Right now the only participating game announced is Death Island 2 Which is coming out February 3rd you can just talk to the game. So you can tell the NPC, where is the nearest workbench? Or you can just say, select my most powerful weapon.

Apparently in Dead Island 2, you can even say, hey, zombie to manipulate zombies. But you don't need a wake word. It'll work with either push to talk or voice activation. So if you want to be able to talk to other people in the room without the game getting confused, you'll use push to talk. Or you can just leave it on. but it'll just listen to you. You don't have to use a wake word. Available in English in North America on PC or Xbox,

with plans to expand that to other languages and other platforms. But seems like if it works as demonstrated, a pretty cool innovation. It is. I have some concerns, though, as currently potentially implemented, even though nothing has it yet. But if it's Dead Island 2 getting it, I play Dead Island 1, beat it. And that game is very action-oriented, right? lot of clobbering zombies of big old axes you've made and stuff like that.

And this one seems to be, you know, down that same road. I'm trying to understand the practical implication of telling it what I want and what I want to do. Because if we're talking about an accessibility feature, that's one thing. But if it's like, I need to go kill a camp full of these wandering zombies, can I talk my way through it? I don't know. No, but like, you know, as a, as if this was a real thing, right, be like, oh, let me try and distract these zombies to pull them away from that my partner over there, right? And so instead of like wiggling your joystick or whacking your club on the

ground, you'd be like, hey, zombies, come get me. Hey, well, we come. Yeah, I could see that. Perhaps I'm underthinking it. But to me, the benefit was being able to walk up to an MPC and not have to click through a bunch of dialogue boxes. Well, there's that too. Yeah. I mean, I guess you're going to still have to answer dialogue so he'll say if the mpc says hey you're new here and then you're meant to answer yeah give me the quest yeah right it was gonna be like next my yeah because because my guess is here's my guess i don't think it's going to be as open language as that my guess is that is one of the that one of the examples they gave was walking up to an mpc and saying give me the quest and the mpc's like here here you go and not having to click dialogue yeah but what if you

say i don't like this quest show me where the bathroom is the game's not going to know what to do. I imagine it's going to be a little more on rails than that. You're going to have certain commands that work. And I think they will be beneficial. They will, they will, you know, like being able to say like, just switch to my most powerful, select my most powerful weapon instead of dumping down into your, you know, controls and selecting yourself is a little bit faster. Yeah. And I, I am not a huge gamer, but I have come to understand from those who are that milliseconds are important that, you know, the slightest bit of life. lag in a cloud gaming streaming service ruins that cloud game streaming service. So the ability to switch to that weapon a little faster by voice, I would guess, would be an advantage. If you could yell shotgun while your sniper rifle is equipped, you have it switch to shotgun.

That's pretty cool. Apparently, you'll maybe have to say select by shotgun. Reload. You could probably say reload. I didn't see that one. I didn't see the whole presentation either, but I didn't see that one called out. But yeah, and again, push to talk. If you're worried about people behind you messing with you, you can just turn off voice activation, make it push to talk.

Does reduce a little bit of the advantage of it, but it's still easier to press a button than go into controls. And I assume I should be able to map it to a controller, right? The push to talk part, I would think. Yeah, I mean, that depends on the platform, obviously. Yeah, it does. If you're sitting there and you've got an ALXCA, an echo next to you, and you have to reach out and push on it. That seems like that will probably not be optimal to your timing. However, if they let you map it to controllers and stuff, that actually is pretty neat. I don't know, it'll be like a lot of these, I hesitate to call it a gimmick because I actually kind of like when stuff like this happens. It's always, though, it always ends up being about, well, where is this rubber meeting the road and the actual experience? Yeah.

And you can apply this thinking to everything from the Connect back in the day to the Sony move controllers, the way that Wii was set up. like do these gimmicks actually go far enough to to alter in a positive way your gameplay experience or are they just kind of a weird set dressing where if I say reload is actually slower than me hitting the X button which reloads you know what I mean like there'll be some time we have time to deal with this I'm glad they're trying it it sounds interesting but I think it's I think it's here's what I think okay I think this is actually better this will be better suited to games that are built around the concept so picture a game that is, I don't, it doesn't matter.

Let's call it a deep relationship-based RPG or something. And lots of dialogue normally happening and the way you do all of that is speaking and speaking what you want to say and having the game be smart enough to make decisions based on the things you say and have that be the game, that sounds super compelling to me. But usually when it's like, well, you can play, here's Dead Island, you can play like you normally play it or you can play with a couple of these weird little features. that's usually not the best-selling point. It's usually like, hey, here's a game made to use this,

like a good touchscreen game, like a good VR game. Like, it's never going to be great in anything but VR. It seems like you're going to want something that will never be as good as it is when you're using voiceover, if that makes sense. So anyway. It does. But again, I'm probably underthinking things when I think, gosh, I think it's cool that they're trying out integration on a single game

that might be used on other games someday. day. And if you had told 21 year old me, you'll have a game where you can just talk to the MPC instead of having to choose dialogue boxes. At the time, I would have thought that was pretty cool. But not just your reaction, Scott,

but the reaction to the people of the chat right now, it reminds me of the body's immune reaction to COVID. It's like Amazon announcing, maybe it's because it's Amazon, I don't know, but announcing something that I thought

sounded like a cool little feature has provoked an immune response of this is dumb, it can't work I don't want this, why are you even trying? Well, for the record, I'm not shocked but I looked at this and like oh, this is cool and it looks like they're doing it in the right way whereas

you're coming at it from I think the more mainstream perspective of why do I need this? Yeah, I don't and for the record I'm not feeling negative toward it at all um i'm just i don't know if skeptical's right word i'm skeptical of its uh its ability to become yeah it's utility there you go that's a better way of putting it i'm not saying it won't be get i mean i'm going to use it i'll end up with dead island too that's a pretty much a guarantee and i'll end up trying this because it's there and i'll know then obviously what's going on i just having been

around this industry for as long as i have and covered it for as long as i have there have been enough uh what was the what was the genesis thing you put on the ground The React, I think it was called. There have been enough to React, Virtua Boys, Sony moves, Xbox Connects. There's been enough of these things where they're like, hey, new way to be,

that I'm not negative toward them. I'm just slow to go. Oh, okay. Because the curve tends to be slow and there's no overnight sensation change in gaming usually. It's usually like these controllers essentially are the same ones as the last generation, which are slightly tweaked from the previous generation,

which are slightly tweaked on infinitum. It's just kind of how this industry works. So when something comes by and says, you'll do it all by voice, I go, probably not. Except that's not what they said. Yeah,

but the implication is. No one said, you'll do it all by voice. Yeah, Amazon said, we've added game control by voice in a limited amount to a game coming in February.

Here's how it's going to work. Yeah, and it might be neat. And I think people here now, like, oh, you're trying to sell me on this. They're not charging for it. Yeah. It's optional.

You don't have to put it on. You're not forced to use it. Yeah. It isn't a subscription. Sure. It's a feature that they're adding to a game for the first time to try it out. Yeah. If it goes well, they might start building games around it.

They might start using it. Or it might go away. You're absolutely right. Yeah. That's kind of all I'm saying. I guess what I'm saying is, great. Let's try it. Let's see how it works.

I mean, obviously, they're doing it because they want to do it. Right. Where Amazon makes their money is selling this to the game companies. It's a technology they will sell to the game companies. And they get the benefit of this. It may have got lost in the description here. But it also works with the rest of your stuff. So if you have Amazon as controlling your smart home, while you're playing the game,

you can say, turn off the lights, set a reminder for dinner, order DoorDash, anything you would do with an Amazon Echo, you can do in the game as well. Again, I don't know how compelling that is, but Amazon will get some benefit if you were to use that. So I don't see them ever charging you for this. This is just a way to, they're probably going to sell it to the game companies, if the game companies see it as beneficial. And they make some money downstream the more you use their product. Yeah, all of that's true. When it happens, we'll take a look at it.

Don't worry, everybody. We'll talk about it. We'll decide if we like it then, because we don't know until we get it. I have no idea how they're going to implement this, but it'll be interesting. That game comes out 2023, I think. Terry Zinn, Chicago says, if I say order DoorDash, will the MPC try to order DoorDash? No, but the MPC will bring it to you. Yeah, that's even better, yeah.

At least at this stage, the MPC will probably say things like, I don't understand. Could you restate that, please, or something? They won't know. Anyway. Did you want fries with that? Always is the answer. Just default, yes. Hey, later today, Daily Tech News show will cover this and much more over there, which I'm on because it's Wednesday. I love Wednesdays. I'm on. So be there today. Next week, I'm gone. So this is the only time to catch me from the next week if you want to at all. But you should also be checking out Daily Tech News show every freaking day. Hey, Tom, what else is going on that you'd like to tell people about? Yeah, if you didn't catch yesterday's episode of Daily Tech News show, Chris Ashley came on and schooled us in.

the process of getting an electric vehicle charger installed in a place where he didn't have a garage or a driveway. All he had was a parking spot. So it's like one of those townhome complexes. And he got it done. And it looks great. Oh, that's cool. You know, I mean, it doesn't solve it for every single person. But it was really interesting to hear the process of how he did it. So check that out, Daily Technewshow.com. Nice. Go check it out. It's Tom Merritt. Everybody Ace Detect on Twitter. We'll catch you later today. Bye. Cool. God, you're thinking about the infrastructure. would have to run electricity to something like that would be yeah that'd be weird it would be crazy uh just

just for the record everybody i am not anti this thing i don't know why everyone i don't know why tom included thinks i'm taking this that direction i'm not at all i just have been around the stuff long enough that everybody's gimmick we've seen we've seen our share of stuff like that that was like sounded good but did we ever use it no yeah or like why why don't new TVs come with 3d as default anymore because no one used it or not enough people used i should say not enough why why isn't my switch uh use a stylus and have two screens and 3d because they took all that shit out it didn't right like that's my i'm not saying that'll happen here i don't know but i i've been around it long enough i just know these things well enough to know that there's it can't be like oh finally holy

shit voice finally we had voice control of our games i mean i want i'll go my my reaction is more like oh interesting i'm going to try i'm going to try that that's it that's all yeah um all right we're gonna move on to recommendals now that's a fun thing we do and uh oh i just realized i don't think i ever got nicoles oh no i did did i did not uh yeah she she said what her clip is but she didn't send us a clip she sent me a private one here it looks like oh she did okay i think so let me make sure thanks Nicole thanks a lot there it is we'll play it off you do not that i need it of course you don't need i don't need it i don't care who

need what nobody needs i don't care don't care uh but i don't care uh but i do have to add them to the call so hold on a second here it's a little more tricky than usual there we go create group okay here we go they're coming in hot we're going to play this here music and we're going to go for it right now it's time for recommendals things we've seen on streaming services that we like we're joined by randy jordan good morning good morning morning stream i have a suggestion for you that you have to take okay give it oh wow okay all right okay okay So the next time you have a sort of like a crispy lettuce, like an iceberg lettuce or a romaine, all right, something like that, I want you to make a wedge of it, cut a big chunk of it, and then mix equal parts peanut butter and mayo and put a dollop of that on the lettuce and then eat that. You will be really surprised how good that is.

Brian, you want to try this? You want to do this one day? I'll totally try that. I like a good wedge salad anyway, and I like all of those things individually, so maybe I'd like them together. That's the main thing about people freaking out about trying something. It's food. I'm not suggesting you eat cockroaches. This is food.

No, no, but when you mix certain foods, things like curdling or... Yeah, I agree. The same is questionable. I agree. Because even mayo on its own is questionable. I agree. Mayo on its own is always questionable. Hey, that's Nicole Spagg also here.

Hi, Nicole. Good morning. Hi. Hi. So, you bake a lot and cook a lot. I do. What do you think peanut butter is best? What's best with peanut butter if you had to pick?

What do you like? Mateo loves peanut butter and graham crackers. Oh, yeah. That's a good combo. Yeah. Let's smear it on there. I think we did a bunch of that one as younger. He puts it on pancakes.

He loves, he's always been about the peanut butter. So it's like, okay, what can I put peanut butter on? That's good. Don't put it on your friend who's allergic to it. That's the only person you don't put it. Yeah, exactly. Well, all right. It's good to have you both here.

We're going to have you both here. We're going to have some fun and recommend some stuff. Today's order is going to start, per usual with Brian, but we'll go Brian, then Randy, then Nicole, then me. Let's do it that way. Cool. Let's start with Brian. Brian, you got a clip here. Do you want me to...

I have a clip. Yeah, if you are a listener to FilmSack and you heard our email or remind me of something that I forgot that I watched and loved and was all set to recommendal until I watched Detroiters, then you're going to know what I'm playing a clip from today. For whatever reason, I couldn't

get HBO Max to record in my browser today so i i basically just got this from the uh trailer which works because it sets everything up and you hear all the voices of the main the main cast uh this is the tv show and uh here's the clip all right here you go i'm in a hurry whoops wrong one yeah as you say amy why did yours get randy's got copied over twice this is this is scott goofed hold on here why did that happen okay there's brian's okay now i'm playing it here we go you used to be a crime reporter in japan Why? You think because you're a foreigner, the roads are different?

Daiji! Ayehya! You like busting my balls, huh? It is a great joy of my life. Giving up and going home is not an option. You know what I mean? You know exactly what you mean. This city of the whole,

... And let me guess, this is how you recruit a cop. Zipper. With information, with information, everything you do has consequences. There is always a cost. I hear Ken Watanabe in there. do. You don't hear an end in his name, or end in the first part of his last name, but you do hear Ken Watanabe. Oh, I hear it just fine. Every time I say it, I hear it right here.

Wantonabe. Yeah, that is exactly here. You're hearing Ken Watanabe. You're hearing Ansel Eligort, our baby driver. He basically plays a guy named Jake Adelsteen, an American, who goes to Japan to become a journalist at the big newspaper in Tokyo. And not only does he have the hurdle of being an American in Tokyo trying to work at this newspaper where he's already at a very big disadvantage, he wants to report in ways that are against the traditional ways of reporting in Tokyo. There is zero editorial content. You basically say, this person was killed on this street corner. And that's the that's the article. There's no like, you know, and the crime in this area has just begun, has gotten so high and da-da-da, like there is there is zero that. And when you deal with the yakuza, you've also got this whole extra problem that he has to deal with. And the yakuza makes a very, very prominent appearance in this film. It's based on a true story. It's based on a book written by Jake Adelstein called Tokyo Vice, an American reporter on the police beat in Japan. And it's excellent. It is an eight-episode series, HBO Max. You've also got Rachel Keller, who, if you watched Legion on FX, the Marvel TV show. Oh, that's why she's familiar, yeah. Yeah, she was the woman that kind of the main cast, blonde woman.

She's fantastic. She's also in the second season of Fargo, which I know, at least one of us is very familiar one. Yeah, one of us is very obsessed with that season. The before I mentioned, yeah, go ahead. I was going to say, is this an HBO Max show, or is this one that they bought? I'm so shaky with HBO now. Yeah, right. No, this is an HBO Max show.

I don't see it going anywhere. It has been renewed for a second season. So even though season one does complete a big story arc, there's still some things that you're hoping to see in a season two, and we will see in a season two. I'm like, I'll talk about it again because it's such a bummer to me, but that Night Sky, which is J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacic on Amazon Prime. Such a great show. We got one season of it. And those two actors were just so damn good in this and we're not going to get a second season. And it absolutely breaks my heart. But I'd still say it's worth checking out. It was almost going to be my recommendal if I hadn't gotten reminded about this. Most of the victims on HBO Max right now are animation. Animated. Yeah.

We started watching, was it Victor? I can't remember what cartoon is, but it's such a great show. And then I read, oh, it's going off. Victor, Victoria, the animated series. Yeah, Victor, yeah. That's the one. No, no, no, not that one. That could, like, if that was in like the style of the Iron Giant, that would be amazing.

No, it's, um, it's. It's like supernatural and a lot. Yeah, it's a great little cartoon. And they're taking off. Animation's getting hosed. Even some old stuff like, you know, I think there's some like Looney Tune stuff going away. Even though Warner Brothers owns it,

they still have to pay out residuals to anyone involved in it. And that includes people's, you know, like even if they're long dead animators or whatever, they stuff to pay these people. It's called Victor and Valentino. There you go. Oh, there we go. I was really, I was, I was, I'm like, it sounded very subconsciously close with my joke.

Wow. Yeah, anyway. So this is good, yeah? Lots of yakuza. Really, really good. Get some yakuza in there, I assume. Lots of tattoos. Yeah.

And I've been, I've been saying yakuza because typically in Japanese language, you don't emphasize any syllables. It's not like English where you emphasize a syllable or Spanish word emphasize the second to last syllable or things like that. Um, so I, you know, that's, uh, I'd probably saying it wrong, but I, I know, I think you are, you're the one saying it correctly, I think. Okay. Well, they probably say it in the show, right? So you like, you say it a lot in the show say it. And then you could just remember that. Yeah, there's a lot of people go, you're inviting yakuza. No, they don't really say that. No. Yeah. Anyway, uh, uh, you've got, uh, Hideaki Ito, who we've seen and stuff before, um, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, you, who's one of Jake's liaisons, a connection in the police department. I didn't even say this. Ken Watanabe is a detective, and so he and Jake, who's the journalist,

buddy up together to get to the bottom of a story that Jake's editor is finally letting him go through and investigate, which is, again, very much against all the standard practices of detectives, reporters, newspapers everything so he's got a he's got a big hurdle to get over with this sure i didn't i see michael man's involved in somehow with some production and directing produced it i believe directed one episode executive exactly oh yeah there we go directed yes direction by uh michael man and i love michael man and anything he gets involved in i just immediately my my interest goes up like four notches yeah so yeah it's it's uh it's so good and the scenery is beautiful uh the acting is excellent you know who who can't

watch, Ken Watanabe just sit there and deliver lines with his pathos. I love him. I could watch Ansel Elgort with his funny face. I'm serious. I'm good serious. He is. He's a funny face guy. And the Fultonar stars is a good movie. You should watch the

Fulton Ars. He looks like he's 14 still. I don't know how he does it, but Ansel Eligort still looks like he's freaking 14. Can you believe it's been eight years since that movie, by the way? Since Fulton Arstars? Yeah. Eight years. We got to watch Baby Driver, Scott, for TMS Couch Cushions.

It's going to be one of these coming up because it's so good. He's one of the, he's only just a weak difference than my daughter's age. So he's almost, let's see, what would he be? 94 would make him almost 30. Anyway. Oh, wow. He doesn't look at it. Of course, Stephen mentioned him in West Side Story, the one that came out last year that was so good.

He looks 10. So good job, Ansela, Elgort for your young face. And he is named after Ansel Adams. Oh, the artist. That's cool. The photographer is what I meant to say. Yeah. Hold on.

That's the guy or the lady. Is it a lady? No, that's a guy. Who's the one that Drew, who always took pictures of goat heads? Am I thinking of the wrong thing? I think you're, yeah, Ansel Adams is predominantly the landscapes and the scenery.

I don't know who I'm thinking. I don't know who I'm thinking of. I don't know you're thinking of either. Like goat skulls and like cow skulls and stuff. Oh, are you thinking of the, New Mexico, the artist from New Mexico. She's a painter. Oh, O'Keefe, Georgie O'Keefe.

George, O'Keefe, yes. That's who you're thinking of, yeah. I don't know why I mix those up. Ansel Adams, Georgia O'Keefe, they almost, if you say it quickly, one sounds like the other. Yeah. I guess he's also in those divergent insurgent deals. Are those any good? No, really?

I don't know. Nobody saw those. Nobody watched them. Nobody watched those. All right. Excellent. There's HBO Max, second season approved. you can feel safe and at least watching the first.

Yes, at least you'll know you'll get some answers to any, any unanswered, what is it, loose shoestrings. There you go. I like it. Randy, I'm going to do you next. Do you have any set up for your clip? Do me next. Let's go. All right.

This week, my recommendation is that we all go back in time and watch a fine, funny movie from 25 years ago on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. anniversary. This is a clip. Don't remind me how old I am. Sorry. Yeah, this movie came out at the perfect time to capture me when I was a young adult. And it's just like, it's so fun and funny in this clip. You're going to hear two of the characters meeting up for the first time in 10 years.

All right. Here you go. I'm in a hurry. Well, I'm going as fast. as I can, Miss Mooney. Heather? Heather Mooney? From Sagebrush High in Tucson?

Yeah. It's Romy! Romy White! You shitting me. No, this is so weird. I didn't know you were living in L.A. Well, now that you know, will we be getting together a lot? Ha!

So, God, you're driving a new Jaguar? Jaguar? What do you do? Ever hear of Lady Fair cigarettes? The ones that burned down real fast? Twice the taste and half the time for the gal on the go. I invented the quick burning paper. Wow. You go to the reunion?

What reunion? Our 10-year high school reunion in Tucson. You're kidding me. It's been 10 years since high school? God, where have I been? I'm stumped. Where? Anywhere, you going? I'd rather put this out in my ass. that's how I feel about reunions

that is Romeo and Michelle's high school reunion if you've never heard of it, never seen it, please join me in watching this again on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. It stars Mirisorvino and Lisa Kudrow as the titular character is Romney and Michelle. They are now 27, 28 years old,

living in Los Angeles and preparing to go to their high school reunion. that was uh you also heard jane garofalo as as the uh snarky former emo goth not really gauphalo's playing no that's weird what a stretch oh my god the chat hates this movie i love this movie why does the chat hate this movie i've never seen it so i can't judge scott it's so good it's so funny um i love miris sorvino you know that about me i'm big fan of her, so I watch it. She is the cutest thing ever to appear in a movie. Like, in this film, Marisorvino is absolutely adorable. Like, you've got to watch it just for that. This is,

this movie was based on a screenplay by the writer who, uh, Robin Schiff, Robin Schiff, uh, wrote a stage play actually and made it into a screenplay. It was originally called The Ladies Room. And, uh, it was directed by David Mirkin, who is really more of a Simpsons guy. And you actually see some of the Simpsons influence on this movie. If you watch it closely for that, there's actually literally an episode of the Simpsons playing on a TV in one scene. And it's the episode that David Merkin is most famous for, which I think is called Homer in Space. Anyway, what's the, there's one that he, oh, now this is all making sense, because Lisa Kudrow's in an episode where she plays a character called Alex

and she's like Lisa really wants to be her friend and Alex is super connected and anyway. David Merkin has just he just has an incredible sense for what he set out to do with this movie which was to make a buddy movie starring women right?

Like it's and and everything about this movie like presupposes the Bechtel test and then just takes a crap all over like like you know like it's everything that you think of when you think of two people in a movie or characters in a movie, and you think of men. You think of men driving in a car on a road trip, or you think of, you know, like what

men are doing in a movie. It's completely women in this movie. Tina and I still, we still quote, well, not quote, but channel Lisa Kudrow, because throughout the movie, she'll do this, okay, like this, she does it more in this film than she ever did it as Phoebe, and we still will like, you know, we'll say something. something to the other person and the other would go, okay. I started, I started watching this by telling my 12 year old some, some things, like, because it's R-rated. It's barely R-rated. Like, really, I would say it's more like TV 15, something like that. It's just learning how to put a cigarette

out in your ass, basically. But I started out by saying to him, you got to understand this is a movie about people who are a little below average on the intelligence scale, like most of the characters, a little below average. And that's what's fun about. the movie the characters are normal people and so like you like you say they're they're both really really good at sort of not knowing what's going on okay okay yeah and it's still fine and there's a genuine naeat i can't say it myemitae yeah there they listen Brian Dunaway gave us vine sausages today so you can pronounce anything you want And it still won't be the worst pronunciation we've heard on the show today.

But it's endearing. I mean, Lisa Kudrow's character, I mean, she's just a sweetheart. And she just wants to be a good friend. And I love the movie. And it makes such great use of mid-90s music and mid-80s pop music. Because the movie is told in a series of flashbacks. And so when you're in the current, you're listening to mid-90s music. and when you're in the flashbacks.

And then when they finally get to their high school reunion, all you hear is mid-80s music because that's what is being played at the high school reunion. And it's just, it's very emotional. Like there's all of these uses of that music that tells the story along with the characters. It's what I love about gross point blank. Same thing. It's like 10 years after he's 97.

It was literally my high school 10 year anniversary. It would have been. And they, it was like watching a John Hughes movie happen in slow motion. It was fantastic. Yes, Nicole, sorry. So when is your, what's your next? Because I'm coming up on my 30.

Yeah, I don't go to any of those. Freak and F that noise. Never go to those things. Although you're back in Missouri. I've never been to a single one of my high school reunions, but I would be coming up. Let's see, 87, I'd be coming up on my 40. Yeah, 40. Are you kidding me?

Like, this movie put a unrealistic expectation in my head of what a high school reunion is. Like, I expected it. to be ours is in a middle of like a field so so i've been for like 20 years i've been one of the admins of my high school reunion facebook group yeah uh-huh and i've never been to a high school reunion and i've and i've got one coming up next year and i probably won't be able to go to it and it's just like the weirdest thing like to see from afar basically is what i'm saying i watch i watch all this planning happen and then it just ends up being a bunch of middle-aged people going to restaurant you know and they just all like hang out for an hour or two and then they the next day

they all go to the beach and they just hang out for an hour or two that's all it is well i'm never going we went to the local park nice nice fancy i would be surprised if uh if our 40th will be held entirely on facebook yeah arvada high school high school reunion yeah i could go to Can we do this over Zoom? This could be an email, right? They tore down our high school. It's a whole different building now. I don't want to go in there.

It seems weird. This movie actually explores a lot of these subjects, Scott. You should watch it. I really think you'll enjoy it. I'm sure. I actually really like everybody involved. I don't know why I never watched it. I didn't avoid it.

I just never saw it. It's less gunfighty than gross point blank, but it's hard not to compare the two because of the subject matter. Yeah. I just like my, as always. TV smashing on people's heads as always the key is to check your brain at the door

like seriously like let just let the movie have it's fun and don't like my kid actually got up in the middle of it and just left and went to play Fortnite because he you know like it was just not it's not for him yeah you know yeah I get it well I'm uh all right

you know what if it's out there and it's streaming I'm in I'll watch this it's good all right my wife would love it too it's on Amazon Prime so you know it's good. I thought I found out Disney Plus as well, but maybe not. Let me see here. It's in Canada on Disney Plus. I know that. Oh, maybe that's the thing. Yeah. I will change that icon. You all appreciate this. One of the things that I do with my kids in the morning now, I control the TV. They do not control the TV. Good. So I've been putting on old movies like Willow, Princess Bride. And they're sitting there on their iPad and I catch them watching it. into it. You're doing it right. We did this with our kids. That's a good way to do it. Yeah. This is good.

So, Mateo really got into Willow and I said, you're in luck. Got a show coming. Yeah. So you're caught up. And he was asking me all these questions. Let's hope we're in luck. Yeah. Well, I think it'll I'm actually kind of, I didn't like the movie that much if I'm honest, but I'm more interested in the series than I am the movie.

Yeah. I think it has potential and I like that. They've done well with a few things. I think the dark crystal thing overall worked for people, right? I didn't watch it, but. Yeah. Oh, the dark crystal thing was awesome. Freaking loved it. My favorite little twist on that, Nicole, is a few years from now. Your kid will tell you how much they like something that you have seen many times and you know very, very well.

But they won't associate it with you. Your kid will think they chose to watch it all on their own. And it's such a fun moment. I'm waiting for him to discover Star Wars. Oh, wow. He's been very resistant. Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, I wonder how, like, again, you know, a new generation with the original trilogy, the special effects, the way they were at that point, you know, would it resonate as well with them as it does with us?

Yeah, that's a real good question. I feel like I have to downplay everything now because he'll do the exact opposite. So if I want him to love this thing, I'm like, eh. And then it'll like a stage. He's rebelling, man. That's great. Also, something else, Nicole, that I want you to do with your kids and let me know how it goes. Mix equal peanut butter and mayo.

No. Yeah. I think I heard Nicole gag as one of the first sounds she made on this stream when you described that. Yeah. Well, let him discover that on his own. Yeah. And please use two different spoons from the mayo and the peanut butter. Don't put the peanut butter spoon into the mayo or vice versa.

Yeah. That's a good life lesson. right there to stick with uh Nicole speaking of uh things let's talk about you what you're streaming today or what you're watching um give you have any set up for this you want me just play yeah I do but before you get to that one I want to quickly say that Victor and Valentino show animated show yes it was made by a former power power power puff girls writer oh so it is I think you would really like it Scott it's uh like the macabre and it's lots of super supernatural and these two kids are going around and it's just a fun little show and it's not on

HBO Max anymore it's but you can get it was this a it was a cartoon network thing so it's interesting that they're not just carrying that since it's all part of the same family that's how we watched it I put it on for the kids and the kids loved it we cruise through two seasons of it all right oh here it is yeah this is um oh this is what's his name Diego Malone uh I forget his last name. The creator, yeah, no, he's a big deal, that guy. It's a wonderful show. All right, Carter will be mad. Are you listening, is Carter here? She's so mad about this animation glut right now. Oh, I know. All this stuff that's getting axed. She's super pissed.

All right. Anyway, all right, so what do you got here? My recommendal, thankfully, has been picked up for a second season. It's a TV show. It reminds me where I'm from. And the fact that I'm back in Missouri, it kind of hits a lot of my at-home buttons. So there's my setup. Here's a taste. Hey, shrub and Kelly. Beth. Wow, look at you two together.

We're buying decorations for Beth's birthday party tomorrow. It's a royal family theme. Pit, pit, pit. Oh. Happy birthday. It's not today. I don't think. Beth's parents full on think the government's out to get them, okay?

So they like don't pay their taxes and they hoard soup and all their kids were like born in their barn. with no birth certificate. Also, she was, like, homeschooled. So she, like, knows things, like, how to use a crossbow and the history of the royal family and, like, didn't know who Oprah was until two years ago. Who is that girl? She's cracking me up.

What is this? Keep going. Oh, keep going. You tell me when to stop. I'll keep going. Like, happy birthday, whenever it is. Invite shrubbed your party, Beth. This is pathetic. Oh, I didn't think you'd want to come.

It's mostly just girls and Mickey. I really actually don't even know if I'm free. He's free. Shut up. Well, it's from two to four, and everyone's going to wear a hat because royals always wear hats at parties. You're going to take turns reading from Harry Potter? Who's Harry Potter? All right, what is this?

The show is called Welcome to Flatch. You can stream this on. You can stream the first season on Hulu right now. What, it is a comedy, it's like the office, the way the office is. Yeah, like fake documentary. I thought I was over that style, but I love it with this show. You heard Kelly and Shrub, which are the two, they're cousins and they're like two of the local fixtures in the town. But you also have William, what's his name, William Adam Scott?

What? William Scott Thomas. Sean William Scott. I was just putting a bunch of first names together. Yeah, that's all you, it's really, you know, you had two-thirds of it. It was great. You were almost there. So he plays the local minister of the town.

He was transferred from a city. So there's all these wonderful characters. Even the guy from Too Many Cooks, the killer in Too Many Cooks. Oh, really? Oh, hilarious. Oh, Jamie Presley is in this. That's cool. Who made this?

What is this? It's, Jenny Big. It's one of my favorite shows. It's so stupid and I love it. It's about small town living. And it's based on a BBC show, Scott, and you can go watch it in your BBC I player. There's three seasons of Hicks from Cotswold, you know. So it's based on that being Hicks.

That's interesting. It's called this country. This happens a lot. There's a lot, including the office now that we're talking about it. but these shows that end up coming overseas and getting redone here. They're often very good. It will resonate as well with an American audience as an American-based. Right.

Yeah. I wonder how, yeah. This holds person who Pippa Fothington was two years ago. This girl that just goes by Holmes, she doesn't have a first name, or maybe that's just it, whatever. She's the one that was cracking me up in there. I need to see more of this. She seems very funny. Yeah, that way you can go up to her and go, yo, Holmes.

Yeah, Holmes, what up, you know? This is like her first major thing. She's got other stuff, but this is like her big deal. So for me, growing up in the Midwest, being in a rural life, I actually thought, I like, I like the show. I don't feel like it's making fun of me. Yeah, yeah. Whereas I think I feel like maybe that BBC show will try to make fun of me. So I don't know.

I mean, sure, you know, do you, how do you, how do you feel about Letterkenny? Letterkenny divides up everybody into four groups and makes fun of all of them. I love Letterkenny so much. Oh, my gosh. You watch a couple of episodes. Yeah. If you guys see, if you, so let me guess, this has got some heart as well. There's a little bit of heart in this.

Like, okay. Yeah. And it just, it creates these, this wonderful collection of people with, you know, and they all, kind of form this town and they come together and it's funny. I mean your two main characters are going to be Kelly and Shrub the two cousins. But the

rest of the cast is wonderful too and it's very funny. Oh my gosh. Welcome to Flatch. I got to see Welcome to Flatch. This looks like my jam totally. I think this might be the next year. Second season is coming out next month. Oh geez, I get right to it then. Sweet.

Yes. All right. Awesome. Here's mine. It'll be quick. I watched the I watched the entire season, and I ended up loving this. So we're going to stay on Hulu for a moment, and here's my clip. So you heard the dogs barking downstairs, you retrieved your weapon, you descended the stairs, at which point the intruder fired a shot, you fired back, or hitting him in the chest. That's correct. Dogs usually downstairs tonight?

No, they usually sleep in my room. They must have heard something downstairs. The barking is what woke me out. All right. That's Jeff Bridges. Jeff Bridges. Jeff Bridges being very Jeff Bridgy Okay, so this is a spy show

It is called the old man And sorry And you didn't recommendal this a few weeks ago? No, I talked about it a couple of times But then switched it up to something else Okay And I think I mentioned it on film sack You had already done this.

No, we talked on film sack At length about it a little bit, I think So that's probably what you remember I think that's where I talked about it But anyway, this is a show, a series First season is only seven episodes long so it's relatively short. It's called The Old Man. It stars Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow in the main two parts. And I am here to tell you these two venerable actors are putting in some of the

best work of their freaking lives in this. In fact, I think it kind of transcends the work. The show is fine. Like in terms of its themes and it's where it's going and who's a spine, who's not, and all this stuff, it's all kind of boilerplate. But their performances are so good, it transcends all of it. And I don't want to leave out Aaliyah Chakwat or shakot. Shaucat. Shaucat. I really don't know how it's pronounced.

From the rest of development, she played maybe for those who are like, who's that? She's also in that thing Brian recommended a while back. I'm not going to do it again. I've said it so many times. I'm not going to mention everybody should watch the after party. Dang it.

I did it again. You did it again, the after party. Go watch it. But anyway, she's in this. She's very good also. But these two dudes with their resumes, you'd think, oh, they're just older now and phoning in a little TV gig that gets them some cash or whatever uh-uh this is maybe some of the best i've ever seen

out of bridges definitely some of the best i've ever seen at lithgow they are they are scene soakers these two and they're fantastic and i also want to mention because they just deserve it the guy that plays young jeff bridges character dan chase is and they have some flashbacks and stuff his name is bill heck you've seen him in other stuff um if the name's not familiar you've seen him in the ballad of buster scrugs he was in lock and key ray donovan a whole bunch of other things Anyway, he perfectly mimics young Jeff Bridges. It's insane how good he is at it. And then the other guy, let's see, can't find him.

Where is it, young? Oh, I can't find him. Anyway, the young version of John Lithgow's Harold Harper character, unbelievable how good he is at like mimicking the way John Lithgow is. I can't even explain it. You have to see it to see it for yourself. Anyway, they're not even the major part of this. Also, I should mention Amy Brennerman's in this, and she's fantastic because she always is.

I can't say enough about the old man. The old man is awesome. Season two coming. I already been approved. And if you want to see Jeff Bridges in one of the most unique roles he's ever had, this is it. And this is after his cancer treatment, after his recovery, after all that stuff. So, you know, he's looking like a man who's seen some things right now. And it fits perfectly with the way his character's designed.

Yeah, he had COVID at the same time. He was going through cancer treatment. And he's just, he's just, I mean, we all already knew this. Jeff Bridges is great. We all love Jeff Bridges. There's no, you know, we're already there. But if you want to be even more there, see the old man on Hulu, seven episodes. You'll be hooked like me and you'll, you'll rip through the whole thing and love it.

The factoid that always catches my attention every time I come across it, a Leah Shalcat is currently making a movie with Channing Tatum and Gina Davis and Christian Slater. And it's being directed by Zoe Kravitz. And the movie is called Pussy Island. And every time I come across this, you know, it's in production, they're going to wrap filming, blah, blah, blah, I'm just like, you sticking with that name? Yeah, you're going to keep that? I'm married. I'm married. I'm married.

I'm married. I'm married. That's a wild cast, though. You mentioned a bunch of those names. Simon Rex for some reason. Kyle McLaughlin will be in that. Haley, Joel Osmond? Wow.

Anyway, that's, that's your recommend. Recommend this. Recommendations today. Recommendez. Remickendendez. If you want to follow all of that stuff, go to quick TMS. Dot Lee, and you'll find them listed there. Of course, Nicole and Randy smear these all over the internet as well.

Nicole Spag and Randy Deluxe, wherever you're looking. I think that's it. Anybody else have anything they want to add before I rip you out of the room? No? I sent you an Instagram on our private chat of me introducing Mark to my hometown. Oh, cool. I can't wait to watch this. I want to see this.

All right. I'll watch for that. Randy, anything to add to that? I'm just really excited to talk to you about. transporter three oh yeah transported three yeah we'll get we're finally done with the transporters we do not acknowledge a fourth one exists okay it doesn't exist and and uh contrary to what brian said earlier uh brian you haven't yet mentioned Tokyo vice oh yeah that's right i'm going to mention it this weekend uh based on an email that somebody sends in

this is our we are we are time travelers is what i know yeah this working I'm bringing it up during film sack this week. Acting like I didn't just recommend it Wednesday. This working ahead stuff is treacherous. Anyway, have a great rest of your week, both of you, and we'll see you soon. Bye. Bye now. All right.

There they go. There they go, Brian. I feel like I've got to be, you know, Bill and Ted, be like, I'm going to place my car keys right here, so I have them in the future. It isn't a little like that. I keep forgetting, like even when he just said, we're doing Transportor 3 and I went. I know. No, we're not. No, we already did it.

The other thing. But, yeah, whatever. We're trying to play the game, and it's hard. Quick email from a listener. I'm going to read this first one here. You know that whole Gribbons thing with the neighbor? Did he say gribbons? Yeah.

What about all the gribbons? Here's what Brent wrote in and said. It says, hey, Scotch and brittle, or bright, I guess. Tesla neighbor may have been using the British slang word, Gubbins, which is similar to our word, stuff. Keep cool out there, sincerely, Brent. P.S., the round part of the Lego is a stud. The Lego practitioners are called Master Builders.

Yeah, they are. Lego experts, I think, is what I call them. Anyway. Yeah, right. It could be Grubbins. My daughters. My daughters had a, or maybe it was Kim, maybe all of them, had a suggestion that was maybe that he was saying Gremlin's and referring to his

kid, he has two kids and was maybe saying, oh, I'll bring the Gremlins over on Thursday. Maybe that's what he meant. He's just going to, it was like talking to his mother or something saying, oh, I'm going to bring the kids over. and you can hang out with the grandkids or something. Maybe he meant Gremlin? That's interesting, yeah, could be. Or he calls them Gubbins? I don't know.

Whatever it is, now I feel like we've been let down. It's not like an nefarious thing. Also, this quick one from Squirrely Steve, he says, Dear Sergeant Major and Brigadier, I like that. He says, Huachua, ha, ha,ua, anyway, is pronounced Wachuka. So I'm saying it the way I would say it. Now he's saying that he would. The correct way, yeah. So H-U-A-C-H-U-C-A-W-C-A-W-C-A-W-C-A-Wuch. I don't remember what the context was or the concept. Or the concept. Either one. Yeah. I don't remember at all.

We talked about Wachuka. Anyone in the chat, no. Is it a place? Was it a something else? I don't remember. He says, no doubt I'm the 13th offer to help. No, you're the first. First. Yeah. Thank you for that. He says, in an unrelated anecdote from several years ago, I witnessed a squirrel committing suicide via electrical substation, via electrical substation. Yes, the little dumbass caused a power outage. Love the show. So more on the, you know, squirrels effing things up. That's what they do. The squirrels causing power outages.

Oh, wow, but that thing was fried. I don't remember. Chat doesn't seem to remember either what the Wachuka reference. Maybe it was a, maybe it was a county or something. They were saying, oh, Wachuka County something. Might have been. Or was I trying to say Shashuka, the food? I don't know.

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Hey, Brian, that's it. Let's get out of here. Yeah, what are we doing? Yeah. Do you have a song hanging out? I do. Steph wrote in. Steph says,

OMG, hi. I'm a Salt Lake City gal on a three-month physical therapy clinical rotation in Arvada. She's here. We still have not had a chance to get together. We need to do that, Steph. Oh, my God. Stephanie, why haven't we gotten together if you're from here? What you should do, go to lunch with Brian, come back home.

Go to lunch with me. Now you got both. Yeah, and compare and say which one is better over Twitter. So I've officially only ever lived in the areas where you two reside, and I think that's wild. I would like to request a song with some sick-ass beats to blast as I explore all around Denver. Please play any time before I head back to SLC at the end of October. Nothing country, unless it's Orville Peck, nothing slow, sick, period, ass, period, beats. Ah, thank you for that, please.

Thank you. Please and thanks, Steph, P.S. Brian. there's so many freaking churches in our vada this coming from somebody from utah i know it's weird i've heard that same thing before arvada plenty of them she's she's a block away from what i consider to be a mega church on ward road which probably influences her her appearance like influences the uh appearance of how many churches there are there are quite a few churches in arvada and i don't know why it's really weird we're not godfaring people no you got the cocaine you got the pot and you got the church you got all three right exactly all devices uh all right something with sick ass beats this is this is a hard

you know like i want to make sure i please step with with something that she's going to like and it was really i went through so much music this morning saying well that's a really good song but are the beats sick ass i don't know this one i feel like is going to have some sick ass beats it's a cover of a print song which you know prince already has some sick ass beats they electrify it it's local age from the awesome quarantine mixtape from last year, 2021. Here's a cover of princes when doves cry. You and I engage in a kiss. The sweat of your body covers me.

Can you, my darling, can you picture of this? Dream is a can of a courtyard. An ocean of violets and bloom. Animals shine curious poses. They give the heat. The heat between me and you. How can you just leave me standing? Alone in the world are so cold.

Maybe I'm just too demanding. Maybe I'm just like my father too bold. Maybe you're just like my mother. She's never satisfied. Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like, when does cry. Wind up

dry Touch if you will My stomach Feel how it trembles Inside You got the butterfly It's all tied up Don't even chase you

Even doves have primed Just leave me standing Alone in a world So cold Maybe I'm just too demanding Maybe I'm just like my father too old Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied

Why do you scream at each other This is what it sounds like When the dogs cry When dogs cry Or do you know how? I feel just leave you standing alone in a world that's so cold Maybe you're just too mainly

Maybe Mother too bold. Maybe you're just like me. Maybe you're just like my mother. She's never satisfied. Wild stream at a show. This is what it sounds like. Windows cried. When the sky.

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