The Morning Stream - TMS 2358: Pins & Pens

Episode Date: October 5, 2022

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Good morning and welcome back to TMS. It's Wednesday, October 5th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson with and around and by Brian Abbott. Boo, there's a very scary. It's a scary Wednesday, boo. Oh, you scared me. Ah! Ah, yes.

I'm looking forward to Halloween time. I'm feeling it this year, aren't you? I feel like I'm just like... I'm totally feeling it. I did talk about this where I spent $50 and got a LED projector, and I'm projecting ghosts in one of our, in our spare bedroom, so it's out, it's the window that faces out to the front of the house. Oh, nice. So people look over, and they see ghosts flying back in front of the house.

forth in my window. And it's so cool because this projector, again, like 50 buck projector, you just plug a little USB. Put your video on a USB stick, stick it in the back, and it just loops it over and over. I don't have to have anything like anything else. Do you have a specific, you have to provide the loop or is this a thing that they give you? I have to provide a loop. But atmosfx.com, at most FX. There it is right there. Captain Kipper even linked to it. Yeah, they've got some there. super super cheap you can download I think maybe even a couple free ones

I'm shocked Captain Gipper never finds anything this is shocking he never finds a thing he always just empty-handed thank you for finally getting off your button providing a link Cap Kippa yeah I don't know how I don't know where he's been all this time but finally you got a win dude put that in the win lot slot yeah geez about time you

do something for the show he's awesome uh all right so here's the deal oh the baby was born do you want to okay Brian oh let's talk baby Yeah, so we had a baby. I won't gush too much because no one likes to hear. Oh, you will. Parents or grandparents talk about babies.

Twice over. Twice over. We got double up. They're both human, so that's good. We got humans. They're, uh, I put it up on the chat or the screen there, everybody. You can see, uh, little Phoebe. Phoebe Dylan Straws, or full name.

Tyler. I was really hoping for a Tyler. You were hoping for a Tyler. Taylor, yeah. Taylor, Taylor, just too close. But, uh, so Van's middle name is his mother's name. So his name is Van Taylor, Straw. and her name is Dylan's name in the middle,

which is Phoebe Dillon's straw. And they did that because they wanted to avoid issues with, like, stuff on a certain side of the family, let's just say, not mine, where people were going to be upset if they didn't use their middle name or if they chose a middle name that wasn't theirs. And so they said, you know what, screw it. We're putting our own in there,

and we won't have to deal with it that way. And I said, you know what? 100% fine me. that. It's a good way to do it. Tristan's middle name is his grandfather. It's my dad's name. Oh, see, that's cool. Yeah. Now, you probably didn't have a toxic person on the other side, on Tina's side

that would fight. Not a bet. Yeah. So that would have worked. Like, they probably would have loved to have used either my name or Shane's name. Yeah. But let's just say there's some toxicity on a certain side of things. And it didn't work out that way. That's all we'll say.

Well, and it also helps with identification, right? So, you know, Phoebe gets lost, and she can say, what's your name? My name is Phoebe Dylan, Dylan Straw. Yeah. I was like, now I'm almost like, a kid. There's a Tyler Dylan, because I've, like, gotten it in my head. My name is Phoebe Dylan Straw. Dylan Straw.

Oh, I'm Dylan Straw. Oh, you found my child. Oh, yeah, the dad's here. We knew the name. Everybody wins. And we avoided family drama. Anyway, she's here. She's seven pounds.

She's 19 inches. healthy as I wrote here Healthy as a pumpkin at harvest I don't know what I meant by that Wow that's grim It's a little weird

You know what happens To pumpkins at harvest Oh yeah I know That's the problem Why did I say that? It's a terrible comparison That's a great phrase though Healthy is a pumpkin at harvest

I will do this though Healthy is the corn When it's high as an elephant's eye There you go see I love that Now I'm going to play some audio And this will just help Everyone remind you

What it's like to be in an airplane When there's a baby who's upset So here or she is fresh from the womb, making her first noises in the world. Here you go. It's a little edited. Some F-bombs in there. More from her mother.

No, she actually had a really good easy, not easy. The guy on Twitter line. Yeah, she has, I got those from, funny enough, they didn't record. any audio what these are from is a mishmash of photos that Dylan took and those photos were live photos oh yeah so i just just a hats off uh to to the to the iPhone feature that is live photos because you got i was able to squeeze audio out of them that's great yeah sure uh even though 90% of the people who have to do uh who do live photos don't realize they've got live photos turned on and so they have no so you know it's like oh here's a here's a picture of my dog and

look at it and it's a picture of the dog and then it like goes to their crotch because they took a picture of the dog and then sent the phone down. Then they put it down or they say something they don't want to say and don't realize that it's a reporter. There's your effing picture of my dog. Always bugging me for photos of my dog, you wretched beast. Yeah. So anyway, she's happy.

Mom's good. Everybody's good. The actual labor went faster and easier than last time. um zero issues she's i got all the right parts everything's testing out fine everything's good she's all good so i'm very excited because it means we'll get to see her and uh let's see we haven't got to see the baby yet so probably how long is the quarantine period well so taylor had two rules this year or for this birth she says look yeah if you want to see this baby everyone needs to get there's a sign up for you need to have your because you need to have your

COVID vaccines you need to have your flu vaccines for you can don't be stupid I'm not let you're on the baby unless you go get shit so so we've done all that okay and uh and then the other rule was we're going to do this as a family at the hospital meaning Dylan her and the baby and when we're done that's when we'll see everybody so they go home either tomorrow or possibly well I guess they'll go home tomorrow no matter what and then settle in and whatever Van's still here with us he was here overnight for last two nights and then tomorrow or sorry a Friday morning we'll go over there and we get to meet her so it's a little bit of a pain not seeing her this soon but we've had a few face times she's you know sleeping doing fine she's not crying except for you know

except for the exit she hasn't been crying so uh if I was if I was to exit a vagina I would cry I'd cry every time I know every time Brian exits a vagina he cried Every damn time. So anyways, you can imagine we're all pretty stoked. The dogs, I think the dogs can tell something's up because they're all acting like idiots. And I don't know what's up with these dogs. I need Cesar or what's his name to come in here and smack them around or something because all three of them, Ripley won't eat for the last two days, can't figure out why.

We think she's just feeling the stress. She knows vans here. It's all a little excited. The levels of everything are a little up. and she won't eat and she pukes for no reason just pukes well because she's not eating she pukes nerves yeah yeah been probably sensing nerves and stuff and she goes outside to do it but still uh and then moira got her got her uh speaking of vagina she got hers uh permanently shut down so she got her uh fixing or what do you call it spaying spang so that's done spay your girls new to your

uh boys and uh so she's wearing a donut please neuter uh what's his face from uh sorry I meant to switch to your camera and instead I played a song. Somebody please neuter the former host dude of America's Got Talent, who now has 10 children from 10 different mothers. What's that guy's name? Oh, right. Where's a turban? Somebody in the chat room will get.

Nick Cannon, thank you, J.C. Cannon. Yeah, it was an old... Boy, is that appropriate last name? He's like a... Nick Cannon. Wasn't he, he did a whole bunch of, like, early stuff on Nickelodeon, right? Have I had that right?

He does cameo, and it's not online. He just makes an appearance, gets somebody pregnant, and then... That's the true cameo, the best cameo. The true cameo. Leave somebody with some seed. Anyway. So where were we? I don't know what I was saying.

Oh, so anyway, the dogs are freaking out. And then my own dog is actually the most chill, which is normally the opposite. She's usually the freak. And she's, Rainer's fine. She's just kind of chilling. She was spending a lot of time with me, like curling up anywhere. Anytime I sit anywhere, she's on my lap. That's unusual.

But she's quiet and chill and she's eating and she's fine. The other two, oh, I know I was going to say, Moira got her thing, Snip. So she's wearing a donut, but she still thinks it's spaz time and is not being careful. And so I'm worried about her stitches popping out and all that. Yeah, yeah. But with the donut, it's probably like she's a bigger bulldozer, basically, right? Yeah. She's knocking over shit. Just annoying everybody. It's a problem. Anyway, all I'm saying is, if you're going to have a little three-year-old over, three dogs and a cat, that's just, you're asking, we asked for it.

I can't blame this on anyone else but us. Okay. No one thrust the animals upon you. No. Well. I mean, well, one of them. Kind of. Kind of one of them. Yeah. Maybe two of them. Whatever. I love Carter's dog, so I'm never going to say a bad thing about Ripley. Even though she's puking now and it's driving us all crazy. Anyway, baby's here. It's all good. Got an email in relation to this. Oh, okay.

This is from Rob. Baby relational email. I love it. I know, right? This is what Rob says. I'll play this for him. Send and receive email. So it's got an email about the cord.

Because I talked about how. Oh, yeah, the umbilical cord. Yes. Yeah, they let me do it with Taylor, but Carter and Nick, they didn't. And then I thought it was just a thing they just never let anyone do. He says this. Hey, Scott, my daughters are born in 2016 and 2019. I got to cut the cord for both of them.

Maybe it's dependent on the doctor or the hospital, but both times they asked me on the spot, and I did it. Love the show, Rob. I hope you did it well. I hope you did it well. My guess is, yeah, it's probably a hospital policy thing. I had to guess. Not even a doctor thing.

I'll bet it's like if you're a hospital administrator. Because often what will happen is the doctor will deliver, but that actual offering up, putting the baby up there and saying, snippet. That's not usually him. It's usually nurses or assistants or whatever. So I'll bet it's a hospital policy thing if I had to guess. And ours just didn't do you never know. I mean, that really honestly could be, because they even have directors of the maternity ward, right? So it could be just the director of the maternity ward sets the, or could easily be a doctor. That's, this is where the Tolbert should step in. Jerry, Dr. Jerry. Yeah, Jerry. Calling Dr. Jerry.

He'll hear the show later. Can you go talk to your maternity ward and find out what the deal? What's the deal with umbilical cords? He's busy doing an anal probe, but if he wasn't, he'd be here live and he could fill us in on what's going on. Sure. Oh, thank goodness. I'm sure he'll pipe in. He always likes to say stuff after the show.

It's like anytime we have any sort of medical questions, he's very, he is Johnny on the, Dr. Johnny on the spot is what he is. It'd be funny if the maternity word comptroller was the one that decided this. Because I assume every organization worth it's salt has a comptroller working there. A promtroller, uh-huh, yeah, absolutely. I think that's the rule. All right. Also, oh, there's, I didn't even see this one. Before we do the feud, Brian, tell me about this.

What's this? Did you get this or did I do this? You put this in here, but I'll read it if you like. Did I put it in here? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I did. Well, I did, but you know what? You read it because I think this is appropriate for, you know, the segment, which you have a, I mean,

you basically make this game, so you read this. Happy, happy to do it. Hey, Sassafrasen Beach, writes Arborist, Andrew, listening to Tad Pooley Few this week about hair metal bands reminded me, and you can get logged into the Tad Pooley F feud while I'm reading this, by the way. Listening to Tad Pooley Fue this week about hair metal bands reminded me that when I filled out the survey, my wife and I were on a road trip. We often listen to podcasts on road trips.

I generally save up about a week's worth of TMS before long trips. And on that occasion, we were in the middle of a podcast called The Wind of Change. It's a show about conspiracy theory that the famous scorpion song. was actually written by the CIA. It was an interesting, listen. That is a weird, a weird conspiracy theory. I have fun imagining a world where things like that are true. Fun conspiracy theory is not stupid crackpot, cue bullshit.

Yeah, I agree with you. Just before you finish, both hands in the air and praise this guy's email. I agree. Exactly. Yes. No argument there. It is fun, I mean, you know, knowing who the QAnon people are because they're out front and visible definitely helps with life. Oh, yeah. Oh, you're a Wackadoo, and I would not have known that otherwise.

Exactly. Come out of the shadows, boy. Hope identify these people. A quick question I had is, where can I submit ideas for survey questions? I have a good one, but I don't want to say it here and give you, Scott, an unfair advantage. Plow the Snow Yo, signed Arborist Andrew. I could have just forwarded this to you, but I thought, hey, opportunity here to tell people where to go and what to do, you know? For sure.

Yeah, plus it's a great story about the... I love that. No, I'm glad you asked that because a new survey just went up. Links are in Discord and the Tadpool Facebook group for a new survey. And at the very end of that survey, the very last question in that survey is, do you have an idea for a Tad Pooley Feud topic? And that's where you can enter your idea. I look at every single one of those. I adjust it if necessary just to make it make it work better for the show because we have you know we have some people that say stuff like um highest rated television show yeah is there is the is the idea they have for uh tadpully feud it's like um no it needs to somewhat be opinion based yeah because that's a hard one rated by who

and then you know too many questions i agree exactly exactly i do also have a uh a dedicated tadpool feud topic if you've already filled out the survey and you're like oh i have an idea for a topic and i didn't get it into there uh there is actually a separate uh one for the top for just topics if you want to submit a topic and i think um and we've got links for those i don't know if you've got those on the tadpool or on the um i thought i did but if i don't have it on the website i'll make sure it is today i thought we did but i'll go check and make sure yeah just grab that if you don't have it let me know and i can send you a link okay awesome groovy yeah that's cool So thanks for the question and the story, Abarist, Andrew, and we'll get your idea in.

And you know what, Brian's used a ton of your ideas, so, you know. I have. Basically, every survey that, or every Tadpulli game we've played, or Tad Pooley Feud game we've played in the last eight months has been one that's been submitted by a listener. So. Very nice. Well, then get ready. Strap in. Maybe that'll be today.

Maybe yours will be today. Ooh. Ooh. Hey, that music signals a certain. person has arrived and his name is Brian Dunaway hello Brian Dunaway oh hi Scott and Brian hi oh hello hey I have arrived yep what I wanted to tell you something you know how you weren't feeling good over the weekend yes remember that okay so I thought of you yeah I remember like yesterday yep I I thought of you yesterday because in my kind of nervousness

yesterday I tend to I'm a nervous eater it used to be a nervous starver I don't know what changed but something around 2016 I started eating instead of starving when I was nervous. Anyway, I went a little overboard on a glass jar of casso, cheese,

you know. Like one of those little half jars of tostitos or so. Yeah. And it was a, yes, exactly it. And it was a bad thing to do because it gave me heartburn all night. And this morning, let's just say,

I felt a little like Dunow I did on the weekend. That's all I'm talking. Gotcha. You felt like a Freddy's Custard soft serve wishing that's what you felt like. I did. And once again, this is a night where I felt so garbagey in the middle of the night, like 2 a.m. and I was up.

If I would just let myself vomit once in a while, I would feel better. But I just can't freaking do it. So streak holds, but last night could have been one of those streak breakers, and it didn't happen. Yeah, vomiting is like turning your mouth into your butthole. It's just awful. I don't like it. It's awful. See, you just described it better than I never been able to. Let's see if our listeners.

agrees. Hold on a second. Let's find out who this is. Hi, thanks for holding. Who's this? Hi, this is One Sleepy Panda. Ooh, One Sleepy Panda. Just who I'd hoped was there. Just kidding. I don't know. I can't all I actually can see people's area codes, but I can't see the rest of their number. And I always think about, like, looking it up when you call

and going, oh, it's somebody from Kansas or whatever. And then they would be freaked out like I knew who they were, but I forgot to do it. You're on the air. Exactly. Mine is deceptive because it's a New Jersey area code. Oh, but I live in Richmond, Virginia now. Oh, no way.

So how did, oh, is it a cell phone probably, so they kept the, kept the old deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, we were growing up, they made us feel like area code separation meant lots of money needed to be spent to call anybody. What a dumb, stupid thing that was? Long distance. What were we doing? That was so dumb. Oh, yeah.

Long distance. Not even the term sucks. You know how much it cost to boost these signals? Yeah. How many area codes do you have in? Salt Lake. Two. We have 801 and 405, I believe. Well, in Utah entirely we only have two. And that's those two. Yeah,

we've got two in the Denver area, 303 and 720, and they just announced that they're adding a third. And that's just the Denver metro area outside of that. We've got 970 and all these other ones for like Colorado Springs and Fort Collins or something. Weird. Why is that, do you think? I wonder about that kind of stuff. I wonder if like,

like does who exactly sells off those numbers because this is a seven is what seven digit number and then you once you run through those you have to add area codes well no i guess you had the area code there to anyway there's a lot of numbers yeah who's a charge of it sell those to like google yeah what it means is that somebody is not using somebody is not going through or or a program has not been written to go through that automatically says oh this person just turned in their cell phone and and close that number great that number is now available Like, make it available immediately. I know I'm going to get calls for, like, hi, is Bill there?

I'll tell you what. I can get rid of that. It's fine. Growing up getting somebody's used number wasn't too bad, but my God, I've had the current cell phone number I had for about close to 10 years. You still get a call. I still get phone calls and text from people. Apparently, I do too. Apparently, I'm an elderly black man registered with the Democratic Party because I get messages like 10 times a week.

Yeah, well, I always thought of you as an elderly black man, so well done. Now you have the number of money. By the way, the chat room corrects me. Utah's got the 801 that 385 in northern Utah and the 435 is down in southern Utah. I didn't know about the 385. That's news to me. I had no idea. Anyway, this has been a fun look at America's system of phone number association and assignings.

It really is. Let's move on to this game. Hey, Brian, will you explain to one Sleepy Panda and the rest of the world how this works? I guess if I have to. It's time to play the Tadpoolie feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess.

Sleepy Panda, number one, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you will get a prize package that includes. Civ City Rome, which we did have somebody win on Monday, but they said, you know what? I already won recently on something else. Go ahead and give it to somebody else. So if you win, you're the somebody else. Yeah.

They're paying it forward. It's nice. Oh, sorry. I said they're paying it forward. That's nice to hear. They're paying it for it. And the golf club, trademark 2019, featuring PGA Tour, both of those, courtesy of Joshua. So play some golf, build some Rome.

you got yourself a party. You do. You have a party in your mouth. Everyone's invited. Fantastic. All right. Let's get to the game here. Except that caseo.

Yeah. Except that caseo, which is, it doesn't feel like a party. No. No. Feels like the after party. Yeah. Yeah.

Put those hands on those buzzers and answer this question that 822 Tadpoolers responded to and only five passed. Only five people did not provide an answer. Yeah. You're finally found a secret. Your regular, your regular ridicule finally got them to stop doing that. It really did. Exactly.

Good job. I'm going to get shit if I passed. Exactly. Fear is, is my motivator. All right. You guys ready? Yep. Name something you'll find in your kitchen junk drawer.

Ryan Dunaway. Cissors. Show me. Scissors. That's good. Running with those up to number two. Only one answer will beat it, Scott. Oh, my gosh.

What's something you find in your kitchen junk drawer? That was going to be my thing. So now I'm a little thrown here. I'm just going to see. I can't think of anything. So I'll say keys. Keys. Show me keys.

My favorite character for me, T. Oh, no, nine. I'm ahead already, but it's still your game. Good points, but Brian has control. Brian, you're going to get one. Sleepy Panda to help you out with these answers. Wake up! Because I wanted to.

Because I wanted to. You're all good. You guys go ahead. All right. So, you two. Eight answers still on the board. Name something you'll find in your kitchen junk drawer. Panda, do you have a junk drawer and what do you keep in it? Bamboo, probably.

Yeah, I think isn't it a requirement of homeownership or renting to have a junk drawer in your kitchen. I think so. I think our H-O-A is always checking. They send us warning, say, your junk drawer is a little empty. Yes. Two people in the survey, which I added up to the passes, said, my wife won't allow me to have a junk drawer or I'm too clean. I don't have a junk drawer. Too clean. What a weird flex that is. I'm too clean. Or do you put your scissors that, then I don't buy that. Yeah, I don't buy it. When you got like a whole drawer called scissors. No, get out of here. With a dimo label. Keyes. Yeah. Get out of here. We're going to make it.

Lame. All right. You give you an answer. I would, first thing I thought of was rubber bands. Oh, that's good. Rubber bands. Yeah,

we're going to put them. Ours are full of them. Yeah, we got tons of those in there. I'm assembling all mine in my garage to make a roadside attraction. Show me rubber bands. Number three. Oh, look at that. Nice.

All right. Well, you guys are on a roll. Now, Panda, I always, I have no idea what it would do with those pins. So there's always, like, pins and rubber bands and scissors in my juncture. Are you saying pins or pens? What are you saying? Because it's like you just said the same thing twice.

Well, see, this is what I was afraid of. We got a regional pronunciation issue. Writing a pen. Gotcha. Okay. Pins and pencils. Pends. Are you saying pens or pens?

Pins with an E. Instead of pins with an E with an eye. Anyway. Do the two again in a row. I want to hear Scott. say the two and distinguish between the two. Chad thinks we're saying pants. But anyway, here it is.

Pins is for the pokey kind. Pins, right? And pens is the kind you're right with. Pens. So you're putting a Z on that. The second time you said pens, it didn't sound a little like pins. I don't know. I feel like I'm saying the E.

Am I not saying the E? I know. We always feel like it. Show me pens. Pencils. Anything like that? Writing implements? Writing utensils.

Number five, sharpies, pens, pencils, markers, all that stuff. That took the lead right there. You're one up on me, so keep going. There you go. Yes, now you're on a roll. Keep that roll going. Yes. I just put a big pack of batteries in my junkyard.

Oh, batteries is great. There's always the batteries. Both fresh and bad alike. All going the same door. I don't know. and you try and you put them in something and it's like nope doesn't work back in the junk drawer it goes yeah all right show me batteries oh battery number one lick it's you wow okay that was a good call i don't know why i didn't think of that yeah i feel dumb we put our batteries

have a special mounted thing on the wall that holds and organizes my double as my triple as we have a we have a little uh we have a little container that we put in the fridge and put all our batteries in it now. Are you a believer that the batteries in the fridge? I'm going to say my wife is a believer. I'm more of a whatever, you know. Like, in fact, I use rechargeables for all my series X controllers and the stuff I need things for for double A's.

So this is kind of a her thing, and it's fine. I don't complain. That's a good question, though. I think they like, it helps a little, but I don't think it helps enough to make the mistake of leaving batteries in your freezer, whatever. I just know it's an old holdover. thing from the 80s, so I don't know if it really works.

Yeah, so upstairs, and Complex Ninja says Coverville is attacking me with my battery organizer in the closet. No, I'm not. That we actually have probably the same thing. Mounce on the wall has a plastic cover that goes over it, et cetera. However, down here, I have a 3D printed box that you just open, and it is full of my recharge. Oh, I really like that. I really like that. That's awesome. That's organized right there. Yeah, I agree. By the way, okay, so I found a quick article. I'm just going to read this paragraph. This will tell us. And we can all learn something. All right. Good. The myth. Storing batteries in the refrigerator prolongs their life. Fact, it is partially true, but you're better off not doing it. Yes. It's not. Yeah,

partially true, but you're better off not doing that. Yeah, they said that they see it works. The risk is greater than the reward. Yeah, the risk. Let's see, when stored properly, the discharge rate, blah, blah, blah. So it does slow down the discharge rate. But it says, let's see, I'm trying to find the part. But you can store it. You just need to store your batteries in a cool, dry area. They want, yeah, they want 68 to 78 Fahrenheit it should be your zone and it should be

dry, non-humid, if you can help it. So the humidity, it says the humidity can impact batteries as a whole so that's why they say dry storage which you can, you can't always guarantee even in a cold environment like the fridge. So, there you go. Put them in the drawer, keep them dry, you're good, yep. And use them.

That's the other thing. Use them. Don't let them sit, don't buy tons and hang on to them forever because they will a discharge and b leak and then you've got a problem and then no one's just by rechargeables yeah do like that do like that that's what i do like us do like us uh all right five answers five answers still on the board name something you'll find in your kitchen junk drawer drawer every time i don't know how it happens but i there's i always keep tape in my junk drawer but when i go to when i go to get it because i I'm like, it's definitely in the junk drawer, it's not there. Any particular kind of tape? Any kind of tape?

Like, I'll bet Brian will take any comers. But like in your case, is it scotch? Is it masking? Yeah, I usually keep scotch in packing tape. Gotcha. The smaller ones for smaller things, but that's usually the only thing. What do you think about that, Pan? Is that a good one?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. Tape. Good answer. Good answer. Show me tape. Oh, it scared us.

Indeed, yes. Step tape, scotch tape, Scotch tape, masking tape. Scott tape. You know what's the best stuff is that blue carpenter tape? Blue carpenter tape. Sometimes it's green. That stuff's awesome.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like painters tape. Yeah, that stuff so good. This doesn't leave residue and it's great. It is great. It's great for everything, including those things they're made for. So I would recommend it over Scotch, or not Scotch. Masking.

Masking tape goes bluey and gross. Oh, my gosh. Don't do it. Yeah, the older masking tape gets, the worse it gets. And it's weird how those rolls, they kind of shrink, and the inside cardboard goes inside of that masking tape. Like, what is causing masking tape to shrink at such a weird? Maybe you should keep it in the freezer next to your battery. The refrigerator, weirdo.

It was in the pool. And what else you got in your junk drawer? Assorted charging cables. Oh, that's good. Yes, yes, yes, yes, very modern. You don't even own anymore, probably, right? That's right.

All right. Show me cables. Loose cables. Oh, first strike on the board. 15, number 15 on the list was cables. It was popular, but surprisingly, not in the top 10, even though I think we're

all guilty of having those. Oh, guilty. All right. Me. Matches. Matches. Oh, that's. That's a good one.

Well, you know what? I'm going to change my... I can't, can I? Is that what I have to stick with? Sure, if you want. Lighter. You'd be more likely to have a lighter in there. All right.

I think that's probably going to be either way, right? I don't think if it would be that... I don't know. If it's a... He's a taskmaster. Let's see what we would get. Show me lighters. Oh, shit.

Lighters was number 11. Just out of the top 10 was lighters. Cigrant lighters. All right. fine and we don't know if that included matches because you're not going to tell us all right i'm not going to tell you okay all right yeah it's back to

by not telling you i've kind of told you it was not like that because if you look at tape where i say that includes ducts duck scotch and nasty etc yeah by not telling you i think you've kind of told you our junk drawer has like five of those long ones you know the long kind that you do the barbecues with we have like so many of those i don't know why we have like 10 of them it's we should have one of those. Doesn't make sense to me, but whatever. Right.

Well, because nine of them are out of butane, but you just can't bring yourself to throw them out. That's probably true. This is how people are with their... Get one of those little rechargeable one that looks like a taser, and it creates that little

thing in between. You don't need ones with butane anymore. It's like people with weed vape pens that run out that you can't refill. They're just like, well, if I hang on to it, maybe there's just one more drag in there, man. exactly yeah all right it's back to you chuckleheads what do you guys got uh so uh panda i i i i know us i always have to write on always have like little writing things like either

post it notes or the back of junk mail what do you is that is that what do you think panda i feel like post it sounds right yeah because you want to get posted yeah like a little paper post it you do yes i like that one that's good sure all right show me paper pads, post-it notes, anything like that, note-pads, basically. No, I'm really surprised at that I'm really surprised of. Only one person said paper, and they just

blew my mind. And what are you doing? One of those pensions and sharpies. Exactly. Exactly. Do you have a separate drawer for your paper that's not junk? Let's get it. It's weird. Weird. All right. So it's my turn

again, and that means Scott's going to say salsa, ketchup, soy sauce, that kind of stuff, little packets. Condiment packages that you've got left over. I don't know if you should keep salsa in there, but yeah. Well, you know what I mean? Like the little, the hot sauce packs. That's what I mean.

Taco about hot sauce packet with a funny writing. All right, sure. Show me. Go ahead. Show me condiment, fast food, condiment packets. Damn it. No, you keep those in the refrigerator. Yeah.

No, you don't. We do. We do. Number 14, by the way, is on the list. I'm glad it's on the list, at least. Bonus points if you put them in a baggie to kind of keep them separated from all the other things in there. It's like, licking in there, it's like, oh, do we have any more Chinese mustard packets? Dang it.

Shoot. Well, life isn't fair. I think it tells you a lot about people when you go to their house and if they keep their condiments in the junk drawer or if they keep them in the butter tray in your refrigerator door. Yep. There's two types of people there. The Freddy's fry sauce, because we always try and get a couple extras of those, those go in the butter tray of the refrigerator because for whatever reason we feel like those need to be refrigerated. When are you going to get some sticks of butter in here?

I'm not. It's because they got mayo in there, so you want to keep them in the fridge. I mean, even if you don't because they're sealed and preserved to hell in back, I'm with you. I'm with you. Put them in there. Yeah, for the safety's sake. All right there with the Rousey sauce. All right. The four answers left on the board. Back over to Brian on one sleepy pants.

Sleepy panda? I'm feeling kind of stupid. What do you think? What do you got? I'm feeling dumb. I'm feeling dumb right now. I was that the hooligans in the tadpull, would say just junk. Oh, that's interesting. That's a good one. Yeah, that's not bad.

You kind of know the tadpole, don't you? Yeah. Give us number six, Ibbott. All right. Show me, I don't know, junk? Oh, God, man. No, no worry. Your faith in the tadpool is justified.

Number 17 on the list where people just say, chung. Oh, my gosh. Holy crap. Final strike. I don't feel confident about this at all, so you're in good shape. Basically, anyone gets you at least a tie. Any two gets you a win. And it basically gets six.

It's number six at the tie. Everything else is a win. Okay. Oh, jeez. Did we do those? Glass. Liquor. Call it my drunk drawer.

Many bottles of booze. Oh, sure. A little airplane bottles. My drunk drawer. It's where I keep the weed. Let's go with the paper clips. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Oh, that's a good one. There's paper clips. Like, oh, I need to eject this flop. Copy disk. Where? Go to the paperclips in the junk drawer. Yeah. All right.

Because nobody ever uses those. No. The paper that they don't keep in the junk shore. Show me. Paper clips. Oh, shit. Son of a what? That's all right.

Paper clips was number 26. People did say paper clips, but not enough of them to make the list. The good news is one sleepy panda, you've won the prizes. Yeah, no matter what, you get this. Congratulations. You're a winner. Yeah, that's awesome. Let's look at the rest of these, prepare to bunk your heads.

Show me number six, a screwdriver. Oh, duh. I have no toolbox. People keep forgetting to put it back in the junk drawer. Dang it, because it's never there when you're looking for it. That's not junk. That's valuable. Show me number seven.

Twist ties. Anytime you get cords along with your charging cables, you just put the twist ties in that junk drawer and forget about them. Wow. Okay. Fair enough. But not the cable. All right. This is I can't wait for this one right here. Show me number eight.

Yeah, the matches that you all just said. Damn it. How much was that worth? 19 points? Eight. Yeah, that would have put you right over the top. Yeah. Love it. Love it. Damn it. Okay. And finally, you wine drinkers know this one. Show me number 10.

Oh, yeah. Corks, good answer. Now, that goes with my other, yeah, well, I keep my corkscrew in with my silverware and that stuff. Are you a regular wine drinker there, don't know why? Do you partake? Enough that I wouldn't put it in the junk drawer. Fair enough, fair enough. Some other popular ones, bottle opener, can opener, so not a corkscrew, but one of those like, you open up a bottle of booze with them. That's pretty good.

Um, bag clip, uh, menus, uh, fast food menus, restaurant menus, Chinese food menus, uh, potato peeler, screws. I think some people think of the kitchen juncture is the one where you put, well, if you think, some people think of the kitchen juncture is where you put all of those miscellaneous kitchen gadgets or kitchen tools. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Uh, screws. You got the screw jar. I might as well have some screws.

String, thread, twine, uh, in there. Somebody puts a hammer in there. Seven people said that. Oh, my God. That's so. heavy yeah that's weird right uh tape measure very good one right there toothpicks a pizza cutter whisk change you put your change in there uh candles birthday candles or regular candles chopsticks you always get an extra set of those with your chinese food so might as well put them

in one place uh straws extra straws that you've gotten uh box cutter flashlight flashlight flashlight's a great one glue flashlight another good one thumb tacks uh ow hair ties when you're when you're picking around round and there. Stab. Oh, God. Thumb back. Hair ties,

Barrette's, letter opener, just random lids. Not the hat store in the mall, but just regular lids. Safety pins, beer caps.

Somebody put bleach. Oh, geez. I'm kind of afraid of that person. Yeah, I don't want to go to there. They have an ice pick in there as well? Or what's the deal? Those people are.

Probably business cards. Let's see. That's about it. Is that safety peens or safety pins? Safety pen. Safety pens. Yeah, there's no safety peen. There's no safety peen. There's safety pens that you won't accidentally read on yourself.

They're safety pens. Oh, okay. Safety peen is a condom. So get that. I'm getting some of you people a toolbox for Christmas. No kidding. That's they need. Exactly.

Well, we do have a screwdriver in ours because we do have screwdrivers in our toolbox. But there are times it's like, oh, I just need a quick screwdriver for this. Fixed and done. I don't want to go back to the. Yeah, and oftentimes you're not even using it. Like, it's all for us, it's. It's always a flathead, and it's used for things that aren't necessarily screws. It's like, oh, I've got to pry this open.

You guys. You guys don't have leathermen tools in your pockets constantly. No. No. Because I occasionally go to places where I have to go through a metal detector, and I don't want to be responsible for saying, oh, yeah, I forgot my leatherman was in my pocket. Oh, man, you get a high five here. If you had to pull it out and go, I just got my leatherman crew, yeah.

High five. That's what happens. Okay. I think they don't they still, they take them, and then you're just screwed, right? Yeah. You either can run it back to your car. or they just confiscate it and you walked into the other? No, no.

Where I live, they go, it's cool, bro. Yeah, and you live in the freaking wild. You don't have a leatherman here. Here's one to go on into the room. They hand them out at the door here. Yeah. Oh, they just give you a leatherman on the way into the plane. Yeah, yeah.

No, yeah. I get that. I had a thought of theory last time I flew here for this trip. Why are we still doing the shoe thing? I cannot believe we're still doing the shoe thing. It doesn't make any sense. to me. We had one shoe bomber. Come on. We had one guy with shoes. Richard Reed. Richard Reed ruined it for all of us. Yeah. And now we still do those effing shoes. I don't because I pay

80 bucks for five years of TSA pre-checked. But you know what people will do. I know they do a little background on that. But if you can somehow fake your background and go on there with, then you're in anyway. Like, if they have a way out of the shoe thing, then they should just stop doing the shoe thing because it proves the shoe thing's bullshit. You think stupid. I hate it. Anyway, I can't tell you how many times I get approached by some of the airport. Hey, do you mind wearing my shoes through security? And I'll meet you on the other side.

You know, it would be a great idea. Have everybody air out their feet before they get on the plane. Let's get in that area. Sounds great. Actually, it's not a bad idea. How about they just issue you a pair of crocs when you walk into the airport? You keep your regular shoes in your bag. Let's just take her shoes off at the gate and just leave them off the whole time.

Delta Crocs. I like Brian's Delta Crocs idea. I want Delta Crocs. I want Southwest Crocs. United Crocs. United Crocs. The only thing I'd ever get for United that I liked, they suck. Anyway, hey, so here's the deal, Panda.

You've got to send Brian an email, coverville at gmail.com. He'll forward you those codes, and you'll be wallowing in your success. How do you feel? Wonderful. Oh, that's so good. You were a great guest to have on. Thank you for being here. You were awesome.

Yes, he is. Dunaway, hey. He wasn't so sleepy. No, he was fine. Be aware. Due to the birth of the new family member here, we had to push Play Retro to today. So that whole thing we told you Monday was a lie about it being on Tuesday. This week, it's today at 3.30 Mountain Time.

Same thing. We're doing the track balls, all that stuff, everything we talked about Monday, but it's tonight. Nothing's changed. Yeah, nothing but the day. Just the time. That's it. Even the time's the same. Just shift it one Earth day.

It's just the day. Yeah. It's just the day. Are you excited? Are you excited? What are we doing? That's it. That's all we have. Brian, kiss our box. Bye. Okay, he's out of here. We're going to take a break. When we come back. We're going to get Tom Merritt up in it. And then after that, some recommendals. Lots of fun on a Wednesday. Stick around. Brian, playing you a song. All right. I'm going to play you a song. And I'm going to give you a little bit of a heads up, Scott. The first few seconds of this song, do you have an F-bomb. So, you know, prepare to put a little marque-mark in your in your, in your, you're, file there. I will put a Mark Wahlberg in my file. I'm all set to go. I think I heard of an F-bomb.

All right. This is a band called Drive-Away, not driveway, but drive-away. Florida indie pop band with, they've metaphorically sold their turntables and bought guitars and created a song called Wishing Well. This is great. Oh my God, you're

going to love this. You're going to love both songs today. I promise you. So, let's get to the first of those from their, let's see, first released since May's Feel Better Soon EP

Here's the brand new single From Driveaway It's called Wishing Well Nobody gives a I'm feeling

Long as I smile big for the jokes they tell Wish I could take it to hell And I'm drowning And I'm wishing well Tuesday feels so much the same Wednesday's gonna hurt as I swallow the pain Is this inside of my brain?

Gotta be something I can blame Yeah I wanna lead a fake life, wanna smile more Kinda maybe sorta wanna quit being myself Quit being myself, quit being my Quit being myself, quit being my by trying to listen to my heart because I know this is bad we should throw it all the way throw it all away Somebody said I'm fun when I'm drinking, trying my best to not over thinking now

But it's just getting too loud And I'm too tired anyhow Failing to hide in things that I'm feeling Maybe my friends will think that I'm doing too well Feels like there's no one to tell Still drowning And I wish it well I want to lead a fake life

Want to smile more Kind of maybe sort I want to quit being myself Quit being myself Quit being my Quit being myself Quit being mine Trying to listen to my heart

Cause I know this is bad We should throw it all the way Throw it all away We should don't know Oh, smileless, slumberless, smelly, it's just small. I threw up many times while I was working out, but it doesn't matter. Look is for babies. I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

This is the morning stream. And we're back. Hey, who was that? That was a band called Drive Away, all one word, drive away, with a brand new single Wishing Well. Awesome. I can't wait to, well, of course, of course I heard it with the rest of you. Of course, you just heard it like everybody did. And thank you for that. Yeah, it was great. And I'll never stop talking about it until I hear it again later today, because I liked it that much. All right. Let's get Tom Merritt up in here and see what we can make out of that visit.

Yeah. There you go right here. If I can find the damn thing. With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That familiar refrain indicates that Tom Merritt has joined us once again on a Wednesday to talk about tech as he prepares for the Daily Tech News show later today. Tom Merritt, welcome back. Hello, Tom Merritt. I can't hear Tom.

Thank you. There he is. Hello. Hello. We can hear you now. We can hear you now. It was a long moment there. but maybe we're lagging. I don't know.

Well, it's good to be here. It's all good. Hey, it's Tom Merritt. You guys know him? You love him. Look at him there in this video. Look at it. Look at that handsome freaking man about town and life. Tom, what's going on in the world of tech today so that we can kind of prepare ourselves for what's next in the world? So have you all heard of Elon Musk? I have. He's a favorite of that dude. Yeah, familiar.

Slightly familiar. the tech circles he's very well known uh he he once uh was one of the the chief people behind paypal that that may be where most people know him from him and uh him and peter thiel and uh the one other guy who's running for congress i think somewhere the one other guy yeah there's been one other dude yeah uh yeah he he later started a little car company a little rocket company um he he's got a following. And he, I guess a lot of people probably haven't heard this, but he made an offer to buy Twitter back in April. Oh, I didn't. I hadn't heard at all anything about that. That's news. I mean, we all know Twitter. So, yeah, Twitter agreed to the deal. And then apparently Musk started to

look into the numbers and said, I don't know. Some of these numbers don't add up. I don't want to buy you anymore. Twitter said, well, I'm sorry, you already got a deal. and I hate to say this but it looked like I ended up with some bad blood and they ended up in court but don't worry it looks like we might have a happy ending because Tuesday

Musk changed his mind and sent a letter to Twitter and said you know what I'm going to buy you anyway at the price we agreed on back in April so you know that's pretty much all there is to the story I'm sure that's all that happened

I'm sure that his weird I think the most intriguing thing of this. And, of course, if you haven't been following this, go listen to Daily Tech News show. We've been following it there. But right now, the, how do you call it? The stuff that is expelled from an animal's rear. Oh.

The thing that blows air. Those two are coming together. in the form of a lot of messages coming out in public between Musk and other people, including Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, between Peter Zacko, maybe. In fact, that is the most recent thing that seems to have applied pressure to Musk. Peter Zacko, aka Mudge, recently filed with the SEC and then appeared before Congress to talk about problems with security at Twitter. and the lawyers from Musk denied that they had any communication with Zacko.

Twitter was like, well, are you trying to do this to put pressure on us or to affect the case somehow? And they said no. But one of these emails that came out, one of these embarrassing emails, was from a proton mail account saying, I am a former security person at Twitter who has information you might be interested in. I'm paraphrasing, but it was that it did say former security. person at Twitter or executive involved in user safety or something. Musk's lawyers say, we never responded to it. We didn't take it seriously.

Twitter says that's probably Zadko and we want to look at more documents to figure out if it's Zadko. And so that has been approved as of Tuesday for them to go do that. Around the same time that Musk is saying like, hey, let's just, let's call it off. Let's call it off. So right now, the court case has not been canceled. CNBC says that the deal might be closed as a Friday. The deal can only be closed probably.

Honestly, you could close the deal and the court case could continue, but that's not in the best interest of either side. So one would assume that if they closed the deal, they would resolve and settle the case. They'd have to go to the judge and tell her that. So none of that's happened. So right now the court case is on for October 17th. They're supposed to depose Musk on Thursday.

They've subpoenaed documents from Musk's team to look for stuff about Zach Co. While Musk is out there tweeting that the, what did he say, buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app. Yeah, that's horseshit. So, okay, let me, let me. Maybe, maybe not. But Musk's first company that he, well, maybe not his first company. But the company he merged to create PayPal was an online bank called X.com that he merged in 2000.

And the holding company that he created back in April to handle the acquisition of Twitter is called X holdings. Okay. So this could have been part of his plan all along. And everything app is just kind of code for like we chat kind of like superiors. everything everyone goes to Twitter for everything and that includes you know paying for things and I assume that's what you think if I if I had any major takeaway from the text because I read them all I didn't read all the emails but all the leaked text they're not text messages the SMS yeah it's all that stuff um some names are redacted some weren't but after reading all of that

it's never been more clear to me that we meaning the user base is seen as just pawn like how do I put this not once did I sense any respect toward the users that without them you have no service and so I know that's how bigwig billionaires talk and I know that they don't they're not concerned with that's how mid middle level executives talk sure hell that's how product managers talk like yeah you're right you're right you're totally right but it just it annoyed me because I thought But the selling point, Musk's selling point in all of his tweets about wanting to buy Twitter, making it better and taking it out of the wherever it is, making it the ultimate thing. It's always just, it's always appealing to us the way he words those things. It's always like, you guys want a better Twitter, don't you?

It's almost as if he's crafting his public messages to appeal to the public. Yeah, and I hate it. I freaking hate it. That's what I'm saying. So hot poker to his butt is what I'm saying. And look, if he buys it, fine. Part of me is really curious about what happens, like, if anything changes or happens or does, if anything major, like, if it becomes the Everything app, like that would actually blow my mind. But if I had a best guess, and I do, luckily enough, my best guess is, I should say, he tries to do what Dorsey wants with Twitter, with the short messaging social network that is Twitter.

and tries to turn it into a distributed platform that anyone can build on, anyone can interconnect, because Dorsey said in a lot of those messages that Twitter should have never been a business, it should be a platform, should be an open platform that anybody can build a business on. I think he takes Twitter and he tries to do that with it while using the company to build X on that platform. And X is a different thing, it's a new thing, and it uses a lot of what Twitter offers and brings in new things and acquires other companies to become the super app in the United States,

because that is a golden opportunity in the United States. There are super apps all over the world in other countries. Geo has one in India, WeChat in China, and it's kind of seen as an opportunity in the U.S. to create the super app. Facebook has tried many times to turn WhatsApp into that and has not been able to pull it off yet. So to sum it up, do you think his reasoning, for saying, okay, call off the court stuff, call off your dogs. Let's go ahead and do our original deal.

When previously to this, it was him putting the skids on it and saying, now, wait a minute, your user, you're lying to me about users or your security questions or all this other stuff. Did any of that, was all of that just like to get the price down, do you think? Like, what is the theory? No, because he's offering, taxation tactic. From what we can tell, he's offering the exact same price. Yeah, well, that's what I mean.

That's what I mean. Like before all of that, it felt like a tactic to drop the price, but now that it's getting stinky. I don't think he's that cheap. I'll be honest. I don't think he would go to this much effort. Not that he wouldn't want to raise the price. This is a lot of effort to go to. It feels more in character with Musk,

who isn't cheap, to go to all this effort because he was mad. And if you read those SMSes, it's very clear that he just lost his lid in conversations with Agarwal, especially that particular message about, hey, you can say whatever you want on Twitter, but it's hurt morale

in here. And one thing we've seen publicly from Musk over the years is he doesn't care two figs for your morale complaints. You've got a morale problem, go work somewhere else. And so that's the kind of thing that will light him up. I have worked with people before who you just say the wrong

thing and they just turn on a dime and don't turn back around. Musk is one of those people. I think he just decided, you know what, Dorsey talked me into this it was a good idea but I can't deal with these people and I'll show them

and I'll just back out and I think he thought he could just back out and he thought you want to go to court and reveal all your bot stuff good luck it's all going to come out in public and it turned out that more came out in public than maybe he counted on and now he's probably calmed down

and decided and who knows what other messages from Dorsey and others have calmed him down and like okay okay okay this is ridiculous let me just go back to square one, do this deal, do the X plan, do Dorsey's platform plan, uh, and, let's just make this happen. Yeah. Well, last time I made him mad personally, he went and had seven, uh, kids, uh, secret kids, uh, last time I pissed him off. So, so you never know where he's going to go. You just never know, you know, you don't know what he's going to do. Well,

anyway, I, I'm, all that aside and jokes aside, I am actually very curious to see. Yeah. If this goes through it. It sounds like it's going to. I mean, yeah, but you're right with with this situation particularly, until it does. Yeah. I've already in this particular situation, it's already like not, it's not a smart bet to predict anything, I feel like. Yeah. We'll have to wait and see. Well, anyway, more on that, of course, later today on the Daily Tech News show, 2 p.m. Mountain Time. I'll be there today. It's Wednesday. I love being on. Can't wait. Is there anything else you'd like to find folks at home to know about before we let you go? A word with Tom Merritt.

Don't worry. I'm going to get Scott Johnson on there. Be on the lookout for that. That's going to happen. But in the meantime, I'm having a great time chatting with really interesting people about how we think. If you like my approach to things, which is not to just tack to one side or the other, but sort of go like, well, but what seems likely is this or that, that's what I try to talk to my guests about. So we had Howard Mortman from C-SPAN on. We played off the word transparency.

We have Brian Brushwood on talking about ambition. We're going to have Jennifer Brine. Jim Briney from Congressional Discs talking about disaster. We're going to have Andrea Jones Roy coming on, talking about identity. So, hey, if those sound like interesting things to you, go check it out, Awordpodcast.com. They definitely do. It's also Ace Detect on Twitter. Speaking of Twitter, go follow Tom there.

Regardless of who owns it, he'll be there. You'll find that name. And I'll be on X whenever that. Whatever X is, X app. Tom Merritt, everybody. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.

I don't know why I get so annoyed with this musk bullshit, but I do. Oh, well. He's annoying. It's annoying. Exactly. He's annoying. Oh, breaking news, Brian. Breaking news.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Joker movie, you know? Yeah. Scott Silver and Captain America New World Order's Malcolm Spellman are writing the new Todd McFarlane Spahn movie. Ooh. Ooh. Cool.

That's cool. Breaking news. That is cool. Moving on. All right. I still feel like that's vaporware until it comes out. Yeah. Well,

all this stuff is, right? Because we've seen so many movie promises or animated series promises that are like, oh, yeah, we're canceling that. Oh, we're making Grendel. Oh, no, we're not making Grendel. Oh, no, we're not. But having McFarland, like, having him directly involved probably helps, but I don't know. We'll see. That first Bond movie is such a piece of shit. It's so bad.

All right. Let's get in here for some movie talk, TV talk, stream and talk. Yeah. I haven't heard from Nicole, so I don't know if she's around. I've heard from Nicole. She can't make it today. Oh, well, thank you for that. Which works out okay because I'm going to be talking about two things, but I'm only going to be recommending one. Oh, that's right. We discussed this yesterday, so that's perfect. Yes.

Well, excellent. Let's get right into it and play this. That music means it's time. for recommendals, our recommendations of things streaming over the internet that you may or may not have seen. Joining us today, Randy Jordan. Hello, Randy. Aloha. Hi. How are you? Hello. Hi. I am

also a new huge fan of Twitter CEO, Baragawal. That guy. Oh my gosh. I want to, like, I would seriously like to send that person at Christmas gift. You want to get

him something nice, you know, under the tree? Okay. You said you read the tweets, right? I did. The texts, right? I did, yeah. And my favorite thing is that there are people who took the texts, which were in spreadsheets, and put them back into iPhone format. I just love that.

It's so much easier to read. Much simpler to read. But also, they're a good read if you want to hear. Like, you go to a server. I don't care what it is either, Twitter, Facebook, whatever. You're on there during the day and you're like, oh, I talked to mom today. And I left a message for so-and-so and this other thing. do you want to see what these guys are really talking about?

Yeah. They don't think of you as important at all, even though you're crucial. You are the product. Yeah. That's what I hate, your numbers, basically. Having one guy standing up to him while everyone else is just kissing his butt was just so interesting. Yeah, no, that's great. It made me realize, like, man, one day, if all of my texts with my friends and family were to suddenly be in a court case and you could see them.

Yeah. It's what it reminds me of when we go to zombie times, all the, And money means nothing at that point? Like, you'll be stuck in an elevator with somebody like Elon Musk. How does that power dynamic work then? You know? Yeah, right. If he doesn't know, if he's a little chicken shit in the corner peeing his pants and you're like,

all right, we've got to figure out what we're going to do here. I know on the third floor there's some guns, bra, bra, like you're planning for the future. And he's going, and no one cares. In that situation, in that situation, my long practiced ability to produce a fart on demand is going to come in real handy. I didn't know this. Uh, S.J. I hope, uh, hope he, he practices that outside. Yeah, I was going to say, I hope this is a thing that you do away from the family, but, you know, I actually, uh, I actually can't produce a fart on demand, but I am like everybody else. I am capable of, uh, recognizing when I'm about five seconds away from an irretrievable emission. Yeah. It's like, no, you got to, you got to leave the room. Yeah, you got to hang on to it. No, I get you. Oh, why can't we have the cold in a day? Because she would pronounce it, Alon Moosk as well. All right. Well, we're going to get right into it. I'm going to start with Brian, who's got, you want to do the mechamintel first? Or how do you want to do this?

I'm going to do the mechimental first because it's a great way to lead into what makes the recommendal so good. So as promised, I watched the Netflix movie, Blonde, which is a sort of a biographical film about Marilyn Monroe, starring Anna da Armis, the lovely and still very talented Anad Armas, who I, Armas, who I think is just given kind of garbage to work with. Let's give you some background on this. So it's an adaptation of a book by Joyce Carol Oates, which came out in 2000. And Joyce decided for kind of sensationalistic reasons to,

instead of making a book about, you know, Maryland's life from what we know, because there's plenty of that already out there. She wanted to make something that was a little bit more sensationalized a little bit more well she created some fictional plot lines like the threesome's

with the sons of Charlie Chaplin and Edward G. Robinson Wow. That's just a threesums but an entire threesome relationship with those two. If you're going to invent something for Maryland out of whole cloth, I guess it has to be sex.

Sure. Right. Exactly. Yes. She invented a rape that took place earlier on in her career that there's no evidence ever happened. I mean, there's a bunch of stuff like this. And so Andrew Dominic, who was the director of this film, took that material and basically created a two-hour and 47-minute film basically visualizing all this stuff that was in Joyce Carol Oates novel.

It's called an adaptation. I don't know if you've heard of it. And he's the dude that made that this much, I know, to be true thing. Yeah, but also the Robert. Ford, you know, the coward Robert Ford movie, he directed a couple episodes of Mind Hunter. Yeah, see, I really like his work, generally speaking. Yeah, normally I like his, I've liked his work too. And, and, um, but there are some decisions that he makes in this thing to, like, go from black

and white to color for no, no, it appears to be no reason. Like, normally you do, uh, when she's in her own mind, everything is in color. And then when she's in the outside world, black and white, or sober versus drunk or, uh, delusions. versus reality, that sort of thing. But this one just bounces back and forth for appears to be no reason. And I don't know. You're given a property to work with basically he just did what he could with what he had. When you brought that up yesterday, because we're talking privately about this,

and you brought up that the changes in, what do we call it, filter changes? Filter changes, sure. That didn't seem to have a rhyme or reason. And I was like, oh, come on, no one makes sense. And I went, look, I dug as far as you can go. And I got through the bottom of the crust of the earth. And I could not find anybody explaining how it works. What is the rhyme and reason?

Yeah. It doesn't exist. It's just random. It was just random. And that's what really just bothered me. Plus, they make Marilyn out to be a completely helpless, completely helpless individual. And there's so many accounts of her being smart and her being actively in control of her own career for the most part. Of course, the barbiturates and the drugs and, you know, the alcohol didn't help things and kind of steered her off into what, you know, eventually happened to her.

But there are accounts that, you know, she didn't talk in the, the, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, voice, you know, the entire time, like, like Anna, unfortunately does for the entirety of this movie. Honor to Armus is directed to play a caricature of Marilyn Monroe. She absolutely was. And that just bothered. It bothered me, but boy, did it bother Tina, who is, she's, to call her just a fan of Marilyn Monroe is not doing her service because she's, she's read up on her. She's, you know, watched all of her movies. She's, it isn't just like a, oh, I really like Marilyn. I'm going to buy that, that drawing where she's got her face all tattooed up that came out in 20.

10 or whatever it was. Sure. No, she really, she really likes Marilyn Monroe and actually has, we've got posters all, you know, a couple all over the house of the candid photos of Marilyn, not the one where she's all dolled up in the typical seven-year itch pose, but ones where it's like she's just captured candidly and stuff, which are great. So, you know, if you want to watch, if you treat it as fiction, and there, obviously there's truth in there. She was married to Joe DiMaggio. She was married to Miller, the author, the player, right? That guy. Arthur, Arthur Miller.

Thank you. It was like Norman, Herman, something. Arthur Miller. And there was potential evidence of her being abused by Joe DiMaggio, and that's sort of visualized off-screen or audioized off-screen with this. Bobby Kandivalet is great. He plays Joe DiMaggio. He's great in everything he does.

Adrian Brody also great as Arthur Miller. Adrian Brody cracks me up. Like he's just he can't like as straight as it like, you know, because he was like the pianist, right? Like he's as straight as he plays it though. He just looks funny. There's something about his face. He always looks like he's clowning a little bit.

No one's nose is more broke. I mean, even Owen Wilson looks at him and goes, man, wow, wow, wow, he says when he looks at his nose. Because that dude broke a nose and never did shit about it. He's just like, you know what? This is me. I'm Adrian Brody. Check out my nose.

It's like four inches too much to the left. We're good to go. And you know what? I kind of like it. I'm down. Yeah. It's okay. Also, Casper Philipson plays JFK,

which he also did in the Jackie film with Natalie Portman. So he's just going to make a career out of playing JFK. Although this is a much darker presentation. of JFK, a very uncomfortable scene that seems to just go on forever. And the movie, and the movie JFK by Oliver Stone. Well, a bunch of fiction. No, I'm just saying, I'm connecting the two movies.

Oliver Stone's JFK, a bunch of fiction, and you should not watch it because it's riddled with nonsense. Yeah, but for whatever reason, that one feels so much better than this. I know it is, it's kind of the same thing, right? It's so much speculation and so much like, but it could have been this happening. why has it done so much better in the movie JFK than it is here? This just feels so... Because Oliver Stone really knows how to make a movie.

Yeah, that's true. That's great. I'll totally take that. This bums me out, man, because I was really looking forward to seeing this. I'm with you on all those actors, including our main star here. I'd love them all and everything. And I just thought, oh, I even like this director. How can this go wrong?

And where it went wrong, and tell me if I'm wrong, it sounds like this is what you've said. But it sounds like, and we said this privately, I'll just say it out loud. Yeah, yeah. This seems to be a thing where if this was more of a straight biopic, and I know those already exist, but more of a modern take on just like, here's a biography, the best we know about her life, top to bottom, here's JFK and his, you know, like all that stuff. It would have been a better movie than this, which seems like stuff's just made up out of a whole cloth. It's more of a fantasy than a film. It would have been a different movie. It would have been a movie that has probably been done a bunch of times before, and that's probably why.

it wasn't done here in this case is because, well, what do we do to separate our Maryland movie or really it's the book? Because that's the source material. What do we do to separate our biography from these other biographies? And then, oh, yeah, this would be a good one to adapt into a film. And right now we're a little overloaded by these movies. There's just too many of them. You know, there's Elvis. There's Anne Frank. There's the Lucy and Desi thing. It's just too much. Yeah, but the Lucy and Desi thing, there's, it's, it Everything on that is accountable. Like, everything there is verified and true. I don't know. I haven't seen the Elvis one, so I don't know how much of that. Is it sensationalized? Because it is, you know, what's his face? Yeah, Baz Luhrmann.

It's very shiny. It's very, very good and exciting. My mother-in-law thought it was fantastic. Like, she would not stop talking about Elvis for a while. I, like, it must be pretty good because that's a very unusual recommendation coming from Yeah, I didn't know about the Anne Frank biopic. Does Chris Pratt play Anne Frank in that one? It's, no, it's some European actors.

I'm committing the names of all of them. Anyway. Yeah. Yeah. So this is, you know, look, the only person I'd really recommend this to is if you, if you really want to see Anadarmas run around naked for two hours and 45 minutes. Yes, we do. And who doesn't, really? that is really about the only

you know the only positive thing that came from from watching great so hey hey all you pervers let's get in there let's get it done would you if you'd like I could put time stamps on all of it for you so you don't have to suffer through all that exposition

and just get right to the boobs and it really is all you see you just see boobs yeah so let's let's move over from that into my actual recommendal today and this is great because this just arrived on Amazon Prime streaming in the last couple months.

And so I put in my list saying basically as soon as I've got a free day, I'm going to recommend this. But what I did that I usually, that I wasn't planning on doing, is I watched it last night, again, because I loved it so much. And that movie is the audio clip that I gave you. Oh, look at that. I almost said it. Oh, you almost did.

All right. We'll see if we can play this here. So just say yes. To whatever she asks you, just say yes. Let's say if she asks you, if you can sing, say yes. If she asks if you can dance, say yes. I can sing and I can't dance. No, I know.

I know. I'm just saying that if she asks you, if you can do something, you might not know how to do. Just say yes. Because you can only learn how to do something once you get the part. You have a warm smile, which is very powerful. And you have a warm smile. have a very Jewish nose, which is becoming very fashionable.

I am getting a lot more requests for Jewish girls. Really? That's great. Are you athletic? You seem to have a very firm body. Yes. Do you know how to horseback ride? Yes. Do you know how to do fencing?

Yes, I can fence. Basketball? Yes. Baseball? Yes. Soccer. Yes. Any other sports or special skills that I should know about?

I studied Karav Maga. I don't know what that is. What is Quick Draw McGrath? I'm glad you let that go until that. Yeah, that was great. Because that's one of my favorite lines of the whole movie. That, the person you're hearing there is Alana Heim. She's the youngest of the three sisters, the makeup.

up the band Heim, and she is the star of a film by Paul Thomas Anderson, or one of two stars of the film by Paul Thomas Anderson, called Lickrish Pizza, which was an Academy Award nominee last year, a well-deserved Academy Award nominee, Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Sadly, it didn't win any of those, but it should have because it's just so darn good. It also stars Cooper Hoffman, who is the son of Philip Seymour Hoffman, and you're watching this, you know, basically

a frequent collaborator with Paul Thomas Anderson in his films. You feel like you're watching a young Philip Seymour Hoffman. Cooper Hoffman is, he, I don't know how he didn't get a best actor nomination because he

plays this, he portrays this great character, this kid who is a one of the kids used in a movie that was basically like a yours, mine, and ours film with Lucille Ball. They don't actually say that. They have a fake movie that they use in place of that, but it's basically the same thing.

So he's been living off of residuals, which allows him to be somewhat of an entrepreneur and a hustler, starts a watermelon, a waterbed business. It's a very different thing, by the way. He starts a pinball machine arcade, like launches a pinball machine arcade. And he's this great always on character.

The only character I can think of that's kind of like that immediately comes to mind is the Robert Downey Jr. character and the pickup artist where he's just got this unbreakable level of confidence. And it works for him. And it works more than it probably should knowing what he's got behind him. Do you think that kid's going to have one of these lives where if he really wants, He has to work extra hard to overcome the shadow of who his dad was. You know what I mean?

Because his dad was like considered one of the greatest ever. I don't think it even is like evident. Yeah, because I didn't know who he was until after I saw this movie in the theaters. And I'm like, oh my God, of course that's Philip Seymour Hoffman's son. Now that he said, he kind of looks just like it. So the fact that that as a movie watcher, Brian a bit moviegoer, I walked in there and didn't immediately recognize him as. he's playing a 15 year old in this and it's his very first movie he's not done anything other than this movie he's yeah he he's coming into this with some amazing talent i think he's going to be

able to to turn this into a lot of things like into a into a great career nice but he might not choose to is what i'm saying like this you know what i mean like you're you're not bound to be oh god i hope he does because he's so he's so good here's what he should do he him and the gandolphini kid they should be a buddy cop movie you know just have dead actors talented kids get together you know even if they're not dead like get that maud apatow but uh apatow's daughter who's awesome and euphoria get her in there get all these kids in there that are like parents are like overwhelmingly celebrated and talented and award winning and just have their kids do cool shit that's what i want but then but then unfortunately then

the focus of whatever they do together turns into look at all these kids of famous people as opposed to it's a good point i've been i've been reeling for uh months now about Wolfgang Van Halen suddenly just becoming his dad like a very large round version of his dad like I keep like just thinking like what if that was your life like how would you feel if your life was just do what your parent did he played uh do it perfectly did he play he plays bass for or he did play bass for van halen that was his thing so he yeah they worked him into the limelight by having him take over for Michael Anthony when Michael Anthony He parted ways with the Van Halen brothers.

And then he, along the way, over the last 10 years, has learned how to play every note, every lick of every song that his dad did. Interesting. I hadn't really followed it since. I mean, I just remember him taking over from Mark Anthony. And plus that whole, whatever, that band got weird then. But Michael, Anthony. Mike, what I say? What I say?

That's right. I said. Anyway. So liquorish pizza. Brian, how do you feel about the age gap romance? Um, it's, it's very prominent in the film. It's talked about quite a bit. And, and, uh, Alana, the, the character Alana is 25, uh, Cooper Hoffman plays, like you said, a 15 year old. And it's, it's obviously talked about very much in the film. And, and, and the relationship, without giving anything away, the relationship, um, that's a, that's a, that's a no go in the relationship, uh, for, for, for one of them. The thing takes place in 1973 in California and in the Encino area. You've also got Sean Penn as an older producer, actor, kind of the, again, a really weird role for Sean Penn as this really smarmy, not a good guy kind of character.

Tom Waits kind of appears in that same scene, and then, of course, you've got Bradley Cooper, who has all always wanted to work with Paul Thomas Anderson and finally got the chance with this film in a great character. Basically, he just chews up, you know, eats the scenery every time he's on screen. Some cool stuff about this, though. The Cooper Hoffman was actually, as a kid, babysat by the Heim sisters when they, we're talking with Paul Thomas Anderson years ago about another, like music videos that he was producing of theirs. So the fact that, that

that all happens is kind of funny. Try to remember the actor who was in Bestin's show. He was Michael McKean's partner in Best In Show. A guy, he's in the rest of development. He is.

John Michael Higgins. There you go. That guy's a genius. I love him. He is great, and he plays the most racist restaurant owner that you'll ever see in a film like this. You can't believe that John Michael Higgins is kind of getting away with doing and saying

the things that he does in this film. And it's hilarious that he does it. And so damn cringy that he does it. Speaking of cringy, here's the only question I have. Do they actually ever, does anyone ever eat a pizza with licorice on it? No. No, licorice pizza is a term for a vinyl record. There's actually, part of the inspiration for this film was Fast Times of Regiment High, and one of the first stores that you see Mike Demone walk in front of in the gallery a mall or whatever the mall is that that takes place in is a record store called Lickrish Pizza.

Oh, okay. And there's no mention or reference to Lickrish Pizza in this film, just the fact that that kind of was the inspiration for it. And this movie has a phenomenal soundtrack. So a very vinyl forward, you know, very 70s music forward, um, uh, soundtrack to it. Interesting. And having, I guess having Sean Penn in there is interesting. If it's inspired by that movie, he's, you know, this is full circle for him. I didn't even think about that.

But yeah, totally, totally true. Yeah, exactly. Uh, the rest of the Haim family is in this thing, not just the other two Haim sisters who play, um, Alana's sisters in the film as well. and even keep their same names, Danielle and Esty, as well as their parents who also play the parents of Alana Heim. So basically they just said, hey, Heim family, play the Heim family, but we're going to give you the last name Kane instead.

Sticky in the 70s, yeah. Exactly. That's a really interesting thing for PTA to do. Like, I would have expected it from like Richard Link later. You know, but he likes to work with, he likes to work with, work with, like, really, really famous people, you know? Yeah. Oh, yeah. And to pull all these, you know, people in who are especially not, not known for anything but music, um, again, Alana Heim does an incredible job. And,

and for her first, for her first role, um, as an, as an actor, she does an amazing job. So I'm hoping that she continues to do this as well. Uh, Johnny Greenwood from Radiohead, uh, does the music, the score that's not the soundtrack. Um, and that's also great. Um, um, yeah this is this is really good it's on amazon prime right now uh i can't recommend it highly enough it's um such a great coming of age warm heartfelt movie that i think uh most people will enjoy and there's no uh you can you can watch this there's no nudity there's implied nudity but there's no real nudity or um excessive violence or anything like that so oh yeah Tim Conway Jr. is in there as well.

And Maya Rudolph, I forgot about those two. Oh, my God. So you get another, another junior, like we talked about the previous movie. That's awesome. Is it, is it Paul Thomas Anderson's first PG-13 movie? He's, he's pretty hard R, usually. I thought it was R, isn't it R? No.

Oh, it says R. The IMDB says R at the top. Does it, then it's R, but that's probably just for language because there's, yeah, there's no nudity. Plenty of, plenty of language. I was picking scenes saying, well, I'm going to have to do a lot of editing if I want to use that scene. It's the last month. I think he hasn't done, wait, if I have this right, that Inherent Vice was the thing he did prior to this, and then everything else has been music videos between then and that.

I think this might be, yeah, he hasn't done Jack for. It's only been, what, five years since in Heritage Vice? 2014, so that's, oh, wow, that's more than I thought. Yeah, that surprised me. But lots of music videos, in particular, the Heim sisters. All the Heim sisters' videos, yeah. So, I mean, obviously, he saw something in them and said, oh, radiohead as well, which is probably how he met, Johnny Greenwood.

Yeah, a bunch of radiohead. DTA is one of those people who's only going to make a movie every seven years, and it's like the thing that he's focused on at the time, you know? Yeah. Like, he's really meticulous. Well, he'll drink your milkshake if you're not careful. So a me comment, not even a me. I can't even really give a recommendation to blog.

but a very, very strong recommendal for licorice pizza now on Amazon Prime video. Just put a comic in front of blonde and watch that movie. That one's better. Yeah, you know what? Good, good plan.

It's not a great movie, but it's better than this. It's a better movie than blonde. There you have it. All right, I'm going to play a clip. Just so everyone knows right ahead of this, it's a little bit of a cheat in that you can stream it,

but you're going to pay 20 bucks to stream it. But I did, and I liked it. So this is a brand new movie. You're about to. Yeah, brand new movie. Well, technically, not too new because the streamability of it just happened, but it is not yet on any of the services.

I'm sure it will be soon, and I'm going to recommend people check it out. Here is your clip. My mama said, show me a liar, and I show you a thief. But I said the same. Right. Your mama sounded as a small woman.

Oh, she's smart. She was. Sorry. Oh, no, no, sorry. We all died at our point in time. Yeah, you do. Sir, I know you know why I'm here. And I just simply want my money back.

That's all. I'm the VA, right? Yes, sir. Yeah, I've had some problems with veteran affairs myself. It's difficult when they drag the feet. Right. Say, what branch of service you live? A Marine.

Simple five, sir. And where did you train? I'm a West Coaster, MCRD, San Diego. Okay, okay, so you're one of them Hollywood brothers with the veneers in your mouth, huh? now shooting bubble gun bullets. I'm from St. Louis, Missouri. Yes, sir. The Hollywood Marine I am.

All right. Is that Mahershal Lee? No, that is Michael Kenneth Williams, who has recently passed away. The last thing he made before he passed. And the other guy on the other line is John Boyega. You know him from, as Finn, from the Star Wars recent trilogy.

He blew my mind in this movie And the movie is called Braking BRA Well you don't have to spell breaking It's breaking It could be like What you do on a bike

When you come to an intersection Or it could be Sure It's a good And it was actually Initially released As the name 892 Correct

I don't know what changed Or why it changed I couldn't find any info on that But you're right I'm really glad They just changed the name of it quickly Yeah Breaking's great

The other thing was just too vague I don't know. I don't know how it would miss it or how I would actually apply to the film, but I did read that. And this is not electric boogaloo, right? No, no, no. This is not electric boogaloo. Breaking, not break in. Oh, gotcha.

That might have been why I tried to spell it, actually. I don't know. Now that I think about it. This is about a Marine War veteran played by John Boyega with a shaved head, which I think he should keep and never, never grow hair again. It's just a good look for him. Oh, wow. Okay. I'm looking at photos now.

Yeah. He, uh, he's got, you know, some, some, some mental emotional issues that come from his time in Iraq. He's a, he's a veteran. This is all based on true story, I should mention. Uh, this movie's directed by Abby Demaris Corbin. I believe is how you say the person's name. Anyway, um, it's, you know, you've all probably seen dog day afternoon. It's definitely got that vibe to it. He goes to a bank. He's got a homemade bomb. He just wants this 800 bucks back that the V. owes him and they've just been putting him through the ringer to try to get it. It doesn't sound like a lot of money. He's not even there to rob the bank or hurt anybody. He just, he's there on principle, but he's going to some extremes again, some, you know, some mental health issues are there. He's got a daughter who he just loves beyond anything else and an ex-wife who's with the daughter during the whole movie. Anyway, there's also two people in the bank. Everybody else gets pushed out. Two people stay. One played by Nicole Bahra. I think he's

her name. She plays a character named Estelle and Salinas Laiva who plays Rosa. These two women blew my mind. They're so good. I already knew one of them, Salinas Lavera or Levia, however you say her name. She's, she's from a ton of Law and Order stuff. I think in Special Victims Unit, she's like the chief there is where I first saw her. Anyway, she's very good. Your big showcases here, though. Oh, and other people, Connie Britton's in this. I know Brian loves her just about and everything. I love her. Jeffrey Donovan. Donovan's in this. It's a small role, but he's great in it, as he always is and everything. Great, great secondary players that are doing small, small roles, but memorable roles, really good roles. And in this particular case, Michael Kenneth Williams is playing a negotiator, hostage negotiator, and his job is to try to talk, you know, Boy, I get his character down so that they can come to some kind of conclusion.

I don't want to give anything else away about it. I will say the final stretch of it, there's some. a little bit of weirdness in pacing, but for the whole of this movie, big recommendal, I think Boyega could be the next Denzel, Washington, and I don't mean just because he's black, I'm saying it's that level of acting prowess. He's really good in this, like mind-blowing good. And I liked him fine as Finn, you know, and I haven't seen much else, but it was like, yeah, he's good. I like him. He's young up and comer. Good job. Well done. You're in Star Wars. this is new level higher level acting and it's he he he he I was gripped by everything he said and did in this movie he was really really good so he alone is worth seeing this for

but everybody else is great Michael K. Williams never never phoned it in you know we know he was going through some stuff and his drug issues and all that and obviously it took his life in the end but uh he's just amazing in this if you're like who is that guy know that name he was Omar and the wire and just an amazing actor. He's so good. Anyway, can't recommend it enough. I had to pay for this. It's 1999 and available on Apple rentals.

Or it's basically you buy it for that. So it's not a rental, I guess. This should be heading to other streaming services, you know, because they tend to do that pretty quickly these days. So watch for it if you don't want to spend the money. But when you're looking, you know, it's you and your wife or something. You're like, man, we need a good gripping tail tonight. night and a theater is going to cost us 50 bucks what if we spent 20 and stayed at home right exactly

you both watch it for that price yeah really really good oh the other thing i want to say about it some movies aren't afraid to let the scene breathe and this is one of those movies and you can kind of hear it in the clip where you can hear the air conditioning in the room but the phone call comes through and it kind of adds a weird cadence that it's hard to explain the sound work is what i'm getting at the sound work in this movie so cool so good it'll never get known for that but i thought the sound work was insane maybe it's because i had on really good headphones i don't know but it was it was rad so anyway breaking very good movie uh i guess it's still in some theaters and uh available for 20 i think we're going to be seeing it a lot more uh come oscar season two years what's your setup

for this clip am i am i not coming through i heard you did uh did you oh shit uh you know what i hit a key that muted you guys and i didn't mean to you're all back now. Sorry about that. I was asking if you think we're going to see this come Oscar season. Oh, I hope so, okay, I'm glad you asked that. Everyone was so quiet, I thought I was just boring everyone.

It is. There were two things said also before that. Oh, what did you say? What else did you say? I don't even know. You don't remember. I apologize. I would love it if he got an Oscar nomination, in particular, Boyega. I think he deserves it. I think it's a smaller film.

It's focus is fairly small. I don't know that these get a lot of love around Oscar time. It's also earlier in the year that maybe would be good. I don't know. So I guess I'm not betting on it, but I think he deserves it. Like he's really good. So check it out. It's very, very good. All right. Sorry about that. That was weird.

Hey, tell me your clip here, Randy. What do you got? I'm now the only person from the FilmSat crew who's done two solo bonus episodes of FilmSack. And so I'm the only one who has a trend at this point. And the trend, apparently, much to my surprise, is I talk about my favorite movies. And it's fun, but I mean, this most recent one I actually talked about some movies that I no longer think are favorites. But what happened as I, you know, after I recorded this thing was one of my favorite movies suddenly jumped back onto Netflix. And it's been, you know, it's been streaming here and there for, you know, for.

years and years, but it's, it's back on Netflix. I think you'll recognize it really, really quickly. But you know what? There's a lot of people out there who haven't seen this yet, and I think you need to, and one of them's my wife. And so I'm making her, I'm making her watch it via a recommendal. All right, here we go. You approved your valor. Yet again, Maximus. Let us hope for the last time. There's no one left to fight, sign. There is always someone left to fight. How can I reward Rome's greatest general? Let me go home. Home. Ah, the great Richard Harris. Yes, the great Richard Harris, who wasn't the only person who died soon after making this movie. Actually, I would say he was the person that died soon

after making the movie. There was someone else prominent in the movie who died while making the movie. Oh, wow. This is Gladiator. This is Ridley Scott's epic. Um, it is, um, it's kind of surprising how much this holds up. Like, I keep thinking, all right, now 10 years have passed. Now 15 years have passed. I'm going to watch Gladiator and I'm going to be seeing, you know, coming apart at the seams or something. Nope. Nope. This movie is just simply one of the greatest movies ever made. And you should watch it. Yeah, I love it. The guy you were talking about is Oliver Reed. He played proximo and um those there are some moments toward the end of that movie where they superficially use footage of his face where none existed because i couldn't film the scenes

with him and it felt a little off is it still feel a little right so the good news is that most of proximo's scenes were shot as the very first thing in the movie coming into this rudely scott knew he was taking a chance with oliver reed oliver reed was a long time known drunk and was very unreliable and he was perfect for this role of this like a side show gladiator circus guy like he's like a he's like a ringmaster you know and he's perfect he has to deliver a bunch of the like philosophies of the movie and uh but nonetheless um he he claimed at the time that he was sober but he was uh drinking and uh he actually drank himself to death with some other people who were making the movie. They went out drinking with him that while making the movie. And he got so drunk that he died in his sleep that night. Yeah. It was a pretty rough story at the time

I remember. This movie is significant for me in particular because it was the first time I ever think I ever saw Joaquin Phoenix. First time I ever saw Connie Nilsson. First time I think I saw Digimon Hanson. What's it how you say his name? Diamond Hansu. Daimon Hansu. I love him. And the guy I love the most, or I think it's just interesting as hell, is Tommy Flanagan.

He's the guy with a crazy scar on his face. He's in lots of other stuff since, but there's something about this movie where I feel like I got a lot of origin material for some of my favorite character. It's got a difference between me and you. You don't recognize Joaquin Phoenix as one of the kids from Space Camp. And that's just always going to be. You're absolutely right. I never think of that. He had quite a career before this.

Yeah, he was, he was choosing his movies at this. This was a time when he was in U-turn and he was in 8-M-M-M. So I'll always get to call that movie 8-M-M-and, you know, the Joel Schumacher movie? Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. So anyway, Joaquin Phoenix is the revelation in this movie. Like, it's hard to name another performance where you hate a person so much that you want to reach to the screen. and strangle them with your own hands. Yeah.

And he is, he is perfect in this movie. He's very good, yeah. I mean, there's, it's on my list, short list of movies I consider to be perfect.

And that's a, I've never really defined that. Maybe that'll be my thing coming up, what I think a perfect movie is, but this one fits in that list. And I'm not even sure why. I just think it's just a complete package. When I first,

the first time I ever saw it, I actually didn't really like it. And I think I wasn't in the mood for the, amount of action and violence that's in this movie and I came away not really knowing that I had also seen a really compelling story you know like I was just so I was so like stunned by some of the especially like there's a terrible violence against a woman and child yeah and I just like I didn't pay a really close attention the first time to oh my god Richard Harris talking to Joaquin Phoenix early in the movie is just incredible yeah and I almost I almost captured that

but I thought I don't want to I don't want to it's gets really dark like at least at least what he's talking to is it this other scene where it ends it ends bad for Harris is that the scene you're talking about because that's a rough that's rough yeah yeah and of course Richard Harris like like you said didn't do much more after this he he was in he was obviously Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter movies, but his last movie, or at least the movie that calls itself his last movie is the Count of Monte Cristo, which it

just came out two years after this. And man, he's so freaking good. Oh, my gosh. Are you excited that Ridley Scott is doing a sequel and it's in production, pre-production right now? How do you feel about that? I have tried, I've tried to not think about it too much.

It just feels like, it feels like it might not happen. It feels like it, you know, if it does, it might be very, very different than Gladiator. I just don't, I don't know. I'm just not, I'm trying to not think about it. You got the same screenplay guy. You got, uh, I don't know, a different guy, but sorry, it's the guy, and I remember

why I knew him. He did the Top Gun Maverick screenplay and the Batman and a bunch of other cool stuff. I don't know. I'm, I'm down to try. We'll always have Gladiator, but I, you know, I'll take it. Let's see what it looks like. And I haven't even talked about the score by Hans Zimmer. This is top five scores of all time.

When you're, when you're, when you're watching. this movie, the music is so ever present that you might stop paying attention to it. And it's, that's too bad because it's incredible. Han Zimmer had a vocalist named Lisa Gerard working with him on this score. And there is just so much incredible music that you, that you might actually not know. If you haven't seen Gladiator, you might have heard this music like movie trailers and stuff. And you don't even know it's from Gladiator. And if you haven't scene gladiator what are you freaking doing get in there get that done so many other good people who's that guy that's not married to but hangs out with ian mckelon all the time maybe they

are married or at least their partners he plays this he's like one of the senators i can't think of his name he's an old british character actor ian or zan or not patrick stewart they're just friends it's um again i think it was effing name anyway he's in this, plays the senator who helps them get shit done. Derek Jacoby, that's it. I love him in Gladiator. He's so good. And he's usually evil and horrible in movies, but in this, he's like,

for me, the also-ran person in this movie that I can't take my eyes off of is Cicero, who is Maximus's best friend. And he hides when Maximus is initially captured and, you know, betrayed and he hides and then he pops up later in the movie and he's played by Tommy Flanagan yeah that's the guy I was talking about the dude with the scar yeah and oh my god Cicero is like it's it's just this thing like this character is so interesting and the movie doesn't give you enough of him it gives you just enough of him you know what I mean yeah he's awesome that guy's great he's got us got the coolest

scar in all of Hollywood that guy and I love it uh he was he was in uh of the Guardians of the Galaxy. He was. What do you do? I don't remember. Yeah, he's one of those, I don't forget what they're called. The henchmen,

the, was he? The Raiders. Dundu's, yeah. That's cool, because Digimon Hansu's in there too. And he's the one that,

he's working for, what's his beak and Guardians? He played Korath. So you got the, I didn't realize there was a reunion there of sorts. That's cool. Guardians collection. Yeah, man.

That's awesome. It's almost like Hollywood all works with the same. 50 people anyway right uh well well done awesome stuff uh where's the streaming forgot to ask oh netflix netflix everybody um it's yeah we're all over the place with our apple tv and our amazon and our netflix but uh what a time to be alive my friends yeah it's a great time to con chronicle all this stuff and find it at quicksac dot lee no sorry tms what is it quicktms dot lee or randy'll put it all over the place he'll smear it on the internet okay

So look for Randy Dulex wherever. Smudged up. Yeah, smudget it. That's exactly right. Randy, have a fantastic week. Thank you. Oh,

and one more thing. Yes. Oh, de-dost him. Sorry. Oh, no. Just like his poor Overwatch 2 launch,

I dedost Randy right out of the show. All right. That did happen yesterday. Sorry, go ahead. Liquorice Pizza, glad eater and breaking of the three recommendals today. And then our blechamental is blonde. Yeah.

There you go. Appropriately. Which is unfortunate. It makes me little sad. Boob Cemental. Boob Cemental. Nicely done. All right.

It's the end of the show. We were talking about getting McDonald's today. Yeah. Here's the hilarious thing. While the show is going. I haven't talked to Kim about this. She went and got me an egg McMuffin. Oh, hilarious.

But I haven't talked to her, so she wouldn't know to do the thing. So I think she wouldn't have been able to get it before breakfast was over anyway. That's true. So here's what I'm thinking, though. This will still still. be my breakfast today. Yeah. But in a fantastic turn of events,

later this afternoon, I will also attend another McDonald's location. Okay. McDonald's a meal. Yeah. So you and I, that way we can still do our research and be good for tomorrow.

Now, are we rolling the dice and seeing who gets a cactus, cactus dude? Or are either of us going to request a adult happy meal with a cactus dude? Oh my gosh. I mean, I want at least one of us to get the cactus dude.

I know, yeah. But I don't... I see, let's roll the dice and see who we get. Okay. All right. Because I'd be fine with a weird four-eyed grimace butt plug. Not that I'm going to use it for that. All right.

No, you know what? Let's gamble. Let's do it. Let's throw our lot. We cast our hooks into the void and see what we pull back. Yeah. If we get pinhead, great. If we get the weird vagina neck person, that's fine too.

Oh, I can't wait for that movie. When is that happening? That movie is this weekend, is it, I think? The new Hellraiser, I think, is this week? Oh, is it really? Okay. Didn't know that. Hold on.

It's on Hulu. That might be my recommendal next week. I'm just more excited for Werewolf by Night. That's my... That is currently enjoying 100% Rotten Tomatoes ratings, so... Wolf by Night is? Yeah. Interesting.

Yeah, it looks like you hooked your wagon to the ride Beast there. Who knew? I mean, I'm going to watch it, too, but, you know. Of course. uh all right i'm sorry what the hell's that okay i don't know why that just played let's get to the finality of today's show i want to uh uh thank a long time patron uh this is dankeenia dankeena denkina or dankenia

dankinia yeah could be the dankinia is the important part i live in dankinia and it's dank that's right dig it dank yeah we got dank memes yo anyway Keeney, a long time, 2014 or so, joined us and is still there. Just want to give our thanks in their direction and thank them for their support of the show. If you'd like to be like this person, go to patreon.com slash TMS, where you'll get bonus content every single day, never an ad, stuff every month, and bonus content in the mail. And if you think that's not enough, it's also really cheap. For a buck a month, you can join all this. So go check it out.

That's patreon.com slash TMS. For everything else, it's frogpants.com slash TMS in the grand tradition. of the Tuesday episode of the show, or Wednesday rather, we leave you with a song. Brian, play one, please. But just on Wednesdays. Elizabeth Collins wrote in and said, hi, stop, no, and bad dog. My name is Elizabeth, a.k. Beffi Dino. And Sunday, October 2nd, I turned 33. The last few weeks have been a bit rough. I had a bout of COVID that hit me like, hit me a bit hard and was just starting to feel better and was looking forward to having some fun. Then Friday, I was getting out of my car back from the dog park

and didn't notice that my sweet 60-pound dog seriously saw something scurrying around outside and that I didn't and took off as soon as I opened my car door. I must have instinctively grabbed onto his leash because before I knew it, it twisted around my middle and ring finger and just like Thanos

snapped. So instead of hanging out at the Renaissance Fair with the turkey leg and friends, I hung out in bed alone with pain pills for my birthday. I was hoping that maybe the covermaster could play a song to try and cheer me up while I go into surgery Tuesday to have six pins shot into my phalanjis to hold them together again.

Oh. You guys are a constant source of joy. Love you all and best wishes to Tay and the family this week. Oh, man. I would like to see the baby. That's him saying that. P.S. Good Scott.

Give me a honk. Ah! Or any random soundboard if you can't find. Oh, we love the honk guy. Let's do him. He's great. Always a pleasure to click that guy's button. She also did the thing that I like.

when she said it's coverville's choice i love coverville's choice you've never let me down on these no and this is a song that you're going to love scott and and the rest of you listening as well this is a band called tandem t-a-n-d-m they spell it like you know the the the new modern way without a last e um from the single from a single that they released in 2022 it's a cover of that song by the counting crows that's just going to get stuck in your head and you're going to sing it day long. Here's tandem with Accidentally in Love. See you guys tomorrow for a Thursday edition

of the Morning Stream. So she said, what's the problem, baby? What's the problem? I don't know. Well, maybe I'm in love. Think about it. Every time I think about it. I can't stop thinking about it. How much longer will I take to

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