The Morning Stream - TMS 2362: Chicken Fork

Episode Date: October 12, 2022

Stop The Hunch, Stand For TMS. This Board is Looking Sus. Say the title! Baarrryyyyy'd. Chuck the Retro Buddy Good Friend. Girls Just Want To Tune In Tokyo (NO THEY DON'T). Bricking my Sex Robot. Wasn't there a Werewolf game name Werewolf? Gymnasium Lavatory. They Milked My Teet and Moved on. Someone is having fun! Call 911! Get Back to Biscuit Week! Patreon taste the rainboob. Back Breaking Ergonomic Chair. A muddled Meta message with (Tom) Merritt. Scaring Kids w/Nicole & Recommendno's w/Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, stop the hunch, stand for TMS. This board is looking suss. Say the title. Buried. Chuck the retro buddy good friend. Girls just want to tune into Tokyo. No, they don't. Bricking my sex robot.

Wasn't there a werewolf game named Werewolf? Gymnasium Laboratory. They milked my teat and moved on. Someone is having fun. Call 911. Get back to Biscuit Week. Patreon Taste the Rain Boo. Back Breaking Ergonomic Chair

A muddled meta message with Tom Merritt Scaring kids with Nicole and recommend knows with Randy And more on this episode of the Morning Stream I am beginning to think that maybe what I did was wrong Probably not, but maybe You don't clear this radio, Captain Burdell The only yellow rose you'll be seeing Will be the one I'll shove up your afterburner, is that clear? Over?

The morning stream, it's Toad's Fat. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's Wednesday, October 12, 2020. I'm Scott. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Good morning.

Hello. Hey, man. That clip. I just said, hey man. Hey. Hey. That clip reminds me. yet another season

of a show that I need to sit down and watch. Like new Dairy Girls, new Cobra Kai, new what we do in the shadows, peeky blinders I still haven't gotten caught up with. How To with John Wilson Season 2 I haven't watched yet. Upload season 2 I haven't watched yet.

No Pierce. How to Season 2 is great. You got to catch up on that. Oh, I know. All this stuff is great. Star Trek Lower Decks new season I haven't watched. God, there's so damn much. I can't keep up with it all. It's a flood of content. And we're at Ground Zero trying to just deal with all this content. Yeah, buried in it.

Can barely breathe or see. Buried. Buried. Welcome to the show. It is the Wednesday edition of TMS, of course. We've got a few things going on. Let's start with Brian, how's your back? How's your back?

Yeah. Oh, man. So, yesterday, the continuing story of my backache had the issue over the weekend and even last week, ordered a new Secret Labs chair to help with my back, and also because I'd like a decent chair that I'm not going to have to replace every year or two. Good point. And it arrived yesterday. It's 75 pounds.

Look, this is one of those chairs that is, it's built like a tank, and it weighs just as much. Even that, you know, the bottom thing that holds the casters, the, that kind of spiders out, five arms and you put casters in the bottom of each one. That thing is even freaking heavy metal. Like it's actual metal as opposed to the plastic you find with other. And obviously we're not talking about a pre-assembled thing. It came in

parts. Oh, no. Came in parts. And yeah, somewhere between bringing the box in or bringing in the two pieces of the chair that, you know, I assembled two parts and then joined them here

behind my desk to make it easier because there's not a lot of room here to do the full chair assembly. Right. But somewhere in that line I aggravated my back, re-aggravated my back. The irony of making my

back hurt worse. So yeah, so woke up this morning. Actually, was hurting last night, took a muscle relaxant and woke up this morning with my head in the clouds. Groggy could have slept for another couple hours. I love that feeling when you can sleep for another couple hours,

but it's like on a day where you, I mean, clearly you can't today. Yeah, you know, you just all your stuff. Yeah, that's hard. It would have been nice if it was any other day. On any other day. So 75 pound chair, I guess this speaks to its durability, right? It does, yeah. It's a, it is a beast, and it, but it is, it is comfortable.

It is adjustable to, well, Every aspect of it is adjustable, right? So, like, the armrests, as most of them do go up and down, you can raise and lower the armrests. But you can also move them in and out, like left and right, rotate them at angles. Like, there's, you know, recline function, as you find with most chairs like this, but there's also like a... So the recline function keeps the seat in place and moves just the back. but then there's also where the whole chair rocks back and forth.

So you hear a lot about lumbar these days. Yeah, there's a lumbar roller thing that a knob that you can turn to adjust the lumbar support. Does anything vibrate or heat up or anything? No. I mean, not in the chair, baby. Something does, but it ain't in the chair. Something does.

I do still have from my crappy Spider-Man gaming chair, I do still have my Spider-Man vibrating pillow, We'll work with any chair. Yeah, you can put that anywhere you want. Oh, look at that, you guys. Oh, that makes me want one so bad. And that goes like right in the lumbar. It's like, oh, so good.

USB plugged vibrating pillow there. So to echo somebody in the chat, they want to know why you're not sitting in this awesome new adjustable chair. Is it because you're back to her? Just because it's a state. I stand for TMS. I stand with TMS, guys. every day I stand with TMS. That's right, you guys, listen, this is important.

If you're going to stand for anything, let it be TMS, as I sit in my Herman Miller over here. Well, that's great. Hopefully your back begins to begin the healing process, you know? Yeah, for sure. I mean, I know the problem with the other chair. It was the fact that the armrest didn't adjust. So I had to, I couldn't pull the desk directly up to my, or pull the chair directly up to my desk, which means I was leaning forward doing my work.

Yeah. And that's a problem. If you're leaning in a hunched position for three or four hours a day, it's going to cause problems. Yep. I know this feeling as much as anybody. It's probably the source of all my back ailments is I hunch. I'm doing it now. I'm hunting now.

Yeah. Yeah. Look at me. I even got a chair that's meant not to hunch. It's like built not to hunch. I got it. Like back in 2013 when I bought it was like 12, $600. It's like, this is going to be the last chair I ever buy ever in the history of

ever. And yet, here I am. Hunching. Yeah. Like a dumbass. Yeah. Uh, anyway. Nope. Stop the hunch. Yeah. Stop the hunch. Let's a old chant. We'll just chant together. Stop the hunch. That's right. And we're going to start playing Marky Mark and the funky hunch. Funky hunch. Yep. Then I'm going to break at noon for, for a nice warm hunch. And then I'm going to have, uh, I'm all out of hunches. I got that's all I got. I can't do it. I'm all out of hunch. Follow up, folks. We've got a follow up.

Yeah. That's a big one. Send and receive email. This is from Christine Fletcher. We've been following her closely. She's like Hurricane Fletcher. All right. We've got to keep our eye on her.

That's right. Exactly. She wrote in, says, hello, friends. And remember, we were talking about this. I think I was the one who initially said, no, that the recording was definitely Christine's idea. Yeah. Oh, yeah. So keep that in mind as I read this.

Hi, friends, just to follow up to our email last week. As you know, as you know, I listened to TMS in my car in between appointments for work. When I listen to recommendals, I can frequently be seen yelling, quote, say the effing title. All right. This is at my car stereo as I drive. It reached a tipping point on September 28th on that show. And Scott said his title in under three seconds, outstanding, she says. Amazing.

Nicole 22 seconds, yay. Brian 36 seconds, acceptable, she says. I'll take it. And Randy talked about four minutes and 32 seconds about everything but the title of the show. He was so desperate for everyone to watch. By the time he finally said the title, it was so offhand that I nearly missed it. Turns out Scott was equally frustrated on that particular day, was I? So that's why we were inspired to do our bit glad.

Our bit? Oh, glad you liked it. Oh, your own bit. yeah she has a dash there which threw me anyway well there should be spaces on either side of that dash it should actually be an m dash instead of an n dash because that makes it look like it's a two-part word bit glad yeah like a oh what you got there that's a that's a chicken fork or whatever you got is there not a chicken pork yes that that ever popular compound uh statement chicken fork yeah got a whole drawer full of those chicken forks anyway um glad we liked it looking forward

to recommendals recap. Love you guys. Christine, rather. So here's the thing, Christine Fletcher. We're going to try to do better, you know, moving forward. It's all you can do. You can't go back. You can only go forward. I know exactly why I do it. There's like a suspense thing of like, oh, I play the clip. And then we come back from the clip and you guys are like, oh, I don't know what this is. And I do a little more. I try to do a little more setup to build the suspense.

I'm like, oh, yeah. Well, it's the show about this thing. And da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And it's called blur. Blur. But I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm going to say the name. As soon as that clip ends today, you go, blurg, as soon as I finish. As soon as you finish the clip.

Blur! I'll say, man, I'm not sure what that is. Blurg! Right, exactly, yes. Well, Christine, we'd love more of your funny replies in the form of audio. I love that. I know you guys aren't just like sitting around with no time on your hands, but I'm just saying if you get bored and you want to make another one of those,

we'll play it on the show. No problem. But do it. I also want to give a quick shout out to listener Joseph Bootin. Bootin. Bootin. The reason I'm doing this is because he just randomly reached out with an email and talked about how much he loves the show and how long he's been listening. And he asked me to play this clip right here.

Then you can eat rice! John, that's for you, buddy. Or Joseph, not John, Joseph, Bootin. I said John. It's good to have you listening and I hope you enjoyed your You Can Eat Rice clip that you requested. Okay. Hey, hey. What if we called Dunaway?

What would happen then? I'll bet we could talk him into playing. game you think he'd uh he'd join us for something like that feels like he'd be down feels like it so we're gonna try that uh i gotta get into the phone thingy too because this will be open to you find folks at home we can call in 801 4710462 for this hey look who it is it's old brian done away pulling his car up to the curb and barfing out the front window what are you doing there what's going on oh hi scott and brian wow what was that sound. The final... I don't know, but Discord

really had a blast with it, didn't it? Yeah, it did. That was great. You can do that any time. I like your folly work. It's good to have you here. It's Brian Donaway, of course, joins us on Mondays and Wednesdays for this little game we play with you at home. Again, that number is 801-47-1062 if you want to be a part of today's Tad Pooley feud. Let's see who we get. Oh, nobody yet. No calls yet.

Okay. We're waiting. We're waiting. Oh, here comes one. Waiting patiently. Patiently. I think we got one. Hi. Thanks for holding. Who is this? Hello. Hey, it is Chuck from New Hampshire. Hello, Chuck from New Hampshire. It's nice to have you on. Is this your first time? I think Chuck's the first, this is your first time, right? I don't recognize your voice.

I've called in a couple times. Actually, you guys took my name in vain yesterday and added a computerized voice to my email. Oh, that was you. Oh, that was you. That was me. Yeah, Chuck Byer. That's awesome. I'm really glad we could do that for you. Uh, fantastic. Well, Chuck, it's good to have you here. Brian, if it's going to explain this rule or this rule, these rules, and tell us what you could win today. Hey, Brian, do that? I'll do that. It's time to play. You were about to say something, though, Chuck, sorry. Oh, did we cut them off? I didn't hear if we can. I'm sorry, Chuck. What did you say? Yeah, I was going to say that I was able to find the Discord link, and I had fun filling out all the questions. So I'm ready.

Oh, awesome. That's right. Okay. Oh, I did get your. You were the one who, yeah, didn't need the link. Good, I'm glad you found it. Yeah, and I got his follow-up email, and that was pretty funny, too. So, thanks for sending that. All right, Brian, explain it. Thanks for that extra little bit you put in there about my anus.

Hey, it's time to play the tadpool on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brianneap predict the answers that they gave us, and it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Chuck, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. One of the two, but not both, not both, not both. Not both, not both. Good people. If your team wins, you get a prize package that includes Red Solstice 2 Survivors.

This time, it's the Survivors. And Nebuchadnezzar. You got to say that fast. Nebuchadnezzar. Oh, my gosh. These are both really great games. For real. Like Red Solstice 1 and 2 are excellent, too, is amazing.

Nebuchadnezzar is like, you know, the old Pharaoh games? Or, I'm trying to think another. Caesar 3, Zeus. Those like city builders, ancient city builders from the late 90s in 2000. age of empires kind of thing ish ish it's more like build your their ancient empires but they're it's more about building your city and less about fighting and stuff yeah love that's i prefer those okay i'm sorry the game is now been replaced with something else nebuchadnezzar is an extremely cool like modern take on it it's very good very good i'll buy my own copy go play on my steam deck there you go that's

probably a tough one you probably need a lot of big size screen for that one well it would probably work, but you'd have to use those thumb pads almost exclusively. I'm not sure you want to do that. Yeah. I don't think I want to do that. Yeah. Anyway. I guess I could always, I do have a USB thing plugged into my Steam deck. I can use a keyboard with it in my monitor. Totally can. Yeah. Absolutely. The best thing you get, you go at super cheap, it's like five bucks on Amazon. They got a little dongle that'll do USBC into the device and then it splits out into two two little USB regulars. So you can have a mouse, keyboard, and then even fire off a freaking HDMI connection to the TV. It's badass. I love mine.

Sweet. Okay. Hey, let's get your topic. Let's actually play this game that we're sitting here, getting ready to play, and it's kind of appropriate. We asked 768 tadpoolers to give their best answer to this. Name a popular video game that most people have in their Steam library. What?

Half-life. Half-life. Half-Life. Show me. Half-life. Number three. Interesting. Now, I'm going to clarify, before Brian answers anything here, you know, sequels. So Half-Life would include Half-Life 2, right? Oh, okay. Okay. If it's a numbered sequel or... Okay, so you only, you combine the series. There's not multiples. Yes, only a name, though. Right. So, like, I'm trying to think of a good example. it wouldn't be on this list.

Zelda, if Zelda were on Steam, right? Zelda would include Zelda 2, Zelda 3, Zelda 4, but not Super Smash Brothers, even though that includes Link and Zelda and some other characters from the game, if that makes sense. Right, right, right, right. I wish Zelda was on Steam.

I wish. Right, yes. All right, so two answers will beat that one, Brian. Do you have a guess? I do. Every person I know who has a Steam library has portal.

If the Tadpool actually put it in there, I can't say. Show me portal. Oh, number one. That's what I was, I also like,

it was like, because I know Portal is kind of the sequel to Half-Life, but not quite. It's, you know, an offshoot. It's a shared universe,

I guess, right? Shared universe, exactly. Yeah. At least they say. All right. uh that means brian you've got control of the board you've got chuck as a partner eight answers left on the board how do you know what do you got he's got chuck to say five times trying to get rally in chuck chuck

now what i'm going to say is i'm going to say chuck what do you think i've already i've already laid down the portal up there what do you got yeah portal's good i got i got to i got to rack my brain i'm more of a retro gamer i got a i got a pie with like 2 000 games on it going back to you know all the Sega and Super Nintendo games. My son is more of the modern gaming. What about, see, I don't know if... If you don't have one, that's okay. I've got a couple of my pockets.

Yeah. Yeah, let me think on that. What do you... Yeah, what do you got that, Brian? I'm going to say everybody's got the Counterstrike, that global offensive in their Yeah, you know what, this is smart. This is smart.

You stick to all the valve staples, and you'll probably have. All right, counterstrike. Show me counterstrike. Yeah, number six. Yeah. C.S.O also. That's a global offensive or whatever it is.

Yeah. Goiabalisk. Sorry, go ahead. Right. Now, Chuck's my retro buddy of good friend. And if he doesn't have another, I got another one in my pocket. If you don't have another one, Chuck.

He's my retro buddy good friend. I love that. That's right. Are they still playing like Doom or Quake in there? I am. What about Overwatch? Is that one that would be in... Overwatch is exclusive...

I wish. It's exclusive to BattleNet, but they don't... Yeah, that's BattleNet. But you're right, that is a hot new game. Yeah, it is. That is a hot new game. Yeah, I played some of the new one yesterday. He was in the queue with 20,000 people in the queue playing last.

This week finally got in, got all the stuff moved over. That was a rough couple of days, man. It was rough. I played some last night, had no trouble playing, it was fine, but it's, it had a rough launch. Let's put it that way. Yeah. Anyway. I often, one of the things I do on my Steam is I will look to see.

Whenever I'm looking for games, I'll look, and I'll take a look over on the right-hand side, and it'll say, you know, this number of people have this in their library. I always find that fascinating. I got one. I always see, got one, you got one, nail it. Chuck, do it. And this is, this is, and Scott, I've been, I've been looking at videos of what you've been playing and, and wanting to try this, the ship, the shipbreaker, uh, oh, yeah, well, this will determine

whether the tadpole has been influenced by me or not, yeah, if they've all went out and bought this thing, because I couldn't stop talking about that game. I love that. Yeah, that looks, that looks really cool. And we've got the older Xbox, so we don't have the newer one, but it's supposed to be coming to game pass, but... Yeah, it's on Game Pass now. Yeah, you can play it now.

But you've got to have the newer Xbox, right? Oh, is it a series... It might be a series X and S only, not one. I think it's a series X only. I don't think it works on the older Xbox one, but... That's a pain. Anyway, that's too bad. That's my guess.

That's my guess. All right. What do you say? Let's do it. Let's roll the dice. All right. Shipbreaker, show me. Shipbreaker.

Oh, man. All right. That's okay. But it was a good... It was a good... It was a good thought, though, because we We are talking about the Tadpool. Yeah, and they're influenced.

Yeah, they're influenced by us here. Okay, I'm going to go with Team Fortress 2 because that's a big one. Yeah, classic. That should be on there, please. TF2. All right, show me Team Fortress 2. Trim Fortress 2. Team Fortress 2.

A little trim tool fortress too. You know what I mean? Look at those big points I just turned. Number 8, yeah, that's a biggie right there. All right. Now, we'll stay again. That's how they get you, Chuck. The wisdom.

The wisdom seems to be, let's stay within the Valve published games for a bit because they just feel default. So let's go with Left for Dead one or two. All right. Yeah. Any of those left for dead games? Oh, come on. Really? Yeah, a lot of people said them, but not high enough to make it in the top.

I'm trying to find it in my list here. Well, one person said it. One person. Hide for 60th place. That was a massive. massive game. I cannot believe that that's no one thought of that except one. That's insane.

That is wild. Whatever. It's all right. Comes back to you guys to put some points on the board. Seven answers. Six answers still left on the board. I know one that I always see people playing. But I'm just never sure.

I'm like, would this be on the list? Chuck, you got another one. You'll be the one out here. No, go for it, man. I'm going to say every time I turn around, for some reason, still playing rust. People look you up and down.

Was there a new love that game? Did Tristan play Rust? I didn't know that. That's great. Yeah, Tristan plays Rust and it's like, why do I always walk in here when you're completely naked, your character

on screen is completely naked. Yeah, you start with a, you start Weiner out in that game. You do. You totally do. Rocking out with your Rust. Show me Rust. Oh, come on.

I am surprised by that one, too. That was a very popular game. I got a different direction to go in. I felt that one out. Let's see if Scott's able to put something on the board here. I'm going to go with another Valve game. I hope I'm not, I feel like maybe this is a mistake. I'm going to say Dota 2.

Dota 2. Dota 2. All right. Dota 2. That's a great one. Show me, Dota 2. Are you freaking kidding me? That game is the number one charted game on Steam. If you go look at the list, it's Dota 2.

If you look at Steam, if you look at Steam, charts right now it is the most concurrent player game right this second literally right this yeah yeah that's insanity oh yeah don't it's that you're on steam looking at what's popular it doesn't take much you just go to go to steam charts go to steam charts and you'll see it you got you got one yeah what you got what you got what is it gta gta gtta that's a good that's a good Grand Theft Auto, and let's see. Let's see if that made it on the list. It's number seven on the list, and you guys take the lead back.

Oh, that's good points, Chuck. That's good points, Chuck. GTA 5 being the one that most people said, but Vice City and a couple other ones people said as well. But I lumped them all into one GTA. Right now at 937 Mountain Time, there are 129,5131 people playing Grand Theft Auto 5. Look at that. Okay. I don't think going to...

Hold on. steam and looking at that. Steam charts isn't cheating. Translates to Tadpool. No. Yeah. I mean, you want to look at tadpool results. Right, but I could say Nicarra Blade Point, and I'd be wrong, that's currently number six. This is just who's playing right this second. Yeah. Not cheating.

Give it the shit. Now, when this was, when this was survey was probably taken, I'm assuming probably this fall, the summer fall. Yeah. Summer fall. Elden Ring would have been hot on everybody's mind still. Or would have been right before Eldon Ring. Well, Elden Ring was, what, February? February?

Just this year, yeah. What do you think about that, Chuck? What do you think about the Eldon Ring, Chuck? Go for it. All right. Show me Eldon Ring. Oh, man. Number 11.

Number 11 was on the ring. Oh, it would have been great if one, like, three more people said it. It would have made in the top 10. It would have been great. So, Scott, right now, Brian's win. winning. Chuck is going to get these prizes. If you enter even two of these correctly, then you'll take the lead. But you can run this board out. I believe in you, Scott. I believe you can run this board out. I'm nervous because some of these are, they should be right,

and yet they're wrong. But they're not right. Okay. Oh, geez. This is a good blanket one, because there's tons of them. I'll just say call of duty. Call of duty. Show me calla duty. number nine now you've got to run the board now you got to do it because three answers left on the board four answers left on the board pressure here

people in the community never shuff about Warframe or maybe it says two or three people all I know is every time I'm in the tab It's like loud people Play under Warframe has its fans I love that game I wish I could get into it I tried a couple times

I just can't That's a free to play game Maybe it's on there Oh All right We can look at the chat room too Because I'm seeing some good answers right now In the chat room

Look at that Yeah I like that one answer I like Skyrim Let's do Skyrim Is it on there? All right show me Skyrim

Number two Elder Scrolls and Skyrim That's lumped all those together That tells me something How about Star Do Valley Ah all right Show me Star do

Valley, which... Bad answer. Oh, look at that. Number four on the list. Yeah, I need to get back into that, especially now. That's like a perfect steam deck game. Civilization. Civilization.

Okay. All right. Siv. Show me the sieves. Show me some sieve games. Number 10. We might run it. Rolling.

Last answer. We tell you to look for the board. And it's a good one. Yeah. It's a good one, too, because it's a good one, too. like it's on the, you know, in the middle range there. It's still an upper end. Yeah. That's pretty good. Yeah. Right. Exactly.

Tadpool. Tadpool certainly. What we're not thinking of? What about destiny? One answer. I find the whole thing to be suss. That's what I'm saying. I find the whole thing to be sus. Oh, oh, among us. Maybe that's on there. Among us. Show me among us. Yeah. Here's the board. Well done. That means we ran the

George, Brian. Well done. Yeah. The event finally leaked through when Brian said suss. And for a while there was like, what is that? What the hell of these guys talking about right now? Let me tell you some of the other ones here, because it did surprise me these weren't higher. No man's sky, especially, you know, with all the recent updates. Rocket League.

Tadpool is talking about Rocket League quite a bit. Witcher, Minecrafts, Borderlands, Destiny, Doom, Doom Eternal. You talked about that one, Chuck. All the fallouts and Bioshock, rounding out the top 25. Oh, interesting.

Oh, Bioshock is a popular series. I mean, I definitely think of Steam when I think of a Bioshop, but this wouldn't have been, I wouldn't have thought that would have been a list. Interesting. Yeah. I'm surprised Valheim didn't get mentioned. Number 23. 23. Okay. All right. Interesting.

Assassin's Creed, Fortnite, PubG, Red Dead, Terraria. City Skyline's Jackbox, way down on 31. Did I see which one? Wow. Cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is one person said it i think oh no two people said it yes i just beat that game like last week did you yeah now i had that on the good old games but you know i can purchase stone steam yeah that's true um i

this is this is interesting because it tells me what our what our listener base plays and that we should play games with yeah yeah exactly that's what i was thinking i we need to keep this list so i can see what i need to be playing with right this exactly this uh tells me a lot too yeah i'll forge you guys if you'd like i'll give you guys the list yeah yeah yeah actually it's Cool. It's like the Tadpool playlist, and we'll, I mean, obviously, Among Us is the easy go-to, but there's other stuff. Oh, they're putting out a, among us is making a VR version next week. Oh, that's right. Yeah, I did see that. We got to try that shit, dude. We got to, we got to try. It's only 10 boxes.

We got to do it. We got to stream it. We're totally up for that. I'm going to do it. And I don't know if it means, here's what I hope it means that you can have, those without headsets can just be in the game and play normally. Is that how it'll work that we'll, we'll have our first. person walk around hallway thing but others are just playing like i don't know do we all have to have headsets i assume we all have yeah i don't know that's a really interesting question yeah right so we'll see that's next week sometime anyway congratulations oh wait i got to play this i'm a doc no that's not it congratulations you're a winner you're a winner chuck you've won because we cleared the board

so either way you were a winner today and i'm very excited about that because you're going to get these great games brian tell me again what he won yeah you won red solstice two serving Survivors and Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar. Stealing for... No, I'm kidding. You can have it. Yeah, you'll like that game.

At the very least, your son will like it. It's great. I'll use my own money that I earn. Let me give you one hint, though. One hint is when you're building your, and you're in an arid place, it never hurts to make as many aqueducts as possible from the, from the Nile or wherever the hell it is, what river it is. Lots of water.

Lots of water. lots of water. Oh, yeah. It'll save your town. You're not going to get screwed. You just do the water and lots of storage. That's the other thing. It's a great game. I appreciate it, guys. I'm a loyal listener to TMS, Corps, love and playing retro, so yeah, thanks for letting me on. Hell yeah, man. It's great to have you, Chuck. Have a fantastic time. Brian, you probably already set that stuff, right? It's already on its way. No, I haven't gotten his email yet.

Oh, duh. This is someone we need your email. Yeah. I just post a full list on in the chat so like it's a little dropbox download and i'll give it to you guys too nice uh chuck just send brian an email coverville at gmail.com sorry we got your call ended before i could tell you um my bad i can't say chuck i'm ruined charles he ruined my life i can't not say chuck like peppermint patty oh look oh look at you any time i talk to somebody name chuck i have to say hey chuck yeah and then pull the football away do you pull the football away or what's your deal that's not peppermit patty dummy no but but but but

Lucy. Lucy does that and she's a, Lucy's a, let me can, can I say this out loud? Lucy's a dick. Yeah. Yeah.

She's a massive. She's a big. Foxy bitch. Yeah. I don't like her one bit. All right. Have you read the books? Have you read the book about Charlton?

The novelization. The Charlie Brown, you're a good man, Charlie Brown novelization. And I really like the depth that they bring to those round-headed characters. I'm talking about the biography. Oh, okay. I'm talking about the biography.

where he talks about the characters and where they came from and you know what Lucy uh what what Lucy means to him right weren't they all yeah yeah ex-wives yeah oh really ex-wives yeah what about uh what about pig pen who is that in his life do we know uh that's a good question what who is pigpin that's the lucy like is an ex-wife who's also a psychiatrist who gives her psychiatry away for 10 cents yeah and then pulls the football away from people that's one to one Lucy's terrible, man. She's awful. Oh, it's his cousin.

Oh, no, someone in the chat. Sam Jane says she has a cousin named Melissa. Wait, what? Lucy is my cousin, Melissa. What does that mean? She's saying that Melissa is just like Lucy. Oh. That has similar traits.

Got it. She would pull the football away is what you're saying. Got it. Nailed it. Right. Well, all right. Hey, done away. Yesterday we did a play retro.

Speaking of that show, it was great. We had a great time. We talked about alone in the dark, the series, especially the first three. The first one is kind of a classic. The other two, they're all right. I learned a lot this past week about our listeners and just people we hang out with in general.

So many of them just never played alone in the dark. Just never played it. I didn't either, but I thought I was an outlier. But it was pretty common. I was surprised to hear that too. I had fun exploring it. Yeah, because it was a must play when I was, I don't know. I guess again, it was such an exclusive club.

You had to have a PC that would run it, which was kind of, you know, at the time, expensive. And I happened to work for a computer company, so we were getting cheap parts. And so I could do it. But I guess not everybody could upgrade their 386 and play that weird game. But anyway, did it hold up. Very proud. Very proud of that episode we did yesterday. If you have not listened to play retro, that's a great episode to listen to.

That's right. We talk about, we don't only talk about that. We also talk about first. Who's first? and how does insemination work? Yeah, how do you inseminate things? Yes, we talk about how to inseminate things.

You put the wiener in, you move it around, before you know it. We did not talk about that part. It was much more biological. Oh, I missed that part then. Whoops. All right. Hey, Dunaway, bye. All right, he's out.

That's the end of him. What's happening? I don't understand what's going on. Well, we hope you all enjoyed that. I always do. And Chuck, congratulations. Once again, it's time for some news. I wonder if his real name is Charles.

Anyway, hey, it's the news brought to you by. I have this little roll of Kirby's stickers that Scott made. Oh, yeah, look at this. So I'm going to give some of these away. I don't know when or how soon, but they're, they're, he's pants wearing. Actually, you know who deserves credit for this? Cleo's son drew, drew an image of Kirby wearing pants and it inspired the crap out of me. Colin, that's awesome.

That's so good. So I made a bunch of these, and I'm going to cut them up into individual stickers. They're actually, you know, they're, what do you call those? Die cut, so. Di cut, so they're the shape of Kirby. They're like YouTube thumbnails. You put a little white outline around them. That's right.

All you need is some big block letters next to it saying, is Kirby the devil, question mark? That's right. So I'm going to send these out. How I'll do it yet? I don't know. but some lucky TMS peeps will get those, so watch for that. Cool. Oh, so cool. All right. Let's get to this story here about a man high on magic mushrooms.

Okay, first of all, let's clear this. Let's get this out of here. Have you ever intentionally or accidentally partaken in the magic mushrooms world? Intentionally one time and was in Vegas. And how did that? Okay, I talked to a guy just two, three days ago. I'm not going to say his names. I don't know if he wants me here. who said that that was a life-altering experience. Mitt Romney. It was Mitt Romney.

It touched his testicles. Yeah. Just kidding. That's a long story. Go check out. Life-changing experience, I would say definitely not. I get, I, it didn't do much for me. I mean, I could tell that I'd taken something or that I'd eaten something, but it was,

it was so, eh, I think I like alcohol better. Okay. Because that's what I've heard. Because it tasted horrible. Oh, yeah, that's the thing that tastes really bad. So my, so what I've understand. from most cases you've got three outcomes

when you take mushrooms one is what you experienced just kind of like if that was gross and also this isn't that great and okay whatever move on then there's the kind that have a very bad trip

like just effed up like oh my gosh paranoia and yeah and then there's the one where it's like then they're the one that was like the most enlightening physical spiritual whatever experience of their entire lives

visited by the Dalai Lama yeah gently yes anyway well here's a story about a guy who apparently is having a great time which version did he have

I feel like he made it so we all had a version of it but let's I'll explain a man high on magic mushrooms caused chaos on a flight from Miami prosecutors say churvy Sevilla accused of opening

locked laboratory door I hate the word laboratory I hate it lavatory that's like gymnasium It's right up there. Yeah. Anyway.

But you can say Jim and it's fine, but I still don't like the shortening. Lave. Yeah, I don't like the Laugh. Yeah. Agreed. That's a bad, it's a bad shortening. Anyway, it's not one, it's one thing that you open that door, but he opened it and then twisted the flight attendant's breast. Oh, geez.

Yeah. Come in Tokyo. Yeah. Hello, Tokyo. Tune in Tokyo. What is that from? What movie is that? I don't know.

80s movie, right? I think so. Yeah, I don't remember what it was, though. Tune in Tokyo. oh my gosh you just stripes is it no girls just want to have fun i don't remember somebody the sarah jessica parker movie somebody grabs boobs turns them and goes to it in tokyo and everyone laughs oh i cannot remember oh yeah we have people shouting out about a thousand movies at us yeah none of you seem to know right really is is uh convinced though that it is uh girls just

want to have fun which like talk about your your uh dark like a deep pull that was like Sarah Jessica Parker wasn't uh a young Julia Roberts in that thing maybe I don't remember I don't think I've seen that movie which is weird because I know I've seen the tune in Tokyo bit yeah I think somebody needs to I think we need the the audio we need a YouTube video oh here it is okay the movie is from yeah okay I have a clip here um here it is Yeah, it's, okay, yeah, I found the... Hi, Tiffany.

I was wondering, see, there's this great game called Tune in Tokyo when I know you'd be great. Okay, this is it. By the way, that's Jonathan Silverman. That is a young weekend at Bernie's Jonathan Silverman's stuff. Yep, and he tunes in the Tokyo. Let's see. No one says, they don't say the name of the movie here? What is wrong with YouTube?

It's girls just want to have fun. So it is that? It is. It's girls just want to have fun, which I think now we need to watch for Filmsack. Oh, my God. gosh, dude. My memory on that is so fuzzy, but I only remember the line, which says a lot about my adolescent brain at the time.

Yeah. Anyway, so this guy did this thing. United Airlines, of course, because nothing good happens on their flights ever. Freaking United. No, exactly. You pay more, and you get more weirdness. Always. I'm an American.

Don't know what's going on. Anyway, United Airlines flight from Miami to Washington, Dulles International Airport on Tuesday. It was a bad trip in more ways than one after a passenger attack crew members while high on, I can't ever say this right, silo cylocybin. Silocybin. Silocybin. Silocybin.

Also known as magic mushrooms according to the federal prosecutors, according to an affidavit filed in Eastern Virginia District Court, about an hour into a United Flight 2116. This dude began exhibiting disturbing and uncontrolled behavior. Oh, geez.

Prosecutor says he broke off a piece of a locked laboratory door. Or lav, you know. Opening the door while another passenger They even say, restrooms are located at the four and aft of the plane. Please do not congregate in the aisles. They don't even call lavatories on the plane. No, they don't.

And nor should they. Maybe this is a Europe thing, and you guys are fine to do what you want. You have your own way. But not here. We're done. Keep that word out of our country. Keep that bullshit out of here. I'm going to the gym, not the gymnasium.

Okay? That's right. It's not happening. Exactly. Yeah. Then he wandered around the plane. Then he started running up and down the aisle, clapping loudly near the cockpit and yelling

obscenities. He got another passenger's faces, started yelling at them according to an FBI agent. He wouldn't remain seated after flight attendant assassin to, and instead he screamed and outburst grew louder. He was then at one point laying on the floor, jumped up and twisted a flight attendant's

breast. After she calmly instructed him to take his seat, finally they had to have officers come in and sub the guy. What a nightmare, dude. No kidding. Yeah. I hope. I hope you feel like a dumbass right now. Welcome to the no-fly list, pal. Yeah. Yeah, man. I don't like it. Not one bit, sir. I have to do a little short business trip to a work trip in

November to Texas. And I worked really hard to get Delta on the way down. Yeah. I couldn't get them on the way back for some reason. So who are you flying on the way back? American. And I never have had a good experience on American or United. You go into, where are you going? You going to Austin? No, it's somewhere near Dallas. I don't even remember. I was hoping you would see, you know, a jury and Shwood or something. Do those guys even exist anymore?

I don't even know where they, what they do? You know, they don't talk to us anymore. They don't talk to us anymore. I'm not saying it's, I'm not trying to create, there's no dirt here. No, no, no, yeah. They moved on. Whatever they needed it, whatever they milked out of my teeth, they did it and moved Pass and moved on to the next cow.

I'm kidding. It's a joke. It's a joke. I just never hear from them. So I don't know what they're doing. Anyway, I'm just teasing, though. Don't make a thing out of it, everybody. I'm just kidding. No, no, exactly. I'm kidding. Anyway, so this guy's in trouble and probably should be prosecuted for being a weirdo.

Okay, Brian, here's one that you'll be really interested in. Yes, yes. clearly this headline is all it says it all your your future sex robot could be hacked and programmed to murder you oh all right how's my current sex robot though that one's probably okay without a just don't update the firmware i don't have it on wifi yeah i basically it's not even on wifi right now yeah if you don't do auto firmware updates you'll be you'll be fine okay good it's your firmware i just don't her to get Bricked. So let's see here.

Sorry. It's the year 2097. That's what we're looking forward to. You're enjoying the 84th season of House of Cards on your Wi-Fi enabled. Yeah, this is a weird way to do. This is a new article, too. Of all shows to pick, House of Cards? I think that show, Kevin Spacey, was kind enough to put a nail in that show.

Yeah, it's done. They're not making that come back. And besides, like, pick something like the voice or something that never ends. Exactly, yes. America's Got Talent. It's the 84th season of America's Got Talent. Yeah. Well, anyway, let's see.

Where was I? Oh, you're enjoying that on your enabled neuroimplant. Okay. When your significant other walks into the room, sure she isn't human, but she sure looks like it. And she has that look in her eye that tells you she wants to get a little freaky, Brian. Okay. All right. You float to the bedroom on your hoverboard and begin to disrobe when, boom, she strangles you to death with her cold robot hands.

Your sex robot was hacked and now you're dead. Welcome to the future. Jeez. Okay. Wow. So anyway. Coming from Ridley Scott. There's like a, there's just this theory that the current technology for robot companions, which already exist and are relatively advanced.

Some of these things are like $6,000. that it wouldn't take much in the future for them to get hacked and have them turn on you and kill you. And they actually make a decent... I mean, this is on Yahoo Finance. It's actually kind of a...

It's a decent case. Yeah, it's a decent case about, hey, if we don't start thinking now about security stuff for this sort of thing, we're going to end up with stories where people got killed in some egregious way

by this robot they got from Japan. Sure we will, yeah. I mean, it sounds like, I feel like a lot of stuff on today's show feels like a Black Mirror Reject episodes. It totally does, yeah. This is one of those, so enjoy. Finally, the iPhone 14, this is important to note

because both Brian and I have upgraded this year waiting for our phones and years didn't get here yet, did it? Or did it? Nope, still waiting. It's, uh, they're saying end of October, so same check it on. Let's check the date now. Mine says somewhere between the 17th and the 27th, which is a big, big rain.

better than me. I think they're saying, and you did the big fat max job, right? I did the fatty. Yeah, I got the fatty. Did you get it directly from AT&T or? Through Apple Direct. I should have done that. I always do that. Not for any reason other than that was what my original thing was. So I just sort of stuck to it. Maybe the AT&T. I hear AT&T's actually got some pretty good incentives like for new buyers or something. Like Nick's getting a new phone on a new plan and he's getting it for way cheaper, month and you went to Apple direct so i don't know maybe that's it yeah because that uh let's see yeah uh good news we got your pre-order it should ship by monday october 31st so oh halloween it'll ship by that day yeah it'll show up it'll show up in cosplay of some sort that'll be great that's right it'll be dressed as one of the try guys or something yeah why not um all right anyway so 14 ip phone 14 so the i team 414 keeps calling 911 on roller coasters

Now, if you think about the last event they did, and you'll remember that he got up and talked all about how it'll know if you've fallen, or if, like, that whole, that whole presentation felt like them saying, you're going to die. You're right. Oh, my God. I know. It looked like clips from the new final destination, didn't it? I did, dude. Oh, that's funny. I didn't even make the connection, but it's very final destination.

And it was hard to avoid because the watch talk was all. about this and the phone and it's got the same thing that'll tell you if you've wiped out somewhere. Well, if you get up on a roller coaster, it thinks you're going through crashes. And it starts to auto call 911 if you have it set to do that.

So that's not good. Disney's new ride, Crash Mountain. Yep. Yep. It says the impact experience with simulated car crashes is a lot like this. If the sensors detect you've been in an accident, it will display an alert and call emergency services if you don't dismiss it within

20 seconds. So that's a deal. I want to call law enforcement. It plays an audio message. It alerts authorities that you've been in a crash and also provides them with your location. That's what's happening to people on roller coasters. Nobody's happy about it. My guess is they're going to have to patch that shit or something. Oh no. 13 people who are just in a crash at Natsbury Farm. Damn it. It's our third call today. Why do we, why are their new crashes every 15 seconds? What's going on?

I mean, it does kind of, on the one hand, I think tech like this is pretty cool. Like, I'm, I'm into the where we advance things like this, but we never think of everything, right? Right. So like air tags, air tag same thing. It's like, oh, well, people use it for the luggage and their valuables or whatever. But yeah, but then some psycho buys one, sticks it underneath the car or some girl going to the high school. His girlfriend or a stocking X or, yeah, exactly. I mean, I don't know if that actually happened, but I'm sure it could happen if it hasn't.

Right, right. So you've got to think of these things. Our products are really good at stocking people. Product stocking. So, thank goodness, like it looks like Corinna Sam Jane, they're, oh, they need to block out all areas that have roller coasters. Yes, exactly. Don't make it so that we have to turn it off and then remember to turn it back on. I don't want to have to do that.

Just make it so that when you're in the confines of Disneyland, Natsbury Farm, Universal Studios, eiliches, all that stuff, that it doesn't like if you're within the confines of the park it doesn't do it right yeah and i i mean because i love the feature and i think it's a great it's a smart smart thing to do but you think they could turn it off selectively so it's not the parking lot in places you could be in an accident that's the thing right i mean they'd have to really have it have it got a uh with a narrow focus of area yeah to say uh and the thing is if you if you wipe out on the ride let's say the ride malfunctions and three people fly off of it and the ride crashes then they'll will you everyone's going to call 911 anyway right yeah you don't have to worry about oh no the my my space

coaster just went off the tracks I better call 911 because I'm sure the the 17 cameras that are focused on this ride nobody's watching yeah yeah I think they need to do just this I mean you just block it out unless they're going to tweak the tech somehow or say have the phone say, you're entering an area known for reacting with this technology. Would you like to mute it for the next 20 minutes? Or maybe they'll do something like that, I don't know. There you go.

That's a really good idea. You're entering Disneyland. Do you want to mute crash protection for an hour or half a day or something like that? See, we have solutions. There's problems in the world, but Brian and I all about the solutions. It already knows that, you know, when I get a movie ticket and it says, oh, you're going to see blah, blah, blah, AMC theaters, I will set your phone on

Do Not Disturb Automatically for the next two hours It's great, perfect Do this for, make it mandatory And make it work for everybody That's right By the way, we're we couldn't get tickets To see how they run It's leaving theaters

Which it's supposed to be really, really good Sir Sharonan and Sam Rockwell Oh yeah, I heard about it Old Hollywood murder mystery thing Leaving theaters We're not able to get tickets So we're actually going to go see Amsterdam

I'm just like, well, you know, it's not reviewing very well, but I still want to see it because I like David O. Russell. Yeah, how is a David O. Russell movie getting pan so hard? That's weird. And that cast looks insane. The cast, I know. It's like such a great cast. What's going on? Remy Malick and Anya Taylor Joy and. Yeah, and her two eyes. Like you got to get going there. Two eyes on each side. It's a trap. Like the McDonald's toys. Anyway, hey, we're going to take a break. When we come back to Tom Merritt will be here. That'll be fun. And then after that, we'll have recommendals. So stick around. Brian, play a song, though, before we do anything. Yeah. Oh, this is so good. This, uh, this song builds, but the, the hook in the chorus is what made me give it like two or three replays. I love this thing. Um, this is a pop singer-songwriter Grace Carrasca. She's got a brand new single called Torn. She's, uh, also a multi-instrumentalist and, uh, an indie, an indie artist. She's born and raised in small town, Connecticut.

and she's been inspired. No, no surprise, inspired by folks like Taylor Swift, Lord, Carol King, and Alonis Morissette. You'll hear that in this. I even pick a little bit of shoot. Now I'm losing the name. Francis Bean. Well, because all I can think of is Natalie and Brulia, because the song is called Torn. Here's the brand new singer called Grace.

Here's the new song called Torn from Grace Caraska. It's been a few years now. I'm learning to lay down. All of my doubts and defenses and coming around to my senses. But I think it's too late now. I figured we'd find a way back But then he looked at me like that

In a bar Then the liquor glens me on my scars And here you are I need to let you go this time But it's getting harder now And he's starting to get nervous He's getting insecure I said you're in my sleep

It's never happened to me before So I'm starting to get nervous No, I'm not so sure Said your name in by sleeping Suddenly everybody is torn He's what I wanted And it sucks because he's so honest Maybe I'm lying to myself

Why do I feel good? I feel guilty as hell I saw he's not over Call you up when I'm not sober Just so your voice can cut me down He does know how I hate the sounds In the bar Letting the liquor cleanse me of all my scars

And here you are I need to let you go this time But it's getting harder now And he's starting to get nervous he's getting insecure I said you're in my sleep it's never happened to me before so I'm starting to get nervous now I'm not so sure

said you know my sleeping suddenly everybody is torn up from the life of closure life Be sure them that it's over a hundred times But now he's He's starting to get nervous He's getting insecure Because just below the surface

I'm starting to feel tired And he's starting to get nervous He's getting insecure He said, you know, my sleep has never happened to me before. So I'm starting to get nervous. No, I'm not so sure. Said you know, my sleep, and suddenly everybody is torn. Yeah, yeah, now I'm feeling so strong.

I have been racially and culturally insensitive, but I've learned and I've grown. I'd like to dedicate this broadcast to the blacks and Mexicans. Big milk, big nipples, big life. Greetings, Earth Lady, may I interest you in some guacamole? This is the morning store. And we're back. Hey, who was that song? That was so good.

Wasn't that good? Wasn't that chorus awesome? Grace Karasca and a brand new single, Torn. Nice. I'm torn. Did you get that, Christine? Did you hear the back announce of this song so you can find it, Christine? Well, we won't know until she called in later and let's listen.

All right. Hey, everybody, look what time it is. With the computer as with any tool. concept and direction must come from the man our resident technology master has joined us you guys stand back and look out it's tom merritt hey tom what's up oh where is he where is where has he gone where has my computer gone as the meme says long time passing uh yeah we got we got uh all kinds of things happening this week i usually the autumn is when all the companies trot out to their their wares, try to get things out there ahead of the holiday shopping season.

So we had Google announced their pixel last week, the new phone, the new Pixel watch. Yesterday, Meta rolled out its new MetaQuest Pro VRX. Yeah. And then today Microsoft at Ignite announced pretty iterative new versions of its Surface laptops, although there's an arm-based Surface 9, as well as a new iterative. Providive Studio 2 plus and a designer app that incorporates Dolly 2. Oh, weird. Oh, really?

That's pretty interesting. So, wait a minute. So how does that work? Explain that one. I was like, oh, we're going to talk about that new Quest Pro thing, and it'll be interesting. We can. We still should, but I'm curious about the. Yeah.

But my curiosity and Brian's, we require sustenance here. Give it to us. How do you integrate, I was going to say, I think we'll have plenty of time. to talk about the headset because I too saw this like oh that's interesting how are they doing it and the answer is you can start with a text description like you can on any of these other text image generators and it'll give you a picture oh okay so it's that simple and then and then from there it's like Canva or any of those things where you can like then then manipulate it and stuff it is kind of cool that in a designer app like Spark or Canva or any of those you can start with like

okay give me a horse riding through a field of poppies and then it'll give you that and you can then start editing from there instead of having to start from scratch so it's kind of a neat way to take something like dolly to and put it into a designer app but it's also sort of obvious once you think of it you're like oh yeah I guess that's what you'd do yeah of course you'd do that yeah I by the way you just said spark and it reminded me I've I completely miss when this happened it confused the crap out of me but Adobe changed Spark to and they now call it Express, Adobe Express, which is fine. Oh, right, I've forgotten that.

Veronica will be very upset with me for forgetting that. But I didn't even know they did it, so I was looking for the wrong app for a while going, I like that app. Where is it? I swear it's called Spark. Meta has a VR-related developer app called Spark as well. Oh, well, maybe they're just shuffle. I don't know. Adobe does this. They change their stuff all the time, and you never know when they're going to do it. All right. Well, that is interesting to some degree, but let's talk about that headset. I feel like that headset leans harder into what you have said on here and on DT&S many

times, which is the real, not the real money, but there's money in the consumer market and it's growing, but the real place to like really plant your flag and get the underpinnings of stuff going on is kind of more enterprise focused stuff and a $1,500 headset, partnered with Microsoft, you know, all this sort of stuff seems like that's one of these plays. Is that what this is for? It's for work, right? Yes. Yeah, thank you.

I don't have to add anything to that. That's exactly my take. I wonder at the messaging that Meta used in introducing it because they sort of acted like they were talking to consumers while they explained that this was for business. Right. So they had the CEO of Accenture, Julie Sweet. They had the CEO of Microsoft, Saucinadella. they talked about a partnership with Adobe and Accenture, they have like 700,000 plus employees.

So they can buy just a smattering of these and give meta enough of a client base to make money off this thing. But I saw all the reporters trashing the announcement saying they didn't justify this, they didn't explain it well. And I agree with them from the consumer standpoint, but I don't think that's what this is for. So it is a bit of a muddled message from Meta in their announcement about it. But yeah, this is meant for the workplace. This is meant for, hey, do you want to have huge collaborative spaces that your employees can work in with like great big monitors, some augmented reality stuff that you can interact with? Because if anybody missed the announcement, you know, the big thing about the question,

Pro is that it has color pass-through. So you can see the world around you in color. You can see the world around you in the Quest too right now, but it's kind of gray scale, right? Yeah. This would be full color so that, you know, four people could wear these headsets, stand in a room,

and work on a project that had some virtual element, and everybody gets to see it in, you know, the right perspective and all of that. And apparently it's very comfortable from what everybody said who tried it out. The battery is curved in the back, which makes the balance really good, even though it's a couple hundred grams heavier than the Quest 2, it's well-balanced and very soft and comfortable.

Yeah, which is very front-heavy on the current Quest 2, and that's to be expected with most current headsets. So that seemed nice. And they also shrunk that, partly because of the battery, but shrunk that front end by 40%. So we're getting closer to what I think the ultimate is, which is a smaller, flatter, you know, more wearable. The lenses are 40% thinner, exactly.

Right, which is pretty cool. um battery life is is less but again but again it's one to two hours it's pretty bad but for for a workplace thing where you could have that plugged in while you're doing it like i to me that all fit if you took your brain out of this is not for consumers it all made sense to me the problem is their messaging felt like their consumer messaging is the same tone and so i i don't know that they they were preaching to the right choir you know there was a choir to listen i don't think they were preaching to the require in this case. And I think they'll probably do fine with it. I think also a lot of people are expecting another consumer grade one to hit like a three, Quest three or some sort of iteration

on that. That didn't happen yet. So, you know, I don't know why this idea of being disappointed by the announcement is a little weird to me because I just don't think it was aimed at us. It's a little bit like everybody was excited for the brand new MacBook and Apple instead announced a very good workstation. Yeah. And everybody's like, well, hold on. That's ugly and practical. That's not what I wanted.

And honestly, I'm not even saying the Quest Pro is ugly. It's actually quite nice looking as far as via our headsets go. But yeah, it is very, I don't know, if I had to reverse engineer their messaging, I would think they understand that everything they say is going to be interpreted by consumers, no matter what they do. and so they also know that they're going to sell these things in private meetings to Enterprise

so they had a minimum amount they needed to get out there so that Enterprise people looked at it and said oh it's got that and that that's interesting I'll answer that call when Meta wants to try to sell me these and they did that and then the rest of the messaging they tried to explain

to the consumers like hey but here's what's cool about it and here's what you can do with it you know and it's only going to get better right They kept talking about, like, this is the beginning and down the road. And so obviously, this is going to lead to a consumer version down the road. But I think everybody wanted, whether they should have expected it or not, wanted a high-level Quest 3, so to speak.

And that's not what they gave us. No, that is not it. I will say that the one thing that excites me about the device that is an innovation on over the Quest 2, and that is facial recognition cameras up front. They kind of bend down. Here, chat, I'll show you a picture if I can get this to disappear. So there's these three little cameras up front.

Well, I think one of them is just like a front facing, but the other two are aimed inward and will be able to tell that you're smiling, that you're frowning, articulate the virtual lips in the virtual world to match what your lips are doing in real time. That's kind of a big deal. deal when you're talking about, hey, there's a thousand people in this meeting, and I really want to get the emotion of these people, not they're just deadpan avatar.

Facial language, too. Yeah, exactly. Up till now, it's been microphone-enacted movement. So if you're in, like, one of their virtual worlds that Meta makes, Horizons, for example, and you see somebody talking, it's actually kind of cool, but all it is is the lips are reacting to sound. This is like, no, this is reading your lips and then translating that. to expression. And eyebrows and facial expression and stuff. What an emoji can do with your phone

pointed at your face, this can now do as well. Yeah, that's actually great comparison. That's exactly it. Right. So anyway, I'm excited just to see the use cases, but I'm not buying this. That's not for me. It's not meant for me, you know? It's certainly out of my price range too. Yeah. Like $1,500. I get it. You know, you're going to have. Now, you both say that, but I just I have to ask. On behalf of the, on behalf of the user. If this was from Apple, would you pay $1,500? I don't think I would. That's such a high price.

If it were... I'd pay $500 for Apple. Scott's already tried to pre-order it. I can tell. He's like, what, Apple? What's the benefit of the Apple one would do, though, right? Like, I've got an iPad, I've got an iPhone. I've got an I Mac.

What do I need? What you need is Tim Cook up there? showing you how amazing it is and he thinks you're going to love it and then you'll press the buy button it's entirely possible look at our demonstration of flappy burn look how clear and crystal the products pictures are as you get through those pipes while you're flapping and explain how their new camera sensors can mimic the human face better than anything you've seen before ever we've brought emojis into the VR headset and all the meta fans like wait but didn't they just do that back and then we'll pretend no they didn't

apple invented it that's what'll happen yeah yeah Yeah. And actually, all kidding aside, we expect to hear from Apple about an augmented reality, mixed reality headset after the first of the year that will be consumer oriented, they think. And expect the headlines to be Apple blows meta out of the water with blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I look at it as meta wants to lock up all of these company contracts right now for its headset before Apple comes to the market with something. that companies are like, wow, it's not really met for Enterprise, but we could use it. But it don't work. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, or, or how about this? They have a $1,500 to $2,000 model for enterprise. They call it the, I don't know, Applehead said, I, eyeballs, pro, whatever. Yeah, whatever it is, pro. Whatever it is, pro max, something. And then they make a consumer grade level one, which I would expect to be between $4.99 and $5.99, and they double tier it. And then now

they cover it all in one announcement. And even if they don't do that out of the gate, that would be their strategy at some point right yes and if they do this i want tim cook to walk around with a thing on his head the entire half-hour presentation just walking around you want to reveal that the whole thing has been in vr the entire time you notice oh shit tom's right that's what they're going to do yeah gosh dang it all right well i'm not even really standing here look that's part of the product the most amazing thing about our avatars is this is one that's what they're going to do I hate how right you're probably going to be about this. Now I'm annoyed.

Now I'm not buying one. Anyway, Tom Merritt, it's always good to discuss these issues here because later we parlay a lot of this into DTNS. All the stuff you've been looking up all day is going to end up being there. And it's going to be great because Wednesdays I get to be on. Sarah will be there today. We have Will Smith joining us. Sarah's not here today. I'm going to burst all of Scott's.

That's right. Burst all the bubbles. You know more about your schedule. I'm not here today because it's her birthday. And so happy birthday, Sarah. And Will Smith let us know that he may or may not be able to make it after all. Oh, we're still waiting to find out. So, yeah, he had a family thing.

So hopefully he could make it. If he can't, we'll reschedule. Either way, we'll be talking about the RTX4090, either with Will or with Scott or just, you know, the three of us. Roger will join in, of course. And we'll be talking about all these Microsoft announcements too. you have it. So either, here's the guarantee. I'll be there. Tune in and find out. Tune in and find out. Exactly. Perfect. All right. Tom Merritt, he is, he is, uh, oh, do you have anything else going on? You want to promote or tell people about it? Oh, yeah, um, been having a great time with a word podcast.

If you haven't checked out a word podcast.com. Uh, last week, Jen Briney from Congressional Dish was on talking about disasters and our fascination with disasters, both disaster movies, uh, and just like preparing for disaster. Uh, so that is a super fun conversation. She's always great to talk to. And then this week, we have Andrea Jones Roy. Uh, Heaton fans will know them from appearing on, uh, the political orphanage. But, uh, Andrea talks to us about, um, uh, identity. Uh, and, and what it means to, to have an identity and how we play with identity and all of that. Uh, so that's all at a word podcast.com, uh, the Andrea episode coming this Thursday. It's an excellent show, you guys.

Do go sub to it. Tom is also Ace Detect on Twitter. If you want to follow him there, Tom will see you a little bit later for DTNS. Thanks, y'all. Yeah, man, I don't know. I mean, I'm never, I don't think I'm ever paying $1,500 for a VR headset. That's an easy.

They made it very easy for me not to be tempted by that new headset, honestly, is what they did with that, which is fine. I'm glad they did. Yeah, it's totally fine. And look, the Quest two. 99, I'd be like, oh, man, 500 bucks, I'd jump on it. I don't even like the extra hundred they're charging now for the Quest, too. That annoys me.

Right. Yeah. Just increased it. Probably because they probably know that there's not a lot of competition for a bit here. So they can do. I don't actually know why they up the price. It can't just be. Maybe it's just inflation parts.

Because we can. Because they can. Freaking Zuckerberg needs a brand new bed or something. Bed? Why would you want to bed? Anyway, hey. I couldn't think of anything good. That'll work. Who we add into the thing now? Oh, yeah, Randy and Nicole. That's who. Yeah. If I could just get their names here. Hold on.

Okay, here we go. This is it. This is going to be great. We're going to do recommendals. It's very exciting stuff. And how do I know? Because I play this thing right here. That's right. Welcome to our. Recommentals where we talk about streaming stuff and make recommendations based on our tastes and likes. Joining us today, Nicole Spagg. Hi, Nicole. Hello. How are you? Oh.

Am I too loud? No, you sound fine. No, okay. Yeah, you sound good. I thought I upset Brian. No. No, no, I said, I didn't say, no, I said, hello. That's just the noise he makes.

Sound panels for me. Oh, no worries. Oh, yeah, that'll be good because you got a lot of echo there, but that'll be good. Yeah, as long as we don't hear you flush, it should be just fine. Also joining us, Mr. Randall Deluxe. Hello, Randy. Welcome back. Oh, good morning, morning stream.

I have the windows open because it has been raining, which is like so exciting here. Yeah, it's rare. Raining. So we've been listening to the rain. So you might hear a little thunder maybe behind me. I was told it never, I was told it never rains in Southern California. What happened? Well, you know, I mean, they put Disneyland here for a reason, right?

That's true. I mean, it's raining at Disneyland today, and that's sad. Oh, I have friends, my little... Splash Mountain all over the place. Yeah, take it off the mountain, give it to everybody. But I've got friends, like, two doors down are all in Disneyland today, and that means they're getting rained on. So I hope they're having fun.

Yep. Go to the water attractions. May as well. May as well. You're already wet. Yep. Well, anyway, it's good to have you both here. We're going to talk about some stuff we've all seen, and I know a couple of us have gone

full Halloween this week, which is fun. Yeah. But let's find out what Brian brought first. Brian, you're kicking things off with this clip. What do you got here? I'm not one of them. This is a clip you're going to hear among others. You're going to hear Naomi Watts. You're going to hear Andrew Lincoln from Walking Dead. And they're going to be talking with an Australian accent. What? What? I know he's British, but I've never heard him do Australian. So here we go. No, too. All right. Honestly, it's the first time I felt normal since the accident. When I'm kayaking, I look like everyone else. All I'm saying is it's very hard. You've got your work.

Sam's often alone. She likes her independence, Jan. But she can't walk. I'm right here, Mom. How much independence should she have? I'm three feet away from me. No, really? Please.

What if something awful happened? She has a phone. Jan, she'd call her phone. What if she couldn't reach her phone? What if it wasn't charged? We don't talk in what if, Stan. We live our life. Oh, yes.

All fun and no responsibility. Look where that's got you. But now I just lie awake at night, worrying. And I don't? All I ever do is worry. I worry if I'm too happy in front of Sam or too sad in front of the boys. I worry if I should take them to the beach

or if that's us being selfish. I worry if I do too much. for Sam or not enough. I worry Sam can't walk because I moved after she fell. No, darling, that's got nothing to do with it. Believe me, Jan, I worry. He sounds a little British in it. Well, he is a little

British. I know, but I mean, like, he doesn't sound like, is he trying to do Australian? I think he's trying to do a little bit of an Australian accent, yeah, and it's more appearing in other parts. The name of this movie, Christine, is Penguin Bloom. This is an Australian

film 2020 came out starring, like I said, Naomi Watts and Andrew Lincoln. By the way, did you know Andrew Lincoln's real name is Andrew James Clutterbuck? No? Isn't that far better?

That's so great. Andrew Clutterbuck. Yeah. Must have changed it before Cumberbatch came out. Right? You know, like... Before they launched the Cumberbatch. Yeah.

That's a good point. I really, I like him, but I was listening for like a kind of a choral moment, you know? where I'd hear it, but in audio only, I can't, I wouldn't have known that was Andrew Lincoln. Interesting. Yeah, no, it's, it was hard to pick out. He's also not holding signs up that say, tell your husband that it's carolers outside. This is, so the movie's called Penguin Bloom. This is a movie about a woman who suffers an accident. You're kind of, you're kind of coming in on this family shortly after this accident that occurs to the mom or happens to the mom and breaks, one of the bones in her spine to where she's paralyzed from the waist down. And the family's getting adjusted to it. However, she's finding a new excitement in life by kayaking, but also in a bird, in a weird baby magpie.

You've got to say also, your Australian magpies look a lot different than American magpies, not as slick. They look a lot cuter. Oh, they're better over there, you're saying. I'm so glad you got to the bird because Netflix has advertised this to me here and there and I always stopped and went I'm not sure like I see a woman in a wheelchair

with a Corvid and I'm not sure it's gonna I you know what I mean like I need that bird to be a good actor and to live basically I need to live the bird is a great actor oh my God is like yeah there were times that I was surprised that it wasn't a CGI bird because the stuff that they were

making this bird do it or that this bird would do incredible animal handling uh for this movie but the bird you know it sounds like a predictable story right oh this you know woman is paralyzed they have this baby bird that they take in that that's injured that can't fly and through the birds growth with the family the the mother finds her way as well and it does sound like it would be that predictable it's it's predictable like coda is predictable there this movie reminded to be a lot of the movie Coda. Okay. So, yeah, like, in Cota, you're, you can predict that no one's

going to regain their ability to hear. Right, yes. Right. Exactly. And you're kind of, you kind of know that Naomi Watts, you know, spoiler, or she does not get the power of the ability to walk later on the film. But it's, but by that same

comparison of Coda, where you've got a movie that relies so much on the chemistry of its actors to portray a family and make you believe that this is a family, the same thing happens with Penguin Bloom. You really start falling in love with this family, especially Naomi Watts and Andrew Lincoln and their dynamic and their frustration, both with her injury, but also this almost walking on nightshelves that everybody has to do around her.

And it's got so much heart, and I felt, you know, it's almost like I'm recommending Nicole's recommendal this week because this feels like something that you would have watched with the kids Nicole which is great here's one of the best parts about this thing it's based on a true story everything that and I did some looking up to see well all right is it just inspired by our true

story no it's completely like this this bird exist and then the family and she went through this thing and she became this incredible kayaker a kayakist yeah what are those kayakers or kayakists

Yes, kayaksins. Cajans, that's even better. Cajons. It is, yeah, this thing is on, it's on Netflix. It's got so much sweetness and heart to it that you're going to fall in love with these characters and these people. And once again, the movie is called Penguin Bloom. Got that, Christine? I'm so glad, man, I know that this movie was nominated for a bunch of Aussies.

And like, talk about an award. that no one really pays attention to like I could name I can name all five of like the nominated films out of the Australia Academy and you've never heard of one of them apparently now Penguin Bloom

like that's a good sounds nice highlight is this under the Netflix name like an original type thing or no no I don't think so it's funny for based on a true story the production house is made up stories

is the company, so it's kind of funny. Well, I take that back. Theatrically released in Australia by roadshow films and digitally in the United States by Netflix. So they might call this a Netflix original. Oh, they probably do. They do that with a lot of foreign stuff, so I was curious. Jackie Weaver, I know you mentioned her. She's the older lady in the clip you played.

Oh, yes. I love her. And I just want to put it out there. You've probably all seen movies or TV shows with Jackie Weaver. You just may not know it. She's freaking fantastic. She's so good. She's in palms, which is not even a good movie.

She's the mom in Silver Linnings playbook. The poor put-upon mom that, you know, is, yeah, you've seen her in a ton of stuff. I love her. She's awesome. And she's great in this. Oh, yeah, she's in Yellowstone as well. Yeah, very good in that season five of Yellowstone, I believe. Four.

Four was it? Okay. I knew she was in there. But she's just awesome. So if you want to see like a killer Australian actress that you've seen a million times and didn't know it, she also fakes American really well. She does. Jackie Weaver. All right.

She's had four husbands and three partners. Oh, that's a lot of. It's a lot of. She gets around. Yeah. Yeah. And this and this director, right, not really well known for anything. Glendon, Ivan, I've never heard.

Yeah. Yeah. There's not even, like there's not even a blue underline on the Wikipedia. for Penguin Bloom for Glendon Ivan so I'm guessing this is his or her first movie his other

was called Safe Harbor and I just don't I don't know I don't know what that is either these are Australian things lots of TV yeah stuff like

yeah stuff I've never heard of so good job Australian man you've done it Glendon David there you go penguin Bloom on Penguin Bloom everybody all right now I'm going to do one from Shutter

so I'm going full Halloween here. The order today, by the way, is you, then me, and then Nicole and then Randy. That's the order. Thank you. I'll get our icons in order on quicktms.com. Fantastic. Does it actually make it harder by me mixing them up every week? Not a bit. Basically, I type a name into the CSS class and it automatically updates your icon. Nice. Yeah. Look at you fancy webman over there. I just don't have a, I don't have a title card for shutter in there, so it won't have one. Oh, yeah. Well, that's fine. So this is on shutter. It's also AMC. Plus, which I guess AMC, whoever owns AMC, owns the shutter, which is fine, whatever.

But I've been watching a lot of shutter stuff because I'm into Halloween this year, and I watched a whole handful of horror movies. And this one stuck out to me, and I thought I was going to hate this one. This is the one I was most concerned with. Here's the clip. Like I say, on the astroplane, there's no language. If you bear in mind that the laws are different from what they are here, so you might be able to talk to a pet.

Yeah, absolutely. So we like these now? Yes, go ahead. like your candles. The candle is going to be our guiding focus and it's going to encourage that the spirit, it will give them almost a beacon to come towards. So what I want you to look out for are the kind of response that you might get from spirit. All right. That's, if that sounds like a Zoom call. It sounds like a Zoom call all the way from Scotland. And this movie have been handled by an email. Kind of, yeah. It is, it is exactly that. The entirety of the movie host,

Christine, you listening? Host on Shutter. Do you get a timer on that? Is the entire premises, there's a bunch of friends, old friends, college friends that are getting together

during the pandemic that came out in 2020. And again, everything I'm saying to you annoys me too, all right? So I've said it's a Zoom call the entire movie.

I've said it came out during the pandemic and we're like riffing on, hey, we're all separated so we've got to do Zoom calls. Let's make a movie about that. I hate all of this too. I know what you're all

thinking okay but my gosh the movie host is scary as hell and i highly recommend this uh to anybody who likes it's sort of found footage by by by by design but not really the idea is not that they found this footage but it's treated like a found footage thing everyone's pretending like they're real people they're having a real call and that's what sold me in this movie directed by rob savage uh these characters feel as real as real as as any bunch of friends would on a Zoom call. Like, it doesn't ever, it doesn't ever do that cheat that I hate so much where there's no way this camera angle

would be correct in a lot, you know, like the way paranormal activity has it scary moments, but there are moments where you're like, okay, that angle wouldn't happen. Like you wouldn't have that footage or whatever. This doesn't break any of those rules. It stays within the Zoom call the entire time. It has some of the scariest freaking stuff I've seen in a while.

It's not horrifically bloody or anything, but the hauntings that happen, it's all like, you know, bringing spirits to life. What you heard there was basically these college friends got together because the girl in America, played by Haley Bishop, says, hey, we should all get together. This is all implied, but we're all going to get together and have a fake seance over Zoom just as a laugh. We're just going to have a good time with this. And I have a friend who's a spirit communicator, and she lives in wherever she's from Scotland or something. and she's going to come on and do this for us. And these people are scattered all over the place, all over the world,

and they're having this call. And it's like six women and one dude. And it just feels authentic from moment one to the very end. And there's some, it's scary, dude. It really got under my skin. I highly recommend this movie,

even though I know these two tropes I said, live stream, pandemic, all this. I know that it sucks almost by default. I get it. We're sick of the pandemic. I get it. And they don't focus on that at all. It's just here's where we are and this is how we have to communicate. And there is a real sense of this movie understood the kind of just under the surface tension and anxiety everybody was feeling during that time. And you can feel that this is like, well, here's some friends just trying to have some fun in all of this, even though we're all stuck at home. Maybe we can make something out of it. But then it turns out these spirits and hauntings are real. man there's one where the ladies you know how you can have like a background video playing the whole time yeah behind you like green screened yeah it's just a picture of her coming out of the

bathroom brushing her teeth and going back into the bathroom coming back out brushing her teeth going back in the background i don't want to give anything away about that scene but man that shit got weird it's so good it's so good and if you watch it trust me on this stay for the credits because at first you won't know their credits it's so creative the way they end this movie anyway i can't say enough about it i loved it okay it's on shutter amc plus uh shutter's cheap it's like five bucks a month a month or whatever super easy uh to do and i really recommend it again the movie is called host there's no way i wouldn't watch this oh and it's only an hour by the way it's an hour oh really okay in and out bam bam boom you're done

And you're right, me neither, but someone recommended it and said this is one of the best horror movies of recent years, and I think they're right. We need a term for a film that's longer than 31 minutes, but shorter than 79 minutes. There needs to be a turn. It's called Game of Thrones episode random. Don't they usually call them like limited series or something like that? Sometimes, yeah. Like if you're doing, like streaming, obviously, you have less of those conventions. You don't have to stick to you the perfect hour or the 45 minutes and then.

you know, 10 minutes of commercials or whatever. So I feel like those rules are out the door now. But I think it is a little bit dangerous to say our movie is only an hour. Yeah. Unless it's for sure just a streaming. I mean, it is a shutter original. So it's always, it's just lives on shutter. But, you know, would you go to a theater and see a thing that's only an hour for the normal ticket price?

Probably not. Probably not. No. That seems like with the latest season of the Orville, I was calling those episodes feature film like. Yeah, they really weren't an hour and 20, 30 minutes, yeah. I mean, a really, a bunch of them were like 63, 69 minutes long. And it's like, I guess that's still feature film length. Yeah.

The other thing to say about this is it really does, and I mean this, like those two other things could almost ruin this just by their own existing, the pandemic and freaking Zoom. But the way, they don't use Zoom in a way that's not, you know, movies use computers bad, you know. Like they're like, it would never do this or it wouldn't make the sound or whatever. No, no, no. This is pure actual zoom, the interface, the way all the functions work, the way people get hung up or added to the call, the weird break up and audio if someone's using a speaker mic instead of headset, this sort of stuff. They don't, they don't augment any of that. And I appreciated that. But the biggest takeaway is these actors sell every second of it.

I never once questioned any of their motives, who they are, how they're. would act in those scenes and it's hard to call them scenes but it's just switching you know switching zoom panels really right um yeah and it's just oh i guess there's no music now now that i think about it and now that i think about there's zero score oh it's so good you guys you got to watch it post is great an hour of your life Halloween time you know scare yourself for an hour it'll be good for no score i would have been tempted to put some music like that somebody's just play in the background you know what i mean just put some music in there so it's so so it sounds like it's a kind of quiet movie yeah oh it's very well it is and it isn't the quietness really

does help with it especially in some of the more intense parts and also this is not a movie that's afraid or not it's not afraid to well i don't want to get anything away but nobody let's put it this way i appreciate a horror movie where they don't make sure the one kid and the one lady live you know right i like the ones where they're like you know what all all bets are off anybody is expendable Yeah. There you go. That's not a spoiler to say everybody in this is expendable, whether they know it or not. So there you go. Anyway, host, now available on Shutter. Let's get over to Nicole Spag's recommendal. Nicole, what do you got there? That's me? Are you going to play it? I don't know. Did you send me a thing? Hold on. I did.

Oh, there it is. There it is. Oh, you sent it a half hour after the show started, so I haven't seen it yet. All right. Do the 20-second skip, because it says the name in the first of 20 seconds. Tonight, it is every hunter for themselves. Good luck. I'll be rotting for you. But one of you is a monster, masquerading as one of our own. I can't wait to find out what breed of evil you are. You don't want to see this, darling.

Please don't do this. Gas is coming for you. We're wolf buying. Oh, shit. Oh, no, nobody had any idea what it was until that moment right there. Until that very second. I still don't know what it is. I only heard the first word.

Yeah, tell us about werewolf and then whatever came after that. What's that? Oh, it's, yeah, it's called a werewolf by night. It is a less than an hour. It kind of, it's funny that we're talking about that less than an hour. It's right around that 56 minutes or something like that. The intro to this movie is kind of reminding me of the 80s, the way that you had those special programs. Right.

You know, the way that they kind of. Sunday night. Yes, that's what it reminded me of. It's stylized like that. It's all in black and white, has so much Sin City vibes. I was like, ooh, I got to watch this, like right now. And I'm about to rewatch it because I loved it so much. It's perfect for Halloween.

It also reminded me of that game. What's the game? One Night Werewolf? Is that one called One Night Werewolf? No. Well, there is a game called One Night Weirwolf. No, you're thinking. You're thinking of the one.

that's the tale-tale adventure game. No, no, no, no. I'm not thinking of that. I'm talking about the game where somebody's the werewolf and you've got to figure out who it is. Oh, I thought you're talking about the video game. I thought it was called One Night Werewolf.

No, it's a creation of it. Okay, gotcha. So Werewolf is a game where you play night, night, night day. Wasn't there a Werewolf game? I don't remember what it was called. Look at it up. It's not Werewolf by night, but even PlayStation did a version of it on their VR.

Yeah. I was born it was called One Night Werewolf. The box I have says that, but maybe not. Oh, you're right. One night, werewolf. Yeah. One night, one night, there's a little ultimate werewolf.

Okay, one night, ultimate werewolf. Whatever. Anyway, it's a fun little game. It reminds me of this movie. Yeah. And it's in the Marvel universe. So they are acknowledging they're in the Marvel universe, but it's like you heard in the Marvel universe,

but it's like you heard in the trailer. It's a bunch of these hunters. They hunt monsters, and there's a bloodstone. It's the only thing that has color as you're watching this. It's a red bloodstone. And so you're meeting all of these different monster hunters, and one of them is a monster. And these are at least, you know,

three of the characters that you see in this are regular Marvel comic book lore characters Elsa Bloodstone of course Whirliff by Night Jack Russell clever and then Ted

I'm gonna say is Ted also a Marvel staple yeah come on I went into 10 has a name but we don't want to we don't want to spoil it

see we want everyone to go and learn I don't know any of the comic book lore with this I just watched it because it looked cool

and I was in the mood for something kind of Halloween that I could put on the TV and not necessarily scare the crap out of my kids because I accidentally did that with Beetlejuice and I scarred Ava, I think, for life. Really? Beetlejuice did that to her, huh?

Yes. It was the scene where they open their mouth. Oh, yeah, pull that, like, do the stretch their faces out. She was screaming. I was like, oh, God. I broke my child. I was making dinner and she was just

You got to have a towel handy And you throw it over the screen That's my dad telling me So this is violent So it's rated I think it's PG-14 Or wherever TV 14 I think Mateo would be fine with it

Definitely not Ava There's the scene with an axe and a head And there's no blood It's all black and white So it's like that weird stylistic Cool vibe going on It's a lot of fun. It's kind of scary.

I love it. Watch it. It's on Disney Plus. And it might be setting up, I'm hoping that it's setting up a potential Midnight Sun's Super Team, MCU Super Team, because... Yeah, they're saying it's supposed to be kind of making that, you know, the Marvel universe into like scary universe, right? I know.

I hope they do because there's a whole side of Marvel that has these characters in it. And Blade would fit perfectly in this film. Yeah, Blades in the, he's in the game. The Midnight Sun's video games based on that team, right? Yeah, yeah. I'm very excited about that game coming out. Very well done. I loved it.

Can you explain the, real quick, the, oh, just to mention this. The director of this is a musician. He's the guy who does all the themes and stuff. Yeah, Michael Jekino, the score of Lost and Star Trek. Rogue One, Star Trek. Yeah, this is his first, this is a directorial debut. you yeah and he's from all accounts everyone i've talked to he kind of nailed it he really did really has the the perfect vibe if you can get gale garcia bernal in your movie you must have a

really good script that guy only picks amazing scripts oh that's interesting um looking at that oh yeah that dude he plays your he's he's your jack russell character in there he's your jack russell yeah okay all right yeah he like he like he had this string of films in the 2000s that every single one them was like bafta award winning or whatever like they all won you know like serious awards he was in that movie with diego luna that was from forever ago uh oh yeah you momma tambien yeah where it's like basically a threesome movie in mexico or whatever the deal is something like so brief like it's just one little scene is it just one scene i don't remember i don't think i've seen it i don't think i've seen the whole thing i just knew that they were

making out with one lady and that's all i knew for sure but It's a road trip movie, but yet does play off of that, yeah. Sure. It's so funny that this is named, like, one word off by that board game. Werewolf by Night or Werewolf? Maybe Werewolf By Night or maybe the board game's based on, and like, when did this comic come out, let's see, 72. Comic came out in the 60s or 70s, yeah, Wolf By Night.

It's actually where Moon Knight came from. Oh, I didn't know that. Our old pal, Jerry Conway, It helped to create this. I didn't know that. You did, yeah. I knew about Ted. It does have that moon night vibe.

Yeah, I like it. So was Ted in the, is that crossover in the comics as well? No, the character, what they do with Ted is, is very, like, Ted is not the same character that you get in the Marvel Comics. There's a lot, a lot of, a lot of lore breaking that don't even know how much the two characters. He and Jack Russell crossed paths on the comic books, but it wasn't very

often, let alone being, yeah, let alone their relationship in this movie. We should get Jerry on here sometime, talk about all that stuff, because he created half those characters you just mentioned. Yeah, oh, it would be great to see what he thinks of this, yeah. And he listens to this show. He'd probably be happy to get on here. We should

just arrange it. He's a good guy. Anyway, awesome. Warwolf by Night, Disney Plus. Yeah? Let's get in there. The scariest thing you can see on Disney Plus, watching it thinking, oh, my God, I'm watching this on Disney Plus? Is this one behind the, like, parental stuff on there? It absolutely has to be. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, like I said, Mateo might be okay with it. Ava definitely would not be okay with this. Yeah, she's still, how old she now, six? See, she's seven. Seven. Yeah, it's still pretty young for her. Pretty young for these themes. How does she do with like the Eddie Murphy haunted mansion that we just watched on film sack?

Did she do all right with that? I was like, why would she watch Raw? She loved Delirious. She thought the jokes were a little flat and raw. That's right. But she did like the Michael Jackson Red Jacket. Yeah. We put a Haunted Mansion on because she loves that ride.

She doesn't like the ceiling of the elevator, though. She won't look at that. Oh, sure. Yeah. There's always my way. Yeah. So, you know, it's interesting to watch young children play with scary themes and want to be scared but not want to be scared. And I'm like, is that the right?

Like, because I'm thinking, oh, all the scary things. And then I kind of try to think, look at it through their lens. I'm like, oh, yeah, no, no, no. Maybe not right now. Mateo did okay with this, though, huh? Yeah. Well, no, he hasn't seen it. I think he would be fine with it because he is craving scary stuff.

Okay, good, good. Nice, nice. So I think this is, this would be fine for him. Well, there you have it. There's our Disney Plus entry. Randy, set up your clip for, to take us out here. Yeah, let's talk about what I'm not recommending because I wouldn't watch something for you guys to make sure and let you know that you don't have to waste your time. And that is the Midnight Club.

Oh. So, um. That surprised me to hear you say that. It was, I was really looking forward to this. And maybe I got my hopes up a bit. you know maybe I was a little more expectant than I should have been but the midnight club is just mediocre it's um it is not like your previous Mike Flanagan stuff it is and I think that's because it's based on a book that Christopher Pike wrote uh just it's just not like I um so you start you start

this thing and there's a story being told that is fantastic and you're like oh this is going to be really interesting when something supernatural gets mixed in with it and then a whole other story starts taking place and it's just boring and um the story that you converts into is also um it's it's not like it doesn't give you anything to figure out you know because it's just got a bunch of characters making up their own stories and for that to work those have to be really good and they're Um, the, uh, the thing that really struck me was two thirds of the way through the first episode when the, when the whole thing just shifts over to something different. Uh, my wife, Samantha Jane just got up and walked out of the room. Never came back. Really? And so I kept watching it and I'm like, okay, maybe that was just a blip, right? Like maybe there was this like a scene that was wrong and bad and it'll go back to what it was at first and it did not. That's a bummer. And we're, Tina and I are only one episode in so far.

And we're, we're both really liking it. But I'm kind of bummed to hear that it doesn't, uh, yeah. And again, Midnight Mass had this one cohesive story arc, right? And it had these moments of revelation and extreme like, uh, you know, like a confusion and so on and so on. And this, and this show just, and Midnight Club just doesn't have it. Well, that's a bummer. Is it? Is it geared towards.

kids? No. It is about young people but I would say like people who are like 17 to 22 and they are in a very R-rated situation. And Sam Jane in the chat room is saying I loved it but I hate jumpscares so much. And there's like there's a scene in the first episode that it feels like it's nothing but a bunch of jump scares all strewn together. I thought it was somebody told me this was an anthology. Is it not an anthology? It's not like a bunch of I think it is an anthology. Well, I mean, you're going to keep watching it. I'm just saying you don't need to. But if you get to like the third or fourth episode and you're like, oh, this is really

not going anywhere. You can bow out. Okay. All right. So that's a good, like the third episode, it kind of tells you what it's going to be for the rest of the season. If I'm. Right.

It's just, it's a damn shame too, because like, this could have been. written into something really, really great. They have a couple of really awesome young actors, and, uh, you know, they have a setting that's top notch, just, eh. Sorry. It's meh. So I got to thinking, what's a

show that I love that's streaming that starts off as something like this does, but then it goes to something else and the something else is also really, really good. And, uh, you know, so I went and started, uh, rewatching, uh, that. And it's, uh, this, clip. So this is a show that starts off with a man who is all alone. So the first two-thirds of the

first episode, there's no dialogue. And then a woman comes along in his life. And this is them chatting, the two of them. There you go. This is really nice. I know. He showed a lot of hutsba today, Phil. And it made me think that maybe God does want us to lay together. Okay. Oh. really horning, so. Well, that's nice. I should probably go wash my balls first. You're back here in five. We'll knock it out?

No. I don't know. What do you mean? I'm looking at him. I'm sex with you unless we're married. Oh, it's nice to see you smile. That is your first really good joke. That's very funny. Phil, I'm not kidding.

We have to be married first. You're serious? Yes. Oh, then no. Absolute no. Why not? What do you mean, why not? Why?

The first child of this new world is not going to be a bastard. Yeah, because it's not going to exist because I'm not going to marry you. Then you're the bastard. Fine, I'm the bastard. And goodbye, human race. Thank you for dinner.

I am going to go back to my house. Right? Think about how crazy you are. Okay. You are being serious? Yes. Why do you have to be married? It doesn't mean anything.

anymore. It means something to me, Phil. Well, it doesn't mean anything to me. Then why do you care? Friends, friends, the last man on Earth is streaming on Hulu all four seasons. It is so freaking good. And Will Forte

created this thing, and he gets the writing credit for the first half of the first episode, which is kind of long. And that's because it's just him in front of the camera. He's just wandering around in a world where he thinks he's the only person alive and it is so

freaking funny. He is a master of physical comedy. The shots of him doing things all alone are they deserve awards. And then of course, Kristen Shaw comes along and, you know, he realizes he's not the last man on earth and

he doesn't like her. She doesn't like him. And it just goes from there. It is so freaking good, guys. Is it, did it end? unceremoniously and we didn't get closure or how did that go?

It's a show that ends every season as though it knows it might not continue. Sometimes that's a little cliffhangery sometimes that's a bit of a wrap-up and the final season does kind of end a bit cliffhangery instead of wrap-upperie

but it's fine. It's worth it like the second. They did an interview with the guy that wrote it and he says what would have happened if they had a final season. Oh, really? Oh, that's cool. Yeah, you can go read about,

there's all kinds of like oral history of the last vet on earth. Like there's, you know, there's all kinds of people who intersect with this show for just a few episodes in the second and third season. And so like there was an interview with Fred Armisen who appears in the,

I think the third season in just a few episodes. And he's got a whole take on the whole thing. What's the guy that does the soccer show? show, Ted Lasson. Jason Stakes is in it. Oh, yeah, he shows up. I didn't know that. Right. So he plays, he plays Will Forte's brother. And he survived the apocalypse via a very unusual and unique method.

And, yeah, it's just, it's just amazing. The show is not just Will Forte and Kristen Schall. It brings in, it makes a quartet of survivors with January Jones and Mel Rodriguez. And Mel Rodriguez is, I do not understand how this guy isn't starring in some of the most famous sitcoms ever. He is phenomenal in the show. Well, I feel bad. I only watched like the first three. And then I got distracted.

And then I was like, well, I'll get back to this. I liked it a lot. I just never got back to it. And then when it ended, I went, well, all my friends say it ended too soon. And they're disappointed. And then I just felt bad. And I was like, I'm not going to watch that. I mean, that'll always be true.

but you got 66 episodes you should enjoy this like seriously i i was just reminded of all the wonder of this show it's it's a wonder that it's it got made like uh you got there's some studio that really trusted will forte i guess yeah plus it was fox which is you know they're notorious well they did cancel it but they're notorious for not letting stuff like this breathe at all and you know this wasn't a this this may be a little too early like if this had been a hulu original or something from the get-go and was more recent maybe I think it would have had a

it's full life whatever that would have been I think it would be kind of cool if they made a movie like to wrap it up yeah like come back you know

oh I found an interview where Forte says I would I'm happy to say that if we could we could totally do this film but nobody wants to do it I don't know what that means

I think he means just probably the actors yeah maybe they don't want everybody get the January Jones back together January Jones must be hard to work with no matter what.

I'll tell you, the real cool actress that sort of jumps into the story is Mary Steen version. She just she just chews up every scene she's in. It's phenomenal performance. She has such a good agent, man. Yeah. She's everywhere. Everywhere all at once. Her husband, both, you know, they're getting work in everything.

So good for them. Yeah. I love her. Well, all right. You know what? Good recommendation. I think we've even done, I think Nicole did that one years ago, but perfect to come back to and talk about. And I'm really sad to hear about Midnight Club, but, you know, what are you going to do? Can't Mike Flanagan can't get it right every time. Well, and again, he didn't write it. And that's the thing. It was it was Star Trek Captain Christopher Pike that wrote. Yeah. It's like I felt, I felt like this was Mike Flanagan trying. to put a spin on something. And there just isn't enough room in this story to really make it great. Yeah. The Edgar Allan Poe thing he's doing, I'm more interested in that. Let's see if I can find the name of this.

It is called, oh, the fall of the House of Usher. That's what it is. Oh, sure, sure, yeah. Four episode mini thing of that. This is the one that was a little controversial because originally, I can't think of his name, but he got kicked off the set because he was being. inappropriate guy that played Nixon and Frost Nixon can't think he was name oh Langell Frank Langella yeah he was something going on with that but it's all

the people you love the Carla Gugino or whatever you say your name Kate Siegel his wife is back Zach Gifford coming back from Midnight Mass Mark Hamill for some reason Henry Thomas this looks great I'm all in on the fall of House of Usher all right that is going to do it for recommendals don't forget all of these will be shown up there on quick tms.l i because brian put those up there but one last thing i just wanted to ask the three of you uh who else is celebrating uh great british bakeoff mexican week with me still i heard that's really awkward to watch you you are going to have an actual baking in your mexican week of great british bakeoff right yeah someone told me it was really like they did an entire

thing where they made tacos and no baking they had to fry the tortillas i need you to say tacos We've asked them to make Trust Lichase I've heard it's really hard to watch Is it true that it's so hard to watch? Oh, it's terrible. Yeah. And it's hard to believe because it's this particular show.

It makes you rethink everything you know about this particular series. Yeah. You know, everything can trip and fall sometimes. And this was a, boy, The ending of that episode, though, had me tearing up. Just, I want a framed photograph of Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas wearing ponchos and sombreros. Oh, my gosh.

See, it feels like the further you get away geographically from Mexico, the worst your show is going to be about it. You know what I mean? There have surely been lots of American shows that got France all wrong. Oh, guaranteed. Yeah. Just get back to Biscuit Week. Come on. Can we?

How about Biscuit Week? Back to Biscuit Week. All right. Well, there you have it. Always good having you guys on. Anything else you guys have going on? You want to mention Nicole, you're getting foam. You're getting to foam for your space there to eat up all the echo.

That'd be fun. Oh, the echo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm getting into 3D lasering now. So somebody in the chat room was like, why aren't you teach you? We moved. I'm not a teacher in a school anymore. I'm going to try to make that happen in our new shop space.

Oh, awesome. Oh, I can't wait to see that. Yeah, that's cool. I hope you're doing air quotes when you say it, by the way. I am. I am, of course. You can't say laser without doing that. Of course.

Sactober continues this weekend. We're doing a new film sack. Randy, what's our? Cat's eye. We're watching Katzai for film sack. That's right. Forbidden fruit. com slash film sack.

Another forbidden piece of fruit in my house growing up. Nobody would like to watch it. We'll see how it holds up. It's good to having you both here. Have a fantastic week. Bye. Bye. Bye.

Bye now. Bye now. Bye now. Takes a while to kick them all out, you know? Yeah, I know. Yeah, you got this and then get this person and get this person out. Right click that. Push this.

Hey, we're done with the show. It's a long one today. Hope you enjoyed it. Yeah, yeah. Hey, I heard your Fulcrum episode is up. Tell me more. Yeah, I just went up. So me and Jenny talked to Jenny Josephson talk about the music of Star Trek on the next of the current episode of Fulcrum.

What? Star Trek. No, I mean Star Wars. know we really we do talk a lot about Star Trek as well because of reasons that you're going to hear on that show on that episode you can find it at fulcrum feed.com it's uh it is the new show if you miss if you're if you're lamenting the loss of let's talk about star wars don't worry there's still a place where you can talk about star wars it's called fulcrum fulcrum feed dot com yep it's a very good show go check it out that's going to do it for us patreon.com slash tms is the place to join us to support us like Corey Cambrusey who just joined

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You don't want to miss. Check it out. Patreon.com slash TMS. Frogpants.com slash TMS for everything else. Hey, Brian. Let's get out of here with a song. What do you got? Happy to do it. Tyler Rowland wrote in and said, hey, the fiancé and I are getting married on October 22nd and then taking a road trip from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Estes Park, Colorado to stay a few nights at the Stanley Hotel, starting on Halloween.

What the frick, dude, oh my gosh. Totally awesome. Can you write back in? They got to write back and tell us how it went. They have to tell us. Yes, yes. And you got to watch, if they're performing, they usually do on Halloween. There's a band called Murder by Death that performs on Halloween at the Stanley Hotel usually.

I don't know if they're doing it this year. but if they are, get tickets. Very cool. Dashboard Confessionals always had a place in this emo boy's heart, and a cover of the song Hands Down would be awesome to hear, or dealer's choice, something similar if you're unable to find anything. It would also be nice to hear a few must stops around the Colorado area during our honeymoon. Love the show, and all the work you guys do put into it for your fans.

Thank you, signed Tyler Rowland. Oh, thanks, Ty. Well, pre-congratulations on your upcoming nuptials. I hope the ceremony is beautiful and romantic and sweet, and then you go stay in the horror hotel. Awesome, good for you. Watch out for open doors and old ladies and tubs, I'm telling you. Yes, yes.

Don't follow that lady into the tub. Oh, my gosh. And you're going to be really disappointed with the hedge maze. Anyway, he wanted to hear a cover of Dashboard Confessionals hands down. I've got a good one here by Weatherstar. I don't know when they recorded this. They didn't release it on an album, but I ended up with it, and it's really good. Here is Hands Down by Weatherstar.

All right, that'll do it. We'll be back tomorrow with Wendy and all the usual Thursday trimmings, Amy as well. We'll see you then. Breathe in so deep This air is blessed You share with me This night is wild So come and dull

Our hearts they race From self-control Your legs are smooth As they graze mine We're doing fun We're doing not nothing at. My oaths are so high that your kiss might kill me.

So won't you kill me? So I die happy. My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury, wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer. The words are hush, let's not get busted, Just lying trines here, undiscovered. Safe and ear from all these stupid questions.

Hey, did you get some? Man, that is so dumb. Stay quiet, stay near, stay close, they can't hear. So we can get some. My oaths are so high that your kids might kill me, so won't you kill me, so I die happy. My heart is yours to fill or burst, to break or bury, or wear as jewelry, whichever you prefer. Hands down, this is the best day I can ever remember. I'll always remember the sound of the stereo, the dim of the soft lights,

the set of your hair that you swirled in your fingers and the time on the clock. When we realized it's so late on this walk that we should share together and the streets were wet and the gate was locked so what you said and i let you in and you stood at my door with your hands on my waist and you kissed me like you meant it And I knew That you meant That you meant it That you mentored

That you mentioned And I know That you meant That you mentioned This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. I'm a doctor.