The Morning Stream - TMS 2381: Peppy le Pugh

Episode Date: November 23, 2022

Which of You Bastards Said Serenity? Garmondo? Sounds Great! Five Guys COVID and Lies. AND THEN THERE'S MAUDE! Shalala La Boof. A regular human sized burger. Man I can go for some gum, got any cheese? The Wild Brady West. Hey Attractive Girl, You're Muted. That Vanessa Williams. The 30 Year Old is a Baby! Who is Clare Diction. Netflix murders and cakes. You're a Sweet Little Headache with Tom. Way More Than Two or Five Things with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, which of you bastard said Serenity? Garmondo, sounds great. Five guys, COVID and lies. And then there's Maud. Shalala, la Boof. A regular human-sized burger. Man, I could sure go for some gum. Got any cheese?

The Wild Brady West. Hey, attractive girl. You're muted. Yes, that Vanessa Williams. The 30-year-old is a baby. Who is Claire Diction? Netflix murders and cakes. You're a sweet little headache with Tom.

Way more than two or five things with Randy and Nicole and more. on this episode of The Morning Stream. People of everywhere, I have shocking news. Hey, butt out. This is between me and everyone else in existence. I do love the tentacle. The Morning Stream. She's a breath of fresh ass.

Good morning, one and all. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbett. Hello. Hello. Happy both hump day and last official episode of the week for us.

Oh, yeah. That's it. It is because we've got the Thanksgiving tomorrow. That's right. Here in the States. No show on Thanksgiving. No. I mean, look, I know the rest of the world, you're all just like, oh, man, what?

And we're like, hey, whatever. It's Turkey Day. It's what we do. Dylan's smoking a turkey I found out. I'm so excited and barely stand it. Very excited. And also, the kids are here today, which means that's the true sign that COVID is out of this house is that we're allowing children here.

No kidding. Yeah, exactly. Excited for after the show to go hang out with the boy. And I think Phoebe's here too. I'm not sure. She might be going on. I don't know. But anyway, it's all good, man.

It's all good. I'm actually feeling, you know, let's do the percentage check-in. We're a week from COVID. What's the percentage? All right. Here we go. So according to this Brian scale, the Ibit scale, I'm going to put myself at 83%. Oh, that's really good.

Yeah, it's not bad. It's very functional. The only real hangabout is the stupid cough, which I will try to cough switch for it today. Mitigate with a button. Yeah, in fact, I'm doing it now. That made me have to cough. Amazing. It totally worked.

Just having to talk about, just talking about the cough makes it come for me. I hate it. Anyway, that. And just a little tired, you know, just a little loggie. It's a little slow. But that's okay. That's kind of my normal anyway. So I feel like I'm in the ballpark of healing here.

So yeah, 83%. Thanks, everybody, for your continued, nice comments. And don't get COVID. It sucks. It sucks. Avoid it if you can, please. Yeah, it's really bad. I got a question, though.

So last night, Kim and I were sitting around. She was like, you know what? I should make such and such for dinner. And I said, yeah, but it sounds like a bunch of work. And also does that even sound good? And she's like, not really. What do you want to do? And she's like, oh, I have a gift card.

I forgot about. We should use it. I said, where? Five guys. I'm like, I'm in. Let's go. I love it. Let's go to five guys.

So we go to five guys last night. And you know how five guys has got all their, um, their peanuts, you know? Yes. Yeah. The bags and boxes of peanuts. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

I noticed when I walked in there, this is a side note, but they have, have way less of that now. And I don't know what's going on there. Is there a peanut shortage? Is it just that they don't? Do they even still offer them? Oh, yeah. They're still there.

And they had the scupers and all that. But they just were, I don't know, a third the stock I'm used to seeing. Interesting. Okay. I don't know if they had a run on it. A bunch of people come in and just like went nuts on the peanuts or what happened. I don't know. I mean, you know, it's not like if they were really worried about allergies, they'd have to take all of them out.

And I'm sure there's a sign on the door, right, that says, by the way, If you have peanut allergies, this is not the place you want to be. Yeah, they got a big warning there, which is good. I'm glad they do that. But I always think it'd be funny. I'll never do this. But I'd like to just walk in there once, pretend I don't see the sign, and just suddenly go, beep, beep, I can't breathe, you know,

like make a big stink about it and then have them, you know, see if the five people back there do anything. You're going to get a quick jab from the counterperson with a one of those. Oh, he'd been like a name. Epi pen back there? I love that idea. I'm sure they've got one of them. They've got to have them there. He's like, my time has come and he leaps over the counter with his epi pen.

He's always wanted to do it. And then I'm his guy. No, this is good reason not to do this. I'm not going to do it. Yes, exactly. Yeah. But anyway, here's the weird bit. So I go in there, I notice the peanut shortage. And then we get to the counter. And we order what we're going to order. And I didn't go too crazy.

I never get the cheese. And I get the smaller burger, even though. Well, God, yeah, you have do like they call it a baby burger or something i know but it is that is actually the regular human-sized burger yeah it's really can know this if you've never been to five guys when you go in there and it says if you look and say oh it says hamburger that must be just the basic no that's a double-stacked monster beast that's like 1,200 calories don't maybe get that instead say i want the small i think it's just called the small burger i think so i think it's a big it's bigger than any

other burger it is yeah it's still bigger than like a a typical macdonalds or burger king or you know even it's about the size of a smash burger burger yeah and and and taller than that so it's got the it's got the circumference yeah it's like the circumference of freddies and the height of a big mac it's a big it's a big burger so you know just know that going in there so i do that and uh kim orders first and then i get up and i go yeah i want the small burger there with the this and the that and the that and mushrooms and the things and I'm mad and all the stuff I like and he goes here's what he says he says uh garmondo sounds great or sounds good garmando yeah garmondo he says in a questioning voice he says garmando sounds good is what he says and i went and just kind of went i don't know

what you're saying so i didn't say anything because i don't know what the frick that means so we got another fart gas on our hands here i don't know what that means yeah now here's so context here's what i ordered just before he said the garmando i said the small burger with all the stuff you know there's like a list of things they just include as a as a blanketing sure sure kind of like the the the the uh the mike's way or what is it uh not mics uh jersey mike's yeah mike's way mike's way exactly yeah yeah which is like our here's the standard 18 things including the stuff that's going to make your bread soggy enjoy yeah enjoy the soggy bread.

And then, so, so, so it says those. I says, I'll do that. And then I also just want to add green peppers. Let's not do onions this time. And I definitely want mushrooms. Last word I say is mushrooms. And he says, Garmondo? Sounds good.

Okay. All right. Hold on a second. All right. Green peppers is G. I'm wondering if there's like a, if they've created a mnemonic device for, for each order. So it's like, hey, I need two garmandoes, please. And it's got, you know, green peppers, avocado, red tomato, mushrooms.

That's entirely possible, except he was saying it. He didn't yell it back. He only said it to me, as if I would know. Of course, yeah. Oh, you want the Garmondo. Like the Garmondo. And I'm like, and there's nothing, and afterwards, and he's doing stuff on the thing. And I'm just looking at the menu, I'm going, is something up there say this?

Nothing said Garmondo. Nothing. Come right up. Come right. I can't even like, come up with a phrase that he might have slurred. Yeah. See, this is. Did he speak?

And he spoke normally all, you know, in all other instance, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. And he's just some, you know, white American kid. It was not like, you know, there was nobody there with like an accent or a different language or any of that. It was, uh, and he was also very, he enunciated and didn't mumble. He said Garmondo is clearly his day. Now, I admit, I'm coming into this.

some stuffy years from my week of COVID and it's it's not great sometimes like my left ear gets really stuffed and I can't hear out of it very well during COVID but I it's possible I mean I tried to find reasons I just couldn't find any why I couldn't why the word Garmondo was coming into my my head and I turned to Kim who is not she's no longer paying as much attention she's on her phone while I'm ordering and I turned her I go did you hear anything and she's like what do you mean I go he said like Garmondo or something she goes I have no idea and then that was it she doesn't know so i don't have a witness i don't have anything i have nothing to work on here were you wearing a shirt that maybe uh had stuff written on it in the font

adobe garamond you know i always like to tell my my garamond friends i call them garmandos because they love yeah yeah oh hey garmando you bet yeah it's so funny how fonts have come up like three times today without even meeting the other brian brian found he found a gold mine i didn't know this is thing until he told me. But Ventura for the MacOS Ventura update includes a complete rework of a font book. And if you're a font nerd or do any kind of design work or any of that, you got to go check out the new font book. It's freaking great. Like just, you know, just a couple simple changes, but it's like, oh, finally this thing is useful. Like, because basically prior to this, you had a list of all your fonts in whatever, you know, whatever font your Mac is set to. And you had to go item by item in that

list to see what each of those fonts look like. Now, it's finally in a grid showing you all the fonts and... Yeah, at a glance, you can just absolutely go, oh, this is great. In fact, I don't... This is the first time font book has now been a permanent launchable icon on my launch bar. Oh, wow. Prior to this, it was just stupid. I would just search for it when I needed it to add new fonts or something.

Because it's kind of useless. It was just a stupid list and hasn't changed since like OS7. Or some bull crap. So Brian points this out and I'm like, oh my gosh. It's like having a whole new world in front of me here. And this is only, you know, if you're not using fonts for stuff. Like designers, this is something designers care about because we're like, well, let's see. I don't want to use Roboto standard again.

Or Gotham, maybe I can find something else. Oh, look at this. Yeah. And you might say, well, just use Photoshop or whatever you're using to preview the fonts there. And it does have preview stuff. But it's the same problem. You have just the list and you've got to go down the list to see it. I think Affinity Photo may have previews next to the names, but it's still really small.

It's not quite the same. This is going to be a huge boon for me. So, nice catch, Brian. Nice catch. Thank you. Thank you very much. I feel like they didn't advertise it at all. Like, nobody's talked about this.

Oh, no. You know, one of the products that we're really excited about introducing and macOS Ventura is our new font book. You know, it's really going to change the way designers work. That's right. And it's made of 50% aluminum. So we can, it's a zero emissions flow. We've revolutionized the flood display industry once again. Oh, gosh.

Tim Cook, we love you. All right. So there's that. Garmondo. If anyone you want to at home, you want to text or email in what you think that is. A few people have suggested, by the way, that, you know, Gormand, like they're calling you like Gormand, which is like a, you know, you're a fancy foodie kind of person, a Gormand. Oh, hey, that's not bad.

But, I mean. I mean, it's not, I still seems weird, but it's not, that's not a bad theory. Yeah. Because this kid, I mean, I say kid. It's probably the closest thing, right? Like the most logical. Yeah, and he's probably 18, 19. He didn't look like somebody who would have that word at the handy.

But that doesn't mean anything. He could have been a total food nerd. And I said, you know, mushrooms. And he was, oh, gormando. I don't know. Oh, you're gormando, are we? Yeah, I don't know what to make of it, but anyway, I'd love to hear your theories. Keep those coming in.

Speaking of theories and texting, we got a text here from a listener. This is from Ryan in Michigan who says, thinking of, or sorry, I think COVID is gasoline-borne. They're putting it in the gas. Your cars burn the gas. Then the pee-poo are breathing in the car exhaust and getting infected. How else would you explain the recent new cases? I see what you're doing there, Ryan. Um, yeah, to me, his theory, this fake theory is as good as that other guy's had a real theory.

Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, if you missed yesterday's show, we had somebody who claimed that COVID is food born now. And they seem pretty serious about it. Putting it in the peanuts. And you're getting it when you walk into five guys. Yeah, they're making the frogs gay, as they say. Turn to the frogs gay.

That's right. Kept trails. Uh, so yeah, we, uh, I don't, none of this is true. Okay. We're not a misinformation source here. We don't want to be, um, well, we, uh, well, we, um, we're not in this case no in this case we're definitely not

and if we are and people pointed out we're always happy to admit it you know like I'll make some comment about Canada and we'll hear from Jeff and he'll fix it that's how that'll go and we're happy to admit it I don't neither Brian I don't think I shouldn't speak for you but I don't think either one of us

have any desire to ever if we're wrong about something we're happy to say it right oh 100% yeah I'm happy to admit when I say something stupid or wrong even if it takes me a minute I'll come around unlike a lot of, you know, mainstream media. A lot of the mainstream media won't tell you when they're doing.

The double downers, yeah. Yeah, those guys are the best. All right. Well, that's all she wrote for text. If you'd like to send one in yourself, 801-471-0462 is the address. And now, some time with Brian Dunaway. You haven't talked to him since Monday. So, you know, let's get him in for the middle of the week.

Why not? Let's play a little game. Um, this also means you guys are going to be calling in today. We got live calls all set up for Tab Pooley Feud. That number is eight oh one, same number, 801, 471,0462. If you want to call in live, please do it. Let's go. That music means that Brian Dunaway has entered the building.

Brian, hello. Oh, hi, it's gotten, Brian. Hey, man. How are you? How are you? No, how are you? Oh, you don't know, no, you. No, you.

No, you. How are you doing it? I'm doing all right. I had a whole lot of fun I'm doing something I don't always do today I'm for some reason I got a hankering for a hunk of cheese and instead I started

chewing gum oh and so everything I'm better for you now yeah yeah I know now now when I talk I have to chew my gum at the same time you're so freaking skinny already I don't know what you think you need to do but you're just so you're like a thin

svelt man yeah uh about town yeah yeah some belton you're turning me on we've got my opposite direction here on this side of, yeah. I'm a Grimond. Yeah, Brian, Brian and I were like, man, I could really go for some gum.

You know what? I'll eat some cheese instead. That's what we do. Right, exactly. What are those wagon wheels made up? Can I get, can I get timer and get instructions to make some money? That'd be great. Let's find out who our listener.

I used to love those things, though, those stupid little ads. It's like, hey, there's time for a timer like you're, like you're supposed to who timer is. Exactly. Like, hold on, mom. I'll come, I'll come do the dishes in a second. time for timer and I got to figure out how watching fries a little ice cube

popsicle with Kool-Aid. Yeah. And then you put the saran wrap on top of it because we all had the, yeah, we had them place. You know that there's no, there's a whole generation of people I have no idea what this is. No idea what we're talking about.

Yeah. Somebody at some network said, you know, oh, the ABC has those, has schoolhouse rock. We need something like that. I know. How about recipes for kids? Yeah. Recipes for children. conversation because there was a whole bunch of you know regulations that went into

place that required this type of educational uh programming so yeah we need to talk about that one day yeah it's not like it said let's do it it was a percentage thing like um that's why he man had to come out and do a PSA every episode or every guy Joe yeah hey kids yeah and I have a certain percentage don't eat tight pods yeah basically we could use them today all right let's find out who's been waiting so patiently online hi who's this who's holding Well, I'm glad I waited patiently for that fun aside. Well, listen, Ian, you're always welcome to be as patient and waiting as you can be. It's always nice to have you on.

How are things? It's going well. Going well. I figured I'd call in on Frog Pants Giving Eve and try my luck at the Pad Pauley Feud. Well, congratulations. You've succeeded, at least at that level. Whether you win today or not will depend on how we do. Hey, Brian, do you want to explain the rules and how Ian could win some prizes?

As if he doesn't know. All right. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brian Napkin and after break those answers that they gave us, and it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, Ian, your job is more important than the last seven times you've played this because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian.

And if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes Broken Age and Car Mechanic Simulator 2018. I have both of those games. They're great. Those are both great. We're gone cars that are four years old. That's good. 2018 is the best, though.

It is. The newer one, the 2021. Did they lose their way in 2019? I wouldn't say they lose their way. I just think the 2022 game, there is a newer one, or 2021, I guess. Anyway, that game is good, but it doesn't supersede the 18. The 2018 one is really awesome. Are there better Lugnuts in 2018's version than there are in 2021?

No, but. But you get... That was before the pandemic, right? Yeah. Yeah, pre-pandemic car work is, you know, a lot has changed in those three years. It's all digital now. It's, you know, all you have to do in the new one is just basically unplug one circuit board and put in another one in the car is fixed. Yeah, and $6,500 later, and you got a new car keys.

Okay, fine. Yeah, you lose your car keys. Well, excellent. This sounds great. What's our topic? I'm so excited. Your topic today. All right, get your hands on, your buzzers.

and get ready for this. We asked 479 Tadpoolers, 22 of which said, I don't know. We asked them their answer to this. What's the worst movie adaptation of a TV show? Scott. Okay, even though I like it,

I have to think Tadpoolers would put Beverly Hillbillies on here because of how much of you dislike it. Good one. Because they love me. Show me the Beverly Hillbillies. Oh, well, you know what? That was a correct thing to not have it there because it's actually good. Let me tell you, though.

Let me tell you that was number 16. And a couple people even mentioned me saying, for Brian, I'm putting the Beverly Hillbillies. Yeah, fair. I mean, look, this is a name to find out what the tadpool would say. But the fact that it's not in the top 10 is proof that that movie's better than anyone thinks it is. It's good. It's all right. Because wait until you're some of the ones that are below it.

And the ones that are above it, you're like, oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, these are all bad. Brian, you get a guess. Hey, I know the Tadpool, and I love this movie. I love the series, Charlie's Angels. And I bet there's a lot of hate out there. All right. I don't like it.

Show me, Charlie's Angels. Number eight on the board. Ian, you're going to be working with Brian, which is good because you're in his name. So two of you can be working and playing. That's true. You are in his name. You're right in the middle of both these chuckleheads names. I'm inside you, Brian.

Yeah, which is, you know, he's been masking for that for years. I got to go outside and get the brr. Yeah, I can't go out and get the burr. Oh, my lord. All right, you two. What are you got? All week, Dad, joke. Oh, yeah.

What about Starsky and Hutch? It's pretty good. I love that. That was actually my first pig, but I didn't think they would do it. But, yeah, I agree with you. Starsky and Hutch. Which I like. Sure, sure.

Show me Starsky and Hutch. I was worried about that Number 15 actually one right above or tied I should say With Beverly Hillbillies with eight votes each Forgotten is what the problem is I think that people have forgotten They don't even hate it They can even remember it

I have a technical question for the judges Does this include animation or is it pure live action It does include animation Okay In that case If it includes animation That case I'm going to say that horrible Smurfs movie

Oh, sure Oh, are you kidding me? It's garbage Neil Patrick Harris Slumming in that one if I remember correctly I think so bad All right, show me the Smurfs Oh, come on

Let's see, where's that? That was low on the list That is number 46 on the list All right, okay Hey, last part of my name. You got one? Yeah. Uh, yeah.

Avatar the Last Airbender. That's pretty good. Oh, that's a hot topic. Oh, hot to be confused with the, uh, with the, uh, with the James Cameron film. Uh, show me Avatar, the last airbender. Oh, number one. Number one with 98 folks saying that, uh, saying that one. Damn.

Okay. Nice to know about the, uh, moving. That movie was a hot garbage fire. Oh, it's really bad. It's really bad. I mean, as much as, I know he's had some zingers and some dingers, but that's M. Night Shyamalan's big of shame, in my opinion. Zingers and some dingers.

That's a real bad one. All right, you guys on a roll. What do you got? Okay, ass into my name. How about Scooby-Doo? I was just going to say Scooby-Doo, yeah. Scooby-Doo is not bad. I mean, the movie's not bad, but also that's not a bad answer.

I like it. It's a good series. It's it. All right, show me. Scooby-Doop! Oh, man. Are you kidding me? Number, it was high.

It was number 14, right? Basically, here you go. Four movies have eight votes each. Scooby-Doo, Starks, Starzky, and Hatch, and the Beverly Hillbillies, and a fourth one. Tadpool, I don't know you at all. You thought you did. You don't know you at all. Okay.

Back in my corner here with... Let's go live action. I feel like we're getting dangerous with the animation. Oh, geez. Just left my brain. Oh, get smart, I was thinking about. Get Smart. Oh, that's a good one.

Yeah, with Steve Carell and other people. Yeah, I didn't like that. It was bad in that movie, I thought. Show me, get smart. Damn it to hell. What? That one number 32 on the list. Wow.

I feel like these top. It's so obvious, but, uh, you know, who knows? Maybe not. I've got a better part of my name. I've got two off the top of my head. All right. I've got two up the top of my head, Brian. And, and both of them are animation.

Uh, so, G.I. Joe? Oh. I was going to say G.I. Joe is on my list. Kind of like those. Also a good, good series. Yeah. I kind of like, I kind of like those movies. I know they're not supposed to be good, but I think they're okay.

They're not terrible. Go, Joe. Yeah. Oh, me, G.I. Joe. Oh, my God, man. That's rough. Really low on the list without a lot of people like the G.I. Joe. Yeah, a 41 on the list.

Oh, okay. So, Scott, they just... Yeah. What are you going to say? I don't know. I don't even know you people. So here's the deal. If you also strike out, Ian wins the prize.

If you get the number 10 answer, you win, or any combination of you win, or any combination of of, you know, two or three on here. So if I clear the board, he wins. You got to get high or run the board. Yeah, and I still think, I feel like I've got the, the payload is right next to the end point, and there's no way I'm going to be able to hold this off for three minutes. All right, so let's go, um, uh, I would have thought this would have been easy. Holy crap.

I know. I just thought this was going to be easy. That was me saying I thought this was going to be easy. What if anybody put Dragnet on there? Drag, let's say Dragnet. All right. I know that's mixed, mixed opinions, Dragnet, but I like it. I do too.

The Virgin Connie Swale. Show me Dragnet. Damn it. No, so fortunately. Right. We sacked that. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

Wow. I know. The number 61, by the way, one person said Dragnet. Holy cow. All right. Well, first off, congratulations. Congratulations. You're a winner.

Congratulations. I won my moving. You know what, though? You did, Brian got one right. Then you got the other one. That's a perfect win. It's true. That's true.

All right, fair enough. COVID is real. Let's go down the list of these. Number two. The Dukes has. We did that on film sack as well as. Oh, oh, we've done a lot of these on film sack, my friends. Show me number three.

Yeah, either of the Flintstones movies. You should have dropped. You should have dropped that hint. well i you know film the sack fodder yes exactly yeah uh show me number four star trek now clarifications not really clarification but but um the motion picture animated votes and uh star trek five the void with the the the uh final frontier had five votes i decided i'm not going to be pedantic i'm just going to kind of lump them all into one so look they're the two worst i like the motion picture no you don't oh god

No, you don't. Nobody does. Nobody does. Hey, I like it. Hey, look. I like it. That's 25-minute tracking shot for leaving a Starport ever. Yeah. It's that, okay, I'll give you that. Like, you got some cool, hey, ILM, come over here and help us with our freaking miniatures stuff going on for sure. But that movie sucks. It's bad.

When it came out, when it came out, I hated it. Of course you did. As I've gotten older and I've seen everything else they had to put out. I'm like, yeah. 12 minutes of Spock and Kirk flying around in their little armchair, hover, hover, floaty things. Oh, was Kirk? I think that's a spot. They're also wearing pajamas.

They're wearing pajamas. Yeah, their suits are horrendous. The only good thing to come out of that is I bought the Kirk action figure and burned him in a video I made and now he's burnt. This is like complaining that 2001 had a big giant block in it. I mean, it's science fiction. No, I would complain that that 2000. also had a very long, unnecessary segment

of, let's look at a kaleidoscope. Yeah, walking around the outer ring. It's art. Yeah, whatever. Whatever. That boom movie's bad. Before you say the next one, it's Transformers on the list? Transformers is number

six. Shit. Yeah. What was I thinking? Gosh, dang it. Oh, so much potential, but yeah, it's a bad at first month. Right. Between those two, Number five is Dragon Ball Z or Dragon Ball Evolution, any of the Dragon Ball.

People clarified that, you know, a lot of the live-action Dragon Ball movies, but there were enough different Dragon Ball mentions. I didn't see the Tadpool B in that way, but I guess they are. I never saw any Dragon Ball Z. I didn't know there were any films, like theatrical release. Apparently they're like 18. The live-backing Dragon Ball Z is starring two leads from Shameless. Are you kidding?

Oh, really? Seriously, yeah, man. Please tell me it's William H. Macy and the... Yeah. And the little... I want William H. Macy and the guy and bear, the bear. I want those two. Right, exactly.

That's great. Going Super Sign. It's Justin Chatwin and Emmy Rossum. Like, they're the two leads in it. Really? Wow. Yeah. And honestly, it's so sackable. You guys need to end it to the list.

All right. I'm looking right now. Dragon Ball Z movies. I didn't even know there were. Yeah. Oh, there are. Right, and you could actually, is it there one at the theater now? Which, what is it?

Well, that's animated, though, right? Those are all animated, though. This is the only one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the live action, I think, is the focus of this one. All right, getting to number seven, sorry, I'm pouring my coffee right now. Pouring coffee. It's all good.

You do what you got to do. Porn coffee. Number seven, another film sec one, the A-team. Oh, you know what? Hard disagree. I like that movie. you're all you're all uh you're complaining about a thing that isn't that bad it's okay it's all right okay all right tad bull number nine uh we had a few iterations of this one and a very famous film

sack episode about it masters of the universe that one we did it oh shit i did almost say he man i was nervous too though dang it yep all right and then uh these these tied and i just didn't have the heart to put one in place of the other so i put them on the same one and i was going to give it to you if you said either of these two uh the brady bunch movie and Wild Wild West. Oh, wow. What a time. See, I wouldn't even

even thought a Wild Wild West. I wouldn't even thought about it. Can we combine those two as one pick, by the way? Yeah, let's do it. The Brady Bunch movie in the Wild Wild Wild West,

I think that would be great. I mean, he basically. Oh, there you. Yes, absolutely. He basically did. Where they get stuck in a jail cell because because Eureka,

that guy locks them in there during their Grand Canyon adventure. Yeah, I like it. And also, I don't remember, did the Brady Bunch movie, was that a theater? thing or just oh it totally was

both of them yeah yeah I didn't know that at all I thought it was TV only weird oh no no no no we're not talking about the original Brady Bunch

we're talking about the what was the 2000 was 2008 yeah the one that was a the one that was a giant parody of the original basically

oh Shelley Long was mom Shelley Long Gary Cole right yeah it was more of a parody it was absolutely

a parody like yeah I remember they were all still stuck in the 70s in a 90s world which was was the, which was the job.

That was the whole thing. But I remember the girl 14. Go ahead. Go ahead. Oh, going down the rest of the list here.

Baywatch, Sex and the City. The X-Files had some, some bad movie. I don't know if they're adaptations or sequels, really.

They're kind of sequels more than anything else. Bewitched. Aon Flux. Fantasy Island. I forgot that Bloomhouse had a Fantasy Island movie. Inspector Gadgett,

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Lost in Space, Miami Vice, the Lone Ranger, Chips, Land of the Lost. uh four of you bastards said serenity oh not cool also a sequel and also good uh super mario brothers

not really a tv show adaptation but okay uh the simsons there was a tv show yeah there was a tv show that's true uh night at the roxbury as matter of fact that is the highest on the list of all of the the s nl a show this a skit yeah it came from tv did come from tv but yeah i know It came from TV. Gilligan's Island. I don't remember a Gilligan's Island movie that wasn't one of the TV show movies. It was like... Hold on.

Is that, like, a recent thing? They were the TV movies like, oh, the Harlem Globetrotters come to Fantasy Island. I don't think that counts because, I mean, there's the overall TV movies. They were all TV movies, yeah. McHale's Navy, Mission Impossible. Again, you guys are all wrong. The Adam's Family, again, you guys are good. are all wrong.

21 Jump Street, cone heads, Dudley Doarite, Maghruber, Mad Max Fury Road. Yes, some of two people said that for some reason.

Bastards. Just bastards. Just to poke the dragon. Man from Uncle, Power Rangers, the movie, SWAT, the Avengers,

the UK one. Sopranos slash, what was it called, the Knights of New Jersey or the, whatever it was. Oh, yeah.

Alvin and the chipmunks, Batman. Eh, I guess Sort of Big Top Peewee though I kind of If you

That was first If you say that he started With the Saturday morning Show which he did show Yeah Yeah right It all came from a skit

It was all like a stand Not stand up but like part of his Yeah Like a performance live performance thing Yeah Bilko Bob's Berger The Vampire Slayer

community not yet dark shadows dynotopia uh dragnet el camino you're definitely wrong on that one aragon fat albert garfield ghostbusters what good burger hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy nope gem uh night writer mars attacks uh came from cards not a tv show yeah mash somebody got the order wrong mod never happened uh monsters robs our zombies must Someone said mod? I'm hung up on mod. That's crazy. Pretty Little Liars, Seinfeld Zero Hour. I'd love to see that. Speed Razor, Star Wars, the Clone Wars. Nope, you got the order wrong on that one. Dark Tower, books.

Honeymooners, ladies' man, thunderbirds, troll hunters, under the dome, Veronica Mars, Waterworld, and Wheel of Time. Wow. Troll hunters? There was no, nobody said the Simpsons movie. I'm surprised. Oh, yeah, I love that movie. Oh, did you say that one?

Oh, you did? That movie's, so there's some of those that you said, I just, I mean, I realize everyone's got weird opinions, but the Simpsons movie is fantastic. Oh, I know. There was another one you said that is really good, and I forgot what it was, crap. But there's some really good ones in there. But Serenity does not belong to this list. No, Serenity is one of my favorite movies of all time. It's an amazing follow-up to a TV show that was also rad.

It's the best movie of 2005, I'm saying it now. It was so good. And that includes your freaking Revenge of the Sith bullshit. Exactly. And your Batman begins. All right. Well, well done. Everybody, especially you, Ian.

You've won these prizes. You know Brian's email, coverville at gmail.com. He'll hook you up with those codes. And you'll walk away. A big fat winner. How do you feel? I feel terrific. May everyone have a happy, healthy, hearty, and falling asleep in front of the TV Thanksgiving.

I love that idea. I'm going to do that. We'll see you later next time. Hey, Dunaway. That rhymes with Thay Dunaway. That's funny. Oh, yeah. It rhymes with it.

It's the same word. We asked this question before. Are you related at all to those Dunaways? Do you know? I can't say. You can't say? What about the North Hampton Dunaways? Any relation to the Martha's Vineyard Dunaways?

Yeah. I can't say. You can't say? I've signed paperwork. I can't say. Well, excellent. I'm glad that you're around and here. And also, if you guys want to catch Brian,

And he plays a lot of these games that he and I talk about on Play Retro. He plays them at night, like at 6 p.m. Pacific time, or no, Eastern, rather. And you should watch him do that. But you should also check out our last episode of Play Retro. We did it yesterday. It was all about Baldur's Gate, 1 and 2, and a whole bunch more. I really had fun last night, so I hope other people will as well. It was so much fun.

Yeah, check out them wherever we get your podcast. That's Frogpans.com slash Play Retro, if you're looking for the website. Don't know anything else you want to say? Yeah, we're playing Mario Kart next week. No, you. No, wait. Are we? Is that what we're playing?

Yes, we are. Bye. All right. I think that's what we're playing this week. Yeah, that is what we're. Mario Kart. Mario Kart. And then we're going to talk about some of the better spinoffs or better ripoffs like

Diddy Kong wasn't really a ripoff, but it was a different developer. Diddy Kong racing or whatever it was, yeah. But my favorite was this weird Konami one that I cannot remember the name of right in the comp. Konami Crazy Racers or something? Oh, Wacky Racers, the one that was on Dreamcast, if I remember correctly? No, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a G. game, I think. Okay.

There was one that had like Penelope Pitstop and Dirk Dastardly and Yogi Bear and all those. Oh, like the racers cartoon show. Yeah, it was like the Wacky Racers. That's why I was thinking Wacky Racers and it was on Dreamcast and that thing was fantastic. It was all cell shaded. Oh, God, it was great. I'd play the hell out of that. That sounds great.

We may have to bring that one up. We dabble in the Dreamcast era a little bit, so why not? Okay. Is you talking about semen? We have definitely talked about semen before, for sure. Seaman has come up many times. Please feed me. I was on Star Trek.

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Join hosts Adam Mock, a 40-something film and television writer, and Melanie Weir, a 27-year-old entertainment reporter as they trade their favorite movie recommendations every week in hopes of bridging the cinematic generation gap. You can find them at Made You Watch on Anchor or anywhere you stream podcasts. Made You Watch, a podcast, new episodes every Wednesday. I thought Anchor went away. Oh, no, they got bought by A-Cast.

That's what happened to them. Oh, really? Or Spotify or somebody. Somebody bought them. Interesting. I remember who. Um, very cool. Let's talk about this. Uh, this is interesting. There's a new study. We could have done this with Bobby, but no, it's just going to be us. Okay. All right. Attractive female students no longer earned higher grades when classes moved online during COVID-19. This only happened when Bill Murray was the teacher and it was ESP, uh, training. I always forget. I always forget about that early scene in Ghostbusters where he's doing the shapes. Always forget until you bring it up. Uh, so this is, uh, so this is,

maybe, I mean, it's easy to laugh at this, but it's an actual, they did some actual studying of the data that they have. New psychology findings suggest that attractive students are in higher grades in school, but for female students, this beauty premium disappears when classes are taught remotely. The findings were published in the journal Economic Letters. Large body research suggests that the physical appearance has an impact on a person's success. I mean, I feel like we kind of all knew this. It's just a matter of getting the data, but it's also a little creepy.

It's a little creepier, though. It's a little creepier because teachers and 16-year-old girls and, you know what I mean? Sure, sure. It's a little bit weird. You know, nobody said that when that woman was batting her eyes at Harrison Ford and she had Love You written on them. That's right. Which somebody else would have had to write on them. I know.

And I always thought that would suck, you know? Yes. Like writing on your eyeball even with a sharpie with like a soft sharpie? Yeah. I mean, was it on the lids or the ball? I don't remember. On the lids. It was, I'm sorry, on the lids.

but it's you're, you know, those are thin. You're still pressing into your eyeball when you write those. Oh, gosh, dang it. Yeah, even this, even like the softest, sharpiest thing. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. You better pay me a whole lot of money for that to get drawn on my eye lid ball. Exactly. But she got, I heard she got a good grade from Dr. Jones.

Oh, well, then, no, there was time for romance, Dr. Jones, it turned out. Let's see here. So this is interesting. They, uh, one account suggests that the beauty advantage can only be explained by discrimination. For example, employers may inherently favor attractive over unattractive workers. Another perspective suggests that beauty is a productivity enhancing attribute. This view suggests that attractiveness lends itself to higher productivity, for example, through increased self-confidence.

In this case, teachers couldn't see the students anymore, and it appears they quit being favorable to the lovely young ladies. Yeah, makes sense. It does kind of make sense. And I think it's a little unfortunate, but it's also kind of weirdly innately human, so I don't know. Yeah. It kind of is funny, though, that they still wouldn't have that advantage over Zoom where they can, you know, do the ring lights and do their makeup really well, like basically, you know, really, really add to it. It says here, in-person instruction and remote instruction, those are the two that were compared. The design allowed the study author to better isolate the effect of appearance that student-teacher interaction.

is much lower during remote instruction. So even though they may have a, you know, a big grid of 200 people in their class on a Zoom call, that's just not the same as, you know, some pretty college girl sitting there with her lovely perfume and her fantastic hair or whatever. Whatever the thing is that the teacher's reacting to. It's just not the same. Let's now move on to beautiful young ladies to aging ladies. I don't know who else to put that. But suburban mom handcuffed and jailed

for making her eight-year-old son walk a half a mile home from school. Now, I have questions about this because are my parents run away from the law? Because my entire junior high time, sixth grade through ninth grade. Yeah. I walked at least that every day. But junior high would have been, you would have been older than eight. I mean, I would have been eight going in, right? Sixth grade?

What would I have been? No, I think you would have been, you don't start first grade when you're two. Hold on a minute. How old are you? Yeah, you're right. I mean, but I did walk home from grade school in Edgewater when I went there. And so, yeah, I was eight when I did that. Yeah, I was easily.

Yeah, and I think even my elementary time was I easily walked that much all the time. Maybe not every single day, but they weren't. I think this is us getting soft is what this is. Yeah, I think it is exactly. I mean, and again, I could see, well, we'll read this story here, but I could actually see, you know, if you're trying to let your kids burn off energy and you're driving alongside them or at least, you know, in a neighborhood you trust, I don't know. I feel like this is, I'm on suburban mom's side.

I kind of am too in this case. Heather Wallace, his oldest son, your old Aden, was driving his two brothers crazy in the car as they all returned from karate. This was happening in October of last year. This is all just coming to light for the case. So he knows karate. He's a karate kid, as you might say. Right. Wallace asks painting fence and sanding floor.

Yep, there it is. Wallace asked Aiden to walk the rest of the way home. This is half a mile in quiet suburban Waco, Texas. Nothing ever happens in Waco. Never heard of any stories happening there. Yeah, exactly. A quiet, little sleepy town of Waco. Waco's not famous for anything that I'm aware of.

Anyway, for this, she was arrested, handcuffed, and thrown in jail. She was charged with endangering a child, a felony carrying a mandatory minimum of two years in prison. A little surprise this is happening in Texas. They love their, they love my freedoms down there. Sure, sure. Anyway, I really brought, or really brought us into deep trauma, says Wallace. She's finally able to speak about this after competing her six-month pre-trial diversion program to get the charge. just dropped, but her arrestment remains on the books.

Easily searchable by employees, which is a disastrous thing. If someone is, or with someone with a bachelor's degree in education, which he has. Here's how it unfolded. He agreed to walk home. After all, it was something he'd done many times. There were sidewalks and the entire way and practically zero traffic. Fifty minutes later, two cops knocked on her door with her son in the patrol car. Another officer parked across the street.

Slap the cuffs on her, took it to jail. Wow. Gave her charges. I think that's a little nuts. Yeah, I'll walk home, mom. So I'm curious as to how this came up. Like, did the, were the police just patrolling the neighborhood and said, oh, there's a late year old kid walking.

Let's, uh. Yeah, they didn't get the details, but I'm guessing, yes. And they probably said, hey, where I'm just walking home? We'll get in our car and we'll take it. And they just were feeling litigious or something. I don't, I don't freaking know. All I know is I spent most of my childhood walking on my own all the time. Yeah.

And not a lot has changed. In fact, overall, it's safer now in the places I was walking so I don't get it let the kid walk it's fine some of these ride in if you got a reason to say I mean I realize there's a lot of helicopter parenting going on now and it's different um just the approach is different or whatever but I don't see how this is like put that lady through this that seems crazy to me yeah yeah uh all right one more story sure uh parents of well because we're we're sticking in the the family stuff. This is a parents

parenting day on TMS. Yeah, it's parenting day. I hope you brought a lunch or something. Parents welcome twins into the world from embryos that were frozen 30 years ago. Whoa. Wow. Okay. All right. These could have been 30 year old kids.

Well, they could have been. Yeah, exactly if they were used. If they were used then, right away. When they were fresh. Yeah, when they were right. Fresh embryos. Right out of the pipe or whatever. on April 92, this is back in 1992, Vanessa Williams, not that Vanessa Williams, oh, no, it is, sorry, Vanessa Williams saved the best for last, topped the Billboard 100.

Yes, that Vanessa Williams. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton was running for the White House. Who's the Boss aired its final episode? Really, 92? Mona. Mona. And the babies born to Rachel and Philip Ridgway a couple of weeks ago were frozen as Embry. that same time.

They were born on October 31st. Lydia and Timothy Ridgway were both born from what may be the longest frozen embryos to ever result in live births. Wow. We're in the National Embryo Donation Center. They previously known record holder was Molly Gibson born in 2020 from an embryo that had been frozen for nearly 27 years. Molly took the record from her sister Emma, who was born from an embryo that had been frozen for 24 years. Anyway, this is a little bit mind-boggling, they say, because they don't usually last this long. Um, let's see.

And they're always cold when they're adults. It's like, ah, could you, could you turn the heat up into here? Yeah, they're just always like, oh my gosh, why is your car so cold? I'll borrow your sweater. Yeah, what's the temperature outside? Dude, it's like 85 years degrees. Oh, I need a sweater. Give me a coat.

That's right. Um, let's see. The embryos are created by an anonymous married couple using in vitro fertilization. The husband was in his 50s, early 50s at that point, and they used a 34-year-old egg donor. and a 50-year-old guy would be, I mean, 60, 70, 78, he'd be in his 80s, right? Yeah. 50, 60, 78. Yeah, it'd be close to the early age.

Yeah, he'd be, depending on where he was in his 50s. Well, hopefully he wasn't ugly. That's all I'm saying. Old frozen nasty ass. Can we see what you look like a quarter century ago, please, sir, before we use this. These babies are fully formed, looking good, everything's good. month old now. Congratulations to those babies. All right.

We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be joining us talking a little bit of text, some recommendals after that. Before we do any of it, though, we need a music break, and Brian brought it. We're going to Connecticut up there in the northeast. With a band called American Thrills, they have their debut

album called Parted Ways, which just came out. This was recorded with Nick Belmore from Hate Breed and Make Do and Mend. Powered by Rock says, American Thrills have quickly become a punk rock force of nature. I agree. These guys are awesome.

Here you go. From the brand new album from American Thrills called Parted Ways, here is the song Sinking. It's summertime and the windows open You've got your cigarette live we're hanging out just like some old friends And it falls to pieces just like it always did back then It can be laid I knew right as we met That one day we hung our friends for the last time

But we didn't know it yet And this feels like a wrong turn Let it die Let it thrive Let it burn through me alive And get fell to pieces Just like it always did back then back then

we always pick it up and put back the pieces it's that thing can't be led I knew right as we met that one day we hung my friends for the last time but we didn't know it yet and it's strange how you can always

turn that time in your head it's strange how you can always turn that time in your head or let it down Oh, let it thrive Or let it burn through me alive

Or let it die Or let it thrive Or let it burn through me alive It's sinking feeling I knew right as we met That one day we hung like friends for the last time, but we didn't know it yet. I remember when I remember when I lost my mind.

What is that I smell? A burning rage? The morning stream. killed my boogie. And we're back. Thanks for hanging in there, everybody, and listening to that awesome song. Brian,

you should probably remind them what it is, so then go get it. I will. Yeah, it's American Thrills from their brand new LP called Parted Ways. That stands for Long Playing, folks, the LP.

Parted Ways is the album. American Thrills is the band. The song you heard was sinking. I forgot what that stood for, so I'm glad you brought that up. Long playing. It's been a long time since I have referred to an LP. Yeah.

And what it meant, you know, what it actually meant. Remember standard speed and long, I think LP or whatever? 33 and a third and then 45 was your singles and 78 if you had those really weird old records. Oh, those are the days. Those are the good times. With a computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. Sorry, catch you off. You had an old while, but you have?

I still have a couple old 78s. Oh, well, speaking of a guy who's probably got 78s out the wazoo, it's Tom Merritt joining us, as always. This is the personal question, Scott. Does he have any within reach is the question? They're in that closet if you want. I'll go get them in a second. I also have a 16. Oh, my gosh.

Do you have a favorite? Do you have a favorite of any of these that you just like, oh, my favorite 16 is the one I have. and of the 78's oh gosh i'm trying to remember the name of it it's it's an old bluesy country tune wow that's perfect for you the uh the only 78 i own is the uh the song from um angel heart the mickie rourke lisa bonet thing uh which is the one that uh johnny johnny favorite johnny valentine sings and it's the girl of my dreams Oh, that's a good one, though. That's good. Yeah.

All right, now he's going to get it. This is great. This is great. I was hoping he was... And Tom was never seen again. That's right. That's right. He's, you know, it was a long run, and I'm proud of him for how well he did for as long as he did.

I know. Absolutely. You can see the urge, like the dedication to his craft that he has to show us his 16. Is he showing us a 16 or his 78? I think it's a 16, I hope. Okay, cool, because I don't, I have never seen a 16. I knew that old, look at all those records. Those are all 78s?

Damn. Do you have that much, Brian, you got a bunch of albums, don't you know? I have a bunch of albums, but I only have one 78, all the rest of them are 45s and 33. The worst part, the worst part was that my, my headphones have gotten all tangled up. Oh, no. Yeah, well, I had to take them off. Here's the 16. Oh, wow, look at that.

So how long, so when you're playing a record that size, I'll think how thick it is. That thing is like a quarter inch thick. Yeah, that's a lot. And it's on the Edison label. Oh. Don't get that near an open flame. It might melt. Yeah, this is the Tramoree string quartet.

How long is one side, does one side play? Like, because a regular side of a 33 and a third is about, what, 25 minutes? Yeah, yeah. So do you just double that, basically? It's smaller than that. Um, and, and yeah, oh, shorter grooves. Yeah, shorter grooves. And 16 is real slow.

Right. Uh, yeah, you know what? I don't know. I don't know how long this would play for. Well, you don't have anything probably that can play that. Yeah, do you have a player? That's what I was going to ask. I don't.

Yeah. I don't. My mom has told me she's going to give me her record player. It's like an old standup record player from the 40s. Oh, wow. She grew up with. And it has the ability to play 16. No, it's electric.

It was a fancy model. Fancy one, huh? Yeah, yeah. And then here's an actual album of 78s called that because it's multiple 78s in an album form. Wow. That paper is crispy. I love it. Yeah.

Yes, it is. That's really great. Tommy Dorsey getting sentimental. These are the most Tom Merritt things I've ever heard you say. This is amazing. Oh, I'm kidding. Here's an album of Christmas carols. Oh, my Lord.

Get those out. You don't think that thing is. Yeah. One song per album. Yep. Now's the time. So it's like, yeah, that's what they're going to be. We're in the middle of the season.

And then here's a, here's a, a Billy Holiday. Oh, look that. Very cool. Night and day. Nice. And it's backed by gloomy Sunday. Oh, that's the one to have. That's like, that is the, that is the song.

Did you ever, did you see the people versus Billy Holiday last year? Yeah, yeah. All about that. Yeah. Wow. Well, that thick, uh, 16 that you got, this one, this one will get me canceled. Uh, it's called, it's the soundtrack, the Song of the South. It's Indian love call by Jeanette McDonald.

Okay. Oh, not the Slim Whitman one? No, this is, this is the OST. This is the original sound show. Oh, my gosh. Look at that old thing. That's the one that kills the aliens in Mars attacks. And, uh, this one's not, not much better.

Bing Crosby's, you're a sweet little headache. Nice. I'm sure that's not sexist at all. No, that'd be fine. Babababoo, we'll say. I'm fine, the one that I said was my favorite. I got a Sinatra in here, Guy Mitchell. Came here to talk for Joe by Kay Kaiser.

Oh, my Lord. Came here to talk for Joe, all right? I came here to talk for Joe. Blood on the saddle by Tex Ritter. Wow. Oh, wow. Go get that looked at. Right next to Roundup Poka by Tex Williams.

Wow. I love a guy named Tex, truly. Love a guy. All right, well, that's all the time we have. Thanks for joining us. I got them. The E2T Rams catalog. I love it.

I love it. I love that you have these and I don't even know why you have them. You just are, that's the kind of collector you are. I have these because I, these are all, these are all mini 33 and a thirds. These aren't, they're just smaller. for the for all the gen zs at home you probably feel like we're talking about wax cylinders or something this stuff must seem pretty much that 16 that he has is uh is only like a few years away from being it was big new innovation on wax cylinders yeah it was a it was a slightly less thick cylinder

i worked at half-price books uh which sold records in austin in the 90s uh and i did the records section so uh i would i would see everything that came through and i was like oh this is cool I'm going to grab that. Yeah, yeah. Very nice. Well, I love that we've cracked this egg today. For sure. Amazing.

Well, let's jump ahead 400 years and talk about the tech of today. What's going on out there? Well, lots of interesting stuff. As you imagine, the news cycle right now in technology is dominated by Black Friday deals. And if anybody doesn't know Daily Tech News show very well, we never talk about that kind of stuff. Because a lot of times, by the time, people hear it, the deal. deal is over anyway. And also, the deals are really just advertisements. They're just people trying to get you to spend money with them, which they're not paying us to do. So I don't, I don't feel an

obligation to help them. There's plenty of places to go if you're like, I just want to hunt the right deals and do it in real time. That's not really what we're best at. So we're looking at a couple of interesting stories. One of them, Meta, announced a strategic algorithm and natural language model combo called Cicero. Or for those

really, really pedantic Cicero. Cicero. Cicero is the first AI to achieve human level performance at a strategic board game. Oh, interesting. Strategic board game meaning, did we know which one?

The game diplomacy. Oh. that's a that is a complicated game yeah yeah that's cool so it plays it at web diplomacy dot net so it's playing the online version uh but if you don't know diplomacy i i really don't know that much about it myself uh peripherally it's it's kind of uh a more complicated risk is a is a real oversimplified way you have to do a lot more talking to other players and negotiating alliances and stuff like that. And so they combined a language model to handle the talking to people with a strategic, a couple of different strategic models to figure out, you know, the actual

strategy and what moves to make. And got on the leaderboard. They made it into the top 10. And it's been pretty darn successful. Wow. That's actually kind of cool. I remember the earliest discussion about machine learning and AI was often centered around teaching these things how to play certain games. Go is a famous one, obviously chess, but like StarCraft 2 and DeepMind and all that. Deep Blue with Gary Kasparov, AlphaGo with Chet. Yeah, yeah. And then when they, when I was at the BlizzCon, I think you were there too, when they got up and announced the big StarCraft thing. And I remember being very excited about that. I don't think we've heard much about the results of it. Maybe they're still working on it.

I don't know, but that always was really fascinating to me. And it felt like we just leapfrogged a lot of that and said, now they're making images and whole movies and deep fakes and machine learnings doing everything all day to a million other things. And I always go, wait, what happened to the game part? Like, were they good at these things? Were they bad? So I'm actually glad to hear this is a thing.

And I guess I'm a little surprised. It has never gone away. There's always, there's always been people working on that problem in the background. It's just, you know, you, the news cycle got. dominated by the text image generators for a while because you don't you're not following the the AI newsbeat every day and so you're only going to hear the things that are like oh this is an impressive step forward or maybe a buzzy thing something like that I also didn't know that meta was I knew meta obviously the VR stuff AR and all that mixed reality stuff but I didn't

know that they were working on you know is I guess what I'm asking is it is that part of meta the only part of meta this working on machine learning? Is that like their big thing? Oh, no. Facebook Reality Labs is huge. Facebook Reality Labs has been going for more than a decade. But because everyone wants to hate Facebook, you tend to skip over those stories because there's a story about how Facebook is awful. So you just don't get the pickup of those stories like you do from OpenAI or even Google, for that matter, because there was so much of an axe to grind against Facebook. But Reality Labs has been over there kicking away, I think from before they bought Oculus, certainly since they brought Oculus. And a lot of the metaverse plans rest on Facebook's AI department. But

the AI department is very solid. It's pure research. It's pretty much independent of any of the rest of the company. And it seems to have been mostly spared in the cost cutting because they just want to keep feeding it. Kind of like Alphabet has done with DeepMind where they're just like just make stuff and we'll figure out how to monetize it later. Yeah, there's the secret, not secret, but these little like incubator. It's an incubator kind of idea where it's not like there's some retail business pumping away over there. They're in R&D. They're making. They're making cool shit for the future and who knows how it'll all fit, but the game part of it,

I always thought the end result might be one of them anyway. Obviously, there's a lot of applications for this. But if a computer AI can get really good at web diplomacy or get really good at StarCraft 2 or whatever it may be, then what you do as far as the game business goes is they go, all right, now can we retroactively turn that around and say, the AI in our games are this much better because we've incorporated the smart AI is now the game you're playing against.

See, that's really fascinating to me, but I never hear about that. So I don't know if they're actually working on that, if that's a thing or not. No one ever counts it. These things like Deep Mind, like Meta, they don't call it Reality Labs these days. They call it Meta-I.

They're doing pure research and then just putting it out there. And it's up to the product managers to take and incorporate whatever they can. One of the things that this would be useful for, they think, we'll see if they actually incorporate it, would be NPCs. So NPCs could get smarter and a little more dynamic and not just always be reading from a script. They could actually understand you and dynamically respond to you and just you in a way that NPCs don't do right now.

Brian, I'm Mancirk. Please put down those hot pockets and help me find my wife in the barrens. Yeah. Yeah, I'm Mancric. We'll never find that wife. Never for a man, correct. Never going to happen. But I really love that concept. I just have yet to see that stuff hit the, you know, rubber to the road yet. And not to mention other things. Like, there's a lot of algorithms out there for teaching you something.

But the front end that you interact with is usually just a typical front end like you'd have in any kind of software. Combining this language model with it now allows it to explain what it's doing to you. So the next thing we're going to do and adapt. on the fly. So there's even some non-game applications that be cool. Obviously, there's also bad things that people could put this to use. They could impersonate people, try to trick you, and all the same warnings that always go with this sort of advance go with this as well. Sure, sure. Well, we'll keep our eye on it. And, of course, talk about it on the Daily Tech News show. I'm on today. It is a Wednesday. I'm really glad to be back after my stupid COVID week.

Yeah, I'm glad you're feeling better, man. Yeah, feeling much, much, much better than I was last week. But I think Megan Marronin's on today. Maroney's on today. Megan Maroney's on. Yep. I love her to death. She's amazing. I can't wait. It'll be so much fun. Yeah, if anybody doesn't know, I hired Megan at maybe ZDTV. It might have been Tech TV by then, way back in 2000. She was fantastic there. She has gone on to do amazing things since in multiple places, most recently a protocol.

So at Protocol, she was heading up a team doing some excellent reporting. But of course, you probably heard Protocol has shut down. They laid off 60 of their staff. And so Megan, unfortunately, was one of those. And her idea, not mine, because I was like, Megan, come on the show, pick a topic. Let's go. Pick anything you want. And one of the things, she's like, well, I got an insight.

Look at tech layoffs, you know, let me dig in and give you some insight into why these tech layoffs are happening, what they mean, you know, and all of that. So that's what she's going to talk about. I'm very excited about it. She's always a pleasure to do anything with. so um absolutely that'll be today at the daily tech news show two o'clock mountain time and of course wherever you get your podcast and all that make sure you support it uh tom anything else going on in your world oh sure uh always always something isn't there uh you know i'm actually going to pitch

an experiment which will make me do it later today uh called d tns office hours uh so i i did this last week where I just turned on our Twitch stream at Twitch.tv slash good day internet and just worked on the show with the camera on. Cool. Yeah. I like that. I would put up a screenshot of what I was working on, whether it was the rundown or writing up a story.

I would occasionally chat with the audience, but there were long stretches where I was just, you know, working on my thing and folks were chatting amongst themselves. And folks seem to enjoy it. So I'll do that again today. Keep an eye on Twitch.tv slash good day internet. Not sure exactly when, but I will sometime before DT&S later today. Very, very cool. I love that idea.

I tried that a bit as well for something some years ago. You're making me want to try it again. It was a really fun experiment. Yeah, yeah. It's kind of casual and fun to chat and take some questions, get some ideas. Yeah, very cool. Look at you. It's Tom Merritt, everybody.

It's ASTET on Twitter. And as long as Twitter's around, he'll be there. Don't worry. I'm A's Detect anywhere. Everywhere and any. Hive, truth, social, parlor. Yeah. Whatever you want.

That's exactly. Mastodon. I'm Scott Johnson everywhere that I could get my name. And so far it's been not bad. I got it on Mastodon. I got it on Hive. I was surprised. I'm not saying I'm active on all those places, mind you.

But I'm there. Yeah. So in case something breaks, you know, off we go. We got another thing. There's nobody fighting for Coverville on those socials. So it's a pretty easy one for me. that's true yeah you could pretty casually do that i didn't think about that i always worry about mine because there's just too many of me there's a lot of scott johnson's stupid name uh tom erred everybody

we'll see you a little bit later on the daily tech news show bye now thank you all see ya oh i almost hung up on everybody okay remove who that was close that was very close i popped out a window what come on oh okay discord's losing it's mine all right uh there you go there's that now Hey, you guys like movies and TV shows. I know I do. So in case you've never heard of those before, we're about to educate me. With a little thing we call Recommendals, I'm going to add to fine folks to the program here.

And off we go to the races. That starts with this button here. As it's time for Recommendals again. Other old pals, Randy and Nicole. Let's start with Nicole. Hi, Nicole. How are you? Hi, I'm trying something new.

Do I sound okay? You sound amazing. Geez. I don't know what you're trying, but it's working. Yeah. It's my phone. I'm on my phone. Oh, okay.

Well, you sound amazing on your phone, shockingly. Perfect. Yeah. I thought maybe all your phone was in or something, your, your phone's noise suppression stuff you were talking about. No, I just decided. Try to try and do it from a computer with a microphone and a mixer. I'm like, you know, I'm just going to go simple. Yeah.

This is what Wendy does on her thing on Thursday. So you're all good. You sound great. Sometimes simple as best. Yeah. There we go. On a microphone. I never have to yell at Mark again.

No. Who would need to? Nobody. Well, you might. Also, Randy, joining us from some microphone somewhere. Hello, Randy. Hello. Good morning.

Morning stream. I'm doing great. You know, Scott, I love you. I really, really do. Thanks, man. But your constant cries for some sort of produce from advanced AI that benefits you. It makes me laugh. It benefits me directly.

None of those advancements, none of that R&D is ever going to result in something that benefits you. There's four things that are coming from AI. They're going to learn how to better sell you things that you don't need. They're going to learn how to increase the price of the things you do need. They're going to learn how to launder money for international criminals. And they're going to learn how to generate ads that annoy you during election season. Unfortunately, I'm afraid you're probably more correct than not. But I do wish.

Why not? Give me some MPC like Tom was talking about. give me some MPCs that actually talk to me as if I'm an individual and we have a very unique conversation, me and this empathy. First, they have to figure out how much money they can get out of you for that service. That's a good point. That's a good point. Also, that's way more than four things or way more than two things. Yeah, it was a lot more than two things. I said four things. Oh, did you? I thought he said two things. I thought he said five. Oh. Wow. I don't know what you said. I am known for my clear diction. I need to work on this. Well, clear diction aside. It's time for recommendals. We're going to have a good time. There you go.

We're going to have a good time today with some recommendals that everybody has partaken in. We have this grand tradition of Brian starting, and we're not going to change it. So, Brian, start with yours. Well, this one is going to be so obvious that I am not even going to, I don't feel like I need to do any setup for this. But you're, you know, if I'm going to do setup, I'll do just this little tiny bit. You're in the offices of record producer. Okay. Nice.

Here we go. Do you know why they call it the music business? Uh, why? Because it's a business. It's a business. Use your head, kid. Nobody wants to hear a parody song when they can hear the real thing for the same price. What's the point?

Yeah, it makes no financial sense whatsoever. My song was actually a big hit on the Captain Buffoon show. Why don't you tell us this changes everything? Ben? Get this young gentleman, a record contract, this very instant. We are going to sign him for a 14-album deal. Wait, really? No!

What do you think I am an idiot? He's not an idiot. I'm not an idiot. If I may interject here, please. Look, I'd just like to say that you got some nerve coming in here and wasting my time and my brother Tony's time. I'm going to remember your name because you, Al Yankovic, are the most untalented, pathetic loser that I've ever met

in my entire life. Okay. You're nothing but a hack. A stupid, useless parasite. And you're so ugly. Okay. That ridiculous hair, that horrible mustache, stupid glasses. You make me want to throw up.

All right. Thank you. Thank you, Ben, for your thoughts. Thank you. Is that the McGuber, McGruber dude? That is. It is. Will Forte.

Will Forte, yeah. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, it says it right there in the thing, the audio. That is Weird, the Al Yankovic story. This is a biopic, but it's just like Weird Al Yankovic's music, it's a parody of a biopic. And it loosely covers his career from the Dr. DeMento show called the Captain Baffoon show on here, all the way up through his life and times dating Madonna and coming up with the original song, Eat It, which is not a parody of any other song whatsoever.

This is a lot of fun. It's actually really funny. And there are some amazing cameos in it. You've got Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna. You've got Rain Wilson as Dr. Demento. Oh, my gosh, dude. What? That's amazing.

Oh, wait until they hear this. You've got, where is, let me find it. Lin-Manuel Miranda's in this, right? Lin-Manuel Miranda is an ER doctor. Conan O'Brien as Andy War. Warhol. What? I can see it, though.

I can see it with the hair. You get the hair right. David Doste Dost Malcian as John Deacon, the quiet bassist from Queen. Emo Phillips is Salvador Dali, Pat Nosswalt, Michael McKean, like so many, so many cameos in this thing. And do you even hear in that scene, Al Yankovic, weird Al Yankovic himself, as the other record producer that is sitting in the room while Will 14 is. That's him, like, repeating him and yelling a...

I was surprised you chose that clip because it has the actual Weird Al's voice in it. It works against the thing because Daniel Radcliffe is trying so hard to do a specific voice, you know, and he gets trampled by Weird Al. This is what, a Roku original? Where are you watching?

Is that where you saw it? It's a Roku original, which is a free watch to sign up for a free Roku account. If you, it's really weird. If you watch it, I'm trying to remember if I had commercials when I watched it on my iPad.

I don't think I did, but I did when I was capturing audio doing it in a browser. So, however you end up watching it, you might have commercials, you might not, and it's not a big deal, but for a free watch. Did I mention, yeah,

Daniel Radcliffe, as we talked about. What else? Let's see, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews, and it is going into this just be prepared that it is just like

Weird Al's music it centers around kind of a joke from the get-go that it's all parody and you just kind of got to go along for the ride I keep I've heard

zero bad things about it everyone I've talked to has really liked it and I guess I'm I'm a little surprised I don't know why because we've seen plenty of streaming services

come and go that seem dumb and then they make something amazing and you're like oh wow and then and now we think of them as oh yeah Netflix makes really high quality Oscar winning content right right or whatever and I always think of I just don't think of Roku as one of these things yet never think of Roku and if it weren't for this is the only thing I think I've ever watched on the Roku channel and and I didn't spend a lot of extra time they're saying oh well what else do they have so uh oh yeah I forgot

to mention uh jack black is Wolfman Jack thank you bio cow what that's great wolf man jack Yeah. I got to watch it. There's a scene that takes place at a party where you see about a hundred different cameos of avant-garde musicians and celebrities that you know would never all be at a party together. And it's almost makes you want to pause it and look at the different people that they've got in this thing. Wow.

Is this their first thing or is Roku had other content that I just don't know about? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah. See, this is what it takes, right? You do something big like this. This is what it takes. Exactly. Listen, it's working for the Roku channel.

It didn't work so much for Yahoo screens when they had the sixth season of community on there. Oh, I forgot about that. So this writer-director, Eric Apple here, is apparently owned by Roku. He's owned by Roku. For instance, he has been creating a series that has Kevin Hart in it called Die Heart. And that's a Roku original. Oh, okay. So I got other stuff.

That's interesting. They own them. So they do human trafficking, but only writers and producers. They own those people. Liam Hemsworth has a Roku original called Most Dangerous Game. I've never heard of it. No. Really? Meanwhile, his brother is on the Disney Channel jumping off of cliffs and climbing mountains and stuff. Oh, this is Chrissy Tegan's, Chrissy's Court is a Roku original. I have seen clips from that. Never even heard of it until today. I don't think I could even accidentally watch that. Oh, my lord.

Anyway, the Al Yankovic story, appearing now on the Roku channel. For free, just go sign up for a free account and enjoy. For free. Sounds good. Let's fly over to Nicole Town and find out what she's got waiting for us this week. Oh, before I do, though, real quick. So I watched two things this week that you and Randy both recommended, I think, maybe even the same things at different times. I'm not 100% sure.

Well, that's something I recommended too. Did I? Oh, yeah, right. I'm not done yet. But yes, I started the thing Brian recommended. There's two seasons of it, so I still got a ways to go. But I started watching, I started watching Brian's, which is called, hold on, don't say, hold on, don't say, it's called the, the, you can beg me now and I'm not going to say it. The, I can't think of the name. We're going to sit here for hours until you come up with it because I'm not going to tell you. Christopher Walkin, a Stephen Merchant thing.

Oh, the loser. No, not the losers, but it's like that. So close. The, the, the, the, the, the, outlaws. Outlaws, that's it. I haven't even seen it and I remember it. I'm only three episodes in. Dude, I got COVID brain.

I'm already stupid. Anyway, there's that. And then I watched Avenue 5 while I was sick. Loved that freaking thing. Absolutely loved Avenue 5. And then I watched, Kim and I watched the Gold City, whatever the law city what was it called the oh la city with

law city yeah that surprised me how much I like that speaking of Daniel Radcliffe in a very funny role now that we've all seen it I want to ask the question again that I asked when Nicole recommended it what did you think of the leeches scene I thought it was going to be worse than it was

because when he turned around I went oh his his wiener will be covered in leeches or something and that'll be worse than on his butt or his back and sorry Mark is being loud Oh, was that Mark? I couldn't hear it. It sounds like the shake machine at a Wendy's or something. He was installing a mantle.

And I told him, like, you have picked the worst time to do this. I thought that sounded like the Jason Voorhees thing. That thing. That's good, too. Whoa, why is Nicole doing that? Anyway, I liked them all, except the ending in that movie's dumb, but the rest of it's really funny and well-made. okay Nicole let's get into it

you watched a thing you want to set this up do you really want to do this now I apologize if you hear banging in the background no worries you'll be funny based on the clip we play you might hear banging in the foreground too this is on HBO Max and I have been intrigued since I

shut up it's really not coming through so don't worry about it it's not that bad yeah he's really not that bad Okay. I just channel a little bit of Scrooge. So, yeah, I've been intrigued to watch this because I had no idea what the movie was going to be about. I only followed the drama at Cairns, and that is why I watched the movie. And I'm glad I did because I enjoyed the movie.

So there you go. Here it is. Violet, where are you from? Pardon? I said, where are you from Philadelphia? Hmm. From Philadelphia. Are you serious?

I didn't know that. I know I liked you. Most the women here are from Philadelphia or Baltimore or Chicago. I've noticed. You got no one anything? I for one do not miss the winters. No, no, no. I thrive in the sunshine, even though I'm an alabaster skin.

I love the sunshine. I love the beach. She does. What was the last beach you went to? Oh, fun fact about the beach. I read this. Beaches are actually some of the filthiest places in the whole world. Just a sandbox of disease.

Peter, do not say disease at the dinner. It's true. to know. I could probably guess Hilton Head, Cape Cod, or the Jersey Shore. And we all honeymoon in Sea Island or the Poconos or Niagara Falls. So you got your, you got your Florence Pew there, right? What is this? Is that how you say your name, Pew? Yeah. Pue. Yeah. What'd you say? No, how do you say it? Yeah, what do you say? I looked at it and I was like, yeah, I don't, well, now that I know I'm going to was it pug Florence Pug

Florence Pug Oh my gosh I shouldn't have told you It's puff It's Puff No it's Pugh But anyway So what do you think

I've been really curious And then on the fence on this one Because when you watch the trailers You're like What is this movie So the controversy around this Kind of outshine the movie So you have Olivia Wilde

Who was married to Jason Sadecas who is Mr. Ted Lassow. They divorced, I believe, or they split up during this movie? Like, something happened. And then the rumor was she started dating Harry Styles. And so there's like all this weirdness, apparently from the filming of this movie.

And then you get to the Cannes Festival and you watch just how uncomfortable everyone is. And Chris Pryne, Pryne, Chris Pines. plays Frank, who's kind of the leader, he's the organizer of this place that they're all in in the movie, okay? So, he, set in the 50s or something, right? Like some idealic, some idyllic 50s setting or whatever. Yes. So it takes place in the 50s. Every wife is a very stepford wife, very perfect, and they're always doing everything for the husbands. And the husbands go off to work and you have no idea where they go. But then they come back and the

wives are there and they're perfect but there's just the table and drinking hand everybody's you know doing it and just weird perfect world that everybody is in and you're like what's going on what there's something wrong and you don't know what and you finally

kind of unweave it and you get to I like I liked it I really enjoyed the reveal and knowing the backstory of the real actors made it a little bit interesting too, because I just was curious how they all work together.

Yeah, it's called Don't worry, darling. Don't worry, darling. It is streaming on HBO Max. This is where her and Harry Stiles met and started their relationship, right? I think so. Yeah. And then when you get to Cairns, you see, they are clearly not in a relationship anymore. Yeah, they're broke up now. And now

there's some big controversy because I guess they have a maid, or she had a maid that's like doing some tell all to her. So she's Oh, jeez. Doing all this, which is all very unfortunate. And Carrie Stiles was supposed to be Shalala Boof. Shalala, yeah. Shailala.

Shil Laboof? Yeah, they'll go with it. Yeah. Good. Anyway, she said that she fired him. And he's like, oh, no, no, no, no, sweetie, I quit. And there was like all this. It's like, snap kind of stuff.

Because that's his role, right? He was supposed to be, he's supposed to be the Harry Styles character. Yes, he's supposed to be the Harry Styles character. I don't, as I was watching it, I was like, I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much had it been Shia. Yeah, I think, I think Harry Stiles was very good for, especially for being a musician, this being one of his first acting things. Wasn't he in, what was the? Dunkirk. Dunkirk, thank you, yes.

And he was great in Dunkirk. He's also in a newer movie, the male, no, mailman, no. What the heck? Let me just click on his mailman. It's mailman, the John Ratzenberger story coming soon. He plays a young John Ratsenberger. The policeman. I knew what was a man. I knew it had a man in the title.

You're right, it did. His policeman. That's a brand new thing, right? Yeah. I think so. Yeah, I haven't seen that one yet. No, it's my policeman is what's called. Yeah, my policeman.

Harry Stiles, Emmachorrin, and Gina McKee, the some British-y thing. So, Tim, and I watched, watched. this as well when it was streaming and I thought it was okay like it beautiful and obviously definitely reminiscent of things like step for lives and stuff like that

it's a gorgeously made movie and man there are parts of it that are really striking but boy we hated the end you didn't like the end? You didn't like the end? I like the end. I feel like this is where Olivia Wilde establishes herself as a filmmaker like the cinematography is fantastic the the score I really enjoyed the music

music in this movie. Like I, you know, I guess I don't care as much about story. I need to, I need to think about that. I'm not sure. You actually might like it. I mean, I think, again, it's a, it's a very striking film as far as visuals and, and the acting's great. I mean, it's, you know. Bottom line, when Olivia Wilde premiered this film and then went on to the internet and started dunking on Jordan Peterson of all people, I was just like, I have to see this. I have to watch this. Well, everybody dunks on Jordan Peterson. and he's easy to dunk on.

No spoilers. Her claim was that there's a Jordan Peterson character in the movie, which there is. And, you know, she's, you know, she was like having to, having to fight about it. Yeah. It was great. Yeah. And let's not gloss over the fact that Nick Crawl is in this thing and he's great too. Yeah, he was, he was, I'm almost done, Mark.

Hold on. Can you come hold this side of the mantle while I drill? Well, and then the big thing was he gave. Harry Styles a big old kiss and then there was like this weird attraction between the two of them and I think they were just playing it up for the cameras Yeah and there was that whole thing where he spit into Chris

Pine's lap or everyone thought he did but he didn't. Oh. And then Chris Pine was holding spoons for some reason. Yeah, it was weird. I'm not sure. It's really weird. It was so weird. But the movie, I mean, it got me I mean, it did his job. It got me interested in the movie and I watched the movie and I was like,

I like that. Also, I think we're probably on agreement that Florence Pugh is everyone's favorite thing right now. She's so great. Yeah. And this, this movie, she's great in spite of it or, you know, she elevates the content, I think. I agree. She's also, oh, she knew it too. I'm not going to do that. When she was doing those, she wasn't doing the press. She's like, yeah, she's good. She can kind of call her own shots these days and, you know, I think she's awesome. And she's also extremely adept at faking any accent you need her to do. I think that's so good. Did either of you, did you guys ever watch Big Love.

Oh, yes. The TV show? Oh, yeah. That's great. So Douglas Smith, who plays Bill in this, he was in Big Love. And I couldn't play the older son. The older son. Yeah.

That was like kind of a surprise. I haven't seen him in forever. Yeah. It's been a bit for that guy. All right. Well, excellent. I think I'll end up seeing it just because I think it feels like a movie I should see. I don't know.

Yeah. Give it watch. I recommend it. The Pew Factor is enough to get me in. And Olivia Wild, man. She's making the biggest secret in Hollywood movie right now. And I'm sure Ebbett's heard about this. She's directing a Marvel film that is completely secret.

I didn't know about this. No one will say anything about it. And so it's nothing but guesswork. People trying to figure out who the only thing we've heard is that it's female-centric. That's like the one thing that's come along. I have no idea. I didn't know that was the thing. movie? No, for

the Marvel movie. Untitling. See you project. Yeah. And Olivia Wilde refuses to say anything about it. And some people started a campaign to get Daisy Ridley in the movie. And I'm like, you don't know what with the movie. Right.

Exactly. What Marvel character they're doing? Oh, we'll do. It needs to start Daisy Ridley. If it's female, if it's female centric. Can we... That's the one that Cameron Crow wants to direct. Yeah, that's been in the news for Cameron Crow.

But Brian, if you had to start... to pick, like a female-centric MCU movie, whatever that may be, what do you hope it is? Do you have a hope? Oh, geez, that's really, that's a really good question. I mean, X-Men related or mutant-related?

Yeah, Mystique would be great. Like, not, you know, the character that Jennifer Lawrence played in the X-Men movies, but she's, she has so much development around her, or even rogue, for that matter. Yeah, you could do some stuff like, Oh, that's Marvel.

I'm thinking of D.C. I'm thinking of D.C. with the, what are they called? The Harley Quinn movie they made. They made one of them. Oh, yeah, the suicide squad. No, the one after that. She was her and a bunch of ladies. Oh, Birds of Pre.

Birds of Prey. I was thinking of that. That's not Marvel. Well, anyway. No, but I mean, you know, Thunderbolts is pretty much going to be like that. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. Okay. Well, look, next time I see it either, Nicole.

Really? Yeah. I was like, oh, this is supposed to be made for me. Yeah. I thought it was all right. You know what? Next time I see it, we'll wrestle. And then whoever wins. It'll be you.

Season four, season four of Doom Patrol is coming out. Yeah. Oh, made for me. Yeah. December 8th. It's very excited. I've been watching the new season of Titans and it's fantastic. Oh, is it good?

Okay, cool. They're still swearing it? It's getting lots of swears. Lots of swears and, you know, Robin's still a badass. I guess Dick Grayson, I should say. Which is the most, it's the most. It's the most unrealistic thing in the entire DC universe is how badass Robin is. Anyway, let's move on.

Let's go to Randy over here with his recommendation. Randy, any setup? Just that everybody's going to know exactly what this is. But not everybody's watched it. And I'm going to be the last of a series of rants. People have been ranting about this for three months. And I'm going to be the last person that you hear rant about this. And you're going to know exactly what it is.

All right. I assume rant in a positive way, but let's find out on the back end of this thing. Here you go. But where were you? It's not important. If it's not important, but why not tell me? Cassian. Who came by the house last night?

Jesse Anthony brought supper in. Mamavres medicine. And then Jesse came back. Anybody looking for me? Brazzo. Brasso was looking for you. What did you tell him? Marva told him

Told him what? Pauzing for data lag Tell me what she said. Me. Marva said you were out ruining your health and reputation with friends of low character. She told him sooner or later

you were going to get yourself into trouble you couldn't talk your way out of. Then she told grass oh that... No. Come here. Listen to me. It's important. I know it takes a lot of energy, but can you make a lie for me. If I can lie, I have adequate power reserves. Don't tell anybody you saw me. Don't tell anybody you know where I am. That's two lies.

So that's Dave Chapman as B2 Emo or whatever his name is. Yes, yes. The new droid at the end of the gallery of droids that you see at the beginning of every Star Wars show. That is, that is Star Wars. door at which a lot of people know but too many people don't know and again this has been this has been a weekly rant for a lot of talking heads for a long time now let me be the last please sit down and watch this series right now you got a holiday weekend sit down and watch this series if you only saw the first couple of episodes please push through to the next couple of episodes and then continue and finish the series now the previous rants were all about we've got to get disney to know that this is a really really good show and they did they figured it out they

started filming a second season so good news it's not as dire as it seemed but i'm telling you this is a series that's going to be winning emmys next year it's going to be uh you know it's going to be very highly looked forward to in a second season and you are missing missing it people you're missing that it's not just the best star war series tony gilroy is a freaking genius and he made the best star wars movie rogue one and now he's made the best star wars tv series it's not just that it's one of the best series of the year like i i think of this now along with things like the bear and severance it's that good yeah please watch i agree with you i'm only uh five six episodes in

because we're just doing a massive catch-up. I knew I was going to see the entirety of it. But what I'm struck with for the first half of the season a little bit more, and I'm sure this probably holds through the entire thing, is that this is not one of those, hey kids, check out the lightsabers, blasters, and exciting moment-to-moment action, constant stuff, plus all the fan service.

That's not this, this. This is like a proper drama that is just textured. and layered and full of characters that are not throw away, that are not just there to make you go, oh, yeah, I remember that from episode five or whatever. They don't do any of that. We spent eight episodes asking,

what is this show about? After every episode, for eight episodes, Samantha and I were just like scratching our heads. I don't know what this show is about. Is this a hero's journey? No, it's not. Oh, is this a heist show?

Kind of, but not really. Oh, is this a prison show? Well, yeah, but not really. What is this show about? And then you finally come to understand what it is I don't want to say anymore but it is such so well written acted

everything about it and like you say Scott the force may as well not exist in this series yeah you know this is the part of Star Wars I always want to hear more about I want to hear about the dirty streets and the corpos and the kind of the blade runner aspects of the universe that Star Wars inhabits we spend too much time with people

in robes too many too much time with people you know of of means in the universe and who have the magic or whatever. What's it like on the ground, especially during the worst time of the occupation of the galaxy by the emperor, by the empire?

Like, that's really fascinating to me. I like that it's a slow burn. I like that it's not constantly hoping I'm, I'm, you know, it's okay that I'm not 10 years old. Like, I don't think some 10, 12 year old is going to like this show. I think they're going to be like, they're going to feel the way about this,

the way I felt about Empire Strikes back when I was a kid. When they get older, though, they're going to go oh it turns out and or is where it was at and so it does play to an older audience plays to a more mature sort of palette and that sort of stuff but i think it's to its credit that it's doing that i'm amazed they're getting away with it to be honest i am too i love it i love it again tony gilroy is a freaking genius he come you know he completely uh saved uh rogue one like rogue one was set to be a mediocre film and tony gilroy came in and just made it into tour to I know it pisses some people off, but it's the only good modern Star Wars movie. Sorry. Sorry everybody else. The rest of them are okay. Some fun throwaway good times or had. I'm not saying they're all trash, but I take Rogue One over any of them. It's got some great performances in this series. If you haven't been watching it because you don't expect it to have like real serious acting. I'm telling you, Stellan Scars Guard steals the show every scene he's in. Genevieve O'Reilly as Mon Mothma, the voice of Moira. Try to not hear Moira from O'Reilly. I'm sorry to not hear Moira from

Overwatch every time. Oh, shit. That's what it is. Oh, my gosh. I've been playing a lot of Overwatch and it has been driving me crazy why she was so familiar and I didn't look it up. That's a, that's crazy. Okay. Yeah. And you know, you know she survives because she's in Rogue One. Diego Luna as Cashion Andor, you know he survives this series because he's in Rogue One. And then you have to stop and ask yourself, so if these people's necks are on the chopping block, how is this series going to end? And it nails it. Please, seriously, Stellan Scarsguard for an Emmy. There is a scene in the middle of this series where he comes face to face with Forrest Whitaker.

And they have a scene that I can only compare to the diner scene between Pacino and De Niro and Heat. And it is stunning how well it's written and acted. And they're, oh, man, I want to go back and watch that scene. And by the way, Tony Gilroy, kind of Michael Mannish in this. series. Yeah. Yeah, it's actually, it's done with such, I don't know, cinematography is obviously really important, but everything has got a real natural beauty to it. Um, the thing I think I like the most about it is the tone and how much I actually give a crap about these characters. Most Star Wars series, I will admit, when somebody dies or

goes away or whatever, I just kind of go, eh, all right, well, this is kind of a big arcade game. It's not that big a deal. People die in this. I'm torn to pieces by it. Like I was, I was, I was wrecked by one recently. I won't say who, but there's somebody in this who I think has been brilliantly portrayed who is now taken from us. And I'm not used to feeling those emotions in Star Wars Land. It just doesn't happen normally. Do you remember the bear? The brother from the bear, the surviving brother who's kind of a misfit and a little bit of an addict and kind of makes things very, very difficult for the main character, he's in Andor. And it is such a crushing portrayal for me like from the beginning from when I first saw him I'm like oh no I really

like this guy and this character what's gonna happen yeah you know yeah there's a bunch of uh I love the Game of Thrones connections there's uh this Anton lesser guy plays up higher up in the empire um you would know him immediately you'd see him and go oh he's the he's the the maister that's on the wall that could have been king but decided to be a you know devote his life to being a maister and being on station on the wall and whatever that guy shows up like a bunch of game of Thrones style people kind of parade through this thing and I would say that that's to the show's credit they are aiming for like a higher minded fantasy story

and they're pulling it off amazingly and they're also they're also going for TV drama which I realize now you haven't really seen in Star Wars but you know like one of the cinematographers for Andor was the cinematographer for narcos one of them one of the cinematographers was a cinematographer for the crown you know what i mean like they're they're they're bringing over people who know how to make this kind of tv drama look great yeah well i'm in we're all in we love you're already in you're you guys are you guys are more in than me i'm gonna catch up would you guys watch andor for me please yeah everybody else watch andor okay the world who hasn't seen andor watch it that's right it's so sad to me to to not be hearing that it's the highest rated thing

streaming. It's so sad. Well, but sometimes the best stuff is that that's how this goes. Yeah. Flies under the radar for folks and they think, I've seen I've seen Mandalorian. I know my Star Wars stuff and they forget that oh no, this can be, there's stuff that can be so much even better than the great Mandalorian. This will be like one of us. And I love

that they got Obi-Wan out first before this. That had to be that way. Because the whole time you're watching this, you know a living Obi-1 Kenobi is kicking around somewhere. and he's not doing anything. He's not doing shit. So can you hear me now?

Yes. Have you been talking this whole time? Yes, I have. I'm like, Mark is watching it. I'm not watching it. Here's my problem. I watched Obi-Wan. I know how it ends.

I find when I know how it ends, I really do not enjoy stories that I know. I know the end result. So I'm not watching Andor. Maybe, maybe I'll give it a shot now. I just want you to know, there are like four finales scattered throughout this series. This series has an end to the hero's journey part, an end to the heist part, an end to the prison part. And I don't even want to mention the actor who comes through with the best supporting actor Emmy, without a doubt in my mind, in the prison part of this series.

like I am so blown away by him maybe I actually let's just say you don't have to be you don't have to be Caesar to know who you're talking about you don't have to be look it's not a precious it's not a precious role okay okay okay I haven't even gotten to it yet I just know who's in it so I assume I assume we're talking about the same person I don't know and I've spent three months like every week I'm like somebody going to recommend to and or I'm not sure what is this show about and then it finally If you were to ask me, I would have said, oh, yeah, somebody already did recommendal and or, but I guess none of us did.

I thought we did, but no. Well, usually we wait until they're done anyway. So today's a good one because it ended today or final finale today. So it's very nice. It came out about 10 hours ago. I will now lay upon you one that is a documentary, and I watched this on HBO Max, and I thought it was fascinating. And I like, let's put it this way, I like Southern Gothic stories.

When they're real or fake, I don't care. I just like them. and there's a brand new documentary on HBO that fits that real nicely. In this case, it has to be, you know, it happened in reality. So anyway, here it is. I was with him that morning. He was shot. In his mind, he was ready to give up.

I said, you know, Ellen, there's an end to this and there's a life beyond this. And you need to be here for your family. And Buster loves you. And, you know, we'll all support you 100%. he told me that he had an opioid addiction and that he had been struggling with it for many, many years and it was very expensive. Okay. So the movie or the show, or the series, I should say,

it's three episodes, a documentary series on HBO Max called Low Country. And it is a documentary about a, well, mostly it's about a family called the Murtax who have kind of run that place, or Murdaugh, not Ta, Murdaugh. Are they getting too old for this shit? No. In fact, that's the closest I can, I always have to remember that name or I don't get it right, because in the movie or in the show, they sound like they're saying Murdoch all the time,

like, like Daredevil Murdoch, but it's Murdaugh. And anyway, this is family's been in there in this part of what they call the low country of South Carolina. I'd never heard of it before of it. It's like the kind of more swampy, lower stuff. and it's a very small town, I think 1,200 people, 6,800 people, something like that. But there's this one family, this white family called the Murdoz, who have essentially since the town existed have run everything. And a little mafia style, but it's usually through legitimate means, like they have a huge law firm, they have other businesses.

But it's all very good old boys club. If they don't like somebody, they will shut you down. If they like you, they might be the best friends you ever had. It's that kind of situation. And they have kids, and their kids are grade A butthole McGee's, the worst kids. And the kids do some terrible things that start kind of this thing in motion where one of the Murdoz, basically the dad who's now kind of in charge of everything, it's got a horrific opioid addiction that nobody knows about.

And it turns out a bunch of murders and other stuff, they all get attached to him. And the way it unfolds is fascinating. like true crime and you like documentaries about just weird dynamics for power and stuff in small towns, this sort of thing. It's fascinating. And I really liked it. It's three episodes long, super easy to consume. And is available now on Netflix called Low Country. And this is one of the things that's been influenced by the success of Yellowstone or totally different. I would say, no, I wouldn't compare. I don't think they have any comparison there. because this is this isn't like um well i mean yellowstone is a lot about a family trying to use its

power to do stuff and they got to go dark places to get it done i mean i guess you're not wrong there could be a comparison made but i don't think this show i don't think this documentary happened because of that or they were like oh we have an opening because people like yellowstone i think it's like that i think it's more like here's just a crazy story and we got to do a documentary about it in fact i keep forgetting that it's on h p o max and not on netflix because this feels like one of those Netflix crime shows because you know they do a million of them like how to make a murderer or make

American murderer or whatever the hell are called exactly like all yeah Ken Crad stuff it's like that the true crime channel yeah the true crime channel known as Netflix yeah I love the meme that came around this week where in the future Netflix only has two buttons one says murders and the other says cakes

yep that's all you can watch nice that's great nice oh it's so accurate too it's gnarly though and it reminds me of why I love Southern crime and drama. There's something about it as a genre. Like, why I love

justified, why I love Oh, geez, there's so many. That one with Spider-Man and Tom Holland here recently, that was a Netflix thing. It was a drama called All the Devil all the time or the devil sees you do it all the time or something like that. Whatever that was called. If you never, if you passed on that, you should not.

And if you like Southern Gothic, you would freaking love that movie. That was real good. We'll call it murder cakes for short. There you go. I like it. Anyway, those are our recommendations this week. And if you're like, man, I can't follow all that, these are four of my favorite people. And they just mention a whole bunch of cool shit. How do I find out about it? Here's all you have to do. Go to quicktm.tm. And it'll all be there. All right. Yep. It's already even there right now. Thanks to, thanks to Randy and Scott and Nicole

putting their options in or putting their things in early for me. Nicole, good luck with your mantle that you're getting installed there. Yeah. They're like, can we go? Can we do it? I'm like, I'm on mute, sure. Yeah, go make your noise. Oh, by the way, Scott, tell Mark, we love him.

Yes. Oh, justified, I have a city primeval update. Oh, go, give me. We initially were hearing that it was going to premiere in December of this year. It has been pushed to 2023. So, yeah, I know. But it is coming. New Seasons of Justified is coming.

It's just we got to be patient. And all our people are in. Oh, look at this. You got your Timothy Oliphon. Who's Skender Lou Guerrary? Who the hell's that? Okay, anyway, whatever. Yeah.

Awesome. Well, thanks for that update. Randy, have a fantastic week. We'll see you on FilmSack this weekend for whatever it is. What are we doing? Thanks, Randy. You know what we're doing? We're doing Diamonds are forever, ever.

Oh, right. James Bond, that's right. That'll be this weekend. Wrap them round your little finger. We will be recovering from Turkey intake. We're watching it tonight just because we know we're going to be pulled in every direction between now and Saturday morning. I assume you've seen that movie a hundred times, right?

Oh, is it from Russia with Love? You're right. It's the second one from Russia with Love. Oh, from Russia. You're right. All right, not diamonds. Russia. We did diamonds.

No, we didn't do diamonds. We did... No, we only did Dr. No, and from Russia with Love is the second one. Third one's diamonds? I think the third one's diamonds. Which is the one where odd job throws us? his hat. We already see it? The Goldfinger. Goldfinger. Because he's...

Oh, that's right. Goldfinger's henchman. Right. He had a finger. Who throws a shoe? Honestly. Oh, my lord. All right, we're going to get out of here. Rush with love. One of my favorite one of my favorite themes, as a matter of fact. Oh, well, see. That's what you get

when you like Bond. Yeah. We're out of here. Quick text, where we go. We got one here that says TMS Recommmental. My wife knows you all you all like scary psychological stuff and wants you to check out the Netflix show 1899 that dude I was just talking about

on Andor the yeah he's in there I guess yes this is done by the folks who did dark which I was completely and totally hooked on that show with the the time travel cave that was on Netflix Oh the German show yeah

The German show And I've already started watching this Because like basically Day it came out I started watching 1899 because I love dark so much. Is this English, or is it in German? It is in many different languages so far.

Like, I'm just, I just basically have it on subtitles. Okay. Because there's Danish and English and Spanish and all that stuff. So it's like, all right, subtitles. Let it be in its original languages. The last show is like, hey, we're going to do everything in German, hope you like subtitles. And this time they're like, oh, you think we're going to do our English debut? No.

Exactly right. We're going to do all the languages. We heard you like subtitles. Yeah. I'm excited to check that one out. So thank you for that text. He didn't have a name on it. So we'll call you Rando.

Hey, I heard a rumor that Coverville's happening today. It's early. It's early. Well, it's only Wednesday, Scott. Yeah, every year I do this. The big Thanksgiving episode is all Beatles all the time. So that is happening today. About an hour and, I don't know, change, maybe hour and a half of Beatles covers.

I've got some new stuff, but I've also going kind of in the catalog and pulled out some old cover. as well. So that is going to be coming up today. 1 p.m. Mountain Time, Twitch. Dot TV. And yes,

I have to figure out a good deck to work with the Vibranium Mines, which is the featured location currently in Marvel Snap. I think it's my Kazar 1Z's deck is basically what it's going to be. But Twitch. dot TV slash Coverville today, 1 p.m. Mountain Time.

Yeah, just roll right into DTNS. Start right. And watch that for an hour and the DTNS starts right after that. It's perfect. Perfect. Perfect. All right, that's going to do it for us. I want to thank some new patrons that joined up here recently.

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That's patreon.com slash TMS. Brian, let's get out of here. Let's do some music, though. Boy, we almost didn't get this in time. Thank goodness. She woke up in the middle of the night last night and added this request because we missed her birthday last week. Monica wrote in, Wicked Kitten,

it said, Dear Simpsons and Bob's Burgers. Nice. If you're reading this, it's probably my birthday or near it. The last year has been filled with such highs and lows. I lost my grandmother at the beginning of the year. She was 96 and lived a full, wonderful life. The day job has gotten rougher, and the check engine light on my car lives only to torment me. Oh, God.

Don't give me any PTSD. On the good side, I've been doing the horror podcast, Gore. She didn't even mention it. Gore for over a year now. I haven't had the opportunity to guest on the show that literally inspired me to become a podcaster. That's us. Thank you both for your continued support and belief. me and thank you the tad pulligans for our saturdays together uh honestly it feels like i'm

just working for the weekend till i can hang out with them could you please play lover boys working for the weekend by love canon love y'all monica slash wicked kitten p s you guys sound kind of sparkly oh man we haven't played that in a while let's play that uh sparkly here it is every no wrong one you guys sound kind of sparkly yep and don't forget he was naked when he did that. He was naked when he said that to us. I'll never quite get over that. Ugh. No. You'll be both. Uh, there you go. That's, uh, that's our request. Let's play it from the album Greatest Hits Volume 1. They only had Greatest Hits albums, which came out back in 2012. Here's Love Cannon, working for the weekend. All right. That's going to do it for this week.

Uh, no show Thursday for Thanksgiving, but we will be here Friday morning for a play date at the normal TMS time that we usually record, so 9 a.m. And, uh, we'll play some drawful, some, some among us, everyone's invited, okay? So it doesn't, you don't have to be a patron necessarily. You can just come as you are. Patrons will get early access into the games, but there's always room for more. So anyway, always room for more. So come check that out. There's a rumor done away is going to be joining us. So that'll be fun. That'll be again, this Friday, 9 a.m. Mountain Time. And then all the other stuff we got this week. Cor will be on Friday this week for those wondering what will happen to that on Thursday. All right, that'll do it for us. Thank you all for

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