The Morning Stream - TMS 2384: Batteries Not Ingested

Episode Date: November 30, 2022

TvsTravis Killed the Radio Travis. Felonious Monks. Hey, Too Early for a Meth Sandwich? Cough Drop Unit. Dunaway gets YEEEETed. Only the Beastie Boys want Ill Communication. Kirkland Pant Heist. Crystal Monks. How Black is This Mirror? How's Chris Jericho doing these days. You know I haven't heard of him. 360 dreams and dirty toilets. NES Heist. How much for your best Yabba Dabba Doooooo? Sardines and Kimchi with Tom. Therapy Wednesday with Nicole, Randy and More 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, TV's Travis killed the radio, Travis. Fallonious Monks. Hey, too early to get a meth sandwich? Cough drop unit. Dunaway gets yeeded. Only the Beastie Boys want ill communication. Kirkland Pant Heist. Crystal Monks.

How black is this mirror? What's Chris Jericho doing these days? You know I haven't heard of him. 360 dreams and dirty toilets. NES Heist. How much for your best yabba-dabadoo? Sardines and kimchi with Tom. Therapy Wednesday with Nicole, Randy, and Moore.

on this episode of The Morning Stream. The name of the game is Ballbuster. You try to bust your opponent's balls. It's a family game. Fun for children. And for adults, it's exciting. You're a ballbuster. Ballbuster.

A great new game from me go. Let's take a relaxing break. and leave cyber stress behind. The morning stream. You won't get any dancing here. It's illegal. Hello, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's Wednesday, November 30 at 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello, Scott. How are you? I'm going to put it at 90, finally. We've got some progress.

Ooh, we've crested. We've crested another milestone number. Yeah, I'm a little less pooped. The cough isn't as pervasive. I slept pretty well. Like, you know, it's definitely an upward trend. So we can F after COVID. Things are starting to smooth out for me. Old Johnson's got it back, man. We got it going. Anyway, it's nice to. Just at the time, like, basically, I was thinking the other day, well, I was thinking yesterday, how I'm about two weeks out from my quick trip to Vermont to see my parents out there. Oh, right.

And I have not yet had my BA booster, the newest booster. Oh, you're. And they say to get those two weeks before, you know, you're going to be in a big cluster of people in planes and airports and, yeah, the B.A. Baracus, which I, I, I, I. ironically it's for getting on a plane weird how that works yeah you're getting on a plane as hannibal is what you'd say instead of not getting on one exactly yes um so i'm thinking all right well looks like i need to do it maybe this week and so i look at all right

well i'm doing uh couch party friday i've got film sack saturday morning nothing sunday so it means all right let's get it done on saturday afternoon so that if i'm wiped out i'm only wiped out on sunday which right because you do react to these boosters i react to the boosters i don't react to the actual virus. Yeah. Yeah. I would trade.

I would love that. That would have been great. Sure. Well, especially since for me, it only lasts like a day, the reaction to the boosters. I would gladly trade for that. When I was at my worst, I just kept thinking, this just doesn't seem fair. Those boosters and the original vaccines, no reaction at all, a little sore arm. That was it.

There was nothing. And at the time, I thought, oh, that means you're super immune. You got an awesome system that's ready to take on anything. No. This is a freaking opposite of that. It was bullshit. You remember you had these worries early on because, you know, the boosters didn't have any side effects on you that maybe they were just giving you like a little placebo, a little sugar water or something. Yeah.

After your experience with COVID, maybe there's something to that, Scott. Maybe. That's what I think. I mean, a lot of people have spent some time trying to convince me that, you know, it just means that I, my seat belt injured me a little bit. That's all. Yeah. Yeah. It really is all it is.

I mean, I know you definitely would have had it a lot worse had you not had the vaccine and the boosters, no doubt. I'd be a statistic in 2020, I think that's true. There'd be no TMS. Or if there was Brian, I'd have to continue it on. He'd have to find some poor slub to sit here and do this. Yep. Who would I pick? Who would be my, so let's say you go to the great podcasting Hall of Fame in the sky.

Yeah. And I have to take over. Who am I getting in as my Brian? Chris Jericho. Chris Gerr. Perfect. Yep, that's it. We don't even have to look any further.

That's exactly who it is. He's going to, every day, he's just going to be talking about my hat. That's all it's going to happen. That guy's still a thing in podcasting? I don't know. Is he? I don't pay any attention. I didn't know he was a thing before I saw him at first time.

You knew he wrestled, but you didn't know he was doing this podcasting business. No, didn't even know that. Didn't know he was a wrestler until I looked at the program. Ah, got. Gotcha. Chatham says, yes, Jericho still has a show. So, all right. There you go. And it's, you know, look, I don't travel in the wrestling circles.

The Joey Image is my big, you know, he's the stem coming up from the base of the 3D printer connecting to the model that is wrestling for me. That's it. That's all it is. That's the only connection. No, it's 100% true. I know who Hulk Hogan is if you show him to me. I know the Rock's real big and I know John Cien is doing fine. That's it. That's all I know. That's it. That's pretty much it. Yeah. And I know it's real to me, man, guy. That's all I know. Right.

Is it sad that I knew who sex with Emily was more than I knew who Chris Jericho was? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe not. But I, you know what? I'd put my money on it. I don't know what that means. That's right. Well, anyway, welcome to the show, everybody.

We're going to do a show for you here today. It's the morning stream. You may be familiar with it. It's everyone's favorite morning show. And I'd like to start things off by... It's usually going to be called My Two Dads, but that was taken. It was taken. Yeah.

We couldn't do it, unfortunately. So I got to tell an embarrassing story. And now it's happened twice. so the first time I didn't even tell anybody I don't think maybe I did oh really oh you mean besides us on film sack oh that's right I told you guys on film sack you told us on film sack yeah I couldn't remember who I told but it was like pre-show I guess or whatever have even yeah patrons to film sack might have even gotten it yeah I think they're the only ones that heard it um anyway if you didn't hear about this story basically this is what happened the other day I had let's see I'm

trying to find the two objects where the other one go I already love it I love that we're going get a a physical demonstration of this right you know a a size comparison here you go so inside here we have a we have a halls oh i can't see it because it's the blur but it's a halls uh you know cough drop unit deal sure taking these for this horrible post-covid cough thing and uh they've been fine these are like extra whatever they they're stupid terminology extra cooling whatever they're like super hardcore, whatever. And they work. They're good. So, anyway, I reached for what I thought was one of these the other day. And instead of putting that right in my mouth, well, an open one, that is. I put a... I'm grabbed. Yes. I put a DuraCell AAA battery in my mouth. That happened to be

sitting right here next to it. Now, that would be one thing. That happened Saturday or Friday, whatever, and I told you guys about it Saturday. It'd be one thing to do that and go, oh, this is just COVID-brain. that's not me. I would never do. That's stupid, whatever. But then it happened again yesterday. And I don't have a good excuse for what the frick I was doing. But I just absentmindedly reached over here. Just to give some context, I have some comparative spreadsheet stuff up. So my brain is very focused. Sure. And I'm like, okay, well, if that corresponds with this, then we need to make sure that guy knows this. I'm doing all this stuff for this stupid client thing. And I just reach over nonchalantly, grab one of these. And it enters my mouth. And I go, oh, shit, and that's another battery.

Not even the same battery? No, there's three of them over here. Is your house just littered with AAA batteries? Well, I don't even, you know what, Brian? I don't even know why these three batteries are here and why there's only three. What has three batteries? Right, exactly. Well, three is not uncommon.

I'm trying to think I did just put three into something. I can't remember what it was. It was like a remote or something? Yeah, I think it was a remote. Yeah, it's probably something like that. I don't even know why they're here, though. I don't know if it was, did I leave them here? Did Kim drop, put them here?

I mean, I have this. Are they full? Are they empty? Why are they not rechargeables? I don't know. Yeah, that's the other thing. Does that's a problem? Because I love rechargeables, big fan.

I got all those like, um, yeah, those are so good. They are so good. Yeah, although I don't have any triple A's. I guess I need some of those. But, um, but anyway, I also got, I got a really cheap Roku for Black Friday that I'm going to use for my TV that's my old TV that's over there. by the treadmill, so I'm going to have a better way to watch stuff while I do treadmill.

And maybe I brought them out to put them in this, but I don't even, I haven't even opened this, but I don't know what's in here. So you don't even know what kind of batteries it requires. So why am I putting the stuff in my mouth? I don't freaking know. I don't know, dude. I don't really have a good answer, except I feel tangibly better today for the first time and a bit from the COVID thing.

I just feel less beaten and tired all the time. And so I think my days of putting a battery in my mouth by accident are probably coming to a close. I think we're done. Okay. Well, let's hope. You know, scrolls on film brings up a good question. Maybe you ate the fourth battery? Oh, my gosh, dude.

Maybe that's why there's only three? Nothing is past that I'm aware of. Why is this Freedo's bag sealed on my desk? Oh my gosh, dude. That would be really funny if I accidentally ingested a battery. I would have to know that I did that. out, right? I wouldn't think so, yeah.

But I don't like this idea of a missing fourth battery, though. It's freaking me out. All right, let's move these out of the way. These are no longer anywhere near any cough drops, okay? They're just over here. They're behind this Kirk action figure. Everything is fine. Okay.

All right. Oh, one other thing. Show and tell this morning. For five bucks, $4.99. It was, again, some stupid sale, and I'm a dummy. I decided to buy this. master chief action figure. Oh, that's the master chief on a park bench, except it's a, it's a vehicle. It's a vehicle. And I forgot the name of it. It's not Wardhog. It's, whatever the SUV or SUV, what ATV thing is they have in the game. Anyway, it's dumb. I don't need this, but it was four bucks. And so why wouldn't you get this? He's all articulated, buttons at the elbows and knees. You know, he's full, full master chief. You got that so that Van could have something to play with when he comes to hang out. All right, fair point. That's.

That's how I'm going to justify it, even though this is totally my point. But you have to let Van play with it when he comes over. You can't. Yeah, I can't. Oh, no. Don't play with that. It costs four bucks. I'll never be able to replace it.

How will I ever replace this $4 play set? But it's actually really nice, like a really nice, like well made, even the feet articulate. I can't believe it was only $4 or $4, not $40. Anyway, that's the end of today's show and tell. That's great. We have a follow-up about your car. I got an email. Do you like to hear this? I would like to hear it.

Boy, could I use some good news about this situation? So no news then. Did you follow up yesterday? I did. I called, this time I called the dealership that's working on the car. And I spoke to the man of few words, my service manager there, who basically said, oh, yeah, let me go check and see if your part is in. I'll give you a call back today.

Would you like to guess if yes or no I received a call back at all yesterday on my car? I'm going to say, given the previous performance and how this story has gone thus far, if I was to bet, let's say, I had a $5 bill. Sure, sure. I would bet that he did not call you back. Easy bet, right? I mean, that's basically like, y'all take the Patriots over the dolphins right now. He did not call exactly.

That sucks. Yeah. And so definitely talking about this email, we'll have some stuff to say on the other side because the submitter, Travis, has some very good points. I agree. So here's what he says. This is from Travis, who wrote in. This is not TV's Travis, different Travis, I believe.

So radios Travis. Radio's Travis. The TVs Travis killed radios, Travis. Anyway, hello, Scott and Brian. I wanted to chime in and give you some information from the dealership. ship side of things regarding this. I don't work for Kia, but I am a technician at a very busy Ford dealership, and to my knowledge, we have a very similar situation. We are fighting a battle on multiple fronts right now. One of the biggest struggles is a technician shortage,

nearly everywhere. Techs are leaving shops monthly and going to work in other industries, and we do not have people wanting to come back to work in the trades. Every tech that leaves causes more stress on the rest of the shop, which causes more of us to want to leave. That's a bad situation totally makes sense it's a it is a vicious cycle that does not look like it's got any any solution that's going to make it go back up it's a hard cycle to break to me it reminds me it reminds me when google announces stadia no one trusts that google will follow through with stadia because of previous product drops so nobody buys stadia so they have to stop making it It's just this vicious cycle.

Anyway, on the part side, we have massive supply chain issues. We are waiting two to three months for engines and transmissions due to individual parts and the rebuilders need to go on back order. Those warehouses also have staff issues with sickness going around and not enough workers. I wondered about that. I feel Brian's pain with a lack of communication. The techs don't know when parts will arrive until they show up in a truck without warning. The guys in the shop are paid by the job, so they would love to get this,

car or get his car fixed and out of the door so they can get a paycheck instead of watching the parking lot fill up with cars they can't get parts for hope this can be repaired for you soon so we can get sorry so we can get more lift stories love the show though Travis yeah that makes sense I mean on the one hand it's like I I totally sympathize with that but I think it'd be cool if your dude would tell you that this yeah exactly why does it take somebody who works for a completely different dealership for a completely different make of car to explain what might be going on. You know, this easily, the, the dude at foundation could easily say, yeah, here's what's going on. We've got a lot of people out. We've been having a hard time bringing people

back in, replacing people who've been leaving, and not to mention that it takes a lot longer for us to get supplies now because the supply chains are dealing with the same thing we are. So I will I will call you as soon as your part comes in and let you know what to expect on how long it'll take to repair. That, what I just said took less than a minute, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and it would go a long way, right? You would feel, I think you would, I mean, I don't want to speak for you, but I know if I were you, I would feel better about all of it if they'd just talk to me transparently like that. Yes, exactly.

Exactly. Yeah. So do that. You know what? Do like the Ford guy. This Travis feller. Do like the Ford guy. Be like Travis for Ford.

Be like Braille's Travis. Okay, get in. Yeah, I mean, Dice Tomato says he doesn't even do explain all that. He just needs to call back with anything for sure. But, you know, explaining why things are taking a long time definitely would save me saying, you know, him calling back and just saying, yeah, part hasn't come in yet. Great. That just means, well, maybe tomorrow. Do I need to call tomorrow?

But if he explains, yeah, here's what's going on. And if he makes me feel like I will hear something when something happens, then, but so far, I feel like I've had to prod to get anything. moving. I had to prod him to talk to Kia about getting this thing paid for. I had to prod him to actually order the parts. A week after they took my car in, they told me to bring my car in. I had to prod him to say, you know, get the

repair process started. And now I have to prod him to call me back and give me information. The sad thing is, here's the sad, the sad effect of all of this. And maybe it shouldn't be, you know, maybe it shouldn't be just focused at Kia.

but I prior to this prior to my car being in the shop now the only times my car has been in the shop are to fix a recall issue or to get an oil change or just normal maintenance milestone service sure sure um that car has been one of the most reliable cars I've ever had and and prior to this issue I had no doubt that my next car probably would be like a Kia Nero EV or a plug-in hybrid or something like that yeah the the fact that even if I were to get another Kia which which I know would be probably as reliable as what I've got now maybe I maybe not who knows um the dread of having to work with this dealership to get get recall work done like other stuff oil changes other other technical stuff there's some great repair places around here that I'd take it to no problem yeah but but the thought of saying all right, well, for this thing, I need to take it to the dealership. Yeah. Because the next closest key dealership is half an hour away.

Yeah, that sounds. 45 minutes away. That sounds horrible. Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm saying. And so if their fear is, if they're straight with you and transparent with you, that you will go, oh, this is what things are like. I'm not coming here again. That's actually the opposite of what will happen.

Because if it's happening everywhere, you can commiserate a little bit. can understand and you're like okay well i get it all right we'll work through this together i'm part of you we're we're together on this buddy and so you know thinking about like all right and uh the hunday ionic five or a voks wagon id4 the other two cars that i'm considering if supply chains are an issue if technicians are an issue across the board at all dealerships and repair places then it really doesn't matter what car i get i'm going to have this problem and say oh hey need to bring in my car for this cool it's going to be three to four weeks before we can even take a look at it because we haven't been able to get people

back in and blah blah blah my experience when i was working in retail various jobs whether it was a restaurant and they screwed up an order or when i worked at a like a copy place i did that for a while and we would mess up and print them wrong or something like that the always the best policy no matter how annoyed the customer was was transparency and honesty with them about what happened so if i effed up I would be very straightforward about it. I'd say, yeah, it was my fault. I'd completely screwed up your original. And, you know, we're going to redo them.

I'm just going to need another, you know, two hours for the full run or whatever. Exactly. But you would say, you would actually loop in the customer on what's going on so they knew what to expect. May it colpa or not, you know, it's like any communication is better than, as the Beastie Boys would put it, ill communication. Yeah, nobody wants ill communication. Nobody wants that. No. Go back to Brass Monkey.

That's what we want after that. Well, anyway, I hope he calls you, because that's lame. I'm hoping so too today and just ready for this situation to either be over or at least move forward. Yeah. Progress. Something. Friday will be three weeks since I've actually felt there's been forward progress on this whole situation. Yeah.

Even if it's just a couple of steps forward. That's what we'll take Speaking of two steps forward Let's talk to this guy Two giant leaps forward No steps back It's Brian Dunnoway joining us From South Carolina

Hi Brian Hello Hello Brian Oh he's doing that thing again Got to reboot your deal And make it do its thing I blame Windows Because Windows is really bad with Discord right now

Probably was Or it's Megnolo. Yeah. It's such an unreliable. Oh, there he is. Hi. Hello. No, nothing.

Oh, not quite yet. Oh, maybe it's something else. Can you hear me? Oh, there you are. I can hear you now. Yep. Totally here. Okay.

So what I did was, I was like before you guys called me about 30 minutes before, I said, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to make sure we don't have that same problem again. Yeah. So I totally shut down everything, restarted, went in, did it. Test on the mic, mic, mic, check, check, test, test. It's like, cool, cool, cool. And I restarted a gea.

A gea? A gea. A gee? Did we start at a geet? Are you still there, Brian? I think he's got some bonus issues today, perhaps. Perhaps some additional problems. I don't know if you can hear us. Brian, we can't hear you if you're saying anything like you trailed off right after having issues.

A gee. It's my favorite kind of lag It's ones that are just I feel like you're getting yeated into space Or something Exactly right Like you've got You're a stunt man

With a cable attached to your back And like you do an explosion And yanking your body back You're right in the middle of an interview Talking about how you're how excited you are Then yeh Hello Brian, you're back Hello

Oh Oh hi There we go Hi Oh you said no And then hung up It's going great It's going real good.

Poor Brian. Maybe he's just got some shitty internet at his office today. All right. We'll give him another shot and see if we can pull him in. I know, I can tell you this. There are a few things that rattle Brian Donogne. I've known him a long time. Very few things rattle him.

One thing does. Tech issues of any kind. Drives him up a tree. Back before we started sharing the Patreon pre, like the film sack pre-show. Because you start recording basically when we answer the Discord. I just get going, yeah. But back when he would have issues like this, it was some of the most uncharacteristically sweary, angry Dunaway that you've ever, that you've never heard.

I love it. I love it. Let's just decide you don't get to see. Hi, Brian, you're there? Can you hear me? We can. We can. Can you hear us?

Yes. Am I glitchy? Nope. No, you sound fine. You sound great. Yeah. I hope it holds. Do I sound angry?

Yes. Yes, you do. do but you know what i love that correct you're my favorite you're my favorite angry person because i know you to be like one of the softest kindest humans in the world but like you're you're a human being like the rest of us and you have your moments and when you do it's great i mean if we if you knew you weren't on the air right now this would be the most f bomb filled conversation you guys have ever heard we would go crazy or he would he would but no he's fine he's here it's all it matters dude oh i got a call coming let me take it and see who this is waiting for us uh thanks for holding

Hi, who's this? Hello, hello. Hi, this is One Sleepy Panda in the Tampa. Well, hello, One Sleepy Panda. How the heck are you? Doing okay. That's fantastic. I'd love to hear that you're okay.

I always want to check in on One Sleepy Panda and see if he's still sleeping. Yeah, if he does sound sleepy. I mean, it sounds true to form. Yeah. Is that nickname because you're a sleepy guy or what? Where'd that come from? I am a bona fide insomniac. Oh, very nice.

Oh, wow. And I have to take sleeping meds, but if I take them too frequently, I build up a tolerance, and then we'll never sleep. So last night, I did not sleep. Damn, dude, that sucks. You need sleep. Sleep is good. You want sleep. I had a dream that I weighed myself, and I was 360 pounds, and I completely had a panic attack in my dream, because I thought I weighed 360, which is ridiculous.

I weigh closer to, like, 2.30, but 360, what the frick is that about? I was so annoyed. and there was also a really dirty toilet in my dream, but I've forgotten everything about it, but I just remember that it was a really dirty toilet. Anyway, none of that matters, because we're going to play a game, and we're going to try to win you some prizes, and Brian Nibble over here is going to explain how it works, Brian? I will do just that. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud.

I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us, and it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. I'm guessing all 10 today. One Sleepy Panda, your waking job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian, and if your team wins, you get a prize package that includes Mass Effect Legendary Edition.

Whoa. You know, the M-E-L-E, courtesy of EA and Origin and our friend Wesley, you're also going to get a copy of The Golf Club 2019. It's not an actual golf club. It's a game, but it's called the Golf Club 2019. It's very good. It's the same devs that now do the 2K golf games. It's very good.

Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah. And also the one you said prior to that. Yeah, Mass Effect Legendary Edition. It's really good. Upres, 4K, better textures, looks amazing. It's very cool. Nice.

Big thanks to Wesley for games this time around, man. He always, that man always delivers. Wesley. Wesley. All right. Let's get to the game here. Put your hands on your buzzers. We surveyed 505.

Tadpoolers and ask them their response to this. Okay. What's your favorite non-Mario N-E-S game? Scott. The Legend of Zelda. Show me the Legend of Zelda. Kind of low-hanging fruit, number one answer on the board. Yeah, that fruit couldn't have hanged any lower.

No, it's basically scraping the ground that fruit. So, since no answers can beat it, Scott, you have both control of of the board and also control of one sleepy panda. Oh, well, it's more like I think he has control of me. So, Panda, do you have anything that jumps to your head and makes you think, oh, yeah, that's got to be on this list? The Metroid series. Oh, that's good, Metroid.

Metroid 1. That was what I was going to say. Yeah, and NES Metroid 1 is a good call. Brian, we'll say Metroid. Let's say Metroid. Show me Metroid. Nice job. Number four on the list.

By the way, I did combine. so if they said Legend of Zelda 2 or Legend of Zelda 3 or whatever I did combine everything all into one although I don't think I don't know if anyone said Zelda 2 yeah yeah two one and two were there and then three where did three show up

Super 90s oh yeah and that was just called Zelda what the hell was that called yeah I know Link to the past it was link to the past okay yeah they didn't give it a number

It didn't sound right I started to say that it didn't sound right to me Link to the past is so good Link between Worlds is also very good 3DS game is amazing. Anyway, okay, my brain wants to say punch out. Punch out was a very popular game. Sure, sure.

All right. Show me Punch out. Yeah, Mike Tyson's punchout, number seven. Big points. Or just regular punchout. Glass Joe taking it on the chin right there. Yeah, Glass Joe, man. Never forget. Let's see, the arcade version. No, no, no. The home version had Mike Tyson. Right. The arcade version was just punchout. Right. And then later, all the punchouts stripped him out of it because their deal went south.

Um, uh, what, uh, Panda, you got anything jumping to your head? Yeah, the, uh, the other half of the Metroidvania namesake. Oh, yeah, Castlevania. Great one. Yeah, yeah. Sure. All right. Show me Castlevania. Oh, what? Amazingly. Amazingly, uh, Castlevania, not till number 14, do we see it on the list? Damn. No, no, one, two, and three. We're all there. They were huge on there. I'm shocked by this. All right. Yes. Yeah.

Weird. Brian Dunaway. What are you? Mr. Dunaway. Let's see how you can do over here. I'm going with the curb. Curb. Kirby. The little pink chewing gum, bubble gum guy.

Sure. Is he a ghost? Is he gum? We don't know. Show me. Kirby. What? Come on.

Yeah, Kirby. I was amazed by this one, too. Number 15, just below Castlevania. Actually tied for a 14th place. with Cass. I don't know you people at all. It's Kirby. Damn.

Okay. I'm going to go with the Final Fantasy. In America, we got one and two. But I think two was actually three or however it works. But anyway, early, early Final Fantasies, we'll say. Let's just say any Final Fantasy. The first fantasy to the Final Fantasy. Show me Final Fantasy.

Number eight. There you go. Looking good. Looking good. Be a good point. Looking better. Uh, Oh, boy, we're getting in the weeds now.

Yeah. What's say? What's a number two? Come on. What is number two? Yeah. Let's go with the Mega Man. Oh, Mega Man.

Duh. Mega, mega, man. Mega, man. The way. Show me. That's a good question. Number 10. Big points on the board for you guys.

Oh, my gosh. That put us to 30. Damn. Yeah, what do we got? 15, 20. 23, oh my gosh, right now. Oh, actually, no, you guys are, yeah, you guys can't be, can't be beat. You can't be beat?

You've officially won one Sleepy Panda. Can we not be tied? We can't even be tied. 9, 15, 20, 25. The most that Brian Donnelly can get right now is 25. That's a shame. Does do the duck hunt business with the gun and that? Oh, sure.

Duh, duck hunt. Yeah. Show me. hunt oh number two what number two people uh you know it was their favorite probably because they got the the version with the blaster and uh you got the you got the two pack you got the mario and the duck hunt together exactly that's all they could play until their birthday like they got it for christmas and that's all they could play until their birthday when they got another game this is my this is my favorite but why because just the only one it's all i have

remember hogan's alley that was a fun like game gun or like gun game it was good like I'm gonna I'm gonna throw one out here robot the little gyroscopes that you'd have to like put the gyroscopes that you'd have to like put the gyroscopes on to the robbie to robot that's right a little plant the little thing to make the name yeah it's robings open up I want I want one and I never got one and I would love one now and I wouldn't even need to use it I just want one to sit there they're probably really hard to get it I stole it from Montgomery Ward wow look at you with your whole the whole thing I went into Montgomery Award this was listen listen kids I was a bad see you back then Went into Montgomery Ward, I found an empty register area, and I tore off a big chunk of the orange Montgomery Ward's tape that they put on things that were too big to fit in a Montgomery Ward's bag. And then I grabbed a Nintendo, a whole big box thing with the gyroscope and the robot and everything. I stuck that as I went down the stairs between the two levels or escalator, I stuck the tape on so they wouldn't see me on either of the two levels. and then I just walked out the front door. Oh, my lord. And I carried it home on my bike, like I rode my bike.

Who is this morning? Did you ever get caught and get punished? No. No. Wow. I never did. And finally my... This is not like an after school special at all.

No, I know. I never had to do like a, you know, like, oh, this was the time he got caught that changed his ways. It was just basically like, oh, man, all right. I'm going down a bad road. Does Montgomery Ward? You still exist. No, I put them out of business.

They went bankrupt because of a stolen NES. Wow. My wife just this morning said, what kind of people pull up their car to people's houses and take their packages off their driveway? Now, see, I wouldn't steal from other people. No, no. I can steal from the big companies.

I'd steal a big box from a big box realtor retailer. Sure, sure. Watch out, Costco. Your water bottles, life is limited. That's right. It's time to me to take some Kirkland pants. Yeah, they got them. They got them.

Hey, there, Panda, you got a, you got another call here on anything? Yeah, let's do a Tetris. Tetris is a big one, sure. Sure. Good one. And I'll pull it out of those boxes once the Russians get their, I get their greasy mitts on it. Show me, Tetris. Number three.

Yep, number three. I love if we cleared the board here. We cleared one through four, seven, eight, and ten. So just five, six, and nine left on the board. I know one that I loved, but I don't know if it's going to be on here. But since we already won, I feel like I'm okay to say it. This is like where you can kind of go Maverick. Yeah, I'm going to go balloon fight.

Oh, sure. I like balloon fight a lot. And those can hurt really hard enough with them. Show me, balloon fight. You guys don't know what a good video game is. Balloon fight did. People did say balloon fight. Where is it?

Balloon Fight is basically a joust rip-off. There it is. It was number 27. Okay. Of all the joust rip-offs, it's the best. It's a very good rip-off of joust. It's not bad. It's not bad.

All right. Done away. What do you think there, dude? Well, this is one that people always tell me they had and loved. It's excite bike. How? I just don't know if they would have, yeah. That's a good one.

Yeah. Excite a bike. Excite a bike. Excite a bike. Yeah. All right, show me the Excite a bike game. Yeah. Number six, yeah.

17 people said that Excite Bike was their favorite non-Mario and ESC game. It gets them excited, right? Sure. That is one excite bike. Excite a bike. I'll tell you what. We already said, let's see. How about, I'm going to say it because we're playing it.

I'm going to go. with Dragon Warrior. Dragon Warrior, also known as Dragon... Dragon Quest. Dragon Quest. Yes, when it was released in the U.S. It was Dragon Warrior. That's what it was.

It was flipped. That's right. Sure. They changed that later, but thankfully, it's now Dragon Quest across the board. Yeah, yeah. Right. All right.

Show me Dragon Quest slash Warrior. Oh, man. Number 20 on the list. I thought it might have been some JRP fans in there. Guess not. Well, you got the Final Fantasy, but, yeah. I can't think of any more games 5 and 9 left on the board

Oh my gosh What was the thing people freaked out about What other big IPs came over there? This is one more strike right And you guys are going to win That's right Yeah Is your last guess

Things I was thinking about was People I didn't care for the turtles of NES But everybody always seems to like that Ninja Turtles Turtles Yeah You know what

You know what, I'll, yeah, let's say turtles. Ninja Turtles was, the S&S Ninja Turtles was way better, but let's just say Ninja Turtles. Way better. Sure. Going for those heroes on a half shell. All right, show me teenage mutant ninja turtles. Oh, really? Number 23.

People said it, but not many. Not many. What else you guys think? What do you guys think? Well, I don't know. We're going to help you now. Let's help you now. Yeah, yeah, you know.

We're just trying to clear the board right now. You won regardless. Yeah, it's true. See what we can. Pand, do you have one that we haven't thought of? The Tadpool is screaming Contra. Oh, duh. Contra's big.

Yeah. I mean, it gave us that code. Yeah, gave us the Konami code. Oh, yeah. All right. Show me up, down, up, down, left, right. Maybe select, whatever it was. Oh, two up down.

No, up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, A, B, select. I think so? I never remember it. All right. Show me that. Yeah. Number five. Well done.

Very good. B-A select. Okay. Thank you, Dice Tomato. Thanks. One more. Now I'm thinking, right? We got one more we can clear the board.

Let's do it. We did mention punch out, right? You guys did mention punch out. Yep, that was number seven. That was the first one of the first ones we did. Say again? What did you say? I was wondering if there's like any other sports games that could fit the ball.

Oh. I was very small. Yeah, there's. Ice hockey was popular. Because it had the three. You had a fat, you had a fat guy. middle guy and a skinny guy was how you picked your teams. Oh, TechMobile.

Jeff is a geek says TechMobile. Oh, that's a good one. Oh, now I'm seeing the chat room bust up with some TechMobile. You know what? TechMobile. That's a good one. Yep. I agree with it. Cool. TechMobile. Let's do it. Show me TechMobile.

Oh, TechMobile number where is? Number 22. 22. It still plays great, by the way. Very good game, yeah. Yeah. All right. For an answer that 11 people said when they took the survey,

I don't think I saw one person say it in chat. And it just cracks me up that 11 people would name this game. By the way, I did take out Donkey Kong was one of the ones on list, but I call that a Mario game, even though it's really a Donkey Kong game, and Mario's like a, you know. Yeah, exactly. That's a good point. Show me number nine.

battle toads gosh joke i got it just before i clicked it by the way good job joe guy of course battle toads i hated battle toads i am not a fan i like i like battle toads it's too glitchy dude can't tell what's going on too much flicker i like about it yeah that's a course you do that mario appears in duck hunt before you get any you know before you start typing that that hasty hastily written response to mario my favorite thing is the dog giggling and it makes that doodle do doodle do do do you song I love that.

Well done. You know what this means. This means that we can now shower gifts on this guy. Congratulations. You're a winner. We're going to send you your prizes. But Brian, why you tell us what some of these other answers were that we missed?

Sure. There are no other answers that you guys missed. Battletoads is the only one. Oh, you mean on the list? I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. So outside the top 10, bubble bubble was number 12 duct tails. Double dragon.

Love duck tails. Five people thought Golden Eye came out on the NES. What? That is hilarious. And that also didn't stop five people from saying Super Mario Brothers. Wow. We need to read the question. Blades of Steel, Paperboy.

It's the game based on that character from Atlanta. It's really, really good. Animal Crossing, the NES, I don't think, was there? No, there definitely was not. It was N64 in Japan, GameCube in America. 64, okay. I just didn't want to assume, and like somebody said, oh, yeah, no, there was an original Animal Crossing in the NES. Okay. Bionic Commando.

Oh, very good, man. Blastermaster, Chippendale Rescue Rangers, a Pimam. Spy Hunter, Star Tropics. Oh, yeah, Star Trek is classic. Aiton Sena Grand Prix, one person said.

Banjo Cazui also. N-64 game. Bomberman, Burger Time. Captain Skyhawk? Yeah. Wait, Captain Skyhawk. Hold on.

Wait, what is that? One person even said circus Atari. Circus Atari. Okay. Oh, Captain Skyhawk is a game. Okay. I'd never heard of this. This was an NES game.

All right. All right. Cool. Yeah, only one person said ice climbers and only one person said kid Icarus, surprisingly. I would have thought, I would have thought like somebody, like three or four people. Yeah. Ice climbers. That was a lunch title, wasn't it?

Kid, Chris and Ice climbers? I don't know. I'm not sure they were in lunch. boxes that you stole from the... I think it was printed on the outside of the boxes. Other games you could get for sure. Ice climbers, I played mostly in the arcade, weirdly. Hardly ever touched it

at home. But anyway, these are this is, I love, well, we love retro games, so this is a perfect category today. And all you got to do is send Brian Panda, just send Brian an email, Coverville at gmail.com. He'll send you these two fabulous prizes. I will, please do. How do you feel about your win, Panda?

I feel wonderful about it. I'm waking up with excitement. Oh, man. That's great. Yeah. And I hope you sleep tonight. Honestly, if I wish anything on you, it's that you go to sleep and you sleep well. That's what I want for you and your life and your wife.

Well, is that big sleep? Was that panda? You're trying to say something. Oh, he hung up. He's not there now. Oh, okay. I don't know what he was saying. Did he hang up or did you do?

No, he's, he hung. Well, it wasn't this time. It wasn't me. This time it wasn't a Scott. Yeah, I wasn't a Scott this time. Well, anyway, congratulations to him. And Brian done away for. being just an amazing participant in today's tomfoolery. It just was great, even though you had tech

issues at the top and it pissed you off. But don't worry. We'll be back doing this again next Monday. Hey, it's one of those piss offs is just for a moment. It's just like, you know, it passes quickly. That's right. Like a stone. Well, those are slow. Never mind. Hey, and painful. We did a brand new play retro yesterday. It was great. We talked about Mario Kart and all the other carts it inspired. And I really enjoyed that episode, so I hope people give that one. It was a really good episode. Yeah, it's super, super fun. Get it wherever you get your podcast.

Just find Play Retro. Search for it. Or you can go to our website, frogpants.com slash play retro. Brian Donaway, anything else you'd like to say? Yeah, my mom will call it earlier in. That was a great one. Yeah, he got me. Well done, yeah.

He got me. I was hanging on every word until there were no more words. I was like, well, what does Mrs. Dunaway have to say? What's going on? And then he hung up. Didn't work. Well, well, done. All right.

We have a little time for a little news, and it starts here. It's time for the news, brought to you by. A little time for a little news, and it's sponsored by a little time with a little kid. The first 20 minutes of Miles Morales with a three-year-old. Oh, okay. So he wanted to play Dino game, but it was not on my phone after my upgrade to my phone. I don't know why. I don't know why I didn't move over.

But he was like, dino game? And I'm like, I don't know. And he goes, Spider-Man. And I went, oh, that's interesting. Let's see what we can find. So I went to YouTube, sitting on my phone. He's in my lap, chilling out last night. They were over for Kim's birthday.

And we watched the first 20 minutes of the Miles Morales, PS5 and PC game. Oh, gotcha. Okay. I thought you were about to say into the Spider-Verst. God, I wonder, has he seen that, by the way? I don't think so, but he probably love it. I mean, he's at the age now.

I think he'd probably enjoy it. Yeah, I think he's a right age. But I have never seen a kid more, more, like, locked in than I did for this. And most of this is spent swinging through the, the buildings trying to stop Rhino from, is it Rhino? It is Rhino, yeah. It doesn't sound right. That's what, that's what the first one starts with. That's like your first fight.

The first fight, yeah, it's still teaching you controls. Like, here's how you shoot a web and then use it to pull yourself and hit your target with your feet. Yeah, it's like a, it's like a very intense tutorial, basically. But anyway, I've never seen that kid more focused and more chill than sitting there watching that. Because there's a lot of, in the first part of Miles Morales, aren't there a lot? It's like cutscenes at a lot of cutscenes at a street fair. Yeah, it's a lot of walking around. He liked all that because they kept showing wall art that was Spider-Man, and he would go, Spider-Man.

I go, yeah, that is Spider-Man. He loves Spider-Man. So, anyway, highly recommend it. He's a good kid. He's definitely a good kid. Yeah, he's a good kid. You can tell already. Good kid.

Still likes dinosaurs, though? Yeah, he's these cool with dinosaurs. When I told him there's a dinosaur, a spider verse, I tried to explain that there's a dinosaur that looks like Spider-Man. And that's very confusing to him, but he's all in. He's all in on that. So it was bitten by a radioactive spider? Yep.

Very weird. Anyway, let's do this here. Every monk in a Thai temple got defrocked, all of them. The entire monk temple, everybody, everybody inside defrocked because they all tested positive for methamphetamine use. Oh, my gosh. Wow. Well, the good news is they ain't talking.

Yeah. Makes going to say, et to Buddhist, et two? Oh, okay, there you go. Sure. Kind of works. I think I could have workshopped that a little better. Anyway, Buddhist temple in central Thailand has been left without monks. They either took monks or left monks.

monks. After all of its holy men failed drug tests and were defrocked. Wow. Four monks, including an abbot. I didn't know they had abbots in the Buddhist temple. It's weird. Yeah, I guess I didn't know that either. That that was like a British-y, catholicly. Right, the Benedictine monks had habits. I didn't realize the Thai ones as well. Interesting. It was on a temple in Petchubun province in Bung Sam Fan district.

Bung Sam Fan is fun to say Bung Sam fan Bung Sam fan Oh I love it when it's only level three of heat though I don't want it too hot Are you a Bung Sam fan? Because I'm kind of a Bung Sam fan You have to be a Bung Sam fan fan

That's how it happened Right yes Anyway they all tested positive for meth on Monday According to some news people there The monks have been sent to a health clinic To undergo drug rehabilitation Quote the temple is now empty of monks and nearby villagers are concerned

they cannot do any merit making. Merit making involves worshippers donating food to monks as a good deed. I wonder if that's how they got the meth. Well, I don't have any food, but will you take this? You take this blue crystal, how'd that made? I've got a bunch of beakers and vials

and a Winnebago, you want it. Yeah, we will take your gift. Thank you, they said. They are amazed at major transit company, country, rather, for methamphetamine flooding into the Myanmar area. So this is a problem, according to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, or the Unodic, UNODC. Okay.

On the street, meth pills called Yaba sell for less than 20 bot around 50 cents. That's cheap. You just go get a meth pill and say, how much? And they say, how much for this Yaba? And they say 50 cents. That's pretty good. It's cheap. Yeah.

Yeah. Can you name any other drug you can go to spend 50 cents for a pill for? I can't think of any. No, I really can't. No. That's that, uh, that I never would have priced it. I would have lost that price as right game right there. It's like, uh, that, uh, that mountain climber would have fallen right off the cliff with me and that. How much for this meth, Brian? I'm really glad you brought that up. Why is it that when I think of that show, that's the only thing I can think of is that mountain climber. Like if you go, hey, Scott, think of a game from that. Because it was the best. All I think of his people going, a brand new car, and then the mountain climber, and that's it. Yeah, there were definite stakes.

I mean, that was like, you know, you were watching this mountain climber fall to his death if you mispriced that wearing blender. Yeah, they still do it. They probably still do it, right? Oh, I'm sure, yeah. I hope they haven't changed it, like modernized it or anything. Like, it better still have the, oh, we, oh, yeah, the show I never watch. They better not have changed that.

They better not have changed it. It better still. still have the same doofy looking climber and the same duffy music. Yeah, the yodel, stupid yodel thing. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, so get your 20 bot and head to the place. Meth and particularly Yaba, that's weird, because they just said meth is called Yaba,

but then this quote says meth and particularly Yaba, anyway, can be easily found around every corner of Thailand. Supplies up everywhere, and this point in, sorry, this point a tabla, and at this point, A tablet is cheaper than a beer, says Jeremy Douglas. Cheaper than the wine that the monks used to make. Was it wine or was it? Yeah, it was wine, right?

Wine. The monks like really expensive or champagne. There's like a, what is it? There's like a famous, is it Mois Chandon? Is it the monks? There's like a famous, and please chat room save me from this because I'm trying to think of what the famous alcohol that's monk. Some of them are famous for cheese. but that's not the same place right it's not even they might they probably do yeah because some of

them i guess monk cheese is like the best cheese a lot of beer um shime is that it she may she may never heard of it although i swear i saw something on a food network thing once about it or maybe it was a yeah chef's table thing on netflix something down perignon that's what i was i was trying to remember dom perignon oh that's an easy one or that's one yes that's the the famous one yeah Well, interesting. Authorities across Southeast Asia and across the globe have made record meth seizures in recent months. That means they take a lot of meth. It doesn't mean they had seizures because of the meth.

I'm having a meth seizure right now. I'm seizing on meth. Seizing everybody. I can't give him into the office today. I've got a meth seizure. Yeah, sorry. I'd probably keep you out of the office. Give me your badge and your gun.

No, no, I'm seizing meth. I'm seizing meth. I'm seizing it. Hello? Hello? all right we're going to take a break we're going to take a break and when we come back tom merit will regale us with the tech news of the day that'll be fun also uh recommendals after that we got a full slight slate there as well slight slight slight anyway uh that'll do it for my introductions so now i pass this baton to brian who plays a song how about that time for me to do an introduction uh big thanks to let's see who's the label what's the label uh secretly distribution and cvc recordings which is funny because it's this this band's own label CVC recordings. The band is CVC. And no, they're not a convenience store that happens to have

medications. They are a band and they are from, uh, see, here's the thing. I always do this. I'll like, I've got all this information that I'm ready to say. And then I'll lead myself into a thing that I don't know the answer to. I'm not going to tell you where they're from. We know they're from somewhere, okay? That's all we need to know. They're somewhere in the UK, I believe, because they're touring, Sheffield, Nottingham, Bristol. So they are a UK band. This is such a great song. And it reminds me of like MGMT.

It's probably the first band that came to mind when I heard these guys. The song is called Sophie. Here is from their brand new album, Get Real, CVC. When am I doing it? Why are you making me do it? I don't want to do it. What do we want to do? I still want to sing it.

I don't know. You're embarrassing me. I just don't want to do. Something won't say, but when she does, she says, Uh-la-la-la-la-la, ooh-la-la-la-la-la. Something won't say, but if she did, she'd say, ooh-la-la-la-la-la, oh, la-la. Something won't say, but when she does, she says,

ooh-la-la-la, ooh-la-la. Something don't say, but if she did she said, Oh la la la And in the sound It's nothing new Except I know Some world like you All you think is

It's all the year Yeah There's no one Oh, just quite like you. Something don't sing, but when she does she sings, Oh, la, la, la. So if she won't sing, but if she did you sing, Oh, la, la, la, oh, la.

Something else she'd say, but if she did you sing, oh, la, la, la. Something don't say, but no way she, Oh, la, la, la, oh, la, la. Something else is it, but if she did, you say, oh, la, la, oh. Daniel's in love, Daniel's in love, Daniels in love, reason to love, I said you, Daniels in love, Daniels in love, Daniels in love,

Meeting love Nietzsche right I'll tell you Daniel's in love Daniels in love Daniels in love move I say

You know Emmanuel's in love AndIZO Matthews in love plants Elijah love angle Angel

in love Heaven is in love Is it love is in love I tell you Daniel's in love Who's in love Angel's in love

Daniel's in love is in love I said Naniel's in love Daniel's in love Daniel's in love is in love I said you

Daniel's in love Daniel's love and it's love and it's come with me to a clearing a stream a mountain top

and find Friendly to outer space. Gross nerd. The morning stream. Let's dance. And we've returned. Tell me who that was again. Sure.

You know, you can tell when the marketing information that comes from the label is in really tiny font. And I don't, I don't bother just using. the little apple thing that lets me increase the size. It's when you see my forehead because I'm like getting really close. When you do this, yeah. Like you just get a real close-up of my forehead because I'm reading.

I do that. Don't feel bad. I do that. Exactly. I'm getting a little color up here by getting that close to my monitor. That band is CVC. They have a brand new album called Get Real.

That is the first single from it called Sophie. CVC pipe. CBC pipe. I do have glasses, Claire. They are right here. Yeah, look at those. look at those are those your gunners or those uh no no these are these are actual like um these are glasses i think i got it a cvs uh honestly oh nothing wrong with that these like they're like readers then

like um one point they are exactly it's from the pop fashion wear line as you can see from the writing on the uh fancy no my gunners also red and black those are right here and i wear those now pre and post show. I don't wear them on the show, but I don't care about, you know, I need to see you, clearly. Yeah, you need to see my beautiful face. How about this guy's face, too? This guy right here, who's thing I'm going to play? With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and

direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt. He probably wears readers occasionally, too, because we're all men of a certain age. I wear glasses all the time. Yeah, true. You don't need to do readers, although no bifocals yet, right?

Like, you don't have to have to have to have. These are progressive lenses. Oh, very nice. On the bottom or top or something. I love that you think I'm younger than I am. It's because you look better than the two of us. That's honestly the truth. You're in great shape.

You eat a lot of... Tom eats Omega 3 food all day. He's like a healthy guy. It's the sardines. It's the sardines. You don't want to kiss him. You're already on the kimchi thing, Scott. You're a third of the way there.

My lunch of champions. Now, wait, do you do the same meal? You'll have some kimchi. I had, for lunch, like three times a week, it's sardines, brown rice, and kimchi. Oh, that's actually sounds really good right now. Sardines. Wow. Those fish oils, man.

You're going to live forever. Yeah, it is really good for you. Well, all right. In your lubed state, let's do a technology segment. Tom Merritt comes here on Wednesdays. Can't wait for that one to be taken out of context. Too late. It already has been.

Tom is going to tell us about what's going on in the tech world because the daily tech news show waits for no man. and I'm very curious about what's going on. You know, it's so easy. It's actually kind of a little bit hard to track text stories via Twitter the way I used to. Because so much of Twitter now is just like Musk Talk and, you know, this and that with Twitter. I wonder who's contributing to that, Scott. Me a little bit. Me a little bit.

I admit it. I admit I'm part of the problem, not the solution. I feel bad. I've poked fun at you a couple times on Twitter. And I'm like, I should include emojis. So Scott knows. No, no, no. I totally get it.

This is a Tom thing that we've always had in our relationship. When I do this sort of thing, Tom is usually there with a good little reminder that, hey, maybe you're... And I would never have known about it unless you had told me. That's exactly right. Is it time to trot out political, Scott, and just change it to political and anti-elon, Scott? No. Hey, that account got banned. I don't know why.

Did it really? I don't know why or when. I hadn't used it in about six months, and I went and checked it one day, and it was banned. Maybe it'll get unbanned along with all the other troll accounts. I don't know. Wow. Yeah. anyway, it doesn't matter because Tom

Tom doesn't need all this to find good tech stories. He does it naturally with his mind and his brain and his magic. Well, I also use the internet. Oh, okay. I'm actually in conversation with Sarah Lane right now, right as you called,

about a segment on today's show about the Kindle Scribe. So we may have something about that for you. But yeah, we're also yesterday on the show, we talked about all the music, end-of-year music things. Did y'all talk about that?

No. Like Spotify and Apple Music's thing. Apple Replay, telling you what you listen to the most. Apple Replay came out yesterday. YouTube Recap and Spotify Rapped came out today. So everybody can look at the data. All the data nerds can look at the data around their music. Because music and data, you know, it's the peanut butter and pickle relish.

What goes better to the end of that? No, I'm actually one of the people who's always fascinated to see, like, what in there I would have guessed. And the data always shows you something about yourself. Do you're like, oh, I listen to that a lot more than I thought. My number four artist, for instance, was Focus. Really, Hocus, Pocus, the band that had one song? I think I accidentally left it play on repeat or something. Oh, no, it's Popcorn by Hot Butter.

Yeah, yeah, there you go. Now you're on it. Is it the extended version with three drum solos? No, it must not have been for the number of times I got played. I did mine this morning and I shared it over on Hive, but Unbelievers by Vampire Weekend, my number one played artist,

which that completely and totally surprised me. That was something I wasn't expecting at all. Well, I think part of it, I don't know about for you, but one thing that's interesting about this, I use Apple Music, so I'm not getting anything from Spotify. I thought I'd get something from YouTube, but it's not given me anything. But I hear a lot of music when Eileen's driving and she's playing the music or we're just listening to stuff on YouTube on the TV that doesn't show up in my own staff.

That doesn't can, right. It doesn't trigger. Yeah. Makes sense. So I'm certain there are songs that I heard more this year than what's on my list. But what actually got played in Apple Music is always interesting. Scott, do you, what do you use for music? Or do you, not listen. I do. I use Apple music. It says here, I just, I haven't done this thing yet, so I just did it while you were talking. And I've done 3,000. It says, you listen to 3,853 songs this year. The number one played was an underworld song called U7. That's part of a synth wave playlist that I listened to. Yeah. The very next one, though, is the main theme from, Bear McCrary's main theme from the C show on Apple Music. I don't remember.

listening to that. They're not Apple Music, Apple TV. I don't remember listening to that as much as this says I did. Yeah, right. I guess I did. Also, Honor from the main theme of the Pacific is on here a lot. Oh, interesting. Hans Zimmer's Time, a song or a track from the Inception soundtrack. I have a lot of movie soundtrack love, I guess. Yeah, yeah. You're an OST kind of guy. Yeah, and a lot of shins. 9,036 songs for me. Jeez. You listen to a lot. 9,000. 9,000 36 songs, yeah. Yeah. And a couple of of these like, you know, let's see, to the island by Crowded House from their newest

album, then it all goes away by Dayglow. I will keep on shouting from the rooftops how great dayglow is and people really need to discover them. But then you go, like, I could not even tell you my number nine song, motion sickness by Phoebe Bridgers. I like Feber Bridgers, but I couldn't tell you how that song goes. Or bags by Clero.

Okay, I believe it. I mean, it's, you know, had 15 plays on that scene. Yeah. No, it's, it's interesting to see that stuff. And sometimes it's like, oh, that's not that many, but it was, I guess I didn't listen to any particular song. I guess not. A lot.

I listened to 968 minutes of vampire weekend in 2022. It's a lot, dude. That makes you a full vampire. The artist minutes. Yeah. Manick Street Preachers, 794 minutes. Oddly enough, Tori Amos, 771 minutes. And I think that was just because of soundography because I typically don't listen to

Oh, that's true. I apparently listened to 403 minutes of focus. Oh, my God. Well, that's... I certainly don't recall. That was a great focus right there. Oh, look at this. You guys will love this.

I did, okay, 2008. My number one artist for time is the Shins, 2084 minutes. Then Coulter Wall at 712. And then R.E.M. at 666 minutes. Oh. Yes. You've lost your religion.

I know. I wish that would have been... Oh. man I missed an opportunity here number 10 for me was 311 they have a great new album that's why I listened to it this year um I wish I would have done 311 minutes but I only did 257 so it's a shame wow yeah this is so great I love this data yeah I do too y'all are shaming me I only had 1,860 songs wow and 800 those were by bt yes I believe for uh actually uh 1,813 minutes wow top albums the aces

Under my influence. I do love that album. Aaron Ray, also very good. So the top album thing I was a little confused about because it looked too different. But apparently this is, you started playing the album versus something on playlist or choosing an individual song. You didn't have to finish it. It's just you said, like, play the album, don't just, you know, play the whole album. Don't just play a song from the album. Because my top one was anti-fragile by La Seraphim.

Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Well, I'm looking, is there a play. Oh, there is playlists. Yeah, see, this is where I spend a lot of my time. I'll put something on my echo or whatever. So I've got Trans and Progressive number one, 90s, number two, 80s, then 70s, then Pink Floyd Essentials. Decades, man, I see.

I guess so. I don't know. I don't realize I do. See, this is interesting because it does say something about your behavior, that you're not maybe noticing while you're doing it. Like, this is, I do. love data like this. I wish there was more stuff like this. It's great. I was pleased to see top stations, top radio stations, not top playlist that Lofi beats showed up. I didn't realize I was that chill. Well, you are a pretty chill guy. It's been my experience. Well, more on topics like this

today on the Daily Tech News show. Also, I can't wait to hear more about this Scribe thing because the reviews are pretty midland so far. And I'm, I need to talk more about it. What I asked Sarah was like, do you think you could just, like, read several of the reviews and summarize what they're saying? And because she uses the reader that I was hoping I would remember before I finish the end of the sentence. Remarkable. Remarkable. Thank you. She uses the remarkable, which is kind of what the Kindle scribe was trying to be.

And so as a remarkable, as a remarkable person, but also a user of the remarkable tablet, I thought she would have a particularly good perspective on what they're saying. about the Kindle Scribe. Yeah. I've been all eyes open on this because I'm very, I figured the way this was going to work is remarkable. The Remarkable 2 is made by a company that just makes that. They're small. They have a very focused product line, all that.

And I thought, well, if Amazon's doing this, they're going to put the magic of AWS behind it and all the cloud features. And it's going to be this amazing thing. Plus, it's a Kindle and it'll sink across everything. So I kept thinking, well, this might be truly the best one of these. And all I'm hearing is like, It's okay. It's not as good as the remarkable. And it's, I'm just, I'm having a sad moment is what I'm getting at. Yeah. The Verges, uh, the Verge's headline is Amazon Kindle Scribe review. Absolutely

adequate. Yeah. That's a, that's a kind of sums it up. Seems like the general trend is, it's really good for reading, but not as good at the note taking as the remarkable and others like that. So maybe there's a balance, though, that you could say about it. Like, I don't know. But that's the beauty of listening today, everybody. Tune in. Find out. what Sarah has to say and what our reactions will be on the Daily Tech News show at 2 p.m. Mountain Time. Tom, anything else in your world that we should share here? Yeah, a lot of folks are getting into the substack these days. Molly Wood just started a substack. You should go check that out. And of course, while you're looking around, poking around on the substack, find TechTom.com. It's where I take all

the writing that I do, well, not all the writing I do, but a lot of the writing I do for Daily Tech News show for cord killers and other things, and put it out as occasional posts. They're kind of like blog posts, but they're delivered to your email or you can read them in the Substack app and get a little more time to kind of review. If you like to read some of this tech news, I do a weekly roundup with a bunch of stories that's available for paid subscribers, but if you don't want to pay, that's fine. There's lots of stuff that I put out for free. So go check it up, Techtom.substack.com.

Very nice. Tom married, everybody. Ace Detect on Twitter. Well, at last. We'll see you soon. A kid. It's not going anywhere. I mean, it's kind of a, I don't, it's kind of a miserable place to be lately.

It's not very fun to be there like it used to be. But, um, whatever. I'm on everything now. So wherever people go, I'll be there. Cool. Yeah. I'm just waiting to see where the people who I listen to go. And that's where I'm going to go as well.

Yeah. I've got, um, I think I like hive. I like the interface of hive, but aren't they having some issues? with Android and a web version and stuff like that? They have no web version right now. That's coming. It's a small team of like three people. So, you know, they're just trying to keep up and it took off, at least on iOS, it became a great big alternative.

There are a lot of people to go and Mastodon, which I think I finally understand how Mastodon works. And I think I get the federated thing, but also I've got stuff on, I started using Tumblr again because Tumblr, a bunch of people flooded over on Tumblr, yeah. Tumblr still got a bunch of cool features. I don't know, man. It's just a weird time. It's a weird time in the world of social media. All right. Let's get to Reckamentals.

Excuse me. Let me add the people. You know? You got to have the people. Blackamental is a bellicimental. Mark that one down as one not to see or watch. We'll see what we get here. Who's going to answer first?

Randy's going to answer first. did. Oh, my gosh. That's awesome. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Recommendals. Randy Jordan's joining us. It looks like Nicole's still ringing, but Randy's here. Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning, stream. How are you doing? I'm doing great. Thanks for asking. It is an absolutely perfect day in Southern California. I just want to, I want to count how many times I say that to you. Like, how many weeks out of the year I say that to you? It is so perfect, so beautiful. I trade you in a heartbeat. We have snow and ice, and it's like 20 degrees.

so I trade. 26 degrees here in Colorado, so I'll trade you the probably 50 degrees warmer than it is where you're at. Yeah, and then I'll take your 26, because that's better than 20. Okay.

And then we'll all just trade up. Brandy, which of ours would you like in trade? Yeah, which one you would? I, neither. I pass. Okay, you have a hard pass.

Oh, wait, Nicole, let's pipe in with the weather in Minnesota. No, wait, Missouri. Where are we at, Missouri? I was thinking of windy because he's in Minnesota. No, 31. 31. 31, that's not bad.

31. Okay. All right, everything's a trade-up for me, so I'm good to take whoever wants to give it. Well, welcome both of you to today's recommendals, is where we talk about streaming content and recommend them for people at home. Sometimes we, you know, sometimes we blech-a-mental them, I guess. I don't know. Yes.

Or mehemental. I actually came close to one. I want to talk to you guys later in our private chat about what I came close to doing a mechemental. Oh, really? Okay. I don't see any reason why you can't. Yeah. That sounds great.

You can totally bring that up regular. Whatever you want. All right. Well, let's get to it. Brian, we start with you as a tradition. Today's order will be you, Nicole, me, Randy. And let's start with you. What do you got?

Okay. Well, this is a series and kind of hard finding a good minute and 10 seconds of this series, straight, continuous minute and 10 seconds of this series that is in English, but I found one. And it's a great one because it very much sums up and sets up the show. All right. Here we go. Oh, it's minute 24 even you got. Here is what this is. Minute 24, but it's a good minute 24. All right. Enjoy. Six hours ago, we received a message coordinates southwest of our course. We believe this message comes from the Prometheus, the ship that went missing a couple of months ago.

Believe. You're not sure the signal comes from lost ship. We are not. But the communication technology we're using on the ships of this company is rare. It can reach further distances than that on other ships. The coordinates were seven hours away from us, and there's no other ship from our company traveling this route at the moment. What else did the message say?

Just that. The location. They didn't identify themselves as the Prometheus. Nor did they say they're in need of any help. So we're changing course because of message from an unknown sender who did not ask for help. The Prometheus. carried 1,423 passengers. Some of them might still be alive.

After four months. Seven days to get to New York. No, Captain. Does this at 1889? Or were this? What is it? 1899. A little bit costs a little bit more, 10 cents more than the price. We're living a time of high inflation, I understand. That's right, exactly.

Yeah, this is a brand new series on Netflix from the people who brought you dark, which I thought was absolutely excellent and a complete and total mind mender. We have a brand new complete and total mine mender in 1899. The setup is that this steamship in 1899, the Kerberos carrying a bunch of passengers, receives a signal from another steamship that disappeared four months ago, the Prometheus. And despite the protests of many of the European immigrant passengers on their way to New York, the captain wants to turn around and go help the Prometheus from these coordinates that it's being given. Zero to do with alien people.

There's a couple of people in the chat room like, oh, this is related to the Prometheus and alien? Nope, nope. This is a ship on water, not a ship. in space and it's a different Prometheus. So you could have fooled me and said this was in space and I would have believed you because it sounded like they were talking about space stuff. Sure. Yeah, there's, I could

see that actually because it's, you know, a ship traveling and you don't know if it's on water in space. Here is the big, big, big, big thing I need to tell you about this show. And I'm going to be so good about not spoiling because holy crap,

the less you know going into the show, the better and I don't want to ruin it for anybody by spoiling it. The characters on this ship all come from different places, from Spain, from Germany, Denmark, blah, blah, blah. And because of that, they're all speaking different languages. And they have a hard time communicating with each other. You heard, like, in that clip, you heard, like, four of the only English speakers on this ship. So it's great that the captain decided to give his announcement in English.

because four people were able to understand it. Wow. So, you may be tempted to watch this with dub as opposed to subtitles, dubbing as as opposed to English dub with as opposed to subtitles. I want to strongly recommend that you don't because there are scenes that take on a whole new meaning when you realize that people talking can't understand each other because they're speaking different languages. And if you watch this with dubbed, everybody's going to be used to be.

be speaking English, and it'll kind of lose that nuance. So you got to put down the iPad, you got to put down the Steam Deck, you got to put down the phone, you got to read some subtitles, I promise you, I promise you that it's worth it. I'm picturing somebody using all three of those devices and watching it with a you. I've been there, like playing a game and it's like, oh, what's the, how do I beat this level and I have the iPad going with that. And, you know, meanwhile, we're watching Quantum Leap or

Tina watching 9-1-1 or something. Sure. So get through it. It's eight episodes. It is beautifully cast. And then, once you finished watching it,

because you will binge this thing, you will not want to stop watching it once you start because it's so engrossing. I don't know how they do it. Every single episode ends with a brilliant, reveal. So I've already kind of teased a little bit. It's very lost similar, but you do get answers sooner than you get with lost. Don't be frustrated if you don't get some of the answers as quickly

as you want. You will get them by the end of the first season, and I'm hoping they do a second season. They set it up beautifully. A little bit of, I don't know, like a Shutter Island inception kind of thing as well with this that's got some weirdness and some, if you've seen dark, you to expect this. Once again, for the Fletcher's, the show's called 1899. Glad you mentioned that. After you've completed all eight episodes,

you're like, oh my God, that was so good. I want you to watch the 50-minute making of because they use a technology for this that has only ever been used by one other production, and it's something that they kind of had to do because of the pandemic. and I think we're going to see a lot of movies and shows use this new technology that is like that, like once you see it and then you think back to the all the scenes

where they use that, you're like, that was freaking amazing. So again, it's one of those things I don't want to tell you what the technology is because then as you're watching the show, you'll get distracted by that technology. But the making of shows you this thing called. the, what's it called? It's called the volume. And don't Google it. I should probably shouldn't have told you the name. I'm not looking at all. You're so, you're so stoked about that. I haven't seen you this excited about a new thing in a while. So I'm, I'm all in. This is, this, because you know how much I love Lost and how much I want something to, instead of being a Lost wannabe to capture that,

that Mystery that Lost had. This was so, so good. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, I'm in. That sounds Great. And it sounds like this Baron Beaudar and Han Hefriza are going, are going places. It sounds like they're going to be able to write their own checks going forward. Totally. And they're a married couple. So what could possibly go wrong there? Or I guess they're just partners, not married. But you get a lot of insight from them about filming the series and the making of. And they are just the coolest couple, the way they like talk to each other. And then like steal a kiss between when. they think part of the interview is over, they're like, aw, you know, that's adorable. But, yeah, such a great, got, such a great mystery to this whole thing.

And weird iconography and references to things that's like, oh, I want to look up what that thing is that they're loosely referencing. Gotcha. And you really liked dark, too, right? I really like dark. Once, like, once you figure out what's going on in dark, And you get one of the main actors, the traveler, basically, without, again, if you haven't seen Dark, I'm not going to give anything away. But the traveler in Dark plays the captain of the Kerbrose.

And so you'll instantly recognize him. You might recognize Emily Beecham. She was Into the Badlands on AMC. I like this Clara Rosarger lady. She's a Danish actress. I saw on something, what was it? I don't remember what I saw her in, but she's in this. She's interesting.

She's really good, yeah. She's a young pregnant Danish woman and kind of sets up the first, not the first mystery, but the first big action that you see in the show has to do with her. Nice. Nice. All right, you've sold me. So, yeah, 1899, trust me. Oh, and it's got a great cover.

White Rabbit as the theme song. So I kind of, and again, the theme music and the visuals in the theme, start meaning more things as you get through the story. It's got a very Westworld-looking opening. And for the record, this is not a sequel to the 1883, which is also a popular... Not the Yellowstone. No, no. Right.

No, this is a completely standalone. There are no ties to anything else. this is a stands on its own sounds awesome all right uh let's get to nicole's recommendal uh Nicole any set up here for your clip uh this is documentary I I've been consumed by mental health lately my own my families uh it's been it's been a rough move and I saw this come out and I said wow uh I like to watch that and I think it's a really, really good documentary. Mental health is a very personal thing for everyone,

but I think anyone that watches this could probably take away some good stuff. So, and it stars an actor, he's the one doing this documentary. It stars an actor that has had a lot of public mental health issues. He even was in a Netflix show that I recommended a while

back called Manick that dealt with mental health. So it is near and dear to his heart. And he is so vulnerable in this documentary. I just, I, it was just an amazing watch. So there you go. Here's the clip.

It's up, Stats. Hi, Jonah. Okay. Entertain me. I'm just going to start by acknowledging how odd this endeavor is, a patient making a movie about his therapist, but my life has gotten immeasurably better as a result of working with you. If it worked for me, maybe it will work for other people. It's a little short. Sorry. So that's Jonah Hill. Yeah. Right? I always And that was his therapist, Stutz. And the documentary is called Stuts. All right. It's, I don't know how to explain it.

it's just i guess i think they filmed it over a course of two years um is it just that is it him just saying like hey what you did for me let's explain it to other people like is that kind of the essence of it okay because i wish you would have played more of the the trailer because uh stutz goes into why he the type of therapy he does because most therapists are when you go to a therapist the person will you know they will be when they're ready they will they will reveal and so it's a more of a hands off approach for a lot of therapy and stutz is like no that's not good enough that's not good enough i need i need to help you take the steps give you tools to frame your world and make the progress you need to feel better that's his whole purpose is

to make, to get you on the right path. Yeah, it's a more active approach. This is, by the way, my sister Wendy recommended this to me also because that's her, I was wondering. Yeah, because this is her whole thing. Her entire push is a more active role, less passive, less, you know, waiting for the, the patient to arrive at their conclusions, this sort of thing. And this is a, this is a single film or a series?

It is this, it's a single documentary. It's like an hour and a half long. And even if you, I know there's people in the chat room saying, I don't like Jonah Hill, it's okay. You don't have to like them. What you need, I really strongly, even if you, especially if you don't like Jonah, I really, really highly recommend, even if you think you're in the perfect mental health, this could help you and just kind of following his tools and just seeing that mindset and just,

it's just really well done. If you really like Jonah Hill, I should still watch it, right? If I like Jonah Hill? Of course. This will make you hate it if you like. Don't let your hate of Jonah Hill not watch this documentary because really what this is about is Stutz. And he becomes very vulnerable too.

It goes into his backstory and the challenges he's having with he has an illness and it's i don't know i just i want everybody to watch it i really i got so much from it i probably watch it again a few more times uh i've been dealing with a lot of anxiety like to the point where i can't sleep and it's messing with my stomach and i just it's i don't know it's just helpful it was helpful and i don't have time to go to a therapist yeah right yeah right i probably should but I mean for now this is this is getting me by so yeah I really I like Jonah Hill and I like the I like this idea as a documentary of like turning the camera around and talking to him it's a very interesting project it's probably really interesting and I assume it's done in

such a way that isn't exploitative isn't the word I'm looking for but it's well they tackle that Yeah. And Jonah says to him, why do you think I'm doing them? And Stutz's responses, I don't know. And he's like, maybe it's for you to feel more powerful over me. Like they address all of that in the documentary. And it just feels honest. It feels raw.

It feels what most people need nowadays right now. Yeah. This is what I wish, the Val Kilmer documentary had been. I wish the Val Kilmer documentary had a therapist in it who was, you know, talking

about Val as much as it was a yeah, I agree with that. I think the mood, that thing ended up feeling a little navel gazing to me in a way that, um, didn't need to and they could have I mean, even whether you involve a therapist or not, I just think they could have focused a little bit more on this aspect

of his life too. Yeah, I think that that would have been more interesting. I mean, in this particular case, I think that it is possible to see other people's process and gain really valuable stuff from it. And so, and they break it down into his tools. So they talk about the shadow. He has a thing called the shadow. In the very early on, it talks about, I can't remember what he calls it, but it's like the pyramid. Like one thing, if you want to make progress, towards feeling better the again he outlays it but it's like your diet exercise these are all very simple things we think you know oh i'll do anything to lose weight except diet and exercise

right but it's at the core of our mental health and one of the things that jonah says is you know he's he has publicly struggled with his weight and from a very very early age and that caused a lot of problems with him and his mom. And he had never been approached that mental health is connected to activity and exercise. Like, your mental health will be better if you exercise. It's always like, no, you exercise to lose weight. No, you can exercise to have better mental health. And that was like a big kind of light bulb for him in his therapy.

So it kind of breaks it down by all these different kind of sections of going through the tools that Stutz is presenting. It sounds great. I loved it. I'm definitely, I linked or I added to my cue when you brought it up in our private Discord and definitely we'll be watching it. It seems like something I really like. Is it all in black and white or is that just the trailer? It goes in and out. Okay.

It's mainly fine with me either way. I was just curious. Yeah, it's mainly in black and white. And I think that's the one of the things about it talking when they start kind of breaking down, like the image of this documentary and why they're doing it. And what's Hollywood? What's what's real? Right? And so they kind of use that black and white to kind of make that point.

And they bring it into color in different parts of it when they're talking about real. and, you know, the things that we present to others. Well, it sounds like the super bad star is in a super good documentary. It's great. You might tear up a little bit. I'm a very emotional person. I find that I feed off of other people's emotions. It's why I can just cry so easily.

And so, yeah. It's because you're empathic. You're empathic to people. in there, you've got more hearts than any of us. That's right. It's hard. It's hard to live that way. It's exhausting.

Yeah, it's tiring. I know a bit of this myself. It sucks. I wish I cared less about everybody. It's like, hey, I can't. I can't. And I take it all in and I carry it with me. And that's part of my process, right?

Sure, sure. The worst thing about it, about that wishing you cared less about everybody is looking around and seeing all the sociopaths, so successful. Oh, I know. I know. Yeah, they're the ones with all the grift money. And all the TikTok followers, too. Yeah. They get all the garbage. All right. Here is my pick. So again, that's Stutz on Netflix, everybody. Is where you'll find that. Just in Manick. And watch Manick, too. It kind of makes me see that that series a little differently now, too. I'll bet. And then so, so, okay, so Christine, did you hear it?

Shit Outta Luck.com. Okay, good. She heard it. Here is mine. This is a series that is almost done, but I wanted to talk about it because I'm so excited about it, but it's not quite done yet. I don't usually try to do that on here, but I think it's that good. I absolutely love it. We may have brought it up before, but nobody's recommended it, so here's my clip. We're going to rob a bank tomorrow. No, Bert now something he's scrounged up. Knowing them as I do, that sounds a tad worse. Mm-hmm.

How's he holding up? You should come by sometime. See for yourself. Might even be moved enough to offer you a beer. Just the one. Well, I guess it depends on how Generacy's feeling. How's the charge on that? Low.

Burn never petals like you ought to. Those words could end up on his gravestone one day, don't you think? Definitely. Yeah. Want some help with it? All right. That is the peripheral. And this stars my favorite name in Hollywood,

Chloe Grace Ortiz McGeeke Magoch, whatever name is. Chloe Grace Moretz is in this. And it's her starring role in this movie. This is based on a William Gibson novel of the same name. And he is, of course, known for Neuromancer and other works. But his stuff was really good at sort of futurism and figuring out kind of, I don't know, something, he kind of predicted the internet in a lot of weird ways with some very early works. And this is a lot like, that sort of stuff very kind of blade runner ideas it's a weird mix though that ended up really working well for me this you hear those accents they're all in the deep south and she does a really good job with that accent it sounds very louisiana her and her brother and her mother

all live in this like old house out in the country and the mother has a brain tumor and they're both just trying to take care of her they live in the year 2035 and in that year which is 10 years from now, or more than 10 years from now. There's some interesting technology changes. If you go into the military, for example, you get suited up with a bunch of, they call them haptics, but it's basically hardware that lets you sync with your teammates in these special units so that you become a way more formidable killing machine as a group than you would as individuals. It's kind of hard to explain in the show. The show doesn't, even explain it that much. They just sort of imply a lot of stuff. But it's a really interesting

concept. But it's this mix of like old country, Southern Gothic and hardcore cyberpunk freaking blade runnery futurist stuff. How much black mirror are we talking? Give me a percentage of black mirror here. Um, you know what? How black is this mirror? That's a really fair question. And I'm going to say it's high. It's like a 65% to 70% black mirror style thing, which is very William Gibson in any way. I mean, Black Mirror probably, you know, you should, you should say how much William Gibson is in Black Mirror is the more appropriate thing. Charlie Booker is the British William Gibson. Go ahead. That is, that's fair to say, actually, I think. Um, and I love Black Mirror. So this fits right into that. If you like Black Mirror, then this is a series you probably really get into. Um, Chloe is really good. I really like her in general. She has huge screen presence. And I just think she's fantastic in it. Um, I don't want to give too much away because there's a ton of stuff. There's a time travel element that isn't actually traveling in time. It's a quantum thing that's based on science, some quantum computing concepts and stuff. And I want Brian to see it so we can have a discussion about the time travel business.

Does she go into the quantum realm and fight Kang or is that something else? Something very different. Not at all that. But it's, I don't want to say much more about it. I'm intrigued by that already. That's great. It's really interesting. And it goes a ton of different places.

And on the one hand, there's almost like this sub, almost justified like, story happening in the hometown with like the guy who has all the money and the locals and her brother and all this and there's that whole conflict and then there's this thing where they're putting on headsets that are bigger than virtual reality and they do these things called sims and um they jump to the year 2099 and that's a trip and there's a ton of world just before after my thing yeah it is it is right right even think about that um it's on prime Amazon Prime video. It's an original and it's still coming out. There's maybe the final episode just hit or it's close to getting toward the end.

I can't wait for the ending. I hope they keep making it. It's fantastic. It's reviewing really well and people should see it. It's called the peripheral streaming now on Amazon Prime and is just about over with its first season. I really loved it. All right. I'm going to watch it. You'll like you really like it. The black mirror quality is there for sure. It's what turned me off, so when I first came across the peripheral, the only time I even considered it, what turned me off was it didn't appear to have like showrunners. There weren't like, I wasn't being told by from this creator and this, you know, amazing producer. And, you know, I dug into it a tiny bit and it looked like one of those shows that kind of constructed itself. Like it was like really, you know, they were all about the actors.

Like I couldn't even figure out like, what kind of studio is this out of? Yeah. But you've convinced me. I think you'll like it a lot. I think this is just Amazon throwing a lot of money at something, and it's working out. I got a quick question since you brought up Black Mirror, and I can't stop thinking about a show that I had to watch last night. Have any of you recommended Sandman? No.

Did I miss that? Do we recommend it, or do we've talked about a lot, but I don't know if any of us recommended it. Yeah, now that you say it, I don't think we did, but we did, you know, Stephen and others and probably even in this segment. I'm sure. We also haven't recommended for some reason, no one on this show. has recommended rings of power or House of Dragons yet. Scott did House of Dragons, I did House of Dragons, I think.

I think, did I? I don't think so. I don't even know if I did that. You talked a lot about the two actresses that play the different ages, you know? The different ages. I think I don't think that was a proper recommendation.

Yeah, I think I may have just talked about it. But, yeah, sometimes things are so big in our face that we just, because everyone's watching it, you know, so we don't really bother. Well, I'm finally watching The Sandman, and we watched episode five last night. I was like, I felt like a black mirror episode. It was so intense.

And I'm like, what? I can't go to sleep now. I need to watch. I still haven't seen it. I still haven't watched it. It's so stupid. I love the comic. I love gaming.

Yeah, I don't know what my problem is. I don't know why I'm putting it off. I don't know. I know why, because I promised Carter, I would wait until she got back from Iceland. Oh, that's cool. That's a good reason.

Yeah, she'll get home from Iceland. We'll watch it. There's two things. I can't watch rings of power or that until she's home. Everything else is a fair game. Episode five was a doozy for me. Wow. All right.

Well, enter Sandman. Hey, Randy, tell us about your clip. What do you got here? So there's a newish documentary series on Netflix that seems like it was designed for Scott Johnson. It seems like this is something Scott would always be encouraged to watch. Like Netflix would put it. it in your face and then Scott would watch it and then Scott would recommend it. And when

some weeks have gone by and Scott hasn't I decided, you know what, I'm going to recommend it here on the show. Like, that's better than like saying to you privately. Like, I don't want to tell you what to do. Sure, sure. Do it in the public. I like that. This is a, yeah, this is a documentary and it is so right up your alley

and I enjoyed it. So I'm super intrigued. Here we go. I'm going to try to tell you as much as I can remember because it did happen 25 years ago. And because I'm human and I'm flawed, I hope I can remember enough. Once upon a time, Valentine's Day was a very good day for me.

1987, 14 February, I did my first bodybuilding contest. Little did I know that was the beginning of the end. No idea. I just, I tried to get from the very, very, very, beginning of this thing because I don't want to I don't want to tell you too much about it. It's a documentary about a woman you're told up front this is a woman who's a Marine and a bodybuilder her husband was a Marine and a bodybuilder they are very much in love but they are very much caustic couple they have two kids and I and this is there's this is

all being recalled for you now in 2022 so most most these people are you know participating in this documentary but with one major your exception, which is the husband because he's dead, she killed him. And you know that going in. You know that she killed him and you're going to find out through the course of this thing, you know, how that came to transpire. And

then there's a, there's a pretty big court case and so on. What's remarkable about it all is that there's so much footage for you to see of things that happened in the 1980s and the 1990s because it's called Killer Sally, because

Sally McNeil, was a video maker she made videos of herself she loved doing that and then after her husband is killed she's in an interrogation room where they these this documentarian has all the footage everything everything she said kids come in other people get interviewed there's so much footage that makes this thing up and so it's kind of remarkable because you're you're looking back you're hearing people talking now about what they remember and then you're looking back on it with clear video and sound of what you know went on interesting it's called killer sally is the name killer sally is that yeah it's the name of this it's on netflix uh it's three

parts i would say i guess it's maybe a total of two and a half hours long something like that it is um it is just it is really well constructed you have uh for instance a uh a guy who is in his 30s now who is her adult son, but was maybe eight years old when his dad was killed in his living room. And he's witnessed it all. And he is now talking about it. But you also have a little bit of that, you know,

contemporaneous footage of this kid. And he is so freaking interesting. Because ultimately today and back in the day, he's kind of glad she killed his dad. And he's, and you're like, whoa. I'm not used to people

looking into a cabber and saying that was the best thing that could have happened to us. She's freaking ripped, dude. My gosh, she was Yeah, she is. Holy crap. Did she, well, you don't have to tell me obviously, but I'm, now I'm all curious about this little sick maybe. Is that her

tank? Well, they were both Marines and they lived together in Oceanside, California for a long time. And so there's some like, there's all kinds of interesting subjects inside this. There's the world of bodybuilding,

which you're going to, you know, you're going to hear a lot about and you're going to ultimately start asking was some of these drugs that they're taking involved in what went down. And there's the Marines and how things are when you're in the Marines, when you're a bodybuilder in the Marines, when you get out of the Marines, how things are for you.

There's this whole world of amateur videotape that she is into, like she's making these, a PG-13 rated amateur videos of herself wrestling men and sending them out to these creeps on the end on not on the internet but via like magazine back page orders and stuff well she was ahead of her time in that regard she'd be an only fan's hit these days yeah and then there is the thing that i realized oh people need to watch this there is a prosecutor in san diego who is just a bad human being And I don't want to, I don't want to say too much about all the various people in this and whether or not I think they're morally right or wrong or whatnot. But this prosecutor, I am willing to judge from the minute you see him, you were just like, oh, she got a slime ball. She's going to court and being accused of murder and going to jail because she is facing a prosecutor who is just a terrible human being. It's like, and there's all the, and they have current footage of this guy. guy looking into the camera and saying some terrible things. I don't know why this man

would would portray himself the way he does. But there you go. It is, it's just riveting. It's very, very entertaining. Well, that sounds really good. I was, I had cute up. My next documentary on Netflix was going to be Pepsi. Where's my jet? Yep, which was recommended about three weeks ago. Yeah. And I, so, yeah, which should I watch first? Ooh, they're both. I mean, you should probably watch Pepsi, Where's My Jet? Because it was recommended to you first. Yeah, that's true. You know what? I'll do it in chronological order. Great idea. For those that don't know what that is, 20-year-old attempts to win a fighter jet and a Pepsi sweepstakes set stage for a Goliath court battle. Yep. You're going to love, you're going to really love Killer Sally, Scott. I would say Brian Abbott might enjoy Killer Sally.

I think a lot of people would, but I want to make it really, really clear. This is a documentary about a very, very abusive situation. And what makes people into very abusive people and it, you know, it touches on their history as children and so forth. It is, uh, I just, I didn't even ask Samantha if she wanted to watch it with me. It's not for everybody. This is, there's a lot of violence, violence toward women. And it really unpacks what happens in court when a woman says, I have been abused. and part of the system tries to tell her, no, you're lying. Interesting.

Yeah, it's super trigger warning for anybody out there who would, you know, who would be bothered by that sort of subject matter. Sure, sure. Well, I like a good honest take for that sort of stuff, so I will definitely watch it. All right. Well, nice. Look at all these, look at these recommendations we've made today. Just a litany of quality products available to you, the list.

listener. If you just go subscribe to like three or four channels and also go to quicktms.l.I. And Brian posted there for all to link to. That's right. Either of you have anything. Netflix is today. Look at that. I know. It's pretty good. You guys have anything you want to do or say about anything got going on? Nicole, you got anything cool happening? You want people to know about or anything? No. No, not at all. No. No. It's all right. It's all right. Wood whispers, Black Friday. Cyber Monday week deal.

It's Wednesday. It's already done. Oh, it's got. Well, congratulations to all the wood everyone got. Nice job. Yeah, if you want to learn woodworking, come to the Wood Whisperer Guild.com. Nice. Very nice. I am in the process of putting together a 3D print class. Oh, nice. Cool. Right. Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm excited about that for you. That's very cool.

Oh, that's the other thing I wanted to tell both you and Brian. The peripheral has a gigantic nod toward the future of what 3D printing is. Oh, cool. That's all I'll say about it, but it's actually very, like a practical on the ground sort of use case. It's very interesting. You had me at time travel, Scott. No need to sell me any more on this thing.

Greenie printing. Let's do it. Oh, my gosh. Now there's even more. It's fascinating. All right. Nicol, we'll see you soon. Randy, anything you have going on?

I mean, we're getting ready to sack Supergirl on film sack. And then thereafter, we're looking into our Christmas season of stuff. I am not making any promises to people out there, but we are considering a couple of potential watch-alongs. And what I'm looking into kind of deeply is Christmas episodes of things like Dr. Who or The X-Files. We did a Christmas episode of The X-Files a couple years ago, and it was such fun.

And there's others. So if you're out there and you know of a Christmas episode of a, let's just say, semi-bad TV show that is streaming for us. Let me know. Hit us, like, tweet at us or get into our Discord. We have a recommendations

channel on the podcast of Discord. There's an episode of Love Boat where Doc Bricker tries to bang Santa Claus, so maybe tune in for that one. Maybe we should watch along on that one. Damn. That's a strong pick, dude.

I like that. I'm kidding about the there are many Christmas episodes of Love Boat, but none of them with Brickern is he's such a horn dog that guy he is I boy did I not realize that as a kid I didn't remember that at all as a kid and I watched that show after season three it's insane it's insane that guy should have been defrocked fired from the cruise ship had his license his medical doctor license from taking away no kidding he's a purve monster anyway do that for

Randy Randy we'll see you this weekend thank you both for being here all right we're about done with the show here real quick got a text from a listener thought this was interesting they didn't leave their name so i don't know who sent it oh no they did no it's an an anan means anonymous sorry that's not a i'm a big don't name is anon yeah it's anon cue anon no uh Elon says this person has turned brands off so much that twitter would need one in four active users to subscribe to twitter blue just to make up the lost ad revenue wow i don't know why he sent me that but i thought that was an stat. So a whole bunch of ads, a whole bunch of advertisers have left. They've kind of, they don't

like what's going on. So they're like, eh, probably don't want our products on here. So they took off Apple being a major one that was paying them probably in the millions, maybe billions a year. And the idea of one in four, one in four active users that's eight bucks a month would have to sign up for Twitter blue. I don't think you can get that number. No. No. No. That's Especially, you know, if people leave Twitter, who cares who you are, you know, and seeing that blue check mark. So it's, again, it's kind of that same thing where it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. The fewer people who are paying attention, the fewer people who care that you are the blue checkmark that you say you are and therefore no reason to buy it. Right.

Well, that's, I agree with you. Like, I see, I see that blue check mark now and I go, oh, you paid. Yeah, you paid for that. I don't know that that's really who you are. I have no idea. It doesn't mean anything anymore. Like, it used to mean that you were verified. At the very least, you were verified.

It used to mean something. Yeah. And I realize it was poorly implemented always, but at least it meant verification in the end. Yeah. Now it doesn't mean Jack. So good luck. Good luck, everybody. Good luck.

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slash TMS. All the details are there. Frogpants.com slash TMS for everything else. All right. We're done. Sometimes it's TMS blue because, you know, we say some things in the pre-show that we don't say on the regular show. That's right. TMS blue. Instead of Twitter blue support frog pan or TMS blue. TMS blue. We work blue. We go to Vegas. You know, we do blue things. It's great. Oh, many blue things. Yes, exactly. Let's get to a song. Oh, I haven't talked about that.

By the way, folks, this was in the chat room and on Facebook and I think Discord. But the contract has been signed and sent, and we've gotten official confirmation from the plaza. Our dates are set. We now have a code that you can use to get cheap dates or cheap, I don't know about cheap dates. You're on your own getting those. But getting room rates. And look, here's the deal with those room rates. they're going to look pretty close to the regular roommates you get off book.

Why we need you to use our code is so that we, as a collective we, as the Tadpool family, we get inexpensive access to the ballroom for board games and a bartender in there that's going to keep me well lubricated with gin and tonics all afternoon long that I still have to pay for, sadly. But yeah, use our room code, which I think is stream for, if I remember correctly. and um but go book go go book right now because uh and the dates are what the 26 27 24 through the 28th or 24th to 5th well we're there that yeah that's the week but what's the what are our two like what are the days people hover around um there are three days because we have the welcome reception on monday we have stuff going on all day tuesday and then we have stuff on wednesday that culminates in the live tms show at the sand dollar gotcha okay so 24 through the 26th day don't try and fly out Thursday don't try and fly out

Wednesday night after all this. No, no, no, no. That's right. Yeah, so 24th through the 26th, and we'll have info up on the website soon enough. That's right. Which is... Yes, and big thanks to KT. Data, who has already offered to take on all the, or a lot of the heavy

lifting of the Taskmaster game, if we do one, so that I can be in the board room, board game room for longer than 15 minutes playing, why is my ship sinking with red frackle.

Are you doing the taskmaster thing again? Is that the plan? I am. Oh, interesting. Yep. And I'm hoping to have an idea of what that entails so that if, you know, if we need you and some other frogpens producers to get there early on Monday, so you can do it, then we'll figure that out. So don't book airline until I'll let you know. Very nice.

All right. Well, that's it for the show. We should play a song. Do you have one of those? Let's play a song. I have a song. After all that's set up, I now have a song. Great. A&P performer contestant, Nikki Ackermans wrote in and said, Dear Cover Master Blaster, I'm writing this a few months in advance. She did. She wrote this in October. So I forget about it, and it's a surprise to myself. But on this day, I should be all packed up in NYC and ready to move to a brand new state. I'm leveling up, as it were, and starting a new job is. assistant professor in Alabama. That means I get to start my own lab

running mad scientist's sheep experiments. It also means I'll officially become a member of the southern faction of the tadpool. You'll always be New York to us and giant weird sunglasses. I'm 100% excited for all the new things coming my way and looking forward to my first crawdad boil. Hope I said that right.

If it so pleases the covermaster, I'd like to request a good cover of Sweet Home Alabama to commemorate this day. or any song that fits the theme. Wish me luck, sign Dr. Nicky. Nice. She's great. We love her.

Yes, I want all good things to happen to Dr. Nikki. I don't care. She's so fantastic. Anyway, she said any cover of Sweet Home Alabama, as long as it's not ska. I've got one for you. That's not ska,

and this is a fun one. It completely changes it. More like a skiffle song. Here's the band Clumsy Lovers from the very cleverly titled album under the covers from 2002, and their cover of Leonard Skinner's Sweet Home Alabama. Very nice.

We'll see you guys tomorrow. Big wheels keep on turning. Want to carry me back to see my kin. Singing songs about Southland. Will I miss Alabama once again? I think it's a sin. Will I heard Miss. Young sing about her.

Well, I heard only her put her down. I hope the young will remember The summer man don't need them around and I'm Sweet Home, Alabama Where the sky's also blue Sweet Home Alabama But I'm coming on to you And Birmingham and they love the governor

Ooh, ooh, cool, cool, well did what we could do No, what I get does not bother me Does your conscience bother you? Now tell the truth Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Sweet home Alabama But I'm coming on to you The muscle shows it's got the swamperse

They've been on to pick a song too Lord, it gets me off so much Pigs me up when I'm feeling blue Now, how about you? Sweet home Alabama Where the skies are so blue Lord, I'm coming on to you This show home Alabama

Where the sky's out so blue This show is part of the frog panama Lord, I'm coming on to you This show is part of the Frog Pan Network. Frogpants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. Oh, yeah.