The Morning Stream - TMS 2388: Rise Revolt Repeat

Episode Date: December 7, 2022

Eating Mustard Every Day. The Short Answer? It's Bullshit. Marie Osmond Squirted Colonel Mustard in the Conservatory. Friends that Lick Poles. Yeet out the commercials. I'm allergic to tentacles. You're right handed, left? They give off the stench of niceness. I thought Fargo Won, no? The Academy of Brian Dunaway.just a lil' bit of torture. A drawing I did of my own HAND. Bring me all the raw with my Ma and Pa. Recursive Logic Loop With Tom. Zillow Goes Wild with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, eating mustard every day. The short answer? It's bullshit. Marie Osmond squirted Colonel Mustard in the conservatory. Friends that lick polls. Eat out the commercials. I'm allergic to tentacles. You're right-handed, left. They give off the stench of niceness.

I thought Fargo won, no? The Academy of Brian Dunaway. Just a little bit of torture. A drawing I did of my own hand. Bring me all the raw with my ma and paw. Recursive logic loop with Tom. Zillow Gone Wild with Randy and Nicole and Moore. on this episode of The Morning Stream.

It occurs to me that I forgot to tell you one very important thing. Don't discard batteries into a fire. They may explode. Oh, yeah, I want a rematch. The Morning Stream. He's an annoying little bleepin insect, and I want him stepped on hard.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS, the morning stream. That's what it is for short. And it's Wednesday, December 7th, 2022. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Ibbett. Hello. Hello.

We're back. We got stuff. Yeah. It's a Wednesday. Yeah. You know. That it is. What is it is?

hump day for sure i don't love wednesdays wednesdays are busy um they're fine here the show isn't a problem but the just my whole day ends up being oh and we had to push play retro to today so i got a lot more today than i usually do and i don't know i feel like i'm gonna be real tired later you know sure oh look at this though brian uh what tell me show me very exciting uh news i received in the mail and i put up some video for some people if they want to see it uh i got my test deck for dungeon oh yeah there's there's there's there's a card what card is this look that there's an actual card from the game there's a card from the game i'll show you the back of one of these it's interesting here oh this is a good one everybody wants this um if you draw this card you get it's a

the found loot card and you get two extra cards you can draw that round for your turn or you can cash it in for 1,000 gold ooh i wonder what that means so so you know it's the decision you got a yep and i'm guessing that gold is your end game, like your end game win situation? No, actually, it is owning the most dungeons, complete dungeons possible. So I mentioned the other day that one of my inspirations for this in terms of mechanics was, there are a couple of games out there, but one in particular monopoly deal, and they have this aspect of that game, which is how do they handle, you know, like monopoly properties and that sort of thing. So I took that, twisted a little bit, and came

up kind of my own version of it. But yeah, the goal is, you want three complete dungeons you're like a dungeon overlord and once you have that all other dungeoneers are dead uh and you win the game games take about 15 minutes you can play up to five people comes in a big fat deck of 112 cards i think a lot in here and you can see a lot of different kind of cards of different abilities quick everybody snap shot this and you can make your own deck for cheap for free for free ah well i put up a 24 minute video on youtube playing kind of a game against myself so if that's the case, I've already given it away. Is it, what's the maximum number of players?

Five. You can play two to five. So if you've got two, great. If you have three, four, five is even, I wouldn't say better. You can have a great game with just two of you. But things get really, like, jerk each other around when you have more people. Like, you can really screw somebody over. Anyway, it's really fun.

And, yes, there's a 24-minute. video of me playing with myself on YouTube. Thank you very much, Benjin, for clarifying that. Anyway, this will be a thing and I'm working on it and I'm really excited and I'm losing my mind about it because I'm filled with both excitement and nervousness because there's only, I've only found one typo, no other errors in printing, and I've only got four, so far in my play test, I played Kim about six games last night and only four notes or five notes of things I may want to tweak. So I'm actually closer than I thought it was going to be, and that makes

me nervous. But that's good, right? Yeah, that's great. I mean, that's what you're looking for. Is that that just means you've learned from Rock Runners and you've, you know, figured out what to do and what not to do. Yeah, I learned lessons. There were lessons learned, you know? Yeah.

But I'm, and these are just, this is just like a rough print. The final ones are going to have like a nice texture finish and like all that stuff. Oh, I'm so excited. Anyway, more news soon. Dungeonmurder.com com you can keep track of for updates and stuff there's a link to that video there plus just some basic information about the game and um when will the kickstarter be and stuff i don't know yet

we're working on that but uh right now i'm just heavy heavy and beta test at the moment cool i'll let you guys know what comes of it nice um all right check this out oh and also kim asked she goes this morning she goes can we play more of that today wow that's uh she's my wife okay So, you know, got to take that with whatever grain of salt you want to apply here, but still. Tina doesn't even say, hey, Brian, can we play some more Marvel United this afternoon? Never says that. Never. I mean, part of it is she's just excited that it's a cool project.

She gets to help with it and all that. But she actually had fun and laughed her butt off yesterday because there was this moment. So there's a card in here called Banish, okay? Or not banish. Oh, crap. I forgot what I named my own card. Hold on. it's called

oh scott this would be easier if you just had it you know if you just if there weren't 110 cards right I didn't do the Tina voice I'll do it next time oh yeah never never forget the Tina voice I know how could I forget the Tina voice I'm sorry rebuke is the name of the card rebuke yep and it's uh got a drawing I did of my own

hand but then I colored it blue and put a oh there it is colored it purple more like there it is right there this is an action card and that's actually my hand wow look at that but with a little spell in it anyway it says use this card when an action card is played against you and this basically means you can stop them this this stops them in their tracks whatever they're doing to you this says no you can't do that to me and so i thought i had all these in my deck in my hand and kim i'm about to take her for about 12 or 13000 gold which would decimate her

her deck she was going to have a really bad day and she rebuked me and that for me to do what i did to get the 12 or 13 i had to spend two really important cards to do that not knowing she had this she plays this i lose those two cards it becomes neutered there's nothing i can do yeah and she laughed for five minutes at me so i guess mission accomplished i don't know this is like uh you know somebody playing a goose uh against you just as you're playing Arnhem Zola on your Black Panther in Marvel Snap.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly it. Anyway. Are you, you're left-handed, though, right? Right-handed. No, you are right-handed. Okay, because I was looking at that, the drawing, so it was like, you know,

you're holding your hand up and kind of sketch it like that. So this is my, I use my left hand. And so if... Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So you just drew, like, hold your hand up and then just drew it like that. Yeah, yeah, I just held it there. I was like, all right, sketch,

sketch, sketch, and then did some detail. I'm pretty happy with it, except there's a little weirdness on the thumb. I don't know. It's like a little growth. But I kept it because it's kind of like, oh. It's the padding that happens when you bend your thumb. I mean, I'll show you.

I've got that same weirdness. Oh, yeah, see, he's got a little pad there. See? Oh, wait. I got the wrong camera up. Here's Brian. Show me your thumb again. There you go.

It's like a little pad when you, like your pad doesn't fully fill out the whole thumb. It just kind of stops about halfway down your thumb. Yeah. Which is what you know, you don't want that. You don't want that. So chat here. Sorry, I meant to actually show this camera here. see here's the deck oh yeah

Brian can't see this but I can't see I should make a way for you to see that anyway it's all good in the hood and excited about it now on to more important issues yes I know what they are but yes I have before me

an opportunity to share something we learned about America's sweetheart Marie Osmond okay now she lives like when she's not touring she has a house in Provo about 25 minutes or so drive from me. And she's very nice, apparently.

People live around her really like the Osmond. She appears to be. I mean, the Osmond's definitely give off this aura of, we're nice. Super nice. And they've been doing that since their show in the 70s, the Marines. Sure.

Oh, yeah. And anyway, they seem nice enough. But she's, you know, she's somewhat, she's controversial in that she's had, you know, people give her hard time she's had a ton of work done and so they're like ah that's how nice can you really be if you're covered in plastic you know this kind of crap people are just kind of mean about it well she does still look really never us we've never commented on any no plastic surgery usage at all ever no we love it we just want more of it yes yeah back we're gonna

Brian and I are going to get some I may not even comment on it when it comes to talking about my recommendal today oh oh goodness all right I'm actually real excited about your review today. I can't wait to hear about that. Anyway, so Marie Osmond was asked, how does she stay so youthful? You know? And here's her answer. Okay. One tablespoon of mustard every day. A tablespoon of mustard. You know, she's not the first person I've heard this from. I've actually heard somebody else did this thing with mustard, like, you know, taking it every day. Is it just like regular yellow mustard? Yeah, yellow mustard, not something fancy or brand. or, you know, with a bunch of bits in or whatever.

No, just a big old spoonful. She's 63 right now. Let's see. And she shared this on Instagram. So this was her kind of offering this. She's how to stay healthy on the road. My doctor said, in case there are parasites or anything around, this is how you stay healthy. And I'm not joking.

One table, excuse me, one tablespoon a day of yellow mustard. And then she squirted. it in her mouth in her post. Didn't even like, why not squirt it into a tablespoon measure? She's just gotten so good. She knows exactly where, like, when to stop with the squeeze bottle to get her full on. She knows what, yeah, she does it enough where she knows, oh gosh. Yeah.

Look at that. Oh, it's just, I like mustard. There's like, what, video or something of it? Yeah, there's, if you click down the, toward link her, her Instagram video where she actually shows it off. Oh, man, yeah, she. She's had work. all i'm saying she's had work and i you know she was another one of these uh these people that in my very young years had a little bit of a marie osmond crush oh yeah how could you not she just doesn't even

look like her man she looks like oh she's a different person she's a different person oh i just sorry i just noticed something the tad pulley feud thing is airing out like if you were to show me Right to her mouth I can't mute TikTok by the way So I can only Like I can't on this On this thing that they provide Oh I guess I could just mount and mute that browser

Yeah that's Instagram anyway But yeah mute the browser of the tab And you'll be okay Oh it's Instagram I thought this was Well it's oh it's Instagram of a TikTok video Oh Oh is it oh right

It is it's a TikTok video from Marie Asman Yeah if you were to show me a still Of that of that video I would not be able to to tell you that that was Marie Osmond. Actually, even just showing me the video, I would not be able to know. I wouldn't either. Had him in her account, I would have said, wait a who's that exactly? And look, I don't have a problem with this. I'm just wondering, is there anything to it? Because if there's something to it, I likes me some mustard. Now, if the goal is

that you take a teaspoon or a tablespoon of mustard per day, I assume that means you can put it on something, right? Oh, sure. I guess. Yeah. Why not? Unless whether you're, it's not like, you know, She says, have to have this mustard, but don't eat anything before or after it for an hour. Right, don't swim. You could easily have a sandwich or have a piece of toast with mustard on it or something. Yeah, definitely don't go swimming after it. Let's see here. We got the health benefits of mustard.

Mustard is a low-calorie alternative to high-fat condiments. Okay, well, we knew that. It's good for you because it contains several antioxidants that provide various health benefits, including antichannel, antiviral, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, wound healing properties. Well, this sounds hokey-jokey to be a little bit. Wound healing? Okay. Now we're... Wound healing. We're invoking the Wolverine mutant power here. Now I'm starting to get a little suspicious. Says side effects could be...

Oh, okay. The natural medicines database notes that... Pooping yellow. Says applying white or black powder or mustard to the skin for an extended period of time can cause burns, blisters, or ulcers. The source also notes the consuming large amounts of mustard seeds by mouth can damage the throat cause side effects including heart failure diarrhea drowsiness breathing difficulties coma and death oh geez yeah so so don't over that's why you stop at a table spin yeah also maybe marie osman should measure that out instead of squirt in half the bottle down the throat

exactly instead just going for the squirt but it won't burn her burner because it's all that plastic'll just protect it exactly she's you know she's uh it's uh it's uh it's uh it's uh it's that and some desiccant to keep the skin from getting too much moisture mustard shots for everyone says the chat old salty goat I'm down you know what we need Dr. Tolbert

to pipe in and tell us Bobby or Jerry Tolbert or any of you somebody with some sort of science slash medical experience to tell us the story on this because I'll do it I'll do it I'll eat mustard every day

oh sure listen mustard today And is mustard one of those things you don't need to refrigerate, but everybody refrigerates it anyway? Yes, I think that's because they, they, why is that actually? Because you don't need to, but people do. That's what I'm trying to remember, because I know that you don't, you're not supposed to refrigerate ketchup. You can actually have ketchup out all the time, but everybody refrigerates it. I don't know if it's the same case of, uh, with mustard. I will say this.

Bobby has weighed in. He says, the short answer is it's bullshit. Ah, is it great? Nice. I need some citations, Bobby. Give me some back-end info in that way. So, what was I going to say? I forgot.

Oh, I like ketchup in a cold state with fries, though. I don't, because it immediately cools off your French fries. And I don't want, like, you know, I'm not saying I want my ketchup hot, but I don't want, it's like putting cold milk or cream or coffee mate in coffee. It's like, oh, darn it, it's cutting it down for my desired 130. No, that's a good point. You're actually making a good point. I don't know. Refrigerating yellow mustard will help maintain its flavor,

but it does not contain any ingredients that spoil. Okay, so it won't go bad if you can. Only Dijon and horseradish-based mustard or mushrooms. Dijon and horse-radish-based must be refrigerated. And those are like, because that has like eggs. That's your great poupon. That's your, yeah. There's like eggs or something in there.

Brown mustard probably is horseradish-based, I think. A little bit of mayo or something. business because mayo needs to be refrigerated. Mayo need definitely needs to be refrigerated, yeah. All right, well, quit refrigerating your ketchup and your mustard, everybody. And be like Marie Osmond, carry a little bottle with you? Actually, it was a big old French's bottle. That was a big old French's, yeah.

I'm sure she doesn't have an assistant that carries that bottle around for. Probably squirts it in her mouth for her while she's putting cucumber slices on her eyes or something. Claire says there's no mayo and mustard. In brown mustard or one of the fancier, like, spoilable kind? What's in there then? I don't know what's in there that spoils. Must be, it's something creamy. If it's not,

if it's not, let's see. Brown mustard. English mustard is with turmeric. Tremark. Claire, dude. Jeez, Louises. I don't know. What does she say now? Oh, geez.

She's in a mood. And it's the kind of mood. I hope there are no men around anywhere within. So brown mustard is really just made from coarsely ground brown mustard. seeds. So there's, you know, your regular mustard seeds and then brown mustard seeds. And some deli style mustards also incorporate horseradish for additional heat, which is the one you'd want to refrigerate. Because that's got some kind of creamy something in it. That's got some sort of, well, horseradish needs to be refrigerated. Oh, oh, the radish. That needs to, okay, that makes

sense because that'll ferment or go bad or whatever. Something. Yeah, it's just something. Oh, I love horse radish. Dude, you give me the, give me a big old fat steak with some horseradish. Yeah. I love it. Yeah, I always, if I go to Outback and they say, oh, all right, your steak, would you like anything with them? Like, yeah, horseradish. Oh, creamy or raw? I look at them and I just say, bring me all the raw horse radish you have. All the raw stuff. Yeah.

No, you're not wrong. That's just the best. I don't think you heard me correctly. Not the crap you get at Arby's. That stuff is not really horsey sauce. I don't want, I don't want horse radish that's been, you know, mushed up with ranch dressing or whatever. it's way cut down too it's not hot it's not even really spicy it's lame exactly although the funniest one of the funniest moments of my life we're in high school

and my friend i don't remember who it was either bill or darren one of these idiots uh we're sitting there with a cup of because they had horsy sauce in cup form you peeled the cup off and then you could dip in it it's a little bit like a little pink sauce thing or whatever like so it wasn't it wasn't your normal package yeah it wasn't your normal little package thing like the like the we used to get catch up tubs like that right where it was like a little square plastic container and you just pulled the top off are you looking to see if you've got something around there yeah I had one that's like it and I can't play it anyway so you you uh he had it there and he was just messing with it like squeezing it and pushing it and it wasn't

open and he was just dorking off and just like messing around with this thing and at one point he had messed around too much and we hear this pop and a whole bunch of it just goes into his face both of his eyes. So even though it was like a weak version of horseradish, it burned. Still got enough in it to burn, for sure. So he sat there for the next like, I don't know,

20 minutes just tearing up and he couldn't eat his food. And, you know, he was just like, oh, it's the worst thing ever. And I'm like, well, you're the dummy. You did it. It reminds me of one story and then we get to Brian Dunaway. But one of my earliest memories, I was out to lunch

with my mom and my uncle, Uncle George. We were the three that did everything together. We traveled and did all these, you know, drove to St. Louis and, uh, and Arkansas, Missouri and all these places when I was a kid, road trips every summer. Yeah. Um, we're at a sandwich place and this was here in Denver. My mom was having to go to work.

And I think she was probably handing me off to George so that she could go straight to work. And then I'd go back to, um, my grandmother's house with, uh, Uncle George. Sure. And, uh, we're at the sandwich place. And I remember George playing with a mustard packet and just kind of whacking it on the table. Oh, no. Don't isolate that anybody. But he's like just a little packet of mustard tap, tap, tap.

And I remember, I remember this like it was in slow motion. Yeah. He hits it then accidentally on the edge of the table. So it then gets kind of bent at the edge. But then also has an angle of trajectory and a glob of the mustard just like, floats in space towards my mom's light blue hospital smock

and goes and that stuff stains I just remember this so vividly and I think it was because of how angry my mom was when he did that because that stuff was like she was on her way to work

it's just going to stain she's not in a place where she can wash it out really quick even if you did it's still that stuff, it'll leave a little grease stain thing. Yeah, exactly. You got to dry clean that business. I should,

I should have brought that up over Thanksgiving. I'll bring it up. Yeah, why not? Bring up old, old grievances at the table. Maybe I'll have a mustard packet with me and I'll say, hey, George, remember when you splattered one of these all over, mom's blue smock, work smock?

And then for your mom, the camera will all zoom in on her face. She'll be like, remember it like it was now. surprised squirrel meme or whatever that thing was surprised chipmunk the year that brian ruined christmas for everybody else that's right it's unfortunate oh all right done away time we're gonna play game you and oh you guys are in good i was i was gonna say you need to re-log in because i had to reload yeah i had a aired out for me and then i got in again so yeah i don't know what that was about um that was me oh okay i had to reload to yeah then i blame you i blame me blame me blame me Yeah, it's fine.

You're to blame. Join us now and joining us with joiner Brian Benaddley. Hi, Brian. Jackie Joyner, Cursey. Yeah, let's do some joining. Oh, hi, joining the call now. Oh, hi. Oh, hi.

Hi. How are you? How you doing? Oh, hi. Yeah, yeah. You're doing okay. Sorry about the change and schedule yesterday. We really are doing play retro today, everybody.

It's happening. Okay. Yesterday was a little bit of a blast. Because I was, I was feeling kind of run down, too. Well, you weren't feeling run down. I was feeling run down. And so I just went home yesterday and got a, got a blanket and laid on the couch and pulled up some coach. Remember that TV series coach?

Yeah, there's a nice comfort binge. Yeah, you're watching it on the Roku channel? Is that what he told me, I think? I did. I did watch it on the Roku channel. Indeed. Is that commercial-based or what do they do over there? I don't know how that works.

They do a few commercials. It's not bad. I think they have like maybe 30 seconds of ads like every 10 minutes or something. So, I mean, it's not bad. That's pretty quick. And it's stuff like Tide. It's like commercials for Tide detergent. That's what I'd like.

I just watched a series on freebie, freebie, and on my iPad. And so I couldn't use a browser that would, you know, eat out the commercials. But the commercial breaks were like two and a half minutes long. and one and a half minutes of those commercials was always some like either an HIV medication, but it was like these long commercials. And I did something about, I don't care what it is. It could be for diarrhea. It could be for X and it could be for whatever.

But these minute and a half long commercials drive me nuts. Give me 30 seconds. With that little mini stories. Yeah, they're a little mini stories. Exactly. Here's Fred. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know why they do that.

Give me short, little dumb ones. That's what I want in my streaming services. Or don't give me any medical. I don't need ads for medicine, period. If I go to my doctor, I should say, hey, doc, I got this problem. And he should say, well, I got some for you. Yep, that's how it works. That's the traditional method.

I shouldn't be heading to my doctor going, doctor, doctor, I saw on the TV. I saw on the TV. I could get a thing for my penis. Yeah, you don't want that. I don't want to see that. No. Yeah, that's sad. I mean, you know, seeing those commercials for the little inspire seat cap thing, the little

button you push you like hold it up to your chest and push a button and it's a inspire went to my doctor and said hey what about this inspire thing and he almost it was almost like he was trying to hold back laughter yeah like well it was like your your uh most people's uh apnea is way too severe for that yeah you're not going to test that yours yours is right in there brian it's like okay nicely done it's the most pointless thing i've ever seen i don't understand the whole market behind it it makes zero sense to me i do all people are paranoid and they'll spend money on dumb stuff they see on Fox News. That's why.

Yeah, but they always tell you. But they have to be in leege with the doctors. The doctors have to be. Some of them. You're right. Like if it's pills, that's one thing. Because they, you know, those are going to vary. Well, I can understand dick pills, right? Excuse me. But I mean, like, when it, like this thing that you point at your chest and click a

button, that sounds like, I don't know, like your doctors are all probably going to go, uh, yeah, probably not that. Probably don't do that. Yeah, that's for you. Right. It was like, oh, Kriva, you know, Kriva probably wouldn't be the right thing for you. But I like how it's always a minute of side effects may include. And then don't take, don't take a Kriva if you're allergic to a Kriva. Yeah.

The allergic thing always gets me. That's right. Why did they have to start adding that? Well, look. You know, you got to get you somehow. Well, I found out I was allergic to it, but I kept taking it. That's right. How are you supposed to go in and go, I've never taken this medicine?

Yeah, that's true. Maybe I'm allergic to it. Well, let's see if we're allergic to this listener who's been waiting very patiently. Hi, thanks for holding. Who's this? I hope you're not allergic. Tanner. Oh, is this Tanner?

Hi, Tanner. Tanner. I didn't know you were going to call on today. It's very nice to have you on. How are you? I'm very well. Yeah, doing okay. Tanner actually helped with our news segment today.

We're going to talk about Sandra a little bit, so we'll do that in a bit. But a huge thanks for heading that up and making it happen. I'm having a little PTSD talking to Tanner. I'm going to be, I'm not going to lie about it because last time I was chatting with Tanner over Discord, it was during our D&D session, and I died a couple times. Oh, geez. I was unconscious a couple times. I guess I didn't fully die. So you rolled out of it.

You got your death rolls. Somebody healed me before I had to do all my saving throws. Oh, good. Yeah, I died a little bit inside last time. Sometimes DM stands for dastardly man. That's what it stands for. You should check with your doctor about. that you may be allergic to it.

I'm allergic to drow attacks. Because this wasn't drow as a big old tentacle thing. If your tentacled thing lasts more than four hours, seek a doctor's help. That's what the deal is. Well, Tanner, it's good to have you here. We're going to play a game and hopefully win some prizes. Hey, Brian, why don't you explain to good old Tanner what we're doing here? I will totally do that.

It's time to play the tadpulling 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. Now, Tanner, your job is more important than over because you're going to be rolling a D-100 to decide what your fate is going to be for getting that one during the fight. And you're either going to be working with Scott or Brian, whatever you roll.

You're going to be working with one of those guys. If your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes it's an all Sid Meyer prize pack today. You get Sid Mears Railroads with an exclamation point. Yes. And Sid Meyers Civilization 6, both of those courtesy of Dave Akers. I'll bet he has six, so he'll probably re-gift it because that's what he does, because he's a nice guy.

Probably. And you can never have enough Sidmeyer in your life, is my experience. Oh, yeah. Especially trains. Yeah. Railroads. Railroads, damn it. Railroads.

They make the old rest go. Well, that's great. What a nice little lineup you got there. Let's do this. All right. So we have fingers on buzzers, right? Figures on buzzers. This is going to be, this is going to be, I think, a tough one.

So I might, might, once we get to your second. strike, I might offer some assistance. Oh, boy. You are not predicting clearing the board. I'm not predicting this could be a two-minute game if things go as badly as they could. All right. Put your hands on your buzzers. We asked 459 Tadpoolers the following question.

Name a movie that should have won the Best Picture Oscar, but didn't. Scott Johnson. Mad Max Fury Road. Do you think the tadpole is going to be that, like, pandering? Well, I don't know. I just, I truly believe it. When that, in the, in the spring or whatever or late winter of 2016, I was so crossing my fingers so hard. It didn't happen.

It won the most nominations and won a bunch of other rewards, but it deserved it. So if they did it out of pandering, great. If they did it out of reality, great. I'll take it either way. All right. Show me Mad Max Fury Road. Yeah. Yeah.

They made it number one. Damn straight, it should. Yeah, of course it is. Scott always complains about it. I don't complain. So there are no answers that can beat that one. So, Scott, you and Tanner, you're going to be working together to see how many more of these you can get. All right, Tanner, the big one I always remember was Shawshank Redemption in 94.

Shank. It lost to Forrest Gump. How do you feel about that one? That sticks out, but how do you feel? I think that's a good choice. Okay. Thank you for agreeing with my choice. mine, I say Shaw Shank Redemption.

All right. Show me, I'd like to tell you that it's on the board. I'd like to tell you. But I can. It's number two. Good job. All right. It's not a lot of points, though.

So, you know, whatever. It's not a lot of points. Some easy, low-hanging plums right here. Now, if it were me, I would stay in 94 and say Pulp Fiction because Pulp Fiction was also. That's my best one. That was also that year. And also, everybody was mad that it lost to Forrest Gump. I like, by the way, I want to just make a thing clear.

I agree that those two movies probably should have won. However, I also really like Forrest Gump. I'm not a hater, you know? Yeah, I'm not a hater either, but I don't feel like it should have beat the other. Yeah, I think you, you know what, give acting to, like they did to Tom Hanks? That's fine, but best pitcher, maybe these other two were a little more deserving. Anyway, Tanner, you all right with that one? Good answer, good answer.

All right, thanks, man. All right, show me, show me Pulpix. Yeah, show me Pulpiction. I forgot what we were talking about. Number four. I wonder what number three is. Wow. All right.

Tanner got any of you that are burning a hole in you there? The only one that pops to mine was 2019. A Star is born with Lady Gaga. Did that not win that? That's a good one. I remember what it. It won some things, but not Best Pitcher, right? Right, one best song for sure, and I can't remember what else it won.

All right, let's do it. Let's do that. Let's say... Okay. Show me a star is born. Oh, a star is not born. Not today. Anyway, best screen player, yes.

Nailed it. That was really good. That was my Bradley Cooper impersonation right there. Nice. All right, Dono way. Show us your stuff. Brian, what you got? I'm going to think that...

I'm going to think this happens a pretty good bit because Scott said Pulp Fiction. This is kind of where my mind was. going was that movies that changed everything but you know but when they came out we couldn't see it so like I'm going to say Star Wars because sure and it was nominated right that's how this counts it was nominated yeah right that's right right well it doesn't count it's just what the Capitol says but it was nominated but it didn't win because it was too like just like Pulp Fiction it was kind of like that it's like oh this is where we're going but not

yet. I don't think it was, it wasn't nominated for Best Picture, though. Like, it was nominated in a lot of... Oh, I thought it was. I don't think it was, too.

I thought the original Star Wars was, but I wasn't really big into it. I just feel like I remember reading. Oh, I'm sorry. You know what? You're absolutely right. Yeah, it was nominated Best Picture. Gary Kurtz, yes,

best director, best supporting actor, for whatever reason. I don't remember. But it did win art direction, costume, design, film editing, original score sound, visual effects. Yeah, it did well that here. It's a little, it's like Mad Max Fury Road of its time in a way.

Yeah. Oh, lost to Annie Hall. Geez, Louise. All right, show me the Star Wars. Number five. Yes. Nicely done. Nicely done, Brian.

I don't like where this is going. I'm going to say superhero movies took a big turn with the dark night. Hmm. And I don't think. Did it get nominated? It did get nominated. It did? I don't think it, but it didn't win, did it?

It didn't. I can't ask that. What am I do? Definitely didn't win. Unless again, I'm remembering things incorrectly. Right. This one I'm double checking, right? Because it's like, I don't remember that being nominated. I remember the ones that I remember.

The ones that have changed everything to look back and go, oh, you morons, you didn't see it. I don't remember Dark Night being nominated. It just didn't see how great it was. It might have been. I don't know. Best. No, I'm sorry. Scott, you're right. Supporting actor, art direction, cinematography, film editing, makeup, sound editing, mixing, and

visual effects. You didn't get a, oh, yeah, no. except for a picture of the year. He didn't get directing. I'm thinking of... No, it only won sound editing and supporting actor. Okay. He got that for Dunkirk and stuff, I think.

Yeah. All right. Anyway. Show me the dark night. Oh. No, but it didn't make the list. That one was number 16 on the list. All right.

This is what this tells me, Tanner, that the tadpool is focusing on those that were actually nominated, even though some are putting them on the list. The top 10 is going to be. actual nominations. So, Black Panther is a recent example. Yes. Boy, that made people mad. Yeah. Well, I don't know if it made them mad, but I think they had a lot of hope that the first superhero-based thing would actually win. You know, there would be like an Oscar for that.

But, I mean, being nominated is a big deal anyway. But yeah, you know what? Let's say Black Panther and let's see if anybody's thinking that close for that reason. Sure. Sure. Let's see. Show me Black Panther. Oh, that's good points. Number 10, big, big points. The biggest of points. Best biggest of possible points. Right on the bottom, boy.

Yes. The B-O-P-O-P-P. I say we're doing it better than you thought we would. The question does not specify that it had to have been nominated, but that is a leap that Scott is deciding to take, and I am not going to say anything either direction. Yeah, yeah, no, no, I think the way you did it is right, and I think my assumption is just a strategy, that's all.

Tanner How are you feeling, man? What do you like here? I want to say La La La Land. La La Land. You do want to say La La Land. Because they kind of did win for like a minute. Yeah, for a hot second they did.

That's a good one. I love that you're sticking into this zone of like musicals and like, I don't know what this says about Tanner. Tanner's a huge nerd, but apparently he likes this business. So that's cool. Let's go with that one. That's fine. Let's do La La Land.

Well, I like this one, too. Show me La La Land. I mean, Moonlight. I mean, La La Land. Oh, good job. Nice. Nice, nice, nice. Oh, I'm feeling good now.

For a minute there, Brian was getting creepy with the numbers. All right. You guys are doing way better at this than I expected. What's your one? What do you got, Kenner? Apollo 13 is the last one. Oh, that was a good one, sure. Did that one not get it?

Uh-uh. It nominated. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because it's a tadpole sit. Yeah, but they nominated it. It still fits my category of... I'm curious that this, yeah, Apollo 13 did get nominated for Best Picture. Yeah.

For some reason, I remember these, but whatever. I thought it won. Show me Apollo 13. Ah, poop. Number 27 on the list. Okay. they made the list though nice made the list but didn't it make the top 10 Brian back to you four answers still left on board Tana got me to think it Tana Tana got me to thinking the musicals the musicals the musical that also changed everything way back when the wizard of Oz did not win best picture what a snub it was nominated it did lose to gone with the wind if I remember correctly I think yes yes uh

It was an honor to be nominated. Any other year. Like that movie, Wizard of Oz comes out any other year and it wins, but freaking gone with the one. Everything. All right. Show me the Wizard of Oz. Oh, you stupid. No.

The number 26 on the list. Same actually right next to Apollo 13 in the list. Okay. All right. Four answers left. Any of these answers guarantees you the win, by the way. no pressure saving private ryan oh that's a good one it was expected to win and did not private ryan all right i don't know why i said it like that why did i why did i say it like that

i don't know i don't know weird saving private oh yeah i don't know why all right all right show me saving Ryan's privates. Yeah, number three. And I think that does lock in the wins. We'll play this out for Jollies. We did good. Oh, what a perfect time of season to do that for, too. Playing for the Jollies.

Oh, ho, ho. Shindler's list, probably also on here. I don't think it won. I thought you said. No, you said. It was nominated. No, I said saving, I said saving, saving Private Ryan is what I said. So let's say Schindler's list Lose to.

That one I've got to see because if you would have asked me before I think it was said it. Maybe it won. You know what? Now that I think about it, because that was the thing with Spielberg is he kept getting his opportunity game. It did that. It did that. Yeah. Well, I said it. I guess you have to buzz me.

I said it. I got to use it. It's awfully bold statement when you've already won the game. Show me. Schindler's list. Yeah. I will tell you that didn't stop people from saying parasite because they still said parasite even though this is not this is not a fact

this is not a fact-based game right oh yeah never is with the with the although I mean so far some people said yeah but so far every one of the ones we've got on the board they're all nominations that didn't win right so so far they are actually doing it exactly the way the question implies but we still have six seven and eight to go Yeah, and I'm checking a couple of these because I've been curious which ones of these, the ones that are remaining,

are are also nominated. How do I phrase this? Yeah. In just the right way. Well, I wouldn't say this if if it was still on the air, weren't already won.

I love it. I love it. You're so cautious. The fact that the game has already been one makes it easy for me to say this. I believe all three of the remaining answers were nominees. Okay. So we ran the board as nominees. This is good. Well done, Taiple. How about?

You still have, yeah, Brian still has time. I still, no, I still have one more chance to. Or one more, yeah, I know. That's what he's saying. Yeah, that's what he's saying. Yeah. I've got to go. Yeah.

I said that. I'm going to go with the chat room. They said earlier. I think they said Fargo. Oh, yeah. That's a great choice. Oh, by the way, one of these did not nominate it. Okay.

Fargo. Look at that. Show me Fargo. There's. Fargo number 14, one of the highest ones that you could, do you guys have said. Oh, I didn't think about fellowship with the ring. What did one? So that was 96, I think.

What's that? 97. Fargo, wasn't it? One of those years. Fargo. Fargo did win. Oh, it won best pick. Yeah, that's right.

Oh, that would do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the first Coen brothers. I think Fargo did win. Coen brothers first one. Fargo and Argo, both won best picture. Yeah, yeah. Fargo was the Coen Brothers.

Yeah, Coen Brothers' first year winning. Oh, Fargo lost to English patient? I thought Fargo won, no? No? Wait. Hold on. I got a look because I could have sworn. Oh, yeah, you're right.

Best actress, best original screenplay. It did lose. It didn't win. win? I'm now retroactively mad. It should have won. I never believe you Kivex. It should have won.

We'll talk to you later. Boo. All right. And actually, yeah, two of the three of these. So, yeah, you guys just mentioned this one. Lur of the Rings, the Fellowship of the Ring. Yeah. Did not win and should have won. To you remember.

Also nominated but didn't win number eight. E.T. the extraterrestrial. Another game changer. It was, totally was. And this one, I wasn't sure. I had to go back and make sure because I could have sworn it got nominated. But, of course, you know, what do I know? I've been wrong about eight of the ten here.

Dune. Oh, Dune. Oh, Dune. The original Dune? No, no, the new one. The 2021 Dune. Yeah, no. The original Dune is a piece of shit.

Nobody voted for that. That thing sucked. Hey. No, you might as well nominate Flash Gordon. Yeah, Flash Gordon. Or Don, yeah. I would. You would.

Of course you would. There's a reason you are not in the academy, by the way. Brian Dunaway would have all sorts of fun with what movies got nominated. But, yeah, Dune, I didn't think Dune was going to win because my genre movies never do. No, but I thought it would be nominated for its crown. Plus, it was only a first part. Where's my second part? Yeah, that's the other thing.

Yeah, because they do that with Lord of the Rings, right? They didn't give them best picture until Return of the King, even though you could argue the first two movies were as good as that one. The Fellowship of the Ring got nominated but didn't win. Right. I think even Two Towers did, but they just did like... Two towers did as well. Yeah, it was like a kindness gesture for the first two years and then the third year. They're like, here you go.

Hey, let's look at some of the remaining ones on the list, or at least the top few. Citizen Kane, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Princess Bride, Goodfellas, Brokeback Mountain. Again, I thought that one, but I guess, no, I didn't. I was about to say, they didn't. They didn't win? How did they not win? No, that was somebody else. Get Out, The Matrix, Hidden Figures, Inception, Interstellar.

I know somebody who's listening who would definitely agree with that one. Jojo Rabbit, Big Lebowski, the Empire Strikes Back, Dead Poet Society, Dunkirk. Somebody said Forrest Gump. Galaxy Quest, Gangs of New York, John Wick, Parasite. Nice. Roma. I think Roma also won, because that was one I totally disagreed with.

Serenity, Spider-Man into the Spider-Verse, the Great Dictator, and 1917 kind of rounding out the ones that had multiple votes. So for the record, the Matrix was not nominated for Best Picture. A lot of the ones lower on the list were not nominated. Oh, that one did get... Roma did lose to Green Book, which, by the way, people also said Green Book. Oh, Green Book. I never saw Roma or Green Book. Are those worth visiting?

Oh, Green Book. I really did not like Roma. I felt like it could have been edited much, much tighter. But Green Book, 100% you should watch that. It's fantastic. Hirshah Ali is so good. Oh, that's the one that one of the Farley brothers directed. Yes, yes.

And it doesn't feel like, it doesn't feel, it's definitely not a Fairley Brothers movie. Yeah, Peter Farley. It's a fairly singular movie. Yeah, and he took that serious, man. He wasn't going to make playing no jokes in that movie. I need to see that. Yeah, you absolutely do.

I meant to and didn't. All right. Well, there you go. Hey, Tanner, you know what this means? It means you've won. Hold on. Congratulations. You're a winner.

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Tanner, these codes are now yours. You, of course, know Brian's email, so send him a quick email. I guess Brian probably has your email. I'm just going to put a brain in a chat with him. Yeah, do that. Easy peasy. Discord.

Here you go. Save the ones and zeros. Do it the easy way. Right. It sounds good to me. Tanner, how do you feel about your, big win. I feel great. Thank you so much. Do you? Do you feel great? Because I want you to feel great. I want you to feel really good about it because you worked hard. Somebody needs to tell your

voice. I have to towed down the excitement. Well, you guys don't know this, but he's one of the nicest human beings in our entire community. And it's a pleasure having you here, man. Take it easy. Be good and we'll see you soon. Thank you, Tanner. I'm the best DM. Thank you, Tanner. He has a good DM except he keeps killing you. Jeez. yeah it's actually the second time he at one point he killed all of us and we woke up and tied up with uh spiderwebs so oh geez yeah did that make you that as a marvel fan you liked it but i kind of liked it i felt like oh is spider man's camera nearby taking pictures for jona jameson yeah and then you were like oh no tape to a lamppost somewhere nearby it's like no it's just dundee and d too bad all right hey dunnaway it's tonight

fay done away hey done away it's tonight tonight at 330 we're doing our show about Dragon Warrior, a.k.a. Dragon Quest, the series on the original N.E.S. and more. We'll talk about the entire series and why I actually think it is the best ongoing Square Enix series there is. Or in the back of the day, it was more Enix than Square. But we'll talk about that. Japanese people would agree with you. They would. As would I. So we're all going to agree today to get together at 330 Mountain Time and do a play retro at frogpance.com slash play retro. or if you want to watch live, we are at frogpants.tv. That'll do it.

Hey, Dunaway, anything else you'd like to say before I cut you off? Yeah, I got to go get my... His fill of a McRib? I don't know. What was he going to go get? No, I don't know. His Fitbit removed from his ear? I don't know.

Yeah, it's an ear Fitbit problem he's been dealing with. Yeah. He should do a follow-up to that, you know, just see where we're at with the McRib. You know, is it any good still? If it's still in his gut, what do you need, like, a follow-up? Well, like, he did it once, right? Yeah. Oh, just like, do it again, basically.

Yeah, just go see if the process is any different. Is it taste as good to him? Is it changed at all? Like McDonald's, you could say this about them. They are consistent with their stuff. Like, the Big Mac I eat today is no different than the 1A8 20 years ago. It really isn't, yeah. For good or for ill, they don't change them.

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Yes. This is a brand new album that came out last Friday. This is really, really good. And the whole thing, like this is your background ethereal music playlist right here. is so good. Here is the song Gutter performed by Black Winter Wells. Now I'm dirty,

My life, Keep your thought, Thoughts of me You find the girl is weak It's missing something You care for what she needs Security, a place to breathe, and you can soon, she gets you. You're a demon, you're a monster and they love you.

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So you guys think that's me clicking a button But that's Brian doing it He's really good I hope this isn't Chris's blood Jill Jill Jill Joe

Very nice Regale the song once again Tell me what it was From the brand new album Protector from Black Winter Wells That's the song Gutter I forgot to tell you how much I meant to text you, but I loved that Christmas middle of the show song yesterday.

Oh, was that cute? Yes, so sweet. Such a great voice. I want to follow them for other stuff. The two of them are awesome. I don't know if they're married, but it's a great little duo, the band that is called the Hot Sardines. It is the band that's called Corvair, C-O-R-V-A-I-R yesterday's song. Yeah, it was really good.

And today's is good as well. The singer's name is Jill. Jill, Jill, Jill. Hey, Jill. All right, it's Tom Merritt time. And if you haven't had a lot of merit time lately, well, don't worry. We're about to fill that void and get them all up in this one moment while I push buttons to make all that happen here. Here you go.

With the computer, as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt, and he joins us here on Wednesdays to talk about the goings-on and the technology world. which I'm really grateful for, because how the hell else would we know? And thankfully, he has a show about it, the Daily Tech News show. Tom Merritt, welcome back to the program. Well, thank you for stopping maritime. No problem. Maritime is... It's a maritime emergency is what it is.

Yes, it is. Maritime action. There you go. It's good to have you here. I kind of like that. Can we rename this event? Sure. Yeah, we've been doing it so long.

way you know yeah we can just open it up to anything i want to talk about yeah whatever you want it's maritime that's the rules um speaking of maritime let's do a little bit of that what is uh going on i know you've been scraping the uh the edges of the tech world today i imagine you all are aware of microsoft's little uh game of cat and mouse with sony right yeah you've you've talked about it i'm sure sure uh we're probably going to talk about it again today on d tns because of Microsoft reaching a deal with Nintendo and Valve to make Call of Duty available for the Switch and Steam. The Switch.

It's like it wouldn't have been available for Steam. But for at least 10 years. So Call of Duty on the Switch for 10 years, only if regulators, you let us buy Activision Blizzard. It's an interesting move because Sony famously being real weird about the same offer. Well, it depends on your point of view. is firmly opposed to this acquisition. Nintendo less so.

Valve is like, oh, you're going to do the thing you are going to do anyway, but guaranteed for 10 years, sure, we'll sign off on that. You might not even get Activision Blizzard, but why not? And I think that's the thing that's undercovered in this. It's a bit of a nuance, but

Microsoft can't really promise this yet. What Microsoft has promised is if we take over Activision Blizzard, we promise to make them do call of duty on the switch and have that available for at least 10 years. There's no start date on that, but it's not because Microsoft is being cagey,

like, we'll do it for 10 years, but we won't start until 2070. It's nothing like that. And I haven't read the agreement, but I imagine the agreement might have a stipulation on a range within development will begin. But because of the rules around acquisition, they can't make Activision Blizzard do anything right now.

They can't go get Activision Blizzard to sign off on this because they're in a regulatory period that prevents them from doing that. So they can tell Activision Blizzard, hey, we've made this deal, and if we take over or we're going to honor it, you do what you want with that. And Activision Blizzard can acknowledge that,

but there's certain rules about what you can and can't do to change your business during the period in which an acquisition is being closed. So this is Microsoft doing as much as they can, which is like we can't make Activision, Blizzard promise this, but we can say, you know, contingent upon our acquisition, we are committed to making them do this, and development will begin on day one or something like that.

It's interesting because the language and most of the coverage has been 10 years on the switch, 10 years on the switch. And what I can't find is anybody talking about the fact that the switch, for now, but this 10 years will likely, I'll just say 100% include a new generation of Sony or excuse me, a Nintendo hardware. So Switch 2, Switch Pro, whatever, whatever their next gen thing is. Right. Like this isn't just to say, hey, switch owners, good deal.

We're saying, hey, Nintendo lovers, good deal. I do think that the valve part is funny because Call of Duty is already over there. Yeah. And that's not been true for a while. they did pull it when it when they became um when they started putting stuff on the blizzard launcher they stopped putting it on steam so uh Microsoft has in general said hey we'd like to just put our stuff everywhere and so they kind of did that almost immediately with some of their stuff in this case i think Activision even independently were like well why we're leaving money on

the table we should just put this everywhere so it's almost like this no brain or dumb win win for for valve because all they have to do is say well yeah sure keep keep putting it over here like you already are and oh thanks for the 10 year commitment if this goes through yeah right it's very that's very funny and interesting to me but the nintendo move is interesting for a couple of reasons one that device isn't state of the art anymore you could argue it wasn't when it launched didn't need to be that's nintendo for you and you're talking about a very different build of these call of duty games like the fidelity just will not be the same it's not going to be a straight code transfer these aren't x86 you know conversion may be new stuff right right they that he Phil Spencer would in the

Washington Post article I read was sort of cagey about we'll have to look at our old stuff and see what we can move over or not once we get there but but the intention seems to be the next call of duty will come to Nintendo switch and then there's questions that you're bringing up about like okay but is that going to be the same call of duty everywhere or will it be a version for the switch yeah in the past that's what they've done they've made a version for the we that was okay, that it was fine for what it was, but it definitely wasn't the same code base as what they put on everything else. So regardless, though, this is an interesting way of, I wonder what Microsoft's reaction was going to be to Sony saying, hell no

to the 10 years and also hell no to your acquisition and just really being firm about it. So for them to like try to do something that gave some additional momentum and also produce some goodwill, but also kind of rubbs Sony's face in it? This is, this is it, I guess. This is their move. Oh, yeah. And don't let it get lost on people that the United States Federal Trade Commission is expected to meet Thursday, December 8th, to discuss, among many other things, the regulation of this particular acquisition. So getting this in the Washington Post and Kotaku and everywhere, the day before that meeting is total coincidence. I think. I don't think it was going to happen anyway.

You know, the timing. It just all happened to a line. That's a surprise. Yeah, yeah. I always had this thought the other day. It's a little bit unrelated, but Elon Musk paid $44 million for Twitter. And I always wonder, Elon must have known for being a bit of a gamer. He likes video games. Do you think you ever sitting around going, that's almost as much as Activision stuff cost it? Maybe I should just buy that. Maybe that's why I should buy it. So much more fun. So much more, less laden with problems and issues like just buy a video game company and I don't know yeah I'm trying to put

myself in in his shoes and they don't fit no yeah no they're too big or something no because the way my thought process goes is like all right why does he acquire things uh in the past it has been because of X as soon as you get to Twitter that all just starts to get crumbly it was like yeah but why did he acquired? I'm still not entirely sure. Is it because he thought he could make a super app out of it? But for whatever reason, my guess is he doesn't see Activision Blizzard is suiting his goals or even possibly his profitability expectation. Maybe. I know it sounds weird when he just acquired Twitter, which is why I keep getting caught in my recursive logic loop. Sure, sure. Well, I like a good recursive logic loop. And if you want more great questions with great

answers. The Daily Tech News show here is for you for that. Today it's happening at 2 p.m. Mountain Time and I will be there because it's Wednesday. I love being on and you'll love listening. So make sure you check that out. Tom, is there anything else going on that you would like to mention? Oh, sure. Yeah. Just to know, Rich Demiro is going to be on Daily Tech News show with Scott and Sarah and I today talking about the tech gifts for that person. You just can't figure out what to buy for. Nicole Lee kind of covered that with some smart home stuff. Rich has got the, even if the smart home stuff didn't work for you. We got some cool ideas for you. Just ask me and I'll tell you.

If they're struggling on what to buy me, I mean, I'll just tell them. Yeah, because this is all about what. It's going to be a short segment. DeMere is going to be like, look at his wish list on Amazon. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah, just look for slash coverville. Yeah, you'll be fun. There's really unusual things in here.

And like all gift lists, they're useful for the person you're shopping for as they are for you to be like, oh, that's a cool thing. So definitely check that out. And also reminder that the 8th annual Diamond Club New Year's Eve streamathon coming up on December 31st, the ritual misery folks always put this together to benefit what is it called extra life? Extra life. Yeah, never heard of it. It's unusual name. No, it's for a worthy cause.

It's lots of fun. They do it because they want no one to have to spend New Year's alone. so they run a different person every hour ringing in a new year at a different time zone around the earth I'll be doing it. Sarah Lane usually joins me so she'll be with me and it's a whole lot of fun you can go find out about it at DC streamathon.org Nice. I think we're an hour before you. So I don't know what you think so.

Yeah, me and Brian are in. I think it's the hour before you, but I'm not sure what country that is. Brian, we don't know. Oh, I don't know. I don't know who we're ringing. A Trinidad and Tobago, I believe. I'm usually on the UK's New Year's line, so that would put you somewhere in Europe.

Yeah, or maybe the ocean. I want to be ocean time. Yeah, ocean Christmas. A bunch of whales are going to celebrate New Year's when we're on, so we'll see how it goes. Maybe it's whales. Yeah, whales. I love whales.

Wales are great. It's whales. Yeah, it could be, actually. I see what you did there. Tom Merritt, everybody. He is Ace Detect on Twitter, and just anywhere else that you're, hanging around. We put ourselves

everywhere lately, but they can still find them there. And make sure you check out DT and us today. Tom Merritt, have a fantastic one. Thanks for hanging out with us. We'll see you next time. Bye. Okay. How about you hang up on Tom? There we go. Right. Very nice. Now,

let's see if we can do this in a reasonable amount of time. We're going to have recommendals. Oh, okay. Sometimes they go long. Sometimes, yeah. Sometimes they go short. We just need to cut Randy. off to one espresso shot. I mean, you know, it's a hard call to make when you're drinking as much coffee as

humanly possible. It's hard to know when to stop. It's true. That's right. Oh, look at a match. There it is. It's already happening. Let's do this.

It is time for recommendals, where we talk about recommended stuff we've seen on streaming services and share it with the audience at large. Joining us today, Randy Jordan. Hi, Randy. Good morning. extreme. Yes, I've had a lot of coffee. I can't help it. You guys are going to, you guys are going to kill me with these tadpully feud that is like aimed directly at my heart. Yeah, you would have done pretty well today, I think, on that. Yeah, I was just like, I was hopping around during that whole thing. I was just like, oh, gosh, was the bathroom not nearby? No. It was. I visited it. Oh, good. So, beyond that, of course, then you had to go and make me sit and listen to you, talk about my employer. It's good. We're going to. We're going to. I'm having a great day. How are you?

I'm good. I'm good. By the way, so I haven't... How's that mobile game coming? Yeah, how you guys are done? Is that done yet? Have you played it lately? Have you tested?

No. We don't have access to anything. Are you kidding? There's no beta yet, right? Or is there? It's almost as if we don't know somebody at Blizzard. I want to see that game. I want to play it.

I want to see what's up. Maybe you need to ask me for favors when we're not, you know, not on the air. Oh, I see. Okay. I'll remember that next time. point you to our discord conversation. That's a good.

It's a good couple of weeks for Blizzard. They got a brand new, being well-received expansion for a while. You got your season two, the Overwatch 2 starting, I guess, yesterday or today. And I got a new hero in there, which I'm pretty excited about unlocking. Last night, I was playing with Sweetgrass, and we were just, just the two of us, right, jumping into unranked games. And at the time we were playing, there were already players who had spent the previous nine hours. hours playing on Ramatra only like you could tell like then they were coming and I was like hey uh how are you so good at Ramatra already and they're like this is all I've been doing all

day oh great so there you have it well it's very I'm really enjoying that game so uh I'm doing a little bit of that later today also with us Nicole Spagg hello Nicole here I'm here sorry now you're fine we feel we feel the time no you're totally fine mess with your laser are you doing air quotes when you say that My actual laser. I have a really beautiful fireplace now. I'm so impressed with that project. Oh, I want to see it.

Thank you. I want to see it. Is it on video and stuff? Yeah, Mark posted it, I think, on a reel on Instagram. So if you follow Wood Whisper on Instagram, you'll see it. Yeah. He found a place that sells these beautiful, like, rustic mantles. And so he took off the fancy one and then replaced it with the rustic one.

Oh, yeah, look at this. Oh, this is good. Okay, Chad, I'll put this up, you can see it as well. We miss Colorado. That's actually, it reminds us of our Colorado house. You did have a, yeah, you had a beautiful fireplace here, too. Beautiful house back here, yeah. Oh, man, I love it.

We miss Colorado. We drive by it every once in a while and just egg the, so we're seeing the old one. And then the new one initially starts out looking like nothing. It looks like a, you know, a busted railroad tie or something. Like, amazing how much he gets out of it with just a few steps. Well, and this company is really cool because they go and they reclaim these. So they're all reclaimed. So it's like almost recycling these, this wood from, who knows where they got it.

But, yeah. I'll never be as cool as Mark. Look at this cool shit he does. I love the protruding, like some of the protruding bricks, the gray bricks. That's so cool. Yeah. Who's the, that's my brother. Oh, okay, I was going to ask.

That's my brother. Yeah, he's working for us again. Yeah, it's been, it's been a process. Well, Missouri's better for it. I don't know what I'm saying. Does that room have like a show window for your Christmas tree? No, no, not really. I guess there is a show window, but it faces, we have a lake.

Let's just, we're the property brother, sister on the morning stream here, guys. I'm sorry. You have this other topic for us. This is like Zillow, Zillow gone wild here. I like it. Nothing wrong with any of this. And you were worried about us going long. Yeah, what was I thinking?

Let's get to the recommendals for today. We've got a number of them, of course. We're going to start with Brian, per the tradition here on the show. So, Brian, why don't you tell us a little about your clip here? This is a movie that so many people have recommended to me. Gene and I finally carved out the time to watch it, and I am so glad we did. I'm very excited about this. Let's play it, and we'll talk about it.

One bastard did this, and all of you, to do nothing. Shame on you, Edward. Shame on you. I appreciate you, young man. Your service to the crown has been duly noted. Thank you, sir. I want this bastard punished in such a way that no person will ever rise up against the British. Oh, I want to watch it, darling.

I want to see him bleed. And so you shall. Flog him publicly. Flog him till he falls to his knees, confessing his crime of daring to rise against us. And begs for mercy. I'm in regardless. what I'm even listening to, but... That's not over the top.

It's a little over the top. A little over the top. A little over the top. Yeah. Where's the top? A little over. Just a little over it. That is one of the few recorded in English moments of a film called RRR. This is

the biggest budget Indian film ever filmed, I believe, if I remember reading the notes about it. And it shows every bit of it. This thing is so produced and is as good as

or better your typical American action blockbuster film. I'm just going to say it. This thing is, this thing is just so damn good. Tell me about these. So I see Ray Stevenson, Allison Dutty, and some other like people I recognize.

I don't. Yeah. I'm from Indiana Jones on the last crusade. I got you now, Dr. Jones. Yeah. She, she's the moment you hear in that clip, those two, Ray Stevenson, Allison, Doody, play the enemies of the film. They are the Buxton's Governor Scott Buxton and Catherine Buxton, who are kind of the head of this sector of the British Raj, the 1920s leadership, the British leadership over India. And the movie actually, you know, the RRR, and I'm going to get this wrong, I'm sure is, rise no it's a rise revolt no oh my gosh that's a great question because i did not know what that

meant so this is so it's in in the original indian it's rudram ranum rudirham which means fierce death blood so uh they decided uh we were going to do this also in english we just come up with three other words entirely three other our words yeah rather than fierce death blood and so it's rise roar revolt rise roar Revolt. Yeah, there we go. And it follows these two main characters who are represented by fire and water in the film. Two friends who meet helping to save a little boy from, well, coincidentally, both fire and drowning at the same time. Oh, my Lord. That's crazy. Okay. This thing is over the top. I'm telling you right now, this is like Jackie Chan is feeling like, oh, man, I really toned it way down from.

my movies uh compared to this um it is uh they become friends and uh and and through lots of trials and tribulations um uh make their way through the story and i'm not going to say anything more than that because that does could reveal a key plot point i have two really important questions is it a musical there is a very long but incredibly enjoyable dance number Okay. I'm down. Is it three hours long? Both in the middle and at the end. And they're both, we could not stop watching that even like the credits are rolling. We're like, no, I'm not turning this off. This is fantastic. It's got three. So Randy, to answer your question, three hours, seven minutes is hell of it. It is three hours long and I'd say a good 30 minutes. Oh, 20 minutes of that is dancing.

Oh, I'm so excited. I'm actually excited about that. Okay. And the question number two, how much, you said this is an English clip, but is most of an Indian? I only was able to watch it dubbed. I went to Netflix and I was looking for, we were pretty much prepared to do the subtitled version. It's the Hindi version, but it's all, you can't, I wasn't able to get out of the dubbing. Like I went into my, my audio settings and subtitle settings,

and I could turn on subtitles, but I couldn't change the, like there was no original language, like seeing it in its original language, without the um and is this is good like the dubbing's good good enough dubbing is great the acting the um the voice acting that you get in the dub just fine i thought it was it was totally uh totally fine this trailer is insane the trailer yeah i'm i'm telling you this thing uh the fight scenes are so amazingly choreographed that you know they're practically dance numbers but they're so good yeah how glory are these fight scenes there's a fair amount of blood in not necessarily the fight scenes, but a little bit of torture. So I would say... I like how you said that.

Just a little bit of torture. A little bit of torture. There's no... Somebody had asked me to maybe mention online if there's, you know, rape scenes or anything like that. No rape scenes in this. But there is some gore in torture scenes, but it's not... You know, like if you, it's certainly not pulp fiction levels of gore. I would say I'm trying to think of another good comparison.

Like probably on the scale, probably like a five. So the reason I ask is because I'm going to Canada for two weeks. And one of the things we always do when we prep for, you know, being out in the woods in a cabin with my in-laws is every single evening of that time we try to find something to watch. and my kids turning 13 and so I'm like I'm looking at certifications for this thing and they're like I see a lot of 15s and 16s around the world

for the Will is mature enough that this definitely wouldn't be a problem with him there's there's you know they kind of always go on the more conservative side when they recommend age groups for these things and I'd say it's there's gore but it's not

it's almost comic gore like superhero movie level gore so if he's if he's been okay with Deadpool for example or things like that we haven't watched that haven't watched Deadpool try to think of what

like Deadpool is rated R man yeah that's true that's true Deadpool is a lot more goring but would you call this like you know PG 13 if you not fortuitous would you call it 13 if we rated it here would you call it a PG 13 okay yeah all right Yeah. There's no nudity. There's, you know, like you said, there's, there's, there's comic book levels of violence.

All right. But not a ton of gore. There's, you know, like you said, there's a, a difficult torture scene, but. Such a completely generational shift. Like, when I was a kid, all my parents cared about was nudity and sex. And violence meant nothing to them. Yeah. And with my kid, all I care about is the violence. And if there's nudity and, sex, I really don't care, you know? It's George Carlin in the 80s said something like, I'd much rather let my children watch, you know, a movie that features two people having sex with each other than two people trying to kill each other. And it's so totally true.

Yeah, you just don't want to see anybody trying to kill each other in bed. You don't want that. So stay away from Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Yeah, don't watch that. The lesson we've learned today. This is a, this sounds like a must watch. I can't wait to see this. It is a must watch.

And this thing, so I had never heard anything about it. until a recent episode of the Bitteress Pill. Dan Klass's show. He came back and did a show, an episode, and he was talking about what he called the greatest movie he's ever seen in recent memory. And we're like, what? R, R, R, an Indian for like an foreign film coming in is like the best thing, this weird-looking action film?

And then we started hearing about it from people in the Tadpool, and I started hearing about it from other sources. I'm like, all right, well, we've just got to watch it. And I'm so glad we did. it is so, you know, be prepared. It's over the top. It is, it is, but not over the top in a cheesy Stephen Seagall kind of way, more over the top in kind of a loving, like, it's Jackie Chan kind of way.

We found ourselves comparing it a lot to Jackie Chen because his choreographed fight scenes are almost dance scenes. Sure, very, very, yeah, there's like a rhythm to what he does and everything, sure. Nicole, this reminds me of that, remember that Korean movie that you and I really liked? Oh, yeah. What was that called? The good, the bad, the weird. Yeah, the good, bad, the weird.

Very over the top, ridiculous Western with a bunch of Korean dudes in it. What you've described sounds like that, that's the kind of deal. Could be, yeah. I haven't seen that, but from the description, it does sound like it's a similar thing. Yeah, yeah, very good movie. All right, well, you've convinced me 100%. I'm all in on this. Can't wait to see it.

Yeah, carve out, carve out the time. It is 100% worth it. And if you find yourself turning off the movie during the Dan's, the traditional Bollywood, while the credits roll, every character is out dancing together in front of a weird backdrop, then I don't think I know you as a person. Yeah, I am all in on that. I will watch that without any hesitation. All right.

What's all that, Claire says, did you clarify it's Tollywood? What is Tollywood versus Bollywood? Yeah, I don't know what that is. Tollywood. Oh, I'll watch this before Parasite chat. No problem. No problem. Anyway, so there you go.

Oh, I just didn't say it's on Netflix. I think I did say it. I'm saying it again. It's on Netflix. Is it a Netflix original or is just there? You know? It is just there. Okay.

I like being there. It's good. Let's move on to Nicole Spagnolo. She's second today and has a little something for us. I'm going to just play the entirety of this clip if that's okay with you. Yeah. Go for it. I also watch this and I'm excited to hear you talk about it.

It's perfect for the season. I agree. And also some nostalgia there, obviously. I love this so much. If revenge is a dish best-served cold, this was a frozen dinner. There's the way I'm going to kill myself, but this is crazy. Hey, Schwartz, I triple dog dare you! Oh, if Schwartz back down now, he could never show his face in Flick's Tavern,

or perhaps even in Homan, ever again. Oh, I got it now, I got it. You're out of all right. Tell us what we're watching here. All right. So this is, it is not Christmas story too. Do not watch that. Do not be confused.

There is a Christmas story too? Oh, I didn't know. It's also on HBO, right? Yes, this is on HBO. This is a Christmas story Christmas. So this is the. a true follow-up to a Christmas story. Most of us have grown up with a Christmas story.

We've kind of had it shoved down our throats from TBS running at 24 hours a day on Christmas Eve. It's like our generations, it's a wonderful life because it's a wonderful life. There's a whole story with that movie and why it became such a beloved Christmas movie because they, I guess they lost the cop. There was something with the copyright or something. and they just could play it and not have to pay to play it. So all these all these television channels played that movie.

But Christmas Story is actually a very traumatic movie. I did not realize how traumatic it was for my children. They would cry when I would put it on because of the, oh yeah. So we haven't watched a Christmas story for a very long time because the kids would just get kids in peril I personally only ever saw a Christmas story once when I was a kid and I hated it and I've never seen it. Yeah if you're real little I think things like

bullies the bully stuff. There's a lot of bullying Yeah but even the visit to Santa and the foot on your head and all that like all that stuff It's like gosh dang You'll shoot your eye out. Yeah all that And while yes For me I love the movie I've adored the movie I

You know yes it's overrated but it's it's one of my Christmas story watches I don't watch any of those Hallmark. I can't believe how many Christmas movies there are out there now. I don't do Hallmark. There's tons of them. They suck. So a Christmas story is in my lineup of Christmas movies.

We have a CLEC server and we have a little playlist. It just says Christmas movies. It's always been in there. So when I saw that they were coming out with a Christmas story Christmas, with all the original actors except for the mother. The mother's there. The mother's there. That's her.

yes but no it's not it's not the same actress no it totally is that's the same lady i looked it up uh it's not the same actress hold on a second i gotta look this up now because now i'm now i'm nervous i researched it the original actress retired from acting in 2008 or 2009 um and so yeah it's not the same actress julie haggerty is the one taking she was from from airplane right oh i thought she was in both the things. Melinda Dillon was the original mom. I remember. And the old man,

he passed away. Yeah, he died. What's his name? Oh, we love that guy. McGavin? McGavin? McGavin? Darren McGavin.

Darren McGavin. Yeah. So anyway, they got Ralphie back, which is, what's his name? I can't remember. Peter Billingsley. Brian is our name guy today.

he'll remember everything. Yeah, he's an act. And these have been doing from memory people. Yeah. He's an MCU guy. He was in Iron Man 2 or something. Oh, right. Billingsley.

I don't remember which one. Yeah, well, see, so there's a whole story with Peter Billensley and his friendship with Vince Vaughn. And Vince Vaughn is friends with, uh, crap, swingers guy. Favreau. There's like a whole chain of There's a whole like Password Plus or like I love it I love it

There's so much connection to it And get this Billingsley starred in a after school movie about steroid use And that's how he met Vidspon Oh really? Oh really? I don't I don't

deep down into like what who how everybody's connected so he spent most of his later career doing like directing and like writing and other stuff and then once in a while he'll show up in a thing like he was he did yeah he made elf yeah with um favro yeah so even though i've only seen a christmas story one time yeah i it has been such a part of the fabric of my life like i there are all kinds of people in my life that i regularly share those jokes with you We refer to something as a major award, and I have a co-worker who has a leg lamp, and, you know, we say, it'll shoot your eye out or whatever. Like, is this like that? Is this movie?

No. So, Christmas Story 2 is it takes all the cheap shots. It does the leg lamp. It does, it's awful. Don't even watch the trailer. It's horrible. Just pretend it doesn't exist. It's got like a three out of 10 on IMD.

It's so bad. It's so awful. So Christmas. story Christmas takes the essence, it takes the essence and the memory of a Christmas story and it finds its own way. So, for instance, the leg lamp, it broke. It broke in the original. Yeah. Oh, right. Yeah. It was fragile. But there's a whole story with Ralphie and he's, he's trying to become a writer and that's the whole point he comes back to his hometown to his childhood home and he's trying to he has a little bit of time his wife and they decided they were

going to have a year of him trying to become a writer and so he's writing in the attic and you see in the background you see the leg lamp shade but it's not like it's not hit over the head with you know what what you're looking at it's just part of the fabric of the movie and And the same way in the original, Ralphie always had like these awesome daydreams. And so you get that as an adult. I absolutely loved it. I teared up.

It was, I just, but you got it from an adult's view. I mean, there are some moments with his kids, but it's really about, they know that you grew up with this movie. So they tried to kind of capture that essence and tell a new story. Yeah, it's basically,

this isn't much of a sport. I don't think, but he, the whole essence of the film is that he's got, Ralphie has, he's got a family now. It's in the 80s. Like, so it's set in the timeline that he would be this adult and. I thought it was 70s. It may have been late 70.

I thought it was 74. You might be right because the original was like early 50s, right? The, I think. Anyway, he goes, his father dies, uh, in the, in the story. And, and he and his family are now going to spend all of Christmas back at their hometown. So they're going to meet their old. friends who licked poles and all that that actor by the way went into porn for a long time it's a funny story yeah yeah you did um anyway the the i watched this as well and i thought it was i thought this

was going to be way too hard to pull off i thought it was going to be not bad but i just didn't expect him to capture the magic and i think they actually captured it and in a way it's like new kinds of magic like a different kind but it's it's honorable to the origin of everything and feels like its own thing at the same time. I really liked it a lot. So I'm with you. It was nice. It's very nice. I loved it. Hard to pull off. It's in my rotation now. I think it's really hard to pull it off, but I think they did it. And, you know, it's because you're right. It's like it's legendary. This is the kind of thing you don't want to screw up, which is why that 2012 thing makes me so sad because what a piece of garbage that was. It was duty. Yeah, it was real bad. They're selling the house,

by the way. Yeah. I think they plan that, man. Yeah, I think so. Are they really? Oh, wow. It's a museum. They turned, it actually, the people that bought the house completely renovated it and made it into the house that was in the movie. And so it became a Christmas story museum that you can go visit and they're selling it. And the Goonies house is up for sale too. I've actually been to that one.

But that's a real, that's just a lady and she usually shoes people off. So we just kind of stood, we just stood at the street and said, yep, that's the house. okay let's go yeah and the cool thing i always thought it was funny that scott schwartz who plays flick he's the porno guy or was in porn for a while uh he played he's scott schwartz playing flick but r d rob plays schwartz it's just funny they didn't just go ahead and call him schwartz oh yeah but also scott farcas shows up which i didn't expect it's right yeah so that's cool anyway i'm with you watch it hbo it's really good really well done uh all right who's next on my list randy is you what he got here? So, I have a documentary, and I am so excited to bring this to you. This is one of

the things that I'm going to sit and watch with my in-laws and my family over that Christmas vacation. I'm just so, so, so, so, so excited. So let me just, let me, let me set up the clip for you. Go for it. For this planet that we live on, the oldest forces are those colliding and churning deep beneath our feet. And the newest force in this world is, human love. Romance has only been around for a millisecond on the geological timeline. Yet at the same time, it's love that has shaped and formed practically everything about us. Like for all of us, almost all of us, it's love that caused us to exist. So this documentary starts with scientists in a burly jeep driving through a blizzard, getting stuck in snow banks, repeatedly, getting out and having to use shovels to proceed.

And you're thinking, proceed toward what? Why are they doing this? And suddenly, they reach a point in their journey where the snow banks vanish and the ground is black. And you realize, oh, my God, that earth there on is so hot that the snow cannot exist there. And then a narrator speaks, rolling. All right, here we go. In a cold world, all the watches started to freeze. The sun came and went between blizzard.

and gusts which erased all bearings. In this world lived a fire. And in this fire, two lovers found a home. No idea what this is. This is fire of love. And it is the best documentary I've seen this year. I realize that we always have the nominees come out. And then we go watch a bunch of documentaries because we didn't get a chance to see them.

But this is it. the best documentary I've seen this year, it is about two volcanologists who were minor famous in the 70s and 80s, a couple who had a fascinating romance that they documented because they documented their volcanology. And all of their, yeah, not all, but some of their videos and pictures have been put together in this documentary that takes you through. their lives basically and takes you around the world to

you know, Crackatoa and Mauna Loa and so on. And ultimately it's no spoiler to know these two are going to die in a volcanic explosion in Japan and you see them all the way to their last day on this earth.

And it is so well constructed. I just like, please documentarians make movies and constructions make movies and construct them like this. It is beautiful. You know I love good documentaries.

Where is this showing? I watched it on Disney Plus. I think that's the only place to see it right now. Yeah, it's a National Geographic thing. So I don't know if they have an app where you can watch it there. But, I mean, you know, Disney Plus most people have anyway for the Star Wars stuff. Nice. And what was the, um, fire of love.

Fire of love. That's just for Christine. It's out of luck.com. I'm going to always give her what she knows. So, yes. Oh, go ahead. No, no, no, go ahead. It made me think of something else.

These two people are fascinating because they, you kind of wonder throughout the whole thing if they sort of hate each other because they're different. There are different people. She's, she's a highly talented volcanologist who has a sense of fear. And, and he doesn't. Um, her husband is also a very talented volcanologist, but he's a, he's a little better at, uh, uh, self-promotion than he is a scientist. And, uh, he has absolutely no sense of fear whatsoever. And you can tell that they're, this is a problem for the two of them. But at the same time, man, they really like, they're just awesome. Like you just, you, this, this documentary is constructed to make you think I wish I could live that life. Yeah. Well, it sounds fascinating. I'm in. The narrator made me think of the woman that does sad beige children. Are you familiar with this trend?

Sad beige children? No. Yes. I sent it to you in chat. She has a TikTok and Instagram. And there's a trend in the parenting world right now that everything is beige and everyone is sad and there's such despair. and she narrates, I guess, Werner Herzog is a documentarian who everything is, you know, okay, so if you play one of her clips, because she does like this thing where it's Werner Herzog's sad beige everything, so it's like sad beige toys for sad beige children. or sad beige clothes for sad beige children. Weird.

I have not heard of this. For anyone at home, it doesn't know who we mean. It's this guy. I would like to see the baby. He's the Mandalorian girl. Yes, exactly. So the woman has the ability to capture his voice.

If you play the TikTok that I sent you, I don't know if you can. Oh, did you link it? I linked it. Oh, here it is. Okay. Here we go. I'll play it.

Let me pull it up here. Maybe. But it made me think of that. I'm sorry. new line of children's closing sad beige clothes for sad beige children oh i have seen this i have totally seen this lady it's great she's basically making fun of like um like the fashion trends for kids and these yeah it's very it's actually really like 60 dollar overalls and it's like uh and then she says you know if you're if your parents can afford 60 dollar overalls you're pretty much guaranteed

did not ever be like a worker yeah well i love warner herdsog so i'm making fun Fun of him is always a good time. The narrator for this, for Fire of Love is a woman named Miranda July. And I'm pretty sure this is her first documentary she's narrated. She's not really called upon much. She like that, you know, because it's about people who talked to cameras a lot. But when she does appear, it's just stunningly beautiful. Because the people who wrote what she's saying wrote poetry, like the, as you heard in the clip.

Like she is constantly narrating in poetic verse. But is it kind of depressed the whole time? I mean, it just sounded very depressing. I mean, it's about volcanologists who are going to die at a volcano. Oh, yeah. I guess it would be. It's pretty, but it's beautiful. It's so freaking beautiful this movie.

It reminds me of that. So speaking of Werner Herzog, Werner Herzog made that documentary about the bear that ate that guy on camera. It's a lot like, it reminds me of that. that because that's a movie where you know the end game of the movie and you're just waiting for this horrible thing well you don't actually see anything but the whole point is let's follow this guy until he gets eaten by a bear who he claimed to be friends with or whatever it reminds me of that a little bit so I guess you have that inevitable sad ending but you're saying the I mean

this is totally something I'd watch so there's no question in my mind I'm seeing this absolutely should I'm telling you my favorite documentary of 2022 all right nicely nicely done again that is fire of love currently streaming on Disney Plus. Final one. This one's mine. And it's a documentary and not the best documentary you'll see this year. It's not a bad one, but it's true crime. There's a million of these, whatever.

Before I do that, I was going to give you a quick me on something that really bummed me out. I started watching, or I watched, I watched the whole thing. I watched the movie on Hulu called Fresh. And this has a winter soldier in it. Sebastian Stan. Thank you. Brian is the guy with the names today.

Sebastian stands in it. A girl, I don't know very well, but it was excellent. A whole really great, great bunch of cast. He in particular are very good. I don't even want to give stuff away because I do think the first nine-tenths of the film is actually really good. It's kind of a horror movie. It's a little bit unnerving, but also weird and different in a bunch of ways. But the final chunk of this movie, the final 10 minutes, is the stupidest ending I've seen in a very long time.

And by stupid, I mean. They just didn't bother sewing up anything or fixing anything or having any kind of conclusion of anything whatsoever. And I don't mean like, you know, some movies are great at just killing everybody off and you're done. And that's fine. It's not that. It's there's like, from film sacks perspective, there's like three chicks in the bucket

in the final 10 minutes. It's bad. You never notice that sometimes movies don't think about their ending until they're well on their way. Like it doesn't always go bad, right? Like with don't look up, the ending feels like something. they came up with late in the game and it's fine yeah it's not a bad ending right it's you're absolutely right this felt like a movie a great idea with no ending and they never really knew how to

do it so they just kind of winged it toward the end and it's a couple of cheap things i just really that's how you're going to do this like it really bug me because up till then i thought it was great i think sebastian stan was amazing in it so your mileage may vary i was going to recommend fresh until the last 10 minutes and now i don't think i'm going to do it so instead i'm going to recommend this this is a documentary on netflix it just came out it was was recommended by jk grammar in our community so i decided to check it out based on his recommendation and i enjoyed it for what it is here it is i became obsessed with this place i remember one night i came out here and i had my 357 magnum i shot that thing six times

open the cops and call nobody came I'm 75 years old. Do you think I still want to do this every day? But I will. Okay. Sounds a little dower. It is. It's called the,

it's called crime scene colon, the Texas killing fields, fields. And it is about some stuff that happened in the late 70s and 80s, and then again in the 90s, and then resolved a lot of it in the 2000s. and even recently in recent years. But it basically follows what appeared to be

some sort of serial killer that they could not figure out who he was or where he was. And they had all these people in their side as far as, what's the word I'm looking for? If you're accused of a crime or you're currently a suspect

is the word I was looking for. So they have a bunch of suspects and you get to kind of... I can only help with names. They try to suss through these suspects and figure out who it is and you as the viewer kind of have to, you know, guess throughout is a three-episode deal. If you like true crime, this is right up your alley, just like what you'd expect from a well-made

Netflix documentary. If you're not into that at all, avoid it because it's one of those. This isn't going to be on anybody's, you know, 10 best documentaries of the year, but it is a very serviceable thing about a bunch of events I didn't know about. And it's weird to hear about them happening in parts of your life where you were just blissfully unaware that sort of these sort of things happen and then them coming back up as a cold case going hot again when you're in your 20s and then in your 30s and even just a couple years ago is when we finally got some resolution on some of this. So I found it interesting in that way. But there's not like amazing new documentary ground being broken here like with what Randy is talking about. It's it's a little

more, you know, straight down the line. But it's interesting. So I think it's worth it. So when this first arrived I was like oh how much is this like the first season of true detective uh not at all um in that oh man that's an interesting way of putting it because because true detective was all about tone and texture and and dialogue like dialogue yeah dialogue was insanely good it was really good that season that first season is still one of the most amazing things I ever saw um this is there's some southern gothic going on here for sure which is I'm a big fan of in general is just sort of a subgenre of a subgenre. But it's a full, you know, it's real documentary, real people, real stuff.

And you talk to the people in a modern way who were there then and different reporters and all this stuff. And it's pretty crazy how effed up the police department was in the small town at the time. And there's this whole stretch of area off I-45, I-145. Yes, I-40-5. It's basically between Houston and Galvest. and it's where all this stuff went down. And it's gnarly. But they, but there is some, I mean,

there is some resolution by the end for some of the victims and their families and stuff. And it's, it's just one of those, you know. So get your true crime on if you want to check it out. Again, it is called crime scene, colon, the Texas killing fields available now on Netflix. It's in their top three or something right now. So definitely worth checking out.

If you want to see all of these, you can find them up at quick, tms.l i because brian has plugged them in they're already there yep got him up there uh well you could probably tell well while we were talking i can see the can see it on your face i have i have the stream muted but i'm looking at you 90% of my brain focused on on naming people and 10% focused on getting quick tms well they always say you only use 10% to remember quick tms stuff so uh it's right they always say that yeah they always do uh well there you go uh thank you both for uh being here uh anything you'd like to promote or mention?

Nope. Awesome. Awesome. Go watch that Wood Whisper video on the Instagram Reels. It's very cool. Also on TikTok. And TikTok. It's all the places.

We are taking our TikTok back over. Oh, you are good. Because some of those edits were weird. Those edits were weird. Some of those edits were weird. It would cut like in the middle of him saying something and then you'd never get to the end. It was weird. Yeah.

We reached out to the company that was supposed to be helping us. We're like, what are you guys doing? Stop. Yeah. And they said, beep, boop, beep, because we're run by robots. Anyway, Randy, anything you'd like to mention or promote

on your own self there? No, we're just getting ready to watch Europa Report for FilmSack. That's exciting. Yeah. Exciting for that. Very excited. That's this weekend, by the way.

So check that out. Nicole, Randy, have a fantastic week. We'll see you next time. Bye now. Bye. All right. Well, Brian, I don't know what else. tell you except we did it. We did it.

There's really, what else is there to say? There's nothing else we can say. Well, there is this. We got a text from somebody. Let's do this text. Oh, one more thing we can say. Yeah, one thing we can say. This came from Sean. Sean S. who says, hey, Scott and Brian, regarding seatbelt laws, I was taught that the seatbelt isn't just for you. It's to keep you from flying all around the cabin, killing all your friends during a crash or flying out of the windshield and killing whoever hit you. I'm sure you'll get, sorry, I'm sure you're getting flood with Texan and, and, from people who were shown the scare videos in high school about this. Love the show, though, Sean asked.

Well, Sean, we also were showing those. Yeah, I mean, basically in an accident, your body becomes a projectile. Did you have the, I remember seeing all the, in high school, they made you watch like, oh, got the blood on the pavement. I remember all those videos, but I don't remember one where your, your body is a projector. The musical version, just the. Yeah, it's the Jack Johnson version of, uh. I love that. Yeah, but it's a good point. You're right. You don't want to, you know, you got sharp bones. You don't want a femur in your friend's side of his head, you know? Right. Right. John Mayer, right? Not Jack Johnson, John Mayer.

Did John Mayer? Oh, your body is Wonderland. Right. Your body is a wonderland, yeah. Yeah, that guy sure liked your body. He was into it. It did. My body. Also, quick notes, we already mentioned play retro. That's done at 3.30 Mountain Time. But there is something I wanted to make aware to those who listen to CORE.

This week is a little bit weird because tomorrow night, Thursday night, the same time we normally record, the game awards are streaming. So we're going to do a co-stream of that. Cool. That's cool. And then the very next night we'll suss all that out, plus all the rest of the gaming news of the week and do a regular core on Friday. So Thursday, live stream, co-stream, Friday night, full show.

So that's the plan. Wow. Yeah, it's a lot of stuff tomorrow. It's going to be good. Big reveals. I see there's some rumor floating around that the new, the sequel to Space Marine, one of my favorite 360 games from that era, is getting a sequel. We already knew that, but they're going to show footage of the game and a release date,

and I could not be more excited. Oh, cool. Very cool. I love that game so much. I don't know if Mark Strong's coming back to do the voice, but he was a great, a bunch of orcs. Oh, man, love that game. All right, that'll do it for us.

You got anything else that you want to mention? No, an episode of Soundography went up yesterday, but I already talked about that. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, we get Coverville tomorrow, other stuff. We'll get to all that tomorrow. Yeah. All right, that's going to do it.

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if you need something 3D printed, because it might not be something on my Etsy shop. I do need to put that Jack Nicholson up there, too. Oh, yeah, right. You mentioned you're putting that up. Nice. Yeah, so. All right, let's get to it. This is a request coming from Mark Tanner, not Tanner who you heard from earlier, but

Mark Tanner, who said, hey, I turned 40 in 2020. Whoa. I know it's a late request, but it seems like it fits. I would love to hear a cover of Sweet Dreams are made of these by Emily Browning, but if you can't, another cover of the song would be good or a cover that blows your pipe organ. Love the show, though. Quakeholio. Well, it blows your pipe organ. Okay. Yeah, blows your pipe organ. All right. Yep, that's what he said. That's a new one. No, let's play this. It comes from the soundtrack to Sucker Punch, which had a great soundtrack and great visuals, but sorry, Brian,

don't know. It was just not a very good movie. Yeah. He loves it, though, and it's more for him. Good for him. Sure. Yeah, sweet dreams are made of this originally by the Eurythmics, covered here by one of the stars of the movie or the star of the movie, Emily Browning. Oh, very nice. Okay, we'll see you guys tomorrow. Wendy will be here, all that kind of stuff. Unsure about Amy, she's recovering from her surgery, doing well. Still recovering, but was walking around and ping and all that stuff.

Yeah, she's doing real good. So if not, Brian may have another quiz for me. People enjoyed that yesterday. Yeah, speak of leaking. Yeah, watch. Can't wait to leak some more. Tomorrow, right here on TMS. sweet dreams are made of these sweet dreams are made of this who am i to disagree

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Oh, my dreams are made of this, oh am I to disagree. Some of them want to use you. Some of them want to get used by you. Some of them want to abuse you. Some of them want to be of you. Thank you. We're going to be able to be. We're going to be able to be.

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