The Morning Stream - TMS 2395: Zamboni the Vampire
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Coming up on TMS, flurternistic flur.
The Jesus Kid.
Micro-gift for Kim.
You like video games?
Hold my juice box.
Control of Claire.
Gin-soaked potato foam.
Track suit mafia strikes back.
Lo-bo.
Lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-bo.
I vote Team Claire away.
Darn that wrist parrot.
Son of a goat.
The Brian Dunaway was a pillow.
Proud of my weird facsimile.
Top hat in the morning with Tom.
Is Pepsi OK, recommendals, and more on this episode of the morning.
Morning Stream.
On the tropical island of Bally lies an ancient and mysterious expanse of watery jungle known as
Demon Swamp.
Is bread free?
Yeah.
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, December 21st, 2020. We've got four days till Christmas. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Brian.
Oh, my God. Four days till Christmas, Scott, what are we going to do? I don't even know, man. What do you do when you only got four days left? You have rushed to get the last minute stuff.
Yeah, yes, I should start shopping for Tina. Yeah. Get over there. Get a George Foreman Grill at Costco or something, you know.
Oh, there you go. You know, you look around. It's like, oh, I've got things.
that, you know, that I haven't opened, I've got a
like, I think an Aquatine
Hunger Force action figure. Tina would love
that, right? Sure. Oh, yeah. Maybe the
the Princess Leia that came
out a few years ago that looks like a,
looks like a bat.
Like she's got a bat face. How would she not
want that? How would that not be to? How would she not
want that? Yeah, it seems like she would sit there
and go, man, did I marry up when I
when I tackle this guy?
Listen, I, you and I, we've already
gotten our spouses, their
gifts. That's right.
mine's a little weird
I had to do
So the thing I'm getting her
This isn't a
This isn't too much of a spoiler
You got a coupon for free back to massage
Oh no no no
That's something I'd have done when I was younger for sure
But
She uh
Let's just say there's a certain part of the house
She really wants to fix and replace
Yeah
This won't give it away
And I
So I bought a
Tiny version of it
It'll give it away to her
Well she's not going to hear this though
She'll have no
Oh, okay, got you.
Yeah, nobody tell Kim this.
She doesn't listen to the show.
So I'm going to give her a little version of it.
Oh.
That's like really well made, like a little micro version of it to be a representation of, hey, guess what?
It's time for you to go ahead and go for it and get that thing.
Really, how are you doing the micro version?
And why didn't you talk to me about 3D printing something?
Well, I thought about it, but then I thought maybe this exists in some small form, and sure enough it did.
But now I'm getting into details, so I don't want to say too much.
I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you later, and I'll show you what I got.
But I'm only showing you because I'm a little worried the word will get out.
Carter is listening.
Yeah, yeah.
But anyway, so, yeah, I'm actually kind of proud of my weird facsimile this time around.
And I'm usually terrible at this.
So for once, Scott's got it, baby.
I know what I'm giving my wife, everyone.
Yeah, thank you.
I appreciate that.
Very cool.
Yeah, Tina's presence, she does listen, so I really can't say anything.
But I can say that part of her gift I already gave her because it's something that she would enjoy
a lot sooner, and that is a couple
of Christmas ornaments
based on the rescuers, her favorite
Disney movie. Oh, that's awesome.
She loves the rescuers,
Bianca, and that's the only character
name I can remember. How she feel
about the Down Under sequel? I really
like it, but I know some people are split on that.
I think she likes it. Yeah, she does
like it. I don't think I ever saw that one. I saw
the original... I think she likes
it.
What?
My watch.
my watch, I swear to God,
like weekly, daily almost.
Daily, almost, this thing.
Yeah.
Why is it?
I don't know.
This is, by the way, this is why I don't say out loud what I'm getting Tina
because, like, this will repeat at the worst.
It's like a stupid parrot.
Yeah.
I got you, blah, bra, bra.
I want you accidentally text it to her.
That'd be funny.
Exactly.
But, yeah, like, I was going to say,
the rescuers, the first one had that big old pelican.
Or no.
Albatross.
Right. And he was voiced by, hold on. Was it, the guy from Cannonball Run, Tom Deloese, I think.
Oh, Dom Deloese, really? Okay. I think so. And then what it was weird about it is the sequel, the down under deal, I think had John Candy playing the Albatross.
Because it has to be a fat guy, basically. Always got to be a fat funny guy. What's that about?
Because it's albatrosses and fat funny guys. Yeah. What a stereotype we used to have for these poor people?
Exactly. Chris Farley, if there was going to be a third movie, it would have been Chris Farley, sadly.
Yeah, it would have. That's all. Man, we missed a chance there. That's a real bummer.
I did the thing last night that was really interesting. So for the last couple of weeks, we've been planning, I should say Kim did most of this work. But we were aware of some Ukrainian families that came here in the valley to escape the war over there. I guess it is, we're calling it a war, right? It's not a conflict.
I'm not a conflict, you know, it's like a war. It's like a war. Exactly. It's a war. I mean, hey, you know.
People are getting bombed. That's a war. Vlad and Zelensky are fighting. It's a fight.
Yeah, it's a fight. And anyway, these Ukrainians... Vladimir Putin.
Obviously, there's Ukrainians sort of refugeeing all over the world, but a bunch of them landed here, and we got wind of it, and it turns out they've really kind of got nothing.
In fact, this one guy, I think his name is, I think the one I'm thinking of is Yuri.
I might be thinking of Eager, which is, by the way, I've learned this.
Eager is how you spell I-G-G-O- or Igor over there is how you say it.
You mean that's how you pronounce it.
It's spelled I-G-O-R, but it's pronounced eager.
Correct.
And I learned that last night.
I didn't know that.
That was news to me.
I'm sure that changed in 1938.
When the first, like the Boris Karla one.
Yeah, like, okay, hey, from now on, we pronounce it, Eager.
Everyone on board?
Yeah, you guys good with this?
Anybody say, Igor, you put them straight.
Do you hear me?
Well, anyway, so this guy named Eager, who, him and his lovely two daughters and his wife, they're here,
and I hear this story about them.
And we're, so anyway, the whole point was, last night was when we took all the gifts that we gathered
and we got some money and some other stuff that we've been working on for about a month.
Like in my family's Christmas party, we wrapped all these gifts.
And anyway, so the thing was last night to take it over there, drop it off.
So we go over there.
I'm wearing a big, dumb Santa hat because I'm an idiot.
And there are these people there.
And they're living in temporary housing and all of that.
And a whole bunch of people are helping them out, like making sure they have a place to stay.
Somebody in their neighborhood donated a car, so they had a car to drive, all this stuff.
And even though I don't know how you do that in America, if you're from Ukraine, you don't have a license.
and I don't think you have even a...
I mean, they're full-on refugee status,
so I don't know how they're driving.
But anyway, so we go over there.
We're talking to eager.
We're talking to eager over there, and he's...
And you're just out of them, too.
Yeah, no kidding.
Here's what's weird, though.
This is just crazy to me.
So this is a guy who, when he was in Ukraine,
had this, like, booming business where he supplied.
He had a fleet of various Mercedes,
some that were like just simple cars,
some where were full-on limos.
and then he had others that were like bulletproof, like dignitary type things.
Oh, wow, yeah.
And they would, that's what this business was, was to, was to not only rent out cars,
but but the driver's service to anyone who needed a whatever.
And it was a big successful business doing really great.
The war happens, destroys everything.
He leaves, nothing.
He's got nothing.
Zero.
No dollars, no money, no nothing.
Barely made out of the country.
And technically because his wife and his two daughters,
were the ones that were fleeing.
Him fleeing with them is a pinch
because now he is technically
if he went back to Ukraine, he would be arrested
because all able-bodied men
no matter their age or situation
are meant to go fight, right?
They're supposed to enlist in the army.
And he didn't do that because he was worried
about his kids and he was like, I just, I can't do it.
I got to go with them.
So he leaves with them, comes here,
zero money, zero nothing.
And so we, you know, that's why we're doing this for him.
Anyway, while I'm there, all my stereotypes are kicking off, like what I expect, right?
I know I'm going to hear the cool accent.
I know it's going to be like a cool story and they're going to tell me things and their daughters are so nice and they're so cute and everything and all this stuff.
I just knew it was going to be this cool international sort of here, Scott, have a new experience.
I was looking forward to it.
What didn't it expect is this guy was just,
two stripes away from full
track suit mafia looking
really yeah yeah yeah oh my god
and i don't mean it like not in a negative way but he's like
he's wearing a sweatshirt like me and matching sweatpants
had they had like the adida stripe on the side
it would have sealed the deal it would have been done
listen bro
so yeah he's he's uh and he's he's trying to find
he's his biggest frustration is that since he's been in the states he can't get
job because of his lawyer nobody will hire him because they don't know they he just has this
story and they don't know when he's got this accent and people are like i don't know do we hire you
know so he doesn't have any experience doesn't have any of this stuff so he's really frustrated
but anyway that was really cool and then we went over to his brother's house his name is yurrie
and he's like six miles up the road staying with another family in like their extension
apartment thing this very nice house and alpine oh my gosh it was really nice anyway um these really
The rich people that live there are being very, very generous and, you know, like those people live there.
Wow.
So we go over there.
Same thing.
Now, this is Yuri.
I thought Yuri was a little kid because I thought I was told that.
Nope.
This is another adult.
Yuri's his brother.
Full on adults.
Dude in his 40s.
Awesome name.
Just love it.
Freaking Yuri is a great name.
Yuri.
Yeah.
And here's my favorite part.
Throughout all of it, I could kind of sense this like sadness.
Sure.
But optimism.
And, like, these people are very humble.
I don't know.
It was a great.
It was a good reality check for me just to go, oh, right.
There are people who, you know, I'm worried that I'm going to, I don't know, eat too many chips today.
These people are worried about not getting killed, you know?
Like, it's just a different animal.
It puts things in perspective.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I'm over there, and his son is sitting on the couch, and he looks just real dower.
And he's, like, on his phone, I can tell he's, like, 15 to 17, somewhere in that range.
Yeah.
And he just look kind of sad.
And, like, he's sitting there.
because it's the right thing to do to come visit your, you know,
to see your guests and welcome us to the house and everything.
But he's not really saying much.
And I go,
um,
so what do you like doing?
And he said,
this kid goes,
uh,
do this,
that came up where it was.
He was talking about something.
And he goes,
I,
I like to play video games.
And my brain goes,
Bing.
Oh boy.
Boy,
did he see that to the right person.
Yep.
So we're about to find some common ground, buddy, is how I felt.
I was like,
all right,
here we go.
Scott's going at a full blow.
mode here so here's the deal apparently the Ukrainian youths uh when they could play he hasn't
been able to for a long time but they love valorant the uh the riot game yeah the shooter the riot
made oh yeah yeah yeah they love it love it really okay they think that is the bomb over there
they also like call of duty and he couldn't get over the fact that this freaking middle-aged dude
in there is going oh so you're playing war zone two or you're playing the actual camp
pain. Right, yeah, exactly. You're able to speak his language as opposed to, oh, well, I do like the candy crush. Do you like the candy crush?
Yeah, and I think at first he was nervous because I said, oh, my first thing was, oh, what games do you like? And I think he thought, I can't do this with some old guy.
Right, exactly. This is going to be, I better dumb this down. I like. Instead, I was like, I knew all the stuff he was talking about and I knew it. Some of it, like, he'd go, oh, I can't remember name. I'm like, oh, this and this and he go, oh, yes, this is, this is it.
This is so cool.
And he lit up like a Christmas tree for the rest of the hour and a half.
We talked just loved it.
We wanted to talk about games, talking about his favorite characters in Ballarat,
talking about how he's never played Overwatch, but he hopes he gets too well.
He's in the States.
Like, just all this, like, he just was so stoked.
And it reminded me, as often as we get all bummed out and depressed about how poopy gaming
culture can be sometimes, people treat each other bad, sometimes brings people together, man.
It does.
You know?
For sure.
So sometimes you get, you know, you forget.
It's easy to forget.
So anyway, it was really cool.
And I just, I hope they all do well.
I mean, we brought them gift certificates and some gifts and some food.
They love pork, I guess.
The Ukrainians love pork.
So we gave him a bunch of pork.
And then before the night was over, see if this shocks you.
Kim committed to feeding like four families at a big event where all the Ukrainian refugees
have come together.
And she's going to make a giant pork carnitas freaking.
thing for him.
Taco bar or something.
Okay, hold on.
Let me see if I can do my best,
my best shocked face.
All right, let me work on it here.
I'm going to work it up here.
All right.
Whoa, for a second,
I thought you were Kevin.
That was weird.
I know, yes.
Thank you for remember the character's name
because I was struggling.
Trying to remember Kevin.
I didn't remember his last name,
but I always remember his first name.
Yeah.
Well, anyway, it was really cool
and nothing but the best in their direction
because they were very nice people.
That's awesome.
Oh, very good.
And it was just a nice,
I don't know,
sometimes you need a little,
You're the head do-gooder, Scott.
Well, Kim really is the head do-goder.
Yeah, don't give me this credit.
You're do-gooder, do-gooder tangential, because you do-good with her doing good.
Exactly.
Here at the Johnson do-gooder effort.com.
Kim is president, CEO, and chief activist.
Your vice do-gooder.
Yeah.
Comp-troller, really, is what I'm doing.
Just doing the comptroller.
Someone's got a comp-troll, you know?
Why not me?
Yeah, yeah.
Real quick, an email from a fly on the,
Wall, he calls himself, Jeff is his name, and he says this. Hello, Scott, and Brian, I have a short story to tell a few years ago. I worked as a contractor at the Scripps Network. Okay, this gets more interesting as we go. I was hired. I'll go ahead. What are you going to say?
It better get more interesting. Because he ain't hooking me in with contractor, the Scripps Network. No, no, it's not all that intriguing.
I'm kidding, Jeff. It's just me inserting a little colorful comedy.
Yeah, that's some color comedy.
Believe me, I did, I did color commentary.
You could think of the word.
No, believe me, I visited my share of script's newspaper.
So please, please continue.
I apologize.
All right, here we go.
I was hired a few months before the announcement that Discovery was buying them.
He's talking about D.C. and Warner Brothers and all that.
Oh, yeah, okay.
Says, I was let go about a year later after the merger, but I am still friends with others that work there.
One of these friends was telling me of a call he was on for work.
he and others were there just to listen in on the phone call while David Zazlov Lav introduced everyone to James Gunn and talks about plans for DC.
My friend is a huge DC fan, so being a fly on the wall was a dream for him.
The best thing he said about the meeting was the gun was trolling Zazlov the whole time.
He said that you could tell Zazlav had no knowledge of DC and other Superman other than Superman and Batman.
Zazlav asked Gun what the next big thing they were working on was.
Gunn starts talking about movies using these
obscure DC characters. Don't
ask me which ones. I'm a little better.
I'm a little better than ZazLab when it comes to
DC. Most of my knowledge comes from Super
Friends cartoon from the 70s. Oh,
are you saying there's a chance we'll get
Apache Chief? I want Apache Chief.
I want. Knock Chuck and he gets all big.
Oh, man. Anyway, he says, I got
a big laugh out of this. That you might get a chuckle as well.
Hopefully I'll get some good inside baseball now and then
on DC. If I do, I will pass it along
to you. Merry Christmas, Jeff.
I would love to hear more of that.
That's great.
Blue Beetle was announced before James Gunn, right?
The Blue Beetle movie?
I think so, but I also, my understanding is they're deep in supporting that and it's still going.
It's not like a thing they're going to shelf.
I mean, it feels like it's wheelhouse for James Gunn, that kind of comedy, that kind of goofiness.
Yeah.
I mean, how much has been done yet?
Maybe there's script rewrites and things, who knows?
but I don't think any of the cast or any of that stuff's going to change.
I'm actually excited about that one.
And the other one I really want to see is,
oh, the rumors about Lobo and possibly,
possibly Jason Momoa doing that, which would be perfect.
I mean, I know he's already in Aquaman.
But if he's, look, if they're going to leave that last phase behind,
do Chris Evans and have him, you know, leave one role in the MCU like he did.
Well, it wasn't really MCU, but leaving, you know, Human Torch and going to be,
Captain America, let's have him leave Aquaman, and here's Lobo, go, get in there.
Yeah, because he would be, he would be perfect.
It's almost like a better fit for him than Aquaman, although Aquaman was a pretty good fit.
Hey, you know, I was trying to sleep last night.
I was, took a, not tranquilizer, but a muscle relaxing, muscle relaxing, yeah.
And I was trying to get to sleep, you know, forget about the leg, or the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the.
And so I decided to put on Black Adam on HBO Max.
Oh, right.
It's only on for a limited time, right?
It's one of those 30-day deals like, like, which we call it, Barbarian was and things like that.
Oh, yeah, Dune was that way as well at first.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm going to say, it's great.
It was great for helping me fall asleep.
So kudos to The Rock for Black Adam as a.
as a visual as a visual tranquilizers.
Wow. All right. Did you get to the part where Henry Cable
faked everybody out? Oh gosh. No. Isn't that end credits? You didn't get that
far. Yeah. I'm not going to get that far. They barely introduced
Black Adam. Like they do the whole thing like, oh, here's the big enemy that you know he's
going to be fighting. Burr, bra, bra, bra. I mean, the worst superhero movie by far this
year's got to be
I forgot the name of the damn thing
almost said Zamboni but that's not it
the vampire guy
the
Morbius. Morbius.
Barbius. Zamboni.
Why Zamboni? Why Zamboni? Why?
Zamboni time.
Morbius is
Morbius was just
just man
talk about just
here's a great
property.
Gop-d-dom-d-d-d-b-d-p-do. Oh, Bop-Boop out of a movie.
Let me gobble up this great Marvel character and see what kind of a movie I can poop out.
It's a bummer, man. It became very meany and fun, though, so.
Yes. Oh, it totally did. And now, you know, every time I play Morbius and Marvel Snap, I have to say to myself, it's Mormon time.
Yep, that's the rule. That is the rule.
Yeah. All right. Well, we've done all we really can do there. Let's get done away in here.
and, you know, have one of our last, I'm sure there'll be a couple more,
but one of our last of the year with Dunaway.
We'll be at least, at least potentially one more, depending on next week.
But yes, this will be the next to last one of 2022.
That's right.
Let's see how it goes.
No pressure on that end at all.
Where the hell's this thing?
There it is.
Hey, look who it is.
Brian Dunaway joining us for Babel Royale.
Actually, it's Tap Pooley Feud.
today. Hi, Babel Royale's own Brian
Brian. How are you?
Oh, hi Scott and Brian.
Hey, man. Oh, hello. What do you do?
See, I consider Babel
the umbrella name for whatever we play on
Wednesdays and Mondays. Okay.
Yeah, it's the alphabet of the Google Soup.
Yeah, there you go. It's the parent company.
These are subsidiaries of Tad Pooley Feud.
I guess it even says
Tad Pooley Feud on our thing, but that's
whatever. It doesn't matter. We do what we want. We make
what we want that's what we do all right do what we want that's right as long as we don't say
nothing stupid that's right hey how's your how's uh you had some big stuff last night everything
go okay all good families you know christmas things oh yeah yeah yeah oh yeah we're gonna talk
3d printing all right cool nice yeah i had i had that too no we had a we had a little family get
together one of our many family get-togethers yeah every year the family keeps growing you know it is
week before Christmas.
So, yeah, we had an opportunity to do that.
I appreciate you being flexible on that.
And we'll be doing some play retro tonight.
So I think you got in family.
You're going to be a busy night, but that's okay.
Look, family matters.
Also, how else are you going to get RSV, COVID, and 14 other flus if you don't
at least try to all get together?
That's right.
The little virus machines over, you're not going to get, you're not going to get sick.
Don't know.
But to I bit's greater point, yeah, I installed that octoprint.
And so the whole time I was doing the family thing, I was like, let me check on my print.
What are you doing? Nothing.
I'm just looking at the webcam of my 3D print going on.
Were you hosting?
You guys hosted?
No, no, I was out.
Octoprint allows you to do it remotely because I got the Octoprint remote turned on.
Okay.
So you just check it through your phone or whatever?
Gina Hobber, whatever a name is that makes that is just fantastic.
She is so, so great about keeping that thing.
up to date and adding new features and stuff like that.
She's awesome.
Now, before we move on, Brian Abbott put a picture of Yoda in the channel.
Oh, that was great.
This is a 3D printable toothpaste holder, toothpaste cap.
Wow.
And so you can 3D print a little baby, a little grogook going,
this is fantastic.
He is on my, he's in my queue.
Right now I'm printing out of Darth Vader remote control holder.
So yeah, he's in my.
cue he's up next good get your get your Grogu going that's fantastic oh my gosh
never would have thought of that good for the kids all right tooth paste it's fantastic damn
straight hey done away let's get to it here we're going to play a game oh by the way
everybody at home this is your chance to call in if you'd like to be our contestant today
the number to call is 801 47 oh we got one already coming in hold on let's find out who this
hi thanks for calling who's this hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello
Hello, who's this?
Oh, my Lord.
Oh, she made it.
What have we done?
Oh, my God.
What have we done?
All right.
It's a Christmas miracle.
Miracle?
Miramax.
Miralax.
It's a Christmas Miralax.
Let's play it out.
Let's see how it goes.
No, this is great.
I'm glad to have Claire here anytime.
And we're going to use Claire to our best advantage here on the show.
So, hey, Brian, why don't you tell Claire how?
this works so she can try to win prizes.
That's right. Hands on
your buzzers. Please give us alternative
names for fornication.
It's time to play in the tadpulli feud.
I've surveyed
the tadpole on some nerdy topics, and Scott and
Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave
us. It's Scott and Brian's job to predict
how many of those answers
they can guess. Not predict them. Just see how many
they can guess. Hey, Claire,
your job, which is class,
is more important than ever because you're going to be
working with either Scott or Brian. If your team
wins, you get a prize package that includes
Disciples, Liberation, and Shapes
Plus the Puzzle DLC.
So it's the game Shapes with a Z.
Oh, Shapes is good.
That's a good game.
And the puzzle DLC.
Oh, is it really?
Yeah, it's very good.
It's, you know, puzzle games, but it's, um, I think it's great, yeah.
That would make, I think that'll make even the hardest core gamer like Claire
happy.
That's what I think.
Oh, nice.
Yeah, I'm a hardcore.
She's hard core.
You got to shoot the shapes.
I guess is what you got to do.
Always shoot the shapes.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the whole instruction manual for the geometry words.
What shape is that?
Geometry Ward.
Yeah, geometry wars.
Shoot the shapes.
That's it.
That was such a deep cut.
Oh, who said that originally?
This is like a little conveyor belt.
This thing looks awesome.
Oh, I know who said shoot the shapes.
It was that weird kid.
It was that weird kid that used to come to all the stuff, including Nurtacular, the Jesus
kid.
Oh, yes, you're talking about Sebastian.
What was that kid's name?
Sebastian. That's it. It was Sebastian. He was his, he was his kind of smelly, skinny, weird little kid dude. He's just out of high school.
Hey, Thomas, Sebastian. Come on. No, no, not in a negative way. He was like a mascot. I don't know where he is now these days, but he was like in high school at the time. And he came to everything. And he says, you know what the rules are for, you know, for geometry wars. What? Shoot the shapes. And I don't know why that thing stuck for so long. It's so great. He looked like Jesus. That's why I'm calling him.
Jesus guy, you had a little Jesus face.
I think I might have to actually pick up this shapes game.
I'm looking at it, and it's like you're making a big flow chart and making things put together
correctly.
Yeah, it's really good.
It's really good.
That's only $10.
I'm going to buy it.
All right.
Look what we've done.
Claire will win, and Brian has bought.
It's fantastic.
Yeah, great, great job.
How come this cost me money?
Everybody wins.
How come this contest costs Brian money every time we do it, damn it?
By the way, by the way, was it really Sebastian?
Okay, so anyway, Sebastian, the first time I was a guest on Extra Life,
radio. He found my phone number and called the house while I was on. And like, Tina answered. And he says,
yeah, I need to tell Brian something. And she's like, oh, no, he's, he's currently doing podcasting
right now. And he's like, oh, no, I know. I'm listening to his show. So she comes down with the phone,
like, there's somebody on who wants to tell you something about the show you're currently doing.
And it's like, he just wanted me to tell you something. Like, tell Scott. Yeah. I really love. I really
love his show or something like that.
Yeah, he was an odd little duck.
Later in his 20s, he sent him.
Well, Sebastian, he's gotten older.
If you're talking about the same Sebastian, who I'm talking about,
he's gotten older.
He stayed with us for a while.
Yeah.
And he's fine.
He's doing fine.
I'm looking at his Facebook page.
I think that was Sebastian mashup man.
So you're not talking about that's Sebastian.
Yeah, not him.
Mashup Man's still around.
I can't think of his name.
That's why Sebastian didn't seem right to me.
He probably is, but it just didn't seem right to me.
But, yeah, definitely not that stuff.
I was thinking he wasn't super young either.
He was a little bit older.
No, he was an average age dude, but this dude was still in high school.
He ran away from home to come to an artacular one year.
Like one year, he shows up at my house.
And he's like, my parents don't even know I'm here.
I'm like, dude, you live in California?
What are you freaking doing?
Anyway.
So there's the story.
There's that whole thing.
I hope you all enjoyed that business.
Yeah.
All right, let's do our thing.
You're diving deep.
All right.
Let's get to this.
It's a, it's a, a tadpully feud.
Get to a little tadpulli fugue.
What is Sebastian?
All right.
Well, Sebastian.
All right.
Put your hands on your buzzers for, uh, we asked 501 tadpoolers.
Seven of them, uh, chose not to reply, jerks.
Uh, we asked them, what's your favorite superhero team?
Damn it
Brian
The Avengers
Show me the Avengers
Number two
Only one answer will beat it
Oh
Oh
Yeah
So many directions to go here
Right
I know I know
All right
I'm going to go
Let me just go
Justice League
Somebody probably chose
They're the original
Show me Justice League
Damn it
Oh number three
Brian gets control
Not only of the board
But control of Claire
You use that wisely
No
Dear Lord
Somebody needs to
Yeah
All right so
Brian you have control of the board
What other guesses do you have?
Claire
How comfortable are you with this question?
Do you want to drop a little knowledge or do you want me to go for one?
Clear.
Yeah.
I would suggest another Marvel one is probably the top and it's probably X-Men.
Oh, X-Men's good.
Agreed.
Yeah, that's a swear one.
I almost said X-Men.
I flound her between the two.
I was trying to figure out the guys.
Yeah.
The Ted pool.
Sure.
All right.
Show me.
Come to me, my X-Men.
Number one.
it is.
All done.
So points wise, those two answers are now tied you up with Scott is all it did.
Yeah, we're still.
Still a real game here, folks.
Seven answers on the board.
Now it gets tough.
Remind me how the back again.
All right, suckers.
I got right.
Now, I know that.
I already have any input, by the way?
For another one?
Yeah, I mean, we don't have to listen to you, but you might.
No, no.
I mean, I can go.
that's stupid, you know, like that.
Yeah, but I want to hear it.
Yeah, of course.
I can't think of what they're called,
but the ones with the stupid, um,
and the things.
I'm going to go with Guardians of the Galaxy.
That's what she meant.
Perfect.
Good answer.
The one with the tree and the tree of the trash panda.
The trash panda.
Yeah.
All right.
All right.
Show me
Guardians of the Galaxy
Number four
There you go
I put you head by four
Nicely done
You bastards
Yeah
But we're not getting the good points
We need the good points
You need some of the deeper
The higher
Hanging Fruit as they say
Right
That's right
Claire you got another one
You'll me to pull out
To my butt
My butt
What?
Out of your butt
Oh
Fantastic
What did you say?
Oh my gosh, I can't understand.
What did you say?
You went,
Oh, Fantastic Four.
Oh, yeah, the Fantastic Four.
Oh, yeah, the Fantastic Four.
We're going to go with the Flur.
I like how she did it like a question.
That's amazing.
It's Flurbering time.
Show me the Fantastic Four.
Number six.
There you go.
Now we're getting some points.
Jerks.
There we go.
Jerks.
All right.
Okay.
Woo.
Do you think more Marvel or DC people?
What do you think, Claire?
Well, I hate DC.
Wow.
Okay.
Man.
All right.
Then we'll stay with the Marvel people then.
We don't want Claire to be angry.
The comics are fine.
Look.
Oh, yeah.
That's a great selling point.
The comics are fun.
My DC comics.
They're fine.
you know what I mean
but like it'd be funny if you like had to apologize
for Black Adam and you're like well look
at least the comics are fine
right yes exactly
the comics and the animation
that stuff's great
yeah they're fine
yeah that's better than
they're better than five
they're fine
all right
what do you guys like
would you give me to put one of
even though they're not like
heroes
but like it depends on what
what was the group again
you said
well yeah what was again i don't know what do you think brian
what's in i don't understand i still didn't get what you said that is a weirdest word
say it one more time carefully and slowly
suicide
oh suicide squad oh it's suicide one oh yeah yeah yeah yeah it's hard to understand the irish
sometimes when they've got to wear these things
this is why i get off of my iPhones because i call i have to call through my
freaking work phone and it's a potato and you can't understand
Well, I'm going to, I'm going to go with Claire.
Even though, you know, she said it's not really a superhero team.
It's not, but still, people, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
It's Tadpool.
It's what the Tadpool says.
Yeah, but she, I agree.
I'm going to go with Suicide Squad with Claire.
I like it.
That's a team.
All right.
It's a team.
Show me suicide squad.
Oh, I'm shocked by that.
I'm shocked by that, actually.
I think the, I would have thought there would have been good points.
I think the superhero.
Only one person said suicide squad.
I mean, you know, they're...
Really?
Was it you, Claire?
No.
Oh, man.
Yeah, surprisingly, only one person said even with their popularity, and I think it is that
people probably did just like say, yeah, they're not ready for here.
I still stand about it was a good answer.
Good answer.
I have a question for the judges, Brian.
Is that okay if I ask you this question?
Yes, please ask your question.
Will some of these be amalgams of various versions of the sort of the same thing?
Like, I don't want to.
Let's say, I'll make up something.
Let's say, there's the squirrels, but there was also the squirrel squad.
But really it's.
Oh, I see.
Yeah, there you go.
I feel like it's fair for me to tell you that there are no other, like, let's say, for example, we have X-Men on there.
Would we also potentially have X-Factor and X-Force?
Uh, see, that's my question.
Even though people did say those, I will say that those are so low on the list.
No, I actually didn't combine them.
They just, but none of these, I'm just going to say none of these.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, yeah, okay, I will say none of these are.
With the exception of one.
None of these are close like that, if that makes sense.
Okay.
No, fair enough.
Fair enough.
I like that.
Okay.
Well, I'm going to try to get some of the low-hanging fruit so we can get the,
or the high-hanging fruit or whatever the hell to hell.
the big points are.
And I'm going to go with Doom Patrol.
Oh, look at that.
Fresh in your mind from watching it recently.
I love that premiere episode.
Really enjoyed it.
So it is on my mind.
But I don't know.
It just feels like it's in the zeitgeist right now and it might be in high numbers.
And responsible for bringing Brendan Fraser back to where we love him and see him in things.
Sure.
Yes.
Sure.
All right.
show me Doom Patrol
Oh come on
No
Doom Patrol
Better did better on the list than
Did better on the list than
The Suicide Squad
X Factor
19 number 19
Wow
Not too bad
That's pretty good
That's pretty good
That's probably where it belongs
In terms of total team recognition
That's fine
And I figured out the way I want to phrase it
The way I want to phrase this
You know the question that you asked Scott
is character there are characters who are on multiple teams in the list yeah uh but the teams
aren't like you know avengers is on here i'm not we're not gonna know great lakes avengers or west
coast avengers or something like that so there's no if i say it's justice league and super
friends different or no i would i would have listed those as different okay all right yeah all right
That was going to be my question
Because that's who I was thinking
I was as a super friends
But they're kind of different to Justice League
Yeah, I would call those
I would call those different.
Yeah, they're different enough.
Yep.
Wonder Twins didn't make it into the Justice League, I don't think.
All right, your turn, everybody.
What's you thinking, Claire?
Do you have another guess?
You want me to give you one?
Which one is it?
Yeah, do you have one?
Go for it.
I'm going to say
Go Teen Titans Go.
Oh, sure.
Well, that's a good one.
Teen Titans is good.
When there's trouble, you know who to call.
Tadins.
But I'm a little worried that you might go,
It's not like the trouble.
Oh, go ahead.
Sure.
Well, like, I mean, you know, Teen Titans has Cyborg.
He's also a member of Justice League, depending on who you have.
You grow up.
Yeah.
Sure, exactly.
Sure.
Can't stay Tate's forever.
Show me.
Teen Titans.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Nicely done.
All right.
Go to Titans.
What else you got?
Um, what don't you got?
Brian said that they are different.
Maybe go with super friends.
Do you think enough people would have said super friends?
I mean, Super Friends is such a, such a cheese fest.
It just feels like something people would have chosen, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's roll the dice.
Do what Claire says.
Yeah.
All right.
It's coming up.
Batman.
All right.
I mean, just because I say that they're different, doesn't mean people put them on list.
All right.
Show me.
Oh, okay.
I should take that.
No, we can't.
You can't change it.
You've already said it.
Show me, Super Friends.
It's on.
I waited long enough for that one.
Nine points.
Good points.
I don't think I can win.
Claire, look at you.
If I got all three, but I can't win, can I?
Yeah, you need 25, or 24, you need 25 points to,
win and you could get it with
all three, right? Because you'd get
Oh, right. But then clear was still win.
Yeah, clear wins either way. That's the
Yeah, there you go. Claire wins either way.
Yeah. All right. Good luck, you two. What do you got here? Let's clear the board.
That's a good one. Let's see. We got
no way. I'm trying to think. Well, I love
Alpha Flight. This is personally.
Sure. You're going to go Canadian, aren't?
one of my top picks.
Yeah. Canada.
Get that in there.
Yeah. All right.
Do it then? Is that yours?
I like it enough. Do you like it enough to say it is the question.
I like it enough to say it.
Okay. All right.
Show me Guardian, Puck, Marina.
Wolf guy.
Sasquoise.
Sasquatch, North Star, Aurora, and Snowbird.
Show me Alpha Flight.
Good job.
I'm glad we got that all out though
that was educational and also wrong
but it was educational. Box later on
was another member. Did anybody say Alpha Flight? Yes, Alpha Flight
was number 13. Nothing wrong with Alpha Flight.
That would be good points. Yeah, we've been good points. Brian, you're
good to call it. That's a good one. All right, I am going to go with
oh geez, I just had it and then I lost it.
maybe you should say Scooby-Doo
and they could find it for you in their mystery machine
they are WB though aren't they
they are technically a DC
property
there's no way anyone shows that
their dog their dog talks
yeah there's no way
nobody did it poorly oh I know I know I know I got one
let's go into here I would take
I would take poorly if a dog
come up to me and started talking
Even poorly, I'd be on.
You'd say that, you would be so freaked out.
You'd poop your pants.
If you said anything other than roof.
Keep that weird talking dog, the F away from me.
Yeah, I would have got away with it, too, if it hadn't been to you and your...
All right.
I'm going to take the boys, the boys.
Oh, that's a good team.
Now, are they always called the boys?
Because technically the show is the boys, but the team is something.
Oh, well, the comic is called the boys.
The characters in it are called, I don't know.
I think they're just...
I'll tell you that the teams are called.
The team is called the seven.
Oh.
Oh.
No, no, not them.
I don't want the seven.
I don't mean them.
I mean the actual boys like the team that's trying to kill the seven,
meaning the, you know, butcher and all his pals.
Not the seven of seven.
Oh, gotcha.
Gotcha.
Okay.
All right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I actually lumped those together.
Okay.
That's true, yeah, because they're a different,
it is a different team, isn't it?
Yes, yes.
Okay, cool.
In that case, show me the boys or the seven.
Oh!
Son of a goat.
Even though I lumped them together, even combined,
they, let's see, where is it?
I remember seeing it on here.
Louder.
Yeah.
You know what I?
You know what I would pay for?
The next new property I would pay for is a buddy cop film with Claire and Brian Dunaway.
That's what I want.
Yes.
We're on it.
Just walking around, going, loser.
Getting too old for this.
Just that's all the whole movie would be that.
Oh.
Anyway.
All right.
Bring it home then.
What do you got, smarty pantses?
The chat room won't shut up about the watchman.
What do you think?
Oh, duh.
Yeah, watchmen.
It's up there.
It's up there.
It's up there. Watchmen.
God, I love the chat room, right?
You're so smart.
What was I thinking?
We can smack.
I feel like an idiot.
Cool.
Show me.
Is that the name of the group, right?
Yeah, that's the watchman.
You confuse me now, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who watches the watchman?
Yeah, who watches them?
Show me the watchman.
Oh, what?
Are you kidding me?
No.
Um, all right.
The Minuteman were the team.
That old one.
That's what it was.
Yeah, that was the old one.
All right.
Well, on that note, let's see if Scott can round this out.
I don't know who else is left.
Let's do, oh my gosh.
Oh, shut up.
Is DC on that now?
That might be on there.
You know what?
It doesn't matter.
You're right.
It doesn't matter.
let's do the teenage mutant ninja turtles heroes on a half shell
number seven although it didn't buzz weird oh my thing the chat room was yelling between
those two yep all right well that's a little better i know look hey you're still winning don't
worry you're good yeah you've won you're going to win either way either way yeah either way
either way you're covered um all right you're a winner let's go with um uh oh geez uh oh
Carter says G.I. Joe.
Joe.
That's a, that is a comic book.
So it kind of doesn't.
Oh, you know what?
I like the runaways.
Why didn't I think of that before?
The runaways.
Oh, sure.
Oh, sure.
Marvel.
They had a thing with the TV show on what,
free-form TV, I believe.
Oh, I thought it was Hulu.
Oh, I don't know.
So not new mutants in?
Okay.
Well, look.
Okay.
Dude, runaway is a whole separate thing.
They're mutants, but.
whatever that's right
well are they
they're mutants
they're kids who got
experimented on
as they were babies
oh is that the deal
I can't remember
it's been a while
totally unlike the new mutants
wait
fair point
yes I was right
totally unlike the new mutants
yeah
all right
show me
runaways
yeah
uh all right
well that's all right
Claire you won
what Claire
sorry
What'd you say?
Power Rangers.
Oh, Power Rangers.
Well, we'll find out, won't we?
Brian is Power Rangers.
Go.
By the way, I never did say, let's see.
Runaways.
Did I say Watchman?
Watchman was number 15, by the way.
Yeah.
I did say that.
Let's see.
Power Rangers, number 27.
Oh, I could, number 27.
Oh, man, 27.
That's a long ways down there.
Let's get to this and let's start the,
the arguments, shall we?
Let's start.
Let's go number 10 first because there's less controversy over this one.
Powerpuff girls.
Yeah.
That's good.
I'm surprised that many people said that's great.
A lot of people.
Nine people said Powerpuff girls.
Wow.
Why didn't that ring?
All right.
Sorry, go ahead.
Start the arguments here.
That's not a team.
Spider-Man and the thing.
That's not a team.
Well, it's really funny you say that, Brian.
No.
Because number eight is Batman and Robin.
Oh, this is the one you were.
Yeah, no, you what, you know what?
I think it's a good one.
I just think that this now makes sense what you were waffling on earlier.
Yes, exactly, because they're both part of the Super Friends and part of the Justice League.
Yeah.
And kind of half part of the Teen Titans, but they never call themselves team, though?
Well, they're the duo.
They're not in crime.
Yeah, but what is a dynamic duo?
if not a team, you know?
It is a team.
Well, so does Scooby do in Batman and Robin.
What's your point?
Does that count?
Yeah.
And they even had a crossover where Batman and Robin hung out with Scooby Do.
Do you remember that?
That's right.
Yeah, I love that one.
It was terrible.
Let's get to some of the answers you didn't say because some of these are great.
And I'm going to tell you, one person just said, enough superhero shit is their response to the server.
I love it.
I think they might be tired of superhero based on.
questions in the
tad full survey. Let's see.
Going down the list, number 11
Defenders, the Defenders,
good, like, Dr. Strange
and Silver Surfer, I think was part
for a while. Mystery Men, number 12,
that's a very good one. Oh, I love that movie.
The Incredibles. A lot of people
were shouting that one in the chat room.
Number 14, the Incredibles. Wonder Twins,
16, X-Force,
West Coast Avengers,
New Mutants, Dark Justice League.
Two people said that.
Two people also said Eternals
That's true
Great Lakes Avengers
Green Lantern Corps
Heroes for Hire League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The Revengers
Wildcats
Good choice there
The Ambiguously gay duo
Glad to see they get some love on here
Alarious
Bat fam
Batman well and Robinson
Big Hero 6
Getting a couple votes
Oh yeah just watch that
Birds of Prey
Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Scooby Gang.
All one there.
DP 7 and DV8.
Electra Woman and Dinna Girl.
Oh, nice.
Excalibur.
Hobbs and Shaw.
Hobbs and Shaw.
Hobbs and Shaw.
You guys.
Hulk.
Team of one.
Hulk. A team of one.
Two biceps, two triceps, giant forearms.
It's a group.
Kick-ass, Legion of Doom, Legion of Superheroes,
which, Midnight Sun's, new Justice team from Futurama.
Oh, I love that.
That's good.
Although we asked this a long time before you said you were re-watching that.
So, let's see.
Spider-Man is Amazing Friends, Stormwatch, Samurai Pizza Cats.
Yeah, I'm not familiar with that one, but I need to apparently check that one out.
The Bob Belcher family.
Okay.
The Centurions, the Craptacular B-sides.
Yeah.
Wow.
There's so many.
There are so many.
The Venture brothers, Thunderbolts and Thundercats, both good choices.
Oh, Thundercats are good, yeah.
I like that.
And finally, wacky racers.
Wacky racers.
Clearly a bunch of superheroes.
How else could they be so wacky?
Excellent news.
Here's the good news, Claire.
You want to matter what, so this code's coming to you.
Brian knows your email, so there's.
it's all good. Actually, I'm going to send it to her in chat right now.
Can you pick someone in the chat for them because I still do not have my own computer to join in with all.
Oh, man. Merry Christmas. That's so nice. That's so nice of you.
No, that's fine. It's a Christmas miracle. Plus, you know, you can undock your swatch and play that. That's fine.
We'll even split these up. So we'll do Disciples Liberation to somebody in the Tadpool.
and then we'll do shapes
plus the puzzle DLC to
one of the hosts of TMS
So that's cool
Oh, that's perfect, yeah
And we won't even need to say which host
It's totally fine
We won't even need to say it
No, it's fine.
Here's your big moment.
Congratulations, you're a winner.
Congratulations and well done, Claire,
and thank you for being so generous
with your codes.
Hey, Brian Dunaway, guess what, man?
What?
Tonight.
You and I are doing play retro
right after DTNS ends or so.
I'll be heading straight into that
And Brian and I will be talking all about the fantastic ancient video games called,
where do we watch it?
What are we playing?
Go on.
Oh, Gottlet, one or two.
Sorry.
I drug it out because my brain just wasn't working.
Yeah.
Sorry, go ahead.
It's older than what?
What did you say?
No, no.
I don't know.
I love how you drug it out by just using more words.
Yeah, just kept it going.
Yeah.
Keep that train rolling, I always say.
But, yeah, that's today.
And we'll be talking about Gottlet one and two.
It's so dumb. I forgot because I just played it yesterday so we could talk about it.
Anyway, that'll be tonight, 330 Mountain Time at frogpants.tv, if you want to watch live or get play retro wherever. Get your podcast. Brian, have a lovely week. I guess this is it. Merry Christmas.
Oh, you. I mean, we'll talk to you again, but, you know, on the show we won't. Oh, yeah.
So, Merry Christmas, Brian. May all your gifts be returnable and biodegradable. Bye now. All right. That's the end of that.
Um, by the way, so Rainbow Bright asked, are we doing, is there a film psych this weekend? There sure is. We did a watchalong of, uh, last Christmas, the X-Files episode. Yep. That we, that we, that we've soon realized had zero to do with Christmas. Yeah. Other than the title. Yep. It was a little bit weird. Part of it takes place out of Christmas party. So that is, that's what's coming up this weekend for film sack. Uh, all right. We're going to give these, I'm going to give it away right now. I have an idea. Uh, let's do it. Uh, let's do it.
let's do it toward the end of the show so we can get to Tom we're already 10 minutes
oh yeah I'm sorry yeah so we'll just wait on that um but don't worry you guys you could win hang
around we'll do it right at the end of the show uh all right we're gonna take a break when we come
back tom merit as I mentioned be here talking tech we got recommendals after that but before
any of that can happen we have to play a song Brian what do you do contractually obligated
to play this song right here this um I love this uh and not just because of the
the title but the the lyrics are great the song the beautiful uh
It just goes around
Along with something that is very near and dear to my heart
As you shall soon see
This is a band called Daisy the Great
From their brand new album
All You Need is Time. Here is their song
Time Machine
Are you listening to the clocks in this house
They look rowling at me
They are growling at me
Saying how can it be
That the whole world is falling apart
The sky is burning
No more need to hurry.
We were right to worry.
We were right to worry.
The birds are gone now.
The time has come now.
Just close your eyes now.
Just close your eyes now.
The sea is crying.
The moon.
is sighing
It's terrifying
It's terrifying
It's terrifying
It's all around us
The end is crowned us
The star has found us
I once read about a time machine
machine they learn to teach electrons to go back to where they started should we go back to where we started maybe we could build a time machine and put it in my old car fill it up with dirty water we could try a little harder
If I go back, if I go back, if I go back,
I do it all the same
again
If I go back
If I go back
Will I do it all the same again
If I go back
If I go back
Will I do it all the same
Again
If I go back
If I go back
If I go back
Will I do it all the same
I once read about a time machine
They learn to teach electrons to go
Back to where they started
Should we go
Back to where we started
Maybe
We could build a time machine
And put it in my old car
Fill it up with dirty water
We could try a little harder
Oh, yeah.
Do you remember a time when chocolate chip cookies came fresh from the oven?
Petridge Farm remembers.
Do you remember a time when women couldn't vote and certain folk weren't allowed on golf courses?
Petridge Farm remembers.
What's that scribbly gook?
The morning stream.
You've done it, you stupid old man.
Now you've got to undo it.
And we've returned.
Tell me who that was one more time.
Sure.
That was a band called Daisy the Great and a song called Time Machine.
How interesting is it that the very clip I played after that?
This was all about time and remember.
That's all about time. I know. It was great, great, uh, the timing was impeccable.
Oh, see? Now you've done it. Now you've done it.
All right. Let's get down the road to some tech.
With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man.
That man shown here in a top hat. Look at this guys. Look at this.
Uh, is Tom Merritt. He's joining us as he does every Wednesday of this entire year of 2022 and likely will be for 2023, unless we really screw something up.
I hope we don't. Tom, welcome back to the show. What gives with the top hat? Are you doing screwed? Or what? What do we got here?
So, last week, I floated the idea on my Twitch stream while I was preparing for the show that maybe I would read a Christmas Carol live on my Twitch stream at some point. And people said, well, you must wear a top hat. And I said, I didn't have a top hat. And they said, you should order a top hat. So I texted Andrew Heaton. And he told me where to buy a top hat. I bought a top hat. The top hat got shipped. And now I'm wearing the top hat.
I love it that
Andrew Heaton is the go-to
for who
Where can I get a top hat?
That's great.
Thanks for not asking the guy
Who's known for wearing silly hats.
Yeah, thanks.
Thanks.
Where would you have told me to buy a top hat?
Brian, what is your,
Brian,
do you have a go-to hat place?
Do you have a place that you're always like,
oh,
I have a local habadasher,
but that would not help Tom
with a hat that he needed in California.
That's true.
You need it in LA.
I would have said Amazon.
You were absolutely correct in going to Andrew Heaton for that.
Okay, okay.
I was just double checking because, yes, you're right.
You are on my go-to hat list, but for top hats specifically,
Heaton did rank slightly above.
Yeah, yeah.
It's like you're the ghost of Christmas tech is what you are.
Oh, I like that.
Nice transition.
I mean, look, as we hurdle toward Christmas, if it's anything like gaming news,
things tend to slow down a little, but what's going on in tech today?
Anything crazy or cool?
Well, are you ready for some football news?
Oh, I am ready for some football.
I hear that all my rowdy friends are coming over tonight.
Well, they may be coming over to YouTube to watch their football next season.
So if anyone hasn't been following this, here's the short version.
Direct TV has had a package called Sunday Ticket pretty much since its inception.
And Sunday Ticket lets you pay extra money to get all the football games on Sunday.
just the ones that are broadcast in your local market.
That does mean that you're blacked out of your local market.
You have to go watch on your local channel.
So, you know, that's typical for Major League Baseball, NHL, etc.
They want you to go to your local channel to watch those games,
but these extra packages give you all of the other games, right?
So this is a pretty significant, wonderful package that football fans have enjoyed for a long time.
It's one of the main drivers of subscriptions to direct TV.
So that's one part of this story, is direct TV subscriptions probably going to fall even farther since they don't have Sunday ticket.
But it looked like Apple was going to get this, which would have been interesting because they don't have local channels on Apple.
So you would have had, on direct TV, it would be easy to be like, oh, I'm watching Sunday ticket on this channel.
I will just go up to my broadcast channel to watch my local team.
with Apple TV, you would
have had to have a second service
to watch your local team, but everything else would have been
there. I guess
the word is, nobody
said anything official,
but the word is that Apple
wanted to get rid of that practice.
They wanted to carry the local games.
They also wanted to carry it internationally.
The Sunday ticket is only in the US.
So
they were very close. It looked
like they were going to get it, and they couldn't resolve
those issues. So
Apple backed away. And now the word is, according to the Wall Street Journal, that the NFL very quickly has gotten close to an agreement with Google to add NFL Sunday ticket to YouTube. And by the time you're listening to this, if you're listening to it not live, that may have already been announced. There's an owner's meeting on Wednesday and they're expected to announce a deal after that. So if it goes through, and it sounds like it probably will, the rule still apply to the local game issues, right?
Okay.
Essentially the way, the reason that is, is I as a network, let's say, let's say pick CBS because they do football games.
Sure.
I get a lot of money for selling the national ads, which I would still get if my game is carried on Sunday ticket.
These games are just rebroadcasts of what CBS is doing.
But my local affiliate is made very happy by the fact that they get ads from people watching there.
the cable channel that carries the local affiliate is paying to carry it.
So they want people to be subscribed to the cable service in order to get it,
not to a separate service like Sunday ticket.
And what Apple essentially wanted to do is buy that out.
From what I understand, Apple was like, yeah, we'll pay to make that go away, how much?
And the NFL said, you know what, that's going to ruin a lot of relationships.
It might be bad monetarily down the road.
So no, we don't want to give all the pay.
power to you. I think the NFL
kind of likes that they can, you know, play some folks
off against each other. So
instead, what we're going to get is
YouTube getting the Sunday ticket.
I'm going to guess. We don't
know if we don't even know if they're going to get it.
But if they get it, my guess would be
they will add it to YouTube TV,
which case they're in the same situation as
DirecTV. Your local channels
hopefully will be on them.
Not on all the instances, but they're on most of them.
And then you can go watch it on that
channel on YouTube TV and all the other games on Sunday on the Sunday ticket package if you pay to
add it. They'll probably also make it available on YouTube proper as an add on. They've been doing
that where you can add showtime. You can add other things. In which case you wouldn't get your
local market games, but you could get everything else to the YouTube interface. Well, that's what I'm
mostly curious about is how they'll get like I can't just tune into YouTube and watch free games on
Sundays. That's not how that's going to work. I got to up my for for football no. I assume now who knows.
this package, you know, this is a new package. So part of this package may include like one
free YouTube game. Remember, YouTube does free Major League Baseball games. So maybe there'll be
a free game on Sunday from the Sunday ticket package that might be blacked out if it's your
local team. I'm not going to rule that out. But by and large, no, this is going to be a package
you have to pay to add on. All right. Well, I think it's an interesting move. I guess I was kind of
hoping, I don't know where I stand on this. I understand why they want to protect the relationships with
local affiliates and stuff. I totally get that. Part of me is like, can we get to a place where
we just have, I don't know, this is, my brain is so stupid this way because part of me wants
a single place to say, I go there for all of it. And it's all right there and there it is. But then
it feels like I'm describing old media in a weird way. I hear this a lot from people like,
oh, we're just headed back to cable, aren't we? And no, you're not because cable was a monopoly for the
most part. You got what they gave you or you got nothing and you had no control of that and it was
really hard to cancel. What we're headed to is choice. Choice and control. And so, yes, it would be
nice. I think if there was a platform that helped you manage all of that, which is what Apple's trying
to be. It's what Amazon's trying to be where they're like, yeah, you can add channels on our
platform. Roku is also trying to be that. So we're kind of headed there. And I think it will be an improvement
over cable because you'll have options.
You won't be locked in and be like, well, you got the one thing or you got nothing.
Your choice.
Yeah.
Well, it'll be interesting to see.
I think I may actually do it this time, like belly up for it.
Because Kim and I...
Every year, Kim and I go, Kim and I go, we always, this always happens.
So I like football.
I like, I enjoy it.
And I love the playoffs and I love the end of the season.
But I tend to get really like not really paying attention the rest of the regular season.
and I used to be really into it
to the point that I was watching every game
and I really liked it
way back in the day. So we keep
saying, hey, we got to do that again. She's like, yeah,
we should, we should totally get into it. And then we don't.
Like this season, we're circling
the drain again and I'm like, well,
frick, we didn't do it. So
the idea of jumping in on it
and having it be kind of like a digital play
like this and not just finding out
that CBS or Fox or some cable
channel is doing it is pushing me
more into that direction and maybe trying it.
I'm kind of liking it as well.
I mean, I bet every week on games.
So watching the little play-by-play of the little, you know,
the little graphic icon of the field with the ball arcs
for when they have a passing run or a running game or anything like that,
I'd much rather be able to just put it on and say,
okay, this is a game that I've got, you know, 30 bucks on.
Let's watch this one or whatever.
You got your skin in that.
Mikey M.C. asked an interesting question is, like,
Does this affect Monday night football or Thursday night football?
No, it won't.
And nor does it affect Sunday night football.
It's only the Sunday day games that go into Sunday tickets.
Sunday night stays on NBC, Monday night stays on ESPN, and Thursday night stays on Amazon.
Those are all separate deal.
That was the first weird, like, oh, wow, okay, these streaming services are getting to get.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Very, very weird.
All right, well, that is, that's actually a pretty big story.
And we'll be talking about it and more today on DTNS.
Can't wait.
It's Wednesday.
It means it's my day, damn it.
Bow before my day.
Just kidding.
I just show up and get a tip of that from Tom.
Tom, is there anything else going on in your world that you'd like to share with the audience?
Yeah, there was a great episode of a word with Tom Merritt published last week that I've been getting lots of good feedback about starring Scott Johnson talking about being a dad.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
Yeah, it was pretty awesome.
And I've had nothing, but people go, man, what a great episode.
I'd love that conversation.
I loved hearing Scott talk about things in a way that he doesn't really get an opportunity to talk about.
So Scott and I had a really personal conversation.
Not only about Scott, you were nice enough to open up about your experience being a father of three children from a young age to, you know, and not as young age.
Yeah.
You know, throughout time.
Yeah.
And we also talked about our own dads and our experiences with.
them and i really appreciate you you doing that that was a really fun conversation well i really
enjoyed it it was um i don't know there tom's obviously a great interviewer and what that that helps
that stuff come out and i think it just came out in a way that sounded uh really really well
thought out even though we were just sort of talking just having a conversation yeah yeah i've
had nothing but good feedback as well on my end so uh a thank you for the opportunity and b people
check it out if you haven't checked it out it's a word with tom merit available wherever you get your
Highly recommended.
A wordpodcast.com will get you to the, to the subscription area.
Very nice.
It's Tom Merritt, everybody.
Ace Detect on Twitter.
As long as Twitter exists, he'll be there.
Oh, that's weird.
Just restarted.
Sorry, keep up.
Yeah, it'd be like, you know, it'd be like Groot.
Like, basically we'd be going podcast.
Oh, so it would be a word with Brianibbitt.
Yeah, the word is podcast.
And we just go podcast, podcast, podcast, podcast, podcast, podcast.
Podcast, podcast, podcast.
podcast podcast all tone of voice yeah exactly we'll schedule that for April 1st
yeah that's right here you go sign up today good luck on your only fans where top hat man
slowly disrobes over six months see you soon for whatever reason when I tried to close his
video it restarted Discord for me but it didn't actually close Discord it just ref the whole
thing like it started over with the logo and everything and yeah relaunched it but never actually
that's funny that's really odd I've never had it had before
Hey, real quick, so you put in a thing, a picture of Sebastian.
Yes.
This is the guy.
Is that his name, though?
It doesn't seem, it doesn't sound correct to me, but.
You might be right, and I'm just totally misremembering.
Yeah.
Would you like another funny photo from that day?
Yes.
I'm going to put it in here right now.
This is in the background.
So it's Daryl taking a picture.
Yeah.
But in the background far left, you can see Scott, who's taking a picture with a
couple fans Nicole Spagnolo and Mark Spaggola. Yeah, early, early spags. Early spags, like,
oh, hey, can we get a picture with you, Scott? Oh, another fun note. Okay, so people at home can't
see this. Yeah, that's Shaymas. Shamis, that's it. Shamus. Not Sebastian, freaking
Seamus. Thank you, Renee plays stuff. Oh, my gosh, thank you. You got it. That's totally
at Seamus. So there's, that's Darrell in front with a camera. Well, I think that might be Brian
done away his ex-wife on the right side it is and that's Brian sitting next to her I think
is he sitting next to me maybe not no she's by herself yeah she's by herself yeah
pillow is bright down the real shape shifter uh then I think I think that's Randy standing there
with the beer I think oh really I thought it might be just another picture of
Seamus oh it might be because everybody was wearing those damn extra life radio shirts
Because this was before TMS.
I think this was, let's see, this is 2009.
I think 2009, right?
Yep, this is May 9th, 2009.
I can tell you at 10.40 p.m.
Yep, in my old living room.
And then one of the thing I wanted to say,
this couch that Brian's ex-wife is sitting in,
is the very couch that the red shirt guy
from Blizzard fame, like the BlizzCon dude,
that was so weird out.
in the audience. He sat in that chair
one nerdtacular, not this 09 one,
but a different one, and fell asleep for
like two hours there. The red shirt
guy was in your house? I never knew this.
I thought the only time we ever saw the red shirt
guy was
was in
BlizzCon itself. No. In fact,
somewhere, I have a photo of him sleeping
in that chair, but I don't know where I freaking put it.
I'd have to dig around.
Oh, these are great. Look at this one.
Like
I said, take the most
serious a picture you can but then following that we'll give you one more yeah and then i'm with
is that eric i think that's skyhawk i got my arm around on that one oh yeah definitely skyhawk because
you can see him in this one that i just uploaded with where you're photo bombing uh oh yeah
the mayu's josh and jen may you yeah i don't have the talent you had at that but i tried that was
pretty good though dude that's that's really good yeah there's the mayus doing their thing i remember he really
wanted to cook the chicken that night he was like super like irritated that it wasn't he wanted to
help cook the chicken oh there's Seamus again yeah Seamus that's the name i'm annoyed that i couldn't
think of it and then on our drive home we uh you know saw this which was one of those vehicles uh one
of those trucks that's loaded up with cars oh uh right like a multi-level oh my gosh really and it's on
fire and all those cars are on fire. It's like, holy poop. Look at that. Yeah. They routed us off the
highway for that. How much do you think was worth a lot, right? Yeah, a few, you know, a couple hundred
thousand dollars just, just wrecked right there. That is wild. All right, very nice.
Anyway, yeah. Enjoyed the hell out of that. Let's see if, uh, since we don't have Randy, we just
filled up some time. Yeah, I completely forgot that Randy was out today. Uh, he's on, uh,
vacation, basically.
Sure.
And Nicole is not feeling well, so she's not here either.
So, Recommendals today is just me and you.
And that's all right.
Once in a while, you know, it's fine.
We don't mind.
It's fine.
Here's this.
As we play the theme for only ourselves.
It's time for recommendals, things we've seen on streaming services that we think you might
enjoy at home as well.
It's a public service, really, and we don't get paid for it.
But we're here.
I guess we get Patreon, but it's not really the same.
Anyway, let's get to this.
We are going to start with you because we always start with you.
And I lost track of where your clips are.
There it is.
Okay, so we actually have these from last Wednesday when we didn't do recommendals at all
because I had internet problems, but we held them and we're ready to share them now.
So, Brian, what did you bring?
Yes.
This is a one-season series, or as they would say in the UK, a one-series series.
Nice. Nice.
So this is a very quick and fantastic watch.
I kind of edited a little bit of the first,
a little bit of the setup from the first episode together
because there's a lot that needs to be kind of put into one little clip.
All right. Well, let's check it out and enjoy this clip.
You're both getting out today.
Full shit.
I still got eight months. This four got four years left.
Governors letting out a bunch of nonviolent inmates because of the coronavirus.
And you dumb asses are.
two of them. Grabby stuff.
What the hell is coronavirus?
Piece of shit out of me.
Next.
Man, this is crazy, huh?
You had told me this morning that I was good...
Here's $40 in your personal belongings.
The clothes you came in with are down the hall.
If you've been here longer than 10 years,
we apologize for the moth problem, which has since been rectified.
Next!
What exactly is this coronavirus anyway?
A couple weeks ago, some dumb ass ate a rotten bat.
Now people are dying from the flu,
and they shut down the NBA.
Next.
Okay, this is it, folks.
You're all free to go, but please keep in mind,
the state has issued a shelter-in-place order.
What's a shelter-in-place order?
Unless you are essential, which I assure you, you are not.
You need to stay in your home.
But we've been in prison.
We don't have a home.
I agree, it's a bit of a head-scratcher,
but we were just told to let you go,
so that's what we did.
Good luck.
I have no idea, but I love it.
How is this not,
well, hold on, let me guess.
Yeah.
TV show or movie, did you say?
TV show.
Oh, gosh.
Why is something about it familiar?
Yeah, it should be because we,
when this was announced,
we were talking about saying,
oh my God, this is going to be great.
We got to watch it.
Because it's a series created by Greg Garcia,
who you know from things like,
My Name is Earl and Raising Hope and
love him and all those.
This is called Sprung, and it features a lot of those actors, or a couple of those actors anyway, that you remember from those shows.
So that's Garrett Dillahunt that you hear.
That's why it's familiar.
It's his voice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yep.
Garrett Dillant is the one who's, hey, what's this coronavirus thing?
It's got him.
It's got Martha Plimpton as the kind of a mother to Garrett Dillan's cellmate who kind of takes everybody in.
Uh, Shakira Barreira as Gloria, because Greg Garcia likes to find, uh, beautiful women for the, for the lead who are fantastic and who we need to see more of after these shows and we never see again, sadly.
I don't know why we don't, but like the woman in my name is Earl, the, uh, the housekeeper or the maid.
Oh, yeah, she was great.
She was great.
And we never really saw her in anything after that.
No, that's kind of the end of it.
You're right.
Yeah, yeah.
So is the concept here that they actually emptied a prison because of coronavirus?
That seems weird.
Not emptied, but basically, and this did happen, the governors of, you know, some states said, all right, nonviolent criminals, you're back out, you're free to go.
And Garrett Dillhan's character is only in prison because he sold weed.
But this actually did happen in 2020.
I didn't know that.
That is news to me.
That's really interesting.
Yeah.
What's great is the prison that they're released from is the H.I. McDonough prison, which is a deep cut for folks.
That's great.
That's freaking great.
So this is on Freevy.
Freevy.
So that's where you're going to watch it, which means that if you don't have some way of isolating out those commercials, you're going to see a couple of commercials in it.
Don't worry.
It is so worth it.
Each episode's about 35 minutes.
There are nine episodes.
It's all one self-contained thing.
You're not going to need a future season of this.
It is so damn good.
This is great.
Freevy, by the way, is, that's Amazon's new name for IMDBTB.
That's right.
So it's a, it's a reputable source.
It's not some, like don't get, don't let that scare you away and think,
Freebie, what the hell's that?
No, it's like a commercially supported, you know, it's IMDB.
TB TV rebranded.
That's what it is.
Exactly.
And that means, and if you have Amazon Prime, you can actually watch it there because Amazon Prime shows the freebie stuff over there.
So that's probably the easiest place to see it is if you've got Amazon Prime.
Just watch it there.
Yeah, they have a, they have their own app, but Ryan's right.
You can watch all that stuff over there.
I did not know this was a thing.
I didn't know to Gregory Thomas Garcia had a new project.
I love his stuff.
I am all in.
This is reviewed incredibly well.
It's, uh, it's hilarious.
and it is it's charming and it's uh you know the if i if i had any complaint about this thing
it's uh martha plimpton sometimes is a little over the top in her white trash trailer park mom
acting but even that is is fine it's fine it's fine it's fine it's fine you guys it's fine
but it's also got fred grandy who played gopher on the loveboat oh my lord wow
who was a member of the House of Representatives for a while from Iowa.
Yeah. He's the one that went all, you know, straight-laced after that show ended and then nothing for a long time.
And now suddenly he's in this. That's fantastic.
It's great.
All right. I'm in. You've sold me.
Yes. Go watch it.
Nine episodes. You can watch the entire thing in just a little over the time.
It would take you to watch RR.R.
Nice. R-R, everybody.
The barometer right there.
Is it longer or shorter than RRR, watching all of R.
It used to be, like King Kong, Peter Jackson's King Kong used to be like the thing.
It used to be the bar, right?
Yeah, now it's Triple R.
I like it.
All right, here is a clip from mine.
I watched this on Netaflix.
And it took me a little while to get through it because I kind of, I'll be honest,
I didn't want it to end.
I was enjoying it that much.
And so I reserved it for my treadmill watching, which is about every other day.
Yeah.
But I did finish it.
I loved it.
And I'd like to share it with you.
It's a documentary. Here you go.
Coke was the market leader because it was the original cola.
So Pepsi was the underdog since its inception.
But its strongest weapon was the advertising.
Pepsi Pepsi.
Take the Pepsi Challenge.
Tell me which way you chose.
Pepsi.
Madonna.
Michael Jackson.
Marlon Brando.
Brittany Spears.
I'm not trying to name drop here, but I am.
I absolutely name dropping.
All right.
Small world, that guy at the end there is.
Eric Van Skyhawks, former boss when he was working in New York.
Really?
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, so a bunch of weird connections.
I was reaching out to him about it because I knew it was in the ad business and he's like,
oh, that's my boss.
I used to work for that guy.
And I was like, oh, man, you got to be kidding.
Anyway, the movie.
I believe that's something called Pepsi Where's My Jet, right?
You are correct.
You are correct.
Pepsi Where's My Jet in the form of a question is the documentary.
It's a four-part series.
And I don't want to spoil anything because I think the fourth part has,
a bunch of stuff I did not see coming
and is absolutely worth
experiencing on your own. But the gist
of the entire thing is there's this dude
who at the age of
just getting out of high school
starting to start in college era
in like 1994
you got this guy.
His name is John Leonard.
And John Leonard,
he's just a scrappy kid who's just like
kind of trying to figure out life and what he's going to do
and he's close to his parents and he's just a nice kid or whatever.
They show this commercial.
on TV. You probably remember it, Brian. It was a commercial for Pepsi, where they said at the end of it, you could use these stupid Pepsi points.
They start with T-shirt, then jacket, then, you know, bike or whatever. And they finally get to a Harrier Jet, which was huge at the time because the movie True Lies had just come out. Right. And everybody thought, ooh, Harrier Jets are the coolest thing.
So Pepsi put out this ad. And underneath each of these products, it would say, you know, 70 Pepsi points. And you got Pepsi points by buying Pepsi drinking it and.
You know, I don't know.
I can't remember how you tracked it, but you basically tracked what you had or what you bought.
And then you could buy these stupid things, almost like an arcade with tickets.
Yeah.
And by the end, it shows all these things that says, Harry or Jet, 70 million tickets.
No, 70,000 maybe.
Seven million.
Seven million.
That's what it was.
Yeah, yeah.
That's an important part.
I don't know why I forgot that.
Seven million tickets.
And then no disclaimer.
No, no just kidding.
No, not really an offer.
Even though they meant it as a joke.
They assumed everybody would assume.
In fact, that was their court.
In court, they argued who would think this was real?
That was their argument, basically.
And the answer is this kid.
He's like, I can do it.
And he figured out a way to do it and did it and actually sent the money in that
equivalented to about $700,000.
And Pepsi refused to do it.
And there's this ton of back and forth.
Whole story around it.
He gets an investor involved.
This guy turns out to be a lifelong friend eventually.
or that's how that's how it kind of pans out there's a whole bunch of drama there mike avonati the
freaking weirdo uh lawyer that's going to prison now for screwing nike over or whatever but the one
was going after trump and all that for uh his his his porno lady lawsuit right yes avonati he's in
this and he was part of this back then and they and they don't pull any punches with that guy like
he is a turd and the in the the documentary is happy to express what a turd he is really but
Anyway, it is, it reminds me of an Adam McKay movie in tone.
It's not a drama about real events.
It's a documentary about real events, but the pacing and the comedy and the, and the sort of,
the way they set up discussion and stuff is like funny and has just a rhythm to it that's
hard to explain.
It reminds me of the Monopoly McDonald's documentary as well.
The McMillians or whatever it was called, yeah.
Yeah, it's very, very good.
it goes places I didn't expect
I don't want to spoil any of it
it's a very good documentary
and I really like this one thing that they do
everybody they interviewed and they interviewed Cindy Crawford
and they interview like people that were
big deals back then with the brand
including
interviewing his mom
everybody in between Ivanotti himself
they all have to do
the Pepsi challenge before they do their interview
so they've got
two cups in front of them and they have to
determine whether the one they tasted here is Coke or Pepsi or whether this one's
Coke or Pepsi.
The whole Pepsi, you know what the Pepsi challenges.
I have to explain it.
And you'd be amazed how many people get it wrong.
Like, lifelong employees of Pepsi are picking Coke in this stupid thing.
Oops.
Then they kind of keep track.
So it's just got this, like, fun meta quality to it.
I don't mean Facebook meta.
I mean, like, the real use of the word meta.
Anyway, highly recommend it.
I really, really like it.
Pepsi, Where's My Jet, is the name of it.
It's a four-part series on.
Netflix, and I think I got all that, Christine.
Shit out of luck.com.
So if I missed anything, let me know.
But it is worth your time.
And I found...
Yeah, it looks like it's like a good amount of time, too, right?
It's like four 35 to 40 minute episodes.
Perfect.
Yep.
Just the right amount, I feel like.
I don't feel like they're overstaying their, they're, you know how that happens
with these documentaries sometimes?
Six and seven part ones, I'm like, dude, you could have done this in three.
What are you doing?
Yeah.
Even though that wasn't a documentary, it definitely could have been.
yeah i think that that fits in that category i think yes where you know you could have done
more with less and um in this case i think it's just right and feels good and it's also a lot
of nostalgia there any un90s kids or any of you or like me and brian around you know we were in
early 20s this guy's basically our age um this john leonard kid i say kid he's a kid for a lot
of the story but sure he's an adult now but um it just it just had a lot of sort of oh i remember
that oh i remember that anyway it's rad check it out pepsy where's my jet it's very
good.
I'm going to throw one more thing in here
only because I just watched it
yesterday and it blew me away, but it was an
earlier recommendal of mine.
I can't remember when I recommended this, but
Gangs of London, which is an
AMC Plus series that
is like the
perfect marriage of peaky blinders
in Game of Thrones.
It actually features
both Caitlin Stark
and the younger
Shelby boy.
as mother and son, oddly enough.
Sure. I don't know if anybody's watching this, but the episode that just came out,
I thought I was like binging to the end of the season, but I devoured this stuff.
Holy crap, the episode that just came out, my God, has one of the most brilliant and heartbreaking
and reminiscent of that scene, that famous scene from Old Boy.
oh really okay you know the scene from old i know what you're talking about yep yes like
it almost feels like it was done in one in one take and it's or one cut so british production
i assume it's like a sky production yeah and uh this looks great oh yeah why am i not
watching this this looks like my jam here it is so good and it's two it's two seasons so far
uh i will warn you right now it's gory
It's gory. I mean, it's gory, but it's violent. It's like not for the squeamish.
That's cool. I'm down with that. There's a lot of people going, oi, oh, oh, you love it.
Like that kind of like, it is. It is. It's like, if you're not running this city, then I'm off to take you out. To take you all. Exactly. I love that kind of stuff.
It's, it is so good. And who you root for per episode, it couldn't change, which is great.
It's like such a, I can't think of another series, maybe Game of Thrones, where you're like, oh, yeah, I really like this character.
Like, oh, no, I don't anymore.
I want them to die.
Yeah, it sounds like a great, I would love this.
I'm not sure I understand.
Shut the hell up.
You said nothing like her name.
I've been listening the whole time.
You didn't say her name.
Nothing like, did not say her name.
It's the fact that if I raise my, I've been flailing my arm.
around a lot during this episode
and if I flail my arms
a lot
give it a second
oh yeah I'm waiting
now she's playing
something from my phone
it's probably I think it's a rap song
yeah
yeah it's probably a rap song called
flail my arms a lot
that's fantastic
it's a lot it's a lot's love
by Fat Joe featuring Jha Rule and Ashanti.
But anyway, she's hearing me like raise, like when I raise my hand up, she's saying, oh,
he's trying to ask me something because you don't need to say her name for that.
Yeah.
Oh, that's right, because you do the raise hand thing.
I got it.
That's the thing you can turn off if you want to, right?
I could turn that off and I probably should.
Probably should.
Probably should.
Anyway, all right.
So there you go.
Gangs of London.
Gangs of London.
Pepsi, where's my jet?
and sprung.
Yep, those are your things.
And they'll all be up on quicktms.l.l if you'd like to follow up.
Yeah, see, look, efficiency.
Quick and easy because there's only two recommendals today.
And AMC Plus is where Gings of London is streaming.
But you need that anyway because you've got to watch Better Call Saul and other great things on that.
Go do your free months.
It'll be fine.
Everything will be fine.
There you.
Do it that way.
Or it's like five bucks.
you'll be all right.
Okay, let's do this real quick.
We got a quick text to read.
It says, dear urinal and flush.
This is not from a named person.
They did not leave their name.
Oh, well, okay.
So it was just using the bar restroom, and I thought of you.
I'm not sure why, but I'm sure it was something important.
Some sort of public bathroom thing.
Anyway, I won for sure.
The other guy had nothing on me.
Love the show, though.
No name.
So what I think he was remembering, first of all, I think he's texting.
I'm going to say that.
Yeah, sure.
Second of all, I think he's referring to the whole order in which you stand at a urinal,
like if they're empty, where you go?
I think so. It has to be what he's referring to, yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think it was you're supposed to check out the dude's junk next to you there, bud.
I don't think you're supposed to do that.
No, but he won.
So I think that might have been, I don't know if there are winners in the which Staldi is.
I don't know if there, I mean, I don't know if there's ever winners in any of this scenario.
Yeah, I don't know exactly.
By the way, the Chicago Midway toilets had a row of six urinals, the first of which was a child's, like the lower child's toilet's urinal.
So I, and there was a guy at number two, at stall number two.
So I took stall number six.
And then somebody came and took stall number five in Chicago Midway.
They didn't go too away from me.
There was plenty of room.
He took the one right next to me.
So what?
Maybe it's this guy.
Maybe it's this guy.
Yeah, he won.
He won.
We've all lost.
If he's saying that, he clearly didn't look close enough.
Damn straight.
Hey, tell me about the latest soundography.
Is it up now?
Yeah, it's up now.
If you go to soundography.com, you get just in time for Christmas an episode featuring
Savatage, a heavy metal band, and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which you might say to yourself,
well, that's a weird combination, Brian.
But if you know, if you know, those are the same bands.
Sabotage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra are weirdly a lot of the same people.
And so it goes together perfectly.
So when you drive by somebody's house and they're playing that do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
And their lights are going all crazy and stuff.
That's probably that song by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
Yeah, hard to escape this time of year.
People love it.
It's pretty epic as why.
I mean, I don't blame them.
Speaking of no blame, I want to no blame all of you for joining us at patreon.com slash TMS, especially those who've already been there and I've already signed up.
You guys are all amazing and because of you, the show exists.
If you didn't exist, we wouldn't exist.
So keep that coming.
And if you haven't joined yet, hey, new month coming, new year coming.
Perfect time to jump on board at patreon.com slash TMS.
All the details are there.
So go check them out.
It's going to do it for us.
We need to play a song.
I'll bet you brought one.
I did.
And I think she's in the chat room.
She's getting her husband to listen.
I'm not sure exactly how all this is working.
But September wrote in and said,
December 21st is the 23rd anniversary of marrying my husband, Rob.
We survived that Y2K bug, chaos, right after that and everything else, LOL.
We've had quite an adventure together so far.
And I look forward to so many more.
Well, if you're doing the math, 23rd anniversary means they got married December
21st, 1999. Wow. So how about a cover of 1999 by Prince? This one performed by Sean Mullins. He recorded this for the Andrew
Denton Musical Challenge in Australia back in 2000, appropriately enough. So right after September and
Rob got married, how cool is that? Very nice. Here is Sean Mullins and a sort of acoustic version of
1999. All right. We'll be back tomorrow with a Thursday edition of the
show. We'll see you then.
When I wrote this up for me, it goes astray.
When I woke up this morning,
could I sworn it was Judgment Day.
The sky was all purple.
There was people running everywhere.
Tried to run from my destruction.
You know, I didn't even care.
We see 2000
Zero party
All the time
So tonight
I'm going to party like it's
1999
I'll see me
When I run this
It's so soon as I go too fast
Yeah
But life is just a party
And parties weren't meant to last
The war is all around us
My mindset
But there's a fight
So if I got a time
I'm going to listen to my body tonight
Yeah
Yeah
They say
Two thousand
It's an out of time
So tonight
I'm going to party like this night
Let me tell you.
Let me tell you something.
If you're sitting to party, don't bother knocking on my door.
I got a line in my pocket, and baby he's so ready to roll.
Yeah.
Yeah, every and body's gone along
We could all die any day
Oh
But before I left the heaven
I dance my life away
Yeah
Yeah
They say
1000 zero zero party
Oh the list out of time
So tonight
On the morning
It's 199
Yeah
Say it one more time
10000 party
Oh who is out of time
Two to nine
One party night
We go to line
Wow
1999
1999
1999
1999
Don't you want to go
1999
This one I go, 1999, party.
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Party.
Party.
Party.
Party.
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I don't know why this is in here, game, but I'm going to play it again.
I forgot to change it out.
