The Morning Stream - TMS 2398: Roiders of the Purple Sage

Episode Date: December 28, 2022

Vibraphone, for the ladies. Franco, but not the one you think! Christ Krispies. Vanmagadon. That sticky Golden Grahams feeling. Mike Oldfield's Series of Tubes. Silly Rabbit, Dunaway's for kids. Lucky Charms & Potatoes. The Venn diagram of Barbie video game and chattering teeth. Poots and Doody. Taking the week off like normal people. Covers don't count, I'm in trouble deep. My mom always told me if I constricted the sciatica I would get hairy palms. I'm still standing. Yeah yeah yeah. Comedians on Bernie Mac getting coffee. Reccamentaling what comes after 4, or was it 3, 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.

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Mike Oldfield series of tubes. Silly rabbit, doneaways for kids. Lucky charms and potatoes. The Venn diagram of Barbie video games and chattering teeth. Poots and duty. Taking the week off like normal people. Covers don't kill. I'm in trouble deep.

My mom always told me if I constricted the sciatica, I would get hairy palms. I'm still standing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Comedians on Bernie Mac getting coffee. Recommendling what comes after four, or was it, three? And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. And I think we're ready to hit it. Here we go in three, two, one.

Every half hour in this London factory, he has to match for color one of the freshest biscuits in the world with one of the staylist. Let's go already! Hello, everyone, and welcome to TMS. It's Wednesday, December 28th, 2022. We don't have too many days left of this year, Brian. We really don't. Yeah, I think, I mean, as far as this show's concerned,

this and tomorrow and then a couch party. Are we doing a couch party Friday? I don't even know if we are. We're probably doing a gaming party. No, I don't even know if we're doing that. Oh, no, that's Saturday. We're doing our, the 3.30 thing. Saturday, 3.30 is our.

Right, right. So I guess we would be doing it. We would be a play date this weekend, right? It would be a play date. Yeah, play date. So we got to decide if we want to do that Friday or Saturday. Because we alternate. Sometimes we do Friday, sometimes do Saturdays because sometimes people work and they can't make it.

Sure, sure. I guess you and I'll just have to talk offline to figure that out because I just remembered it now. Just started thinking about it. But I was thinking whenever our next play date is, we have to try that new Among Us mode where you just get chased by one bad guy. Have you seen this? Have you seen this? No, no. But it's not the, it's not the VR one, right?

It doesn't work with the original... No. Doesn't work with the original Oculus. What the heck, man. So, back of the game awards, they announced in a trailer mode for the traditional Among us, which is basically one of you is this horrible creature, and the rest of you are hiding from that creature. And so you're, whoever it is, and it's not like a thing we have to guess who's who.

This is like a totally different mode. Right. Totally different mode. Yeah. So you go hide. It's hide-and-seek, basically, is what it is. Okay. But it works really well. I played a few public games, and I really want to play that with people. Cool. So multiple people, they're just the high, everybody that's playing is a hider except for one person who is a seeker. Yeah. So you start the game and it goes, all right, there's 12 of you, 11 of you are on the run. One of you has the thing and the lights are off.

Yeah, I was going to say it would have to be because otherwise it's like, oh, well, you're hiding behind the generator oh you're you're sitting in the captain's chair exactly and so the only time you see people is when you get within that little circle of view and it's intense man oh yeah let's play it sounds great all right i'm in too i think it sounds like fun uh we got an email to help us understand and uh so that's what we're gonna do oh sorry about yesterday everybody i had some stuff with my mom and uh i actually hope that translated to some good stuff with brian but we'll talk about that in a minute. Yeah. But somebody, so we were talking about these instruments like, you know, xylophone style with the keys and you're hitting them with the mallets. Yeah, that whole thing. Well,

somebody gave us some clarification and I went ahead and did a little extra work so that we had some audio of these. Oh, great. I was hoping, you know, I was thinking, when I saw this in our show notes, I was thinking, oh, if I had the time, I'd find some examples in my library of songs that use these. So good. I'm glad you did. Yeah, this is a lot more, I think, educational here for kids. It's more, this is an immersive experience, as they say in Las Vegas. That's right. Line your kids up.

It's time to learn. Here we go. This email's from Jeff. Occasionally, let's see, W.1. Lu Jang. I guess so. In the chat. I don't know how you say that.

Pronounce. One Lujang. One Lujang. Anyway, he says, regarding those instruments, here's the rundown of them. the marimba is made out of wood, usually rosewood and is really big and mellow. Here's what that sounds like. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Big finish right here. Ooh, double. I'm pretty sure that's the beginning of a Zelda song or something. It's pretty good. Anyway, then he goes on to say, the xylophone, the one we all think of, also made of wood, but much higher pitched, more likely to be found in orchestras and Brady Bunch soundtracks, he says. So here, this is the one we've all heard. Oh, yeah, this is like, oh. Yeah, you bear coming down the stairs.

It's a flight of the bumblebee. It reminds me of, oh, I dream. of Jeanne is what I think of for some reason. Yeah. I don't know why. It's when Fred Flintstone is bowling and he does that little tipy toe walk down the Oh, yeah. On the lane.

That's almost the guarantee that's a xylophone. I'm sure of it. Then there's the vibraphone. Okay. He says this is made of... Just for the ladies, right? Yeah, this for the ladies. It's made of metal and has a pedal which allows you to keep the pitch going.

And the motor, there's like an actual motor on this thing, which drives the fan that also causes the vibrato, hence the name vibraphy. phone think jazz and loungy sounds and here's what that sounds like oh yeah yeah 70s vibe totally this is like your combustible edison your uh esquivel yeah yeah well said actually actually i think esquivell probably all three every every song he does has to contain one of those three instruments yeah it's required by his law but he's established i love esqavel like that's you know we're we're talking about music that that I tell you about

like that Mark Mothersbaugh Christmas album and the shaggy Sinatra album after the show put on a little Escovel today Scott I guess after DTNS because you got a busy day

don't you? Yeah well no DTNS today they took the week off like normal people Why didn't we do that? Yeah we're just like you know we're gonna just keep the fun rolling here on TMS

but yeah I don't have that I do have play retro later so and I got to play a bunch of Barbie games before that. Freaking Dunaway. What has he done to me? Barbie games. Anyway, so then he goes on to finally say the Glockenspiel, which we did bring up as well.

He says, or sometimes referred to as bells, are the very high-pitched metal instruments common in orchestras. And that's what this sounds like. Oh, I don't mind this guy's noisy room, but I feel like he did it at the office while everybody was walking around. That's right. Exactly. Everybody was walking down the Yellow Brook Road while he was playing that. Okay, Glockenspiel. You know what else? It's really good if you have Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bell's album. Because he, I think he goes through, does he go through all of those? I know one point, I think right before tubular bells, he says, Glockenspiel. And it's, so side one is basically the exorcist theme. That's exactly how it goes

And Dinda Blair is spinning her head in her grave right now But then the B-side Is one long track That has this kind of, you know, constant Do-d-d-d-d-dun-d-dun-d-dun-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d- And then it's like He goes through every instrument I guess that he has in his orchestra

that he has access to and he announces each one right before he plays it so he's electric guitar that's a weird thing to do isn't it a little bit. It's cool. It's a really cool thing and it's a great like it's for a 25 minute song

and I do have it on vinyl. I should put it in my little holder frame holder. It's a great album to listen to. I think he's the one... Is he not the one announcing? It's like some famous star, right? I know doing the tubular bells.

Oh, I have no idea. I assumed it was him that does all that talking, but maybe it's not. It might be him, although why... What's crazy is how old this is? 1972 or three or something? I know, yeah. 50 years old is that thing.

It's funny because... Let's see. Steve Broughton of the Air. I mean, he didn't write tubular bells for the Exorcist. The Exorcist just used stuff for a track, for back. I believe so, yes. Because otherwise, they'd be weird to have, because there's an official soundtrack to the movie, and then there's tubular bells, which is a whole separate thing, but it's, it's using tracks.

And that, um, and that, that, that, that, that exorcist theme, um, when you listen to the full version by Michael field um there's a there's a point that you never hear in the movie soundtrack that it turns into yeah there's right there here comes our youtube uh yeah youtube robots are out that's right um there's a point where it goes into electric guitar a very fuzz very distorted electric guitar and that as a kid freaked me out because this was the album i have was was my stepdad's and uh i took with me when I moved out. But, yeah, it goes, you know, you hear the regular thing that you know from the existence, and then it kicks into these electric guitars, and it's such a crazy, freaky,

demonic sound that these things have with all the distortion, completely freaks me out. So if you, you know, I don't know if it's got to be streaming somewhere, but if it is, go listen to Mike Oldfield's tubular bells. Oh, yeah, it's on everything. You can get it everywhere. Is it good? Yeah. YouTube's got the whole thing.

You got it on Apple Music and Spotify and all that. Yep, there it is on Apple Music right there. Yes, it's four tracks, tubular bells part one, tubular bells part two, and then really it's just a couple of singles that were added to the remaster or something. Yeah, that thing is considered like a classic among classics, that thing. Totally is. I should 3D print the tubular bells. Oh, you should do it.

That famous, you know, famous album cover. It's very, very cool. The remaster is just a big 50. They just put that out this year. Oh, really? And he's come out with sequels, too. He's, like, come out with tubular bells two and tubular bells three. And I don't know what those are.

A bunch of bells made out of tubes. Just keep it going, you know? Sequels to the album. Yeah. Just keep it going. Anyway, thank you, Jeff. That's awesome. Love that.

I also would like to share how I lost Whamageddon this year. now this will be interesting because I wasn't sure is when I'm getting I thought it ended at Christmas but maybe it doesn't oh I don't that's a good question because this audio was recorded shortly after but so I guess I I won if we're counting Christmas Day I lost if we're counting before the end of the year and here's how I lost this is the version I heard

I get on a hug wait a next day I gave it away. He's here. Stay in my tears. I give it someone's best rules. So if you're going to lose, that's how you should do it. Technically, you didn't lose.

That's a cover. Yeah, that's true. That's a cover. Covers don't go. Yeah, but how does it rank on your scale of, did you do anything unique with your cover, or did you just do it like the original? No, he definitely put it into his own style.

Yeah. So I like, you know, Acapella is a nice take. so that's that's really good i like uh slight changing of some of the lyrics i think you mentioned a hug yeah i said a hug i gave me my hug or gave you my hug you gave you gave you my hug you gave it away that's good point he really did make it his own so uh he made it his own so good job man merry christmas five out of five i agree and if you're going to lose that's the way to do it i say yeah like you said you still haven't lost you're still in the game scott if you haven't heard

the wham version you are still playing and i don't know if it goes until january first or if it ends at Christmas, but somebody else needs to clarify. I will say, Taylor had no idea. He knew how to, he didn't, she didn't know he knew this song. He just suddenly started singing it, and so they recorded it. So that's a weird thing. I guess, you know, you hit a certain stage when you're a little kid and you start to imprint things you hear, especially music, music starts to become, you know, memory.

What are my favorite stories is Tristan, you know, we're working on a little scale model of the Sydney Opera House for a school thing so I'm helping him with folding the paper because it's like a paper folding deal and

David Bowie's changes I mean I have my phone on shuffle and we're listening to music and David Bowie's changes comes on and he starts singing along with it because and you know he's like eight I think or nine

or something seven eight because there was a cover of it on the Shrek soundtrack that he listened to all the time And so he's just singing along with the words. And I'm like, how do you know this song? Like, this is, you are like A level at this, you know, with this. That's funny. I wonder how many kids, especially his generation, there's so much of that in the era they grew up, the early aughts.

They probably gleaned most of that from the animation and TV and stuff they were sitting. So, yeah. And then he's saying, holding out for a hero and everything went to pot. Yeah, then you're screwed. Forget it. I forget it after that. crumbling came crumbling down well anyway that was a whole lot of fun hey how so let's get that doctor update uh yesterday because of us being gone it gave kind of a brian a bigger window to try

to track his doctor down did not that it helped i mean basically i made my the earliest that they could get me in for an appointment was um uh was a 3 30 so i didn't get in until you know way late afternoon but um and my regular uh gp that we see was not available so um had to go to whoever drew the short straw for Christmas week. Yeah. And, but it was, it worked out really well. So he basically, uh, you ask me a few questions and, and he says, all right, well, here's, here's the deal.

It's your lumbar four, Lumbar four and five or what are causing problems. And he showed like a little map that, um, kind of shows you which areas going down your leg are controlled by, um, different, uh, different, um, your spine. And so it's like, whoa, okay, it goes, you know, lumbar four goes down to your shins, basically. And it's kind of amazing. So he figured out which things, you know, were causing pain. He had me rate things on a scale of 1 to 10, what I could do, what I couldn't do.

And he kind of contradicted slash clarified something that the urgent care doc wasn't super clear on. which is urgent care doc said, yeah, if it starts hurting, whatever you're doing, then stop doing it. You know, you're going to cause more problems. Not completely accurate because you do want to keep stretching. If you stop as soon as there's even the hint of pain, it's just going to get worse and worse. So you've got to do some stretching. You've got to get into that first, you know, when things get to level two, three, maybe, you just got to keep pushing it and not stop when there's, you know, when you get to. it to level one.

Then he also put me on some steroids and continued me on the non-drowsy muscle relaxants that the... Oh, nice. Brian's going to be all roided up, baby. Woo! Right. That's right. And heat only, like...

No cold. Interesting. No cold. Mrs. Crazy Neighbor, as a physical therapist, said, yeah, you want to do, you want to alternate heat and cold. And he said, yeah, if you're seeing good results with the cold, you can do it. but for something like this, you don't want to have your, you don't want to constrict anything around the sciatica. Yeah, I think I remember hearing that too, so that's good to have that confirmed.

So now, so those, the non-drowsies, can you have those any time of the day? Do you feel like you're going to fall over? Like, how do those work? Yeah, I can have them any time of the day. They make me a little tired, but not like, like, you know. Yeah, you're going to fall asleep, you know. Exactly. So, you know, I'll probably, I took one this morning.

I'm still standing up, so that's good. And I'm standing up also because this mat I have has all these bumps and ridges and things like that that I can kind of do, you know, heel stretches and toe stretches and things like that. That's good. And, well, that's good then. So no, no cortisone shots or whatever the heck that is? Or is that what the steroid is? The steroids are a tapering set of pills. so it's like seven days,

but you go down from seven to one pills, and it tells you what time of day to take them all. Oh, wow. So you kind of hit him hard, but taper down and not get hooked on these things. But the other pills as opposed to shots. So by Saturday, you'll want to snap into a slim gym with all those steroids.

Someroid rage over at the EBIT House. Watch out, everyone, especially Tina. Yeah. Right. We're having the whole family over to do another Christmas family thing that they weren't part of the other Christmas things we did. Doing that on the first, sorry, New Year's Eve. Doing that on the first on New Year's Day. Gotcha.

Yeah. Okay. So after we do film sac, the whole family's coming over to do. I'm kidding. You're generous tone. His Uncle George and Aunt Barb. Oh, you love them. They're great.

I love them. And the daughters and the daughters' daughters and like all. that so it's going to be houseful of people those kids love the basement like they love coming down here playing the pinball game playing the covercade you know checking out the 3D printer and stuff like that oh that's right and get a tour where all the cool stuff gets made that's cool that's right you go and hail some a BS fumes woo nice i don't think we have anything fun playing that day after film sack i think kim and i are going to go to brunch or something if anything's open you know you know yeah go see Avatar.

Oh, we may do that. Maybe we'll do that. Because that's a, the first is a great day to see a movie. Is it? Or is that crazy? I haven't done that ever. It's probably going to be busy, but get your tickets now and then you can. Okay.

You know what? I'm open to this. Yeah. I'm not completely opposed to this idea that you've shared. All right. Well, on that note, we are going to get done away in here and on it. Okay. Yeah.

He's still home, you know, had the week off, lucky guy. At least I think so. I don't know if he's at the office or not. Pretty sure he's at home. Yeah, no, no. He was off Monday, but it could just be a one-day thing or he could have taken the whole week. Could have been a freak deal. Oh, why is that so quiet?

There we go. There it is. Hey, Dono-Way, what are you doing, and where are you? Are you home or you at work? What are you doing? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I'm at home today. I've been off since last Friday, so I've had a good holiday time.

You lucky bastard. I want that. I want to see what the problem is. No, luck would involve me like lucking into that. Those are conscious decisions I've made of the years to take a job that would allow me to accrue vacation time so I could just take it. That's not luck. That's just good planning. That's good planning. But my boss is a dick. That's good planning.

My boss is a huge dick. I know. I can't deal with him. He's the worst. Don't get me wrong. So I'm working Yeah, I'm working towards that though I would love to be in a position where I could do my own thing

Well, get ready to be terrible about vacation And, you know, you're making sure that you're covered on everything And that you're not overworked and all that There's something you said for that, man, like, you know, when you've got a boss, It's like, all right, I get, I'm forced to take days off that I, you know, that I might not take if I were working for myself Yeah, for myself, I have no worker rights. I don't do any of that.

That's all bull crap. This thing where you're all protected out there in the world because there's certain rules about the workplace. Yeah. They don't make you do it when it's when you're the guy, you're the guy and the employee. They don't make you. So I treat myself bad. How about this? What if you have a day job and then you treat your part-time job like it is also your day job?

Then you work both. So all that work, it actually comes. kind of laid back at work. It's like, oh, they don't expect me to do one thing. And then I'm going to get home. It's like, I'm doing a million things. Like right now, I am 3D printing of Flexi Rex. I've discovered a few things.

I am awesome. Yeah. I finally did it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. No, I'm not like you, you subscribe to or wait, did you subscribe to him on Patreon, Flexi Factory, or did you just buy the model on? No, you can get the model for free of, oh, that's a free one, my mini factory. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got that.

Also, right now I'm streaming. I'm, I've tapped in. We're actually streaming this right now talking to you guys. Whoa. So I'm tapped in on your stream. Whoa. And I'm trying to do all my retro homework for the night for Barbie. So I've been streaming since about 10.30.

They're on a street to about 2.30. That's the kind of schedule I keep. All right. Well, you're already doing it then. You're already close enough to what we're talking about. That's fantastic. We have a listener on the line who's going to play along with us today. Let's find out who's been waiting so patiently.

Hello, who's this? It's Raven. I try to get my husband, I try to get my husband who is off work this week to do it, but he's playing Fortnite. Oh, well, look, you know, there's headshots to be made, and we can't expect him to, you know, drop everything.

Well, by the way, what's his, what's his, what's his go-to skin? What does he like to play with and look like when he's out there? He just got the ghostwriter skin that went in the story. Oh, that one's actually pretty cool. Oh, yes. Yeah, those guys, they get so many good deals on so much crossover stuff. They got D.C. and Marvel and movies. That Marvel stuff is almost enough to make me want to play Fortnite.

Yeah, it's crazy. Well, he was really against it until, like, a couple days ago when my younger son said, hey, Daddy, won't play this with me. And he's like, they've really made this good now. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, that's a cool game, especially if you do the no-build mode, which is the part I hate. Yeah.

That's now a permanent addition to the game, and so you can just play without that stupid build and it's actually a very good shooter at that point. It's really good. So yeah, I remember them. Because then you're not creating these like impossible ramps for people to get up and it's the worst. I hate it. I couldn't stand the build mode thing. It's its own skill set and I appreciate people who have it. I don't want to play that. All right? That's weird. Because I've won so recently ago, Brian, I ask you if I do win, can you give my code to somebody Oh, hell yeah. Sure, sure.

Yeah, we're always willing to me. Did you win recently on here? Did you win on here, or did you win from some other drawing or something? No, I won. I did this about two months ago, I think I got it. Yeah, I think I remember that. Well, okay, let me, let me, here's the deal. If you hear about these games and then you tell your husband what they are,

and he's like, oh, no, I got to have those. Then you guys keep them. But if he doesn't care. Because this is a, this is a prize package like none other. So you may want to change your mind after that. Yeah, we'll see. So Brian, why don't you explain that, what she could win and how this all works? Sure. It's time to play the tadpull if you.

I've surveyed the tadpool 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 see how many of those answers they can guess. Raven C, T, G, your job 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, courtesy of me, Cities, Skylines, and a whole bunch of DLC. After Dark DLC, Snowfall DLC, Relaxation Station, DLC, and Natural Disasters DLC. Because it was cheaper for me to buy a full package that included all those than to buy the extra DLCs that I wanted.

Yeah, a reminder, this is the true successor to SimCity. This is, yeah, this is the SimCity that you want and that you'd. deserve. Dang straight. Yeah. So you can decide what you want to do with that. But you'd have to win first. That's right.

Yeah. That's going to be a tall order. So let's see how you do. Let's give everybody their topic. We asked 509 tadpoolers. And in a first, in an absolute first, zero of them passed on the question. Whoa. No.

Skipsies. Everybody gave an answer, which I can't what you ask. Like, what's your favorite color? or something. Cripes. Hands on your buzzers. I'm just kidding. What's your favorite color?

Wouldn't that be great? Yeah. All right. Put your hands on your buzzers. We asked 509 tadpullers to give their answer to this. Name a kids breakfast cereal. Oh, that's coming. Scott Johnson.

Captain Crunch. Captain Crunch. Yeah. Number three, two answers will beat it. What got done away? Well, if I'm going to, I just saw this. I was watching. I've been watching Bernie Mac,

we've been rewatching that. And they used a real branded fruity pebbles while the kids were eating cereals. I was like, what? You can't do that? Also,

where are you watching Bernie Mac? Where's that show? And I like that show. Hulu, I believe. It's on Hulu. It's a great watch too, man. I forgot how much I loved that show. It was great.

You know who was great? Didn't Rodney Dangerfield have a small role? It'd keep recurring in that. He'd show up as a neighbor or something. Maybe I haven't got there yet. Ellen Generous was on the last one I saw. Yeah, comedians. Shaq was in there.

a bunch of hello America you know the yeah that that stuff so it's good stuff so yeah I miss Bernie Mac one of the best actors in the Oceans 11 series I agree yeah relive it on the they should have put him in the tiny box put him inside yeah use my affiliate link though all right show us fruity pebbles oh how are you kidding me uh so scott you and raven have control of the board all right raven growing up What was the kid's cereal du jour in your household? Count Chocula. Oh, man.

Oh, that's a good one. You know what? Count Chocula. Ah, ah, ah. Oh, he didn't do that. That was the count. No, that was the whole different counts. You have one cereal.

All right. Show me count Chocula. No. 13, just out of the top three. Oh, 10 would have been good from the points. Now I don't believe anything. I don't know what to think. Yeah.

We, back when we were doing Babel Royale, I think I gave you guys one of the top best-selling serials in the country. Yeah. Not just kid cereals, but the top best-selling. So if this does sound familiar to some people, we have talked cereal before, but not in this context, yeah. That's right. Brian, you've got control now. What do you got? What do you like?

I'm going, oat brand. No, I'm just kidding. I'm going to say, how about is not. small no no no it's real big honeycombs I love honeycomb if I could eat sugar in quantities anymore I would eat honeycomb I love it Honeycomb is funny because actually is just the like

It's just another piece of cereal from another one There's no marshmallows I don't want to say what the cereal is because that might give you an answer So yeah You know what you think about it's like those those lyrics probably could have been written by Paul McCurney honeycomb's big yeah yeah yeah it's not small He'd have to write it in his wonderful Christmastime period or whatever. Exactly, yes. All right, show me, honeycomb.

Oh, are you kidding me? There it is. Are you kidding, mate? Nope. Hold on, I go do it again. There you go. Don't do it twice. It was delayed for me, so I'd hit it twice.

Number 18 on the list. I'm going to think different. I'm going to think different. Apple cereal. All right. The one that jumped to my head, was fruit loops because just kids like fruit loops. What do you think of that

there, Raven? Sounds great. Okay, we're going fruit loops, Brian. Little hoops. Show me them little hoops that taste like fruit spelled like Groot. Oh, number two. Oh, look at that. Tukans, Sam would be proud. You're still ahead of us though. It's annoying. It is annoying. Suck it. Yeah.

Cinnamon toast crunch is a big one around here. My kids love It's all they wanted. Lucky Charms, Lucky Charms. Oh, Lucky Charms is good. Let's do Lucky Charms first. Let's do Lucky Charms. Lucky Charms first, Wells, matter of fact. Oh, number one.

Yeah, Lucky Charms is the number one answer on the board. Yeah, Claire must have really leaning on heavy on that one. I swear to God, you know, we went to, when we went to Ireland and traveling all over the place, that's all you could get to eat was Lucky Charms. Yeah. Yeah, the stereotypes are true. Like a salad? I'm sorry, all we have is lucky charms. I'm sorry, how do we have our lucky charms?

We don't have other food here. We've got to bit of potato left. But you can put Guinness in your lucky charms, if you like. There might be a potato in there. It might have the blight. Yarr. Now they're pirates. Now they're pirates.

What have we got? What did I say before? Listen to Raven's suggestion. Cinnamon toast crunch. Let's do that. All right, all right. Choosing to listen.

No, we already did her. She said Lucky Charms before. Oh, yours was Cinnamon Toast. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen to yourself. Yeah. Because you don't want to give this one to Brian if it's on the board.

But if it's not on the board, then I just basically steered you right into a wall. Show me. That would be amazing. It would be Cinnamon Toast. Must be Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Yeah, number five. And Scott takes the lead. Now you're ahead.

Now you're ahead. Good pointies. Uh, all right. back to Raven here do you have a you have a good call um well my husband's in here now and he's like

trying to tell me what to do uh here here Josh back off man what do you think this is uh who wants to be a millionaire yeah no I like this phone a husband um yeah he must have heard he must have heard he must a win

Apple Jacks oh man I love the superior fruit loop yeah I agree I actually like Apple Jacks a lot because they is for Apple Geez, for Jacks. All these songs really could have been written by Paul McClain. Truly.

Truly. It probably worked. All right. Show me Apple Jacks. Oh, no. Come on. Number 15 on the list. Those are great.

Yeah, they are great. They are great. They are great. Just out of the top ten. Hey, quick judge question. When these, do these variants of these cereals counted or did you group them? I separated variants. Okay.

But I will tell you that. no variance are in the top 10. So Crunch Crunch berries for example was popular And peanut butter capon

You can't say all berries Right They can say oops all berries No People did say it And they're They're you know Those scored points

But I feel If I'm telling one of you I'm telling all three of you That no variants were harmed In the making of this top 10th I'm telling one I'm telling all That's right No variations in this

thing. Well, I'm going to go, I'm going to go with the most popular serial, just ever, I guess. The frosted flakes. Oh, shit. I didn't, I didn't want to go safe, but I guess I'll have to since Scott's taking the lead. I hear they're great. And what is it? Is he alone? Tony the Tiger? No, he passed away. Didn't he the voice of Tony a Tiger? Yeah, through Ravenscroft, the guy who sang, you're a mean one, Mr. Grinch. Oh, I didn't know that was the same guy. That's right. That's right. That's right. Yeah. Now I'm having a memory. We've even talked about this before, but I completely forgot about it. You're a great one, Mr. That's great.

All right, show me Frosted Flakes or Frosties if you're in another part of the world. Yeah, number six. Boom, just like that, I'm back in the lead. Those are good points. Boy, when I'm not at work, I'm on, I'm on point. Yeah, you are. I'm going to say, how about give me some of them. Kit-cat bars.

Oh. Well, Give me a break. I can't decide. Well, they're not for rabbits. They're for kids. They're for kids, yeah. So, it's in the name.

It's got to be one of their favorites, right? I'm going to go tricks with the X. Tricks with an X, baby. It's like basically, yeah, all right, little flavorless balls. Show me. Yeah, I hate tricks. Kicks ain't got what Nintendo's not, or someone. like that, I can't remember.

Show me kicks. That's totally it. Tricks. Oh, they're on there, man. Oh, did you say, did you say tricks or kicks? I said, I said tricks. He said tricks, rabbit. Right.

Oh, now, but it's been seen. How can you undo it? You can't undo it. You didn't see anything. You saw nothing. My next guess is kicks. Yeah. Oh, my heartbreak's done away.

Did our, did our, did our, did our, is Todd Cochran here? It's Todd Cochran. This is a Todd Cochran moment is what this is. No, he felled me up when you're talking about it. He didn't skips me. He full on. I just Gilbert Godfretted that. Yeah, sure did.

Skip the head, told us the winner. All right, done away. We should probably just pull that. Maybe we should. It was a labor of love, but I don't know how much I have for right now. How about we just, how about we just go, we just won't use that one. And we won't mess it up by saying it. It's fine with me.

Can we do that? You could leave it to the very last answer and then run the board so that, Oh, that's a good idea. I like that. I like that. Right. I could swap it out for number 11. I really could really could mess you guys up.

Right. Number 11 is only off by one vote. Oh, really? Do it. Swap it in. You could do that. That'd be great. If it wouldn't break the machine, don't break the machine, though.

It'll break the machine, but I'm not going to do it. So if you just guess that, I'll give you kicks. How's that? Yeah. Mom's like it for what it's not. So let's do it. right right i like that um like i said i can all i can think of is kicks now kicks is like just taking over my head whatever you do don't think of a white horse

i can't believe it was even on there i hated kicks as a kid right my joke was going to be oh it's like uh tricks without flavor but i did i was like on the custom saying that because i was thinking tricks and kicks and uh there you go yeah how about uh how about king vitamin no I'll go with The worst cereal ever Yes I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with the

Rice Krispies of some sort I'm gonna say Rice Krispies of some sort Well Do we We didn't already do Christ kisses do we You didn't I'm sorry Christ Krispies

Is that what you just said Rice Kris Kris Kris Wow Rice Krispies You put up kicks You can't judge me Rice Krispies I didn't put up anything

All right Christ Krispies. All right. Christ Krispies. I'm not going to let you do like of any sort, but I'm going to, so I'm going to, you say Rice Krispies. I'm going to take that answer. All right.

Show me Rice Krispies. Oh, man. They're also in part of the world. Can I say kicks? Australia, they're called rice bubbles. Really? No. Yeah.

Yeah, it's really gross. Like I could not, don't give me a box of rice bubbles. No. No, these bubbled up, and we collected them and put them in a bowl for you. Exactly. Pebbles, because I'm starting to think cocoa pebbles. Oh, you said no variance. Is that a variance?

Yeah, no variance. No variance made the top ten. That's a variant. It's a pebble. Some people did say. But I will say that. Wasn't there Cocoa Rice Krispies? There was, but that's what he's saying is that counts as a variant.

Oh, I see what you mean. That would be the same, right? Oh, except that wasn't. Yeah, but that's not up there. So it doesn't hold to Brian's comment that he didn't include any of those in the current list. But, Scott, I don't want to be responsible for the third strike. I know, me neither. All right, you know what?

I got one. I like honey smacks, the frog one. Oh, that's a good one. I do, I'm sure. Yeah. Used to be called sugar smacks, and then they changed it to honey smacks. They did. How they make those?

It's like bloated rice, right? Isn't that what it is? Yeah, they're just rites of rice cereal. Is it puffed? It's puffed. Yeah. Stay puffed. Floated rice.

I think Snoop Dog helped with that is a puffed rice puff puff pass All right, show me honey or sugar snacks Oh, come on Brian, you have to run the board

You've got to run the board So raven can get these passes So do we still count kicks? Can we go ahead and put the kicks up there Or do we out of that? I think he swapped it. The 11th is something else now. Yeah, I've been a

If you get the other two, I'll give you kicks. How's that? All right, all right, all right. Okay. Yeah. Are you guys got any more ideas? Where's the chat room saying? What's the chat room saying?

Let's see. I got my own chat room. And I think we did all these. The chat room has said some of them. Yeah, like I just saw one of them. I just saw C3POs. I would love that was the right answer. I mean, yeah.

I don't even think I ever had that. I was one of this is a. This is tough. Apple Jacks has already been said. We did Honeycomb, right? We guys thinking of Cheerios because there's all kinds of variations of Cheerios. Yeah, but we didn't put Cheerios on that, Brian. I mean, Cheerios, kids, I mean, come on now.

You give them to the little kids, right? Just bring a baggie of them when you do a little fancy risk. And they're not the kids' favorites. They just like, teaches them fine motor skills. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. A movie.

All right, let's do it. Oh, my God. I can't, I'm just like totally blanking here on kids. Let me think a second. Let me see. Let me go through my childhood memories here. Okay, those are gross. The Gizwit.

What was that? Nothing. Just some, we're just going down memory line. It's part of a balanced breakfast. Jiz. Oh, my God. That's disgusting. That clown cereal that made your poop change colors.

Oh, kabooms? Is that? Yeah. I never even heard of cabooms. That's what I'm thinking about. I've never heard of caboombs. Yeah, they do make you poop. I don't know.

I would listen to somebody like 9 of 12, September out there. Oh, so like, you know, if I was looking in the, you know, if I would never do it. If you were looking at the chat, I would say something like that. Hey, Brian, are you, are you cuckoo for cocoa puffs, perhaps? What do you think of that? Oh. So not not golden grams in is what you're saying, Scott. Yeah, no.

I'm just saying golden grams are delicious. They're kind of like another version of the cinnamon toast crunch. So golden grams are pretty good. They both smell like your footy pajamas when you're five. We actually have a big box of golden grams upstairs. I haven't dug into it. You have a Costco-sized box of golden grams? It's because, yeah.

There's some boxes you or some cereals you can't get in a small box size and Tina's like, I'm just going to get the big box because I want these. Okay, cool. I always feel sticky after eat golden grams. Does anybody else feel sticky? You just feel like I got to use a spoon. I feel sticky now. Oh, I just grab them by the handfuls.

That's why you feel sticky. Yeah. That's why I eat wasabi covered wasabi vested almonds with a pair of 3D printed plastic tongs. Yeah. I pour Cairo syrup of mine. Is that not how you're supposed to do that? No, right, fine. Don't do that.

All right. All right. Pick one, you slacker. Anyway, are there any other answers that you're cuckoo for that you might want to? Oh, so you're not going to do that. So I guess, I guess, 9 of 12. So, yeah, maybe I'm, I'm cuckoooo. for cocoa puffs. Oh, hey, that's a good one.

Oh, all right. Yeah. Sweet. Yeah, all right. Uh, show me cocoa puffs. Oh, nice. Yeah. Weird. Weird. Yeah. Oh, there's no way we're going to guess this last one, though. There's two. There's two. There's two left, but again, you know, if you get number nine, I'll give you number 10. But if you

guess, if you guess number 11, I'll, uh, I'll give you. I'll give you the win. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Uh, so. And for, And number 11, boy, if there was a cereal that was more closely tied to something that Brian Dunaway says, I can't think of what else. Oh, really? Really? Because I was trying specifically to avoid a recies, PCs, a puffs.

Because, but those don't count in with the cocoa puffs? I thought it was the same company. I thought it was like, no you or something. I didn't know what to expect. No, they're different. I consider those to be a different cereal, not a variation. Interesting. Yeah, so I was going to say, yeah, I was, I was, I'm going to embarrass myself and just say,

Resey's Pee's Puffs. All right. Risi Puffs. Show me Risi's Peecees Puffs. All right, so that is number 11, because you got that, I'm going to give you number nine and give Raven the win. It's a Christmas miracle. It is a Christmas miracle. Good Lord.

This is great. I'm just curious. Okay, so here's a really good way to do this. Raven, now that you know the prize. Do you want to keep it, or do you want to trade it for something behind door number three? Oh, nice. I actually have that on my switch. Oh.

So we'll trade it for what's behind door number three. I like this. So if somebody in the chat room that wants cities, skylines and a bunch of DLC, don't just guess it because you want to show how smart you are. But guess number nine, you will get these Steam games. and I'm going to send Raven a 3D printed Mandalorian. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, a 3D printed mandolian.

Yeah, look at that. No growth. And if someone who's starting out of 3D printing, I'm going to say that is a huge gift. That's like a 24-hour gift for me. We're just going right into it. Congratulations, going to Mikey BC14. Number nine is, in fact,

Cookie Crisp. Cookie. Wow. Or is Amy Redfragel. put cookie crips, which is the worst game game. Yo, yo, yo, we're the cookie crips, yo. They got like

cookies all over their bandanas. It's amazing. Little cookie crumbs. That's awesome. That means everybody wins. Congratulations. You're a winner. That's awesome. And very kind of you. So, Raven, email me your mailing address and I'll send you a Mandalorian.

And Mikey BC, email me as well, and I get you these game codes. Very nice. Coverville at gmail.com everybody is the email address to use. Oh, are we though, are we? I think you're the best. That's what I'm going to say. Merry Christmas and happy LaGrange Point Day between the two big holidays. That's right. LaGrange is my favorite Zizi Top song. All right. Let's, uh, mine too, actually. It's really good. It's really good. Uh, hey, Dunaway, here's the good news. Today at 3.30 Mountain Time, we're going to do play retro. And as you hinted at earlier, we're covering all the old. 8-bit and 16-bit Barbie games. Why? Because they were massive and we didn't even notice. We're going to

give some love to a thing that just happened under the radar of boys, and the girls made us look bad. They sold more of that than they did Doom at the time. It was insane. Yeah, 1996 Barbie sold more than Doom at the time. Now, don't get too excited. I mean, Doom was released a share wearing how to order

it through the mail, so it was much harder to compete with a Mattel retail release. But I'll tell you this. Goldfar Productions, the 1984 Commodore 64 one that guy's still alive he's 1001

that dude's 101 yep yeah he's into it he's still playing with his Barbies and his kendalls to this day yeah he only did

two games he did he did the Barbie for the 64 and the Hot Wheels for 64 and says him out he's the same guy who created the chattering teeth

oh no I didn't know that the Barbie game was made by the guy who invented the shattering teeth oh that's so awesome that's really cool I didn't know that

well see this is the kind of stuff you're going to learn when you hang out and be a part of that show. So if you want to watch it live, it's at 330 Mountain Time at frogpants.tv or you can get the podcast wherever you get them. That'll be a little bit later this afternoon. Usually we're on Tuesdays, but you know, holidays and stuff. We're just kind of all over the place. But anyway, Brian Dunaway, is there anything else you would like to say before I let you know? No, you. Oh, hey, that's your best thing. See you next year on this show. See you next year. Another great year of Dunaway.

way's screwball comedy all right uh whoops what did i do hold on i killed a tab i didn't mean to oh shoot i lost i lost the show let's pull the show back up how about that how about we have the show up feels like a important part of said show there we go all the notes are there we're fine now all right good we're going to take a break uh when we come back we will spend some time with each other brian and uh we're going to do uh recommendals tom's out today and uh he's off all week for DETA, so I'm like, well, we're not going to bug him on here. So he's, uh, he's chilling like a villain. Give that poor guy a break, would you?

That's right. Both, uh, Nicole and Randy are also off with holiday things. And as a result, we've decided to do something a little special today with recommendals. You're going to get a new recommendal plus a little more. Stick around to find out what. Okay. A little something, something extra. That's right.

Can you play a song, though? Because I don't think I can do it without it. Okay. Well, uh, fortunately I can do that. Great. Um, we've got a, uh, a, a, a sibling duo, an indie rock sibling duo from Austin. Um, they, uh, wrote, recorded and mixed their first songs during quarantine and a storage unit. Uh, it was really hot in there. Weird. Okay. Um, and, uh, and then, uh, Greg, the big brother got hit by a car and he only has one and a half legs now. John is the little brother. He's normal A.F. This is, this is seriously from their, their PR, which is some of the best, best, best,

written PR I've ever read, so I had to read it. That's great. Oh, my gosh. All right. Their genre is technically indie rock, but it's clearly early Tarantino. They only speak in movie quotes, and they both think they're lovable, they're the lovable anti-hero. Wow. If that doesn't entice you into getting excited for this song, then I don't know what will.

The brand new EP coming out January is called Sudden Sea. I believe it is. see the let me make sure about this oh no the single is called Sudden C but I'm playing a different track a different single that they released called Pure Graffiti

so you're getting to you know you can hear this one you can go and listen to the other one then you can be notified when the album is ready for streaming the band is called solo solo solo kind of a funny name for a duo band the single is pure graffiti here's solo solo

solo Something inside you I'm calling on me Future behind you This is just real But happening Come with me if you want to live Be my passenger, passenger

Only see what we want to It's only natural natural And the fence for my city It's pure graffiti The fence for my city It's pure graffiti Stop coming back to me from the last place From the last place

I can hear you say don't leave But it evaporates It evaporates Like something inside you Falling on me Don't think no time to Is this really happening Come with me

If you want to live Be my passenger, passenger passenger Only see what we want to It's only natural natural And the fence for my city It's pure graffiti The fence for my city

It's pure graffiti If I go missing, please do two things. One, check near the parking lot of Sears. Two, arrest Billy Ray Cyrus. Which of these do-wacky's dispenses or chat them? Morning stream. You look like crap. And we've returned. Who was that again? That was great. That band is solo, solo. They're a duo from Austin, Texas, and that's the song Pure Graffiti from their upcoming album, or their upcoming EP, which comes out in January. A couple of hipsters right there. I like them. Yeah. Janie in the chat says, Scott, message from Discord, look outside at snowing. Yeah, it's been snowing.

all morning. Yeah. We had rain all day yesterday, literally like morning until, I don't know, 10 p.m. We had just solid rain because it wasn't cold enough to, you know, turn into snow. But overnight, the magic of weather happened. Yeah. Tons of snow now. I hear that in Utah, a dog was reunited with its family after he got stuck up in one of the mountains.

Oh, really? I missed that. Yeah. It was on the Denver news for some reason, but. Weird. Well, you know, we like to. take care of our neighbors over the mountains here and there. Sure. Sure. Sometimes have stories

about you guys. Let's see. Search and rescue team saved dog near frozen waterfall in Utah. Oh, man. Yeah. Look at this. This is good. A dog stranded near the thing. Saved by search and rescue, according to the Weber County. Oh, that's way up north.

Let's see. An unidentified hiker found Nala by nightfall and resumed his search in the morning. Let's see. Oh, no, they couldn't find him by, but found him in the morning. Let's see. The dog said his cell phone ran out of power and he couldn't find anywhere to charge it. That's what the dog said. The dog ran out of cell phone power?

Yeah, I'm just teasing. Wow. I didn't know. You got to remember. Charge before you go up there, everybody. Charge your phones. Boy, that's, yeah, do it. Don't wait on that sort of thing.

All right. We are going to do this now here, this right here. And this means recommendals. It's just me and Brian today, but we have proper recommendals. we're going to do something a little special. We're going to tell you our favorite five things that we recommended in the year of 2022. Yes. And you'd be surprised how far back my number one and two go.

Yeah, no, I go all the way back to February with mine. I think you go back to January with one of yours. Yeah, it feels weird because I thought I would be more recent stuff. But you know what this is? The list had a way of making me go. Some of these I don't even remember. Right, right. And clearly they're not on my top five.

They were fine. They were good and still recommend them, but it's the ones that really stick out and, you know, hung on that I, that I remember. Yeah. And huge thanks to Claire, who,

uh, who, like, extracted all the stuff from quicktMS. Dot L.I and compiled it into a Google spreadsheet that's got and I could pick from. So she's, she's the best.

Thanks a lot, Claire. Um, all right. Here is, uh, our recommendals for the week, though.

Brian, let's start with you. Do you have a setup for this here? Um, my setup. is that this is a series on HBO. I did a little bit of editing to kind of tighten up things to, you know, make you fully understand the premise of this show, which is hilarious and brilliant.

All right, here we are. Like, this conversation's going pretty well, right? Okay. I mean, do you think so? I don't know. I'm so far, so good. I mean, we've been having fun. I assume we've been sharing some laughs so far.

Yeah. I hope to continue that way. So that's no accident. Everything that's happened so far today, I've rehearsed it dozens of times. These exact words, in a replica of your home, with an actor playing you. Okay.

Remember a couple weeks ago when the gas company came by because of a leak in your building? Yes. Well, there wasn't a leak in your building. That was my team. And when you gave them access, they secretly made a digital map of your entire home. We then recreated every detail of the space as a physical set in a warehouse a few miles from here. And with the help of a fake you, I could practice every single permutation of this interaction and have a plan for it.

The actor I hired analyzed your submission video to mimic your speech patterns and psychology. And we try it over and over, and I'd adjust each time until I perfected it. Our shoes off. My gosh, this sounds insane. It's completely insane. And it's both brilliant and one of those things that just makes you feel slightly uncomfortable. Because as he's describing all this, they're showing, you know, the actor that he hired to play, the guy that he's talking to. the replica of the guy's apartment, all that stuff, and it's just brilliant.

The show is called The Rehearsal. This is a documentary comedy series written, directed by, and starring, Nathan Fielder. He had another show called Nathan for You that I could have sworn somebody on here recommended. Was it before we tracked it or whatever? Maybe, or maybe. Maybe somebody brought it up, and I just assumed that somebody talked about it. But, yeah, so basically what Nathan does is he helps people who maybe are nervous about doing a thing and give them the opportunity to rehearse and practice doing that thing before they do it for real. For example, this first episode, the guy you hear I'm talking to, is on a trivia team.

And early on, when the team was talking to each other about their educational history, he lied and said he had a PhD when he does not have a Ph.D. And he's been, the guilt that he's been experiencing has been eating him from the inside. And he wants to specifically tell one person who he thinks would be the most offended by that because she's been sending him job leads that require a PhD. wow so he wants to tell her and but he wants to practice because he knows all these things that can go wrong right so in this first episode and me telling you about all this stuff even though it kind of doesn't really spoil it

because this is where the devil's in the details when you watch this thing it still blows you blows you away but Nathan creates a perfect duplicate of the bar where they go play trivia complete with other patrons and a trivia host and a bartender and liquor and basically figures out the right time for him to bring up the the fact that he lied while they're playing trivia because it's a comfortable safe space and uh like even even the the askew picture on the wall from the they show the original and they show this recreation. And it's just, it's like this perfect, slightly askew picture on the wall and

these tables and chairs and everything. It is absolutely, uh, amazing. The, the effort that he went through. So, you know, make, uh, make good on all the effort that he went into to do this by watching this series. It's, uh, hugely, um, acclaimed on like Rotten Tomatoes. It's got a 94%. A lot of people called it the best new series of 2022. Yeah. It's a reviewing it's even iMdb which tends to skew lower is yeah a point six which is just about as high as you get on there that's really yeah um metacritic uh 86 positive out of a hundred out of a hundred critics or whatever or no 86 out of 100 based on 23 critics um it's only slightly uncomfortable

that's i was going to ask how much cringe am i going to feel not not a lot of not a lot of cringe at all the cringe comes more with a later rehearsal And it's more one of the people that is brought in for the, it's actually two of the people that are brought in for that rehearsal. A woman decides she wants to see what it would be like to raise a child from a baby to 18. And because they don't want to do this thing over 18 years, they keep switching out the child with older and older actors every few hours so that she can experience what it's like to raise a child from 0.18 and just a,

just a few weeks. It's fantastic. This is on HBO Max. It's called a rehearsal. And it is, and I highly recommend this. Okay. You know what?

You've convinced me. It does, my first thought when I was hearing that was like, oh, this is going to make me feel really uncomfortable. No. But it's based on what you said. The discomfort comes less from the scenario and more when you,

when you get to know one of the people that's going through this rehearsal, you're like, oh, God. this person's kind of a whack-a-do. So it's not so much a prank. That's what I was worried about. Yeah, not at all. No, no prank at all.

Everybody involved knows exactly what they're doing and why they're doing it. And only the person who is that they're rehearsing for has no idea of what it is. That name again is The Rehearsal and it's on HBO Max. I love the weird stuff that shows up on HBO Max. I love the weird stuff that shows up on HBO that no one else gets. I love it. Like that John's, the John, what's his name? Oh, the John Smith, whatever it is, the New York guy.

The guy who narrates, like, does all the B-roll footage while he. I love that show so much. Yes, how to with John Wilson. Wilson, Wilson, that's it. Wilson, yeah. Wilson. A new season of that coming out. I love that.

And I don't know where else, no one else is making that stuff. It's all HBO these days. So don't screw it up. HBO. don't up that up. I still haven't seen season two. Oh, you need to. It's so good.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, we loved it. And then we binged one again. We liked it so much. All right. Here is mine. This is a thing that just came out this year in theaters and then made it to streaming.

Let me make sure where I watched it. Crap, that's important. I'll find it while we're talking. But anyway, it is really good. And I went in thinking it was going to be. just okay, but I'm now convinced this should at least be nominated this year. You know, other things will probably win, but I feel like this deserves some credit. So that's all I'll say.

Here you go. Somebody's going to have to come up with something. Rick. Oh, who are you thinking? Just a crazy idea. So tell me. crazy's better than nothing we've got nothing we call harry harry dr harris

that's brilliant more insane oh both okay it's very enigmatic you don't really know what they're talking about yeah i i was you know based on your description i was i was 100% convinced i was going to hear uh, Daniel Craig with a, uh, weird, uh, accent. Oh, yeah, no. I, I, I, I haven't seen glass onion yet, but I, I'm, I've, I suspect that will win awards without even seeing it just because I think that, I don't know, I'm hearing nothing. Everybody is loving it that, uh, that, uh, that I've heard about talking about it. So, well, uh, this movie is a Ron Howard joint called 13 lives. Oh, okay. And, uh, this is the basically dramatic retelling of the rescue of all those

boys in Thailand that got stuck in that cave when the monsoons hit it was a big deal for a while and at the time the whole world was sort of on pins and needles about what they were going to do there were 13 to 12 boys and a 13th the coach of these kids they were all soccer player kids and they were the they're the lives in question normally when a movie comes out and it's like based on real events or whatever I'm always hit and miss on that stuff sometimes it's great sometimes, you know, it's just too, I don't know, like they take too many liberties and they don't necessarily tell it the way it really happened, that sort of thing. It turns out, Ron Howard stuck to the script and he got some amazing actors in this. Vigo Mortensen, Colin Farrell,

Joel Edgerton, all three of them are really good in this. In particular, and I know we're all having a bit of a Colin Farrell moment with all the stuff he's doing lately. He's such, it's such a subtle uh affecting role and not even the biggest role it's a small role but it's it's he left me thinking about him a lot uh Colin feral's character he plays a British guy so again not not being Irish here Joel Edgerton's playing an Australian that may actually be what he is is Joe is the Edgerton brothers are they from Australia I don't know it certainly sounds like an Australian Hey, I'm an agent. Vigo Mortensen doing a good British accent as well.

But anyway, it is really heart-wrenching, really well-made. It's one of the most like pure, everybody's intentions are a different shade of pure. Like they just want to save these kids. There's nobody trying to derail this or do something for power or make the right. political decision that goes against the you know the saving of these kids everybody just wants to save the kids and so there's a tone of optimism to this that i'm not used to lately just feels like a lot of movies are about a lot of dire things and even though this was all the true crime stuff that we talk about on this show oh yeah there's just so much right so it this this just

had a quality of like these are people different walks of life of you know strangely in weird ways brought together because they had certain expertise that played out well in saving these kids and I don't want to give too much away. People may not be aware of the true story or not, but how they get these kids 2,000

kilometers distant underwater in a very tight cave system to safety will blow your mother eff in mind how they pulled that off. And it's not, this is not a spoiler to say all of the kids and the adult coach live.

made it yeah that's the only part of the original story that I remember and other than obviously the the rescue the style of rescue they did and then also Elon Musk calling one of the people involved a pedophile yes yes that's right but that's because he's hoping that part is not addressed in the movie they don't even mention him he's a dick and on the line on the ground I doubt they had any uh knowledge of any of that I don't think there was nobody was talking about musk on the ground they were just busy trying to figure out all right these local farmers are going to let us flood all the extra excess water into their fields uh it'll destroy their crops but it's okay it's to save the kids like it's just a lot of like

emergency stuff it's all during the crisis it's not here's a bunch of back story on these people's lives you just kind of get to know them through their actions and i like ron howard i like his movies but it's sometimes a little hit and miss um when he's good he's amazing you know perfect beautiful mind being one of them where it's just like wow I can't believe you made this movie a little Ronnie Howard

and then he'll make movies like you know I think the Grinch is kind of terrible but my opinion I know some people love it but whatever anyway the point is this is one this is one of the high marks and if this thing doesn't at least get nominations for something best director

actors maybe something at the Oscars it'll be that'll be a shame because I think it deserves It's a dramatization, right? So it's obviously not a documentary because you mentioned all the actors that are in it. So, yeah, this would be like, you know, could fall under screenplay, adapted screenplay or something like that. Absolutely, yeah.

And if it wins that, I wouldn't be surprised either because it's just really cohesive. The thing is two hours, 27 minutes, it didn't feel that long. It felt fast and furious. I would warn people with extreme sort of like cave dweller level claustrophobia. this is there are scenes in this we're like I couldn't do it it's like this is so this is so tight in there how the crap you're going to do it um it's amazing but it just is such a hopeful note throughout and even at the end and um I just I adored it I thought it was great loved it by the way it's prime is where it is they have it streaming in 4K it looked really good and it sounded really

good and I just think it might be one of Ron Howard's best maybe not since Apollo 13 and maybe you know what maybe Ron Howard needs to do more of these things where it's like here's the thing

that really happened so I'm making a movie about it because Apollo 13 traumatization is that yeah yeah and this is that and they just did

an incredible job so and in particular I just cannot get over Colin Farrell it's not a flashy role it's not anything it's kind of basic but he does it

he's so good at it the whole time I was just glued to his performance he's so good that guy he we're in we're entering a phase for him i'm telling you uh where where things are going to get just better and better with colin feral anyway uh go check it out again that is 13 lads yeah i can't wait to watch uh ben she's been sharing because i'm so excited to finally see that yeah and that's streaming somewhere it is it's streaming on hbomax

yeah watch that in fact i think that may have been what i chose i chose this over that but because I was told this was leaving sooner, I think. Oh, really? Something like that. Anyway, worth checking out if you have the time. All right. Brian, let's get to our top list of the year. So yeah, you and I decided we would do a,

go back through all of our picks over 2022 and come up with some recommendals, like our favorite recommendals from the year. Yep. Let's start this way. We'll both do, we'll start with our fifth and, you know, each do our fifth and work up to number one. Okay, I have to figure out mine in particular order. Okay, I can do my, yep, I get, I only have one that I, there's, this isn't really my order, but I do have one that stands above them all, I guess.

Okay. So these will be kind of random for me, but I'll start with the peripheral, which I just recommended, what, two weeks ago or three weeks ago, whatever it was. And I think the peripheral is awesome. I can't wait to see what they do next. It is, it does end in a very nebulous place, which, has put some people off, but I just found the whole thing compelling and made me want more. So of all of the things I recommended this year, that's easily in my top five and is still currently a prime original and will foreseeably be there forever. So, and a season two on the way. So

check out the peripheral. Brian, what's your fifth? My fifth would be Tokyo Vice. This is a series about Ensign, it's played by Ensign Elgort, a journalist who moves to Japan and learns that they have a different way of reporting

things there, and he has to conform to the Japanese style, or Ken wants to break out of the Japanese style, where it's just reporting without any sort of editorializing, things like that. And he gets deep into

stuff with the yakuza and finds a hole underground that is not an actual hole underground because there's lots of holes underground. Sure. But he finds an underground thing going on that he wants to expose and puts him and his friends in danger. Including cast member Ken Watanabe.

Ken Watanabe and then, and I don't have her name in front of me, but the actress who was in Legion as the the other the woman who had kind of similar to rogue like powers where she could Rachel Keller is the actress Okay I forgot about her she's cool she's great in this And I mean so is Ansel Elgort did I see Anson

I think he said Anson but you're good Anson he's an ensign in the military Oh she was in Frick, Fargo as well. Great to Fargo. Yeah, season two of Fargo. Yeah, the best season. Anyway.

Yeah, so Tokyo Vice on HBO Max, great series. First season is already, is wrapped up, and then season two supposedly coming soon. Nice. Her hair is crazy in Fargo. All right. Now I need to go back and look. forgotten. She's really great in it. I'm going to go with my next one. Again, no particular order here. The Old Man, which I know you ended up seeing as well. Just finished it myself and

great recommendal. It's good. The Old Man stars everybody's favorite dude, Jeff Bridges, and John Lithgow and a whole bunch of great supporting cast. The entire thing is a great spy mystery and uh deals with you know jeff bridges as as an old i don't know if you say retired but an old man who's no longer no longer in the world of international espionage uh but gets pulled back in for various reasons i don't want to spoil john lithgow is uh somebody who is both friend and nemesis and uh i should mention also that uneasy uneasy partners yes that is a good way of putting it the the supporting cast for example i can find her name. Where is it?

Oh. The rest of development. Amy Kellerman? Alea Shockett. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Olly a Shotcat. Yeah, I never say her name right. She's awesome. Amy Brennerman's awesome, as you mentioned her name a little bit there. Bill Heck is really good. The dude who plays such a slimy bastard, the CIA, E.J. Bonilla is really great. Oh, that guy. Yeah. It's a great little series. Season two, can't wait. Super stoked. highly recommend this series.

Did you say what it's on? Is it on Amazon Prime? It is a Prime original. Oh, no, I'm sorry, Hulu original. Hulu original. Okay, thanks. That one is on. I keep saying prime. I'm putting these into our quickt ms.l.i as well. Very nice. That was number four for me. What's your fourth? Well, since you chose an Alia Shackat recommendal, I'm going to choose another Alia Shackat recommendal.

The After Party. This is a series that was on Apple TV Plus, or is, because you can still watch it. course. And if you've been waiting to like, you know, pick some time to watch some stuff on Apple TV Plus, just get a one month free membership and try things out, I think Scott might have something that's on his list that's from that as well. This is a series, a mini-series about a murder committed at an after party. And the guy who gets murdered is, see, this is where I probably should hold up all the information before. And Franco, but not that one. Not those Frankos, different Frankos.

James Brothers, Frank. No, James, yeah, the brother, Franco. Dave Franco. Yes. Yeah, there you go. Yes, Brees, Alison Brees' husband, Dave Franco. It's also got Sam Richardson, who was so close to being another one of my picks, The Detroiters, Comedy Series, The Detroiters, if I could have picked Sam.

I would have probably picked that. But you've also got Tiffany Haddish as the detective who's investigating this murder. And the format of the show, the, there's, you know, obviously the investigation is the entire show. But each episode is broken out into a different person's perspective. So you don't find out who or what committed the murder until the very end. And, you know, Tina and I were guessing all the way up through until the end who committed the murder. Nice. So it's the after-party, eight episodes, I think, maybe 10.

I can never remember with the, there's some, yeah, eight episodes. There are some services where it's like, oh, yeah, this is, I know it's, it's Netflix, so it's going to be 13 episodes for some time reason. Yeah, isn't that weird? I don't know why they haven't settled on 10. 10 seems like normal. 8 episodes, unless it's British, in which case it'll be 6. Yeah.

They should all just go with 10, or if I really like the show 12, I guess. That's right. I guess I'm still picky, but, all right. So the after party is my recommendal number two. Nice. My, let's see. Wait, that was your third, right? What was that?

I'm sorry, that was my third, yes. Oh, no. Fourth? No, I did Tokyo Vice and then the after party. So third? Third? Tokyo Vice and then the after party. After party, it would be two.

Oh, that'd be, sorry. I'm thinking, I'm going the reverse order. So you did five and four is what you did. Oh, right. I'm sorry, yes, five and four. That's where I was, my head was in the other opposite math. Still not third. Yeah, still not third.

Either way, no third. All right, my next one is an Apple TV Plus show that I had initially pushed off a little because I had heard some people whine about it. And that was a mistake. It turned out to be one of my favorite things of the year. And some of it was already out for a year, but I'd, you know, again, waited to watch it this year. And that show is C, S-E on Apple TV Plus. It's about a bunch of blind people in the far distant future, very apocalyptic.

All of humanity is blind. You're not exactly sure why. You know, there's some reasons, probably some sort of disease. They even say that. But this is Jason Mamoa, Sylvia Hoax, Hara Milner, a bunch of people you've maybe not heard of. that are all excellent in this thing. And it is, oh my gosh,

I loved it so much. I cannot recommend it enough. Mamoa, even though he's kind of your big star here, in terms of recognition, he's not really, the whole thing doesn't just constantly revolve around him, which I think is to the show's credit.

He plays obviously a very important role and he's titular in many ways, but I think the show is very strong as an ensemble piece, and there's a bunch of really great actors in it, particular, we just saw a dude on Europa report by the name of, where is his name? Christian Carmago. He plays this character

called Tamakti June. One of the most interesting characters on TV. Just straight up fascinating. Character arc, I loved every second of it. Sylvia Hoax, you know her from, she was a synthetic on, or a replicant on Blade Runner 2049. Yeah, 249. She was an evil. She was

the evil one and she's just as menacing here she's your batty in this as well and she's very good. Here I'm Hilmar who's actually from the Netherlands I think plays Magra which is this character or this actor I'd never heard of before

didn't know a thing about her fell in love with this person. She's so good at everything she does other people like Alfred Alfred Woodard is in this, David Hewlett's in this and Dave Batista is in it for the whole second season. He is a major character and is fantastic. I can't say enough about C. And also,

I would recommend that you see it. And as they say in Mexico, C, C, C, C. C. Oh, also, it's in, this last season was its final. So they knew what they wanted to do. They were like, we're doing three seasons. Stephen Knight, the show creator, you know him from, uh, it's the other show famous for. Hold on. It was something that it was, what is it? Oh, damn it, I can't remember. Oh, peaky blinders. That's his show. Oh, really? Okay, cool. Yeah, yeah. So that guy's got some... I don't know what's taking me so long to watch C. I need to CC.

It's, uh, C's great. It really is great. Yeah. And then I'll email you that I've watched C, and I'll C C, and I'll C C. Randy because he also told me to C C C. Yeah, everybody's saying C C C, you will C C us all. And then we'll have some cookies and cream later. Which we could also call C-C. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, available now, all of it.

C&C Music Factor. Watch all three. Oh, and the music by Bear McCrary, which he's never bad. He's always good. He just won best music of the game awards for God of War. He does all the music for C. Top shelf shit. It's so good.

The intro alone is worth your time. All right. Brian, that was my number or whatever. What's your next one? I have two left as all I know. Yes, I have two left as well. I don't know. I have three. You have three left.

You have three because I started. Jeez, Louise. You know, let's wrap up 2022 with not being able to count down from five to one. If that doesn't encapsulate 2022 in a nutshell. All right, this one will surprise nobody because this was the best movie to bite me in the RRR's. And that is the movie RRR, the newest thing on my list. of recommendals. This is the biggest budget

Indian film ever created and if you don't see this come Oscar time at least for Best Original song for Best Foreign Language film it gets a lock to win

Best Foreign Language film. I'm just going to say that right now. Oh, really? I don't think anything else can top it. But it's also got some actors you know. For example, Ray Stevenson, who played Frank Castle, the Punisher, Alison Dutie, who has not just a great name, but also was a bond girl and then went on to play Elsa in Indiana Jones in The Last Crusade.

Oh, yeah. That's right. Yeah, so it's a tollywood film, not to be confused with a Bollywood film, but there's a small, you know, small distinctions, but You know, might as well be a Bollywood film. It is fantastic. It's three hours to carve out to watch. But again, you can split it up and watch it in two parts. It is so good.

I've raved about this to everybody I know, preaching to people to say, hey, it's time for you to watch RR. You need to get on it. You know, what's funny is he's got these two other movies called Balbully, the Beginning and Balboole II, Too, the Conclusion. Those are rated higher currently. than RRR. Really?

This S.S. Rajamol? Yeah. Let's see. 2015 and 2017, 8 and 8.2. Triple R is currently at 7.9. So I wonder if he's actually got stuff out there that's like even more insane and we just did never get it here because we're, you know.

Yeah, I guess so. Well, now I want to see these other two. Bahubali and Bahubali too. Yeah, Bahubali. It's Telugu, which is why it's Tollywood and not Bollywood. And Luke Sightwalker asks, is it a typical Bollywood musical? And I would say, no, in the fact that you get one song in the middle that's presented as a song and not as moving the plot forward, you know, where they sing their feelings. And then a typical song is the credits roll.

And both of them are infectious as hell. And it's fantastic. Yeah, it is a dance off. But don't let that scare you. I'd say, if anything, it's attracting me. I don't want to see it. Yeah, unless your name is Ronan the accuser, in which case, a dance-off should scare you.

Yeah. All his movies are around just shy of three hours. Are they really? Yeah. Gosh, so the beginning and the conclusion are going to set you back six hours of watching. Yep, it looks great, though. I mean, look at this chat. Look at this dude right here. I kind of want to see these other things.

But I'll watch Triple R first. That's where I'm going to start. Watch triple R first. It's just so good. It's one of those, like every movie on my list and probably every movie on yours is something that we've thought about a lot since watching it. Like it leaves a mark and you think like, oh, man, I sure, she would like to see more of that or watch that again or something like that. Yeah, absolutely. All right.

Next up for me is severance, another Apple TV Plus joint. Oh, good choice. And boy, did I love severance. We all did. And I think the only reason it's on my list is I just happen to be first recommended. it but everybody's seen it so true and we all loved it and there's not a ton more to say here other than i think a lot of people saw this one i think this thing will be long remembered for being rad um you know we'll see how they do with their sophomore season all that sort of stuff but

there it's it's finally a show where they try to do the kind of black mirror lost sort of thing and do it so well that i'm completely in i don't care they don't stick the landing i don't give a crap I'm in the whole way I just think the acting's great I can't believe this is a Ben Stiller production still blows my mind that that's the case and you know

Adam Scott who I already liked is perfect perfectly cast for this just a what a fantastic show gosh I don't want to give shit away the entire cast no nobody's bad nobody sucks

Toturo and walk in oh my gosh John Totoro Tutro dude and freaking medium Arquette. Yeah, Patricia Arquette. She's very good. It's really, really good, and you don't need an Apple device to watch it.

I don't know why some in the chat are like, I don't have Apple stuff. You want to play it on anything. I watched it on the first time through, I watched it on an Xbox Series X, and the next time I'll watch it will probably be on this Roku over here in front of my treadmill. There's an Apple app, Apple TV app, for your Amazon Fire, for your Roku, for whatever device. Think of it as Netflix or HBO. It's just an app. It's an app.

So you have to do anything weird, okay? And you can sign up for a month, get, pay, well, free if you, I can't remember what their free offer is. But even a month is only going to set you back five bucks. And we've recommended so much stuff on Apple TV that you'll have a, you'll have no problem filling that month with stuff you want to watch. So I know we're still in the middle of Slapgate,

but has anybody seen that new Will Smith thing on there? No, no. It maybe does feel a little, too, that cheek is just a little too raw still. Yeah. Feels like I just, I'm not in the mood to see him act right now. Yeah. I don't know.

But I kind of want to, I don't know. I like, I hear his new movie slaps. Yes, it's a real slapper. All right. So there you go. That's, once again, Severance available on Apple TV. Brian, what is your second to last one? Well, if, if I didn't hook you with Allison Dutty, then let's see if I can get you

with Imogen Putes. Another, another great last name. They got to get them together. Poo's and Pooze and. duty. Doot's in a new buddy cop film, poots and duty. I'd watch that. Hell yeah.

This is, look, you want your, you want your sci-fi, Scott. You like your sci-fi. I do like my sci-fi. But I know you also like your Western. I do. Right? Yeah. What if I told you that I could give you both with one series?

I'd say you're a dirty, dirty liar. Dirty liar, Brian. Well, you get ready to be proven wrong. This is a series called Open. Open Range. It's a sci-fi western, Neo-Western, starring Josh Brolin, Lily Taylor, and the aforementioned Imogen Poots. Hold on. It's an open range, is it. Open range. No, that's different. No, outer. Outer range is what I said. Did I say open? I thought I said outer. No, you said open. But you're good. I did. Okay. Funny. Because I'm looking right at my notes of a little. Well, I mean, for the record, open range is amazing. It's a great movie. Two, yes. Yeah, but that's old.

That's not what I'm recommending. I'm recommending outer range. Series on Apple Prime Video, it has been renewed for a second season, so the mysteries that are created in the first season will be hopefully answered in the second season. It's about a Wyoming rancher who finds a weird black hole

in one of his fields. And he doesn't know what this hole does or where it goes. and you can't see the bottom of it. But in the process of discovering this thing, he's also joined by a woman, image in Putes, shows up this kind of weird drifter that's got a sort of a connection

to both his ranch and the hole. It's very cool, very mysterious, and it's, you know, there were a couple really good series like this that came out of Amazon Prime. The other one was the one with J.K. Simmons, where they had the portal in their basement. Right.

That one got canceled. It did. Not enough people saw it, I guess, or something. Yeah, which is such a bummer. This one at least is getting its second season, and it's not on HBO Mac, so you know it's going to still get it second season. Or at least have a much better chance of getting the second season.

It's really good. Out of range on Amazon Prime. I always forget Image and Putes was the girl in 28 weeks later. She's fantastic in that. Oh, wow. Yeah. It was a long time ago, though. She was like 12.

All right. Awesome. I still don't watch that. I want to watch that. Yeah, you need to watch that. Seems so good. Before the next season comes around. Up my alley.

Yes. My final pick, and this is my number one pick for the year, it's the one that stuck with me the most. And this is actually kind of hard to pick because Severance is real close. A lot of these are real close for me. but for me, it was Station 11. Oh, yeah. I loved Station 11 so much.

It's based on a comic book, I think. Yeah. But it also uses a comic book, so I always forget. Kind of chicken and egg kind of problem in my head. Yes, meta. Yeah. But McKenzie Davis is the real star here, and the actual star, but also she's really excellent in it, as she is and everything.

um this is a relatively short series it's a one-off there's no sequels to it or anything there's no other you know i guess considered a miniseries and i saw it in this year although i think it may have started airing in 2021 but i think it still counts mackenzie davis um him him himish patel you know him from uh he's the comedian on avenue five that keeps him having, who's having a real rough time on stage all the time. That's that guy. Love him. That's another season that I need to finally go back to and finish season two. Some people that I didn't expect that really blew my mind. Lori Petty plays a very interesting character. And Enrico Colin Anononi, how he says his name?

Colotony. The guy who's, uh, we are so happy. Yeah. That guy. Just shoot me. Yeah. Yeah, he's great. It's a small role for him, but an excellent one. it is another apocalyptic tale you know Scott likes those and um it's told through a bunch of timelines everybody's survivors of some horrible devastating flu again this was written uh before the pandemic but it aired during the pandemic so what are you going to do anyway uh they try to rebuild reimagine their world and it's great cannot say enough things about this it stuck with me for a long time i think it was the acting the girl that played her young

her younger self, Kristen, young Kristen, this Matilda Lawler girl. I don't know what she's doing this very minute, but damn it, she's good.

She was so good. Like, when this just got kind of overlooked during Emmy Award season, I just was like scratching my head. Like,

how do you not give that girl best something? She blew my freaking mind. She was so good. And she's been in other stuff since she's in that new Santa Claus's series that's on Netflix.

Oh, Yeah. The Gilded Age, I think, is also HBO. She's going to go far, but man, that girl blew my eff in mind. Anyway, if you want to see something very cool and you don't mind a little Apocalypse in your apocalyptic life, I would check out station 11. I like that word. Yeah.

And I hope they never take it from streaming because it's amazing. Station 11 is the name. Yeah. And it stuck with me all year long. All right, Brian, give us your big final one. I don't know how did we do this where I started. Did I start? Oh, no, you started, didn't you?

That's why. Okay. I was like, how did you get to your top one before I got to mine? That's what's been throwing me off this whole time. My number one is a series that was on Netflix that is so damn weird. It almost defies explanation. It is a series called Brand New Cherry Flavor. Oh, yeah.

And this is about a writer, yeah, a writer that moves to L.A. I'm sorry, director that moves to LA, young director, played by Rosa Salazar. And her first encounter with anybody in L.A. in Hollywood turns out to be this real a-hole named Lou, who screws her over for her project. Played by Eric Lang. He's so good in it. Yeah. And so she vows to get revenge, and she does that by enlisting the services of a witch, played by Catherine Keener

a fantastic Catherine Keener like this is Catherine Keener as good as get out Catherine Keener I fully agree she she in a lot of ways stole the show every time she was on camera you're like

you lady are better than any of this you are insane being John Malkovich Catherine Keener I mean she's just she's just so good so good so anyway it's on Netflix you know you're going to watch somebody puke up a kitten.

I'm just going to say it. Multiple times, yeah, more than once. Multiple times, many kittens, a litter. A litter of kittens. Yeah, it is, you recommended this, and I think I turned right around and watched it like the day after or started it, and you were dead on.

It is one of the weirdest, dark, but funny, strangest things I've ever seen. Just loved it. And it's another thing that's got, like, makes you feel a little bit uncomfortable. Just the way it's filmed makes you feel a little bit on edge and um um not so far as to give you anxiety but but um you know just that like uh a little unease and uh um it's so well written and so well shot and um is absolutely worth i always i always forget

she was in alita battle angel i always forget oh uh rosa salazar with her big out like massive cg i's yeah cg eyes cg eyes i still need to see that but uh same i've never seen it either. And that's one of those where I'm just like that looks dumb. I like Rodriguez a lot. I like his movies, but sometimes they're hit and miss. And then I just don't get around to it. And I think this is Steven's streaming right now. I should probably just watch it. You definitely should.

We both should. And then we can see if it's any good. So brand new cherry flavors on Netflix and is my number one recommendation. It's listed as a horror drama streaming television, but I would say it's not it's not scary horror and it's almost even a little bit comedy horror quirky comedy horror i agree i laughed out loud in parts of it it's not it doesn't take itself so seriously but it also i don't know it's like if cronenberg and i don't know who else i can't think of another director that would be

the other side of it it's a very unique thing that just feels like its own thing and i don't know where this dude goes next but i'll follow that guy into a fire nick and akaska is his name let's see yeah he's let's see see anything new coming up brand new cherry oh he made oh he wrote antlers I liked antlers

that was a scary yes that was really good and that wasn't that wasn't super oh wait antlers now you know what I'm thinking of the one is that the one with the little kid who has yeah keep seeing like big antler creature

uh what's there felicity's in it oh then no I'm thinking of something else that was a series that had a little kid that had that had antlers and they were protecting him from oh no that's um that uh Nicole recommended it but I also saw it and I also read the comic it's called sweet tooth sweet too geez yes sweet that comic that comic series is a must read it's so good that's cool yeah never never knew it antlers was good it didn't review very well but I liked it and I had Carrie Russell and Jesse Plemons and Graham green and some cool actors you know

yeah well I'm going to throw real quick honorable mention in here, only because I recommended it on the very last recommendals of 2021. But Tick-Tick Boom, which is Lynn Manuel Miranda, the musical, kind of a semi-autobiographical story of Jonathan Larson, the guy who wrote Rent,

and Andrew Garfield stars in it. And if you didn't know Andrew Garfield could sing, this will just blow your mind because, boy, he's a good Spider-Man. And he's a great singer. And if you like Rent, if you like Hamilton, you'll love Tick, Tick, Boom. And it's streaming still on Netflix.

It's an original, right, I think? No, I don't think so, because it was on Hulu up until... Oh, okay. No, I take that back. I think it might be. I could have sworn we watched it on Hulu initially, and then it disappeared from Hulu and moved to Netflix. But it does...

I see Netflix at the very bottom of the poster, so... Yeah, I thought it was one of their Oscar... their Oscar grabs that they were it might be so um tick tick boom little honorable mention only because it was like you know right at the end of 2021 well there you go uh that's our favorites for recommendals boy it's good we did this list without the other two yes i know we'd be going for another two hours and without tom right like this is this is longer than i thought it would be but all good uh thank you all for listening to that hopefully some of those recommendations make sense to you. And if you want to track

them and find them, you don't have to go far. Go to QuicktmS.L.I. And you'll find all of those plus the many we didn't mention. That's right. Yeah, exactly. I've got yeah, exactly. I've got both of our new recommendals and our top fives. In the place

where you normally see Nicole and Randy's recommendals, we have our lists. That's right. Tomorrow we will have a regular show of the show. We're going to be here. Wendy won't be here, but we will have Amy and a good book recommendation. a nice simple, chill Thursday here on TMS.

So look forward to that. If you're a patron, you already know how rad it is to be one, and I'm very grateful for all of you who are. But if you're not, and you'd like an experience that is never with a commercial, never without pre-show content, always with the couch parties and the playdates

and the art and the mail and the other monthly, monthly benefits, or monthly benefits, then head on over to patreon.com. slash TMS and learn for yourself why this is the time more than ever. That's it for us. Brian, we should play a song on our way out. Do you have one?

I do. I do. Stephanie, who I'm trying to think, I met her in Chicago before the last geek bowl. And I'm trying to think. I don't think she's been to any of our other events, her and her husband, Kyle. Or life partner, Kyle, I guess I should say. Hello, Scrooge and Grinch. That's a nice little combo, except cringe doesn't begin with a bee, so...

Binch. Jacob Barley. I have a request for a very special birthday today, December 27th. Yeah, this would have been yesterday, but we're moving it to today. Meeting Kyle, my best friend and life partner back in 2008, was the best thing to ever happen to me. I'm so thankful to have found someone so early in my life, as dating in today's world looks like a total nightmare. I have met so many people over the years, and no one has ever come close to having anywhere near the compatibility that Kyle and I share.

These last few years have been hard, not just because of COVID, the financial struggles brought upon us by the world, but because of our opposite work schedules that have prevented us from spending every waking moment together like we used to. I'd like to say that last part in an exaggeration, but we really did see each other 24-7. Wow. I miss you, Kyle. I've been so grateful to have grown with you as one over the last decade, and it's still only just the start of our amazing life together.

So, here's your song. Initially, I had no idea what song I was going to request for your birthday this year. We do a TMS request for each other every year, and I'm trying to avoid repeats. I know you've developed a seemingly random and personally unjustified love for Averill Levine this year. Kind of did. It could be worse. What is justified is that our favorite churches did a cover of Averill's song. I'm with you.

I can handle that, I suppose. Kyle, you are great. Have fun listening to this episode at work tonight, even though he's off today, so he'll get to hear it live. And thank you, Brian and Scott, for the amazing shows that you do and for making these requests possible. Love, Stephanie and Toothless, and Salem, and Olive and Eleven, who I'm assuming are all animals and not poorly named children. I agree. Because those children will regret your choices as they age. So we'll be answering their questions on a future therapy Thursday. Sooner than you think. That's right. All right. So let's get to it. Here is, uh, there is,

cover or a church's cover of Avrilavines. I'm with you. This is a single that they released as part of an Apple iTunes session. So that's that's where you hear it or right here is where you hear it. Here's churches. Nice. Let's play it. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll see you then. dark i thought that you'd be here by now there's nothing but the rain no footsteps on the ground i'm listening but there's no sand isn't anyone trying to find me want somebody come take me home it's a damn cold night trying to figure to out this life won't you take me by the hand

take me somewhere new I don't know who you are but I I'm with you I'm with you yeah yeah I'm looking for a place I'm searching for a face

is anybody here I know Because nothing's going right And everything's a mess And no one likes to be alone Isn't anyone Trying to find me Want somebody come take me home

It's a damn cold night Trying to figure out this life won't you take me by the hand take me somewhere new i don't know who you are but i i'm with you i'm with you yeah yeah oh why is everything so confusing maybe i'm just out of my mind Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh. It's a damn cold night, trying to figure out this life, won't you? Take me by the hand, take me somewhere new. I don't know who you are, but I...

I'm with you I'm with you. I'm with you. Won't you take me by that hand, take me somewhere new? I don't know who you are, but I'm with you

I'm with you. I'm with you. Won't you? by that hand take me somewhere new I don't know who you are but I'm with you I'm with you I'm with you

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