The Morning Stream - TMS 2429: Just suck em

Episode Date: March 1, 2023

Olivia Newton-John, The Taste Of Australia. Jessica Cheese Stain. worrying about doors since 2011. Can I Be Your Personal Hoser? All Forms of BACON Are Accepted. Isn't there a Gladiator movie called Gladiator something? Olympic gold medalist in painting naked wresters. Roseanne Barre Syndrome. The chat doesn't give a crap about your peanut allergy. Enjoy your drink diapers. What are the dried up skins called? M&Ms are based on PEOPLE!!! We need a man to 'splain it! Surprised by Pretzels. The Rollable Square With Tom. Full throated Recommentals and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, Olivia Newton-John, The Taste of Australia. Jessica Cheese-Stain. Worrying about doors since 2011. Can I be your personal hoser? All forms of bacon are accepted. Isn't there a gladiator movie called Gladiator something? Olympic gold medalist in painting naked wrestlers. Roseanne Bar Syndrome.

The chat doesn't give a crap about your peanut allergy. Enjoy your drink diapers. What are the dried-up skins called? M&Ms are based on people! We need a man to say. Explain it. Prized by pretzels. The Rollable Square with Tom.

Full-throated recommendals and more on this episode of the morning stream. Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Why? Do people get hit in the ass with it a lot? It's just an expression. Oh, I'm kind of worried about this door now, though. Oh! The morning stream. I got a middle finger.

Good morning all and welcome to TMS. It is Wednesday, March 1st, 2023, and I am one of your hosts, Scott Johnson, and there is another host right there. His name is Brian Abbott. And I'm in your left ear. Yeah. Oh, we should do that. like the way the Beatles did stuff for about a decade. Oh, yeah. And the way Bob and Doug did it on that comedy album.

Oh, did they do that? I don't remember. Like, I'm in your left here, eh? Oh, you need some cleaning in here, eh? Oh, maybe you need a Q-tip, you hoiser. That's right. Did they do the whole album like that, though? I don't remember. No, no, they just did. They would just like talk you about how cool it was that they were in stereo. Oh, man. If there was a record or a tape, I played until it was like hissing or scratched, it was that. I played that. I played that so, man. I mean, it had freaking Getty Lee on it. Remember when Takeoff was actually played on the radio?

Yeah, it was like a top 10 hit at one point. It was like this big deal. It was our only connection to Canadian culture. We didn't get anything else down here. Other than hockey. Yeah, you're right. Exactly. We had hockey and Bob and Doug.

Bob and Doug, which came from SCTV, but we didn't always, I didn't have access to CCTV for the longest time. I didn't know where to get it. So yeah, you canady. this is what's weird in the 80s we didn't get access to them the Australians a lot of Europe we had a lot of British stuff tons of British stuff yeah we had our faulty towers Monty Python of course yeah lots of British comedies PBS would run like you know all that kind of stuff so you were always getting the taste of that but we never had like I mean there was I had a lot of there was a lot of Japanese animation and a lot of anime back then you could get your hand on but for the most part Australia was like a place that, without Paul Hogan, do we even know what it is? I mean, our first taste of Australia, at least mine was, maybe I should phrase this differently, was Olivia Newton-John.

Oh. Hey, she should be everybody's first taste of Australia. Olivia Newton-John, the taste of Australia. That's right. Rest in peace, Olivia Newton-John, my first crush. But, yeah, I mean, that was like, you know, oh, Sadie, you came from Australia to a right till high did they have her

this far off place did she just do her I don't see I don't remember anything about Greece did she just talk in the Australian accent the whole time yeah she spoke in her normal voice I didn't know that

it's been ages so long since I've seen that probably a kid I raise out might be a dingo stall you it feels a little more cockney than Australian I can only do Australian

if I do that you're not do the Bruce Hey I you're gonna knock that battery off my shoulder Yeah, isn't that weird? Sometimes you have to, like, get into a certain tone to nail the accent.

I do the same thing. Can't help it. That's why my pirate problem happens with the Irish every time. I always go pirate. But anyway, Australia, we're glad you're here now. But I'm just saying as kids, we were deprived of your culture. Same goes for Canada. Don't know why.

You're right up there. You're just right there. Yeah, you're our hat. Yeah. And so until we got Bob and Doug, the great historic ambassadors of Canada, with no stereotypes or anything. Oh, Australians love Tukes and two Borg beer and back bacon. Back bacon, yeah, which I was told was just a thick piece of pork.

It's not really even bacon. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like it's closer to what the English call bacon, as opposed to like the thin strips of cured pork that we get here that's bacon. And does anyone there call each other hosers anymore? I don't think so. Oh, I'd be curious. I'd be curious to know.

We have a lot of Canadian listeners. Does Jeff Sire call anybody a hoser? Oh, I'd love to hear that, Jeff. Yeah. Jeff, right in. And can we be your hosers? Yeah, can I be your... Jeff, can I be your personal hoser?

How about that? Hosey A? All right. There we go. Tiggis Travis explains it. It's made from pork loin as opposed to pork belly like U.S. bacon. So U.S. bacon is thin strips of pork belly. But back bacon is pork loin.

Oh, but loin is a little more like, it's leaner, I think. So it's probably better, probably better for it, you know. Hey, it's leaner, eh? That's what they'd say. It says it it's loiter. Oh, it's loiner. Yeah. It's loiter.

Yeah, and like the banthal loiter. It probably is leaner, though, yeah. I would think so. Probably a little healthier, although I don't, I don't know. I'm a hitting miss pork guy. I like me some bacon. I like me some pork, uh, tenderloin. Uh, I even like an occasional.

What are the dried up skins called? Pork rinds? Rines. I like the pork rinds occasionally. But that's, I don't like a ham, you know? Oh, really? Okay, see, I'm, if you said, Brian, beef, pork, or chicken, you can only have one for the rest of your life. Yeah.

Where'd you go? I would go pork. Oh, man, I'd go beef. Well, okay, let's say. You got bacon. You got, I like, I happen to like ham a lot. Yeah. I like pulled pork, barbecue pulled pork.

Yeah. like pork chops there's good variation you're right about this lots of variation so you wouldn't get beef it's like oh would you like a steak or a steak grand up beef yeah there's there's you know like stew beef and stuff like that yeah you could do you could do stuff but i think i'm i'm probably going to go beef just for taste and then i'm chicken second pork third wow yeah interesting which is weird i don't know i don't know why i feel that way and also there are been times like Christmas will roll around and there's a honey baked ham and I'm like, oh, that's all I want is honey baked ham. And then there's other times it'll just be a honey baked ham. And without the

hoopla of a holiday, I'm like, I don't want this damn ham. I don't want this. Is that weird? It's a little weird. Maybe it's the salt. I'm not a big salty guy. No. I don't know. Who knows? Pigs. Keep going to keep going. Keep going to do a history lesson that nobody asked for. Oh, thank goodness. Nobody asked for this. Nobody wants this. Yet I'm going to do it. So here's our theme. Yesterday is history today. Today is tomorrow's history.

That's right. That's right. Wow. That's a very bad video game from the 90s, by the way. Oh, okay. Gosh. I'm thinking it was... It was heinous.

Jennifer Tilly. You had one of her early roles or something. It is a Tilly-esque portrayal. It's very Tilly-esque. Yeah, Tilly-esque. Sounds like somebody's Discord name for some reason. Anyway, thinking of Talley. Let's do, okay.

So here's some trivia, Brian. I'll bet you never knew this about World War II. A Great Dane. That's a dog, you know. Oh, okay. Not a Danish person. Not a very pleasant Danish person. No, no.

A great Dane named Juliana was awarded the Blue Cross Medal. She was extinguished, sorry, she extinguished an incendiary bomb, which is why she got the metal, which seems really great. But she did it by peeing on the bomb, literally. this is a real thing. She peed on a bomb. It went out, extinguished it. She therefore got a dog version of blue cross metal. So there's some, there's some useless historical knowledge. You know, be curious to know if was she trained to do that or did she just have to go and that seemed like, you know, oh, that, that bomb smells weird. I'm going to pee on it and make it mine. I kind of prefer the second. I prefer the latter. I do too. I don't know if that'll be the case, but that's the one

I'm going with. Here's one for, let's go back even further. Alexander the Great was accidentally buried alive. Did you know that? No. Oh my gosh. I know. Pretty intense.

Scientists believe Alexander suffered from a neurological disorder called Gillian Bar syndrome. They believe that when he died, he was actually just paralyzed and mentally aware the entire time. Alexander the nervous is more like it. Alexander the dark. Oh, man. This is a horrible thing to have happened.

Wasn't that? That's basically what they gave Nicky and Palo and Lost, isn't it? Well, it's not that they gave them. They got they got bitten by a spider that was only on that island that paralyzes their victims

and makes it seem like they're dead. Oh, gotcha. Am I remembering that correctly? I think so. Something like that, right? And they were awake. That whole Nicky and Paolo thing was such a cousin Oliver moment on Lost. No, Roseanne Barr syndrome is very different, chat room you don't want that one yeah that makes you grab your crotch and sing poorly yeah yeah yeah you know the world series nobody wants that oh that's right i forgot she freaking did that yeah

never forget never forget all right here we go this is another one i didn't know i like gladiators i'm a big fan it's not like that uh airplane do you like gladi your movies tommy you ever been in a turkish prison um you ever seen a grown man naked kind of in the mood to see airplanes that weird kind of in the mood nothing weird about that Zucker brothers There's finest work. I agree. Pick the wrong day to stop sniffing glue. All right.

Leon's getting larger. Larger. I love that guy. It is just too easy to quote that movie. And you know, we need to put airplane. Oh, do we need to put airplane two on film sacklist? I'd do it with Shatner in it and stuff. With Shatner.

Yeah. It's tough for the comedy, especially comedy that rehashes so many jokes from the first movie. Yeah. It feels like a historical piece in the sense that we could do some talk around it, though. You know what I mean? I think it might be worth doing. Okay. Anyway, so this is the deal with gladiators.

There were also, we never hear about this. You never see this in movies, but there were female gladiators in ancient Rome. A female gladiator was called a gladatrix, which is plural for gladiatrices. They were extremely rare, unlike their male counterparts. So you didn't see a lot of them, but they were out there fighting,

saying, are you not entertained and taking heads off and all that? They were doing it. It feels like if there ever should be, you know, a movie. There needs to be a female gladiator movie, like a... I'd love to hear that story. Yeah. Heck yeah. Do we have any...

I don't know how documented it was. Breaking the marble ceiling. Yep. A thatched roof. Yeah. All right, here's one for you. From 1912 to 1948, the Olympic Games held competitions in the fine arts. So this was part of the Olympics.

Medals were given for literature, architecture, sculpture, painting, and music. Obviously, the art created was required to be an Olympic themed thing, but sure enough, those categories. It wasn't always athleticism, is what I'm saying. So they went from naked wrestlers to let's do paintings to what it is today. That's the path. To synchronize trampolining or whatever they've got. That feels so subjective. Art competition. I'm not surprised to hear that it's not still a thing because how do you gauge that in a rules-like way?

I don't know how you do it. I can throw a discus. Great, it went that far. That's further than the Chinese, you know, combatant. Great, you won. Yeah. I drew that potted plant better than...

Maybe that was it. Maybe it was an accuracy thing. I don't know. Right, exactly. Less about artistic. Still life, yeah. Yeah, less of an artistic impression, I guess. But anyway, they don't do it anymore.

So if you want to get in the Olympics, you better get good at snowboarding. Here's one. Famous conqueror Napoleon Boner part was once attacked by a horde of bunnies, little rabbits. Oh, yeah. He had requested that a rabbit hunt be arranged for himself and his men. When the rabbits were released from their cages, the bunnies charged toward him and him alone. And his men were there and became an unstoppable onslaught. They had to escape to higher ground.

Wow. Yeah. also how are you okay i got a question for hunters yeah be very quiet isn't isn't the point of hunting to go out there to find the thing you're hunting your prey okay and then oh i see i see a deer now i shoot the deer now i've got the deer i have completed the hunting i've hunted a deer you don't open a cage and say here a bunch of captive things run and then now okay give them a few seconds. This is not, what contest is that? I mean, that's, that's like a fox hunting, you know, like they basically release the fox and then they release the dogs and then the people go out on horseback and follow the, uh, follow the dogs to the foxes. That also seems weird to me. Like, it does, yes. It just feels like it's a more of a show and less of an actual, of an actual hunt. What was the one with, uh, oh, in Game of Thrones and Robert Barathean, uh, got killed by the boar. The boar, I think, was set up for him.

Like, they all, okay, make sure the boar's right here and all that, right? It's just, it feels like it's just for show, which I know a lot of things are, but you want to hunt, you know, hunt. You know, when you have enough money, enough power, you can say, I'd like to guarantee that I come back with something from my hunt. So let's, that's true. Yeah. Especially if your boner part, you know, that guy wants. Yes, especially if you're boner part. Yeah, and he's short.

I was really struggling to figure out a way to work rabbits into the, lyrics of Waterloo by Abba, but I just couldn't make it happen. Oh, you know what? Take your time. I bet we get there eventually. I'll bet you get there. All right, okay. Good. I'll keep workshopping it. Here's one that I have a lot of scrutiny for, like we do in the film sack. Catch up, catch up, cats up, whatever your way is. Was sold in the 1930s as medicine in, sorry, 1830s. 1834, it was sold as a cure for upset stomach by an Ohio physician named John Cook. It was popularized as a condiment later in the 19th century. But before that, ketchup was 100% sold as a medical...

Medicine. I mean, it's a load of hooey. Yeah. But there it is, right? I guess flies were good for you. Oh, yeah, the flies. I freaking ate the flies. All right, let's do one more.

It's usually the first thing you think of when you hear the word ketchup. So it surprised me that you didn't... Yeah. You can get up to seven. Wasn't that the rule? Whatever they said it was. You can have up to seven per bottle or something, right? FDA, I'll let that happen, yeah.

Yep. It does make me think about it every time I have ketchup now. And I say catch up, which is like... Yeah. Oh, as opposed to ketchup, ketchup, catch up. Yeah. What do you do? I say ketchup with an E, ketchup. Ketchup.

Catchup, catch up. I think I say ketchup. Interesting. I'm trying to think. Do you want ketchup with that? No, I say ketchup with an E. Yeah. If I say it naturally, right now when I think about it, I want to put the A in there.

If somebody is ahead of you, do you say, let me catch up, or do you say let me catch up? Let me catch up. Let me catch up. Let me catch up. I think I may vacillate between the two. Do you say vacillate or vacillate? Vescelate. It depends where you put your ease. All right, one more of these, and then we'll get to our game. How about this? I didn't know this. President Zachary Taylor died from a cherry overdose. This is real. He passed away after eating too many cherries and drinking milk on a 4th of July party in 19 or 1850. He died on July

9th from gastroenteritis. The acid and the cherries along with the milk is believed to have been the bad combination for him. And it was just a volume thing. He ate a ton. In the Russia, cherry pops you. Yeah. Yeah. Take that.

Semi obscure ex-president, Zachary Taylor. We now know the truth. No kidding. We know the truth. All right. So hopefully, let's see if Brian's back yet, an emergency meeting and asked for five minutes he's back he's back he's back he's even logged in that's fantastic he is all right well let's get him in here uh let's make him let's make him famous for his knowledge uh also uh this would be the time for everybody i warned you in the discord earlier i'll say it again

if you're in the chat room right now you're here live and you have discord open on your phone or otherwise you're going to want to ping me send me a private message just a dm on uh on discord and the fourth person who does so will get pulled into today's game. All right. And you could win big prizes today, so don't wait. Get in. Let's go. And joining us now, we have Mr. Brian Dunaway all the way from South Carolina.

Hi, Brian. Mr. That's my, oh, hi. Oh, hi. Is that your dad's name or however you put it? They call my, they call my dad, Mr. Oh. What is your dad's name?

We called the dog, Mr. Yeah, Mr. Indiana. What's your dad's name? I'm just curious. You don't have to give me a full name. You want to give you all my security passwords. No, thanks. Just your dad.

I want to know what your dad's name is. It's never asked as a thing. It seems like a weird thing to ask, but I'm asking it. I'm kidding. His name is Terry. Terry? I would have never guessed. I don't know what I would have thought, but I didn't guess Terry.

All right. And we know your mom's name is Faye. Yeah, we got Faye done away. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Nailed it. Nailed it. That's fantastic.

Would you like to know our maiden name in the last four digits of my social security card? Yeah, only if you have a handy. If you have it handy, let's do it. Our fourth person to come in, let's see. Who do we have here? Oh, we know Nomic. Yes, we know Nomic.

Nomek is fourth today. How Nomic? Yeah, Konomik. K-Nomik. And he is our fourth person who pinged me. So he's in now. Hi, Nomik. How are you?

Hey, how you doing? Good. Good. Where are you here? Nomik, have we had you on before. I have a memory that we did. It's been a while, yeah, yeah. Okay, but we have, right? It's not just the false memory that you were here before. Oh, no, no. All right. It's good to have you here.

Nomick is our participant. Brian is our showrunner, and he's going to tell us how this works and what prizes you could win. Sure, it's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tad Poole on some nerdy topics. Scott Brand are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott Brain's job to see how many. of those answers they can guess. NOMIC, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize

package that includes Fury Unleashed and Control. Both great games. Whoa, holy shit. Okay. Fury and Lease is one of my favorite side-scrolling roguelikes ever. I'd love that game. It's fan-freaking tasks that the devs are super nice. And Control is a legit like AAA rad game. This is a big deal, NOMIC. A big deal today. I'm sorry, your games are now X-com, Chimera Squad, and Lethal League Blazed. Also, excellent games. Yeah, they're both good, too. Yeah, they're both good as well. Okay, I'm sorry, your new games are Fashland and All right, that I have no idea what it is. Perfect. Perfect. Oh, my God. That's good. That's perfect. On Steam.

Yeah, all on Steam. Yeah, all on Steam. This is exciting. All right. Well, let's get started. I can't wait to find out our topic. Yes, all right. Well, put those hands on those buzzers, we asked 513 Tadpoolers, the following question. Get ready. The movie theater industry decides that they're not going to sell popcorn anymore. What becomes the new

go-to snack for movie to? Oh, Scott. Oh, shit, I clicked it without a good idea. So I'm going to say That is hilarious. Sunflower seeds. Do you know how this works? Sunflower seeds. I just wanted to beat you.

Sunflower seeds. Damn it. People did say sunflower seeds. As a matter of fact, it was number 13 in the list, so that's pretty good. That is hilarious. You've got your chance to jump in on this one. Our favorite backup snack at the movies is the nachos. You don't always get those every theater, but that's our backup.

Okay. Show me nachos. Nacho, nach. Number two, well done. You've got control of the game. All right. And you've got control anomic. Yeah.

So, good. You thought about this the way that I wanted you to think of, think of it, is that it isn't necessarily bringing something in that they're not currently selling, but what moves into the number one slot like popcorn was. Does that make sense? Yeah, yeah. So nachos is like that. Yeah, yeah. Natchos moves up. I like the idea that everybody is like, nachos. Yeah. Yeah. But I won't say that there aren't things in this list that haven't been sold as movie theater snacks. Oh, there are or not? Sorry.

There are things in this list that aren't currently offered at your movie theater. And there are things that are. I want to make sure that that was clear so you don't go completely one or the other. No, that's great. That's perfect. Oh, interesting. I also didn't want to say that as part of the intro. I wanted to wait until each of you had a chance to answer.

I understand. This has been a better game for all of these choices. All right, you two chuckleheads. What do you got? No, make you got to have one? Do you have something? How about pretzels? Oh, pretzels.

That's a good one. Yeah, they're making me thirsty. Are there the soft or the hard variety with, uh, they'll also sell pop. Yeah, that's true. Because of salt. Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. These pretzels are, no, this is, he's got a business mind. Look at that. You can't sell the salt and not out of the soda. This is perfect. What you do is you give them a big pretzel with a lot of salt. They give them a tiny drink that they can't refill.

All right. Let's, uh, show me pretzels. Yeah. Look at that. I'm surprised by that for, I don't know why. I'm surprised. I just am. I didn't know. I'm glad because I was worried that the theater

workers wouldn't have anything to sweep up. But, yeah. Pretzels. Let's leave a, yeah, you got to sweep a little bit. Sure. All right. What do you guys got? So far, you're running the, well, you've got two of them.

Yeah, no. Do you have anything, Brian? Well, I have a few things that I know our theater sells, but do you have something that's off the top of here? That's great. I have one that I think, it's okay, but I don't know if everybody. has it.

I was going to say M&Ms. Sure. Eminem's is my go-to. Old M&M's. So not Reese's Peasies? No. That's only where you have. I'm sure I remember it was the two guys' names, right?

M and M's and I can't remember what those names were. But Marvin and... Oh, is that really a thing? They're based on people? I didn't know that. They're the last names of the two guys who founded the... Because I've always thought it was something in Mars, right? Is it Mars?

Mars is one of them. Mars and May Hall or Mars and... Oh, because Mars was the dude's guy. The dude's name. The dude's guy. And he's one of the better bars. He was the dude's guy. He was the dude's guy.

The Mars bar. All right. Show me the M and the M's. Yeah. Oh, look at that. Look at you. Number eight on the board. Good points.

That's big points. Damn it. I mean, you know, keep going. I know it's a big seller at the, at sporting events. And ours carries it, but I don't know if people would have said it and that is the hot dog we think about the hot dog the hot dog because the question is what food can you serve that doesn't require some kind of preparation license right and I think the roller meats I think you can get away with that right is it that a roller meats are your

best option for that they don't need a working a knife for roller meats right right right can you imagine a hundred people each with a hot dog in a movie theater oh no well this This place we get, our local place over here has, like, you can get all kinds of food and take it to your thing. It is really annoying. Everybody stinks. It's a lot of mouth slap, uh, slopping. What's the word? What's I call?

Mouth smacking is what I meant to say. That's a good one. Yeah. I'm kind of, I don't know. Right. I kind of back to like, I just wish it was popcorn. Yeah. And you've got to, unfortunately, you can't do like a big fully loaded dog in the movie theater because, like, you do a Chicago dog.

You can have sport peppers and celery salt all over you and the floor and everything. Yeah. You don't want that. Yes, why not? That sounds so good. Have you seen the messed people with maple popcorn? That's what I would eat. Are you okay with that?

Are you okay with the hot dogs? All right. Okay, yeah, yeah, okay. All right, good, good, good, you. Hot dogs. Show me your winner. Meat. No.

Oh, man. Oh, well. Interesting. I'm a little surprised that's not on there. I was, too, and I'm even more surprised that it's nowhere, like, nowhere in the list, surprisingly. Really? Yeah, I think, I don't know. I guess people just want to snank.

Don't think about it. Yeah. Yeah. All right. It doesn't bite back. How about, uh, I just feel stupid today. Um,

how about a, some snacks. Tacos. No, that's a meal. Sorry. I'm going to go with potato chips because I don't know any better things to say. Oh,

sure. That's actually a good one. Potato chips. Yeah. Or crisp as they're called in the UK. Yeah. Sure. Yeah.

All right. Show me them. Chips. Yeah, number three. Oh, good. Okay, but that's Nothing like a good, noisy snack for the person in the theater.

That's true, especially if you give you the bag, you know. Hopefully they give you a little cup or something. Russell. All right. Let's see. How about, I mean, snacks.

So like, snacks. Snacks. Snacks for your face. How about French fries? French. Frize. That's a good one.

That's a good one because, right, you've got, that's similar to your nachos. You can maybe have a little ketchup cup that you recommend to or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. They're salty. Once again, back to nomin. Got to have the salt. You can sell the drinks.

Yeah. Nice little greasy circle in your lap from where the container was sitting because whatever, whatever they made them in, it's just going to go right through the container. All right. Show me them, French fries. Oh, yeah. Number five. Okay, I feel like I'm on a bit of a roll here. Scott seems to think that the potato is going to replace.

I mean, the potato's so, it's so ubiquitous anyway, right? It's so versatile. Yeah. Okay. Oh, boy. I'm running out of snack ideas. Let's say we go with, um, uh, oh, uh, what are those called? Uh, the little.

things. The little hot tamales, the little candy hot tamales. That's us trying to think. Oh, sure. Okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Those are great. Show me those hot tamales. Those little red pills. Take the red pill, uh, Neo.

Yeah. It's not there. Damn it. No. Crap. Uh, let me see. Did hot tamales make the list? Um, I miss those. Since getting off the shug, I miss those the most. I love those. Really? Yeah. Talk about, it's probably worse for your filling. than it is for your for your sugar oh they're heinous they're heinous they're it's bad for both but yeah that like

i'm sure you're totally right what i would do with them is i would i'd just suck them and just until they were just like just a little all it was left was a little booger in there and that was it you're done what's cool is if you would have had them pull that tooth you could like put a hot tamale right in the tooth gap oh right just an implant that's perfect and replace it every other day when it corrods and then put a new one in right exactly love it great what a great thing for your enamel Love it. Love it. All right, Brian and Nelmick. Yep. Nelmik? Do you have one? Mine was a failure last time. Pizza? Pizza. That's a good one. More salty goodness.

That's right. All right. Show me that dominoes. Oh, come on. That's a good answer. Number 14 on the list. People did say it. Yeah, you know what I think people are doing? They're really narrowing down to snack and not food. yeah um all right well if it's back in my corner here it's back in your court scott brian i have a question for the judges sure is the chips is on the board yes does that includes oh go ahead oh no guys we can say what you're going to say i was going to say that includes potato chips and tortilla chips okay okay because a lot of people said chips and didn't distinguish so i didn't know if they were talking about potato chips

or tortilla chips. But I did separate anybody who said tortilla chips in cheese or tortilla chips and salsa, I put those in nachos. So I don't think anybody considers corn, but what are those called?

Frito-Lay. Doritos? I have a bag right here. Corn chips. Doritos are Fritos are Fritos in that category? Or are they a separate thing? Not that that's my answer. They would be a separate thing.

Okay. Oh, shit. I'm going to go I got it I'm going to do um oh what's the name what's wrong with me the cat this is got a tiger and he sells that food chitos i want to cheetos chitos chitos chitos all right he's got a cat you were very good not to specify the kind of cat yeah i did you noticed i skirted around that little wicket you certainly do i want to get in trouble Is it a cheese puff? Is it a chip?

I don't know. Show me Cheez-y-poos. Oh, my gosh. Oh, man. You got a good way. Holy shit. I'm shocked. I got that.

Okay, so that is kind of confirming what I was thinking. So, all right. Now, if I was at theater chain and I was like, all right, I need them to have something that's sort of self-contained and not a giant mess. I would probably sell little cans of Pringles. But I don't know if those are chips because they're molded. I'll help you on them. I'll tell you that those would definitely, one person said Pringles specifically,

and those are definitely potential. They're just chips? Okay. Yeah, it's just chips. All right. Once you pop, you can't stop. You really can't. That's what I've learned, the hard way.

All right, let's, let's, oh, geez, I'm so out of ideas here. Let's do, what's another candy people like? How about the great dental remover of all time? Dots, dots, dots. Dots, all right. I loved, we have dots in our theater. It's amazing. Yeah, little flat yellow boxes that don't hold as many dots as you think they should.

Show me them, dots. Damn it. No dots. All right. The rubber is meeting the road here. We've got four answers still on, sorry, five answers still on. No, four answers still on the board. Okay.

Scott's out so we can You can chat now. Seven points behind. Things I was thinking of was like ice cream. Yeah, anything that you would serve at a gas station, I think, is pretty because you don't have to have a food serving license,

right? Everything you'd serve at a gas station. That is one hell of those. That's a very interesting disclaimer. Y'all got anything you can get to the gas station here this theater? Because I love me some gas station food. Y'all got any? People are used to paying inflated prices for things at the gas station, just like the theater.

No, you're right. That's true. If you get it, if you get around it, you can get a lot of, you don't have to get like a particular food license. Either that or, uh, what do you think of no mic? Liquor? What's going to replace it? You can in my theater. Emcee has them. At least liquor. Great. It's a good question. Corn nuts? I think if to go back in corn nuts, please. Oh, corn nuts makes everybody smell like feet.

I almost like a trail mix. That doesn't make any sense. Peanuts, but then people can have peanut allergy, that'd be bad. Yeah. Right, right. That's the theory. What about the ice cream of the future? What about that?

What the hell is that? Diff and dots. Oh, dipping dots. So wait a minute. I know I lost, but can I slide in a just a quick one, one that I meant to say and should have said? Is that okay? You can offer it as a recommendation for them to use?

Yes. Because I want NOMIC to win. Yeah. I like that idea. I mean, he still could lose, so this isn't really cheating. But I would slide in just,

I would just throw Skittles in there, just throw them in there. Okay. Skittles actually. You just throw the rainbow in there. I guess you. Fill the rainbow. Taste it.

But not buying his sausages. Suggest the rainbow. Yeah, suggest the rainbow. Suggest the rainbow. It's a hot new ad campaign. Gittos could be in there because Eminem's and it's Eminem's down on the list.

So it's very possible. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. This is a tough one. That sounds decent, actually. All right. No much likes it.

Not pickles. All right. No. All right. You guys go with Skittles? Yeah. Let's give us some Skittles. Taste the rainbow, baby.

Show me the rainbow. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to send you down the wrong path. Yeah. Yeah, boy, the rest of these did end up more on the savory side of things. Clearly, the Tedpool doesn't give a shit about your peanut allergy because number four, indeed was peanuts. Especially the few people, a few people said peanuts in the shell.

So like basically just throw the shell as always. Oh, that'd be great. Like you're at a Texas Roadhouse? Yeah, Texas Roadhouse did that. I always wondered if they, because of the allergy thing, I always wondered how they got away with that, but whatever. Yeah, the one by us does not do that anymore, nor does five guys. I believe you see that. Our five guys still has them, but less of them, I've noticed.

You can still get a container and take it back to your table, but there are no. I guess they never had them on the floor like they did at Texas Roadhouse. You could just throw your stuff on the floor. Yeah, unless you have a brack kid. I bet the low man on the totem pole working at Texas Roadhouse hated that garbage. Yeah, probably, like, at the end of the day, he's like, all right, Bill, you know what to do. I don't know. I don't know.

I kind of like it because, I mean, some places when you sweep, you're like, am I actually doing anything? If you're sweeping in a peanut hall place, I mean, you definitely know you're getting something done. That's a fair point. It is kind of like the, like mowing a really thick lawn versus a very short lot. Like, I can see where I've mowed at least. Yeah, you're making progress. There's something to that. All right.

I do like the number six answer. I'd go for this, actually. Rice cakes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. There's some good flavors of rice cakes out there, like caramel, there's, like, cheese, cheddar cheese. Sure. Just as, yeah.

Number seven, your mixed nuts. Oh, that you probably would have done that. If he said trail mix, would you have given it to him on mixed nuts? Maybe. No, because people did say trail mix as well. Oh, okay. Okay. And then 14 people said checks mix.

Oh. That is great. I would eat that. Those little melbatose and all that stuff. Exactly, yeah. And you can even have your little pretzel rods and stuff like that in there. Well, here's the other. Oh, go ahead.

No, no, no, go ahead. I'll just give you a couple. Cheese balls, cheese curds. I thought was a great suggestion. They're soft that you'll be. You'll be blocked up for several hours after watching. Poutine and cheese curds at a freaking movie theater sounds so good to me, though. That sounds great.

But that's a fork. That's fork food. You can't do fork food in a theater. you're right uh tacos or takitos like a little rolled up tacos i think is a great idea pork rinds that's a second time pork rinds has been mentioned today yeah that's good uh fruit a lot of people said fresh fruit uh apple apple slices and things like that cotton candy don't ruin my theater going experience your corn nuts your corn nuts did make it on there something that i thought would be really good too is pizza rolls like all right pizza rolls but pizza rolls just got to make sure they're the right

Temperature. Yes. Temperature controlled pizza rolls or else you're going to kill people. They're going to die. You know how that would go, though. That would end up just giving you a bag of frozen ones in a microwave. That's right. You can't have that.

You can't have that one. Here, oh, go ahead. Sorry, I thought you're going to. This is what I really liked. Soft bread roll with butter. No. That sounds good, though. Doesn't it?

It does. It totally does. Fancy. Like, when you get a big bucket of soft bread, like of the Hawaiian bread rolls with the would you like that in a bucket size, sir. That makes me want to go to a Texas Roadhouse and get those rolls.

Oh, well, theirs are something special. Three people said bacon. Tater tots, another good choice there. I did separate peanut butter pretzels. They could have just fit into the regular pretzel thing, but I felt like those needed their own little place.

Jello, not sure how you do that. Ice cream way down on the list 37, so I'm glad you didn't say that. Funnel cakes, dip and dots was number 41. People did say it. uh, charcutory boards slash, slash crudete. Yeah. And those I did jumble together. Sure.

Uh, boiled peanuts. Uh, Brian, a favorite of yours? Uh, two people. Two people agree with that monstrosity. Oh, they're so good. Oh, God. There's a love bullpen. And then we have one person who's nice enough to say, uh, Dargarito.

So Scott getting a little love. All right. I'll go to your theater and I'll make those for you custom. Now, here's the deal. While, wow, we got one of these today. It doesn't mean that you're going away empty-handed, NOMIC, because here's what I'm going to do. You can see this on the screen.

I'm going to give away, or send to NOMIC, these exclusive drink, what do you call it? Coasters that I made for TMS Vegas. Now, these aren't part of the swag bags. These are just ones I made on a whim that I'm just going to pass out for fun at the event. Drink diapers. Enjoy your drink diaper. Enjoy your drink diapers.

Anyway, these are going to, I'm going to send one of these to you in the mail, and I'll contact you on Discord for it. So that way, just for participating today, you may not be playing two of the greatest games ever made, but you are going to have no markings on your table from your drink. Okay, because you'll have a drink coaster. I feel bad now. No, I don't feel bad. It's all good.

So NOMIC, watch for that. I'll be coming to you soon. Thank you for playing. And Brian Dunaway, thank you for playing because you're just great. Hey, yesterday we did a play retro and we talked about Star Fox all night, and it was rad. So people should go download it, right? Wouldn't you agree? Oh, my gosh, it was so much fun.

I still play on Star Fox. I can't stop. I can't stop. I won't stop. He even ordered that Wii U game, which is so bad, and yet there you did. Yes. I can't wait to experience the badness of it. There's a couple of things.

People are very passionate when they say they love or hate something, and I love passion. And people hate this with a passion, so I can't wait to experience the terribleness that is the Star Fox Zero. Yeah, he's going to find out the good or hard way, I guess, is the way to put it, how bad that game is. Watch for that show. It's wherever you get your podcast, just check for play retro. Brian Dunaway. Anything else you'd like to say? Hold on, before we get rid of Brian?

Oh, yeah. Have either you guys played or checked out Aka R? I figured the two retro guys should know this, or know about this. It's a new Atari game that was a lost Atari game created by Jeff Mentor. Oh, I love Jeff. A wave shooter that is, I'll put a link to it if you want to show it in chat. Yes, please. Sorry about the length of this link, but that's not too bad.

so it's a new a new Atari game that just looks really cool but I wanted to I want somebody else to try it before I plunk down so this just came out have you played Atari if you played Atari today let's find out yeah but it's available on Steam Switch Xbox

PlayStation and that little dumb Atari thing you can buy A Kaka A-K-K-A A-R-R-H that dumb Atari thing you can buy that's the best commercial I've heard all day for that thing it's really it's expensive and it's so

limited. Uh, yeah, this just came out, uh, last week. Yeah. Uh, the reviews are real good. Look at, I may have to check this out. You should do a, you should do a special segment. Look what I found. Yeah. I'm gonna play retro. I love me some Jeff Minter. So you, you had me at Jeff Minter. That's what I figured and it's, you know, the Tempest guy. So, yeah. Best Tempest, uh, best Tempest remake ever was Tempest 2000 and the only really good game on the Jaguar. This guy, this guy is a legend. So I'll check this out. Sure. Why don't know? Yeah. We talked about him. Just, uh, just, uh, just, defender just recently right defender whatever it was not defender was it was it what was that called what was it what was it was 2000 they put 2000 on the end of everything was it was a

defender 2000 yeah that was mentor mentored at his own treatment on that and it was a wild ride that guy and that llama shooter thing he made he's just a psycho he's great all right well nice recommendation there brian i like this thanks well i haven't played it so we'll see how good it's a recommendation uh it is but uh i figure again this one look It looks like it's perfect for the steam deck. So it's Aka Aara? What is it? Aka Ara.

Akaara. Yeah. Weird name. That guy's got more weed in them than I've ever seen in my life. Anyway, that's awesome. Brian Dunaway kiss our butts and we'll see you next time. Thank you. Bye.

All right. He's out. We're going to take a break. When we come back from this said break, we're going to spend some time with Tom Merritt. We're going to learn about what the technology of the day is to talk about. That'll be fun. We also got recommendals after that.

so stick around, but Brian, why don't you go ahead and present your little song there. What do you got? Yeah, my little song today is, um, here's, people ask me, like, what genres of music are some of my favorites. And I like Brit Pop. I like, uh, electronica. I like, for whatever reason, the combination of sparse, upright bass and female vocals. Give, give me that all day long and I'm totally fine with it.

Um, another favorite mine is just power pop, straight up power pop. And this is very different than what's called power. pop music that you hear on the radio today power pop is like your your kinks your uh the knack your um delametry uh stuff like that there i could go on and on and on but i'm forgetting a lot of these up uh nick low in his heyday um but if you want a better example of that i'm going to give you one right now this is a guy in the rock and roll hall of fame he was with joan jet in the black carts he played with roger daltry from the who this is a a new song called

Glamdemic Blues. Wow, I like that. And exactly, like glam-demic. Yeah. And at first I'd kind of like, oh, something based on something that's pandemic-related, pass. But then I listened to it and I said,

oh, my God, this is fan-freaking-tastic. This is glam-demic blues by Ricky Bird. All right, we'll be back in just a second. Stay tuned. One Saturday night, right, right, right. One Saturday night, one Saturday night. Say it again, night. One Saturday night, one Saturday night.

Hey life, when did you get back in town? It's been strictly Dawesville since you ain't been around. Things have changed, but you knew that all along, did you? Well, cut to the chase, all used to be is gone. I know we'll get right eventually. It feels like an eternity. I'm on fishing, man, but this one's for the books. I'm hungry for some nightlife, and the good times that you talk.

Well, give me one Saturday night. One Saturday night, one Saturday night Time of spinning my wheel, sugar One Saturday night, one Saturday night I've gone stir crazy, feel the walls closing in It's three years and counting since I took you for a spin I'm chomping at the bit to get back in the game I could use a little bit of different

Every day's pretty much the same Hey life, I'm talking to you All due respect, why do you do the things you do And it's not so perfect world We're all just trying to have our save It's hard enough without those roadblocks You keep throwing in our way Well, give it, give it

One Saturday night One Saturday night Ooh, tired of spin on my wheel One Saturday night One Saturday night Well, I forgot how it feels Let's go It's here, it's good

Let's go Let's go It's off, let's go It's go One Saturday night, Just one Saturday night. Come on. One Saturday night.

One Saturday night. Let me hear you saying, La la la la la la la la la. Man, it sure has been a while. La da da la da da la. Come on, baby. Take my hair. Let's get out of you.

Here we do. People always ask me how I pronounce my name, gold bloom or gold blum. I always tell the same thing, how dare you speak to me. I don't remember eating corn. The morning stream. Look out, Muppets! And we're returned, please remind me who that was, please. Sure, that is Ricky Bird, spelled like B-Y-R-D, like he's a member of the family on the Ozarks, with a new song called Glamdemic Blues.

Glamdemic Blues. Nice. I have a theory, actually, that some of the best new music is coming out of a place of the pandemic and where people's heads were. Yeah. That new guerrillas album, for example, is so freaking good. God, I need to listen to that. I'm still gardening with Soundgarden for soundography.

Because we're recording that episode next week, and I'm still listening to not just soundography, but also all the ton of the Chris Cornell solo stuff. Nothing wrong with that. You guys doing... Nothing wrong with that, but I need me some gorillas. What was his band with Morello? What was that?

of the daughter with morello audio slave audio slave i love audio slave oh my gosh dude cornell what a loss man shouldn't have left us oh yeah yeah uh all right yeah when you get a sec check it out it's like yeah early candidate for album of the year for me and it's so good oh my gosh and i just get this feeling i could be wrong but i get this feeling that a lot of this new music metallic's new album and a few others a lot of this stuff conceived written and produced during the weird time and for some reason they're just killing it like it's all really great and I don't know what to blame that on

I think creatives tend to get weird when things are weird and so some of their best I don't know I could be wrong about this all big theory I got going on in my head but who knows it makes sense to me who knows all right we are going to

we're going to get Tom in here although I ring him and you didn't pick up so I'm not sure if that means something ring on the Tom let me make sure I didn't get a text or something. Okay. Sometimes I do. Mm-hmm. There he is. Oh, no, there he is. He's right there.

Let me pull him in. Look at your phone to read his text. Oh, yeah. Let me pull this up and hit a thing that tells us for sure that he's here, right here. Whoops, why didn't it play? Now it'll play. With the computer as with any tool, the concept and direction must come from the man. That man is Tom Merritt. He joins us here on the Wednesdays to talk all things tech because he is busy preparing all kinds of tech stories for the Daily Tech News Show today, and I can't wait to hear what's cooking on his stove. Hi, Tom Merritt, welcome back. Oh, I don't hear him.

Oh, no. He probably has to set everything up. Sound and audio must come from The Man. The Man. And that man is Tom Merritt, who's having... He's logging out, logging back in. Maybe Discord's weird. Turn it off and on again.

That'll fix it. Yeah. Discord could be weird. I popped out the player in a different window. What does that mean? I don't know. Oh, there we go. Okay, so here he comes. Tom Merritt. Hi. Yay.

Hello. Hello. Hi. So sorry about that. It sounds like Discord is just giving you grief. So it sounds like. Why would it do that? Why would it, indeed?

It's a fantastic seeing you, though. How are you doing? Look at him reppping the Cardinals every day. He's alive. Look at that up here. Turn right. Oh, wait. Although those aren't the Cardinals. That's BC.

That is the British Columbia. Wildcats. The lions. The lions. A feline. You were correct. Close. It just looked like a bird.

Now I see it up close. The British Columbia Angry Cats. I was given this by a member of the tad pool at TMS Vegas last year. Oh, oh, look at that. Very nice. Yeah. Celebrating before Christ, the BC era of mankind. Right. Before the common era.

Right. They're going to change it to BCE lions. Ah, fantastic. I can't wait for that. Well, it's good to have you here, as always. And I love Wednesdays, of course, because I get to be on the show later and talk about some of this stuff. So what is going on today? Yes.

Well, one thing I thought we'd tell the folks here at the old TMS about is Mobile World Congress. Because we've got Mobile World Congress going on in Barcelona. And I know some folks, if you haven't been listening to DTNS, might not know about all the cool stuff coming from Mobile World Congress, which means Chinese phones are coming to Europe. Ah, well, that's great. Isn't this, this is a yearly event, right? A thing they always do. Yeah, yeah. This is the one in 2020 that they kept trying to insist they were going to do because it happens in March.

Yeah. And, of course, I don't know if that's why they're having it earlier in March than usual, just in case there's another COVID every March. But, yeah, they kept delaying it and delaying it. And then they ended up just doing it virtual. But it's back. It's in person. It's usually about phones, and this year's no exception.

Like I said, Xiaomi, HMD Global, which makes the Nokia phones, Honor, One Plus, they're all there showing off new phones. Most of them are phones that have already come out in China and they're coming to Europe. But the big trend is rollables. So Lenovo has been showing up not only a rollable Motorola phone, but a rollable laptop as well. Oh, wow. Okay.

So if you've got some wheels on the bottom, and who will handle that comes up. Yeah, you just pull it up. You take the laptop with you. How about that? Love it. For these aging middle-aged guys like us, finally, we got our computers on wheels.

It has to go in the bin above you. You can't go under your seat. Yep. Got to take the battery out and swallow it. I've seen a couple of rollable displays, but are always so small. I assume this is obviously, you know, notebook size, probably what, 13-inch or bigger?

Yeah, so 12.7-inch laptop. and then you flip a switch and it rolls up to be a 15.3 inch 8 by 9 screen. Oh, weird. Yeah. Weird. So it's like 2 169 monitors on top of each other is what Lenovo describes it as, but it's really just a big square. Is the keyboard a digital, like a displaced style keyboard?

No, it's a normal think pad keyboard. Everything about the laptop looks like a normal think pad until you flip that button and the screen rolls up. Oh, I got to see this. Is there video this shot or is this a system? Yeah, yeah. there's there's video of it however they won't let anyone pick it up

so I don't know if it's heavy or fragile or both this is very much a concept at this point or extremely light because it's made out of paper machet yeah and it's just the rollable screen nothing else it's quite possible Lenovo's usually good at turning their prototypes into shipping products though they have a good track record

so it is unusual for them to be this strict about a prototype is interesting, but they also make Motorola phones, if you recall. And the Motorola concept phone, you could pick up. It starts as a 5-inch 15-9 screen that wraps around the back. So when it's closed, there's most of the screen inside, but the back has a little notification screen. So you get, you know how you've seen those phones that have a screen that wraps around. This one wraps around. So you can have it upside down and just see like little notifications and stuff. And then you press the button.

It becomes a 6.5 inch 22 by 9 display by unrolling that onto the front. Oh, wow. So it fits in your pocket easier, but then it can unroll to be a large fablet-style phone as you want. It seems like rolling is going to beat folding. Because folding inherently... Rolling is the next folding. Yeah. Yeah, because rolling has, I guess I have to assume it's just less harsh on the display.

Because folding, that's been the whole thing with folding. How many folds are you going to get out of it? And even when they say, oh, like 8,000 or something, that still feels like a low number even though it's not. You'll probably never sell the phone before you ever get there. But I love the idea of something that's not actually being bent. It's just rolling up, you know? Yeah, I mean, Snoop Dogg is going to totally be a fan of this. He's going to love it, dude.

Yeah. There's still wear and tear, right? But it's not a crease. It's not at a certain point. So I get what you're saying. It does feel like it could weather the storm a little better. So far, these are just prototypes. Foldables are out in the world.

One Plus even said they're going to make their own foldable by the end of the year. So it kind of feels like that's commodity now. We're just waiting on Apple to get in the game. But rollables are where foldables were, you know, three, four years ago. I was looking at their keynote plan. for this event. They've got stuff you'd expect. The new behavior for new reality, some sort

of VR-based thing. They're doing a keynote on Enter the Metaverse, another sort of thing there. Yeah, there's a lot of metaverse stuff here, but none of it felt very solid. No. AI stuff, of course. Modernized to monetize. That sounds like a fun one.

Yeah, it'd be interesting. I guess I'm a little surprise. It isn't just straight up phones, given the name of the conference. Well, mobile. So laptops, are mobile. That's true, I guess. Yeah. I got to get that out of my head. When they announce TVs, then yeah, that'll be a little weird. I got to get it out of my head. By the way, Sony announced their TV line today. Has nothing to do with Mobile Congress, but I thought it was interesting timing. Are they doing anything with

the foldable or the rollables I've seen in some TVs or they roll into it? No, I didn't see anything like that. No. Well, I have to keep an eye on that. I like Sony. Well, all right then. So more about this later today. This and many other things. There's a whole docket of stuff. All right? So we're going to do it all. And here's the other cool thing. you guys do a little side show called Live With It that Sarah produces. And I get to do, I get to record one of those today after DTNS all about the Steam Deck, which I've had now, well, still less than a year. I'll have it a year and I guess it'll be July.

End of July, it'll be a year. And we're going to go deep on how that thing has changed my gaming life in a very short amount of time. I'm very positive on it. Obviously, I talk about it all the time of the show. So this is not going to be a surprise to anybody. But we're going to get into the nitty. gritty ease of use how updates work how the software actually works what it's like to like log into the linux based proton stuff and tweak and dork around in there um how their services because i had to

send it back in that kind of stuff so if that's interesting to people almost twice yeah almost twice because i'm an idiot and almost dropped in the tub the other day but uh anyway if you want to hear about that that's coming up as well and i'm pretty excited to lay that down today so yeah live with it is sarah's deal uh but sarah doesn't always have to live with the products and since scott lived with this one, he volunteered to tell us about it. So it's great. I can't wait to hear that conversation and that will go out to patrons of the show, patreon.com slash DTNS, to today or at least the latest early tomorrow. Yep. And it will include some video and audio, sorry, some video and some images and stuff. I guess Rogers are going to have me capture a bunch of stuff, which is

yeah, yeah. I'm excited about this. They're going to town. This is going to be the best live with it yet. Ever. You're going to have to live with how great it is, is what we're saying. Exactly. Tom Merritt, anything else going on you'd like to tell the fine folks at home about? Yeah, a word with Tom Merritt is still rolling along. This week is still up. The most recent episode is the one I did with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer, Derek Gould, about sports. So check that out. And then tomorrow, a new episode with Captain Brian Hoffman about fear.

So he is a pilot and a solar enthusiast. The solar enthusiast doesn't play into the fear part as much as. as the pilot. But he talks a lot about, you know, his own experience with fear in earlier things that he did in his life, uh, how he helps people deal with fear. I asked him about, you know, you ever sit back next to somebody on a plane who's afraid and you tell him you're a pilot? And he's like, yeah, here's what I tell him. Uh, so if that sounds good, that's coming tomorrow at a word podcast.com. Fantastic. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. He is ACE detect on Twitter and kind of everywhere you look for him on the socials. Tom, have a fantastic day. We'll see you later today.

Thanks, y'all. Bye, Tom. all right now big question if i close this will it kill the call oh yeah let me try here goes will it break will it bend it works oh good i don't know why it does it sometimes not other times i don't know it just wants to mess with us that's all that's what it just wants to do guess so all right yeah the cole and randy in the wings yes i believe hold on there we go uh let's pull them in here. Let's do some recommendals and let's see if any of us spent any quality time in front of what our parents would call the boob tube. Here you go.

Yes, that music tells us it's time for recommendals. Stuff we've seen on streaming services that we like to recommend to you, the listener. Welcome back to the show, everybody, Nicole Spag. Hi, Nicole. Hi. Hello. Hello. And Randy Jordan. Hello, hello, Randy. good morning morning stream how are you fine good see it good doing real good uh boy it's all diablo all the time where you work anyway just side oh you think so yeah it is it kind of is kind of is yeah i've been personally playing like i'm so excited i have a 13 year old now seriously 25 years ago i was playing diablo with my brother and he and i played both one and two together for hundreds maybe thousands of hours sure and now and now 25 years later i'm playing diablo with my kid isn't that weird it's weird

I'm playing fallout 76 of mine Oh nothing wrong with that That game's gotten so good 76 is a cool game now Yeah I told you People shouldn't pass on it I know it had problems at launch but it's pretty Pretty good

I love it Well it's good to have you both here We're going to dive in and start with Brian like we always do Brian do you have a setup for your clip that we're going to play Yes sir This is a movie from last year That is not an Academy Award nominee

has nothing to do with the Academy Awards, although it was there was a nomination for the best supporting actor in the Golden Globes this year. So that's about its only... Okay, okay. I've got some guesses now. Narrowing it down. All right. Here we go. It's a movie.

All right, here we go. He does it in the storage room. Before it even goes out, he injects the insulin into the bags and because it enters the bloodstream slowly, it could take hours or even, you know, a day to kill someone. So he's killing him without ever touching him. Could he put something other than insulin inside those bags?

Yeah, any clear liquid wouldn't be detected. Is the joxin a clear liquid? Yeah. Could it kill someone? I'll pull Charlie's Pixis report from the machine in my ward. And we'll use that to prove that he withdrew insulin and dejection when Anna died. Yeah, see, the problem is that Anna Martinez was cremated, so we don't have an autopsy. What we need is an actual body.

It's just that bad, it's like bad nurse or something? You're so close. It's the opposite of that. It is the good nurse. Every show and movie in the last 10 years has to be called the good something. So this is the good nurse. That was Jessica Chastain, you heard, getting interviewed by a couple of cops. One of whom is played by Noah Amrick, who's also fantastic. He's, again, another character actor that I could watch in anything. He's a Truman's friend, right?

Yes, Truman's best friend, yeah. I like him. He's great. Yeah. So this is called The Good Nurse. It's on Netflix. and if you're having a hard time deciding like, do I want to watch a movie or do I want to watch true crime?

Guess what? You get both because this is based on a true story, a horrifyingly true story about a, yeah, a nurse who played by Eddie Redmayne, who goes from hospital to hospital where there always seem to be these mysterious deaths. And rather than confront him and expose what he's doing

when they kind of get the idea that he's doing it, they fire him to save the lawsuits and the investigations that would put the hospital in jeopardy. So it's, like, it's horrifying in many levels. Eddie Redmayne is fantastic. He was the,

he was the one who got nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this. Jessica Chastain or Cheese Dane, some people call it. Jessica Chastain is, I love her. She's so great. She is great.

She always plays these really powerful characters. This is a chance for her to play someone who's a little bit more vulnerable. She's a nurse herself who is suffering from cardiomyopathy and doesn't have her medical benefits yet. She hasn't been to the hospital long enough to get medical benefits. so she's having to kind of sneak her own treatment for her cardiomyopathy herself

and Eddie Redmayne knows about this he's helping her before she finds out what he's been doing he's helping her so it's kind of like this situation of like crap do I expose him and cut off my help that I'm getting or do I do I reveal

sounds like a fun indictment of the American health care system as well going on at the same time yeah you kind of People in New Jersey and Connecticut probably know this story. It wasn't too long. It was back in the early 2000s, 2003, all this stuff was happening. And they figure, they know of 29 patients officially that he killed, but the actual number could be anywhere like 400 patients that he did this to.

So he's, so she, when they say the good nurse, they're talking about her? Yes. You're talking about her. Okay. We're not talking about the guy who's... Because it's weird, because on all the posters, it's him looking all skeevy, and then it says the good nurse above his head,

and it kind of throws me. I'm like, well, he looks all skeeby. Like, is he the good? Is this supposed to be ironic? Like, what's the deal? When I was finding photos for quicktms.l.I, the only posters I could find are one where it looks like it's one person with two heads,

Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, which feels like a trauma film rather than a... Yeah, that's the cool nurse. That's what that is. Two-headed nurse. Right, the two-headed nurse. This is a Netflix original or something? I may have it confused as something else.

Distributed by Netflix, so I think so. Yeah. One of their prestige Oscar movies. You also get another one of my favorites, Kim Dickens. She was from the What the Walking Dead spin-off. But she's always good. She's another really, really good character actress. That's just fantastic.

I looked at this and saw it and went, oh, that looks depressing. And then I went, oh, look at this cast. And now your review has made me, you've convinced me, I think I want to see it. Definitely, definitely worth watching. I won't say it's uplifting, but it is powerful. And it's, it's, it doesn't feel as depressing as like a real true crime documentary where it's like, oh, my God, this is horrible. But that really points to the incredible acting job of Redmayne and Chastain. it's it's really really good and it's heavy but it's not i wouldn't call it depressing

okay it sounds like uh sparse and it's music by the way like if you're that's going to be the first thing you notice is that there's very little score to this i always like there's been this there's been this thing recently where uh people talk about the movie passengers do you remember this movie that's not the one with uh with chris pratt and yeah oh yeah space one it's apparently it's apparently a huge letdown i saw the movie. I don't remember why, but it's apparently like this huge letdown on the script. And I keep seeing

these videos where people are rewriting it and coming up with like better ending and what if the characters were swapped and so forth. You're supposed to really fall in love with this couple, the guy who basically condemns this woman to death. Yeah. So this is

the thing. This is a real actual thing. I've seen lots of videos of people trying to fix passengers. And all I can think is I wish Eddie Redmay and Jessica Chastain, are in passengers, like make the remake and have it star these people. Oh, they'd be great, yeah. Because yeah, they strike me as a couple for some

reason. I don't know. Yeah. I like that, Red Main Feller. He's great. He's so good. Yeah. He's got some fantastic beasts and knows where to find him. Stephen Hawking what was it, the nature of things or something? Of everything? Nature of stuff

of life. The power of the dog. The power to make things go. I don't know what the theory of everything thank you for your nature's yes yeah he's great of power anyway he's fantastic they're both really really good in this and so it's on netflix again it's called the good nurse nice um all right we're going to move to nicole um very curious about this one it's got one of my favorite actresses in it whose name i never get right but uh anything you want to say before i play the clip i will say my movie is also based on a true story

and it deals with the medical field. Oh, wow. We got a theme going here. Okay. The theme, yeah. We have a theme. And, you know, I'm still sick. But I think, I don't know, watching this made me feel a little less alone.

It kind of, it was a good watch. So there you go. All right. Here we go. Let's check it out. My name is Susanna Cahelan. I'm 21 years old, and here I am with my dream job at the New York Post. Gross.

Why are you smiling this early in the morning? It's unnatural and disgusting. You look ridiculous. Susanna! You're going to interview that creepy senator. You'll have a Thursday night. I know I will, because I can always count on you. I had my whole life in front of me.

Happy birthday! And I had absolutely no idea what was waiting for me. You're very, very late. You've got to get your ass in here. You're going to miss the 10 o'clock meeting. I thought I was. sick. You know, my head hurts. The stomach hurts and my hands numb. I've never felt this before. We've tested Susanna for every infectious disease. All of the results are negative.

We're going to get to the bottom of this together. Well, man, this brings back. I get PTSD from this, and I know why it's a big deal for you right now, but tell us, tell us what it is. What is we're looking at? So I don't think I had exactly what she had, but it's very, very, very. very close. This is the closest thing I've seen. This movie came out in 2016. It stars Chloe Grace Mortis. I don't know how you, how do you say your name? That's how Scott says it. I think you got it the way I do it. Yeah, I never get her right anyway, but I absolutely love her, but her name is. She needs to get married and then change her last name. I'm not saying everybody should do that. I'm saying do it for me personally. That's all. All right, anyway, go ahead. So you also heard how you say she needs a man to

change your name? Yeah, she needs a man to explain it. Anyway, go ahead. No. Anyway, you also heard Tyler Perry. You also heard Jenny Slate. Carrie Ann Moss is in this. So it has a pretty good cast. I had never heard of this movie before. I don't even know how I came across it. It was on Netflix. They just know that I'm looking for stuff like this, I guess. But it's about this young girl. She's 21. She and she wrote a book. So the, the, The woman worked at the New York Post, and it was her month of madness, and she slowly and then very rapidly slipped into insanity where she was catatonic in the hospital, and they, none of the tests were coming. Like, I just had an MRI yesterday, and guess what? It's normal. And so it kind of goes through this process until there's one doctor that he does a brain

biopsy and her brain is inflamed. It's her body creating antibodies that is attacking her brain. And it caused her seizures. She thought she was schizophrenic. She thought she had bipolar, like all this crazy stuff in a very healthy young. woman. And she was at the time, I think, the 215th person ever diagnosed. And since she wrote this book and this movie has been made, a lot more people are getting diagnosed. Yeah, I'm guessing. I'm guessing. It's so easy to write this off as schizophrenia or a, you know,

a mental, because they were ready to transfer her to a mental institution. So, but it took her a good seven to eight months to recover. She had to relearn how to walk. She had to relearn how to do, to talk. Like, it was, it's crazy. It's called anti-n-M-D-A receptor encephalitis. It's called specifically that she had. And I guess that is a, boy, see, this sucks because it's got all these horrible

symptomatic markers and then no, but you go do any of the tests that you would normally do for any of these markers and they all come back negative. That must have been the most frustrating effing thing to deal with, you know? And there's like all this, you know, autoimmune stuff that happens. Oh, and I probably didn't even say the name of the movie. It's called Brain on Fire. Oh, right. And your brain is, your body is attacking your brain.

And depending on the type of infection that you have, because it can be anything. It could be, it could be COVID. I mean, there's a lot of COVID stuff happening that's causing. this type of response to people that have had COVID and then they're like what's going on and like so it's just I just felt very I felt less alone watching this because for a long time I'm like oh my God I think I'm going crazy I really thought I was going crazy yeah and it paused a lot of anxiety in me that I I was like I just have to get my life under control I just you know I and and it's weird watching this movie because she is she's happy and then she's sad and I'm like oh my god that's exactly what

happened to me I was like all over I thought I hadn't I had mold in the house and I mean like you know I can't drink the water like I was so crazy at that point um but uh yeah there there you go bring on fire it's a great movie based on the book by the same name looks like same same name yeah I would I'll give a a recommendation if you want to learn more about anxiety and because there's a part in that trailer that you didn't get to that her mom says just take the pills and so that happened to me I was like that moment your your mom no he was a family member and I was like I don't I don't want to take the but you're like me so I did a lot of research so there's another documentary on Netflix called take your pills, Xanax, and it talks about what happens. I highly recommend that one because it's a really deep dive into what anxiety is, why we have it in our life, and like how we handle it.

And I really, I had a friend have a benz-o withdrawal. Oh, my Lord. It's so bad. Oh, it was off. Well, you have more than one friend who did that. I did that back in 2004, and I didn't know what it was. Really? I had a doctor.

I could tell you a whole story. It's an awful story because it was so preventable. But I had a doctor who was like, no, you take three of these a day. That's just what you're going to need to do. I didn't know anything about it. I was naive. I didn't know. I did that for about three weeks and then started having horrible weird things happen.

I'm like, what's wrong with me? And it was tolerance withdrawals. I didn't know what that was. I don't even take Tylenol if I have to. And it got worse and worse and worse. And I finally realized, oh my gosh, that's what this is. and I cold turkeyed it like an idiot. Oh, no, that's the worst thing you do.

It's the worst thing you can do. But I didn't know. It's just stupid. My doctor sucked. He's dead now. But anyway, all this stuff is going on. And then the way, here's what's funny. All right.

This is right around the time that I decided to kick all the podcasting stuff in gear. There's a really, there's a better than zero chance that I didn't do any of this career stuff had it not been for that experience. Because. Really? after withdrawal i went it's that get busy living or get busy dying kind of feeling yeah that's how i feel right now too yeah i'm reaching out to people i'm like i got a i got to take control and and yeah it's a weird it's a weird feeling right and it's super intense and it's like you feel screwed like i feel like that doctor just screwed me like just absolutely screwed me i feel like i should have sued there's all these things in my head

at the time. But instead, I was like, I'm going to make, I'm going to podcast. I'm going to do stuff that makes me have to do this every day, like all that kind of stuff. And it was just a weird therapy for me at the time. They have their place. You know, I mean, obviously they do. Of course. There's a reason the stuff exists. But it's like when, when prescribed wrong, freaking it, you'll get so effed up. It's so bad. It's terrible. Watch that documentary. I'm totally with Nicole where if I watch something about someone who's kind of going through what I'm going through, I like recognize my experience, right? Like that it's very helpful to me.

But there are people that it's not helpful to them. And I'm curious about you, Scott. Like, do you seek out this kind of thing when you've got an experience? Yeah. Plus, I already, I think this is already the thing I've talked about, but I have a thing where my anxieties, sometimes the best way for me to deal with them is to watch things or consume things that seem like they make them worse, but they're actually cathartic.

So my love of post-apocalyptic movies, my enjoyment of modern horror movies. Fallout 76. I live in Fallout 76. Yeah, yeah, basically those. From a small, like, anxiety about post-apocalyptic. Yeah, no, I've been a real anxiety about society falling apart. Why do I enjoy things that are all about society falling apart?

I don't know, but I find them cathartic. It's weird. It's really weird. But I bet even more to your. your point, Randy, like, if you see something that's about this kind of thing, for sure, like it makes you just feel less alone. I hope that's what this did for Nicole, especially for such a weird mystery thing, like, you know. Well, especially when it gets, when it's rare, when your doctor looks at you and says, I really don't know. And I'm like, and I'm like,

yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty crazy. But yeah, yeah, this must have been, this must have something to have this come up on your queue or you know to find this and see it well and i watched them back to back i watched the take your pills xanax and then i watched brain on fire so a lot of the problems that happen with the people that are dealing with this kind of autoimmune ascephalitis um they get prescribed SSRIs and like and and it can't help a little bit because i literally like randy i I know I apologize to you when you were talking fast that one day, but like my, I was just so overstimulated it. Like the littlest thing was causing me to just my top to flip.

And I was just overstimulating. I'm like, why is this happening? And I did, I did take an antidepressant for a small amount of time that helped. But eventually I came off of it and I'm like, okay, I think I'm okay now. so but it's just a it's a guess work it is a little bit that's what it sounds like well it sounds like that's what this movie explores if you guys think that sounds like an interesting watch and it does to me go check it out it is called brain on fire is what it's called yeah brain on fire on Netflix yep very good stuff um all right randy it's your turn what do we got here so we've had a biopic about the health

industry we've had a documentary about health problems and now we're going to a document about a really terrible social issue here in North America. There are many, many, many of these. Actually, I want to talk a little bit before the clip, but we don't need to say as much after the clip. So a few days ago, our Tadpool member, Constant Listener, Sweetgrass posted this link to a documentary on Facebook. And I'm like, oh, I need to watch this.

This is right up my alley. And it's a documentary about these people, a Native American tribe, a First Nations tribe, that were displaced by Canada, back when Canada, you know, Canada's only been a country for 30 years. They, when they were part of the, you know, the crown, the, the United Kingdom displaced a whole tribe of people from British Columbia to the United States. And once they had all gotten moved, in 1956, Canada just declared the tribe extinct. And so they lost the legal right to even go to their ancestral home. And they're called the Sinaxit. And the Sinaxat people were living in Washington State.

And like a whole generation of them didn't even know that they were from British Columbia. And so they're, you know, fighting their battles as a Native American tribe and realizing that they've got to do something that, you know, like they have like ancestors buried in British Columbia. They have songs about their history of hunting in British Columbia and they don't get to go there. And so they realized

that you could just go commit a crime in Canada and then get your case heard, right? And you could even maybe take it all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada if you had the right person commit the right crime.

Jeez. Right? And so, yeah, it's a wild story. And I so, Before you play this clip, I just want you to imagine if you were the person in this tribe who was called on by the people around you, to realize you're our best representative. You are, you are the hunter who we're going to send to British Columbia and then we're going to get you arrested for hunting, for killing an elk, I think, in this country where you're not even allowed, you're not allowed to go, you know, because you're not, you're not. native that you were born in the United States, essentially. And imagine being that guy and having to go, you know?

And like, so this clip is about that guy. And you hear him talking in the end of it. All right, here we go. In one sense, everything was on the line, right? Because what I know some really great leaders worried about is if we try to open that door and we fail, that door will never get opened ever again. When a time came to pick, Rick, it was, he was about. person for it, you know, because he is genuine. And if he was ever going to be put on the

witness stand, this is what I thought in my head, who better to explain who we are and why we do what we do than Rick Dissot. A ceremonial hunter, some of the religious beliefs that are among the 12 tribes and stuff there, if they have a death in the family, they don't do no hunting for a year. And it's usually those families there that would call me up and ask me to provide a meat for that for that year and out it was pretty easy for me to go out there and provide the meat for them for that particular time uh fit right in with my job description as they say job description is whatever is written up that day oh interesting this this guy uh he goes to british columbia and kills an elk and gets himself arrested and then they get to work their way

up the chain of courts. This is called Older Than the Crown. And right now, it's really only streaming on PBS.org. And a part of this recommendal is go to PBS.org every now and then and watch what's streaming there. It's incredible, guys. Yeah. It's like, it's hard to believe this thing, you know?

Yeah, I want to say we had some other, we had a couple other things, documentaries a while back that were PBSorg, PBS.org only. And if you have a local PBS station, you have access to it. It just asks you, hey, is your local PBS station this? You say yes, and then you've got access. Yeah, you give them an affiliate and I think you're in. That's how I ended up watching the Ken Burns one. I recommended the U.S. and the Holocaust, and that was on there as well.

It's very good. And I'll bet you most VPNs that have lots of U.S. hosts would allow you to, you know, connect to an L.A. host and pick the L.A. station and watch PBS.org. Not that you should do that, but you should. And that, you know, older than the crown, like the name of it is pretty straightforward, right? This tribe has been around since way before the, you know, the crown, whoever was the king or queen of England came along. But it's really on England that they, you know, banished this whole group off of British Columbia lands. And it's just, oh, man, it's just fascinating.

So this is not one of those documentaries that's really slick. Like these people are not camera ready. They are not, you know, they're just talking about their experience and about how, you know, they live on the Columbia River their whole lives. And there was a dam built. And so the salmon stopped coming up to where they live. And like, gee, can we, can we hurt these people some more? I mean, it's just insane.

Yeah. But anyway, it's just like this really cool personal story of this regular guy who happens to be a part of the Sinaix a tribe and gets chosen to, you know, to go to Canada. And while he's there, they've also got a lot of footage of him just like, and here's where, uh, you know, here's where a bunch of our great, great, grandcasters are buried. It's just like out in the woods. And you're, man, what a life, you know? I also find that kind of thing cathartic.

I like history and I like, yeah, I like being exposed to stuff where I was like, oh, really? That happened there? I know, I like that a lot. Yeah. What's the name and the streamer again on this? Once again, this is older than the crown on PBS.org. PBS.org. All right, everybody.

Especially, Christine. Kid out of luck.com. You know where to go. Scott, can you give us something light and fun and happy? You know what? It's more light and fun than you think. I'm a little surprised by what I'm about to tell you. Here's my clip.

I'll talk about on the other side. Are you kidding me? Her entire arm looks like a dental mold, and you're telling me that there's nothing that we can do. She said he was provoked. Provoked? Have you seen this dog? It is a monster.

I'm chasing it off with my property every other day. Well, she said he's never on your property. Well, then why don't you ask her who's shit I'm cleaning off of my driveway? Because it's not mine. Look, the dog doesn't have a history of violence. State law says he can't force it to be put down. Okay, then what am I supposed to do? Fix the all on your fence.

All right, we are talking about one of the most highly rated films of the year, which surprised the living crap out of me when I heard about it. 2022 was a really strong year for horror movies in general. Very memorable stuff. Barbarian being probably my favorite of the year. um this is megan the story about the weird little robot girl that goes crazy kind of chucky style and kills a bunch of people um on that level alone you might know what to expect you'd watch this movie and go okay when's the first kill and oh how gory is this going to be and all that sort of

stuff it kind of isn't that and first of all it's pg 13 i watched the unrated version on peacock i don't know what they took out or sorry added uh or would have taken out for the PG-13 one, but it was hard to tell. It always, nothing in this was like super hardcore. It has its scares and its moments, but it's mostly just like a really well-made movie. And in a strange way, it reminded me of 80s movies like war games came to mind for some reason, which is so weird because it's nothing like war games, but there's something about the tone of it that's like war games.

The other movies would be like, uh, gremlins a little bit. Uh, interesting. The number five is a live movie somehow. Short circuit. And it's not even a good movie, but I guess one on, you're hitting on teenager things. Is the character kind of teenage presenting? Sort of.

I mean, not really, though. She's more like 11 or 10, like the girl that she's been given to. So I should say, Allison Williams is the star of this from girls and a million other things now. She's, she's great. Um, she's, she's this like brilliant toy designer. It works for this big, huge toy company. And they make these sort of robot-assisted sort of toys.

They're famous for that. And they have a bunch of fake commercials in the movie and stuff like that. And her next big thing she's been working on forever is this doll that is very lifelike and can respond to your needs and protect you. And it's a lot of park your brain at the door stuff, but they handle it really well. And it ended up being one of the most entertaining, quote-unquote, horror movies I've ever seen. It was just fun from top to bottom and never felt. mean or

horrible how do I don't even know how to explain it like it just it was like the not mainstream but there's like real humor in it and it's not just dark humor and you actually you actually kind of feel for the stupid robot a couple of times the girl who's in there is this New Zealand girl who's around that age 10 or 11 and she's this amazing dancer

she's known worldwide for dance competitions I imagine this is like her TikTok led to the fame of being a robot girl. Yeah, right? It's very odd. She's really great. She's just an incredible, you know, motion capture type actor in the way that like Doug Jones or somebody is, except in this case, it's just meant to be this little robot girl. You never see her because this is sort of a mask on her face all the time, but all her movements and stuff are just really good.

Anyway, there's a lot of tech that's sort of hand waved away to make this. thing happen to make the AI work and all of that. But it's a movie that knows that and definitely dances around it. Like does just such a great job of saying, don't worry about that stuff. Just go with us here is the kind of push the movie pushes you through. And director Gerard Johnston, John Stone, every say his name, surprised the living crap out of me with Megan. And I wondered, how could this movie be like 95% positive on Rotten Tomatoes? It's such a high rating on Rotten Tomatoes. And I think I figured it out. It's not just a horror movie. This isn't for screams and thrills. It's for good acting. And the little girl who she

who she's with or is now her toy, which is Alison Williams' character's niece in the movie, she's really good. And I won't get into why she's sad and needs a companion because that's a big part of the thing. I don't want to spoil it. But all of that stuff just felt legitimate and earned. And it's hard to explain. but you know when movies pull that off and you just don't have to think about it it just works that's how this felt i really like megan a lot and if you're worried that you're going to go in there get freaked out you're not it's not like that um kind of movie they did an s and ls kid on it oh they did yeah i missed that yeah yeah Tina ruled this one outside you can watch that on your

own but it sounds like i can try and talk her into watching it because i bet she'd like it yeah because i'm gonna turn around and see if i can get kim to watch it with me at some point because i think she would like it like it's it's a blumhouse uh thing That should mean nothing but scary. Ooh, awful blood, all that. It just isn't that. It's just, I mean, it has a couple of things that are a little like shocking, but it's none of it's ever like gratuitous, I don't think.

Not by, you know, it's PG-13 again. And again, the unrated, I'd have to go looking at the comparison because I don't want to send people down a road and find out that I was wrong about how much they left in or whatever. But I really liked it. I thought Megan was great. Scott, have you seen the SNL skit? No.

I haven't seen. Chloe. Chloe Feynman was born to play this character. She's absolutely perfect. It's the Aubrey Plaza episode, which that whole episode was weird. Like every sketch was a little bit weird. Just a little weird. And so like this particular one was perfect for that. Kind of how Aubrey Plaza is always just a little bit weird. That fits nicely. Yeah, I don't know what else to say about it, except it's just great. I don't know. I don't know. I liked it a lot. I'm not surprised there's a sequel coming. I'm not surprised. was such a crowd favorite or that it did so well in the box office it gets its hooks into you and you and you know brian you always talk about how you really like gremlins yeah it's a yeah i like that style of horror where it's like you know the first child's play had this for me um the whole like

machines monsters gone awry and and or or creatures supernatural creatures that somebody finds so this i think i'm i'm i'm in for now yeah by the way, the unrated version. So all I can find on it is that it's unrated because it restored various scenes which were trimmed or replaced for violence and language to secure a PG-13 rating. So it doesn't go into specific. There are a couple extra

f-bombs, I can tell you that, and there are it's not a lot though. It's just kind of here and there. And then they had there's no sex scenes trying to think what was bloody. You have a movie puppet master? Yeah, oh yeah, I remember that. You watched it in your home sack as a matter of fact.

Oh yeah. Didn't we? Is there a, is there Because that was a movie I watched when I was kid, and I absolutely loved it. It was so campy and ridiculous. This is a bit of that. There's some camp here, but it's not campy in a cringe way. It's actually well made. It's like the director and writers and everybody, they know what they're in for. And so they just lean into what makes these work.

And I think it's great. That's so surprised by it. And Scott, do you want a second movie? I think so. I don't know how you do it, given how things end. I don't know how you do with the word Megan containing a three already. Yeah. Well, what are you going to do?

I can make a two for the... Nick Sagan? You need Megan's, and then the S is a two. See? Or no, that'd be a Z, wouldn't it? Yeah. Well, anyway. It's, uh, I can see why they will do a sequel, but how they'll do it to be interesting.

I don't want to give it away. The way they do it is pretty creative. And it does lean in. into some modern concepts about data and the cloud and this sort of stuff. And I think it's just really well made. This is one of those things that in the wrong hands. It's bad. That's it.

In the right hands, it turns out really good. And this turned out really good. So I would give you a full-throated recommendation for Megan. And it's currently streaming, I think, exclusively on Peacock. It is. Yeah. And even though it says unrated, as long as you're okay with a little left bomb. and maybe there was a you know that the the Asian correspondent um on the daily show

it's really funny um Ronnie Chang that guy he plays her boss uh Allison Williams's boss at the toy company and he isn't such an a hole in this thing but he's really good in it and his demise that's not a surprise it's in the trailer I think he gets attacked in the trailer he's his demise is is a little gnarly so maybe that scene was was not cut as much for the unrated. I don't know. But you know how these unrated things go? They exaggerate what they do. It's like, oh, unrated. What's that freaking mean? They left one F-bomb in. It's almost more like a, yeah, like a ploy to get people to watch it rather than a serious,

ooh, you know, this is going to be a tough watch. Yeah. It's, it's unrated. Come check it out. Super fun stuff. And I do think actually Tina might enjoy it. I think I didn't think I would say that prior to this for either of our wives. and I've totally changed my tone after getting to the other side. So check it out. That's Megan.

I love Ronnie. That's right. Ronnie Chang is the best, man. Ronnie Chang got in a fight with Hassan Minaj the other night on the daily show. It was classic. It was great. Yeah. Because all the talk about the Wuhan

COVID release thing again and head them on for that. That is a really funny segment if you haven't seen it. It's really good. All right. Those are your movies. They're going to all be up at quicktms. dot l i and i'm pretty sure all these sound great today i don't see more already up there links to where you can get them i don't have icons for peacock or uh pbs yet but i'll add those uh soon but

you just click on them and they'll go right to the streaming service where you can find them excellent uh Nicole i'm glad you're feeling better keep having a great week we'll do this again next week randy the same goes to you and may you know may we all get free copies of diablo four by now leave him with that what's he going to do he just has to do it now he didn't say no

he didn't know he didn't argue he said I must say this sounds like a yes that sounds like a yes yeah all right all right let's let's get out of here I got a quick you didn't hear it here first folks no a reminder it is a brand new month

literally the first of the month time to join us at Patreon if you have not do it patreon.com slash TMS it keeps the lights On brings you no commercials and brings you pre-show content every day as well as these rad little couch parties we do on weekend. Quick note of programming for patrons. This weekend's couch party is going to be at 10 a.m. So an hour later than we usually start this show. And we'll be doing that on Friday. And I don't know what we're watching it. We'll talk. We'll talk. We'll talk. We'll talk. I don't know. We may keep going with Doom Patrol or something. I don't know. Maybe more Doom Patrol. Yeah. I kind of do want to get through that. But, you know, we'll see. Brian and I'll talk about it. But anyway, if you don't know how it works or whatever, just pop in the Discord. everybody will give you help and tell you how it works and all that stuff that's coming up this weekend anyway sign up today be our best friends at patreon.com slash tms all other things can be found linked at frogpants.com slash tms and now brian's turn to play a song and request it for someone and happy birthday them or something oh gosh i wasn't expecting this well i guess i could do this one okay

logan dreadnecks wrote in said hello scott and brian i'm officially getting fixed on march second that's tomorrow. That's right, having a surgery that is making a vast difference to my Vaz difference. I love that. How come I've never heard anybody make that joke before? I don't know. I love it. It's so good. I thought in honor of my efforts to prevent

unwanted pregnancies, I would request a song from the covermaster himself. Your choice. Great balls of fire. Born under punches, you decide. I can only leave my precious fate in the capable hands of the professionals today. I love the show and look forward to seeing you all at TMS Vegas.

Logan, aka Dreadnecks. Nice. Well, you've got one more day to get out of it. I've gone through it and just the, didn't hurt, didn't, I mean, there was a little bit of pain after the meds wore off, but the biggest thing I remember is smelling the smoke from the cauterization as they were burning things shut. So gross. Yeah, I was like, oh, I'm smelling myself burn right now.

That's kind of crazy. anyway. Did it hurt after? I've never heard of it hurts after. Does it hurt? No. No, a little bit, like a little dull ache kind of thing,

but... Nothing crazy. Yeah. You just, yeah, red fregles got it. You just get bags of frozen peas and you'll probably want to throw those bags out afterwards.

So, I've got a thin layer of plastic separating it from... It's because Kim had to get the hysterectomy for other reasons. And so I was like, oh, I'm off the hook. I don't have to worry about this.

But also, here's the side benefit. If the world ends tomorrow and all the men disappear but me. Yeah. Ladies? Repulate your line up, ladies. We heard you. Let's go.

Starting with you, Kat Dennings. Yeah, get in here. I'll be on your Nick and Norris playlist. Anyway, go ahead, Brian. All right, well, let's get to this. I went with the first choice because I've got a great version of it. It is, you know, when you hear covers of great balls of fire, you pretty much get a cover of great balls of fire. You get somebody else doing the whole Jerry Lee Lewis.

thing, except for this one right here. This is by a teller. T-E-L-T-U-R. Maybe I should be wearing my fancy glasses. Teltter. Oh, I can see it's so... Sorry, it's tighter. T-E-I-T-U-R. Was it even an L?

This whole time. The L was coming from inside the house. This is a cover of Great Balls of Fire that they included on the 2006 album, Stay Under the Stars. if I wouldn't have told you, this was a cover of Great Balls of Fire, it might have taken you a couple minutes to figure it out. It's that good. It's that, it's that changing. Here is Taitour with a cover of Great Balls of Fire. rain Too much love drives a man insane

broke my will Oh, with a thrill Oh, goodness gracious of fire. I pull my fingers. I twirl my fingers and I twed all my thumb. I'm real nervous, but it sure is. Fun

Come on Come on, baby You drive me crazy Oh goodness gracious It's the great balls of fire Yes, my babe, baby, oh, it feels good. Oh, me baby, I would love you like a lover shot. You shake my nerves

And you rattle my brain Too much love And drives a man insane saying you broke my will oh what I feel goodness gracious is the great balls of fire Oh, goodness gracious, is the great balls of fire.

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