The Morning Stream - TMS 2435: Nacho Nacho Wins!

Episode Date: March 13, 2023

That Asian Kid's a Hoot! Welcome to the Frogpants Cafeteria (it's a lovely place). Keep your schnauzer out of my schnitzel! No show Wednesday. Brian is a Daddy apologist. Explore the Prostate. AT&T, &T &T, &T. Charles Emerson Cheese III. No time for Oscars Doctor Jones. Catch Up on Your Hooker Culture! The rodent runs on floppies. When you think of wooden marching bands, think of Trojan. How are We Supposed to Watch Wapner? Papa Williams Takes the Court. Scott Does math, Appslappy Edition 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, that Asian kid's a hoot. Welcome to the frog pants cafeteria. It's a lovely place. Keep your schnauzer out of my schnitzel. No show Wednesday. Brian is a daddy apologist. Damn right. Explore the prostate.

AT&T and TNT and TNT. Charles Emerson Cheese the third. No time for Oscars, Dr. Jones. Catch up on your hooker culture. The rodent runs on floppies. When you think of wooden marching bands, think of Trojan. How are we supposed to watch Wapner? Williams takes the court. Scott does math, app slapy edition, and more on this episode of

the morning stream. Hi, I'm Jan from Jans RV Reynolds, and this is my business associate, Jenny. Hi. You seem human, and yet, what do you hear? The morning stream. Don't order the snitchell. They're using snitchell. They're using snitchell. Nowzer. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Monday, March 13th, 2023. We got ourselves a 313-23.

Woo! 0-3-13-23. Woo! Look at all the threes. Lots of threes. Yeah, unless you're, let's see, if you're in Europe, it's 1303. Wait. Yeah, that's right. You're right.

Okay. Yeah. We forget how they do crap over there. And it's fine. How you do it? But you know, you always know when you're working with a Canadian because, like, on all my shows, see the tabs down there, they have the date the way you and I do it, the American way, damn it. Yep. The way, when I go into the show notes for core, Bo always does our new tab.

And it's always the weird other way because he's a Canadian. Damn it, you're our hat. Get in line, Canada. I personally, I would prefer if everybody adopts the format year, month, day, because then you can sort by. that and it'll always be regardless of of uh you know whatever whatever else you do but the changing of the millennium whatever um it'll always sort correctly that's right it's alphanumerically uh more usable and it's like a spreadsheet or something absolutely why don't we all do that already let's just all do that because then you'll say and then your uh matuba says i'm akami

i mean the problem with that is then like oh hey what what uh what day is the uh the concert oh that's going to be 2023 March 5th. Oh, yeah, that's true. But you could still say, like, in common, like, communication, you could say, oh, that's next November, it's the 13th. Like, you don't have to get super into the weeds. So I, you know what? I vote for this change.

Let's make it happen on the next ballot. Let's be like Canada. All right, moving on. We got a few things to talk about today because the Oscars happened, damn it. And that's pretty cool. uh look i'm okay so just a little setup here this isn't anything new in years past it's been true also but it's kind of rare i get to see the oscars because i've been unplugged from regular old cables slash similar services since 2007 and uh as a result the oscars aren't readily available

as a as a sort of on a streaming service thing unless you pay up to like youtube tv or you pay up to Hulu TV or one of these things that has like a bundle service. I got grandfathered early on to the AT&T TV before it switched to direct T TTV. I think there's four more T's in there, direct TTV. All the T's. That's it. And so it's like, well, I don't ever want to get rid of this because I've got the lowest price I can pay for every channel.

So I want BBC America? Great. I can watch BBC America. I want that concert thing. I can watch that because you know what? otherwise you can't freaking watch Jeopardy. There's no streaming Jeopardy except whatever Netflix decides they want to give you the college tournament.

Yeah, which is like four episodes that you don't care about. It's like, come on, man. No, I want to watch Daily Jeopardy and I can't do it otherwise. I agree. I mean, how are we supposed to watch Wapner later? Anyway, the point is, Deep Cut, the, I just refuse. And I wish I was grandfathered into a better deal and I'm not, damn it. So I just am like, ah, forget it.

And I'll get the news the next day. Plus, I kind of find the whole thing a little bit. bit cringe leading up. I like the awards. I want people to win shit. Like, I love movies. I'm a movie guy. I like, I love all that. But the pomp, the circumstance, and all that stuff around it, I guess it's not really my jam. However, we like to talk about the winners and the, and the nominees on the show and stuff. And now we have an official list. Now, if I go back in time, Brian, let's take a time machine. Sure. Okay. All right. And I go all the way back to the, to the harp noise. I go back to the weekend.

We'll do three time travel skips. One time travel skip. I go back to the year 1984. And I, Brian and I are in the movie theater. It's you and me. We're 15, 14, whatever we are. And you and I go to a movie and we're going to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Sure, sure.

So you and I are in seats. This could happen. And, you know, there's a scenario where we are that age and we could be in the same theater. So, this isn't that crazy. If everything, everywhere all at once has told us anything, it's that every possibility exists in some version of the multiverse. So, absolutely. So you and I are sitting there, great seats, popping corn, you know, all the things. I hope that it's done for me, but okay.

No, it's all, it's all done. Theaters are different. Let's say it's all done for you. You got the drink, yeah, whatever your choice is. Maybe you went full swamp water where you just got every flavor because we're, We're dicks when we're 14, I don't know. Sure. So then we're watching this thing and we're like,

ah, this funny Asian kid, boy, he's a hoot. One day, and I say to you this, this is how you would know I was a time traveler. I'd say one day, Brian, this guy, say year 2023, this guy's going to win a best supporting actor Oscar. And we both would have a great laugh

and then watch the movie, right? You know, it would be better if we were, if we time traveled back to 1992 and saw the great film in C-No Man starring Paul Shore, because then we could have said, boy, could you imagine if two of these people won acting Oscars in, uh, in 30 years? Yeah, people forget those two, those two were in that movie together. Very small role for, uh, Kwan, but it was still, you know, there's a moment.

Still enough. Um, yeah, uh, Kimmel, uh, hosting last night even brought that up. He said, this is a very sad day for Polly Shore. That's actually a pretty good joke. That's pretty good. Yeah. His best joke for the night, I will say this. And, and this only really makes sense if you've seen an AMC theater, or if you've been to an AMC theater in the last three years, two years, however long it's been. But he says, oh, it's really good

to see Nicole Kidman tonight. It looks like she's finally been released from that abandoned AMC theater. Oh, man. Wow. Because before when you go to an AMC theater, before you even get the previews, or no, it's

after the previews before the feature, you get this weird video of what looks like a funko pop version of Nicole Kidman because her head's really big and her body's really really small and her eyes kind of look dead anyway walking through an abandoned AMC theater saying you thank you for coming back to the films

heartbreak just feels better in a place like this and she's watching she's watching some strange movie that's an amalgamation of Wonder Woman la la land creed and camera what the fourth one is so this is some dark days of 2020 kind of business it is it's basically saying please come back to the theaters and she's sitting in an empty theater talking to people who are in a theater wow well that's fantastic and you can do this with everybody by the way go back to halloween go back to 1978 or nine whatever it was and watch Halloween and you go that lady

right there she's going to be a best supporting actress one day right and you might maybe maybe she was awesome then and you're still in you would have been correct and you but you would be Jamie Lee Curtis well done all these people I mean I feel like Michelle yo was a just a you know we just been waiting for this so it's not like that big it was surprised I was predicting Kate Blanchett just because I wanted to I knew everything there all everywhere all at once was going to be huge and it already had a huge night at the golden globes I thought you know let's see if uh let's see if the fablemans which I feel uh I don't think was a better movie but I feel as like

like more of the stuff that Hollywood likes to pat themselves on the back for. Oh, yeah. Because it's basically Stephen Spielberg's autobiography. I really want to know, though, if the same thing happened with his mom that Michelle Williams did in the movie. But anyway. Oh. Anyway. Personally, Banshees of and Sharon was my favorite of the 10 this year, of the Best Picture nominees.

Hilariously, it's the only one of the 10 I've seen. Well, no, you've seen Top Gun Maverick. Oh, yeah, I saw a topic on that, that's right. I always just, like, throw that one to the side because I knew it wasn't going to win, but, you know. And put your and, you know, figure out a way, maybe, uh, maybe eat a, uh, a Mike Tyson ear CBD gummy beforehand and go see, uh, Avatar in the theaters before it leaves theaters because that, even with a big TV, and I know you've got this big, beautiful 4K TV, the theater experiences the way to, yeah, but why a gummy, why a gummy to see Avatar? What's that about? So you can put up with the other things that are crap about the AMC people, basically. The theater close to you might require some sort of like a sensitive deprivation to get away from the other people.

Yeah, I do. I do hate the theater people. But all right, so let's look at how things went. I mean, everything everywhere all at once basically swept everything. They did. And you know what? This is so dumb. Part of me was like, I hear this news as it's coming out.

out, right? Because I'm not watching it. Part of me's like, well, where were you in 2015 when Fury Road was that year's everything everywhere all at once? I know this is a very specific opinion that I hold, but that movie was nominated like crazy and then, you know, didn't win its two major directing or best picture things. It feels like this is kind of like a movie like that. It's not like that, but you know what I'm saying? It's like a genre film. Exactly. It's outside of the, what, you know, Oscar usually picks for kind of the mainstream thing. Right. Women talking is very much in that, in that straight and narrow that Hollywood likes to do.

I think three surprises in that list, really, everything everywhere else at once, Avatar and Top Gun, I feel like, I feel like they're outside of what Hollywood usually picks for these sorts of things. Do you think it's because we went to the 10 and it used to be shorter list and now? now the 10 just allows for more. Yeah, but 10, but the other, the two that maybe should have been in there from what I hear, Till. And, um, shoot, what was the other one? Um, there was another one that, that should have been in the list that, uh, that people, there was a lot of talk about that, but maybe should have been in there instead of Elvis. Elvis, Elvis just didn't belong in there at all. Yeah.

I thought was, Elvis, I thought, was a good Baz Luhrmann movie, but not a very good movie overall. Yeah, good point. So I went into this thing thinking that, oh, I had a question, because I haven't found anything about this. Every year, the previous winner of the major awards gives the award for that new year. Did Will Smith come out there? Uh-uh, no. He didn't. Oh, no, Harrison Ford did Best Picture.

Who did Best Actor? they had um so that breaks with tradition chest stain it's not a it's not a hard fast law it's a typical like it's a usually kind of thing what did he win last year best actor yeah yeah best actor for that uh for the the tennis movie the uh dad with two ladies yeah baby williams daddy williams daddy williams papa williams takes the court dot com right exactly uh yeah okay well then so was he there at all? They didn't show him. He's not there. There were lots of jokes about, you know,

if you decided to run up on stage, they did a great cut to a whole bunch of people in the audience who it looked like they were kind of responding to it. Like, you know, Jimmy said, well, if you want to come up and slap me for something I said, here's all the people you're going to have to get through.

And he listed all these people on the camera would cut to them, including people like Steven Spielberg and Andrew Garfield. That's great. That's great. They should have, you know what? They should have had Carlton. That actor who plays Carlton should have been the guy.

Put him up there. You know what I'm talking about? No. Carlton, from the show from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Yeah. Get him up there instead of him. He's too busy doing the America's Funniest Home Videos or whatever. All right.

But I see the reference, right? Yeah, that's just kind of a joke. Also, DJ Jazzy Jeff. He would have been good. Oh, someone in the chance on that. Anyway, well, that's a shame. But lots of jokes, eh? I was wondering if they'd even bring it up, but it sounds like they had fun.

Because they had a host this year, it got brought up, and especially because that host was Jimmy Kimmel, who already jokes about, you know, him nonstop anyway. That's true. But, uh, yeah, no, best, you know, everything, everywhere all at once. Excellent. Tina's like, you know, I'm glad it's doing well. People seem to like that movie.

I didn't like it. I should do it in her voice. That's really good for them. Good for them. Everything everywhere I wait. Hey, look, sometimes Things can't be for everyone, you know? It's okay.

It's not a problem. No. But for people like you, Scott, who, you know, who didn't watch it for whatever reason and all this stuff, of course, I think is available on YouTube, here are the things you want to go back and watch videos of. Ready? All right. Go.

You've got Ki Hui Kwan's win and his speech. You've got Brendan Fraser's speech and end of list. End of list. And the end of list. And the end of line. Yeah. Okay. There were no, for me, and maybe somebody can correct me if I'm wrong, but there were, there

were no like, oh my God, that can't, you've got to go back and see that. No can't miss moments. It was a very by the book, very, you know, it was, you get to see Jamie Lee Curtis finally winning and her reaction was great. Kiwi Kwan. Yeah, the dance scene for nacho, nacho, which I'm going to call Nacho Nacho, instead. Oh, were those guys? Did they do the Triple R guys? Were they there? Doing it?

They were there. It wasn't the guys, but it was, um, the guys were there, but they weren't up on stage. Yeah, that's a shame. I still think that thing would have been cool to see in a higher, higher light here at this event, but whatever. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, this thing won't watch that yet, have you?

No, I still haven't. It's still. Two parts. Splint of two parts. That's the only way I'm going to do it. It's the only way I'm going to do it. Last night, look, I used three hours of my day yesterday to catch up on last of us so I could see the finale, which I did, and I got all the way done. I haven't seen the finale yet, so no spoilers. No spoilers at all. It's very good and ends great, in my opinion.

But, yeah, so we did that. So I'm like, after we got done, I said, well, honey, that was as long as it would have taken us to get through Triple R. And she's like, yeah, but when did we get three hours ago? We just did. We just had three hours. Yeah. You know, but I had to watch that, and now we're going to watch, we're going to watch triple R. That's coming up.

Cool. Please do. I also signed up. I signed up for Showtime to do. day this morning so that I can watch everything everywhere all at once because it's the only place you can get it. It is the only place you can get it.

And look back at my, maybe I need to, so like you did for me with the Steam Deck and giving me a recommended bunch of games, I'm going to do the same for you with Showtime from my recommendals over the last couple months so that you can basically say

great, I'll cancel Showtime and immediately cancel Showtime so you get one month. And I'm going to give you all the other things that you should watch. Okay, nice. I know one of them is that Yellow Jackets business, or is that them? Yes. That is them.

Yes, Yellow Jackets is Showtime. I'd also say the Joseph Gordon-Levitt history of Uber show. Oh, that's just a... I hate the name, super pumped because it sounds like such a bro show. Yeah, which I guess was the point. But that thing's, what, six episodes or something? It's not very long. Yeah, quick watch and it's fat.

And it's got Coach Taylor. So, come on. Oh, shit. well i didn't know that i'm in i love that guy i watch anything and the uh wife from uh halton catchfire that we all like carry oh uh um it's carry something i can't remember that's how much we like her we can't remember her yeah exactly she's so great whatever whatever her name is so uh all i can think is carrie condon but she was not obviously she was banshees yeah carrie bishay thank you abit there you go did uh let's see i was going to ask you another question

about something. What was it? Oh, Black Panther went your way. Wakanda Forever got they got the, isn't that the one you picked? I think you picked that. It is, yeah, for costume, which, come on, it's full of costumes. How could it not win? It didn't get, Angela Bassett didn't get it. I was rooting for her. And, I mean, I was happy to see Jamie Lee Curtis win as well, but I was hoping Angela Bassett would get it.

My, all my shorts, no, I take that back. I did pick the right animated short film, but I didn't pick the right live action or documentary shorts. Irish Goodbye for live action short. And what was the best animated of the boy, the mole, the fox, and the horse? Boy and Bull is what I picked for animated. I'm trying to remember what documentary was. Was it?

I'm looking right here. I can't find it. Oh, no. Let's see. Yeah, there was Irish Goodbye. Was it elephant? Oh, elephant whispers, which we weren't able to watch. Oh, there it is.

Oh, that's, yeah, the one you didn't see. The one we didn't see. That's funny. Isn't that always the way? I watched my year of Dix yesterday. Oh, did you? Yeah, it's very good. Yeah, it is very good.

Yeah, it's not as good as, not as good as ice merchants. Well, I'm going to keep going. I'm going to watch them all, but I started with that. Watch, if I give you, if you only do three shorts, ice merchants, animated, and then two live action, night ride and Le Poupil, which is on Disney Plus, the other two are on YouTube. All right, right. I finally found a really good definitive list. had all this stuff and it has links. I should share that too.

Send me a link. I'll send you a link as well. Anyway, awesome. I feel a little bad for banshees. They got ignored. They really did. That's a shame. It's too bad because that's such a great movie.

And Brendan and Colin were in the front. They brought out the donkey. Jenny the donkey was there. Of course. They were. As well as cocaine bear. Oh, yeah. I heard about the cocaine bear thing.

Did that just, did everyone want to cringe with that? Or was that fine? It was funny when cocaine bear was, well, funny. The bar for funny at the Oscars is a different bar than what's very funny. It's a pretty low bar. The cocaine bear with Elizabeth Banks was kind of funny. The cocaine bear harassing Malala for cocaine was not quite as funny.

That was more on the cringe. That seems a little cringy. That was a little cringy. All right. Well, but nothing, nothing is crazy as Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, right? There were no moments like that. No moments at all like that. That's probably fine.

We're better people when that doesn't happen. Yeah, exactly. All right. Excellent. Well, if you haven't seen any of the movies or shorts or any of that stuff, it was a pretty banner year. Movies did good. It was.

Yeah. You know what else was great? 2022 had some of the best horror movies I've ever seen. Yeah. And those don't get recognized at these Oscars. No. But if you were like, man, I heard there were some good horror movies. Do not sleep on things like Barbarian.

Marion and freaking Megan was awesome. And I love, smile scared the shit out of me. What's the one with the, I guess it's older one, the one with the black and white looking clown? Oh, um, it's a verb. No, it's a, it's a, uh, uh, annihilator, freakery out. Terrifier. That's it. Terrifier. I still say Terrifier. One's worse than two, but two is interesting.

But those things, that, that movie is for people that want 100% wall-to-wall slap. Fasher fanfic, and it's not as creative as the rest of these. I mean, there are just some really good horror movies this last year. So we'll see what 2023 brings. Yeah. Okay. Okay. At some point, we'll have Monica on to talk about them, too.

I got a question about lyrics. Can I ask you this real fast? Please. I'm a lyrics guy. Love me some lyrics. This old song by Bruce Springsteen, everybody's favorite American, you know, rocking dude. Yeah. Certainly one of my favorite artists.

somebody said this on Twitter and it reminded me if you just listen to the opening lyrics of I'm on fire here's how they go Hey little girl is your daddy home Did he go away and leave you all alone I got a bad desire

Uh huh yeah Oh oh oh I'm on fire All right Yeah Why when it was on in the 80s Did it not occur to me How creepy this song is Because we're a lot closer

To use of the word daddy, which people like look at these things and they like, oh, daddy, he said the word daddy must be talking about a father and daughter. And they forget crap like, the zombies time of the season, what's your name, who's your daddy, is he rich like me? Or Hank

Williams in 1948, long gone daddy or sugar, the term sugar daddy. Sugar daddy, right, right. So when is one of these thumpers going to start complaining about the word baby? Like, you know, take me home tonight, baby. Oh, oh, he's talking about a baby. That's gross. He's a pedophile.

So, my God, can we quit thumping our little bibles about terms like daddy. I didn't realize, Brian. It's clear from the second verse, because I get so irritated by crap like this. Get some fire in you on this one. I love it. Yeah. Well, I mean, you look at the second verse, and it's like, tell me now, baby, is he good to you? Does he do to the, to you the things that I do?

Yeah. Is he still talking? Because then, oh, it's competing pedophiles for this small child's attention? Is that what's happening here? You guys need all ketchup on your hooker culture, okay? Exactly. Come on. Jeez, Louise.

Point me to the Twitter poster, and I'm going to unload with both barrels. Yeah, it's pretty dumb. No, not because it's Twitter, and I don't care about it. Yeah, who cares? Screw Twitter. It doesn't matter. But, you know what? That actually sheds some light on that.

I appreciate that. Yes. Seriously. I mean, how many people complain about the word baby in songs? And that is used at infinite. You know, or ad infinitum. It might be the most used, honestly. Might be.

Might be. What do you, is there, there's probably some list that says most used words. Yeah. Yeah, and it's probably not baby. It's probably like love. I bet you the word love is probably the most used. Oh, that's probably true. Yeah.

That's a good one. That might even have baby in it, you know. I love you, baby. It's a very, yeah. It's a very Johnny Cash kind of thing. Bruce Springsteen was inspired by Johnny Cash when he wrote, I'm on fire. And it's cool because. several years later Johnny Cash covered

I'm on fire on one of his American comes around albums which is really cool I didn't know that all right well then everyone and that's where the little girl thing again you know it's a little girl it's a it's a term of of you know a term that's not used these days but hey little girl

you know kind of referring to a love interest or a thing like that or a lady of the night well there's that too lady Anyway, so there you go. That's the definitive answer. Let's all freak out about words taken out of context and songs.

It's a good time. It's a good time. All right, check this out. Let us now join with us, Mr. Brian Dunaway, who comes here on Mondays and Wednesdays to play a little game with this. This is a chance for us to give out some prizes to some people, and it's always good having him here. Hi, Brian Dunaway. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Oh, hi, Brian.

Hi. What I walk into. baby. Hey, are you saying that one of us is a small child? Are you saying

I'm an infant? Is that what you're saying? You bastard. I am saying you are both immature little babies. Excellent. Hey, it's good to have you, mature baby,

with us today. And we're going to play a little game. We've got some prizes. We have contestants. Brian Iba here will explain how it all works. What's going on? I will do all of that.

Welcome to the morning. Half Ases, a trivia game baby, where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'm going to give Scott and Brian a category and six possible answers. Three of which are correct and three that are

incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses. But if any of those guesses are wrong, they get zero points for that round. Get one, gets you a point. Get two right. Gets you three points and get all three correct. You get five freaking points. The most points

at the end of the game will win the prize for their contestant. We got a couple contestants that I pulled names from the Tadpool list that aren't able to be here live. Scott, you're going to be playing for Jeff Brummel in Knoxville. Tennessee. And Brian, you're going to be playing for Paul Rydlinger in Toronto.

He is known as C&D. Movin in the Tadpool when he is occasionally able to join us. Toronto. Yeah, that's awesome. Love that. Very cool. Yes. All right. All right.

So let's get into this. Speaking of Oscars, this is a great time to bring this one up. And it did randomly come up today. So it was like, perfect. Oscar winners for Best Picture, which three of these six movies actually won the Oscar for Best Picture. Oh, okay. There's one, at least one gimmee in this one. Your choices are, Bonnie and Clyde, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Matrix, West Side Story, High Noon, Terms of Endearment.

The Matrix. Yeah. That's kind of a gimmie. This is the game that's made for old people as long as they. Sure, sure. We've got to have some easy stuff in there. I get it. Yep.

Um, boy, howdy. Let's see. Well, the only Oscar I'm concerned with is the one that lives in my trash can. Oscar in the trash can. He's kind of a grouch, though, isn't he? Yeah. Uh, you know, I think I'm going to go. Wouldn't you be if you lived in a trash can?

Wouldn't you? Well, yeah, it's true. All right, I've locked in. All right, have you both locked in? You both have locked in. Let's see what you guys picked. Uh, yeah, both of you settled on turbos of Endearment. That is absolutely a winner.

Bridge on the River Kwai also won. However, Bonnie and Clyde did not. West Side Story, the original one, as did, like you said, Bridge on the River, Quay in terms of interment. Bunning Clyde and Matrix, duh, and High Noon did not win. I thought Bonnie and Clyde won. Dang it. All right. That's a good movie still, to this day.

It is a good movie. I chickened out. I almost look at a West Side Story. Oh, you almost did West Side Story? Oh, you should have. Yeah, I chickened out, though. I chickened out. to run away with points, man.

You would have. You got three. So you're going into the second question with three points. Oh, I can tell you, actually. Bonney and Clyde lost to in the heat of the night, the Matrix lost to American Beauty, and High Noon lost to the greatest show on Earth. In the heat of the night, me where Archie Bunker is like living in a southern town.

Yeah, weird. That's the one. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah, no other heat of the nights have been made. Except the TV show. That was pretty good. But the movie. That's the one that's the Oh, is that the TV shows? Brian's talking about. Oh, oh, oh, gotcha. Okay.

With Carol O'Connor. All right. Get to number two. Number two says, Hardy Boys books. Which of these are actual books in the Hardy Boys series of books? What? Oh, my God.

The Bombay boomerang, database danger, motorcross madness, the peacock puzzle, the sinister signpost, and the vanishing Viking. I thought it's a sinister shit post. I don't know why. A little illiterative. I never. I've never read a single hardy boy book.

This is going to be all guesswork. I'm going all in. Which is what I think the books were about, right? Yeah. I don't, Motor Cross Madness is a video game, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it is. All right, I'm just, I'm going for it.

I'm going all in. Okay. Oh, you guys are both locked in. I watch, I get to watch what Scott picks and then unpicks. And for a second, you had the peacock puzzle, database danger, and the Vanishing Viking. Yeah. Which were all three of the wrong answers. The correct answers were the Bombay boomerang, the sinister signpost, and motocross madness.

Great, great. I don't know. Maybe a video game, but it's also a Hardy Boys book. I knew Darty's database. Are the Hardy Boys books any good? I don't know. I have never read a single one. Yeah, I have no idea.

Database dangers. I know there's a whole generation that love them. That's too early for databases. It does feel like it's way too early for a database danger. Yeah. All right. pronounced database. Oh, sorry, excuse me.

Data, base. How could I forget after What's his name wins an Oscar and he used to play Data? No, he played Data. Oh, it was Data. Oh. Yes, yeah, yeah. The and the, come on.

All right, let's get to the last one. You may not know your Hardy Boys books, but let's see how well you know your Kanye West songs or your Yee songs. Oh, my God. Oh, not at all. Which of these are Kanye West songs, diamonds from Sierra Leone,

Christian Dior, Denim Flo. I am amazing flossy bossy Robo Cup and Purple Diamond Royal Well I know what I want I don't know I am not I don't listen to Connie so I really don't know But I'm going to go for it and pick a couple here Okay Yeah you gotta you gotta you gotta go big Scott if you want to win

Flossy bossy I pick at least two because one if he did sweep it If you do two I got to pick them both you tie To tie but if you go three you can win and I think I think suffice it to say that

Jeff Bremel in Knoxville, Tennessee would like you to go for three. I bet he would yeah I wish I knew it I just don't know I'm just going to choose yeah I only know one but man other ones are I don't know any this is all a guess

for me it's mostly stuff I like the sound of and one of them I hope is right because it sounds like he thinks he's amazing yeah that's what i was trying to yeah i really don't know all right i'm locked in it looks like he is all right oh you're so close both of you uh so you guys both picked diamonds from sierra leone is indeed a conier song robocop is indeed a conier west song okay i am amazing is just his just his mantra but not a conier west oh christin dior denim flow it felt christian deor

Dendam Flo is the other Kanye West song. Those other three, not songs, but, but, you know, again, I'm Amazing is a Kanye lyric. And I'm trying to think of what song that's from. Maybe that's what I was. Yeah. Oh, because these are, yeah, these are lyrics. So these are lyrics, not names of songs? Just I'm Amazing is the only one that I, that I'm pretty sure is a lyric.

I have no idea about flossy, bossy, or purple diamond oil. That one felt, that one like, yeah. Robocop. Is the song Robocop? Is it about Robocop? Like, is it a full-on rap about, you know? I wish I could tell you definitively one way or the other. It's a, yeah.

What's your name, son, Officer Murphy. What's your name, son? Oh, it is. Okay. Well, I wanted to be about him fighting the head 209 and, you know. Exactly. I'd buy that for a dollar. No, that's, I'd buy that for a dollar.

Yeah, I'd buy that for a dollar and all that. That's what I want. But that's not what I'm going to get, is it if I go listen? I'm not going to go listen. So forget it. Yeah. Well, that means I lost, Brian. That's a bummer for Tennessee and all people.

But that does mean that Paul Redinger, Ridinger from Toronto, Canada won, and he's going to get these prizes. The games are Serpent Rogue, The Serpent Rogue, and Grow, Song of the Evertree. But Jeff Brammel is not going away empty-handed. He's getting that game, Hako Life. All good games. Once again, we don't give away any crap here, okay? We don't give away crap. It's always good.

Hey, Dunaway, speaking of no crap given, you and I doing Play Retro tomorrow, our big topic this week is going to be bonkers Bedford Day. Back from the N60, the N64 when Rare slipped one at the end of the N64 life cycle right before Nintendo launched their GameCube and went for a more mature audience, Nintendo for a brief moment, lost their mind and said, sure. Yeah, go ahead, Brer. Sure, why not? You're cool. You've never made a game we don't make a lot of money from. So go ahead and make a dirty little squirrel game. And they did.

Dirty little squirrel game. Is he really a dirty little squirrel? Oh, yeah. Oh, he is. Oh, if you've never played Conqueror's Bad Friday, you should tune in tomorrow. I'm sure Scott's going to have plenty of clips. Oh, yeah, I got a lot to say about him. It's a lot of people want more sequels.

They want more. They want more out of that series. They're probably not going to get much more. No, Microsoft ruined everything. Yeah, Microsoft ate that. ate that sandwich. But what was it going to say about that? Oh, his first appearance, though, is actually in Diddy Kong Racing.

And nobody knew who the hell it was. It was like, who's this? What is this character? Really, were they working? I guess you'll tell us on Play Retro. Yeah, were they working on that game? A clue, a clue, yes, five years in development. That along with Banjo Kazui, guess who won out for the top spot, but yes.

Yeah. Oh, that's above, because I really like Banjo, Kazoo. Yeah, Banjo Cazoo is a great game. Nothing wrong with that game. Weird is a combination of, what is it, ostrich and bear? What were they? He was a bear, but I don't remember. He's a kazooie, right?

Is that a name of a bird? Well, what was the thing? Didn't he have a bird on his back? And that's how he could. He had a bird. Yeah. And the bird is Cazooie. Let's see, Cazooie bird.

He's a, I guess I could wait until you finally get around to that game for play retro. Yeah, that's true. Well, it's actually, it may, it'll be. It'll be talked a little bit about tomorrow. Okay. Because it does, it does have an impact on what, how bad conquerors got there. All right, found it. Banjo, Kazoo, typical, fictional, blah, blah, blah.

It's created by a British game. He's a wombat. Banjo and Kazoo are both introduced, but per, per, burp. They don't say what it is. How do they not say what the bird is? No kidding. Oh, the bird. Yeah.

Oh, species. Here we go. Brown bear for Banjo. Briegel for Kazui. Briegel. Breigel? Yeah, like Brie the cheese and goal like California goal. I was thinking that was like a character from Lord of the Rings or something.

Briegel, dude. Briegel. Ah, former king of the north. Briegole, that's great. And then Tudy was later, right? That was a different bird. Right, right. No, Tudy was another bear.

Tudy was his girlfriend. Right? Tudy was on the fact of life. You guys are both, you're both smuck and cracked. Tudy was on the fact of life. I don't know where you're getting this. Roller skated everywhere she went. is that roller skating tuti or is that the uh roller toady or more mature toty no it's roller tuti yeah

you got to go roller tuti what other toty matters that's the only tody that matters oh my gosh remember like the early the early episodes she was always on roller skates yeah oh yeah every time but later she you're right she got more mature later on and she was less about the skates and ended up kissing uh it ended up kissing george cluny yeah i think so wow who saw that coming the man of a certain age know what the hell we're talking about anyway uh done away being here with you has been a real treat and a pleasure. And we hope that the rest of your week is great. And we'll see you tomorrow for Play Retro.

It's Brian Dunaway, everybody. Watch him as he goes. He goes at the end. One quick story in the news before we go, all right? It's time for today's news, and it's brought to you by. Dreams of running a record store with all the frog pants, people. I had a dream last night and we were all, we all ran a record store, kind of like Capital Records or, not Capital. Grey whale. Yeah, like a gray whale, like that. Yeah, yeah. Super indie. We're all. If you're really old, Sam Goody or Music Land. Yeah. Yes. Or Empire. Empire Records is a great example. Yeah. Anyway, so we're, we're running it. Brian's there. I'm there. Tom's there and he's the biggest freaking hippie in this thing. Just long hair. Tom. Tom.

running the business, like making sure bills are paid and rent is paid and paychecks go out and all that. Veronica Belmont is in charge of all that is a weird little dream. But it was fun, it was positive. It seemed like we were very successful doing the, you know, huck and the slinging the vinyl, Brian. My, like, you know, let's say, let's say it's like, all right, Brian, you've got, you've got X amount of money enough to, to open a business. What business do you want to open? And obviously, it would have to be something podcasting related. But what I would do, basically the shop that Chloe Grace Moretz had in, what was the series that we really liked?

Oh, the one we just watched, the peripheral is that? Peripheral, yes. It's a 3D print farm, like where you've got a bunch of 3D printers, you can design 3D stuff for folks, and then in the back, there's a nice little studio where I can podcast. Nice. Oh, man. Can you imagine? that is like the dream the dream job just having these things constantly churning out

articulated geckos for people or or you know whatever yeah i have a very similar dream but mine involves the frog pants cafe which is a front end like coffee and danish and you know stuff like that some kind of art gallery kind of there too people can go look but then in the back or like up and on the loft is like a 24 hour podcast studio we're just up they're making content all day. And like audio, like piping the audio of whatever show we're doing is piping. Yeah, right down into the thing. Exactly. So people can hear the dumb shit we say. Oh, man. Oh, yeah, with the D&D tables in the back, Thursday night, D&D every week, a few video games, TV's Travis. Yeah, like a joust machine, Tempest

machine. Carter and I have our way. This is going to happen one day. She'll run the cafe because I don't want to run that part. But she can run it. Well, and Kim will do all the the cooking. Like, you know, they can do all that. I'll be upstairs recording. You all do you do the cafe man i got this new keyboard for my pc that can sense when my hands coming near it get out really and i didn't know i was getting that it just came with the with the setup and it's it's an eva brand they just make video cards and stuff but i go near this thing and it starts lights up or something yeah the the keys go and if i move away i go back toward it it's so weird i didn't know i had a little sensor in it must that's kind of crazy it's kind of creepy too

me out. Let's do this story. Oh, it has to do with records, actually, funny enough. Perfect. Check this out. Sales of vinyl albums overtook CDs for the first time right now, since the late 80s. Oh, my gosh. Sales and vinyl, it's not good news for either format, probably when the numbers are this low, but sales for vinyl records have been on the rise for years, but according to RIA 2020 year-end revenue report for the music industry, record sales hit a new last year for the first time since 87 unit sales for vinyl outpaced those CDs, vindicating all the people who had spent decades of their lives talking about how vinyl just sounds better. I'm not one of those people. I'm not like, oh, the vinyl has such a warm, rich sound.

I like the physical ritual of putting a record on, cleaning it, and then putting the needle on. It's like it makes you feel very close and personal to your records. But if you give me the choice, I'd go digital. just digital with good speakers all the way. Same. Sorry, folks. Like, if you just want audio quality, digital. Well, I have bad news or I have good news for you and bad news for everybody else.

That's the reason that they've overtaken CDs again because digital music sales have far outpaced streaming services in particular have outpaced sales of physical media so much that they've actually knocked CDs down below vinyl albums, which is already incredibly low. So the bar is like... Physical media is just tanked. Yeah, exactly. It's like saying that vinyl overtook CDs makes it sound like, oh, wow, a surge of vinyl. No, it's really just a hammering of all music sales by digital. And there's little tiny bars on the bottom that show, Vital and Seney. Yeah, this is an Ant Man, finally unseeding avatar at the blocks office.

That's not this kind of overtaking of sales. Right. This is more of a weird low bar. But anyway, revenue on vinyl records has been higher than revenue on CDs for a while now. The RIA says the vinyl albums earned $1.2 billion compared to $483 million for CDs. That's actually a big difference. That's huge. The growth in vinyl was more than enough to offset a drop in CD revenue, helping overall physical media revenue climb 4% over 2021, which was already way up over 2020. Stateming services still account for the vast majority of all music revenue in the U.S. in particular, 84% up from 83. They say an average of 92 million streaming streamings. music subscriptions active in 2022, I assume that's spread over the two major platforms, Apple Music

and Spotify, and then there's a few others on the other end. As far as ad-supported stuff like YouTube, which generated $13.3 billion growth of streaming services. Yeah. When is Minidus coming back? Because boy, am I ready. I still have, I

saved everything just for the day that minidus comes back. I'm ready now, too, because you sent me one. I got one right back there. I know. You'll finally be able to watch what's her face Juliette Lewis roller skating it'll be great in the tiniest

bikini ever also the last like the only CDs that that I've bought in the last 10 years are ones

that I need so I can own a physical so that I can own the media of stuff I play on the show if I can buy it digitally that's my first and I go to

Amazon iTunes iTunes abroad, if I can get it with one of my other accounts and a VPN. I'll do that. But if I can't own it digitally, then sadly it's like, okay, give me that used copy for $4 on Amazon Marketplace. I'll take it. Wow.

Yeah. See, even Brian, Music Man, Extraordinary, billions of songs. He's got it everywhere. He's got hard drives full of this stuff. He'd still product. Exactly. Rather go digital. And these, and the albums,

I'm getting like the vinyl albums like this awesome one right here of Dark Side of the Moon. Yeah. 50 years old this month. Oh my lord. Um, those come to me from an Amazon subscription. It's like one of those loot boxes, but you get a, a awesome album every month. Like this month it was actually Tusc by Fleetwood Mac, which if he asked me, just under, um, under rumors. Under rumors as far as really. I need to check that out because I, I, I, I, I barely listen to anything but rumors. Yeah, if you listen to rumors a lot and love it,

jump one more album forward and listen to Tusk. Okay. All right. Does it feature... You've got some songs on here, you know. I'm sure I do, yeah. Give me some track names I would know. You've got what makes you think you're the one.

You've got Sarah. Oh, I know that one. You have a big song by Stevie Nix. Think about me. I don't hold you down. Maybe I just want you. I want you a rind. You get that one.

What else? Oh, that's about it. But the title track, which is the title track, which is a banger. And Nick Fleetwood employed a bunch of school marching bands to produce the drum sound of that. Really? Yeah. Oh, that would be cool. So what if you were like some, are you a guy now in your 50s who was a kid then?

I'm a guy now. And I am in my 50s. But what if you were that got one of these kids that was in the marching band and you got paid like $20 or whatever? That would be a cool thing to always tell people. That would be really cool. Like we got paid to do the drum stuff for Fleetwood. I just got to see if, let's see, experiment with different found sounds on the song. Flewwood and Buckingham played lamb chops and a Kleenex box on the track, respectively.

So if you listen to the song Tusk, you're hearing Mick Fleetwood play lamb chops and Lindsay Buckingham play a Kleenex box. How do you play lamb chops? I have no idea. They recruited the University of Southern California's Trojan Marching Band. So I'm sorry, not high school marching bands, but college marching band. Gotcha. They needed the pro-level marching band. I get it.

Yeah, exactly. So I need to know, I need to see somebody. Is it bones or just the action? Is the meat on the bones? I don't know. That's a really good question. I need to know more about that. How do you play the lamb chops?

I need to know more. All right. Yeah. Interesting. Final story here before we take our break. I'm going to jump to this one just because it's fun. Chuck E. Cheese. Are you familiar with Chuck E. Cheese?

Oh, yes. Yes. What is that E stand for? I don't actually know. Is it ever been revealed what Chuck E. Cheese's middle name is? I don't know. We should find that out.

It's probably Eddie or something. Let's see. Yeah. Chuck E. Cheese. What does the E stand for? Oh, people are saying it's entertainment. Like, entertainment is his middle name kind of thing. Is it real?

Oh, a lot of people know this. It is. Charles Entertainment Cheese. That's weird. I much prefer Matuba's answer, which is Emerson. Yes, I'm Charles. Emerson, Emerson, Cheese, the third. Charles Entertainment Cheese.

Holy shit. Okay. So many people do that. How do we not know that? That's amazing. All right. So Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks to make its rodent mascot dance. Oh, wow.

Until 2019, believe it or not, the U.S. nuclear weapons program ran on eight inch floppy disks. All right. Until 2019. Yeah, because they got the whole reliable. This is something a computer security person would tell you

that sometimes the oldest stuff is the most secure because you can't hack it, you know, like it's not on the internet. Yeah, but any magnetic media, you got to feel like, oh no, that accidentally brushed past a kitchen magnet

that Clarence gave me for, you know, a little junk magnet bought me at Spencer's. No, you're not wrong. It feels, I mean, they must have, like, tons of backups, right? Tons of backups. Why not a zip drive, at least? Yeah.

No kidding. A jazz drive. Ah, yeah. A whole gigabyte on a jazz drive. That's right. A jazz drive. Let's see. As of today, there are still quite a few technologies that rely on floppies.

Boeing 7047 jets use them still. Well, that's comforting. Part of the San Francisco public transit system, not surprising, maybe. And a slightly less concerning, but no less amusing note, the performing animatronic creatures at Chuck Entertainment Cheese Restaurants. Employees in this video, there's a viral TikTok video going around where an employee shows off the Winter 2023 floppy disk sent from corporate. The TikTok user demonstrates how he loads the 3.5 inch floppy into a larger computer.

Oh, it's a 3.5 inch floppy. So a little bit better than an 8 inch at least. A little more modern. A little more modern, yeah. Get a little metal clip that moves to the side. Some good old 1889 technology. or 90, 1990 technology. I used to, oh, that's a story for a different day.

Anyway, large computer server in order to relay the data for the longstanding song and dance routine for the robotic animals. Let's see if I actually pulled this up. You guys can see this video in action here. Do you actually have, in your house somewhere, do you have a three and a half inch floppy disc? I have a three, yes, I have multiple. If I could reach it, I'd grab it, but I have the entire install disc set of Doom

two over there. And I kept that for some reason. I don't think it, my guess is it doesn't work, but. I think I've got the System 7 install disks. The Macintosh System 7. That's great. Remember it was like, ooh, System 7. System 7.

That's the one, I think that's the one Jeff Goldblum used to hack the aliens, I think. I might have been. I think it was seven. I can't find the TikTok's not sure. It's clearly hypercarned. I don't know why this isn't showing up. Hold on everybody. Oh, here it is.

All this guy does is like show, he looks like he's from the 80s, but he just shows video of him doing stuff at Chucky Cheese. Oh, I got to follow this account. Oh, that's cool. I'm following it now. All right. Well, he's called Showbiz Pizza Man on TikTok. I recommend it.

Go check it out. What do the animatronic robots in Five Nights at Freddy's run on? Because those don't run on floppy dust. Those run on like Satan or something. The tears of children, I think. Yeah. I don't know. Badger Lord, I think, would be able to tell us that one.

I've never played that game. I haven't either. There's one for the Oculus that I think I might pick up. Oh, you shouldn't. Then tell me what you think. I will. Then it will be you who has to endure. Do I hate meta enough to not upgrade to one of the newer oculuses

since the Oculus one, I guess it's the quest. Oh, you got the quest, the first quest, right? I have the Quest one, yeah. The MetaQuest two prices just... Do I hit them enough to not upgrade? I don't know. Like, the pro is not for us.

That's for people who are crazy. I would wait until the end of this year because Apple's going to announce their thing. Oh, yeah. That's happening like before September. So I would wait before I would do anything. Because Apple always does everything better. Yeah, that won't stir up any.

And nobody in our chat room would disagree with that. No, there'll be no. no consternation from that statement it'll be fine poke poke poke any bears in the audience poke poke poke poke poke all they want they just they look I don't want to get you you you people in the chat with your Pepsi and coke fights I don't want any of it um all right let's get into the break and then when we come back we're going to do a little app slapy so stick around for that so stephen's out he's got a thing today doctor's appointment or something we look at all these old guys he couldn't schedule his physical on the same day we schedule all

I'm really disappointed. How sad indeed. But not sad because there's music. What are we playing? What do we got? Yeah, we're listening to a band from Indianapolis, an alt rock band. You guys who really want the heavier rock, this is your week for India in the middle. I think all three of the songs this week are going to be rockers, are going to be bangers.

This is a brand new single, Back Again from the band Chin Up Kid. After a four-year hiatus, these guys are back again. Here is the Indianapolis alternative rock band Chin Up Kid. And back again. I see my tomb in everyone I was never the night has just begun Beware of Antigone Tonight they're on the run

I'm not the night without a turn I was never the one but you couldn't live without me This is just now that I can rest in peace to see I see the fear in everyone I'm like the loaded good The devil's got a new face To hell with me and back again

After all this sheep It's said and died You know what you become No, I'm not the one to blame I won't be around One day you understand Where I come from I was never the one

But you couldn't live without me This is just And now that I can rest in Peace you see I see the fit in everyone I'm like the lonely good The devil's got a new face To hell with me and back again

I was never the one but you couldn't live without me. This is just and now that I can rest in. See I see the band in everyone I'm like the road again The devil's got a new face To hell with me and back again Have you ever the truth That you, that you, um, you have you, you could, you'll do

So much you want you can do so you You so much you could do anything I'm also going to tell him about the way you run your business The Morning Stream Sometimes I can and sometimes I can Who gives a dance and we're back i need to know who that was i don't have any idea oh i've been glad to glad you scott that is chin up kid from their brand new single well it is the brand new single it's called back

after a four-year hiatus chin-up kid is back with a song called back again they're back back again jess who's back something something uh and a little uh not really point of clarification but if you guys are really looking for a Bruce Springsteen song about pedophiles, I'll point you to the song working on the highway, which is about a pedophile who goes to jail. Great. Yeah. Great. I was really, I was worried that I wasn't going to get a pedophile song.

Oh, dang it, I need a Bruce Springsteen song about a pedophile. Well, you were just too late. It came from an earlier album than born in the USA, which is where I'm on fire was. You know, I don't know if you know you actually did this today, but here's what you did, Brian. You reminded the people, the popular. yeah good yeah that uh context matters right exactly sometimes people forget there's nuance in anything people say and sometimes nuance involves when it happened who said it how long ago was it what was what was uh what was the culture like at large like don't always assume that a thing you

read in 2023 is what you think it read like in 82 or 59 or yeah the term daddy really only used by um little little fiery short irish women and that's about it that's the only real use these days of the term daddy but everything else that all comes from uh days long ago some like mid 20s um just fiery little irish weirdos yeah exactly usually usually talking about Pedro pascal but could be anybody could be anyone yeah could be anyone could be anyone oh oh oh you guys hear this Slapy I present you the banginous track that Eric Van Skyhawk ever made

and that is because he and I used to do a show called App Slappy. It was dedicated to app reviews. Stephanie, you can leave the room now. But Brian and I revived it here for TMS so we can talk about apps once in a while. Usually when Steven's gone and we have some other little break in the action and that's what we're going to do today. Real quick before I forget, this is not a spoiler.

This was already known thing. but the entirety, oh, not the entirety, a very large portion of the finale of The Last of Us takes place right in the middle of Salt Lake City. Oh, really? I thought you could say in an app. I'm like, oh, that'll be interesting. No, definitely not that. All right. Don't see any more.

That even... That's not a spoiler. Well, I mean, you'll see it and you'll recognize stuff. And that's why I appreciate it because it wasn't just like faking it. They actually did it. Like it was the real city. And I know right where they were and it wasn't like. like faked or I mean it was faked

how do I put this I think it was film there but they do the magic in the background with all the CGI and the whatnot to make cities look like shit and they did it there and it looked amazing I want to live in that post-apocalyptic version of my city I would love that anyway

awesome yeah there is literally a sign that says I'll like city you're right well there's that too yeah that helps okay let's get to this so I'll start today with a game that I grab on Apple Arcade. All this Apple Talks

and piss more people off. This is a game that you can only get there right now, but I have a feeling this will end up in other places after the exclusivity window's over, so maybe mark it down and keep your eye on it. It's called Stitch.

And if you miss the early days of the App Store or the Google Play Store when the games leaned into simplicity and no ads. And it was just a thing you play because it passed the time you're at the doctor's office and you're like, boy, this sure is a good way to kill some, you know, kill 10 minutes before I get taken in there or whatever. This is that. And it's a real interesting return to that kind of game. So basically it's a puzzle game that's both visual but also deals with numbers. And I'm showing the video to the chat room for those at home just listening. You're given, you basically have a camera that zooms in on needlepoint or like a stitch. looking cross stitch cross stitch that's better yeah it's better way of putting it and it's got a cool like realistic texture to it and you know you feel like you're looking at somebody's actual cross stitch and in it you have a grid and the grid has a very a variety of numbers and those numbers are

like a five and a six couple of threes whatever and your goal is to be like all right I need to figure out how to do coverage of six of these and five of these without crossing into each other so that I can also get the two threes. Right. And there's a way to do it. And it gets more complicated as the game goes on, obviously, bigger grid, more numbers. But it's a really good, like, brain test of, like,

where should these, where should this stuff go? Because you're doing, like, consecutive boxes that all share the same number and color. And you're like, all right, well, that could be a three, or I could do down for the three there or across. But it's always, like, connected. And you can't, like, have an L shape. it's always going to be like, if it's four,

if it's going to be like two by two or four along or something like that. Correct. It's always down. And even the odd numbers, they're always, they're vertical or horizontal. There's no like, you know,

cutting corners. Rids. Yeah. Which is a fun rule to have to remind yourself all the time because the game is, is trying to trick you into thinking that they go in different places. But then part of your, so while you're doing the math,

you also want to try to be tap into your creative side and say, well, this can't be here because that yellow color of the top of the gecko in the stitch, if this is yellow, it needs to be up here where the yellow is, so I can't be dipping down into these other numbers. So it's a really cool combination of like composition, kind of art recognition, and then numbers. And I got really sucked into this. I didn't expect to be.

I kind of thought it was a little throwaway at first. But I guess it is, and that's maybe part of why I like it because it is kind of throwaway. It's so easy to pick up any time. and not have to like you don't need to devote a lot of time to it or remembers where you are so even if you don't finish a one of the hoops it lets you pick back up where he left off i love this game yeah and the wiping the wiping thing is wiping wiping's easy um it's just kind of satisfying it's like oh yeah it's like you're almost doing lasso uh Photoshop lasso over over a bunch of that space and it just feels satisfying when you've when you've done it so yeah a big recommendation here

It sounds like Brian likes it as well. If that's not enough for you, then, you know, I don't know what to tell you. And we can't help you. We just can't help you. This is on Apple Arcade, which means it also runs really well on M1 Max, and my M1, I play it on there when I'm in a boring Zoom call. It's a fun way to play this, and it works with a mouse just fine. Anyway, go check it out. It is called Stitch, and it is available on Apple Arcade currently, maybe somewhere else later, but for now that's where you'll get.

it. Brian, what did you bring today? People who are on multiple platforms will love this one because this is not strictly an Apple game. It is the game called Moncage. Kind of like montage, but you got a C instead of a T.

Might be pronounced Moncage, but I don't think so. I feel like it's got to be called Moncage. They'll want Steam, the App Store, and Google, and switch and all, every place. However, I would say you definitely want to play this on a touchscreen thing. So Steam Deck, your Google phone, your Apple phone, one of those. But you might, you know, I don't know what the switch play is like or keyboard and mouse play if you do it that way on Steam. But anyway, the point of the game is to get through this visual world of levels. And very, very mislike in this way. But instead of having like this big open screen, you've got this box in the center of your screen that almost looks.

It looks like it's got mirrors reflecting different worlds on either side. And what you want to do is rotate that mirrored box or rotate that box so that things on one side of the box somehow manage to match up with things on another adjacent side of the box. For example, a wheel or a track or a ladder, things like that. And as you move that box, as you make that wheel on one panel match up with a wheel on another panel, that rotates and a new area opens up. This looks like a trip. My gosh.

Sorry. It is a trip. It is so, it is so fun. It has got such, like, the graphics are gorgeous. It is, it's just a beautiful game to play.

And it's another one where you can kind of pick up and put down, if you ever get stuck, you can like press down with two fingers and it'll highlight the next thing that you should be looking at to try and match up. And it's like, oh,

I should be looking at this totally. train track. Oh, and it kind of matches up with this bent fence over on this panel, and you get them to match up, and all of a sudden, the train goes off the track onto the fence in the other area and opens up another thing. That's wild,

dude. Look at that. It is really, really cool. I'm showing some extended gameplay here, and I'm getting this today. This looks insane. Yeah, yeah. It's great. No micro-transactions or trans-ranger-trans. I think it's Apple Arcade, maybe it's not Apple Arcade because they wouldn't be able to put it on.

They can't put it on Steam, they just can't put it on Google or on Android. Yeah, so since this is on Google phone as well, then it's probably just a regular. You pay for it or is it free? I think I paid for it. I'm trying to, I bought it a while ago. Yeah, $4.99 on the App Store. Nice. Worth it.

You'll get, you know, they say it takes you four or five hours to get through the whole game. I'm just having a blast going through and watching the animation from everything. Moncauge, M-O-N-C-A-G-E, made by the fine folks at Uptillusion and Nintendo Switch, Android, Microsoft Windows, and Mac and iOS. So pretty much everything. That sounds great. I love the art style. I think this looks awesome. Almost like puzzle box, but obviously, you know, different than just open the drawer and find the key.

Right. Yeah, but very similar to those, what the room or the box, things like that, those games. Yeah, I love those games. I do too. All right. You've sold me. I'm in. There you go. So Stitch and Moncage were our two games, too. Very, very nice. There you go. Those are your app slapies for the day. And that's going to do it for us. We're going to get out of here. And when we come back tomorrow, we'll have a full day, you know, morning of stuff, regular show. We'll have a Bill. We'll have a Bobby who will call Bill. Yeah, we'll call Bill Bobby, Bobby Bill. it'll all be fine someone's making shit out of foam the other one's talking about the moon i don't know

whatever and then wednesday we're i'm gonna do gonna repeat this so the people don't go where's the show today right now me saying it's just now they're just gonna joke now they're gonna all do it because they think they're fun the pod feeding thing no show on wednesday oh pod fading okay that means that we will not be here wednesday and i'm just letting you know early we'll tell you again tomorrow and then we just won't be here wednesday and then we'll be back thursday okay we'll be back It's fine. It'll be fine. It'll be okay.

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That's patreon.com slash TMS. for all your other needs for this show, you can find them at frogpants.com slash TMS. All right, I think that's it, Brian, let's get out of here. Do you have a song we can play here? I have a song. Yes, Pirate Ian wrote in and said,

Ola, covermaster, I tried to submit a song last month but realized today that I sent the request to the wrong place. Two and a half years ago, I met my best friend and love of my life, Ashley, her birthday falls on Valentine's Day. So, technically, I'm only a month late. nice john prines in spite of ourselves has been in heavy rotation throughout our relationship so covers of that or any john prine covers would be great ashley he says i love you but i could eat

i could eat what uh i could eat right it just says it in quotes but i could eat but i could eat uh yeah and then love the show dough d o h pirate ian all right pirate ian this is for your girlfriend let's party be safe out there be safe yep yeah apparently that's a little between the two of them so how cute i hope uh all right so um i don't have a cover of uh in spite of ourselves by john prine but i'm a big john prine fan did a whole tribute show for him when he passed away a few years ago um let's get to this one right here this is uh might be one of my favorite john prine songs personally and uh great for a a sweet little couple that likes this sort of thing it's called let's talk dirty and hawaiian and uh this cover is performed by

Those Darling's from the Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows a tribute to John Pryan. It came out in 2010. Here are Those Darlens, and let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian. ticket to the land in the top of a tree A luai hole in Milwaukee Hello, I keep

Just step down from the airplane When I heard I said Waka Waka Waka Nooka Nuka Waka Nuka Waka Nuka What you like a Lid Hey! Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian Whisper in my ear

Kikapooka Maka Wawahini are the words I long to hear Lay a coconut on fratiki What's ahead and looka-brooketeer Let's talk about dirty in Hawaiian Say the words I long to hear It's a ukulele-hame It's a ukulele-hamehounous sunset

Listen to the grass cut sway Drink a room from a pineapple Outing on a looominy bed Steel guitars are all playing What's talking with their hands Give me, give me up a joke Make a wish I won't talker with five understead Oh! Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian

Whisper in my ear Kika-pooka-Miko-a-Wahini All the words I long do hear Lay it open out of my dicky What the heck, I'm look, and look at tears Let us smoke we're dirty in wine Say the words I'm known to hear I'm going to be able to be.

I'm going to be. I'm going to be. When I bought a chunk of junker with my moon, sending to the folks back, I never have the chance to dance a Hulu Well, I guess I should have no When you start talking to the sweet Wahini Walking in the pale of light Oko doka what I said a nagarok,

Suspambach, so far I said it right Oh, let's talk dirty in Hawaiian Whisper in my ear Kika-pooka Makawa Wahini Are the words I long to hear Be. Lay a coconut on my tiki. What the heck amooka, mooka, dear?

Let's talk dirty in Hawaii say the words I long to hear. Let's talk dirty in Hawaiian, say the words I long to hear. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more shows like this at frogpants.com. There's a chicken in the room.