The Morning Stream - TMS 2455: Original Flavor Dax

Episode Date: April 19, 2023

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Coming up on TMS, you'll get no points, no prize, and no lieutenant y'ar! Forgetting Gary Marshall. Who vacations in Ohio? Remind me that this is fun. Quark the pimp. Swag crap, coming down the pipeline. Come for the pizza. Stay for the TMS. Crisis on infinite kids.

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the morning stream, the morning stream, morning stream, morning stream. This is the morning stream, with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett. Now we have 20% more cilliot hydroxide and erotic acid. There was a little bit more there that I forgot. It was, yeah, a little plus there. A little bonus.

A little extra content that Scott forgot was going to play. Hey, everybody, welcome to a Tuesday edition. No, is it Tuesday? Wednesday edition of all things. The Tuesday edition that we're doing on Wednesday. So Bill, Bobby, hope you're ready. again things are little nuts i got table full of freaking swag crap we're trying to get that all ready to go and then we got another box supposed to arrive today if it doesn't arrive today i get nervous

and if it doesn't arrive then we got to have it maybe ship to Vegas i don't know but you know how this stuff goes brian's got his own worries i got this stupid swag apocalypse to worry about don't worry when we get to Vegas everything will settle everything to be fine it will it uh you know i just it you think i wouldn't have to remind myself of this, but I just keep reminding myself, this is fun. It is fun. You have to do that. You actually have to do it. I agree. I agree. And this was, this came

from Fly on the Wall, David Spade, Dana Carvey show where they had Malaney on, which is a great interview, by the way. Really, really good. Especially talking about like, you know, the crap that he's done lately. The crap that he's gone through and stuff like that. Sure. Sure. But

he talks about like those jitters you get right before you go out on stage for SNL and basically you quell them all just by going what am I doing this is fun oh this is like you know that's interesting and I thought about somebody who's got to be like super that's a ton of pressure SNL biggest sketch comedy

of all time. It's live I mean gosh the effort that it takes to read Q cards for 90 minutes just as I mean I'm half I'm half convinced of the reason that a bunch of ex-SNL people always have these huge movie careers and TV careers is because the

rigors of that show, this is the work ethic of it is it will make, it will harden you into a machine. Like you will do great work after that. I would bet that, uh, uh, it's a lot easier to create a movie you know, that's stretched

over time. Right. Then it is to do the pressure of one week of preparation, script writing, comedy performance, rehearsal, blah, blah, of SNL. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think it probably all seems like cakewalk after that. Probably. But then, you know, some of them die of drug overdoses, so what do I know? But, you know, I mean, it must not all be pudding and cream over there.

I don't know. I mean, there are what, four? Well, that's a lot, isn't it? I don't know. Maybe I can I even come up with four? Belushi, Farley. Well, Hartman was his weird wife, so that doesn't care. Yeah, exactly.

Not a drug overdose. Not his drug overdose anyway. No, she was on something. Is that it? That's probably it. That might be it. Yeah, so out of the hundreds of people, we're playing with the averages now. It's like people who have seven kids and wonder why two of them are rebellious, you know?

It's because you have seven kids. You're going to have the numbers. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yes. That's like people who are, I remember a fertility doctor back in the day when Kim and I were just getting going to family and stuff, said if you, and I think this is scientifically true. It could be wrong. but he said if you keep trying to have kids you will eventually have as many boys as you do girls

it'll always equal out kind of like rolling dice right it's like flipping a coin i don't think it quite works that way if you could have kids if you could have kids in perpetuity like just keep having them even if you had 10 and they were all girls the first time you will eventually equal out is the idea and you have an infinite number of kids right which people don't have right they don't have that. So it's, this is a, this is the thing that's impossible to be practical about because nobody can have infinite kids. Yeah. I don't know. I think, um, is it, is it exactly 50-50 that you'll have a boy or a girl? Or is there genetically even some, uh, like a, propensity one direction or the other? Like, right, exactly, 49.5% and 50.5% or something. Totally

could be. I mean, like a, like, you're rolling. or flipping a coin, I think you're right. If you flipped a coin infinite number of times, and the coin wasn't weighted, if the coin's not weighted, perfectly. Coins don't have memory is the problem. Right. Every flip of that coin is a 50-50 shot. So there is no evening out of things. That's like, listen, we're going to Vegas. That's a first thing people need to look at is every, the machines don't have memory, except for maybe the slot machines, you know, sex in the city slot machine. But that's a slap machine actually But the

Like doing the roulette wheel That ball Even if it does 12 reds in a row Does not have the memory of what it does And so there's just as much a chance That it's going to do a red as it is a black There's a reason or that's the reason why Vegas doesn't have I mean Christmas vacation

Was trying to make fun of this But they don't have any like really basic games Like flipping a coin is not a game you play in Vegas Because Oh you mean a Vegas vacation Not Christmas vacation That's what I meant Vegas

So Vegas will never do a coin flip. I just take you out in the back and kick your ass. I love that. That movie's better than people think. A Wallachshund. I agree. You know what?

It feels like it needs a rewatch. It may be a couch party. Because I don't think that's a good film set movie. No, the couch party would be perfect for that. Absolutely. Maybe we do the first hour of Vegas vacation Friday. Yeah. Oh, see, we were trying to find a Vegas movie.

Yeah. That's it. That's it. Yeah, we'll book end Vegas with a couple of watchings of the first and second half of vacation. We'll watch the damn tour part and then we'll get to the Papa Georgio. The Papa Georgio James Conn stuff. We'll be later. But what I was, my point is you're never going to do that because a coin flip can never, the house can never. There's no house advantage. Yeah, exactly. They can't, right? Or they could.

They have to make it up. The house basically would come up with a rule that says if the coin flips the same way, four times in a row, the house automatically wins. Yeah, that would, they'd have to do that. That would be your 1% advantage. The, yeah, if you, the, if you look at a great website called The Wizard of Odds, they talk about all the different odds on all the different games. And that, you know, that giant wheel that's got like dollars laminated into the underneath each peg and actually I have one like you just do for a sound effect right there. Those are cool.

That is the worst game to play in the casino. And roulette is not much better. If you play perfect blackjack, then you can limit the house edge to half a percent. And perfect blackjack means that if the dealer has a 10 or a face card showing and you have a six, you have to surrender, which means give me back half my money. Oh, wow. Yeah. Which you hardly ever see anybody do in Vegas. It got to be rain man to get this stuff right.

You totally would. You'd have to know it's like, all right, well, yeah, and that's not even including. if you do card counting then yeah you can you can turn that odd into your favor but like crap it's really close to a half a percent advantage if you play um if you play pass line and odds you've got a really close to uh half a percent uh house advantage which is really really good so if you play if you're can if you're card counter do do does this affect all the big games like does it affect obviously poker but like blackjack in the same way like Blackjack is really the big one for card counting because the poker, you only do one deck.

So you can kind of say, oh, well, I know the flop has, I mean, really, there's not a real great way to card count in poker because you say, all right, well, the flop and the river have two of the four sixes out already. I've got another six. You can't really say, what are the odds that he's got another six and a higher card for his other second card? But Blackjack is really where you do your card counting. That makes sense because it's also a number game, right? It is. It's not, oh, you've got a flush and, you know, it's, no, you literally have 20 cards. I'm sorry, you have a total of 20 or whatever, and you're going to call it or you're not going to call it.

You're going to say, hit me. Like, you're working on points. So here's the question. In Rain Man, why the F were they playing poker? Because it sounds, I agree with you. They were playing blackjack. Oh, they were? Yeah, they were playing blackjack.

I don't remember. I don't remember that. I need to see that movie again. It's great. If you get called upstairs to talk to, uh, isn't it, um, oh gosh. Is somebody famous up there? I don't remember. I thought it was, I thought it was the guess is, uh, I can't really prove that you are card counting, but you look like you are card counting and you're not allowed in my casino anymore or any of my other casinos.

It is the Frank Marshall, not Frank Marshall. Um, uh, the guy that's the director and an actor. yeah that's the that's exactly why i think i know who you mean but i can't think of his name he's of that era that frank marshall era though right yeah uh he was in he was in that tom cruise nicole kidman uh wear a mask and get naked movie uh briefly he was in oh uh yes uh eyes wed shut yes gary gary marshall i think is what i'm thinking of is it is it gary marshal i think so gary marshal am i that seems right because he looks the part but oh i haven't seen rain man a long time uh no he's not listed on the cast

page it's not penny marshall's dad is gary marshal's dad i ain't know that i think so yeah news to me um anyway anyway so there you go it uh uh um Vegas wherever we're going without Vegas exactly yeah it's all about the Vegas oh the guy i'm thinking of is sydney pollock who i'm thinking of it's not oh yeah another actor director yeah that's yeah that's who i ahead of my head. He's, he's in the, uh, the eyes wide shut, which was hard to watch. Gary Marshall, not listed for Rain Man, so it must be somebody else. Anyway, that's cool. Look, if this is never going to happen to me. And it'll never happen to me. I'll never be in a casino where someone pulls me aside and, um, tells me I can't come back because I'm winning too much. This is

never going to happen. Right. You know what it is? Uh, Gary Marshall is a casino owner in Lost in America, which we've been talking about for the last couple days with the plaza cares. He's the guy that Albert Brooks is talking to in the casino, says, yeah, we can't make money as a casino if we give back everybody's half of their money. See, this is how the human brain works. We've been thinking about that for days. It had to come out somehow. It all makes sense now. Right.

Real quick here, before we get to Dunaway and some game playing. Uh, and again, or not done away. Sorry, he's not here today. Randaway. Rand away. Yeah, Randy's sitting in today. For the vacationing, Brian, he's on his way to Dayton, Ohio. I don't know why he'd go there on vacation. He never really answered that question. But maybe we'll bug him about next week. We'll say, hey, Brian. Yeah. Why Dayton? And he'll say. Why Dayton? Well, he told us why Dayton.

He did. I just don't remember. I don't either. I have no memory of it. I was too busy thinking of, what was the newspaper? I didn't even Dayton. Yeah. That happens. You bring up a city in America. Brian, my brain goes, oh, Brian, did you take, did you do a paper there every time? Yeah. I think of it every time. And there's a really good chance I did, or a neighboring city.

Yeah, that's the other best part about it. Then we can learn a little bit about the locals and where Brian had lunch one time. It's great. All right, check out this email we got from Jeff Sire in Canada. He has a word he'd like to have with us. Scott and Brian, Scott said, why doesn't the whole world just switch to one emergency number? What a great question, he says. Oh, there's no sarcasm in that at all.

None. None. I'm sure he means that in the most pure... There's no sarcasm in the whole rest of the email. Yeah, it's fine. He says, gee, why has no one thought of this before? Hmm. I'm sure if the world, in all caps, decided to go 999,

that those totally non-contrarian Americans would gladly agree. Just like the easy transition when Americans found out that the rest of the world calls soccer football. So they changed the name of that sport. that is only played in the U.S. and Canada, hmm, maybe we can put our heads together and figure out who is holding the world back from this simple decision.

You need to emphasize that last the world. Who is holding the world back from the simple decision? I mean, you know, Jeff, you have a point. As usual, you have a point. Oh, yes, exactly. I don't know why we, I mean, I didn't know, or I didn't presume that the reason we don't have a worldwide number is that we held it up

or we had other ideas. I don't, is that true? Well, it might not be that we hold it up, but, I mean, look at our track record. No, we'll stick with Imperial measurements. And you guys go ahead and have your metric. Yeah. You know, we don't have a great track record for adopting the world's. Here in America, we like to measure things by the beaver pelt, and that's just how it's going to be forever.

All right. Sorry, Canada. Sorry, rest of the world. All right. Here's a question. Yeah. Let's say America says, you know what, rest of the world, you're right. What we're going to do is start calling our, what we've been calling soccer.

We're going to start calling that football. We need a new word for the game that we currently call football. What is that new, what is that new game name? Yeah, somebody, oh, this is good. Write this in, listeners, if you got ideas. Yeah, yeah, I want to see what is your alternate, tomorrow we'll talk about if we get enough feedback. Yeah, I like that. Alternate term for football, American football.

Do you just call it pigskin playoffs? Do you call it like gridiron grease or whatever? Yeah. I don't know. I don't have a good one, which is the point here. End zone ball. End zone ball. I like it.

End zone. Because you got to get the end zone. Like basketball, you got to get in the basket. I mean, it is kind of battle ball in a lot of ways. So you can call it that. It sounds like a video game, though, is the problem. It sounds like what Fox News would do in the offseason and like, you know, well, arena football uh not so great and uh usFL okay we need the confidence about battleball exactly no i don't want

to shock anybody or ruin your day but we are very we we call we think of ourselves as hardcore traditionalists in this country i'm not saying me and brian but you know as a whole so when you change something that we see as as a quote unquote american as apple pie like the game of football or baseball or anything else you're going to have a real hard time getting people to do that There's no way. Oh, I know. Yeah, but it would be, but, you know, if, for whatever reason, the stars aligned and they said, all right, we'll finally, you know, we're tired of having to explain American soccer versus European soccer and da-da-da-da-da-da. Yeah, and we'll just golf a football like the rest of you.

That's right. I'm sorry, American football versus European football. Right. Right, right. Freedom ball. You know what? Liberty ball. Liberty ball.

Oh, my gosh. Freedom ball is pretty funny. Freedom ball is really funny Yeah, something about it's funny So, okay, we'll do that In exchange, what will the Europeans give us? What do we want out of them? Oh, they have to take Harry and Megan back.

Okay, deal, deal, shake on it, we're done. Exactly. This is the most. Now, let's see. Let's actually come up with something better. So what would Europeans have to change or give up if we start, if we let them have soccer around the world or football around the world?

Well, the UK, they need to keep. They'd probably have to kill and bury Nigel Farage and have him never talk again. That would be one thing because he bugs me. What else? I don't know. Y'all need to... I got nothing else. I got nothing else.

All right. So that's another thing. Right in and tell us what Europe gives up. Yeah. What does Europe give up in exchange for football? All right? Let us know. We're happy to deal with it.

You got to start calling them elevators. Europe, okay? Yeah, lifts. No more lorries, no more lifts, no more lifts, no more loos. Come on now. That's right. A pram. Come on.

What even is a pram? Jeez. Yeah, what even? How was that before? Yeah, exactly. Here is a text from an anonymous listener. Okay. All right.

And we know it's a text because this sound is going to be played. Or maybe it isn't. There it is. Here's what they say. On the issue of cream. Says, I too, have itchy winter calves and skins. or shins. There's no skins. It's just shins. I have skins in the game. I have skins in the game.

I spoke with my neighbor slash doctor and finally found a lotion that relieves 95% of it. It's called Saraveh Itch Relief. Yeah. I've never heard of it. We've actually got some of this upstairs and I don't know why we have it. Have you ever had an edge? Have you ever had an it? It was like, oh, this is the only way. I have to use this stuff. No. And the funny thing is, I recognize it because of that weird name, Sarave.

and I remember seeing the tube somewhere upstairs but I don't think I've ever and I've had itches I currently even have like a like a weird dry spot itch on the right there ball of my thumb right here weird and you're going to try it later and report back? I'm going to try it later yeah I'll report back

great this is what the French gave us Sarajeet itch relief thank you France wee wee a poo poo all right we're going to do battle royale now and uh or battle royale and here's the thing randy's stepping in he's stepping up really um he's going to be on twice today i know okay i know i thought i thought would just get him this would just get him out of the way early so let's enjoy this i did i did

the feud, the Tad Pooley feud, which you play on Wednesdays. And because Brian Dunaway is in Dayton, Ohio, we're going to the next best thing. Randy Jordan and the O.C. Hello, Randy. That's right. Good morning, morning. Good morning. Good. You? You, you all right? You're feeling it? Yeah. Yeah. What kind of day you haven't so far? Let's get into it. Oh, it's absolutely great. Man, I'm on my third cup of coffee. I am, I slept terribly. Yeah, that's great. Sometimes you sleep real bad and you have a, good like a good morning somehow i don't know how that works well you're the one of us then

because brian and i both have our sleeping issues four uh four 10 this morning uh and i even tried the better sleep app and i listened to somebody try and uh hypnotize me talking about laying in a field of grass on a blanket and clouds are counting down from 10 down to one and i said this is this is stupid it's terrible i want to us i'm watching season two of the wire you know all right so here's that's what's funny about that where's obar Here, yeah, where is Omar? Don't worry, Omar comes back. But here's the thing, like, that thing where they tell you,

now lay back and pretend you got a freaking monkey rubbing your, whatever. Whatever they do in those little word things trying to calm you down. It doesn't effing work. It makes my brain go 20 other directions. I start thinking about beaches. And I'm like, oh, beach is interesting. Is there sand on this beach? Oh, wait, is that a fish?

Like, I can't. Oh, no, sand, getting in a camera. Camera. We need cameras for, oh, my God, I have to have a camera. for TMS Vegas. Oh, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, you're like Anakin. You hate the sand.

Anyway, I always do that body check meditation, you know, where you're... Is that the one where you're a little glowing light follows, like goes down each part of your body that you flex. Yeah, yeah. You're just like, you're internally examining each part of your body, in your imagination, right? Yeah, yeah. And the problem is last night I had a really bad heartburn. And you just can't, what are you going to do?

Yeah. You're like going, okay, yeah, my knees are doing it. My hips are fine. Yeah. There's this huge pain in the center of me. Yeah. I'm going to sleep now. It's not going away.

Oh, my gosh. I like Pauls of the Randy is calling us from his apartment in Second Life. Oh, yeah. It's really cool to see. Look at that. This is great. Because I ain't subscribing to Nitro, baby. I don't know why.

I should. Yeah. I've been on Discord for like seven years now. And I use it for work. I should subscribe to Nitro. You should. I subscribe to Nitro, but I don't, I think I get bigger files when I upload them or something. I don't know what I actually get out of it.

is one of the perks is that I can send you, you know, 25-minute songs. Yeah, which we play here on the show all the time, these 25-minute songs, these you refer to. Speaking to 25 minutes, let's get right to it and talk, have a game. Brian, you want to explain these rules who our winners might be and all that? Sure. Well, do you want to pull in a player? Oh, shit. Yeah, we got to do that.

What am I thinking? There's no done-away thing's throwing off my groove here. I know, I know, because it feels like an ass's day, but it's a feud day. Oh, good news. We might actually get I Am Sci-Fi. in here. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, he's not only fourth, but he's back, and I told him I'd give him preferential

anyway, but he's literally fourth, so this might work. Let's see if he joins us. It's ringing. It's ringing. May the fourth be sci-fi. Yeah. That's what I hope. It's ringing. I don't know. I have this premonition that I'm going to lose this game. Yeah? Okay. Why do you feel that way? I don't know. I just have this premonition.

You know, we can actually, we don't even have to play it then. We could just go ahead and give a... Just give my sci-fi. stuff. I'll save this one for a little. No, I'm kidding. For some reason, it ain't working. So I'm going to

I'm going to try a different one. Here's number five. Oh. Lucky Phil in Australia. Oh, Lucky Phil. Which means it's probably freaking crack in the morning over there. Lucky Phil, is that you?

Lucky Phil, are you there? Hello. Hello. There we go. How the heck are you? I'm doing all right. How you doing it? I'm doing good. What time is it where you are? At the moment, it is 1.36 a.m.

Oh, my Lord. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Well, don't. You know what? There you go. It's the morning stream for you as well. Yeah.

It's just earlier in the morning. When I have Dallas at time and you guys don't, you start at 3 a.m. So, yeah. Oh, all right. Well, I like when we're closer to whatever your bedtime is. So don't kill yourself over there. You're going to be today's a participating contestant. And Brian will explain.

how all this works right now, won't you? Let's do that. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy, nerdy topics, and Scott and Randy are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Lucky Phil, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Randy. If your team wins, you'll get a prize package. That includes a couple of sequels, XCOM 2,

payday two. Oh, I love that. I love that board game payday two. It's good. Both of those are incredible games. Payday two is, a payday three is on its way, but two is so worth playing right now. Oh, cool. Excellent. By the way, big thanks to Rodney Larson for sending in those games. Nice. All right. Randy, Scott, put your hands on your buzzers. All right. You're, the buzzers I shipped out to you ahead of time. I should be right there. Got them. All right. We asked the tadpool this, by the way, 180-something responses because there's

a new tad-pooly survey. Make sure you guys go get there and we'll give you links right after the game today. So, if you have not submitted your answers to the survey, we need them. We need them. Get in there. We asked 180-something tad-poolers to give their best answer to this.

Excluding captains, who is your favorite Star Trek character? Scott. Excluding. Excluding captains. Excluding captains. Well, I know what mine is, but there's no way it's on the list.

So the Tadpool probably said Spock. He was a captain eventually, but that doesn't count, right? We're not counting their ultimate ranks. We're not talking about like weird further lore and all that stuff. Okay. All right. Show me Spock. Number two answer.

One answer will beat it. Randy, do you have a guess as to what that answer is? Well, there's a lot of guesses, aren't there? There are. I'm going to guess I'm going to guess Will Reiker because I have to. You have to. You look a little like him. You sit like you. All right. Show me William T. Reiker. Oh, way down there. Number eight,

but Scott gets the play because he's got a higher number on his, even though it's less points. Yeah, you're literally ahead right now, Randy, but this could change real quick because Phil and I... It could change really quick. Yep. We're about to do it. We could all get bogged down in Voyager. and miss all them. We could. All them.

So here's what I would say, Phil. It feels like the, because in the light of season three of Picard, which is kind of universally, everyone loves it, there's probably a lot of tendency toward the TNG in here, if I had to guess. So do you have one that you think like probably beats or, you know, is higher or lower on the list? I don't care. We just got to get our points. It's just because of the names have it. Lieutenant Yarr!

Oh, let's do Lieutenant Yard! Lieutenant Yard! You'll get no. Okay, all right. Show me Lieutenant Yard. Oh, man, Tadpool. Amazingly enough. Wow. Not even an action figure.

Thank you very much. Yeah. I think we can assume we're looking for people who were on for more than like one and a half seasons. All right, all right. But might be. But, yeah. I thought the main... More Lieutenant Yard didn't get up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But here's the thing with her, though, like, you know, we always think, what's the Tadpole say? That's like the thing around here. And that absolutely is one I thought they would say. For sure. It's a very common meme that we do here on the show. Now they're going to go make it.

There literally was no Lieutenant Yard. Yeah, they're going to, now all this is is title fodder. That's all this is now. That's fine. That's right. Exactly. That's fine. All right, Randy.

It's over to you. Who's me. It's me. It's me. It's Randy. It's Randy. It's Randy. The world's okay is dead.

Let's find, let's find data on this list. Data, sure. Let's look for some data. There's a data breach. Let's see if it breached the top 10. Show me, data. Number one. Number one answer.

Data, your number one, data. Data is number one. Yep. Sweet. Number one is number eight. Right. Eight. And Mr. Spock is number two.

Big number two. Okay. Big number two. I thought blue is blue. No, blue is yellow. Wait, I thought yellow was, no, red is green and green is red. This is actually quite tricky, right? It is.

Because what people would say is their favorite. Wow. Yeah. That could be all over the place, right? Yeah. Could be. I have a favorite, but I know it's not on the list. I don't even dare bring it up.

Okay. Across all of Star Trek, though, I feel like there's a lot of love, especially when you get into the movies, there's a lot of love for Mr. Scott. And so I'm going to say Scotty and just hope. he gets right into the bottom of the top ten. Hoping that a lot of people said it, but not that many people said him. I got you.

All right. Giving it all she's got, Captain. What number am I? Number three. Okay. Wow. Wow. Well, it's good. I didn't expect it to be number three. That's surprising. We'll take it, though.

All right. Well, there is also a lot of love almost more outside of Star Trek than inside Star Trek. for Lovar Burton. And I think it would be really nice if Lovar Burton was the answer for enough people to make this list.

So let's just say Mr. LaForge. All right. Sure. All right. Show me Jordy LaForge. I'm going to say all the card accent. Number nine. That's some good points right there.

Nice. Sweet. There are premonition. There are five answers left. my premonition on this thing was about uh what was about the title of the of the actual question right like it was like it was like oh man if they come in here and ask about what the tab pool pool thinks about chain restaurants i'm just going to die on the bind but this is actually a topic i know a lot about it's great feels good let's uh let's get to um let's get to everybody's favorite bit character um and i'm and i may be just giving the the the The guess is back over to Scott here, but everyone loves Garrick from Deep Space Nine. I feel like there's going to be some people who said Garrick. Do you mean that simple plain and simple Taylor?

It's just a Taylor, plain and simple Garrett. All right. Show me, Garrick, Gerick. Oh, that's a shame. People did say him. However, he only made it all the way to number 12, just out of the top 10, sadly. All right. This is our chance to remind people

That actor was the same guy They got torn apart in Hellraiser Hellweiser 1 Had the hooks in his face But the mattress, Scott, the mattress Yeah, the mattress And he was the bad guy in Dirty Harry, right? He was

And he was just kind of a sort of a dick And Cobra There you go That's right Phil, you know what I like? I like I'm waffling here Between a couple of characters

But I feel like I really like Oh geez, Wharf is who I was going to say, Wharf. Oh, yes. That's a great answer. You feel good about Worf? Let's do Worf.

Sure. Sure, everybody loves Worf. My favorite spinoff of Star Trek. Show me Worf. Nice. Number four. I would watch the shit out of a sitcom called Everybody loves Worf. Oh, yeah.

Not a problem. Lucky Phil. Worf, did you eat all of the lasagna? This stupid laugh track, it would kill me. What if you were without honor? I like it. Phil, do you have a, do you have a guess, I thought? I know better all about Star Trek, but what about the doctor? Oh, let's do McCoy. Yeah.

This could have just been doctors, this category. Yeah, it could have been. Let's do McCoy. I like McCoy. He's cool. All right. Zibla blah and jump for joy. Just got a request for Dr. McCoy. something like that anyway show me bones number seven

that's a good point ourselves a game again here we go here we go yeah points good points indeed something tells me quark is on here so quark

the rambunctious bar owner slash pimp whatever he was sure all right he was kind of a pimp show me uh yeah

I was going to say the owner of quarks bar quark which you know that's the guy She'll be quirk. Oh, come on. Yeah. I thought about quark and Garrick, and I figured Garrick would actually be higher than quark. Yeah, quark, uh, only one person said quark.

So tied for 20th place. That is so incorrect. He's a great character, you guys. I agree. You're all wrong. There is kind of a spread of characters around the frangy, right? Like it's him and his brother and the brother's kid. Yeah, but neither.

of those characters or anyone's favorite anything. Those are terrible characters, but Quark's awesome. But the other two, they're bad. They're not good. Yeah, yeah. Not a fan. All right, Randy. What about the Wallace, Sean?

Oh, I liked him. He was good. Yeah, he was good. He was perfect. He was perfect. Yeah. There's only, like, there's only really two good Ferengis, and it's quark and him, and that's it. Yeah, that's true.

Everything else is just really annoying. Quark's mom. Quark's mom is pretty awesome. Oh, she's all right. Yeah. a little backgroundy but good good enough okay I'm still

I'm still taking stabs at number 10 I know I shouldn't be but I've tried really hard to get that number 10 guess and I am going to go with uh uh Sulu

I think Sulu yeah that's a good one you took Phil's idea oh my gosh all right show me Sulu running around with that sword What? There it is.

It's mostly overrated by the amazingness of George DeKay in his later years. Exactly. Number 18 in the list, by the way. People do still like Sulu. I just remember how ripped he was running around with a foil when he was in that one episode. I forget what that was called. All right. We've got a chance here. We also only have one strike left. That's right. Three answers left on the board. I feel pretty strongly that we've got to stay TNG, but I don't know why. It's not a bad way to go.

What was the name of the lady that there was controversy with being kissed in that old one? Oh, oh, oh, Michelle Nichols. Yeah, that's Lieutenant or that's, you'reura is who that is. Baha. Yeah. I don't know if she's going to be someone's first. favorite. It might be dangerous. Let me think.

You know what? Yeah, true. It's Phil. No, listen, it's Phil's insight. I'm tapping into here. Let's do it. Let's go with the late Nichelle Nichols and her fine role as Lieutenant Uhura. Good one. Good one.

Show me Uhura. For the game. Ah, shit. God damn it. Again, I know nothing about that. What a bad episode to pull you in on. Not living up to your name.

Well, you know what? The end's not over. Randy still has a guess. Yeah. And if he clears the board, you still win. If he runs the board, we have a winner. Yeah. Exactly.

Okay. So, Scott. Yeah. My next possible two are Q. Oh, that's good. Which I think is a pretty good answer. Yeah. And O'Brien.

Oh, you know, everyone loves Miles O'Brien. Who do you think is more likely to be... Well, now that you've done that, it makes me worry that we haven't thought of enough villains because Q, I think, would count as a villains. Complicated a bit of villain, nonetheless. So would, like, the Borg Queen be on here? Like, there's a bunch of these.

But if I was to guess, you're probably... You're probably right. Well, like, we're missing five and six. These are above McCoy and Rick. Yeah. Like, who could that be? I don't know. It's hard. You know what?

I guess we've got to, there's a pattern on the board. Yeah. So I'm actually going to, I'm actually going to step outside of my own pattern here and say, let's find Odo. I think we're looking for Odo. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's great. Yeah, good call. That's a good one.

Okay. All right. Going with Odo. Yes, Brinney. Aborjean-Wall. Show me Benson. Okay. All right.

Well, we did it. We're finished. That's all right. Any excuse. to say Benson, I'm happy to hear it. I love it. All right, let's look at what these mysterious number five, six, and ten were number five. Wesley Crushin. Really?

Get off my bridge, you piece of shit. Okay, yeah. Well, that's just, I mean, once again, that's a joke insert. That's the tadpool. Absolutely. That's tadpooling, padpolling. Is what that is. Let's see.

Show me number six. Oh, seven of nine's a good one. Seven of nine. okay she's been having a hell of a moment lately probably should have thought of her she has especially with Picard yeah and uh let's go to one that that the tadpool kept shouting but um never even came up as a thought with you guys oh dachs jadzia dax jadzia in particular not the not the stand-in dax we no one liked at the end but jad zia right the vanilla original flavor yeah if it went to 15 i would

have started guessing seven of nine and dax it just i couldn't imagine they were in the top ten over like um yeah and you would have been yeah cue you guys mentioned q he was number 11 saru was number 13 uh from voyager the doctor the hologram picardo uh doctor was number 14 divana tendy uh 15 from uh lower decks our only lower decks appearance i think in this interesting interesting that we got tendy instead of boimler because everybody everybody remembers Boy, everybody loves Tendi. Geinen, Barclay, and Tribbles. Somebody just said Tribles.

I think they really just meant that one sexy Tribble, the really horny Tribble that actually was the cause of all the problems. Stupid Trouble, with all its baby having. Here's the quick thing I was going to say about a character that I was hoping. Oh, Saru, you said he's on there, but I wanted to pick him so bad because I really truly believe this. Like, Discovery, whatever. but Saroo is like one of the best certainly new Star Trek characters

I think one of the best ever and it's he is the most fleshed out fully formed just love him. Just love him developed characters. Exactly. He just deserves more credit and I wish Tony Todd, what's his name? Whatever's name is. Doug Jones. Doug Jones. Nothing like Tony or Todd. That's Tony Todd, yes. You know,

shooting bees out of his mouth. Anyway, he's awesome and should not be left alone. Excellent work, everybody, except, oh, man, we have a loser. We have a loser in our midst. Yeah, sorry. How do you feel, Phil? What are you going to do with yourself now that you've lost? Ah, the end is not.

The end is not. Yeah. Well, our best. That's all right. All right. Thanks having me on. It was fun. I'll catch his letter.

All right. We'll see you later, man. Please, tell you, take you off the thing. Hold that second. You know. You know, if Strange New Worlds was, or am I? You're on here. You're here.

It really sounded like you drop me. If Strange New Worlds had, you know, seven seasons and five movies behind it already. Yeah. Like, it would be really, really interesting to have this conversation because, like, it's got the most interesting characters who are being played by really great actors at the lower levels. Big green. So, like, a Nurse Chapel played by Jess Bush, like, very interesting, really well thought out character, you know, but we're, we're once a season. in. Nobody really knows yet. How soon we're supposed to get new season this year later or something this year, I think?

Isn't season two soon? Okay. Yes. I really, really like season one. It's such a great show. Yeah, really jazzed about that. Another one that comes to mind for me is Navia, the Erica Ortega's character. Just, you know, because of her hair. It's amazing. Oh, of course.

Is she the, like, the white, grayish white, light colored hair? Is she the one? she's the one with a really short shocking hair Short shocking Ortegis Ortegis Duh The one that's the She's in charge of security

She's the wharf of the ship Oh yeah yeah Yeah she's awesome And meanwhile Rebecca Romaine has super strength And she's trying to hold her back Yeah Rebecca Romer Well you know she can also turn into other creatures She's a shape shifter

And oh Wayne I'm sorry A different role for her Very much Anyway hey Randy will be back here later Because we're going to do recommendals So you haven't heard the last of him. Randy, we look forward to seeing your sexy body one more time. Oh, they're going to kill this.

Oh, this one time. It didn't work. Son of a bitch. Hi, Randy. It did it again. I thought this was done. I thought it wasn't going to do it. All right.

There you go. I don't know why I did that. I had a nice little discussion. Oh, you did? Did you guys solve all the problems? We got caught up. Yeah. Okay.

That's awesome. We're going to do all the problems in the world except for Discord. Fantastic. Let's do this new story. Good morning, good morning, everybody. In the news this morning, good morning. Oh, look, it's the news, and it's brought to you by. Brought to you by a brand new episode of Soundogogy featuring one of my favorite bands.

Really, it's one guy. It's a guy named Matt Johnson, but he's not known in music as Matt Johnson. He's known as The The, and an incredible career, incredible library of music, still recording, still putting out music, and very big on the social commentary in later years. He's got a lot to say that guy. But check out our newest episode The The Over there at Soundography.com. Sounds wonderful.

No relation to your Matt Johnson. No, my brother Matt Johnson, doesn't know how to make music If his life depended on it. That's right. He just doesn't know. Here's a quick story for you. A teen age 13. That's a teen.

That seems a little redundant for a headline, but okay, sure. Yeah, seems kind of weird. Teen 13, that's literally what they wrote here. That's so stupid. I know, it is. Like, you could probably just, leave out the 13. Teen gets, yeah.

Or a 13-year-old or teenager. Right, exactly. Either of that. Yeah. Seems really dumb. Anyway, I got stuck in a claw machine at a North Carolina theme park and got banned for a year as a result. Oh, man.

This is not what happened to the My Pillow guy, Lindell, Mike Lindell. What did he do? I miss that. He wanted so bad to be on Jimmy Kimmel's show and talk about, you know, how much he loves a DJ, a former president, DJ. DJ, yeah. That he agreed to be in a claw machine for the interview. And so,

really? He'll put him in a claw machine and conducted an interview with Lindell, like Lindell, the My Pillow guy. Did he get a chance to spew any of his hoo-ha, or is he just in the... 100% did. Yeah, exactly. Jimmy, you know, there's so many great things that Trump has done for us, Jimmy, you know, Jimmy Kimball, you're,

You know, he goes, he gets his name wrong. It's great. He calls him Kimball. Please tell me he called him Kimball. He did. I missed out. I don't really watch late-night TV anymore. You'll find it on YouTube.

It's great. It's really weird. And then a kid comes and starts playing with the claw machine while Lindell is in it. That's perfect. That's what you want. That is not a toy I want, though, if he comes out of it. I don't want a Lindel toy. No, I don't want anything that Lindel sat on.

Yeah. I don't want your pillow. I don't want his pillow. I don't want my pillow. Keep them on. off of everybody's pillow. So anyway, this kid, he climbed inside this claw machine

to steal a prize because that's what you do in your 13. Jeez, you got to be pretty thin to like get into that. I don't know how you get into that. Yeah,

he must be a spindly little dude. Got stuck over the weekend, still not small enough, I guess, says the spokesperson at the theme park. Park officials learned the 13-year-old boy got caught in the Cosmic XL bonus game. That's the name of the thing. He was treated for unspecified injuries

and released after spending 17 minutes in the machine. Weber said the boys, as the spokesman said, the boys had been banned from the park for one year for the reported theft attempt. I will say this, Brian, with the exception of when I was in Japan and they had claw machines with, like, really expensive, like, electronics in it and stuff. I've never met a claw machine where this, it was worth getting stuck in it to steal anything out of it.

I can't think of it. Not even a little bit. No. Unless it's one, like I said, like in Vegas, you'll see one that's like, here's a brand new iPhone 14 or here's a. right you know things like that or whatever i mean there are some there's some there's some there was some amazing because they were you'd go into a place in japan and it would be nothing but claw machines and this would be like anime figures and this one would be

a Pokemon characters like giant plush Pokemon's and and these other things yeah and uh i'm looking at the one he's in here and it looks like just really shitty plush toys honestly not worth it not worth it no for sure this kid learns his lesson it doesn't try to do it again But here's our lesson. We're going to take a break. When we come back, at the end of this lesson, you will have heard a song, and you will then partake in Tom Merritt's tech time discussion. And then after that, recommendals,

where we'll have both Nicole and Randy, although I haven't, I don't know if I've gotten a thing from Nicole yet, a clip. She sent a YouTube link. Oh, okay. I can make that work. So all of that coming up in a moment. But first, Brian here has to tell us what song is being played. So what do you got?

Right on, my man. We got this one, courtesy of Big Loud Rock. Big thanks to them for sending this over to me and Clarion Call Media. This is an alternative rock artist who goes by the name Jaguar Twin. But before you start typing that into your search engine, it's spelled G, I'm sorry, J-A-G-W-A-R. Not Jaguar, but Jaguar. Oh, War. Brand new single.

And he's going on tour supporting Transviolet, started in Santa Ana, California. last weekend and extends through May so you can go check out everything that he's going to be doing from his latest album 33 again available now via big loud rock here is new single from that album it's called great time to be human here is jaguar twin lost his own mother, loved him to death and smothered his brother. The kids in the street all shouted with joy. New shoes on their feet, they danced to destroy. The boy became man, then ran to his lover.

She cast a spell that bring back his mother. They went to the preacher and he banged a gun. The crooks and believers are sing the same song. Rainbow, butterflies, what is all this? Shanghai, summertime, follow your bliss. Everything on the earth keeps blooming. What a great time to be human Rainbow butterflies, what is all this

Shanghai summertime follow your bliss Everything on the earth keeps blooming What a great time to be human What a great time to be human What a great time to be human There once was a girl who drank from the fountain And she left her youth halfway up a mountain And she went back to get it

But someone was there They had book committed and shaved up her head They threw her a party with diamonds and spools But they were bloodsuckers with crocodile shoes She went to the chemist to make her a dog But he was dyslexic so he made a god Rainbow butterflies, what is all this? Shanghai summertime follow your bliss

Everything on the earth keeps blooming What a great time to be human Rainbow butterflies, what is all this Shanghai summertime follow your bliss Everything on the earth keeps blooming What a great time to be human Summertime What a great time to be human

Rainbows, butterflies What is all this? Shake hard, summertime Follow your miss Everything on the earth keeps blooming What a great time to be you with To be human What a great time to be human

human. What a great time to be human You've never, you've never, you've never, like show this pizza place. We'll serve you a pizza second to nut, so comfort pizza, stay for the fun. My nipples are killing me. You fat slob, this is the morning stream. Ah, why isn't it working? I'm going to fix that. Two days in a row, damn it.

That'll teach me to buy this freaking software before I've tested it fully. Anyway, hey, that's the new Fargo. It's fine. It's just they changed a couple of interface things that just mess with my flow. And I got to get my head around it. Anyway, hey, Brian, who was that? one more time, please. That was Jaguar Twin, and the brand new single, Great Time to Be Human.

Check out their brand new album, or his brand new album, 33, Jaguar Twin, J-A-G-W-A-R. By the way, you played that showbiz pizza thing. Couple things about that. First off, I love how they describe their pizza as second to none, which means in a list of good pizzas, you've got none and them right after none. So they're slightly better than no pizza, really.

what is that phrase second to none why do we use that yeah exactly like yeah right after no pizza well I guess this is the next best pizza is show this pizza yeah that don't we're the set the term second to none is broken it is broken and then uh this week tonight did a thing uh John Oliver did a thing this week where he talked about homeownership and HOAs and said if you're under 35 don't worry you don't have to watch this because you will never own a home so instead watch this other site that we created this other video that is the history of chucky cheese uh and it's called this squeak tonight wow dot com and it's it's worth checking i will be doing that that sounds great to me all right check this out the world of tomorrow will be as cold as sunlight tuned through photochromic windows

well that's the rumor i ride it naked yeah the rumor is that and tom merritt who rides it naked has joined us once again on a Wednesday. Not a rumor. It's a confirm. You could cite that in Wikipedia if you want. Confirm truth. When you guys see him in Vegas, ask him, he'll tell you. He knows. He knows what's up. Tom Merritt here joining us on Wednesday for his tech moment. You know, we all have a little tech moment once a day. I have one multiple times. Yeah, your day is nothing but tech moments, I feel like that and sardines and kimchi, I've noticed. Radish kimchi this week too.

Oh. Not just cabbage kimchi. Very nice. similar thing happening here. Which is called cocktum. See, you know all the words and everything. Here's the thing. I grew up with three Korean siblings, right? I should know more stuff.

Tom Merritt watches three BTS videos and two dramas, K dramas, and he knows it all. He knows it all. It just doesn't make sense. I haven't been paying attention, clearly. I don't know what my deal is. That's the problem.

Open up your mind. That's right. Tom Merritt, always good to have you here. I'm sure there's something going on in the tech world that we would all like to hear. So what's happening? So you heard about this love is blind fiasco, right? Yes.

No, I don't know what that is. What is it? Okay, so for people don't know, love is blind is a reality show on Netflix. You can guess from the title, kind of what the premise is. That part isn't as important as the fact that... Blind people date. Okay. That they always do these reunion episodes, right?

Where all the people who got eliminated get back together and they talk about their controversies, etc. Netflix has generally done them on demand. because Netflix doesn't do live stuff, but in wake of the Chris Rock live stream, in wake of their commitment to stream the SAG Awards live,

they decided to do the reunion special for Love is Blind live, and it did not happen on Sunday. It absolutely failed. Allegedly some people were able to see it live, but a vanishingly

small number of people. Most people got an error screen, or in my case, because Eileen was seeing the problems, by the time we got over there, it was just the red circle. You didn't even get anything. Oh, no. Oh, my gosh. That's bad. So that, you know, was a red mark on Netflix's already red logo.

And they put out a sincere apology. 19 hours after it was supposed to stream live on Sunday, they did post the reunion special on demand. They went ahead and shot it live to tape, so to speak, but it was not available for most people to stream live. Now, I hear that this was really just all in anticipation of Netflix's new documentary Deadstream, The Love is Blind, live stream scandal. Yeah, not to be confused with the movie. I had heard that as well, but co-CEO Greg Peters did not bring up. Now, he didn't deny it, Brian. There we go, good, as long as that's the case.

But he did not mention it when he addressed it in the Netflix earnings call on Tuesday. Would you like to hear what Greg Peters said? Yeah, I would like to hear that. Peter's own work. What do you say? He said a lot of things along the apology. Like, we're really sorry about this. We know people.

It's embarrassment, et cetera. He said a lot of that. But here's the important part. We've got the infrastructure. We had just a bug that we introduced. Actually, when we implemented some changes to try to improve lives. streaming performance after the last live broadcast, referring to Chris Rock. In March, we just didn't see this bug in internal testing because it only became apparent

once we put multiple systems interacting with each other under the load of millions of people trying to watch Love is Blind. That sounds right, though. It's a bug. I've talked to a person in the industry who's very familiar with live streaming and the difficulties they're in. And before this, they had said, it's probably either that there was a connectivity problem out of the studio

or he said if some people were actually able to see it it was probably a configuration error of some sort coming out of the live stream into the CDNs and if you don't know what a CDN is it's content distribution network you don't have one Netflix server serving up the video for everybody you have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of them around the world so that you're always getting one that's coming close to you and it reduces the lag time and distributes the load if there's a problem in

how that live video, because remember, it's easy to distribute it on demand. You just copy it over to all the servers. Not everybody has to get it at the same time. With live, all the servers need to be getting the bits at around the side. Same time, you want to reduce the latency as much as possible. If you have a configuration error there, it might look great internally, because you're only doing it in a simulation. And then when you put it out, stuff crops up. So that seems to be what happened. Yeah. And from what I hear, they're not even going to, like, they just didn't do it, as opposed to

recording it and just releasing it later, they, they canceled the, the episode, which surprised me. No, no, they were, they, they actually did film it. They recorded it live to tape. And 19 hours after it was supposed to go up, they, they made it available for people to watch. Okay. And here's the key reason that you need to know this, Brian.

Yes. 6.5 million people watched it on demand. Already. Already had seen it. This show must be... It posted at noon Pacific on Monday. I guess I've been in the dark on this show in general

because I didn't know this was like this monster hit. I had no idea this year. There's too many hits to keep track of these. So many hits. Do you know I watched the first season and the premise was interesting as with a lot of shows like this. I think it's you either find the people hateful. Yeah.

Yeah. or not, or you see, there's a few you like and whatever, but yeah, we watched, we did watch the first season all the way through from start to finish and decided, yeah, I think, I think we won't watch any of this in the future. Is it kind of, like, what I would think of is this kind of, like the Bachelor, Bachelorette style sort of in fighting? Yeah, but the premise is that the, um, the couples don't even meet each other. They talk to each other through a wall, I think through like a semi-transparent wall where you can

see shadows or something if I remember it's a little handmaid's dailyish if you ask it kind of is right yeah they talk to each other through a opaque wall and get to know each other that way first before they even see each other yeah and uh

wow well the first the first season or sorry the first the first season first four weeks there were 30 million households that watched this thing it's clearly a hit man this must be big yeah it's fascinating yeah I'm not super interested but, you know, the fact that...

A lot of people are having a lot of shouting Freud about Netflix, you know, and pointing out that, you know, this is a big black mark on their ambitions to do live streaming. More level heads like my friend in the industry are like, hey, live

streaming is hard. They haven't done this. This is how they learn. But here's the key. Chris Rock's live special. You heard about that, right? Yeah, I saw it. Yeah. That was, that was hugely popular. Big deal to stream it live. 90% of the people watched it on demand.

Oh, interesting. So there's the lesson. Yeah. So doing it live is important for Netflix because they want that splash and that attention around it. But the fact that it failed, they don't want it to fail. They don't want it to fail again in the future. It's not fatal, though.

No, not at all. Like if 90, say, that surprises me to hear that. That makes me think that them still pushing for it, is them banking on a future where there's more live and less on demand. Yeah, which, you know, it's not. The whole reason we want Netflix is so that we don't have to like, all right, oh, I got to go home now because I have to tune into the live, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, this back and forth on that. Like, I think there is something about live events and usually I think Super Bowl or Oscars or something like that.

Those things make sense to me. But taking a reality show reunion and saying it's live, that implies two things. one you're going to see it before anybody else that's number one number two it implies that there something weird could happen anything could happen right we don't know exactly unfiltered unedited but it would be good i guess if they had had they succeeded we don't you know this would be fine but it's probably a small miracle and trillions of dollars to make this shit work at all so when it doesn't work or there's an issue it's so easy for all of us to go how did that happen And I can't believe.

They don't know. Usually the D-Jerk analysis is like, didn't they know how many people would watch it? And it does not appear to have been a capacity issue. In fact, that's why Peters is like, we've got the infrastructure. This wasn't, you know, we didn't have enough servers. This was merely a configuration error that they didn't anticipate would cause a problem

once it propagated out to all the servers in the CDN. So I, here's what I think. This has been a smart way to learn. Do things where, like a comedy special. and a reality show reunion where you get a lot of splash around the fact that you're doing it live, but the average person who doesn't want to make a big name

on Twitter for themselves is probably going to watch it on demand anyway. So it's really not going to affect the majority of the people in your audience. You make your mistakes there so that when you do the award show, the thing that people do want to watch live, most people to watch awards shows on demand.

If they want to watch them at all, they want to watch them as they're happening. And you maybe start doing, some sports down the road. Another thing that people want to watch live. I don't know. Maybe you dabble in news farther down the road. In all of these situations,

you've worked out the kinks on this other stuff before you get to the stuff where people like, well, I'm not watching it on demand. Right. There was an Apple. This weekend we had an Apple outage. Like there was an Apple TV outage for about an hour as we were trying to watch the last couple episodes of shrinking.

Damn it. But the bigger thing was that they had just announced live major league soccer stuff on apple tv and boy uh when i went searching about apple tv going down because it's like i wanted to watch shrinking uh there was a lot more live complaints about uh mLS and people unable to watch that yeah and then i want to say sunday morning um amazon servers went down because my uh echo devices weren't yeah the uh no i had the same thing on sunday morning i was not able to listen to my flash briefs Oh, man.

That means I wasn't able to listen to it. Is there still enough news about Flash that they have to give you a briefing? Oh, you'd be surprised. Here's your one-minute flash update. Still not working. Here's a list of the sites that are still embedding Flash. Yep. The slowest protocol slash product death of all time.

That's all it is now. It's just a briefing on which, you know, the number of sites that still have it is so small. They can just read all of them. It gets shorter every time. That's amazing. Well, if you want great coverage of tech stories of all kinds, be they flash or not, today is a great day because it's the Daily Tech News show. I get to be on today, which makes me a little bit biased toward Wednesdays, but it happens every day. And Tom Merritt's always there to bring us the great and the latest.

So do check it out today, 2 p.m. Mountain Time, if you're interested in catching it when it's live. Or if you can do it on demand, that's fine, too. All those ways are there. You can get it all. You know, we have a YouTube channel, YouTube.com, slash Daily Tech News show, where you can watch the show on demand. and Tom's top five. Look at that, see? That's cool.

Only there were an episode of DTS coming up that had both Scott and me. Yeah, weird. I wish there was an episode coming up that had both the two of us. Where am I going to get you both in the same place? Right. If I'm going to do that, I want to do it in the same room with both. Oh, my God. The stars have to align for the three of us to be in one place at one time.

How is that even going to happen? We'd have to all go to Vegas or something. Oh, there's an idea. Oh, hey. Vegas. Hey, I didn't follow that. Do a live TNS on Monday? What do you think about that? I think that's a great idea. So crazy. It just might work.

Wow. Can you believe the luck? Tom Merritt, anything else going on? You should mention to the peeps. Yeah, come to TMS Vegas on Monday and watch daily tech news show live from the Plaza Hotel. It's going to be awesome. I'm excited. I can't wait to. Oh, damn it.

Sorry, Discord did its thing again. Discord. Oh, that was, yeah, that's great. that'll that'll be helpful as long as I don't forget my mixer that's the yeah that's the important I guess that's those are the biggest things but yeah yeah I'm excited for that yeah I just feel like I haven't seen you in ages I think it may have been physically the last time was last Vegas I think that was it last year yeah last year which is dumb last year in Vegas yeah that's a dumb thing that we don't see each other more often well we're

looking forward to it so check us out next week and also that'll be a live DTNS so all you DTNS people still get your show Okay. All right. Tom Merritt. Everybody wins. Have a fantastic week until we see you, and we'll see you then. Thanks, man.

Bye now. See, Tom. Discord did its thing again, you bastard. Yeah, yeah. Must have been a recent. Worked okay this time. Like, I didn't get trapped in a call with Tom. No, or if anything, it was just briefer or something.

I can't figure out why it's doing it. We just got an update. I bet it reintroduced the problem or something. I don't know. We have very specific use cases here, and they're not always thinking about us. We'll figure it out. All right, it's time for recommendals, Brian. I know you've been waiting hand and foot.

Yeah, just can't wait to get in there and get that going. Hold on a second. We're going to add both Nicole and Randy to the call. Cool. I love it when I can actually get everybody's recommendals and do the quicktms. lis stuff first so that instead of me like, all right, let's find the image.

All right, let's find the URL to the stream. But no, no, I can get it done early. Yeah. I like your gum shi. Let's play this. Well, what do you recommend? Well, let me tell you what I recommend. I recommendals.

A little thing we do on Wednesday is where we take streaming stuff, speaking of which, and we bat them around, talk about stuff we recommend, things we've seen. For some reason, Nicole, no answer, but we'll leave the line open. Just in case. Randy's back, though. Hi, Randy. Welcome back. Oh, hello again.

I finished that third cup of coffee. Oh, good. Well, you're better than me. I have a tea here. This tea is half full. I should finish this tea before it gets cold. In my life, I have never once been better than you, Scott Johnson.

Oh, I don't know about this. I don't know about this. This is not true at all. Nicole Spag also now with us. Hi, Nicole. Hi. Hi. Hi.

How are you? I'm here. Yay. I'm just glad to have you here. Been busy over there. The spags are busy, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's been a few weeks since we've had a full house for recommendals too.

so yeah it seems like we didn't have did we not have no we didn't have Nicole last week we haven't we haven't had everybody for three weeks I think that's weird well I'm glad to have you both here with us and we're gonna we're gonna jump right into it hey Brian do you have a recommendal you'd like to start with well gosh it sure would be horrible if I didn't I do Scott and this is something that everybody is probably heard about and I watched it and I'm happy to talk about it here we go. Pick up after yourself, man. You hear me? I'm in the middle of a game. Yo, this fucking guy today, he starts honking at me, right? So I chased him down. Scared the shit out of that motherfucker. I'm just what's wrong with the world today, man. They want you to feel like

you have no control, you know? You gotta eat shit with a smile on your face or some shit. Like, I can fuck that, dude. man like it's like i don't want to i'm so sick of smiling dude hi oh dendia yeah yeah stephen you got a real cussie pants going on there yeah i didn't hear him uh swear that much at nighan uh that is stephen yun uh who you're hearing in the tv show beef

this is a brand new comedy drama dark comedy drama miniseries um that is on netflix um direct by Korean director Li Sung Jin. And you hear Stephen Yun talking about some guy that honks at him, and that is the innocent start to a battle that goes on between him and not a guy, Ali Wong, who's in the other car, and a back-and-forth revenge tit for tat, but each tit keeps getting bigger or tat. I can't remember. Anyway, basically just kind of this escalating battle between the two.

of them. And it's kind of one of those, if you're, if you're, you know, a breaking bad fan, you see this a lot where, oh, Jesse, we've got a problem. I'm going to create this new thing that will get rid of problem A, but it will cause a bigger problem that we have to solve in a future episode. Oh, no, now we've got an even bigger problem that we have to solve. And it's kind of that that escalation between the two of them. They're both, they're both great in this. I don't know if I'm supposed to take sides, but I do take sides in the show. I'm not going to say whose side I take is I feel like one person got a little more, took it a little bit further earlier and caused bigger problems.

You also get the lovely, oh my God, where am I not seeing her name in this list, Maria Bellow, who I just watched in the cooler, the movie The Cooler with William H. Macy for my film sack bonus. I wanted, I'm meant to tell you how much I want to see the cooler now because of that, But also, that's a movie I feel like I've slept on for years, and I don't know why I haven't seen it. Oh, have you not seen it? Never seen the cooler, yeah. The incredible cast, Servino and Alec Baldwin and, of course, William Macy and Maria Bello.

Anyway, that's on, it's on Peacock right now, and it's one of those where you get all the commercials up front and then you see the whole thing. I'm marking that now because I got to finally see that. Anyway, watch it before Vegas because the whole thing takes place in downtown, Las Vegas. Oh, really? Cool. I'll do that. Anyway, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about beef.

So it's, here's the other thing about this series. I think it's what, 10 episodes. I hated both of the main characters for quite a while. A few episodes before I kind of like, all right, yeah, I'm kind of siding with this character a little bit more than this character. But still, they're both kind of dumbasses for. escalating and not just saying, all right, forget it, even though at times they both kind of say, I'm just going to let this go. I'm just going to let it go. And then something else that they've, one of their problems that they've created in the back kind of bites them in the ass and gets them in trouble. But the last episode does pay it off. And I feel like the thing that I wanted to have happened, not in a literal sense, but in a general sense of me kind of coming to an understanding about who these characters are and why they're the way they are, definitely feel. like it's more resolved in episodes nine and ten than you get in the first eight, which is fine, which is what you want to increase the suspense, the drama, and even some of the comedy.

It feels like it's the first time in a while I've heard this much hype around a new show. It feels like it's been a bit, you know. There is so, I mean, there is a lot of hype about it. And sadly, there's some bad hype too because one of the characters, David, or one of the actors, David Cho, who plays Stephen Yun's cousin and is kind of of most of the cause of a lot of problems. A podcast that he recorded or maybe didn't get released surfaced where he says some pretty horrible things that he's done in his life. And he's now backtracking and saying, oh, I never did any of that.

I was just joking for the podcast and the podcast was never released or whatever. Yeah. But there is sadly some, you know, some scandal going around with one of the characters who kind of seems like the type of character, the type of person that. he plays in this show, sadly. That's a bummer. Who else you got in this thing? Ashley Park.

Oh, yeah. That's good. Emily in Paris and mean girls, the musical mean girls. Justin, let's see. Justin, then, I'm trying to find the husband. I guess we don't.

Yeah, Joseph Lee. I don't get a link for him to say what else he's been in, but he's great. I really, really like him a lot. Anyway, oh, and I own a Sky is in an episode. Interesting. I completely missed seeing her, and now I need to go back and figure out what point she was in there. Anyway, the show is called Beef, and it is 10 episodes on Netflix. Each episode is about 30 minutes long, and it's really good.

All right, definitely what thing I'm going to watch, no doubt. I hear it's got parasite vibes a little bit. Would you say that's true? If it means that you won't watch it, I'm not going to say, I'm not going to draw any comparisons to parasite. I was hoping that'd be your answer. It has Fargo vibes, Scott. Fargo vibes.

It's got Fargo vibes. Oh, sign me up then. It's got that next Fury Road vibes because there is some fury on the road. Oh, fantastic. Give me all my favorite references. I love it. It's got Dune vibes. All right, I'm in.

All right. Randy, let's get to yours. We got a clip here. Do you guys set up for me? It's a reality show. and it's been wow has it been advertised lately uh including by uh brian ibit to me and it's uh currently ongoing and i had to watch you're going to hear a guy who is um encountering a civic service and uh some other people that are surrounding him and the civic service it's just it's a it's a reality show all right

let's see what we got when they say jury of your peers I think that's accurate. From the people that I've seen in the waiting room, you have everybody from all classes of people, age groups, everything, races, ethnicities, you name it. Everybody's in that waiting room, I feel like. Do you want a twigs? No, by the way.

Did you just go to the vending machine? No, I went in the gift shop, and there was nobody there, so I just. So I am like an anarchist of sorts. Like, I don't believe in rules. I don't like institutionalized systems of government. It's just not my thing. But then on the other hand, I'm also kind of a fun girl.

My name's Noah. I just moved here to L.A. I'm from a kind of small town. Everyone in my hometown said that people in L.A. were mean, but people are nice. People are kind of really nice. You just looked cute over here. I'm sorry.

You, like, reminded me of someone, but then I was like, oh, I actually, like, like wanted to like ask you if you wanted like a chewy bar like a big hunk oh uh oh man no um i'm i'm all right but thank you that's that's really big so i'm confused i thought this show was like mockumentary like uh it is a reality show yeah to the mark so this is a straight up rip off of the jo shmo show which was one of the funniest things that ever happened on tv but it's that happened like 16 years ago or something. Sure.

And what they did was they made a completely scripted or completely Christopher guested reality show around people going to jury duty and being selected for a jury and watching a trial. And they put a complete new guy in it. And that was the first voice you heard here. That was Ronald. He is, I don't know how they found him.

because it's all a prank on the one guy right everybody else is an actor all of the reality show is setting up all sorts of wild and and absolutely you know unrealistic things to happen or in his vicinity and he's just going along with it he's a he's a guy who uh doesn't he doesn't recognize people i mean obviously that it stars james marston so james marston is playing himself and he is one of the people who is uh you know showing up for jury duty like he's been selected he doesn't want to be there there's a lot like james marsden has a really hard job in this show because he has to be funny without being so funny that you hate him right yeah yeah but he still he's acting though right like that's the deal everyone is acting except ronald so he just doesn't know that's the reality

part of this is this guy doesn't know that all of these other people are doing a christopher guest thing. It's like the most elaborate episode of punked. It is. Wow. It is. And they released six episodes already, so I figured it was time to get to catch up. And I cannot

wait until Friday for them to release the final two episodes because it is non-stop fun. It is so freaking fun. And it's because almost none of it is at the expense of the mark. It's all intended to entertain the mark

to make him go, what is happening around to me what rather than making fun of him sure like his gullibility is yes the bottom line joke but it is never you know it is never at his expense everyone else around him is whof they are just they are as they're pushing the limits of what you can get away with right and still and still not get caught so like you heard a genie and she instantly from the go is falling in love with this guy named Noah and she's hitting on him and she's She's hitting on him so hard right in front of Ronald, you know, the entire time. There's another recognizable actor in here, and that's Kirk Fox.

He plays Kenny Boy in Reservation Dogs. Oh, I love him in that. He's great. I don't know why they cast him to be a regular guy, right? After the first two episodes, he vanishes. And I can't help wondering if something happened. like if if Ronald started to you know go wait I think there's another actor here you know but no idea no idea why it's just there he is he's there at the at the beginning and you hear from him and then you just completely stop hearing from him sure so does this thing it's on free view does that mean you're inundated with commercials or how's the experience is it bad um it's it's been like one commercial in advance and one commercial in the middle oh it's not three minute episodes it's not bad at all I can live with that.

How does he not recognize James Marston? That's the thing. He is intended to recognize James Marston. That's what sells it to him. He is just like, I know this guy. And then they get to know each other. And James Marston is like his buddy. Yeah.

And James Marsden, from what I can tell. He's playing James Marsden. Yeah, he's saying. So when they talk to him, he's always saying, yeah, I was in the X-Men. I also did this. Like, it's like the actor was called up to jury duty. Right. And the mark.

actually goes home and comes back with a sex drive DVD and he asks James Barson to sign it. Like, it's, it's, it's just remarkable that this guy, that they found this guy. He is, he, you couldn't have had a more perfect person to be the center of all of this. It seems sweet. I'm just watching like the trailer. Yeah. Yeah, it seems nice, right? And so they have Ike Baranholz dad playing the judge.

Judge. His name is Alan Berenholtz. He was an actual attorney in his career. And so he knows how to how to make this have a veneer of realism, this trial that they're all watching. And the trial is insane. And I don't want to tell you anything more about it. It's just it feels like it's going to be a good trial. And it goes off the rails. And it's, you know, it's nuts. And of course, our Mark ends up being the four person of the jury, which he is not at all. all prepared to do, you know. It's not equipped for such things, yeah. I got to see this. People have been raving about it. They sequester these guys in a hotel, so there's all kinds of hotel scenes, and they, as a jury, they go on, like, field trips together to, like, go out to eat at a restaurant, you know, and they're sequestered, and they, the production books the whole

restaurant, it's a restaurant completely filled with extras and actors, and it just, I can't, I wish there was a series like this all the time. This is my favorite kind of comedy. It's so funny because the chat room says it sounds awful. Yeah. No. They're talking about Joe Schmel for Daveo's comment about sounds awful is about describing the Joe Schmo show, I believe.

I never saw Joe Schmo. Well, and Joe Schmo launched a bunch of careers, right? Like we have Kristen Whig because of Joe Schmo. Oh, really? I didn't know that. I must be really old then. Yeah. And it's like a great template, but Joe Schmo was a miracle. They found a guy who was a little too gullible in my opinion. In this one, it's pretty, it's pretty amazing, but it's just fun. Like it just never stops being fun. All of the different actors on the jury, they all have their characters like a Christopher guest film and they all, they all play it safe. They all just kind of hang back and they just drop in a little bit and another little bit of. over there and it just, oh, every, every, every, I'm, I'm going to, but am I going to have moments

where I'm like, because I hate pranks. I hate prank TV. I hate like that kind of thing. And this feels like a very elaborate prank on this dude. But I know it can be done in a way that doesn't make me hate it. I just don't want to be one of those things that I hate where it's like, it's just kind of mean, you know, are they mean? Absolutely. Does it induce anxiety that you're feeling for, for the poor mark? Yeah, I hate that. No, never. Because he's doing, he's just there to do a job. He's serving on a jury. He's taking care of business. And since they're filming a reality show, right?

Like he knows that. And he's going into the interviews, you know, those segments for any reality show like anyone would. Sure. Right. And he's a really cool guy. Yeah. Like he's not at all. He never, he never feels like something's gone wrong.

Like when they, when they have another juror show him a game, the Korean game, Yute, and wants to, play against him and make a wager, they make sure that the mark wins the game, right? Okay. And so then it's like, you know what I'm saying? It's almost like he's pranking them somehow. It sounds like they're not doing anything to make him, you know, embarrassed or when he watches this back afterwards feel like they made him into a complete fool. Like they're, you know, it's more like a, the whole reality joke aspect of it of, hey,

how long can we keep this up kind of thing? Yes. Does he, at the end of this thing, I guess you're not there yet because they're just airing, but when it ends, I guess he'll, is the idea he finds out at some point. That's, that's how it should go. They should end up giving him a nice big payment for starring on a TV series. Nope, you'll, you'll only find out for the live reunion event only on free v. Oh, crap.

Didn't work. Oh, well, but just watch it. Just watch it. Scott, you will love it. You will. Clearly the guy knows by now, because the show's airing. but I'm going to be curious in the aftermath what that guy says, like in interviews and stuff.

All right, excellent stuff. Check that out. That's on freebie and is called jury duty. Nicole, let's talk about yours. I've got a clip here, the YouTube-ish thing. What's your setup here? All right. So I was having a hard time figuring out what to recommend this week.

I've seen a lot of stuff. A lot of it I haven't finished because I didn't enjoy it. Hey, you can always do men. commentals on this show like say maybe stay away from this show yeah i was going through you know you know Netflix will say pick up where you left off i have a lot i have a lot of that right now so i expressed you uh that movie ripd i started watching that i absolutely hated it i started watching i was like i can't normally i finish stuff but for some reason i haven't been able to finish a lot of stuff lately um sure i also started history of the world part two absolutely hated it

really interesting yeah it feels too much like drunk history which i do not like and i know people love drunk history but i just don't like it yeah no that's that's good it's here it's good to hear like an alternative um because i agree drug history needs to come in very small bites you cannot binge drunk history because it just gets so you know one episode brilliant but but history of the world part two feels like I haven't looked into who created it but it feels a lot like that style and I'm like

yeah I was plus it's kind of based on an older style like the original movie it feels like they tried to keep the tone the same which I was never a giant fan of that Bill Brooks movie I feel that at all I feel like it's too totally different things happening. Well, I haven't seen this. I haven't seen the second one, so I can't even speak to it. But I've heard that talk before.

And the other thing was that I wanted to say about that is what I was going to say. Oh, I'm like you though right now. Like if you're not, there's so much out there that if you don't grab me and it doesn't work, it's on you. I got to move on. I'll go to something else. I totally get it. Totally feel that right now. So I think it's just the age we live in.

All right. Well, we got one here. I do have one that I had forgotten eye and watch. It's a series on Netflix. It's done by someone I really enjoy. I love smart comedy. I love, you know, I love documentaries and facts and learning about something and taking a look at something that maybe I've never really thought about too hard. So that's the setup for the clip.

Here we go. I'm going to go ahead and hit it. Here it is. We'll get some volume here. Nope. Why? I don't have volume. Uh-oh.

People? understand our government is supposed to be of the people by the people for the people so shouldn't we the people understand what the hell it actually does government is practically a dirty word in America and if you don't believe me try bringing it up on Thanksgiving we're going to investigate all the ways good and bad the government affects our lives hello is it question time I have some concerns One out of every 16 workers in America is employed by the federal government. They shape every aspect of our lives.

Welcome to the GPS Operations Center. So the entire GPS constellation is run by these 10 people. How old are you? 20 years old. Okay. When I was 20 years old, I was a fucking dumbass man. I couldn't have been. Sorry. Do you trust the government?

Your superpower, the biggest, baddest, motherfucker in the world. Yeah. God, let me stop. Right on. Right on. Woo! Oh, yeah. Well, it was fun what lasted on YouTube.

We'll see back to pledge. No, they don't care. You can swear on here. How many minutes in? You're okay. Oh, I'm totally fine. Yeah, you're all kidding. We're kidding.

Yeah, don't worry about it. You're all good. That was a YouTube clip we were playing. So we're fine. Yeah. All right. So that was Adam Conover. Some people love them.

I love them. Some people hate them. Oh. Oh, no. do we lose Nicole? I think we did. Did we lose Randy? No, I'm still here. Oh, weird. We just lost Nicole. Nicole, you put us on mute or something. She's still there. She muted her mic or yanked a thing out, a cord out. Mark, she's probably yelling.

She's flailing and pulled a USB microphone out of its port. Yeah, something weird going on there. Well, we're talking about the G word. Yeah, the G word. It's called, it's Adam Conover. She really likes him. The description is they pulled the curtain back on the surprising ways the U.S. government impacts our everyday lives. The G word Anna Conover is produced by high ground alongside Adam Conover. Oh, she's back. Are you there?

There she is. Something weird happened. Yeah, that was weird. You just went mute. Discord. You can blame the software. It's fine. Did I introduce what it was?

Do you, well, no, you just, you stand it with like, I think you were just starting to talk about how you like Adam Conover or something. Yeah. He's the type of personality. When they say in podcasting, you want to swing for the fence sitters. You want the person in the middle to either love you or hate you. And he does an amazing job at that. I love him.

I enjoy him. I used to watch his show on what network was it? True TV. Adam ruins everything. I love that. Oh, yeah. That's that guy. He did a really cool.

So like when the Silicon Valley Bank failed, I mean, years prior, I'd seen this episode of Adam Rooms everything and he goes through a bank failing and how they go in and they take over and it was a whole thing. I thought it was really interesting to see

when a bank fails, what happens? So he's done some really cool stuff and so I wanted to see what he did with the G word. So he talks about the USDA and it kind of gives like a historical view of why that exists.

He goes into GPS, which is really, really fascinating, like, how that exists and why everyone can use it now and not really have to, you know, pay for it. Oh, so there's like a little bit of education going on. Like, I'm going to learn stuff. Yeah. That's cool. That's cool. Yeah.

I watch this. So weather, money, future disease, and then kind of hope and change is the last one. So they're 30 minutes long. I really recommend it. It's a fun way to learn about the government. Nice. I'm going to do it. I'm going to watch it.

Netflix, right? Netflix is what you said. Yeah, it's Netflix. It's Netflix. Well, let's stay on Netflix for mine today and play something a little more tonally dark. Not really, but it's a crime documentary. You know, people know I like these. I'm not alone.

Clearly Netflix knows their audience and they're giving us tons of these. So here's yet another one. There was a woman at one point and took a look at her leg. And I'm like, wow, that looks really bad. Get that. And I needed to stop the bleeding somehow, and all I had was my belt. So I took my belt off, and I just remember putting it around her legs to try to stop the bleeding. There was chatter on the radio that they could potentially be a third bomb.

I called my boyfriend at the time. I told him I loved him. sorry and I told him to tell my mom I loved her and then the line just went dead all right this is American manhunt the Boston hunt for the Boston bomber people what's the full title the Boston Marathon bombing there it is I forget it got a big long name um for the bomber who bombed the Boston Marathon bombing There you go. It's, um, it's really good. It's, uh, what I was surprised by here. Like, you're going to get, you know, this, this bit at the beginning is all very dramatic and,

as it should be. It was a pretty rough, uh, day for everyone at the marathon. And I knew about a lot of that and a lot of the footage and the camera angles and all of that. But I forgot a ton about how this thing played out. Like completely forgot about those four or five days where Reddit thought they solved the thing and instead just ruined some Muslim guy's life because Reddit sleuthing was, everyone thought oh the power of the people they're going to figure out this crime before the police do that's so it's so effed completely forgot that part yeah so effed up anyway but then when they finally figure out who these who these people are they have actual um uh FBI agent in charge plus all his deputies and everything and everybody who is involved in this thing gets interviewed local police uh federal stuff and they go through the entire process of how they found the brothers what they had to do to find them all the stuff that happened in the meantime in those first hundred hours or so crazy town i didn't know about 90% of it and um found the whole thing really satisfying i think it's three episodes total uh which is just enough and if you just have some curiosity about it at this 10 year anniversary of the bombing um then

you're you're gonna want to uh check it out it's very very good yeah i watched it scott i weren't you impressed by the guy who was like the city police chief and he and like when they first introduce him. He's like, the governor came and then made me do the talking. Yeah, yeah. That guy was great. That guy was great. He just seemed like the most down-to-earth. Like, I don't know, more people in public service should sound like that guy, I think. But I also like the, I don't know if I liked him, but they had a guy who was the agent in charge in the FBI, very efficient, very, you know the guy I'm talking about. But what's weird with him when you close your eyes and listen to him, he sounds like John Lithgow, like 100%. Oh, right. I remember

recite and talking about this guy. It's really weird. But he's fascinating. I also really enjoyed that they got lots of interviews with the victims, the survivors. Because like there's one in particular where they the first few times you see her and hear from her, you're in a close up. And then they suddenly shock you with a pull away shot of her. And I'm just, that just blew my mind. Like there's something of like the way this thing is edited and presented. It's just, it's very, very well constructed. Yeah, it's really well done. And I think it is good for just, you know, a good reminder about a tragic event and what, you know, how we respond to these things and that sort of thing. But then it also set me up for this, teed me up for this nice little moment

the other day when the marathon happened this year and it's the 10 year anniversary. And there's this big group of adult men now who are running the marathon. And they're all wearing the same t-shirt. I'm like, what is this about? And I look into it. And they're running they were classmates of this seven-year-old kid who died 10 years ago. They're now all 27 and out running in this kid's memory, which I just thought was rad. So there's a, you know, there's some, there's some silver lining stuff.

The way the city responded to it and kind of rallied together like we often do when bad things happen. It's just good. It's really good. If you're not into, you know, crime documentary, maybe maybe don't watch this. Like you already know you're not going to watch this. but I thought it was really good.

So there it is. A friend of mine ran the marathon on Monday, and he posted the bombing still kind of looms over it. Like there's, you can't, like most, for most people, they can't get it out of their heads. Oh, I'm sure. Yeah. In 2013, they had, you know,

we had decent camera surveillance and there was a lot of people with cameras and junk like that, but I have to imagine that thing is like way more surveilled now, you know? Like, there's probably high-res cameras pointing at every possible angle because one of the problems I ran into was, they had all this disparate footage from some stores security camera way up the road to some guy who had a cell phone app and was doing a selfie and just happened to catch the thing exploding in the background so they really had a hard time pinpointing who was where and when and they just

the way they talked about combing through this footage I imagine now it's like tighter than a you know I almost said a butthole that I didn't mean about it good thing you didn't say it no you guys were talking about casinos earlier and like that's that's where it kind of started right because they wanted casinos wanted to be able to like do facial recognition on people and catch them on their way in when they're you know when they're trying to prevent certain people from being in there yeah and like now i guess you just kind of have casino surveillance on things like a 26.2 mile race oh yeah and you walk into a casino now and you just see all those cameras and you forget just how many there are like just like even in just the the um i don't know just the old town one

downtown or something you go through the main hall of the casino it's just camera camera camera camera camera yeah all the way down so don't cheat is what we're saying don't rain yeah don't do that yeah good luck good luck if you're gonna try and do that uh good news is this right Brian has already put all of our selections up on quicktms dot L I today and you can go find them I'm actually excited about everybody's picks today I'm gonna go I'm gonna go watch them all except the one I watch because I already did yeah that'll save you some time yeah you only have three to watch that's right great great having you both on though of course uh Randy be safe be nice be do all that twice will you you do that twice at least at least twice okay well that's all

i can ask uh and Nicole always having you here is great uh hope you're doing love you guys yeah we'll think about you while we're in Vegas we'll take some nice pictures and send up to you oh i'm sorry don't worry we'll get you next time yeah we'll get you next time it's been since what you were there 2019 i think right or 2018 oh i forget time is weird now time is weird what is time i don't know all right we'll see you later bye all right we have completed that part of today's program that means we are perilously close to the end of the show and uh so close let's just go ahead and tell people the reason the show exists and happens every day is because you support us on patreon without it we can't do it so if you haven't already get off your high horse all right exactly nothing works better than quit being such a baby about it and support us yeah This is how we think this method will work well to get new people.

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Couch parties on the weekend. We're going to watch Christmas or sorry, you did it again, Vegas vacation this weekend, the first half anyway. Then you'll have a huge gap where we don't watch it for a long time. And then we'll see the last half at some point. you get art in the mail other great benefits you just have to go read about them at frogpants.com slash TMS or directly at patreon.com slash TMS. All right.

That's going to do it. And we should probably say that, you know, the weekend that we get back from Vegas, from TMS Vegas, no couch party that Friday, but we will do because it'll be the last weekend of the month. We are going to do a play date on Saturday after FilmSack. That's right. That's right. Very much looking forward to that. Let's play a song, though, since that's really all we have left. What do you got?

Okay. All right. One last tick on the to do list. This one's going out to Craig. Hi, Scotch and Bourbon. Wanted to send a request because I can't go to Vegas with you all. I've been listening since 2013-ish, and I've been wanting to go to Vegas for one of the meetups ever since because my birthday is usually on or around the meetups. It's actually today. I'm sorry, it's a week from today, the 26th. Oh, it's coming up. Well, this is still worthy. Let's party. Happy future birthday. For your birthday. Furture birthday. Furture birthday. Planned on going with the fan this year until I found out that I'm going to a conference on the exact same dates in Vegas. What? Although I won't be there with you all.

I'll be there without you all at a different place at a conference. Hopefully next year works out. Thanks for all the fun you bring to my day. Any cover of Wish You Were Here will do one of my favorite. Floyd songs. Oh, that's a great song. Awesome. Great tribute to Sid Barrett.

Yeah, Wish You Were Here. I tried to find, I've got a lot of versions of song. I've got 28 versions of Wish You Were Here. And many of those are very similar to the original. That kind of slow, build up, guitar, and then the vocals. But this one's different, and that's why I chose it. Plus, we haven't had a ska in a while. How about a ska band, The Busters, with their cover of Pinkfell

Lloyd's wish you were here. That's going to do it. We'll be back tomorrow. We got Wendy. We got Amy. We got it all for our year Thursday. So come back for that. We'll see you then. So, so you think you can tell Heaven from hell Who's ties from faith Can a tell of green feel From the ghosting rain A smile from the face

Do you think you can tell And did you get you to trade You heroes for gold Or ashes for trees Are never a cool breathe don't comfort change

and did you exchange a walk on a pot and a wobble in a cage in a cage I always I wish you were in a lot of

I wish you were here and we're just too low and a fishbowl. Year after year running over the same old ground and watch out of the same old fear I wish you were here I wish you were in a way, I wish you were here.

We're just too low, salt, sleeping and a fresh blow. Yeah, rock, and yeah, riding up with the same old ground, I want to have a good song, the same old beer, I wish you were here. We're going to be able to be. You know, I'm going to be able to be. If you like what you just heard, there's a very good chance you will like all the shows on the FrogPants Network. Get more at FrogPants.com.

Now listen here, Mr. Frodo, don't get short with me. Okay.