The Morning Stream - TMS 2471: Hardy Farties

Episode Date: May 31, 2023

Shit, It's Poop Francis. It's a-me Pushing the Pills! America's Got Stuff in Their Fridge. A Bidet for Biden. Bitch-ass men rate pain. Both Taken and Left Plums. Quarter Sucker. No Sunshine, No Paper, and No Lieutenant Yar! Are You Groot. Comparing grapes to watermelons. Blood on my Sneakers. You won't believe what you can do with a bathroom tissue roll. Snopes, Dawg. Bump the Crabs in the Tunnels. Transform The Game Experience with Tom. So You Think You Can Walk in a Straight Line with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, shit, it's a poop Francis. It's a me pushing the pills. America's got stuff in their fridge. A bidet for Biden. Bitch-ass men rate pain. Both taken and left plums. Quarter sucker. You'll get no sunshine, no paper, and no lieutenant y'ar.

Are you Groot? Comparing grapes to watermelons. Blood on my sneakers. You won't believe what you can do with a bathroom tissue roll. Snopes, dog. Bump the crabs in the tunnels. Transform the game. experience with Tom.

So you think you can walk in a straight line with Randy and Nicole and more of this episode of the morning stream. Want to write a letter to President Clinton? What do you answer us? That's a wrong damn clip. Hold on. That's for later. All right.

Here we go. Three, two, one. When we went to Metro Diner, I got to have biscuits and gravy. As they call it brunch favorite, they sure were good like they always are. What do you think we are, nerds? The morning stream, raw meat, do you know, hello everyone, welcome back to TMS. It is Wednesday, May 31st, the final day of May. The aides of March have left, the flowers of April have taken a dump.

May. May is done. We're done with May. That's right. May is, uh, May, what do we got? We just have it's got to Bay May. We have its, uh, the first of May outdoors starts today. But really, we don't have like, uh, with the end of May. No, we don't. We even had that May the fourth crap in it. That was right. Sort of fun for some people. But yeah, now that you got June, like what is June feels like, hey, we're getting a bunch of movies and TV premieres. That's a June's for. Spider-Man, Indiana Jones. Yeah. Yeah. One of those got great reviews. The other one got terrible reviews. Actually, the pre-review or the pre-reviews out for Spider-Man across the Spider-verse are glowing.

Yeah, they are. Which, hey, all right, cool. I'm in. I'm excited and I'm excited to see this as a bunch of tadpoolers. 95% are up to me. Very exciting. It's like a, it's almost like a nerdtacular. It's like one of the first nerdtaculars where you had, where you did a movie. That's right. By the way, this movie's got. got the voice of Oscar Isaac in it twice, according to Rotten Tomatoes. I know he's Miguel O'Hara, Spider-Man 2099. What else is he?

Doesn't say, just has his face twice. Can't figure out why. It feels like a glitch. One of our few people in Into the Spider-Verse that's doing double MCU duty. Oh, yeah, that's right. Her and him and Haley Steinfeld, Gwen Stacey, also obviously. Yeah, she's Cape Bishop. Cape Bishop, yeah.

Mahershaw Lee. Oh, yeah. Is he back? Triple duty for him. Is he back? Nope, he was just in the first one because I think, didn't that character? Oh, right. He was a prowler and he died, yes.

But I mean, he was. Yeah, you're right. Hopefully he's double MCU if we can get his ass into actual costume and make a damn movie. Make us a movie. Yeah. We can't have blade without making it. That would make him triple. You know what his third thing is?

So blade and then prowler. Right. Then what do we got? Prowler. Cotton mouth from the, from the Luke Cage. Arguably his best performance. Well, yeah.

He was so good in that. He was so good in that, yeah. Well, this is cool. I didn't realize, did Phil Lord and Chris Miller direct, or sorry, write the last one? I didn't know that. those guys are great like them yeah this movie looks great let's get on let's get in cool cool let's get in the theater tomorrow night I'll eat uh chicken tenders with the with my into the spider across the spider verse so I you explained this before but you can literally order your food way

ahead of any of this right like basically order it while while they're doing their um see here's the other cool thing about almo draft house the 30 minutes before the film starts you're not watching Maria Menuno's talk about the new MCI or NCIS spinoff or whatever, right? Right. You know, it is stuff that's curated by, oh, look at that kid. Sorry, Kate just showed up. He brought Super Mario Funnables. What is this, food?

Oh, they're fruit snacks. Awesome. This is a cool hat, too, buddy. Hold on, Van's getting, look at this, Van. I'll see your Mario funnables. I've got Avengers. Look, he's got Avengers Funnables. What do you think of that?

Do you want those two? Yeah. Well, you're not going to get him today, buddy. Because of course. Because of course I do. I'll come see him soon. Are we going to walk and hang out and stuff? Okay, awesome.

After the show. Yeah, so the 30 minutes before an Alamo draft house movie, you've got curated video related to what you're about to see. So for Little Mermaid, it was all the different versions. of Little Mermaid that have come out throughout the years. Like prior to, prior to the Disney one, they were still like a hundred different versions, like Czech versions and Russian versions

and American versions. Freaking, uh, who was olive oil in Popeye's? Shelley DeValle had a storyteller series in the 70s or 80s that did a version of Little Mermaid. Yeah, I kind of remember that. Do you remember, did you remember Shelley DeVille's TV show? Yeah, I remember there's like a weird, weird little, um,

it was like the Muppet one except she was the Muppet. Yes, there were no Muppets. She introduced them all, exactly. Yeah, I remember that. But for Guardians of the Galaxy, it was great. They had the story so far, according to each character. So they showed, like, Star Lord's point of view of all of the events of Guardians 1 to Infinity War and Endgame.

And then they had Gamora's view of all these things, because she has a totally different perspective being wiped out and restored. And then Grutz was just basically, I am Groot. I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot, I am Groot. As it should be. Yeah, that's how that stuff's supposed to go. That's awesome.

Anyway, so, yeah, so I'm sure for Spider-Man across the Spider-Verse, it's going to be some really cool, like, you know, here's all the different Spider-Man things from Japan and India and... I hope so. I hope all that stuff is just... I hope it's as crazy as it sounds. Everything I've read on paper sounds insane. I can't wait.

So while that's going on, when you place your order, they even deliver it to before the movie starts, so you're sitting there, like, even during the trailers, munching on your stuff, they come refill your drinks, bottomless popcorn,

if you get popcorn. Drink referrals are free? Like a big metal bowl. It's awesome. You get free drink refills as well. Free drink refills, all that stuff. And then,

all right. That's a pretty good deal. Yeah. So you don't, but you're not, you don't, tickets ahead of time. You're not ordering the chicken then. You're still doing that. No, no, no.

You just know what you're going to get when you go. Yeah, you give them your card ahead of time so that they can charge and then you just put your tip on the card, but that's it. Got it. That's awesome. I'm excited. It's the best theater chain. I'm saying it right now. So that's tomorrow. That means on couch party, Brian might let slip. I'll be saying, oh my God, what a disappointment that was. What a piece of shit.

What a piece of crap. Worst movie of all time. Can't believe they made Spider-Man black. Definitely going to go there. I can tell you that. Yeah, I'm sure somebody's complained about it. Or Hispanic or what, yeah. Somebody's got an issue with him.

I don't know who it is, but they do. Anyway, I got a little thing for you. Yeah. You're always testing us, quizzing us. Time to quiz, Brian. It's not so much a quiz as it is just curious what your answers here will be. So basically, I found some, I went through Snopes the other day, and I found a bunch of stuff that it seemed crazy to me,

or hard to know whether it was true or false, like if you had just asked somebody. So I'm going to ask you. So like Mikey from the life cereal commercials overdosing on pop rocks, dying because he makes pop rocks and Coke. Exactly. And your thing is either true or false, whether you believe that to be true or not.

Of course, that's a famous one, which we all know is not true. However, there are some of these, which you may or may not want to apply truth or false to. Let's start with politics real quick here. All right. This is, we're going to give it to both sides today. So enjoy. Did Biden poop his pants while speaking in Rome?

I'm going to say false. You're going to say false. Here's the accusation. U.S. President Joe Biden pooped his pants during a meeting with Pope Francis in Rome. More like poop Francis. Poop Francis. It was during the G20 summit. I'm trying to see what the accusation is.

Anyway, the word around Rome. Do we know what prompted the accusation? Was there an audible sound? Was there a mess underneath behind the podium or something? Well, it looks like Nevada Republican chairwoman who was at the event. She said this on Twitter on October 30th. The word around Rome currently is that Biden's media. with the Pope was unusually long because Biden had a bit of a bathroom accident at the Vatican

and had to be addressed prior to him leaving. I know we joke about this, but this is an actual rumor going around Rome right now. Turns out it was not true. So Brian, you are correct. That is a falsehood. He did not poop his pants. Here's one for Trump fans. Okay. All of you listening to our show who somehow have made it through the last seven years of. Yeah. So enjoy this one. Oh, sure. Does that impersonation again? I sure love that. Yeah, I love that when he does that. No Trump, or sorry, Trump, where is it?

There it is. Trump, did he wear his pants backwards at his rally? Because there was like a time where it looked like. It just looks like he's got a bit of a fupa. So I'd say, even though it looks like it, no, I don't think Trump ever wore his pants backwards like criss-cross. Let's find out if it's true. You are correct. It is not true.

He did not wear his pants backwards. This was a bad fit. Sure, sure. These are basically like the beginning of the polygraph test where they asked some standard, like some questions that just to calibrate the machine, right? This is like. Yeah, basically that. You're not wrong.

All right. How about this one? Is a testicular blow exponentially more painful than childbirth? So true or false? There's a bunch of people complaining. Meaning, men were saying that they, there was, there was some scientific evidence that proved the pain was greater for getting kicked in the, in the newbies than it was to birth a child. Yeah, I would say, I would say false, but there's, there's no way to prove it. I mean, there's no, you're right, because what do you have people do say, on a scale from one to ten, how much pain was that?

Right, exactly. It's all going to be relative to the person experiencing the pain. And so I still say even with the apples to orange compare, apples to oranges comparison, it's really apples to watermelon, grapes to watermelon comparison. Yeah, there was a whole. The grapes are passing a watermelon out your vagina. I mean, I've always assumed it would hurt more to give birth to a kid if I had to personally pick. But it says there's no clear answer to this, which is more painful, as comparing the two events is nearly impossible.

One causes a brief rush of pain and disappears relatively quickly. The other comes and goes, but for several hours at least. So they're almost like not even comparable kinds of pain because it's very different. It's like saying, well, what's worse? This infectious disease. A three-hour root canal or a slap from Will Smith? Yeah. Probably I'd take the slap.

I'd rather have that. I'd take the slap too, yeah. Yeah, that'd be fine. It was an open-handed thing. It was fine. It wasn't that bad. Yeah, exactly. Let's see.

Okay, so good job so far. You're, so far you're, you, you, you are not an idiot, right? Basically, that's what it says. So far I see through the BS. Yeah. Okay, here's one. Did Nike partner with Lil Nas X on Satan's shoes containing real blood? Did those shoes in that collaboration with Lil Nas X, did they can contain human blood?

Yes or no? I, I'm going to say true. I'm going to say, Much like the Kiss Comics of the 70s, real blood was involved. Well, it's a little of this and a little of this. He partnered with Nike to create Satan's shoes that contain real human blood. It's a mixture of truth. Here's what's true.

Lil NasX partnered with mischief records to create a limited edition Satan's shoe, which MSCHF, which stands for mischief said, contains a drop of human blood. The shoes are Nike AirMax 97s. Here's what's false. Although the shoes are Nike's, the Nike spokes. person told the company they had nothing to do with the creation of these at all so there was not a collaboration so not nike so basically shoes yes that contained blood human blood yes but not not a collaboration with nike yeah they were a they were a mod a modded some shoes yeah yeah what they

did would you um would you buy some uh was it nike who had the pumps who had the the the shoes you pumped uh oh gosh who was that was rebot no a pump uh let's look it up Uh, shoes with pumps. Women, not women's pumps. Boy, that's a... It was Reebok. Okay. Was it Reebok?

Confirming it's Reebok. Would you get a pair of Reebok pump shoes that Tom Hardy, um, Tom Hardy's farts are the air that goes back and forth in those, a little crowd collaboration with Reebok. Tom Hardy's farts? Tom Hardy's farts are the air that pumps up the Reebok shoes. Um, if you told you. me it was Charlize Theron's Farts

If any of their farts Were gathered at the filming Of Fury Road Then yes Otherwise I don't care I don't care in particular About Tom Hardy or his farts But I wouldn't mind

Something that happened on set For my favorite movie Yeah That's an important distinction Anya Taylor Joy's Furiosa Farts Yes There you go

Curio so far, it says exactly right. Okay. All right. Anyway. Should, this is a weird one. Okay. An online advertisement promised what was supposed to be a handy bathroom trick. Should an empty toilet paper roll or red cup be placed under the toilet seat at night?

So while everyone's asleep, and I'll give you a picture of this so you can just kind of see. Okay. Like lifting up the lid basically. Yeah, holding the lid up, like kickstanding it basically. Sure. I don't know why I want to. For what reason? it says

Let the demons out Let me give you more info here It says An advertiser reveal Why people should always Place an empty toilet paper roll Under the seat at night Online advertisers

Have displayed a picture of this cardboard And the prop Let's see The ads appeared to promise a handy trick Let's see Trying to find the meaning Or the reason here Yeah

Ever look forward to clean the house We didn't think so But when it absolutely Positively has to be done when the bathroom looks a little grubby, for instance, we're here to help. These 40 incredible hacks will make sprucing up your home an absolute breeze, and you won't believe what you can do with a cardboard bathroom tissue roll. That's all the claim is.

They don't say why or what the deal is. Well, so I don't know what to say is true or false. Is the question true or false that an advertiser suggested you do this? Well, I'll give you the exact claim. An advertisement revealed why people, bullshit place. The funny thing is they don't really say why. I know. The why these three things in your

kitchen will kill you coming up at 11 o'clock. Let's see. It's meant that the website creator tracks liquids. Okay. Yeah, they don't actually... Oh, okay. A toy bay roll trick was finally revealed. However, nothing to do with placing out of the toilet seat tonight. It's simply advised to attach cardboard roll to the vacuum cleaner hose to reach crevices.

What? All right. Well, this one's bad, dumb, and lame. I feel like we've both taken and left plums on this one. So it's false, which you said was, the whole thing is false. I mean, it all feels false because I didn't know what to. I mean, it all feels false because I don't think there's any reason you'd want to do this, especially if you're, if you like me, have to pee in the middle of the night. You don't want to turn the light on to get those rays of light in your eyes.

No, I totally agree. Completely agree. This is both false and true at the same time. You know what's true? That it sucks. So we're right. Yeah, okay. There we go. Good.

It's not good. All right. I'll do one more. How about this one? All right. Let me find a good one down the list here. Okay, we'll do this one. Back to some politics for you. Sure, sure.

Okay. Did a man at the Capitol Riot on January 6th of 2020 die after, or no, it would be 2021, die after accidentally tasing himself. I remember hearing this. I remember hearing there was a dude who tamed himself and killed himself. I remember a couple of people died as a result. Did anyone die actually at the... Yeah, one lady got shot by a guard.

She got shot right to head. Oh, yes, right. Okay. I'm just saying false about somebody tasing themselves and dying from it. Here's the... I think somebody died later on, but I didn't think... Here's the full claim. An Alabama man who was in attendance in January 6th, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol,

suffered a fatal heart attack after accidentally tasing himself in the testicles. Kevin Greason was his name. Not at the event, but later on, right? It says at the event. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, wild there. You're going to say false? You are correct.

It is false. It says at least five individuals are known to have died in conjunction with the event. Rumors surrounding circumstances of the death. Crick circulated across social media. This guy, let's see, a guy apparently tasered himself. And the nut says Carl Cass on Twitter. That guy was wrong. Oh, you know what?

The reason you remember somebody having a heart attack is because he did have a heart attack later. Yeah, yeah. But not from tasing himself. He just had a heart attack. He just had a heart attack after the event. Yeah. And he was in a heart attack.

Florida man tased himself in the nuts and had a heart attack. But it wasn't this guy. Almost always the case that they're from Florida. Oh, I left his toilet up for too long. Sorry, sorry, chat. Did we, oh, that's fine. Did we, was it on this show that we talked about the Chevy Nova? That, you know, didn't sell in Mexico because Nova means no-go?

Oh, yeah. I think we did. Yeah. There's a lot of that, right? They're weird names. That's a fake. Yeah, but that's a fake. That's also a, oh, is that a fake thing? Yeah, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, that's a, a non, a fake thing. Sometimes, sometimes the really simple ones, the simple ones piss me off the most because they're so like, oh, okay. It seems to make so much sense, right? Oh, no va. It doesn't go. Nice. Okay, yeah, makes sense. I'm really glad Snopes exists for real. I am too. I, too. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, well, I want to do is make that my mother-in-law's homepage in her browser so that it's the first thing that comes up when she opens her browser. Yeah, or make it so you know how TVs and hotels, when you turn them on, they do the hotel logo every time before you can go to any channels.

So before she can get to Fox News or whatever crap, CNN, don't care, whatever her bullshit 24-hour news network is, you want to have the TV boot up to say, Snopes.com, visit us any time, and then she's got to go do this thing. I wonder if Snopes could be a sponsor of, like, Fox News. Like, you know, like basically this episode of Fox News brought to you by Snopes. Yeah, yeah, that sounds about right. Oh, I'll do, you know what? I'll do one more because it's on the front page of Snopes. Oh, okay. Just one more.

Let's do this one here. Did Chick-fil-A CEO, Dan Kathy, already an embattled kind of a bit of a douche in a lot of people's eyes? Already has enough problems, yeah. Did he say white people should shine black people's shoes? Oh, geez. Why would even go there? Like why? Gosh, I'm already under a whole bunch of public scrutiny.

I'll say something that I think goes the other way and sounds like it's a good thing, but really... Yeah. Yay or nay, what do you think? I'm going to say he did. I'm going to say he did do it. Well, here's the good news and the bad news. Partial correct? Partial wrong.

It's a mixture. Here's what's true. A video shows Chick-fil-A-A-Dan-Cathie, or Chick-fil-Az, Dan Kathy, telling a story about racism before symbolically shining the shoes of La Cray, a black musician. What's false,

says, however, this is not a direct quote from Kathy. Some headlines paraphrase his remarks, misrepresenting his message. So, like everything, sometimes it's a little complicated. I like his chicken. What if it was a gay black man? Probably not, right?

Oh, my. gosh and what if it what if that gay black man worked on sundays brian oh my gosh no oh oh i got the vapors i get the vapors all right let's getting done away oh real quick note let's do a quick note here about yes we talked about the movie so like a bunch of tadpullers in denver getting together to see uh the spider verse movie we're seeing they are not nope that is fake news oh i thought they i thought they were without you or something i'm seeing it i am seeing because i a lot of people can't do nighttime shows. I don't want to do a Saturday morning show.

I want to see it tomorrow night when it comes out. So I'm seeing Spider-Man. She and I are seeing Spider-Man without it being a meet-up. However, we are going to the pinball pub on Saturday. Right. Oh, that's right. Okay. You actually told me all this yesterday.

Well, in my case, we're seeing the movie. And the point of all this is if you join our Discord, there are two plus more. There's others. There's like one in Brisbane, I think, is in there. Oh, really? where different tadpullers, different parts of the country and world are having meetups occasionally here and there, and they kind of plan what they're going to do. This is just a note that you can go join that and be a part of that.

So if you're local to me or Brian or anybody, anywhere, wherever, and you got an idea for a cool meetup, frogpants.com slash Discord, just join the Discord and check out that, the whole meetups area there, and you might find something for you, all right? For sure. Yeah. Get in there and get her done. There might even still be time to get tickets for the. Spider-verse Salt Lake Group

showing that we're doing. There might still be tickets there. Oh, yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. I'm sure. It's a weird time on Sunday, so chances are it's not going to be full. So anyway, go check that out.

All right, done away time. That's just what it is. It's how it is. Yeah. No getting around it. You can't circle around it. You can't escape it. You can't do anything.

You just have to let it. You can't hide from it. Nope. It's coming whether you like it or not. Whether you like it or not. Good thing we like it, though. Brian Dunaway joining us as he does each and every Monday and Wednesday, although this week we've got a holiday on Monday, but he's back for the Wednesday, the Tad Pooley

few. Brian, welcome back. Oh, hi, Scott, Brian, doing the thing that we usually do unless we don't do it. We sometimes don't do, but we mostly do when we do it, yeah. Speaking of doing it, you're always here doing it with us. It's always good to have you. How you feeling? What's your Wednesday like? crappy today for some reason.

There's something in the air, I'm assuming, because I walked outside earlier, and I felt like, I can't breathe. Oh, man. Oh, no. It's not good. So, yeah, I went back inside. I have a little, I've never been directly diagnosed with asthma, but, you know, they say I'm like right on the edge there.

So I have inhalers and stuff that I keep just in case. And I went inside and I went, and instantly I could breathe for about 10 seconds. It felt good. And then it started going. Yeah. That sounds like a small, like a minor case of asthma. Is that even a thing? I don't know if that's a thing. Yeah, it's definitely allergic, allergy-related, induced type asthma. So I took that and I took some mucinex. I probably should have went with some, what's the stuff that knocks you out and makes you all silly. And a drill? Benadryl. Oh, if I had had some Benadryl. Oh, that would have been great. But I didn't. If only. Yeah, right. I love Benadryl because it's like, hey, are you feeling bad? Yeah. Well, I don't just take a little nap.

Yeah, here you go. Yeah, sure. Why not? You're going to feel better now. Well, let's see if we can make poor I am sci-fi feel better about his internet. Oh, yeah. Oh, he's here. Did he actually make it this time? Ian? Wow. Yeah, I'm here. Oh, my gosh, it worked. Look at that. What? No more Lindsay Buckingham status for you. Yeah, no kidding. What's going on, man? Not too much. Not too much. I'm no longer Matt Damon. I'm no longer out of time. Oh, that's fantastic. I'm glad you're here. No worries. I'm glad it worked, actually. That's fantastic. We're going to play this game. You know how it works, but we're going to let Brian explain it anyway. Hey, I bet. Tell him how it works and what he could win. Absolutely. And some people in the audience did get the Lindsay Buckingham reference. What's up with that? It's time to play the tadpool feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us for their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. I'm sci-fi, your job is more important than ever because you are going to be working with either Scott or Brian.

If your team wins, you get a prize package, that includes what we tried to give away last week. Siberia, Siberia 2 and Siberia 3, all the Siberia's. Those are good games. If you don't like Siberia, I'm sorry. I get sent to Siberia if I don't like Siberia. That's correct, exactly. That's right. That's a really good series of games. Not a lot of people talk about them, but they're excellent, like, adventure figure stuff.

out sort of stuff. I enjoyed my time with the Siberia. Yeah, nothing wrong with Siberia, one through three. So let's give you your topic, and let's see how you do. I will preface this by saying there's what I ask, and there's what the Tadpool answers. There you go. Let's just leave it at that. It needs to be said every time.

Sometimes, you know, it's what the Tadpool says. All right. Hands on buzzers. Give your best answer to this. 293 tadpoolers five of them could not come up with an answer but the other ones did name I'm sorry what is

the best main series Mario game God double buzzing I only hit it once that's weird oh I heard it twice weird yeah um the do it again I'll think you can hold on now I'm confused main line Mario game you said oh my god

didn't answer just say a Mario game just see a Mario game Did be a Mario game. I'm going to say one. Here comes one. Super Mario World. Oh, my God. Super Mario World.

Show me Super Mario World. Number two answer on the board. One answer will beat it. Brian. Well, now it's my turn to talking about it. Hem and Ha while you think about. There's no Him and Han. You guys talked about double buzzers and it threw me off.

That's all it was. See. Luigi's Man, Mario. I'm going to go with just how about some Super Mario Bros. Three. I like to fly around

with my Super Mario. Your little raccoon tail. All right, show me Super Mario Brothers three. Number one ends are on the board. Brian, you and Ian are working together. You know the best version of that game is the GBA?

Everyone with those new Ambernecks, listen, hear this out, hear me, hear me today. I'm listening right now. Hear me speak. It doesn't, that thing doesn't ship with this ROM, but once you legally acquire one, the one you want is Super Mario Advance 4 is Super Mario Brothers 3, but remastered with like 16-bit graphics and scrolling backgrounds and all that. It is such a great version of that game, and it's more widescreen than the original. Highly, highly recommend that version of the game. Having so much fun with that thing, man.

Yeah, it's so good. Plus, that game comes with a full version of just the regular old bump the crabs and the tunnels thing that you played back in the day. It comes to the remaster version of that. So you get like two games for one. It's awesome. It's really good. So, Ian, I think if it gave us some tips, he said, this is the question I asked. Well, this is what the catpool said.

Sometimes the Twain shall not meet. So I'm thinking maybe they drop the main. main line series, maybe? What do you think might be some other hot things up there? If we're going to go outside the mainline series, my brain immediately goes to Mario Kart. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Okay. Mm-hmm. Because it does have more than just Mario, right? Indeed, indeed, indeed. Yes, you know, yes, you know, but I also, I mean, quite frankly, we could just say Super Mario Brothers, too, because that... That's a good God was... Yeah, or the original...

Yeah. Yeah. uh what do you think we'll go with uh what do you think ibit what do you yeah i'm not to tell you you tell me what you no why don't you just tell me the game you think that i like i feel like mario cart is delicious and i know so many fans of that game and i think i think that's probably yeah super mario cart show me super mario cart number four answer on the board nice nice nicely done all right

You want to go mainline again, either two or the original, honestly. Let's go with, so we were looking at Super Mario Brothers 2 or Super Mario Brothers' basic stuff. What do you think? Let's go with 2. We're going with 2. We're going with 2. All right. Roll up 2 for us.

Show me Super Mario Brothers 2, and people did not clarify whether they meant that weird. Which 2? Yeah, which version of 2. show me super marie brothers do number 10 answer on the goal it's not the best series remember it wasn't even a Mario game originally

it was converted yeah the floor is lava baby now I know my favorite I just loved I love Super Mario Galaxy stuff would you think two or one you think

to Super Mario Galaxy do you think they would have been I think yeah I bet I would go with the first one over the second one. You didn't like break it. You can't tell us. Okay.

Yeah. I think we're going to go with the Super Mario the Galaxy on my Wii unit. All right. Show me Super Mario Galaxy. Oh, thank God. You took too long. You took too long and that that made me nervous. All right.

I finally get to say something like this on air, so I like Odyssey. Oh, very nice. Odyssey is great. Maybe I'll get some of our younger folks. Hell of a game. Younger, who cares younger, man? That game fricking rocks. It's so good.

Oh, I didn't say it was a bad thing. No. Yeah, I think younger just meaning their first Mario game came on the switch. Right. Yeah. All right. Show me Super Mario Odyssey. Number seven.

Hot-nice. Hotness. Creamy here. I think. I think. that might mathematically lock Scott out. So I think Ian you've won, but obviously we're going to keep this thing going for... Who already won, then who doesn't love some Mario 64?

You think anybody's got that up there at the top? I think they do. Better be that. I think so. Yeah. All right. We'll take a chance on Super Mario 64. All right, show me Mario 64.

Yeah, number three answer on the board. Nice. Yeah, yeah. How many do we have left at this point? of it? There are three left on the board. Okay. And I don't think we really hit anything that's not necessarily totally weird. I'm feeling

those weird answers like Mario Tennis or something. What's some weird crap that? How about Smash Brothers? Oh, that's perfect. Yes. Oh, that makes me think of the Rabbins too. Mario and Rabbids. That's also That's true. That's true. Yeah. What do you think? Smash Brothers, though? What do you think? Smash in it? I think I'd go smash over.

Smashing. All right. We're going to go smashes. We're going to smash this thing. Smash Bros. Show me. Smash Bros. I'm a little surprised by that. I thought that would be there.

Smash Brothers, do, do, do, do, do. I think only one person, yes, only one person said it, so it's low on the list. Tied for 19th place. Mario and Sonic go to the, nope, we're not doing it. Oh, that's good. It's a terrible, terrible crossover. All right, I'll do

Let's do Super Mario RPG I love that game It may not be here RPG all those That might be good too Yeah All right, show me Super Mario

RPG Boom No Legend of the 7 stars Did not make the cut Tide for 19th place I don't steal my sunshine I think we should

I love Super Mario Sunshine That was one of my favorite Yeah, I know it's not for me, but I won't steal your sunshine. Don't steal it. What do you think? Do we go with that? Super Mario Sunshine? Yeah, let's do it.

Let's do it. Okay. Show me Super Mario Sunshine. I hate you. I hate all of you. Number 11. Like, just outside the top 10, Super Mario. I think I probably played that more than the Super Mario.

Sunshine gets heat. It doesn't deserve. It's a fine game. No pun intended. I'm going to go with, Oh, geez. Luigi's Mansion. No, that's a movie. I'll bet somebody said Donkey Kong.

Like original Donkey Kong, like Jumpman Mario. I'll bet it's Donkey Kong. Oh, Donkey Kong. Smart. Sure. All right. Show me Donkey Kong. Number eight. That's the weirdness. There's a weirdness. That's a weirdness. I mean, it's Mario. They just didn't call him that yet.

Right. Yeah. A super jump bro. right yeah right yeah it was a jump man was it was just it was a jump man it was just a jump bro every time i think of jump man i think of sound garden i just repeat spoon man jumping jump man jump in barrels with your hands let's do uh oh i got two more did beeps don't give me ideas for film sack you let's do super mario uh party Mario Party. Oh, sure. Mario Party.

All right. It's good. Show me Mario Party. Amazingly, nobody said Mario Party. Even with all the weird answers, the people. I like Mario Party. Also, also done away, shockingly, we haven't got an original recipe

yet. No. Okay. She said Super Mario Bros. Yeah, the Super Mario Bros. Yeah, yeah, the OG. Give us some OG up there, bro. All right.

All right. Super Mario Brothers, one, packed in there with your duck hunt. show me super mario brothers yeah number five Mario brus one answer left on the board ooh

ooh that's a type is it so is it going to be paper Mario is it going to be Mario Maker or something like that it's going to be something a little more abstract maybe you already did the RPG

yeah we already did RPG I think I would go paper Mario at this point paper Mario okay it's more in people's minds yeah yeah I've got my 3DS by my bed and I've got Super Mario 3D land

in that bad boy and that game is so good. I was enjoying that a couple weeks ago. Such a good game. One of the best Mario games by far, but I'll bet it's not on here. No, I think we're better off trying the paper Mario. Paper Mario. All right. Show me Paper Mario.

Oh, dude. All right, I know it. It's a valiant attempt. All right. Dr. Mario. Oh, yeah. pushing pills. That's right. He's given, he's given out prescriptions real easy these days.

Look at these pills, kids. All right. I'm in the pocket of big, big pharma. You want a lot of that drought. Big and far. Show me. Dr. Mario. No. Damn it.

Dr. Mario was, if it's something like Wario or something, I'm going to be. Not even, again, not even on the list surprises. Yeah. No, you actually got, you guys even kind of brought up. Scott brought it up. um as a packin or as as as part of the gba super mario brothers three it is just maria brothers knocking knocking crabs out of pipes yeah marioles the non super just man that game

it makes sense that ate all my quarters where was new on the list Brian oh yeah it was new super mario brothers uh was uh number 14 i'm sorry i take that back new super mario brothers you deluxe was number 14. Oh, you deluxe. New Super Mario Brothers. Only one person said that one. Surprise me because I think that's a really good one too. Number 19.

Here's all the rest of them. Let's go through the rest. Mario Kart 64 was number 12. I don't know if all the people who said Mario Kart meant Mario Kart 8, Mario Kart 64. But there were enough people that said just playing Super Mario Kart. I just called it that. And if you guys would have said 8 or 64, I would have just given you that one.

Sure. I did get back. Mario Party did get two votes, number 13. Super Mario 3D land, number 15. Super Mario Galaxy 2, number 16. Super Mario Land, 17, Super Mario Maker, number 18, duck hunt. Number, basically all of our singles here are things like Duck Hunt, Mario RPG, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Brothers Deluxe, Super Mario Maker.

Two. And somebody said Super Mario World Three, I don't know what they're talking about because there was only two with Super Mario World. And no golf? We got no golf. No Mario tennis? No Mario tennis. That's a golf? No Mario Strikers? Typing? No strikers? Come on.

No strikers? No Rabbids. No. Nintendo doesn't make rabbits. It's an Ubisoft joint and it's just a It's the tadpool. It's going to be technical with me. I think people consider the card games more of a main series of Mario game, then they do things like paper and Sunshine. Yeah. I mean, Mario Card

is still the highest, the best selling Nintendo game, I think, of all time. I still love eight so much. Oh, yeah. It's huge. I have my eight plugged in all the time in my... Dude, eight is great. Eight is great. It rhymes with great for hell's sakes. Well, the good news is you won, and that means we get to play

this. Congratulations. You're a winner. Truly a winner. And not only a winner in today's contest, but just getting your call through was a winner moment. I had to turn on my notifications on the desktop, and I turned on the actual like sound notification for ringing.

And then all of a sudden it magically worked. So there we go. Well, there you go. Yeah, it doesn't make any sense, but that's, we're not here to make sense of it. We're just here to, you know, be stoked about it. Brian will send you those codes via Discord and you you're the winner. How do you feel about your win?

I feel, a goal. Oh, my gosh. Wow. Well, then let's do it. He's out of here. All right. Congratulations. Hey, Hey, Deannaway, you did a great job. And then later tonight, we're going to do another great job. Tell everybody what we're covering on Play Retro this evening. Oh, this evening, we're going to cover Jurassic Park games that came out in 1993 and 94. We were going to go a lot wider, but then we discovered there's like eight just in 93 and 94. Just every system that was possible. Apparently, Stephen Spielberg was pushing saying, yeah, Yeah, let's just make the most ambitious game we can. So they were handing out licensing left and right and kind of handholding,

giving great material for these people to be able to make games. And some did and some did not. And we're going to talk about the ones that were really good. And then we're going to talk about the Sega Genesis one. So just like that, it's going to be a fun ride. I'm all in. So here's another quick note about all you tadpoolers who picked up the new Amber Nick, the little Ambernik guy.

The 35 double X. Cannot recommend enough. Pokemon pinball for the GBA. Oh, I love that. Yeah. GBA's amazing version of Pokemon Pinball. It existed on the NES and the original Game Boy as well, Game Boy Keller. But the GBA version of that game, so good.

I would kill for a new one. I don't know why they don't make any more of these. Yeah. It's my favorite Pokemon game. Like, I love it. Right, right. You know what? It's probably the Pokemon game that I played more than any other,

except for Pokemon Go, obviously. But that thing resided, because didn't, then the, the GBA version, I think, had a rumble pack that you, that would also rumble for, like, bumpers and stuff like that. And maybe even did a tilt function or something? Yeah, I think that was one of the first ones, right? That was always the hotness in those little cards. I think so, yeah. Yeah, I think you're right.

It was so good, though. My gosh, I could play it right now. Also, Mario Golf for the GBA is so good. Anyway, you're going to be very excited when you get your when you get your SD cards I sent you through the mail Which you should get tomorrow. I know, I can't wait. Well, Brian's over there, slaving over getting garlic OS on there annually. Wait a minute.

This is an option for you just to send me stuff? Yeah, I mean, I can reckon roll you a few and send it out. I've already done the one for Scott. But basically, I didn't tweak anything out too much. But I did set the Game Boy version in the retroarchs so that it automatically has the Game Boy overlay and it has the color palettes because out of the box

the Game Boy games are just black and white and just a screen is very boring monochromy looking. It's very boring but when you throw in the overlays on that one and the coloring, it's sweet. Well, let's talk offline because I've finished the garlic OS business but it's all the ROMs that, so maybe

I got a kit. I can either send you the kit where it'll just let you kind of pick through it or I can send just a messy cards either way. Let's talk. Let's talk. Yeah, do some talking. Have some talking. Do the talk. It's not wrong. It's just configuration people. No, it's just this all. Not rums. Not those things that'd be illegal for us to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just more complex things to do. Downaway, I'll see you then. It's the movie 330 today. So check it out live here at frogpants.com. TV or get the podcast after. I'll have my inhaler in my hand. Yeah. And you'll love what we got coming up after this one, too. Next week's going to be great. So watch for all that coming up soon, you retrohead. We'll see you later. Okay. Sweet.

There he goes. Now, time is it? It's time to take a break. That's what time it is. We're going to take a break. My friend. We're going to do a break when we come back from said to break. Tom Merritt will be here.

We'll do a little tech talk. Don't know what we're covering today. No idea. And then after that, why it's recommendals time with hopefully everybody. I haven't seen Nicole's reply, but maybe. Yeah, she is just going to send us a trailer. Oh, there it is right now. I see it now.

Oh, I'm excited about this. things you watched. I still haven't seen it. Oh, cool. Anyway, so yeah, come back after this, but you can't go anywhere until you hear a song, I guess. So why don't you play that? You gotta hear a song. If you're familiar with Gameface, the band Gameface, Jeff Cardale,

who is from that band, has his own project going on called Low Coast. This is from their debut album, or his debut album, called Existing the Dream. Brand new single called I Can't Wait to Live in the Moment. Boy, if you like the 90s, you're going to love

this. Here is low coast. She steps out of her Corolla and wonders why she's even there All the girls look like dolls and the guys look like they don't care She tries so hard not to notice She's played the same game all year Hit the town spin around try not to fall down the stairs like a comedy, but reads like a tragedy, she spells out calamity, and she sighs as she cries into her drink, it says quietly, well, I can't wait to live in the moment, well, I can't wait

to just let it happen. Yeah, he steps out of his apartment, despite the urge to step back. in there are days when his brain has its way but today is fever in

it plays like a comedy it reads like a tragedy laced with profanity and he strains as it trains the last ounces

of his sanity I can't wait to live in a moment I can't wait I can't wait to just let it happen Why does everything I say will now like a question I can't wait to live in the moments, in the moment The band plays a song

That reminds her of a therapist She sings along And she thinks she's getting eyes from the rhythm guitarist He's on the floor thinks the chicks are pretty into it feels just like 84 but it hopes it doesn't end up like a homecoming incident

I can't wait to live in the moment I can't wait to just let it happen why does everything I say come out like a question I can't wait to live in the moment, in the moment. he answer us? I bet he would. You guys are driving me crazy.

And we return. Tell us again who that amazing song was by. Sure. That's Low Coast from their brand new debut LP, Existing the Dream. Existing the Dream. It really is the Existing the Dream. The song is called I Can't Wait to Live in the Moment. I like that. It's a weird name, but I like it.

If you like the gin blossoms, jiggle-o ants, R-E-M, very, very gin blossoms, is what I thought on this thing. Really? All right. Yeah. Oh, I've, dang it. Hold on. I added Tom to the wrong group. Let's fix that.

I said I added her to the Nicole group, which I did not mean to do. Let me go back here and then re-ad him here. Okay. Now it's all coming together, folks. We know what we're doing. It's only been a week since we've had time here. know we know what's going on we know exactly what's going on the world of tomorrow will be as cold as sunlight tuned through photochromic windows blah blah blah blah blah blah

tom merritt ace detect on twitter is here to join us from a hotel room I need look at you uh well look at me where are you traveling this week what's going on something cool oh headed headed I'm in I'm in I'm in the noise oh nice just checking family out and all that yeah family stuff yeah wishing that the Cardinals do more stuff, that kind of thing. Sometimes, yes. Well, that's good. I didn't realize you were going to be on the road today.

That's fantastic. We can still have you. So thanks for being here. Yeah, you bet, man. You're probably digging around for stories and stuff and all that for a daily tech news show, even though you're a remote. What's going on today? So we have an NVIDIA story out of Computex that we held over from yesterday,

because they had a ton of announcements. We covered all the hardware yesterday today. Today, we want to talk to you about their little announcement and demo of AI-driven non-player characters. This is something we've talked about in the past, the possibility of it, but Nvidia's showing it off being done with their Avatar Cloud Engine set of tools. So the idea is to give developers a set of tools that include large language model, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, et cetera. So they got together with a company called Convey, except it's spelled V-A-I, huh? Let's see what they've done.

And they created a little demo of you walking up. And instead of having to click on text with an N-P non-player character, you just talk to them. Yeah. So I watched the demo, and it looked like it's kind of set in this sort of cyberpunk setting. It's like a bar. And you go in there and talk. It's like a ramen place. Yeah, like a ramen place.

and you go up to the guy who's running the thing. And in this case, the demo showed somebody just speaking, you know, through a microphone, into the game and saying, you know, what's going on or do you need anything or whatever the questions were. And the MPC would answer those questions in the same way that you would imagine, you know, when you type something at a chat GPT, you get an answer that sounds like they're sort of addressing you directly. It's almost like it's coming from a person.

So it does have that vibe. It's a little stilted. and I have some questions about like, I don't think players like talking to their games. I think they'd rather have the thing talk to them and then choose like a list of things to say back and then they would respond in a dynamic way. That's not as cool for a demo though.

So I get it, why they did it the way they did it. But the point is these tools, from what I understand and what I've been reading, is it's pretty wide open. Like you can kind of do whatever you want to do with, these tools and it looks really impressive like really really cool so this is one area of AI that i've been the most excited about because you know it's the one place in gaming in particular where uh we've kind of hit a limit you know we've hit sort of a and i don't want writers to lose their jobs it's not my goal here but we've hit a limit with mpc interactions it's like well

they can only say so much and we can only respond so much and it's just sort of a very rote thing that's happening with this interaction between me and this virtual person. And this just takes that a little further in a way that I think is kind of exciting. Yeah, it's another element of game design that you can use, right? That's the way I'm looking at it, is these responses in this demo feel like they're a little bit on rails. Like it kind of might not matter how, what you say. There's going to be some variation of like, I sure am upset about the crime around these parts kind of, you know, to get you nudged back to the storyline. So I'm very interested in seeing outside of a demo

how it responds to just randomness, right? Like, what kind of stuff you can throw at it? My guess is they trained it very narrowly. So you can do that with these large language models to say only pull from a very narrow set of text so that

the MPC probably would just not be able to respond to a lot of stuff and just shrug its shoulders. I don't know what you're talking about kind of thing. And as this grows, like the current demo is a little stilted, like the guy's very You know, it doesn't use conjunctions. He's all very, I am okay today. Here is what I would like you to. Like it feels a little robotic. Yeah, the voice is fine. It's just it sounds like he's reading from a page. That will improve pretty quickly, I would think. And also being able to be narrow and focused but still have fringe conversation. Yeah. Is, is still the goal. It's already the goal with good RPGs. They try to create that, you know, artificial. but if this thing can like talk around the edges in interesting ways and not derail the point of

the game and then maybe still funnel players back to the point which is why I still need to ask this such as why I think text responses are actually more conducive to better game design there's a whole thing I could go off on that but I just think there's a real potential here it got me super excited and the fact is they're not really showing a new tool because text text prompts are good for certain things right right and they're not showing a this is not a real game Like, this is a made-up little sequence. But I'm imagining developers are, you know, their heads are probably popping right now. They're like, whoa, no way.

And what's interesting is that's coming out of Nvidia, whose AI presence is becoming a big deal. Like, they're doing a lot. They are the hardware. They didn't design the AI. That's why they used convey. Right. But they provide the hardware. They provide the middleware.

So, you know, so there is some software in there. like the deployment tools. They didn't provide the large language model itself. It's the Nemo set of deployment tools. It's the Riva speech to text and text to speech. But you're right. I think what's interesting about Nvidia

is they are becoming the player in serving all of the AI. So Open AI, Google, Facebook, meta, whatever. They're all running on Nvidia stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And it makes sense to me that they would try to position themselves to be that, right?

And don't get me wrong. Google and meta and I think Amazon even are all making their own chips as well. But that doesn't mean that they can skimp on the NVIDIA. They all got to be their customer. And that's one of the reasons Nvidia is, and we talked about that yesterday on the show, one of the reasons that even if the latest round of graphic cards are just whelming, neither under nor over, it doesn't matter. Invita skyrocketed. I think because of the AI stuff. I was reading some analysts. They said they just hit a valuation of a trillion dollars, which is a huge deal for a GPU manufacturer. That just seems insane to me. Because they're way more than a GPU manufacturer. Yeah.

It's interesting to see that that, it's interesting to see them take on that persona, with lack of a better term, where AMD just feels like they're not doing anything like that. They're just sort of still. Intel's trying to get into the game, but they're making slow progress at it. So I think I feel like Qualcomm has made more progress. But really the problem is all of these other companies, I didn't mention Apple earlier,

but they have their own silicon for AI as well. They're all trying to develop it themselves. And so there isn't a lot left over after Nvidia takes. What else is out there? Right. Well, welcome to the new Gold Rush, everybody. everybody's everybody everywhere is doing their thing although you know what one thing i'll say about this brian i don't know if this is your experience at all or tom but i feel like my echoes are

getting stupider and why and what i'm saying is i actually don't think that's true i don't think they're getting dumber it's just that because i'm exposing myself to this other emerging tech smart devices are starting to seem really limited yeah by comparison yeah so i hope well, I don't hope. I know they're all working on this, right? There's no way Amazon doesn't have some plan for the Echo and Google from home. Oh, Google certainly does, yeah. Yeah, so they're going to, they're going to, and we'll probably hear more about this from Apple next week.

I don't know. There's a lot of rumors about that, but. Yeah, supposedly it's going to be like a three hour long keynote address, which is going to kill me. But, yeah, we might hear about everything. We may hear about everything that day. Well, all right, then. Looking forward to that. and also, of course, being on today

talking more about this NVIDIA stuff and other things that come up. Tom, anything else going on while you're out there on the road? You want to let people know about? No, other than Tom's top five, if you haven't caught it, it's back. We named the top five greatest tech companies

of all time and invited you to fight us. No. We want your feedback, though. We want your ideas because everybody's list is going to be different. But I put mine out there. If you want to see what the top five greatest tech companies of all time are,

go to YouTube.com slash daily tech news show. Nice. It's Tom Merritt, everyone, and he has also AisDet on Twitter and all those other places you might find them in a social sphere. Tom, have a fantastic trip, and we'll see you next time. Thanks, y'all. Bye, now. See you, Tom. All right, the big test. I now close this.

Let's see what happens. Yeah, it worked fine. I think if I get them off before I join the window again, we're good. I think I found the solution. I don't know for sure, but I think I found it. Okay. Cool. Good.

Okay. let's get recommendals happening we've all been watching shit you know and boy we have haven't we yeah we have I feel like I've watched a little

I feel like I haven't had enough time to watch a lot of things but I've been a little too up my own butt with busyness let's see who else is here oh Nicole here we go can remember all the names all right we're adding them to the call

we're going to play an intro we're going to run down this road like wild people here we go well what do you recommend yes that's right that music says it's time for recommendals where we talk about stuff we've seen on streaming services and we share it with you the home listener

so that you can see whether you like this stuff or not as well welcome back to the show Nicole's bag hi Nicole hi hi it's good to have you back I'm here I got kids and I'm at the shop it's crazy day busy mom stuff I get it I don't know what to do with the kids during summer break until summer camp starts.

Oh, are they out now? The kids around here still have another week or something. I guess it's different everywhere, yeah. I don't know. Yeah, it was like the 24th of May when they got out. I was like, what? When I was in school, I was talking to Kim about this. When I was in school, it was always May.

So I don't know what changed around here. It's not year round, so I don't know what they're doing. But anyway, it is one of those things. Also with us, Randy Jordan. Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning stream. How are you? I'm fine.

Thanks for asking. It's a beautiful. day outside and tomorrow is our last day of school here and we're very excited about it because we're immediately going on summer vacation. Diablo Day too for your first day out of school

that's cool. Sure, yes. I am sorry to say that game will not be in the hands of my 13 year old. Yeah. Very, very adult game. It's got some dark business going on. Three was a little

softer. I'm a little call. Oh, oh, she's talking about it. I'm sorry. I have to mute myself. It'd be funny if she was telling us she was on the call. It's like, I'm on the call. You guys, I'm on the call. Yeah, we know. We talked to you already. Yeah, you're here. Let's get to these recommendals. Let's start with Brian as tradition has designed. And you've got a thing here. What do you want to say about it? This is a new series. And, man, you're going to recognize some. voices in here. Well, I'll leave it at that. Here we go. Mr. President, the ambassador wants to cancel the press avail. She is concerned that it will look like an endorsement. Of a military strike on Tehran. I'm not sending him Megs. His Navy got hit. I show up and stand next to the guy.

Sir, you're going to be pinned like a butterfly while the PM is quoting Leviticus. So maybe we don't take questions. The visual's enough. The visual is also not okay. The British government still thinks it's Iran. the contrary is having no impacts her. Well, why would it? We've got pictures of an Iranian boat leaving a port in Iran. And what on the other side?

Some guy? It's a compelling guy. And they're not saying they're still gathering facts. They're saying it's Iran. It's not Iran. Because of the compelling guy? Yes. I'm not sure you get out enough.

Let's go. It's me. I'm the guy. They kidnapped me. So, first of all, it was a pull-aside. They kidnapped me, and they put me on the phone with a deputy

foreign minister of Iran. Fucking hell. He stuck his neck on the line and his wife's and his kids which there were five. They didn't do it.

Let me shake your damn hand. It's fine. He's a friend. I want to guess. Michael, Michael McKeon is the president? Yeah. Yes.

I heard him for sure. Oh, man. Who was the, oh. Carrie Russell, right? I heard Carrie Russell's voice. You heard Carrie Russell. And I heard.

I think that's all I recognize. Okay. You want to guess right? Brother and Kerry Russell, that's it. I don't, I don't know. I, like, whenever I hear Michael McKeon, I always assume any other voice is Christopher guest. So I've got to lost.

Yeah. And Wilde does have, surprisingly has a lot of humor elements. This is a political thriller TV series called The Diplomat. It's not about rapper Diplos, Matt, welcome Matt, that sits in front of his front door. No, it's about a, uh, an ambassador to the UK played by Carrie Russell. You also heard the voice of Rufus Sewell, or Sewell, there from Dark City. He's the compelling guy who got kidnapped.

Love him. Not a kidnapping. I love him so much. He is Carrie Russell's husband and a former ambassador who basically can't stop still trying to be an ambassador during this whole thing. Like she's the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to the UK. He, as a former ambassador, just can't stop trying to be involved. You've also got Rory Keneer as the UK Prime Minister.

I know him best as Frankenstein from Penny Dreadful, but he's been a lot of other things. But, you know, once you see that guy as Frankenstein, you kind of forget everything else he's been in. And if I would have included an audio, audio of him, you would have. immediately thought it was Hugh Grant because for whatever reason, audio-wise, he sounds just like Hugh Grant. Oh, weird. That's cool. And Michael McCain, yeah, as the president of the United States. So this is an eight-episode political thriller. Just launched on Netflix about a strike against a U.K. Navy vessel.

And Kate, played by, Carrie Russell, has to go to the U.K., a diffuse the situation, but also how. help kind of strengthen the bond between the prime minister and the president, which have kind of a strained relationship, as well as keeping one foot in her husband's chest to keep him from sticking his nose into everything, including a woman that, oh, what is her name? She was in the peripheral, very striking black woman with... Oh, I loved her in that. Yes. Oh, I can't remember. I'm trying to find her, the actress's name. But, like, you see her and like, oh, my God, she is just so fascinating.

Her acting and her just watching her... as she acts is just amazing. I don't know her name. She's great, though. Second that from the peripheral alone. She was awesome. Is it Tanina? Tanina Miller?

It might be Tanina Miller. I'm looking for a photo of her and I'm not seeing one. But she was also apparently in Foundation. Maybe. Let's see. Does it list her in... She plays Sicily Denison? Yep, that is her.

Yep. Tenia Miller. She's great. Really cool. Yeah, I like her a lot. She is. Yeah. Anyway, it's such a great balance of this political thriller story, this battle between Kerry Russell and Rufus Sewell, the two, you know, the kind of off-the-wall, prime minister, or who's really quick to rush to judgment, rush to action, Prime Minister, Prime Minister, Prime Minister, Michael McKean, with this.

kind of like almost doesn't give a crap kind of president of the United States. There's, yeah, Ambassador Doma, I was going to say very, it's like West Wing meets the bodyguard, that thing from last year or a couple of years ago with a dude from Game of Thrones. Very much like the, like a combination of the two. Definitely sets up a second season, which has already been approved. So it got renewed for a second season almost immediately. and this leaves you wanting a second season. It's really, really solid.

It's a great watch, but it's one where, you know, kind of like the bodyguard, kind of like West Wing, you've got to pay attention. And no Marvel Snap while you're watching this, as I found out in the first 10 minutes, like, okay, I'm starting the show over and I'm watching the show and not having Marvel Snap on in the background while I'm playing. Well, this makes like 10 people now,

and you included, who all have said how much they really like this show. It's a little under the radar, right? Because it doesn't have like the flash of, I don't know, other stuff. It really doesn't. Yeah. Like the, you know, the idol is getting a lot of attention. That new Arnold thing is getting a lot of attention. Right. Oh my God. Bodyguard was 2018. Bodyguard, really? Yeah. He's all the way back then, mum. All the way. Back then, mum. Yeah. This is he keep calling her mom. Anyway. This is definitely on my list. It looks great. And is there a scene where Carrie Russell suddenly goes, and her

something explodes in her head no it's funny because we were in the middle of watching this series

when we watched MI3 and so I wanted to talk about Carrie Russell I'm glad to hear she didn't get

done dirty in that so that's good yes no she does not get done dirty in this and she

I'd never seen Felicity so this is my first like long form Carrie Russell thing I haven't seen

what is it the Americans is for other series I think isn't that the one? No, Homeland. This executive producer, Deborah Khan, also produced the last couple seasons of Homeland. So she's no stranger to political thrillers. And this is an entirely Deborah Khan thing, right? She wrote and corrected. Yeah, she created and directed exactly. She cut her teeth working with Aaron Sorkin. And, well, there you go. Yeah, so I've always, I've always wondered if she's going to, like, sort of do that same thing. If this is any indication that that quick back and forth that Aaron Sorkin is known for, the walk-in-talk, this has it in spades.

And that comedic, that comedic edge like Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, the very few episodes of West Wing that I saw that I need to get back to admittedly. But yeah, it's very, it is very much in that same vein as the other. That sold me, because I've seen West Wing like, what, five times over? So this sounds like my jam. You've watched it enough for me. One of those could qualify as a binge for me, I think. That's right. It's so good.

But this sounds a lot like that. Even those lines, like McKeon's responses sounded very sorkyny. I'm in. So it's super sorkyny. I'm in. All right. And Brian, there's only 155 episodes of the West Wing. I know.

That is kind of what makes me a little nervous. I just finished the wire, by the way. That almost was my recommendal, was the entirety of binging the wire. And boy, does that, once you get past that first kind of set-up season, I liked the docks, the season on the docks, season two. I loved it. But it does get better and better and better. And now seeing the main dude from season four who created Hampstradam in the wire,

seeing him on Barry now it's like oh wow okay that's a whole different character very different yep and then and plus you got your taste of that she yes oh my god there is one that I wanted to capture because he goes she for what seems like 30 seconds I know it's almost a parody it's almost a parody it's like how did you get away with that it's like Dana Carvey after three seasons of doing the same character when he just starts to like go E, E, E, E, E, E, E. And people laugh.

Yeah. I was going to say, uh, uh, Seth MacFarland, right? Like, yeah, right. He repeats a joke for the seventh time. Sure. He just like, he makes it last forever. Yeah, I love it. Sure.

All right. The diplomat sounds like a winner. I'm going to watch it. Yes. On Netflix, uh, watch it. Totally. I hope the strike doesn't ding him too hard on the second season. Oh, I know.

There's so many things right now that I'm like, oh, man. can we please take care of the writers so that they can get back to creating the stuff that we want to see please I wonder how many of them I wonder if any of these writers are like at home when they're not picketing they're at home writing things that they're just packing away like sandbagging a little bit you know what I mean well isn't that how we got um oh the oh the musical that what's his face did with flesia day and oh yeah horrible dr horrible that's that came from the writer's strike that's right right strike the Neil Patrick Harris. The 2006 strike, right? I think. Yeah. Yeah. And then we lost. We lost shows like pushing daisies, which I just watched, started watching again on Max. And I'm like, oh, this show was so good. Gave us half seasons of things like Lost and. I just remember, I just remember they gave season, one of the greatest shows of all time, Friday Night Lights, an amazing show. Second season, Landry killed a guy. You could tell. That was a season. That was a season.

they had scab riders for it's like wait a minute the high school landry in high school killed a guy and we're gonna have a whole season about him trying to figure out how to not get caught for murder i'm like what are you doing this show i forgot about that and then by season three it was like all forgotten and fixed it was so weird yeah yeah so sorry to say what we're going to get is more creative reality tv we're going to have america's got stuff in their fridge it's an oxymor right like creative uh reality I would, Brian, wait, hold on, Randy. I want to see America's got stuff in their fridge. That's going to, that's legit.

We're going to have so you think you can walk in a straight line. And that's going to be. These are good. I need to draw this. All right. Speaking of other things to watch, hey, Nicole. Tell us, tell us about yours. Yours is the one I'm most excited to see myself personally, but haven't yet.

So I'm very excited about it. You want any set up here before we hit play? You'll get it right away. when the, because I was looking for maybe some clips, there's, there's actually quite a bit of cussing, uh, in the, in the documentary. So it's a documentary on Apple Plus. And I think my favorite part of watching this documentary is when my son came down and started watching it. And I showed him apart, um, because it takes this, this person kind of takes you through his life. And he finally realized who he was. And it was like, oh. Wow. So it was kind of funny to kind of see him realize who he was as he's watching this documentary about his life. All right. Well, here it is. Get ready, 80s, kids.

This is for you as well. Here you go. The story of me. Take two. Three, two. Here we go. Ready. And action.

Wait on that, Doc. Are you telling me that you built a time machine? Out of a Delorean. What did it mean to be still? I wouldn't know. He was never still. That's him. That's our star. I want this job. I can do it.

Whatever the exception is, I can fix it. I can be holder. I can be taller. I can be anything. The popularity of Michael J. Fox is a phenomenon. Here is Michael J. Fox. What is the secret of your success? And the winner is Michael J. Fox. I don't believe this. This is great. I feel four feet tall.

I get it. I was big. I was bigger than bubble gum. Bigger than bubble gum. I love it. So how is this? It's the Michael Jace Fox movie. What's it called?

Still? Still. Yeah. So they say the name of the movie and the documentary. And it is fascinating to watch his struggle and his tenacity and his positive outlook. on life. So it kind of takes you through, like, his relationship with his dad and how his dad was just like, you're going to do nothing. Like, you're going to not do anything in life. But then he struggled with being small. Like, he talks about the relationship with his younger

sister and how everybody, he was, I think, three years older than her. And everybody thought they were twins because they were the same size. And so I wanted to, I brought Mateo in to watch this part in particular because he's like I'm I'm small. I'm short. I'm like, but that doesn't define you. Like, you can push through that. So I just wanted him to kind of see. And oh, they go through the years like when he's like 13, when he's 16. There's a picture of him when he's 16. And the guy that he's next to looks like he's 20. he has like the you know 70s mustache well even now he's he has a look of a younger man you know even though even though Parkinson says it's like ravaged him he still has this like young guy you know face to him and everything does it go all the way up into the like the parts of when he so i know there's stories about he was diagnosed while he was working on spin city yeah is that when he was diagnosed or right before maybe but he didn't tell anyone for a while there's a whole thing

Yes, he hit it for a very long time. I remember watching Spin City and knowing he had Parkinson. Yeah. So what I found interesting was his earlier career and kind of how he tried to make it in L.A. and had to sell everything off and he was eating like jelly packs. And like he didn't just come to L.A. and boom, he was a star. It was it was family ties. And he talks about kind of how family ties happened, how Teen Wolf and Back to the Future happened, and like how it just kind of ran him ragged.

What I found interesting was that when he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, there are three other co-workers on the TV show that he worked on in the 70s that also were diagnosed with Parkinson's. So Parkinson's is a really interesting disease. Because it can happen in clusters. And that gives them a little bit more insight into what causes Parkinson's. And they believe that it's triggered. You get exposed to a certain virus. They're still not sure what virus. But that then can trigger the onset of Parkinson's years later.

So you just don't know. I mean, there was four coworkers. There's actually one of the co-workers that he was on this show called Leo. and me in 77 that all have this and both Michael J. Fox and this other co-worker actually treated by the same doctor. Oh, wow.

And so they are, they are really, I mean, he's a huge reason why the advances they've gotten in Parkinson's have happened. So there's a, there's an article from CBC news that talks about it and how Japanese

researchers have established that it's a that a virulent form of the flu caused by a virus can make its way into the same part of the brain that Parkinson's because it's it's it's your it's it's your motor it's your motor function stuff it's yes yeah yeah so when I was sick back in December it affect my motor skills I couldn't drive I couldn't cut a steak I couldn't use scissors um it was crazy I'm just thankful I was able to recover from it. It's like the human papal. What's it called? That's the one that you can get just from it's, it comes from sexual activity, but it's like HPV. That one's wild because it's not just, it's not like a sexually transmitted disease. It causes that virus causes cancer. Like people always

think, oh, virus, you're over it in a week or or it killed you. But it's like this one thing. But there's so much weird stuff we don't understand how it works. And there's with HPV, it's even, more interesting because there are like many many like forms of it so like they have a whole classification of the different types like there's like a whole class so if you're if you're like if you have HPV like 20 you're okay but if you have 18 you could probably you might get you know a cervic cancer yeah cervic cancer I think yeah it's a weird thing but so so this goes into a bunch of you know the science and stuff about about Parkinson. Yeah. Yeah. And it talks more about his life. And there's some interesting, and

there's a scene where he's just, he has a therapist that walks with him. And so a fan recognizes him on the street. And she's like, oh, and he falls. Like, he falls and hits hard. And she's, she's like, oh, I'm so sorry. He's like, no, no, no. Like, just, he's like, I fell for you. Like, he made a joke of it. I have to admire his attitude. And his wife's incredible. Yeah, you knocked me off my feet. Yeah.

Joey said in the chat room. Right, right. His wife's, um, just her steadfastness with him. Yeah. That's inspiring. It goes into their relationship. They dive into their relationship because, you know, in sickness and in health and like all and all, like he was saying, it was bigger than bubble gum.

He goes through all of that. So you just get a really raw. view of this person and kind of his history and how this disease he doesn't want you to pity him at all and he's just thankful

every day he gets. It's just a really good feel. I mean, it's hard to watch, but it's his story and he's not going to apologize for it. Well, it's getting raves everywhere, so it seems like a... That's good. Apple Plus, yeah. Yeah, I will definitely check it out.

Nice one. Randy. Do you have a clip? You do. Let's play this clip. What's your setup? Yeah. I've recently, finally, after years and years of drifting through all different sections of TikTok, I've finally found my people. And it's besides Shoggio, Shio is my favorite TikToker, by the way.

She's great. She might too. But besides her, I have finally found people who are making TikTok videos about the IMDB top 250. and I just rewatched number 109 on the top 250. It's a tremendous movie that we all know and love, and it's got a huge ensemble cast. Every character is important, and so I picked a clip of a character that you might have forgotten from the film,

and she's amazing, but it's a very small role that is so impactful, and this is the clip. All right, here you go. I didn't want to ruin their night, too. What was it? You don't want to know. I'd like to know what's behind that grim look on your face. I don't do that. You know it. Let's go. Come on.

You never told me I'd be excluded. I told you when we hooked up, baby, that you were going to have to share me with all the bad people and all the ugly events on this planet. And I bought into that sharing. Because I love you. I love you fat, bald, money, no money. Driving a bus. I don't care.

But you have got to be present like a normal guy some of the time. That's sharing. This is not sharing. This is leftovers. Wow. It feels like a film sack movie. We just saw this not long ago. But man, anytime we talk about heat, I get excited.

Yeah, it's on Netflix. And it actually, when I, the reason I rewatched is because it made its way into the top 10 a couple days ago. Like, that's, you know, the movie's just so good. that was Diane Vanora, like an actress you probably can't name. And she has maybe eight minutes of screen time in this two and a half hour long movie.

And she is so incredible as Al Pacino's suffering third wife. It's like, what else can you say about heat? Except it's so awesome to rewatch it critically. And like you said, Brian, put the phone down. and pay attention like the music some of the some of the scenery shots in this movie i've i'd forgotten how great um and i'm forgetting the the name of the cinematographer is but i've

forgotten how great michael man is at uh storyboarding out like shots yeah like we're just we're gonna just have these interstitials all over the place and it's just like oh beautiful sounds good um the the climax of the film by the way i i didn't ever notice this before. The big bank heist is an hour 10 before the end of the movie. Oh, really? Wow. Like, I'm watching

this, I'm going, that was a lot later. What is, what is there's another hour in this movie? And then of course, it's a tremendous hour of them trying to basically escape and not, you know, get caught. Yeah, it's it's my favorite sound work

in a heist movie ever. No one's quite equal to it. When they're out in the streets like Kilmer and De Niro and everybody are out there shooting for the first time in that one really important scene with all the shooting. There is something about those guns and the way they sound in a city scape with like reflected sound from the buildings and all of that that I have yet to kind of experience. And maybe it's because 94 when this movie came out, weird, I know the years, that movies weren't like that. They were still using a lot of stock sounds. Like all the guns sound the same and even the same guns as the same. As the same

shooting sound for you know in post-production but for whatever reason this one just felt like a giant leap forward in sound editing and to this day just still blows my mind i love heat so much such a great movie and if you ask 10 people like what do you what do you think makes this movie so great you're going to get 10 different kinds of filmmaking right people talk about the casting the specific uh portrayals of some of the different characters uh you're just talking about sound I was talking about cinematography. That was a Dante Spanati, by the way. Dante Spanati was responsible for the last of the Mohicans and L.A. Confidential and many other films.

You look at it, he actually did Ant Man and the Wasp, which is just like a weird little thing. But just like the cinematography is so spectacular that you're able to appreciate the sound. And the sound is so great that you're able to appreciate the act. and just all goes around in this big, huge, beautiful circle. I, you know, I also love Michael Mann's other movies, and I feel like, I feel like Miami Vice is super underrated. But this one, I'm looking at TikToks about great movies, and I'm like, maybe heat's a little overrated. But then I watched it. No, no, no, no.

This is very correctly rated. Heat is rated for a reason. That's an amazing movie. Yeah. My second favorite man movie, I think, is that Tom Cruise one. What's that called? Oh, my brain. Collateral.

Just collateral, right? Just collateral, right? Just collateral. Yeah, that's a great movie, too. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. Well, anyway, more Michael Mann plays. And also Netflix, you say, for Heat.

So, yes, it's on Netflix. And don't forget the original Manhunter, Michael Mann wrote that movie, the 1986 movie. Yeah. And directed it, I think, didn't he? No. Yes, yes, yes, he directed it. But most important. importantly, he wrote it. That's like his big, you know, the big, like, oh, this guy is, is going to be a major player in this town. Yeah. He's awesome. Just, oh, man, Joan Allen in that movie. There's a bunch of Michael Mann on, on Netflix right now. I could just sit and I could watch this again already. Like, I watched it two days ago. I could watch it again right now. Is the insider on there right now? The insider's so good. That's not a good one. That's the, that's the, you got your, uh, you got your, uh,

I can't think anyone's names today. It's Puccino again, plays a reporter. And then you got Russell Crow is the guy inside the smoking industry who blows the whistle. Yeah. Oh, it's such a good movie. And Christopher Plummer is the heavy. Yeah. It is not, boy, and the insider is far away from streaming for free.

You've got to spend some bucks on this movie. Well, if it ever shows up, make sure you catch it, everybody. All right, that's heat on Netflix. Here is mine. I was over on Apple TV Plus where Nicole was hanging out and I watched a documentary that's actually been out for a bit but I heard about its sequel season coming out and I thought I meant to catch that before

I'll watch it now. Here's my clip. Surely one of the most remarkable animals that have ever existed and certainly one of the most famous is a dinosaur. Tyrannosaurus Rex an animal to spark the imagination for all of us.

What kind of an animal was it? What did it look like? How did it live? Now, scientific research has answered such questions and not just about T-Rex, but the other species that lived alongside it. And the latest imaging technology enables us to bring them all to life.

All right, this is prehistoric planet. Season one is where I'm at. Season two is now airing. I guess it's coming out episode by episode on a weekly basis. And I'm excited to catch up to it. But it's basically everything you love about a Richard Attenborough documentary. That was him. David, or David, sorry, Richard.

His brother died. He shouldn't have built Jurassic Park. But it is interesting, by the way, that David Attenborough and Richard Attenborough brothers, you got one famous for acting in Jurassic Park, many other things. And then you got his brother doing a thing about, dinosaurs and presenting it with lots of Jurassic Park inspired visuals. I don't know. I found that kind of fun.

There's a funny parallel there. Yeah, like that. But anyway, Richard Attenborough, he narrates this and does this just like he does all of his great documentaries, of which there are tons. But it's all from this perspective of what we,

at least what we know now about how dinosaurs lived and died, how they evolved, what changed, or what's changed in terms of what we, see them as like our version of a of a tyrannosaurus rex in the 70s is definitely evolved into something else now that we have more data and information and technology to suss that information it's very very good um look at that sort of stuff and i absolutely enjoyed the hell out of that first season so can't wait for the next one it's prehistoric planet uh season one and the second one

is now streaming on apple tv is the full season out i know they were looking at it yeah piecemeal in it Okay, good. I mean, I don't know. Does it have five episodes? I think it was five or six is all the first one had. So probably. They're probably done. They come quick when it's only five episodes. Like a month later, you're like, oh, shit, that whole show's out. Anyway, highly recommend it. It's very, very good. So while you're over there watching, still the Michael J. Fox documentary, stick around for prehistoric planet season one and two. You will not be disappointed. Aren't you just, aren't you just like mentally bracing for when we lose David Attenborough? I hate it. I don't like it. No, no. In fact, I heard him talking here.

Shorty. It's just something about his voice. It makes me go, oh, you're a thousand now. Don't die. Live forever, David. Sounds like he's going, Shorty. Yeah, shorty.

Yo, shorty. Shorty. He's outlived the queen. And he's going to take him a couple more years to outlive Betty White. But man. He's getting there. He's still walking around, pointing a chit, and just looking like he's got it all figured out.

I love it. Anyway, get all the Attenborough while you can, everybody, because he's not long for the world. Anyway, it's very, very good. Check it out. Brian will put all of these recommendals today up on TMS or sorry, quicktmess.L.I. They're there now, right? They're there now. Two Apple TVs, two Netflix's. Oh, my gosh. Diplomat still heat prehistoric planet. Yeah. I want it to be a sentence, but it's not. It just won't work, will it? But we tried and I appreciate that. Randy, Nicole. diplomat still uh never this is something like that uh it's great having you both here hope you're doing well and that your week goes great we'll see you next time

by now oh i cut off you've probably had something to say and i cut them off probably oops all right uh we did that we're now we're done really except for one thing uh we have one quick thing to do at the end here and this is an email slash text it's actually a text not slash from a listener about brian and your sleeping and reading habits okay okay fine all right this is melissa airs which sounds a lot like melissa meyer he used to be the weird laughing CEO of yahoo that's not her uh she says how long does brian lay there awake in the night before turning something on or reading something just curious i also have trouble staying asleep all night so it's more of a timing thing like yeah how long have you have you clocked it or

you just sort of feels like forever right uh but no i'll lay there because i have a um i wear a sleep mask It will surprise nobody that I wear a Spider-Man sleep mask. No, not at all. Surprise, zero people. It's the most comfortable one I've ever gotten, and I think I got it free in a loot crate. I'm like, oh, this is great. And it's like, oh, my God, this thing is so comfortable. Anyway, I would bet that I lay there for about 15 minutes.

And what I do is, you know, basically kind of wake up and you're like, oh, man, what time is it? I don't even want to look. And then you're thinking, oh, what am I going to have to do today? oh, I need to make sure I get Google Ads report to this customer and I need to make sure I get a movie audio clip for recommendals and blah, blah, blah.

You got to obviously stop doing that. And the only way that I was able to do that is by thinking only about my breathing and just breathe, you know, basically like focus on a three second in, three second out, basically just like trying to do that Because if you're really focused on your breathing, you're not thinking about anything else.

Sometimes that works. Other times I just say, screw it, I'm getting up. I'm to watch Barry. Yeah. Or The Wire last week. Yeah. But I probably sit there for, I give it the college try for about probably 10 to 15 minutes before I finally give up. That's funny.

I do the exact same thing with the breathing thing. And it works for me, like you say, it works a bunch of the times. Portion of the time. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe half. You know my biggest problem at night when I can't. sleep is I hear my heartbeat too

loud. Oh gosh. Wow. And it's not that it's extra loud. It's that if it's quiet, I just can hear it because I can feel it. It's sort of like a you're just like gosh dang it. Shut the frick out. It's almost like having a noise in the

room that I can't control. I hate that. So then it's like, well, turn on the old brown noise or whatever I got to play and that usually takes care of it. Yeah, I downloaded an app called BetterSleep um and i slept well without trying it for the three days that were going to be the trial before it charged me so actually have it paid for it now and i need to i need to fire it up the problem is like getting up to put earbuds in my ears and trying that um and i don't know if i want

to fall asleep with the earbuds in my ears but i guess it could be see i've done that before and they fall out and they get lost and i feel them under my head and my neck and it's like wakes me up again. It's like I need those special kind that are made for this. I want that cocoon headset, the K-O-K-O-N. I almost backed it via Kickstarter and I kind of wish I would have. Is that the headband one where you wear it over your eyes? Yeah, no, not over your eyes, but it goes around the back

of your head and has really low, flat earbuds that go in your ears that don't, basically nothing protrudes. So as you're laying on your side, you don't feel them in your ears. I could do that. That sounds all right, actually. Yeah. Because if I could just have in surround sound kind of like space music or that would work for me. That would put me right out, you know. A link to it in our show notes there.

I'm sorry, in our Discord. Hasn't come out yet. It's coming out soon. But I did back these guys with a different pair of headphones that were supposed to do the same thing. But they were too, they protruded too much and I couldn't use it. I'd love to be able to give the old ones back and say, let me switch to the new ones. Yeah, this looks all right. I'd wear this.

I got good reviews so far. Yeah. I was going to say one more thing about that. I forgot. Oh, the only problem I have is whatever I listen to will contribute to dreams and stuff. Oh, sure. So if I do space music, I will have space dreams. Yeah, well, that's far better than like, let's listen to an episode of making a murderer or something like a podcast about, yeah.

Exactly. One other quick note that just reminded me. I don't know why. But I had a chance to talk to Talley for those wondering how she's doing. She haven't seen her in the Tadpool much or the Discord or here at live shows. She's doing okay. Good. I heard from her yesterday.

She seems to be doing fine. So for all those who had concern, first of all, that's awesome because you're all a really nice community. And secondly, she's doing okay. So there you are. Good. All right. Brian, we're going to now go. Okay. to go. Oh, that email, or that text, rather, came to 801, 471, 0462. Those are the, that's the number.

All right? You call that number or you text that number. If you call it, you'll do a voicemail. If you text it, well, it's just like a text, and then we'll read it or play it right here on the show, right? So that's the idea. 801, 471, 0462. All right. All right. Patreon.com slash TMS is how this show stays. afloat if you would like to help us stay afloat and be one of the bubbles that does it head on over to patreon.com slash tms where you'll get no commercials ever couch parties and playdates on the weekends art in the mail other great monthly benefits and pre-show content every single day all right and that includes the untouched video unedited video after the fact as well the live

people get that as well but you know patrons only after that anyway check it all out at patreon dot com slash tms we're about to start a new month so it's a perfect time to get in brian let's get out of here with some music do you have some songs you probably have a few i have a song oh my god i'm so excited about this because this was a revelation i'm gonna say it it was a revelation uh g g g g glitch wrote in that's how he writes it said good morning boot and scoot just wanting to put it out in the world that i love my wife and she's doing a very good she is doing very good work for the best friend's animal sanctuary this band is totally her vibe of roller disco and hula hoops love the show though we got scooters gigggo glitch nice love it it's like our own

Personal, um, I can't think of a max headroom. Thank you for writing out. Catch the way. Kukkakak. Anyway, um,

so the band he recommended is one called the Orion experience. I don't think I'd heard of this band before, although I did, I must have downloaded, I did download one of their other songs that was a precursor to this album. There was a cover of a Kate Bush song. And the rest of the album, it's an all-cover album called Cosmic Covers.

This is like if the, It's like a disco band Time Traveling to the Future With modern instruments And making covers of songs Why listen to me talk about it When you can listen to the song The song I picked from the brand new album

It really did just come out this month This is the Orion experience And a cover of the song that we all know and love From Greece sung by Olivia Newton-John It's hopelessly devoted to you Fantastic. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Thursday edition of the show Bye.

You, it's true, I'm hopelessly deported to you. You know that I'm a kind of fool who's willing to sit around and wait for you. But baby, can't you see that there's nothing else for me to do? Because I'm hopelessly devoted to you. I'm hopelessly devoted to you. Let me run into you What now? There's nowhere to hide

Since you've pushed my other side I'm out of my head Hopeless leave to bonnet to you Hopelessly can run ahead to you What can I do I'm hopelessly born in to you My head is standing fool Forgetting you

my heart is saying don't you dare let go hold on till the end that's what I intend to do I hope that's saved you born in to you I hope that's saved you born and hope that's been born into you but now there's nowhere to hide since you pushed my love aside

I'm out of my head Hopeless baby voted to you Hopeless baby wanted to you What can I do? I'm hopeless city voting to you I'm hopelessly divotent to you

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