The Morning Stream - TMS 2488: Birds are Dicks!

Episode Date: July 5, 2023

I can't hear you. Your shirt is too loud. Stay by the Push Pin People. I like to flush when I Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Futuristic Medieval Times. On The Road To Destiny! I just realized I don't want to die. Chloe More Turrets. You want Water world?! Cuz this is how you get Waterworld! Public Pooping. You MUST Pay The Chud! You'll get no water, no flushing and no Lt Yarr!! We, quote, played, golf. Fire Jenkins! Better Off Thread with Tom... and John Cusack... AND A CAVEMAN! Good Effing Bleeping Recommentals! and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, I can't hear you. Your shirt is too loud. Stay by the pushpin, people. I like to flush when I pee. Futuristic medieval times. On the road to destiny. I just realized I don't want to die. Chloe more Tourettes. You want Waterworld? Because this is how you get Waterworld.

Public pooping. You must pay the chud. You'll get no water, no flushing, and no Lieutenant Yard! We, quote, played golf. Fire Jenkins. Better off thread. with Tom and John Cusack and a caveman. Good effing,

bleeping recommendals and more on this episode of the morning stream. You'll need to arrive at least one hour before each shift. That'll give you time to change and get organized before starting work. And remember to punch out for all breaks, even if it is just to use the bathroom. You can do that

on your own time. Got it. She kicked him in the testicles. This is the morning stream. I'll swallow your soul. Oh my gosh, I didn't mean to do that. That swallow your soul thing came from evil dead, didn't it? Oh, did it? I think the original evil dead, he says, the demon-possessed girl says, I'll swallow your soul.

and that's funny and ironic that I use that today. It'll be fun. Funny later on in the show. Yeah, I didn't mean to do that at all. This is a complete happenstance. Oh, that's great. At least I'm having good luck on the show and not in real life. Hey, everybody. It's Scott Johnson here with Brian Ibbott.

It is TMS for Wednesday, July 5th, 2023, and we're in a new month. It's July. So I hope you got your fireworks out of your system yesterday and that you're all good. People who listen to us on foreign shores are probably annoyed because they don't celebrate that dumb holiday. No, no. You know? They don't have like a, they don't do even like a...

Especially, especially UK, like they're going, who needs you guys? We're glad you got your independence from us. We don't care. Thanks for leaving and never come back. Turn the lights off on your way out next time. You don't think there's anybody over there that still holds that hope that one day, you know,

we come back. We come back. You know, like there's somebody who's just passed down and generation to generation just being told that no one day the Americans are going to come back. They're going to come back. No, I think. I think that's, that ship has sailed for lack of a better way of phrasing it. I think nobody is like, oh, sure hope, sure hope 237 years later.

I sure hope America comes back. Yeah. I hope all 300 million of those people come over here now and barely fit here because how big is, I mean, England's what? What's the total? Like the actual, I guess UK is different, but England. About 100 people. Yeah, it's like 100 people, 100 people, some blood people. pudding and a couple of you know they've never needed more than a hundred people to run that

country at any given time beverly that's right that's a good that's a good that's a good picard thank you uh so we're back a bunch stuff happened over the weekend it was supposed to be kind of time off and relaxing but it wasn't and i'll explain why i hope it was for brian but i i can't say it was for me uh it was a it was a an okay weekend do you want me to do my stories first and save years for last do you want to yours first and then I'll do my stuff. You know what? Look at us talking in the show about the show and how we make the show.

Let's get the positive Denver vibes out of the way. All right. Let's do it now. All right. So three fun things this weekend. Went to Fan Expo, which is now what Denver has to call their Comic-Con. And that was on Saturday.

It went raced over there right after film sack after dropping off a foldable exercise bike for a Facebook marketplace. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Does that all go okay? No, no issues. It totally went fine. You know, you always worry about this. Like, oh, what are they going to pull? Like, am I going to drive it there? And they're going to be like, we've only got, we've got $10 less than we originally agreed on. Is that all right? It's like, yeah, you've maybe drive it all the way here. Yeah. But no, no, no crap. No crap. Good. I hate that kind of thing when that happens. So that's very good to hear that. Fan Expo, this is the first year that I actually feel a little disappointed with the whole experience. we uh team and i you know go there every year we usually do one day we don't do the full weekend and um we initially go to the big the vendor area and we kind of go up and down the aisles

and look at all the cool stuff that people are selling there's a lot of a lot of people selling dice and custom nerdy leather and and uh embroidery work and and then you've got these other places that have assembled a bunch of um like gotten a bunch of of smaller items put them in mystery boxes grouped by things like Harry Potter and Marvel and Rick and Morty and Star Trek and Star Wars and stuff like that and then they're just charging 20 bucks

a box and it's like well this is great because I'm going to pick one of these up. I have it right over there and even if I don't like four of the seven items in there I'm getting a lot of great prizes to give away on Guess the Connection and that's exactly what the case was. It's like oh this is a great it's a box full of superhero stuff a mix of Marvel in D.C., but about three items, four items are going to go to

be prizes for, I guess, the connection. The other three are really good. But here's the complaint. They, I think that they way over sold tickets for this thing because usually you can walk up and down those aisles, comfortably, no problem whatsoever. It was so busy that basically you had two rivers of people in every aisle and every walkway one going northbound the other one going southbound and you basically just had to step into the river and let it take you where it was going to take you and yeah that's a lot i don't

like a lot of people in cramped spaces no that's a it's a completely it makes you feel like things you would normally stop and browse for and look at you don't want to because you know that you'll have to get back into that river and wait for people to let you in like merging basically It was like bumper to bumper traffic. And that was, you know, about eight aisles of this whole vendor area. It was horrible. And so... That's a lot.

Yeah, that's the big complaint. So usually we'll do that. And then we'll go down. We'll sit in a couple rooms and watch some sessions. We were so burnt out from just being in the vendor area that we left right after that. We're like, we've had enough of this. I mean, is it a good sign that that many people were there? Or do you think this is mistaken that they over, like, they literally oversold it

and shouldn't it. I think that they literally oversold. I think it was a matter of like, ooh, we could, you know, up the ticket price. Maybe even if we tighten up these walkways, we could probably get one more row of vendors in here or something. I hate that.

You know, who knows? It could be any of that stuff. And it just so they're at some point going to send me the survey and say, how did we do this year? And I'm going to tell them, you didn't do very well. This was an unpleasant experience. And you've either got to widen the walkways or sell fewer tickets because this was this was even during um during session time there were a bunch of sessions going on so it's not like it was breaks a lunch break or something like that this was like this should have been a time when a lot of people are in sessions or watching stuff or whatever but uh yeah you guys had katie sackoff doing a stage thing there interviewing somebody yeah that's pretty oh yeah like it was a lot of like uh half of the

of Arrow was there, like your, uh, your Emel, your Pennebaker. Mm-hmm. Get Christopher Lloyd there. You had your, um, Chevy Chase, Christy Brinkley, and, uh, Anthony Michael Hall. We saw Anthony Michael Hall. Whoa. What's he doing? He's big and bulky.

Yeah. Like, I mean, that guy, that guy said, remember me as the nerd from breakfast club and weird science? Yeah. In 16 candles? No more. You're never going to remember me like that anymore. He's roided, man.

Royed up. He's righted up. But we saw Brent Spiner Not close up He was just down the way Doing autographs and stuff But always

Always makes me think of when I Was leaving the Star Trek Deal The Star Trek convention in Vegas At the same time I think it was me and Tina We were leaving the Star Trek thing At the same time as Brent Spiner

Lovar Burton And The way we had to watch it walk. We were kind of walking with them for a little bit. Or that we just said hi and told them about the CD and stuff. And as we were walking over, they're like looking at what Frakes, like the big sign that says

what each Star Trek performer charges for autographs. And they're like, Franks charges 70 bucks for an autograph and a photo? Was that the one at the Rio? That was the one at the Rio. That was that's Krusty Space Hands

visit, by the way. Yes, that was the Speaking of Cresty Space Sense, all it comes back to John Delancey. We talked about him in the pre-show. Yeah. Become a Patreon and find out what we sell about John DeLancy. That's right. Anyway, so there was all that.

Saw Gates McFadden, who is beautiful and has just the coolest damn hair. She, like, has figured out the strategic way to put the gray, keep the gray streaks in her hair and keep the rest of it on a very normal-looking color, natural. I think she's aged. She's aged way better than the rest of those guys. Her and Michael Dorn look pretty freaking great. Oh, yeah, we saw Michael Dorn, too, who just looks like, I don't know. He just looks like, I mean, obviously, he's going to look like a regular dude.

But he looks like, he still looks like a 40-year-old regular dude. There's no way that dude's 40. Yeah, that guy retains him. I guess Lovar Burton's a good-looking older dude too, but. Yeah. But some of the white guys starting to, you know, look a little rough. Looking a little rough, exactly. So anyway, so that was Denver Comic-Con.

And also yesterday morning went and played golf with crazy neighbor and another neighbor across the street. And then a friend who doesn't live in our neighborhood, but is always here. And no real crazy stories to tell. We all kind of suck at golf. I haven't played for over 15 years, at least 15 years, maybe even longer than that. And so I had to decobwebify my golf bag and all my clubs and all that stuff. I was going to ask if you had to rent or what you did, you have some, I guess, huh? yeah no it was uh i had to i had my own and um uh my shots were a mix of fantastic and horrible

hardly any in between it was either i topped the ball and just basically shot it across the ground 20 feet in front of me or i hit it perfectly it arced exactly and went where i wanted it to go and back spin and stayed put and that sort of thing but for the most part every hole was us saying Yeah, I'm going to stop counting at eight. Some triple quadruple bogeys, that kind of thing. Exactly, basically is what it was. But the highlight of my weekend, Scott, was doing some lift, driving some lift Saturday. I know, Sunday.

And particularly a ride that I, you know, got the call for, I showed up. Oh, did you want to play a little intro for a Lyft story? Oh, yeah, we haven't done that to a bit. Be courage and obey traffic regulations. There you go. You're good. All right, good. So I show up for this ride pickup. It's basically at this small office building, couple-story office building that's got this driveway that I have to go down and then park in front of it. And I'm sitting there waiting. And I've got a five-minute timer on the thing that says, you know, when time is up, try calling them or send them a text or whatever.

And I usually do that when there's like a minute left. A minute left in the waiting. Four minutes have gone by. there's one minute left. I text and say, hey, I'm in front of the main entrance, but if you need me to come around, if there's a different entrance, an employee entrance or something like that, let me know. No response. Oh, great.

I wait for the full minute, and then I call and I get somebody's voicemail. And it's definitely the person, because the name matches up, get the voicemail saying, hey, I guess maybe you don't, maybe accidentally called the lift. You don't need any more, no problem.

I'm going to go ahead and have a good day. And so I cancel the ride, and I drive out. As I drive out, somebody is walking in from the street down that driveway that I came down to walk towards the, or to park in front of the office. And he's basically walking towards my car. Like, even though I'm moving, he's walking like, I expect you to stop right here and pick me up.

And I rolled down the windows and said, are you Esteban? He's like, yeah. I said, oh, sorry, dude. I waited the full five minutes. I called. I texted. I got no response. months i had to cancel the ride and there's no way i can uncancel it it's cancel he's like oh man and uh well yeah

no problem i was waiting out here and i said yeah that's not where the pushpin was stay by your pushpin people yeah um that's not where the pushpin was and if you were there the whole time you would have seen me drive in through that driveway i didn't say this part out loud but if you were sitting right there you should have seen me drive in through the driveway and then known that i was coming into park yeah seeing my my my lift experience. So he's like, oh, man, no problem, no problem. It's totally fine.

So I'm like, all right. Oh, yeah, looks like I got another ride anyway. So good luck, see you later. And I go and accept the next ride. And before I roll up the window, I look over and it's like, did the dude spit in my car? Because like, there's this stuff on the seat. And now I'm seeing, wait a minute, it's not just on the seat. It's on the inside of the door.

It's on that little, you know, that, the frame where the window goes up. And I'm thinking, well, wait a minute. That's not spit. That's like way more opaque. Like it's white opaque. I'm like, what the hell did this guy do? What did he do? And then I realize that in the middle of one of those pieces, one of the sploches of white,

there's a little black turd and I figure out that while I had the window open and I was talking to this guy a bird shit on the top corner of the window frame of my car door and stuff went

all in the inside the window frame on the edge of the seat everything and that's probably why the guy was like hey no problem I'll call another lift That's probably why he was so quick to, I was expecting a lot more pushback on this guy of why I didn't take it for a ride. So I get to my next ride, I'm thinking, well, I can't, I mean, it's all in the front seat, people sit in the back anyway, but I'm not going to roll up the window. This is disgusting. I'm not going to, I mean, what do I do?

Fortunately, Destiny, by the way, over the past week, I've driven three. three women with the name Destiny, and none of them spell it, D-E-S-T-I-N-Y, the way it's supposed to be spelled. Really? One of them looked like you could have been Dasty, like the way it was... Dysnie. It sounds like a guy you're trying to get a hold of. Hey, where's Dys Dastyne?

Where's Dasty? Yeah. That's great. So fortunately, she took a while to come out. This is the one of those times it was like glad that somebody took a while to come out. And I keep a whole thing of these wet wipe, disinfecting bacterial wipes. the car. And so immediately, like, go outside of the other side of the car. Clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean. Get another wipe. Clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean. Throw those away. And then she comes out and she sees me outside of the car. And she's like, are you my lift driver? And I'm like, yeah, I was just cleaning up some stuff, some bird crap on the outside of the car. You're all good. Hop in. Where am I taking you? It is your destiny to take her, Brian.

Exactly. Taking a grocery store on the other side of town? Awesome. You're going to. You're going to be so glad I cleaned the car up. That is really foul. Birds are gross. Birds are dicks. We've said it before. I'll say it again. They're dicks, man.

They are dicks. They are total dicks. Yeah. They go for. So that was the extent of my weekend. I'm sure you had a pretty memory. Well, I'm sure you just had this kind of boring, nothing happening kind of day, right? Well, I needed some wipes for another thing.

I'll explain that in a minute. So we had in some ways it was similar. Yeah, it was a rough day, Monday. because Monday can't comes and we get a bill, our water bill in the mail. And we always get a water bill and then we pay it. It's no big deal. And they always put a little chart on there. Oh, let's see.

Do I have this handy? I might. I saw this one on Twitter. Yeah, I posted it somewhere on Twitter and I'll probably take forever to find it. But anyway, it's this little chart. And usually what it says is here's your neighbor's average. Here's what you did. And here's the whole neighborhood average.

And usually we're all right in the little tiny little zone down there. No big deal. We're pretty, pretty, you know, good with our water. Pretty tight in with where, what the neighbors are using for water as well. Exactly. But this claimed that during the month of June, we used 65,000 gallons of water. 60, I'm sorry, 45,000, 45,000 gallons. Yeah, that many zeros.

And the chart was like, big old weiner long thing on the top and then tiny little average for the neighbor. And it says, you're using a lot more than you're using a lot more than you're I'm like, yeah, really, duh. Like, what computer wrote this and no human saw it? So we called them and said, wait, what's going on? It was a lot more money, too, which was the main thing. Yeah. Although some people in parts of the country where they have a lot stricter water restrictions,

they said that this had been like six times that amount. So I guess we got lucky in that regard. Really? Yeah. For residential? Yeah, I guess Georgia, and we could have Red Fraggle or somebody correct us on this. But the guy I talked to was from Georgia, and he said, It's just this would have been $6,700 more for us.

And for us, it was like $95 more. But anyway, we're like, there's no way. A, we didn't use that water. B, it rained most of the month. Are you sure you're not counting the rain? Like maybe that was what the $65,000 or $45,000 came from? Anyway, so we're racking our brain trying to figure out. Then we went on this whole thing on Monday where I had set up the whole day to get shit done.

Instead, I'm outside stomping around trying to find wet sink hole. some kind of collection of water somewhere because we have no standing water anywhere we don't have any flooding we don't have any huddles or pools somewhere or hearing you don't hear any sort of like no none of that well other than you know you go in the house and you can kind of hear the pipe a little bit but not nothing weird and our pressure was fine like the water pressure in the house was okay so that's the other thing so everything was leading me to think it's just the meter's effed and they got to come fix the meter and we'll just not pay this and fight them on it and whatever it's no big deal So the city comes out with the plumber that we hired to look at it.

And they don't charge unless they have to do a thing. Good. Or until we say, yeah, let's do it or let's not. They do. They're really great. We like them. They've helped us out before. So they come out here and they spray paint up the yard because that's how you mark where all the pipes are and all that.

And then the guy goes on the meter and he says, all right, turn the house water. The point, so there's the big pipe out in the street that is the cities. and then there's a connection there that goes to us. That is considered ours, right? The line from the pipe to our door is our responsibility. The main pipe out and the thing

and the meter is their responsibility, the city's responsibility. So he's hoping, as we were, that the meter was just broken. So we turned the house off in the, or the water off in the house, and that should stop the meter. Right?

It didn't. Meter kept going. So we're like, Oh, it could just be the meter. So then we turn it off before the meter, and the meter stops. So we're like, well, shit. It's definitely a leak or a hole or a break between the street and us. And it's a meter is functioning correctly.

It's correct. But it's enough to shoot out 2,000 gallons of water per day just wasted. And the reason he says, well, the reason you're not getting flooding is because you're up high in this, where this, we're situated in our neighborhood. and everything out front goes down. All the underground stuff, like the aquifers underground are all aimed down. So it's just going down into the regular where all water always goes when it rains or whatever. So he says,

that's why you're not having a problem. And you're lucky because anyone else with any kind of dip, they would be flooded. But we would have known a month ago. And he says, this has probably been leaking, just getting bigger since like March. I'm like,

oh, man, I've been in Vegas twice with nobody home. And I was just pooping water out into nothing. like what the frick i couldn't believe three three whole months of probably paying a lot more on your water bill than you needed to more than we needed to for sure the first couple of months weren't bad we just thought oh well we have been watering stuff and yes we i don't know i can't remember what all we did so we kind of thought it was right but the poll had gotten bigger to the point that now it was gushing 2 000 per day so so we're like oh shit what does this mean he says well

we got a camel tobacco which is what they are up there doing right now because you can't do this shit on a Tuesday, but we had to shut the water. On a holiday Tuesday. Yeah, exactly. That's the whole reason. So we had to shut the water off entirely Monday. So that means Monday afternoon through this very moment, no water. No water can be in.

Oh, no. No. So we're, you know, peeing on top of each other in the toilet there before we flush it the one time we get. Went to the grocery. You're letting a lot of it mellow. Yeah. Went to the grocery store to take a dump because. we didn't have a lot of choice

now we did have they had to turn it on briefly to do some of the testing and during that time we got a hose and filled up a bunch of buckets and other stuff so we just had water to wash hands and brush teeth and all this gray water not uh or are using are using it for everything just for for well some of it for everything because it's you know the hose comes right of the house so I'm not worried about that but the some of it is just for like cleaning or or whatever um so there's a huge There's a giant bucket out in the yard. It's a big wide red bucket.

Just full of water. Somebody needs to use the toilet. You go out there with a smaller white bucket. You scoop up about the full amount. Oh, my God. You go in the house. It's totally Walton's, man. Yeah.

Yeah, we're camping for three days. So, uh, anyway, it sucks. I need a shower. Um, so they're out there fixing it right now. Here's the worst part. $5,800. Oh, my God. Over six.

If you count the, you know, the coffee. for the lost water that we'll have to pay because it's not the meter it's the it's the league so six grand plus to deal with this now the good news is we think is we're we pay that line we pay line insurance specifically for that for that pipeline we pay insurance for that if it goes bad but i know how it goes with insurance companies yeah yeah and the second i'm trying to get a claim going what's going to be a nightmare so i'm just completely bracing for that it's going to suck yeah it's totally going to be like, all right, how can we, how can we spin this so that's not our fault? Yeah.

What do we got? Jenkins, what do you got? Well, we could say that it was a, yeah. I don't, I don't like Jenkins. He can, they should fire Jenkins. Yeah, he's a big, but anyway, the point is, like, we got to go through all of this stuff and we got to figure it out because I am not going to pay six grand for a hole in a pipe that has nothing to do. I have no control over that damn pipe. Yeah.

Nothing I could do about it. So they better F and fix it, and they better F and take the thing. They're up there right now. What I don't want is Kim to come down later and go, he tells me that it's the worst than he thought. There's Chud down there and the Chud want their cut. The Chud is demanding $6,000 of his own. Yeah.

Yeah. And then to top it all off, last night we're like, we're still going to try to make some fun out of our stupid holiday. So Van and the kid and the baby, Phoebe and Van, and Taylor and Dillon, we're going to come over. We are going to have like a little picnic thing and take a thing over to the park and we're going to watch the fireworks and enjoy the kids and all this stuff. Well, Van wasn't having any because Van has the stomach flu of some sort.

Oh, no. And we didn't know it until they got there. And he yacked all over the bathroom thinking he had to poop. But really all he had to do is barf. And we got no water. We got no water to clean it up. Oh, no. So he's ralphed everywhere.

He's not used to that. He doesn't even know what it means. You know, he's four. So Kim's in there like, oh, my gosh, somebody get a bucket. And I'm like, okay, I'm running around, grabbing water out of a bucket, running it in the house, like some kind of freaking frontiersmen. We're just living like the Ingalls before they got their damn house built. Based on your cat bar photo, Van must totally hate you because he puked.

Yeah. And they did it twice more out in the backyard because we were thinking, oh, he just had too much watermelon and played too hard. So it's out of his system It's like, no, he's sick And he was sick all night So it's just with his first big stomach bug And we so we had all that to deal with So we didn't get to go see any lights

We didn't care because we'd rather just go with him And if he's not going, we don't care Yeah We're also babysitting another dog all week long Who is a giant pain in our ass Barks all the time Little barky thing That is leaving today

But he's been here since last Wednesday So all these dogs all this stuff oh and fireworks aren't helping with the dog problem at all oh no so they're shivering like freaking out about it Brian horrible time freaking terrible couple of days that being said yeah I got a ton done on the Kickstarter because I would come in here and I would focus I'd be like all right I'm going to work on this and I'm not going to think about what's going on out there it actually allows you right basically it's like well nothing nothing else to distract me there's no water to distract me. There's no

fireworks going out and seeing shows to distract me. I even had to, I even peed out in the yard one time at three o'clock in the morning. That's home ownership though, right? I mean, it's like, if you can't pee in your own damn yard, what can you do? Exactly. Is this not America?

Yeah, Kim's like, the neighbors are home and there's like drones and stuff. I'm like, honey, it was three o'clock in the morning. It's fine. What else am I going to do? Like, the toilets have both been flushed. There's nothing in there. It just felt horrible. plumbing dude what an amazing it's an amazing thing that we have modern day plumbing it really is truly amazing until it breaks and then you're like what the eff are we doing and freaking water company listen if they if they see something earlier in the month it's like wow they're there's using an excessive amount of water at the johnson house yeah i know they make money from it but come on they need to basically step up and say oh wow you know you guys used just in this first week of the month we had little alarm, a little red flag went off

in our computer system that you guys were using way more water in the first week of the month than you normally do. You may want to have something checked out as opposed to waiting until the end of the month and saying, it looks like you're a 6,000 bucks. 100% agree with you. If you're going to make the dumb

chart, have a way to let people know other than sending it in the mail and acting like it's no big deal when we call you. Exactly. Exactly. Because, wow, your water use was astronomical compared to last month. But hey, here's what your neighbors did see ya well i can tell you too from like 2018 through 2021 or so when we were in drought conditions here yeah i'll bet they would have called us but because we

had such an insane winter and when now we have access and flooding i think they're just like a little extra scratch on the johnson's this week yeah so i'm so annoyed and i'm going to fight them on their added cost because it's like you guys really this is how you let people know you just bill them. Yeah, you just wait. There's something obviously wrong and you just wait. Whole ownership, baby. Owning your own home. Think twice. I mean, it's great for lots of reasons.

But, geez, Louises. I hate it. Anyway, we'll let you know tomorrow. DTS from November when I found out I had a $6,500 engine repair bill for my soul. It's like, oh. It's funny you say that because I... Well, that's out of nowhere. I said that to Kim. I go, this reminds me a Brian in his car thing. Because it came

out of nowhere and it sucked ass and it was too much money. And it sucked. So much ass. It does. All the ass. There's no ass left after the sucking that happened there. All right, you guys, thank you for hearing us out on our fine weekends, whether it be bird poop or bad plumbing. We're here for you.

Well, look what we have here, a little bit of a game show of sorts. And joining us as Brian Dunaway, thank you for being so patient, Brian. We had to tell our stories. Welcome to the show. I heard your stories. Oh, hi. Scott and Brian. Oh, hello.

Hi. How are you? I actually work with a utilities company, and I can tell you why we don't send out water bills early in my area, but I can't speak for your particular area, but we have meter readers, which go out and read once a month. So they download all the data and get all that stuff to the computer. But until the point that you go to process the billing, you would not know that there was excessive use. But we do have things in place that we do notify people. if there seems to be a huge spike but you wouldn't know you wouldn't know until the end of the month but wouldn't the meter reader go out and go

oh my hell this meter's off the chart something's up flag like why wouldn't that happen shouldn't that happen well because well yeah well I mean it's according to how the meter readers because lots of times the way we do it we pick it up through radio waves so they drive through a particular area and they pick up the data they don't actually look at the data and go oh my Mr. Johnson look at that money we're about to make bitch You know, they don't do that.

They just pick up the data and it goes back to the computer and then the computer processes all that stuff. And then eventually once it gets to the billing part, then there's usually when there's alerts. I can't speak for your area. Area may be further more advanced. That may be further, you know, less advanced. It's all according to how much, you know,

the local money goes into it. Yeah. But I do have sympathy for you because I've been in the same boat. Look, if chat, GPT, can write a book for me. I think the meter ears. That's where they're trying to get to. They're trying to get it. They're working in my area.

They're working on doing it. So it's instantaneous. So you can do stuff like what you're talking about, which is just, you know, instant notification. Oh, no. Be nice. Yeah. It would be very nice.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But no, no, no, please. The frustration you're feeling right now is a real feeling. And you definitely got to aim it at somebody. So I don't blame you. Bitch away.

Yeah. well I'm glad to hear it we'll see what happens after the show try new bitch away from 3M I needed we really oh and then our freaking smoke alarm went off for no reason at 5 a.m. I forgot to mention that no reason at all nothing's burning nothing's cooking I ordered several new smoke alarms the 10 year ones with the 10

year battery and put them in just the other day because I I realized that I didn't want to die in a smoky field room yeah no you just realized it Yeah, you just realized it. It's important. Look, we did the same thing. They're all 10 years now. They're also all new.

And also the, they weren't the carbon monoxide ones. Those were fine. All the settings were good. Everything was good. Just beep, beep, beep. And I'm like, what is going on? Is it that third dog farting? Like, what is causing this to go?

I was so pissed last night. The dude, I hate it for you. And then while I'm up, I'm like, you know what? I'm up. I may as well pee. And then I realized, you don't even have working toilets, you sack of shit. Where are you going to pee? It's so true.

Human nature. is always trying to subscribe something to something else and they're going so when lots of things all of a sudden happen at once you're like there's no way this is a coincidence the world is out to get me this is a real feeling everybody has

I hate it for you this is a terrible feeling yeah it sucks you have my mad sympathy the good news the good news is none of the internet or power uses water to work so we're good right yeah goodness for that always feel free to complain to me I'll listen

Trying to add Janie, Janie, Janie, to our... Yana, maybe? Is it Yanni? Yonni? Yanna. Yana. I don't know. I'm guessing. It's rigging forever here. I don't know if she's really there.

So if any of you out there are like, hey, I want to be in. Let me know. Send me a DM in Discord real quick. Hey, I want to be in. Yeah, you're already in. We'll let you in. We'll let you in. You can play this game.

Oh, we have someone. Let's see. Who's this? This is going to be... Oh, it's old Lucky Phil. joining us. Lucky Phil. How lucky is he?

Maybe you need to rub some lucky Phil on you. Yeah, no, right? Get a little lucky Phil in your life and boy, howdy, are we good to rock? All right, there he is. Lucky Phil.

How lucky are you? You're back in. Hello. How we doing, guys? Good. Hey. How's Australia in the middle of the night? You guys doing all right?

Oh, yeah. It's a bloody cold at the moment. It's about 35 degrees in your temperatures. Oh, my gosh. That's pretty cold. Really? It's really cold. That's surprised to me.

It's winter. It's winter in all. Australia. They're upside down. They're the other side. You're part of the access is tipped a little further. I'm barely holding under the grand here, I get you. I get you. That's great. I watched the movie last night that had only Australians in it playing Americans. That was weird. That was weird thing. Yeah, it's my recommendal, so I get to it later in the show. Oh, okay. It was like my recommendal last week, which is all. Yeah, it was more like a triangle together. Yeah, what's

the deal with the Australians right now? What's going on, man? What's going on with those people? on with us. You guys are taking us over. I thought, you know, okay, Nicole Kidman, fine. There's Russell Crow. That's cool. Look at the Hemsworths. They're cool. But it seems like you guys are taken over and I don't know what to do about it. Well, didn't Michael Kane say that the key to speaking Texan is you just lean into it a little. Maybe that's it. That might be it. There you go. Let's jump into this game. Lean into this game, in fact. Yeah, let's lead into it. Hey, Brian, why don't you explain these rules real quick and we'll do this? What do we got here? Sure. It's time to play the tadpulley feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics,

and Scott and Bracken have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Lucky Phil, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you get a prize package that includes Soul Blight and the Amazing American Circus. These are two games I think we tried to give away last week, and somebody was not able to win those. I know it wasn't you, but I know you did try to win recently, and I think you didn't win, right? It was a few weeks ago. It was one of those situations where I suggest two different things, and then Scott says something different, which doesn't go too well, and then my suggestions turned up pretty damn good. Yeah, that sounds right.

Well, hopefully, we were... Well, nobody is believing me, man. Not a bitter or anything. Yeah, that's your bitter or anything. All right, well, good. Well, let's get this show on the... the road. Get your hands on your buzzers here.

We asked 381 tadpoolers. The very simple question, four words. Name a fictional city. Scott. No. Oz. Wrong. Oz. Oz.

Yeah. Technically, well, the city of Oz. It's not a city. Show me. Oz. Yeah. What?

The emerald. City. Oh, Oz is the person. Oh. He's a great. He's the Wizard of Oz. No,

Oz is, Oz is the region, but the Emerald City, I believe, is the city in there? Oh, God. We're really nitpicking over this. Oz, and the Emerald

city, yeah, it's the land of Oz. There's lots of stuff. The land of Oz, yeah. See? Nailed it. Uh, all right. I'm saying it's the land of Oz, not a, not a city of Oz.

But it's the Maryo land, right? Look, Brian lives in the land of Denver, and it's fine. All right? The land of Denver. All right. Well, you bring in, so I guess that means we got it here, Lucky Phil and I. No, no.

Brian gets a chance to beat. I was hoping I would have at least an opportunity to steal. No, that's right. I forget how rules work. That too. Brian, six answers will beat it. What have you got? And where is the bat?

Gotham City. Gotham City. Show me Gotham City. Damn it. Number one answer on the board. All right. So, Brian, you and Lucky Phil are going to be playing together here. You have control of the board.

Name a fictional city. What's crazy about this is it's such a broad question. Somebody recommended this question. I just threw it in the survey and like, all right, let's see what we get. And we get so many different answers. This is a really good question. There's this so many. I just don't know how the tadpool of land.

Gotham seemed obvious and easy. What do you think at Lucky Phil? I don't want you to give me two options. that I pick wrong. Go ahead. And in this case, I actually did take out high-ranking answers that weren't cities. Oh, son of us. It's something I haven't done before. So rest assured that everything in here is a city.

I, wow. I have never heard you. I know. Usually I don't bring down the hammer. Yeah, this, this hammer got done brung down. I don't know, shitty. Boink. Exactly.

That's dumb. Boink. All right, what I feel? Do you have any off to top? of your head, Gotham City, I think. It's nerd cities, right? Just what I'm thinking. Well, one that's stuck in my mind from watching TV with my parents years ago, Cabot Cove.

Okay, okay. Is that where Jessica Fletcher practices her deal? Mm-hmm. All right. Is that what you're going to go with, Brian? Of course. That's like he thought I wanted to talk about me next week about how he gave me so options when I went with something else.

I'm not dumb. Smart man. All right. Show me Cabot Cove. Oh, Jesus. Too regional. I would have said, no, I'm kidding. Too regional.

All right, back over to you, Scott. You're leading still, so that's good. Let's go with the Superman city. Oh, shit. Metropolis is the word I was looking for. It's going to be superhero shit. Show me metropolis. Yeah, number two ends are on the board.

Okay, feel good about that. A big jump, by the way, from Gotham. From number one answer, Gotham City, 83 people, all the way down to 21 for Metropolis. That's what I was going to say, Phil. Just saying. Of course. Star Wars is Cloud City.

Cloud City. Oh, that's good. I like Cloud City. Over Bespin, the Tobana Gas Farms. All right, show me Bespin Cloud City. Oh, come on. Really? It was said, and it made it all the way up to. number uh 21 21 was uh cloud city that's not bad it's not bad fair enough

phil do you have a place in mind well i don't want to come on too strong in case you got a better idea but um i i remember happiness Arizona from the twilight zone do you have a better idea well i'm thinking something more like uh i'm thinking more like south park colorado or oh that's pretty good that's real though isn't it i'm kind of yeah but just I'd say, yeah, so, but it is real, but is it fictional? That's the question. Did Ibbett also bring down the ban hammer on that? It's not about what's wrong or wrong as the headpool says, so I don't know, I don't know.

So, I mean, like, stuff like Springfield with the Simpsons, I mean, it's a real city, but is it a real city? Springville, you mean? Springville. Oh, no, Springfield. I know, it was based on, apparently it was based on a real city in two different states of fighting over who it is. Yeah, Illinois and, yeah, I reckon, I reckon that Hadpool might have said it. But then would Ibit. have said, I don't know.

So what was yours again? I didn't take out, so here's the deal. I took out things that were countries or planets, but I did not take out things that were cities, even if they were real versus fictional. Springfield. Absolutely. I like that.

The city itself is fictional. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. The city itself is fictional, right? Okay, go ahead. All right. Just going to Springfield.

Show me. Springfield. Some of a bitch. Number 10. answer. That's good money. Good money down there. I don't feel good about our South Park at all now. Okay, so that was, we just barely got in on that one. Oh, my God. So what else you thinking? What, you got another one? You said, what was the one you just got

through saying? What was the, what was the one from Stranger Things? Oh, um, oh, wow. Um, upside downtown. Upside downtown, like Scott said. No, it was, uh, it was, uh, um, demigorkan Avenue, I believe. if you're I'm not sure if the Tedpool would know that strongly the side end plenty now. Right, right. How about we go with it? All right.

This is hard. This is actually really hard because it's so broad, right? It is. Oh, the broad city. Oh. It's a real place. Two comedians. How about? How about it? How about it? From Doctor Who? Oh, that's not bad. There's a lot of Whoville people in our chat. Yeah.

What's the question? I don't know whether it's top 10, though, so I don't know. What's it called? What's it called again? Cald-O-R-K-A-L-D-O-R. That's right. Dr. Who City? Cowder City.

Yeah. Yeah. Doctor Who City. Dr. Who, I don't know. Show me. Caldor. Take me away. Shit.

No. Caldor, were they, let's see. This is a tough one. This is a tough one. I don't see Caldor anyway. wear in here. I don't think it even got, don't even think it got mentioned.

Caldor died. Okay. I'm going to go with staying in Star Wars. Let's go with Mos Isley. Ooh. Wretched hive of scum and villainy. That's what I've heard. All right. Okay. All right. Show me

Moss Isley. Isley. These are not the towns you're looking for. Oh, nice job. Number four. Number four answer on the board. That's just a bar. It's not even a town. Come on. Of course it's a city I'm going to It's a canteen

It's a canteen It's not a city Come on I'm gonna go with Some GTA heads out there Let's try Liberty City The fake city Oh that's a really good

I don't think about that at all Yeah That's really good All right Show me Liberty City Oh come on I hit the bow That was

There it is a slow Boo Good Lord Boo That was a good one Two You guys each have one strike left currently i kind of want to say while i go i kind of feel like if it was giving us a hint

with whoville i'm just saying is it a city it's a beloved location how did i how did i maybe you didn't maybe you didn't say it scott said i think you actually oh yeah we said there a lot of uh people of whoville fans out there yeah yeah that was a doctor what are you saying are you saying who well um there's also sunny doll from buffy oh Ooh, now I'm liking that flavor. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah, I think we should go with that. What do you think?

All right. Do it. It's an option. Do it. It's an option. A good one. Paradise City. That's funny. Rivendale. Don't go through a list. You also said Liberty City, but Vice City is another option. I don't, I don't, I don't. I said he's my favorite. Do you be the judge, um, jury and ex. No, no, not blaming this one on me.

I don't want to you, though, mate. How about these between the chat room and seeing some good ones. I'm seeing Raccoon City. And I'm seeing Atlantis and Bedrock. Those are all pretty good. What do you think? Raccoon City? Is that the place? I don't want to go there, though. I'm a fictional town only, but it's fictional. Oh, Atlantis and Bedrock of both excellent ones.

From the town of Bedrock, you go, yep. Bedrock City. No, that's not it. Raccoon City? Okay. Bedrock, we're going with the bedrock. Go to the bedrock. All right, show me Bedrock. Son of a lot, son of a lot, oh, yeah.

Bedrock was, was it even in here? Let's find out doing a fine. Find bedrock. Find the bedrock. There's no way for what's to win. No, no bedrock. It's the only way to win.

That I'm surprised with. I feel like the Flintstones. I'm actually surprised by that too because I think that's really good. Hey, speaking of South Park, I forgot to show Brian. I got my. Oh, you did. Your Casa Benita. My $5 match book.

What does it say? It's a feastival. How many are all the matches intact? That's check here. I didn't actually look. Yep, every one of them. Is there a phone number inside from a woman named Denise? Nope, but there's a phone number on the outside, a 303 area code number.

But nobody's name, no, I kind of do wish somebody had written in here. Yeah. Thanks, Matt Parker or something, but, or Matt Sto. I keep saying Matt Parker. It's Matt Parker. All right, do you guys got that wrong? So there are five answers left on the board. The only way for Lucky Phil to be lucky is if you run the board.

I kind of like the sound of Raccoon City, but I'm going to air on the side of San Andreas All right Another Another GTA thing Yeah another GTA Show me

San Andreas Based on San Francisco Oh come on No No Yeah so you had three answers You guys were wrestling with Raccoon City

Atlantis and Bedrock And you pick the wrong one Number three Atlantis Number five Raccoon City Let's go back into video games for

keeping video games for this next one one of the big cities in Azaroth Oh, Orgermar dude Orgumar That yes Here's one that

That was such a poll I was amazed that Eight people said it Because I had to look it up and Remember or find out where it was from Because I wasn't sure Show me number eight Unk Morpork which is from

Discworld Oh my Lord Okay Wow that many people Wow. It's probably Amy and then she bribed like 30 people. She was probably exactly. Amy, Chuck and then Chamey and Chuckie and Chucky and Chummy and Mamie and

people love their disc world. They're into it. Exactly. And then finally, movie series, book series that I'm surprised no one that went to. Hogs me. Oh, shit. I always think of that. I always think of that as the place.

Makes sense. the actual bar, the tavern, and never the city, but you're right. Right, right. So I took out Wakanda. Wakanda's a country, I believe, and not a city. Although I don't know what the city is. But could it be like Wakanda city? It could be like Wakanda, Wakanda.

Well, it's kind of like New York. It could be like New York, New York. No, it's like it's a city, right? Like it's its own state and city. It's like, I don't know. There's examples of this. Oh, I pulled it out, but that's all right. If you guys would have said it, I would have been like,

you would have felt bad. Is that a... I thought about it, though. Somebody let me know if Wakanda's... Is it just called New Wakanda City? No Wakandaville? The other one I took out was Corrassant.

Yeah. Because that's a planet. This one I wasn't sure about it. Well, it's the whole planet. I knew the whole planet's a city basically. Right. It's the city that everyone lives in. Is it called Corrassant?

Nope, it's Galactic City in Corrassant. Oh, duh. I didn't know that. had a bunch of different names over the years. Sam from Sokio, another good one. Stormwind, Water Deep, Asgard, Megasity One, Minsterith, Rivendell, Star City, or Starling City. I like that.

Three people said Coverville, I think you want. Ah, I love Coverville. Rapture from Bioshock, the Shire, more of a town than a city, I would say. They're not incorporated. They're not great. There's no government. There's no government in the Shire. Winterfell

Ba Singse I think is how that's pronounced That one I don't know This one over here is Bartertown Oh my Echel wasn't working for that one Dang it Work for us

Bielafield Bielafeld I don't know that one Central City Dalaran Frog Pansia Gilead Gondor

Hobbiton Hyrule Kandor Mordor Neverland Ravica Sim City Stars Hollow Tatooine planet. Whoville.

Yeah. Whoville. There go. And then, boy, you get into like the one of the single things. Those were all multiple, by the way. All of those multiple people said, your singles are things like Md Island, Anchorhead, and or anything in Fallout 4. Great.

Thank you for that answer. Wow. Yeah. Those are all real cities in Fallout 4, though, so they'd be wrong. Yeah. Right. They didn't make any of those up. No Paradise City at all, right?

That's too ahead. No Paradise City. Yeah. That was a good one. That would have been a really good one. Funky town. though how's that oh that's

yeah take me by the way don't come to frog pansy yeah there's no water at the moment all right oh no new don't

city Neptune California that's Veronica Mars uh Veronica Mars is the oh I thought that was the answer

Neptune California from Veronica Mars oh my yeah somebody did say South Park so one person did say South Park so there you go yep

all Sunnydale Smallville Thunder Bluff Twin Peaks almost the idea I'm talking about Zootopia. Yeah.

Well, there you go. Anyway, here's what it means, though. It means, whoops, I have it right here, hold on.

No, no. It means you lost. Phil, twice in a row, three times, maybe in a row? Oh,

me unlucky, Phil. Right, what's with this name ears? You've got to change it. But it's always fun having you on, man. We'll take you any time. You're usually pretty lucky Phil.

Yeah, somewhat lucky Phil. Thanks for playing with us. Hey, Dunaway today at 330 Mountain Time. You and I will be doing the Manna series on Play Retro. Have you played the Manny? The Manna series from the 90s, everyone. The real good one is the Secret of Manner. What was that?

Secret of Manna. Secret of Mata on the SNS. Amazing game. Still really good. I played that this week before we even picked our topic. It's very, very good. So if you want to hear all about that and the Twisty-Turvy origins of that thing, which was Final Fantasy, a lot of people didn't know that. I didn't know there was a Final Fantasy. It wasn't legends. It was the Final Fantasy. Holy crap, adventure. Adventure on the Game Boy.

Yep, black and white game was the origins of all of that. And who knew? But we'll know, and we'll know it tonight. 3.30 Mountain Time. Brian will be there, I'll be there, and we'll talk all about it. Frogpants. I'll bring the water. Kiss our butts.

No use. All right. We are going to take a quick break. And when we come back, Tom Merritt will be joining us. We'll also have recommend. after that, so stick around. Before we go there, though, Brian, we need a song. Do you have one prepared?

Scott, I have Grave Secrets. Grave Secrets is a band from Los Angeles. They have a brand new single and video produced by Alex Estrada, not Eric Estrada, who's also produced stuff for Joyce Manor and Tushay Amor. Fast, Fun, and Heavy as F, says no echo. They have a brand new album that's going to be coming out later this year. this will just get you ready for it. This is a LA 5, four-piece band, Grave Secrets.

A little heavier, and I think you guys want some of that, right? So here's Grave Secrets from the brand new album that'll be coming sometime later this year. Here is Mootering. Always disconnected. You'll never perfect it. Standing in a crowd with the biggest smile, I'll put your heart's in pieces.

Hacked you like you don't care. Say you want to be here But you can't get you in a single fucking place for But it eight seconds You think it doesn't bug you You don't need anyone to love you Till you hop in your corner with the windows rolling down to your lunch fall out

Until your lunch fall out So your lunch fall out Feel your fucking life fall out mood swings you never want to do things see you crawl in your bed with the draped shut clothes and your dark black moon ring you take a second night quill don't need anyone beside you so your eye shed tight and your head sinks deeper in your pillow as your lungs fall out as your lungs fall out as your lungs fall out as your lungs fall out Have you worked for out

Had your life forward out? Have you watched for out? Have you found your life fall out? In the year of 1914, in the month of February, I was coming home from school. My hands got very cold, and you're seeing I had no mittens. And I began, of course, pratting them together to get them warm, and that wouldn't do. Well, pretty soon I begin squeezing them, and I was surprised to think that I could make a few different sounds. Well, then I began playing every day, and pretty soon I could play Yankee Doodle clear, too.

And that was the only tune I could play for three whole years. I'm sorry that I shat in a church. Whoops, and we're back, everybody. Hey, Brian, tell me who that was again so I can go buy that album when it comes out. That was Joan, and she's awful. Oh, the song you heard was L.A., Grave Secrets, is the name of the band from L.A. That's their brand new single and video, Mootering. Go check him out online.

Check them on YouTube and watch the video for that song, and wait for their album coming sometime later this year. Grave Secrets! There you go. Also, highly recommend this year's Black Mirror. Yeah, this season of Black Mirror. Oh, it's great. We just finished up the last episode last night.

That 70s horror movie, uh... It's good. The demon, the demon from Boni M. Yeah, that was really something. I loved it. All right, we're going to bring someone in here with this. The rear axle in the old wooden ox cart had only one job to do. The power was supplied from an outside force.

Windows, Monopolys, balmer. Hey, I know that voice. That's Tom Merritt, everybody. He's joining us. Was I both of those? I could have been both of those. You were both voices, it turns out. You just didn't know it until we brought you in now.

Yox cart. It's Tom Merritt, someone I like to change his intro around a lot with. I like that. The reason that happens is because he comes on here and talks about fresh tech every week, every Wednesday. Oh, man, what would we do without our fresh tech, I wonder? I don't want to think about it. You think not having water in the house right now sucks. Boy.

Think about not having Tom in that. Oh, forget it. Just forget the whole thing. That never happens to me. No, not ever. You always have Tom handy. Yeah. I do.

You're like, you're more reliable. I do the day I don't. I also rue that day. Let's all rue it together as we talk about today's tech headlines. Hey, Tom, what's going on in the world? What are we supposed to be paying attention to in tech today? Chaos. Just a little chaos.

Hey, have any of you out there ever thought, oh, gosh, we've been dominated by these social networks for too long. Why don't we have any choice? Where's the new social network? Well, guess what? Wish granted. Now you have 700 short messaging services to choose from. Most of them, invite only. Yay. Yay. Is the

the new threads thing that comes out tomorrow? Is that invite only? It is supposed to launch July 6th. I don't know if it's on purpose or not, but meta has been, or Instagram particularly, because Adam Mosseri, who runs Instagram is running threads, has been leaky, very leaky.

the listing showed up in the play store then disappeared the listing is in the iOS store on purpose so that you can put your name in to be like yes let me know when it's there today it was on the web for a while which at first seemed like it was on purpose to show people like here's who we already invited into the beta the private beta so there's folks like i justine on there mark Zuckerberg of course but then that went away, so I guess it wasn't on purpose, or maybe it was, to try to get people talking. But yes, if you don't know what we're talking about at all, Threads is an app from Instagram particularly that is expected to launch July 6th, and it is a short messaging service a la Twitter.

So it's integrated with Instagram in that if you have an Instagram account, you can have a Threads account connected with it. But it's a separate app, and it really is not as focused on images if focused at all. And in fact, right now, it's pretty bare bones. Posting, replies, likes, re-threading, I guess. I don't know what they'll call it. But, you know, the basics, but not a lot of other stuff. Okay.

So it's interesting they decided to go with a new app and not just make it part of Instagram. But then again, Instagram, famous lately anyway, for being full of feature creep anyway, on its own. Yeah, I almost go the other way, which is, it's interesting that they, integrated it with Instagram. Like this feels like it's just another service, but maybe they wanted to get people to use it by not having to create an account. And so Instagram was the more popular. It is the one that everybody's like,

I don't use Facebook, but I still use Instagram. So I don't know, maybe that's why. Yeah, calling this Facebook threads may not have netted them as much. Yeah. Whatever excitement they're getting.

I mean, most people know they're owned by the same company. So I don't know why it would matter too much. but it always feels a little weird when you have separate apps from the start when you already have this hugely successful social app. Like, why wouldn't you integrate it? So I'm a little surprised by it. But I am going to try it, see what's up, you know, see if it's any good or whatever.

I really like Blue Sky a lot. And I'm hopeful that that, you know, ends up being sustainable and works and all that stuff. I enjoy being over there. But I don't know. I don't know. I feel like we went from there's no competition for Twitter to there's almost too much. now, I guess choice paralysis. There's spill, T2, and post, and yeah.

Yeah, I just feel like I can't, I don't know what to choose. And even if I do, I still got to keep all these other ones probably got to keep MACDiv anyway, right? Yeah, well, the one thing that intrigued me about threads is that they are going to support activity pub. So the idea would be, oh, well, if I've got a Mastodon account, I can interact with people on threads on whatever Mastodon instance I'm using. However, they said they will not be launching with activity pub support because it was more complicated than they expected,

which sort of implies it wasn't built on activity pub from the beginning that they're having to shoehorn it in afterwards. There was also some backlash from a lot of Mastodon operators, a lot of Fediverse operators saying they don't want to work with Facebook. They do not want to interoperate. So I think they're doing a little bit of social acclimatizing to say, okay, I know we're Facebook. But we're going to be good citizens. Please, please interoperate because if they support activity pub and a bunch of large mastodon instances don't federate with them, then they might as well not have launched activity pub. I guess I used to think that it would be great if more Twitter competitors existed, even before all the problems at Twitter. Careful what you wish.

Like even five, six years ago, I would have said, hey, it would be cool if, you know, there'd be more competition than this market. And now I just like, it's a little overwhelming. And I don't know where the people are going to go. It is, but this is also what competition looks like. And so I try to remind myself, it won't be like it is today forever. Not all of these are going to survive and we'll eventually settle back down into two, three, or maybe even just one. At which point we'll start complaining that there isn't more choice again. So this is just the way the cycles work.

Yeah. Do you think this is a big, from meta's perspective, is this just a moment? moment of like we need to snatch the snatch the thing while at top because of this disruption in the market right now. You think that's why they're doing it? Or is this like years in the making and finally threads is ready and

oh we didn't know it was things were going to be on fire over there but I guess it benefits us but we were doing this anyway. I think they have sensed blood in the water for a few years. So I think you're both of what you said is true. It's been years in the making but also they sensed an opportunity and that opportunity just got

bigger and bigger. So So they bet on the right horse, I think it would almost be irresponsible for meta not to have a product coming into this space right now because they have such momentum. Whether it's Facebook or Instagram, they've got huge user installs or even WhatsApp. They could say, hey, users of this incredibly popular thing, I know you're upset with Twitter and I know you don't know what to choose. Choose this. It's easy. it has a very good bet so that's not to say it's a slam dunk and it absolutely will replace Twitter but this is something I would try if I was the person who ran meta you see an opportunity to win

people over that wasn't there for the longest time you couldn't you couldn't assail Twitter because everybody was like well I don't love it but it's better than nothing and Twitter has done things to drive people off their platform. I have been one who said, look, a lot of people are complaining and saying they're going to quit Twitter, they won't. But I am now starting to see people who don't

follow this getting mad. So in the early days, it was people who had an axe to grind and didn't like Elon Musk even before he bought Twitter. Now, I'm seeing things like Japanese illustrators saying, well, I guess we could move to a different platform. Where should we go?

I'm trying to remember. what the what the platform was but uh oh waybo they're moving to waybo a bunch of japanese illustrators according to sixth tone dot com i'm seeing btsrmy saying well i guess we'll just use weavers uh instead we can talk to each other there those aren't permanent moves if twitter you know pulls itself back together and it seems like it is but you can only survive so many of those waves before somebody comes in and says look are you tired of the chaos are you tired of the uncertainty because most of you have noticed the uncertainty. This isn't just the intellectual elite. Here, let me give you a stable alternative. Yeah. It is interesting, too, to see meta make a relatively agile move here

in the face of them moving away from like caring that much about all their social stuff. It matters because that's your user base and your ad money and everything else. But all the renewed focus that Zuckerberg threw at VR and the metaverse and all that stuff was just, that was what you were hearing out of meta and to have them go and speaking of really basic web 2.0 though we're going to also have the Twitter competitor and there it is and like at a time wherever all of that feels like it's a little long in the tooth yet here they are with a new solution like I don't love meta but I kind of like the hustle on on this particular move so I don't know we'll see what happens tomorrow or I guess yeah tomorrow right you probably credit Adam Mosseri with with seeing

where this was going and in a different world threads launches and Twitter fends it off quite easily. But it was a good call to say, let's develop this because I don't think Twitter is in a position to fend it off as easily as it has. That's not to say it can't fend it off, but it has weakened its position in fending it off. The thing that you're going to have to remember with threads is it's not going to launch in the EU, according to the Irish Independent, because meta is in hot water, for how it collects and uses user data regarding GDPR and some other privacy and the data sharing

across the ocean processing data back in the United States. There's all kinds of guns aimed at it in the EU for privacy and surveillance. So it's just not going to launch threads in the EU, at least not to start. It's going to see how the regulatory environment and certain court cases unfold there first. So the EU isn't going to get it, which that's a doubt. counter. That's a huge part of the Twitter user base that it will not be able to sway over. Not that it can't, threads couldn't catch on in other parts of the world to do quite well, but it won't be there, won't be in China. And so it's going to have a large part of the world that it won't have. It will have the UK because the UK isn't part of the EU. They will launch there. They just won't launch in the EU countries.

If John Cusack moves to threads, can we put better off thread in his bio? Would that be over? Okay, to do that there. I mean, I think he should. Okay. I knew you'd agree, because you come from these same terrible jokes as I do, and so I really am glad to agree. Well, and I share a birthday with John Cussox. Oh, I didn't know that.

Well, that means you, Elon Musk and John Cusack, all share it a birthday. See? It's Kismet. Well, Tom Merritt, always a pleasure to hang here. And, of course, we'll be doing that later on the Daily Tech News show today at 2 p.m. Mountain. I'm very excited to be on. Anything brewing there or anything else you want to mention.

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It's always entertaining, you guys. You should watch Top Five. It's fantastic. Tom Merritt, everybody. Ace Detect on that Twitter. about. See you next time. Probably will be that on threads as well. Who knows? Right. All right. You're going to try it out, right? You and I'll try it at least. We'll see if it's anything. Oh, for sure. You know, you and I do this thing where at least we go there, we lock down our

account name that we use for everything. And we looked at it for a few weeks. We put all the stuff that we post on the other locations there as well. And then we decide if we're going to stick with it. Yeah. And then it sometimes collects us for months and months and months. Yep. Yeah. We shall see okay uh time to pull in randy and nicole or not cole yeah Nicole yeah Nicole surprisingly even though she's here in Denver she's gonna be on today so which is awesome I tried to ask I didn't know she was for um oh yeah do you guys because they were at the con as well I think they were we didn't get a chance to get together with them because uh just things weren't working out so hopefully this week we'll get to timing is hard timing it is hard especially with kids indeed

All right, here's this. Well, what do you recommend? That beautiful music means it's time for recommendals. Film and TV, you know, stuff streaming. That's what we do here. And we're excited to do it. Nicole is in your state. Get a little excited there.

Yeah, right? This music. Nicole, what are you doing? You're in Colorado still. That's cool. I am. Yeah, we're in Colorado still. And we try to meet up with Brian.

but the kids had other plans. Of course. Yes. Sure. So we went to go see. You want to go see Elemental at the LMO Draft House tomorrow night? Maybe. Kids would love that, right?

Yeah. Yeah, they've been asking which one? We can pick one. Sorry, we don't need a plan on here. No, let's plan this right here. Well, so what time's getting? No, we'll talk offline. Okay, okay.

I want to hear how. She's a little sick right now. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. I want to hear how Elemental is. It seemed to review well. People like. has it? I haven't heard that. Oh, that's well. I mean, I think it just hasn't done well because it came out the same week as another big animated. Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, tanking at the box office

is one thing. But the critics and the audience scores are really high. People like it. Yeah. All right. Well, let's also bring Randy in. Randy Jordan. Hi, Randy. Welcome. Good morning, morning stream. Welcome back, I think. Welcome to my attendance to your thing. That's right. Well, you're here last week, aren't you? You were here last week, weren't you? I think you here last week. It feels, it's been a really long seven days, hasn't it? It feels like it's been a long time. It really does. I guess it was a week ago, but it feels like about a month since we talked to you guys. I wasn't, I wasn't here last week. Were you here? Oh, that's right. You were in a car. No, I was in a car trying to get here

as fast as we could. That's right. Totally right. Well, all right. Let's get to these recommendals. Brian tradition dictates you start. So what's your clip? What do you got? Yeah. So this is a film. This is something that completely slipped under the radar and then I heard about it and said, well, gosh, I feel like I need

to watch this thing. And this comes immediately after the main character, the guy you're going to hear, just witnessed a car, fall from the sky right behind him. Oh my gosh. All right. Here we go. He's really

It's unbelievable. Was he dead? The ambulance guy said he had a chance. Paramedics. Yeah, I know what they're called. What did you do till they show me? No, but, well, I just kind of sat there with him. I don't know.

I just, it was weird. What? It's a really crazy story, Kent. It's really crazy. You don't believe me, do you? I do, I do. It's just a part about falling from the sky, you know? You sure it didn't hit the curb and then flip over?

Yeah, I am. They didn't tell me, but he looked like a younger, better-looking version of me. Yeah, about my twins and a hop-worn with big fake boobs. Come on, you're beautiful as is. Cam, you do know that it sounds outlandish, though, right? You're mad, right? Yeah, I understand. So why is it that, like, the standard of beauty for men is, like,

high heels in a dress what is that about i mean it doesn't make sense to me like what's wrong with like a good pair of pants you're like there's no reason you can't get a rationalization they make you either wear like the skirt so i hear rhea sehorn and jim gaffigan that's exactly who you're hearing and that was the thing seeing that cast was enough to make me uh cue up the film before i even looked at like reviews and stuff for it which i'm uh happy to report are still in the 80s uh on rotten tomatoes. This is a film called Linoleum, and yeah, indeed, that is Jim Gaffigan and Ria Seahorn.

Wild. If you were to say, hey, you want to go see a movie with Jim Gaffigan and Ria Seahorn, you'd say, you're full of crap, there's no such thing that exists, but it absolutely exists and it's called Nolium, and it's on Hulu. This is about a guy who is a former

TV show host, kind of a Bill Nye, the science guy type science show host. and his wife used to be on the show with him she left to pursue another career but still with him although their marriage is a little a little rocky right now and he's trying to figure out who he is

and it's a little bit of sci-fi it's a little bit of drama there's some comedy elements it's kind of a really clever mix of all of these things and there's a very satisfying payoff for all this weirdness that you experience throughout the course of the film. Seeing Jim Gaffigan do this, I mean, he carries the film, or he has to carry the film because he's the main character. You're seeing it through his eyes.

And it's amazing that he is able to carry a film like this. that doesn't have a super strong comedy element to it, and he does it so well. He really does a great job carrying this film. But Rea Sehorne, of course, is excellent, and it shouldn't be overlooked.

Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul for people who recognize the name, but maybe don't recognize the or maybe don't recognize the name, but maybe recognize the voice. Michael Ian Black and Tony Shalub also in this? Yeah, very brief for both of them.

Mike Lee and Black, almost unrecognizable. He comes in very briefly, and Tony Shalub is a, he is a, well, he's a guiding force in Jim Gaffigan's life. I'll say that. Fair enough. I've been told to keep an eye on that West Dukovny, Taya Leone's daughter that looks just like Taya Leone. Oh. Is that the Cubney kid? That's cool.

Is she the, I did not recognize her as Taya Leone's daughter in this thing. She plays Darcy. A long time ago, David Dukovny and Taya Leone had two kids. One looks just like her mother and the other looks just like his father. Oh. His name is Kid Dukovny, which I just love. I love that they named the kid, Kid Dukovny. Okay, so yeah, she plays a kind of a snoddy school friend of,

their daughter who is nora so cameron and erin jim gaffkin racy horn have a daughter named aaron uh played by kately naken and i don't know oh she was enid on the walking dead um she was in in the go 90 web series tagged there's maybe somebody out there who knows what i just said yeah and uh something called southern gospel but uh she uh i think we're going to see a lot more from her she's got a really a really cool almost trying to remember who's the woman on Portlandia with Fred Armisen

she's got a very similar look to her and hold on it's Carrie Brownstein Brownstein right Carrie Brownstein yeah from Sleader Kinney yeah she is very she reminds me of her a lot a younger version of her and I think we're going to see

a lot of stuff coming coming from her from West Duke of me I just love their name isn't it? No, Caitlin Naken. I don't know if we're going to see anything more from Westie Coveney, but Caitlin Naken is what I'm saying we're going to see a lot more. Gotcha.

Yeah. So that's, I love this kind of stuff. And I also like it when comedians do weird shit, like stuff that's out of their usual, right? Like Michael Ian Black? Yeah, Michael Ian Black. I mean, we've seen him do acting things before,

certainly more than Jim Gaffigan. Yeah. And even doing, you know, stuff in films that weren't necessarily comedies. but Jim Gaffigan he's done some weird dark stuff too he really has yeah but yeah no Gaffigan in this thing is a revelation like he's he's got some new thing where he's

he's like a serial killer or something if you want to see oh really I can see him pull that off if you want to see by the way if you want to see Michael Ian Black in something that's not a comedy watch Wet Hot American Summer take that everybody i agree i'm going to get some emails for that i i did i did love him in stella though that was one of my favorite shows that's what introduced me to michaelian black oh the stella yeah

yeah was on comedy yeah okay right he's on comedy central shawalter michael shawalter he's a really good stand-up too like he's got he's got this uh ability to um you know to like pick his targets that's really, you know, refined. He just, he has a lot of haters on Twitter. Yeah. Well, he's loud on Twitter, so that usually... Yeah. Exactly.

Yeah. But anyway, the show I'm recommending is, it's on Hulu. Linoleum. Nice. Like the floor. Like the floor. Like the floor. And stick around for the ending because that's interesting.

Linoleum. Yeah, there you go. Nicole, I'm glad you saw. that park is it's your turn tell us what we're doing today uh before i jump into my recommendal did you guys talk about uh black mirror on netflix last week we talked about just before you guys came on in fact it's awesome nobody's recommended it yet i don't think right the reason we didn't is it's we've recommended that show like what five 10 12 times a ton of times i'm only going to recommend one episode though i just want to recommend i want to recommend the very first one joan

is awful. It is wonderful. It is the best of the five or six hard. It is so good. It's where you get great lines like, you get great lines like this. I'm sorry that I shat in a church. See? You get that.

It's pretty good. And I really, really enjoyed it. And I started to watch the other ones, but my brain is a little broken still. And I can't watch scary stuff. So I had to read it on Wikipedia. But I was able to handle. the clip notes black mirror okay that's what I do now I like I have to read about it before I watch it if it's like too much anticipation and scary which is the second the second one is about a serial killer so yeah lock Henry that's the one that's yes it's very it's extremely well done but it is really it's exactly what you're describing it's very dark yeah I started to watch and I'm like yeah I'm just going to go to Wikipedia and read about it um But the first one, highly recommend.

I loved it a lot. It was good. It also was funny in so many places that it really softened. Because it was, you know, it's like Black Mirror. It's like this awful idea. What would humanity do if we did this? Like it plays with all of those strings like it always does. But it was legit funny.

Like there were moments. I was just like dying. And Annie Murphy. And I want Annie Murphy just to live next door and make brownies for me or something. Well, and it's kind of timely, right? With all this talk of AI discussion, man, I sent out some sales emails for our business, and they have this new AI integration. It's not perfect, but I was like, holy crap, that sounds way better than what I just wrote. It's kind of wild.

Oh, yeah, Streamberry. Of the five new Black Mirror episodes, only one has lower than stellar reviews, and that's Maisie Day. And the last one, Demon 7, 9. is 100% on Rotten Tomatoes right now. I really like the last one. I think Joan is awful. It would be my favorite of the batch. But having just watched Demon 7-9 last night, it's like, wow, that one kind of sticks with you too.

Yeah, that probably my favorite overall, but also a little intense. I read about them all on Wikipedia. I love you, Nicole. Yeah. Hey, that's one way to get, you know, it's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with that at all. I see.

I experienced it a different way. Yep. The movie I'm going to recommend is on Netflix. It just came out on June 23rd. It is animation, and we watched it as a whole family last night, and I really, really enjoyed it. All right, here you go. If you see anyone, hide. If you see anyone, hide.

Fine, because we're still going to break stuff. That's a hard no. This place should be cruelling with gods. how exactly did you get past them they were like this when i got here you want to know who the kid is oh i like where this is going you want to show them i'd love to let's break stuff well i recognize chloe moreettes mortez maurites in there Chloe Grace Mortez. That's her.

Morrette. Morrette. But also Riz Ahmed is the dude, and I love him. Freaking love that guy. He is the voice of Ballester Boldheart, and Chloe Grace is the title character, Namona. So then the movie is called Namona. I don't know. We have a friend named, his last name is Promo.

And I am. So, Namona. It's based on a comic book. comic book of the same name, which is also excellent. Yeah, I saw that. So I didn't realize until I looked at on Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been my friend lately. This was supposed to come out in 2020. It was originally production of Blue Sky Studios. And then they got bought, they were the parent company, which is 20th century Fox, got bought by Disney. And apparently there was some pushback and the leadership at Disney

due to the film's LGBT themes, which whatever, it's wonderful. And the, it takes place in a futuristic mid-ebel time. It's so different, and I was just

telling Mark, I'm like, I like this world that they created. So it centers around this kind of protected area that you get the story that there was a dragon that breathed fire on the entire town. And this one, um, war, oh, not, oh, stop it.

Wikipedia starts fucking back. It's a new black bear episode. So, Glorith is the warrior that stopped the dragon. And so for thousands of years, you kind of fast-forged thousands of years, they have these knights that galoreth has selected to protect the town from this dark evil thing

so and it's always people the knights are always descendants of Galorith until now and that is the character that you heard Ballister Boldheart he is a commoner and he

is selected to become one of those knights a lot of famous people are in this film and I was looking at the actors and they look identical to the characters that have been animated for them.

So Riz Ahmed looks exactly like Ballister Boldheart. Chloe looks like her character. Nomona. Ballister Bullhart's love interest is, get this, you're ready for his name?

Oh yeah. Where is it at? I forgot it myself. Oh, Amberus Goldenloin. Nice. He is a direct descendant of Galoris. But the actor that plays him, they modeled him for this character. And so Namona is looking for, she wants to be the sidekick for a villain. And she is a shapeshifter.

She can change into anything. And the story, what you heard in the clip, was that. kind of trying to work together. He wants, he's trying to clear his name after something happens and it's, it's just a really, I liked it a lot. The kids liked it a lot. I enjoyed it very much. We were, we had all kinds of plans to watch this over the holiday and then our water went

out. So we've been fighting that. Had that not happened, we would have totally seen this. It looks just like, you know, our jam. Carter's going to love it. I can't wait to watch it. I, I want to do a bonus episode of Film Sack where I take a deep dive. into Anapurna pictures.

I'm so fascinated by that a woman turned 21 happened to be the daughter of Larry Ellison, came into billions of dollars and made a movie studio that can do things like this. I didn't know that was her deal. That's crazy. That's cool.

Yeah, yeah. Anna Perna is entirely this one younger woman. Well, really? Yeah. Because they revived the project. Right. When Blue Sky fell apart, Anna Perna Sruped in and made it happen. that's wild i wonder if she even likes her dad he's kind of a prick i hear anyway it doesn't matter that's not really important to this conversation but uh uh they're not the same people as anapurna

studios that makes games right that's a different whole different bag or maybe that is her uh they are they are related yeah they they have produced video games oh my gosh because they got they just did a big showcase and they've got some rad stuff coming suddenly i want to know more about this person that's cool uh well anyway pneumonia out now n i m o n a is how you spelled it. And Nicole, just to just to mention another recmental from the past, I just finished the Maguire series on Netflix. That was fantastic. Except for those damn hopping vampires, man, that freaked me out. But everything else I really, really loved. Am I robot to you? Because you're robot to me. No, you sound right. You probably got better, you got better upload than download

or something, wherever you are. My kids are playing Roblox. Yeah. Oh, the kids are playing Roblox. there's your problem right there. Oh, there's a problem. I have Roblox to you or are you Roblox to me? No, your recumental of the Maguai thing was fantastic, except for those damn hopping vampires. Yeah, I still got to watch that.

All right, Randy, let's fly over to your party here. Last week on recommendals, Brian talked about time loop movies and it made me desperate to rewatch I think my favorite, maybe my favorite time loop movie

of the last 20 years, we'll say that. All right. Um, I, uh, came out, uh, three years ago and everybody should, uh, watch it or rewatch it if you've already seen it before. And, uh, you're about to hear a man trying to pick up a woman at a wedding, uh, dinner. All right. Here we go. Here are the drinks you didn't pick up from the bar. Thank you. I always get an extra one.

Save myself a trip. Or you might just be an alcoholic. Could be. Thank you. Mm-hmm. Cheers. Tears. You're Misty's boyfriend?

I don't think that we met at the rehearsal dinner last night. I'm Sarah. Niles. Hi. Hi. So what's your deal? You don't dance? Planted for shitis, actually.

Oh, respect. Dear, I have been to more weddings in my life than you can imagine. You might be surprised. And I have to say that your speech is the best wedding speech I've ever heard. It's your crad. Wow. Thank you. That feels good.

Yeah, I bet. But you don't actually believe any of the shit that you said. Not a word of it. We're all fucking alone. Oh, I should have bleeped that. Good catch on the bleep in there. So I know we've done this before, right? It's been an old recommendal, but I still haven't seen it.

So maybe this is the motivation I need. Oh, wow. I hope you do. This is where I go. You haven't seen it? Yeah. Everyone I know says this. The whole world tells me I need to see this show.

You've all done it. Everyone I know has said it. I don't know why I haven't. As you know, when I'm talking about movies, I always have to ask the question, in this case, why the hell is this at 94% on Rotten Tomatoes? And there's a lot of answers. It's not just a competent movie that's fun and funny and weird and quirky. And the stars are pretty good in it. But, like, there's something below the surface of this movie that's really, really, like, excellent, like, historically.

And I can't really put my finger on it. But you need to watch it, Scott. Okay. I'm going to now. You should do that. You should do that. Let me guess. It's still on Hulu, right?

That's where you saw it. Yep. It'll probably forever be on Hulu because I got some deal. Oh, that's why. Yeah. And so is a freaking parasite. This is a pattern, you know? This is the deal.

So, yeah, no, I definitely want to say. see this. And this is one Kim would totally enjoy. I don't know why we haven't watched it. We just got it. Yeah. It's got the mother from how I met your mother in it. The eventual discovery of the mother. Oh, if I, wow, if I ever watched that show, I'd probably care about her. Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, you know how you just love J.K. Simmons, even when he is advertising things, too? I don't care when he does anything. I love him. He's the best. Right. Yeah. Like, J.K. Simmons is the third, like, main character in this movie. And he is so freaking weird and interesting

and in the end when you finally get to like sit down and talk with his character he's so freaking cool I just you I promise you you will come away going you're glad or you watch this okay I'm gonna do it Kim and I were gonna we were gonna watch that hijack thing oh yeah the Idriselba yeah I'm excited about that too

that was the other thing we were going to do this week we couldn't because of the water so we'll I'm gonna add this to maybe bump it in front actually because she likes the she'll like the romantic comedy side of it. You know what I mean? Yes. And time loop comedy. Sure.

And Nicole, don't you just remember loving Kristen Milotti, miliotti in this movie? I don't know names a lot of the time. Which one is that? The lead. Oh, yeah. The woman that was just... Yeah.

Isn't she also in the one where the futuristic Made for Love? Oh, I don't know. She's been in a lot of stuff. Like, ever since we started seeing her, I think. seeing her as the mom on how I met your mother. Then her career just exploded and we had her in everything. By the way, I'm so impressed with you guys with you guys when you know names.

I can't remember all the names of everybody, very obscure. Like I consider them, you know, not mainline actors, but like side actors and how you can just hold their names out of your butts. Well, our butts, we have big butts. That's actually where many of them come from. Right out of our butts. you're right out of our butts. No, I don't know. It's a weird thing when you're,

I think film sack has helped train us up a little bit on this. Sure. About 10 years ago, there was a short-lived TV series called A to Z. And it starred Ben Feldman and Kristen Miliotti. And it was filmed in my neighborhood. It was so freaking weird to see the like office buildings that you see if you walk outside in this show. And it only lasted for 13 episodes because none of you.

you could watch it. And it was really fun and funny. And again, like, I just, like, saw her. And Ben Feldman, who's also having a good career. And he was in suddenly in Superstore. So that's good. But like, I just, I saw her, you know, Christian Miliotti. And I was just like, I'm going to keep an eye on this person. She's amazing. And of course, she makes Palm Springs. So if you, if you loved her in Palm Springs and you have not seen Made for Love, there's two seasons of it highly recommend she's wonderful in it okay it's not a movie got it no it's a sci-fi futuristic um show where she gets implanted with a chip by her husband and her husband's very like Elon Musk oh now I remember that yeah oh it's so good it is really good yeah yeah I think

it's on it's on it's on HBO Max okay cool yes so you want to watch, they have two seasons. And I was afraid they weren't going to, like, they kind of left leave you hanging. Also, Ray Romano's in it on the first season. I was like, oh, I hope they get a second season, which they did. And they still kind of leave you hanging on the second season. That's right. I've forgotten, totally forgotten about that. And Randy, don't think I didn't notice your, you're mentioning of HBO Max again instead of Max. I noticed. I noticed what you did there. You know what this reminds me? I'm sorry, total side note. Back in the early instance days, Randy had this thing when Rath of the Litch King came out.

The game did not prompt you to go to Northrend. The whole new expansion, a whole new thing. Randy had the expansion, but there was nowhere where an NPC would say, an NBC would say, hey, come up to North Rend and do your thing. And until Randy saw that, he refused to go. Do you remember that? I do. I do remember that. I wouldn't say I refused to go.

I was just enjoying, like, still playing the game and seeing what happened, you know? I was waiting for like if a friend had come along and said, hey, follow me onto this boat, you know, I would have done it. Yeah, of course you would have, but that's the point. And you were, and it reminds me of this Max thing. You just like refuse to let it. I don't understand what your Max thing is. Like when I went into HBO Max, it said, we're Max now and it moved me over to

Max. He knows that. He knows that. He just thinks that, oh, and I actually agree with him. He thinks it's stupid. They changed their name. And so it's 100%. Yeah.

He had to, well, they wanted to integrate. other things that were not HBO. They just dropped 40 years of brand. They dropped the wrong thing. Yeah. It'd be like saying Coke changed their name to PUD because they want to be more appealing

to a whole bunch of other things where people like PUDs. Facebook's saying, we're now just going to be called Buck. That's pretty close. One more thing. Christian Miliotti's episode of Black Mirror is called USS Callister. It's the one with Jesse Clemens.

Oh, it is so good. So freaking good. You're making me want to go re-watch all those. Those are so good. Yes, but Palm Springs first. All right, I'll do that first. All right, here is my clip. This is a quick one for a movie Nicole should not watch.

All right? So Nicole, this recommendal is not for you. I guess it's Wikipedia. Yeah, you'll want to look this one up. Here's some dialogue. She's called Stephanie. Oh. Hey, Stephanie?

What's her situation? Danny told me that when this building used to be a bank, A teller got caught stealing and hunged himself And if you walk around with coins in your pockets His ghost tears the jingle And he scares you to death So he can take all you money It's true

If he comes after me Staffany will scare him to death first Ghosts aren't real Have you ever seen one? Mm-mm Then how do you know they don't exist Because I only believe

What I can see All right That is probably the most chill this movie ever gets. It's the only scene of the movie that does not have screaming in it. Kind of, yeah, or blood. The movie is Evil Dead Rise,

a new entry in the Evil Dead series, which started all the way back in like 79 or 80, whatever it was, the first one. And does feature a cameo from Bruce Campbell, but I will not tell anyone how. It's more fun to find out on your own how they did it. But this is a pure evil dead.

film. It's not campy at all. It's got camp, but I don't know the last time you saw that original movie. It's campy, but really disturbing. And so is this. Like, that's what I'm saying. This follows that template almost to a T. It does it very differently, though. We're not in the cabin. We're not in the woods. We're in a city. And we're in an apartment. And it, that's all I want to say about about the setup, because I don't want to give too much away. But it is littered with Australian accents or sorry, Australian actors doing great American accents. I don't know what this trend is, but these entire films set in America that are just nothing but Australians. And they're all very, very good. You'll recognize some of these people by their face. Alyssa Sutherland is not

a name you know, but she's an Australian actress who plays Ellie, the mother of these kids, who is just frightfully good. She's in all the ad. You've seen her face. If you've seen any trailers or anything remotely connected to this. Some really great child actors playing kids. Nail Fisher, in particular plays this Cassie girl that was just talking about her Staffany. Stephanie, by the way, is literally a dollhead on the end of a stick. And she named it Stephanie.

Thank you for letting us out. She's a cutie. She's really, really great. She's actually English. She's from London. And she does a really good English or American accent. I don't know how I get these kids that young to do that. But anyway, they're all really effective and very good. And mostly not going to be

people you've seen before, which actually thinks I think works in the favor of these movies when they're new upcoming stars instead of some established person for whatever reason it just works for me. This is directed by Lee Cronin who both wrote it and directed it, but very much hands-on produced

by Sam Ramey and Bruce Campbell. Those two were producers on the film. And it is gross and insane, a little campy here and there. You get the line I will swallow your soul, which Fletcher uttered to

beginning of today's show um and so there's a lot a little bit of throwback in that way it's still that weird book they have the old record they got to say the words for anything to happen all the all the tropes of these movies are in there but where it goes and the kind of the kind of creative deaths we get are truly horrifying like this stuff in here is just like what the freak did you just do i can't believe they did what they did um they also did a really interesting way of telling the story they started the movie with what you thought was the movie ran the title card and then told a whole different story that connected to what it was at the beginning. Oh, interesting. Okay. And it's not a spoiler to say it because it doesn't spoil anything. It's just a strange way of telling the story. And that really worked for me. I loved it. I thought it was great. I like a good horror movie. I like Evil Dead movies. And this is this is absolutely one of those and should be seen. I really like it. I just, I've said this so many times. Isn't it so weird to be living in a time when a movie comes out?

hits the box office is number one at the movies and then two weeks two months later you can watch it on stream well there was something there was a deal with that so max sorry HBO max for for those who may not remember they changed their name thank you um they this was supposed to be a direct to max thing and they they the test screenings were so positive that they were like we're going to pivot and put this in theaters for a bit so i think it has something to do with that the theater run was short by design but also made them a crap ton of money and it did really well um there and now it's now it just showed up on max and you know you'll know you'll know if you want this in your life or not you know you're either a fan of these kind of

horror movies or you're not and so you know who i'm talking to out there if you like it you like it if you don't you won't but i really you'll read it on wikipedia or you'll read on rickapit exactly i thought it was really really good and it makes me excited for the future of what they could do with more evil dead movies because i think this one nails the idea of take the premise and go a place where we haven't gone before, but don't ruin the premise. Because now the premise can work in perpetuity as long as good filmmakers make good stories around it. And I think it works really well. It is interesting how a lot of the movies that were popular when we were younger are kind of coming back around to get a whole new audience.

We watched the Goonies with Mateo the other night. And they're going to come out with Goonies too soon. So, like, in one hand, you're like, oh, they're just mining my childhood, but they're, I mean, they're really trying to keep that alive. And I love that they try to do that stuff. I like it too. People get mad about that stuff. I like it because it's, I love it. It shows the longevity of the culture we grew up in, but also, you know, the people in charge, the money people now, they're our age. They're the ones making the calls. So why wouldn't they make shit like this? It's like Marvel's entire MCU run from 08 till now is all based on people like us coming evade. and then having power in Hollywood to do something about it. You know, prior to that, it was all garbage. The two generations before us trying to make comic book movies, they were terrible. It was freaking awful. And now, you know, now we figured it out.

So anyway, oh, you're right. Oh, my gosh. And they're bringing Sean Aston, Corey Feldman. Yeah. Oh, really? What's his name? Thanos? Everybody.

Yeah. Wow. Jeez, they should have called it Fokies. Foonie Fogies is good The Fogies are good enough Yeah Anyway, there you go

That is Evil Dead Rise Available on Max And you should watch it If you like horror movies These will all And I just want to ask Nicole real quick Is it just the scares for you

Or is there like More is it like The loud sounds The intensity of the visuals It's a couple things It's the visuals That stick And I can't get them out of my brain

And just the general anxiety of the anticipation is not, I get overstimulated super easy now. So I tend to just kind of, let's just be. Having sat next to Nicole in her home theater watching the Twin Peaks reboot and Mateo sneaking up next to her and whispering something in her ear and watching her come unglued, I can completely vouch for Nicole's reactions. And that was before I was sick.

Right. That was just normal me. No, it's just got even more, yeah. Yeah, it's got more amplified. Well, I'm glad you're doing stuff like that to watch after it. That's important stuff. Also, I was going to say something. Oh, a few weeks ago, I recommended Silo.

We were only two episodes in. It ended on Friday. It was awesome. Cannot recommend it enough. Good deal. Don't sleep on Silo. It's fantastic. All right.

Oh, I'll watch as soon as you watch. Cool. It'll be a while then. Anyway, there you go. Hey, Nicole, it's always good having you on. I love you guys. You too. Have a fun trip.

Enjoy your time. Hey, Randy, thanks a lot for hanging out, man. Hey, the pleasure's all yours. Yeah, look for MPCs. They'll take it to Northrend. We'll see you next time. All right, Brian, we've come to the closure of the show. The closure.

I'd like to end it with a quick email here before we go. And this is from, who is this from? This is from Milwaukee. No, Dave in Wisconsin. From the entirety of Milwaukee, I think. Which is a fictional city, we should have mentioned earlier. Oh, true. Oh, no, no, no more emails.

Yeah, don't send us those emails. He says this, a correction from Milwaukee. Yo, Mr. S&B, in reply to Monday's morning half-assery question about the tallest building and the scorn and ridicule thrown at Milwaukee as a born Milwaukeeian, shame! And then he has three bells for icons. Nice reference. Milwaukee did, in fact, have the world's tallest inhabiting. building that's in quotes in an important note in the world for a whopping four years so while your

structure question was not technically wrong the ridicule and shame you subjected my city to must be redeemed he says it was city hall from 1859 or 95 i can't read 1895 to 1899 and that beacon to our world dominance and glory on the world stage is still standing to this day and to be honest as one of our coolest buildings and they sent a link for it love the show though A, the Fonz with two thumbs up, Dave from Wisconsin. Yeah, we didn't mean to be smirch your home to do. Oh, no, for sure, no. And I love Wisconsin.

I mean, I'm sorry, I love Milwaukee. Went there with Tina years ago. We enjoyed Summerfest. We saw the Violent Fems. We saw garbage play. It was fantastic. I bet. And I would never be smirch Milwaukee, except for their short, short, short buildings.

Yeah. I watched the Brewers play in like 90s. or something. When I was there, it was fun. We drove down from Chicago on that trip. Nice. Yeah, I liked it. But that building doesn't look that tall

when I look at it now. I know, I realize it was like 1800s, so, you know. Yeah, of course. It makes a big difference there. Times changed. All right, that's going to do it for us. Big thanks, everybody, for joining us. And if you know what this is today,

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benefit benefits that come from your membership at patreon.com slash tms everything else can be found at frogpants dot com slash tms and that's going to do it for today brian let's get out of here do you have a song I have a song. This one's going out to Reg who says, Good morning, Borat and Sally G. Close enough. It's Chillbilly Reg here from Chilawak, British Columbia. It's my birthday as I write this, but no worries.

I'm not requesting for me, but rather for our dear Scott and Kim. I kind of remember hearing that their anniversary is sometime in July, just not sure when. Faithfully, by Journey was said to be the song that they danced to on their wedding, so I thought for their anniversary they can do another dance to another Journey song.

After all these years, this is, of course, a cover for which I leave to you, Brian, to find a good one. This song, by the way, is the one with the awesome Arnell Paneda, so check out the original two. Congrats on your anniversary, Scott and Kim. Cheers, Reg. Okay, quick corrections. Two quick corrections. It's end of August. It's not July. And that's fine, just a month later, 29th of August. And then we didn't play it on our wedding. It was a mecharena was your first dance. No, we played, we danced to that song on our first date. on our wedding. So anyway, close enough, though. You got the apocryphal version of the story. It's all fine. Well, you know what? Then since he got those two things wrong, I'm not going to play

the song that he requested. Instead, I'm going to play this cover of Journey's Lights by Gretchen Wilson, which came out on her album Under the Covers from 2013. Take that, Reg. No, just kidding. That is what I'm playing, but there's no, there's only one cover of, after all these years, and it's by Boyce Avenue, so I think it's a sound alike. So, sorry. if we're going to play this other one. Here is Gretchen Wilson. And my favorite journey song, well, second favorite journey song,

Stone in Love is my first favorite. This is my second. It's lights. Here's Gretchen Wilson. All right. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Thursday, TMS. down in the city and the sun shines on

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Lonely Well, my friend, I'm lonely, too. I want to get back to my city by the bay. Oh, oh, oh. Say, oh, there's been born in, I know the world without you, without your tone. Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my, my. Lights go down in the city

And the sun shines on the bay Do I want to be there in my city? Oh, oh, oh, oh. When your eyes, Oh, and you know When your eyes and fall down, in the city And your sun shines on the bay

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