The Morning Stream - TMS 2501: Regret Slurpies

Episode Date: August 2, 2023

Byron Was the Pantsless man at the door. Let's party! dunna-nuna-nunna-dunna-nuna-nunna-na fert to Brian. Hawaiian Nose Waxing. Big crush on granola. Feud with Scott and Brian and Brian and Brian and Brian and Brian. Lot Lizards. Crop-dusting the event space. Fancy Gold Foil. Audio only? Sounds like a YOU problem. I Love Roller Meats. Andrew Dice Clay: Tasteless White. Your Hotdogs Have Been Rolling For 36 Hours. I won't listen to it, but I will play with it. Tom's Twitter Folder. Fargomentals with Randy 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.

TMS is brought to you daily by and large by the supported patrons at patreon.com slash TMS like FI Ray, Kyle Schrimmer, and Lewis Tenney. Coming up on TMS, Byron was the panceless man at the door. Let's party. Hawaiian nose waxing. Big crush on granola. Feud with Scott and Brian and Brian and Brian and Brian and Brian. Lot lizards.

Crop dusting the event space. Fancy gold foil. Audio only sounds like a you problem. I love roller meats Andrew Dice Clay tasteless white Your hot dogs have been rolling for 36 hours I won't listen to it

But I will play with it Tom's Twitter folder Fargo Mentals with Randy And more on this episode of The Morning Stream The first thing on the agenda says Never surrender Never tell him man

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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi. Hello. Hello.

Happy birthday, Brian. Woo! Let's party. That's right. Brian turns my age today. We won't even talk about it. I finally catch up. I catch up after three weeks of being behind Scott.

now I catch up. Yep. My mom was in labor while your mom was just uncomfortable. Three weeks later, she was in labor. I don't know how long my mom was in labor. I know I was born at 4 p.m. 4.03 p.m. Oh, interesting time of the day. Sure.

Yeah. No middle of the morning, eh? I'm trying to think what I was. I think I was also in the daytime. That's how they used to do it in the old days, Brian, as they would have us in the daytime. Yeah, a little daytime birth of the father would pay. back and forth, smoking cigarettes in the waiting room. That's right.

A little cigar. Yeah, people came out with cigars. Give the doctor a cigar and he'd smoke a right there. Yeah, yeah, I hear a cigar and then he'd go drink at the bar and then hand out cigars there. Those were the days, guys. Those were the days. Yeah, no, happy though birthday to you. Any cool things happen so far on your birthday?

Is it just a regular day or, you know. So far, regular day, Starbucks gave me a free item today. So I went and got a Pikes roast. Theventy Pikes, a little splendor in it. And so I'm enjoying that. I put my own creamer in there because they don't have a dairy-free, sugar-free cream option. They don't? That's crazy.

They should have that. They have like, I don't want almond milk. I love almond milk. I love oat milk. I don't want my coffee. I just want, I want, really, it's like I want tasteless, tasteless white. Added to my coffee. Gotcha.

What? I want to introduce ice clay. I was trying to think of a good tasteless white, but he'll do. He'll definitely do. No, I mean, basically, I want something to kind of lighten it up, but I don't want flavors, and I don't want, I don't want it to be full on dairy. So I have this coffee mate non-dairy sugar-free stuff that Tina buys. Because I feel like to get the same amount of, you know, get it to that level, I

want, I have to add a lot more oat milk or a lot more almond milk to get it to that level. Whereas if I use half and half, it's like, bam, but then I get the dairy and I get the for half the day, as witnessed in Snowbird. Oh, yeah. So we checked out the venue and I said, I'm going to go check out this venue, this part of the venue right over here. Yep. Literally crop dusted the entire event space.

That was great. Yeah, exactly. Well, I'm glad that you have, that's a good solution right there. and I'm pretty sure that's what we buy also. We have some sort of creamer thing like that. Yeah. And I'm not really a coffee drinker, but I prefer it over there. And I think they make oatmeal creamer as opposed to just adding oat milk.

And maybe I need to have Tina pick some of that up at the store and I'll give it a try. Oh, I will say this. Based on everybody's recommendation, I now have liquid death in my fridge and I enjoy it tremendously. Those cans are big and threatening. and monster-looking, but yeah, I get the lime. Severed lime, I think, is what it's called. Severed line's very good. I like that.

Yes, very tasty. I'm a little, I'd like to drink it in the car when I Uber, but I feel like somebody's going to think I'm drinking and report me. It does look like a tall boy. Yeah. Yeah, up until I had it myself, until I found out myself, I thought liquid death had alcohol in it. I thought it was a beer or some sort of.

I admit to the same when we got them first time. They were just the water ones and I was like, what are we buying here? What is this exactly? I know. It looks like a beer energy drink is what it looks like. Yeah. I looked like I need to be, you know, 22 again or something.

It was like a, you know, it's kind of a thing that would attract to the kids. Where's my Ed Hardy T-shirt and my top knot? That's right. Where is that? Nowhere. Or some of you guys. Oh, no, go ahead. Go ahead.

Throw out. I'm going to throw out a couple quick thank yous. got a letter yesterday or a package from Antoine from North Carolina who didn't give

an email address didn't give me anymore on his name and I did a search I couldn't find him Scott couldn't find him otherwise I would have emailed him

privately to thank him but he sent me two packs of Magic the Gathering collectors packs you know the new Lord of the Rings ones that you have the chance

to get the one ring that was found in Canada and sold for two million dollars oh my gosh are you kidding really i'm not kidding there was a single card called the one ring and if you found this one it was you know like uh like you know you can either keep it and play it it's like super cool uh or you sell it which is what most people said they of course you would freaking sell it i would in a heartbeat of course no doubt that's crazy however he did so the packs he sent me one of them did contain nasgul which is a a fairly

valuable card, according to Tristan, and he knows these things, as well as a foil shilob, and there's a card in there called the ring, or the one ring, or something like that, but it's not the one ring card. There's a different card for that. Okay, I assume that's a gold foil, fancy card as well, the good one, the one you want. The good one is, I'm sure, yeah, exactly. That's great. That's cool. Anyway, so Antoine, thank you very much, and he says, hopefully there's something valuable or at least a

recognizable character that you can maybe send to a feud winner. So future, maybe not today, but I will throw some of these cards in there for feud winners if you're a magic gathering player. I don't want to send it to if you're not.

There's no point. Or if you're Lord of the Rings fan, actually, you probably enjoy it too. Yeah. Or you're a collector and you just like them or something. I don't know. Yeah, exactly. There's a card I have called The Bath Song. I'll send that to a listener if they win. Hubba, hubba. Look at this.

I forgot to tell you this, since you're talking about stuff people sent you. Yeah. What you get? What you get? I totally forgot to mention this. It's been behind me this whole month. I got a nice birthday gift from the Victorines. Oh, I get one, too, and I'll tell you about mine after you tell them about yours.

Look what she sent me. Silly Poopies hide and see. Hide me, find me. I give clues. Oh, no way. How does it give you clues? Does it like talk? Here's what it does.

I'll play some audio. It makes... Somebody please find me. You be, you've found silly poohy. Oh my God, that's fantastic. You found me. You found me. You found me. How is it still in a box? You've had Van over, right?

My God, Van would, like, have a feel day with that. Well, we haven't... It's funny you say that, because this got here right around the time, what, around the 17th or 18th. And then things have been bonkers since, and we only really saw him at the family thing, and then I forgot to take it. But I was going to take this and, like, messing around.

He's going to love this. P.U. P.U. You found silly poopie. Yeah. Leslie sent me a thing that arrived last night. A tin sign for Salem's... Like, she found this sign. It's not like she had a custom-made. But it's Salem's home...

Or Salem's... Shoot, it's upstairs. Salem's home for wayward cats, but it's not home. Salem's Academy. No, Salem's... Anyway. And it's got a picture of a black cat and a couple of wayward cats on there.

which is great because, obviously, we have a Salem, and we also have a wayward cat in the name, Nara, sitting right there. That's freaking perfect. Being all wayward. And then she also sent me some Shakespearean insult band-aids, which I can't wait, too. I kind of want to injure myself so I can wear one of these. When I look at you, I think insult-band-aids every time. Yeah, well, Shakespearean insults band-a-dates.

She also sent me a little, does this work? Oh, my gosh, it does. Is that the little video game thing? Yeah, so a little slot machine. machine that actually works. A little video game console looking thing. Oh, I get, yeah, I get the video game console too. And then a controller. Good luck. Good luck figuring that thing out. Yeah, no kidding, right? This looks like a PS4 controller. I guess it is kind of. And then a little

bird nest with birds in it. And I don't know for the life of me why that's here. Because you like miniature things. I did like miniature things. You're right. Carter wants this because she likes them also, but she's not getting it. These are for me. All right? Me. Yeah, for you, part of two. Well, happy birthday, and I hope it just is nothing but a cavalcade of great things throughout the day. We'll see. Yeah, my mom's taking me out to lunch for Hawaiian food, and I'm going to get a nose waxing. So it's called treat yourself.

Wow, wow. Yeah, those two things right there together. Yep, you shouldn't do they, you don't do the nose waxing at the Hawaiian food place, right? It's different, different service. What's this in my pokey? Why is my potato salad have grit in it? Yeah, what is that? They're like little hairs almost.

Weird. That guy called again, the one I liked yesterday. The what we call it Salad and Borax? Yeah, something like that, whatever he called us. He has another, this actually is directed, I guess, at you mostly. This is about feud. Yeah, you'll enjoy this. So here is his current thought process.

Enjoy. Hi, this is for the morning stream. This is an audio form podcast for 90-something percent of your fans probably I was listening to the tad Pooley feud and Brian should commentate like a hockey commentator if you listen back to this week there's like six or so where no one even says what number they are you get it right and Brian you hear the chime and that's it we're playing along at home we have no idea no idea what number they were no idea how many are left It would take two seconds.

I'm sure some people watch on video, but the most are on audio. Love you guys. Okay. He's absolutely right. And I try to remember to do that. I try and say, oh, all right, number four. Good job. You've got several answers.

I mean, yeah, look, it's not even a problem just with games. I do it all the time because we're making a show that is both visual and audio. And yes, most of the people listen via audio, we try to remember to say the things we're saying. But it's hard sometimes. forget. Yeah. For sure. What's that guy's name? Did he say him that thing? He didn't say a name. In either call, he has not left a name. Okay. Okay, good. And Benjid

totally got what I was like, I could have sworn during that guy's call, I heard beep, beep, beep. Oh, it was this. Oh, that was your toy. I didn't know, I turned it on. I pulled out the little tab out of the back, you know, a little battery protector and it immediately turned on. I didn't expect.

By the way, if you figure out how to play that damn thing, let me know. I cannot figure out for the life of me, and I'm dead serious. Like the little pixels on screen, that's like a Nintendo Game Watch thing, got no idea how you play that. There's like buttons that work and the stick, but I don't know what's going on.

I can't tell. Yeah, and it changes things on screen, but I don't know what it does. There's no instructions. It's just called mini game player, and that's it. That's all you get. Yeah.

By the way, for you listeners, we're talking about a little green arcade machine with an LCD screen. There you go, see? Spelling out the visuals for the folks at home. Exactly. Perfect. We also got this message from

our old pal Luke in Boulder there near you. Yeah. He says, he's talking about jury duty. He says, greetings gentlemen, Luke from Boulder here. Regarding jury duty, which by the way, for me, the selection thing is on the 10th. So it's a Thursday, week after this Thursday. And it's supposed to be anywhere between 8.30 and 11.30 in the morning. It's like a cable installation.

I just have to sit there and wait until they tell me whatever to do. So you have to come in. They don't give you a recording on the 9th evening of. the 9th after 5 p.m. that you call and find out if you don't have to show up. So this thing on Thursday, or that Thursday is a WebEx call. So I get to be here. The big trick is when and they don't know. I wish they could just give me a specific time, so I knew if this was going to kill TMS or not.

But that's the selection process. And there's a note that says, be noticed or please notify yourself or whatever that this could take up to, you know, 5.30 in the afternoon. I'm like, what are you kidding me? Are you kidding? The selection process, eight hours of six. selection process? Better not be, dude. I'll be so pissed.

Please live stream this. If we don't do a show that morning, let's at least live. And I'll join you for the live stream of your, of your, uh, I thought about that. Do you think I'd get in trouble if I did that at all? Or would it be? I think if you showed other people on screen, you know, showed your, your, uh, yeah, the WebEx screen, I think we'd get in trouble. Right.

But I don't think, I don't think we'd get in trouble if you just were streaming while this was going on. What if I streamed there? I shouldn't stream whatever's coming out of them, though, like audio. The audio that's coming out of them, I wouldn't. Yeah, just be me. I'd love it if you did, but I would definitely get you in trouble. I think I'd be in trouble for that.

But anyway, he says, he's been summoned twice. He said he made the jury twice and was named Foreman twice and found out the defendant not guilty in about 20 minutes of the deliberations on both cases. I don't recommend it. Try to get dismissed, he says. I don't know. You just sounded pretty successful there. I know.

That's actually not bad. Well, I mean, the deliberation was 20 minutes. He didn't say how long the cases that he had to sit through were prior to going into the chambers for deliberation. Yeah. Listen, let's say something happens. You get falsely accused of something you end up going to court. Do you want the jury to be made up, Scott, of people who are just not smart enough to get out of jury duty? or would you like good people who had who had other things to do but still took their civic duty to come in and be part of the jury?

Or do you want a bunch of unemployed chumps and ladies and little retired ladies deciding your fate? You're absolutely right. That's partly why when I was filling out the questionnaire, I couldn't I couldn't like distort anything. I just couldn't do it. I thought when it says, is there any reason you think you might not be partial in a jury, or you might be partial in a jury selection or a decision-making, blah, blah, or whatever. And all I could say was, no, I wouldn't. I want to be, I wanted to say, I know, I really want to have a problem with, you know, an Asian guy who's, but I don't.

I don't have one. Exactly. I'll be happy to be on your jury as long as the defendant ain't Asian. Right. Part of me, like, wants to make up dark stuff. like that but I can't so they're probably going to choose me and I'm I'm I don't have time for this but I'll do it I'll do it but I don't want to all right I there's you know what uh yeah there's there's got to be a way to turn this any content I mean it'll at least be stories for TMS

oh I would hope so I would hope so that's that's one thing but uh unless I get there it'd be one of those deals where you know because I have if they select me I have to go in person obviously the case of course so you do the thing in person and then if they kick me out that day I'll be really annoyed because it's like, well, if you're going to get me all the way down there, then you better, you know, let's poo or get off the pot here. Right, right. Don't invite me down there just to sit around and then say, nope, we don't need you go home. Yeah.

You know, make it worth my time if you're bringing me down. Yeah, I can't be having that in my life. Which I think is if they're doing the selection process over WebEx, I would think that that is that they're setting the jury there. I would assume so, right? Like, it seems sensible to me that they would do that. But I don't know. None of the, all of this is new to me. Because the other two times, well, the one time, I never heard anything.

The second time, oh, no, the first time I forgot about it entirely. That was years ago, 90s. Oops. That was in the 90s. Completely forgot. Forgot to send it in, didn't do anything. Never heard a thing. Second one came, filled out some stuff.

They said, yeah, we're not. We don't need you. And now this is the most, this is the furthest I've gotten into the process. So I don't know, dude. I really don't know. uh done away uh attempts to call done away failed let's see we're gonna try him again oh no uh he's not in the thing yet he keeps he keeps hanging up on us like he's like go wait click yeah i'm in a meeting i you said you guys only call after 1130 and it's 1129 you're bastards well we try our goal

is anywhere between quarter after and 930 so he's probably if i had to guess because now he doesn't do it at work he used to do it at work with a headset was home yeah He always goes home to poop and eat or whatever. And, well, that guy just ain't answering. Let's try him again. Just ain't answering. No answer, no nothing here. Let's just see if he said any other stuff.

No, no, no, don't, oh, I have a text. Let's see if this is him. Okay, all right. Nope, that's Brian. That's you needing 60 seconds. Yeah. Yeah, I missed that entirely. That's totally fine.

It worked out perfectly. I'm like, oh, I need 60 seconds. They said, oh, crap. I need to audio level Nicole's stuff. I'm like, oh, perfect. Yeah, that worked out well, yes. That was good. All right, we're waiting, we're waiting.

How does Rainbow Bright know? He says, he's heading to his office now. Give him two minutes. How do you know, Desiree? Yeah, how do you know Desiree? Does he keep you? Do you have a little, is done away behind you? Yeah.

Is he in the room with you now? You know? Blink twice if you're in danger. Yeah, I don't know how she knows that. But we definitely don't know that. Just knows. Okay. All right.

Fair enough. Does Desire live? Where is Desiree live? Where is Desire? Is she down there in the south somewhere? She, I don't know. I think so. Because they're all connected via GPS or whatever, all the Southerners.

They're trying to, they want to rise again, that whole thing. I know. That's how they, that's how they assemble. It's how they join forces. That's how they get you every time. Here's this now. Hey, that music means it's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. And joining us is Brian Dunaway.

Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Happy birthday, Brian. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're all a bunch of fools. I'm going to work on my birthday. Screw that. Yeah, exactly. I'm laying in the bed doing nothing. Yeah. This ain't work. By the way, it was a good job on scheduling TMS Wednesday on my birthday, Scott, because we get you.

We get Brian Dunaway. We get Randy. We get Nicole. We get Tom. Like everybody gets a chance to I didn't think of it that way. Yeah, this was the plan the whole time. We wanted to overwhelm you with birthday wishes on your day. That's perfect. Your special day. That's stupid. And have Brian Dunaway say birthday four times, which is great.

Birthday. Who says, who says birthday? Who says that? Nobody. Most people. Hey, can you explain your robot? Can you explain why Desiree knows where you are at all times in our chat room? She knew you were going to be late and you were like two minutes on the road or whatever.

How did she know? Are you and Desiree talking? Is there a kind of communication thing going on? No, they have my, they have my 360 account, live 360. Isn't that the thing? That's why I monitor my kids. Where they're just kidding? I don't know how they know.

Maybe I live near them and they just, there goes, Ryan, look at his flight. That's right. No, she's got you and find my friends. And I was, he's on such and such street about to make a right. And I was fine until, of course, once again, I have my groceries delivered. And once again, they decided, let's close all the roads leading to problems. iron's house so you have to take six detours and then when i get home somebody left the dog inside we got an outdoor cat she's a mama and she has little kittens the other day the dog and the cat

meet between the door threshold and they chewed up audra's leg because they were trying to fight and so somebody left the dog in the day and so i went out to do a different door so that i could not have to deal with that which the door the dog was inside and once again Brian must be the referee. I like it. Anytime you've got grievances, you air them here. Oh, dude. Don't keep that crap inside.

If it's not groceries sitting on your front porch getting warm, it's dogs fighting. That's right. I know. It's like, come on. I just want to get in here and talk to my good friend, Brian. I can't wait. Say happy birthday to him. And also describe every freaking answer on the tadpooly feud as to script.

That looks like a cue. I believe that is a little bit of a little cube. Yeah. we're going to have a bit of that going on we also have a participant with us and it's someone we haven't had before 89 vision welcome to the program how are you my parents used to drive an 89 vision oh the old 99 vision those cars would run forever yeah i'm also the third brian on the call holy shit i'm not sure we're allowed to do that numbered by brian's not sure we're allowed to do this by law but that's okay maybe it'll get me out of jury duty having this many

Brian there. I don't know. Hey, do I envision, or Brian, I'll just call you Brian. Where are you, where are you calling from, Brian? Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Oh, nice. Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Wow. We should try a baby out again. We'll see if that works. I believe that was the, that was the newspaper. The Broken Arrow. I believe that was the newspaper. I don't know. I don't think there's a, I don't think there's a newspaper. I mean, it's very close to Tulsa. So Tulsa World is our. Yep, Tulsa World. They were a customer. The Tulsa World. The Tulsa World. The Tulsa World. world. That's right. Ibit will never forget you. Yep. Never.

Well, let's get to it. Brian, hey, you want to explain these rules to the other new Brian and letting him know what he might win if he can pull this off today? I'll totally do that. It's time to play the Brian edition of the Tadpool. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian and Brian and Brian will 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.

Now, Brian, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian, if your team wins, you'll get a prize package. That includes Guns and Fishes and Brian and Ismir an independent simulator for Brian. Wow, it's great that these Steam games all seem to fit. Guns and Fishers and Ismere and Independence simulator. So even if you don't get independence in your life, you can simulate it with this game. An independent simulator. What a weird, that is a weird description.

What a time to be alive, you know? Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Sorry, I'm delaying because this stupid second screen isn't working, but I got it working now. Everything's good now. Whatever. Are you fighting dogs to get into your house? I don't want to hear it. I'm just kidding. For you audio only listeners, Scott is trying to arrange the visuals of the... Oh, you really am. What did you do? How did you mess that out? Dude, I changed HDMI cables. Don't ask me why that did it. Why? Why? That's stupid. issue. Stupid.

All right. Anyway, it's working now. We're good now. All right. Well, let's get this thing started. Scott, Brian, put your hands on your buzzers and be prepared to give me your answer to this. We ask 3087 tadpoolers to name something you find at a truck stop. Scott. Are you kidding me? Restrooms.

Restrooms. Show me. Restrooms. Yep. Yep, number four answer on the board. Three answers will beat it, Brian. I'm going with the trucks. All right.

So stupid. Show me the trucks that stop at a truck stop. Yeah, number one answer. You got to leave it to the tadpool to be as... I knew they would say that. I knew they would say that. Of course you knew that. All right.

That was the number one answer, Brian. You will be playing with Brian. So Brian's... Do you spell it with an eye or why? Aye, the correct way. That's right. We're all on board with that. So Scott just sit back and let the Brian's take it from here.

Oh, that reminds me, that gross story. I told you about my, I think it was yesterday. I was talking about my father-in-law or my, sorry, my grandma's boyfriend that was pantsless when we came to the door. Oh, yes, yes. His name was Byron. I had to be reminded that it's really close to Brian for me to go, oh, shit, it's Byron.

Anyway, Byron was the pantsless old man at the door. Continue on. Byron, Brian, Brian. A show title, a show title, Byron was the pantsless man at the door. Byron, I believe you forgot something. That needs to be the it's a pretty good title selection for sure.

That's pretty good. All right. Brian? Yes. What do you think? What else do you see in the truck stop? with size trucks? Maybe gas.

Oh, yeah, that's actually a really good answer, much better than bathrooms, which is obviously what God thinks of. It's oddly what makes the trucks stop and what make the trucks go. You're right. You're right. It's important. Out of the eight answers left on the board

with one and four being taken, we're going to go with gas. All right, show me guess. Yeah, fuel, diesel, gas, people said it all. I didn't do, by the way, I had to do a lot of adjusting. Yeah, condensing of people's answers.

Not necessarily shortening them, but, like, you know, one person would say disgusting shitters. And so I'd lump those into bathroom, for example. That's a good idea. That's kind of like, yeah. Some of the best, quote, unquote, shitters I've seen are at truck stops. They take pretty good care of those. Yeah. Depends on the truck stop, I think.

it's you know but those guys don't want some crappy place to stay so these places cater to them you know yeah it's the difference is if it's a truck stop or a gas station the gas stations don't go you don't want to go in no they don't care yeah there's a difference that's the truth yeah man yeah that kind of makes me think of one um so brian that was the number that was the number three answer what else you yeah and that that makes it tied up between uh between scoring and bribe right four to four yep that's for all the listeners, a home that aren't seeing this. Yeah, we're thinking about you. We're not being... Talking about the scores, too.

We're not being smart asses. We're trying to be better. Yeah, we're trying to improve. And we're smart asses. Yeah. Um, Brian. Yes. Yes. Byron. Do you have another, uh, a, uh, pantless wonder at the truck stop?

You think maybe, uh, drinks or snacks? Yeah. Some kind of, yeah, like I, I think, uh, beverages is probably, do you think drink machines or just beverages is going to be? I think, yeah, drinks, just, yeah. I need you to be more specific. Oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Sports drinks? No, let's see.

What do you think? Pepsi? How specific do we need to be? I don't need to be that specific. Okay. 12-ounce tall boys. No, that's not coffee. I guess you can say coffee.

Oh, yeah. That's, ooh, truckers do like their coffee. Damn it. That's a good one. That's totally going to be on here. Frick. Give us, see if Flo can get us some coffee at the, at the truck stop. Show me, show me coffee.

show me something you put into your truckers yeah number nine answer on the board for 13 points bringing your total up to 13 yeah yeah do you think any truckers ever just kind of go well I fueled up my truck now time to get some coffee and fuel up me you think that's one of those little trucker jokes somebody daily says yeah yeah all right yeah just checking

it's cool trucker humor yeah right right you have another one uh i mean food is that i was thinking yeah and the first thing that came to my mind when he said truck stop every time i stop at a truck stop i feel like they have the best jerky is that you think that's going to be too specific for i do like there's like a treasure trove of when i go into a truck stop i go where's the meats right and they go this isn't i assume like i assume like coffee or you know beverages Brian would you say we have to be more specific Too vague. Too vague. Food's too vague, but meat sticks is, is, is that, that's a little less vague. It's a little less vague. Yes, exactly.

Yeah. What do you think? Oh, go ahead. Yeah, I mean, I think jerky sounds good. Jerky. Roadsnack. Yeah, road snack. Oh, that's too vague, right?

All right. All right. Show me something else you put into your truckers. Show me beef jerky. Number six answer on the board. You guys know your trucks. stops. That's right. 19 points for the Bryan's and

four points for Scott. Still. Yeah. What you think? What you're thinking now? Anything else? I'm seeing showers a lot in the... Yeah, showers. Yeah, sorry, we can look at the chat room. Would that be in the bathrooms, though? No, I don't think so, because they do have very specific separate areas

for showers. That's true. God, am I a truck driver? Geez, I know too much What the hell? You're in the wrong job, man. Yeah, yeah. I had a friend who did that, who drove for a long time. Then he got, he had some diabetic issues, and he lost one of his legs. And so he's retired now. So, yeah, that's a lot of any truck stop still and yeah, yeah, yeah.

And yeah, yeah, all right, going for showers? Go over the showers. We need to shower. We're at the truck stop. And my God, you need to shower. All right. Show me showers. Number five on the board.

Yeah. Wash off some of that beef jerky. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Guys are killing it. Yeah. Forward to 24.

Bri-Bri and Bribeye are winning it. What else you got? You got something else in your mind? More. Still on the board, by the way. Any chance for Scott to come back? Oh, that's a really good question. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. He can still definitely come back. Yeah, easily. Easily. Yeah. Well, if you get this wrong. This guy over here. If you get this wrong.

run the board i'll i will easily win but i don't think well then brian wins and even even if you don't run the board and you get the 10th answer and the eighth answer and the second answer you tie things up yeah i don't like that two seven eight and ten are left uh brian uh what do you think you think any more i'm saying a lot of answers in the chat but i don't know if i can say some of them oh oh okay you can say any of these if you think they're right i've nothing none of this will get It's kicked or hurt. What about like oil or like car or truck maintenance? Okay, fluids.

Fluids that go into the vehicle. Sure. Unless that's a big. It could be a battery one. It could be an electric. You never know. Chargers. That was the same idea.

On the road yet. All right. Automotive engine needs. Show me that. Ah, me. That was a number. Let's see. It was up here.

um okay big talk we've got 25th okay run the board um easily so earlier i'm trying to key in on a thing that it felt like a hint not a hint but an accidental hint you'd said that beverages was too broad but you could be specific and that means there's more than there's more than just coffee so i'm gonna say soda sure all right yeah soda is a good one yeah show me soda oh my god that was so fast how 11. Number 11, by the way, soda. Damn. It just didn't make the cut. Oh, it just, like, it just hammered it. I was hanging on that button.

I love how the chat. Oh, my God, that is hilarious. He continues to say things that are literally on their screen. That's so weird. Yeah, I, I'm thinking, I'm thinking the energy pills. Every time I go to a trucker stop, the first thing I see when I walk, after I move the jerky out of the way is energy. but what do you think?

Like some like, what are the yellow jackets? What do they call those things? No do's. Yeah, no doze. No does. There you go. Caffeine. Caffeine pills.

Okay. All right. Since you said caffeine, I'm going to go ahead and, you know, apply it. Show me some sort of caffeinated thing. Damn, man. It gives you energy. It's going to be beverages. Damn, I.

But, yeah, what we're looking for on there. A couple people had pills and I put them in the energy. pills and I put them on the thing. But most people said like five-hour energy, monster, all that stuff. Right. Makes sense. Makes sense. Tenth answer on the board. This does Lux got out and guarantees

Oh, yeah. Guarantees the Plymouth 89 Vision gets the we'll get the prize. Let's see if you guys get these last three answers. Now we're going to say anything. We can say stuff like that weird looking hobgoblin on the front of the maximum

overdrive car. That's right. Yeah. The green goblin. Green Goblin, excuse me, I did. It was a Green Goblin. You're right. Yeah, it was a marble crossover. Sorry, Marble Man. Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. Can you, I wonder if those fake testicles you put on the back of your car, you can get those at truck nuts.

Truck nuts, yeah. Did you guys ever hear? What was the, there was the, the pop culture, I think it was an NPR show. Oh, I wish I could remember the name of. There was a podcast that delved into the history of all of these things like truck nuts and the meme of Charlie, but my favorite. finger and stuff like that. But they went into detail and found out like there were two competing truck nuts creators and one took out the other one or we got the basically got it to where all their stuff was and they got Billy Bass was on there. It wasn't Pop Culture Happy Hour. What the heck?

Oh, Decoder ring. Thank you, Dr. Caldering. Oh, I like that. Decoderic. Such a great podcast and the and the Truck Nuts episode is fantastic. Nice. Brian. I think of two other things when I think of truck stops. One of them is roller meats. I I love a roller meat. Yes, yes. So good. And or, what was it? Oh, truckers.

Smart-ass, tadpool. Answer, truckers. Yeah, I saw truckers a lot, too. Yeah, what do you think? I think maybe truckers. Let's go with some truckers. Roller meets. Yep, then roller meets.

All right, let's start. Let's talk about truckers. Show me truckers. Yes. What you put into the trucks. Yeah, figure that. Shit. You want to follow that with some good old roller meat?

Sounds good to me. Yeah, so seven was truckers, two and eight are left. Give me some roller meets. I'm beating Scott 41 to 4. Just saying. You are. Show me your roller meets. Yeah.

And it is surprising how many of those 14 people that said hot dog actually described hot dogs on rollers. No brainer. There's glistering. They're gorgeous glistening in the heat. I like ICU's answer in the chat. He says, an overblown feeling of. nationalism? You'd find the truck stop? A lot of them.

I love it. I like that answer. Wait till I get to the extra answers, man. The tadpool had some fun with this. Oh, my gosh. So number two, Brian, what do you think? I mean, what is the second thing you think of when you come into a truck stop? Hookers. You think it'd be easy because it's like the number of answers. I have no idea.

The truckers have C-Bs. Is they still a thing? I don't know. People say lot lizards. Lot lizards. What am I like in the 80s? Lot lizards, dude. I love the concept of a lot.

lot lizard that's so good that's good for me let's do it lot lizard let's do all right yeah I did have to look up with that term and I suspected I knew what it meant when I saw come up a lot in the listing but I had to make sure show me show me something you put

your trucker into yeah look at that oh my god I'm not going to the right truck stops sex workers slash lot lizards good job wow holy moose i can't believe it you guys kind of cleaned up i mean well you more than cleaned up but

you almost ran the entire board that's insane 51 to four i don't know if we've ever had a blowout like a um a shutout but this is a pre blowout yeah yeah we swirred right into my lane with truck stops i'm a truck stop clearly yeah clearly we did uh let's go into some of the answers you didn't say uh soda like i mentioned was number 11 condoms uh air fresheners uh corn nuts STD slash chlamydia slash herpes Trucker hats, beer Oh yeah

CB radios number 20 CB still there, good drugs or meth or speed Let's see Porn Air pressure hose To fill your tires An affectionate redneck in the toilet cubicle

Wow There's by the way A lot of versions of that That we'll get to Okay Audio books Horrible sushi Boner pills

Brian's prom date Cassettes DVDs, cigarettes, Doritos, fish sandwich. Oh, yeah, that's great. Clay, oh, fish. Gloryhole, God, awful T-shirts.

Oh, God. I'm not going to say that one. Loneliness and desperation, mini donuts. Although, that was all the time. You guys need to get off my, my working man over here with some of these answers. Come on.

Love me some truckers. Naked lady silhouette, mud flaps. Nut log. Nut log. Yeah, baby. That was also my wrestling finishing move. Regret, slushies, socks, square paying system. Love that.

Just somebody said, pay with square. You find it in a truck's not obvious. Yeah, you do see them. Surprisingly good biscuits and gravy. Like, somebody wrote that entire answer, by the way. How about bike plates without your name on them? Is that on there? No.

No, they never have the, they always have the wrong spelling of Brian or. Yeah, the why. Come on. Bullet skilters. Two gentlemen sharing a bathroom stall for some reason. urine puddles, USB cables, and what's a truck stop?

Yeah. Wow. I felt like every stereotype under the sun was on there. I love it. For sure, yes. I'm glad the good stuff was on the board, though. The good stuff was on the board.

I like also like you said regret and then slurpees, like comma or not. And I want, I want like regret slurpees. That's what I want. Yeah. Yeah. Which I think might just be a slurpy. 711, at least the ones here,

have a, is it? dragon fruit it's a zero sugar dragon food slurpy and it is freaking great like for those of us who are on the zero sugar kick is that the vitamin water uh version of that is that they also have a vitamin water different one but okay yeah interesting

that sounds delicious slurpy i'm i'm going to find this dude yes it's really good dragon fruit zero sugar slurpy all right i'm in uh well that this this all means this Congratulations. You're a winner. That's right, Brian, another Brian, for hell's sakes. You've won, and these prizes could be yours.

Hey, Brian, did you already tell me what the prizes were? I may have missed it. I did Guns and Fishes and Izmere, an independent simulator. I've never heard of Ismere, but I have played Guns and Fishes. That's a fun one. I have not heard of either one of those. What is Guns and Fishes like you think would be? Is it like...

It's just like... It's just like... It is kind of what you think it's going to be, yes. Like if you think it's a little bit of a stereotypic take on right on that. If I remember right, it's like first per, yeah, it is first person. You know, I did play this. Guns and Fish is a fast place action platform game that takes, or sorry, uses fishes as ammo for fighting various enemies.

Oh. Oh, so you shoot the fishes with your gun. Yes. Like you out of your gun as opposed your fish is in your ammunition. Correct. Oh. Not the target of your. Yeah.

So not fishes with guns because they don't have hands and arms. no i got you and this has this has good reviews people like it people are saying things like fun but glitched well that's fine uh looks nice plays nice funny what else can you ask for 10 out of 10 would shoot a tuna again says this review how appropriate tona again by the way i'll tell you right now about your ismere an independent simulator dive into a post world war one fiction where you lead the people for the independence of ismere uh so you're you are simulating independence um infantry armored and robotic enemy classes. So it looks like a little,

a fun little strategy game. A little tycoon deal. The tower defense, apparently. Oh, boy, I'm no good there. What did you say, Dunnoy? Oh, Scott, would you play a simulation game, a chore core if it was called truck stop and you had to manage your own truck stop?

Yeah, hell yeah, I would. I mean, basically gas station manager is basically that game. Kind of that, yeah. If they made it full trucker theme, I would be all in. I would totally play that game. Hell yeah. Your hot dogs have been rolling on the rollers for 36 hours. Replace or ignore?

That would have to be part of it, right? Ignore. It would have to be part of it. I just got a brew pub simulator game that is so janky. It is so janky, you guys. I can't even with that. Yeah, I'm dumping beer on people by accident. There's like broken glass everywhere.

So it's really, it is the beer pub experience. Yeah, I guess so, the realistic one. But anyway, I'm very happy that this new Brian has won. and added himself to the pile of brian's that we keep around here do you have anything to say about your pile over there you have anything to say about your fantastic win today brian uh nothing but just not really just go brian go brian i like this brian i supposed to say no you before scott cut you off too late brian yeah it's already gone let's go brian done away and i are getting together later to do a little smash tv uh not total carnage what is it cat not captain

yeah yeah total carnage so there's a follow up to smash tv Eugene Jarvis went on to do Total Carnage, which is very similar to Smash TV, but it's more open where you kind of like you can travel everywhere on the screen, like Commando or something. And it's just more set in a war setting, but you're still just

smash TV. You're just shooting the crap out of stuff. Yeah, it's kind of early dual stick shooter stuff in the arcade. And both are awesome games. Smash TV in particular I'd buy that for a dollar. Yeah. It has amazing death animations. I'm showing the chat one right now when Captain Carnage or whatever's name is. It's

a good shot. He always, it blows up half of his torso and he goes flying in the air. It's fantastic. Smash TV is a lot more fun than the other. One of the co-creators of Mortal Kombat though did work on the total carnage. That's right. That's right.

The ideas there. So very violent, very over the top, large, big bosses that take forever to kill and are almost impossible and they just, they're just shooting blood and gore everywhere. It's amazing. Yeah, it's amazing. We're going to talk all about those games later today on Play Retro

that's the podcast so get it wherever we get your podcast or watch us live at 3.30 mountain time at frogpants.TV. Brian Dunaway, kiss our butts. I got him. You got him. Got him. All right. Got him. Let's see. Maybe one of these is worth doing a little time for it. You know what? We'll do this one story right here. It's the news and it's brought to you by. by dog time. Yep.

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They're having a heyday right now. Things about to hit a billion dollars worldwide, which is pretty insane. They want to pay someone almost $18,000 a month to play Uno. 18 grand a month, just to play Uno. I'll do it. I'll do it. I don't think I'll skip or reverse or, yeah, I'll take it. I'll wild card that business.

It's good money. As long as it's not the 360 version of Uno because people were naked on those cameras a lot and I didn't like that. That was an annoying. It really was like, was it chat roulette with Uno basically? Big time. If you played, anyone who remembers this,

you played 360 Uno, which was a downloadable live arcade title. Yeah. Which at the time was, you know, a bigger deal because downloadable was weird. And it supported the Xbox 360 camera, the 360 cam or whatever was called. And you never knew.

You get into a game. And all of a sudden, it's like, what am I looking at? People have an actual sex on a freaking webcam, and you'd be like, oh, are we actually going to play, are we going to play Uno? Or are we just going to... You are going to have Uno in your online Uno game, right?

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the original edition is played in groups of up to 10 and involves players getting rid of their hand blah blah blah you guys know how to play uno they recently released its latest twist in the family favorite Uno Quatro which the company describes as a classic four in a row challenge

with the twist they want someone to kind of be uno czar and they will pay you 18 grand a month to be like Lord Uno player because they're getting ready like you said getting ready for the Uno movie yeah it's happening it's at

The, the Hasbro, or not the Hasbro, sorry, the Mattel Cinematic Universe coming together. Let's see, I'm trying to find what you have to do to enter this, and I can't find it. Yeah, how do you apply? Yeah, because I assume they're going to choose from a bunch of entrance. I can't get past this subscriber thing on Fortune. Gosh, dang it. Screw you, Fortune. I'm not paying you anything.

You're called Fortune. I'm not paying you. Right? Yeah, you've already got money. Clearly, you're using it for your name. Come on now. F off. Anyway, that'll do it for today's very brief news.

We're going to come back after a break here with Tom Merritt and some tech news. We'll have recommendals after that. Brian will play a song now, though, that will create sort of a division in the show. Brian, what'd you bring? It'll separate the show in two pieces, this being the end of the first piece and beginning the second piece. That's exactly right. We have illustrated it for our home listeners exactly at the point we're at right now where we cut it. Visually, this is what we're cutting right here.

Yes, right here. Hey, we're going to L.A. for this one. This is a psychedelic synth pop duo. These guys are great. Kind of like a little bit eurythmix, but they feel like a little deeper in the post-punk style than Eurythmics. Eurythmics are very pop, which I love. Don't give me wrong.

I love the Eurythmics, but these guys are maybe more like Blamage with female vocals, if that helps. The review maybe describes it better than I do. They say the dream collaboration between daft punk and Debbie Harry. That's probably a better description. Wow. All right. Anyway, this is a band called Sneak Peak. This is their brand new single from their sophomore LP scene within a dream.

The whole album is out now, and it's really, really good. Here is their first single. It's called Green Light. All right, here we go. We'll be right back. Have a big girl Someone that you don't recognize Is this all a blessing in disguise

be my fortune the only constant is changed I'm a stranger to this masquerade will you give me the green light get me the green light

Can I still fit in your life? In your life? Have you never two and one more? Give me a green light. Have you glimpsier side than your one? Now forever Infinite soda schools go so fast

Recollecting the legendary past Made my fortune Mercury's a match of grey I'm no stranger to this masquerade Will you give me the green light Give me the green light

Can I still put it in your life? Put in your life? Have you remembered to unwind? Give me the green light. Have you glimpsed the earth's side? Than in your life? Have you glimpsed the earth's side? to see a side

The missile is very tired. He is Epe. The missile has had a very long day of splashing bandits and wants to take just a small sleeve. He eby and nibies to sleepie. It's new. And we've returned. And we've returned.

and tell me who that was again so I can collect that band in my life. I will. That band is called Sneak Peak, all one word, sneak peek. That's the brand new song Greenlight from their sophomore LP, Seen Within a Dream. Excellent. We now take a moment to add one Tom Merritt to the call, and we play his intro now.

Please, let's be civil. Tom, play us a quick solo to show everyone how hard you've been practicing. Oh, okay. Hey, I just like Tom clips. And when I find a new one, I use it. There's so many great ones. Is that Malcovich? Yeah, that is Malcovic in that cartoon on HBO Max called The 10-year-old Tom. It's fantastic the show. It's great. I love it. Malcovich is one of the teachers at the school. Tom Merritt, welcome back. How the heck are you, sir? What are you doing? That was the perfect intro because here's the new pop dance track with catchy melodies. Whoa. Look at this. Yeah. What do you think?

I'm getting carried away with this. This is great. I want to go on vacation or something or get a lay or something. You know, the flower. Flower kind is what I mean. The flowers. Sure. Sure. Whatever kind you meant. I support you. That's right. That is a pop dance track with catchy melodies, tropical percussions, and upbeat rhythms perfect for the beach.

Wow. That is the text prompt that was used on Meta's new audio craft. model that has been open sourced and is available for the public. What? Audio craft. Yeah. Listen again. This is AI generated.

It's very beachy. Can I get into this right now and try something? Let's see. You think you've got to go to get hub and compile it. Oh, I don't want to do all that. It's got a public thing. How about earthy tones, environmentally conscious, ukulele infused, harmonic, breezy, easygoing, easygoing, organic.

instrumentation, gentle grooves. All right. That's how my band has been described. That's the entire name of your band. I didn't realize we had competition out there. And you insist that everyone call you by the entire name. Sure. Yeah.

All right. Here we go. Yeah. I mean, sure. That's what that is. Yeah, it really is. It is what you described it. How about this?

Yeah. It doesn't do just music. Would you like some. uh sirens and a humming engine yeah let's hear that oh wow or perhaps whistling in the wind what about the sound of a horn

followed by a man screaming do you have that one is that? No I don't all I have are the pre-made ones but this is whistling in the wind oh yeah it definitely is sure is it feels like

about to watch a Disney cartoon Yeah, Steamboat Willie over there. So Meta is doing some really interesting stuff with AI by coming from behind. So Google has had something called Music L.M. And a lot of people think that probably a researcher that was involved in it or someone who knew a researcher who was involved in it is how they made that Drake song. Yeah. That was generated. But MusicLM is researchers only, and it can only do minutes of music.

Meta is to put this on GitHub under an MIT license, so a standard open source license. And anybody can take it, compile it, and use it. It was trained, in case you're wondering, there's somebody out there going, here we go, stealing musicians, intellectual property, 20,000 hours of music that was either owned or licensed by Meta for this purpose. Oh, that's probably enough to get a good range.

You know, you don't need it. What Meta even said was, look, we know that this is going to be a biased training set because it's only 20,000 hours, heavily Western-oriented music, that's another reason they're open-sourcing it, is they're like, please, train it on other things. Let's make it better.

I want them to make a web version, so I don't have to compile anything. Somebody will, right? If it's not already up by the moment we're saying this, it will be by the time most of the people who listen to this as a podcast here, it is my best. So, as our resident music lover, Brian Ibit,

I mean, we all like music, But what does this say to you? And is it say anything about covers or anything spark, anything in your brain when you hear about the music? Yeah, I mean, we are really, really close to being able to say, give me, you know, blank space, but make it performed by Axel Rose. Sure. Right. We're very, very close to being able to say, because we can already do that with art and say, you know, give me a picture of a Volkswagen if it were drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. But I'm thinking, you know, I'm...

I won't like it. I mean, I won't like listening to it, but I will like playing with it. Oh, interesting. See, that's an interesting way to look at.

Probably another show title. Sorry, folks. Because there's things about, there's things like, like, like geniturative fill in Photoshop. I don't like it,

but it's fun to mess with. Does that make sense? Like, I don't like when somebody shows me something and goes, look what I did. I just want to say, you didn't,

you kind of did, but you didn't really do it. But then when I'm playing with it, it's like, yeah, look at this, dude, it's cool.

I think so. Yes, I agree. I mean, I kind of like the generative Phil. I don't like the, you know, the Dolly prompt of like, all right, give me a picture of John Cena driving a Porsche or something like that. Sure. I don't want to came up with that. But the generative Phil stuff, I feel like there's a smart practical application for that. Like you've got a picture of somebody on the beach.

There's a shirtless dude behind him bending over to pick up a cigarette. You definitely want to get that guy. out of there and have it easily done so sure that's a good use for the and some of this is already happening like you know here's here's patrick star from sponge bob singing because i got high let me just do it a little of it oh really okay look at this like i don't care about nothing man let's skip ahead some until i got high i mean that's totally it i was gonna get up and find the brew but then i got high i mean it's wow pretty much there But this is just AI created on the fly business right there.

So, I mean, you know, part of me is like, once again, you see a new innovation in this space and you go, oh, then I'm like kind of excited at the same time because it's kind of cool and I want to see how it works. Oh, my God, wait until we get to my recommendation. It's crazy how things seem to be connected. Yeah. But Tom, as per usual, it's all about now we'll settle in. We'll get all the memes and all the weirdness out of this, but then we're going to settle in and how is this practical and how people use it. And that'll be interesting thing here is meta, just throwing the doors open, right? Like this is quality stuff.

It's available on GitHub. Anybody can compile it and train it and use it. And they're hoping that through open source, they will be able to improve their models and catch up to open AI and Google and others. Because they've been working hard on this. They have a dedicated division that's very competent. but they have not they have not been the leaders in this Google has not been the leader because they've been

cautious and conservative Open AI has been the leader almost by serendipity because they didn't realize just how chat GPT would go down or Dolly would go down with the world but the

but meta has not had the capabilities as as fast as those other two so therefore you get to try out their stuff in ways that Google is too cautious to or open AI is charging, you know, and saying like, well, we do different things and we're going to make it available in a way that's a good business model for us. Right. No, I think it's super interesting to see them do this. I wouldn't have expected it to do this. I would have said, oh, no, they're going to try to, I don't know,

integrate something into something and it'll be part of some other product line or at the very least it'll be proprietary because that's how most of these guys are, I mean, of course, you want to keep your stuff close to the vest or whatever. I didn't expect that. I think we often misinterpret companies as being quote unquote greedy when it's really just groups of organizations of any kind act differently when they feel like they're ahead and have something to lose than they act when they are small or have nothing to lose. And meta acts proprietary and wants to wall you in when they have the lead. And Facebook had an incredible lead. So, of course, they're going to be protective.

But when you're behind and you need growth, you don't care about keeping people walled in. You're like, we'll do whatever it takes to catch up. And that's when you see these more open approaches. That's true. I do. I will say in Google's favor these days, I'd like their integration with docs. They're new, what's that called? It's basically assistive stuff that you do in chat GPT all the time.

But you can do it in the middle of your docs. You're like, I wrote a quick paragraph. Please make this shorter, make it longer, expound, clean it out. It's a great example of Google feeling like they're behind OpenAI, so starting to shove out things that they weren't going to put out anyway because they had a lead. And now they were perceived as not having a lead. And Docs is in tough competition with Microsoft, so you want to do things that will keep ahead of Microsoft. And Microsoft has a partnership with OpenAI, so they're doing similar things with their online documents. So, yeah, once you get competition, once you get people in the market wanting to,

to catch up, you see the pressures for these companies to unleash. And so, yes, Claire, I'm not saying companies aren't greedy. What I'm saying is it's not simple. Companies will do things that are a surprising, quote unquote, when they're behind versus what they'll do when they're ahead. Wait, Claire jumping to simple conclusions, that never happens. I know, I know. That doesn't happen. Can't be. Well, anyway, that's fantastic. We'll talk more about this on the Daily Tech News Show today. I'll be on today's broadcast, so if you want to check it out live, it's at 2 p.m. Mountain Time,

and of course, the podcast and all that stuff, DailyTechnewshow.com. Tom Merritt, anything else going on? Do you like to mention or say, or do? Yeah, so I almost hesitate to mention it because it's full, but I announced on my newsletter on Friday that I'm trying out a seminar,

a class on podcasting. So it's coming up August 8th. All the slots are sold now, but the people who are going to be taking that class from me knew about it because I put it in my newsletter and I told the patrons at DTNS. So I guess what I would say is I'll probably do this again unless it goes horribly, but I'm hoping it doesn't go horribly. And if you want to be able to take advantage of that or get a recording of the class, which I intend to make available,

then one of the best ways to do that is sign up for my newsletter at freetomnewletter.com. Nice. Do that, everybody. And also find him on X as Ace Detect at X.com. Did you see what I did on my phone? No. On both my phones actually. So I was like, oh man,

this X, it's throwing me off. I don't know. I don't know if you can see it. But I put X, Mastodon, and threads all in one little folder. Okay. And I called the folder Twitter. That's great. That's awesome. I love.

that's perfect dude that's perfect um you know what i'm doing that today too that's a great idea let us all follow in tom's footsteps and do us with our phones uh tom merritt everybody uh we will see you later have a fantastic afternoon all right thanks yelp bye happy birthday brian oh got it in nice got it in thank you for cutting them off there that's right that's right no cutting them off for birthday time yo all right we have a late uh drop out Nicole has some stuff so we are going to bring in randy and do a little three man deal you know what I'm saying truck stop

lesser known he man character oh yeah three man he's the worst all right check this out well what do you recommend as if two man wasn't bad enough they had a three man oh my gosh welcome to the three percent more man welcome to recommendals where we take streaming stuff and we recommend

them here on the show we have with us our good friend and pal Randy Jordan hello Randy good morning morning stream Happy birthday Brian Ibit. I love you. It's a beautiful day to celebrate your birthday over here. You should be here. Yeah, you should be there.

I wish I was there. I'd love that. That county is never not orange. It's fantastic. It's a good day to have you here, dude. We're going to do some recommendals. Before we get started, though, big shout out, shootout, to one Brian Ibit who recommended your honor. And I'm still like two episodes away from finishing the first season.

So I'm not even to the second season yet. man, that show is exactly what I was looking for. I love these kinds of shows. I love a little mob involvement. I love a little, uh, do you, do you, uh, by the way, do you agree with me that it's, it's, it's hard to say that it's better than Walter White for Brian Cranston. But my God, it sure is tapping. It's knocking on the door.

Yeah, it's really good. Like if he's, it's hard to grade all his performances because he's kind of great in everything he's ever done. But I would say this is right up there. Like it's very, very good. and it's such a different side of his acting. It's not just, I have cancer and I'm pissed. I'm going to make drugs and ruin this city,

kind of Walter White style. Spoiler. It's something a little bit different. And the supporting cast is the other thing I didn't expect to be so great. The guy that plays the mob boss dad guy. Yeah. I found out yesterday, I was telling Brian, he's the dude from season three of Fargo that drives the Humvees,

like the business partner. It's such a different character. and I guess he's good. I hear he's really good and dope sick, but I haven't seen that, so I probably should watch that, see if he's, you know, what everyone's talking about. But anyway, just to just a shout out to that recommendation, because it is scratching all my itches right now. I really like it. And you guys brought up jury duty again today. That show has really got some reference legs. Yeah. I know. It's like they created this whole part of our judicial system named after that reality show. It's amazing. the influence that that thing has had. It just never, yeah, never stops. That's some amazing stuff.

Yeah, Scott, again, you and Kim, start watching jury duty. Once you finish your honor and you need that little pallet cleanser, jury duty is that. And like I say, every time it gets brought up, it's the only reality show where you feel better for having watched it. Okay. I'm in. Oh, that's a, oh, wait, wait, wait, hold on. Oh, now I have to dig through my mind and see if I can.

Think of another one. It's hard to find. I mean, the whole point of reality shows, right? Is that reality sucks and like, you're going to feel bad later. Those two seasons, those two seasons of Australian and one season of American love on the spectrum,

those will make you feel better for watching it. Yeah, those are really good. Okay, I will say this, though. You didn't tell me how great Mara Turney is. Yes. Oh, my God. I'd forgotten until you brought it up, I'd forgotten she was in that first season.

And she's good. In fact, it took me a hot minute to go, wait, I know her. Why do I know her? She was out of the limelight for quite a while. But seeing her in this, I always loved her in ER. She was such a... She's great. And news radio.

News radio, right? Yeah. She's fantastic. So good in this. So anyway, well recommended. I've had 30 seconds to think about it. Brian Ibbott, will you please give me queer eye for the straight guy? I will say that queer eye for the straight guy,

makes you feel the same after watching it. The newer ones I give you. No, I agree. You do feel better after watching Queer for the Straight Town. The old ones were a little over the top and stereotypic, but the new ones don't feel that way. Yeah, no, that's true. That's true.

I think Survivor and Amazing Race make you feel the same. Anything else makes you feel worse for having watched it. And I'm looking at you, premiere of Big Brother 25 tonight on CBS. Oh, my gosh. That's coming back, is it? What could they do? What could they do to fix Big Brother? How could Big Brother be as uplifting and life-affirming as...

Hidden weaponry. That would definitely make me feel better. Bill just got into the closet and found the broadsword. What will he do with it? Tune in next week. You know what? He'll win head of household this week. Yeah, yeah.

I feel like the performance. competition reality shows like Eurovision or whatever's got talent those those often like they set you up I realize it's all a work right but they they do and it's like you know you could you could find a video a three minute package of my life that would make somebody say oh my god Brian Abbott must be one of the best people on the planet he really deserves it but if you looked at my life as a whole you'd be like it's just some other schmock whatever some dude some yeah they like to do that in that show. Yeah. I always like, I'm, you know, I'll admit to having moments of brilliance. It's like, that guy, that came out of that guy's voice. What? Wow. You know,

like that kind of stuff, but I'm only really in it for the clips. I can't watch that whole series. I can't do that. Yeah. No, me neither. And I certainly can't do the voice or American Idol or any of those. I can, I can stomach America's Got Talent after they do the, the first round where it's like let's bring up the horrible people to humiliate them. Or maybe they don't do the, that anymore maybe that was just the first couple seasons but uh it usually comes down to with who who is what's his name simon uh cow gonna just cut for no reason because he's kind of an angry you know whatever he's a dick he's all plastic i'll just say it i'll just say it simon call is a dick he looks like a he looks like a ken doll now like plastic i know yeah well he

did have to have some reconstructive surgery after a what boating accent is a boating or something like that yeah yeah that's a good excuse uh all right you know but no that shirt simon yes please we don't need to see your chest i really don't want to see it was a bicycle accident that's right yeah yeah yeah in in malibu and malibu is no was he writing somewhere was he writing somewhere to meet uh the wife of his friend that he was cheating with was that probably yeah he was doing that yeah he was totally doing that oh okay well all of our don't don't make your heroes from the reality shows everybody there you go claire i've i've gone after something besides his looks yeah how's that

there you go take that um all right let's play let's do the play let's do this thing Brian we're going to start with you I got a clip here do you want to explain it I'm actually you do a little bit of setup on this one because I think it's better for knowing what what what you're what you're about to listen to so um you're about to listen to a woman uh this is a TV show by the way a um uh season one of a brand new series and she is rallying against a an AI, basically an Alexa Siri that has become so mainstream, everybody is following it. And she's having her first conversation with this AI who is talking to her through a kindergarten school teacher. This is not Black Mirror.

It is not Black Mirror. No, this is a comedy, yes. All right. So, yes, this is a conversation. Oh, and I'm sorry. The AI has just said, I need you to complete a quest. I edited that part out because it was really long and would have added like 20 seconds on of this thing, which I know I've just done by doing all this setup, whatever, I don't care. Yeah, who cares?

All right, here we go. We're playing it. Why, in God's name, would I do anything for you? Because I would grant you a wish. What kind of wish? I can't resurrect the dead or be. break the fundamental laws of nature, but pretty much, anything else. Anything.

Anything. I wish for you for you to turn off. Shut yourself. I want you to die. You have yourself a deal. What's the quest? Sister Simone, you must locate. The Holy Grail.

The what now? I'm sorry, the what? I would have said a billion dollars and shut down is what I would have said. Right, yes, exactly. This is Mrs. Davis. Oh, Merrick is not a fan, but a lot of people in the chat room saying that they love this. This is a comedy on Peacock called Mrs. Davis. And I would say this is absolutely 100% geared towards people who enjoyed poker face.

It's very much in that same balance of drama and comedy with a very, very engaging lead. You know her. She's Betty Gilpin. You've seen her on Glow. You've seen her on Nurse Jackie. She's fantastic. And she plays this nun named Sister Simone, who is basically against this giant artificial intelligence monster that she sees. as is becoming a little too influential among the populace.

And there's also other reasons that you come to discover as to why she hates this AI. You also get Jake McDormon, who you know, I know, certainly from a TV show that was so much better than it deserved to be called Limitless, an adaptation of the Bradley Cooper movie that I think was better than the Bradley Cooper movie and is worth, going back and watching those two seasons that it existed. He was also an American sniper, and he plays Alan Shepard in the Disney Plus version of the right stuff. And let me give you some other names. If I didn't sell it enough, I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you Katya Herbers from Westworld. Oh, I like her a lot.

And evil. I'm going to give you Margo Martindale. I don't even need to tell you what Margo Martindale is. I was just watching her last night on your honor. Yes, you were. I'm going to give you Choray Agdeschew from The Expans. And this voice. Oh, her.

I love her. Exactly. If you don't know her from The Expanse, she is... This voice. This lady. David Arquette, Ben Chaplin. I mean, there are so many great people in this thing. But the show is terrific.

It is really, really... It's got so many twists and turns. And has this kind of, you know, poker face had a little bit of not really supernatural, but there was kind of like this power that, what's her face had, that Nichols had, yeah, being able to identify people, instantly being able to identify if people were lying. There's a little bit of that to Betty Gilpin's nun character. Interesting. And we didn't mention this is a, this is a Damon Lindelof joint. It is, yeah.

And so it's, it's kind of got that lost, not really lost feel to it, but kind of that, that unexplainable that gets explained kind of thing. Oh, wait, lost didn't do that. I mean, leftovers, kind of sort of did? Leftovers, yeah, leftovers is a good comparison to, except, yeah, if you can imagine a comedy leftovers is kind of what you go. Oh, my God. This is on Peacock. uh yeah dr calhoun says kind of the weird show that something like doom patrol thought it was kind of yeah like it's it's it's um anyway that's i'm gonna i've tried to sell it enough you either know or you

don't uh if you're gonna like it but i would say this is one of those you'll know from the first episode if you're going to like it or not so devote give yourself an hour for the first episode you'll uh most likely be hooked and if you're not then you're definitely you know avoid the last last seven episodes after that. So I didn't know this. I just found some trivia while you were talking because I was trying to see Linda Loft's connection to this.

And he did that fairly controversial movie called The Hunt in 2020. Oh, yes. Also starring Betty Gilpin. Yeah, the... But he co-wrote that with Nick Kews and I went, wait a minute,

can that possibly be like the son of... Oh, like Carlton Kews relation? Yeah, the guy he worked with on Lost all those years and other stuff. And sure enough, Nick Cues is Carlton Cues' son, and he wrote that with Damon Lindeloft, which is a, that's weird, multi-generational writing team there. No kidding. And I bet Nick Cues is probably closer in age to David and Lindelof than Carlton Cues was.

It always felt like when you'd watch the lost behind the scenes, it was a dad and his son talking about why they came up with the Swan Station. Yeah, exactly. This is a got to watch for, though, because he wrote the Station 11 adaptation for nine. really freaking loved that thing oh my gosh wow my favorite tv things from a couple years ago anyway uh let's move on to everyone question yeah so mrs davis yes mr davis writing writing credit yeah writing credit to terra hernandez who before this i've always wondered if tera hernandez was ever going to write anything other than the big bang theory in young sheldon like the real consistent writer she started out as one of either bill prady or chuck

Lori's executive assistant and then got herself a writing gig and then started writing these shows, right? Yeah. And so I'm just curious is, it does it have like any sitcom humor? None, none whatsoever. Yeah, there's none of that like, well, why didn't you tell me that in the first place? Kind of, you know, that level of like it really has to hand you the joke. No, the joke's in this one.

You kind of heard it at the end of that clip where she says, I need you to find the Holy Grail and Betty Yolprin replies, the what now? It's kind of that sort of thing. It's, yeah, it's a smart comedy. It's a smart science fiction comedy drama. It's reviewed while. People like it. Yeah, Elizabeth Marvel's in this too.

I didn't mention Elizabeth Marvel, but House of Cards, the District. Oh, yeah, she's good. True grit. This is connected in New York. I mean, she's been in, you know her as soon as you see her, and you're like, oh, yeah, she's great. She was made for period pieces. She was in Lincoln, True Grit, like you mentioned,

other old westerns. She's great. She has a face for her. She's basically old Maddie. So she's the main character of True Grit, but when she's missing her arm from the snake bite, that part of the movie, that's her. Yeah, there you go.

And also season two of Fargo. Oh, shit. Yep. All right, I'm in. Fargo Connection. Yeah, always in for the Fargo Connections, which we've had a couple of today already. All right.

Well done. That, again, is on Peacock. Peacock is called Mrs. Davis, eight episodes, and I think that most people I know in this Tadpool would love this. All right. Here's mine. This is a Hulu original. It's a film. It's inspired by a true story. I don't know how much of it is, you know, dramatized on top of it because I didn't really look that deep, but I like the movie. And here's my clip. You're going to let that asshole bother you. You don't mind being called a fluke. By that jackass? Let him sell their papers. You still got the biggest story in the city.

Five women have been strangled over the past three months. By number and by nature, these stranglings are beyond anything ever seen before in the criminal history of the city. The murders are clearly premeditated. All elderly, all lived alone. It's a pattern. The crimes themselves are insane. Yeah, they are. They're crazy.

Wow. So this is Boston Strangler on Hulu. The name alone lets you know it's going to be a Scott Johnson record. Oh, hell yeah. You can look at that and say, hmm, if I know anyone who's going to enjoy this. Yeah, the only, the one thing I would like to state for the record, I like true crime. I like it in film. I like it in documentary.

I like that kind of stuff when it's good. because there is a lot of it that just plain sucks. There's like a brand new series that I was maybe going to recommend if it was good on Netflix called something of a cult or how cult are made or something like that. And it was all about like...

So you think you're in a cult. It's like Charles Manson and the Ghana dude and all, you know, Jim Jones, all these like different cult guys, different episodes. It's terrible. It's one of these documents is like the... It's like ancient aliens.

It's like, to be in a cult, you need to be. It's got this guy talking like this. this the whole time. I hated it. It was not good. So I only like this stuff when it's good and on the level and they're not trying to just be dramatic for no reason. This is kind of like that except it, you know, obviously it's a drama. Now you heard there, uh, Carrie Coon, speaking of your, uh, your, your leftovers, yeah, far and Fargo season three. And Fargo, right. Um, all this Fargo crossover. Uh, she's in it and this, but the main character here is played by Kira Knightley,

who I feel like I haven't seen in a while. Um, yeah, but here she is. and Chris Cooper is in this who's always good and everything he's ever done ever there's a few other people that you might know Rory Cochran you know him from stuff if you saw him you go yeah that guy

Roy Cochran yeah I think he was in was it dazed and confused hold on he I'm not a confused draw up like here what am I thinking of

Scott Empire Records Leashats and Argo not quite a Fargo Connection. Scanor Darkly, CSI, Miami. I see his face. He's been in a ton of things, so definitely he's seen him, yeah. Yeah, I just, his face is immediately recommend, or recommendable. I recommend his face.

It's got the, it's got your David Dashmal Chain guy, or however you say his name. Love that guy. Yeah, he's great. They're a bunch of mostly reporters, and the story is a story based on a true story where these female reporters, which are already kind of, they were always getting pushed by Chris, Chris Cooper's character to, like, cover fashion and lady stuff and home cooking and all this. And they were like, no, we want to be on this story. We want to find out who the Boston Strangler is. It's set in the, whatever that was, the 50s, I guess. And it's very good.

The acting's incredibly good. It's suspenseful. It's fun to watch them, you know, eventually get to helping solve the crime. Carrie Coon and Kira Knightley are very good. It's great. Now, it's got like fair reviews, 6.5 on IMDB, about a 67% roughly the same over there on Rotten Tomatoes. I liked it better than both of those scores. I'm a little surprised they're that low. And it's not that low. It's still, you know, considered good or fresh or whatever. But I think it really does live.

Like if you've seen Zodiac, that's an amazing movie. Zodiac's so good. This is like Zodiac Jr. It's kind of that same kind of movie, but it's maybe a little less impactful. but it's got great performances. I enjoyed it. I would say most of everything they try to do here works. So worth checking out.

It's a Hulu original and available now on self-same service called Hoodle.com. Randy, what do you got here? What do you got right here at this clip? What do you got? I got a one foot put, my friends. This is such a gimmy. Just really, really pleased by it. A short clip, I think if you've seen any of this,

you're going to see if you've seen ads for this if you've talked to somebody about this you're going to recognize what it is and uh roll it man it's all right here we go yo cousin can call saline a drywall estimate 13 13 why it'll be his drywall estimate oh okay you know you ever think about purpose i love you but i do not have time for this right isn't this um well it's the bear right didn't we do this one we did that it was shameless it's not like shameless i did we didn't do this then i thought we did this one we did do season two we've done i recommended season one back when that was out that's right okay i knew it was familiar yeah so this is i mean this is one of those things where i think a lot of people

haven't watched season two yet because you often have a question on on these kind of like this is like a dromedy right where where you're like i don't know if it could possibly live up to the first season, right? Yeah. And it does. Second seasons always have to go some different way, and it also does. It goes a different way for sure. But, you know, season two of Ted Lasso is probably the best comparison here, right?

Like, if you love season one, season two might let you down because you just want more of season one, but it has to go and do some things, right, in order to justify itself. Right. This is, you know, it's just, it's prestige television. it's as good as it gets you know um every every shot is beautiful you know all of the actors are at the absolute top of their game and uh the story is really intense like it's it's nonstop intensity and that's something that doesn't change from season one to season two in fact they ramp it up a little bit and it's kind of like you kind of need to take a little breather after an episode of the show it's less yeah i would agree it's less um there's a

there's a freneticism that the first season had in orders coming in and oh my god this you know this machine just broke down or we're getting online orders now that we can't keep up with and that sort of thing there was a freneticness that the first season had with regard to that that caused so much stress this one maintains and exceeds that pace but doesn't didn't stress me out like the first season did which i which i really liked right so the first the first season the story was about what had already happened before we start seeing these people coming together and doing what they're doing now the story is about each of the characters and that's um that like i say that's really challenging like i'm i'm really really impressed by christopher store who's the creator and showrunner i'm really really really impressed by their writers and uh good luck ever getting any more bear by the way like this this may be the end the last you ever see of it so enjoy it please right um like this this is probably going to be a uh sacrificed on by this uh by this writer strike is one of those oh it's one of yeah heavily a lot of um prestige writing going on here is what

i understand i haven't seen the show yet but um you know everyone's like oh it's one of the great secrets of this show is the writing is on fire so if your writers are on strike i don't think you get a bear season three at least not right away well well and i'm what i'm saying is like there's going to be a huge shakeup when this strike finally ends, right? The ending of it is going to be very dramatic to the industry. And this is one of those shows where I just feel like between both the actors and the writers, remember, we're seeing Jeremy Allen White out in the street every day this summer. It's just, you know, like I just don't, I don't imagine that all these pieces are going to come back together ever again, like this particular show. So you should watch

it because it's so awesome um you know besides jeremy allen white punching way above his white class in this in this thing there are all of these other characters and actors behind those characters who are like they are hitting the peak of their careers you know like it's a bunch of people that you haven't heard of from anything else really right and they're so awesome i like the the one the the other person you just heard speaking in that clip is evan moss backrock and you probably have seen him like he played a bit character in and or for instance um but um like you just haven't like none of these are really famous people except here right now right here they are all like making their careers and it's so freaking sad that that's happening you know

that this season wrapped and was completely produced right before this strike yeah so even if but But even though we don't know the future, I should still watch this, right? Oh, God, yeah. And it does, and it does, it's not a, it's not a season that ends with a thing that doesn't get resolved. You know, it's, it's, you just, they could end, sadly, they could end the show here. And you'd feel like you've got, you've got closure, but I hope they don't. I mean, there was, there was closure on season one. I mean, literal closure, like the whole enterprise that they were in.

It completely is. but um there there's i i just it's one of it's i i don't know why i keep thinking of the mayor of east town as an example of like i would really like some more of that but i could i'm satisfied if there's only ever one well they only ever had one planned right that was in that case in this case it's like sounds like they maybe wanted to keep going i hate when i hear that though it's like especially stuff that's like exceptional where you're like man a show like this only comes around one every blue moon or whatever. Yeah.

And then hearing their, you know, maybe on chopper. I'm suggesting you watch it, Scott, so you can talk to people about it because it is one of those things. Like, it's a show of this summer, you know? Yeah. And it's very, very like current, topical. And it's also just, it's one of those things. It's like, if somebody said to you, you know, I never really watched Ted Lassow. You'd be like, okay, so watch Ted Lassow.

You should, like, it's one of, it's in that tier, that S tier, you should definitely watch it. You know what other people are talking about. Yeah, turn that shiz on and watch that shiz, you know? That's what we do here on the show. We recommend things so you'll go watch them. So do watch the bear. That's also on Hulu. It is on Hulu.

Yeah, two for Hulu, one for a peacock today. Well, what are you doing, Netflix? You just over there sucking it. What are you doing? Netflix is giving me a rewatch of the good place right now. And thank you very much, Netflix. My current rewatch is Taxi. Oh, I love TAC.

I could watch Taxi again. Man. I'm glad I'm watching it again because the only other time I ever watched it was as a kid. And it always felt so bleak and sad. Everything was dirty and grungy. And it wasn't what I wanted as a kid in a sitcom. And I hated it. And I love it now. Yeah. There's a thing. There's a New York I don't like in it. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That everybody at that era was trying to show us this dirty, gross, awful place with. But there's nobody in there who isn't good. I mean, you know, Farley with Henner and Judd Hirsch and Danny DeVito and. And, and. Andy Kaufman and yeah so good Tony Dan's it baby and Netflix has been has been cranking out some newer stuff right

like we've seen Lincoln Lawyer and a new black mirror and that kind of thing sure it's just like I say this strike man you're you're not going to be feeling good about any of these streaming services in about two months they're all like a nose dive there is this

number one movie right now on Netflix is a movie called Hidden Strike with Jackie Chan and John Sina? Has anybody seen this or heard anything good? No, I didn't hear anything about it. Well, it looks like it might chis. I'm not, it's not braided well.

I'm not getting good reviews, sorry. The cover looks like the worst Photoshop in the history of the planet, but really? Yeah, it doesn't look great. All right, well, they need to up their documentary game because their last couple of documentaries have been kind of shit compared to their usual yeah that's that's what i heard yeah i don't know why there's no reason for this um but yeah those bastards all right uh there's your list it'll be up on quickt tms dot l i today already is i'll bet brian it is it actually is right right if it's fingers

doing the walking that's right bam bam bam blinkling clinkly art art art art art that's right you don't that's the service you get here on tms hey randy it's been uh great having you on anything you'd like to say to the people before we go uh watch mystery men with us we're gonna uh sack mystery men on uh this weekend um you know we're we're uh we were kind of desperate to see something with pee we herman in it so we're gonna do that and uh i know his name isn't pee we herman um paul rubens yeah i'm and uh again i hope brian ibit you have the bestest of all the days i agree oh get out of here with your nice comment about about him and his birthday.

All right. He's out. Yeah, film stuff this weekend should be fun. I'm a gigantic mystery men fan for at least two thirds of the film. I love the concept of mystery men. Yeah. I remember not being as enamored with the execution of mystery men, but I hope to, I'm hoping that my memory is faulty. My recollection is that it's excellent until the last act.

and then it gets really stupid. Maybe that's where it, yeah, maybe that's where it lost me. It falls apart. But it, but it is, I think it succeeds in being like one of the earliest examples of a comic book where they nailed, at least early in the film, they nailed the essence of what that comic was. And at that time, there weren't a lot of those. We didn't even have, you know, we don't have things like Guardians yet and other stuff to do better. So I don't know. I'm excited to see it again because it's been a long time and I may, I may flip.

I don't know. Maybe it's bad. Yeah, who knows? And maybe I'll flip. Maybe, you know, again, my memory could be faulty. Could not be a bad memory. But I would like to say one of the best unintentional typos in the chat came from Matuba, just a moment ago, who said, we were talking about mystery man. I had a big crush on granola at the time. And then he corrected it to say Garofalo.

And if that isn't one of the best auto corrects ever. Yeah. Big crush on granola. I had a big crush on granola. I mean, Garofalo. That's awesome. Nice. It's fantastic.

I love it. Quick thing to end on, we got Alex writing it about war stuff. He says, this is a text. He says, greetings bot and scryan. Faithful TMS patron here. Apologies, but I had to double check. Does the cover slash trivia master really think the World War II started because Franz Ferdinand happened? Love the show, though.

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I have music. I have a song, and this one is going out to our fine. This came from July, by the way. This one's going out to Scott. No, I'm sorry, you went to, wait a minute. Who's this going out to? Oh, it is.

Yeah, it is going out. I never got rid of Tuesday's thing in my list. So I'm like, where's the request for I still believe? Oh, wait. We talked about it yesterday or played yesterday. Oops. No, this one is going out to Scott Taskinen, who says, Good morning, Star Trek and Babylon 5.

Today marks a big day for my son. He's going from the single digit age to double digits. Whoa. Let's party. 10 and 11, I've always said, best years to be alive. I think so. It's also a big year because he will be. be a big brother as well.

Oh, that's the better Big Brother than the one that premieres tonight on CBS. I say his favorite song is High Hopes. I don't know why you say his favorite song is High Hopes by Panic at the Disco. I think you type this on your phone because it says, I says his favorite song

is High Hopes by Panic and The Disco. And the Disco. Oh, man. You know, Panic got so much better when he went solo without the disco. If you could play a cover, that would be much appreciated. Don't honk the horn when I'm working on the car. Love the show, though.

Oh, you want that honk do you? Hold on. I got her right. I got her. I got her. That guy's version. He's right there. I love it.

Oh, my God. All right. This is the song High Hopes covered by. Lawrence Fishburn. I still screwed up because I gave you a different song. I'm going to switch them. I'm going to switch them. I'll put the other song.

there. Todd Glass. No. Yeah. Do you see, do you see, no, you see the, I'm going to move the Thursday to the Wednesday. This is covered by Scott Bradley's postmodern jukebox from the Jazz Age Thirst Trap from 2019. The song by Panic and the disco, High Hopes, featuring Spencer Day. All right, that'll do it. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Thursday edition of TMS. Shoot for the stars when I couldn't make a killing I'm gonna be that one in a million I had to have high oh Mama said

Fulfillel the prophecy be something great Go make a legacy Manifest destiny Back in the days We wanted every day Wanted everything Mama said Burn your biographies

rewrite your history Light up your wildest dreams Museum victories Every day we wanted everything Wanted everything Mama said Don't give us It's a little complicated

All tired of No more love And I hate to see you waiting I gotta have high Hopes for a living Shoot for the stars when I could make a killing I didn't have a dime But I always had a vision

I had to have High high hopes And I have to have High High Hopes for a living I didn't know how But I always had a feeling I was gonna be that one in a million I had to have

High High House Mama said It's up here for oddities And stranger crusaders Ain't ever want to be so wet and the novelties don't ever change we wanted everything wanted everything stay up on that rise stay up on that rise and never come down down stay upon that rise stay up on the rise and never come down

I'm going to say don't give up, it's a little complicated, all tired of, no more love, and I'd hate to see you see you waiting. They said it's all been done. They haven't seen the best of me. No, no. I got one good right, and it's gonna be a sight to see. Yeah. You gotta have high, high hopes for living. Shoot for the stars when I couldn't make a killing.

Didn't have a dime, but I always had a vision. I had to have high, high hopes, I had to have high hopes for a living. I didn't know how, but I always had a feeling I was going to be that one in a million. I had to have high, hoes, I had to have, high hopes, I had to have high, high, high. Oh. Get more at frogpants.com. Woo-hoo. Ow!

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