The Morning Stream - TMS 2505: Carbonated Meat

Episode Date: August 9, 2023

Well, I was tired and I like pandas. Microwave tacos with Dunaway. My wife likes to do it in a pan. No tacos, no pizza rolls and no Lt. Yar! 11 is almost 10. What About ROB? I Don't Like Carbonated Meeeeeeeeat. Nightbot thought everyone was Clare. Robotic Ovaries Bushwacker. Get out and hump someone. Weird astronomical things. I can't stop thinking about foods with pee in them. Will Chewy Do-Ya. K-Pop Tom Is A Swiftie. Butt Drugs and Too many Random Road Jesuses with Nicole & 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.

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An archangel needs a monkey to get a vision from God. Hello, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, August 9th, 2023. Scott Johnson here. Brian, a bit there. Hello, Brian. Hello. Midweek, man. Hump day. All that. That's right. Get out there and hump something, everybody. That's right. That's your job. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get out there and hump someone. My dog humped a pillow this morning. Is that count? That counts. Sure. Okay. She knows how to celebrate. Yeah. Dogs know how to pay. attention in the calendar it's totally true so we're wearing a little bit of flux around here because

uh the dogs are my responsibility for the next two days because kim and uh carter are two days up in snowbird for a work thing that carter oh wow and she had a plus one but she's not dating or married to anyone so she says hey mom you want to go so all kim has to do is sit around uh the hot tub and chill she doesn't have to go to any of the things that carter has to so carter's doing work stuff Kim's hanging out of this resort. Many of you have been there for nerdtacular, so you know what's up up there. Anyway, so I'm down here.

It's me. It's the two dogs. And then Sarah and Steve are still here, but they're kind of coming and going, you know, because they're busy getting all the shit in Utah. They have to get done before they then hop in a truck, go to California, do some stuff there.

Then they have to come back through here. They stay one more night here. And then they come to Denver. Oh. To do some other work of some sort. And then they leave Denver. And I think it's back to Mississippi from there. but it's all just a little wacko around here and now and I got to feed myself over the next two days

I got to somehow make sure the dogs don't die you know yeah yeah so I think for whatever reason here uh I don't know why I feel this way but I feel like you're gonna be a lot better about feeding the dogs than you are about feeding yourself I think you're right it won't be that I won't feed myself it's that I will feed myself poorly you know yeah exactly Kim did say on her way out she goes now I I cooked up a whole other tray of those enchiladas you can eat those She goes There's the frozen chicken That will be lunch

I got a big old tub of kimchi I can put it on everything Nice I had kimchi and scrambled eggs today Brian Brian Oh I'm telling you right now If there's a better combination

I actually think kimchi's great on everything I like it on steak I like it on everything But yeah Oh my gosh Kimchi and scrambled eggs That sounds good I've never done it

I had scrambled eggs this morning as well And I just used some slap you mama seasoning on it and that was that was good enough for me I love some slap your mama yo mama yeah yeah yeah mama yeah yeah yeah it's good stuff you also try uh or maybe they just maybe that's the same company but is it Zatarins

um hold on I don't know if it is the same company but it's certainly the same region yeah it's all south Zerans might be the ones who make slap you mama but man anything they make makes everything better so good so good all right well we got a show we got stuff we got people we got

recommendals later tom merritt'll be here with tech time all the fun stuff we expect on a wednesday we even have a little babel royale coming up a little faddley feud rather right yeah we'll be coming up so much this is our pack show this is uh the show that we we couldn't pull anything out of rearranged you know to make life easier if we try it just only worked on this day right so it's your big middle act really of the it really is yeah exactly so we go all out and uh i want to start things off with something that just sort a little kind of blew my mind. And maybe it shouldn't have, but it still kind of did. I don't know if you knew this, Brian, but I'm going to tell, I'm going to give you a fact.

All right? Okay. Lay some facts down on me. In a deck of cards, we're just talking standard playing cards, 52 cards, all right? 52 deck card deck. No jokers. No jokers. Take those jokers out of there. Those bastards. The total number of shuffles turns out is astronomical. And I'll give you a little bit of data here. If a trillion people, all right, we have, how far are we from a trillion? We only have $8 billion in this other planet. Yeah, we might as well just say we're, you know, a thousand away from a trillion.

Yeah, we're a long ways away. It is less than that, but, you know. A thousand billion away, right? No, no, wait. Is it a thousand billion? Yeah, a thousand billion is a trillion. That's so much. That's such a big number.

It is. Yeah. Okay. So if that's how far we are away from that. that. If a trillion people, let's say we had that many people, shuffle the deck of cards a trillion times per second, if that was even possible. So one trillion people, but also each of those people could shuffle a trillion times per second their own deck. All right, that's impossible, but let's say that's what would have to happen. And they each did this for a trillion years, right, which is longer

than this planet has existed by all carbon accounts. And it occurred a trillion civilizations across our universe. So compound all of that another trillion times. In a trillion universes of the multiverse. All right. So take that into account. That's the crazy craziest numbers already. Oh my God.

Okay. It says on your next shuffle, only then, after all of that, is there a nearly even a chance that your deck will match any previously shuffled deck ever in the history of time? It's crazy. It is absolutely crazy. Yeah, I mean, basically, if you multiply,

the way to figure out the permutations of anything is to multiply the highest number of elements in the set by minus one. Okay. And then keep doing that down the line. So you'd say 52 times, 51 times, 50 times, 49 times, 48 times 47. And you end up.

with a number that's like one with 70 zeros behind it or something, 65 zeros or something behind it. It's like the thing where if you fold a piece, if you could fold a piece of paper 32 times or something, it would reach the moon or whatever the shit.

I don't remember something like that. Something like that. They tested it on meth busters, but yeah, like it's that kind of exponential. It's one of those weird astronomical things that is just so impossible. The number is impossible for us to kind wrap our head around and put into any sort of comparison.

Like, we can't think about what that is because we, there's no basis for comparison. We can't say it's like, oh, well, remember when you were looking at that, the sun, and you saw how all the million, a billion earths fit inside that sun, it's kind of like that times, times a billion. Yeah, yeah. There's no, our little minds, our little lizard brains can't wrap their heads around. It's really huge. I was thinking, like, even if, so what we know is this, if you and I plopped our butts down in Vegas at a table, we would know that there was a possibility that you and I could shuffle two decks and have them be identical. Sure.

But the probability is so off the charts in the improbable zone that there's no way you'd ever spend a dime on betting anywhere near this. You would never bet for this. It would never be, yeah, you'd never, this would never be a bet you should take in Vegas as, you know, how many cards match up. Because when I saw this in here, I was like, I was Googling another statistic about it and basically said, you go and you shuffle a deck of cards. And it's a fully, like, you're shuffling basically to the point where there is complete and total decalation, right? It's not like taking, wrapping the plastic off a brand new deck of cards, breaking in a half, and shuffling that because you will. is going to be you will increase the

possibilities of doing that you'll increase the possibility but if you do a full you know complete shuffle whatever it is eight times to really guarantee complete randomness and decalation the the

it's a one in a million chance that your shuffle will match any other permutation of those 52 cards ever in the history of the world it's just insane it's just insane to me it's insane it's really crazy it blew my mind it made me feel like i was on drugs or something when i read it i was just like whoa man yeah you got you got a

you got a far away listen to craps is your best does just go to craps don't play don't play the does my deck match another deck game in Vegas that one sucks no go to uh that'd be like uh christmas or sorry Vegas vacation uh that weird casino why don't i just take you out back and kick your ass I love that so much. Yeah. But yeah, I just thought people might enjoy it, so. Dealer wins.

Dealer wins. Oh, man, Wallace Sean. Inconceivable. He's never going to, don't let him ever die. Oh, we mention his name. Oh, my God. We mentioned his name. Oh, there you go.

We just did it. We did paging, Mr. Herman, a week before Peewee died. We did. We mentioned, I mentioned the Exorcist on that film sack horror episode, and that director just passed away. That director died, I know. So no more, we can't say any famous people we like. Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz.

Ted Cruz, Ted Cruz. And you know what? For some of you, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton. All right, we've stacked the decks, speaking of decks. Oh, my God. How has our chat, like, it has completely gotten, like, it's become a police state in there. Like, everybody's saying something and then getting kicked for five seconds.

Oh, you know what? I logged into, I bet this was for me. Last night I used Nightbot for my giveaways. Oh, yeah. And I'll bet you. I bet I know what's happening. I think Nightbot has stricter policies. And because I gave it mod status, it's just modding now.

Oh, it's like it's become self-aware. Crap, you guys. I'll fix that. I promise. I just saw Rainbow Bright get banned for five seconds. And if there's anybody in our chat, that shouldn't get banned for five seconds, it's, uh, it's brain boat, right. Oh my gosh.

Yeah, I agree, dude. That's insane. All right. Well, while, I'll, I'll click around and fix this while we're, uh, doing things. I don't know why it happened. Oh, permissions is it? No, it's community. Yeah, I'm taking, sorry, nightbot, you're out.

Okay, I've removed night bot from mod status. This should solve it. Okay. Okay, cool. Good catch. I don't know what. I didn't even think about that. It went in there with a bunch of rules, preset rules that I didn't go change.

And so... And apparently it stacks the band, so I guess we'll hear from Claire in 2025. If we're lucky. If we're lucky. Oh, my gosh, Claire, it was nice knowing you. Oh, she's back. Yeah.

Oh, she's back. Okay. Brian, I'm here to pile on to once again, Brian's recommendation, one more time, for Your Honor. Yeah. The Showtime two-season spectacle. Now, I, look, I thought season. one was incredible.

And it was. I thought season two was also starting very strong. And then somehow that season two just gets better. I'm still two episodes away from the end. Wow. But holy shit. That show goes directions. I guess what I'm saying here is please, more shows where I can't figure you out before

you happen. You know what I mean? Like I didn't know where this was going. but it also wasn't cheating. It wasn't like, like, mcguffins and stuff like that. It was like, no, you really don't know the full story here. And when we give you a little bit more,

you're going to go, damn, that means this and this and this guy, and it implicates this lady. And holy frickin crap, it's so good, you guys. You have to watch your honor. It's good. Go watch it. It's on Showtime, and while you're there, there's other great things you can watch.

And I still say, while you got Showtime, if it's still on there, I think somebody said they couldn't find it, but maybe it's still on there. It's called Super Pumped. It's a docu-drama about the, a docu-drama about the formation of Uber. And it's fascinating. And my God, you're not going to see Joseph Gordon-Levett another role like this where he's so despicable a little bit. It's weird because that's a Showtime original, but it's not on Showtime.

Yeah, it's so... It's on Fubo, Spectrum, Voodoo, you can find... I'm sure, I'm sure someplex, there'll be a complex way of... Probably a complex, but yeah, some plexiglass type deal. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, it's... That show's really good. So, once again, Brian, your recommendal resonated over time.

And I've been, you know, I haven't been slamming that show. I've been kind of savoring it, to be honest. Like, last night, I was like, I could barrel through these final two. I kind of don't want to yet. kind of want to have this for, I want one more for today, and then I want another one for tomorrow. I want to have the finale on Friday, or Thursday.

Nice. Well, Scott, I wish I could say that we did the same thing with one of your recommendals, but once we started this thing, we just could not stop. Maybe kind of a non-stop binge, if you will. Your

recommendation of hijack. Oh, Hyjack's great. It is so freaking awesome. And that the finale, like the, again, it does something that I haven't seen, and we've seen so many movies like this on, um, on film sack, everything from Air Force One to turbulence to red eye, blah, blah, blah. And, you know, you feel like they always kind of have this, this formula where it's one person, passenger 57, against an entire, you know, a plane with a bunch of hijackers or whatever. and hijack does something that we haven't seen in any of them it does a few things obviously the whole real-time aspect of it the Jack Bauer 24 kind of aspect of it

what's all in real-time is one thing but just the direction the the way that you know the way that the story unfolds again without given anything away just the way it has a way of taking so all of those tropes you mentioned earlier from those other movies and things it has a way of of i think this part's genius they use those tropes for you coming in yes you think so that you expect yeah yeah you expect certain things and then they subvert it and you're like oh wow okay we're going and it's and it's very different directions than you would expect from those tropes but then sometimes sometimes those tropes play out the way they should or do usually but but but they affect other things in a way that you don't think about normally. Like, it's a really taught, tight experience.

I really like that show a lot. I don't know if Apple's making any shit. They don't seem... Look, I'm not... This isn't... I'm not on my pro-Apple stance here. I'm just saying they're being picky. They don't seem to have any zeros.

Like, what's bad on that service right now? They don't make any crappy shows. It's all good. And I'm still telling you, if you have not watched After Party, you've got to add that to your list to watch. um second season we haven't watched yet but it's one of these shows that i keep thinking about how clever and um uh and good it was and what a great cast the first uh um the first uh season was yeah i need to watch that yeah it's in my queue as they say the cue

the queue it's in your queue yeah no commercials or do degrees after party is so with five o's good they don't have an ad tier rainbow bright there it's just six bucks a month and you just watch it, which is nice. It's called The After Party, because there are other things called just playing After Party and... Oh, it's The After Party? Okay.

The After Party. Look for the one with Tiffany Haddish and, again, another guy who can do no wrong for me, Sam Richardson. Oh, yeah, he's great. Yeah. By the way, if you want to know what the greatest trick the devil ever pulled,

it was naming... Convincing the world that he never exists. It was naming every... There's about 400 things named Crash. Like, the biggest joke you can play on somebody is go, hey, go look up Crash and then run away. And they'll have no idea what they're actually going to go find.

Because there's too many. Some people just want to watch the world crash. Nicely put. All right. It's time for us to play a game and involve you at home. If you want to be a part of this, you need to ping me on Discord so I can add you to the call. I will take our third or fourth person.

So don't delay. Get right in. Or you know what if I said it's the first. person then you'll haul ass i guess i don't know right it's true yeah but you don't want i mean that you know you don't want to just give it to the person who has the best connection the best true internet connection hears us the the most quickly yeah i want you to i want you to to work for this a little bit you know right i want it to be a little hard so we're going to give it a try uh see what happens first we're going to pull done way in and uh we're going to play a little music to welcome him here

feud and joining us today like he does every Wednesday and Monday for some other fun is Brian done away hi Brian oh hi Scott and Brian hey what's going on how are you doing what are you doing Alice say uh I'm just hanging out with you guys but two two of my favorite people in the whole universe oh I can say the same thing about you yeah uh well good man look now give me five dollars exactly I need five dollars he needs money bucks he needs money uh we're adding to the call a uh uh a real character in the community called one sleepy panda we're gonna find out what that means finally uh in a second but hi one sleepy panda how are you i'm doing great how are you good where's your name come from what's the what's the

origin of your name your dink name uh i uh was making an xbox gamer tag once and thought i'm tired and i like pandas so sometimes stories sometimes there's a great story behind the origination of a nickname I like that one the best I do like that one too that was really good

well I will now hold to give the reins over to Brian who'll explain how this works what you could win and what we're doing today Brian sure it's time to play the tadpooly feud I've surveyed the tadpole on some nerdy topics Scott and Brian you have to predict the answers that they gave us and it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess

One sleepy panda, your job is more important than ever Because you're going to wake up And you're going to work with either Scott or Brian And if your team wins, you get a prize package That includes Stickier, S-T-I-K-I-R I check this thing out It is like a really weird

It's like a weird eight-bit game That kind of reminds me a lot In theory of the old Wario-Ware games Although it's one long story, it's a platformer But it looks really weird and cool The other one is... Look at that. Weird.

Yeah, RIM or Rime, 9,000. And this is like a... Listen, this is your... RIM or rhyme. RIM. You pronounce it the way. You want to pronounce it, Dunaway. Yeah.

9,000. Proper way. Yeah. And this is like a first person anime-style shooter. And I think this one looks pretty cool, too. You're going to have some fun with these games. This is what I'm trying to tell you.

These are reviewed well, too. Yeah, you're going to like these. All right. Awesome. Well, what's our deal? What's our con? Well, I'll tell you. Put your hands upon your buzzers and answer the following question.

We asked 389 tadpoolers. Name a food. Most pee. Most pee. Most pee. Most pee. What food has the most pee? All right, Dunaway. Brian, go ahead.

The answer is tacos. Number one answer. All right. Show me tacos. Oh, come on. I rolled the dice I rolled the dice You know what

It was a good Scott's been beat me A lot I know no I think it was a good And you never know How short my questions Are gonna be Like it could have been

Name a Mexican food It'd be like Oh my time Great Name a food All right Scott You get the whole question To yourself

Name a food That most people Will use a microwave To make You for the next several days Should have gone All the time tacos Should have gone

Burrito So I'll say burrito Burritos Show me burritos number five four answers but doesn't matter Scott you have control of the board you've also got control of one sleepy pen all right Xbox Gamer Tag one sleepy panda

let's do this together do you have anything that popped into your head when you heard microwave food item I can't stop thinking about foods with pee in them don't microwave that I never want to microwave that ever Well, you're in trouble now. I am.

I make an oatmeal for my daughter in the morning. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, good one. I love that. Yeah, nobody, I mean, my wife likes to do it in a pan, but I'll microwave it any day. So, yeah, we'll, let's say oatmeal. All right. Oatmeal and a pan? Yeah.

Go with it. You've never been in the kitchen, have you, Scott? No, like a pot, not a pan, a pot. You know what I mean? Oh, okay, okay. Pan some good old pan-fried oatmeal. Deep fry. Show me oatmeal slash porridge.

Come on, that was a good answer. The slowest damn quick. Number 14 on the list. Dang. Okay. That was a good answer. I think it was good, too. I think this tells me something about the tadpole.

They're making mostly crap in this microwave is my thinking. But anyway. I'll tell you. This is the food that has, once this came along, this version of this food, All other versions seem like too much hassle. I'm going to microwave myself some popcorn, baby. The first thing ever made in our microwave. Gosh, dang it.

All right. I hear you get those free when you get your movie at Blockbuster Video. You get a free packet of Orville Redenbockers. Show me. Popcorn. Popcorn? Yeah, number one answer. Get your popcorn.

Not very good for points, but at least we got that number one answer out of the way. And that was like, I mean. Wow, like almost 90% of the people. 206. Yeah, I mean, more than, like we could say, more than half of the people said popcorn. Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. That makes sense.

Duh. Duh. Duh. I like to put my hot pockets in the microwave because that's how you make a hot pocket. Hot pockets. All right. In that little aluminum sleeve thing, they tell you not to put in there. They do it anyway.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they tell you to do it. It's the crisping sleeve. Yes. Oh, yeah. The crisping sleeve. Here's a hot tip, everybody, and it's not really that hot a tip because a lot of people know this. You put those bad boys in your air fryer.

Okay? You want a good crisp outside of your hot buckets. Conviction of an air fryer. You know what? I'll bet there's a lot on this list that will be better in the air fryer, if I guess. If I'm buying hot pockets, I obviously don't make good choices. So what are you talking about? All right, fair enough.

You know what? You've convinced me it's a very good point. All right. Show me hot pockets. Number two answer on the bar. Yeah, I am a microwave fiend, babe. Now I'm out of answers. I'm going to say, I like, once again, I'm going to show my laziness here.

I like to stick my Pop-Tart in the microwave for about 15 seconds. I know there's toaster ovens. What? I know there's toaster ovens. Yeah. Don't judge me. You prefer your Pop-Tart chewy, do you? Like, uh...

No, I just want to slightly. at least one is slightly warmed. Okay. That's fine. And I leave them in the, and I leave them in the full paper, that's the best part. Yeah.

They're barely in the foil sleeve, because those are in a foil sleeve. Yeah, don't do that. They do better with the chemicals. Yeah, yeah. It's both a fireworks display and a meal. They're barely, show me, Pop-Tarts.

Oh, come on. Zero people. No, I'm like to get back. One person said Pop-Tart. Really, I haven't here. Tied for 22nd plays. Lord. That's insane to me. All right.

Well, it's back to you, Scott. Back in our corner here. I'm going to say, these are also better in the air fryer, but pizza rolls. Oh, you know, the little pizza rolls or pizza maybe, maybe we just lump them all together. I think you just defended Ibit. Look, I'm saying I agree, they are better in an air fryer, but I will microwave them in a pinch if I have to. Yeah. All right, pizza rolls.

Show me your pizza rolls. Come on. Really? I will say it was number 11. It was the first one out of this list. Did you let your partner Sleepy Panda fall asleep over there? He should have stopped you from saying that track. Why, 11?

11 was almost 10. I almost got the top one. Sleepy Panda said oatmeal. So, you know, come on. All right, done away. Pick up these pieces, make it work. Yeah. Like something.

Does anybody even bother putting soup on the stove anymore? I just put it in the microwave. I'm lazy. Yeah. Right next to a Pop-Tart. You do them together at the same time. A little Pop-Tart soup combo. Yeah, no, that's gross.

That part's gross. No, that's gross. Now I'm worried. Ibitt's gotten so quiet. I'm going to backtrack out and say chicken nuggets. Chicken. All right. All right.

So you go to the chicken nuggets? Little dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets in the microwave, please. All right. Sure. Shaped like Dinosaur. A famed 70s talk show host, Dinosaur. Show me chicken nuggets. Oh, man.

Come on. That was number 13. Wow. Pretty close to the top 10. Yeah. Yeah. All right. do you one sleepy panda I have one I have an idea here but I don't know if it's good and you can shoot me down on this but I kind of like the idea of leftovers because someone will just say oh you microwave your leftovers that's smart that is a good idea I think I'll sign off on that all right so we are not going to get specific here but we're just going to say leftovers okay all right fair enough let's see people warm up their leftovers in the microwave number seven answer on the board leftovers and pizza it was hard

for me not to like because you don't like make a pizza and put in the microwave to cook. You only cook leftover pizza and a lot of people actually said leftover pizza and I'm just going to left over I actually put my leftover pizza in the oven. Well yeah, that's like and the air fryer is great for

that too. Yeah, you have a good crisp crust. I take the pizza cold. I'm fine. Leftover pizza the next morning? Okay with me. I don't mind a cold either. You know what? Any day of the week. It will be rough if it's bad cheese. If it's bad cheese, that only is good when it's melted, then you're in trouble with it's cold.

But otherwise, if we got good pizza in there, I'm with you. Just do a nice cold piece. But I don't, but I don't get pizzas with bad cheese, Scott. No, no, no, no. Not you. Come on, no. If I'm a meat of pizza, it's going to be a damn good pizza. Your middle name is good cheese, so why would you do?

It's good cheese, Brian, good cheese. Yeah. Good cheetahs. Good chees. All right. Well, you get control. And finally, you're in the lead, which is probably making a sleepy panda very happy, a happy panda. Yeah.

Oh, you see. been in the lead because he's only been getting like the ones and the two. Yeah. A little back and forth. All right. Sleepy sleepiest of pandas. Anything ringing a bell there for you? I don't know whether to answer like a TMS meme of Scott's

Weird Eggs or Oh, that's hilarious. Oh shit. See, this is dangerous because you're right. That is a thing I talk about all the time and the key ingredient in weird eggs is the microwaving of the weird eggs. Or a dogorito. Or a dog or a rito. Oh, gosh, dang it.

Or does that classify as a burrito? I don't know. No. It's more like a hot dog and a, well, it's a tortilla. I don't know. My other thought was hot dog slash corn dog. I feel like those. Those are, yeah, those are pretty good.

I'm worried about, damn it. You know what? To be safe. Damn it. Brian, we'll say hot dog, corn dog. Or can we even do that? Do we have to say separate? You can say hot dog slash corn dog.

Sure. Show me hot dog slash corn dog. Number four, I don't think anybody, did anybody actually say corn dogs? Oh, yeah, one person said corn dog. I would have lumped that in if I saw that because I would have made hot dog slash corn dog, but that really just would have been 15 people as opposed to 14. I like when you leave it in there too long and you just, it just wrecks the dog, you know? Yeah.

It's like a science experiment. Yeah, and it splits in the middle and gets all whirly. A firecracker inside of it. Yeah. You hear it pop. You better have a cover or your micro is. Right. Your microwave is going to smell like hot dogs forever. Gross pork. Okay. I feel good about that. Let's see. That tells me, though,

Doggerito is probably not on here because Brian might have included it in there if I was to guess. So, weird eggs probably is here. I just think they would have squeezed that in. So let's try weird eggs. Okay. Or our final strike. All right. In general Show me the final strike of Scott's weird eggs Damn it!

Weird eggs did not I think one person actually did say eggs So yeah I do eggs in the microwave all the time But I realize I am an outlier That is very rare Scrambled egg one person said Yeah

So Brian you've got some So you've got some ground to make up You know you're taking prizes out of one sleepy panda's hands but don't let that affect your choices or decisions. Run the board, really, and then he'll win anyway. Or lose. Or lose here. I'm going to do one short of the whole board.

Just had a spite. That'll teach you. And a spiked. Learn you. I'll say eggs twice. I'm going to go with, surely, every time we ask about food, someone in the tadpool, at least 10, says, what about bacon? Oh, yeah. What about bacon?

We do bacon all the time in there, yeah. I wonder who says that. Bacon's. Bacons. All right. Bacon's. All right. Going with bacon.

Bacon. I'm going with bacon. Right. Show me the bacon. Oh. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Bacon.

Yeah, not on the list. You got to fry that stuff. So you do bacon. You do bacon, paper towel. Then another layer of bacon, paper towel. You're good. They even make specifically. It just doesn't make it.

They do. The specific stuff is okay, but you're not going to get crispy in the... I guess you'll get crispy if you use one of those... What is a special... Why don't you complain about microwave food? Microwave food is just a stick in your face. It is not meant to taste good. A stick in your face.

Oh, two stick in your face. It's all the microwave is good for it. So he says it's better not in the microwave with the use of use of words there. All right, let's see what you guys completely glossed over, shall we? show me number three TV dinners Cup noodles Sprague

You're starting to say soup And I was like The reason I was quite It was because I was trying to decide Because canned soup is another option But it wasn't in the top ten Right Right

So I didn't want to give cup noodles Because that's ramen That's not really It's not really soup Raman is a soup But it's separate Yeah It's more of a broth with noodles

You know You kind of just said it Brian Number six Frozen dinners You're hungry man You're stuck Gofer is your... Number eight, this is kind of similar to popcorn.

Once this way of preparing it got discovered, it's like a lot of people prefer it to do it this way. That's your baked potato. Oh, right. Oh, right. Of course, I do that all the time. Yeah. Yeah.

I don't like it, though. I'm not a fan. I way prefer it baked in an oven, but I'll take it if I have to. It's all right. Oh, sure. You've got six hours. Why not? Yeah.

Right, exactly. It was time for that. By the time that, baked potato's done. I don't want to bake potato anymore. No. Show me number nine. Macaroni and cheese. Mac and cheese. Oh, I knew I should

went that way. I knew it would be mac and cheese and chicken and nuggies, but I'm surprised they didn't put nuggies on there. Yeah. Nuggies was just slightly lower on the list. And this is the greatest. I love getting to show you this. Number 10. The doggerido.

There's no way. There's no way that garrito would make the list. Right. I figured you were going to lump it in with hot dogs. I just... Oh, gosh, though. It's a whole different animal, literally. A whole class of cuisine on its own, apparently.

That's right. And big points we missed. But we still won. You still won. You still won. You still got it. Just some last other things that people had on here. Pizza rolls.

Oh, you guys said pizza rolls. There's number 11 canned soup, chicken nuggets, oatmeal. Chef Boy, R.D. had its own category. Frozen pizza. separate thing that's different than your leftover cooked pizza right um rice chili uh somebody said dr strange leaven i think they were answering a different question frozen vegetables hot chocolate or hot water for tea uh something called kid cuisine i don't know what that is oh yeah kid cuisines are great yeah is it just a frozen dinner meal like a hungry man kind of yeah for kids

got a little smaller nachos and that one person you're making a huge mistake with your life really really sit down and just look at what brought you here. And that's it, scrambled eggs last item. Yeah, don't. I feel like I bit asked this question just to shame everybody. Some food shaming. He's right about nachos. Don't be microwaving your nachos. What are you doing? Yeah, yeah. That'll melt your cheese. If you got to do it, just put your cheese in a little ramekin or something, add a little bit of milk or cream or something and cooked it that way but uh i used to make so chips in the microwave let's let's throw this one out there we'll see if the chat has anyone in response to this but i used to put a single slice of bologna

this is when i was a kid single slice of bologna in the microwave and then a little uh puddle of soy sauce in the center of it and then you microwave it and it curls up like a taco like a little yes it does baloney likes to curl and then i would eat that like it was amazing and i don't know what i was thinking then like even this to this day i'm like why was i why did i eat that yeah you know i thought it was great though i did look you know what i think there's something to it there might be you know kids create salt they're out running around all the time we need you know right how you're supposed to know what tastes good if you don't taste what's bad first right you're just setting expectations you're refining your palate is what you're doing that's right done away all you know he's known for

scooping a little turd out of his out of his uh cat's litter box first to taste it first He's not going to judge it until he's had a taste. Okay? That's the deal. And then I'm like, I'm like, but then you go, oh, it's gross. And I go, but have you ever eat cat shit? And then I win that argument. You're not wrong.

So a little vinyl in the chat says, haven't you ever put Doritos in the oven for a bit? Awesome. Are you talking in the microwave or in the actual oven? For any oven in the oven, hell yeah. Give me a warm Dorito. Hell yeah. But don't make it chewy by putting in the microwave. No, Doritos are great because.

How long are you putting stuff in the microwave for? There's a whole setting that's like 10 seconds or less. I don't know. I don't have a button that says shitty food on the front of that microwave. How to make food worse. You have to ruin your day. Maybe you should spring for a nicer microwave. No, oh, is that it?

Apparently the Samsung doesn't have that button. Scott Fletcher would like to have his way. Congratulations. You're a winner. You have one. And one Sleepy Panda couldn't be happier about it. Brian's going to send you your codes. via Discord here shortly.

Already done. Tell me how you feel about your big win? Fantastic. And remember, it doesn't take that much effort to preheat an oven. That's right. That's right. Let's live like our ancestors did. Damn it.

What are we doing here? By now. That's the reason why we got global warming because everybody's preheating their oven. Thanks a lot. That's what's causing it. That's what's causing it. Okay. I will say, so I have this niece in Phoenix.

She's older. She's not really my stepniece, I guess. Anyway, they refuse to have a microwave in their house because they're sure, they're certain that it's just killing them all. Oh, geez. Yeah. And we don't know what to say about it. We just kind of go, oh, okay. I guess you.

Meanwhile, 90-year-old grandma down the street is poking at her microwave. Beep, beep, beep. Yeah, nobody, they're. I'm going to live forever. It's based on nothing. They're just, they heard it somewhere probably on a dubious news source, and that was enough for them. I mean, we remember how, you don't remember when we first got microwaves? There was such a, you know, a fear.

I mean, it's like, oh, you got to be careful. Yeah. You know, it's super dangerous. Yeah, I remember back in the day or when we were, you know, probably junior high, my mom would say, don't look at the food while it's cooking because it had like the window and the light would come up. You just don't stare at it while it's rotating in there. You used to leave your head against the microwave, just lean.

Wait, waiting for it to finish. My Doritos are done. Dunaway, here's good news. Today, 3.30, Mountain Time. Play retro over at frogpants.tv, the live stream or later on the podcast. We'll be talking about all the old Nintendo Entertainment System peripherals. We're talking Zapper. We're talking Bob the Robot.

We're talking about the Power Glove. Wait, wait. Did you call it Bob the Robot? Well, it's B-O-B or whatever. No, it is not. It's Rob the Robot. Oh, Rob's, Rob. Why do I keep saying Bob?

I keep, I've literally done that five times a day. I keep doing it. You know what, do you know what Rob stands for? Robotic, ovary, bushwhacker. I have no idea. Nailed it, nailed it. Ibit, you got a guess? I had one of these damn things.

It was part of the whole Nintendo set that I shoplifted. It was, uh... I always forget about that. Robotic. It was something, robotic was the first one, I think. right? You are correct. Robotic is the first in the initial

of Rob, which is not Bob, and he's fantastic. Yeah, I can't remember the rest. He's super slow. I just remember it like, he was super slow, yeah. Yeah. He's a robotic operating buddy.

Robotic operating buddy. Really? He had some, yeah, he had some little gyro spinners, and he would spin those so he could play gyro mite. Okay, well, I kind of hate that. Those gyro spinners, that game was like, what was hell? right because basically what you had to do

you had two little platforms and you had to get the gyroscope spinning on the little spinner and then the robot had to do all this stuff right so we had to pick up the tops put them in the gyro spinner pull them out put them on the platforms and keep them there long enough for on screen these two doors to open

so that Mario or whoever it was could walk through these levels yeah yeah you're totally right on that not Mario you know what I'll say though it's definitely not Mario I'll say this i'm putting in your chat right now or in our discord so you can see it but i think the design of the robot's actually kind of rad it holds up you know i mean dude yeah this is not that long after like short circuit was really going through uh robots we'll talk about this on play richard

tonight but yeah we were really big on that and this was just the gimmick for nintendo to get it into our little grubby hand they love those gimmets they still do they do this shit all the time it's like the cardboard crap they did recently uh was it called jab navel or yobo oh right yeah The working Mario Kart carts that can go through your house with a camera and all that. Yeah, if Rob could bend like that and look like that, yeah, that's, uh, yeah, that ain't happened. Rob was just kind of like on a, right. Yeah, not happen.

Rob looks like he's a lot more animated than he actually is. He's just really like a single vertical rod that kind of his arms go up and down. Yeah, he has to call them Rod the robot. That'd have been better. Yeah, Rob, the robot. That'll be later today. And I'm really excited about doing this because we haven't really done a hardware review in a bit. And we love going back in time

And this time we're doing it around hardware So check that out Brian Dunaway kiss our butts And we'll see you later, bye No Damn it! I thought I got it. I thought I squeaked him out before he could say anything But it was well done.

It still was very well done, Scott. Thank you. We have some quick news today. We'll do it now. Let's do some quick news brought to you by Red Fraggle 3 on YouTube If you like clay and pots And pots made of clay

well, you need to check out this channel. That's YouTube.com at Redfragel 3 today. Do it. Get in there. She's throwing hot pots or whatever. She's doing handle. What's the handles thing that she does? She's firing handles.

Firing up them handles, getting them going. Making handles things. Hey, look at this. Speaking of baloney. I didn't mean to tie it into today's story, but an enormous Lebanon baloney sandwich. Okay. unveiled at the Pennsylvania Community Fair.

Now, I don't know what a Lebanon bologna sandwich is. It's obviously not in Lebanon, but it must be based on some kind of sandwich that's called them. Yeah, it's kind of interesting because I had Lebanese food the other night at trivia. Oh, how'd that go? You never heard back. How'd that go? The food. Oh, well, the food was great.

I actually had a euro, and it was great. This food truck rolls it tight, kind of like a, you know, I usually get a euro, and it's basically a top. Taco filled with your lamb, your, your, your, your lamb meat. Euro lamb, yeah. Feta cheese and Suzuki sauce and... Gosh, you're killing me. This sounds so good right now. Lettuce, tomato, onion, all that stuff.

This one was kind of wrapped tight like a burrito, and it made it a lot easier to eat at the pub that we were playing at. It's like, oh, wow, this is like a one-hand thing. No stuff has fallen out. Let's truck food people know how to package, you know? They do. They have to, right? Because they got to make it so that it. It's not only yummy, but that it also is easy to eat.

Well, this one is not. It's 150 feet long. Eish. That is 45.7 meters for those in space points. The sandwiches created Tuesday night at Lebanon Area Fair by a large crew of volunteers known as the Bologna security. Okay. Lebanon. Oh, okay, so it's the bologna itself.

It's the type of bologna is what makes it Lebanese Bologna. Yeah, they describe it here as Lebanese Bologna. for its distinct smoked and tangy flavor. They don't say why. What makes it tangy? Yeah, I'd like to know. Every foot-long bite was sponsored at $100 bucks a foot. The money was donated to the Lebanon County Christian Ministries

and their efforts to help people dealing with food insecurity and in the Lebanon Valley. Penn Lives reports the bologna security. Use 600 slices of provolone cheese, 1,200 slices of half-sweetened, original seltzer Lebanon bologna. Oh, the seltzer is probably. what's in there.

There's a little seltzer is Lebanon. I mean, they capitalized it, which makes it sound like a brand, but maybe that's, maybe there's like a, because you can infuse carbonation into meats. I've seen this before. No, I think, I think Seltzer is the name of the company, the name of the brand. Is it the brand? I don't think it's actual. I'm pretty sure you can do that, though. I've had meat that had carbonation in it.

Really? Yeah, what was that? Carbonated meat? Yeah, what was it? It was like a weird, and it had a weird effect. uh beef carbonate carbonate carbonate recipe was this it how to tenderize meat you sure and i think in carbonara i don't think so ah my wife is no there's seltzer's uh lebanon baloney by the way uh how do you use baking so not that where is this i have done this

yeah way to way to make the show title so easy scott carbonated meat i know carbonate meat It's a great title. Get that in there. Anyway, so good luck to them. May they enjoy their fine meat in their long sandwich. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt with some tech news. After that, we got some recommendals.

We'll have Nicole from the Roach being a car. Yeah. Yeah, fresh off a super quick but fun visit. Yep, a little lunch with Brian. Never heard nobody. Nope. And we'll talk all about that. So that's all coming up after this.

But Brian's got to play a song, and that's just the deal. So sit back and relax. Brian, what do you got there? Yeah, so we had some rap yesterday. We had some rock on Monday, I believe. Well, today we're going to do indie soul. This is some funk, funk, funk, 70-esque-style summertime bop. This is so good.

This is a band of the great name. Oh, he dead, is the name of the band, just like it sounds. Oh, he dead. This is their brand new single called Lightning Drunk. The LP is called Pretty, and it's coming out way like a month and half away. September 15th, you'll get the new album from Oh, He Dead. Here is the single from it, though, and it's called Lightning Drunk. Ooh, you've got me in my feels now.

I can't even tell what it's real now. Ooh, you got me on a hill now. The storm hits, but I ain't gonna roll down. Shot me, baby. Get me in the move. Let you keep me with your attitude. Crazy thunder. See my window pane

The storm is coming Baby it's gonna rain And you light me up Like an electric love And I get that buzz Good living baby Good good loving baby And I'm lightning drunk

But I can't get up Because I let tree love Good loving baby Good good loving baby Is it what you want? Is it what you need anymore? I can feel the front. I can feel the pressure building up.

Evaporate me, explode me like a tree. I'm on fire, make you feel my heat. And you like me, you like a litre love, and I get that buzz. Good loving, baby, good, good, good loving, baby. And I'm like ninja, but I can't get up. This is a let tree look. Good loving, baby, good, good loving, baby. Good, good loving, baby.

Oh, yeah. Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah

Oh yeah Oh yeah And you like me oh Like a litre glow And I get that boost Good loving He saved his cake

Good good loving drunk But I can't get you This electric Love him, baby Good loving baby He saved his cake for last Only a Mr. Bungle would eat his dessert

Before he'd finished the rest of his lunch Oh, oh yeah I hate soccer, yes And we've returned. I need some reminding. Who was that again? Sure. Stick this in your fizzy meat drink.

This is a band called Oh, He Dead from their upcoming album called Pretty, September 15th. That's a new single called Lightning Drunk. Nice. So somebody out there find this meat infused or carbonation-infused meat thing. I know I've had this. So like you eat it and it's fizzy? Kind of. It has just like a little kind of a prickly taste.

That's not a good. description it's like a no it feels like bad meat like it's uh like the meat's bad and it tastes fizzy when you eat it kind of thing like that's oh how do you know that meat spoiled oh it has a little prickly kind of feel to it when you eat for the life of me i cannot remember what it was i ate but i swear this was a thing i might i may have remembered it wrong anyway if someone out there knows tell us we'll deal with it uh let's um do the uh the the tom thing you know the tom thing we'll do the tom thing sure the tom dance that we do here on the show.

I'll pull that up and get that going here. All right, there we go. And we'll just click this. Please, let's be civil. Tom, play us a quick solo to show everyone how hard you've been practicing. I don't even know if we need to see that, you know. I know how hard you've been practicing, Tom. I just know.

Thank goodness. Finally, I get the recognition I've craved. I know, after all that work, finally people are talking about all of it. Well, it's good to see you, though. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. comes on the show on Wednesdays, does a little tech time with us, and I'm sure today will be no different, unless you got some else in mind. Got something non-tech you want to talk with us about?

I mean, I could do a concert review of Taylor Swift Day 5 in Los Angeles, I feel like. My sister-in-law went to that exact concert. There's so many of my friends were there. You and... Really? Your sister-in-law was there. I didn't see her. Sarah, it was Sarah and her daughter, Anna. And they had really great seats. They were kind of center and up high and, like, really.

right onto that big, long stage. You were there, Michelle Marrow was there, there's all these people I know that were there, and it, I don't know, it kind of annoyed me that I couldn't see them all in one place, but anyway, it's a giant concert. There's like 30,000 people there or something. Yeah, I got a little 13 tattoo from somebody. That's cute.

You didn't get a friendship bracelet? I did. I got a couple, I got one that says fearless and one that says calm down. Wow. Wow. Calm down. That's great. Wow. I don't see that ever happening in a Taylor Swift concert with anybody.

So did you consider yourself or count yourself as a Swifty, as they're called? I don't know if I deserve that title. I cannot sing every lyric of every song like most of the people sitting around me could. But yeah, I'm a big fan of her work. Love lots of her songs. Eileen and I have some special memories

of making long drives, listening to various albums and stuff. So it was fun. a heck of a heck of the show. My goodness. They were, my sister-in-law described it as the most insane. She's been to a lot of concerts. She's like, I've never seen one like this. Yeah, lady knows how to, how to concert.

Yeah. Good for her. Well, great. So, I was so envious. That sounds like such a great show. Yeah, it was. Does she do any covers, by the way? Like any kind of? No. No. Okay. I was just curious if it was like, I'm going to do this Beatles song because I'm in the mood in the middle of this thing. She's done drops of Jupiter in the past by train.

And she does a great version, a great live version of that. No, the two interesting things, since we're doing a concert review now instead of that, the two interesting things about the concert were that it was an overview of her discography, right? So it's called eras because she takes you through different eras of her musical journey, not in chronological order, but definitely grouping the songs together from various albums, having outfits. and choreography and things that go along with that era. And no encore. Oh. First show that doesn't have the fake encore where they're like, well, I guess I'm

leaving now. I'm certainly not just hiding backstage, gulping water. It just, I mean, it was three hours long, so you definitely do not feel cheated. But it's like, yeah, we get to the modern era. We get to the recent album. And then that's it. Thank you very much. Good night, everyone. See you tomorrow.

Wow. And you were satisfied. You were full satiated by the music you would you had been given and your performance yeah absolutely it was a stellar performance well good then it prepared you for tech news right oh what but did you want to hear about g idle i went to see g idle on i don't know who g idle is that a k-pop dude yeah yeah and then i'm going to see aspa this sunday oh my gosh dude and laceraphim has a live stream concert this Okay. Anyway. Oh, Hymne was the opening act?

Yeah, Hime was great, too. And they came up and did their feature with Taylor during Taylor's concert as well. Oh, wow. That's cool. I like those girls. They're pretty great. The Hines sisters. They took it right down to the wire.

Yeah. I bet it did. All right. Well, that catches up on all the popular culture. Now we can do technology, I guess. Yes, Netflix. Netflix has got a mysterious app called the, Netflix games controller.

When you install it, it says to begin, choose a game on your TV and follow the directions, except there are no games on my Apple TV. Netflix games on TV are in beta. Some devices may not be supported at this time. So no one knows Netflix isn't talking

how this is going to work, but it seems like this is going to be a controller for games on television, maybe smart TVs, maybe Apple TV, I don't know, but it's on iOS, and it's called controller, but without having games to use it on, I can't tell you much more about it. But it's certainly got a lot of people talking. So it is a digital controller.

We're not talking about a piece of hardware or something. This is an app. It's an app. Okay. Yeah. What it is beyond a message that says begin a game on your TV, who can say? Yeah, that is interesting. I'm going to actually search for it.

If you do the help, it just takes you to the general Netflix help center, which doesn't have any reference. reference to the game controller thing yet that's weird yeah it's really weird also i'm trying to think like they would have to have maybe they wouldn't maybe this could be cloud you could do this through the cloud i suppose well and don't forget they have said publicly uh we want to do cloud gaming and uh what's his name from overwatch chaco sunny oh right is the is is is running a studio in southern california for netflix yeah they're making games over there uh of some sort Nobody knows what they are yet. I guess I'm kind of not bummed.

I wish this was like a hardware solution because touchscreen phones are not great for controlling typical games. I mean, yes, you can play Monopoly Go like we all are right now because it's simple presses and everything. The stuff like Jackbox works great with a smartphone. Oh, yeah, absolutely, right? Yeah, yeah. I get the sense that the former EP of Overwatch

might not do a Jackbox rip off. No, I think he's, if I had to guess, If I had to guess, they hire him for his experience with, you know, more Twitchy experiences. I don't know. I don't know. But it's interesting. And maybe there will also be, I mean, there is a controller for Apple TV. That's true.

And maybe the Netflix games will work with third party controllers that you can connect by Bluetooth or something as well. So this may just be like, hey, for those of you who want to try our games, not all of them. All of Netflix games right now are mobile apps. They're not particularly Twitchy. Some of them are on the border, but there's a lot of solitaire type stuff in there. Maybe there's going to be some of that on the TV to start with. I have this is one of those fun times when we get to wildly speculate because there's no counterfactuals here. We can go wherever our brains take us.

Their entire trajectory of announcement stuff around gaming for Netflix, whether it be their original plans to be a rental service for 360 PS3 games, Wii games back in the day, and they folded that almost immediately. It was like it was barely there. What they call it? They actually had a name for it. But anyway, it was basically the model of, you know, we send you the discs. Kind of like game fly. Yeah, it was the old DVD Netflix model, but with games.

Gamefly was the successful version of that, but that was not Netflix's. Right, exactly. And they, and they, you know, that went away real quick because I think it was just too little too late. But here lately, it's all been, you know, it's all been about kind of poking their toe in the water and seeing what sticks and here's a few mobile games or whatever and they're not exactly super discoverable like you've said before it's not like they're this isn't like some hard-nosed effort it's more like yeah we're you know we're gonna try some stuff and kind of fiddle around and

this feels like maybe more of that you know just kind of see what sticks yeah the this is clearly clearly not a strategic like big unveiling of a major product you know they just put an app in the app store and they're not talking about it so So it does all remind me of how Netflix streaming began. And when Netflix streaming launched, you got it in a browser. I think it, I want to say in the beginning, it might have only even worked in Internet Explorer before they made it available in other browsers. And there were like 2,000 titles.

So everybody was like, what is the point of this streaming thing? And Netflix was saying exactly the same things about streaming. that it's saying about gaming now, which is like, this isn't a business of its own. It's just a free add-on. If people want to take advantage of it, that's cool. You know, it's just helping to expand the value of your DVD subscription. These days, they're saying it's just helping it expand the value of your Netflix subscription. So they sort of, you know, set the expectations low so that they can outperform them at some point and then turn it into a separate business.

Is my guess what their strategy. Yeah, and for the record, I think they've got some bangers in their current game selection. In fact, they just released Oxen Free 2, which is also on PCs, but you pay $24 for that over there. Here, you just get it. Tara Nils, an amazing little game. This scripted crime stories thing is supposed to be real good, although I haven't played it. But they're not loading this with junkware. I mean, it started as like really minimal puzzly games, and it's not, you know, just kind of slowly built up to the oxen-free and

what you're talking about, where it's like, well, wait a minute, suddenly without me paying attention, they're starting to get some, some better and better games. If this controller is any indication, they plan to make a bigger deal out of playing these on a television. Up till now, it's all been mobile. Yeah, that's the part I'm curious about, because if they end up having hardware deals with people where their phones are just, maybe it's just airplay and Google's version of that, which I forgot the name of. Uh, Google, stadia. Or not stadia, the other one. their thing with the dongle, the Chromecast. Chromecast is what I meant to say.

So these like over-the-air Wi-Fi solutions for controlling stuff on whatever set-top box you have makes sense to me. But also, it'd be really fascinating if their plan was to supersede that, go straight to the cloud, and then come back and control somehow, which is basically what Stadia did with their controller. So, I don't know. That part's interesting. And they have said, what was it he? Who's the guy, Mike Verdue is the VP of Gaming at Netflix? and in October, he told TechRunch Disrupt Netflix is exploring a cloud gaming offering.

So it would fit right into what he said out loud to everybody. Yeah, absolutely. Well, we'll keep her eye on it. It's always good to talk about this stuff on a Wednesday. I'll keep them both eyes on it. Both eyes, yeah. I keep off. It makes it really hard to drive.

I have one behind my head, which I wasn't prepared to tell you all about. Yeah, third eye. It's blind. Third eye blind. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. What are you going to do? Anyway, later today, Daily Tech news show is happening.

And it's a Wednesday, which means I'll be on there. Very excited to be on. Is there anything else, Tom, going on with that or anything else you'd like to mention for the fine folks at home? Well, I almost hesitate to mention this because it's sold out. But I'm teaching a single day. It's more of a seminar than a course, but it's a class on how to make a great podcast. I'm very nervous about it. I'm doing it for the first time tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon or evening.

and if that sounds like something where you're like, well, wait a minute, I didn't hear you were doing that. How did it get sold out so fast? The way to find out is either be a patron of DTNS, because I told folks through Patreon, or sign up for my newsletter, freetown newsletter.com. I told everybody there about it as well. And so if you have signed up and didn't get into the class,

I will let you know too as soon as I do it again, if I do it again. And also when I have it available on demand, because I plan to make a recording of it and make that available to folks as well. So if that is of interest of you, then you should probably sign up for the newsletter, free tomnewsletter.com. Do it, everybody. Tom Merritt, everybody. He is Ace Detect on X. And he's an X user. Wait a minute. That doesn't make good sense. It's almost like they didn't think about this very hard. Yeah, almost as if. Anyway, Tom, I'll see you later this afternoon. Have a fantastic day.

Check you then. See, Tom. Bye. He did that thing my dad used to do. Wait. Right. Yeah. Chris Elliott does it too in Kingpin where he goes, Hey, Tipperillo and Sassi and Sotia Cic. I love that scene. Yeah. I forgot about that. That's good. Chris Elliott, man. What's he doing? I guess he just did Schitt's Creek. He's fine. He's fine. He's rolling in that Schitt's Creek money.

Yeah, there's plenty of that to go around. All right. Nicole. Let's see if I can add her. It should ring for her, I suppose, on her phone. And then Randy, he'll ring for him on whatever he's using. And then we'll all be together doing this thing we do right here, right now. Well, what do you recommend? That very dramatic music means it's time for us to recommend things on streaming services. In a segment we call Recommendals, we do it every Wednesday with Nicole and Randy.

Right now we have Randy. Hi, Randy. Good morning. morning stream how are you good man you super super i mean i know i know how you're doing because i've been listening to you for the last hour and a half oh well yeah that's one way to find out i guess right just that's it's beautiful how's it how's it out there on the road nicole hello hi hey hello apparently wasn't i wasn't listening live oh yeah you might have been a minute or two back based on lag and stuff like i'm like telling tom cat and soup is wonderful it's a beautiful

on Netflix. That's funny. Well, no worries. We're just glad to get you. Are you, where are you in your vast travels? I haven't seen wheat Jesus yet. That's in Colby. Okay.

So I think I'm just about ready to cross over from Colorado to Kansas. Yeah. Nice. Look at you. Do I sound okay? Yeah, you sound fine. Yeah, no issues. Sound like you're in a car, which is, you know, totally workable.

I like it. well it's good to have you here we're gonna I just want to say I haven't thought about wheat Jesus in a long time Wheat Jesus looks just a little bit like Asmengold and it's really Oh my gosh Is he as controversial as Asmond gold

That's my god No no way there's no way Yeah I was gonna say There's a lot of Jesus pictures on your drive on I70 From Colorado to Missouri There's at least five that I know of Wow

That's a lot that's a lot of Jesuses that's almost too much Jesus I would say you know yeah and when you drive alone you go how did that Jesus get there did somebody go to each one of these farmers and say hey can I put up this Jesus for you they're all the same they're all the same we Jesus is the only unique Jesus then it becomes um I can't remember what the saying is on it but there's like four of them all the same sorry sorry My brain goes to weird places. That's all right.

All the Jesus is, it's fine. We need to be, we needed a Jesus update. I'm glad you brought it to it. You don't, you don't. You don't, you don't, darn it. It's too bad because that's another, uh, wall drug? Yeah. Wall drug.

Oh, I didn't even know what that is. What's that? Yeah, what is that? It's a massive drug store that sells everything, uh, including bumper stickers that people put all over their cars that say, I went to wall drug and you see them, you see those all over the road. Really? Oh, when they have the crazy, the crazy ads, they have like, absolutely.

Absolutely insane ads. I thought that was butt drugs. Different place? Well, the butt drugs also. They also do. And they just close those, the butt drugs. Yeah, it was a bummer. But drug.

A pair of people don't want butt drugs anymore. Anyway, well, it's good to have you both here. We're going to get straight into it and do some recommendals. Brian, we start with you, as we always do. Set up your clip and we'll play it. Sure. I watched a documentary. What?

But it is about something that I am, that I, that I, enjoyed very much that I found fascinating and was even more fascinated by the stuff behind the scenes of this thing that I enjoyed. All right, here's your clip. Colin was so uncarned. He never wanted to be on camera again. We realized that we've created a new category.

Russ was definitely more like, you know, he wanted the limelight. He wanted to be on camera. We don't need a team of a thousand people. Sponsors and advertisers are reaching out. We do have the flexibility to grow. So, Fairly early on, some cracks started to form, you know, especially in the relationship between Russ and myself. But for now, someone thinks I'm dumb. The guy who owns this app thinks I'm dumb.

Great. The guy who hired me thinks I'm dumb. I don't think Russ loved the fact that I was becoming the face of the product he created. You know, very early on, we had some awkward interactions over Slack, in person, over text. This might be my last show, because my boss thinks. some dumb. So it was nice knowing you, good playing with you. But we started growing. No idea.

So that voice you're hearing is Scott Rogowski. And you know him as the host of an app that we all seem to play in the mid-2010s called HQ Trivia. I think what, 2016, 2017, this thing just went huge. Before the pandemic. Boy, it would have been a perfect thing during the pandemic. Well, I mean, they were during the pandemic. Like, I remember the third time that they closed shop was during the pandemic, like the worst part of the pandemic. Yeah.

Like, I remember that really specifically. Well, the history of this thing is amazing and also super tragic. So it was founded by these two guys, the two guys who created Vine, Ressiusparov, and Colin Kroll. and after Vine ended, they said, hey, let's do this trivia thing. They came up with this app called HQ trivia, this live game that everybody would play at the same time every night, and they'd give away some money, and all you had to do was just stick around and last through 12 trivia questions, increasing in difficulty. And if you made it to the end, then you shared the prize pool, which was sometimes 50 bucks,

100 bucks, a thousand bucks they got up to. I think they even got up to the tens and tens of thousands, maybe a million? I don't know. Like, they had some really big payouts, but you were getting a share of that. And the problem that a lot of people experienced at the time was they'd make it to the end. They'd only end up getting like $1.18 because they got a share of what the prize pool was. And you still couldn't collect it until you amassed $20 worth of prizes. then you'd get the check for whatever it was over, you know, $20 or over.

And there are these viral videos of women, you know, this woman screaming because she just won and it's really just, you know, a dollar five. And she was on Ellen talking about it. And they show a lot about that. It was absolutely crazy. But more importantly, the stuff behind the scenes, the two guys that Scott mentions, Russ and Colin, two super different guys. One love the limelight. The other one really hated the limelight. light. One was kind of more outgoing

gregarious, the other one was kind of introverted and sometimes creepy, especially unfortunately, towards some of the women in the office. And there were these different kinds of conflicts that they'd experienced between these two guys, not just with each other, but when

they'd kind of play staff against one another. And sadly, it kind of led to Colin killing himself. Oh, yeah. I remember that all ended that way. That's right. Yeah, I'm really, really sad situation.

I have to see this. I have to watch this. It's so good. It's on HBO. It's on Max. It's a CNN film. And the, there's a little there's some complaints out there that the documentary is a little bit biased. The host, Scott Raghowski, the got you here there. He's, he's about a third of the narrative of this thing. They have all sorts of former employees and all sorts of, um, co-weregowski. workers, both HQ trivia folks, but also Vine folks talking about the experience of working with these guys, I feel like, personally, I feel like it feels pretty on the nose, especially when you see the videos of the way these people act. It's got 80% on Rotten Tomatoes. It's good.

And it's a very fast-moving documentary. It's a couple hours or 90 minutes, but it feels like that time goes by so quickly because you get so much information. I'm looking at it on IMDB. I'm really sad that it looks like it ends before the most amazing things that ever happened around HQ trivia because, oh, which were, which were what? Matt Richards and Anna Royceman going to the office after they had laid everybody off and turning on the stream. Like, it's an absolutely insane moment.

They did talk about that, but it was within the, unless I'm remembering correctly, they actually showed a video of those two, like, well, this could be the last ever HQ trivia live thing. And, yeah, they, I kind of remember something about that, how they turned it on and then got on there and kind of, it was just this like, you know, a couple servers and a closet. They filmed that whole thing and just like this little closet that would heat up and get super warm and they'd have the green screen behind it. Seriously, Matt Richards and Anna Royceman are two of the funniest people that ever live streamed. And it was a wild moment. Like, it was like one of those moments that you remember as like the top 10 things to ever happen live on the internet.

Like, do you remember when, uh, uh, what's his name? The Goober was competing with CNN to be the first person to get a million followers on Twitter. Uh, what's his name? Oh, I don't know. Replacement guy on, uh, uh, oh my God. Um, replacement guy. What's, okay. Uh, comedic actor.

Yeah. replaced I can't oh my God replaced Charlie Sheen on two and a half man Ashton Coucher Ashton Coochard was competing with CNN to be the first person to get

to a million followers on Twitter and they live streamed the whole thing this is like in 2009 or something and they live streamed the whole thing and it was like one of those moments where you're like this is what the internet's about this is why I am on the internet Wow

this is why subscribe yeah interesting that I don't remember. But I do remember I've shown video of those two hosts. You mentioned doing their last recording. Yeah, that's wild. I got to see this. This seems

like a no-brainer. It's great. It's on Max. And like you said, it's 90 minutes. It's called Glitch. That's the first thing you'll look for. The subtitle is the rise and fall of HQ trivia. But it's, you know, talk about your

your uh your tech kind of your tech bros a little bit um with the whole ready fire aim mentality of like doesn't matter let's just get it out there doesn't matter oh there's collateral damage now who cares let's just do it let's just get it out there sure sure this isn't the 1998 uh sex romp comedy glitch it is not there's so many so many movies it's almost as bad as crash as far as how many things they're called glitch but yeah glitch is uh uh glitch the rise and fall of HQ trivia on. Didn't I recommend a show called Glitch? You might have.

Like an animated, yeah, I think it was an animated deal, right? Let's see. No, no, no. It was that Australian show about the dead people coming back to life. And I think it was called glitch. I think you're right. Yeah. Is it called?

Oh, yeah, here it is. On Netflix. It's 2015. There it is. Paranormal Drama Television series. Yeah, that's the one. Yeah. So there's more glitches than we know it to do.

do it. Storing Patrick Bromnell and Genevieve O'Reilly. I bet you're the competitive trivia guy. Did you have like a heyday with HQ trivia? No, I never won a penny. I got to the 11th question multiple times. I never got 12th. And in my trivia group, there were only like four of us that, or sorry, four of them that ever made it to the final question and got winnings, never received them because they never,

never collected more than 20 bucks it feels like it feels like this is a thing that should somebody somewhere should have made another version of this like it was a big yeah what it was there were there were competitors there were a lot and um there was one that we played that that again my trivia team and i got together and played a lot more and it was oh there was something but the questions were a little bit more not really getable but they were kind of written jeopardy style where you'd get a couple hints as to what the answer was if it was in you was in you know, an opera thing that you'd never get. But there was another hint in the clue that sometimes said,

oh, that could be Carmen or something like that. Well, and the problem, Scott, is that there are always ways to game the game. And, like, the organization is going to have to increasingly spend more and more and more money to stop people cheating. Yeah. And so, like, how could they ever survive, you know? Yeah. Well, I mean, the time limits and then you had potential people maybe, you know,

getting answers ahead of time you'd get these big farms where it would be a dozen people in a room all playing at the same time and saying the answer the answer to this one I know this it's this and basically you know everybody would answer based on one person I literally saw that at work yeah oh I'm not surprised it wasn't like a dozen people but like one person on a computer everybody's screaming out loud they've got five phones you know what I mean it just seems like something that somebody should have figured out a way to perfect it and it would be a huge popular thing right now I just don't know why that there was no way to make that model work. It's so weird to me. And it could have been money. I mean, they just experienced a peak and then they didn't do enough to maintain it. And then there were all these problems going on afterward that just kind of watch the numbers slowly dwindles. Fewer and fewer people played it. And they never had advertisers.

I mean, they made their money by just getting viewer, you know, player data and not even really that much data, right? Just, you know, knowing where people are playing from. What's wild is how parallel your recommendal is to mine in such a weird way. We'll talk about that. Really? Oh, good. But it's such a similar story, it sounds like. All right. Let's get to.

So once again, glitch. Glitch, HBO Max, 90 minutes, glitch the rise and fall of HQ trivia. Nice. Randy, let's get to yours. What do you got here for us? I just have another feel good movie that I had to return to this week. It's just nice. It happens that we're in a moment when a particular person is clearly going to be the number one director of 2023.

And before the movie in 2023 is unbelievable box office hit, this director made another great movie, a better movie, in my opinion. Like one of the best movies I've ever seen. And it's streaming, and I watched it. In this clip, you're going to hear a 17-year-old who's running for class president. She's been called into her teacher's office, and her teacher is an old nun at a Catholic school. All right, here we go. Some of the students were disturbed by your posters. It's just a birdhead on a lady body or vice versa.

I think it's a little upsetting. It's my tradition to run for office. Don't worry. I won't win. That's not what I'm worried about. This won't mess with my scholarship. No, you're okay there. You have a performative streak, I think. Yeah, I think that too.

Maybe you would enjoy theater arts. They're having auditions for the fall musical. Do we have that here? It's a collaborative effort with the men at Xavier. How am I a senior and not know we have that? Perhaps you haven't always been an active part of this community. They do a fall musical into spring play, and from what I hear, it's a real black. What I'd really like is to be on Math Olympiad.

But math isn't something you're terribly strong in that we know of yet. Wow. This is my, what is the point of shame for me? Because I've never seen this movie and now I want to. I wish you would. I wish you would. It's wonderful. It's absolutely, you know, a coming of age story.

But every coming of age story you've ever seen is about a boy and this is about a girl. and Greta Gerwig is just like flexing every imaginable filmmaking muscle in this movie. It's beautifully shot. We haven't said yet. It's Lady Bird, by the way, everybody. Before we get any shit out of luck.com. Anyway, go ahead. Continue.

That, the older woman you just heard is Lois Smith. She's so good. She's one of those actors who I can only tell you about like the thing that I remember. remember her from. And that's in Twister. At some point, everything goes all sideways. And the only solution for the team is to go visit Aunt Meg. And Lois Smith plays Ant Meg and Twister. So she's the old, she's Dr. Iris Heinman and Minority Report. But what I always remember her from is true blood. She's, she's, she's, uh, grandmother, uh, in that show. Oh, okay. All right. She's everywhere. She's in everything always. She's great. Um, yeah. More important.

importantly in this film, like, so the 17-year-old girl is played by Searsher Ronan, Sirsher Ronan's, like, absolute breakout performance. Her mother is played by Lori Metcalf, and she has to, she has the strangest role, and it's so realistic and difficult, and watching Lori Metcalf, like, I just, I hope when you watch this movie, Scott, and I really hope you will, I hope that you agree with me that Lori Metcalfe is so underrated. She's just really strong actors. I already loved her.

I love her in everything, but it's good to hear. I didn't even know she was in this, to be honest. So this is good news. I like her a lot. And it's just a, it's a coming of age movie. It's about the final days of a young person living at home and preparing to move out and move far away if possible. Like her, you know,

her goal is to get as far away as possible from Sacramento, California. But the movie shows you Sacramento. It shows you a lot of it to really give you a sense of where you are. And it's almost like 30 minutes of montage in this movie, which is kind of hard. I guess if you watch Barbie, there's a lot of montage. Maybe that's just like Greta Gerwig's thing. But this movie has so many fast cuts. For a talkie, right, for like a movie that's really just people having dialogue, it's

like almost like it's edited by Michael Bay. It's really something. I also have a kind of, I won't say it's a thing that sounds creepy, but I really like Sachery Ronan. I'm just going to say out loud so Claire can hear it. She's my favorite Irish person. All right. Oh, wow.

Take that. Yeah. Take that. And there's some really interesting little bits of trivia around this movie. So like go read that after you watch it or while you're watching it. Just Sersher Ronan has no

business being this good at this age at sounding American like she almost never misses a whole movie and certain things happened to her uh you know like coming in and getting started with greta gerwig and they they had all sorts of fun little rituals and it's just a there's just a behind the scenes that i i wish there was a whole movie about that yeah well nice where is it streaming again did you say i was i watched it on paramount plus it looks like it's streaming on quite a few things but Paramount Plus was the one I found it on first. I'll bet it has a bit of a reawakening for a lot of people since they saw

Barbie and went Wayne, I want to see more from Greta Gerwig and they go find it. I mean, I only really knew her as an actress before all this and she has clearly found, you know, her future. Hey, if you watch Little Women, you get her as both, actress and director. And Sirsher Ronan.

And Sir Sheridan. And if you want to see the older lady, we just talked about it, forgot her name already. Laurie Metcow. Oh, you mean the, the, the Lois Smith and Saishri Roan together. I just watched them and Timothy Shalamee, who are all in this movie. I just watched them in the French dispatch. So they're all hanging around with like Wes Anderson and being all weird with him.

It's kind of cool, man. I kind of got a weird Wes Anderson vibe out of Barbie. And I think it's because that Rosenbaum or whatever his name is, the co-writer that always co-writes with, uh, with Wes Anderson co-wrote Barbie. and I think that's where I was getting that feeling, but I'm happy to do that. Yeah, I love his work. So bring it on. Awesome. Yeah. There's another role in Lady Bird that I want you to look for. It's the priest who runs the Catholic school that she's going to. His, the name of the actor is Stephen McKinley Henderson. And he is so that guy. When you see him, you're going to go, I feel like I've seen him in a thousand. thing it's the guy in dune um with the blind eyes yeah he's a commander guy for the yeah yeah he's awesome he is he is in lady bird and he has a really killer little uh subplot and i want you to look for it yeah that guy's awesome i love him all right good call uh Nicole swing it over to your way as you drive

through these beautiful valleys and highways of our american west Midwest uh what do you uh what do you bring I'm just about ready to cross over to Kansas. Oh, cool. There's that. Say hi to wave at Stephen on your way through there. So I just saw a sign. It said haze is about 169 miles. So I usually when I drive by, I go, hi, Stephen.

Bye, Stephen. I wish I passed the exit. I'm on a mission. I'm sorry. I actually did detour on the way out here to see Carrie. oh that's cool in Kansas City I was on her doorstep

knocking and I'm like oh there's your dog hi doggy and I'm just knocking and I'm going I really have to pee well I guess she's not here oh no crap crap

so Carrie I was there I don't think I'm going to be able to stop back I just the way east you lose an hour whereas you're going west you gain an hour So, there you go.

That's how time. Well, I'm glad I got to see you and spend some time with you. Yeah. Me too. That was awesome. You should have kept coming to Utah and we just all would have met up and had a big party. That's what we should have done. That sounds good to me too.

Yeah. That would have been all right. Well, what did you bring today? I know you've, you had something last week. I think we're doing the same thing, right? Yes. Yeah. So this is another movie that Matteo found for me.

And I remember it coming out and saying to myself, oh, I need to watch that. and they kind of hide it in Disney Plus but he found it and we watched it and it was wonderful. All right. Here's your clip. Check it out. Okay, I got it. Shut up. Shut it now. I said shut it. Shut.

Why did you hit me? Because I don't like you, derb droid. I don't like you, derp droid. Ow! Okay, come on. Let's go. B-Bats can't shove? That's how you...

Incorrect. I can shove with a compressive force capacity of 29 pounds per square inch. My resin skin tints is on impact. That's it. I'm gonna destroy you. All right, this reminds me, for some reason, I'm getting like a Baymax vibe out of it. Yes, it's very Baymax. You actually heard the voice of Zach Gallupinacchus as Ron. This is a digital animation movie called Ron's Gone Wrong.

Ron's Gone Wrong. And this is a, it's a futuristic movie where every kid has a little, it's like a robot, but it's not. It connects to social media and they're called B-Bots. And they're meant to find friends for you. So if you're a kid, it knows you, it scans your social media, it scans your music, and then it finds kids around you that like the same things. And the whole idea is that it's supposed to promote friendship. So I like the movie because, you know, having a young kid, I see him.

And this is something as a parent, you kind of watch and you're like, okay, we're spending too much time on the screens, we need to get him. out. We need to make friends. And so this movie actually spoke to Mateo quite a bit. And the whole premise of the story is there's one kid in the school that doesn't have a

B-Bot. All the other kids have B-Bots. And so it's his story about getting Ron, who's a little off. He doesn't have all of his programming. And it's about the relationship that forms

between the the bebop and the kid big cast you got you mentioned Zach Galfinacus but you got Ed Helms Jack Dylan Grazer is your main kid of Olivia Coleman love her Rob Delaney

a whole bunch of good good voices in this I haven't even heard of this until you until you put it in her thing yeah totally under the radar it's a fun movie the clip that you played so the boy doesn't have a mom but his dad

and him live with his grandmother and she's very I don't I'm not sure what country she comes from but the little song that diggy did digit and it's like

it's very cute and funny and yeah so it's about building friendships getting offline and yeah it's a great feel good movie I love it. Some really good pedigree on the directors

they've had hands and the good dinosaur inside out wallace and grommet curse of the wear rabbit like all kinds of cool stuff i'm going to check this out looks great looks like runs got it this apparently one of those movies that was completely made remotely like every person working on a movie was working from their home studio or what have you yeah interesting so i'm always surprised how well that that has worked out for a lot of projects there's some game projects like that where you know most of the work was done at home where i'm like wow you guys really killed it. And most of you didn't even talk to each other face to face the whole

time. It's nuts to me. All right. I've got one. It's a documentary. It's a quick one. Oh, go ahead. Can I just say about your bologna talk earlier? Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm living in your past comments. But I love taking bologna and putting American cheese and just rolling it up. Oh, that sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. Something about bologna when you're a kid, you know, Bologna's like a magic meat or something. I don't know what's going on. Bologna was the staple when I was a kid growing up. It was like bologna and cheese sandwiches.

Bologna and ketchup was a sandwich. Yep. I like bologna and mustard is all I needed. And white wonder bread. Oh my gosh. That sounds so good right now. Nostalgatic. All right.

Here is mine. Mine is a documentary also. So Brian and I both pick documentary. He's not really knowing we were going to be doing that. And funny enough, the plot or the, you know, as much as you can plot, The trajectory, yeah. Yeah, is very similar, but in a very different era and a very different business. But there are similarities.

Here's my clip. My friendship with Steve was always very close. Always from the moment we met. We met in college. We both came from Brooklyn, middle class, lower middle class working families, everybody up between mobile and ambitious and everybody wanted to keep. kids to do better than they did. My father was a tennis pro, and I played tennis, and I visited these estates, and I saw how

people live, and you just see this whole other life. You were very well aware of the difference between what they had and what. You had somehow tennis expanded the universe, and you saw that there were other possibilities. Now, funny enough, it has zero to do with tennis, but this is a documentary called Studio 54. 2018 and it is about said studio studio 54 famous for uh popping up in new york in the 70s and completely taking the world by storm in terms of like anybody who was happening or it uh whether they were actors or singers um artists it didn't matter they were all there and they were there every night and it was this huge explosive cultural pinpoint um that kind of came out of nowhere and it was

these two guys, Ian Schrager, I guess is how he said his last name and Steve Rubel. And they were friends in college. And they decided they want to go do something cool. And this is what they decided to do. So they rent this space in a rotten part of New York City that nobody would go to. You were all going to get mugged there. It was like a terrible part of town.

Got kind of a deal on the place. And then just launched this thing. And there was a weird virality to it almost like, you know, it's a lot like the HQ, the trivia HQ thing. Yeah. Came out of nowhere. took the world by storm and then it and then burned themselves apart like yeah exactly too like flamed out like basically too popular too soon and nothing to support it underneath yeah basically that

and there's a lot you know there's a lot more in there but in Ian and Steve's case they kind of had a similar trajectory about Ian is the behind the scenes business guy Steve Rubel was out kind of in front of it all he's also a closet of gay man during the 70s which was very different than now and so there was that whole aspect to it and the club became a very very safe place for the gay communities and just various outcast communities to show up and you know feel free to be who they were um but that also meant tons of drugs uh lots and lots of unprotected sex right before the aids the aids deal yeah he ended up dying of aid steve rebelle um i ian schrager is still around and is still doing stuff he's he's busy in the hotel business and

is credited for changing how hotels work and stuff. That's the guy that was played by Mike Myers in the film 54, right? I think so. I think he's playing the behind the scenes guy in that. Yes, right. I didn't see that, so I only know kind of... I haven't seen it either. Surface-wise, yeah.

Because when I was looking for artwork, I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot there was the 54 movie about Studio 54 that I never saw. And it's wild because it's like, oh, here's Mc Jagger hanging out with, I don't know who they were. you know, just the actors of the time, you know, various people doing different stuff. And it was crazy. And the movie does not hold back on letting you know what was going on behind the doors, but also where they got in trouble.

And they got in trouble because they were skimming profits. They weren't paying taxes the way they were supposed to. They both ended up serving jail time because of it. Wow. Obama actually pardoned Schrager during his administration because he was, and they go through a bunch of this. he was mostly unaware of what was happening with the skimming and the other stuff. That was mostly the Rubel guy who was involved with that.

And then everybody else they had working for him. But then they talk about how many people that work there are just gone now because of the AIDS epidemic. Like the whole thing is just fascinating snapshot of a very specific moment in that time. Right. And it was right before the Reagan administration where things got very different in terms of, you know, sort of the overall culture of the nation and how they, talk a little bit about that and they talk about how before that the the sexual revolution and the desire for people to want to just go to a place and party and this and they're talked to some people who were just addicted being there they could not spend they had to be there every

night they just had to and they would load up on cocaine and dance the night away and you know that's that was their life and you get to hear from some of those people they're all much older now obviously anyway it was really fascinating and I remember this documentary hitting some years ago 2018, as I mentioned, and it being well received. It is currently streaming on Netflix is where I watched it. And I would highly recommend it if you have any interest in kind of a history snapshot of the 70s and what it was like. Because it's pretty wild. They also tried to revive it like twice.

There was also a replacement place that was all after they served their prison terms. Just kind of a sad like, like this trivia HQ thing. It's like, boom, bam, explode, oh, no. It was really cool when it was around and then just didn't survive under its own weight. Yeah, and too much fame, too much money too quickly, you know, all that stuff just really messes with people. And it's a real lesson in that. I really, really liked it. And it went, it went by fast.

I don't even know how long it is. It's probably an hour and a half, maybe two hours. But anyway, really good. Check it out. Netflix today is where you'll find it. Welcome to Netflix today. Mex. Studio 54 is the name of the documentary. All of these things will be on QuickTMS.L.I. Shortly there. Already there. What do I mean shortly? They're there now.

We mean shortly. Nicole, I wish you a speedy, safe return home. She there. She's muted. Yeah. Oh, do we lose her? She's gone. No, she's muted. She's probably saying her things and stuff right now, but she's not. She's not knowing that we can hear it. She's probably throwing. Oh, I'm sorry. you're fine I was talking I was like oh yeah I only have eight hours and 30 minutes to go

oh my gosh that's a lot wow that's a lot and it's also Kansas that's flat as hell oh my gosh that's a lot

yeah you can actually put a cruise control lash the steering wheel to the emergency break with a belt and take a nap yep just watch for

Jesus on your way yep that's right I listen to a lot of music and I listen to a lot of podcasts time goes by past. Yeah. Well, good. We'll be safe and say hi to the fan when you get there.

We'll talk to you soon. Randy, always good to have you, sir. Anything you want to mention before we go? We're watching 65. Yes, we are. Speaking of Netflix, get that in you. All 65 of it. Yep. We're going to see if he can finish what he started. We'll find out.

I never said I wouldn't ever watch Adam Driver, so here we go. Here we go. Science fiction Adam Driver. How will hold up? I mean, I guess he's been in Star Wars, but still. I guess there's a couple. There's some of science fiction. But I don't really, I don't know. It's weird how I separate that and don't really count Star Wars on that.

It's funny. Initially, I was thinking, oh, yeah, right. Good point. Yeah. So we'll see how that thing is. I don't know if it reviewed very well, but FilmSack is the real test, and we'll do that this weekend. Randy, have a great week. We'll see you then. You too. All right. He's just saying how much he likes the band, you too. That's what that is. He's actually giving a music recommendation, and we just cut him off. Yeah. He's really the edge in the relationship.

You too is my favorite band, and I wish Apple would have put all their albums on my iPod without asking me. Yeah, without any permission. That would have been great. Without any permission. That's it for today's show. A quick shout out, though. I got an email this morning from Cassie, who said,

my partner, Gary has two R's in his name. I always like that. That's cool. Gary. Gary. It's easier to yell at him. Has been listening to your podcast, The Morning Stream, and all your others,

almost since their inception. It would be so cool for him to hear you guys saying happy 35th birthday to Gary today when we listen to TMS. Hope you have a great day. Well, you know what? I'll do you one better. Let's party. Happy birthday, Gary with two R's.

Happy birthday, Gary. Gary? 35 is great. You're going to feel like that's a moment of like, oh, man, I'm aging. I'm 35. I promise you. You're a child. That's right. Oh, yeah. You have no idea.

Yeah. We didn't either. That's why we're saying this. Okay. Totally. Totally, yeah. We didn't know. Thirty-five came and I went, ooh, that must mean, I need to be more like an adult or whatever. No, it's just a number. You're good. Age ain't nothing but a number. Yep. I'll be, I'll say that about my age now when I'm far from it again. It's how it works. Yes, exactly. Oh, I fondly remember 54. Oh, yeah. Do you watch it because we're now 54 years old? No, I didn't. Studio 54. I didn't even think of it until you just said it. I didn't think of it until I just said it. So do we wait 11 years to watch that Adam Driver movie?

That's too soon. That feels wrong. I don't like it. See, this is, Gary, is when you can worry is when we have discussions like this. When 11 years means things like that. Holy shit. Well, anyway, Cassie, thanks for letting us know. And Gary, have a great, great birthday.

I would like to remind folks so that we are supported by you at patreon.com slash t. You know the drill. You know what you get, because I tell you every day. I'll spare you that today. Just go over there and check it out and sign up. That's all we're asking. Patreon.com slash TMS. Brian, let's do a song.

Do you have another birthday here? Because I'd love to play that clip twice. Well, I do, but don't play it. Okay. All right. All right. This one's going out to Ambassador Domo, Robert, living in that weird haunted church that he lives in former abandoned church.

He says, today would have been my wife's 59th birthday, but it's now seven years since she's been gone. Please play a cover of or buy Annie Lennox. My wife's name was Annie as well. Thank you, signed Ambassador Domo. Oh man, I'm so sorry to hear that. I know. It's

God, we think, you know, obviously we think of you so fondly Ambassador Domo and we send you virtual hugs out right now to you in your weird abandoned haunted church. I want to live in his abandoned haunted church. I do. I think there's probably room for all of us.

let's go let's get in there uh you know podcast studio in there and uh and just you know wait for the ghosts to stop howling before we record anything i'm ready um all right let's get to his request anything any lennox i love any lennox's voice and i feel like this is a great example of it this is from her 2014 album nostalgia where she covered a bunch of older songs she's done a couple all cover albums and uh since her time with the erythmics and and um this is the more recent of the two. Medusa was the first one that had a bunch of great things on it as well. This is a great song. It is a cover of George Gershwin's song from Porgy and Bess. It is summertime. Summertime and the living is easy.

fish are jumping and jumping in the cotton is high you're dead is rich And your ball is good looking

So hush, little baby Don't Don't you cry? One of these mornings, you're going to rise, you're going to rise up or singing. You're going to spread your wings and away you'll fly the tears that morning Oh, nothing will harm you

With daddy and mommy standing by standing by summertime and summertime and living is easy. been and the cotton

is high your dad is rich and you're more, you're more, you're more, good looking So hush, little baby, don't you cry. Summertime Summer time Summertime, summer time,

Somer time, summer time, summer time, Summer time Ooh.