The Morning Stream - TMS 2512: The dumb end of the stick

Episode Date: August 23, 2023

No one suspects the volcano sponges! Scott's banana is radioactive. Underwater Hoo-Ha. Imma close my eyes and poke. Uranium is from Uranus. 23rd of the month again. Bobby's a Scab, Scott does an Ad. Mega Hard Drive of Bumpers. Our Lord And Saviour Danny Devito on reccamentals 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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Greetings and hello and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, August 23, 2023. We got a 23-23 in the house. Those aren't always happening. Uh, hi everybody. Oh, no, I guess they are happening all year. There's a 23rd every month. So I don't know why I said that. It's a very common occurrence and, uh, will happen every month. So I don't know why I'm celebrating it. I'm Scott Johnson. I am joined today by guest chair host, Mr. Bobby Frankenberger. Hello, Bobby. Hello, everyone. Hello. Yes, I am here. You, uh, sitting in the chair, borrowing the chair from Brian Ibitt. Mm-hmm. His, his ample seat is now yours for the remainder of today. program. And Ample is the right word, I think. Is it the right word, or am I saying a terrible thing? Or maybe it's cushioned, is what I'm trying to say. Oh, I see what you're saying. Ample. Yeah, we don't mean like it's... I'm not referring to any physical characteristic of Brian's bum. No, no, no. No. We're talking like, you know, he keeps it clean. I don't know. He fluffs it, I suppose. What else do you do to a chair to keep things good? You know, you spray it. it maybe. Do you do any of those things? No, I don't do any of that. You know, like I use this chair

so much for every show I'm on, I'm sitting in it, every stream I do, I'm sitting in it, for the rest of the damn standing mostly. It's a standing desk, but I have a high chair that I sit in when I record. I can't podcast and stand. I fidget too much. It's weird. Yeah, yeah. I was, I recently did some voice over, some voice acting work with, um, it was actually a project that many of you may know that Bill Meeks Oh, I like Bill Meeks. He's a good dude.

So where he does these voice voice acting recording sessions with groups of people altogether, which is very different. Most people don't do that. Anyway, I was there and everybody's like all these, this is the first voice acting I've ever done in any serious sense. And everybody

else who's there, there's a lot of professional voice actors. And they're all like in their place with their nice microphones and all of them are standing. Oh, yeah. Well, it's because they have to enunciate. They have to articulate and gesticulate, right? Yeah, and I get it, but I just don't, I just don't, I'm like you.

I can't really do it. I've, I've cultivated my chest forward, you know, not restricting my diaphragm sitting position when I podcast. So maybe I don't need to stand, but maybe I should try. Maybe I should. My diaphragm fell out So I don't know where it is I don't know what happened

It's a well you know The doctors are looking for it They'll give me the patch or something It'll be fine But my point is like Now if somebody said hey Scott We need you just to do Voice acting

Let's say it's an animated something And you need to be a character I would probably want to stand for that Because I would want to like Be physical with the role But it's hard for me to do it for show You know when we were almost done really

I kind of realized that I was like you know a lot of the acting I'm trying to do here is because it's the acting part of it right and it is very physical to do that I think I'm not talking like an expert like I said this is the first time I've ever done it

but I realized as I was doing it getting into character that even though it's just your voice I was you know gesticulating and and using body length to sort of like get into character and give the performance you know are the results of this

recording session available to anybody can people see this um i don't know how anybody i don't know if it's a public discord that you could go to but uh but um there is a youtube channel i should uh i should find it but um there's a youtube channel it's it's called everly heights the whole project he's creating sort of like a a whole universe um of shows that he's going to eventually put together but it's called Everly Heights and the one that we're doing is called the first one that's coming out is very special um sort of like a 90s a takeoff it's like a you know like a 90s sitcom kind of after school special not after school special but an after school sitcom yeah um thing but i'll put it in the chat i just got the i just found

the link to his website the everly heights website it's everley heights dot TV for anybody who's listening um yeah go check it out bill meeks doing cool work because it one of the great things that he does there is he um he he he's very transparent about the process yeah of of what he's doing because it's also going to be animated using like a i animation it's pretty interesting um but uh he's very transparent about it and he's doing a whole web series that's been sponsored by companies that uh about the making of it so you could actually go on and see some of these recording sessions on that on that so what's the end game does he has he said what the end game is like where is this going to air somewhere is it going to be like a netflixy thing or some sort of stream well right now

all we did was all we did was record one episode which is a pilot episode and he is trying going to try and shop that around and and get it picked up by somebody somewhere fun i don't know what that is i'm not involved in that end of it but um but i know that his intention is to to sell it so that he can make a whole bunch of episodes. So what you're saying is you'll soon be joining the SAG Aftera picket line because you'll have to get your SAG car. Yeah, this particular project was non-union, so we were able to keep doing stuff. I wonder if it would stay non-union if he got it picked up, maybe not.

I don't know. That whole world is so foreign to me. It's crazy. Yeah. When I did the voiceover for those GE Olympic commercials, they needed me to be non-union to even do it because I guess so many times a year they can do a non-union actor and not be any, I don't know what the rule. It was some weird rules where you could do it like once a year, you could do this.

Or maybe it was the actor could do it once. But then after that, if I had a second session of these, I'd have to be. union member to do it or some kind of weird rules like that so they were so in a way they were using me to uh get around having to do some unionized dude uh i'm not actually sure how it worked out so whatever g e they bring good things to life and that's all we really know that's all we've been told yeah i will say that i i'm very um ignorant of how all that works and uh i promise i'm not trying to cheat uh union actors out of jobs no hell no We support them.

Pay people fair wages. Yeah, pay fair wages. That's what me and Bobby are all about. Brian's on a plane, I think, at the very moment, in fact, I believe. I believe he's flying right now. I could be wrong. But is he flying that plane? No, but if they got, I mean, if they got into a pinch, you know,

they went out there and said, excuse me, can anyone here fly a plane? And if nobody raised their hand, I'd like to think Brian could go, well, I could try. You know? And then they pull him into the front of the thing and he sweats and he lands a plane. He just said he watched, he just recently watched that hijack show. Yeah, that was very good, by the way. Oh, I'd be a hard time flying right after seeing that, though. That's a rough one because it's like eight or nine hours of intense hijack TV television.

It's not like a movie where it's over in two hours. It was a long, a long drawn out look at what it might be like to have an extended crisis in the air, you know. Yeah, yeah. Which nobody wants that in their lives. so yeah he's gone but he'll be back he'll be back next week monday neither of us are here tomorrow so there is no show tomorrow and thankfully bobby is here warming this seat today so that we can make sure to give you guys a wednesday episode of the show um real quick here there was something i was going to tell you what was it oh i have a scientist for you scientist test for you or a science

test not a scientist test uh and it's for you yeah science test are you ready to be cyan tested scientist. Yes, I think, I mean, as ready as I'll ever be. I was born ready is what I mean to say. These are facts you should know regarding the periodic table. Oh, God. Now, we're going to do 15 questions. There's like a lot of judgment already in that. There may be. There may be. Now, I am notoriously bad at remembering the periodic table, just bad at it. In fact, I'm not great either. I should have one on my wall, but I don't. So you, You have complete from memory here. I don't have any way to cheat.

I mean, it honestly feels like my most recent exposure to the periodic table was like the opening credits of Breaking Bad for all those years. I think that's about as good as it got for me. Yeah, that's probably most people's, yeah. Yeah. So you, a connoisseur of fine science and someone who runs a science podcast all around science, I thought it'd be fun to poke you with some of these questions. So we'll start with number one.

Which element got its name from the water it makes when it is burned? So when you burn it, it makes water. And I'll give you multiple choice, so you don't have to guess out of the air. Your options are sodium, iodine, hydrogen, or tungsten. Well, hydrogen is part of water. It doesn't make water when you burn it. Oh, already. I hear confidence.

No, maybe that's not true, actually. I mean, hydro is in the name. Is that a trick? Oh, I don't know. Well, so combustion, so a combustion reaction involves oxygen. So, you know what, I'm going to not overthink it too much. I'm just going to go with my gut. Since combustion requires oxygen as well, I'm going to say that hydrogen is the one.

All right, I'm going to choose it. Oh, my gosh, you are correct. It was the first called inflammable air before chemist Anton Lavoisier renamed it waterformer. Water former, hydrogen, you know, generating from. Water, I guess. Generates water. That's interesting because, yeah, hydrogen is famously a component of water, but that's how it would get the oxygen to do it, right? You add a bunch of energy. You're right. And then oxygen. You're right. You get one of these. Congratulations. Next up. Uranium was named after which of the following? All right?

A country, a scientist, a planet, or a dog. I would not fault you for getting this one wrong because who the hell knows? this fact but uranium or uranium a country a planet a scientist or a dog it is one of i'm gonna i'm gonna say the a country or a region i'm gonna say it's geographic let's find out incorrect it is planet it says uh really uranus named after uranus 1789 shortly after the planet uranus was discovered neptuneitonium and plutonium are also named after celestial bodies in our oh i should have thought more about it about the other radioactive elements that might have helped tip me off.

You're right. Yeah, it can happen. All right, here's one for you. Thanks. Thanks. Which of these metals is liquid at room temperature? I feel good about your chances here. Mercury.

Oh, my Lord. All right, we have zinc, mercury, nickel, and titanium. You say mercury. Yeah, the only other one it could be, which isn't, is only a, it wasn't on the list, which would be gallium. And gallium is liquid not at room temperature, but slightly above. Okay. Let's find out if it's mercury.

You are correct. Mercury often called quicksilver remains a liquid until cooled at about negative 40 Fahrenheit. Bromene is the only other element that is liquid at room temperature. Bromene? You even bromine, bro? All right. Yeah. Next up.

Bromene. What is a bromine? I don't even want to know. Which element is most abundant in both Earth's crust and the human body? Iron, silicon, hydrogen, oxygen. Which of those four? are most abundant in both Earth's crust and the human body. So Earth's crust is the giveaway here because if you hadn't included that,

I would have had more questions because most abundant is a trick, right? Like, what do they mean by weight, by mass, by like quantity? But you often hear when you go to, in geology class, or you go to a natural history museum and they talk about the Earth's crust that silicon is the most abundant mineral there. So I'm going to say silicon. Let's find out if that is correct.

The correct answer is oxygen constitutes nearly half of Earth's crust and two thirds of a human mass. Oh, man. Man. Rough one. I'm not doing well. Rough one. I mean, that makes sense, oxygen, I say, after having heard the answer.

It makes sense. but you just don't think about it. Oxygen reacts with everything. Yeah, that thing is, that thing's out in front strutting around, like all the other elements look at it and go, you bastard. It attaches to everything. Oxidation reactions. That's what an oxidation is.

Yeah. Oxygen hanging on. Think of it as like Hollywood. Tom Cruise is oxygen. Gets all the work, gets to call it, write his own ticket. He's just out there. You're breathing. He's always there.

You're eating it. Yeah, it's just everywhere. Here's this one. Diamonds are made of which element? Sulfur, lithium, carbon, or nitrogen. This seems easy. It's carbon. I thought about interrupting you again, but I thought better to be polite.

Well, it's carbon. You are absolutely correct. Diamonds are not made from coal. Diamond is just a form of carbon. Yeah, a lot of people think you can just squish coal down. That is not correct. That is a fun thing to say. I think there's a little bit more to it.

It takes a lot of pressure to turn any form of carbon into diamond because it has to be under enough pressure and enough heat. So what all of that process is doing is adding energy to allow the carbon to form a crystal, to crystallize and structure in the way that it needs to. You need a lot of energy to create those really strong bonds. Nice. Next up we have, which element found in red blood cells helps carry oxygen?

Which element is iron? Oh, look at you already with the answer. calcium, boron, lead, or iron. Let's see if it's iron. You are correct. Nicely done. Iron is a hemoglobin or no, sorry. The iron in hemoglobin forms a reversible bond with oxygen,

which lats together in the lungs and then split at the oxygen's destination. Our bodies are weird. The deeper we get on like how shit works and how things actually come together and then hold on to each other until the right moment and let go, it kind of freaks me out. It's crazy. It's really amazing. fascinating how these super complex processes, just speaking of blood, just if you start digging into

the chemical chain reaction that occurs that causes your blood to clot whenever you get a, whenever you get a cut, just that is like a crazy, like 12 step long process that if any one of those steps in that process don't happen, then you don't get, you don't get clotting and you can bleed out. Yeah, it's crazy. That is crazy to me. Like, we don't think of it this way, but every breath you take is a magnificent set of systems that just work yeah and from our perspective it's like how did how is this even possible but uh a billion a billion years of evolution that's a long time long time it's a long time yeah yeah uh all right let's do one more of these before we call done away all right which of these famous poisons appears in the periodic table they are famous

for various reasons. Your options are, strychnine, ricin, arsenic, or cyanide. Which of those four is also a periodic table occupant?

Oh, shoot. It's either arsenic or cyanide. When you started saying this, I was like, I got this, because if I hear an element on the periodic table, I will know it.

I mean, arsenic and old lace, what's that referring to? Does that give you a hint? Maybe not. How about cyanide? What's that cartoon? I don't think it's cyanide because I think I remember seeing a chemical, like a chemical structure of cyanide at some point, like a molecular structure, which would imply that it's more than one element because it's made of atoms. So I'm going to say arsenic.

Let's find out if you are correct about that answer. You are correct. Arsenic has been dubbed the king of poisons thanks to it's odorless and tasteless qualities. And we don't mean tasteless like it has no taste. Like, oh, that suit you're wearing is ugly. Not that kind of taste. We don't mean that. You cannot taste it on your tongue.

That always made me think that we should ban arsenic from everything. But it's on the periodic table. How are you going to do that, you know? Good luck. For whatever, however they go, they don't tell me out of what, but you scored a 2000. That sounds great. It does sound great, doesn't it? It sounds awesome.

Your score, in a big, bright green letters, score, colon 2000. Out of 12 million. I guess. I'm guessing you did, you answered more right than wrong, so I think you did okay. There are more, if we have time at the end of the show, we'll keep going. Yeah, I love opportunities to show how smart or dumb I am. Yeah. I mean, aren't we all trying to do that all the time?

I feel like I am. I feel like I succeed a lot, too. On the dumb side. At the dumb, okay. Yeah, the dumb end. The dumb end of the stick. I go for that a lot and I get there. All right.

We're going to play a little game, everybody. Sit back, relax. We're doing this right now. Oh, that's not loud. As you can hear, that means we're going to play a little game with Brian Dunaway. And today we're just going to call it Bobby's contest. I don't know. We don't know what to call it because you're doing it today.

You made it up. It's just a thing you made up. And we're not taking your calls or none of that. It's just we're going to. Oh, I can tell you these rules. We're going to pick people, two people in the chat room. We'll let Dunaway pick one. I'll pick one.

And those people will be the people we're playing for. So whichever one of us wins, the other person gets this rad. Package of Frog Pants paraphernalia, including one of the camera up, one of these brand new bomber man stickers I had made, which I will send to the lucky winner, whoever it is, plus some other stuff. But this will be in there. Wow. And pretty proud of these. So you'll be getting those. And right now those would be exclusive to you because I haven't given them to anyone else yet, except my daughter.

She has one. Speaking of Brian, Dunaway, he's here. Hello, Brian. Welcome. Oh, hi. Hi, Scott and Bobby. Oh, hello. Hey, Brian.

It's weird having. Look at all this South Carolina at the same time business. It's a little bit weird. I know. I've heard this might happen. And we have approximately 15 minutes before me and Bobby both burst into flames. That's what happens. We annihilate each other.

That's right. Paradoxes, man. Don't do it. Don't do it. Look, I've seen Time Cop, if you touch each other, you'll turn it into a purple ball or something, right? Isn't that the deal? I think we can all learn something from that. From that very important educational movie.

Yeah, touching, yeah, touching, yeah, then purple balls. Yeah, purple balls. Speaking of Greenwood, South Carolina, I flew up there a couple of times, Brian. Oh, yeah, yeah, we've got a small airport over here. Oh, you said, did you die? I said threw up. I didn't hear you say. Flew up.

Yeah. I threw up. I went to Greenwood just to vomit. Right. Yeah. Probably if you flew in to Greenwood Airport, you probably did vomit. You probably didn't have much choice. Yeah.

It's like, where am I riding in here? So wait, you flew there. What, you fly there, land there, and then leave there. Like, what did you do? Yeah, well, Brian, I'm a, I'm a training to be a private pilot. So, yeah. I actually know a few around here. Yeah.

Yeah, I've flown in a couple of times, flew up to the Greenwood airport and back for practice. Why is it called Greenwoods? A bunch of like woods that are green. Is that the deal? Yes, Scott, that's exactly. That's why we called it Greenwood. And it's one of the reasons why I actually I had got up this morning and I felt just horrible. I didn't sleep well last night. Allergies. Yeah. Because I thought you were going to say because you had Greenwood. Well, Greenwood. Yeah. It's early in the morning. It happens to a lot of guys. It's gang greenish. Um, but yeah, we, uh, but no, the, the, uh, the, uh, the weather keeps going up and down last week or so. And so the, the plants don't know what to do.

The woods don't know what to do. And they're just like trying to murder me. My, I live in what was the, what was the one with the, the, the Marky Mark and he was the, the, the woods were trying to, though, the happening, the happening. The happening. Yeah. I live that every day. Yeah. That's, that's what I do.

You're a better actor in it, though, probably because he was terrible. I'm certainly more dramatic. I'll give you that. Yeah. I'll give you, I'll give you that. Yeah. Well, it's good to have you. We're going to play a little game.

Bobby, I have no idea what you've prepared. So before we do it, though, Brian and I need to pick somebody random from the audience. So I'm going to grab, let me see. I'm just going to just grab somebody. Let's see. Let's do. You know what I'm close my eyes and poke. Here we go.

Close my eyes and poke. Who did I pick? Oh, Stephanie Pets. Stephanie Pets. You. Stephanie Pets, that's great. Yeah, she's my play for her. Let me write this down somewhere here.

going to take, I'm going to let me, I'm just randomly picking as well and we said, me, me, not me, me, not me, me. I'm going to go with oh, I'm going to go with One Sleepy Panda. Oh, One Sleepy Panda. That's awesome.

We like him too. I can call it, yeah. Yeah, one sleepy panda. Sleepy Panda. All right, so you're playing for one sleepy panda. I'm playing for Stephanie pets and the prizes. If Stephanie wins, she gets a whole bunch of mobile games. Oh, yeah.

A subscription to it. Or maybe somebody else gets them. see. Yeah, we'll see. Anyway, we'll see what happens here as we venture forward. Bobby, please present your game. How does this work? So we've done this before, so you guys should be familiar, but for everybody else, we're going to play

a little science or fiction type game, which is a game where I'm going to present Scott and Brian Dunaway with statements that may be true or false. Science or fiction. I like this. Science or fiction, instead of science fiction. I like it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And their job is to decide

which one it is. I'll be keeping score and we'll see whether they can figure it out. So the score, I guess, to start with, this is me stalling while I type your names into this duck is zero to zero. It is I. Oh, you're talking about the players or us?

You guys are, well yeah, so your score if you win, then you're a person you've selected wins, so. Right. That's right. Do I need to say their name again? No. Sure. I mean, if you want, if you want to, I got them right here. I wrote them down.

Oh, you got right there? Oh, you wrote down names? Yeah, I wrote down names. Oh, Scott's taken down names. By the way, earlier, I said, I said, Marky Mark, does anybody you still know who the hell I'm talking about when I'm talking about? Oh, yeah, when you say Marky Mark? I think so. I mean, I knew immediately, obviously, because we're a generationally equivalent.

Yeah, that would be Mark Wahlberg, if you didn't know. He had a whole rap career or some kind of pop career. Check it out if you didn't know. I don't know. It's a sensation or some sort. Feel the vibration. I wonder if my kids, my kids might not know. Like, if I asked Carter, if she knew who Marky, I'm going to try it today.

I'll ask her who Marky Mark is and her answer will tell us what generation forgot. There you go. Good job. All right. Because she knows who Mark Wahlberg is because he still asked, right? Yeah, people know that now. Yeah. Used to be an underwear model, by the way, if you didn't know that.

Yeah, I did. All right, I'm done. Now I want some science or fiction. That was your favorite era for him, you know? Yeah, absolutely. Underwear model is always my favorite. Hubba, hubba. All right.

All right, you guys ready for the first question? Yeah, do it. We're going to pick a number. Both of you, pick a number one through ten. We'll decide who goes first. Eight and six. Oh, my gosh. It was seven.

Pick another number. We can't even do science wrong. Two. Two, I'm doing two. I'm doing four just to make it difficult. It was one this time. I decided to pick a number that was not possible for you to. Okay, go on binary.

I see. Okay, fine. All right. So, Scott, you're going to do. go first? Yep. Unless you want to go second. No, I'm happily go first.

No problem with it. Here's the question. You have to decide whether it's true or false. You ready? Yeah. Good. Do it. The oldest living thing on Earth is thought to be 850 years old, which means it was just beginning

its 40s when the Magna Carta was signed. The part you're saying is true or false is the first 850 years old. Oh, right. So I'm not supposed to do the math. Okay, that's what I was trying to figure out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to say that. I'm going to say that's true.

It's probably a tree or something. I'm going to say true. True. The answer is false. Damn it. The oldest living thing is actually much, much older than that. It's 15,000 years old. It is a volcano sponge that lives in a hydrothermal vents on the seafloor.

You didn't think about the volcano sponges, did you, Johnson? I don't know what I was thinking, Brian Denner. don't know where my head was that I didn't think of the volcano sponges that are so old. Gosh, David. No one ever thinks of the volcano sponges. But if you, I anchored my question in

human history with the Magna Carta, so I will tell you that at the time the volcano sponge was this continuously living volcano sponge was first being born. The Sahara Desert was still wet and fertile. And humans were just

starting to figure out how to domesticate pigs. Damn. I love that you, I love that we had to figure it out too. Let me ask you. What do you want to do? How are we going to get these things to hang around? I don't know. I want to ask you a question, but also I don't want to kill.

How many total questions do you have? Are there like a million of these or anybody got? We'll go until you want to stop. You tell me. All right. We'll go to the top of the hour. I just had this question. Why is it called a volcano?

Is it absorbent of lava or is it just porous? Well, it is red. Okay. It's red. It is red, but it also lives on hydrothermal vents, which look kind of like volcanoes, I suppose. Yeah. So, that's what I would guess. I just need to know what I'm looking out for when I see my next volcano sponge.

Right. I mean, if a sponge starts coming at me, you know, I want to know what to do. Yeah. It's a sponge bob. Yeah, sponge is famous for being very fast and. Spunge rock. Threatening. Oh, you know what?

I think I've seen video of that. Spond, rock, volcano pants. The oldest living tree, because you were thinking of plants, right? trees. The oldest living tree is actually 4,800 years old. Oh, wow. Where is it? It's a bristlecone pine. Nobody's sure where it lives. They've named it.

It's named Methuselah. No one knows where it lives. Because we don't want to know, because we don't want to know by effing around with it. I got you. I know it's in the west somewhere. It could be like Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, somewhere around there. But its location is like a closely guarded secret. I'm sure somebody on TikTok is conspiratorial about that

right now. Well, I'm sure. They don't want to tell us because it's all alive. Well, that's better than the 400 people on TikTok that want to go burn it down or carve their name into it. So I'll take the secret. That's fine. All right. There's number one. I did poorly. Done away. Brian, you ready?

Let's give me the science. This one's an easy one. Well, easy in the sense that it's three words. Your question, or the statement. True or false. Bananas are radioactive. Bananas are radioactive. That's a fun one.

It is fun one. And like all bananas or just some of them? I'm talking about bananas. All right. So there's so many different bananas. We don't even eat in the United States. We don't even eat the same banana that we ate in the, you know, 50s and 60s. It's not because they keep tweaking it genetically.

But if you're talking about just straight banana, you're not talking about, you know, it's just banana. A straight banana. Just a straight up banana. A straight banana would look weird. Right. It would look weird. Would it? I don't know. I'm going to go, it sounds so crazy. I'm going to say, you know, the bananas are radioactive. It's just so small. It's like there's cyanide and apple seeds. I'm going to say. Sounds crazy enough to be true. It sounds crazy enough to be true. Give me the science fact. Bananas are radioactive. That you are correct. It's true. Damn it. He gets a point for that. Put it in your spreadsheet. Bananas are radioactive. Bananas contained potassium famously. Right. Yeah. And a very. small percentage of that potassium

is an isotope called potassium 40 which decays releasing electrons and gamma rays which can be damaging. Oh, I can be the Hulk if I eat the bananas? If you eat enough bananas, you'll be constipated but you'll be very angry about it in the Hulk. That's right. Right, it's a

good combo. If I had a Geiger counter thing, and I held it close to a bunch of bananas, would it register? Yes, actually it would register. If it's sensitive enough, it would absolutely register a higher radioactivity if you put it next to a banana. The radiation dose is so small that it's never going to hurt you, really. A single banana exposed.

So it's measured in mili-rems. It's 0.01 mili-rams of radiation one banana has. And a chest x-ray has 10 milligrams, which is a lot more. That's a lot of nanos, yeah. Let's see. You'd have to eat. I got a banana right here. Let's see.

Oh, yeah. There you go. Yeah, my banana's registering. That's what it would sound like if you put the detector up to a banana. Yeah, it worked. It's like playing Fallout 4 with a banana. Anyway. So a chest x-ray increases in adults' risk of death by one in a million, right?

So very small amount. And you would have to eat 10,000 bananas. Not a problem. In one sitting. Oh, one sitting. Okay, there's a problem. To equal the radiation dose of a single chest x-ray. so oh that okay so not really what happened if you ate a banana why you were getting it

i don't want to know all right you don't want to know also let me say this about bananas uh if you are anywhere in the high blood sugar zones uh whether wherever that is for you find folks at home medically uh i've been told bananas are are the worst thing you right right bananas or or uh more greenish well if you're gonna eat a green one the sugar the sugar index glycemic index can be very very can vary a lot with bananas yeah but if you're eating it green you get the diarrhea. You get the diarrhea. That's what you get. Right. Right. Right. If you eat like totally green. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't do that. But you're not supposed to, bananas are a big sugar source. I don't. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're mostly fiber except when they start to turn your sugar, right? Is it? Yeah, I think. Yeah, I think so. But the only, but the greener they are, the more fibrous, the more. When they start to turn brown, the little brown spots. Right. Diarrere. Whoops. No, the opposite of that. You'll get plugged up, I think, from that. Anyway. Do you guys eat the peel of the banana? Oh, my, more.

Are we crazy? What do we? Do you? Do you do that? No, I don't. Okay. But I'm sure somebody does. Somebody always does.

I do like to eat a little bit of the orange whenever I mean, oranges, I'll eat a little bit of the peel. You'll eat a bit of the peel? What? What is going on? My daughter eats the orange rind and she likes it, and I think she's nuts. I won't eat the whole thing, but I will, like, are you ever zested anything? That's some good stuff on the outside of the orange with the little zesting.

She takes the whole one, and she'll eat an orange, and then she'll sit on the couch and just, like snack, slowly snack on the pieces of the rind. I'll do a little bit. I'll do a little bit. Not a lot. I can't eat the whole rind. That would be crazy. Yeah. Of course. Someone in the chat says a slice of white bread is worse for you than just one banana, dude, they said. Dude.

My answer to that is, yeah, no, that's not what I'm talking about. Of course it is. Of course it's more healthy. But if you have high blood sugar and you are heading toward diabetic town, a slice of white bread is not going to flood your and spike your system with sugar the way of the nano oil. That's all I'm saying. But Scott, they said, dude. That's how you know.

Right, right, right. Yeah, I'm sorry. That's what my doctor says every time I go in. Dude. Dude. He's looking at your chart and walks in and he goes, ooh, dude. Dude. Be careful, dude.

All right. My turn then. Next question. Yeah. Scott, you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Here's the statement. Sure or false.

Photons are made inside of stars when they fuse elements together to make new elements. That's not the true or false part. That's a true part. That's just a fact. Yeah, that's just a fact. Photons are made inside of stars. These photons are byproducts of the reaction that stars are fusing together things. So the statement is whenever a photon is newly made in the core of our sun, it takes up to 40,000 years to travel to Earth. I'm going to say that is false. I think it's faster than that. 40,000 years? That seems way, that can't be.

Because we got more photons And we know what to do with, man Let's make some torpedoes out of them I got a room full of photons Just laying around I need to organize my photons I'm going to say no That is not correct

Well the answer is true Oh wait true I'm right or you're right You're wrong You are incorrect It is true It does take 40,000 years to travel Earth

While it might only take a photon of light About eight minutes to travel From the sun to Earth From its surface Right It's got to break out of there Yeah, it's got to get When it's made in the core

It takes On average about 40,000 years For it to get out of the core of the sun So they're in no hurry Right Yeah Because it's constantly bumping into other atoms Which absorb it and shoot it out in other directions

There's plasma, magnetic fields That it interacts with All this kind of stuff If you don't write a photon comic, Scott We have a guy to us all Trying to get out of there I don't know Yeah

Yeah I'm maybe I will Maybe I will, Brian. Open into people. Yep. I got... Bopin' peeps. I got nothing but time. I think I'm going to make it.

Dude. Yeah. All right. Dunaway's turn to make more... Gosh, dang it. You're winning by... Well, only by one, but still, it's pissing me off. All right.

Brian, see if you can do this next one. What do you got there? All right. Here it is. You ready? Yeah. Good. This is a little bit of a lead-in.

So, first, this is a warm-up to this question. You guys can both tell me. Do you guys know what Scuba stands for? Scuba. Yeah, like underwater hoo-ha stuff. Underwater. That's right, that's right. You know, you're going underwater for things, right?

You're doing the scuba. We know what scuba is used for. Right, right, right. Oh, okay. But what does it stand for? Oh, yeah. Oh, all right. Oh, this will be fun.

I've never heard this. Do you know? This isn't the question. I'm just asking you guys to, do you know? Oh, I know it, yes. I have no idea. Zero idea. What is it?

Impress us. That is self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. I used to have a friend who used to love to do that shit. He had a scuba. He had the stupid scuba on his license plate. I'm a scuba diver. Whatever, shut up. Yeah, when I was a kid, I used to...

Will I be Jason? Try to impress people. I'd be like, oh, I'm going to go scuba. And I was like, do you mean self-contained underwater breathing? Then you push your glasses up. Yeah. So, wait, does that give you... Do you know what...

Do you know what laser stands for? Lasers... Oh, I don't know what this is a word. Shut up. The Z-E-R version? The S-E-R version. The S-E-R version. Okay, the S-E-R version.

The real version, okay. Hold on, light. Light, yeah, light. Apparitis. Amplified. Amplified. So far, you're right. Light amplification.

Okay. Uh, S. Uh, super. No. Sub. I like super. Sub-super. Nope.

Nope. Scalable. Serious. Nope. Nope. Spectrum. Spectrum? All right, here we go. Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Did they just make that up later and

add it on to there? Or was that always the deal? No, laser is such a natural thing to call. Well, I think it is. I think there's a like a guy who's trying to figure out the sound it was making. It's making like a laser sound. I mean, we use laser now so, so you know, randomly. That's why we call it a gun, famously, because it goes, gun, gun, gun, gun, gun, Gun. Gun, gun, gun, gun. That's a weird thing to think about. All right. So he got a point for that, didn't he? The little. All right. So the question is, the question, the real question for Brian Dunaway is true or false. These are all acronyms.

Didn't we just say that? Didn't we just say, didn't we just confirm those acronyms? I can't account for what anybody said while we were, well, we were just screwing around a minute ago. Right, right, right. Now I'm confused by, ask the question again. So scuba and laser. Muba, laser. And, well, is there another one? That's it. Okay. Did that confuse you with my strange intonation? All right.

Yeah, that's what you, that's right. It's called his, yeah. So those are all acronyms slash. It's an acronym. Yeah, yeah. As long as I understand the question correctly, which it seems like a trick question. Is DNA an acronym? That's the other one.

Yeah, deoxy, what is it, nucleic acid? Deoxy ribonucleic acid. Yeah, yeah, that's a DRN. Yeah, but are those, which ones, initialisms, which ones are acronyms? Because that's a big difference, too. Well, I think it's acronym, right? That's the definition. Acronym is the ones you say the letters and initialism.

No, initialism is when you say the letters, acronyms when you spell something, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah, acronym. Yeah, I'm going with it. Yeah. So you confuse me. Which one's which?

Which one is which? Oh. Oh. No, I know what this is. Scuba is an acronym. Right. FBI is an initialism. or DNA or any of those.

Scuba is the acronym. Yeah, because you're pronouncing it. And I think that makes it an initialism. I think that's right. Oh, okay. Why is Scott answering my question? Yeah, Brian, Scott gave you the correct answer, so correct. Damn it.

It's true. It's true. Scuba and Laser are acronyms, and DNA is an initialism. You're right. Acronym, nym meaning, like, name, word. All right. Yes. We have time for one more. of these. Let's see. I mean, I have no chance of winning, do I, unless you decide to do some crazy

scoring on this one, but this is going to be, you know, I'm not going to win. But let's try to it. You have lost, but we can all learn a little bit of science with one more question. All right. I promise not to answer your questions. All right. Fair enough. Yeah. Here you go. Ready? Yeah. Let's go at this one. Only the South Pole has a marker. You can't mark the North Pole due to the fact that there's no land there. Oh, shit. There's no...

That's a weird one. Of course there's land. I'm going to say that's false. There's land up there. They don't got no places up there in the north. They're talking about... Well, Santa Claus and shit like that. You got to have a place.

Is there no land up there? You know what? You have to say final answer. Let me go against my own instincts. Final answer is no or false. Sorry, yeah, true, there is no land because I don't know. It just sounds crazy, but I'll say yes.

The answer, it is true. Oh, I got it, wow. You got one. You did not go zero. You don't hear about the scientist hanging around at the North Pole. Do you know what? Well, they do have expeditions to the North Pole.

The thing is that it's all frozen water up there. There's no land, but because it's floating, it moves around. Right. So if you put a physical marker there, it would be in a different place later. And so there's no land to stick in. Earth is doing weird stuff.

Earth is weird, man. I mean, you still could because there's still, if you went down, if you took a pole and it was deep enough, you'd hit land. You'd hit underwater land eventually. Underwater land. Underwater land. That was, what's that, was it water dash three or something? No, it's where water world where he goes down to Denver. How would you keep the pole to reach the surface through all the ice that's moving around?

well that's a good that's a good point but if you could figure that out you'd have it you'd be all set you could just figure out some way you could well here's the good news the good news is this congratulations we have a winner you're a winner and that winner is not uh stephanie sorry stephanie you lost my my apologies stephanie pets but one sleepy panda is a winner and all i need him to do is ping me on discord and i'll get his details and send him this physical package including some stickers and prints and some of the cool frog pants paraphernalia. Congratulations, you hitched your wagon to the right star today, all right? That's how that went for you.

Yeah, hitched your wagon to the right pole. That's right. Dunaway and I, though, later today, 3.30 Mountain Time right here at frogpans.com. We'll be doing a live episode of Play Retro. We are talking about the 8-bit and 16-bit baseball games that shaped the, really, the video digital version of the game forever. Yeah. And we've got some real winners to talk about.

Mainly there's one that I just think overpowers them all. But we'll talk. What? You think one of them? Not is it the original the baseball, the original Nintendo baseball? Nope. I got one that's like, I'm not going to tell you yet because we'll save it for the show. But I got one that I'll tell you.

Does it involve robots firing balls out of cannons? No, I do love that game, though. That 2020, the thing, it's set in 2020, this baseball game. Base Wars. Yeah. Base wars. Not that. But it's, it's very good.

and it is 16-bit, that's the only hint I'll give you. We'll talk about it more today, but baseball games are one of my favorite video game things there is. And I'm not even that big of a sports video game player, but I do love a good baseball game in video game form. So we're going to talk about the origins of those and which ones really made a splash and all that. That's today at 3.30 Mountain Time.

Done away anything else you'd like to say to us? Good luck, Bobby, getting that pilot's license. Thanks. It's coming up soon that I get to do it. I was actually almost hoping that I would have it done by now and then I could have rented a plane and flown up for one of the days that everyone's going to be up there in Asheville. Yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh, can you imagine showing up in your pilot shit?

Right. That's cool. That's cool, man. You could have buzzed them, you know, like buzzing the tower. Yeah, yeah, that's what you should do the first day you have about the pilot's license. Yep, yeah. Or, you know, push some weird red dust out of the back of the plane or something. Yeah, yeah.

All great idea. Sky wrote. Yeah. Yeah. Something like, I don't know what would you say. Amy and Chalker smell funny and then just get away as fast as you can. Hey, Dunaway kiss our butts. All right, he's out.

We're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, we're going to spend a little time with Tom Merritt. We're going to do some tech time. So stick around for that. In the meantime, I'm going to play a song. Yeah, that's right. Brian gave me some music to play. Usually he's in charge of this stuff, but not today.

Well, still today. I'm just reading it. He sent me a single called Feet on the Ground. This is, let's see, the band is called, if I can find it. Jason Blackmore, which says Molly McGuire in parentheses. I don't know if that's the same person or not. And somebody named Mario Quintero from the band Spotlights. These folks have come together and created a brand new band called Sisters.

Sister. Like in Star Wars, remember that? It's the whole thing. Anyway, they've released a single called Feet on the Ground. This is from their upcoming debut album, Leach Heater, or Leach Eater, rather. There's no heating. It's eating. That comes out on August 25th, which is literally two days away.

So something you can get your hands on. Look, if you like bands like the deaf tones, hum and failure, those kind of bands, then Sisters is probably right for you. So here it is. Let's play this song. We'll be back in a minute. Stay tuned. You're going to be able to be. Watch the elevator close.

Start counting down the floors to meet your other face. Down the elevator goes, the air was wrongy road. The meaning of this place. When you wake, when you wake, You don't know You're sinking You don't know You're thinking

You don't know The thing is You don't know You're thinking down the elevator goes the hours on the road the meaning of this place You won't know you're thinking.

You don't know you're singing. You won't know you're thinking. You don't know the thing is. You won't know, you won't know.

Thank you. You don't feel a stand survive you're floating away feel the same So far away We're burning away

That's never the same We're feet on the ground You're avoiding heaven We're going to be able to be. Thank you. I come to show you why mannequin flavor plenty enjoyable. I need water. See, water make leaf stretch.

Wrap cigar well. Mouth and joy flavor. Yes? Mannequin flavor is special. Shear and joy. You sleep like a goddamn baby. And welcome back, everybody. That once again was the track from sisters is the band, not the sisters, just

sisters. And this new single is called Feet on the Ground. Make sure you check out Leach Eater coming out on the 25th. Scott, have you ever thought about how I think you could teach a class, like just a one-hour seminar on how you pick these clips and how you choose to string them to put them together? Some people have asked for that. They're like, where do you get all your clips? Why do you choose the ones you choose? Why do you play the ones back-to-back that you do? I don't know if I have really a process that just sometimes stuff grabs me Like that clip right there

This one You sleep like a goddamn baby That's uh What's his name of the dude abides Sam Samuel or Sam Can't think of the actor's name all of a sudden What's wrong with me?

Anyway famous Giant mustache actor Uh From from my My recommendation Sam Elliott There you go From my recommendal today And so sometimes I'm just watching stuff

and people say certain things, and I'll be like, that's kind of cool. Well, certainly that's part of how you get that library, right, is you're always listening. Yeah, I'm always listening, and I hear things maybe some other people aren't looking for. Like, I'll hear a quip or a line that out of context is just weird enough that it might be fun to goof with, you know? Yeah, but it's a podcasting, what do you call it, like a style or technique or a thing that you do, that is very distinctive to you and your show. and other people have emulated it, and I think it's pretty cool. Well, thanks, man. I appreciate that. And I have a ton of it now.

So if I ever die, I have a rich, a mega hard drives full of these files that will benefit society when I'm gone. All right? Mega hard drive. Yep. And they all have the prefix bumper X on them. Is that like a megapint? Did you ever watch that? No, I never did.

Did you watch that trial? I never did. Johnny Depp. I did not. I avoided that like the plague. But here's something I don't avoid. good tech news from good friends kind of in a tough spot here Tom

sorry yeah Tom Merritt he joins us to talk about the tech issues so that we don't have to think too hard about it but you know a little hard we want to we don't want to make it easy Tom Merritt welcome back to the program it's good to have you here just hard enough just hard enough sir just hard enough the perfect amount

so you know gamescom is this week yeah we did a we did a live stream along yesterday for their opener but nothing since then. But, yeah, Cologne, Germany. Have you had a chance to gander at the old PSP? The PSP is back, the PlayStation Portal. Oh.

It's not portable. Yeah, they changed the name. So it was called, what, Project G or something? Project Q. Yeah. That's what it was. It was what they originally ran. That was never going to be the final name.

That was just their cute little code name for it. But yeah, it's the PlayStation Portal. That's right. I was initially excited to hear they were working on possibly a successor to the Vita. And then I found out, oh, no, they're not doing that. They're making a remote device. And then I thought, well, that's still cool. I like that concept.

The bigger problem I had was what the price might end up being. We now know that, $199.99. So $200 for this thing. It's a little high for kind of a one trick pony in a lot of ways. And I literally mean that because some of the fine. print has come out that this does not support any of their online service streaming games. So like right now, if you do PlayStation Plus Premium, you can get a bunch of retro games. You can get PSP titles and old PlayStation 1 titles and old stuff.

It's part of that tier, that $19 tier a month. And this doesn't support those, which is really weird to me that you can't play, at least not yet. Maybe they could add that later, but they literally have a little text in there saying, does not work with. Yeah, no, they went out of their way to say, this is not. going to work with PlayStation Premium. It's kind of a question whether it will work with,

say, Netflix. Because one of the interesting things about it is, as long as you're connected on the PlayStation portal to Wi-Fi and your PlayStation 5 is on and connected to Wi-Fi, it doesn't have to be out of, it could be in standby mode, it could be in sleep mode.

That's one of the cool things is the portal can wake up your PS-5, so you can pick up the portal and start playing it. But again, as long as the PS-5 is active and available. You can be anywhere in the world with internet. Now, your latency is going to vary, depending on where you are and what your internet connection is.

So your best quality would be in the same network, you know, to be in your same house. But theoretically, you could be in Seoul and play everything on your PlayStation 5 back in Salt Lake City and therefore go to your home screen on your PS5. And I think launch Netflix. the fact that you can't do premium makes me wonder like oh do they stop you from streaming anything from the internet to your portal or is it just PS Plus that they're that they're gating so I'll be interested to see about that but again the main pitch from Sony here is not use this to circumvent Netflix's region locking it's hey you can play everything you've got installed on your PS5 anywhere in the world you can get an internet connection with this weird $200 device

but don't use Bluetooth headphones because we didn't put Bluetooth in it we put our own PlayStation link connectivity and you may say well what's that good for that's good for the new Pulse Explorer earbuds that are also $200

yeah another $199 I guess you know prior to all this when they were just talking about Project Q I had said a couple of times and I and I still think this would have been the right thing. But if this had had been somewhere between 99 and 149, I think you kind of had a...

99 starts to feel real like, oh, you know what? Why not? I can go to a hotel and be able to access my PS5 as long as it's on back home. Yeah, and Sony makes nice hardware. It's not like we're going to be a piece of junk or anything. It's, you know, it seems like a cool way to go, especially if you're really into that ecosystem.

But the fact that it is just what's on your machine at home, depending on your Wi-Fi. There's a lot of dependencies here. Yeah. It does have a headphone, Jack. I'll give it that. Yeah. I mean, that's something.

But do I have headphones? Oh, Bobby. You know, like, I just don't feel like I don't think I have headphones anymore. Like, everything I have is Bluetooth. You can get them for cheaper than $199.99. I guess they are like $10 at Walmart. Yeah, you could go get a pair of earbuds pretty cheap these days, I suppose. But I don't know.

It's a weird play. I'm still kind of unsure where my head's at with it. I kind of need to see some hands-on with it and see what people think of the build of it. I mean, it looks, some people complain, well, it looks like you just split a controller and slapped an Android tablet in the middle, which kind of what it looks like.

But also, so what? So, well, that's not a problem, except I'm a little worried about, about how does it, does it feel like it's going to snap when I look at it. Like, it looks like it's going to break to me. It doesn't look like a sturdy device, and I don't know why I feel that way. It's just something visually going on there.

It's similar to the foldable phones, right? We're going to have to get used to it being durable because it doesn't look durable. But it might be. It very well might be. The way the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the pixel fold have turned out to be very durable, much more durable than the first generations of them were anyway.

This might turn out to be just fine. We'll see how it holds up. Or it might just start falling apart. We have no idea. The only part, I don't remember if they said a time or a date, is it this fall or what's the plan? Later this year. Later this year.

Okay. Well, probably fall. Speaking of folding screens, wouldn't that be cool? I just thought of a new thing. What if you could have a controller that used for your PlayStation? It's just a controller, but like inside of it is a rolled up screen and you could just walk away. Oh, yeah, with a roll of the parts apart and then the screen like, like, and then it appears in the middle. I don't think that's a crazy idea.

I think that's probably. The PlayStation Portal 2 could be that. Yeah, that could come at some point. I mean, honestly, I don't know why they couldn't have made a bigger effort to say, oh, by the way, this will also work with, well, I know they don't want to do this. But it'd be cool if they were open to ideas of saying, hey, what if G-Force Now worked with it and some other streaming to device services? Because doing this, what they're saying you can do with this,

you can already do. I can do this with other devices, including that Logitech 1. I can do it with a steam deck. I can pull in PlayStation remote play with just about anything. Now, not all of them are going to start the PlayStation up. And this is optimized because Sony can do this

to reduce latency. And so far, I've read IGN and Virgil's reviews, and they're like, yeah, we were in ideal conditions, of course, but I didn't have any observable latency. So your ability to manage that with the portal is going to be better than just using some third-party device. I'll give them that. Yeah, yeah. Seems like this is something that just makes PlayStation users feel better about being PlayStation users rather than bringing new people to the platform. Definitely, yeah. Yeah, this isn't for people.

feels to me like there was a meeting where they said, you know, this Nintendo Switch and the steam deck? We need a competitor for that. What do we got? And they said, well, this would be really expensive. Well, this would benefit our competitors. But, and then they, you know, eventually as they started crossing things out that they weren't willing to do, they ended up with this. And they're like, well, we could at least market it as something. And it just feels like a compromise device. Yeah, it does to me too. Also, these head for these earbuds? About 199 is not like outrageous. Like you're going to find similarly priced stuff from Apple.

Not for earbuds. Can it be used for earbuds you can use with other things? Right, right. But this is a classic Sony proprietary technology. Yeah, which is, you know, like. Granted, you can buy it. They'll sell you a dongle and then you can use it with your PC or your Mac or anything else. But sell you another thing. Yeah.

But that's, see, you're right. It's like back to the memory stick days a little bit. Totally. Or UMDs or, you know, all these stupid proprietary formats. And I understand that having, if you are the place that comes up with the format and everyone lives by that format, you make money in perpetuity until the end of time. I understand the desire to do it. But I feel like they're trying a little too hard to push PlayStation into a weird luxury space that I don't know that gamers want to go there. It's all already a very expensive hobby if you're buying games on the regular.

It's not like these devices are cheap or the games, these $70 experiences you pay for or monthly service fees you, you pay for. or monthly service fees you pay for are cheap. So I don't know why they want to. Maybe they think this is something Microsoft and Nintendo aren't doing so they should be the luxury brand. I don't know. I can't put my head around it. Sony is much more dominant in its domestic market than it is outside.

For sure. It's actually fairly dominant outside of its domestic market. So that tells you something. Right. I don't know if this is a situation where they say, oh, even if we only sell these in Japan, We can absolutely sell people with this in Japan. You know, they come into the store.

We explain the high quality sound, the low latency of these earbuds, and we sell them the dongle and the headphones in enough that if we don't sell that many of them worldwide, it's not a big deal. Well, it's definitely worth being a product because of that because it's the kind of thing you could see Apple getting away with in the U.S. Yeah, that's what it reminds me of, honestly. And they've tried to do this sort of stuff before. So we'll see. I don't know. I'd like to get my hands on specifically the portal just to see

how that thing behaves. I like my PlayStation 5. Wouldn't mind extending its use in other ways. I don't know if I want to spend $200 to do that. That's the thing, right? Because I'm kind of with you. I'm like, oh, the idea of that, you know, I could be traveling and just like fire up my PS5 and start playing. I might use it more

in that case, but I don't know if I need to pay $200 for that. No, no. It's almost like a weird way of, it's like such a half measure. It's not that I need them to go full cloud or even full let me install stuff on this device. I don't know what I want from them. Honestly, this is a thing that I usually, no, I usually can see something that any company

doesn't go, oh, I see what they're aiming for. I'm not actually really sure here what they're aiming for. I don't know what the point. Yeah, the longer I read this, the more I was like, well, it could be good for, oh, wait, no Bluetooth. Oh, it could be good for. Oh, no cloud. Oh, you know what I mean?

Like, it just, they kept narrowing and narrowing who would really want this. I mean, best case scenario on the earbuds, do you think that they would want the rest of the industry to adopt the link protocol, right? Like, that would be a thing I could see them wanting, like suddenly Android and begrudgingly Apple at one point, maybe say, yeah, it's Bluetooth, and we also support this new link thing

as it really took off. But I'm not sure this is how you're going to get it to take off. Like your proprietary freaking listening mode. It's just weird. Yeah. It's just weird, man. I mean, lost this is cool. Don't get me wrong.

Low latency? Awesome. Microsoft does it too with their controllers. They have Bluetooth and they have a proprietary system that connects to their consoles that is faster than Bluetooth, but they have Bluetooth in there also. So when people use them for PCs or other devices, you can use them. I don't know why Sony's so opposed to that, but whatever. Plainer magnetic drivers. If that gets your engine going. I'm ready. They got them. Yep. That's the future, Tom. The future is here. The other weird

thing that the headsets do is they can connect by Bluetooth, which they can't to the portal, because the portal is just link. But that means you could connect to your PS5 and a phone at the same time with the headsets. Which is kind of cool. So if you're playing a game and the phone rings, you can answer the phone without disconnecting the audio from your PS5. Yeah. You basically create a two channel thing and that's kind of cool. But again, it's one of those things like, that's kind of cool. I don't know if I'm willing to compromise on everything else here, including the price. But, yeah, that is an interesting feature. Yeah.

Well, time will tell. We'll see him this fall. See how they received. Does time, do we ever hold Times feet to the fire on that one? We always say it will tell. And then sometimes it just shuts up and it never talks again. I'm not sure it ever says anything, to be honest. What has Times ever said to you that was meaningful, you know?

I don't think it's ever talked to me again. Anyway, it just goes by and then doesn't talk. That's it. But we will not let time go by today without talking on the Daily Tech News show. It's Wednesday I get to be on. That'll be great. I can't wait. 2 p.m.

Mountain time if you are inclined to see things live. The podcast, of course, there afterwards, and you should be a patron and all that other stuff. Tom Merritt, is there anything happening other than that or in that that you'd like to tell people about today? Sure, yeah. We just had a big roundtable on Daily Tech News show yesterday. If you missed it, go check it out. DailyTechnuio.com. Hwenzuela, Dow from Android Faithful, Shannon Moore.

Morse, from Threatwire, both big pixel fold users and Android foldable users. I'm a pixel fold user myself, so we had a nice long conversation, part of it on DTNS, part of it on the extended Patreon show, just about foldables and the pixel fold and our experience with it and everything. So you can check that out at Daily Technewshow.com. I think you should. Tom Merritt, everybody. He is ACE to Tech on all the social medias, including X.

See you, Tom. I hate that name so much. much. Yeah, it doesn't feel good. No, it isn't even like, you know, Twitter blue kind of had a ring to it. X blue? That's garbage. That's bad. It, uh, it, it messes up the outro to my podcast because, because my co-host tries to say X like you're supposed to. And then I just, I just, like, groan. I can't do it. In the middle of her talking. She's like, and you can find us on X and I'm just, ugh. I just, it's just, I find, I just, it's disdainful. I hate it. I can't do it. Yeah. All right. We are going to move down the path here and do some

recommendals. That's what Wednesdays are for, folks. Well, not really. There's other things, but recommendals are important. We admit that. And I've got to add a couple of people to the call so that we can do this proper. Sit back, relax. Let's do some

recommendals together. Well, what do you recommend? That? Why did that play? That was a little bit weird. And now it won't get quiet. Oh, there we go. All right. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Recommendals. where we talk about streaming stuff, movies, TV, things that have been on a streaming service here or there, and we try to tell you where you should go and find this stuff. Today is no different. Welcome to the program, Nicole Spag. Hi, Nicole. Hi. How are you? I'm okay. How are you guys doing? Fantastic. Ooh, you sound

great. Where are you? Sound good. I'm in my car on my phone. Oh, you sound good. You sound great. Cars are a great place for audio. They really are, I think. Yeah, because you got, you kind of have a the headset that came with the phone. Oh, nice. Yeah, when you have like something about the enclosed nature and the padded nature of a car, it's almost like a little booth. Works out nice. Also with us Randy Jordan, aka Randy Deluxe.

Hello, Randy. Good morning, morning stream. Hello, I'm well. My reformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton wants GTA 6. Oh, my gosh, dude. Freaking, can we have one video game stage event, especially one with Jeff Keelian on it, where some idiot doesn't storm the stage.

I've had it with this. I don't know if you saw this, Bobby, but yesterday. No, I didn't. Once again, the opener, it was for Gamescom in Cologne, Germany. And at the very beginning of this thing, some douchebag and his friend get up on stage. Basically, what do they call it? Stage bombing? Yeah, stage bombing.

And they did get up and just start yelling that Bill Clinton wants GTA 6. Bill Clinton wants GTA 6. And it's in a reference to that other kid from the Game Awards who got up and just said, what do he say? that his, he, he dedicated this award to his reformed orthodox rabbi Bill Clinton, which is just weird. And it's the free Hong Kong kid. Like, why would he say, why wouldn't he, I don't know, he's very, he's weird. They're all weird.

I hate it so much. Can I tell you something that Mateo said to me and Mark and we're like, where did you hear that? He goes, our Lord and Savior, Danny DeVito. I go, do you even know who Danny DeVito is? Man, you know, we're going to meme ourselves. into oblivion, I swear. It's just going to get worse. It's so bad right now. Well, anyway, don't storm stages everybody. That's a bad thing to do and it's terrible humanity to watch. My big advice is start your show before you actually start your show. So have these people think

that they're storming the stage while you're live and recording. And then you nab them, get them out of there, and then start the actual record. Or have some security that is literally making sure nobody gets up and runs anywhere. That would be a good thing to do. well. Anyway, we're going to do some recommendals. We have a list here. When Brian's here, he starts. So I thought it'd be fun to just let Bobby start, because why not? You didn't see my, you didn't see my message, did you? Oh, no. Well, did I? Is it, I got a clip. I said, I said, can I start first. I have another meeting. Oh, yeah, no, no, no. I can totally do you first. I missed your message. Sorry about that. Tim wants you to ask me about my closet, too.

What's in your closet? Is there something weird going on? Mark just redid the closet. He released a video of it. well we should look at that do we get to see any do we get like an idea of like what kind of shoes you're into and stuff like that or not really you get to see my uh collection of sweaters oh well then all right then i'm in i'm all in let's check this that sounds creepy i want to see this guy going right to the feet Nicole show me your sweaters and your shoes all right well let's start with Nicole then Nicole do you have any set up for your uh your link here your clip um so this is a documentary it's only an hour long it is not it's like the precursor to the book I highly recommend the book we'll talk about it after it

but I couldn't give you the clip I want it because I had a lot of Alanis Morissette music and I didn't want you to get a copyright story oh gotcha she's she's in the documentary and it's something that I have been exploring about myself and yeah it's like one of those getting sick back in December has made me look at like my life as a whole and a lot of kind of like, oh, oh, that's why that, what's why I did that kind of thing. So, there you go. I understand. All right.

Well, let's play up. Yes, very much. We'll see what we get here. Well, I knew something was up when my family was looking at me somewhat strangely. And I remember probably about 10 years ago, my father and I were sitting down. I was hosting a show in Canada. And he was having a moment. And I was crying about something intense for me, which he'd gotten.

used to, I suppose, at that point. He said to me, he said, Alanis, I'm so sorry, we just never really knew what to do with you. We were at a loss. I like the sorry. So it was Alanus Worset. I thought I sent you a different clip. Oh, no, that's the one you sent. It's her sitting there talking. It's cool. The music, she talks over it enough. I don't think we'll get ding on it. But tell me about, is this a documentary about her, or is she just involved in this somehow? She's just involved in it. So this is, a you can find it on amazon prime it's under that freebie thing that they have now yeah so there's some there's commercials but it's like i said it's only an hour long it's called

sensitive the untold story and i thought i sent you a clip of um the author of the book she's been she's a i believe she said she was a sociologist but she's a she's a doctor in this area and she has studied it for a long, long time. And if you listen to the book, she goes into detail about this isn't necessarily introvert, extrovert. This is also not autism, though people with autism definitely have more sensory things going on. This is really looking at the, there's 20% of the population that are, what is called sensitive and it's not you're going to get your hurt feelings hurt though that could happen but it's your nervous system is very much in tune to your environment and can be overwhelmed

very quickly um whether it smells noises you know you're just in tune with your environment and can easily your bucket can fill really fast you know the whole spoons thing. So it's been an interesting journey for me to to watch the documentary, which was kind of funny because it's a little overstimulating for me to watch. It was a little, they have a lot of cuts and the kind of acting is a little bad. But if you are interested in this topic, the book, which is called the highly sensitive person, is really good. I'm listening to that on Audible. And I think that's free to listen to as well. But I sent you guys a quiz because in the book, they had a list of 20, I think it was like 25 questions, and you can answer them true or false.

And if you answer 12 or more true, then you are potentially a highly sensitive person. It was, you scaled the answer. So if you, it was, which ones do you scale the farthest? yeah that one was like um not true and then sort of true and then definitely true kind of things but in the book she she kind of simplified it so because you're listening to it so so i'm counting them and i'm going yes yes yes i had 21 that worked true um and how many how many did i have i forgot already you said you had four but that doesn't necessarily mean that you don't have sensitive traits because what she goes into the book to explain is that our environment, our experiences,

all those things can change the intensity of that sensitivity. So for me, I figured a way to cope, but unfortunately my illness back in December completely took my wall down. And I had no coping mechanisms whatsoever. And I'm like, oh my God, why is this so hard? And then I start looking back to my childhood and all the little things that I would do to stop the sounds to get into my head. So I always had headphones. I always had something to focus on, whether it be a book or music. So I kind of pulled myself out of my environment into my own world. And then I was like, okay, this is starting to make more sense now. So I sent you the quiz, but I'd be happy to read some of the questions to you if you're

curious. Yeah, I'm curious. Read a couple of those. I'm showing the chaper. By the way, Kindle Unlimited has this book for free right now. Yes, yes. It's worth grabbing, I think. I'm going to grab it.

And she, it has a lot of case studies and her, her. work and there's a lot of like science behind what she's talking about and how in society that 20% usually saw them you know in historic kind of as the advisors the people that can pick up I'll go through the questions and you'll see um so are you easily overwhelmed with uh by strong sensory input whether it's smell hearing anything kind of like your senses yeah and it's do you seem to be aware of subtleties in your environment do you do other people's moods affect you oh my gosh i need to read i need to read this book do you tend to be more sensitive to pain do you find yourself needing to withdraw during busy days into bed or a darkened

a darkened room or any place where you can have some privacy and relief from the stimulation. Are you particularly sensitive to the effects of caffeine? Yeah. Are you easily overwhelmed by things like bright light, strong smells, coarse fabrics, noise? Yeah. Do you have a rich complex inner life? Yeah. Why am I answering yes to all of these?

My gosh. Well, that's the thing. You need to do this test on a scale. Yes, no. Guess no doesn't get to the subtleties of how average a lot of these things are. Some of them might, yeah, I was going to say, some of these might be, to some people, they're going to feel like a bit of this, right? Some of this or whatever.

But some of it probably benefits from a professional being involved. Right, right, right. And that's what she says. That's what she says. This is just to kind of get you on your journey of kind of what I liked about the book is that, yes, we're talking about, okay, you've identified yourself. as a sensitive person, so what are the things that you can do to help yourself? And I know I started down this journey more for my son. And then it turned out, oh, that's where he gets

it. It's for me. So, and I, you know, I've had 40 some odd years to kind of figure this out and kind of gently. I've always, I'm able to walk into a room. and know immediately if there's something off like the vibe check right so you startle easy that's for me

is like 100% yes the most ridiculous times Mark will scare me I know he's there and he will scare me I've scared you before and didn't mean to I've walked up to you at an event or something and said hey and you're like ah

yeah that's happened so again there's 27 questions I'll put a link. You can actually, if you just, if you just Google a highly sensitive person questionnaire, you'll see the list of this. But it's not necessarily to diagnose you because here's the thing. It's not a diagnosis. It's a trait in every, it's in animals, it's in humans. It's across the board. And she talks about why it's important that that trait survives. Like, we're aware when something happens. So like if we were out in, let's say we're deer, you know, well, dear are kind of always highly sensitive. Yeah. But they're in a very

particular way. Yes, exactly. Right. So, and she goes into talking about the, you know, 50% of the population is more like, you know, you have the warriors and the people to rush in, and you have the sensitive people to say, let me be your advisor. Let me, tell you the situation that I'm observing, that you may not be seen. And so it's just an interesting way to look at it. And she goes on to reiterate, this is not to say that this type of person is better than. It's just to make you feel a little less alone. I know I, for a long time, it felt a little foreign to friends and groups. And I'm like, I don't understand. what's going like I've always felt like I'm I'm a little off than the group and it sounds like it

provides a good framework for which to look at yourself and to look at other people it's like it's not so you said it's not diagnosable but it's like no there are other things like that right like type a and type B people right like that's not a diagnosis that's just a description of how someone experiences the world right exactly exactly and and and so if you find yourself being a very sensitive, like your nervous system sensitive, there's probably, you know, some little tips and tricks that you could gain from either watching the documentary as a precursor and then going on to the book. And she doesn't, Alanis Morissette never acknowledges that all those things she said were

ironic in that song are not actually ironic, right? She doesn't actually talked about that. Has she? She's responded to that in many interviews. I need to find, seek that out and hear that because, man, none of those are ironic. I think they even made fun of it on the Great North. Like, it's a really common thing for her to deal with. I'm sure it's almost the number one thing.

She asked, as far as things to deal with, she probably has to. Probably her favorite thing to do. Yeah. You can imagine she loves it. I got to answer this question again. No kidding. Well, enjoy your meeting. And this is great.

This is on Prime, again, called, let's see. Sensitive. sensitive uh the untold story there you go the book is called the highly sensitive person how to thrive when the world overwhelms you um and that is available uh for free on kindle unlimited hardcover 14 bucks you can get it anywhere books are sold uh Nicole it's always good to have you go go to your meeting and Nicole uh enjoy your closet yeah have fun in your closet yeah Nicole's closet yeah Nicole's closet coming to TLC this week Nicole's closet all right bye all right let's keep moving down the road here Let's now, Bobby, do yours.

Tell me to set this up real fast. Yeah, set it up. What do you got? All right. So the scene you're about to hear is about two friends who are going through a tough time in life. They're foreigners who are living in the U.S. And they're dealing with some prejudice treatment from a store owner who won't serve them. And they've gone to talk to a mutual friend to get some advice or some understanding about the situation.

That's what you need to know when you go into listening. Sounds so serious. All right. Let's see what we got here. So he wouldn't serve us basically just because we're from New Zealand. Is that the norm? Well, you guys are in America now and there's a lot of prejudice here, especially towards people like you.

What do mean people like us? You know, the English and whatnot, redcoats, the oppressors. We're not English. Be that as it may, Jermaine. You're pretty much the most disliked race in this whole country. What about black people? They don't like you either. Neither do the Chinese.

the Chinese, Asians, Polish, Russian, Cro-Asians, even the Indians. You were, Dave, you're Indian. You hate us. Yeah. Sometimes. But you are a best friend. I know. You're going to make me re-watch this, aren't you? Gosh, dang it. That's so funny. Yep. All right. So this is a Flight of the Concords. Yeah.

It's on HBO Max, or just Max, right now, right? This is a, I've never seen this. I'm doing my first watch of this. Oh, you are lucky. I wish I was you, man. What a great time that must be. Yeah, so for those who don't know, Flight of the Concords is a musical comedy duo from New Zealand,

and they did this show back in. I think it was 2006 was when it premiered. It wasn't on Max back then. I think it was Comedy Central and a bunch of other, some other places. but um uh i've heard people talk about this show forever and for whatever reason i've always been like eh okay meh it sounds whatever um and i just decided to check it out and holy cow is this show exactly for me it is it is so freaking hilarious this is like such a funny show um

it's uh so so the it's about the two band members um jimaine clement and bret mckey Kenzie, if you recognize the name Jermaine Clement, then it's because of what we do in the shadows, directs what we do in the shadows, and they are the two members of Flight of the Concords, the music group. It definitely

feels like what we do in the shadows. Like, it's definitely, you can tell that there's a connection there. It also feels a lot like one of the other connections that it has, because I'd say the third major cast member of this show is their band manager

who's played by Reese Darby from Our Flag Means Death. Band meeting? Yep. Yep. And you know what's funny that you say that? Because I hear you guys say that all the time and I always like, where's that?

I didn't know what that was. And then as soon as the first episode, he says that and I'm like, that's it. That's band meeting. Yeah, it's hard to avoid. It's pretty great. Yeah, but yeah, so it definitely has a lot of these connections and you can feel it when you're watching

this show. it's um it's a very dry absurd uh sort of tone um it's just a story about these two they're playing themselves as as flight of the concords and um and it's just about them completely struggling as to try to do music the whole joke is that they they they're uh their band manager uh restart he can never get them any gigs and when it is it's at places like the aquarium or um other like that um if it feels by the way if this feels to people or it feels to you like what we do in the shadows both the movie and the and the show it's because these guys were all also working um with tyco wittiti on this so fly to the concords at least two full episodes were written by him

but he was always around these guys are all from new zealand uh jamean clement was an eagle versus shark the year prior to all this uh that tyco wittia directed like the they're all in they're all in cahoots these guys so if you find any of these people funny they're all basically, you know, they all came from the same loaf of bread. Right, right. It's, um, Kristen Shaw is also in this. She plays like their own, the band's only fan. Yeah.

Um, who's, who's obsessed with them. First time I ever saw her was this show. Yeah. This may have been the first thing she did big on television. I'm not sure. I don't know about that for sure. Her and, uh, Eugene Merman, who plays Eugene in the show, would go on to be Gene. in Bob's Burgers with Kristen Schall.

So there's some connective tissue there, like some of the writers and stuff. Yeah. There's a lot of people that very early in their career pop up in this. I just watched an episode that Aziz Ansari. The episode that clip came from was the person who was the store owner who was being prejudiced against them that they claimed that they had a race war with was Aziz Ansari plays the fruit stand owner. And so lots of little people like that show up throughout the show early, very young versions of themselves.

Yeah, it's an incredible show. It's really good. When I lived in Austin, there was this day at work where I was about to go on a business trip. I was like going to end my work day and go to the airport. And practically everybody I worked with was like, ah, you're going to miss it. We're all going to see Fly to the Concords. and apparently they were they were like we're doing a stage show like for a week in Austin back that it was like 2005 and I was just like I don't know I don't know who you're talking about I don't care probably the show that I most regret missing you know like yeah everybody went to see Fly to the Concords live in Austin and I I totally missed it missed it yeah and then they don't really tour anymore a fun way to see Brett McKenzie and you didn't maybe you never knew you he was there but he was one of the elves in Lord of the Rings.

Really? Like a lot of New Zealanders end up being in that thing. He was one of the elves. Next time you watch it, just look for him and you'll see him. It'll be like, oh, there's Brett McKenzie. But he's done a ton of music stuff since. He did all the music for those Muppet revival movies. Muppets Most Wanted, the one before that.

I forgot the name of it. And that has the same director directed most, or is one of the show creators of Flight of the Concord's. It just feels like a lot of the DNA that would come out to, in all of these New Zealand megastars, directors, writers, actors, all seem to foment in Flight of the Concordes. Yeah.

For me, anyway, that's about the timing of it, right? The quality of the show, you can definitely tell that it was a low budget, uh, low budget filmed in 2006, um, but it don't let that like,

if you see it, don't, you know, everything looks so good now because technology's advanced so far. Don't let that cloud anything. Like it's, it's, it's really,

really good. You should watch it. It's every episode they weave in songs and they're all hilarious. It's just really, really good. Flight of the Concordes. It's on, it's streaming on Max right now. Back then, you could only

get it on straight HBO. It was the best you could do in 2006. Also, they're like one of their concert films is on HBO Max right now. You can go see. what their stage show was like.

What's that called? Do you have the name for that by Jay? Just probably Fly to the Concord something. Yes. Flight of the Concord's live on stage. Let's see. It's called Live in London. Is that the one?

Probably. Yeah, that might be it. There's been talk of a reunion series. I hope that happens. That would be fantastic. Yeah, I'd be all into it. Rise Darby alone would make it worth it. who also had an amazing guest-starring role on Bob's Burgers.

It's like they all ended up on Bob's burgers. All right, excellent stuff. Randy, Brandy, Brandy, Brandy. Let's start over to Brandy. She, rather he, Randy, brought us a clip, and I don't know what it is, so you're going to set it up for us. What do you got here? Oh, okay. You don't know.

So it's a really, really popular movie that's now on streaming. And if you didn't see it at the movies, because you probably didn't, right? you're not going to the theater that much. It's now streaming. And you should absolutely watch it because it's so fun, Scott. In this clip, you're going to hear people that you know for sure. You're going to know exactly what movie this is. They are trying to explain to some new friends and what they're doing,

and their new friends don't speak the same language. So it's very awkward. All right, here you go. Thank you. What's up? Our friend is dying. Uh... We love our friend.

But he is dying. That's not dying. That's already dead. They'll think he's already dead. They'll think we're here on a quest for revenge. Dax, sit up. It's what it's here for. Dax, it isn't.

It's made for. people to sit shoulder to shoulder right next to each other. Get your boots off for pillows. Find it hard to plead. It doesn't have multiple purposes. I'm sorry. My friend is a dumbass. That's the same as you're dying. Why do you criticize everything?

Why is it oblong then? It was a totally different sound. No, it wasn't a dying dumbass. See? It's the same. All right, guys. I haven't these seen three yet, but I have a massive crush on on Mantis. I cannot get an

for her. So I can't wait to why. I need to watch it. It's right here on Disney Plus. Why haven't I turned it on? I don't know. Yes. You should absolutely watch it. It's a great movie. I just give it my highest recommendation. It is everything you might hope for in Guardians of the Galaxy

movie. It's the best of the three I think and that's saying a lot. I'm not going there. I just found it very pleasant. You know? Like I, when I'm coming on here saying everybody should watch this. I'm trying to name things that I, you know, that make me happy, you know, or, or, or something.

And it was, it was very happy making this movie. It's a bit long, Scott. And, uh, it really does get into all the different characters. I don't mind length. I don't know why you said my name, but I don't mind length. Length is okay. I like a long movie. If I can get time for it, you know, it's all right. So, um, but you know, you just heard most of the, most, some of the cast there, um, They're, you know, they were talking about the, the main plot of the movie. The movie has like five subplots. But, you know, the main plot of the movie, which kicks off pretty early in the movie. So there's not really any spoilers here.

You know, it's about the past of Rocket. And it actually, a lot of the movie jumps back to his backstory. And it's very interesting. And it's very well portrayed. really just like it's a movie you can watch more than once I think because there's so much story in it but definitely handled as you know James Gunn can do no wrong yeah he's pretty good at this it turns out turns out he's pretty great and then he can go do DC things now and we hope he's good there too time we'll tell I guess we get our first real taste to him with what that's Superman legends of

no Superman legacy whatever it's called they're making new Superman and he's making it he's writing it directing it could be awesome might be crap who knows anyway that's Guardians of the Galaxy 3 or volume 3 literally right now on Disney Plus go catch it

any questions none all right it's a it's a Guardians movie I mean I felt like the second one is the one that Bobby probably agrees was the lesser of the three that's true and maybe

that's why I thought this one was so much so good is because that's the more recent one you know yeah Yeah, but I just like there's a there are a bunch of reasons why the second one is the lesser of the three. And I feel like this movie knows that. You know, I feel like everybody making the movie understands. You know, like, oh, we had some, we had some like lower spots and they don't in this movie. It's balls to the wall from beginning to end. Nice. I think I also like it so much because, and you said this, it does every, the third one does. everything you want it to do with if for a movie that is doing what it's doing you know yeah it's a good also a great way to from what i've heard and i haven't seen it but a great way to end a you know a trilogy uh yeah i think strong i i i for some reason i can't stop thinking about this movie

in comparison to oceans 11 and it's it's it's because of the way oceans 11 ends and you would think that when if you watch oceans 11 watch the end of the movie, you would think, well, they're not going to make a sequel to this, right? Like, the way it ends, it's like saying to you, we're done. This is the end of our story now. And this movie does that too, like from the beginning. It's like, it's almost like a title card hits you and says, you know, in our final tale. Yeah, right.

But like, Oceans 11 had sequels. That's true. And a really bad middle one. So there's that. 13's way. 12's terrible. All right. Let's move on.

So that's over on Disney Plus. Shit out of luck.com. Everybody, go check it out. All right. I told Claire that I would wave. I'd do Brian's job and wave to let her know that spoiler parts over. Oh, did she think we were spoiling? She always thinks that.

Yeah, I'm not going to argue with her. I'm just going to. She just thinks we are. All right. I, yeah. When I say everybody's already seen this, I know like 10% of people have already seen it. Like that's the reason we're recommending it.

Sure. There isn't, yeah, there's no way everybody has. And I'm excited to see it. I don't know why I've put it off. Part of it is my daughter and wife have seen it. They saw it in theaters. And I can't remember the reason why I didn't, it wasn't there. They were just, I don't know, they were out of town or something and saw it.

And so now I feel weird watching that by myself, but I guess I'm going to. Do you, do you know anybody who said to you that they saw Guardians 3 and didn't like it um no i don't know anyone who didn't like it everybody i've talked to loved it so i have a feeling i'm in for a good time yeah and we're so lucky to be alive when movies hit streaming so quickly oh i know right like stuff it's like no times like waiting for indiana jones is not a problem it'll be here before i know it um all right here is mine this is a tv series it is uh on paramount plus i was a little slow getting to this knowing my um love for the genre on display here It is a surprise I took so long to watch it.

But I love it. Here it is. I'll take my wife to the ocean. And I'm going to sit on the beach and let her see it. That was her dream. You know, I'm going to see her. That's my dream. In the meantime, her could sure use its cowgirl.

All right. Would you do me a favor? Yeah. Would you play the first 10 seconds of that again and tell me that he does not say he wants to shit on the beach? Okay, hold on. I'll take my wife to the ocean. Here we go. There's the next bit.

And I'm going to sit on the beach and let her see it. Oh, it's close. It's close. Shit on the beach and let her see it. Well, you got to pull that one out now. Oh, gosh, dang it. That really ruins that scene, too. All right.

So this is 1883. It is a prequel series, a one-off season as part of Taylor Sheridan's long story all about everybody who's a Dutton in the Dutton family. It all leads up to Yellowstone. Yellowstone, of course, was the big hit before all of this. I've been a Taylor Sheridan fan for years, though, prior to any of his success with these new shows. things like hell or high water. It's an amazing movie.

He wrote that. Sicario, the first Sicario and second Sicario movie. He wrote those movies. I love those movies. Just a really great writer. And I think when he does stuff set in the West, westerns, modern westerns, old westerns, doesn't matter.

He's just got a real touch for it. And this is great. It is basically Oregon Trail the show in that they are leaving Kentucky and making their way to the promise land that in their minds is Oregon. It's a combination of people. You heard in that bit there, Sam Elliott, who plays Shea Brennan. He's a former captain in the army. I can't remember if it was the southern states or if he was up north. I can't remember now. But anyway, he was there for the

Civil War. I saw a lot of really dark stuff. And his own personal life, that whole bit on the beach there was him talking about his wife for a reason. He lost her in kind of a horrible way. And so he's going that direction for two reasons. One, he's been hired to kind of guide everyone out there. He's sort of the survivalist who knows what to do to get there. And he's also just getting away from the tragedy of his life and trying to find somewhere new to go. He is giving a performance here. I've always loved him, but you could kind of say that Sam Elliott is always that same dude.

Just kind of that, hey, what are you all doing? He's just kind of that guy. But this is way more nuanced than that. he puts in an emotional, really affecting performance as this character. He's really fantastic. Your main people in this movie, or this movie, this show, or Tim McGraw. Yeah, that's right. Country singer Tim McGraw as James Dutton.

Faith Hill, his actual wife, as his fictitious wife, Margaret Dutton. They're amazing in this. I feel like it's a discovery. I don't know what the hell's going on. Put them in all westerns forever. I don't know what's going on. They're amazing. Tim McGrath is a freaking badass in this.

And I don't even know his music. I don't even know what songs he does. I just know this was perfect for them. So they're excellent in this. Elsa Dutton is their daughter played by Isabel May. She is kind of the crux of all of it. And I won't say more than that, but she is kind of who you see a lot of this through,

like the eyes of this world through her. And then a ton of really great supporting cast. I can't say enough about this guy, La Monica Garrett. He is this black actor who is just owning every scene he is in, just blowing my mind. People remember him from things like Sons of Anarchy, the terminal list designated survivors, been in a ton of stuff. He is so good in this.

So here's who this is for. If you like Westerns, bingo. If you like hard trail living, you know, a bunch of these people are like German immigrants and they're trying to help them get across and they don't understand. just drink out of a lake you got to boil that water you lose like four of them there um you got to cross rivers where you're going to lose another four people like it doesn't pull punches on how hard that move west was and it's not just a bunch of artificial conflicts with like native americans or something there's some of that but it's mostly just the the wild like it's really hard to

survive you don't have enough food we got to hurry up and beat winter you got to get through salt lake city and cut over those mountains before the, you know, this is all happening, you know, as it did back then, this is a fictional story, of course, but it is told with such deft hands, I cannot wait to move on to 1923, which is the next one in the series,

that is another just one-off season, and that's the Harrison Ford thing, which everyone says is amazing also. Apparently there's some crossover there, but it's great. He's built a real franchise with this stuff. I mean, I don't know. Some people may not.

not like Yellowstone, I love it. I love all this Taylor Sheridan shit. He can just make whatever he wants. Just keep making it. And I'm all in. And this one will make you real happy, I think. So anyway, if you haven't seen it, it's on Paramount Plus, 1883. It's amazing. I haven't seen it. I'm really looking forward to watching it now. Well, you'll love it, dude. It's so good. I mean, the bottom line is, I think there's too much Taylor Sherrod and it feels like, you know, there's got to be a stinker in here somewhere, right? Tulsa King might not be as good as the rest, right? Maybe. It's reviewed okay, but, you know, yeah. I mean, I'm looking at 9B right now, 8.7 for Yellowstone, 1883, 8.6, 8.5, something like that for 1923. Mayor of Kingstown, the Jeremy Renner thing,

8.2. Like, they're all in the high 8s to 9s for everything he's making. And those movies I mentioned, Sicario 1 and 2, freaking, the one I just said, hell or high water. those are all, I hold those in such high regard. The guy just has a, he's got the touch, man, for a very specific kind of thing. Like, Sicario is like a war thing. Like, it's a covert ops thing. It's not even close to a Western, but it's something about it has this, I don't know, he's quickly becoming like really important to me as a voice out there making shit.

And they clearly love him at Paramount because he's making all kinds of new stuff and some of these, you know, series keep going. And how lucky can you be to have your fictional world? of these Dutton characters be able to go back and work with Sam Elliott and then bump forward and work with Harrison Ford and a British actress Queen Lady. I can't think of her name. She's famous and amazing and I can't think of her. She played the Queen way back in the day.

Anyway, her, he's just killing it. And I have, I really enjoyed it. I could even argue. I'd even say like Yellowstone, which is like a modern Western set in current day in Montana with the Dutton family is a little more. uh soap opera ish in some of its themes but i but i it's not but this isn't that at all like 1883 it's just a raw ass freaking hardcore western um i think i think he writes and writes for the time that it's set in and seeing this makes me feel better about yellowstone having those elements

because because of course it does it's set in our modern day where everyone's got phones and social media and bullshit it's not it's not the cowboys of old i don't it's giving me a greater appreciation for it but anyway can't say enough about it 1883 is i wish they were going to do more of these and there is talk of a prequel to this being made so something set in the early early 1800s maybe even like you know early uh come over from the boat and you know doc here in the state sort of thing uh time frame i don't know but i'm so you said so you said you didn't know any of faith Hill's husband's songs. I'm sure I do. I just don't. I'm not a listener.

Yeah, I want to guess if there's one that you'll recognize right off the bat, it's I like it. I love it. I love it. I want some more of it. That one? Okay. Towering hit. There's a bunch of others like that. And he's been in tons of stuff, right? Like Flicka and Friday Night Lights, the movie. Yeah, yeah. He started, he started pushing into acting like 20 years ago. Yeah. He's done stuff. But this and also he is, I don't know who's train in him. This dude is ripped. And I mean like he's older than me and he is just a specimen. And he is scary as shit. But at the same time, he's like this amazing father and husband in this thing. Like this just gets to why I love Western so much. It's myth it's mythological, but also realistic and historical at the same time. And it just gets all that right. And freaking Sam Elliott with a gun, dude. He's scary as hell. So Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are one of those.

celebrity couples that feel like they'll always be together. Yeah. They're a real power couple in like every way I could think to define it. Anyway, it's really good. Check it out. All of this stuff will be up on QuicktMS. LI at some point. Brian, I think was going to try to put up some of it before he left.

But if not, we'll tag it in there when we get a sec. And we hope you all enjoy it. Randy, it's been great having you on, man. Yeah, it has. It has. FilmSack this weekend. We had a great roundtable discussion. Excited to get that out to people.

So watch for that. What was it on? Oh, ratings and reviews and whether they're worth a crap in movies. We went hard. Very interesting. Like, everybody's got a slightly different angle. That's right. I like all these angles. Go angle something.

We'll see you soon. All right. Bobby, that brings us to the end of the show. Wow, we went long today. Look at us. We sure did. That's a Wednesday. It is a Wednesday here on the show.

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They want our house from the Pickingon series, and they say this. Hi, guys, this is past April, or this past April, sorry. This is April from the past. April from the past. I had to miss TMS Vegas due to needing to relocate or reallocate the funds for a new home purchase. That's always fun. I've spent the time since creating a home for my son and I, now months later. I'm very excited to see everyone at the Southeast meetup this weekend

where we'll be all staying in a giant house. That's right. They're all headed down there. There's a theme there, see, she says. Anyway, I'd like to request a cover of Madness's Our House. I thought it appropriate, not just for myself, but also for everyone heading to North Carolina this weekend. And what better cover for a Southeast meetup than a bluegrass one?

Thanks for all you do. And I can't wait to see people this weekend. Your mom's a ho, though. Kidding, I love you guys. But it just came to mind. Much love, Jena. Well, Jane, I hope you have a great time down there with everybody. Keep done away and Ibit in line, will you?

Got to keep your eye on them. I'm not here to, you know, do that. So you've got to do it. We'd love to play your song. Let's do it. This is that cover. And I'm going to play it now. Bobby, one more time I want to say to you, thank you for co-hosting today.

Anytime. I say it every time. Anytime. It's, I love doing it. Well, it's great having you here. We'll definitely have some future where that happens again. And we look forward to it. your segments when you come on the show on the regular thank you everybody for listening that will do

it for us today again we're off tomorrow we'll be back monday with a full show and we got core this week we got film sack we got everything else so do check all that stuff out and we'll see you next time Father wears his Sunday best Mother's tired she needs to rest The kids are playing up downstairs Sister's sighing in her sleep Brothers got a day to keep You can't hang around

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in the middle of our street Our house In the middle of our Father gets up late for work Mother has to iron his shirt Then she sends the kids to school Sees him off with a small kiss She's the one they're going to miss

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Since it was a day away Then we'd say nothing would come Between us Two dreamers Father wears his Sunday best Mother's tired she needs to rest The kids are playing up downstairs Sister's sighing in her sleep

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