The Morning Stream - TMS 2529: Mainlining Some Cheddar

Episode Date: September 27, 2023

Ask your Doctor if Assifex is right for you! Where did you come from, where did you go? Where did you come from Orange Car yo? First Three Pointy Boobs. No Wellness to check. I Don't Want To Be Karen! Children of Potter. Abandoned Orange Looks Sus. I Don't Like Plastic Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese! Past the Point of Wellness. Planet Touchdown. Alf is Not a Dog. Never-ending Lyft Story. Tick On The Tire. These Six Considerations with Tom. All the Questions, None of the Answers with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is brought to you daily by the support of our patrons at patreon.com slash TMS like Handgrenade, Darion, and John Kazanski. That's wrong. Kosanke. Coming up on TMS, ask your doctor if Assefx is right for you. Where did you come from? Where did you go? Where did you come from Orange Car, yo? First three pointy boobs. No wellness to check. I don't want to be Karen. Children of Potter. Abandon Orange looks suss. I don't like plastic cheese.

Pass the point of wellness. Planet Touchdown. Alf is not a dog. Never-ending lift story. Tick on the tire. These six considerations with Tom. All the questions? None of the answers with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning

Stream. Whoa, hey there, players. Welcome to the Love Shack. Take off the shoes, grab a brew, and be somebody. Ask your doctor if ASFX could be right for you. This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett. Big old freaking dirt blanket. Hello, and welcome to TMS.

It's September 27th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Nibbitt. Hi, Brian. Hello. Happy Wednesday. Happy middle of the week. That's right, man. Another hump day.

another day for us to do Wednesday shit on. I was just thinking, hearing Fletcher there, I haven't heard from Fletcher in about a month and a half. Oh, really? So, Scott, if you're listening, I know him and his wife

listen to TMS on the regular, especially Wednesdays because I get the whole shit out of luck.com thing. Just check, let's do, I'm just doing a hell. Oh, this reminds me. I need your advice, Brian, on something. You ready for your advice time?

Oh, good. Yes. Are you kidding? Hell, heck yeah. I'm so glad this. I'll say hell. I'm glad this came up because I don't know why I haven't mentioned this on the show. show because it's been a month now and I keep meaning to bring it up and get the tadpoles take

get your take so here's the deal there's an orange car I don't have a picture of it it's not it doesn't show their license so it's not like anything incriminating but there's an orange car that has been parked in front of my house for now a full 30 days a month and I thought at first first few days I thought oh they just are parking there when I'm not seeing them and so every time I see it they're just not in it and they happen to be parked there. So I just thought, well, this is just where they're parking. And that's fine. We don't really care.

It's a busy, you know, area. People park all over the place because their garages are full or whatever. It's not a big deal. But then I thought, well, this is too weird because in the morning and the afternoon and at the night, it doesn't matter when I'm out there. It's still there all the time. And you can tell, I mean, it hasn't just, like, moved a little bit. Like they're coming in at night, driving somewhere, parking at first thing in the morning

before you get up kind of thing. Well, what I did, so glad you asked that. Yeah. I went out there with a little bit of chalk. Did you really like a meter made? Yeah, like a week into this thing. I went out there and made a little tick on the tire. And then the point, and then right where that tire met the ground is where I put the tick on the tire and the tick on the ground.

So I created a little locking, you know, chalk tick. Oh, sure, sure. Nothing to harm the car, you know. You could have, why not just put it at the very top of the tire and remember that the chalk mark was at the very top of the tire? I mean, I could have done that. This seemed more accurate for something. some reason, but you're not wrong. I could have done it that way. Well, I mean, yeah, at least you don't have to get on your hands and knees to make a chalk mark on the bottom of a tire.

Right, exactly. That's the way the meter maids do it is they do a chalk mark on the top of the tire. Oh, they actually, this is a thing they do. I didn't know that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, okay. I didn't know what the thing. Back when I was in college and there were streets where, you know, you had two-hour parking, but we had four-hour classes. So we'd have to go out and move our cars about halfway through the day and we could see them actually driving their little machine their little mini cars and they'd have a little piece of chalk on a stick and this as they went by it was like oh wow the tires yeah I didn't know see this is fascinating I didn't know how they would but I this makes sense same reason they want to see if they're leaving or not leaving and and all that

so that's what we did and I thought well this will tell me and then I watched it very close for the next three to eight three four days after that and even though the chalk was starting to fade we had rain one day you could still see it though it was like a pink chocks one of the kids chocks and uh it had moved and so then we got busy and all the stuff of the kemp's sister and all the stuff going on people out of town all this stuff going on been busy crazy september i kind of just blocked it out just kind of forgot about it sure but that car is still to right this minute still there and so My question to you and to the world at large is, when that happens, there's two things that have come to my mind.

One, someone ought to do a wellness check on somebody. I don't know whose car that is, though, is a problem. So since I don't know that, I can't really go to a door and knock, make sure someone's okay or not. The only other thing is, who do I call and say, like, is that a police thing? Is that a tow company thing? Is that an HOA thing? I don't know who to start with your local police, not the, obviously, not. the emergency line, but just call local police and say, hey, I've had a car that has been in front of my house for 30 days, hasn't moved, I think it's abandoned. And you don't see any sort of signs

of like stuff inside the car that makes it look like it was stolen or abandoned or anything like that. It's clean, no wreck marks, no, not even scratches. It's relatively new. You know what? I am going to bring it up on my phone. I'm going to show you this car. There you go. Yeah. Because it'd be one thing if it was some, you know, abandoned hunk of junk or something, you know. This car has been sitting in front of my house for 30 days, and my God, the dog barking in there is driving us nuts. Hold on. I'm going to set it to myself. Yeah, it's nothing like that. In fact, I did the very, you know, that week where it first showed up and didn't leave.

I did check for, I just thought, well, is there something funky going on? Is there anything weird? But there's no, not even baby seats, no animals in there. It's not tinted, so I can see everything. Let's see. Here's the image. Can I open that in a browser? No.

Let me, we got a proprietary format issue going on here. Hold on one second. That HV. That H-E-I-C nonsense. Yeah. I mean, I get why they do it. You got the live photo thing, but geez, make it easier to convert. It is an irritating format.

All right. There it is. And then I'll give you a copy. So this is the, so chat you're looking at it. Brian, here's yours. So this is, it's a little, actually, I'm not even sure what that is, that make. Oh, yeah, that's a nice car. Yeah, it's a cute little, you know, a little orange little dude.

It's, I think it's, I don't know, maybe a Hyundai or a Honda or a, it's a kind of Japanese car, I think. Definitely begins with an age, though, for sure. Yeah, it's got the, and it's been abandoned, which sounds like an age a little bit. But it's got, you know, like I said, it's like, newish um it's got plates so it's not like we couldn't do that part of it um this little dent on the uh right in front of the back uh passenger side tire yeah and that's the only place i've noticed any damage on it but i wasn't so i mean yeah so i wasn't looking i wasn't looking that close so what it doesn't look like none of the i did check to see if any of the windows look like

they'd been jimmied or you know any kind of break-in kind of stuff and i can't tell of any so that thing's just freaking sitting there and i think i should do some something you know and someone in the chat says go ask your neighbors i got like a hundred neighbors within eye shot of this thing like they're not gonna nobody's gonna know i mean it could but i'm not gonna go freaking blanket the neighbor trying to ask about an orange car in front of my house i think the thing to do would be is call whoever maybe even the HOA because they're so they're the ones that usually send you letters about this stuff right they actually say that you know uh they'll put a note on the car saying um you haven't moved your car and they might assume it's yours

because it's in front of your house. Right. And I wouldn't blame them because why wouldn't it be ours? And what's funny is the HOA has sent me a whole separate letter during this month about some weed growth. After we fixed our pipes, we were able to finally water this island area that had been so dry. Now it's nice and green, but weeds went bananas on it. And so we're trying to kill these weeds. So we get a letter about that.

Of course. I'm like, yeah, what about the orange car that has been there for a freaking month, you weirdos? Anyway, I think I'm going to call the HOA first and just say, what's the process here? And then if they don't do anything, I'll call, I don't know, Department of Motor Vehicles and just ask, what do you do when there's an abandoned car in front of your house? Exactly. Yeah, that's probably the... Go on to next door. I'm sure all the comments and responses you get will be fun and kind and considerate. Oh, I'm sure it'll be great. Yeah, all of them. There will be nothing about that that will be a negative. experience whatsoever. You know, and if you need any

practice for what you might see on next door, Claire is providing it with her. So just ignore it, Scott. If it's not bothering you, ignore it. Who cares? Oh, America is such a cesspool sometimes. Just because in Ireland, somebody can pull a thing up on your yard and leave it forever,

and you guys are, oh, look, Jimmy, come outside. We've got a brand new RV that nobody wants, so it's ours. It's like our pot of gold. Oh, look. We don't do that here in America, damn it. we want to mainly it's not that it's a bother it doesn't bother me it just weirds me out that this thing is i'm not going i can't believe that thing still parked out like who would you i don't care says we would just effing ask them who who do you ask ask who's no one to ask ask the car

excuse me car where did you come from meep meep meep meep meep it doesn't work that way none of these who am i supposed to talk to the neighbors on the okay i can tell you this the neighbors on this this side of us? They have no idea. And the neighbors on this side of me have no idea. And the ones next to them have no idea. So the thing next to do would be for me to go across the street there where that used to be a giant empty field and is now a billion townhomes. Go to every single door. I'm not doing that. F that. I feel like if it's not either of the neighbors on either side of you, which would be the most convenient place for this person to park, it's Not like they, you know, if they were visiting or staying in a house down the way,

plenty of space for them park in front of that house. Right, right. So, so this feels like a stolen, a stolen abandoned vehicle. Right, exactly. Somebody's probably looking for it. Probably if you, and someone in the chat says, this is what police do. They plant a car and hope somebody breaks in. I don't know about that.

I don't think so. I mean, not without maybe a white van somewhere parked around with a camera that can kind of watch it. Yeah. I mean, I could see it, I suppose. I think, yeah, I mean, I think, you know, at least tell the police so that they can say, oh, yeah, actually, is a license plate? They won't say this to you, obviously, but you'll give them a license plate, but like, oh, my gosh, yeah, this is a stolen car. We've been looking for this one. Awesome.

Thanks. You know what? That's better that I do that now. Then they snoop around, find it and go, it's in front of their house. We need to question the owner of the theft. Oh, we found that. We found the thief. And really, I mean, there's an inconvenience factor because it's a, you know, it's a problem.

because if your kids come over, you know, they're all going to drive over. They need a place to park. All of a sudden, it's like, well, now they're parking in front of the neighbors and what the neighbors are having a party and, you know, like, oh, no, there's no parking. So it's like, yeah, you know, this car, it's not a matter of being nosy or being like Gladys cravets on us. It's like, no, I mean, somebody, this obviously is a car that belongs to somebody. It's been left here.

Let's see if we can match it up with its owner. Yeah. You don't go. The old Irish trick of, Ah, it's been here 30 days. You know what that means, don't you? It means it's mine now. Yarr!

It doesn't work that way. Possession is nine, tens of the lawn. Help me break in and what wire this thing. By the way, four or five people in the chat have said is the registration current. I don't know. It's locked. I can't get in there. How do I know that?

You haven't dug into the glove compartment? Scott, I don't believe it. No, I haven't shaken the door handle. little vigorously. I haven't even touched the thing other than look at it, but and I guess I wrote on the tire. But yeah, I want them to, I mean, it even has nice tires. Look at those nice alloy

tires. I know. I know. It's a really nice car. Yeah. I feel like, yeah, it's definitely you know, if it doesn't belong to someone that would have parked in front of yours or the neighbor's houses, then then it's definitely been abandoned or

stolen or something. I guess I can look at the VIN number on the window there, the little tiny one down by the dash and I can do a search for that can you look on you can look on carfax for that but I don't know if it's going to tell you anything no it may at the most it just may say whether it's I don't know oh they're talking about registration current with a sticker on the plate the year sticker the month and year stickers oh that kind of registration oh I don't know I have to look at that and it's only been here a month it's not like it's uh no yeah yeah it's not it's not it's not like years or anything but but uh yeah and you know what today

the day. I'm calling, I'm starting at the top, we're going to start, or at the bottom, depending on your attitude about it. I'm going to start with the HOA, and then we'll go from there. There you go. I do like, you know, the tadpool has gone from professional marriage counselors to

to mind your own business. It's literally in front of my house. That is my business in a way. You know, communication is the key to all relationships. She should just get out of that relationship by the way mind your own business about the car we're here to point out the duality of

life and you guys little bit little bit all right that's what we do okay Tanner by the way speaking of our community Tanner wrote in you know Tanner he's your DM he's my DM that's right uh DM good friend Tanner wrote in and said uh this is about the cheese stuff additional cheese info yeah he says hi cheese is literally addictive and I went and kept reading cheese contains a chemical called casein which is found in dairy products and can trigger the brain's opioid receptors therefore cheese is kind is a kind of heroin your friend Tanner I'm not saying I don't believe him but I'm saying secondary backup on this wouldn't be bad I wouldn't mind hearing someone backup disclaim that if I yeah you know if I like if I go nuts on the cheese

am I going to crave it fortnightly? Like, what's going to happen? Yeah, I don't know. That's a really good question. Oh, I just lost my, I just lost our, where you go, hold on a second. You don't want to lose our thing?

What do you lose in there? Yeah, because I was looking up, I was Googling Kaysen just to see her KCene. Keseen, I guess I say it, Kisine. To see the, the dill. What's the dill with that? Yeah, what's the dill of Kaseen? Can I smoke it?

It's a phosphor protein of milk. It's precipitate for milk By heating with an acid Or by the action of lactate acid And souring is used to making paints and adhesives Yum And it's produced when milk is curdled by rennet The Chief Constituent of Cheese

And is used in making plastics Weird I don't like that plastic stuff Maybe it's like people to huff on paint or gas So maybe that part of it is addictive or something I don't know But you're telling me some shit and cheese I didn't know was in there

That's grossing me out gross There's some, some, the adhesive stuff from cheese, yeah. Yeah, there's things. Bill, Bill makes things in his studio out of cheese products. Right, this is prop making material. I love that, okay, I got to say one more thing about the car and then we'll move on. Sure, sure, sure. I love that me somehow not being a total freak on day one, but instead letting it go for a month before I even do anything, before I even start questioning it, somehow still makes me some sort of stingy old man up the street.

You've got to be kidding me. It's such a weird take. Exactly. Exactly. And literally the first thing you said is, you know, I tried to look around to see if maybe, you know, someone needed to do a wellness check. If somebody was okay and, you know, is in their house partially being eaten by their

dog, forgot, and, you know, isn't there to move their car. Yeah. If anything, I should feel bad about not doing that earlier. Because whoever's, who never needs a wellness check might be past the point of wellness. I don't know. I don't want to think about it. Exactly. If it was one day, if it was like two days, you'd totally would be, uh, you'd be Karen.

Yeah. You'd be like, why is this carbon in front of my house for two days? Yeah, I don't want to be Karen. I don't want to be Chad or whatever the man version is. I don't want that. I'm Chad free right now, except for a friend of my name Chad. Other than that, I don't like Chats. Yeah, don't be, don't be a chat. And all the Chats in our chat. You guys are all nice chat. Sorry, frog pants people named Chad. You guys are great. I just want to put that out there. Of course. Of course.

Yeah. Mount Sinai study. A PhD assistant professor pharmacology and systems therapeutics from the Icon school of medicine at Mount Sinai. New research argues that cheese is addictive in a way similar to drugs because of a chemical called Kasein, which is found in dairy products and can trigger the brain's opioid receptors.

Damn. There you go. Look at the brain on Tanner. Holy crap. Exactly. Yes. I don't ever feel. line some cheddar.

I'll be right back. I'll get to an eight ball of Monterey Jack. I'll let you know how it goes. Probably the kind of cheese matters, but good luck out, though. All you cheese junkies, I mean, you get the help you need. I bet it's any kind of, because if it's, if casein is created by just the curdling process, that's how you create cheese. So, I bet it may not matter which kind of cheese.

Yeah, cheese dealers. But if you get a better high from a Gouda than you would. That's what I'm saying. Would a real stinky cheese just give you the real grooving, you know? I don't know. That works. Good Cush cheese. Let's move on to this.

We got a playable audio file from a listener who left us a voicemail, correcting us on a fact about light speed and radio waves. And I hate to say this, but we got like 300 of these. Oh, okay. I'm just choosing this one because it is representative of the problem. But many of you, and I have no problem. problem admitting that we were wrong about this on the air, and I have no problem with that. So I'm going to play it now and clear the air, literally the airwaves of our radio wave problem.

Here you go. Hey, Scott and Brian, this is Kay. I'm not okay from Discord. Just listening to TMS, I'm about a day behind, but I don't know if anybody said anything about radio waves, but radio waves do travel at this speed of light. So if we do achieve radio wave speed, we would be traveling at the speed of light. um this came off a lot more pretentious than i intended it to do to anyway i love to show though bye no you weren't pretentious at all so uh this was a mostly me thing i said um if we yeah

if we travel to why don't we why don't we first focus on traveling at the speed of sound rather than the speed of light yeah because it seemed quick i was like wait you're telling me 24 minutes and we're at mars that seemed crazy fast to me i didn't realize that was exactly the same if we were speeding, going at the speed of light. I had no idea. That was absolutely news to me. And I feel like I'm pretty, I'm pretty good at the science stuff. I know stuff, right? But I guess that's, that one fell by the wayside. I had no idea. I figured that was a slower, because you always hear about, I'm conflating two things. When people break the sound barrier. Right. I think, oh, well, we can actually pull that off with a jet. An F-14 can do this. Pam, makes the noise,

has the weird, like, you know, cloud thing they fly through. All that. stuff as you can see it happen, but I don't see anybody beating the speed of light in the F-14. And so in my mind, there must be totally different. But sound barrier and light, the way I think about it is when you're watching fireworks from a distance and the further the distance, you'll see the flash of the firework and then you'll hear the, you know, afterwards, which tells me that sound travels slower than light. Right. But what, and so I guess the distinction is radio waves. Right. Radio waves are different. They're on the same bus as light waves. Like they're all

they're hanging out. They're in a car together. Right? Like their mode of movement is the same one for lack of a better way of saying it. I guarantee there are better ways of saying it. And this is the part like, I don't know. So I'm going to shut up because I don't know. Yeah. But he's right and I don't know why we did that.

But anyway, thank you. We don't mind your corrections. They're fine. And I'm happy to bite on those on those bullets when you shoot. Yeah. And I mean, here's a question. This is probably one that Bobby can put in his pocket for the next time we talk to him, but is it, you know, the speed that the light and sound, well, sound obviously can't travel through a vacuum because it needs air to create, to basically move. That's why in space no one can hear you scream.

People thought that it was just, you know, no, that's like a scientific fact. space, no, it can hear you scream. Right. It's just, you know, really Scott saying, oh, let's, let's drop a science bomb on them while they're freaking out about a xenomorph. But, uh, they kind of did. Uh, but, you know, when you're, when you're on land and that's, you know,

again, when you're seeing the fireworks and you're hearing the, the fireworks after you see the flash of light, is it, does it go slower in areas where, like the, the air is heavier or more, uh, humid? This would be an interesting question. Yeah, I don't know. But in the case of radio waves, we send those out in space all the time. Yeah, radio waves are, that doesn't require. So in my head, I just went, oh, audio, radio.

My brain just conflated the two things. That's how it is. We got corrected. Thank you for that. Kay is his name. We appreciate it. I like, I'm not okay as a username. Unless it means he's not okay.

I hope you're okay. I hope you're doing it. Oh, Randy chimes in says humid air is lighter. Hmm. Lighter. So, all right, so as a test, if you were to say, send an audio clip for recommendals from where you're at

would it travel faster to us because it's passing through some humid California air before it gets to the dry it must be whatever makes it slower is what's happening because I still don't have that clip that must be

you know Brian we've really cracked one open here this is great take that Neil DeGrasse Tyson and all you other smarty pancers your clip gosh dang it uh all right let's uh let's move on we got to do babel royale so let's do it now um yeah let's do that that means you guys can hop in the discord and send me a pm in there uh if you haven't done that already i'm frogpants in there at frogpants really easy to find you need to have a shared server or we have to be friends already i believe to initiate that um either way

hop in we want you to be a part of today's winnings we must be friends that's a great way of saying it. And we also are trying to bring in our friend Brian, who is currently ringing, but not answering. Let's see how this goes. We've got the rings of ringage. As Darrell once said so poignantly, it's ringing. And there

he is. Look who it is. It's Brian Dunnoway joining us for a little tadpooley feud on a Wednesday. How are you doing, sir? Oh, hi Scott and Brian. Do it pretty good. just amusing myself listening to two nerds on a podcast

get taken down by scientific facts and then going on for five more minutes about more scientific facts begging for more feedback. Exactly. It's like, oh, thank you for that correction. Let's provide some more material for tomorrow. Yeah, why not?

Why not have, you know, it's all content. Let's get more in here. I like it. Well, it's good to have you here, man. You sound lively, you know, like you're having a good day. Yes, yes, yes, sir. Fair point there. Yeah, yeah, it's cloudy outside going to be, it's going to be rainy, I believe. So it's kind of real fall weather.

It feels real fallish today. So I'm dicking it. I like fall. Fall's great. I love fall, too, big fan. I'm going to try to, the best I can. I don't like how everyone gets sick in the fall, but I'm going to try to have like the best couple of months of fall I can have. That's my goal.

So we'll see how it goes. Wish me luck, everyone. Joining us on the line right now is our contestant audience member, and this is Becca Smiles. Hi, Becca. Hello. Hi, how are you? Oh, hi, Becca.

Have we done this with you before? I can't remember your name is, I mean, obviously you've talked. I believe this is a first time caller, long time first time. Oh, awesome. But, you know, I'm around. All right. Well, I'm glad you're definitely in the community. Yeah.

Exactly. Well, let's do this. Brian Ibit over here's got a plan, and he's got prizes, so Brian explain. My plan is to sing Sarah Smiles, but use Becca Smiles for all the lyrics. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian have to predict the answers that they gave us. And it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Becca smiles.

Your job is more important than ever, because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you get a prize package that includes Fire Grove. and planet T.D. That's T. It's better than planet VD. T.D. It's like, it's better than some of the things, right? Planet TV is not one you want to go to. Planet VD.

Yeah, TB would be bad. I guess it's Planet Touchdown. I don't know. I don't know if that's the... Planet Touchdown. Planet Touchdown. That sounds great. So the home of the Miami is the home of the Miami Dolphins. That's right.

Oh, oh. Oh, Zing. Zigger. That was a zinger. All right. Let's get you guys your topic. And this is a fun one. Oh, my gosh.

So many choices. So many places this can go. Put your hands on your buzzers. And give me your best answer to this. We ask 422 tadpoolers. Who is the best dog for the movie? Brian. Um,

Beethoven. Show me. Beethoven. I will repeat the question for the full question for Scott. When you're time lagging, you have to take chances. Oh, you do, you do. I don't blame you one bit. Who is the best dog from movies or TV?

Oh, that's kind of what I thought it was. Yeah. Best dog, you say? Just dog. Who's the good boy? Who's the good boy? Who's best, who's good boy? Yeah.

I'm going to say Fry's Dog from Futurama Good answer What's that dog's name's got? He's dead Oh shit It's pepperoni

We avoid that episode at our house Because everyone cries I cannot remember the name of the damn dog The name of that damn dog is Seymour asses Show me Seymour Fry's Dog from Futurama Number four

Well done Nice Becca, that's me and you then we yeah you got uh control of the board and you've got becca on your side becca you seem like a cat lover because i see your icon there's a cat on there no that's just mr business oh that's mr bill oh is that mr business from bozberger yeah that's my favorite i have i have two dogs oh you do well good so you have a great thing and a golden do well then you let you know what's great about dogs so do you have any dogs that jump out and you're like oh yeah that'd be a perfect dog The first one that came to mind for me was a buddy from the Air Bud movie.

Oh, Air Bud Dog. Randy's going to love that. Yeah. Let's do it. Randy. I think you found that to be an Oscar-worthy performance, if I remember correctly. The performance of Buddy on Airbud. All right. Show me, buddy.

Oh, are you kidding me? I will tell you that number 11 on the list is freaking Buddy from Airbud, yes. Wow. I was hoping more 90s kids we're going to pipe in on that,

but that's all right. Yeah, that's all right. All right. All right, Donnaway. We'll see you. Brian, back over to you. What you got? I'm going to go with everybody's favorite.

Where's he at, Lassie? Where's he at? Did you find Billy? You fell down a well. Where's Timmy? All right. Show me Lassie. Number one answer on the board.

Number one answer. So we got a bunch of old people in the test. pretty much pretty much yeah pretty much well if they if they like the lassie dog then they must have liked his little buddy benjy he's a little scrappier but uh yeah a little scruffy but he still he still gets the job done he's always busting crime though right wasn't that his deal busting crime yeah so right he bring the bloody glove to the police and stuff and then say roof yeah we had those dogs growing up and they all stunk. They had the smeliest faces. Where's the bad guy hiding?

Roof. Yeah, roof. He's on the roof. All right. All right. Show me Benji. Number eight. Oh, damn it. Big points. Big points. Pulled way ahead there. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

I'm going to go with my favorites, Great Dane, a detective and pot smoker, Scooby. Dooby-Doo. Dooby-Doo. All right.

All right. Okay. Okay, Raggy. Show me Scooby-Doo. Soix, number two on the list. Soix. You do a good, that's a good check. Wow. He does a great one.

Yeah. I think he does a great Matthew Lillard. I think it's what he actually does. Yeah. It's pretty good. It's my K.C. Ksum, man. It's my. No.

Keep your feet out of the ground. And keep around. reaching for the stars. I think still better Matthew Lillard. I think Lillard is like the Lillard is the standard now, right? Yeah, I think he is. I definitely think he is.

Yeah. All right. All right. Oh, God. I want to say, I don't think, I think everybody's, they're skewing old, but I don't think Shaggy D.A. is going to be on there. So I'm going to have to go with

my other favorite Satan's little helper, Santa's little helper on the premiere episode of The Simpsons. Yeah, it's all the home we could get for the kids for Christmas. Yeah. All right. All right. Yeah.

Show me Santa's little helper. Damn it. There's a big points. Nice. Some big points going on the board here. Some good, them some good bites. All right. Some good bites.

Yeah, some good bites. This is delicious. Yummy. Yummy. All right. God, all I can think of a scrappy. do and no one is putting scrappy do up there. That is all I can think of

for some right. For some reason. I know. I know. I just God, why am I blanking now? And I was doing so good. Oh, Jesus. Um, oh my God.

Uh, how about, um, good Lord. There's other. I said Beethoven. Oh, I know, I know, I know.

I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. I know.

I know. I know. Yeah. Tom Hanks is Tom Hanks and he's Turner and he's got a dog he's got a big fat doggy

that drool the slot and his name is Hooch. Yeah. I'm going to say, oh my God. Ouch. You thought by patting it with all that conversation it was going to make it more true.

Here's the sad thing. Hooch was still number 14 on the list. I mean, there's enough people that pushed them that close to the top. Did I tell you, by the way, that Beethoven was number 12? I didn't. No, I didn't tell you that because that was your initial guess.

I'm going to say, I feel like there's a lot of cartoon heads out there. I'm going to say, Brian, the dog from your Peter Griffin did. Oh, that is smart. Yeah. That is smart. Yeah, Brian, Peter Griffin. All right. Show me, Brian from Family Guy.

Yeah. Yeah, number five on the list. It's points. All right, Becca, knowing what we know. it feels like we might be on a you know we could win this now do you have any uh that just jumped out now i've got a million don't you hate that now i have like a million in my head yeah when you when you move away from it when you're not struggling

all of a sudden they just come to you Becca do you have a million no I don't either do you have one one is all we need there's there's Clifford the big red dog oh yeah oh that is really good I didn't think about that. Yeah, I feel like that's a, I mean, every kid in lots of generations.

That feels right to me. Let's say Clifford, the big red dog. All right. Show me Clifford. Oh, come on. Clifford was number 22. Made the list, but not high enough to be at the top there. All right.

Done away. Four answers left on the board. Lots of big numbers, too. For, I'll tell you where my heart's at. heart's at dino mutt but there's no way blue falcon and dino mutt but there's just no way so i'm going to go with it in a totally different direction i'm going to go with blue from blue's clues sure sure let's see if he's back from checked in the mail uh show me blue Blue? Blue was on the list lower, though.

Back, back. Yeah. I think and chair and think. Tied for 44th. 34th. Wow. 44. It's the mail.

I got to get the mail. How'd the song go? Whatever. Here's the mail. It never fails. Makes me want to wipe my mail. When it comes, I want to wail. Thank you.

Mail. He does jazz hands with it. You know the deal. You know the deal. It's been a while. I tried to block some of that out. I'm going to throw in, if I know our Tadpool, I think they probably said Bandit from Bluey.

Oh, that was, yeah, I was going that. That was my next direction. Yeah, I like Bandit a lot. So Bandit, the dad from Bluey. He's the best in the world ever in the history. All right. Show me Bandit. Shit.

Shit! Oh, third strike. Bandit was. So, let's see, bandit, bandit, bandit. I know I saw Bandit. It should be number one, man. Should be, but not. Yeah.

That is clear, for sure, that he is not here, unfortunately. Actually, surprisingly, no bandit. Damn it. That is a fallacy of humanity. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you guys zuffed up. All right, Brian, you got to clear the board now. that's your job oh i don't have to oh that's true that's true if i could do that then we could

still win a price yeah yes exactly that's a lot of pressure i was gonna blow it and now i've got oh jesus um yeah i believe you guys give me a hand then i've got i've got the thing i hit okay oh no you're good the thing switched to a different zone for some reason i didn't do um i the the underdog was one so you guys got to help me out here to see what maybe the best answers on. Your dog was one. Hong Kong Fui was another The audience, the Tedpool is Sherman

and uh, by the way. Was it Sherman or was it a Peabody? Which one was it? Was he the Peabody? Mr. Peabody was the dog. Yeah. Mr. Peter I would say quiet you. Snoopy would be a good answer. The chat room's smart with Snoopy. Yes. Snoopy's a really good one. Agreed. Yeah. Give us some, give us some

dog. Doggy loving that Lucy does not want kisses from give us some Snoopy yeah give us some background Snoopy number seven

all right very good Brian's Brian's desire to give backstory and plot to all of his answers I know exactly

yeah I love it so fun what about there's there's brain from inspector gadget

like I said all these started flooding into my brain oh oh oh no but I do see I have seen

a couple people say the remaining three in the chat room. Really? Oh, yeah, somebody just said one of them, but time-wise, I don't know if you're looking at the chat room. Well, I mean, we're in the cartoon world, right?

No, not always. It doesn't have to be a cartoon. Real world dog, I can, well, I'm actually, is Eddie from Frazier. Oh, yeah, Fred. Oh, Eddie. Eddie, that's a great dog. And we got Fraser coming back out again soon, right?

I think we should go with Eddie. Thank you for the background. the flea hound yes well I I try to get the background so that the dogs aren't confused like if you like

not that Eddie no I'm not complaining right right no there are exactly no there are multiple ones of these all right show me Eddie yeah yeah very good you got two left two more answers and

got two more that's another one that people have been saying a lot right and the judge said Diane from Cheers. Why would you say that? There was an episode. So not, not Rocco because he's the wallaby. Yeah. I'd say

another, and clue on these last two is that they're both CGI. Oh. Well, I guess, well, let me take that back. One is, one is just straight up 3D animated. The other one is CGI. Oh. Interesting.

But isn't one of, aren't they, wouldn't that make them both CGI? Or no? I mean, technically, yes. but one is a character in a 3D animated movie. The other one is a CGI dog from a live action movie. That makes sense. All right. That's the distinction there.

That's the differentiation. Sure. All right, Brian, what do you think of that? Those are some good tips. That's a really good question. That shouldn't be that much of them. You guys have been saying, you guys have been constantly saying, yeah, right there.

I see both of them mentioned right there. Those are the two you should say. Oh, those two right there, what are you should say. So Cosmo is a great dog, right? No context given none. Just Cosmo dog. Cosmo dog. All right.

Show me Cosmo. Well done. Cosmo from Guardians of the Galaxy. Voiced by Borat's daughter. That's right. I didn't know that. I loved her on that Borat, the sequel. Yeah.

She was so good. She's the voice of Cosmo in Gardens of the Galaxy. Man, that single shouldn't have been so good. It was so good. Oh my gosh. It was really good. Yeah. Yeah.

Head hard. So we're going theatrical still, right? So we did one that was live action. Right now. The other one is CGI theatrical. Right. The three-d anime movie. The last one has to be Doug.

Doug. Doug. Doug. Squirrel. Squirrel. Doug. Don't tell him. Don't tell him because he doesn't want any context.

He just wants to answer. Doug. Show me, Doug. Nicely done. Well done. You've run the board. Yeah. You did it.

it. The chat room gave you that. Yeah, they did. Thank you chat room. Nothing wrong with that. Good job you guys. That means this. Congratulations. You're a winner. Brian, what other answers did we miss that were on? Yeah, so the next few on the list here, Airbud, Ben, Beethoven, we mentioned Cujo, number 13. Oh, he's such a good dog. Yeah, what a good boy. Oh my God. The best dog to move here to be, K-9 from Doctor Who. London from the little's hobo. A lot of people said

London. Daisy, John Wicks Dog, basically the reason we have all this John Wick movies is that one. Bluey was on the list. No bandit, but Bluey, Gromit, Milo from the Mask, Wishbone, Hong Kong Fooey, Marley, Oldieller, Rin Tin Tin Tin. Oh, Teller.

Shadow. No hound, hound from Fox and the Hound, Lady, Tramp, make those. Nope, neither of those. Shadow from Homeward Bound, Astro from the Jetsons, Brain from Inspector Gadgett, Einstein, from back in the future, muttly, Pluto, underdog, chance from Homeward Bound.

Two people said Chewbacca. Okay. Well, that is a hilarious. Two people also said dino mutt from Blue Falcons, so you feel the ship will redeem from that one. Yeah. Orthos, Tiger, Toto,

Alf, again. Uh, questionable. I will admit to thinking the name Alf. He does. He does like to eat cats, but don't tell Scott that. That's context. No, I don't mind. Hey, I like the context.

I just find it hilarious that I get a Wikipedia entry for every answer. I like it. I like it. So let me ask you this. You said canine. Now, did you mean canine cop with jimbalushi? No, I really didn't. I meant canine from Dr. Hill.

And then we had dog from Road Warrior, dog from the Walking Dead, and Dogg the bounty hunter. Nice. Dog the bounty hunter. What was the dog's, what was the dog's robot? dog's name in Ballastar Glactic from the original. Why am I forgetting that right now? No, now that was that was Buck Rogers.

Hold on. Boxy. No, no. Battlestar Glatig of Boxi. Boxy. Okay, yeah, nobody said boxy. Yeah, boxy said Boxy. Yeah, Boxi E. Boxi made this sound where I just went, peep, peep, peep, beep, beep, beep, beep, it's like a, yeah, it was weird. It's a terrible thing. He wore a corduroy, right? Got some corduroy. Did he? I don't remember that.

Do you have corduroy on? Now that's some context I didn't know. that bring that to the table every time amazingly nobody said snoop dog i've been depressed oh that's funny one person did say uh did say ubu for sit ubu sit oh that is a good dog yeah even says to every episode of family ties yeah boxy was the boy oh no we did it we're gonna get some messages wait the boy the kid's name was boxy was the dog that's right okay eh okay why name your kid boxy that's shitty Those are shitty parents.

You don't name your kid boxy. Muffet was the robot dog. Muffet. Yeah, that's hilarious. I hate that. I had a Muffet. Did you have a Muffet? I had a Muffet.

I didn't have a Muffet. No. A little action figure you're talking about? Yeah. Now I can tell, you know what? I looked him up. You're not wrong about the, the corduroy. That's weird.

Right. Why do you remember that? That's a weird thing to remember. Wow. Brain is full of useless information. Brain is weird. uh well excellent say did anyone say indiana from diana oh hilarious they don't see the dog is one of the best dogs that we've never seen in film is uh or maybe

did we see him in the young indiana jones chronicles i imagine that oh maybe we would have had to see him there right yeah i'll bet they did i don't remember any of those but i bet they i bet they did yeah they should do a whole new series by the way that that starred harrison ford was a was a uh actually had Harrison Ford in an episode of Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Like a flash forward kind of deal? Sort of. Like it was its own little self-contained story, and it was him and another guy in a snow-covered cabin or something.

Weird. Okay. Yeah. That's an odd one. I wouldn't have picked that, but it exists. Well, the good news is that we have some prizes for Becca. Becca, how do you feel about your win, even though it may have been a little helped? Do you still feel good about it?

Do you feel all right? Oh, I feel like everyone won today. Oh, that's really nice. I think you're right about that. Let's go ahead and get those prizes to you. Brian will be sending those via Discord if he hasn't already. And congratulations. It's always nice having somebody new.

So thanks for being here today. Hey, Donaway, today. Here's some context for you. Today at 4 p.m. Mountain Time. that'll be 6 p.m. your time on the East Coast there. You and I are going to sit down and talk about the first three pointy boob... Tomb Raider.

Tomb Raider games. Yes. Pointy boob. And it's important to... That's right. Because those... Just in time for the remaster. Yeah. That's right. That's why... I think that's why Dunaway actually was the one to suggest it. He's like, we got this coming up. We should talk about this. So we're going to do that. And there's a... It's a pretty crazy history of specifically the stuff that was supposed to happen

first and only on the on the Sega Saturn and then there was a bunch of switch around because suddenly Sony was in the fray and they were actually selling a lot more PS-1s than everyone thought they were going to and then they shifted gears and anyway a legend was born one of the great mascots if you want to call her that

of gaming of that era and we will talk all about Laura Croft and her fun times in the first three very ugly video games if you look at the old ones I hope these remasters look better because going back and playing some of this for this episode.

Oh, man. Oh, gosh. It was very pixel-y, especially the PlayStation. The Windows version is a little less egregious, but still, it's very blocky. Yeah. And tank controls, gross. I know, right?

I have very specific memory of my, with my daughter on this one. I'll save it for the show, but it's a very meaningful little kid moment that happened with the first or second Tomb Raider. Anyway, that'll be today. 4 p.m. Mountain Time. frogpants.TV or wherever you get your podcast, just look for play retro. Brian Dunaway, is there anything you'd like to add to that? Happy birthday to Zoe one day later.

Oh, nice. She's 16. You can have one of these. 16 driving. Happy birthday. Here's what you should do. Take her right out to the DMV. There, get her a license.

We're doing that today. She's got a restricted, and so she can go get the real deal today. Yeah. What you guys call it restricted? Do we call it a learner's permit, we call it out here? It may be called learners permit. It's got restrictions on it. There's like different levels you can get, if you take the training, you can get stuff signed so you can drive after a certain hour and all kinds of crazy stuff.

Sure, sure. Well, that's awesome. Congratulations to her. And while she's there, ask what are you supposed to do when a car has been parked in front of your yard too long? Ask what I said about that. Brian Dunaway, everybody. Kiss our butts. We'll see you next time.

Bye now. Oh, he said thank you instead of know you. Instead of know you. Yeah. I don't even know what to make of that. It's like a slightly softer down away, apparently. I'm kidding. A little squishy one.

Softer, gentler down the way. We're going to do one news story. And here it comes. It's time for some quick news. Brought to you by. Little tiny things. Look at this. So watch this.

Are they right here? Yeah. So my daughter collects little tiny things. and she got some duplicates. She has like a blind, you know, blind boxes. We're all used to those. Sure, sure. Boxes and that.

Of course. Love those. Specifically sends her little tiny food items. So there's some chicken nuggets. Here's a little shake, you know. Oh, that's great. Cherry on there. There's a burger.

And Brian, here's how they do rarity. This actually shuts and opens, but this little burger in here. It's all rendered out. It's a good-looking burger, by the way. Yeah, it's not bad. I would eat that, especially that fun. Got my split down the middle. you smell them and if you get the one some of them smell like an actual burger like a fast food burger

oh really and those are the rare ones you want to keep those so she has all the ones that smell like what they are i just have these leftovers but anyway little tiny things i want things either super tiny like this or i want giant pencils giant telephones giant you know super huge yeah that's the world i want to live in does it come in a little tiny loot box yeah or it's a ball i guess oh a ball okay gotcha they come in the mail she cracks it like an egg and then sides and all this stuff. She has little sushi trays and little, all this. Her and her sister do it, and they both are weird about it. They love that stuff. Anyway, uh, let's do this quick news story here. This is a story, uh, Florida man. We got a Florida man deal. Florida man. Yeah. And, uh, he attacked

or was attacked by a rabid otter while feeding ducks. Let this be a lesson and a warning to everyone listening. Yeah. Don't be doing this. Rabid otter attacked a man last week in Florida, according to officials Florida Department of Health said the attack happened Wednesday in Jupiter Florida this is Palm Beach County do you ever go to Jupiter for for a not for a newspaper but I went to the Palm Beach Post and and I met up with our trainer one of our trainers was from Jupiter oh nice is it cool what's the town of Jupiter like yeah it's like a seaside town a little small small town I like Palm Beach was much nicer oh I bet yeah I like a little it's a little like it's a

Everything's kind of called salt residue. What I remember is, like, all the buildings and stuff had, like, salt residue on the corners and stuff. Yeah, full of T-shirts, you're never going to buy stuff. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Let's see, according to the local television station there, the 74-year-old animal care and control. Oh, wait, told animal, sorry, this is the guy, 74, told animal care and control that he was feeding corn to the ducks of the nearby pond. By the way, it's recommended you give them corn instead of bread and stuff. You're killing him if you get up.

Sure. The man began slowly to back up while facing the otter when the animal attacked him for several minutes. The man suffered dozens of wounds in his legs and arms. Oh, he had to visit a hand surgeon to see if he has any permanent damage to his hand. He also got rabies shots. The otter also attacked a pet dog in the area. The otter was captured and tested positive for rabies. So it was a rabies deal.

Don't try to fight an otter with rabies. God, no. Okay? That's all I'm asking you guys at home. But it does feel like, you know, one punch on that otter's done. Yeah. You do kind of, you hate to be that guy that says, you know, who is it, Marky Mark, Mark Wahlberg, when the plane went down in Pennsylvania on 9-11 and he goes. Oh, yeah, yeah.

If I was on that plane, things that are going different. Yeah. So I always hate when people do that, but there's some cases. I feel like I could fend off an otter, but maybe not. I'm same. Hard same. This is one where I would claim superiority. I would think I could do better.

the situation also he's the guy 74 you know you get a younger dude in there oh that's true yeah that's a good point a 74 year old is there's that evens up the uh evens up the scales a little bit i'm i'm with you though i think we could take that honor why not yeah that's going to do it for today's news hey brian let's play a song and then get tom merit and recommendals in here and all that stuff after the break so much stuff to get to yeah uh this one's uh by a singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist producer named Femke, F-E-M-K-E. She's a brand new EP. This is her debut EP called Safe in the Suburbs. A little bit of a little bit of a Taylor Swift vibe. I've been listening to a lot of Olivia Rodriguez. Her brand new album is

really, really good. So this one kind of reminds me a little bit of that, too. But you let me know. Maybe it's just the fact that I've been listening to so much of it. This is the first single from the EP, it's called Dead End Street. Here is Femke. I can see where you think this road is taking us. If I ask you to stay, I say it just because. My heart ain't stolen. I'm just a little caught up in a moment.

Don't go trying to change me. You'll just waste your life. love I'll put the red flags out bright by the flowers in case you've ever figured it out take it as a warning tonight or in the morning you're going to have to turn back around all the things that we can do i'm going to leave it all to you but if you don't want to end up stuck at the end of that street don't come to me I could count the reasons

why I built this home or space but I don't feel alone call me crazy I've been rolling real good with a lately the door is open but i'll let you know i put the red flag out right by the flowers in case you ever figured it out take it as a warning tonight during the morning you're gone and have to turn that

round all the things that we can do i'm going to leave it up to you but if you don't want to end up stark at the end of it that I've striped Don't come to me Oh Don't come to me I'm good, there's a reason, there's a reason, There's a reason, I put the red flags out right by the flowers in case you haven't figured it out

take it as a warning tonight or in the morning you're gonna have to turn back around all the things that we can do i'm gonna leave it out to you but if you don't want to end up Start at the edge of the dance tree Don't come to me Well, ladies and gentlemen, how do you do? Here am I enjoying myself down at Malvern And there are you enjoying yourself By allowing a photograph to talk to you

And you're working hard to put food on your family I will admit I miss the earnest goof-ups of George W. Bush. Oh, my gosh. I know. Because he was so earnest about it, right? Right. So, such a quaint, fun period of time now that we look back compared to... Lots of other things. Lots of other things. But it's so... Hey, that was, uh, that was Femke and the song, uh, Dead End Street from her brand new EPE called Safe in the Suburbs. Such a great name, Femke. I like it. Femke. Not Femkeke like Jensen, but, uh... No, no. Well, that would be probably a Femke.

Maybe her name is pronounced Femka. It's a Femka, yeah, FAMCA, right? Yeah, FAMCA, Janssen is pronounced FAMCA, not Femke. I am for you. That's spelled with a knee at the end. She always says, I am for you,

Oric of Old, or whatever, to John Luke Picard. And then he says, ooh, I'm attracted to you. And then, oh, her TNG episode was something, man. It was something, but for me, she'll always be Zienia on a top.

Even more so than Gene Gray, she'll always be Zini on a top. Yep. One of the great modern bond lady. I agree with you there. All right, we're going to bring in the crowd, the crew. We'll start with this Randy name. We're starting with Thomas.

Oh, yeah. What am I thinking, Scott? I know, boy, guy disappears for a couple weeks to go to South Korea and all of a sudden. I know. I just like ride him off. Jays the ways us. All right, we're bringing him in now. We're going to get some tech news under our belt, which I'm very excited about.

Here we go. Let's get this going. Kind of in a tough spot here, Tom. Sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry, too. Tom, let's talk about tough. spots and tech news it's tom merritt everybody our wednesday tech enthusiast slash podcaster content creator and expert tom welcome how are you well you're muted is what you are oh no boy he disappears

for a couple weeks and all of a sudden we can't hear him anymore no mutiny mickmuter pants zero are you are you swearing is that the deal you're you're cussing up a storm cussing us out saying you jerks you losers he figured out he figured out he forgot he doesn't have a microphone oh Well, you know, you don't have to be a prop. The one sitting in front is totally... Yeah, we hear you now, yeah. I was just protesting that Scott almost forgot about it. Oh.

No, I started doing a nifty new thing with Discord and forgot that I left the nifty new thing on. Oh, yeah. Well, I gotcha. Now I'm all curious about your nifty new thing. Well, so I've had some line noise when we stream Daily Tech News show into Discord, and I figured out how to get around it by using Loopback. But

to use Loopback in the way that I'm using it, I'm not saying it's the only way you can do this, but the way I'm doing it is to use Loopback's pass through, which means I actually have to run audio hijack for the audio to get to Discord. Oh, gotcha. Oh, funny. Okay. Yeah,

it's amazing to me, the spider webs of configurations you can actually do with loopback and yeah, it's actually really great, because what ends up happening is you end up having a problem that is unique and weird and strange. Like you having just line noise going to Discord is a weird thing. So I love the software because at first it seems kind of like they are non-traditional

on how they do things almost across the board. But it's what I love about them because I can always figure out some wackadoo way and making it work. And it's great. Yeah. And there's always someone like, well, but you can do it this way. I'm like, that works for you. but I have these six considerations that you don't have.

And so I have to do it. But you can always do it. It's just, it doesn't seem like anybody does it the same way who uses it. So all praise to Rogamiba letting us do it our way. How about that? I like that. Yeah.

Go Rogamibahs. Go Rogamibes. Just go get in my brain. That's right. Tom, what is going on in this week in tech? No, let's not say it that way.

Here's some information you love from me. I'm going to combine a little cord killers and daily tech news show crossover story here. Of course, you may have heard there was a writer's strike. Did you guys hear about that? That little blip, isn't it over now? Yeah, no, it is. They just ended it today. And we finally got the details of what's in the contract between the writers and the studios.

I have been saying, I just want to say this up front, I have been saying on cord killers consistently, I think the AI part of this contract is a red herring and I feel like the things they agreed about AI bear me out using AI in the writer's guild strike was a way to drum up a lot of public interest get your rank and file members all fired up and it worked it's great but if you look at what they agreed this is all incredibly reasonable and it's not fearmongering about AI going to take our jobs let me let me run through what the

guidelines are, according to what I've read here on Variety and Wall Street Journal and stuff. Right. And tell me if you think this is crazy or unexpected, all right? Okay. If AI tools are used to create material in a script, the AI can't get credit. A WGA writer has to get credit. Wow. That is reasonable and not at all hyperbolic like I would have thought they were going.

Also, I don't think any studio was planning. As much as the rhetoric was, I don't, yeah, we will replace all the writers with AIs and take all their credits. Exactly, yes. Yeah, studio cannot require a writer to use an AI tool. You can't say, well, we'll hire you to write the script, but you have to use ChatGPT. Can't do that. Okay. That's, again.

I mean, that's, yeah. But it seems reasonable to me, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Totally. I mean, that one, I could see an argument where maybe AI gets so good. to studios like, man, best practices are to use these tools because they make the scripts better. But the writers get to decide that.

The studios agreed to say, you decide whether you're going to use these tools. Plus they have three years to do a new one if they get, if something goes south, they can change it. Yeah. Right. Now, the companies can still use AI and must disclose if any materials they give to a writer were generated by AI. So let's say one writer has used chat GPT to help generate part of a script. script. And as often happens, they take what that writer does and they hand it to another

writer, right? And they say, well, you're writing this script. They have to disclose while part of this was done by. Do they have to do it if I just used it for, let's say, grammatical, like traditional editor stuff where they didn't change the content? That's a good question. I don't know the text of the agreement well enough to say, but I'm guessing, yeah, even if they did that, they just have to disclose that. We did a grammar pass using Bard. Imagine hearing that 10 years ago And trying to tell me what the hell you're talking about I love it

A grammar pass with Bard Now here's the one that I feel is the weirdest Of the ones I saw Companies may use writer materials To train models This was a big bugaboo Like you can't use all of our work To train a model that you're then going to replace us with

Well the agreement says you can't get replaced by it So that concern is out But the companies may still train their own models that they may then offer to the writers to use on writers material, but, and this is a big butt, the WGA reserves the right to assert that such training either violates the agreement or the law. Oh, wow. Now, I need to dig into the actual wording of this in the agreement at some point, but what

it sounds like to me is that the studios are allowed to make their own models. allowed to use their scripts to train the models, but the WGA can step in at any point and say, we don't like how you're doing that. So the studios need to be considerate in how they do it. They need to get writers permission, et cetera. But they didn't write that into the agreement. It doesn't sound like. They just said, you can train it, but if we don't like how you're doing it, we can stop you. Yeah. Seems like best practice on the studio side would be, if you're going to train it, be transparent about it, be open about it. Yeah. Write it into the, the contract like you agree that we're going to use your stuff to train and then and if we do you're

going to get x y and z out of it etc you're right that's so far that was the biggest but of this agreement that i've that i've you know what i like big butts and i cannot usually i do i'm not sure if i like this one or yeah yeah uh well i can't i lie is there is there anything in there that that's any um is any like from what i've heard from writers who've talked to since this was you know looked like it was going to get ratified they were all saying this looks great. This is what we wanted. We're very happy. Does that seem to be the consensus or anything in here that's like a red herring? I'm doing you a disservice by focusing on the AI part of this because this, to me, is the least impactful part of this. This is like, well, we made a big deal out of it. So we've got to write some reasonable rules down. The bigger parts of this are guarantees on how many writers have to be employed in the room for how long and what kinds of shows. And the biggest deal, that I can tell is that you the streamers are agreeing to pay royalties based on the performance of the shows that's new right the royalties were previously based on Nielsen ratings and things

like that so there really wasn't a metric for this in streaming land so they are they are now going to pay some bonuses based on performance based on how well shows do and they're going to share that data with writers they can't just tell them like Like, hey, it did great. Here's your check. They have to give them reports. Like regular reports of like, okay, you're working on this show. Here's how it's been doing.

Here's the numbers. All right. Well, this is good. So I don't know what the numbers are like from 06 or any other, you know, the early 80 or late 80s. And they had another strike. Did this go longer than those? Is this considered a short one? Is this going to...

I think this is the second longest one? It wasn't longer than the one in the 80s. Okay. Yeah, the 80s one was a beast, is my memory. And it took forever to get through it. And it became a nightmare with like everything was just in permanent repeats. It was just, you know, we didn't have, A, streaming services, B, a lot of cable yet. Yeah.

Like, it was just, hey, you want to see some more something from the 60s that we're just going to air over and over because we got nothing else? Like, that's kind of how they had to handle it then. But it just seems like today, this would be a quick recovery. I could be wrong, but it feels like we've already got a glut of stuff out now. I think you're right. Yeah. It doesn't feel as I felt when they put this strike in place in the end of a season in May that, huh, I'm going to guess that they resolve this at the beginning of the season in fall because that's when everybody feels the pinch. Right.

Not that they didn't feel the pinch over the summer, but you feel it less in the summer than you do in the rest of the traditional season. And I know we don't really hue to the like all the shows. come out in the fall like we used to, but there's the reason that happened was the pattern of viewing of people was different. And the pattern of viewing is still the same. We still watch fewer things in the summer because we go places and go out more. And then when kids come back to school, at least here in the U.S., we tend to watch more TV because we're home more and the weather starts to cool down and all of that. So I always knew like, man, they're really going to start feeling the pinch in the fall and they're going to want to resolve this. And I,

also, I think they may have planned better for it. I mean, Netflix certainly was able to fill its schedule with international stuff. A lot of stuff got shot overseas because, you know, overseas actors and writers were not part of this. And don't forget, though, we're not out of the woods. The actors are still on strike. So you can't just send everything back to work. You can send the talk shows back to work. You can send the reality shows like Dancing with the Stars, which was a little controversial because they had one writer, whether that was okay or not. You can do all of that, but you still don't have actors yet. So we're not out of the woods yet.

Well, what's her name from E.T.? I can't they give her name? Drew Barrymore. If Drew Barrymore could have waited one more week. Yeah, right, exactly. Just one week to have that whole kerfuffle, all of those guys, like Bill Maher, everybody who said really stupid stuff, depending on your point of view, just one week. And you would have been. You would have been good.

You would have been golden. Yeah. Well, I have a feeling that the SAGAFTRA, the actor strike, will probably get resolved shortly. There are different issues there, but it feels like you've got momentum towards agreement now. But SAGAFTA also authorized a strike vote against video game studios. So it may be that SAGAFRA is like, let's wrap up the actor strike against the TV and movie studios. and focus on putting pressure on the video game studio. So we may be going out of what I might call a frying pan into another frying pan.

It might be. A slightly larger frying pan. People forget that the gaming business. A bigger frying pan. They make a lot more money than Hollywood. So there's a chance that could be even hairier. Although I actually think that'll get resolved pretty quick. People are, I think there's a lot more wiggle room there.

Anyway, we'll see how this all plays out. I'm always fascinated by it, especially the AI aspect of it. And it sounds like that stuff is. for now, given the current climate, good news for writers. So congratulations, writers. Get back to it. Get season three of all the cool shit I want done. It's all about me here.

All right. It's what I want. Right. That was in the contract. Yeah. As long as Scott is happy. It was the very last time. Johnson Clause, they called it.

Look for it. Sure. Well, that's great news. Tom, it's always good having you here. Anything else going on at the show or anywhere else you'd like to mention today? Yeah, man. I'm having the most fun I've ever had on Know a Little More with the season we're doing now. I know a bunch of you have already checked it out, but if you haven't yet, we are exploring the effects of a 1968 demo that if you don't know about it will blow your mind.

If you do know about it, I still think I uncovered a few things that might blow your mind. And the short version is Douglas Engelbart, who is generally credited with inventing the mouse, put on a demo where he showed collaborative editing, word processors, video conferencing, the mouse. In 1968, before any of that stuff was even conceived of as possible, people were still sharing terminals and were working command line and couldn't backspace and all kinds of crazy stuff like that. So it was a seminal event in computing history, and it did not lead immediately to everybody getting desktop computers. So we explore this season what it was, what its effects were, how the mouse was developed, how the word processor was developed, some great stories and great work being done by the dog and pony show audio team, Justin Robert Young, Amos, Will Saldberg, all those folks. So go check it out, know a little more.com. and you can support it on Patreon. If you want to get it without ads,

patreon.com slash know a little more. That sounds great. Go check that out, everybody. And also check us out today on the Daily Tech News show. I'll be there. It's Wednesday. I love being on.

Can't wait to see you guys. And we'll see you then. Bye. Bye, Tom. Ba. Bah. Yeah, it feels good, man. We don't have to worry about

too much bad reality shows now. Not too many. You know, they just extended the two that I really like Survivor and Amazing Race to not. 90 minutes, which I'm fine with. Those two, I feel like, do a little bit of the, you know, the editing, the shock editing, but not nearly. I mean, it's reality competition versus reality shows like your real housewives garbage and just about anything on TLC and Bravo and that sort of thing.

Yeah, to completely agree. I don't mind the, especially if it's a competition I care about, and I like that pottery one that Bill told us about. I like, yeah, the great throwdown. Yeah, British Bake-Bake-O. You know, all that stuff's great. More of that, less of the other. Thank you so much. Exactly. And bring us back, John Oliver, please.

Come back to TV. Yeah, get them off their dumb podcast. Hitch that podcasting thing. Yep. Get Jimmy Fallon up in front of the camera feeling bad again about how. That is toxic workplace. Yeah, apparently. That's a real bummer over there.

Yeah. It's always the most happy go lucky guys I should worry about. I always feel like that's who you hear about. It's like, oh, Ellen DeGeneres, what a happy. Maybe not always, Scott, I consider. myself to be happy, go lucky. Yeah, but you're realistic. Like, this is what I respected about Letterman.

Letterman had his problems, but he never pretended otherwise. He's kind of a cranky bastard on air, right? Yeah, right. And I don't know that anyone ever called the workplace toxic, but, you know, he was known for being a little bit temperamental and all that stuff. It seemed right for Dave. But for Jimmy Fallon, you're given the impression that he is just,

we smiles all day, and he's never anything wrong. Same with Ellen DeGeneres and her whole mess. Like these people that are grinning the most, now they freak me out. Yeah, yeah. All right. Let's add Randy to the call. Let's add Nicole to the call. Yeah.

Let's have them in. Yeah. They're like vampires. You have to invite them in. Right, right. Otherwise, they can't just join. No. It's, you know, I respect vampire lore and I'm doing it today.

So anyway, here it is. Well, what do you recommend? I'll tell you what we recommend. A little segment on Wednesdays we call Recommendals, where we talk about streaming stuff and whether it be movies or TV or whatever and we recommend it to you at home. Today's no different.

Welcome back to the show, Nicole Spag. Hi, Nicole. Hi, how are you? How are you? Yeah, you sound okay. Yeah, you sound good. You do, you're a little quiet, but. I got a, so my earbuds don't work

because I got a new phone. Yeah. And I, my change, you know, the plug that you charge the phone with is different now. So I have to get it. Did they change a power plug on a recent phone? Yes. I had an iPhone 12.

I'm just kidding, Nicole. You know about the switch to the USB. Yeah, the USBC switch is a big, but it's also, if you were using wired headphones, it does kind of suck because you're like, oh, okay, well, I got to go buy any ones of those, or I got to go wireless and you're buying me. They were consistent, you know? I was like, okay, I can, this is, I sound okay. So I don't even know how I'm talking to you right now.

I think I'm talking to you. Sounds fine. You actually sound fine. Yeah, you sound good. Yeah, no problem at all. That 15th. Last minute, I go, oh, God, my earbuds won't work. My experience with my daughter's new 15 is that I don't have it yet. Our speaker voice communication is about a billion times better.

And I don't know why what changed in the 15, but it's just better, like FaceTime, all that stuff. Can't explain it. I can't explain Randy's appearance here, though, because he's also with us. And he always is. Hi, Randy. Welcome back. Good morning, morning stream. I am back.

The strike is. mostly over, and I'm really going to miss Adam Conover. I realize that is a guy that I can access pretty much any day of the future, right? But I'm just going to miss him. Like Adam Conover, about once a week, giving us all of his, all of his thoughts and his stream of consciousness. I've missed all this. What's his deal? What do he do?

Adam ruins everything. Oh, that guy. So what did he do? Did he do something special during the strike? Was he doing a regular thing on the strike? Yeah, about once a week, he would have like a press conference. Although there was really more of just like a speaker's corner thing going on. And man, he just like, he had this ability to explain the current situation.

You know, like, here's what's going on. Just so entertaining. So entertaining. Well, and he was like one of the leaders, the reps for the Writers Guild. So he was. Apparently a board member since 2021 of the WGA. Oh. So he's a big booster of the.

I'm not saying I wanted that strike to go off. on like these people i feel so sorry for them like they're all like on at the risk of losing their apartments and stuff they're standing outside but uh there were just parts of it that were so entertaining and uplifting that's cool anyway that's that there you go uh well i guess you know go watch the archives of it and pretend the strikes still on i guess there you i don't know whatever you want to do uh we're going to do some recommendals today we're going to start with brian and uh i see a clip i'll push it when you tell me to what do you got here yeah so this one

I was wondering when which of the four of us would get to this one first apparently I did and I enjoyed it tremendously especially the soundtrack so if you did hear me talk about this on film sack

then it's going to be a little bit of a spoiled spoiler alert spoiled alert sure that's a spoiled alert yeah let's get to the clip all right here you go mom it's okay

he's just a friend sigh silence I could smell you from over there. Oh, you stink. What are you talking about? You know what I'm talking about. You're smelling love on me?

If your father find out, fire and water cannot be together. I prove it. Come with me. I splash this on your heart to bring love to the surface. And then you must light these with your fire, and I read the smoke. My dad, you have to go. Wait, are we a match?

What's going on? Sounds like a good time in some sort of animated town somewhere. It is a good time in an animated town. It's elemental or forces of nature in some country. this is the newest deal from Pixar and it is it's fantastic it is so sweet and creates this incredible world that that man i want to live in i want to visit this world because it's so colorful and bright and everything makes noise when you walk on it and bump into it and stuff like that it's uh it's great and it's kind of like a little um a play on

you've got kind of a little bit of a Romeo and Juliet thing. You've got a little bit of kind of an immigration thing in a big city and how different parts of the culture don't like other parts of the culture and treat them differently and that sort of thing. But basically, it's a world in which you've got people made of all four different elements, fire, water, earth, and wind, and how they coexist and play off of each other in this interesting world. you heard

let's see I know you heard Leah Lewis there and Shaila Omni I think who you didn't hear who I always

enjoy watching is a guy named Mamadu Athi or Athe I recommend him a while back for a really bizarre

horror movie or horror series called Archive 81 on Netflix I guess a long time ago last year

but it's this this weird apartment building with a a portal to who knows where. If you've not seen Archive 81,

it is worth checking out. But he plays the dude made of water. Lee Lewis plays the woman made out of fire. Bernie, or I'm sorry, cinder. No, Ember. Oh, those are all good names for fire people. They're all names of fire people. Her parents are Bernie and cinder,

and she's named, her names ember. That's great. Yeah, you figure out, like, you watch this thing and it's like, a hundred different puns for great uh great elemental names for your children

it's really really good but here's the thing that that blew me away about this movie was the soundtrack it's a thomas Newman soundtrack and there's a you've got your your quote unquote your vocal single in there by a guy named lov uh called um steal the show i think it is

uh but the rest of the soundtrack is just this gorgeous like Avatar, you know, wondrous, unusual instruments doing this kind of flowing, not as boring as New Age, but kind of those same, those same kinds of instruments, this amazing, amazing soundtrack. And it's really, it's just beautiful. What was the online hate for this movie? Because I agree. Was there online hate?

I don't know. Was there? There was a lot of, yeah. I mean, it's an immigrant story. and I want to say when it came out there was a lot of like negative buzz about and it didn't do what

it did not do well in the theaters well they marketed it like poop I don't know what happened with the marketing but it felt like they barely marketed it to me I only knew about it because I saw one flash of something somewhere I don't remember where it was and I went oh there's a new Pixar movie I need to remember that and then nothing

no other like internet campaigns or any of this stuff and I don't know why that is although it feels like the last few Pixar movies have been a little bit under-marketed. A little lackluster. And it's probably, it was released the same weekend as the Flash and the Blackening. But I think it is a matter of people saying, oh, you know, this will be on Disney Plus in about three months. I can wait.

There is some of that, yeah, for sure. Yeah. I want to see it. Yeah, 489 million worldwide, which isn't bad. No, that's profitable. Not at all. That made money. Let's see.

I just read some. one-star reviews, and I just don't even want to talk about it. Really? I'm curious now. I mean, it's got Rotten Tomatoes, 74 from critics, 93 from audience. That's pretty strong. It seems all right. Pretty darn strong. And you've got Wendy MacLendon Covey

in there. You can't name anything that she's done that's not good. Catherine O'Hara, she's great also. Oh my God. Does she sound a little bit like Moira? She sounds a lot like, she sounds a lot like more. She's a mom. She's the water mom. Great.

she should lean into it it's not a problem it's good i really believe they could make a shitt's creek movie and make a lot of money i really believe that oh yeah yeah well let's see how the uh let's see how the uh let's see how the community movie does and then we'll look at shit's creek looks like one of the chief complaints from critics is that it's a lot like inside out meets zootopia um but sure i'm saying the complaints from viewers is just this oh disney so woke oh who gives the shit about those buttholes. They can go suck on a hot rock. F those guys. But yeah, like, I guess

I could see it. If people feel like it's derivative of those two movies mush together conceptually, that's fine. It's a world where everything is this other thing that is usually just a small part of our world here, and it's a whole world made of that thing. So sure, it's going to

be derivative of Zootopia and Inside Out. Yeah. I think It's a really sweet story. The story itself, you know, obviously just it's pretty tropey as far as like the boy meets girl. They come from different worlds kind of thing. But it's all the creative things that they do in this world that you'd have to figure out when you've got fire elements and water elements and, you know, wind and earth that have a weird reaction to one another in nature. So you've got to have this world that kind of supports it.

And it's very cleverly done. And anyone who watches this, if you don't just fall in love with the soundtrack, we can't be friends. I know. I need to hurry and see it so I can then go correct. I've been tempted since you said that, because it sounds like my jam,

to listen to that soundtrack independently. You certainly could. It's not going to spoil anything if you listen to the soundtrack. Do you ever have that thing, though, where you're like, if you saw the movie and fell in love with it and the soundtrack impact, Like, the Dune soundtrack really got under my skin. I loved it.

Yeah. And I always wonder if I'd feel the same if I had only heard the soundtrack and never seen the movie. Sure. So I'm not saying that's just true here. This may, you know, there's plenty of soundtracks that, that overwhelm the source material and are awesome on their own. But I always just get this feeling of like, well, I should see it and then I'll binge the music. And I don't know why. There you go.

No, it's probably better because, yeah, having the memory of the movie and those visual elements, no pun intended, to go along with the music. yeah definitely i want to see it van's been uh he's been watching it non-stop and every time i see him he's like pops you want to see elemental and i'm like oh good like yes i do i don't know when we never have time for anything around here but we'll we'll try to get it in that sounds great and i just found out that this is one of the most expensive animated films ever made with a budget of 200 million oh my so wow wow some techniques used that uh cost a lot or something weird i guess so yeah I mean, just the fire effects, like figuring out how to make something look like it's on fire, the noses on all the fire people look like they move just perfectly like little flames as they're talking.

And it's, uh, it's incredible. Well, I'm glad to hear they doubled their, uh, that's a, what is that? That's a lot of, that's good profit. They did it right. More than doubled their, uh, right, exactly their budget. If I've learned anything about Disney in the last 146 days, that's what they care about most. So that's good. Maybe the only thing.

Might be the only thing they care about. Excellent. Let's move on to Randy. Let's do you next. What's your clip about here? I just wanted to watch a good movie. And I'm really, really fascinated by good movies lately. Like what is something that's 20 or 30 or 40 years old and is highly regarded, right?

Sometimes that changes over time. Sure. And so I just found myself going down. into this really good movie that you're going to recognize as soon as you start playing the clip. It's the very beginning of the movie, like the first things that you hear when you watch this movie. And it was spectacular. I just really, really enjoyed revisiting this one. Here is your clip.

Day 1,000 of the Siege of Seattle. The Muslim community demands an end to the army's occupation of mosques. The Homeland Security Bill is ratified. After eight years, British borders will remain closed. The deportation of illegal immigrants. will continue. Good morning, our lead story. The world was stunned today by the death of Diego Ricardo, the youngest person on the planet. Baby Diego was stabbed outside a bar in Buenos Aires after refusing to sign an autograph.

Witnesses at the scene say that Diego spat in the face of a fan who asked for an autograph. He was killed in the ensuing brawl. The fan was later beaten to death by the angry crowd. It's such an unforgettable or intro sequence to that. I know. And it's just everybody's standing around in a shop, looking at a TV, and our main character walks in and tries to buy something, and then walks out. And then unbelievably, everything, the whole tone changes. Yeah.

And it's all one shot, right? If I remember right? So many shots in Children of Men are this single long take. So many shots. Yeah. It's a all-time great. That movie's so good. I hadn't even thought of that.

I like when I was rewatching it just yesterday I was just like oh this is this is like a great movie Alfonso Cororone is like really you know like really fine you know filmmaker but I just hadn't even I wasn't thinking it all through you know and like watching it I was just overwhelmed at how the the techniques used and and and the you know the cinematography the the the sound effects everything it's just an insanely good movie you know really answer the question though why what's happening right and I of course I started watching I started watching all of the children of men behind the scenes and making of stuff on YouTube and they they actually the people asked Kura Ron that many times why why don't you answer any questions and he's like well because I think that makes the film better and like he really so the book is different this this is a movie based on a book that you should read. It's a great book.

But for some reason, the people making this film didn't want to go directly from the book. They felt like visual storytelling is different. And just like they. Did the book say why? Yes. I did it? I didn't read the book, then. I'll read the book.

Find out why. You should. You should, but I just want you to know, the book is very religious. And so the move, they didn't want that. They didn't want to make it a sort of like a deconstruction of Christianity. And so the, and they succeeded, in my opinion. And it's just like one of these, one of these movies that has gotten better over, over time somehow. Yeah.

Like that's the main, my main takeaway. Like, just like, there's a scene where it goes on for like six minutes straight. It's one take. That's an action sequence. And I was just blown away by where the. camera went and what the actors were all doing. We're talking about Julianne Moore.

The heavy in this movie is Chuvettel Ijifor. It's, you know, like plays such a great bad guy. Yeah, he's great. You mentioned, I guess, Michael Kane. I forgot he was in this, but he's in that. He does think of the scene

when they're trying to get on the ship, when they go through all those stops. I think of that scene quite a quite a lot more than I realize because it's a very like hard scene like it's a continuous shot of like going through this

thing and it sticks with you. We can give the quick synopsis here because it's not a spoiler but in 2027 not that far from now. Gosh, no, just a few years of the future. Yeah, this movie came out in 06 so this is where their heads were at. Anyway, in 27

or 20, sorry, I've been playing cyberpunk, 2027 is a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile. This is the question that Nicole is annoyed they never answer. A former activist agrees to help and transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. That's really a very basic description of what this movie is, but it's a basic. It's an amazing premise because that premise is like some amazing drama and sort of what if questions come out of it. It's great. It reminds me of why the last man without without the humor. And I mean the comic. Right. And this,

This movie has these two moments of, I don't want to call them comic relief, but just like not intense action. And they're like really memorable moments that I'm glad I rewatch. Because like I say, I saw this back when it came out. I wasn't, you know,

I wasn't really retaining a lot. And it's just, it's like, it's a towering like criteria on collection level film. The, the story, like, it's so straight.

forward and basic but there's all of these layers to it and people like michael kane are where they are um he plays you know a friend of clive owens an older guy and he just like lives out in the woods with his wife who's uh catatonic and the performance is beautiful you just want to listen to michael kane forever yeah he's great and things happen to characters you don't expect to happen like you know no this thing goes places it's been forever since I've seen it I think I do need to give a new watch

where did you say Randy on max or where it is on Amazon Prime right now I was just like right now I don't know where it's gonna be in me exactly that's me tomorrow but really good transfer like I say incredible sound

I was just like everything says 10 out of 10 I'm surprised this isn't in like the IMDB top 50 of all time it's in the top So on Rotten Tomatoes, it's 92 on, it's a little lower on children of men because my guess is because idiots can vote there. A lot of it's based on its themes and people thinking that stuff is, everyone thinks everything's woke now, freaking F off. It's 2006. It's a long time ago. But I think that happens a lot on IMB and it bums me out.

But I couldn't agree with you more. Just one of my, I don't know, top 10 movies. So good. It's a movie you really have to pay attention to. There's tons and tons and tons of symbolism. And the symbolism is always what you see and not necessarily what the characters say. So I can see like this is not like, you know, Brian Dunaway's movies where you just put it on and then you do housework. You know what I'm saying?

Like you've really got to pay attention. And that can be that can be something that makes people feel bad. Sure. You know. He's been a little, Coronae, who I love as a director, hasn't done much. he had a big chunk of time between there. The last thing he did before, this was Roma, which is 2018.

What's a chunk of time? Not a fan of that, even though it was an Oscar, a big Oscar favorite, but I did not enjoy Roma. I can't believe gravity was 2013. Holy crap. Wow. That was a while ago.

Apparently, and again, I just watched a bunch of behind-the-scenes stuff, apparently he started making this movie and then got asked to make Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Ascaband, and he went off to make that movie so this movie has like it's like chunky

like there's parts that were set in stone before he went and made another movie and then parts after and he says that he learned a lot like he became a much better filmmaker making a Harry Potter movie and like I hope that's true I just like I feels to me like every part of this movie is something that you should

study if you love film I have a I have a weird retro I didn't like it at the time but I think Harry Potter 3 might be my favorite in retrospect because of just the tone he changed things into. A lot of people didn't like it because we went from Disneyland to kind of dark, which the book's do in book 3. To me, it felt right to do that. A lot of people struggled with it. The kids in it were older, all that stuff. But that introduced Lupin, one of my favorite actors of all time playing him, David Thulis. What an amazing entry that is. If you go back and

watch them all. I think three is pretty badass. It's very good. Well, great. There you go. Yeah. Go ahead. And you can, you can see it. You can see if you watch, you maybe watch both of them because they really do have a similar look. Children of Men is, you know, futuristic, but a dark, ugly future that doesn't have a lot of like flashy technology. He actually says, like, I want this to be the anti-blade runner. And that's a really good description. Yeah. Yeah. I would even argue if you want to see, if you want the some of the vibes of Blade Runner but

the story of that world twisted in a different direction this is a perfect movie for you I was actually thinking while watching children of men that there are post-apocalyptic movies right and there's everything else everything else you might call a pre-apocalyptic movies but there's post-apocalyptic movies

this is not that this is mid-apocalypse the apocalypse is ongoing in this movie and that's so unique I'm really not used to movies that are in the middle of everything falling apart. It really does make things. The leftovers kind of do that. Yeah, for sure. Leftovers definitely had that feeling of we're in the middle of it, you know?

Good comparison. And you kind of want, you want, it's more intense because it seems like all the norms are falling apart. And you really want to jump to the part where you're just fighting over gas and everyone's, you know, Mad Max Town. Because then at least things are simple. We need gas. go to gas town to get gas like it's simple in a way whereas this stuff is complicated

it's like all course correct and you're trying to fix things during while well shit's going down yeah I agree well that's awesome go check it out that's on prime children of men great movie Nicole your turn what do you I have a clip for you so what do you want to say to set this up here

don't know if this is a recommendation what I want to say um I did you go on the other room as your phone in the other room now or yeah Mark took my phone Oh Mark

He met it took my phone and I forgot I was connected to it Well now we know the microphone you're on Yeah That is a good indication So what I said was I don't know if this is a recommendation

Oh I do know that I miss Watching Schitt's Creek and this stars Annie Murphy it is a animated sitcom so it's like 20, 30 minutes it's really weird the premise is weird

it's just it's one of those when you get into the realm of animation you're like is this kind of archer Simpsons you kind of look at what's taken place over the last you know 20 some odd years adult animation

So this, of course, is an adult cartoon. I'm on episode three, and I'm continuing to watch because Annie Murphy's character reminds me so much of Alexis. Oh, really? Okay. I want to just keep watching for that reason alone. Sold. There's also a character in this. It's morning again. Sorry, sorry, I was just going to say, there's a character in this cartoon that reminds me of mutt,

in Schitts Creek 2 and that is played I believe by John Chow Yeah John Chow John Chow right Yeah John Cho Cho Cho Cho not show John Cho is awesome

Love that guy There you go Well here it is It's on it Hulu Hulu and I will play it now It's great that it's on Hulu Because it's also a freebie thing right And those have commercials

A free form Or free form that's all that's it now Here it is I'll play it now Oops that's me Here we go this is hers It's morning again The sun is shining

The ghosts are screaming. And I'm still here, despite the fact that last night, I witnessed someone get ritualistically murdered by my dad's cult that I just inherited. Oh, here we go. What the? I'm Petey. I had it all. Mother! Here.

What's this? It's a message from your father. It's me, your father! The community of New Utopia! Utopia is all yours. I just needed to figure out my place in my dead dad's weird town. I'm walking here. The great daughter, she's arrived.

I'm very curious about this. Definitely here's Stephen Root. Right. Stephen Root is so noticeable. Did you hear Alan Tudick? Yeah, I heard Alan Tudic in there. He was the celebrity that was murdered. This is a Greg Daniels, what's his name, King of the Hill guy, Beaves and Butthead.

They're executive producers, Mike Judge. Yes, Mike Judge, yeah. I think. This is Praise Petey, and Annie Murphy is Petra or Petey as her nickname, and she lives in New York City, and so there's a whole scene of her living in New York City, and it's just silly. It's just a silly cartoon. Don't go into this expecting anything, but silly and ridiculous.

Keenan Thompson's in this? I didn't know Keenan Thompson. I didn't know Keenan Thomas is one of the elders, I think. Thomas. Yeah. So she inherits this cult town called New Utopia from her father, who is played by Stephen Root. And he will show up through video, videotape throughout. He's shown up in every episode so far. But it's ridiculous.

Again, I'm just watching it because I'm not like. Yeah. Yeah, but you're not 100% sold on it yet. Right, and I'm hoping more episodes I watch, the more I'll get to know the characters. Sure. Yeah. I think this looks great. This sounds like right up my jam.

I'm going to watch the whole thing. I didn't even know this was a thing being made. There you go. There's a, who's the other? Oh, James Hong's in this? He's only in four episodes, but I'd love it. I hung up. I hang up, caught right?

One of the things that you experience is like all. all of the people that live in this town, they have a purpose, they have a job. There's a human Shih Tzu that warms, that used to warn her father's feet. I just love the phrase human Shih Tzu. Yeah, it was a weird thing. A giant human Shih Tzu? Trying to see this show creator. It's a woman.

Oh, she's Anna Dresen. From Saturday Live, SNL lady. Yeah, she was the head writer for a couple of years. years and then quit early in the didn't quit but she just left saturday night live to do better things in the early pandemic yeah uh she's incredible she used to she used to do stand-up i've i've seen some of her clips on tic-toc she's well she wrote didn't we someone here recommended murderville didn't they yeah the one with uh will arnett that was uh that was one of her she wrote that or co-wrote is that one of hers oh i love murderville yeah no that's that's cool

certain episodes though because sometimes they get actors in that don't know how how to improv. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm a sucker. As you'll hear from today's recommendal, I'm a sucker for adult goofball animation. So this is totally up my alley.

I'm really glad you bought this today. Did you watch Shitz Creek? Oh, yeah. I think we've seen it six times through. So you'll probably, yeah, I love, I love Annie Murphy. She can do no wrong. I love her. Her quick little stint in Black Mirror was amazing.

I love that. Oh, God, yeah. okay let's before we move on go ahead how often you guys think about the roman empire oh my gosh we did this yesterday uh we do what did we say brian kind of hardly ever i think of egyptian i've thought about how dumb this meme is a lot it's yesterday yeah this thing really took off he looked at me never why in the world are you asking me yeah yeah it's a thing they we uh so i was talking to kim about it yesterday because we had talked about the show and I carried over into that conversation and I

was really trying to think like when do I think about it. It's very it's only when I'm, it's some documentary or I'm thinking of a movie I like and it happens to be said in that time or whatever. So it's maybe once a month or something. Yeah, definitely Caligula. Nice poll there.

And you said Caligula perfectly. That was amazing. I just expected something different. I don't know why. But anyway, but then I but I realized I think more about ancient Egyptian society way more than I do the Roman Empire I think that's that's interesting yeah I don't know and I think that's an art thing or a aesthetic I love the desert I like big big stone things you know yeah something about that way more interesting to me so I don't know yeah the meme's weird it's got a selection bias because the only videos you see are the ones where the guy goes yeah all the time and of course those are the ones that go up

Oh, no, I've seen somewhere the guys are like, what are you talking about? Well, yeah. You're going to have the counter ones, sure, but I don't know why it became so big. It's such a dumb thing. The current thing is to go to your spouse and ask them if they've ever heard of the singer that Travis Kelsey is making famous right now. Really? Oh, yeah. It's Terry Swift or something like that or Anya Swift, something?

By the way, Panera did not a joke, just launched their Roman Empire menu. Shut up. Really? I'm not kidding. But it's not tied to this. This is for like... Is it Caesar salad? It is absolutely tied to this.

Okay, now I really hate this meme. Because when the meme starts to get co-opted. It's not a bunch of variations of Caesar salads. It is in like macaroni and cheese. When people co-opt memes and to capitalize on them, I've had it. I've had it with the memes. That's the only thing worse than this meme is when... There's people jumping on the bandwagon.

Companies jump on the bandwagon for it, yeah. I know, Claire, that's my point. Anyway, let's get to my clip here. This is a clip of a show that is, you're going to hear it and go, wait, Scott. I'm pretty sure you recommended this before. You're as close as you'll ever be, even though it is 100% a show I have not recommended. But it's going to sound extremely familiar to people who maybe took me up on a previous recommendation, and there's a reason why I'll get to that in a second.

Here you go. I guess that's a good trip. It was a good trip. I must have bang ten whores on that trip. Well, come again? Tim, I'm not going to lie to you. Ten whores. I'm a different man on the road, Tim.

To say the least. This is going to be great. Me and you are loose and Sin City. What's happening to you? Sin City. That's not a nickname. It's a nickname for Cincinnati. We're going to Sin City.

No one calls it that. Here we come. Are you with me? I'm not at all. You're going to be. All right, Marty. Let's just relax. Why don't you sleep?

I can't. I would need to, like, take something, and I don't want to be medicated when we land. because then I'll be out when I need to be up and out when we go in. We get those bitches. All right. So this is a cartoon. A lot of it is improv,

but a lot of that is true of the one I recommended earlier. So voice is familiar to a lot of people. It's Steve Del Darien. He's the creator and the lead character in a show called The Life and Times of Tim. And I recommended previously a show called 10-year-old Tom. Remember this? Oh, yeah. All right.

Okay. And a lot of that same cast, especially Dildarian, are in this. This is his animated show from 08 to 2012. I don't know where it was originally. My guest is Adult Swim or something. It's on HBO or, sorry, Max now. But this is old. It came out in 08, ended in 2012.

And I was hesitant to check it out because I felt like after I'd seen 10-year-old Tom, I thought, well, you know, this is kind of awesome and I love this. I don't necessarily need to see what the proto thing was. Because that, even the name's so familiar. Like, I just, I just thought, you used to do this twice. Is this the same show? And it turns out, it was a mistake to ignore it. It's very funny.

It's a lot more adult, as you may have told or been felt there from that clip. Then the 10-year-old Tom one. 10-year-old Tom has definitely got adult moments and there's a couple of swears. But it definitely, it's more focused on, hey, these are all 10-year-old kids with adult voices that are all having weird experiences. And it's still adult. I wouldn't, you know, put a little kid. kid in front of it. But the life and times of Tim, definitely a lot more adult. And I loved it. I loved this series. All the seasons are up on Max. And there are, there's a great bunch of cast in here

that are specific to this show. Nick Kroll plays his best friend Stu. So this is before Nick Kroll got a slew of his own animated shows. Yeah. He's very funny in it. Um, Eddie McClurg, you know her from, uh, uh, he's, he's, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. She's the school secretary and Fierce, the Jocks, the dweeps. She's the your F lady in planes, trains, and automobiles. Anyway,

amazing actress, been around forever. She's in this. She is so, she plays this character named Helen at his office. She's so freaking funny in this. I say that your brother Matt is in this. Yeah, Matt Johnson's in this. He plays Rodney. I don't know. That guy doesn't even have an IDB photo, so I'm not sure what else he does. I guess I could dig in,

but they're all very good. Melanie Linsky, like her. here's something funny this is the first HBO animated program since Todd McFarland Spawn so when this originally aired and got picked up by HBO

in 2008 it was the first animated thing since Spawn which was that's crazy that is crazy listening to the clip I kind of felt like it was about 15 years old I could feel like there's like some things about how you write comedy

changed maybe after this I don't know. Like the 10-year-old Tom sounds, it's the same exact kind of thing. It's the same cadence. He's the same voice. He hasn't changed that up at all. It's all very improv and uncomfortable and moments of like, why would this character say this sort of thing. The art and the animation is intentionally terrible. It's cheap. But in a stylistic way, like it's meant to be, it's clear that it's meant to be that way. And I just had a great time with it. So many great guest stars, too. Will Forte. Jason Mazzuccas, who we'd never, none of us had ever heard of him in 2010, I don't think. That was before, you know, Derek on a good place and stuff like that.

Right. Aziz Ansari, Jennifer Coolidge, J.K. Simmons. Oh, yeah. Alfred Merlina, Philip Baker Hall. Holy cow. Yeah, great. Right? Like, it's surprising how much, how good the guest stars won.

And that one with Philip Baker Hall was, I don't even want to give away why that was funny. There's just, it's all just very situational and dry and Nick Kroll's stew character is freaking great. His boss, paid by Peter Giles, who I've never heard of before, it plays the guy named The Boss. And he is so funny. I don't know what it is. Just appeals to me, highly recommend it. Give it a shot and see what you think. And then if you liked it, I'll bet you move on to 10-year-old Tom and enjoy that.

And that stuff's new. Those are all this year. So there you go. That is my submission this week. It's up on Max. And Brian, of course, has dutifully put all of these selections up on quicktms. I for you to go and find easily.

I wanted to give you an update on a little public wager that you made last week. You said that you were wagering that expendables four would not do that well. It was number two at the box office behind the nun two. so how was the money you're correct it looked like number two when i saw the trailer yeah how is it what was the box office take just curious as a comparative number the weekend it's opening weekend was eight million which is not good enough that's bad yeah no that's really bad for a movie with all those people in it exactly that's one that's half of one person's salary for that movie and not even one of the big ones and my whole take isn't that it would be bad it's that it's that people don't

have the appetite for that right now. There was an ad where they were saying this is going to be a box office smash, and you just said, no, it's not. There's no way. There's no way. It just didn't feel right. You know what I think will be big hits or like this weird, what is it, the creator, this new science fiction thing?

Oh, I'm excited about that. I'm very excited. You're going to see that in theaters, Brian, probably, right? Yeah, we're going to see that this weekend, using up the Alamo draft. That's right. Gareth Edwards. I love his, I love Gareth Edwards in general. as far as

movies I really liked his Rogue one was awesome I loved Rogue one I know that some people are torn on that but his Godzilla movie was really cool I thought but people are like all up their own butts about this movie

I'm very excited to check that out all right oh Ken Wananabe's in that yeah all right Ralph Inneson oh man all right

there you go oh let's know on Monday how it was yes we'll get a review from Brian Nicole, anything going on there you want to tell fine folks about? Nope, there's nothing going on.

Nothing going on. I'm just working on the Wood Whisper, getting videos out. Mark just did a video about C Channel if you want to learn about C Channel. Oh, that's cool. You should tell him to make a video about how to steal your wife's phone while she's recording a podcast. That's what you should do. I like that. He's a master.

He is the master. Tell him hi into the kids, of course. We'll see you soon. Randy, anything going on in your world? things are blowing up a little bit on wow with the Metson news, but I will be seeing you on Filmsack this weekend. We're watching Cabot in the Woods and it's going to be fun.

Yeah, Cabin in the Woods, you guys, quit begging us to do it. We're finally doing it. I love it when we finally cross those Rubikons. Starting this October on the first of October. We are dedicated, my friends. darn right. Nice. We'll see you this weekend for that. Thank you for hanging with us. All right, everybody. It's going to do it for us with the

exception of this. Got one more thing for you. Yeah. Another fine phone call. This is about Brian and his Tina voice. Okay. All right. So let's see what we got.

Hey, Scott, this is Craig from South Carolina. I had an idea for you. You've trained AI voice synthesizers to different voices. What about taking Brian doing Tina's voice and training an AI for that? Love the show, though. Bye. I'd do that. That would totally do that.

You'd have to send me. Would he like 30 seconds of me doing the Tina Voice? We could actually do it like, let's do it in post because it'll be hard here because I'd have to cut the file and I want to do that. But in post we'll do, you don't even need that. Like 10 seconds is all we need. I want to, okay, 10 seconds I can do. I can give you 10 seconds today.

Yeah, and you can read anything or whatever, whatever makes it easy for it. We'll train it live. Okay. And then we'll put it. I'll make it happen right then. And then we'll hear us and see what it does. Fantastic. And then I'll make sure to play it on the next show

so that this guy gets his dream or whatever. Perfect. Thank you for that. And your calls in general, we love getting these. 801-471062. You can leave a voicemail. And if you're like, I'm too shy. Well, that's fine too because you can leave a text there.

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Patreon.com slash TMS. And now, one of the great benefits of a daily morning show, Brian and a final music selection for the end of the show. Brian, take it away. That's right. We've actually even talked about this one. I-Corps wrote in, said, hey, sporty and baby. Look at that.

We have an S&B right there. This is for Brian. First 2-11 just released their cover of wannabe. Consider this an open request to play the cover any day. Brian doesn't have a song to play. Let's test the ship's phasers to make sure the original honk still works. All right, here we go. Definitely not it.

Just a second. Is it this one? All right. Here we go. I don't like... No, gosh, dang it. Let's test the ship's phasers. All right, honk.

Here's the honk. Nope. There he is. All right, I'm going to work it out. I'll get it figured out. Wow. Thanks a lot of I-Corps. I feel like he knew what he's doing.

Gloverjo signed Icor. Jeez. Yeah, hilarious. All right. So this is the brand new song from First 2-11, a band that we've played a bunch here on the show, mostly Foo Fighter covers, believe it or not. Yeah. But they are fantastic and incredible voices.

here's the weird thing. This song is still not purchasable on the streaming services so I had to grab it another way but as soon as it's available I will be buying it. Here is their cover of the Spice Girls Wanna Be. Nice. Oh, you can't

oh, it's streaming but not viable. That's what you mean. Correct. Streaming but not purchasable. That makes sense. Yeah, I found it on that's a long story. I get with Brian and go, hey Brian, check these guys out. They're really awesome and he's like yeah they were awesome like the four times we played them on the show already

and I'm like oh shit it's one of these things where I don't remember great wonderful they're really good though I went down a rabbit hole I've got a playlist now they're they're so good they're great they're real good yeah all right that is it for that that's going to do it for us thank you all for being here and just trying to find my app there we go we'll be back tomorrow with one more show for the week we'll see you then Yo, I'll tell you what I want what I really, really want. So tell me what you want, what you really, really want. I'll tell you what I want what I really, really want.

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