The Morning Stream - TMS 2539: No Show Yesterday

Episode Date: October 18, 2023

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It is my K-pop with Tom Merritt. Chucklehead Recommentals with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. I take a drink, you know, every night and I'll have a drink, and I will, I will smoke a little bit. I'll do some tooth now. I'll do a little tooth, you know, if somebody give it to me, I offer it to me. I mean, you know, you just, it sounds polite if you don't. So I do a little to do somebody off of doing. Hi, I lost my little dog.

Can you help me find him? This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett, big old freaking dirt blanket. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It is Wednesday, October 18th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Ibit. Hello, Brian. Hello. I'm curious as to which one of us Fletcher is calling a big old freaking dirt. blanket because he says both of our names but then he's like it doesn't do plural so he's not talking about both of us being big old freaking dirt blankets well yeah and to to his i don't know if it's to his credit but to uh you know just just for clarity i think it's been years but i think i took two clips and mush them together oh really yeah so i don't think he even said it in the

same sitting so so yeah we he you know what we could do we could do we could take a lot of stuff he says out of context and then claim he claims a certain thing and then get in big trouble with them. I mean, we clearly can use AI to simulate as much of Fletcher as we need to, right? That's true. That's true. But I won't do that because they sent a very nice letter to us this week. And I don't want to besmirch the memory of that letter. Let us move forward. So yesterday, we had no show. And it was funny because I went back and post and put a whole thing at the top that said, hey, there's no show Tuesday. Yeah, that's not enough for people.

Yeah, it's not, turned out. A whole load of them showed up anyway, and I feel a little bad because we weren't great about letting people know during the show. We didn't. We did kind of screw up, yeah. But then we would have had a whole bunch of show titles that were No Show Tomorrow title.

Yeah, nobody wants to sift through those. I don't want to do that. No, no. That's boring. Yes, you're right. And just, you know, everybody's fine. I had a class, I had an SEO class, and now I know how to win Google. I can now win Google.

Google's a moving target, too. You have to update that class once in a while? Exactly. And this is a class that really is talking about what Google's introducing for 2024. It's already in place, but they're making a, they're making a, changing their standards for something called EEAT or E-E-E-E-E-E-T.

I like that. What is that standard? I can't remember what it stands for. Let me pull it up here. I should remember this. But do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do it's, here we go. It stands for, it's probably something like engaging, educational, and thought-provoking or something like that.

It's going to be a horrible. This day, just taking forever. Here we go. It's taking forever. It's going to be a horrible definition. I'm going to hate it. I already know it. It's basically their people-first content.

Here we go. E. expertise, experience. expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. So basically, what's cool about this is it's identifying websites that are written by humans and not by AI, and it has a bunch of factors that it uses to make sure it's not somebody that's just content farming or engagement farming, right? Like, it's basically checking to make sure that the stuff you read at the the very top of the page that Google pays the most attention to isn't the this is a page that

will give you the recipe for how to make sausage dumplings and sausage dumplings were invented by do do do do and dumplings are really tasty and da da da da and it's you know five scrolls until you actually get to the recipe twitter slash x announced a way to do this same thing today but they're doing it by charging all new users a dollar a year yeah which will not stop bot farmers by the way they don't give a shit a dollar a year exactly oh oh i have to pay a dollar a year a dollar how am i going to afford a dollar a year where we're churning out millions in ripoff money give me a break exactly exactly uh but yeah it's a real thing man the future is a whole lot of um really smart little robot app scripts that are going to like fool everybody i realized

something yesterday i was like um if if you Okay. I have it right here. Let me show it to you. So look at this. I'm not going to tell you what it is until we get. So this is going to be part of the discussion. I've kind of given it away already. But all right. So I've given you an image. You're going to see a nondescript. So is the chat. A nondescript image of some cable coiled up outside near a maybe that's a curb or something just out in the weeds. And what I was going to do, and I decided not to do it, but I was going to do a post on social something or other where I would say, when outside you. yesterday and found this coiled up cable out in the backyard. I don't understand why it's there. It's not mine. Any ideas that's someone trying to hack me or do me? I was going to do all that. And then I was going to immediately follow up with JK.

This is just a weird image that got generated over on the Adobe Firefly image generator thing when I asked for drooping cable as a reference. And it gave me this. And I realized, anybody can make whatever they want now. They just make whatever they want. And then they can go make a stink about it as if, there was a stink and there's no stink it's just beware low it should like the the posts really should be watch out for this kind of snake it looks like coiled up coaxial cable in your backyard but really it can

kill you with one bite right right that's what i should have done i mean i could have gone nuts with it the point is that there we are you know i'm not trying this isn't paranoid talk it's just going to be annoying because i think a lot of times we're going to be we're going to have plenty of skeptical people that'll go uh-huh right whatever and we'll and we'll and we'll not be fooled by things. The point is we're going to have to sift through it, though. It's going to be everywhere. It's going to be annoying and in our way of our normal

everyday data transactions. It's like, it already is in some ways, right? It's just like, stop. We've got to figure out a better way. The one thing I do like about Adobe's plan moving forward for this stuff is that they are going to what was the deal? They're going to watermark

everything. It'll also have something in the image code. So it'll always be like, yeah, this is a artificially generated thing. Oh, really? Like a hidden watermark kind of thing that you can't easily get rid of. Yeah, you can't. I mean, there'll be ways around there always is. But they're going to try to do that.

And the other thing was, Tom was telling me about this. They were going to add, oh, what was the other thing? Shit. Oh, it's that all their image data is trained on their own stuff they own. So they don't train on any open data. They don't train on any public data. They don't scrape websites. and it's great social stuff.

Oh, that's good. Good. All internal. So I think there are some plans for companies to move forward in ethical ways, but I still think it's going to be a nightmare. It's going to be bad. And I'm trying to remember where I saw it, but there's a, there is a tool you can use or a way that you can,

when you put artwork online, a thing that you can do to prevent it from being scraped for. Oh, interesting. So, like, as an artist, you can prevent it. How are they doing that? That sounds great. Yeah, like, something in the... It's like a combination of tags and URLs. Like, I think you take it through a different URL, right?

You have your URL where that graphic sits, and then you have a different URL that reroutes, but something about AI can't follow through that second, But if somebody wanted manually to just still pull the image down and pump it into the thing they could, I guess. He still could, yeah. Okay, but that's one step closer. I like that. That's one step closer, yeah.

I mean, that one involves more manual work if somebody really wants to mess with it. Yeah, make them work for it. That's what I say. Exactly. Don't make it easy. Don't let them just turn on a machine and walk away. You've got to make them poke around and click shit, you know? Exactly, yes.

All right. I have a fun thing I'm doing that involves. my son, Nicholas, he and I, have decided that his list of movies he hasn't seen yet is too large, and meaning good movies, like stuff he should see. Godfather? Godfather on that list? Yes. Godfather's on there. Goodfellas is on there. What's the other mob? About Good Father and Godfellas. The other one. Godfellas is really good. I better make sure it's on there. We have... You think I'm funny? What is it about me that makes you think I'm funny?

Please, Lord. I will come to you. with a favor. You do a decent... I do a horrible, Marlon Brando. Don't even try to give me credit for that. It's not bad. It's all right. I'm not going to say that you'll win any awards,

but I'll say that it was... I knew who you meant. How about that? It's got to be... And it's one I've never tried. I've never tried to do a Brando. So really, it was just a... It was like an old man De Niro.

It's what it was. You talking to me. Oh, that new movie. it's a purple moon or the hell what's it called oh the one about indigenous people yes the new corsese movie what's it called it's called the night of the flower moon flowers over the monkeys moon that's it yeah yeah that's coming out this weekend and i'm a big scorsesey fan so i'm very excited about that i guess apple's killers killers of the flower killer's a killer of the flower moon right right killers of the flower movie

I guess Apple's getting it first after it's theatrical, and it will be a four-hour cut. Isn't it an Apple TV produced movie, or was that a different thing I saw that was like produced by Apple TV? It might be. They may have used them, like he did Netflix for the Irishman, so it's possible. Yeah, yeah. But I think they're, so I think they'll do the, but I think the plan is the theatrical cut is shorter, and then this four-hour beast will be on Apple TV.

Yeah, the theatrical cut, just to give you an idea, is still three hours and 26 minutes, so three and a half hours. Yeah, he kind of wants to go forever when he makes movies. Yeah, exactly. It's like, you know, the years what I lack in quality I make up for in quantity. I guess so. There's a really good two-hour movie in this three and a half hours of stuff that I put out there. I mean, he's got what, maybe another movie or two in him, probably. probably in his lifetime oh at least yeah i mean i like uh i liked the irishman but i probably

would have liked it more trim down to trim the fat and make it two hours you know yeah i think that could have used some trim i liked it a lot but i did too but yeah it was i think it was my least favorite of the nominees that year though two years ago i like uh i like what tarentino did with um hateful eight which uh the net so netflix has both the film Oh, yeah. Which is a shorter version. And then they have a four-hour mini-series that's cut up into four chunks. I need to watch that.

I have not watched the miniseries. It's very good. It's been enough time that a lot of it will be fresh to me again. That's very, very good. I still think it's my favorite Tarantino. It's kind of a hard thing to pick, but I think it's my favorite. I love it. You know, seeing it at Alamo Draft House, I think this weekend, we'll see because I've got a lot of crap going on this weekend.

but it might be, I mean, it'll definitely be at Alamo Draft House, so it might be a two popcorn or one popcorn refill movie. Usually we, the big metal bowl of freshly made popcorn with their real butter that they give you. Yeah. It's real butter because if you don't eat that thing within the first half hour of the movie, when you scrape down into the bowl, you're getting like slightly congealed popcorn, buttery popcorn, which I'm not going to lie, it's still pretty damn good. Oh, I like it.

Yeah, you're not going to convince me that stuff's bad. I like it a lot. Yeah, but three and a half hours, I think, is, can we get a refill on our Coke zeros and this popcorn, please? Yeah, and I'll need to pee three times, please. Thank you very much. Yeah, he's like, can you pause the movie so I can pee, or do I need to just do it into the metal bowl you provide? I dare you to ask that question. Well, I can't ask it because it's a quiet zone.

I'll have to write it down. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll write it down on the sheet. Could you pause the movie so I can pee, or should I just use the popcorn bowl? I would die. I would love that so much. I mean, they're pretty quick about kicking out loud people.

Do you think they're quick about kicking out weird people? Yeah, I'm sure. I bet I'd get an audible laugh out of them. Because they start to know us there at that theater, because we go enough. We've got to use our season pass. But, yeah, then Merrick's right. And we're going to get the second announcement at the top of the movie where Michelle Yo comes out and says, also, please don't pee in the popcorn bowls.

We know this movie is long, but please don't pee in the popcorn. Yeah, you'll be the one responsible for it. You'll be like that guy that put poison in the tunnel in the 80s. He's the reason that all that packaging got at it. Right. Yeah, Michelle Yo came out before, I mean, came out, like basically was on screen before a haunting in Venice to tell everybody, be quiet, keep your phones out. out of sight off, all that stuff,

or else I'm going to punch you like crouching tiger, hidden dragon. Good Lord. Wait a minute, so she did a thing special for them, for Alamo. Yeah, for Alamo Draft House, yeah. That's cool. I'll take that over. It starts with, thank you for coming and watching movies in person at the theater.

It helps blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Now, keep your phone silent, shut up, or I'm going to, hachah. Like, she did her, like, karate chop stuff from, Crutching Tiger. That's great. I love that. She's great. She's an international treasure her.

She's an international treasure. Love her. All right. So anyway, this list. We have this list. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, gosh. Yeah, we were on the list. Yeah, we're on the list. And it's a big long list. I won't go through all the movies that are on it. But we had our first attempt to get together and watch this stuff. So we ordered Jersey mics and got some earlier mentioned Coke zeros and plop down on the couch there. He has Mondays off. So we did it. during a chunk of time on Monday

and we watched Shawshank Redemption and he had never seen it and as predicted he was blown away and loved it and can't wait to see it again he was super into it because it's great. It's arguably the best movie ever

made possibly. It's so good. It tangos with Empire Strikes back at the top of my favorite movie list of all time. Yeah, me and Fury Road get along real good but if you held a gun to me and said, Scott, you have to pick one. I don't know, man. Shawshank is really good. Anyway, to watch that, that was great. And anyway, I noticed something. There's a guy, so in that

movie, there's kind of a group of dudes who hang around in that prison. It's obviously Andy and Red and a few other people, but the other people get, you know, varying degrees of exposure. The guy who plays, William Sadler plays the kind of... Sadler. That's the name I was trying to remember. It's like, oh, yeah, William Sadler. I love that guy. He's amazing. He's in all the Deribont things anyways. Seems like he went to every movie he ever made.

Best. My favorite, I think my favorite William Sadler role, and the only one where he plays a good guy, a relatively good guy. Yeah, that's true. He was pretty good in, he was great as death in. Oh, yeah, meet Joe, well, not meet Joe Black, that was a different one. Bill and Ted. Bill and Ted's sequel. Brad Pitt was death. Yeah, it was the sequel.

Whatever the second one is. I always forget that. A bogus journey. Bogus journey. Yeah, he was great in that. Bad guy and die hard too. All this. William Sadler's just a,

he's just a national treasure once again. Anyway, so we're watching all these guys, and they're all doing their thing, and there's the guy named Floyd, and there's this other guy named Deke, I think it was his name. Big mix of people. There's one guy in there

that had like three lines through the whole movie, but he was always with that group. And I'd never noticed this in my 10 other time seeing the movie, or however many times I've, have seen Shawshank, probably more than that. But the guy that played Jackie Apreo on the Sopranos is in this group. And he doesn't have a lot to say.

They barely use him. He has like maybe like I said, two, three lines. But it really took me out of those scenes. Because this dude is in there and it's just like, what do you? I just finished the Sopranos rewatch, right? So I'm like, what are you doing in this? Get out of this. You can't be in this.

You were an A-hole in the Sopranos. I don't need to be looking at you and, you know, spending any more time with you. But anyway, that was a weird thing I noticed. And then the other thing I noticed, the very end of this film, right as the credits start, right as, right as, what's his name? Morgan Freeman shows up to the party at the end. And he's saying his final words about hope or whatever it is. I found the rock that has no earthly reason for being in that field. There it is.

I brought it with me. It goes out there. There's the boat. They're on the beach. they hug the camera goes way up into kind of like you know see what now yeah the camera's up high like helicopter shot and then they're supposed to fade and do credits but the first thing they do is

a dedication to somebody who died during production oh really okay and i've forgotten about that too and it's it's weird now to have that always there in a movie like this that you're going to see a billion times because t and t has it on repeat for part of the year people love it they go back to it all the time and there it is every time and nick goes who's that i'm like see this is why you don't want to put that in there permanently you do it for the theatrical run i understand we want to keep these people in our thoughts and yeah you know all that i don't want to

forget the great work and the life you lived and all i don't want to forget any of those things but maybe you should put like a little moratorium on it like five years in cut that out of your credits just a just so no one knows who that dude is and it's a weird thing at the very and to go for blah blah blah it's the first thing you see as you cut to the blank yeah but all right okay let me let me let's do another example of this do you think that star trek beyond should get rid of the the tribute to um uh crap what was his name played oh played checkoff um yes uh oh god Anton Anton Yelchen Yelchen thank you Anton Yelchen yeah I say no I think that needs to always be in there. I agree, because he's in it

and he's a prominent character in it, and that should happen. This guy was not even in the movie. He's just some friend to somebody's. Oh, really? He wasn't one of the Oh, okay. I looked him up. He's like a production assistant, something, something or other. Like he's got something to do

with the film and something to do with the production, but he's not an actor or a prominent person. Oh, see, but I feel like that then puts too much value on the actors and not enough value on the people behind the scenes. All right, let me ask you this. What if instead, this is probably the most Scott Johnson thing ever, what if any time someone

who is involved in that movie passes away, they extend, they add to that memoriam. So basically, you know, you watch the Maltese Falcon and there's a five-minute this movie in tribute to, well, all these people. Blip-da-blip, blip, skip, dapp, do that would suck. That would be terrible. For example, one of the great actors in that movie, a venerable actor in his own right, the guy who played Brooks, died in 99 or something, six years after this was made or five, six, seven years, whatever was.

And if they, if he had died during production or before the finished film, yes, put him on there, tack him in there. You have him died later. No. Like, that would be weird. Every movie would be a million miles long of dedications. Yeah, no, no. And I was jokingly saying that because it speaks right to your, oh, this makes it easy for me to see who in this film is dead.

Because I get a nice list at the end. That's a good point. Actually, for me, I could use it. But I don't think the general public wants it. No, I think that if you pass away, if you're involved in a film and you pass away during the making of that film or within a few months of the film being finished but maybe not released yet and they can put that in there, I feel like it should be in there in perpetuity. All right. Well, it's in there.

It seems like for good because I watched the 4K digital one and it's there, man. I just watched what might be the, well, I know I'm going to run into more and I can probably even think of what they're going to be, but one of the shittiest episodes of moonlighting, which is this black and white, for the most part, it's called the dream sequence always rings twice. And it's a black and white. Maddie has some wine and falls asleep on the couch and after they just visited an old-timey theater and she has this dream sequence about

this murder that was committed in the theater 50 years earlier or something or I guess 80s would have been 40 years earlier, whatever and she thought well it's clearly the guy did it was like a love triangle And, oh, no, the guy did it. And then David Addison is saying, no, the girl, hey, come to Los Angeles.

The woman did it. That's who did it. Yeah, Yippe-K-A. And, um, uh, Seagrams. He didn't do the Seagrams song, but add that in there. Seagrams, golden wine, cool. Anyway, so he, uh, they, he has this, they both have this dream sequence about their perspective of the murder. And, and of course, they play the two people who are involved in the murder and blah, blah, blah.

Okay. Um, and it's the most, number one, there's, there's, zero relevance. There's no consequences. It's just basically, hey, what if we both had a dream? Do, do, do. But because that thing was so black and white,

and I guess because they felt like this is something they needed to prepare people for, they had Orson Wells on at the beginning of the show to say, hello, I'm Orson Wells. And today, television takes a giant leap backwards. Like, does this whole intro before Al Jaro's starts singing the opening music. Yeah.

And he says, at about 12 minutes into the following presentation, everything will turn black and white. It is not a problem with your television set. Repeat, this is not a problem with your television set. Oh, my Lord. It's like, really? You feel like you need to explain this? But the reason I bring this up is right after his, this opening intro,

they have a in-memorium, Orson Wells, who apparently passed away like six months after he did that. Oh, oh, shit. it before it aired or whatever yeah before it aired after it was film before it aired so he drank too much wine before it's time that's what happened to him

I think he drank some wine before it's time and that was like oh no this is bad it's just fruit juice yeah if you don't know that reference everybody ask your Gen X friends or relatives okay and then he said

Rose pot and they said the spaceships are coming and then he died yeah that was it that's his whole thing there you go now you know everything you need to know. That's great. That sounds like a bad holodeck episode of Star Trek to me. It kind of was, yeah, exactly.

Zero, zero stakes, zero relevance. And so, sorry if I spoiled that episode of moonlighting from 1983 or whatever it was for you, but... You guys will all be okay. Don't worry. You can skip it. Watch the Orson Well's intro and then just skip

that episode. Skip the rest of it. You'll be fine. Yeah. Watch the one with Charles Rocket, the late great Charles Rocket. I don't know who that is Charles Rocket. The first person ever to drop the if bomb on Saturday Night Live, I think. Oh, I know that story. Yeah. Why is the name not?

Oh, okay. I know this guy. Yeah, Charles. Oh my gosh, that guy. What is he died, right? Yeah. He's he doing these days. Yeah, he's decomposing.

He's decomposing. 56 years old is all, though. Yeah, super young. You don't like that. He was in dumb and dumber, yeah. That's no gun. Um, all right. Let's, uh, oh, I want to play you something here.

So Carter's been in Korea for the last week. Oh, yeah. Yeah, right. So not in Japan anymore now on to Korea. Japan was brief-ish. She'd been to Japan entirely before, but this time it was like a little bit of time in Tokyo and then her and her cousins fluted Korea, South Korea, obviously, near Seoul and they're there the whole time until she comes back. And she sent this to me, if I can find it. Oh, they don't disappear, do they? Oh, dang it. I should have recorded it when I got it. Snapchat thing. You mean the pictures disappear? Well, it's actually just eye messages and it's the voice messages. They go away unless you tell them to stay. Crap. Oh, shoot. I don't have it then. But anyway, she went to karaokeing and they did, she did a big Lincoln Park set. Oh, really? Yeah. And then she sent me audio of her voice now. And it's so, it sounds like paper in the wind, her voice. It's just

completely gone. And it was, and it was cute. that I'd play it here, but no, I messages, deletes the voice things after you've heard him. Oh, that sucks. That's too bad. Yeah, that's, yeah, oh, bummer. Or maybe I'm supposed to push something and say, save this, you know, and I did.

You probably are. It was nice of you to save when I sent you that message that where I basically thought I was dictating, and I said dot, dot, dot, dot, L-O-L. Yeah, how did I know to do that one? How did I get that one and not this? Like, I don't remember what I did. It was a while ago.

It was back when they first. announced that feature. Do you guys want to hear that? Hold on. I love this. It's one of my favorite class. I think I say, ha, ha, ha. That's what it was. I actually can't remember what. I dictated ha ha, but really, I was sending

you an audio message. All right, let's see. I've got two files. Is this one? No, that's us laughing. Ha, he. No, that's you making a riddress. I don't know what I called this. What I've named this? I know I have it because of

voice maybe voice I don't know I'm bad at tagging my files tag your audio files man I'm terrible there's so many now I don't even know where to start Come on man Come on man

All right how about this one Bum bum bum bum No No No Oh Geez Hold on

I was Ship Gritifter Oh there's the Yeah we found the shit gratifter Oh there's the original Yeah we found the shit signature i can't find that shirt that's Stephanie the shirt

this is great though because he goes ha ha ha comma something something yeah right exactly yes it was great it was great I will find that somehow I will find you no matter what occurs all right let's let's move on to Brian's cool Ironman is it there in front of you I want to see this thing

oh look at it is right there holy shit it is uh here's my hand for reference on how big this thing is is he poseable in any pose Yeah, okay So he comes there now His eyes are glowing on if he can tell Yeah, totally not

Okay So he's sort of poseable in any pose You get four different sets of hips Okay And you have to unscrew his crotch To change his hips And those hips allow him to do Like the superhero landing pose

with his left arm down. I can also do superhero landing pose with his right arm down with a separate pair of hips. Just your basic standing, like he's in his display, like the Tony Stark's Mark 3 display.

And then the and then one where it's just like a, you know, that Iron Man pose that you kind of see where he's kind of twisted a little bit and he's like doing his hole. Sure. But this is the one I wanted. And I was thinking,

well, totally I'll totally be able to fit him up there on the back of the shelf. It's like, oh, no, he's, I mean, this is... He's even hanging over that shelf, the top of that thing. Yeah, exactly, buddy. He's a big boy. What's cool is, this is on a little rotating platform. Oh, like a little lazy Susan, you could put, like, food on it.

Look, you can see, I did not feel safe having him... I could take those rubber bands down in that stick right here. I just do not feel safe about him not falling off of this thing. I've shaken the bookcase that he's sitting on and that sort of thing. So those of you were listening. So this thing that these things come in pieces over time. Yeah. Two years of pieces.

Two years of pieces. Did you figure, I can't remember if you told us last time. Did you figure out what that over time ends up costing for the final piece? Yeah. So I did, I actually sat down and I did the math. And so all told the whole thing was about. a dollars and about 42 cents what a strange time

for the internet to act up oh weird zoom and discord oh shoot what has happened now you've forgotten it now we don't we can't say it again we don't know yes exactly yeah I'll never remember I'm sure it's a nice

nice and a big number but it feels it better because it's over time right like it's it's over time and again if you say oh would I pay X amount for that that model no I wouldn't but would I pay X amount for the experience of putting it all together, seeing how it's all made, then, yeah, they totally would do it again.

Yeah. And I will do it again. I'm doing it again with the Millennium Falcon, thanks to the support of listeners. Oh, very nice. A very generous benefactor, but I'll still take additional monies for it. Yeah. No, not, I don't think it's not too grand. No.

It wouldn't be that, right? It's got to be in the hundreds, but not too grand. Come on now. JK, I think, was exaggerating. But, yeah, Millennium Falcon build. And so I'm doing all this stuff on streaming. That's the agreement that if I do the Millennium Falcon, I'll only do it on streaming. So if you go to YouTube.com slash Coverville, you can see the video that I did of this, putting this one together, the last few pieces to do the new set of hips and then put him in a superhero landing pose.

you'll watch him fall off, but the desk I'm using to assemble him and land on the floor and still come out okay. Oh, my goodness. Surprisingly. Yeah, you don't want that. Hey, there's another Coverville in here. Oh, really? Coverville official. On YouTube.

Yeah, check this out. Coverville official covering hits since 2023. Oh, wow. That's nice of them to, uh, let's see, there it is right there. The one that's called Coverville Official 11. Yeah, that's the one. No, there's no 11 on this. Or no, is there?

Oh, maybe there is. Yeah, there's another one. Coverville. Yeah, I only see official no 11. Hilarious. Best of Coverville. Hold on here. Coverville 583838.

There's a bunch of covers. I see that one, 58388, yeah. Got some covervills in here. Yeah, I've seen this guy, and he's this guy that Coverville 58-38 is stopped two years ago. Oh, good. Screw that guy. But it looks like I need to do another cease and desist. Yeah, get your lawyers involved, Brian.

Lawyer up. There's one that's like this Josh Griffin playlist uploaded two days ago, that one. Oh, yeah, here it is. Coverville official 13 subscribers. Yeah, looks like I need to. He looks so studious. You get your glasses on when you make this. He looks so studious.

I know, yeah. Look at you. You look like, oh, I've got the glue. I got the stuff. Here's the, here's the item. I can see it all because I'm wearing these glasses. Here's my head in the camera. I know.

Yeah, it's like where I'm bending over and you just basically get a nice close up of my bald head. Yeah, you're nogging. I like it. All right, that's awesome. Go check that out, you guys. Yeah, it's like I need to, yeah, I guess I need to reach out to this person, say, dude, whoever you are. Take down yourself.

Coverville. Coverville official is not Coverville. It's not official. anything it's officially wrong no you know officially wrong that's what i say all right we're gonna call oh man we're running late we got to call done oh yeah we need to get some done away in this damn damn straight son uh that means we got to move quickly as well because uh we got tom at the top of the hour so we're going to bring in done away we're going to have some some some feud and uh it's going to be great i can promise you that here's this oh that's quiet let's turn that up

Wern, Wern, Dunaway, what are you doing? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. Just sitting here waiting all my friends to call me. I know. I thought that was like an AI version of Dunaway. Yeah, you did for a second. That was weird.

Really? Yeah, you were going to fool us. If you were going to fool us, I don't know what we'd do. Who says I'm not artificial intelligence? Oh. Well, I've never really put that into place before, but now I have. We also have Gwakmar joining us, who will be our person who may win some things today. Gwakmar, welcome to the program.

Have you been on before? Yeah, that's for sure. It's been a bit, though. It's been a long time, yeah. It's been a long time. Getting from you to do this or whatever. You cannot sing it, can you? It's good to have you here.

Your avatar freaks me out because I'm playing a game that has a lot of Cthulu stuff in it, and your avatar has that in it. It's scary. Cthuloo. Yeah, I'm very scared. It's that way for a reason. Yeah. No, I understand.

You're in touch with the dark world, and we're going to be in touch with you now. Brian, why don't you explain these rules and how this thing works and what we're going to do and all that stuff? Yeah. So it's time to play the tadpull. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brang, now have to predict the answers that they gave us, and it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. I'm going through this quick because they're late. Guacamire, your job is more important than ever.

Oh, it's been a while. Hopefully you remember how to play this thing. Because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you get to. prize package. Oh, that includes geometric sniper, shoot the shapes, and 3,000th duel. Remember, that's the geometry wars rules. Shoot the shapes.

That's the deal. That's great. Awesome. Shoot the shapes. Those are good games, both of those. Yeah. Sweet. All right, let's get to your topic.

Let's get this thing going here. We asked 471 tadpoolers to give their best answer to this. What intellectual property? should have a theme park. Oh, man. Come on. The Simpsons. The Simpsons.

Damn it. That just came out of my butt. Not on the board, but I will tell you that a few people did say that, and it made it to number. It's on here. Where is it? Gosh, it's further down than I thought. Oh, 51. Geez.

That's a terrible answer. Done away. any any even though they're already even though there already is I know these people and they definitely said Harry Potter

sure all right show me Harry Potter am you kidding me no all right so make Guacmar make Gwarkmar

so I'm going to make him do and then he gets to choose who he plays with Gwakmar name an intellectual property that should have a theme park Dungeons and Dragons show me Dungeons and Dragons brilliant

All right. Ding, it's number four, but I can't select it because whoever you choose will get the points. So who do you want to play with? Oh, yeah. Who do you want? Let's do Scott. Okay. Let's do me. Good idea. Good plan. It's like having to choose which child is your favorite. That was an amazing answer, by the way, Gwock, Mark.

That was an amazing answer. I would love. And you were quick. You even beat like the lag that naturally comes with Discord. I don't know how you did that. You got it so. It probably was your answer. when you filled out the form, right? It was.

It's impressive as hell. Nice. All right, very good. So, Scott, you have run of the board and you have Gwakmar as a fellow person. A fellow person. Now, we have enough. This is a tricky one because my brain almost said, and I didn't, because I'm a little hesitant these days. But it feels like an actual Blizzard world, people would have said, people in our community would have filled this thing up with that as the number one.

answer a few years ago. I don't know if they would now. But how do you feel, Guacmar, about like... They absolutely feel well with Blizzard World. Blizzard World. Okay. I bet we're in the top 10. You can do it's already in China. So, I mean... That's true. They faked it over there. Yeah. They got, they never got in trouble either. They just run it. They just have a big old Blizzard world. They just do it. Nobody cares. Uh, yeah. So let's say some sort of Blizzard property, World Warcrafty, you know, thing, world. Sure. Okay. Blizzard will show me Blizzard World. Oh, it isn't it? It was a number one answer on the board.

And people did mostly say either World of Warcraft or Warcraft. A couple people said StarCraft and Diablo. But a lot of people actually said Blizzard World. So I just lumped all of that together since that was a thing. Because that's what it would be, right? It would be all the IPs and stuff. Yep, exactly. Okay, that made me feel a lot better where are my heads at here?

Let's do, um, you got anything pop? Star Trek, that's good. I like that. Star Trek. Star Trek Okay, show me Star Trek Number three And absolutely should be a real thing for Pete's sake

Why is it not? I agree Now, we had it for a little while The Hilton and Las Vegas This was the closest thing we had to a Yeah To a Star Trek theme The concept art for the hotel they were going to build

Do you remember that? Yes, yes Oh, I wanted that so bad That would have been great, yeah Um, so let me ask the host a quick question here. You probably can't answer this. Uh, are there some things on this list that already do exist? Because Harry Potter didn't happen, but there's probably some, right?

Um, no, I'll tell you this. In the top 10, in the top 10, none of those items made the list. Okay. But other things have created, like, uh, other things that are existing. For example, there already is a Simpsons land in Universal Studios. Obviously, I didn't know that. Harry Potter land in Universal. I knew there was a...

You can take a picture in front of Mo's bar and drink a duff beer. Welcome to Moes. Yeah. I just watched my garbage can get destroyed by the garbage truck. Whoa. Do you have a camera on that? I hope. That's cool.

No, it's right outside my window. I'm looking right at it. Oh, that's a badass, dude. did they stop and like say you know here's a certificate for a free trash can or something no they're getting out they just put more trash in the trash can they're pulling it off of the arm they just pierced right through it oh my gosh nice they'll bring you another one that's how that works but they uh i was hoping it exploded everywhere and they just drive off you know it's like yeah with it like still impaled and they just can't shake it off their it would be the capstone of my past

three days so well perfect that's perfect that's perfect I really hope you win. I do too. I have a notion that people would say Mad Max World, so I'm just going to throw it out. Mad Max World. Okay. All right.

Show me Mad Max World. Yeah. Number 10. You know. My glorb. I cannot believe it. That is some BS right there. Are you kidding?

I would go to that place every year. Are you kidding me? Nobody wants to go to Dystopia World. Who do you want to do that? What are you going to do? Paints to get some spray paint and paint your face every year? Yeah. What a lovely day.

You bring home your own steering wheel. It's an amazing. Well, then why not Waterworld? Well, there is one. Universal. They got a thing there. They have a water world stage show. Yeah, they still do it.

You can get yourself your own personal blood bag to follow you around. Yeah, dude. Oh, there you go. Instead of a life favor, you build a blood bag. See? Gwachmar understands. He understands. He knows the truth of this. All right. Well, we're killing it here. Gwakmar.

Any others that jump out? I've got a couple, but they are very esoteric. Okay. Let's see what you got. Let's go. How about Dr. Who. Ho-Hoo. Oh, Dr. Ho-Land. Ooh, yes. Who-ville. Dr. Huville. Wait, that's not Dr. Huvill.

So you enter Dr. Huville, who land through a tartis. You go inside and then you come out the other side, and then you're all of a sudden. And it always just looks like a tartis. it was on the side of a street. But think about you got the, you got the Daleks, you've got the Cybermen, you've got the Yeah, but what does the land look like? Does it look like Gallifrey or does it look like, um, all the different, huh? It looks like London.

Oh, it looks like London. Oh, okay. Gotcha. And then so you go into different places and it's like, oh no, there's weeping angels here. Back out with your eyes wide open. Oh, I like that. Yeah. All right. Okay. Music the whole time. Show me the doctor. Oh, great. Nicely done. good points too yeah i mean we're at 26 down away i don't know how you're feeling but uh shut up this is a bunch of crap calling me late and then beating my ass so it's possible for brian to win without running the board but very specific things have to happen for that uh yeah for that for that to work mar i like your sense of uh stuff here what's the what was the other one you were

holding on to uh magic the gathering oh let's try magic let's do it Nerds, a bunch of nerds. Yeah. MTG. Oh, first strike. A concession stand and try our Black Lotus. It's only $10,000. Pretty good deal.

Pretty good price. Actually, I think that is a good price for the Black. It's funny. Dr. Who cards for magic. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah, they did the Lord of the Rings stuff. Is there like one copy of the Sonic screwdriver that everybody's

chasing after, but Post Malone will eventually get? No, no, very much. Okay. Oh, he just announced something that makes me sad. We don't have time to tell you the story, but I'll talk about it later. Anyway, Don't we go ahead. No. The short of it is he wants to build a huge compound,

and so he's maybe moving out of state to do it because it can't get cheap enough land here. Yeah. Yeah, I listened to his interview on Howard Stern yesterday, and I was a little disallowed. He was really scattered and just answered things very, with, you know, very one-word responses and stuff like, that. I really wanted to learn more about him, but it really felt like he was, maybe he was really high. I think he was probably really high, I guess. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. He gets high a lot. He went to go see

Howard Stern, but then he got high. That's how it's like. I get high. Uh, Dunaway. What do you think? It's been so long as it's been my turn. You forgot the question. I can't remember if Scott's, I can't remember if Scott's first stupid answer was Star Wars or not. I'm afraid to say it now. I can tell you it wasn't if that helps you. Because the goal here's going to run the board. It doesn't mean, well, you can't if you want. Duh, so no-brainer. I mean, even though Disney is essentially that, I mean, come on.

Yeah, they have Star Wars. That's your guess? Star Wars? No. Mandalorian. Oh. Mandalorian World. Okay.

No, no, no. I'll go with Star Wars. Okay. Let's get this out of the way. Show me Star Wars. Oh, shit. Yeah, Scott already asked me if there were things that already existed on this list. And I told him that 11 and higher, yes, but not in the top 10.

And Star Wars already existed. Which is why I didn't say Star Wars. I misunderstood what you said. Okay. That's deserved its own full-on theme park. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't mind that.

Like a full-on Marvel theme park would be amazing. Oh, yeah. In fact, can we say that? Can we say, uh, hmm. He just said. Yeah, but it kind of feels. fits in that last, yeah, it fits in that last cat or that idea that maybe it's not in the top

10. I don't know, Guacmar, what do you thinking? You've been real good at this so far. At first, I was going to go with Claire's guess about Nintendo, but they're building that. Yeah, they've already built. You can go there and have a Princess Peach Shake. Yeah. Yeah.

More like Nintendo don't. How about you know for Blanks and Giggles Minecraft? All right. Oh, you know what? Dude, I would love a Minecraft world. That'd be down with that. All right. Show me Minecraft.

Yeah, it's kind of a bad idea. Just be a bunch of holes. It would be the easiest thing. Make just a bunch of painted boxes. Number 22, by the way, Minecraft. Right. It made the list, though. Wow. It did make the list. Yeah, enough people said it.

Dunaway, keys are in your hands. Well, then, I've got to say, then, since y'all are looking at the chat room, My might as well go the same way. There's a bina resurgence of Futurama. I would love to go get in the suicide booth with Bender and go see the Futurama world. Oh, this is a good one. I would love this.

All right. Show me Futurama. That's a great suggestion. Like that would be super cool as a whole Futurama. Yeah, that's a good call. Or even land would be cool. Yeah. Really good call in that one.

It changes things. For you audio listeners, number six. Yep. Number six, it is. Number six. How about... Or lift on the board. I would really like to see a real-to-life, real-world Jurassic Park with dinosaurs.

Sure. Okay. Well, baby dinosaurs, of course, but, you know. All right. Show me Jurassic Park. Oh, sure. Y'all went mad. You all went mad Max, but you won't give me Jurassic Park.

Don't talk about a real Jurassic Park. I'm talking about real. dynos. I'm not talking about that. Oh, okay. Real. You don't want some animatronic bullshit, do you, Brian? No, that's not a theme park. Enough people. That's a ride.

It was number 16 on the list. That's pretty high. Pretty good, yeah. All right. They have the whole, they have the ride, but they have the whole welcome center where the, the banner drops down and lands on a T-Rex. Is there a chance

that I'm going to eat beaten by a dinosaur? Yes. Yes. Always. There's always a chance. Always a chance. Yeah. Something greater than zero. There's always a nod zero.

Yeah. It may be low. Probabilities are low, but not impossible. Well, I mean, it's something I would always find a way to make it work. It's like, well, technically an alligator ate him in this kind of a dino. Just saying. How about? What if we did like?

Don't fact check me. We should do another video game property. It just feels right to me. I don't know why. So let's go with, uh, oh, shit. Pac-Man. What is there even to do? Square Enix.

Oh, you know what? We got a lot of Final Fantasy fans. Let's say Final Fantasy or Square World or something. Okay. All right. Show me Final Fantassie. Oh! Really?

Damn it. Number 14 on the list. Enough people said it that it was close. I am surprised that I didn't make it. All right, Brian. Four answers left on the board. Here's the deal. You need to run.

You need to basically get the three highest answers, 5, 7, and 9 to win. But you could also get 5, 5, 7, and 9 to run the board and get Gwakmar the prizes. But if you get any... I'll tell you what. If I get 5, 7 and 9, I'll blow number 2, so Gwakmar can't have it. I'm just kidding. I'm going to do my best to make sure this ends up in Gwakmar's hands. I would love to visit the Shire.

I want to take my shoes off and head to the Shire. Lord of the Rings, please. Lord of the Rings land. Give me it. Show me and go get yourself some potatoes from the potato then. Show me. What, and drop no leaves, sir. Hey, number two.

The rope drops precisely when the rope should drop. That's right, right when he means to. That you may not pass. Nicely done. Oh, yeah, there's no fast. There is no fast pass. Yeah, go ahead, Brian. Since I got two, there's no way for Guacamardaloo.

There's no way. but you can still keep going and try to fill it out it's true you're exactly right yeah yeah but you could still try i can still try to make them lose you can make the effort you know yeah whatever well i always wanted to go always wanted to go to happy days land i want to see the fons up there that's that's uh that's what you're going with paul vernon and shirley morgan yeah that whole thing yeah i want to visit the universe yeah i want to visit that land i'm there now too huss and Feper

Husson Fephyr Corporated. Land. You jumped sharks and oh man, what a time to be alive. Ride the bottle,

the line of bottles as they make their way through the lucky brewery with a glove on. Follow the glove. That's what you're going with? You're going with that. Do it.

Give me some happy days. All right. Show me. How about, wait, wait. How about Wayne's World? Wainsworld.

It would be fun to visit. Tell you what? Everybody drives around and what those little was it a pacer with the driver we'll do uh we'll do both we'll do both and then we'll combine the points from both of those and oh zero plus zero is still zero sorry uh i used to work at wayne's world oh wait what was paramount's king's dominion they had a section called wayne's world oh they really did really that is awesome we actually had the celebrities come out when that first opened

everything wow so it was based on the movie it was based on the film that's or not the film but the property. Wow. That's wild. Well, here's the good news right here. Right here. Congratulations. You're a winner. Gwachmar, you've won and that means you get this stuff. It's very exciting. Brian, why you tell us just some of the others? Let's reveal these last three here. Number five, Fallout. When you were saying video game property, it's like, oh, I hope he deals with this one. Fallout, the Fallout world. number seven i mean there are lots of things that that almost are our theme parks based on this but not quite Pokemon oh chat room is saying okay okay dang yeah i feel like there should be something in japan that's like an actual Pokemon theme park but there isn't and then finally uh on this list number nine legend of zelda we have our nintendo world we don't have any Zelda in there um really

quickly running through some extras the expense uh people still said mario people still said star Wars, Game of Thrones, Fast to the Furious. There's kind of that already, and sort of, universal. Warhammer 40K, frogpants, hunger games, Marvel, Minecraft, Rick and Morty, Apple, don't know how that works, Barbie, cyberpunk, disc world, James Bond, Scooby-Doo. Barbie cyberpunk world would be great. Willie Walker would be awesome, though. 50 Shades of Grey, Bluey Bob's Burgers, Critical Role, DC Comic Universe, definitely.

Why would you want a 50 shade? That's the worst idea ever. Fifty shades are great. It's really just a sex worker house is what that is. Debbie does Dallas. Keep in mind, people, when you put in jokey things like Debbie does Dallas, you hurt the game. You hurt the numbers that could be up top. Elder Scrolls, Firefly, Godzilla, Halo, Mass Effect, My Little Pony, NASA, Peanuts, Pornhub, Portal, Saw, Simpsons.

Peanuts, Pornhub is also really funny. Penance, Pornhub. Oh, shit. Probably exists. Don't search it. Oh, God, yeah. Exactly. Simpsons, SpongeBob, Stargate, Transformers,

Waterworld, aliens. Among us, Animal Crossing Avatar already there. Avengers already there. Battlefield, Big Bang Theory. Really? Breaking Bad, it's already Alderkerky. There's a lot. Yeah, I won't even continue because there's just a time.

They'd have a ride where you throw a pizza on the roof. That's how that would go. Yeah, exactly. Elbitriki is the Breaking Bad theme park. You already have it. You're already there. Go eat chips at the place where Hank figures it out and talks to Walt. That's right.

I have a favor to ask before you hang up on me. Sure. Because it was my birthday yesterday, can you give the prizes to somebody else? Oh, that's so nice of you. Happy birthday to you, Guwok. Yeah, happy birthday. I hope you got guac or something. No, I got the ER.

Oh, you got the, oh, geez, you went to the ER. That's not a good gift. All right, I'm just going to say it. So for whatever reason you went in there, we hope you're doing better. Are you doing better? Are you okay? No, my wife was in an accident on Monday, so it's just been fights. Oh, my goodness.

She's fine. She's fine. It's just a strain muscle. Okay, good. Oh, my goodness, but still. Still, yeah. But the trauma, the trauma, yeah, the trauma, the trauma. Yeah, the trauma, the trauma.

I don't know why we're saying trauma over and over, but yes, that is traumatic. That's horrible. Well, we hope. I would like that somebody else to have the, the prizes. We can definitely do that. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to say right now in the tadpool, if you, in the live room, live chat room, if you

tell me the answer that I would put on this list for an intellectual property that there needs to be a theme park of, then I will give you the price. First person to say the answer I'm thinking of, and you'll probably be able to come up with the answer I'm thinking of, gets these prizes. Is it Facebook? It's Facebook.

Shane gets it that quickly. Spice World winner right there. Nicely done. Shane Maddox. Spin around with the camera. You won. Shea Maddox? Yeah, well done. Hey, listen here, Dunaway. You're great, too. Oh, hey, Gwakmar, be safe and don't drive crazy, and I hope your garbage can gets fixed.

Hey, Donaway, this is for you. We didn't play this yet, but it's for you. That's right. You lose. Now, here's where you win. Play retro is where you win, and we're not doing it today because we're doing it Friday. Brian's got a birthday thing tonight. So Friday at 2.30 Mountain.

That's right. Hey, happy birthday. Happy birthday. 2.30 Mountain time on Friday will be Play retro this week. And we're talking about the scary light gun shooter games in the arcade. You're not going to want to miss this one. A Halloween fun time. We do a chiller and all the fun ones. Oh, yeah. Shooting skin off people. Oh, it's rough. It's rough business. Uh, Dunaway kiss our very scary indeed. Brian, we're going to take a break now. And when we come back from this break,

Tom Merritt will join us, talk a little tech. After that, some recommendals with Randy. I still don't think we've heard from Nicole. So I think we're safe. Yes, actually, Nicole's in. Oh, she in. Oh, great. I just heard from her, so we do have Nicole. Do we have... No movie or clip. So, Nicole, if you're listening, get that to us while we're talking to Tom. That sounds great. Brian, tell me about this song you're going to play.

Sure. Let me tell you about this song I'm going to play. I'll go really quickly here. Karina Rinkman, a brand new remix of a song. She's actually got a... This is her debut album title track. The song is called Joy Ride. She's going back out on tour starting October 7th in San Diego and Austin.

Make sure you check her out. Here is Karina Reichman and the song Joyride. Different time zones in the same bed You get up for work the song still ringing in my head Nothing makes them go away Not counting backwards from a hundred Or breathing in the right way Up all night with the songs I sing

You go on your way I'm hanging by it's straight Come on, I'm amplified When they're all asleep We'll be with him down the way Star Love Take me on a joy

Right We could stay awake, we could drive on a joy night As I haven't taken, they do it to me every time. I'm going to be able to be able to be. Oh, yeah, to me, do you know, I'm going to be able to be here. Guys who are in the freezer in the freezer? Microsoft Sam.

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It's by Karina Reichman. And this is the Van Sireemix. Go check out all of her music. It's all really, really good. That name again is Karina Reikman or Rickman R-R-Y-K-M-A-N. Right man, what's his power? Yeah, what the power to play this song really well. That's right.

He's a really good, powerful player of songs. Okay. That's the deal. All right. We're going to get Tom Meriden here because he's great. Where's his thing? His thing's right here. There it is.

Kind of in a tough spot here, Tom. Sorry. Actually, we are sorry because we kept you waiting. We don't like doing that. How are you? How's it going? Oh, you're muted. Sorry.

You get that thing again. You're routed. deal. No worries. It's a thing. It happens. We do it here. Virtual audio plugs or whatever.

I did it to myself. Yeah. I did it to myself. I created it this way. I can change it at any time, but no. No. Heaven's no. So, what was I going to say?

Oh, I'm always happy when you're late. Oh, really? Because whenever you end up being late for me is when I need extra time. So I needed like a couple of extra minutes to post Daily Tech headlines this morning and it was i just like well i might not get it done by the time they call and ended up just timing out perfectly oh my gosh we didn't know we're so synced to your needs that's fantastic that makes me happy to hear that so uh we'll be late all the time from now on no i don't know we'll be early when you need when i'm running behind when i'm on time myself then then we're

all good when like a wizard will arrive precisely when we mean exactly when we mean there you go uh tom is here as he always is on wednesdays to talk about some tech headlines maybe kind of what's going on in the world what we might cover on daily tech news show today Who knows what we'll get, but I guess Tom knows, what are we doing today? Now, this first thing I'm going to mention, I don't think we'll be covering on Daily Tech News show, but I might have to go to Blizcon because my favorite K-pop group is going to be there. Oh, really? Yeah, we talked about this.

Are they performing at Bliscon? La Seraphim will make an appearance at Blizcon on November 4th for a special performance, including their new single Perfect Night, which is a collab with Blizzard for, for Overwatch 2. Oh, wow. So, and they're going to do it. They're not just playing the song. They're going to perform it. Like, get up on a stage and do it. Interesting. I didn't even know that was a thing. How did we even learn about this? It's not part of the schedule that I know of. It is. I found out about the song because I just follow the group, right? And then I saw the Overwatch thing and I started looking around. And there is a Blizcon post from October 18th that just went up

today. Here, I'll stick it in the YouTube chat in our Discord, that says that they're going to perform. Wow. That's cool. So weirdly, unlike every other Blisscon year ever, there are still tickets available. They didn't sell out. So you'd probably have a decent chance of getting, if tickets are required for you to see this event. I don't think I'm going to get in as media on this one. Probably not. Yeah, I could pay my way in. You're right. I tried for media access as a it didn't happen. I think things are, it, my, my impression from the process was that this is like a whole different crew. There's like a whole different, I mean, they haven't had a whole new world. They haven't had a Blisscon since 2019.

Microsoft acquisition, right? There's just a whole different. Yeah. Then they, I mean, pandemic was, you know, pre-pandemic was the last time they had a live one. They had a digital one and kind of a half digital one. But they haven't done this again. And I hope they've had a whole turnover on who does that and who's in charge of stuff, I think. I mean, Randy could clarify some of this because I'm not sure how it all works. But the, it's just a different process now. So, you know, the fact that your favorite K-pop band, by the way, are they cartoon people?

No, no, this is just, yeah, the press release has like a drawing of them that I've never seen before. They generally appear as humans. Okay, that was my question, because I thought, oh, are they a virtual band or something like that? Yeah, it's a very, very logical question. Yeah. I hadn't heard of them until you. And Sakura, who's the one, I think that's supposed to be her all the way on the left there. is a big gamer.

So, you know, it ties right in. That might make sense. My daughter's in Korea right now. We should have done it better. I saw. She was in a Hombok, which gets you in free at the palace. Oh, my goodness, yeah. Yeah, they had to, you know how they dress you for that whole thing where you do the, the dress, the traditional thing?

It was really hard and weird, she said, because she's like, she's not quite as tall as me, but she's pretty tall. She's like six. She's not small. She's not a small little Joe son era No So they really had Apparently really had to dig to find

Like stuff long enough for her and all that So it's pretty funny But she's having a great time over there I thought of you and she went to karaoke Last night, lost her voice I don't think they did any I don't think they did any K-pop Karaoke as far as I know

But you know, whatever They could have if they wanted to I was gonna say it kind of hard to avoid I'm not sure how that's possible That's true So if you end up going, though, somehow it works out. I'm just trying to picture what that's like. It's just one song.

It's not like a whole concert. Yeah, it says at the end of community night, they will perform their single perfect night. Now, I don't know if that means that's it. They'll get up, perform the song, and, you know, have a little chat with folks and say goodbye, or if they'll perform some of their other stuff, which the BlissCon crowd is going to be like, I don't know any songs. So, yeah, I'll be curious to see what that involves. but it would be their they are performing at the Grammy Museum the night before that so it would be only their second time in the US and KT Data wants to know who my bias is it's Chewan and my wrecker is Kazawa oh my lord this is like a this is such a different world man I don't know I I admire Tom's fandom of this stuff I don't know how I know it kind of started with Eileen and you guys you know doing this journey together and everything but I look at it and go do I like like anything as much as Tom likes this stuff.

And I don't know that I do. Yes, I think you do. Is it? Is it my? I think we've mentioned about 11 times already this episode. I think you'd, yeah. Fury Road is my, is my K-pop. That's what you're saying.

I think so, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. Fair enough. Well, all right. So that's fun. I hope it works out for you. Yeah. And then I don't know if this is as fun as that.

But one thing we'll definitely be talking about on DTNS because I see Sarah has it in the rundown already. X, aka Twitter.com, has begun testing a dollar per year charge for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines. Yeah, we heard about this this morning and it's curious because- You mentioned that already. Yeah. Well, we mentioned it, but we didn't really talk about it. But maybe you can help explain to me the logic here, because it seems like a dollar a year is no, that's not really a firewall against bots and stuff.

that feels cheap and easy and not a problem. But maybe I'm not thinking about it through, you know, fully. It is a, it is not foolproof. If you come at it from the aspect of, will this prevent every single bot from ever accessing the platform? No, it won't because it's only a dollar and there are ways. But it's a speed bump because right now automation is, is pretty easy. If you put a paywall, even a very small paywall in front of a bot system, it complicates that

system. That system now not only has to process a payment, it also has to get approved payments. So depending on how X does this, credit card companies might decline bots for payments. And then they would not be able to get on the platform. So they would have to jump through some more hoops to try to figure out how to get around the credit cards blocking their payments, et cetera. So yeah, it's not foolproof, but it would reduce. It would reduce it. And a lot of bot systems would just look at, it and say, oh, we don't want to, we don't want to pay. Then people can track us and we have to give more information. So we'll just skip it. So it would be effective in reducing bots. It would not eliminate them. Yeah, because I have to imagine if you're a bot, if you're farming a bunch of bots

that are meant to be Twitter bots and you're just constantly registering new accounts. And let's say, this seems like a small number to me, but let's say you do a thousand of those a day. A bunch of them get banned. A bunch of them peter out, but some of them stay. And that's the point is you're just trying to get percentages. Probably nobody wants to spend $1,000 a day and have it come from reputable payment processing so that it looks legit across the board. Exactly. It multiplies it altogether. So yeah, you're right. That's the other one. I should have thought of that too. The bulk bot creators that know a bunch of them are going to get banned, but enough will sneak through that they can just keep spamming. It raises the cost for them because

each one of those bots is a dollar. And none of this can be done with just saying, hey, we require or two-factor at the get-go? Or maybe that's too scary to say because that actually blocks way more legitimate people because they don't want to go through the trouble. I mean, yeah, I mean, actually, they used to. I take it back. I know.

Yeah. However, that doesn't stop bots. Bots can automate two factors. I guess that's true. I mean, it's a speed bump, so it reduces a little bit, but you can just create a two-factor system that's automatic. So, it's not. We're about to enter a phase where,

CAPTCHA is useless because AI is smart enough to see all the crosswalks and the stairs and the motorcycles. The buses and the motorcycles. Yeah. Those common things that we think, oh, the computer doesn't know if I'm human. Yeah. We figure that out. Yeah.

I don't know that they're useless, but I think their utility is going to be surpassed by other means. So in other words, you can tell more now because you can do machine learning on the other side. You can tell more like, oh, that is a human based on the movement of the mouse, what IP address it's coming from, et cetera, et cetera. So I feel like the crosswalk identification thing is going out of style on both ends, right? It's not as good even without AI on the other end as using AI on the verification. Yeah. And the more I talk about it, this is actually good that we talked about in more detail because it's easy to just jump anytime X does anything and go,

another dumbest decision another brick in the wall people always do that and I do it to a degree but the more I think about it the bot thing is a problem and has always been a problem and of course you would want to do things

to try to get rid of that problem like I don't think this is a Elon Musk is an idiot moment this is a we have a bot problem not as bad as it looks at first blush because there are enough people who don't have bad feelings that might go like, oh, a dollar, I used to pay that for WhatsApp, right? I see a lot of people

talking about, wow, this is a bad idea. Payment charges will lead this up. WhatsApp used to charge you 99 cents a year. Like, it's not impossible if you're doing it for this reason. If you're not doing it for revenue generation to break even on it and get a lot of people to be like, yeah, a dollar, sure, yeah, I can do that. But it will reduce new users. And it's smart that they're not charging existing users in this test. We'll see if that changes. But that's a great way to say like, look, existing users, we're not going to make you do this. We're just going to do this to new users to reduce bots.

But it will have an effect on new users at a time when users are declining on X. At least it seems that way from some of the independent analysis of it. So not the greatest move for increasing utilization, but maybe they don't care. Yeah, maybe they don't care at this point. Well, interesting.

We'll have to see how this all pans out for him, you know? Always part of him, he's always rooting for him to figure this crap out. And another part of me is like, freaking let it die so I can go somewhere else and focus my attention elsewhere, you know? Why not both? Why not both? That's what we have. That's kind of what we have now. I guess I'm taking

it for what it is now. Today, of course, daily tech news show at 2 p.m. Mountain Time. I'll be there. It's Wednesday. That'll be exciting. But Tom, you probably got some other cool stuff brewing. Anything you want to mention? Yeah. Don't pay yet. But, Tech Tom.

is rolling along. I think I'm starting to get a rhythm for my my paid tech newsletter. It's tectom.substack.com. The folks who are paying for it right now, I am extremely grateful because I'm getting good feedback from them. I'm testing different ideas. They're amazing. I don't quite feel comfortable saying this is something everyone should pay for yet.

But, you know, so I'm beta testing with those people right now and keep an eye on it. because if you want to subscribe for free, I will be sending out some tests to the free platform as well as telling everybody on the free platform when the paid version is good to go. So keep an eye on that. It's techtom.substack.com. Very nice.

Well done on that. Tom Merritt, everybody. Make sure you check out the daily tech news show today. Tom, have a great week and good luck with your K-pop efforts, dreams. Thank you. Bye now. All right. That was fun.

Excellent. Always good to chat with Tom. Thomas. That's what his mother calls him. You know what I was thinking? You know what you said is like they're rolling this out, the dollar thing? They're rolling it out in Singapore and New Zealand. Why is it always those two territories that get the rollouts of anything first?

Yeah. New apps, games, sometimes Canada. Philippines as well, yeah. Yeah, why? What is that about? I don't understand. I don't know. Someone would have to tell us.

All right, we're going to get chuckleheads in here. Nicole and Randy. That's who's coming in. they're both chuckleheads they're both on their way let me hit this okay there we go all right we're bringing them in

we're going to say hi after I play this thing well what do you recommend well let's find out what we recommend joining us this morning let's start with Randy today hi Randy how are you good morning morning stream hi how are you

are you excited for BlissCon you have to work it I assume yeah I have to work it I don't know yeah I can tell you're It's a lot of stuff. Yet another Randy Deluxe spending his entire birthday working in Anaheim rather than, you know. Every time it happened, I always remembered that.

It was like, think of it as the biggest birthday party you can have. I've done that. I've been able to do that successfully in the past, right? Like when I had a birthday at BlissCon and they had a whole muse concert just for me. Right. Oh, that was such a great concert. Now you just have a single K-pop band with one. song at the end of that whatever night.

No, there's, is there a concert plan? They just haven't said anything yet about who? I don't know. No idea. All right. Not, uh,

I really don't. I'm just, I'm just, I just know I have a job to do and I'm trying to get it done. It's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun, but trying to plan something that's going to happen at a different site before you have access to that site.

Yeah. You know, like, like I, I, we're just going to imagine this. Where's this going to go? Hmm.

Let's draw on a whiteboard. I'll look for you on the stream. That's what I'll do. Also with us today, Nicole Spagg. Hi, Nicole, welcome back. It's a me. Do you hear me okay? Yeah, I hear you great.

Awesome. I got new headphones. Before we talk about anything else, let's ask how Mateo's doing. Is he doing okay? He's doing okay. Just still in a lot of pain. And it's just a process, right? Yeah.

So our two weeks have started over. He had emergency surgery because he's the lucky 3% that happens when you get your tonsils removed then you get a little additional bleeding so uh yeah we're we're better i'm i got more rest oh good i'm a lot better because that's a lot man going to errs and staying there while the surgery i mean all that stuff could just tear you to pieces so i'm glad you're yeah glad you're doing okay yeah we're stable give them our best and you know lots of ice cream and all that stuff he won't eat he doesn't want to eat any ice cream he doesn't want to eat anything and That's my, that's been the biggest problem.

Oh, geez. Yeah. Well, you know, pain has a way of killing your appetite. It's been my experience. It does. But anyway, we'll, we'll check in on him and see how he's doing and I hope it gets better. Makes me want to send you again the, the, the Fat Albert at the hospital song, which was all about how when you get your tonsils out at the hospital, you get ice cream.

And it's just the tradeoff. But if he doesn't want it, he doesn't want it. Maybe Fed Albert can talk him to giving ice cream. Oh, maybe that's a bad idea. Oh, maybe not today. All he wants is pizza. And I'm like, too. Dude, that's not the thing to eat.

Yeah, that's what you need. You need some acidic tomato sauce, some rough-edged crust. What if it's ice-cold pizza? Because I'm fine with cold pizza. I'm too, Brian. You and I are, you are on the same page on the cold pizza. I'm fine with it. I have some leftover Giordano's that I'm going to be enjoying for lunch today.

That sounds. What if it's a Starbucks pumpkin cream drink, huh? Oh. I hate to say it. I had another one of those yesterday. I'm going to be, I'm going to be, I'm going to be, Fatty McFaddy McGee with no teeth by the end of pumpkin spice season. If they had a non-sugar version of that, I would go get it.

We can figure it out. Let's figure it out. Brian and I are going to go to the paper. Put top men on. Top men. Top men. You are top men. Fantastic.

Let's move on to recommendals. This is where we recommend stuff we've seen and we tell you where it was and all that stuff so you guys can go find it for yourselves. We're going to start with Brian as his tradition. He's got a clip. Brian, anything you'd like to say about this? This is something brand spanking new, just came out, just landed on the streaming services earlier this month, which is perfect, of course, because it's October and it's spooky season. And so it's a horror movie that's got another element to it that I'm usually a big fan of, right?

I try to, I seek out movies with this element. I'll say that. Let's get to the clip, which might let people know if they haven't figured out what this is, might let people know what it is. Here we go. Do you want to hear a story? I have to warn you, it's a disturbing one. And it took place right here in this peaceful, idyllic town of Vernon. 35 years ago, three girls were found brutally murdered.

On October 27, 1987, Tiffany Clark was found butchered in her family garage, stabbed 16 times on the night of her sweet 16th birthday. birthday. At a cabin in the woods, 16-year-old Marissa Saan was killed two days later, also stabbed 16 times. And two days after that, on Halloween night, 16-year-old Heather Hernandez was stabbed 16 times in the parking lot of Billy's boardwalk. The murderer vanished. According to eyewitnesses, the sweet 16 killer wore all black and a mask. which has become infamous in Vernon where every Halloween people still dress up as the murderer. It's weirding me out because you and I were like 17 when these girls were 16. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's also weirding me out because how did no one name a movie this like 30 years ago? Right, yeah, exactly. Yeah, this is, as you alluded to Randy, it is totally killer, just landed on Amazon Prime this month. Totally. Totally. Totally. So, oh, my God. Combines comedy, horror, and time travel all in one, and gets all three almost correct. Oh, let me guess. Time travel didn't go the way you had hoped. I know, but you know what? It's kind of like back to the future where in a situation like this where it's done for laughs, it's absolutely forgivable.

Like, you know, my rule for time travel is that once you change something in the past, the time travel can only travel on that timeline where they're created the time machine. They can't go to a time where they didn't create the time machine. So, but that is, you know, it's not as fun as if you can see the changes in the original timeline that you've made. This is, this is Bloomhouse. So you know you're going to get that, that weird, gory. comedy combination. It stars Kieran and Shipka, you know her as

Sally Draper, Don Draper's daughter in Mad Men. She's so She's such a fascinating person to watch. Something about her. She really is. Yeah. And she was also a chilling adventures of Sabrina, which probably set her up for this stuff pretty well. It's

basically she plays the daughter of Julie Bowen from Modern Family. Okay, tell me, I need you to tell me, Julie Bowen is awesome on this. I just need it. She is awesome in this. She's great. Oh, good. She's a good for you to know. But Julie Bowen is the survivor of the murders that took place back in the 80s that you heard in the intro there.

And through some very creative methods of time travel, again, like, oh, really? Okay, this person has a time machine? Okay, that's cool. um through uh through some methods of get methods of getting kieran and shipka back in time she tries to prevent the murders that took place in the 80s and prevent things that happen in the future with this whole thing um the time travel is is borked but it's comedy borked so it's forgivable the um the murders or the the gore the horror elements are uh definitely bloody um you feel like if there's any complaint i feel like they're trying too hard to create a new chucky slash Mike Myers slash Jason Vorhees with this this 80s looking mask that I think is it reminds me of one of the dudes in smash TV no there's another double double trouble maybe oh wow okay double dragon I can't figure out with this this character my first thought was like some kind of like Conan O'Brien and that nerd from 30 Rock got together and now you got this guy.

I haven't seen the film, but just the picture I saw made me think of Max Headroom for some reason. A little bit of that too in there. Yeah. But it does a pretty good job with the comedy. Again, you've really got to park your logic at the door. They do some things with Wi-Fi that I won't say, but it almost was enough to distract me. of the movie but not you know it's comedy so some of those look like bevis yeah it does kind of look like they're very beavers the big guy the thicker guy i don't know about him but

the rest of them look like bevis it's weird yeah uh so do they uh sorry one quick question does does the so the time travel we can let stuff go because it's comedy or sure do they get the 80s right or is it just stereotypes and you know it's a lot of you know they don't lean they lean a little bit into 80s stuff and but it's more like we forget what a different time it was in the 80s like um kind of the it kind of gets mentioned although of course you don't see it happening but talking about how wait you can just just walk right onto a plane you don't have to go through security or anything you can just like go through a metal detector and you're done sure um it's kind of the equivalent of that kind of stuff uh with how how different

the 80s were for security and the police and that sort of thing. Oh, yeah, you get... So, Olivia Holt plays young Julie Bowen, fantastic casting. She was Tandy Bowen, Dagger, in Cloak and Dagger, if you remember that. We get Randall Park, who is awesome

and everything he's in. And seems to work with Natchika Khan in everything. Anachka Khan does. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And Natchika Khan is the the showrunner she also did don't trust the bee again getting a mention in today's show don't trust the bee in apartment 23 fresh off the boat young rock um so she's behind this as well

um it's on your amazon prime and it's got an 86% right now in rotten tomatoes if you care about such things it's fun it's uh you know it's a good like let's watch it with the older like the older teenage kids maybe not the young young kids or the squeamish kids, because there is a fair amount of blood and stuff and some, a bunch of jump scares, as you would expect in something like this. But, yeah, I do give it a recommendation. I give it a recommendal. Oh, not a mechamental, not a no, don't see it.

You're saying, not a see it. Not a recommendal. It's worth saying. It's definitely fun. Not a woutamental? Not a woutimental. Definitely not a wuettimental. When's the last time you did a wuatimental?

I can't think of when we've done a wutimental. What level is Wootamantle your highest recommendation? It's what we used to say for the ones we really, really liked. Oh, back on your Recommendal show. Okay. I don't remember that. The movie Licious. Or movie Licious, yeah.

So I'm trying to hear Patrick say Wootimental, and it's kind of killing my brain. I don't know if we ever said Wootemental, but we did do something with Woot. No, you just based on how many Rilis he put in front of Recommend. So it would be all right. I really, really, really, really recommend this movie. That's how you know he really liked it. All right. Nicely done.

It sounds great. Again is the name, Amazon Prime is where you can watch it. And it's a fun watch. Right now, spooky season. Put it on while you're making Halloween cookies. There you go. Yeah, that sounds all right. Nicole, let's jump to you.

You got something you watched somewhere. Don't remember where. Anyway, you can on peacock. That's right, peacock. It's on peacock. Explain. And it is a tough. Time travel movie as well.

What? That's crazy. And I won't say much more. You got the clip. It is a... Yeah, I do. I got it. And it is a...

It's a movie, not a series, right? It's a movie. Yeah. Here we go. I'll play a bit of it. Thirsty? Turn that up. No, good.

I'm... I've got something. I wasn't talking about the drink. What? No. You've been staring at the guy like you've been waiting to meet him your whole life. Go say hello. Buy him a drink. No, not me. Uh-uh. No, no, thank you. Actually, okay. Okay.

Thirsty? Hmm? For a drink, not sexually. Gross. I don't, I didn't mean it like that. I'm going to order an alcoholic beverage. Would you like to have one, too, with me? Uh, sure. Why not? Yeah? Yeah. Okay.

Great. Bill? Can I get you? Old fashion. How adorable. It's a real cute vibe going on here. I really like, what's her name? Can't think her name all the same.

Kate. Kaylee Cuoco. Cucco. Cucco. Cucco. Yeah, that's good, too. Let's go with Cucco. I like Cucco.

And then Pete, see, who's the guy? What's his name? Pete Davidson. All right, we're good. And you also heard Kevin Corrigan. Oh, I was wondering who that was. The bartender is Kevin Corrigan. That's the bartender, Phil.

Okay. So this movie is called Meat Cute. And I thought it was the stupidest name because I didn't make any sense. But apparently, because I looked it up, I'm like, what the hell does meat cute? cute mean and it's a trope that the main characters of the movie meet by chance and have a romantic spark so apparently it's a whole the millennials are using it Nicole I've never are they are are they tell me about your meat cute oh well we were introduced by a friend who oh my god I've never heard it before I've never heard it but I never knew what it meant I just sort of blew it off

It's just when you've got a funny story about how the two of you met and it was like, oh, tell me what you meet cute, Tinder. But that's not technically meet cute, right? No, it's definitely not, yeah. It's supposed to be like a cute kind of, so in this case, these two characters, Sheila and Gary,

meet at a bar and they hit it off. It's cute that they both have like 80 year old person names, by the way. Yeah, they do. That's a whole dialogue in the movie. Oh, really? Okay.

Wow. That's great. That's great. I can do Steve, Steve, Pete Davidson in, in small doses. I kind of don't, I can't have too much. How is this for that? Not many people either like them or you don't like them. I like him.

I like him. I just don't. It's just there's a stay longer than you should kind of vibe sometimes to his stuff. Have you seen some of his other movies? Yeah, and that show he did on Peacock, what's that thing called? The King of Staten Island. I haven't seen that yet. What's the one that's more of a comedy and it's on Peacock also?

It's like its own thing. Bobcass? Bobciss. I liked Bubcass a lot. I thought that was a great time. And technically it's the definition of too much Pete Davidson, but I still enjoyed it. So I don't know what happened there. Oh, my God.

Yeah, he just hosted S&L. the other night too, which I enjoyed. I enjoyed it. So anyway, back to the movie. It's a time travel movie. It doesn't seem like it at first, but you quickly learn that Sheila is dealing with depression and just trying to get through the day. And you kind of slowly learn as you find out that she's been using a time machine to recreate this date.

this meat cute um and every single time she does it um it ends perfectly but then about a year into it i'm not kidding you a year into it she starts getting frustrated and so she starts going further back in time to fix him and and so there's like this it ended up being it's so weird and it's definitely don't try to understand the time travel part i like what you're same, Brian. Yeah, this is a, right, this is a hand-wavy, time travel, move on. Exactly, exactly, just, but they, they kind of set up some really funny scenarios when she goes back to fix him.

And I won't tell you all of the things, because it's actually, I really do recommend the movie. It's a fun, not necessarily, it's lighthearted, but it's dark because she's dealing with suicidal thoughts and, like, all of that. And he kind of becomes her reason for living. And it's a whole thing. So I really enjoyed the movie. It was unexpected. I learned the definition of me cute. So I was sitting here when you first started talking, I was sitting here thinking, I'll bet you that was invented by Nora Ephron to describe, you know, when Harry met Sally. Yeah. No, it was like 1938. Yeah. I looked it up.

Ernst Lubbich. Oh, Erst Lubich. Did Ernst Lubich ever have a cute moment in his entire existence? Because I don't know if that name works. Yeah, every time he said his name, people go, He-Hewitch. Oh, man, I just can't believe how much older that phrase is than I thought. When Harry Met Sally is the perfect example of it, right?

Yeah. They, like, meet in the front seat of a car, and it's adorable. Wow. Okay. Cool. So the director on this is Alex Le Mans. Lamon, and he, among other, you know, things like Paddington, or I'm sorry, not Paddington, Paddleton, totally different thing.

Yeah, that's what I get for glancing down the list. But the thing that I did jump to was a documentary, I believe, called Asperger's Are Us, which I think is a documentary about people on the Asperger's spectrum. And it's a comedy troupe, and I could have sworn somebody on here, recommended this because I saw the name and it looked really familiar. I know Scott recommended a dating show on Netflix where it was on the spectrum.

I think it was. Love on the spectrum. I love love on the spectrum is the most wholesome, awesome thing you can ever watch. It's so good. I just want to point out Asperger's R.S has Colin Robinson. Oh, what? Oh, really? I always noticed. I have a rule with him. I'll see whatever. He's in. I don't even care if it's bad. I'll watch it. I like him so much.

well this seems like a good pick I like it and this is on peacock it is called meat cute spelled M-E-E-E-T not M-E-A-T there's no cute meat all right well the other thing is somebody in danger of typing M-E-A-T

cute I'm just saying don't search for it an S-N-L skit I found out Pete Davidson did an S-N-L skit called Meat Cute with oh the Twilight Girl Kristen Nielsen Fotherington

What's her? What now? I can't think of my name. Kristen Stewart. Kristen Stewart. Kristen Stewart. So he did a little short with her on S&L that was titled Meet Cute.

And I think that's kind of where this idea of the movie kind of came from. Nothing works better than taking a single skit on SNL and making a whole movie out of it. it's been done well and it's been done not well yeah sometimes the best ones like cone heads is still my in my opinion the best one they ever did brothers oh yeah blues brothers office space at roxberry yeah the rocksberry is pretty great yeah i still haven't seen it it is i still haven't seen it the movie i mean i've seen the skits uh well there you go that's one to check out for sure randy let's

fly over to you uh and hear your clip what do you got going here what do you got i you know I did this whole monthly bonus episode for FilmSack and I put a lot of work into it. I watched like five movies or rewatched five movies. One of them is this. I just, it stuck out. This movie stuck out for me so much that I wanted to come here and recommend it to you because you can watch it on streaming. So you just play, play the clip. All right.

It's just a clip. You ever play the trade game? No, what is that? It's people watching game. My sister and I used to play when we were a board. You're bored right now? No, shut up. Let me finish.

Okay, how do you play? Just start by watching the crowd. Casualics go about the people around you. Okay. Now without telling me, pick a person that you'd want to trade places with. They can be anyone for whatever reason. Okay, I got it. Now I get two guesses to figure out who you picked and why you'd want to trade places with them.

Okay, good luck. Wow, I want to know the answer. Now I have to watch this movie. Yeah, this is It Follows. And It Follows is about nine years old, and it has only grown in my estimation as a good film in the horror genre. it's um i i'm always confused about the ratings around this movie because if you look across multiple different sites you'll find that it's 95% on rotten tomatoes and then over on like google movies it's in the dumpster and i don't i don't understand all of that but i'm telling you this is a

really good movie in addition to being a legit scary movie don't they have to have sex with somebody to make it go to them That's the story you're told and what sort of is enacted here. But you never really find out. Like this movie has a lot of a lot of story that it leaves open-ended. And right up to the end, the end of the movie is awesome because you are kind of left like the end of inception. You're left to decide for yourself. You know, what's happening to these people as they walk into the sunset?

But it's it's a really well-crafted horror movie. The actors are all punching above their weight class. And the standout for me is this actor named Olivia Lucardi. She just gets the choice role of being funny, like every time you see her in this thing. And the movie desperately needs levity because it's a horror movie. Sure. And it just works. The whole thing works.

I never saw this. Is this? Oh, it's on Netflix, I see. Oh, a few places. Paramount Plus has it, Showtime has it. I guess they're the same now. This is all over the place. I haven't been meant to see this.

I never did. I had to look back and see if I recommended this because I remember watching it based on a lot of people recommending it to me. And I never recommended it. But you liked it, though? I really did like it. Yeah. It's definitely worth checking out. And this is the time of year.

This is when you revisit things like this. Or Scott, you watch for the first time. You will enjoy it. The actors are great. Every one of them is playing a classic horror movie trope. Only the entire story has some differences from things you've seen before, which is really, really good. That's what you want, right? Yeah.

It doesn't take itself too seriously. Like, you will see from the very beginning, oh, this is a movie where the filmmakers are playing with tropes. They're not like trying to, you know, be Alfred Hitchcock. Right. Right, right, right. This director hasn't done too much stuff, but I had seen his other thing. What was that called? Oh, David Robert Mitchell.

So under the Silver Lake, that's the one I saw, the 2018. I think he wrote that. I don't know if he directed it. Did he? Oh, yeah, he did. He wrote it and directed it, I think. He hasn't done much, though. It's like five things.

Yeah, it follows. All right. I'm going to see it. Kim and I were trying to find one that I hadn't seen because she hasn't seen a ton of these horror movies that I keep showing her. And we were trying to find one that we had. both not seen this might be it the rotten tomato score for it follows is so high that it puts it into like the top five horror films of all time you know which is i i'm not sure i can agree with

that personally like it's real real good it's not i don't i don't know about calling this like you're gonna you're gonna be mind blown by this it's just a very competent movie i love what they do with sound design and what they do with the the villain so to speak in this movie is is kind of a spirit and it's just really really well handled from beginning to end you know it's crazy so just watch dot com added a new feature where they do daily streaming charts like they can tell how many people are searching for certain things and they list them yeah it's like that goes to a thousand or yeah it's a ton this is 74th overall but look at the company it's in adam's family right below it hereditary right above it right above that everything every wall at once like it's in good

company and that's pretty high considering we're in the thousands here so it seems like you're not alone people dig this movie yeah i go to that all the time when i when we're like you know we're looking around is this streaming for film sac that kind of thing i go to the i go to those rankings because i'm really really interested in what other people are i never noticed himself today i got to check those out more that's cool uh very nice check that out on uh you saw it on netflix it's on a few other services as well. It follows. It follows.

I was also on Netflix and, hey, everybody, how about a depressing documentary? Here we go. Here's one right here for you. I will tell you unequivocally, I want to speak for the dead. I want to speak for those kids who did not survive, those kids who were lost to suicide, alcohol, addiction, mutilation, self-mutilation, self-harm. I'm here to speak for my friend Patrick. who I miss to this day.

All right. Obviously, very sad. This is a documentary called Scouts Honor. It is on Netflix, and it is about all of the horrible sex scandals, abuse scandals that happened in the Boy Scouts of America over time. And it is gnarly. There is some stuff in there that is like, wow,

how did that get let go? How did they just brush over that? they have a guy who's an ex the guy that they had in charge at the at the boy scouts of america um bsm for short um no that's not right boy scouts boy scouts boy scouts of america oh bs a bsa yeah why am i saying bsm anyway i'm missing a d in there we had to put that d back in i don't say bdsm so eliz is that that's what i was thinking uh i'll get to the bottom of this don't worry. Anyway, so BSA, they, they had a guy in there that was supposed to be in charge of this stuff,

who was supposed to be the guy that was like, you know, child safety regulations, things within the organization. And in the documentary, this guy had been there for, I don't know, a couple of decades. He gets busted in some nationwide child porn ring and immediately retires from that thing and go straight to prison. and the guy took his place was legitimately really wanted to do something about this, wanted to take that job seriously, wanted to like figure out ways to make it better, to somehow recover from this last guy who was in there, who technically didn't have anything. None of his stuff had direct relationship with any of the boys.

But still, he's a freaking child porn guy. He's like a freaking psycho, right? So this guy comes in to try to do this. huge part of this documentary because he eventually gets pushed out for trying to do good in there. And it's not that the organization was like focused on what we got to make sure that abuse is still cool. It's not like they were abuse minded. It's not that. It's that they, all of their money comes from religious organizations. And those religious organizations don't want the word out that this stuff is happening under their nose. So things.

like specifically in this case they focus a lot on the two biggest donations or donators to the BSA which is the Catholic Church and the LDS Church and others they mix up some others in there as well but they're the two big ones to be the United Way used to be the United Way a bunch of stuff and they go back way back in history started in Europe and came over here and blah blah but there's these specific cases they bring up in this documentary about you know kind of turning points for when the stuff started getting worse or they would say they had these regulations in place but they weren't actually doing it um just kind of bad stewardship of a very important

responsibility overall and still putting out the image that you know we're here for the the growth and strength of the young men and and what a and what a what a what a distraction it was to to have the whole well we're not going to allow you know we're not going to allow gay men to be leaders because they were trying to feed this idea that well gay means pedophile. And it doesn't. But that's kind of where their heads were at. You get into all that stuff.

And it's just really, it's a really good look at that organization in a way that I haven't seen anybody do yet. And I'm not here to tell you that the boy, I was in the Boy Scouts. Randy, you're an eagle, right? I think. Yes. I almost got Eagle. I will not be watching this movie.

Yeah, you may not want to see it. It is, it is, if you've, if you've had a good experience in the Scouts, like I did. did, like I think Randy did. Oh, did not. Oh, did not. Okay, I didn't know that. For those who had a fine experience and never ran into any issues, you might have it in your head, well, wait, hey, well, they're going, this isn't fair.

I had a great time. I understand that, right? I know there's always people who missed victimization in things, right? I'm not telling you that you should have been victimized, nor am I saying that your experience was invalid. Like, the concepts and the ideas and the stuff, they're cool. It's just that the organization didn't do everything it needed to do to protect children. That's as simple as that.

And most of the time they did it for political reasons. And most of the time they turned the other way because of where their money was coming from. And this thing just sort of digs deep into that and exposes all of that and talks about it in a really non. What's that word that you don't, you don't, a non sensational way. Okay. So I think it's a good documentary in that regard, which is kind of my rule for documentaries. The minute they start using dramatic music and quick cuts and stuff, I'm like, okay, get me out of here. I like it when they just tell me what's going on, show me your research, your evidence, your journalism, and then let me suss it out of my head, and that's what this does.

So I think it's pretty good in that regard, but I would trigger warn people if they had a really, if they had one of these experiences growing up in Scouts or something, maybe avoid it because they talk about all of it and some of these people's stories. Did they just release it? Yeah, it's fairly new. I want to say in the last month, something like that. Anyway, that is Scouts Honor. Oh, it's actually Scouts Honor colon something. Hold on. Oh, really?

The secret files of the Boy Scouts of America. That is correct. Yes. It might be. And that is a big part of what they do. They pull out a bunch of stuff. They used to call them the perversion files. And it's this top secret bunch of documents I used to keep about who is abusing and who, you know, where

did it happen? how do we how do we not let this come out and screw up the organization you know it's not like they were this is another example of just like a big organization that doesn't realize what's happening under their nose and then when they do their natural inclination is to try to cover it up that's really what the doc is about i've personally seen files like i've personally seen where a adult leader had a file at a boy scouts office and if you looked at the file someone had written do not hire on the file instead of call the police uh sue this person in court like make a public case of it they you know they were trying to cover up what this person that's that's exactly it

yeah that's exactly what this talks about in fact you've you nailed it and they and they do exist and it's crazy some of the stuff and some of these guys like some of these cases were just like what are you freaking kidding me you covered you didn't say anything about this heinous dude that abused like 50 boys over over you know five years or whatever and and the only reason he got he never got outed until he some other public thing happened outside of the scouts and you guys knew about it some of you knew about it

even though you you got rid of him you cut him from the program when you found out but that was it like it was weird really really weird so anyway if you want to be depressed and learn about terrible things although the people in it are all like a lot of the people the subjects in this thing are all really good people trying to like clear the air on this thing to to make real change you know this one dude's dedicated his life to to try to fix this and not not fix the scouts but fix the victims he wants to help them and it's and it's very apparent

and in that way it's it's enlightening and and uplifting but there's some dark some dark shiz in there all right it's Netflix is now you got me wondering if I need to take a look at it see if there's anybody in there that I know you might want to check it they taught there's a lot of Oregon uh there's a lot of Utah there's a lot of uh back east like a lot of Catholic heavy towns and stuff where they were I was dragged into a lot of things back in oh gosh 1993 or something but 94 yeah worst thing that ever happened to me in scouts is a is that one I've told it on the show where that one kid uh mooned another kid while he was sleeping and then laugh so hard he dropped a little poop on the kids face that's the worst that's the

worst thing it's a horrible it's a horrible thing oh that's awful it was awful i mean boys are gross oh my god boys are gross but boys are so gross um but anyway there you go that is on netflix and available if you are interested in that at all hey i got someone in the chat room was asking about a good scary movie and i just wanted to reiterate a ibit recommendal from years ago that i finally watched it's the first scary movie i've been able to watch since i've gotten sick and it was so so so so so good dr sleep dr sleep oh yeah we just kim and i just watched that the other night oh my god i i've i was so good i loved it so much how good how good is continuation of the shining it was amazing yeah no they they somehow six i think as tvs travis said this better than i did but it

somehow successfully makes a sequel to the book the shining which is is a sequel book, Dr. Sleep is, but they somehow do justice to the book sequel and the film sequel at once. Yeah. And that's crazy how well. It's a really good point. Yeah. I don't think, and I don't think it got I don't know, maybe because it was

called Dr. Sleep and not the Shining 2. I don't know. I really didn't have got the attention. It really should have gotten. Well, and it's Matt Flanagan again, who's, you know, just does nothing but rad shit. He directed it and did the screenplay. I mean,

it's funny because Kim and I watch that she really liked it she's never seen the Shining I kind of I kind of was like well should I shore the Shining first she's like well let's see this and whatever now she wants to go back and see the Shining which I don't want to do because the Shining scared me as a kid so bad. So scary in such a scary movie oh my God. Shining still under my skin from when I was like five or whatever so anyway no that's a good recommendation Kim and I did the same thing we're trying to watch all these like horror movies that she would like and that was she really liked it she was so pissed though that i'm that i'm enjoying reading the books after

i watched the movie i'm the type of person where i don't mind spoilers like spoilers to me help me visualize the book more and it kind of fills in the gaps of things that i struggle with as i'm reading it and spoilers can prepare you for what would otherwise be a bad time right right yeah So I actually, like for instance, we watched Ready Player 1, the movie, and then Mateo and I read the audio books together, Ready Player 1 and 2, and I enjoyed it like way more. Even though they were totally different, it was actually a lot of fun to do it that way. I do the same thing. I think most people don't mind spoilers. I just think they do.

Most people abhorred them because they think they're going to miss out on something. But for the most part, if you can try. it anyway, because you're really just spoiling yourself, right? That's fine. Yeah, I've never really thought of it as spoiler, though. I mean, I guess with like six cents, the ending of that would have been a spoiler. There's

certain little things that you go what. Yeah, there's minor spoilers and then there's major spoilers. Someone called Stephen. Let's get him in here. Well, this is a great list. It's all up on quicksack.c.L.I. Brian has already put it up there. So if you go

visit that site, you'll find these recommendations. recommendations and everything we've done in the past. So please go do that. Thank you both for hanging with us today. Yay. Yeah. You got anything to promote either of you? Anything you want to mention there, Nicole.

You know what? Talk about wood. Is there a wood thing we should watch for? Let's talk about wood. Mark just released the last, so he did a two-part series of building me a new master closet. Nice. So he does a funny impression of me at the beginning of the latest video. because I couldn't do it

and he got frustrated with me and so he did it himself. Oh, hilarious. Wait, you couldn't do an impression of you or you just couldn't do? Because I was busy with... I was busy with Mateo, taking care of Mateo

and he wanted to film this intro scene with me holding my clothes and I never got around to it so he just got a blonde wig and did it. Oh my gosh. Sweet. We got Mark and Drag. That's all that matters.

There you go. Randy, we're film sacking this weekend. We get a little chucky on the mind. What are we doing there? Yeah, the first Childs Play movie that we have not sacked yet, I promise. We did the second one, I think, right? We did the second one, yeah. Yep.

So this week, Child's Play available where? HBO. HBO Max. We're on Max every week for a while. Yeah, maximum max everybody. I'm going to cancel all my other streaming services. It feels like we should at some point. Anyway.

I just started and stopped AMC in the space of like five days. Oh, my gosh. You watched what you wanted? You could get that month and then... Yeah. And get out. That's a good way to do it. I do that too.

I canceled Paramount just to find out that it got rolled into Showtime and now I have Paramount again. Because they got rolled together. So I don't know what's going on in the world. Anyway, have a fantastic week, both of you, and we'll see you soon. Okay. Oki-Dokes. Real quick here. I got us a thing here.

This is a text from Kai. how would you say that name? Kyelai. Kailai? It sounds like a Pacific Islander style name. I like it. Maybe, yeah. As my bio parents is about regarding stepfamily and what you call them and stuff,

like John and my mom and all that. Yep. As my bio parents are the ones I was raised and influenced by, both have married other partners since divorcing. I refer to those partners as, quote, my mother's husband and quote, my father's wife love the show so yeah i could just say my mom's husband john you can oh nobody's saying that you can i mean legally he is your stepdad but but what you call him is

completely up to you and how you and i think the younger you are when your your parents remarry the more likely it is that you're going to refer to them as stepdad as opposed to this is the guy that my mom married right but and but even in legal terms what is the legality of it does he doesn't have any rights. I don't have any rights against him, right? I don't think so, no. It's just like a standard relationship tag. Exactly. Yeah. Okay.

I don't know how else to say that. Yeah, a standard relationship tag. I don't think that's right, but I'll say it anyway. You know, an SRT, yeah. Sure, an SRT, I got those forms right here. Basic ASRT right there. Yeah, just fill it out and submit it and you're good to go. All right, that's it. Send us your texts and your

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Brian, anything else you want to? Yeah, I know because right now Tina just heard you talking about that and is yelling at her, yelling at TMS right now as she listens to it several days later. Don't worry, Tina. I'm going to tell the story tomorrow. that is kind of a little bit directly related to the email from Kyle I that Scott just read. Oh, about the relationship name. Yes, about parents and new relationships and what that all means.

All right. Tomorrow was a big day. Don't skip out on Thursday, you guys. Remind me to tell the story. Teasers are fun. I like it. All right. Let's get out of here with some music.

Did you bring any? I did. And this one's a little bit of a sad tribute, but an important tribute, nonetheless. We missed this one. I missed this one back in August or September when he initially emailed me about it. But Tom Robinson wrote in and said, hello, Brian and Mr. Johnson. Wait, how come he says my first name and you're like the formal Mr. Johnson? Yeah, what's that about?

That's very weird. I'll take it, though. He says, it's been a rough couple months. Back in August, my mom passed away after surgery for diverticulitis. the following week I was at my child at home to clean out my mom's house and while closing the garage door I got both middle fingers stuck in the door

turns out I broke them both and yesterday October 17th would have been her birthday we would have played this request yesterday if we had the show for Brian what is your favorite story about a cover song for Scott it's time to play a random film sack clip

and guess the movie my favorite story behind a cover song oh So it's almost everything that Kevin Roland, lead singer for Dexie's Midnight Runners, did for his album, My Beauty, or My Useless Beauty? I can't remember the name of the album. But anyway, he was in rehab, fell hard. Kevin Rowland fell hard after Dexie's Midnight Runners. And it was music that got him through his time in rehab.

But he couldn't really remember songs as well. as he would have liked, song lyrics. And so he found himself singing a lot of these songs and getting the lyrics wrong, most notably Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen. And so he wanted to release this cover album called My Useless Beauty after he got out, featuring his versions of all these cover songs. And so he wrote to all these performers and said, hey, I'd like to include your cover, or I'm sorry, my cover of your song on my album.

It's got a few lyrics changed. And everybody replied back with, yes, that's totally fine. We see how much it means to you. Go ahead and cover our song on your album. Except for Bruce Springsteen or Bruce Springsteen's people who replied back with a simple no. Oh, man. So he's still released a cover of it. It's not officially on the album.

I think he put it on his website. And he doesn't change. He goes back to the actual lyrics of the song instead of changing them. uh wow uh that's a good that's my favorite story about cover songs scott play a random film slack film sack clip all right brian we're gonna both try to get this this is from 2014 so it gives us a range uh april 20th so 420 blaze up everybody so here goes let's see hey hey ho ha ho um oh that's uh dan acroyd in nothing but trouble oh nothing but trouble with the nose penis and all that yes that's it we nailed it here's another one from that day

up that flag, young man. All right. Here's one more from that day. Yep, there was a fart. A bit squiridi is somewhere in that. It's probably in that range, right? I would think so. What's this one?

What's the matter, you chicken dick? No, it's a different one. Maybe that's not it. I can't find it anymore. Well, anyway, we did it. We nailed it. We won. Congratulations.

All right, anyway. All right. All right. So, yeah. Oh, my God. It's already 1115. My gosh. All right. So this one's going out to time.

Robinson, memory of his mother, a great cover that Friends Ferdinand did and included on the War Child Presents Heroes tribute in 2009. Here is their cover of Blondies, Call Me. Color me your color, baby, color be your color, baby, color me of God. Color me your color, darling, all right of who you are. Come above your color, child.

What or where you're coming from? Call me On the light. Call me, call me, call me any, anytime. Call me, my love, you can call me anything on time, call me Call me. Come me with kisses, baby, cover me with love.

Call me inside the sheets I'll never get in love If I'll just come I don't know why Cover a lot of fight Call me What's a lie Call me call me Call me any any time Call me

My love When you're ready We can share why Call me Ooh, ooh, she speaks the language is a lot. Ooh, ooh, oh, oh, oh, all this is just under. Ooh, ooh, ooh, oh, oh, I'm never, sherry. Any time, any place, any bad, any way.

anywhere anything away call me in my life call me call me call me any any time call me we're right call me call me call me

call me call me in my life call me call me in a street design call me call me call me

I love me Don't me Don't me I'm telling me Jovee Ja'i Ja'i Ja'i

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