The Morning Stream - TMS 2543: A Brotherhood of Cheetos

Episode Date: October 25, 2023

Edward Rakehands. Hold me closer Tony Danza. Yakkin' Yeti. Give me my horny games. Big needle tree. Truckbed spongecake. Who's the Full House Boss? Herkulay Prayray. Chaos with Claire and Dunaway. My Lawn Mower Is A Vacuum Cleaner. Gimme my tig ol' bitties! Skeletons showing too much skin. Scott Has A Tree Growing In His Eye. A Kerfuffle With Tom. The Akwafina Scale with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Herculae Prairie. Chaos with Claire and Dunaway. Sure was. My lawnmower is a vacuum cleaner. Give me my tig old bitties. Skeletons showing a little too much skin. Scott has a tree growing in his eye. With kerfuffle with Tom. The Aquafina Scale with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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The morning stream. It is the end of the beginning. Good morning. It is TMS. That's right. You heard it, right? I'm Scott, and that's Brian, and it's Wednesday, and it's October, and it's the 25th. It's 2023. It's all that stuff, Brian. What else? It's windy outside. We got a lot of some cloud cover today. It's cold. Yeah, man. Cold weather is rolling in for both of us. Welcome to the Wosatch. No, the Rocky Mountains, everyone. That's right. The Wosatch are different, I guess. I don't know. I have Wasatch Mountains, and I don't know if they're connected to your mountains. I thought they're part of the Rocky Mountains.

I assume they are. Maybe they are. Maybe I'm dumb. I might be dumb. It's entirely possible that I am dumb. Let's move on. We are here to do a show. It's a Wednesday.

That means Tom. That means recommendals. It means all sorts of other Tomfoolery. So get ready for that. We got Tad Pooley feud coming up, and that means one of you will be lucky third person I pull in for today's thing. And as we spoke about in pre-show, today's winnings are, Who, boy, you're going to... Yeah.

Not safe for work, not safe for kids, these games. So make sure if you are playing today, then you're okay with some video games that contain a little nudity. Little nudity. And you can... And look, let's warn you now, if whoever calls in and wants to just still compete, but then give these to a friend or something,

totally fine, whatever you want to do. Right, sure. We're not going to make any judgments, okay? None whatsoever. No. We're not going to judge. No, who are we to judge, really? So I got, just to catch people up what happened yesterday, this is so stupid.

Kim and I, so every year, right around this time, there's a bunch of trees in the back area, like our backyard, where there's a lot of coverage of trees. Like, they get really big and lush, and it's awesome. In the summer, it's like living in a forest. It's beautiful, and we love it. But when winter comes, if we don't go trim all of those trees and these are kind of these weird. specialized trees, not like a normal trunk. It's like the branches start growing immediately from the ground and then

they just grow straight up and they create all this foliage. And it's beautiful but if you don't cut them and trim them before snow and stuff then they're just a nightmare. And then by next year they're just all the way up to the roof and they're like digging into your out of control. Wow, that quick. Fast growing trees. Yeah, they're very fast. So what

we do is we make a little thing of it. We go out there and we cut all these down, trim them all down, and then do a quick dump run, you know, take them to the dump and dump them there. And so yesterday was our day to do that, and it's fine. And I kind of hate it after, because it looks like a prison yard when we're done, like all those trees being gone. This is weird.

It looks like the Las Vegas strip pre Formula One racing. Yeah, exactly. Yes, a little bit like that. I don't like the loss of greenery and stuff, but like I said, by next spring, these things shoot up like crazy, and by summer they're full

grown again so it doesn't matter um so anyway we go out there and we're doing that and we're chipping away and we also were cleaning out the gutters it's been a year we thought we should check the gutters and these one gutters uh have a bunch of needles in them because there's a big needle tree or what's that called a it's not a needle tree pine tree thank you so much for that needle tree may as well be called needle tree by the way because there's so many damn needles but anyway they're they had gotten so bad and so compacted in there over the last year that there was grass, somehow grass seed had blown up there. And grass was growing out of dead needles that were basically had become soil. There was so much of it in there. Wow. Really? Crazy.

So we had stuff growing in there and there were some bees up there. We weren't sure if there was a nest. There was all this stuff. So anyway, got up on the ladder and did that. And Kim wanted to do this corner. And I said, okay, well, then I guess I'm holding the ladder for you. She says, all right, here we go. So I'm holding the ladder. And I'm looking up at her and she goes up there. and she's digging out chunks of this stuff. Something, I don't see it. It's invisible to me, but something falls in my eye. She's like, dink.

And I felt that. I went, ah, crap. And I went over here and it kind of rubbed in. I thought, oh, it's just a little speck of something or whatever. I wake up this morning, you can't really see it on camera. I got the puffiest, freaking hurdiest eye from whatever the hell fell out of that tree and went my eyeball or off the roof. So that sucks. I just want to put that out there that sucks.

Yeah, no kidding. Not happy about that. But your eye, like your eyeball itself, not red or scratched up. Just puffiness on the outside, the skin on the outside. Just all the outside and the lid, almost like a sty, except it's definitely from whatever fell in my eye. Because it's been irritating me since then and only since then. Sure. So unless I, maybe I got up at three in the morning and in a fever dream rubbed it real hard.

I don't recall this, but maybe I did. I don't know. I don't freaking know what happened. but stupid eye, I'm irritated. So now I've got to do shows with a big bright screen and this freaking hurdy eye. Dark mode. Yeah, everything's on dark mode now. And I have that, what's that nighttime mode thing, they call it?

What's that called? Oh, night shift. I have that on. Night shift, yeah. Where everything's kind of sepia-toned, you know? Yes, exactly. Like the color of my teeth. Anyway.

Yeah, you know, I don't immediately think of putting on protective glasses when I'm doing any of that stuff. I went out and just raked because we've got, both trees in the front and the back that are that are obviously starting to lose their leaves now but they're only about a third maybe half uh have fallen down the leaves and Tina grabbed some this last weekend she just basically ran the lawn mower and and bagged them all like that because we needed a lawn mowing anyway and then yesterday I got what had fallen from from Saturday until now um but I think this weekend is going to be the full on everything should fall by this weekend and then it's going to be a whole like all right air blower blow it up into piles then then uh you know mulch bag it or or you know mulch them into smaller pieces bag it and and be done with the whole thing but yeah moan is the only good way though that's she's very smart to get that way i can't stand rake him into a pile and then stuff them in a bag eff that noise yeah exactly exactly i don't want to do that ugh yeah i i started

to do it that. Like I had the bag all sit yesterday. I'm like, oh, this is just going to be a little five, ten minute job. I'm not going to get out the mower. After two pickups of leaves with the, we have this rake that comes apart and basically creates two rake, two big rake hands. I want that. That's cool. They snap together to make one Voltron rake when you're raking stuff up and then

you pull one side off and then use it as a gripper to pull all the rake stuff up. That's great. After two loads into the bag, it's like, what am I doing? Let's just lawn mow this stuff. So I just took the lawnmower and put it over each pile and went, that is awesome. I have done the same. And it's why that is a joyful experience, I don't know.

It's destructive, but it's also cleaning something up at the same time. It's great. So much fun. So then we went to the dump, and I thought we were going to the city dump, But Kim's like, no, no, no, they're doing a community branch gathering thing where if you take it to this one park, they have a whole parking lot cordoned off where people are encouraged to bring their leavings, their trees, their stuff. Decomposable plant leavings. Exactly. And I don't know what they do with them, but there's some, there was some run to get them all.

So we're like, okay, let's go do that instead because that's all it is. Carter's friend brought her truck over because we don't have a truck and we thought we'll use a truck. We'll take one trip because we had enough to take. And so we go over there, and this was the best part of the day. We pull in there, and I'm thinking, all right, I'm going to have to stand in this truck and slowly pull these out and throw them over there. It's going to take forever. We grab the first branches below.

Yeah. And it came out in one giant piece. Really? It was so awesome, dude. It was like this giant. Oh, my God. That sounds so satisfying. It was great.

It was like a big old sponge cake just slid out of there. in the shape of a truck bed and then plop onto the ground and we were like done and we were so excited about it that we decided to go get some Indian food and so we go to this place called the Himalayan Kitchen you might say it's Himalayan food but whatever it's all kind of connected yeah yeah exactly but they have fast and loose with their geography oh yeah big time but they had this Himalayan chili now I don't know if you've ever had Himalayan chili have you had that to your knowledge no I don't think I've ever had Himalayan chili okay I thought I'd try it just like the sounds weird, let's try it. And they had a mushroom-based one, chicken-based one, different stuff.

And I love mushrooms, so I was like, let's do the mushrooms. Man, I got to have that again. It was so good. I'm finding, okay, so Himalian chili for me is coming up just with the chili pepper itself, like a very spicy. Oh, here we go. Himalian chili chicken. Was that what it is? Yeah, ours, mine, I got the mushroom one, but they had a chicken one. Let's see. Himalayan Is a place called Tanduri Kitchen

that has a Himalayan chili chicken Oh, that looks really good It's so good, dude I thought I was going to die Spicing, it looks spicy Yeah, he gave me an option He's like, okay, I shouldn't do the voice

He said He says, you can do You can do mild, medium, or are very hot And I said, well, how hot is the medium? And he goes, for you, very hot He says He took one look at you said yeah he knew what was up and he was not wrong so i said yeah i'm kind of a lightweight let's go

with the let's go with the the mile or whatever but it was still pretty spicy and very very good like i'll get that i may get that every time i go there it was so good that's just amazing oh what was we went to an indian place the other night and um um um it was excellent and let me see if i can find the name of it because i would absolutely recommend this place Um, I mean, we're a fan of this place called yak and yetty, even though I'm not a fan of the name. Yeah, because it sounds too much like a yakking yetty. Yeah, it sounds too much like what it sounds like, you know? Exactly, yes, exactly.

Yacking, let's go to the yaking yety. Yeah. Let's see, where is this place? Coriander, there it is right there, coriander restaurant. Oh, yeah. TripAdvisor, five full dots, no half dots, all full dots. Oh, nice. Those are good dots.

And this place is really, really good. The only complaint I had is that they give you as much. They give you non-American-sized portions. So you get enough for your meal. You're full when you leave. But I want to take a little bit home and eat it the next day. Himalayan kitchens like that too. They don't.

They give you normal, like, their portions. And you're right. You're full and done when you leave. But I'm always like, oh, that's a little tiny pot of that stuff. That's not. I know. Yeah, exactly. It's like, oh, no, I want some take home.

Manda Catherine says Yacquinelli is also a restaurant in Animal Kingdom over in Disney World. I, just knowing when the year that Animal Kingdom was built, the Yacan Yeti here in Arvada was around longer than that. It used to be a British place called a British Bulldog, you know, British, oh, what was it called? But it was... Beans on toast? Yeah, basically. It was like a fish and chips and mushy peas kind of.

a place. And then they started having Indian food there, and the Indian food went so well that it's basically an Indian food place, 90% Indian food place, with a microbrewery that downstairs that still does the fish and chips. That's interesting. It's like, I don't know what that's like. It's like starting a game stop or game spot or stop. And then a year later, you're like, you know what?

We're more of a blockbuster. so let's right exactly our video section is growing a lot better we'll just let's just let that part take over yeah that's weird you do you do what works right

you like you know if this is the part of your business that's selling hey focus on that yeah I will say to our British listeners I like some beans on toast for real beans on toast oh yeah yeah I don't know why that well I don't have I've never

I haven't eaten a lot of British cuisine and people always say it's kind of mushy and bland and whatever, but the beans on toast part, top notch, no problem. I mean, is it just what it sounds like? Yep, it's like baked beans on toast, basically. I'm sure there's, I'm sure that some British, like I'll bet Zoe has some fancy way of doing it, right? Like beans on toast recipe, UK specialty thing.

I mean, my family comes, half of my family comes from there, and I've never heard of beans on toast. Oh, really? That's funny. Unless it's called something else. But here's the, here's, here's how it looks, Brian. it's exactly what you think. There's, there's the, uh, there's the, there's the, there's the, there's the, there's the image. It's literally beans on toast. It's literally just beans on toast. Yeah.

I think maybe, I don't know, try a shepherd's pie or a cottage pie or, uh, this has got to be, you know, if that's, you've had, you've had those before I hope, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, shepherd's pie is amazing, cottage pie's great. I even liked a little blood pudding once. It was all right. Okay. They've got stuff, and you can, they have, their recipes for different kinds of beans, but it's a thing over there, man. Like, look, okay, here's one you want to look at. I'm just seeing, is there anything? Look at this one.

See, this, this looks like they tried a little harder. There you go. Oh, like, that's your, that's your upscale. Yeah, that's your upscale beans on post. Cheesecake Factory beans on top. I'm trying to see if, like, what else, I like the shredded cheese option. Yeah. And it's, you know, when you get an English breakfast, they have beans and they have toast.

Maybe it was like, because they run out of room on the English breakfast plate. Maybe they just start putting the beans on the toast. Yeah. So this is, that's a fair bit of right there. What I would do, I would go with, like, full-on chili on toast sounds better to me, like American chili. With like meat, like a meat chili. Yeah, that sounds good. I might do that today.

There you go. I got to cook today. Today's my day for cooking, by the way, for Wendy's home. Carmelized onions. Oh, good, excellent. Have you read a book by now or whatever you're supposed to do? I have picked the shelf from which I will pick a book. So someone a while back gave us a collection of classics. So it's like the original invisible man and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

and Brom Stoker's Dracula, which that one I've read. But I wanted to pick something that, you know, again, not just falling back on Chuck Polonic thing. It still feels like, well, you know, a horror book, but maybe still is within my typical realm. It's not going that far out of the norm. What I really want to read after hearing the damn interview on Howard Stern is, I can't believe I'm saying this out loud, John Stamos's autobiography It just came out Whoa

What did it? I mean obviously he's there doing an interview So something sparked your interest What got you going? Yeah, they were talking about Like his relationship Prior to Rebecca Romaine He was with Terry Copley

Just in love, completely in love with Terry Copley And if you ever You know, if you grew up like in the 80s like I did And you remember a TV show called We Got It Made Chances are you were in love with Terry Copley also And they were dating, and then he comes home one day to find her in bed with Tony Danza. Tony Franca. Tony Frickin Danza. Mona.

Exactly. That's crazy. Oh, yeah. Okay, now I know who she is. It took me a second. She's a very Marilyn Monroe-esque, a blonde bombshell from the 80s. And what added insult to injury is when they put who's the boss on before full. house on the Friday night ABC Crap Fest.

Yeah, man. I'm trying to imagine what this would be like for poor John Stamos, just walking in there. Boy, it's sure, the celebrity memoir is happening big time. So you got this little bombshell. You got, um, uh, Jada Pinkett Smith's, uh, her whole thing. Good Lord. Britney Spears and all of her revelations. Yeah, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake's aborted baby.

that whole thing. Like, man, there's a lot going on. These Hollywood types, kind of effed up. But I'm not, but I'm not going to, uh, I don't think I could do it. I don't think I can, I don't think I could happily read the John Stamos autobiography or memoirs is a, uh, that's a thing for my therapy. For your homework, it'd be a pretty funny, be a pretty funny turn. He's, you know, and Tom Norm says Stamos was on hot ones and he was great.

Dude, I, I, I did, it was a dry, Way moment. Like, I did not want to leave the house. I didn't want to leave the car and go into the house. I was so enthralled with this, with listening to him talk about, you know, he was not at all interested in the whole full house thing. Like it was, it was originally pitched to him as it's all the adults doing stuff and talking. And the kids are a small part of it. And then when the kids started getting bigger laughs, they said, all right, I guess it's a show all about the kids. And, and, uh, yeah. uh absolutely uh um hated being on that show but of course it was you know such a big uh big part that big hit how do you how do you avoid it is such a big freaking hit you know so anyway so uh poor john stamos and uh yeah it looks like oh i think uh i need to re look at the shelf but if there's some po in there i might read some poe yeah um but chances are it'll probably be the um the invisible Man. I'm trying to remember the Oh, it's a name, it's similar name to

the guy who did, like the original? Like the original one? Like the O.D. Yes. Oh. The O.G. Invisible Man. Harlan. I don't know. But not Ellison. No, that's a, that's a dude. We know from other things. Oh, where is it? It's not, uh, H.G. Wells.

H.G. Wells? Yes. Visible Man, H.G. Wells, originally printed in 1897. Yep, there it is. Yeah, okay. I didn't know. I didn't realize that was an H.G. Wells. I always attributed that to...

Don't feel bad. I had zero idea he would have made that. I mean, H.G. Wells is like, War of the Worlds and stuff, right? Yeah, and the island of Dr. Moreau and Time Machine and stuff. Yeah, that's interesting. I always thought... That book covers crazy. his book covers just a ink drawing of a dude and like a night coat sitting in a chair in the middle of those books.

Yes, right. That's not the version I have. Oh, yours is different than this? No, no, no. I'm sorry, that's not the book. Yeah, that's not the book I have. That's the photo I'm looking at too, but that's not the copy of the book. Oh, you've probably got more modern one.

I imagine that's a first edition that's worth babillions. Yeah. I feel like you'd be. Something maybe we were talking in my car was talking to a passenger about. about, you know, they stole a menu from this restaurant downtown. They're like, I should sell it. And I'm like, well, but it's still open. That restaurant, people can go and just steal the menu themselves if they really want it.

Yeah. And I said, it reminded me that I have a stolen menu from quarks that I stole from quirks in the Las Vegas Star Trek experience. Yeah. And that, I don't know where it is, but I'll bet you that I could put on eBay for it. I'll bet you could, dude. For some cash, yeah. You should try, you should look that up.

I'd be very curious. I need to and see what it's worth, yeah. Yeah, that was a cool thing. I wish that was back. It was a cool thing. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe one day. It feels like Star Trek's on the rise,

so maybe there's a chance you'll get something cool again. I don't know. Hey, guys, guess what? It's time for a game. Oh, yes. That's right. Hold on. Dunaway's got to be a part of it.

There he is. We're bringing Dunaway in. That's Brian Donaway to you and me, and he's going to participate in today's game. We're also going to take a random listener, actually the third person, to ping me in Discord, if you want to participate today as well. Let's get this started. Yes, that's right. Brian Dunaway is here for another tadpooly feud.

Hello, Brian. Oh, hi Scott and Brian. Hi, Brian. He's delayed. I'm going to see if I move us to the U.S. Central, maybe that'll help here. Okay, let's try that now. Donaway say something. Oh, I find Ryan.

Oh, that's a little better. Oh, let's play faster. Yeah. Yeah. You were having to send your voice all the way to like, I don't know, Portland or something and then back to us. That's not good. Oh, Lynn, that's my favorite place to send my voice.

That's right. That's where you like to go, son. Anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to pick our third. Oh, my gosh. Do you want to know who our third person is? Shit. Well, by the way you say it,

I'm guessing it's a person that would be just fine getting a video game that had some nudity. You know, what we I hadn't thought of it that way this is this is the amazing thing that is about to happen this is the perfect person to win two lustful games if she will answer her phone right currently uh calling her adding her to the call uh claire gack by the way if anyone was confused is clear but she ain't answer oh there she is hi claire oh geez i wouldn't expect anything less is route route through portland all caps all caps hello uh are you ready to play

play today. Are you excited? I'm ready. Yeah, and I can tell how excited. Fantastic. Brian, why don't you explain these rules? I know Claire knows all about them, but you may as well do it anyway. Happy to do it. It's time to play the tadpulley feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics.

And Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Claire, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package That includes Lust for Darkness and Lust from Beyond

Hard R-rated horror games Lust series Turns out they're totally different developers But you're going to get the best two games With Lust in their names If you want to be able to play them On the existing thing that I have to play games That's right

That'll be wonderful On your laptop I get it. I get it. I get it, too. All right, folks. Let's go ahead and get things going and put your hands on your buzzers, not you, Claire, and answer the following question. Who is the best TV detective?

Colombo. Show me. So good. Number one. Number one. Yes. Oh, my God. That is.

How is we're already upset with everything? What a detective! Yeah, I know. He's a dude, but you know the Tadpool doesn't know. He's not PI. Yeah, but he detects. Yeah, the Tadpull doesn't know that he's just a cop, though. They think he's, because he always runs around in his coat and he looks detective-y.

So they always think that. And it's fine. It totally works. He's a homicide detective. It says it right here on the, uh, uh, right here on the Wikipedia page. A homicide detective. Well, I guess you guys are just a couple of columbos. Yeah, a couple of columbos.

Just doing our Colombian business. Uh, all right. Well, Claire, it's me and you then this will be fun right won't it yeah no other answers will beat that so you have control of the board and you have so to speak control of claire all right go ahead and tell me who else the tadpool thought was the best tv detective i want to say jim rockford what do you think of jim rockford files i'll ask my i'll ask my dad uh do you know do you know anything about that show is that a thing that made it to ireland at all i know that you guys like to play

Play the, do it do, da-da-da-da-da-da-d-da-d-d-d-d-d-er. Yeah, it's good. It's good, excellent. You actually kind of nail the theme there, Clara, for not knowing the show, you did pretty well. Yeah, I'm impressed. All right, one with Jim Rockford? Yeah, let's do it.

Oh, you're going to love this. Show me, Jim Rockford. Oh, number 10. Oh, wow. Good points, good points. And Jim Rockford both had the same number of points. I didn't have the heart to take either one. Is that right?

Interesting. So we're not going to use the other one, Brian, is what he's saying. You can't use that one. Done away. You can't say Hercule Poirot. I mean, you could. Oh, I can say it. I can say it. Can you? I actually want to hear you say it. Do it. Say it. Oh. Herculee purle. Not your turn, Brian. Not your turn. Get a line. Now hand me my Reese's PCs and shut the.

All right. I drop the A-F off in Portland. Go ahead. Just a little bit of it there. Claire, do you have one that jumps out at you? Sherlock, Sherlock, that's a good one. I mean, he's on TV, even though he's from a book. He's on TV. It's on TV. Sure.

Sure. Oh, is he on TV? Wait. He's on TV. He's not currently on TV. I don't know what. There might be an iteration of it on TV. There might be a kind of thing.

There's always a, feels like there's always an iteration of Sherlock somewhere on TV. Yeah. All right. Let's talk about Sherlock. Number two. Yeah, the Sherlock Cumberbatch, Sherlock, made it into the top 10, and number two, answer on the board. Nice. So this wasn't Jordy and Data then, not that version of Sherlock.

It was not Jordy and Data. I will tell you that some people, a couple people said Data. Did they really? That's great. Data. I'll also tell you that Johnny Lee Miller's name as Sherlock came up, but way down low on the list. Okay. Oh, this is dangerous.

I might do it, though. what are the chances the chat room said this is a bad idea well Claire I'll let you decide with so we're not going to say it yet but here's what you and I are collaborating on inspector gadget you're not going to say it but I'm just going to I'm going to tell you inspector gadget what do you think of that

he's an inspector not a detective but the Todd pulls the Todd pulls stupid so sure man offended everybody in one fell swoop. It was a very far-wide reaching sentence that managed to offend just about everybody. Okay. All right.

Is that the one you're going on? Let's do it. Let's go with that. See what happens. See if the tadpole paid off or not. Show us Inspector Gadget. Oh. Number three. Look at that. The brain on Brad.

Um, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, yeah. He's got the gadgets. I can't think. So, Max Trollbot says the Johnny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch were roommates in college, and they're both the most recent iterations of television Sherlock.

That's awesome. Really? That's interesting. Series. I liked elementary, yeah, I thought it was really good. Do you guys think... Shit. Oh, neon steeple has a good idea. Who, what?

Miss Jessica Fletcher. Oh, uh... Murder she wrote. Yeah, yeah. Bed knobs and broomsticks herself. Let's do it. I like it. Travis, I had heard of detective inspector, but, you know, sometimes they're differentiated, okay?

Yeah, yeah, just yelling at the chat. That's what we're looking for. We're looking for that. Always, always works. All right, show me Jessica Fletcher. Indeed, order she wrote at Murder She Number 8ed. All right, I want to add to this list, Mattlock then, because if she's on there, Oh, Matlock.

Sure. We're just, let's hit all the olds. Yeah. All right. Show me Matlock. Oh! First strike. Matlock number 13 on the list.

I don't know why that's not on there. That's disgusting. I don't understand. You know, we're not all old people. I'm not old either. This isn't my show. This is like my mom's show. But still, you think of Matlock.

People always think of Mattlock. That's mind-blowing. But now I just thought of another one. I'll hold it because it's Brian's turn. Okay. Go ahead, Brian. Uh-huh. Go ahead, Brian.

Brian, your turn. Brian. Come on, Brian. Brian. Brian. Brian. Brian, is he not there? Will I just do my Brian impression?

No. Oh, my gosh. It was a terrible impression. Brian, Dunaway, are you there? Did he, did he go mute? Did he? Hello? Oh, there is.

Hi. We hear you now. Yeah. Can you hear us? Oh, hi. Oh, hi. Yeah. Can you hear me?

Yeah, but I think you're really delayed or something. Can you hear us now? I wouldn't doubt it. So I'm doing this on my laptop. Uh-huh. Because at the very last second, for some reason, my other machine, you just couldn't click on the screen anywhere. It didn't matter. It's been going on for a couple of days now.

It just happens randomly. Start a happening right before the thing. That's fun. So I unplugged everything and plugged to the laptop. So the little machine finally came back up. So I tried to switch over. And then it immediately went, nope, mouse thing. So I'm back on the shitty laptop.

Oh. Let's see. I didn't hear what you guys said, but I know it was wrong, apparently. Yeah, it was so. We said Matt Lock. I heard a, yeah, about the time I got cut off. All right. It was Matt Lock, by the way, so you don't have to.

Yeah, just to make it fair. It was Matt Lock. It was Matt Lock. All right, right, right. Well, then I'm going with the great, the great mouse detective. No, I'm going to go with Olivia Benson. Who the hell is that? Oh, from SVU?

Oh, my God. Is that S-FU? Oh, okay. Not S-FU. We've been watching a lot of it this week. When I say we, I mean, Audra, and then me as captive. Yeah. Look, that show had me until they did an episode about an MMO where people were getting killed in real life inside the MMO.

And I said, okay, well, this is the dumbest thing I've ever laid eyes on. I'll never watch SVU again. They ruined that show when they did that episode. When you get there. Well, IST is very upset and won't you back. Okay. That's fine. All right.

Show me. Olivia Benson. Oh, come on. Yep. Number 14. Actually, one row below Matlock. Yeah. Okay.

Claire, what are we, what's, what's flying around your buzzing head? That's not a word. That's not a phrase. You don't want to know. Yeah, yeah. I can't think of anything. I can't either. So I'm going to say, how about this?

I got one. Uh, uh, uh, oh shit. Oh, shit. What? Ooh, what? I don't know. Oh, Fox Mulder. I was about to say the same thing. Molder or Scully or both.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the FBI. I just want that. Yeah. Yeah. I'll just take it.

Uh, show me either Fox Mulder or Dana Skelly or the combo of the two of them. Boo! Uh, yep, Fox Mulder number 16. So up high in the list, but did not make the top 10. I wanted to believe he was in the top 10. All right, Donaway. All right. Well, I'm going with everybody's favorite brooding detective, Batman.

Badman. Yeah, Batman. What? What did she say? She said, why did you give him the answer? Did you give Brian Donnelly the answer? Does somebody give me the answer? Does somebody give me the answer?

No, he said Batman. He said Badman. man before I did. I just, yeah. Yeah. All right. Show me, my Batman.

That's shit. Number six. Thank God. This is, Scott's not going to run away with this one. Scott and Claire not going to. That was close. Apparently not. That was close.

Four answers still on the board. Brian, what else have you got? Well, I, I'm an old school TV watcher. We haven't said, we haven't said, uh, monk. Oh, Monk. I love Monk. Shalub.

All right. Show me Monk. Damn it. Yeah, number four on the list. Here we go. Yeah. Making a rally here. Mm-hmm.

Yes. The only game rally. Well, if they liked Monk, then maybe they liked the sister show. That's not really a sister show. It's on the same network, though, right? Syke. Oh, yeah, same network. Wasn't that all on the same?

Yeah, TBS, I think. We have characters or whatever their little promotional thing was for the longest time. Yeah, I think it was TBS. Do you have a character name or just want Syke as the greatest TV detective? Oh, well, I don't like how you ask me that. How about Gus?

All right, how about we just go Syke? Show me, Sykes. This character is a guy named Sean Spencer. Oh, my gosh. Number seven Nice Nice All right, let's see here

Who was we guy I'm looking at two screens Because the TMS Screen is pulled up on one computer And I have to keep going back and forth Between that and my freaking Audio connection Yeah

But I'm not better Let's see here I can tell Rush Roach Let's see Batman Who knows Zubbzub How's about we go with

Castle Castle That's good Yeah Sure sure All right Show me Castle

Oh that's a shame That's a real See I was going with a B movie I was going with a B TV tier type of stuff I was looking for you know Man 21st on the list Is nice

All right Claire I have an idea I have an answer I've an answer I came up with this Totally on my own I was listed by any Australians One about Veronica Mars. Oh, that's good.

That's a good one. More TV. Yeah, I love it. Yeah. That's cool. V-Mars. All right. More great TV.

Show me Veronica Mars. Oh, no. Oh, no. Third strike. Veronica Mars is 17, by the way. I had a better one, by the way, but that's okay. I can't do it now because they have three strikes. Oh, no.

Okay. All right. That's all right. Well, two answers left on the board. Brian needs. No, you're still here. Can you not hear us? Brian?

Can you hear us? We hear you. Can you hear us? Are you available? Do you find yourself available to us? We hear you. Oh, you hear me? Yeah, we hear you.

I can't hear you guys. Hold on a second. Let me see if I can rectumify that. Yeah, right. Put the rectum in there. Pertner killed him. How's the old phrase go? I reckon.

Hold on a second. Let me see. I reckon he, no. How's it go? Almost there. Yeah, this is good content. If you can hear him. Oh.

Me. This is like haunting me. You there, Donoey? Hey, you there? I may have lost Claire, too. Not talking to you, but I know you're not, but it's my name, and you're wearing it out. I'm just worried. My brother is also called Brian, and he's due to, like, also arrive at my parents' house tonight,

and I'm just waiting for him to walk in, and I'm just going, Brian. I didn't know you had a Brian brother. That's cool. There's too many Bryans. Yeah, I've been a Brian brother and a Jack brother and a Clerson. My sister, that's me. Yeah, we figured that. I thought you're going to say it another sister named Claire.

I feel like your parents were terribly original. Yeah, I'd like to have a conversation with your parents after two Clares. That'd be pretty weird. Dunaway, are you back? Can we hear you now? Can we hear you now? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Can you hear you now? Yes. Where were you? What you got? Oh, you had an answer. Yeah, I think, even though he's not a detective, he is a private investigator. And this is the tadpool. would Magnum P.I. be on there, even though it's right in the name,

would people still drive on past it and go, greatest detective of all time? Are you asking me? I'm stating, I'm stating that's my guess. Okay. And then I'm questioning that, that logic. Show me Thomas Magnum, comma, private investigator. Uh-huh.

Number five. Are you serious? Look at this. You people. You people. He's going to have to. has guaranteed the win because the score is 24

to 22 in favor of Scott and Claire. The only way Brian can win is by getting number nine on the list. But if he does, that still gives Claire the win because the board will be clear. Yeah, clear's the whole thing. So literally done away, there's really no pressure on you

right now. Right, right. I can't think I can't decide between my old school favorites like either Cojack or am I still here? Can you hear me? still here, yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course not. You can still hear you. No, we're here. We hear you. We hear you. Yeah, he doesn't hear us. We hear you not. We hear you fine. Oh, you can hear me fine. Okay. Well, I mean, I hear absolutely nothing. Oh, so he's not even getting. So I'll just watch the board. Give me my horny games. Okay, so you say, say it's final answer. Is he saying cojack? Is that what I'm hearing?

Cojack. Is that what I'm hearing him say? Probably. Cojack Cojack is my answer Okay, Cojack is his answer All right, show me, cojack Oh, that's a shame I'll put Okay, I'm gonna

I think I know this last one All right, what do you think it is? Scooby-Doo and the mystery ink people, that whole thing Good answer! No, and it's one of the more recent great detectives on television He's a member of the New York Police Department in Brooklyn

appropriately in the ninth spot, it's Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 9-9. Yes. That's a good one. That's a good answer. I'll give them that. Well, tell me some of these ones that are... I'm shocked that certain ones didn't make it in here.

So what else do you have? So Doctor Who, number 12. Bosch, Hieronymus Bosch, number 15. Detective Conan from a anime series called Case Closed. Uh, 18, Scooby-Doo, number 19, Dale Cooper, 20, Frank Drebin, Gil Grissom, Jessica Jones, uh, co-jack number 25, Colcheck the Night Stalker right below him. Uh, Andy Sipowitz, Angel, Benoit Blunk, uh, Jimmy McNulty, Maxwell Smart, Patrick Jane, Raylan Givens, uh, Ace Ventura, never on TV. Well, I guess, cartoon, right? That was an Ace Ventura cartoon. Um, Archer, Beretta, Barnaby Jones.

Jones, you old people, you. Charlie's Angels, Chief Wiggum, Chippendale, Chris Hanson, Deborah Morgan. Door the Explorer, Dragnet. Who put Chris Hanson in there, you guys? I don't know, but that's great, actually. Hank Schrader, House MD, Inspector Cluison, and Specter Morse. Let's see. Hank Schrader's a bad detective.

It's a bad detective. it took him like five seasons to figure out Luther, Lucifer, Madeline Hayes I didn't

I sort of wasn't me who put that one there Yeah Let's see Rizoleon Isles And finally Velma Oh

She made the list Separate from Scooby That's amazing Yep I was really hoping We all know She was the brains Of that outfit

Come on I was hoping We get some Lenny Briscoe Love in here But nobody Remember There was one

Lennie Briscoe I didn't hear that one. Okay. Yeah, I just brushed past it. Well, uh, Bresco County. What? Bresco County, Jr. That's the one we said. Uh, Jake Baralta. Hey, Dunaway. You did, you did, you did good. And, uh, Claire did good. And, uh, Claire, Claire is going to get all the naked video game fun she can handle. Congratulations. You're the winner. You're a winner. I lose. Uh, but we, but you, but you win. Yeah. Uh, and it's good. And so Brian's going to send you these because he's got your contact information. Yep.

I just put them in. Gave her links right now. They're umbundool gifts. You just clicked on those and you get the game. Yep. Our best to your weird bunch of sisters and brothers and stuff, whatever you're doing over there. There she goes.

Hey, Dunaway, despite all your technical problems, I'll work out just fine. It sounds like my audio finally started working five seconds before you say, no, you. Yeah, no, you're doing great. Here's the good news. We're going to be doing you and I, Retro episode this weekend. Make sure you check that out.

It'll be before FilmSack, but after our play date this Saturday, or this Friday. And that'll be at 2.30 Mountain Time. We'll record that show. And if you want the podcast version, you can get it at frogpants.com slash play retro. Hey, is there anything else? What are we? Oh, Fester's Quest up through family, all the Adams family games. All the old ones.

Not all. Geez, man, under promise. Jeez, come on. That's true. The ones that you all know of. We're talking NES, super NES Genesis era stuff. That greatest selling pinball game of all time that we mentioned other day. Oh, right.

Yeah. Thanks to Brian. We're going to bring that up because prior to that we hadn't thought of it. But we are going to do that. So that'll be a lot of fun, don't you think? Done away, don't you think? I can't wait. No, you.

Why don't do it? Kiss our butts. All right. He's out. Well, that was chaos in a bucket. Boy, I mean, is there, were we thinking it was going to be anything besides that? I guess not, now that I think about it. I mean, it was Claire, after all.

It was cursed from the beginning. You're going to have to do what you've got to do. Yeah, exactly. All right. Time for a little bit of news. The news today is brought to you by. The Piano Challenge is back. Amanda's fundraising for the walk to end Alzheimer's in Nashville this year.

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piano challenge is good till the end of the year. Go check it out. Good luck to them. Sounds like a great cause, as usual. Great cause, and yeah, exactly. I'd love to hear some of her renditions of things. We got a Utah story. I don't have the Utah connection clip here anymore. I don't know what happened to it.

I'll just say Canada. Canada! But really, it's about Utah. Yeah, a pole dancing skeletons have raised some controversy here in my home state of Utah. I want to thank Captain Kipper for this story. He submitted this in our Discord. It's funny. I've seen this photo, and I can't believe people are having a problem with this.

Yeah, people are weird. A Utah man's pole dancing skeleton display that ran a foul of local authorities for using a street sign has been moved to private property where it is steadily growing. I don't know what that means by growing, but whatever. Yeah. Christopher Fushin, Fujishin, Fujishin, Fujishin. Fujishin. Fujishin. It's probably, they probably keep adding to the display, is my guess.

Oh, is that what they mean? okay the display itself is growing got it um here chat i'll show you this photo brian was looking at too so you can see it um there we go oh gotcha now i see what the okay what the um issue is the controversy is it's not really about these skeletons on on poles on pole dancing right um hold on i can't get the damn thing up there we go i'll let that play in the background um christopher this christopher dude put up this hallowing thing next to a road outside of Grantsville, outside of his home there. Grantsville's kind of far from me. Anyway, featuring a purple-wigged skeleton doing a pole dance on a road sign

where other skeletons watch and offer money. A city official said in Facebook that the display violated city code by using the street sign for its dancing pole. The post, which has been since deleted, said the owner of the decorations had until 9 p.m. to take down this stuff or it would be confiscated by the local PD. He moved the skeletons to his yard. and local residents who saw the city's viral post started coming by to add their own decorations to the display, which now include the lights and music. I would be annoyed if I was that guy. It's like, dude, this is my display.

Get out of here. Anyway, whatever. I don't know. I mean, maybe as long as they're adding something good to it, then. It feels like they're, it's not, I've been to Grantsville. This is no big deal. They could have probably let this one go. The sign wasn't obscured.

You could still see it was a stop sign. I don't I don't Freaking know is that what it is it was a stop sign With yeah as long as it's not covered Then sure it makes sense Yeah or just street sign of some sort Some parents are pissed just because it's Stripper it's a stripper joke

Sure they don't like that Because they're like I don't want my kids Watching fake skeletons Not really dance and give fake money To a skeleton who's not really You know It's a lot to get yourself worked up over But guess what

All skeletons are naked Just, you know, just... Yeah, bad news. It's the only defense you need. Yeah, they're the most naked, aren't they? They're the most naked, exactly. I have a plastic one over there, and all he's wearing is Patrick's French scarf.

We're on his neck. Oh, so that one technically is not naked. Nope, that's as dressed as he's ever been. And he's going to stay that way. Here's a fun one. A runaway tortoise. Can you really call... A slowly meander away.

two words together. Yeah, crawl away a meander away. A barely moving creature away. Tortoise found five miles from his home three and a half years later. Oh, wow. Oh. Sheriff's deputies. I'm running away.

I know. I'm out of here. Wait, you're still, it's been a week. Where are you going? I'm still going. Florida's wildlife animal rescue found this thing. They captured a loose African sulcata, probably. Or a tortoise. Salcata, something like that.

And the reptile was later found to have escaped his home three and a half years ago. They found this thing. Let's see, a non-profit exotic animal refuge in Putnam County, which was the rescue that lost him. He is definitely someone's tortoise and he likes people and pets heads or head and likes headpats, says the sheriff's office. Nice. The refugee also, or the refugee, the refugee. Why did I say that? The refuge also posted about the torsets.

tortoise on social media and soon received a flood of tips from members of the public about this tortoise that they had reported missing in the same area in April 2020. She was missing for three and a half years and found five miles away where she originally escaped, says the refugee. Refuge. Says the refuge? Why is that word doing that to me? I don't know, but you don't have to say, read it like a refugee, Scott.

I do it every time. Don't have to read like a refugee. I used to like that song. I don't think I do now. I think I don't like it as much. Yeah, I think if I hear it now, I just kind of go, uh. Oh, I like it. Maybe I, maybe, I can't think of a Tom Petty song I don't like right now.

How about that? I still like Free Fallen. Yeah. How do you feel about running down a dream? Still like that. Oh, I like that. Yeah, I like that song. How about, um, uh, that's all I got.

last dance with Marianne I'm on fire Mary Jane Mary Jane Can't really call it a euphemism for pot if you call it Mary Ann I'm going to smoke some Marianne

Doesn't really work that way No Anyway the turtle's in rough shape But safe so So hold your calls Calm down the turtle is safe To its owners Thank you

Thank you Florida Animal Rescue Yeah thank you guys very much Thank you also for Brian for bringing songs to the middle of the show. We're going to play one now. Brian, why don't you tell us about this indie in the middle? Yeah, let's go to L.A. for some punk music. This is a band called For Closure, Two Words, F-O-R, Closure.

Fronted by vocalist Jizz Laslo from the band's Doctor No, UK Subs, and the Freeze. This is their brand new single Carousel. Their debut album is going to be coming out next year, early 2024. But if you like Superchunk, the Doe Boys, or Sam I Am, you're going to like this. Here is foreclosure and carousel. Where were you when you were running high? You would never learn, you would never care. Did you even care?

You would never live, did you ever care about me? Up and down, side by side, side round and round You drove me up and you left Without a sound You bring me down You bring me down

You bring me down You bring me down Down, down, round, round, round, round, round. We know When we are We know Woo, the most beautiful body and professional wrestling I am the baddest dude that walks the streets today, Chump Hogan

And you think about that chump Because you could not beat me, you could not even beat Sylvester alone in the movie, Rocky 3. Everybody's chicken to wrestle me. I'll teach you how to hit this ball right over the fence. Come on, it'll be fun. I'm. It'll be fun. A brand-R-closure.

A brand-new single called Carousel. Big Thanks to Mind Power Records for sending this one along. Very nice. Very nice. Yeah. Big thanks to them. Brian's got contacts, man. He's got, like, connection.

I got contacts. I got my feelers all over the damn place. That's right. That's who you are. And now that's who this is. Hold on. Oh, there it is. Kind of in a tough spot here, Tom.

Sorry. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. He is Ace Detect in the world you know on all the socials. I don't know why I'm bringing that up. But he's here today to talk about tech news all in advance of the daily tech news show. Hi, Tom. Thank you. I appreciate. No one can ever spell Ace Detect, but it, you know, it's certainly good to get up there. You're the reason I can. Had I not known you, I probably would have never

had a reason to, but I wouldn't have known how to spell it. Yeah, there's no one else who spells it the way I spell it. I've told the story before, but the reason my ridiculous username is spelled incorrectly is because when I originally signed up for concentric ISP in like 1996, I screwed up the sign up and when I tried to change it, they're like, that username is already taken. So I had to spell it wrong.

Crap. And now everyone knows it. It's a household name. It's fine now. I think it's the shortest I've ever told that story. Well done. It's shorter all the time.

You're like a flesh version of what I use chat GPT for. I use it all the time to shorten stuff. Or am I just chat GPT? It's my main use case. I will literally take like an entire show document copy the whole thing out even all the dumb notes and stuff throw it in there and say make me a 700 character reduction and it does a really good job of that so my chief use of AI right now anyway

not a bad one no it's not bad it works I find when I do that with some shows it works better than others the more facts you want it to include the worse it gets yeah that's true that's true but if it's kind of fluffy and you just need it sort of something yeah yeah like you just like You just want to like, hey, they talked about this, this and that. It's not too bad. Yeah. And I also found this is, you know, I don't know if this is like a war yet. If we're having platform wars, but Google Bard, the latest version of Google Bard did a better job this week or last week for core than GPT did.

So I don't know what that means, but I guess. What about Claude? Have you tried Claude? No. From Anthropic? But I hate that name already. Yeah. Probably because of the way I'm saying it.

They just say, yeah. I can deal with Claude. but if I'm required annoyingly non-French but trying to sound French if I'm required to go Claude I think I'm out I think I can't know

That's me. They don't require that. I shouldn't do that with them. Well, Tom, it's good to have you here. Let's talk about the bubbling tech news of the day. What's going on? Did you hear about this

PS5 slim kerfuffle? Oh, is it the must require an internet connection to use the extra drive? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so the facts of the case. Did you talk about that? We haven't yet. I just read about this morning.

Yeah. Okay, so the boxes are showing up in retail. We still don't know when it's going to go on sale. That's kind of a side story here is like, I think Sony's just like when you run out of the other ones, put these on the shelf rather than having a launch date. I'm not quite sure. But the boxes are showing up in retail. And of course, some retail employee took a picture and it's out there. On the box is a note that says, Internet connection required to pay.

pair disc drive and PS5 console on setup. Which is weird. And that is causing quite a lot of consternation. If you buy the PS5 Slim with the disk drive included, will that be the case? Is this only if you buy the disc drive separately? Is it just at setup or is it going to be every time you stick a disc in it? Like, I mean, obviously it says to pair the disc drive on setup. But it's causing a lot of people to go, oh, great, you know, that now I have to rely on the

internet when I just want to rely on discs, which particularly for the disc crowd, that's a thing, right? One of the, one of the reasons a lot of people are holding on to only buying games on disks is they just don't trust the internet. And so, so this is particularly designed to, well, probably not designed intentionally, but it's particularly well suited, let's say, to annoying people who like discs. So the one that comes with the drive is it just, this makes me think it's loose in there and you have to connect it or at least set it up. I mean, yeah, possibly. The drive is modular, right?

Right, right. But I think it's attached when you buy it. I haven't opened one up, so I can't confirm this. I would think so. Yeah. The PR pictures make it look like that disc is already attached when you buy the one that comes with it. Right, right. So what they may, so what that probably means, if it's attached on the one, you know,

if you're not buying it modularly and you're buying it, with it. My guess is during setup, it needs you to be online to do something. And that's true of the console itself, right? You've got to connect to the internet for the most part. Although some people, there are people that are just, I'm never hooking this up to the internet. I just want my discs. So these are going to be the ones that are the most ticked if there has to be some kind of internet setup that they don't want to do. And I understand that. I think it's a little odd. Well, I'm just trying to think from like a technical standpoint, why Sony needs you to do that.

It's a piece of hardware that you plug in. That's a good exercise. They need it to like luck to your account so that somehow you can't share it with a friend to share your drive with a friend. Or a piracy combating thing of that. I think it's probably an authentic parts thing. Like we want to make sure that you are only attaching an authentic PS5 disc player, which would also be an anti-parts. piracy thing. Like,

we don't want you to have some modded player that can play pirated discs. So it probably has to do with any piracy somewhere at the root of it, is my guess. I'm sure Sony might say something

about, like, wanting to make protect the users from, you know, those who prey on them with inferior, blah, blah, blah. Which, you know, that's also true.

Sure. But, yeah, that's the only, only reason I can think of, or there's some anti-piracy software that it wants to download to that disc and wants to make sure that it's on there at launch? Again, the only reasons I could think of are anti-piracy. Yeah, I think you're probably right. And I think that they also want to check that thing to make sure it's got current firmware, because those get updated on controllers all the time. I'm having to update those. It feels like every couple of ones. Okay, there's a good one that

might not have to be anti-piracy, although the firmware is always about anti-piracy, but, but saying, like, at setup, we want to make sure you have the, the current firmware. You'll connect to the internet for whatever reason along the way, or we can give you a pop-up later to tell you there to check for firmware. But we want to make sure you have the freshest at setup. That alone, right there, that could be worth. Yeah, that seems like a thing you'd want to do. That's interesting. What surprises me is that if these are already showing up in stores, big chain stores, and they're being told, you know, push, whatever they're being told about pushing out current models before you put them on the shelf or whatever. I'm shocked there's not one already leaked in the, in the wild. Like that always happens. That somebody hasn't like one. Yeah, and maybe they have and they're keeping it quiet. But yeah, I think probably sooner than later we'll see one of those in the wild and then

we'll have some more confirmation on this. Also, then there's the question of when that guy fires it up, he's not supposed to have it until, you know, some other date, does this give Sony, I don't know. I don't like that they I don't like it when hardware requires this sort of thing. I think the reason the reason people even want that desk, the reason Sony's making it modular

is because people are making this choice. So, so feed into that and say, well, all right, you people making the choice. Here's a peripheral. Done. Done. That's all I got to do. I don't know. Things are weird now, but it'll be interesting to see what happens. I'll bet one gets leaked within a week.

It's interesting to see if Sony responds to it and if they do what they say about it. But my guest is like, we are protecting the user, like Tron. And we have, we call our new drive Root Kit Jr. I'll throw a disc at the journalist. Oh, brilliant. And hey, now you're talking.

Now we're getting somewhere. I like that. Well, anyway, we'll talk about that and other cool stories that pop up on the Daily Tech News show today. I'll be on there today. It's Wednesday. I'd love being on. Tom, is there anything else happening there or elsewhere you'd like to talk about? Well, yeah, on DTNS today, I imagine we're probably, you know what, I could maybe take a look because Sarah's working on the rundown right now.

No, shit, I got out in there. Yep, but I bet we're going to talk about Qualcomm's new chips. Interesting bit about the chip is new chips for earbuds use Wi-Fi to improve audio quality. You can do lossless and extend the range far than Bluetooth. So in theory, you're like, so you're in the house and you might get better sound there because you got a Wi-Fi connection. but you leave the house and it might drop a little because you're just Bluetooth somewhere else, right? Is that the idea? Well, the last one I would reverse. Like, yes, you're in the house. You've got your Wi-Fi. That can improve your audio quality. Yeah. But let's say you've got, you're on your phone. You're listening to music on your phone in a corner of the house. You walk out of the room, but you leave your phone. We've all probably done this where you walk a little too far in the audio drops, right? Right, right. Well, if your Wi-Fi is covering your whole house, which you've probably worked hard to do,

this chip can use Wi-Fi to keep that music playing without you, even though you've lost your Bluetooth. Oh, interesting. I do that all the time where I leave my phone somewhere. Yeah, me too. And I'll be like, why is the music cracking up? Oh, because my phones are way over there. Oh, I broke the cord. But then there are times where I'm surprised how far I can go.

Like, you know, like Bluetooth in my head is like early Bluetooth was like, you can't be more than five feet away on this thing. Yeah, it could even be in your pot. Like, my phone couldn't be in the pocket if I wanted to clear signal. Signal got degraded enough. Exactly. It had to be, like, sitting in my hand, which kind of defeats the whole purpose. Yeah, like, what's the point? Well, cool.

That's something. We'll talk about all this stuff. Later today, Tom Merritt, everybody. And like I said, Ace Detect on the social medias. All right? It's Ace D-D-Tect. There's just a D. There's no E-C-T.

Yeah, and once you know the pattern, easy. Piece of camera. Tom Merritt, have a fantastic day. We'll see you, too. Bye, buddy. Oh, why won't this work? Okay.

Yeah, like, what's the point? Oh, geez, okay. Did you hear that? That was weird. I heard all that. I heard every bit of it. That was coming from Tom. I think he had, I think it's his routing he does.

And I think he switched it over back to what's default. But he did it before he disconnected. Oops. Yeah. So we caught some of his stream. Anyway, there you go. There's Tom Merritt. Let's get some recommendals on.

I don't see anything from Nicole or have we? Oh, we did. She sent a video. Excellent. Okay, so let me pull this up then. If I still had my audio file from that movie, I could have sent it to you. Yeah, I was going to say, this is not new, this one, right? No, but it's a good one.

It's a really good one to re-recommental this month. We'll take it twice. Everything twice is nice. That's what I think and believe. Everything twice is twice as nice. In the heart of hearts. Okay, let's do this here thing. Well, what do you recommend?

I recommend a segment on Wednesdays called Recommendals, and I recommend it because a couple of good friends come by. We talk about cool stuff streaming on services that maybe you have or currently subscribe to. And we're happy to have them here with us. Let's start with Nicole Spag. Hi, Nicole. Hello. Hi, how are you? Hello.

Ah. doing all right doing a lot better than last week how's how's Mateo doing is he he's doing we're over we're over the the hump

oh we're we're on the mend all right good good Carter might have to get our tonsils out what yeah so this is the second time she's gone on an international trip where when she got home she has tonsil stones or whatever those are called

wow okay and that little white things, right? Yeah, little white things that jam up in your, you can pull, you can get them out. I've seen videos. It's horrible and terrifying. I used to, I used to knock them out with my tongue. You just kind of go, you know, like, yeah, yeah. Well, she's got one of them out. The other one's still in there, but her doctor's like, yeah, you may, me end up having to get those out, so. Really? That's what we're talking about. I know. There's like a, there's a device. There's like a, like a, almost like a tooth, tooth cleaner, like a jet. water thing. Like a water pick kind of thing? Yeah, but it's for your tonsil stones. Interesting. Have you ever, anyone else ever have? Brian, you ever have a tonsil stone?

Never had a tonsel stone. I've heard of them, never had one. My tonsils are still here. Not removed. Kim's has her still. They still have mine as well. All my kids have them except now this thing with Carter. So I don't know. They're just like every time this happens, she gets like really horrible cough. Like it's, it's a whole thing. Anyway, I had mine out at 21. And And I wish I had better news for her. It is awful. It's miserable, right? It's terrible.

It's awful. Get all that ice cream you can get. I hated it. Also with us, tonsil, I don't know if he's tonsil free or not, but Randy's here also. Hi, Randy Jordan. Good morning, morning, stream. I am, I'll tell you what I am. I am at a loss for words.

Yeah. I couldn't even imagine how to enter this conversation. I'm blown away by Randy being at loss for words. That seems to be a thing. I never, ever thought I'd hear. My usual radio thing, that trick they teach you in college is you just look around and you start talking, right, about whatever you're seeing. Sure.

I'm like, oh, look, Scott's wearing a Utah sweater. Sure. Hey, have you seen the videos of this guy who interviews people at Utah and at BYU and compares them? Yeah. No, I haven't seen that. No, I haven't seen that. It's hysterical. I'm going to send you a link because TikTok channel is so freaking funny.

He just finds two people and compares them? Yeah, he goes back and forth between Utah and BYU and asks people the same questions. Like, who is this picture a picture of? And the people at Utah are like, oh, that's Bonce. And the people at BYU are like, I have no idea. I've never seen that person. The way I was visualizing was he walks up and finds two people walking along the campus and says, oh, you're taller than him.

Oh, yeah, you're blonder than he is. It just compares the two people he finds a walk that he walks up to. That would be a hell of a TikTok channel for sure. don't think that would go very well for a very long time that's interesting you don't have to send me a link i'm curious about it apparently apparently utah is just like a place of normal people yeah university of utah is a very normal campus it's a very like what you'd think of a college campus in america it's you view is fine bu i use got some stuff i got some issues it's a little weird over there you can't even have a beard or no maybe they changed that this year i can't remember but i don't think i think

yeah for the longest time they had a dress code or a conduct code thing and part of it It was no beards. And they have an honor code, which is very interesting. Oh, yeah, that honor code. Look up soaking, everybody. Anyway, moving on. Oh, no. I don't need to.

I already know what it is. You already know what it is. All right. We are going to dive right in. Brian, we're going to start with yours. You got a clip here for us. What's up? I have a clip, and I'm going to use the same joke I've used a couple times,

but it was great to watch a series that put Luke Skywalker, Captain Pike, President Rosalind, and Elliot from E.T., all in one place. Sounds very sci-fi. Yes, very, very, it's a whole big sci-fi thing. It's a sci-fi convention, really, is what it is. Pretty sure 90% of the audience knows what I'm talking about, but let's play the clip for the other 10%. All right, here you go. Mr. Pym has some important paperwork for each of you.

Ooh, paperwork from the Pim Reaper, always a blast. Yeah, I prefer not to sign anything without my guide. at first. Or not? While we're on the subject and I hate to be the one to put this out, but if there were ever any one of us collecting or even archering in family secrets, I think we all know who that is. Aw, fuck you very much, Victorine. No infighting.

Jesus, have some dignity. You want to watch me sign it? I'll sign it right now. How do you spell fraudic? All right, get the jokes out now because this isn't funny. Or Tanato is the reason you exist. It's a reason you can have your little knock-offs, your heart implants, your debutante balls. Debutant balls. Is that what you think I do?

The company is the family, and we expect each of you to defend it with your life. And if anyone, anyone comes after us, we will exhaust our arsenal until the threats neutralized. By neutralized, you mean, sued into oblivion, taken out of the board, out of the will on the streets. Neutralized. They're dead. Dead. I don't know what this is. Like, dead. That is Fall of the House of Usher.

The newest Mike Flanagan miniseries on Netflix, get watching it because Halloween is just a few days away. And boy, oh boy, is this the Halloweeniest of Halloween things that he's done. This is his adaptation of not just the Poe short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, but kind of all. Well, not all, but like all the biggies. All of Poe's grazed hits represented here in the fall of the house. So I'll get your pit in the pendulum, the raven, rumourg, masculine red death, tell-tale heart, all that stuff.

And it's all modernized with a family that makes the Roy's look like the Tanner's on Full House. Oh, wow. Otherwise from Succession. These people are horrible. It sounds like it's excellent. Yeah, but you love watching them. You just cannot stop watching. Is it gory?

Is it gory? It's gory. There's some blood. Yeah. It's, uh, I mean, Flanagan is not that gory, though,

with this stuff. It's usually kind of a mix. Right. It's not, it's not slasher movie gory, but there's, there's a fair amount. It's not like,

I, for me, it's everything like past saw you know the movie saw this is yeah this is pretty this is not as gory as saw okay yeah that sounds right for flanagan and this is his last uh joint on netflix before the jump to um yeah because he's over at prime now doing new stuff oh interesting yeah he lot there's a big well big deal about that because they're not going to do the second season of um the midnight not midnight mass the other one midnight oh um story club yeah that's it was that just midnight club midnight club that was last year's

his big thing last year and every year he's had something right like the every year yeah haunted hill house hunted hill or the haunting a bligh manner and yeah i think this is it so no more cool well this is he's going out of the bank because this is fantastic yes randy i went out of my way to not see any like trailer or any anything written about this thing i want to go in completely cold so but i have to ask when you say captain pike you mean bruce greenwood and not i mean bruce greenwood yep uh so let me

give you a rundown to who you get in this thing because it's a fantastic cast. I think of all of his things, this is probably the most recognizable list of cast members, even though you do get his typical go-toes like Henry Thomas, who I think has been in everything. Kate Siegel, who's his wife and who I think has been in everything. You also get Carly Gugino, who is... Often in all those things, too. Yeah. Oh, is she really? Yeah, she was in the house. Oh, she was the mom in the house. Right. Yeah. When she was older. And then she was the, or yeah, right, the mom to the kid from E.T.

What's his name? He just said his name, Henry Thomas. And then the other one, the other person that's always in these things is Bruce Greenwood is often in his stuff. Oh, is he really? Okay. See, I didn't remember him being in these as well. All right. Mary MacDonald, who you know is President Roslyn from Battlestar Galactica. That's who you're hearing prominently in. That's what's so familiar in her voice. I couldn't place it. Okay.

She's excellent. So she's basically Bruce Greenwood's sister. Bruce Greenwood is the patriarch of the family, the father of these six horrible children. Horrible, horrible children. Mary MacDonald plays Madeline Usher, his sister. They have a great origin story. It's just fantastic. And then all of his children are Henry.

Thomas, Kate Siegel, Rahul Cole, Samantha, Slay. Hold on. Rahul Khali, that's the sheriff from Midnight Mass, yeah? Yes. I think that's right. Yes, Sheriff Hassan and Midnight Mass. There he is. I love that guy. And he was also

in haunting a blind manner his own Sharma and Ravi Chakrabari in I-Zombie. Oh, okay. No, he's great. Flanagan sure likes to bring his friends everywhere and goes, doesn't he? He does. Another one, is Samantha Sloyan who was big in midnight mass. She was

the super churchy. She wasn't a nun that was she was just a super churchy She's just an evil helper An evil helper exactly She was on scandal And Grey's Anatomy and all that And then kind of the newcomer

Well I guess she was also in Haunting a Bly Manor But she like in the last few years We have been seeing Tanya Miller T-A-A-M-L-I-A-M-L. It might be Tanya Miller or Tania Miller. But you've seen her recently in, oh, God, what was the, was it the peripheral? She was the kind of the villain in the peripheral.

Oh, yeah. The black woman with a shaved head who is the most fascinating person to watch. I don't know what it is about her. She's so interesting, dude. I'm with you 100%. She was also in the diplomat. She was in a foundation. Sex education, too, right?

Yeah, she's great. Really, really good. She is great. Those all are the people who play his children. And then you've got a little guy named Mark Hamill who plays Pim, the lawyer, the family's lawyer, who might be deep down the most evil one of them all, but you don't know it. Yeah, I can see that. That's cool. God, the whole thing.

We finished the final episode. Oh, yeah, Carl Lumley. I don't want to skip past Carl Lumbley because you remember him from, well, just recently in Dr. Sleep, which a couple of you guys just watched. But also, alias. Also directed by Flanagan, by the way, Dr. Sleep. He just pulls these people everywhere he goes. people yeah it's crazy um let's see uh captain america brave new world he was Isaiah

bradley um oh i'm sorry not not captain america the the um the other captain america or the falcon winter soldier yeah he was also really good in alias that's where i first saw him i think he was he was fantastic in alias yeah really good on there oh and i forget he's uh he's a long time dc um voice actor whenever they need the martian manhunter guy he's very cool is that right right John Jones, yes, exactly. He's awesome. Yeah, and even was John Jones on Supergirl. Oh, no, he was John Jones' dad on Supergirl.

Supergirl, the TV show? Supergirl the TV show, yeah, the Burlante Supergirl deal. Anyway, follow the House of Usher. If I've not talked to you into it yet, please, let me, email me directly and I'll talk you into it. Here's what you can do for me. So we now get a new series from Planigan every year, right? We got Hill House and Midnight Mass.

Last year was a stumble. Midnight Club was purposeless, and I was a little disappointed, but it's because his stuff is so good otherwise. Exactly. Are you saying this is a return to form? Without a doubt. This is, I enjoyed, I think, House on Haunted Hill prior to this fall of House of House, I think I put House on Haunted Hill or whatever the first one was.

Haunting a Hill House. Listen, haunting, hill, and a house. They used that so much in different forms and movies and TV shows. That prior to watching this was my favorite Flanagan. I think this moved it up. Like this became number one and I'm sorry, moved the haunting of Hill House down. Oh, down a slot. I'd love that one too.

Huge fan. I really like that one. That and Midnight Mass were kind of fighting for first place, so it'll be interesting to see what I think of this one. How long is this, like six episodes or? This is eight episodes. each one is about an hour Brambeau Bright asks is it scary scary

it is um it is it is suspenseful it's great it's suspenseful scary

okay it's there's a couple there's very very few jump scares over the course of eight episodes maybe two jump scares but it's all in the suspense and the mystery and the way that the story is told and it's it's largely told in flashback you'll find that out in the first

episode um and that god it's just it's just brilliant brilliantly done that's what i liked about midnight masses it wasn't necessarily scary i mean it was yeah but it's a different it's what you're trying to explain here it's a different kind of scary it's what flanagan does actually his whole thing yeah i mean if you look at the if you look at all five of his um shows, they're all very different styles of horror. Haunting of Hill House, haunting a Bligh Manor. One's a haunted house movie,

the other one's kind of like a historical thing. Midnight Mass was more of like an island that's plagued by monsters, witches, and stuff. I'm trying to remember exactly what Midnight Mass is the issue, what Midnight Mass was. And then Midnight Club is your, is your smaller kind of anthology story about a bunch of a bunch of kids, but Follie House Asher is

And don't forget his movies. Everybody has slept on this movie called Hush that he and his wife made. Oh, it's so good. Yeah, it is so good. 2016. Oculus 2013 is also very good. That's nothing to do with VR. His other,

his Gerald's game adaptation, I thought was awesome. And that was... Right, which features your, uh, features your Bruce Greenwood and Carla Eugenio and the lead, the two leads, right? That book gave me the frickin' willies, and I thought the movie was kind of dead on, and of course, Dr. Sleep. Anyway, he's just great.

So I'm very happy to hear this is a nice return to form. Dr. Sleep is the only one of these, only one of his movies that I've seen, so now I need to put his list on here. The word is he's going over to, the very first thing he's going to do at Prime is a proper television version of, the Dark Night series, which I could not be more excited about.

Can I tell you another thing that he's currently working on, ready to have your mind blown? He's working on a remake to Tommy Wiseau's The Room. Oh, my Lord, really? Starring Bob Odenkirk. Why? Why is he doing that? I don't know. That's really weird.

Is there a way to win? It feels like you're just setting yourself up to either make something that's good that everyone doesn't care because it's, Well, it's good. It was more fun when it was a bad movie. Or you don't do it well, and then you get lamb-baseded for that. I don't feel like there's any way to win with this. Yeah. Well, he's cool.

I'm glad this is good. I can't wait to watch it. That's Netflix, correct? Yes. That's right. The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. Again, bear into it and watch it before Halloween because it's fantastic. Nice.

All right. Let's roll over to Nicole. Nicole, I got a clip here from you. Anything you want to say about it? I know we've covered it before, but we're going to revisit it today. We'll go back to it since it's a Halloween-type movie. Absolutely. And I just watched it.

It's okay. Yeah. It's fun. All right. I mean, I didn't like love it, but it was a mechal. You'd call it a mechamental. All right. I saw like, the guy enjoyed it more than you did.

Did you really enjoy it? I'm curious to talk about it. Yeah, you can't wait to talk about why. I enjoyed it. All right. Well, here's your, here's your bit of a clip, and then we'll talk. You're the one with the power. It's kind of quiet.

All you got to do is take it back. How do I do that? Focus on your needs. I mean, I just haven't thought about any of my needs in years. But if you were to stop focusing on his needs, what would happen? If I don't. Yeah, what would happen? Stop focus on his needs.

What would happen? He won't grow to full power. Exactly. He won't grow to full power. What? That's so weird. Why would you phrase it like that? But yes, he's right.

He's absolutely right. All right. Tell us again about Renfield. Renfield is streaming on Amazon Prime, I believe. Is it Prime? Yeah. It is Prime, yes. Yep.

So this stars Nicholas K. Just Count Dracula. And who's the guy that plays Renfield? Nicholas Holt. Nicholas Holt. Nicholas Holt. This little movie about Drive Across the Desert called Thelman Louise. Yeah, Thelman, Louis, no, Furry and Louise.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. No, some other desert movie. Furry Choate. I don't know what it is. Oh, my God, guys, stop it. Oh, Mad Max. I forgot. Yeah, he was in Mad Max.

Yes, he was. What a lovely day. Of course he was. Anyway. Look at that. By the way, I found an old entertainment weekly with Fury Road on it. I'm going to send it to you. Oh my gosh.

What? Like before it came out, like it was a preview issue or something? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I would pay you for that. I don't know why I held on to it, but I found it in. That's because you're that good of a friend and you knew that holding onto it was going to be amazing for us one day. You and I would share this moment. This is fantastic.

She just has to pull it out of the bottom of the parakeets cage. It'll be on its way to you. Anyway, sorry. So what is it about this movie you felt? it was kind of meh for you because Brian really kind of raved about it or didn't rave it. I really liked it. It's a different take. I mean, it's a, it's a big gory. I mean, I do not like Nicholas Cage's teeth. Oh, really? His teeth really bothered me.

Weird. That's a valid. That's a valid issue. It was just a different take. I still don't understand how Renfield got his powers. I know it was bugs, but I don't understand why Dracula bit him, but did not transfer his full the full vampire powers over to him. I think I got lost in the semantics of how this

all worked. Yeah, but yeah, no, it's like basically he just gets enough from the bugs to give him some powers, but not the full-on vampire powers. I still don't understand it. Anyway, I'm having such major deja vu right now because, like, you did recommend

this like three months ago, right? It was like July or something. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is an interesting take. I'm looking at his teeth. There are a lot of them. There's a lot. I didn't notice this before in like trailers and stuff, but he's got like

I don't know, four times the amount of normal teeth in that amount of? It's like kind of a penny-wise thing going on there? A little bit. Yeah. A little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's kind of like there's a, it's a very 1940s horror teeth. I'm trying to think, was it just

Betel Lugosi's Dracula that had teeth like that? I don't recall any teeth being like that in Dracula. Yeah, I want to say that some old movie vampire had teeth like that. And maybe it was, I also might be thinking of Barnabas Collins from Dark Shadows too. Oh. Oh, yeah. No, that's a, I can see you doing that.

But yeah, I don't remember, I mean, I mean, this just seems like too many teeth, even for a vampire. Vampires are supposed to just have the two, and you make the two holes, you know, everyone's got them in their neck. You don't have more than just two teeth. Well, sure, but you don't need a hundred more. Look at all those. Here, I'll give you a picture.

I mean, I will say it was fun to kind of see. It was a different take to kind of do this self-help. And that's what you heard in the clip. He's trying, he's in an abusive relationship. He's just now realizing it after hundreds of hundreds of years. Yeah. And the other thing, I mean, Aquafina is fine. But I did not enjoy.

I don't enjoy her in a serious language. Yeah, you're speaking my language. She's so hit and miss for me. There are times where I really appreciate her. And then there are times where I'm like, I cannot stand what you're doing right now. This one is Aquafina at about a level. Like if Aquafina's Norve from Queens is 10, and I would say that is kind of like the bar by which you measure all other Aquafina. Peekwafina.

Then Shang Chi is probably a four or three, and this is probably a seven or an eight. You had me at Peekwifina. Like I loved her voice acting in Raya. Yeah. Did you see that movie where her grandmother is dying? Yes, she was wonderful in that. She was fantastic in that. That's, that's aquafina at about a one or two.

The farewell. The farewell, that was called? Never heard of it. Yes. And that, boy, the best, the best aquafina thing, I think. Yeah. Oh, it's, well, and she was in crazy rich Asians, too, right? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. That was about a level four. Level four. That was like a four, yeah. Oh, my God. That was great. That was a medium, medium to hot.

I think this needs to be a diagram. Oh, yeah, this is cool. I just didn't enjoy her in this movie. Like, I don't know. It was just. I've never seen the farewell. Is this worth seeing? This looks good.

Oh, yes, yes. This will make you say, oh, my God, I love Aquafina. Like, this is the, this is the, I think the best thing that she's done and is also the most showcasey of her acting work. It's got that T. Ma guy, Tai Ma, I think he's how he say his name. I love that actor. You know what? Today's Recommmental has pushed me toward a completely different movie with totally different You've recommended

Scott right into the farewell. Yeah, appreciate that. If you're looking for a Halloween type movie, Renfield is it's okay. If you're looking for something, Dracula-based, I guess.

If you're looking for something. A Dracula-based. Your movie is what I'm trying to say. Yeah. And it's just different. Dracula-based with a heavy tooth buff that you're in luck, everybody.

Did any of the Dracula stuff ever come out from the Universal Dark Universe thing or was it did we just get I don't think so we just got Wolfman and

what are you talking about well for a hot minute there the mummy right Universal is going to try and compete the mummy that's it

Universal is going to try and compete with the Marvel cinematic universe and reintroduce all of their monster characters one right after

another culminating in kind of like a team up in a situation interesting it reminds me of a book that me and Matteo

the series were reading. It's on Audible called Ghost Sitter. I'll recommend that one. If you have kids and you're looking for a great set of books and it's all monster team up. Nice. Is it It has the mummy. It has Dracula.

It has zombie. Who's too young for that? What's the age cap, would you say for that book? I don't, I'm, well, I'm 47. I'm really enjoying. No, I mean like for the kids, because obviously you're reading it with the tales.

Oh, is he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Ava, Ava's 8 and she's fine with it. I mean, it's, and it's all, so it's through Audible, and it's all separate voice actors. So it's almost like a radio program. I always like those when they're done right. Sometimes they're bad, but I like, I like group audiobooks. Yeah, it's called Close Sitter, and there's four books on Audible.

World War Z was like that, and it was amazing. If you want to hear one of the best performances, Alan Alda ever did inside or outside of television. He did this amazing segment of World War Z, the book, not the movie, nothing to do with the movie, but the book is all these actors, famous actors, doing parts, and it was so good. Oh my gosh. I love that.

Now we've recommended like eight things on top of this. I know, I know. Renfield. Other than Renfield. According to the Dark Universe Wiki, so the first one, as Rainbow Bride point out, is Dracula Untold. That's the first movie is part of that dark universe. So I guess I need to watch that now. But then we had the mummy, the Invisible Man.

Renfield apparently is part of, according to this wiki, listed as part of the universal dark universe. Oh, really? As is the last voyage of the Demeter, which was the movie that is based on one chapter of the Dracula book. Oh, so they're still doing, they're still making a thing? Yeah, like the, there's another Universal Monsters film, 24 that's in pre-production,

the Invisible Woman, the Wolfman Van Helsing, all in development, which blows my mind that, I thought they'd abandon this project. Yeah, I thought this all got left at the, on the floor.

Yeah. I guess, you know what, what they've probably done is scaled back because it's no longer Tom Cruise and, you know, who was supposed to be Dr. Um, Dr.

Russell Crow, that's it. Yeah, was your, your, Dr. Franklinstein. No,

it was Dr. the other one that takes the drink and turns bad. Oh, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Exactly. Yeah. So I think probably they just scaled back their star power and they're still trying to do something. I don't know.

Tom Cruise is like, I'm out. I'm doing other stuff. All right. Well, excellent. There's your second of four recommendals. Now let's move to our third of four. And it's Randy. Randy, tell us about your clip before I play it.

So, yes, we're all kind of on Halloween week, right? Yeah. And so this is a movie that's 30 years old. It had its 30th anniversary edition come out this past summer. And Max immediately put that remastered version on streaming. And it looks great. Sounds great. And it's a great old comedy with a Halloween name.

It's not really a Halloween movie. But it really has a Halloween name. And I just grabbed a click from the first scene of the movie. All right. Here you go. So tell me again. Why did you pick up with Sherry? Tony, I told you already, all right?

She's a thief. You don't honestly believe that. Tony, she's a club, though. All right? Listen, to this day, I still don't know where my cat is. Jerome, every time you meet a nice girl that you can get close to, you come up with some paranoid reason why you should break up with her. That's not true.

I broke up with those girls for very good reasons. Oh, really? Yes. Really. What about Jill? She was in the mafia. She was in the mafia. Yes.

The Kosinostra. The whole time we went out. She didn't tell me what she did for a living. Charlie, she was unemployed. She didn't have a job. Well, that's just a perfect cover now, isn't it? All right. All right.

What about Pam? She smelled like soup. That's clearly Mike Myers, but I don't know the movie. Oh, it's so I married an axmer. Oh, well, shit. I've seen that. How come I don't remember all that dialogue? I don't remember any of that.

Whoa, man. I can't capture that. I can't stand that one little part. Oh, really? That's all that's crazy crazy. But it's such a great film written by a guy named Robbie Fox, who this is his best, the most famous film he's ever written, directed by Thomas Schlam, who's really a TV guy. But they brought in Mike Myers, gave him this character, and let him invent other characters as well to put in the movie. For instance, he plays his own dad.

and he just imitates his actual real-life dad. Mike Myers' dad was this weird person. And he does a bunch of ad-libbing that ends up becoming another movie or series, you know, 25 years later. It's just, it's really, really funny. Nancy Travis is the axe murderer that he marries. And it just got all of these, you know, comic vignettes. You got to re-watch it. You got to see Phil Hartman.

It's been a while. But I remember, I used to love that movie, but it's been so long. I don't remember Jack. This is the tour, the Alcatraz Tour Guide. Oh, my God. One of my favorite. He's in there for four minutes, but he's so fantastic. Yeah.

Also, appearances by Charles Groden, Stephen Wright. What's her name? Amanda Plummer is the friend who he just can't figure out what, you know, like, what in the world is going on. that's a honey bunny from Pulp Fiction why am I thinking she was in dirty rotten scoundrels what am I thinking of who is that Glenn Headley probably no maybe think of the Fisher King

oh okay know who it is now you did it and he was just in that clip you played he was talking to Anthony La Paglia who is such a great straight man for Mike Myers they have they just have incredible chemistry and like I say this is a 30th anniversary came out 30 years ago I I just rewatched it so I could feel the feels and it never lets up funny fun heartwarming dang 30 years so that have been 93 92 geez that's crazy I don't like thinking about that too much time has passed where was this streaming sorry it's on max and like I say they have the new 30th

Anniversary Edition, which did not add or subtract anything. It's just remastered in 4K. And like I say, what really struck me was that it sounds real good. They did a very good job on the sound for this thing. A lot of these like 30 and 40 year old movies when they go to streaming, they end up with that upside down sound problem where you can hear all the ambience much louder than the dialogue. This was great. He may have been just out of S&L at this point, right?

like had just left or maybe was close to leaving he may have filmed it while he's still a cast member but it was right around the time that he was leaving and about to explode with I don't remember that timeline exactly. I know I know that Mike Myers in his book he talks quite a bit

about the development of his character of his own dad because of course you know the book is an autobiography talks a lot about growing up with his dad and it's just shocking to see this thing Because, like, you would think it wouldn't age well, you know?

You would think this is, it's too far. You know, like the love guru didn't, it wasn't good to start and it's aged terribly, you know? Yeah. But, no, this is, it's perfect beginning to end. Nicole, you said you've seen this? Oh, yeah, when it came out. I loved it. It's great.

It's a good rewatch, too. It holds up. Yeah. Cool. Well, I'm going to watch it. I'm already watching one of your recommendals, Randy, tonight. I think it's tonight. Well, anyway, Kim and I are watching that it follows thing based on your recommendation.

Oh, yeah. Good, good, good, good. And Kim was excited because I hadn't seen it. And she's like, finally, one you haven't seen. So we're going to watch it. Oh, crazy. That she's seen it, you haven't. Yeah. Well, no, she hasn't seen it either.

We're both going to see it for the first time. Oh, oh, oh, gotcha. She's just tired of me of, oh, I have always seen stuff that I, that we do for horror movies. And it's because I feel like I'm vetting them for her a little bit. Because she's like Nicole. She doesn't like the gore. She doesn't like slasher's. And so I'm like, well, I've seen this one, and it's okay.

So that's how we've been doing it. but this one is based purely on Randy's recommendation. So Randy, if you're wrong, I'll let you know. Well, my pitch, my pitch is evolved. I'm now on the whole thing where a scary movie has a cast that's entirely made up of 19 to 24-year-old actors that are like really good. They're just not really well-known yet. Yeah. And like this is, it follows as the pinnacle of that.

Oh, good. So like, try to enjoy the actors and their, you know, take on their own characters. And they just have, you know, fun in this movie. I'm in. All right. Here's mine. You're going to hear, I'll tell you right now, the title of this is going to sound like I did a, like what I did last week. So last week I talked about predators inside the Boy Scouts of America as for a documentary. And you might think, Scott, no more of that, please. It's all very depressing. I don't want to hear about it anymore. This week, it's literally called predators, but it's not anything about people. It's a nature documentary. And here's a clip. See if you recognize the voice. In Tanzania Serengetti, a notorious brotherhood of cheetahs. They command this vast hunting territory. But their status is under attack.

Rivals are closing in. The battle is no longer just to stay on top. But to stay alive as they try to cling on. to their mighty alliance. Anyone recognize the voice? That's Tom Hardy. What's Tom Hardy? Oh, is it really?

Oh, wow. I don't think I've ever heard his actual voice. Yeah, that's Tom. In fact, the closest you get to real Tom Hardy voice, I feel like is probably Star Trek nemesis is the closest to his real accent. Wow.

So you're not wrong. He's always affecting a different thing. Like pinky blinders or venom or... Always different. Even Max, Rockintowski, his greatest role ever. Anyway, this is a show called Predators, and it's a series, a mini series of nature documentaries on Netflix, produced by Netflix, in conjunction with the BBC. And whenever you say BBC and nature documentaries, you can automatically, most of the time, you can assume, oh, this is going to be quality, because those people don't know how to make bad nature documentaries. And even though this one's a little bit on the side of like, we got an edgy voice like Tom Hardy, it's, we're using music.

it's very evocative. It's all about these animals fighting for control of the serengetty and all the sort of thing. It seems like it might be a little over the top compared to your usual Richard Appenborough kind of business. But it's really, really interesting and good look, deeper look at actual predator class animals and how they live and how they survive and who their prey is and this sort of thing. I found it to be awesome. I loved every second of it. If I had one complaint, it's a tiny one. The music sounds like Vangelis, and that's fine. But it doesn't fit exactly. Like, it doesn't fit the nature of what I'm seeing necessarily. Um, so that threw me a little bit in

the early parts of it. I kind of forgot about it later. But, um, if you want to see cheetahs do some wild shit and bears and hyenas and just like, it is some cool, it is some cool stuff. Like, I've never seen a cheetah take down a, um, what was it? It wasn't your typical will-to-be situation. It was some other weird animal. It was an alpaca or something. I forget. But the way this thing latches onto its prey and won't let freaking go and I don't know. There's something about it. I'm in the mood for these right now.

I'm tired of humans, so I want to watch some animals for a while. So I'm going to be watching more of these things. There's a brand new. I feel like when I'm watching humans, I'm watching animals. You're watching predators, really, at the end of the day. It's very good, though. And Tom Hardy did a great job with the VO. I wouldn't mind hearing him do more. Well, I have a recommendation for you.

Give it. This is the weirdest thing. Like, I'm trying to imagine you watching it. Tom Hardy narrated a football club documentary. Oh, really? It's called All or Nothing Tottenham Hotspur. And it's streaming on Amazon Prime right now. And you can go, you could go put this on and just listen to Tom Hardy talk about Premier League football.

Oh, interesting. Hotspur, there it is. So they've got a few of these is a series. There's Manchester City, Arsenal. He specifically narrates this one. Yeah. I'll check this out. I was really impressed.

I thought he's not the kind of guy where you'd go, oh, you know what this documentary needs? The voice of Tom Hardy. It's just not something you'd think of. But it really wrapped itself around me during the watching of this thing. I really liked it. So anyway, go check it out. And I just want to make it really, really clear.

I am not a Hotspur fan. This is not something that I have any interest in whatsoever. right but like i just came across this and it's always name and i'm like i'm going to listen to them talk i mean it's great if you said to me hey scottie what do you think a tottingham hot spur is i would have said like the way you do your meat in europe or something like it doesn't sound like a real thing just you in a plate of tottingham hot spur exactly so so i'll do you one better i didn't know it was a team so there you go i found out about crystal palace yeah no kidding uh that again is a Netflix deal, originally produced Netflix thing with BBC.

It's really, really worth watching. And it made me want to jump straight over and start into the Richard Attenborough Earth 2 thing that just also just launched over there. So far, also very good. There is some shit about some ants in there. What the F is going on with ants, dude. Ants are insane. The stuff ants are doing these days.

The things they're doing these days. Oh, my gosh. It blew my freaking mind. What's the deal with that? Yeah, what's going on with that? I can't believe it. Anyway, that's going to do it for us now. If you go over to quicktms.l.

Brian Ibbett over here has been putting these up in there so you can just link straight out to stuff. It's a very convenient way to track what we did. It's got all the previous ones as well. We recommend you go do that. Nicole, anything going on in the Wood Whispering World you want to mention? No, but Mateo turns 12 on Saturday.

So I want to wish him a very happy birthday. Oh, that puberty train coming right behind him somewhere. It's already here. Don't let's not talk about it. Stinky Dorito feet for months, years maybe. I'm just kidding. That's awesome. That's a big milestone.

Grats to him and you guys for that. Tell Mark to go make some wooden things. Hey, Randy, film sack this weekend. You want to tell folks what we're doing? We're watching The Exorcist finally. After 15 years of film sack, we're watching The Exorcist for Halloween. We have never sacked it before, believe it or not. This is the perfect Halloween movie.

We have people who've been writing in saying to us, well, I'm not going to watch it. You guys can sack it, but I'm not going to watch it. And I'm really interested to find out how that turns out for people. I've messed a lot of people up. And, you know, it's not as scary as people think, but people watched it at an age where they where it freaked them the hell out and they're just not, they just don't don't have it in them to try it again.

I went to a Halloween party when I was 16 and it was like the challenge of the night was once it's midnight we're all going to watch the exorcist and I don't have like any real memories of that experience. I'm really looking forward to this. Yeah, I need to see it too

because it's been a long time. I need to deal with some childhood trauma. Get it out of the way. Brainbo bright in the chat says no, not me. I know. There are people just like you. Don't feel bad. I get it.

Yeah. I get it. Yeah. Just know that it's a movie and it's all fake. If you know that going in, you're all right. It's okay. I promise. All right.

Well, Randy, we'll see you this weekend for that. And we hope you have a grand rest of your week. Oh, there he goes. I don't know if you really has something to say. Well, he makes it sound like you did it, but he did it. Yeah, I think he did it. But now everyone blames me and it's fine. Yeah.

I'll take it. look at this everybody we had a text about green burials you know we were talking about the whole move toward like yeah that uh well because there's that Colorado funeral home that was all about just letting people rot yeah and did it perhaps too much that sounds like a little too much yes mica from Syracuse New York wrote and says good morning Scott and Brian I was listening to your episode yesterday where you were talking about funeral homes my mother died a year ago from lung cancer she opted for a green burial she went to a special cemetery where your casket is basically made of a wicker basket material So when you are buried, you and the basket are, for lack of a better term, composited back to the earth. I hope this gives you some insight on the process. Love the show, though. Micah. Yeah, that part makes perfect sense to me.

It's the piling up of bodies in a building for too long. Yes. Not taking them and burying part is the part that something seems to be wrong about. You know how to take the reservation. You know how to keep the reservation. You've got to take these people to the burial spot. You've got to put them in there. You've got to be done with it.

But I saw some. I saw this video. I wish I had it to share here. Because it's just a, it's like very technical, you know, like blue water in your diaper kind of video. It's not supposed to be gross. But it's basically a liquidification version of crematoriums, except it's done without any burning, without any O2 or anything like that. And the way they do it is they put them in a little chamber. It almost like, you know what the mall brain, those massage tables that are shooting water?

on your back? Yes, the ones that are like almost fully enclosed. Yeah, like that except it literally takes the body and the high pressure water in there and something with the temperature too has to be just right but it pulverizes everything and creates basically

a mist. And then the bones stay but all the flesh, blood sine you, anything else that you're made of you're just gassified and sucked into a tank and then your bones get ground up and then still give in to people in urns as you know ashes and it seemed like a pretty cool

way to go um i'm not saying that's what i'll choose but maybe we'll see one day i want to be like what are you going to use that slurry water to make a uh brownies what are you to do with that well no see what we'll do now that i've learned that the the ashes are only bones anyway they were never yeah the flesh of someone yeah oh you'll still use the bones yeah so when these when these old people at that old folks home eat my brownies, they'll still have my bone brownies. Perfect.

I'll throw them a bone in a way. But my liquefied gas state, that'll just go off into the ether. I think they just bury that or do something like that. Anyway, lots of ways to die. Thanks, Michael, from Syracuse, New York. Appreciate it. That is going to do it for today's show.

Big thanks, everybody, for supporting us on our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. This weekend, we're doing a play date. You're going to want to be here for this. on Friday at 10 am because we're going to be playing the brand new Jackbox 10 collection and there are two or three games on there

that I think are must plays for us so I am stoked to do this I think I've already figured the game that Brian's going to dominate it's going to drive me crazy you're going to be so good I can't wait then you're going to totally dominate it

but there's some really fun stuff in there TKO 2 is actually quite good update on the TKO thing you can even make a sweater instead of just a T-shirt if you want Really? Wow. So it's sweater, K.O. Swetter K.O. Yeah. You can choose it, basically. Anyway, we're going to be doing that on Friday. It's going to be great. So just look forward to that as part of what we do for our patrons and everybody else when we do the public stuff. That's patreon.com slash TMS for details.

Anything anything else? Anything else coming up going out? Oh, 311 soundography. We did an episode all about 311. That just went up yesterday. So if you like 311 and you want to come original and you're, ember is the color of your energy, then by all means head down to soundography and listen to our most recent episode. Now, am I right? You can say this without spoiling anything. Yeah.

I am of the opinion that some of their best work are the last couple of albums. And they're recent, like, in the last five years. They're so good. They are really, really good. Yeah, people are, don't sleep on modern 311. It's legit good. As good as they ever were.

I'm going to listen to them today. That's what I'm going to do. There you go. Or listen to our episodes, Scott. Well, I might do that as well. You can find out all about the band themselves. But then I have to hear Hammond breathing. Just kidding.

I kid. I kid. I kid and I kid. I joke. I joke. Hey, let's play a song. Do you have a little selection of a song to play? I do.

Aaron in Denver wrote in and said, hey, scoot and boot. It's my wife Jen's birthday and she's turning 30. I hope you got her permission to disclose her age. We are currently celebrating by holding daily band meetings while of Gallo Leventing across New Zealand. If you could play a cover of or buy Jamie T. or Keshek, Kadaler Ha, for her, that'd be fantastic.

Or if those two come up short, Bo Burnham's, blah, blah, blah. It didn't need to go there. Either way, I'm hoping for a big kiss and a hug right now. Okay, thanks. Love the show, though. Bye. That's the best exit I've heard in a while.

That's great. Fantastic. Yeah, let's go with the Kadalerha cover. And this is a cover of Tick-Tock by a guy named Mark Lee and it's from his 2010 album called

Overthinking it it is the blues TikTok done blues style here is Mark Lee woke up in the morning

I was feeling like I was feeling like P did it Hey well-up girl grab my glasses mouth of door Lone nose I'm gonna hit this city baby

Before I leave Brush my teeth with a bottle of jack Because when I leave With the night I ain't coming back Taking pedicures on our toes I'm trying on all the clothes How many else don't know what I'm talking about Yeah

Boys are blowing up of bones Drop-dobbing Drop-dobbing Playing our favorite CDs Yeah, pulling up to all the parties Just trying to get Just trying to get a little tifting, baby Oh, look out, because here I come, baby

Don't stop Make it pop The DJ's blowing my speakers up Tonight's Until we see the morning Sunlight TikTok on the clock, baby The party, the party, Lord knows the party

It just don't stop We're not asked such thing to men. Oh, I didn't mean to, that was an accident.