The Morning Stream - TMS 2551: Herb Your Enthusiasm

Episode Date: November 8, 2023

Hey Rocky, watch me pull a hat out of a rabbit! Bo Ho Ho Eee = buoy. All Intensive Porpoises. Brain said DeLorean, mouth said Batmobile. Car talk with Dunaway. Sprouting to Brussels and BlizzCon with Tom. Don't blow in my face! Scott Is Having That Checked. Hintatudes. Separating the buoy from the boy. Giving it to Big Burger. His Name was Rocky Shit. Doing a little duty on the hole. JRaw. Pretty Sly for a Write Guy with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is brought to you daily by the support of our patrons at patreon.com slash TMS like Gary, Josh Fitzgerald, and Darren Knapper. Coming up on TMS, Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a hat out of my rabbit. Bo-ho-ho-ho-e equals buoy. All-intensive porpoises. Brain said DeLorean, mouth said Batmobile. Car talk with Dunaway.

Sprouting to Brussels and BlizzCon with Tom. Don't blow in my face. Scott is having them. that checked. Hintitudes. Separating the buoy from the boy. Give it to Big Burger. His name was Rocky.

Shit. Doing a little duty on the hole. J-Raw. Pretty sly for a right guy with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Mmm, another thing, the cold, crisp taste of Coke is so satisfying. It keeps me from eating something else that mine really add those pounds. Coke's a natural.

I want to see Scott, and I want to see him tonight. The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, November 8th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Abbott. Hi. Hello. Did you go vote yesterday?

Did you vote? We voted days ago because we do the mail-in ballot. We do, well, technically, we don't even mail it in. Tina works for, she works at offices by the federal center and Jefferson County. So we vote by, Tina walks it in and drops it in the box. Ah, voting by proximity. I like that. That's cool.

Because then you don't have some weird problem with some weird drop-off out in the middle of nowhere. You just go right to the source. That's great. Yep. we did the mailing thing too as well and it was all fine we had no major anything on our ballots here this year for for this same same with us yeah we had one proposition h h which um is maybe the most poorly worded uh i think everybody was kind of confused by what it does and what it doesn't do to some degree because it basically well you're going to get less uh your home value or taxes on your property you're going to be is going to be lower you're not going to get a taber refund you probably might not get a uh uh income tax refund a state tax refund is like really wait a minute i don't think all these things are true these some of these things have to

be wrong and um sure and it lost and pretty much everybody is saying yeah it lost because so many people didn't understand what it was oh interesting oh we did have i forgot to mention this we had a guy so we had a democratic mayor in Salt Lake City years ago that everyone loved. His name was Rocky shit. Rocky shit.

Not Rocky Dennis. That would be weird. I can't think of his name. Anyway, Rocky something. And he was very popular. And then he left and retired. And then we've had other people since. He's coming back.

He's running again. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't know if that was, I don't know if that was yesterday. or not. I got to look into it. But we may be getting our... Oh, yeah, that's it.

We get an old Rocky Anderson back, I think, because people really like that guy. Hey, Rocky. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my head. Anyway. So there you go. Do your civic duty, everyone, if you haven't already. I guess it's too late. It's already done.

We've already done it. We're done. If you live in other countries or you have delayed absentee voting, do that as well. We'll happily do your civic duty for you, too, if you're out of state or out of the country. That's right. We do have listeners doing some duty for us.

One of them is, did a little duty on the whole, booey versus boy thing. Did a little duty on the hole. Yeah, duty on the hole. We got a, we got a, we got a, we got a, not a correction, but kind of a, some perspective I would like to call this call on how to say buoy or boy or whatever you say. Boy, yeah. What do we decide you say, you say booey like me. Well, yeah, boo, I say booie, but I have a follow up to the full. follow up once we hear the call. Oh, really? Okay. This is exciting, then. So here it is

this call. I want to see Scott. Oh, hold on. That played wrong. This is staff from Oklahoma. Just catching up on some old episodes from when I was on vacation. And last Wednesday, you guys were having a discussion about whether it's pronounced booey or boy. I have a buddy who pronounces it boy, and his reasoning is that you pronounce buoyancy as buoyancy, not buoyancy. So just thought I'd bring that up, maybe give a little credit to the weirdos and pronounce it that way. All right. Thanks.

All right. So, obviously, maybe that's how he pronounces buoyancy, but that's not how I pronounce buoyancy. Booyancy. Yeah, so my dad is, uh, is both English, born in, uh, the county Kent in England, um, but also a sailor and frequently has to avoid or, or during races, has to go around to buoys or boys. And so this morning, I texted him.

We were talking about something else. And I said, by the way, how do you pronounce B-U-O-Y? And he's like, I pronounce it like boy. I'm like, okay. He says, but I know a lot of my American friends pronounce it buoy. Yeah. And the argument is, you know, we don't pronounce it, we don't pronounce the word buoyancy.

And I actually used buoyancy as an example. Oh. Because I think Claire even used the term buoyancy as an example. her in argument. It's a tough argument though because you don't say oh yeah, I'm going to maintain this. That's

going to be my maintainance. Maintenance, exactly. That's a good one. Yeah, you don't, you don't, you, there are other root words. There are root words that change their their pronunciation when you extend them out to something else. So buoy and buoyancy,

I feel like I think I'll take either one. I know what people are talking about. I think this is one of those things that in English, it's aluminium versus aluminum. It just depends on what part of the country you're from. You say it one way or the other. And if I'm in a boat and someone says,

watch out, there's a boy, or someone says, watch out, there's a boy. Or even if they say watch out, there's a boho-ho-ho-he, whatever. I'll know what they mean. Yeah, although, you know what? That's actually a good example. If somebody says, oh, watch out, there's a boy in the water. Oh, shit.

I'm going to get a life preserver ready. Like, oh, no. I didn't think of that. Yeah, that's actually kind of a problem. I feel like, maybe this is what wins the argument. You may say it that way, but you have to agree, it's better if you pronounce it buoy and separate it from a boy, right? Separate the buoy from the boy.

I agree. Yeah, just go around that boy in the water. What, there's a boy in the water? Oh, no. save the boy. No, no, no, no, a boy. What? You know, a big floaty plastic thing. Exactly. Yeah, that's a... Booey overboard. That's all right. Bois are supposed to be overboard. Yeah, don't worry about the buoys. It's the boys we're worried about. All right, well, there's

that. Now, there's also this. The rounding up donations, like when you go through the Taco Bell line, and they go. Yes. Would you like to donate a thing to March for Dines or whatever and round up to a dollar? You're always like, yeah, that'd be great. No problem. Well, I don't want change. I hate to bird. I hate to burst everyone's bubble, but there might be a reason that's less than great, and here it is. Hey, guys. I was listening to TMS-2544, where you were talking about places that are asking you to round up and donate to charity. I just want to let you know, and maybe you mention this on the actual error, and I missed it. But when you donate that, they aggregate all those donations, and they make the donation to the charity, and they get the tax right off.

So basically, you are just helping the corporation's bottom line. That's all I had to say. Thanks. Bye. Once again, we got Corpo bullshit going on. No kidding. Oh, man. We're just giving it to Big Burger is what we're doing that money.

I mean, I wonder. So, like, if you, let's say you gather during a day, I don't know what the numbers would be, but let's say McDonald's got a ton of locations and they do this all the time. I'm guessing their roundup donation thing probably nuts maybe millions a week. Yeah. And it's done in a place, like when you go through the drive-thru at McDonald's, their little collection thing for Ronald McDonald's house is directly under the drive-thru window where you get your change. And so if either you or the person, the minimum wage employee behind the counter, are clumsy about getting your change, it automatically goes into the collection box. You don't even get a choice.

It falls, there's no falling on the ground outside your car. It's going right into the Ronald McDonald House. Yeah, they basically made a catcher. They made a little catcher. They made a little catcher, charity catcher. Yeah, all right. If they do it, that's fine. Whatever.

I'm not that worked up about it, but I do understand. And if it gets into the millions, maybe billions worldwide over a period of time, then that is a massive tax write-off. I never once on my short form 1040 subsection C wrote out, donated 18 cents to round up from my combo meal at Wendy's. That's, okay, this is a perfectly salient point. As much as I don't like greedy corporations, the alternative is for us to all band together and track our roundup donations in the drive-up for 42 cents.

Exactly. Hold on, how much was my change yet? Okay, let me get my pad of paper. yeah we're not doing that what's today's date okay no we can't do that some people do that hats off can you sign a receipt please I need to take a photo to ensure that I have proof that we made this transaction today like there's a lot of you that's a giant pain nobody's going through that nobody tracks that nobody's doing that really we're paying them for the privilege of not having to

to track that charity and to keep change on us like I I've had uh well Well, change in my pocket doesn't last more than a day. Basically, at the end of the day, I have a jar on my counter that I just put the change into. And then when that thing fills up, I take you to the bank, they turn into real money, so to speak. Really, the real money is the ones and zeros, by the way, that I used to spend everything else. I don't ask him for paper cash or anything like that. Sure. But, yeah, I mean, who I certainly don't want to have to, like, figure out in my car, oh, what am I going to do with this quarter nickel and three people?

pennies. What am I going to do with this? And if the charities in question are getting big lump sums of money, I'm happy with that. If you told me that Taco Bell was skimming 40% off of it or something, I'd be pissed. Right. Like, then I'm mad. But in this case, it's just, this is like government poo-poo. It's just dumb.

I'm not going to track it. But thank you for that. Exactly. Yeah, for sure. Now go back into your bunker and put your, Timfoil hat on. Just kidding. I don't think this person's a conspiracy there is. I think he's right. I think this is totally true and they are making. They do have a big right off from this. Good to be aware of it for sure. It's good to know that this is happening. This is, you know, the benefit that they're getting plus the benefit that the charity is getting.

And you know what? Well, McDonald's House. I can't, I can't at all blow that charity off. I took a, I drove mother and daughter, picked him up at Meow Wolf in Denver, and then took them back to the Ronald McDonald's house. She was undergoing cancer treatments. The daughter was, and the Ronald McDonald's house was giving her mom and dad a place to stay while they were in town helping her get through her cancer treatments. Because they all lived out of town. She, out of state, they sent her here to St. Jude for cancer treatments. And Ronald McDonald's house provided a place for her parents to stay during all this. So, you know what?

I'll go buy Big Mac today and put all my change in the damn box. I might not even eat that Big Mac, but I'll give you the change. Right. Can I put the Big Mac in the box too? Can I donate that to Ronald McDonald's? Yeah. Do you get a tax rebate for that hunk of meat I just threw in there? Yeah.

Anyway, thank you for that. We appreciate it. Hey, how's your cat? I heard she can growl now or something. She growls. Yeah. She, you know, we see these weird things, these weird behaviors, this little kitten, Salem, Massachusetts.

We call her a little kitten, but the vet still insists that she's two years old, but she's just tiny. She absolutely had to be the runt of the litter, and she still does kidney things. But we were watching a show last night, and that before last, where one of the characters plays a pheromine.

It'll be my recommendal next week, not today, but a week from today. Nice. And we hear this low, guttural growl. coming from her when the the pheromans going off. Didn't think much more of it than that. And then this morning, for whatever reason, Tina's getting ready. I'm out of the shower.

She's going into the bathroom to take her shower. And I start whistling the Star Trek theme. And the cat is like looking all around. She cannot figure out where the noise is coming from. And she is growling up a storm when I whistle. So it is that, it is that, that, you know, noise that just freaks her out, makes her feel like there's danger, and she doesn't know where that danger is coming from. So it's not just the theramen sound, it's the high, it's that pitch. It's the high pitch.

And maybe it bothers her ears. Maybe it connects her to something that happened while she was living on the streets before we got her, because she was apparently a little bit of a stray for a while. Yeah. Um, but so I decided, all right, well, I'm going to get kind of right in her face and whistle so that she sees that it's me making the noise and maybe she won't feel like it's that, uh, dangerous thing. Yeah. And, uh, what happened?

Um, and her, her pupils got super big, like cats do when, when they, uh, you know, like when they're, when they're, when they're, like, trying to figure what's going on, a little bit scared. And, uh, and, and, and then I started whistling doing the in, you know this sort of thing where you breathe into whistle and she's like curious about it and then i needed to expel air and so i started whistling out and um that kind of ticked her off because i was blowing in her face oh yeah they don't like that no they're not fans they make one of their 300 expressions that we learned about the other day when exactly one of those expressions is blow in my face one more time i'm going to eat you in your sleep yeah no doubt or take your

breath or whatever cat's eye taught us exactly right that's right stand on your chest and suck your breath away. So here's my, this is, I'm going to admit that this is a weakness for me. When an animal has a little quirk like that. You exploit it, don't you, Scott? I kind of do. Yeah. It's never anything cruel or mean, like, painful. Of course, of course, yes. But if like, you know, I know that, I know that if I stare Ripley down, yeah, she will get really defensive, especially if Carter's in the room. Right.

And she'll turn into like a guard dog. And I, I like it partly because. Partly, I like it because it's like, hey, look at what she would do if you were in danger. She'd actually, you know, square off of somebody. But sometimes I just do it where I would just get my eyes real wide and look at her across the room. And she'll go, booh, and start freaking out. Really? Yeah. Oh, that's funny.

And then I get in trouble because Carter doesn't want me doing that. So I don't do it that often. But I'll do that once in a while. The other dog with Rainer, hers is any kind of sound of a siren. and so sometimes I'll just go from across the room and she'll suddenly just go mooh

that's so funny you can trigger them like that I don't know I I know this isn't just me and I do feel bad sometimes but it's hard for me I like I don't know what it is I like to see a dog do a weird thing I can't help it

it makes me a terrible person I don't know but I like it no we used to do that with Ruby She, our chocolate lab, she, if we, if we gasped and looked at the TV, she would immediately like, what, what's up there? And then she would start spinning around in circles as quickly as she could. Oh, crap, dude. And it was the most fun thing to do.

Yeah, see, it's fun. It's a good time. We don't know what she looks up there. And she's like, I don't know what that is, but br-hmm. Well, neither of us would ever do anything mean to an animal. We're just, you know, it's fun. Never, never, never, exactly. Quirky little personality stuff.

I will, uh, I will, uh, whistle less and I will blow in her face even less than that. There. See, we've, we've come to an agreement. See? Now, now we've, uh, we've learned two things about my cat, two things she doesn't like. Nope. And I like the growl, though. A growl is a cool cat sound.

It is a cool, yeah, especially the deep like, yeah. Because you can't, you know, like, like the whistling, you can't quite be sure where it's coming from? Oh, it's coming from her. Okay. It's like that Halloween movie. Hey, look at this. We've got this thing to do right here. Well, well, well, it's our old friend Brian Dunaway joining us on a Wednesday. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hi. What are you doing? You're on a nice mic today. Are you home today? Where are you at today? I am home today. Yes. Wasn't feeling well this morning, so it took a day. Yeah. You got to do that sometimes. I'm just trying to. Now I'm just trying to,

to breathe. A little self-care. That never hurt nobody. Mental health day. Absolutely. I swept my sick days or four. That's right. I looked at the calendar and I didn't see anything on it. And I was like, well, if I'm going to recover, today should be the day to recover. So that's what I did. Took some medicine slip in late. Yeah.

And here I am now just trying to breathe. But don't tell Scott that. If he finds that out, he'll do something mean to me like he does to his other animals, his other pets. He's just going to stare at you through Zoom or through Discord or whatever. We're like, I'm just trying to breathe, God. That's funny you say that because we had a cat a long time ago that I almost named Brian. And we were in a name of Brian. It's a great plan.

It's before I knew. You've been like, rot. I knew you, but it's before I knew I bit. I'm really glad I don't have a cat named Brian to be weird. That'd be too many Bryans. There are too many Bryans in your life already. And to add another one? Oh my gosh.

It's insane. Oh, my God. All right. Let's get into it. We're going to play a game today. We get a little. We got a little Ted Pooley feud going on And we've got a couple of people ringing through

Let's see who we've got Oh you know what The third person is what I said I would take And guess what the person Who was asking earlier how this worked They are literally the third person So we're going to talk to Mr. Postman today Hi Mr. Postman, how are you?

Hey guys, how are you? How is my audio? You sound great. You sound great Yep, awesome No issues. Are you are you one of our actual postman? I am, yeah, I am a postman. I called into you guys with a horrible quality call about the Amazon Flyers last week.

Oh, right, the Amazon magazine, yeah, the... That was you. But you're also Cliff Clavin's postman, right? I am not. Oh, different guy. That is another one of our... So we have two postmen. We have at least two.

I think we've got like maybe three or four. We've probably got a lot of postmen. Yeah, yeah. Letter carriers, everywhere, man. What would we do without you? Sleet nor snow nor dead of night. Get out there and stick it right in the thigh. Anyway, I can't remember what our other postman there, Cliff Claven's postman, John Ratsenberger's postman is his avatar name or his, uh, do you have anybody on your route that you would call famous or even semi-famous?

So I actually haven't carried in about 10 years. I work at a processing facility. Oh, that's cool. That's way better. It's way better, yeah. I live in Maine, so there's only like four months out of the year where it's nice to carry. I'm sure, yeah, no kidding. Okay, that makes sense. So you go, yeah, Maine's awesome.

So you're going to, so you go, what was I going to say? I forgot. You're the one that, like, if something comes through and it looks a little weird, you might have to report it, right? Like if it smells weird or has some, like, leaky fluid in it or something? Yeah, exactly, actually. The machine I work on processes packages. So that's one thing we look out for, is anything.

that's damaged or leaking or is... Or looks like it contains a check. Yeah, or a check. Hold it up to the light, see what you can see. This looks like it contains a gift card. There might be something wrong with this one. I better put it to the side. I'm just kidding.

I know you never use it. Scott, to answer your question, because you had a follow-up question when I made that call, the way that we make the money off that is when Amazon ships out their flyers the rest of the year part of that agreement, they still pay the postage on that.

That's not part of the contract. So they're required to pay postage for a certain volume. Okay. And you agree with this whole U-line catalog problem, too, right? You hate that stuff. Oh, you know, it's funny, as I was put, so the machine I work on, half the day we do bundled magazines and the other half we do packages. And I was actually putting U-lines through when I was listening to that episode.

Me personally, like, I don't mind them. I'm one of the gym rats of the Tadpool, so it doesn't bother me. but the bundles are almost 30 pounds each. Yeah. And people do not like putting U-Lines through. Yeah. No, I'm sure they don't. You probably, instead of processing those,

you could probably just throw them away, and no one would ever notice. No. It's funny because I'm friends with my supervisor, and I told them, I'm like, I think most of the people just throw these away. Yeah. I know we do.

That's a good bit. Yep, go straight to recycling. I need to hit up Euline and just say, stop sending me the catalogs, maybe move to like, I don't know, a digital method, of marketing. Yeah, email me.

Yeah, email me and I'll put you in the junk folder. But nostalgia. Yeah, nostalgia. Yeah, sure. I've got about 25 years to, like, and retire. So if they keep it, paper marketing for now, I'm good with that. All right, sweet. Sure, sure.

Well, plus it gives you a chance to get your, get a little workout while you're there at the, uh, there at the office. Yeah, yeah. It's like, when those things come through, it's like a medicine ball for like 20 minutes. That's right. Exactly. Uh, well, let's play a game. Let's see how your Jimrat lifestyle.

fits into this weird game we play on Wednesdays. Brian, you'll explain these rules to us and what he might win and all that stuff. Take it away. Absolutely. Well, it's time to play the tadpoole of food. I've surveyed the tadpoo on some nerdy topics. It's gotten Brian will have to predict. I'm doing this because

Mr. Postman asked me to do this for his voicemail. They'll have to take the answers that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Mr. Postman, your job is more important than ever. Look at all the people screaming at the chair. I know. I've made the Cat's cool anger.

I love that impersonation. I can't believe you, I know it. It's so good. Your job, like my 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 due process, courtesy of Wolverine 66. We talked about this game earlier.

It looks like a very cool procedurally generated Team Fortress 2. Really, really cool. And then from record, a copy of Warhammer End Times, Vermintytheid. I, that seems like a massive game. When are you going to ever find the time to play both of these games? I don't know, but that's going to be your problem if you win. Yeah, they're both great, though. Verminandide in particular, I got a lot of good time out of that game.

It's really good. Very cool. Well, you can only win if you play the game. We can only play the game if I start the game. And we're going to start the game right now. Put your hands on your buzzers, gentlemen, and tell me your answer to this. Which fictional pop culture car would you want to own? Got.

Batmobile. The Batmobile. Show me. That's a good one. The Batmobile. Unfortunately, we all know it's going to be the DeLorean. Is that your guess? You're saying the DeLorean?

Shit. It's going to be the Delorian. All right. Show me the old, the DMC12, Delorian. Damn it! Number one answer on the board. Yeah, so back to the Batmobile really quickly. A lot of people, a lot of people, no, quite a few people put specific Batmobiles.

But a majority of people just put the Batmobile. And so originally I was like breaking it down like, oh, the Tumblr or the 1966 Batmobile. But when I got to the long range of people who just put Batmobile, I'm like, well, I guess I really can't break it down now because I don't know which Batmobile these people were referring to. So there was, you know, one of the Batmobiles was going to get a short shrift if I tried to break it down. Can we tell you something about my weird brain? when you ask the question, my brain said DeLorean. My mouth said Batmobile. Really?

For real. I don't understand it. I'm going to have that checked because that's a weird thing to do. My mouth is saying, Brian, that gives you control of the board and you get Mr. Postman as a cohort. That's right. How are you feeling about cars? Is that what you do? Go to the gym and ride in a cool movie cars.

Is that what you do? I'm not a big car guy. but I do like cars in movies and media. So a lot of my favorite media has, like, iconic cars that go with it. So I got, I got one just, I want to use it as soon as possible,

just so we can stick it to Scott for not thinking of it. But you can tell me what you think, too. But, you know, I'm just thinking that Ford Falcon and the Mad Max, that's pretty cool. Oh, shit. I love that car. You kidding me?

I want that car now. I'm going to leave it up to you, though. I'm going to let you, do we want to take the chance of it not? being up there to stick it to Scott or do we want to you know go for something more obvious so I don't know that I want to say my first guest just because we're going to have to go with one of them and that gives Scott a hint

yeah right right okay so maybe we go with that one and roll the dice and then if that doesn't work we'll try the next one on the way back I mean even if we don't get it this time at least we stuck it to Scott so that's good away from him right at least we're taking that away from Scott just what I want so mean it's so me I can't believe you do that All right. Is this, so you're going with the Mad Max Mobile? Yes, the Mad Max Mobile.

Show me the Mad Max Mobile. Oh. Yeah, only two people. And one person said the Mad Max Interceptor, the other person said the Ford XB Falcon GT 351. I think the interceptor's pretty cool too. The interceptor's pretty right. But nobody said the truck. I think the truck was a much better vehicle for him because that's how he ran over most of the people he needed to run over.

Oh, the war rig. Yeah, I agree. The war rig, exactly. All right, well, that throws it back over here. Let's see what I can pull off here. Fictional vehicle. See, this is tricky. Because they don't...

Fictional pop culture car that you want to own. Because it... Okay, well, then let's do the... I mean, the Dolorian exists in real life. So it's, you know... Yeah, same with the Falcon and all that. It's fictional... Fictionally owned or owned by fictional characters.

Maybe that's a better way of... Yeah, it's a better way of putting it. Um, I think this one fits, though. I'll say the, uh, the, the, uh, the Ecto one. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. There you go. That's that hurt ambulance thing that's in the Ghostbusters, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. Show me. Ecto one. Yeah, number eight. Good points. Oh, that was good points.

Yeah. Yeah. It puts me ahead is what it does. I guess I guess I got greedy. I apologize. Greedy bastard. I just, yeah. Greedy.

Greedy. Greedy bastard. Um, your mom warned me. Uh, let's see. the general lee maybe is on here oh that's a good one are we still yeah yeah let's do it are we still sure i know where you were going with that let's know what this general lee is all right show me the general lee oh come on the general lee fallen out of favor generally generally generally was found at uh number 16 on the list all right that's uh generally all right that's right that's right i don't

Was it the General Lee canceled? I think it was, right? Because of the... It was canceled. That's what you were saying that. That's what you were saying. People still like it, though. It's still a cool car.

Oh, people still love it. People love that thing. Yeah. It's not black about an orange just ars charger, right? What's not the like about that? Yeah, no one doesn't like an orange charger. The only thing you don't like about it is it's got the flag of a losing faction on the Bruce.

But it's on the top of the car. You'll never even see it. No. No, you never, because it's not like those guys jump up really high and slide through the windows with just their bodies or anything. It's fine. Dennis Hopper's because he's flying over the city

in a helicopter looking for that bus. Damn, straight. Oh my gosh, deep cut. Deep cut, everybody. Deep cut. All right, Brian and Mr. Postman, what you got? I've got a few, but you got what you said you have one. I'm thinking Kit from Knight Rider.

Oh, damn it. That's a great one. I would love to do a turbo jump. Let's turbo jump right. ever, Scott, get back in the first place. All right, sounds good. All right, show me the American car with a British accent, the Pontiac Trans Am Dome's Kit.

Number two. Number two, 1982 Pontiac Trans Am. I bet nobody said car, though, did they? Was it? Somebody said C-A-R-R. What's that? Oh, geez. Was that the enemy of Kit?

There was a car, and then there was a truck, too. What was the truck called? Gladiator. Was it gladi- Gladiator? no glad he uh something like that something like that yeah it was a big dumb name um hold on a second so uh was that a firebird or just a regular it didn't have the logo on the hood did it i don't think it did no kit no just have the red uh dot going back and forth like a sign on i didn't give you a freebie people are too old for the one you're thinking of people are too old for that try it though no they're not no they're people love smoky and the bandit or too young is what i meant they love the smoky and the bandits all right put it out there then what do you think what do you think scott's already invoked it

I was greedy last time I'll back off I'll back off you know I love I love that movie it's one of my favorite movies as far as smoking the band it's concerned but I don't think I mean it's an iconic make and model of a car but it like it wasn't there's nothing special about it compared to all the other vehicles so far you know what I mean right right right right I got I got you I but it's definitely a good one we can go with it I

I have two in mind so what do you think we got back to the future kit batmobile like to one these are a lot of 80s folks and man i think everybody growing up wanted to have that 18 van i'm just saying oh shit that was on my list you bastard yeah that wasn't one of my two but i like it yeah do that is that the one you're going with the uh the van from the 18 i hope i was wrong no no no no no all right if you put a boiler on it it it'll go faster that's right exactly show me the 18 van Oh, son of Oh, who are you people? What? Who are you people?

Right above the general Lee. Wow, dude. By the way, Brian, so you invoked it I have to play it. Here it is. No, no, no, no. That guy. So weird.

Excellent. All right. That's a commercial. If I keep coming up with bad answers, I'm going to send the postman something for myself that in my own collection. Jesus. Yeah, no kidding. Can I ask a technical question

of the host here? Are there sometimes you say cars or vehicles? Yes. Is vehicle the operative term or is car where, you know, four rubber tires on the ground, off we go.

Like, is it limited to that? It is a car in the sense that the the owner drives it like a car I can't wait to see the exception that it has to explain

Because I mean Even the DeLorean technically flew for a minute Right sure exactly But we don't need roads But Doc Brown still drives it like a car Yeah good point Right Oh oh that does give me hintitudes

Then I'm gonna say here's what I'm gonna say Intitudes Hey I like that term I'm gonna say Star Wars Speeder Oh, I love Speeders of various kinds. Land speeders, land speeders, not the little bikes,

not speeder bike speeders, but the No, no, the dust, the dirt, the dirt, what's that thing called? I used to have one, it was brown, had little wheels in the bottom of it. Yeah, landspeeder. Yeah, it's called a landspeeder. That's totally it. All right.

Let's try that. It's a crappy one, not the nice family one that stays in the garage with 3PO. Show me a land speeder. oh come on amazingly enough nobody said that i like the i really like the um the thought though uh that does help narrow things down though i probably did you guys in favor there maybe wow let's see what you do one more bad guess from each of you in this game is over so you better get some points on the board brian and mr post do we want to outwardly brainstorm now that we've only got one strike left i think we should if you want i was thinking when if it said something about

not necessarily four wheels there is a double seven uh bond car that goes I'm trying to remember what car exactly was called, but it was the one that went underwater. I can help you. The spy who love me or something? I wonder if a bond, like, because there's been several cool ones, I wonder if

that's one of those things that Brian would have put into one. Yeah, one big category. That's a good question. Yeah. The bond car. The bond car is a good one. Yeah. I like it. Right. Well, I was, I was thinking the mystery machine and I was thinking the flying car from Harry Potter.

Oh, man. Oh, the flying car from Harry Harry Potter. God, I want that. I've never thought about that, but I do kind of want that. But I think I want the magic. I think just any car that would fly, I think that would be. Right, right. How about the Jetson's little car? He puts in the briefcase. What about that one? That one's pretty good. I'm thinking about

you. I don't remember what it's called. The Jetsons. That just shows who you are, dude. You're a fan of old animation, and there's just Noggin around it, and it's fine. It's totally about that. What I really wanted to do was, Is the durn? I can't remember. Is it? Why am I blanking on this one? We've seen it a million times. It's gone in 60 seconds. The Mustang. What did it is? Oh, Eleanor. Eleanor. Jesus. Why couldn't I think of that? It's like one of my favorite movies. Yeah. What do you think about? Eleanor is a good one too. Well, they've had a lot of time to really think this over, Brian. We've got a lot of options. Do we roll a D6 and pick one?

I think we just roll a D6. You got one? Let me see. I'll add that to my watch this day. Is it on here? I have a D20. I added it to my watch. Oh my gosh, I just rolled a 20, not kidding. Wow, nice. You did get it on your next one. And a 19. What's going on here? Oh, and then a 3.

I think the bond on them. I think the Bond Connor or Eleanor are the safe ones. I have the D6, but it doesn't have any printing on any of the sides. Here, I'll do it for you. It's a completely blank. Wait, wait. I've got one. I got it.

A four-sided dice. Okay, got a six-sided dice. I'm a watch here. Roll. got a three, but we didn't assign it to it. Let's go with Bond. I think Bond's a big one. Bond, yes, the Bond car. I'll take the blame for this one if it's wrong. Show me, Bond, James Bond. Oh, very nice. Yeah, James Bond's Aston Martin, but I did lump all of the other James Bond vehicles, the Lotus of Spree, the submarine vehicle, all that stuff. That's the one it was. Yeah, Lotus, right? I remember for a hot minute, everybody our age wanted a Lotus after that movie.

we're just like, yeah, they don't all turn into submarines, just so you know. I feel like they would have to explain that every time someone went to a dealership. I was going to say, I wonder how many people took their lotus as spree and drove it into a lake just to see if it turned into a... So I've got one, Brian, we haven't mentioned, that I know is really popular in, like, the social media community, but I don't know how popular it would be in the tadpool, and that's Lightning McQueen. Oh, Lightning, Queen. Yeah, that's a good one, too. There's, like, there's a whole thing where people will redo their cars to look like McQueen. Yeah. But, hey, if you want to, if you want to pull in the mix.

Replacing options as we use them. Right. And John Wick's cars, it's another Mustang, right? Is this the same year? If you want, I can write all of these answers on this blank cube that I have and then roll this blank cube. There is one car that I don't know if I want, but I'd see it drive. around town all the time that's right near here it's one of those fort explorers and it's all painted up look like the drastic park thing i've always wanted that i've always wanted that that's

really cool yeah i want to do that with my jeep it's really cool all right that's about all the cars how about you actually use one of those as an answer oh sorry let's didn't go fab yeah we're throwing them on let's go with um lightning mcqueen from a car let's do it all right All right. Okay. Show me Lightning McQueen from the cars. No. Oh, wow. Wow.

Scott. Wow. Five answers left on the board, Scott. Currently, oh, you're winning. So really the only way. You got to run the board, in other words. Eleanor. For Mr. Postman to win the prizes.

And I only have one more strike, so I've got to be careful here. You do, exactly. Let's go with the mystery mobile because I think that was a good call. we just didn't pick it, so let's do it. Sure. You did. Yeah, it was the second thing after Bond that you brought up. That's really good.

All right, show me the mystery machine. Yeah. Number seven on the list. Do we do. We do. Oh, man, I'm going to get into, I'm in the weeds here. The chat room is saying Herbie a lot. Oh, yeah.

Herbie and Love Bug. I used to love the Herbie the Love Book. Is that, is that modern Herbie or old school herbie? It's old. It's old either way, man. It's old. Yeah. It's getting kind of old now.

it. Yeah, she's even she's old now. Oh, wow. Now I'm just going to say. What, Lindsay Lohan? Is that? Yeah. From the newest, from the newest generation of Herbie the Love Bug? That was like O's 5 or something. I don't know if I want that. Hold on.

Shit. We should just roll a dice for you. Let's go ahead and choose it. Let's do it. Okay. All right. Show me Herbie the Love Bug. Oh, look at there. Herbie the Love Bug.

All right, three answers left. That was number nine. So you got number four, number six, and number ten. Christine. A Lurmy doesn't like to make toys. Christine. Oh, you'd want to own Christine? I mean, I wouldn't, but it just feels like something people would have said during a time

where it was kind of Halloween when you put out the questions and they were just like, yeah. If it helps, I asked the questions months ago, not during Halloween. Oh, shit. Okay, so then that's a big old thing. No, run away from it. Maybe don't do that. Maybe I won't be doing that one. My wife is not in the tad pool, but she's,

listening live and she agrees with Brian. Eleanor has to be one of them. Eleanor. All right. Let's do Eleanor. I'm going with their gut. Let's do it. Eleanor. All right. Show me. Eleanor. Sometimes the gut is wrong.

Amazingly, only one person said Eleanor. Really? Yeah. Yeah. But they say John Wicks car, right? John Wicks car, not on there, but everything else is something that either you guys brought up. or that the Tadpool has been yelling at you. Literally, yelling at that room. Oh, I didn't even think to check them.

Damn it. All right. Let's look at number four. You're close. You've got the first name right. Number four is Knock five from Speed Racer. Oh, okay. Yep.

Number six, several different, well, a couple different versions of this is one of which was a Volkswagen Beetle, but a 2006 Chevy Camaro is probably the, the more ideal. That is bumblebee. Okay, if I would have said a transformer, if I would have said a transformer, would you have given that to me? I probably would have, yeah. I almost did it.

This close. This close to saying transformer. Crap. And then finally, Scott said it. We even made the noise that it makes when it flies away. It doesn't have four wheels, but you drive it like a car. And that is the Jetsons. Oh, what?

I gave you so much shit for that, dude. fly a car. It's a suitcase car. I feel bad. I gave Brian's shit for that. Well, here's what that means. Brian, what were some of the others we haven't mentioned on there? Yeah, so going down the list, this is some fun stuff. The Magic School Bus, Baby, the 1967 Chevy and Paula from Supernatural. Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari, Inspector Gadget's Gadget Mobile. I'll argue that it's not Magnum's car, though, but go ahead. That's true, right? Yeah, good point. Speed buggy, the Canyon Arrow. I love that somebody brought up the Canyanero from the Simpsons. Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang, the Jurassic Park Jeep, Penelope Pitstops car, something A.E. 86 from the initial D. anime. Okay, fine. The Blues Mobile from the Blues Brothers. Love that one. Brown O'Connor's Supra from Fast and the Furious.

Cameron Fry's Dad's Ferrari from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Somebody said the car from Wayne's World. I think it's just an AMC Gremlin, and nobody really wants that. No, no. Or is it a Pacer? Maybe it was a Pacer. I think it, well, it was one of those two cars, but let me tell you the two cars no one ever wants, Pacer and Gremlin. Right.

Ever. Caradine's car from Death Race 2000, the Cat Bus from Totero, the cop car from Demolition Man. Somebody put Dorian, I think they meant Delorian, or they maybe drive fruit. I don't know. The Stinky truck, the double-decker couch, so that don't know what that kind. comes from, but I, it sounds very familiar. Maybe, uh, the,

the, uh, the, the, the, the night bus. Was it, was it, the, um,

Beverly Hillbillies car, but the butt had a couch on. Yeah. Nobody wants that. No, that just had Graney's rocking chair on the top. What kind of gas mileage you think the thing gets? Oh,

oh my gosh. Two to the tank or something. That's right. Uh, the green hornet car. Uh, the, somebody put the invisible wonder woman car.

And I'm sorry, but that is not, that is not, that is. Not correct. It was a jet. Yeah, it was a jet. She didn't have a whole fleet of vehicles that were all invisible.

Invisible. Johnny Cab. Nobody wants Johnny Cab. Oh. Let's see. There's Lightning McQueen, Lola, which is Colson, Agent Colson's old car from the MCU. Any Mario Cart, the Ninja Turtle van, the paddy wagon from SpongeBob. Let's see here.

Spice Girls Tour Bus. swear that wasn't me. Ah, that is great. The 195 Chevy from American graffiti. Here's somebody deep cut. The 1970 Dodge Challenger from Vanishing Point. Okay. Wow.

For you. Whoa. But any Himikuda from the Fantasemps series? I love that car. No, the Lamborghini Kuntok from the opening of Cannonball Run. Again, you guys maybe think a little too specific on some of these. The tactical RV from Stripes, only if it comes with Sean Young. the Weasley's Flying Car

Somebody did say that one The Trans Am from Smokey and the Bandit Didn't make it on there And finally The Viper from the TV show Viper Yeah

Vanishing Point for the record Came out in 71 I'd never heard of it before There's no one in it that I know We should watch that I don't know what it is No No

No we've never even McLevonne Little Cleveland football player Cleveland Little is He plays a character called Super Soul I'm shocked I'm shocked

Nobody said Auto Man though Out of everything they put No Auto Man The bus The Simpsons bus No that we're transforming Not auto man

Not auto man Auto man Yeah you never saw Auto Man Oh it's so bad Gotcha Guy would morph into a car It was real shitty Yeah that was really bad

Yeah Not Glenn Larson's best work Anyway Well, this is good news and bad news. The bad news is, you already heard that. But the good news is, I win. And the other bad news is you lose. But it was a really fun time having you on.

And I hope all the packages of Maine are not leaky. All right. That's what I want most of me. I know. Hey, Dunaway, you got anything going on between now and when we do play retro on Friday? Just a lot of play retro homework, man. I'm going to play that spawn. arcade game that made it to the dream

we're doing indie comics, typically image video games that were based on Image Comics games during the 90s. Yeah, which are more than you think is what I've... Really? Really? Wow. Okay. Yeah. Oh my God, there's so many spawn games. Is there a Gen 13 game?

Uh, uh, question. I don't remember a Gen 13. Or Wildcats? Wildcats? Yes. There was some Wildcats game. Oh, there was always a game gear, like a little portable game, right? Like a game gear? Might have been on consoles as well. We played the S&S version.

It was a beat him up. I do remember that. With the guy who wore a bandana on his face and the... Yeah, Jim Lee stuff was back on. I have a bunch of those comics. I loved Wildcats. Oh, my gosh. It was so good.

Didn't they have a little short, shortly lived animated show as well. It was pretty good. Anyway, we'll be talking about that this weekend. And it'll be great. We'll also be having a film sack with Brian. It's just all done away all the time. Oh, that's all you ever do. Kiss our butts.

All right. Hi, butts. I hope he feels better. All right, let's do... Uh, what? Let's do a break. Let's take a break. And when we come back from this said break, we will spend a little time with Tom Merritt after all.

We're going to call him in, uh, and where he's at in Belgium. And he'll tell us... I can't wait to ask him if, uh, if waffles in Belgium are really a thing. Right? I know. That's the only question that. Or no. Have you seen Jean-Claude Van Damme walking around?

we can say. But he said, even said, I will tell you all about Belgium in his text. So let's nice. Oh, good. Okay. Anyway. That'll come right after this break with Brian Abbott's music. What are we doing? Boy, is this an appropriate band name to follow that feud? As a matter of fact, it relates to the last two feuds. This is from the band Time Spent Driving, whether it's whatever pop culture vehicle. This is a brand new album they have called Estrangers. Not just strangers, but estrangers. It begins with an E. Sure.

It just came out this last Friday. This is their first full-length album since 2015. But these guys are pioneers of the late 90s, early 2000s emo scene. So you've probably heard of them, and if you haven't, oh, you're in for a real treat. This is the song frequently

mispronounced, as it was last week's feud. Intense and Purposes. Not intensive. purposes for all intents and purposes. This song Just Intents and Purposes. Here's time spent driving right now on TMS. I see you on the hillside, I see you in the fallen trees in the orange and the orange and the arch. I see you through a child's eyes, skulls beneath the weather. skins

the claws of the crows be the crows see you in the skies lines and the gold light

As time can still The grass on the hell bends the light In the case that's blue The tents on the hill Turned like heights Make a run all night

I see you in the fine lines I see you in the prints and brown The fine lines, the fine lines The fire The hours hide beneath me And I can almost feel the ground It feels good It feels good to feel

As time stands and stands Reds on the hill It bends the right In the kick flash fell The tents on the hill Throw like lights Make you run all night Make you run all night

Make run all night They can run all night And they can run all night And they need just fine They can run on night And they can run on night They can run all night And then I'd be just for me

That's not what your mom said. tell me again who that was that is the band time spent driving and the new song in tents and purposes from the new album strangers enjoy it all that sounds fantastic great week what was the pseudo e punk one that we had a day or two ago uh let's see it was um monday the sex tones the other side or the jelly bricks mondays never probably mondays never maybe mondays never that was fantastic so good yeah been in the mood for that lately that sound you know yes yeah it's been good good stuff spinning up some playlist and whatnot here there oh my gosh look who it is oh wait i got to play this uh for you where where are you

please let's be civil tom play us a quick solo to show everyone how hard you've been practicing okay yeah you can't you can't do that because you're in freaking belgium how could you do that from there you know uh you're in belgium you're in belgium what are you do in belgian solo is what it is So I was invited to come out and speak to a conference by someone who is a listener to Daily Tech News show who likes what we do and wanted me to share what we do with the folks here. So, yeah, it was very nice of them to invite me. And it was great. I had three presentations. Oh, my gosh.

Busy boy. Have you, so now that you're done with that, are you going to do any kind of like sightseeing or, you know, that kind of stuff? No, I flew in and I got in Monday morning, did my presentation on Tuesday, did two today, and I'm flying out tomorrow morning. Oh, man. Wow. Is it your first time in Belgium? Yeah, I'd never been to Belgium before. And I haven't seen a lot of the country, but what I've seen of Brussels is just gorgeous and delicious.

How are the waffles? Yeah, we got to know. So good. If you look at my Instagram, you will think. that I just ate a pile of chocolate but I promise you there was a waffle under there and it was great

Wow okay I have to go over there and check that out in a second But from just This is maybe a dumb question And maybe it makes me I don't know naive or I just don't know what's going on But is there a big burgeoning tech scene In Belgium

The whole world is you know We have tech everywhere but is Belgium like Well we're exploding right now We've got all kinds of crap going on Like what does that look like? Well, you know, what's interesting about Brussels is, of course, it is the seat of the European Union Parliament. So a lot of the government regulation comes through Brussels. Obviously, it's complicated how it all actually happens throughout Europe.

But yeah, this is where the headquarters of the EU is. So there's a lot of that tech regulation that you hear us talk about with the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act. and it's it's happening here so there's there's a lot of technology companies paying attention to what's happening to brussels as well as technology companies that are that are located in brussels as well sure well i'm looking at your instagram now and now i have new questions uh yeah one one of my questions is you're sure that's a waffle in there that's a that looks like there's definitely a waffle under all that chocolate i swear and it was good like it was amazing it was so good how could it not

be good. I look at that thing and know that has to be good. Yeah, that looks amazing. Yeah. Even if there's not a waffle under all that. I mean, you're probably right, of it. But there was, which made it even better. I was also surprised by the culture shock moment of you have a photo from BlizzCon

live LaSera from concert and then immediately fresh waffles in Belgium. So you've been a busy boy with your running around. You got a lot going on. How did that go, by the way? We haven't had a follow up on this. How was your time? I was Bliscon.

Bliscon was great. I didn't get to see much of it. So here's, there's a lot of personal reasons why we didn't get on the road earlier on Saturdays. But we showed up after badge check. And we didn't have our badges. At one point, it looked like we weren't going to get in. I'm going to tell the whole story in my newsletter. but we parked in the parking garage.

We came out and the signs said go that way, but the doors were locked to go that way. So we went the other way, and they're like, you can't go this way. This is where we're unloading. And we said, we need to get to badge check. They're like, oh, badge check closed 10 minutes ago. We finally figured out how to go back into the parking garage,

out of the parking garage, and get around the convention center. And a big shout out to Alex Albisu, the Jen, and Shane and Matt and a lady with some glue because thanks to all of them Eileen and I were able to get into

BluesCon with our badges then we get in the line for community night which was before the La Seraphim presentation we stand in line to community night we know we're not going to make it in for the beginning of community night but we're just hoping once people leave

we'll be able to get in we get to the front of the line and they decide to say, you know what, we're shutting down admission. No one's getting in the rest of the night. And everyone says, well, what if people leave? They're like, too bad. Fire marshal says we can't do this anymore. Everybody leave. So, of course, we did not leave.

We just sat there and waited. And then community night ended. And a lot of people stayed to see La Seraphim, but a bunch of people left. And so we were among a group of, I don't know, maybe a hundred people who were just standing there going, hey, we'd like to go in, you know, there's people coming out. What are you going to do? And of course, they changed their mind and said, well, we're going to let 70 of you in. The seats aren't great. These are the sections you have to sit in. Go there. So we go in. They direct us up to these sections. They're obstructed views like off to the side. Nobody sits in them. Everybody just keep. walking into all the empty seats that are elsewhere which means there's puzzled people like why are you traipsing through my row why are they

doing this to us in the end it all worked out we sat down we did not miss the beginning of the show the ladies put on a wonderful wonderful show it was really fun and we got to see them so all's well that ends well and then afterwards we actually got to walk through the show floor and see what was there

we didn't really have the ability to play anything at that time because they were shutting stuff down unfortunately. Right. Yeah, because that would have been kind of end of, yeah, the shutdown time. Yeah, yeah. Right. Well, I'm man, that's harrowing. I'm glad you got in. It's great, though you did make it through the whole, like, that you got into see him. Wow.

Yeah, at every moment, from parking to getting to the convention center to try to get into the arena, we were like, maybe this isn't going to happen, but it happens. I'm glad because you got, you bought full-blown tickets to see them, and if you had not been able to see them, I would have been capital annoyed. That would have been very annoyed.

But I guess, you know what, they don't, I'm sure they ran into some of this because I know that there's other Laceraphim fans or even just K-pop and general fans that showed up just for that. Right? And I don't know if Bliss gone thought about that. Because they're used to just saying, oh, well, you're here for everything else and you're here on Thursday and you got your tickets already and you're already better, and then Saturday you hang around and you watch the concert. I don't think they're used to the idea that you bring in a big time K-pop act. You are going to bring people in who care nothing about everything else you've got going. not that Dom Tom Tom doesn't care but yours is more of a nuanced story but I know there were other people like that As far as missing the badge chicken that's entirely my fault I did not put that on anyone but myself We should have we meant to get there earlier

We should have got there earlier We should have planned better But everything else after that was just a confluence of weirdness And thanks to the tad pool We were able to make it happen So again huge thanks to those folks A little bit of my guy Vering going on there.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing wrong with that. Well, I wish you nothing but safe travel home, of course. And I guess you'd be home. When will you be home tomorrow? You'll be home tomorrow, right? Yes, I will be home tomorrow at like 7 p.m. It's not bad.

That's better than some nosebleed, horrible middle of the night thing. There's a train strike. Oh. That's only two days long, apparently, and only cover. the point of time that I need to get to the airport, but the weird thing about a train strike in Belgium is that they still run the trains. They just don't run them as often. So I think I'll be okay. Okay. That's all right. That's a soft strike. Yeah, that's not so bad. I wouldn't mind more strikes that we're just like, yeah, we're just going to kind of make you sweat a little bit.

We're not going to quit entirely. Yeah, exactly. Well, I hope it's a safe one. And I'm excited to hear when you get back what you learned, what you saw, what you did. I'm sure you implanted some amazing ideas in people's heads there in Belgium. Now they're all going to be podcasters. You watch. It's happening. Yeah. Seriously. No, I did.

All kidding aside, I had some great conversations with, you know, some folks at big publishers here, just chatting about how our little operation works and trading ideas. And, yeah, there's all kinds of really cool conversations. So I had a good time. Nice. Well, get your John Claude Van Damme ass back in America. We need you here. We need you to save us.

Tom Merritt, everybody, Ace Detect on all the places. And especially on Instagram, go look at those pictures. we'll see you that and be safe by now all right man hearing about all the people that he listed off there was like oh my god

the Jen and Shane and Shio yeah Shane Maddo even if I don't go to Bliscon next year I'm going to Anaheim Who's this impression of right here Oh that's Shane

That's Shane taking a selfie Yeah that's what he does I didn't know he was going either I knew Jen was going And I knew Alex was going to be there But I had no idea Shane was going to be around He's a stalwart of the frog pants community. Yeah, for sure. Uh, all right, let's move on down the road here and bring in one Randy

Jordan. Yeah. You know him as Randy Deluxe in some circles. I do know him as that. Yeah. Uh, it's certainly gone by that before. Well, what do you recommend? Well, I'll tell you what I recommend. Sitting down, grabbing a chair, well, do the chair first, then sit on it. And let's talk about stuff streaming on streaming services. Randy, welcome back to the show. Yeah. Good. morning, morning stream. How are you? Did you get a chance to see Tom on Saturday when he was there? Didn't get to see Tom. So I was stationed at in a very highly controlled area. Like, it was very difficult to get to me. And people did like, uh, uh, uh, Chojo and her husband got, got to me a couple times and, uh, all kinds of other people I got to see. But, uh, you had to go, you had to

go, you had to go wait, basically, wait to see me. And, and you didn't, uh, it was hard to see me. Like, you couldn't see from outside where I was, you know? Right. You just basically had to wait for something else, and in the off chance that you were in the right line, you would see Randy. Exactly, yeah, exactly, yes. And so, like, the first day, I was surrounded in a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd. It was hard to believe how crowded it was. And so the second day, security is like, well, we're not going to let all these people in there.

It made it worse. Yeah, it was worse. Like, people would be texting me from 100 feet away saying, I can't get into your, I'm like, I can't help you. It sucks. I literally can't move, man. I did not get to see Tom and Eileen. We texted each other quite a bit during his kerfuffle.

And we decided while he was waiting to get into see LaSerepham, we decided that we're going to get together the Saturday after Thanksgiving and we're going to have a little little friendsgiving with them. That's lovely. Yeah, you guys are close enough. You could do that here and there. Was there a little Elvin Magical Amusement Park area up in the second level like there has been before?

I can't remember what that thing's called. I know it comes around every year in the game and you go and you spend your tickets and... So, Dark Moon Fair. That's where I was. I was in the middle of the Dark Moon Fair. I figure you, yeah, it's what you, I've seen you work that before.

So I figured, you know, you were in the magical Elven amusement park. That's right. And people are just so happy. Like, that's this, it's really sad when they can't get into a place they want to be. And they're also really happy at the same time. Yeah, that's always a bummer.

That's a weird conflict. Let me ask you this, though. I was I going to say I was going to say oh I've heard from I don't know maybe six seven people all of them got COVID are you safe are you good are you all right I'm I am healthy enough I am not testing positive for COVID I'm good testing good because a few people like Taryn Gregory up there Blizzard never had it avoided it for three and a half years almost four years bam got it at this con I know believe me I know I was in a meeting with them on Monday I was in a meeting with someone else on Monday who also got it and it stank because we were planning things for Tuesday.

But one thing I love about Blizzard right now is that, you know, we have this health office called the Moonwell at Blizzard. And so on your way in, you could just grab a COVID test and it's like take it before you even get to your desk. Oh, that's great. We don't have that here, frog pants. We don't have the COVID tests here available for you. No, not just walk in and grab one kind of thing. No, I'll have to talk to management, see if I can get that done. See what you can arrange, yeah.

Well, it's great having you back, and I'm glad you had a good weekend. Let's dive straight into these recommendals today. Brian, we're going to start with you. We've got a clip. What do you want to do? Yes, I do have a clip, amazingly enough. Yeah, this is a new comedy movie, and you're probably going to recognize some of the voices in here. And that's all I'll say.

Here we go. So, Maddie, tell us about yourself. Where are you from? Here, actually. Wow, a local. I'm jealous. You get to live in paradise all year long. I meant to ask this on the phone.

But how old are you? Well, I know you were looking for someone early to mid-20s. I'm slightly older. Right. How old? I just turned 29. Recently? Last year.

So you're 29? Last year. And how old are you, like right now? One more year older. So 30? Yeah. 32. May I be frank?

I'm assuming that I'm here because you haven't found anyone yet. And the reason you haven't found anyone yet is because young girls are idiots. It's not their fault. They're young. But this is your son we're talking about. What you need is someone who looks like a peer, but has the maturity to be able to handle this with the tact and sensitivity. the situation requires.

She's good. Good. Good answer. I hear Ferris Bueller in there, a little bit, a little Ferris. There is a little Ferris Bueller. That's exactly right. Yeah, Matthew Broderick. Of course, you're hearing Jennifer Lawrence doing most of the talking there.

This is a brand new film called No Hard Feelings. I didn't realize that this actually got a theatrical release. The first time I heard about this thing was when it got suggested to me on Netflix. Apparently, this was in theaters over the summer. Did no idea. This tells the story of Maddie, who is hired by this boy's parents to help get her son out of his shell. He's very much an introvert, very nervous and shy, and they feel like if they can find the right girl to kind of break him out of his shell, then he'll have a better time in college. He's about to head off to Princeton to go there.

And this is, this is a lot of fun. It's a really, really funny film. So it's directed by, written and directed by Gene Stupitzky, or Stupnitsky. I should get that right. He did, not super bad, but that movie that, uh, good boys, thank you. That was, that was, I think, funnier to me than Super Bad, came out a couple years ago. Also, Bad Teacher. He worked with Stephen Merchant on Helms.

Ladies, which is... I love Hello Ladies. One of the most awkward comedies ever, but is really funny. And co-created jury duty, a show that we've recommended right here that Lee Eisenberg, who he usually works with, he co-created that jury duty. And we just talked about it on a film sack, was it? The same... Yeah. The other guy, because in a whole other context, but it's like, man, everything's coming up jury duty these days.

Totally is. For a while, too. He was a writer and director and producer of... the office, the American office from 2005 to 2010. So that kind of gives you an idea of the comedy you can expect from this. One thing that you might not be expecting is Jennifer Lawrence full frontal nudity. And if that doesn't, I just heard a whole bunch of clicks as people added it to their list. A whole bunch of dudes in our audience just added no hard feelings to their.

And back in like, back in like June, it was the only thing anyone was asking her about. Oh, really? Yeah, they were just like choosing all these interviews Where they're like Quietly released to theaters Yeah, where the people Like she's on the late show And they're like, hey, so how'd you get a body double for that?

She's like, I didn't. Yeah, that's me. Yeah, let's just do I know. And she's out of baby and she looks amazing Yeah. But more than that. I mean, it's a really, it's a cute film. Listen, when you hear these things like can't buy me love,

kind of similar premise of like the, the, hey, let's secretly date to get this advantage or get this other thing done. You know it's going to end with the person finding out or the truth getting revealed. There's no, there's no hidden tropes here of like, oh, this really surprised me the way it ends. But it is a very sweet, cute rom-com, more on the raunchier side of the rom-com spectrum, but still, very, very enjoyable. Matthew Broderick, Natalie Morales, who I personally do. just don't get to see enough. I think she's

fantastic. She was great in that Rob Lowe the ringer, not the ringer, whatever it was called, that Rob Lowe, one-season, hilarious sitcom that I always forget the name of with John Savage. Laura Benanti, who you heard

in there, who, yeah, it was really good. It was a lot of fun. No hard feelings on Netflix. Nice. There's an actor in that named Eben, Moss Bach Rock Bacharok

I say his last name I love this guy He was in Andor He was in Oh yeah he's in He's the brother In brother on the bear Yeah

I really like that guy Cousin Right because he keeps called cousin Yeah List's cousin He's in the new punisher He's great He's so he's very compelling

Really like that guy Yes And Bear just got renewed For a third season Yes it did And Kyle Mooney From S&L He was also on

that Hello Ladies with Stephen Merchant as well. It is a great time to rewatch Andor. Man, that is. When Evan Moss Backrock shows up, it is like the episode where you realize, whoa, this is an epic. This is not just a little series. This is an epic.

He's scary in that thing. Man. All right. Let's get to yours, Randy. We've got a clip all lined up. Oh, we should have mentioned at the top of the thing, Nicole's out today. She had an appointment, not here today. That's why we haven't mentioned her.

It's not like we have it. ignoring the fact that she's usually here right yeah but uh randy i've got to brush it under the under the the the carpet exactly i've got you this little clip here but i don't know a thing about it so tell us what we're looking at uh so uh on the most recent episode of film sac we talked about autours right we talked about filmmakers that uh kind of cover the writing and directing and often starring in their own films and uh just happened on the same day we were recording that a documentary about a pretty famous author filmmaker who you might not think of

as an autour filmmaker came out and it's super moving. I was so moved by this. All right, here's your clip. Whatever he was acting was deep inside, so much deeper than what's on the page. He has a good way of writing dialogue that's both witty and rhythmic

but also seems a bit like improvisation to some degree. Sly has a unique gift in the words you write. They're simple, they're true. There's an intent behind things he writes and says. I started really reading up on vets, and their actual words, situations, traumas.

And I thought, wow, if I could put a couple of beats from about 20 different guys' lives, jumbled them up, because Ramble hasn't spoken in years, So he's not coming out fluid. It's just this rush, this purging. Wow, fascinating. So I almost watch this. You beat me to it by like a day, I think.

This thing is so emotional. And it is ostensibly a documentary about his whole life. But really, it's about his mindset and how it gets created by his abusive father. And there's a bunch of Frank Stallone Jr. in here too, his brother. Yeah. And, uh, and what that ends up becoming as a sort of like vector through Sylvester Stallone.

Like it he is, yes, he is a successful like filmmaker. And he, and, you know, like his moment when he goes from being in a bit role in Lords of Flatbush to making Rocky is a really remarkable moment in like film history. But ultimately looming over it all is this evil man. his dad. And even in the end of this documentary, you get to, so the whole thing takes place as he's moving out of his mansion in Hollywood and he's going to move back to the East Coast, right? So he and his wife that he's had his three girls with have, they briefly separate and they reconciled. And now, like, he's decided that he needs a fresh star. He's moving from coast to coast. And even in the end of this, as they're loading stuff onto a moving van and Sly is talking about, you know, fresh start stuff. He's talking about his dad. He's talking about his dad dying and how on his dad's deathbed, he almost apologized, but not really.

And frustrated Sly and you realize everything is about this man. And it's probably true for most people that you've known that most everything about them is kind of set in motion by how their parents treated them. Sure. Yeah, I think that's probably true. There was a lot of that in the Schwarzenegger documentary as well, which brings me to my question. Does he return the favor? Because in that one, he came and did some talking about Arnold. Did Arnold come talking here a little bit?

Yes, yes. Tons of people like Arnold Schwarzenegger. And you heard in that clip, Quentin Tarantino was in that clip. Like I say, his brother talks a lot because, again, it's about their growing up. And then, like, there's just a series of happy accidents for Sylvester Stallone, you know? Like Schwarzenegger actually says, you can't name another person who invented. three franchises you know like it's like it's really hard to invent a franchise much less to pull off three and and so like there's all of these things that you might be surprised to find out you know

came along the way that helped him you know express himself talia shire is in this thing and oh really oh cool she's so moving like just ah i just want to go back and like i just want to go i want to go back and listen to her talk about her experience meeting him she kind of got cast at the last minute in his you know in rocky and and how you know how they work together and so on dude this is just this is one of the best documentaries and it's for it's for film lovers you know it's it's for people like us who who watch a lot of movies is it so one of the things i liked about the arnold one which was just called arnold i think right yeah yeah um one of the things i liked about it did not shy away

from problems like issues in his life like it didn't it wasn't just all navel gazing gloss over the the scandal and they they drove straight into which I really liked is do we get similar stuff here? Yes yes because

Sly wants to take blame for the things that he has done wrong and he doesn't want to put it on his father he wants his father to take blame for what his father did wrong right and there's a point in his life where he says, you know, now, now I'm a man, I'm making my decisions, I'm the one who gets the credit for

the good stuff and the, and the blame for the bad stuff. And after that point, I'll bet you didn't know this. After that point, his dad tried to start writing Rocky movies. Like, he was calling the real Rocky movie. Yeah, it's a mind-blowing moment in his life where his dad, who is a villain in his life comes at him with you need to make these movies that I'm writing and he's just like what that's effed up that's up wow I need to watch it I think I'm going to watch it try to watch it this weekend that seems awesome it's it's really something it's so much it just represents so much of our young entertainment time him him and Arnold and everything else that you would think of as action 80s like these guys are inseparable from that that time

and so to see them older talking about it all kind of wound up and where they're at now and family issues and all that for whatever reason I just find that super fascinating so yeah and Stallone has spent his entire life pouring all of his thoughts onto the page yeah like he just like he says over and over like when when I have a moment free I write it down and you get to see this thing like he has libraries reams and reams of paper that he's written things on and you get to see like scripts where there are pages that are entirely redacted except for one line, you know, like where he, that and that ended up being in the movie.

Did his handwriting font get larger, the more bulky he got over the air? I think what, I think what the point of all of that is that he is a philosopher. And you might, you know, you might be surprised. Like you might not think of this big, you know, ugly dude who can't speak. By the way, uh, that speech impediment comes from. circumstances of his birth. Oh, really? Yeah, he had a traumatic birth, and it led to a nerve damage in his mouth area.

Oh, geez. I didn't know that. So when he does that yell thing and his face kind of hugs one direction and not the other, that's from that. Yeah. And he learned, like, he made characters that he could emphasize that through, right? Interesting. Clever. Yeah.

Wow. But he's a philosopher. There's a ton of his thoughts about how you treat people, how. you work and so on there's like a there's a little bit of like a deep work i don't know if you've heard of that book but there's there's some of that that in here where uh you could just tell the guy spent he's in his head he thinks all the time and he writes stuff down and he's a great subject for this like i'm surprised it took this long to have this level of documentary yeah i'm excited all right that's sly that's up on netflix and available now and while you're at

watch the arnold one it's very good too they're right rivalry cracks me up. I love it. Those two. Yeah, they really, they really have grown fond of each other in their, in their other years. Oh, they love each other now, but back in the day, they freaking hated each other. I mean, they, they say as much in the Arnold one. I don't know how much more they get into it in this one, but it's very, very good stuff. Go check it out. All right. Mine is a movie. I didn't do a documentary this week. Mind-blum. I know. It's a new movie, too, and it just started, or it just aired on Prime. I don't think it got a theatrical. I hope it's up for awards because it is going to deserve them in particular for two incredible mind-blowing acting jobs and I'll play you a clip and then we'll talk about it.

He should be dead. He should be dead. Y'all know that song I'm looking for a miracle? That's a miracle right here. That's why we ask for you to look in your hearts and your soul

and award him that missed $75 million. You know why? They got it. They got it. They got the bank to do it. But they know they big, trying to step on the small man. And then you said, well, why $75 million, Willie Gary? I'm going to tell you why.

Because we have the evidence. The evidence will prove that there was negligence. Because no good Clovis had one thing going good for him at that time. even though he was drunk tank tore up from the floor up depressed and suicidal my no good client Clovis Tubbs had him a green light all right if that sounds compelling at all

it's because Jamie Fox is insane in the movie The Burial he's so good in this like not since maybe Ray I don't know what else to compare it to yeah it's his really I think it's his best work. It's so good and so compelling and so electric. It's inspired by true events.

It's called The Burial. It is about a lawyer who helps a funeral home director who's got a bunch of funeral homes in Mississippi, Southern Mississippi, save his family business from getting screwed by a Canadian billionaire. There's a whole story about why they entered into a deal in the first place and now the deal broke apart and all of this. He plays the lawyer, Willie Garrett. Willie Gary, Garrett, Gary, hold on, Gary, sorry. Willie Gary, who's a real guy in real life and was known for this bombastic, almost gospel style to the way he would get up and do cases. And he was famous for hardly ever losing a case.

In fact, I'm not sure there's a significant one where he did lose it. He would either, you know, there were maybe a couple of settlements. For the most part, he won every case he ever did. He's considered on some list of lawyers, one of the most winningest, lawyers of all time, and he just refused to lose. And there's a lot of information about why he's like that and how he's like that. But let's not forget the other amazing performance by Tommy Lee Jones, who plays the aging Jeremiah O'Keefe character. He's the one that runs these places and getting screwed. By the way, the guy that's screwing him is Bill Camp, plays a character

named Ray Lohen. Bill Camp is so good at being a dick. He's so good at it. He's so good at it. Anyway, he's the jerk in this. This is all set in the... I'm so glad to find out Tommy Lee Jones is the good guy. He's so good. He's so subtle. Like, this is a subtle performance. He's in his golden age years here.

You know, obviously Tommy Lee Jones ain't getting any younger. Sure. He puts in... It could have been phoning it in for him. It really could have. He was so good. And I think a big part of why everyone's shining so bright in this thing is the director Maggie Betts, a female director making a courtroom drama about a bunch of dudes.

There's something about that I can feel in this. There's a touch to it that's hard to explain, but it just feels like she needed to be the one to do it. And I don't know why. She's a woman of color. That probably helps because there's a lot of racial stuff in this thing. She just seems to have a touch for it all. And here's the funny thing.

This is the most family-friendly thing I've seen in years, even though it's technically rated R for maybe four or five uses of the F-bomb. So when you go into this, if you're okay with explaining to your kids, your younger kids, hey, it's okay once in a while you hear an F-bomb, I think this would be a great movie for you to watch. It's inspirational. It's aspirational. It is believable.

It doesn't feel like foam and fluff. It has a crazy good soundtrack. I was shocked by this movie. I couldn't believe how much I liked it. And if Jamie Fox doesn't win or at least gets nominated and we're all sad he didn't win at the end of the year, we are doing it wrong. He's so good in this. Like, unbelievably good in this. It's misleading.

The poster, because when I saw this, I thought, oh, it's a comedy with Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Fox. It looks like a comedy poster. It's a terrible poster. It's a terrible poster. I don't know whose decision that was. It's bad. You're not wrong. Yeah.

So this is, it's based on a New Yorker article. that was written by Jonathan Hurr, like, way back, like, 25 years ago. And Jonathan Harr is a, you know, like a white guy. He wrote a movie that John Travolta was in, like, a long time ago. But anyway, like, when you make it, when you have a popular New Yorker article, right, there's, like, art that comes along with it. And I wish they had, like, made this poster look more like that. Yeah.

No, I completely agree. it looks like a comedy it looks like ah sassy black man hanging out with an aging white man who doesn't understand the cool black guy like there's something about it it's just wrongly wrongheaded buddy legal comedy that normally I would just kind of brush past and say okay well that's not going to watch that but hearing hearing what it really is it sounds like all right this does sound really good yeah and it's 100% of drama no doubt about it there's a couple of funny things one guy I want to mention is I don't know how to say his name. Mahama Mahamadu Arth

Athi? You guys know this guy. Dude, yeah, like a year ago or maybe even more, I recommended this thing called Archive 81 on Netflix. This is a horror series about a dude who finds a portal in his apartment building. That thing is so good. And he was absolutely amazing

in it. Yeah, and he's very good in this. Like, he deserves to just keep getting great jobs and doing amazing work. He's so good in it. Also, Alan Ruck, fresh off of succession, Cameron from Ferris Bueller. Again, we could mention this episode. Keep bringing up Ferris Bueller today. But he's also amazing in this. And he plays kind of a Pud, but a Pud with a lesson to learn. And he learns it. And it's genuine. And it's a study in like, sometimes we're not being overtly racist, sometimes we're just, we have old shit in us that

that's hard to shake, you know, like just old ideas or things our parents told us or, you know, you may have a, my wife's grandfather was a KKK regional manager or something, some kind of like head of something for the KKK. And look, here we are one and a half generations later. And she's nothing like that man, right? But you have these things in your past. They're hard to run away from. The sly thing in his dad's kind of a good comparison to. And this movie knows how to deal with that and how to how to how to confront those kinds of issues. In a time where this, you know, things were still, you know, they were, they were still not perfect, but they were, it was the 80s and things were still weird.

This guy, by the way, Willie Gary's still around and even makes a cameo in the movie. And I can't recommend it enough. I absolutely loved it. and it's it really is on the shoulder of three things the writing and directing is just perfect for what it is jamey fox is insanely good worth the ticket price which is just subscribed to prime um and tommy lee jones still got it man that dude so i'm trying to i'm trying to ask a question without you giving away anything does this movie sort of end with hopefulness oh yeah hell yeah okay good not only that the whole movie kind of leans hopeful like it's

It's, in the wrong hands, this is maybe saccharin and not, and they don't handle it right. This, this, this, this movie somehow manages to, to keep its feet on the ground and be realistic about what's at stake and what's it going on and where people's strengths and weaknesses are and all that other stuff. But, but it, but it, but it heads true north when it comes to like, well, what, what is the right thing to do here? And they, and they, and they, and they do it with a couple of exceptions and they're all buttholes like Bill can. amp. But it's so well handled. And I don't even know what to compare it to. I absolutely loved it. Y'all should see it. The burial. I realize that there's no way to really ask about the overall tone without kind of spoiling something, right? Like, you know, like we heard that Michael Mann is making a Chicago mafia movie and you're like, well, I know how that's going to go.

that's that's not going to be ending with you know heroes riding off into sunsets you know it's michael man right yeah no exactly like you don't expect that out of him i don't expect scorcese to to give me a light puffy ending to anything like that's all true i and i don't know if this is like i don't know what else this director is done i didn't really look up her resume but now i kind of want to see what else is up because i was i was floored and and there are moments by the way that that are funny and fun. Like, it's not a comedy by any stretch, but there are moments where you're reminded,

oh, yeah, freaking Jamie Fox can do both real well, you know? He can be funny, naturally, and he can also do very good, serious stuff, and his pacing's incredible, his energy is incredible. It's just impossible not to be swept up there. And he can do an amazing Donald Trump impersonation for some reason. Yeah, he's really good at it for whatever reason. But one of the reviews in here says, Jamie Fox is so enormously

charismatic and commanding that it's impossible to ignore. That's how I feel. It's just really something. And I hope he's up for, I don't know if it will. If it didn't get a theatrical release, I don't think they get to be Oscar Noms.

Maybe it has to be Emmys. But he deserves it. Usually if there's a chance, they'll go and have a limited run in like New York and Los Angeles only near the end of the year, you know, just to get nominated. Yeah. Oh, I should also mention

a venerable been around forever pamela reed actress she's been in a million things you've seen her since we were kids she plays the wife of tommy lee jones in this and it's a small subtle but wonderful little role she's so good anyway i really like it it ended up being one of my favorite movies of 2023 like right up there top three probably might even be number one i don't know if i've seen anything to beat it yet this year this year's been good but i can't think of anything where i went oh yeah that's better than this this might be my favorite movie of the year. Anyway, that's it. Brian put all these up on QuickTMS.L.I so you can find them there for your perusal and convenience. Randy, what are we doing this weekend on

FilmSackers? Slackers. Oh, yeah, dude. Slackers. It's, uh, with, uh, Richard Linklater's big first real thing. That's right. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited. We'll see how it holds up. Jason Schwartzman, Jason Siegel. All the Jason's. No, wait, we're not, not that one, right? The 2002. No, that's a different one. is a slacker. Slacker. Yeah, not slacker. We should watch both to be safe.

No, we really should. Just making sure we clarify slacker, non-plural, 1990 link later. That's correct. Go watch that, everybody. We're watching it this weekend for FilmSack. Randy, have a fantastic week. All right. That is going to do it for today's show.

A couple of quick things, Chuck. You know Chuck, Amy's husband, Chuck. Yes, Amy's person, as he calls himself in Discord. Yeah, he sent us a thing. I'm going to play it. Here it is. Here you go. Hey, Snickerdoodle and Bon Bon. You were talking a little while ago about restaurants and how they handle loud children.

And I used to own a cafe in Rock Hill, South Carolina, called Cups Cafe. And on our menu, it said, please take all crying and restless children out to the patio where they may catch their breath. which people with and without children both loved. So I just wanted to share that with you guys because I thought you might find it humorous. This is Chuck for an automaton, by the way, and I just wanted to let you know I admire your program, nevertheless. Nice.

That's cool. So no one ever gave you a flack about, why do I have to take my crying child outside? Yeah, I think they liked it because... How the white Tina said that, but... I think they probably liked it because it was... I don't know, that thing at the end about so they can get fresh... Well, they can catch their breath.

Exactly. Catch their breath. It doesn't just a nice thing to say. That actually does, that does soften the blow or not soften the blow, but provide a little wink, smiley wink to it. Yeah. Words matter, I guess, is the lesson there. Thank you, Chuck, for that. Appreciate it.

Also, I'm not going to tell you about it too much, but I'm going to tell you that this Tadpool Santa, the Secret Santa, things up again or going again. Right now, the site's being a little weird. so I'm not going to give you the URL until tomorrow, maybe when it's tweaked. But be thinking about it. We do it every year. It's lots of fun. Everybody who gets involved always has a good time. And so you might get something from one of us.

Yeah. Always a plus. Yeah. We might get something from one of you. Well, we will. We better get something. This is the deal. It better get something from one of you.

That's the exchange. Anyway, Secret Santa underway. We'll get you more information and when the site is back up to its normal URL, which should be tomorrow. That's going to do it for us. Big thanks to everybody for listening at home or live or wherever you are on audio. We don't care. We love it.

We love having you here. We love having you. Check us out on YouTube wherever you're finding us. Welcome and thanks. And big thanks to everybody who's supporting us on Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS, the literal fuel that runs our engine. Brian, before we leave, we should probably play a song. Do you have one? We can play.

I think I do. Jim from Northern California wrote in and said, hey, benefits and salary. It's Jim from Northern California. Today, as he wrote this, it's November 1st, 2023, and after 38 years, two months and 30 days, or 458 months and 30 days, or 13,970 days, I will officially be retired at the age of 56. Wow. I joined the U.S. Army in August, 1985, and been wearing one uniform or another since then. There have been long days, stressful days, but mostly good days, yet I'm ready to not send an alarm and not carry a work phone and not be on call all the time. More importantly, I'm looking for the next phase of my life that will include some traveling, hobbies, and relaxing, and maybe actually listening to the morning stream live once in a while.

I've been on a foo fighters binge lately, but I'll leave it up to Mr. Carverville to find a song to kick my retirement off. Thanks to both of you for all the years of great content that made commutes and chores, less boring, Jim from Northern California. Nice. Grats on the retirement. That sounds great, doesn't it? Super, super cool. Yeah, this is, let's get to a cover. Foo Fighters, I have a bunch of covers of the band,

but I decided to go to the cover by the band and give you something that maybe you haven't heard, I'm hoping. This is something they recorded in 2008 for BBC Radio One's Live Lounge. It's a, during, like, a little radio program, they come in, they do an interview, and then they do a cover.

And it's really cool. I'd love a studio that supports something like that, and bands that would come in and do it. uh here are foo fighters and their cover of a song by arcade fire that seems to go along with your your goals of travel and uh hobbies and relaxing it's called keep the car running here are foo fighters nice and here's a little bonus for your retirement i will retire him just like i will retire you oh man it's a little ominous nice retiring one though yeah yeah i guess so anyway here's that song we'll see you guys tomorrow on a thursday edition of the show bye Every night my dreams are same. Same old city with a different head. away I don't know I'm but I know I can't stay Yeah

There's a way that's pressing down Late at night you hear the sound Even the noise you make when you sleep I can't see across the river so deep but so deep they know my name because I told him to death but they don't know where they don't know where it's coming I knew its name before it's wrong yeah

oh oh oh oh they know my name because I told it to them but they don't know when it's coming oh man

Keep the call running If some night If some night I don't come home Please don't think I left you alone Shame on place and go to and die I can't come across the mountain so high Same old cities go where I sleep Can't see the cross over so deep

They know my name because I told it to them But you don't know where It's coming The way is it coming Keep the call running Keep the tall runny. Keep the tall running.