The Morning Stream - TMS 2558: BURMP!

Episode Date: November 22, 2023

When you're Smurfing, the whole world Smurfs with you. LetFlix. Midlife Crisis, DDS. Gargamel at the Ready. Dr Douchinferts. Someone else made that haircut happen. Oh what a Feeling, Watching TeeVee on the Ceiling. Logitech Legmouse. Scott Johnson, Cobra Commander. Smartass Smurf. Flander M'Gander. Thanks for all of the Podfading Jokes. It's raining fuel, Hallelujah. Everyone Wants to Be Gaston. Alt-Man with Tom. Incredible Things We're Not Going to Know with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Oh, what a feeling, watching TV on the ceiling. Logitech Legmouse. Scott Johnson. smart ass smurf flander magander thanks for all the pod fading jokes more singing it's a rain and fuel hallelujah everyone wants to be guest on old man with tom incredible things we're not going to know with randy and more on this episode of the morning stream hi statler and beaker this is your friend primity frog here i just wanted to wish you both a very happy thanksgiving to you and yours i hope you have a lot of turkey.

How about a little smile? The morning stream. Don't eat that. It's Pluto. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to TMS. It's Wednesday, November 22nd. The year is 2023. I'm Scott Johnson, Brian Ibit.

Hi, Brian. That's right. This is as close as we're going to get this year to a, or this month to a 23-23. We've just got, we've got 11-22-23. No show tomorrow. Surprise. So no 11-23-23. Yep. And in the next year, our big hallmarks will be 2-24-24-24-24. 24-24-24. 24 24. All right. One, yes. 1-24-24 is pretty good. It's pretty good. We don't have anything that just straight up does 24s across the board because that would be a 24, there'd be a month called the 24th month, and that makes no sense. Right, exactly. But is there like a, I mean, February 4th, so 2424 is a thing. That's true. Oh, you know what? All right. So there's more possibilities in the coming year than I'm even considering.

Yeah, exactly. What else? I mean, is there a palindromic thing? Yeah, I guess April 2nd would be 4224. Yeah, so 4224 is pretty fun. Then you got, that's the only one of those. 421-24 would be the same palindrome just with an extra, as would 422. Oh, man. This is going to be a year to remember.

So April we've got, April we've got three palindromic days. Finally, finally, Brian, finally. All right, yeah, so 2024, look forward to. to it. It'll be our biggest year yet. Here on TMS. Oh, right. Today, Henrik says, reminds us, today is the 60th anniversary of JFK's assassination.

So go watch the great Oliver Stone film, born on the 4th of July. Ah, he saw something that would make you laugh, I think. Really? It was a post somewhere, threads or Twitter or somewhere, where somebody, oh, a governor of some state, I don't know who she is, is this is not a political thing.

I'm not getting into politics here. She just simply says her endorsement for president in 2024 is Ron DeSantis and she has these reasons and she has a photo of JFK and his family on some sort of vacation all hanging out when the kids were little and stuff

and then right next to it a picture of Ron DeSantis, his wife and their children all in a similar pose kind of smiling at a camera like a group photo of the family and says the reason we need DeSantis is he is as close as we're ever going to get to a modern day JFK He's young, he's here, but, blah, blah, all that's fine. Again, no judgment, whatever.

She can think whatever she wants. I don't, I'm not getting into that. But where it cracked me up is she made a list of the three things that we're looking for. Number one, strong leadership, whatever. Again, down to opinion. Yeah, exactly. Two, a devoted family man. Okay.

JFK loved his kids. Maybe, sure. Yeah, for the best I can tell. Third said, except he was hanging around with Marilyn Monroe, but okay. Oh, and that would explain number three, because number three says, number three says, number three says faithful to his wife. Oh, she might as well have said for living. Yeah.

And I went, I wanted to go, dude, you need to crack a history book. They're not hard to get. They're super recent. We have information. And it's all kind of verified. That dude was Flander Magander all the time. That's right. That's right.

Yeah. So anyway. Happy reeducation. Twitter user. oh man that was awesome anyway so uh we're here thanksgivings tomorrow so we're not here tomorrow okay just a reminder for those who think we're pod fading we're not i liked all the jokes yesterday people posting oh where's the show today they're pod fading of course of course yes but thank you for understanding as of the dentist everything went fine i got a chipped uh thing they got a fix

It's a couple of weeks away, but it all went fine. But I did have this feeling at the dentist that my dentist, who I really like, I'd love Dr. Matthews. We've been using it for 20 years. Almost 20 years. Next year, it'll be 20 years. It's insane. Nick was four when we first went there. Wow.

And Nick will be 24 next week or next year. So that gives you an idea. And we really like them. They take great care of us. I love how they always have the greatest, newest tech. They're super into that. And they invest and all that. They're great.

but I think he just turned 50 and he walks in and he is so tan and so buffed up right now and so like someone else made that haircut happen for $180 like really it's really something I expected to walk outside and see a Ferrari or some other kind of midlife sign so he's apparently going through it now what's crazy about him is he's got kids who are the age my kids are he's got like someone almost the exact same age as nick 23 24 and he's got a he's got them also in between ranging all the way down to four and I look I look at him and all of his his seemingly a little bit of midlife clothes and I go yeah you know when he's in high school you'll be in your mid 60s he didn't really did you really tell him that I did I don't think you like that before

he started putting sharp supplements in your mouth or after he laughed I mean thankfully have a really good relationship or I would never say that sort of thing but yeah it sounds like he's going through a little stuff and it's fine he's a dentist but he's extremely good at his job and so it's fine do whatever you want to do um I will say this they have this new thing or they put a big 50 to 60 inch flat screen OLED up in their office a front in front of me the patient so I'm sitting back and there's a giant TV on the wall now you might think goes out for movies or something no they have another TV on the ceiling for that because you're leaned back because when you're laying down you want to look straight up yeah right the one on the wall

they now use for you know the remote wand camera they got yeah oh yeah so they pull that around and start going in there and this giant 60 inch experience is all the inner workings of my microscopic freaking mouth hole oh man no one should ever like I got one of those one of those little those little cameras like it's yeah same kind of thing remote wand but it plugs into a little box which then plugs into your phone. You can use your phone and this little thing so I can get behind computers or what I used it for was we had to do some wires in the drywall and I needed to see where they were going where, you know, the cables and cords were going. But the first thing I did is, ooh, let's go inside my mouth. Oh, I'm never doing that again.

Yeah, dude. No, I want to, I kind of want to get one of those for the reasons you described. Yeah. But I don't ever want to see that close. I don't want to see that. And I even said to him, I said, that tooth looks like it's about to explode and it's a nightmare and we're all going to die and that's going to cost me 50 grand or whatever. And he goes, no, it's fine. This tooth's fine.

I said, well, what is that then? He goes, he gets a little exaggerating. If you get close enough to anything, there's some scum in there, right? Like nothing looks good on that camera. Everything looks like it's bad and it's going to die and it's going to kill you on its way out. Yeah, it shouldn't be inside a human body. I'm just saying, I get it. It's part of your business.

Why are you showing me? You guys look at, I don't want to see this giant screen freaking turn that shit off. But they do it from themselves. I even said to them, I said, whoa, this is a crazy experience. And he says, it's mostly for us because we're not having to squint at something or move over to look at a screen or whatever. We've got this big display right in front of us. Yeah, it makes sense. It's more for them than for you.

But it's sad they just happen to put it in a place where the patient conceived very clearly. Yeah. They all use their, everyone in this office uses a mouse on their, on their leg to like navigate, yeah, which I think is really funny. And you can see, at least on his brother's pants, his brother's part of this practice, he's a little older, but on his brother's thigh, there's, it's worn on the pants he was wearing yesterday. It's a little bit worn. So I think he's like spending a lot of time in those pants in that office going, well, navigate around with my little logitex leg mouse or whatever. Anyway, we hope you're all well. I'm going to invest in a trackball for those guys.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Perfect trackball business, right? Yeah, yeah. And you can still be wireless. You don't have to worry about all the wires. Eyeball Cindy wrote in. Yeah. She works up the street at the eye clinic that I go to every year.

I'll see in January or unless something weird happens, but I usually have a pretty good turnout over there. Anyway, Eyeball Cindy wrote in, this is about the eyedrops in the eyes and whether that could poison you or not. not. Yeah, exactly. Yep. Because what did we end up with there that we thought vizene or whatever... Yeah, Vizene, exactly. And her first sentence is exactly what I said.

And then we talked about the Vizene and how there was a Snopes thing about Insta-Kill, which is false, but it can raise heart level and stop breathing for a while or permanently, which feels like Insta-Kill to me. that does to me too yeah let's see it stopped you from breathing immediately what do you call that yeah yeah yeah exactly yeah here's what she says how did he die he died from stopping breathing his heart no longer pumped blood and air did no longer go in and out of his lungs that's that's what happened to him yeah eyeball Cindy wrote in and says hi uh you can't kill people with artificial tears like refresh or sustain and or use yeah easily just saline solution yeah And that makes sense, and that is what you said that day.

Vizene, however, is a vaso constrictor, which means that it makes the redness in your eyes go away temporarily, so you're treating a symptom, not the root problem. The more you use Vizine, the more wear and tear you cause on the pumps in your eyes that eventually they will quit working, and your eyes are Trays forever? What does that mean? I think she probably typed red forever and auto-correct, like she might have typed Rez forever instead of red forever, and it said, oh, res isn't a word, how about Trace? Trace. You probably mean trace. You mean three forever. So if you put Vizene and someone's drink, their blood pressure drops and it causes their heart to slow down.

Oh, interesting. Because what it does in the local zone of the eye, if you ingest it, is going to do to your other major. Right. It's basically, yeah, it is basically just what it's saying there. It's a vasoconstrictor, which means that it constricts the blood vessels. Getting the red out is not like it's fixing anything, except it's just, oh, they're red. Well, let's just shrink the things that are red. It won't solve the problem, but...

Right. I guess if you need temporary pain relief, that's a thing. But if it's like, just for looks, don't use it. Just like let your eye run its course. Yeah, exactly. It's purely a... How do you get the red out? Just by shrinking the things that are red.

Like, oh, no, there's a murder going on. Oh, wait. I closed my eyes and it stopped. Ah, that's better. That's like little kid logic. about if my parents don't see me i don't know if i close my eyes my parents don't see me take right exactly yes anyway so instead of using visine or anything that gets the red out in quote she says you should use artificial tears four times a day and a gel drop at night

consistency is key with red slash dry eyes love you guys eyelid Cindy or eyeball city um gel drop i've had those those were uh given to me when i had the surgery they were amazing. Like super soothing, right? Oh, Brian, it's the thicken. Your eyes are dry and itchy and all that stuff. It's the thickened liquid of eyed drops, for real. You know, I'm fine with that.

Yeah. That's a place that's fine for thick and liquid. And the first one feels a little weird, but it is like a glop that more slowly sort of covers your eye. Like you're putting a maple syrup in your eye or something. Yeah, except it's nice and cold and just like, it's actually amazing. And you can get those.

I know I could get those now. I just haven't. But those did wonders for me when I was recovering from that. So I eyeball Cindy, once again, bullseye. We're going to call you. Nicely done. Bullseye, Cindy. How about that from now?

Bullseye ball. Bullseye ball, Cindy. Yep. I'll see you in January or whatever it is. The horse on the plane thing, we got some closure on this. Well, not closure, but some explanation of how this stuff works. Someone who sounds like they sure know what they're talking about. So check it out.

Hey, Scott and Brian. This is Biff Smith, East Coast of America. calling in regards to you morning stream about the airplane so yeah airplanes have weight restrictions and if they land too heavy it could damage the airframe and or you know cause an injury or what have you so when you're talking about the horse and the airplane they had to dump the fuel so they could land under their weight limit it is very common there are limits i.e. you're supposed to be a certain altitude and or hopefully over unpopular area in order to dump that fuel but yeah Plains are basically flying around dumping fuel pretty much all the time, especially if there's an emergency of some type.

Anyway, love the show. All right. You guys keep up to great work. And happy holidays. Thanks, man. So hold on now. They're dumping it all the freaking time. It just doesn't seem good.

You know, Jeff Fuel, you know, totally doesn't just, a lot of it doesn't just kind of vaporize in the air and just, you know. Oh, sure. I'm sure it's fine. If we breathe it in. Sure. lands in the crops and ends up coating all this year's wheat harvest or whatever. I'm sure it's fine. Exactly.

That's it. Unpopulated areas. I don't like that at all. Populated by what? Just people? Yeah, exactly. Pretend to be populations of other things where there aren't populations of people. Yeah.

No kidding. Also, I noticed Claire's not in the chat. But if she was here, she'd probably be screaming. This is some kind of American problem. It sounds like it's airplanes everywhere. It doesn't matter. Yeah. We're all flying.

You want to blame Wilbur Wright? go ahead, but I'm just saying it's a thing. Exactly. The Air Ireland dumps their fuel as well. Yeah, Talley says, what a sacrifice or that's the sacrifice companies are willing

to make. So true. Yeah, that's an unfortunate truth. We also got I forgot what this is about. Oh, and what's... Yeah, I don't understand. I don't get it from that. So I guess it'll be a surprise to both of us

when you play this. What's with the couch call? This is going to piss me off because it'll remind me immediately, and I'm mad that I can't think of it. All right, well, I'm going to play the call. And then we got a couch. Oh, a cough call. Oh, okay.

All right, I just got this randomly. I totally spaced this. I got this randomly. This is all it is. If anyone in the tadpole can identify yourselves as the person on this call, this is as short as it is, too. So here it is. That's all I got.

Who was that? Are you okay? Let's hear it again. Okay. That could be Claire. Could be. That's all I'm hearing. Is anyone in there taking credit yet?

Someone says Claire. Benjin says Claire. I don't know. Maybe. And there are a lot of people with COVID and the flu right now. So maybe one of you all called in? That's really, really funny. There was some burp at the second part.

Hold on. Let's hear that again. I didn't hear a burp. Chat, remere, smoke. crack there's no burp well they're saying burm oh there was some bermp what's b-r-m-p burmp is that a word is that a word is that i don't know what that word means maybe there was some burm on the second part i don't know all right well anyone rather want to take credit write us in and correct us or send us a real call because whatever happened there you did that and hung up

so that's all i got would you get a sec and maybe while it's on talking here uh fix your discord settings because uh earlier i only heard fletcherite in here the opening show music and And I'm wondering if I missed some of that call because it... Oh, well, it's fine. That's not good. I don't want that happening. That's right. But in the meantime, I'll tell you what I did yesterday, Scott.

So obviously, with no show, it's a chance for me to do some rideshare driving, which I did. And then I was near Harbor Freight, and I decided, you know what, now's the time for me to get an air compressor that goes with my airbrush that I've had ever since art school in 1987. but you know I was like was that airbrush even still work well when I got to Harbor Freight

Harbor Freight you know you'll get some cheap stuff at Harbor Freight but oh now I'm hearing myself back up there it's fixed Oh it's a fixed okay There may be some anomalies while you're fixing while you're changing things I'm sure

So I you get some cheap stuff there and who knows about the quality of the Avanti airbrush But so far Just in messing around with it Before I put paint and stuff in there, just messing around with it and looking at reviews online, this is a pretty dang good airbrush you can get for $25 bucks at Harbor Freight with compressor. So I wanted to buy the compressor. Compressor alone was $89. With the airbrush, it was $110, so $20 more with the hose and with the airbrush and all that.

So I just said, well, it's just buy a new airbrush then. and uh nice yeah so it's gonna with all of these minies that i got for um zombie side marvel zombies zombie side it's going to make painting those go a lot faster especially like all the the shield troopers and all the innocent bystander people who've been turned into zombies and things like that um super super cool i have a question about your process yes you got these you got these Brand new Zambotide ones in, right? Yes. Talked about that and super stoked and all that.

But do you feel tempted to jump right into a new one and paint it or go back to some of the stuff you have backlogged? Like, how are you feeling about all that? It's going to be a mix. Here's the cool thing is that I know the, being a Marvel Comics nerd, I know the costumes pretty darn well. And so I'm going to be doing combinations. Like right now, I don't have a single painted wolverine, yet I have the Marvel United Wolverine, I have the Marvel Zombies Wolverine, and I think I've even got a crisis protocol Wolverine, none of the three of which are painted. So it's basically going to be like, well, let's paint all three of those at the same time with using the same, you know, yellow, blue, yellow, blue, black colors for his original costume. That makes sense.

You have it out. If you got this stuff out, why not? Yeah, especially with the airbrush, because I don't want to. The fewer times that I can change colors of paints and stuff. I used to hate that about my... The better. Yes, that's the thing I hated and having to clean that thing after every use and all that stuff. And if you don't, those things clog up and they're horrible.

Exactly, exactly. BioCal says, poor old airbrush. Never got to see its potential. Oh, no, bioCal. I used that thing for three years solid, the two years of college and then for another year afterwards for some freelance stuff that thing that thing got plenty of use yep there was that time brian did naked body paint stuff that was cool that's right exactly that was there was a ever talk about that that one of the first um podcast expos in uh ontario california might have been

the one where i met scott fletcher and everybody um there was a party one of the one of the night evening parties put on by who would have been at the time oh my gosh um somebody big in the deal back then exactly like you know previously pod show or something like that or or libson might well yeah it could have been libson anyway there was a um a party at one of the neighboring hotels to the convention center where they had food and drink and booze and a live band outside and naked body painting going on inside. Excellent. Excellent.

Yeah. I like them pasty-free. No pasties in my body painting competition. Gosh, no. Heck no. Just turn those. What do you turn those into? Little eyeballs?

Okay, that's fine. Make those giant eyeballs. And then you can say, hey, my eyes are down here. Perfect. Great. Awesome. My least favorite form of body paint is when they just make giant eyeballs on their on their foodies.

So lazy to me. I don't know why. I don't like it. Yeah. that's funny that's what it was a weird thing to have at a podcast expo especially it really was weird and i'm trying to remember like who i was hanging out with uh c c chapman was there um um uh emil and uh emil borkwin and his brother tim tim coyne was there um um dr pod there's a name i've not heard in a long time yeah tim coin yeah den class um

Michael Gohagen. It was just weird to have those. But I'm sure Fletcher might have been there as well. I'll have to ask him if he snuck out to any of those. He was at one for sure. Yeah. But I don't remember, because I've seen pictures of you two together looking like children. Freaking children in 19 or 2005.

Dude, those 20 years ago. My God. Yeah, you guys were kids. Or 18 years ago or something. Yeah. Weird. So weird. So weird.

Yeah. Those were the days, man. Those were the days. years it'll be 20 years next year right the uh coverville's 20th coverville's uh yeah anniversary september 24th 24th 24 will be 20 years of coverville and uh and that'll be it be done i'll just say that's that just about covers it for this whole entire podcast goodbye i mean what are you going to do you're going to be the simpsons he's just going to go on in perpetuity that by the way i was listening to some simpsons yesterday and here's my big complaint i think the show is still written really well

it's funny yeah not a problem but hank azaria or Sorry, not Hank Azaria, the other one, uh, Kent Brockman. Oh, um, yes, from the spinal tap, Harry Shearer. Harry Shear sounds like he's barely there. He's just, his voice is effed. He did Mr. Burns on the season premiere this year. Yeah. Everyone else sounds fine. Homer sounds like Homer. Uh, Hank Azaria's parts, all his roles are fine. Uh, but Marge and, uh, and, uh, Harry share. Both are roughing it, dude. It's bad.

Really? Yeah, they just sound old. Their voices are old. He's in his music. Julie Evner, I mean, what's Julie Kavanaugh? What's that competing for her time? I think her voice is just deafed. Oh, sure. Yeah, well, that's a that is a voice. I mean, it's all fry, you know? Yeah.

It's, it'll, that'll wreck your if you do that all day. Oh, Homer! Oh, Homer! so now she just is like I don't know it's just something I noticed last night was really shocking and every time Harry Sherer

and Harry Sherer was all over the episode he just sounded like Principal Skinner sounded like a 90 year old and look I know these guys get older it's 35 36 years of the show they were all in their 40s when they started like I get it they're old but man I just

had a hard time of it it was rough I will say though I like the guy that plays apu now and the guy that plays carl yeah they quit having uh you know white guy oh yeah of course right which makes sense yes uh they're great perfectly fine no issues i don't know who they gave hibbert hibbert somebody too somebody famous actually it's like uh oh really yeah not like uh not did they not give carl and hibbert to the same person i know they like to just jumble people to get like you're going to do 11 voices on the show that's right they only have once in a while where it's like, all right, Lisa, or yeah, Lisa, you're one person.

Bart, you'll do the bully. I think Nancy Cartwright might also do, my cat's breath smells like cat food. She does a lot of kids. She does Wiggum, she does Bart, and she does Nelson, yeah. Can't think of anyone else. Oh, and the other, the bald bully. Millhouse, does she do Millhouse?

Millhouse is, I think she does. So she's pretty busy. Yeah. Right. Hank Azari does everybody. Harry Sherer does a ton. It must be weird being Marge. You do you and your twin sisters. That's it.

Exactly. Or Lisa, which just says Lisa. That's it. Yeah. There's your fun trip down that line. Load thing. Yardley Smith. Okay, I'm going to play something for you, Brian. You tell me if this comes through, you can hear it, okay? Because I think I've fixed everything. So here. Hi, Statler and Beaker.

You hear that, right? Yep, I hear that. How about this one here? How about a little... Whoops, this one. Beautiful. Okay, we're back to normal, everyone. Nicely done. Well done.

Little live Discord support. How awesome is that? Yeah, I had a fresh install of everything, and I knew there'd be loose ends, but we'll get, we'll fix it. Don't worry. All right. I think that's it for now. Yeah. Let's move on to Babel, we got to get going.

We got shit to do here, and let's get done away up in it. Busy day. Lots of stuff. Yeah. Guess what? Wednesday's packed, everyone. Oh, whoops, this is not right. Hold on. I just added Donneway to the wrong call. Let's do it in here. All right. How about it in the place that we actually are? Yeah. Yeah. Why doesn't it? Oops. Did I call him? Hold on. What did I do? Coverville, Brian, do I leave group. Okay. I'm in our group now. You keep, you're doing it to the, you're still doing it to the, oh, never mind. left the group. Yeah, I got rid of it. I'm going to leave the group there too. Yeah,

leave that group. That group sucks. I love it. I love when you start a group and then everybody just leaves the group because you actually started it. It's just like the most like, oh. It's a pretty good time. All right. I walked into the wrong party. Let's see. We'll also add the person I think is going to be on today's call. And then I'm going to play this thing here, which will be lots of fun. And there's also some fries are done, I guess. Yeah. it's Brian Dunaway joining us. What are you doing, man? Hey, it's Scott and Brian. Invite me in. Hey. Hey. Hey. It's good to have you here. How are you, man? How was your day? That's really the question at hand.

Hey, man, the rain finally stopped and the sun is peeking out and I'm digging it. Thank God. Too wet yesterday. I thought I lived in Seattle. I'm like, what's going on? Yeah. I don't live in Seattle. What happened there, do you think? You think it just, I don't know, Seattle's... It's called weather patterns. Apparently, they change daily. I don't know.

That is weird. I'm no meteorologist. I don't care for it. I don't care for it either. We have a caller on the line. Playing with us today is Judiper, although they are currently muted. Judiper, you may not know that.

Oh, there you are. I don't want to disturb the show. Oh, you're all good. There you are. Very considerate of you. Yeah, it's very kind of you. Sounding good, too. Yeah, feel free to disturb us all you want.

It's totally fine. We're already mostly disturbed, but. So how bad can you be? Hey, Juteper, where are you from? I'm from Bardstown, Kentucky. Nice.

Bardstown? Where is Bardstown? It's way down there. It's Bourbon capital of the world. Yeah, dude. Nice. Sounds like a place I need to visit. Is it Bard like a musical,

a fantasy character barred? Or is it a... Okay. What is it then? Okay. It's just... Barttown. It was just the town of the town.

You sound like me. I live in Greenwood. Yeah. Yeah, I live in Bardstown. That's, yeah. Okay, that's great. Most of us, I don't know if you've been sampling some of the local product? I have.

I just turned 21 this year. Yeah, that is right. Well, congratulations. They just, yeah. He's actually the whole, there you go. He's the whole facility. They just squeeze him, and it just, it just, it just, it just, it's, blow he's the entire thing

well I'm really happy you're here we tried to do this last week and we couldn't get him through but we got them to do today so we're happy to have you Brian why don't you explain what he could win today if we properly played his game happily happily to do that it's time to play the tadpull if you I've surveyed the tadpole on some nerdy topics

and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers they gave us it's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess Juniper your call is or your job and your call that's important to us please hold the line. Your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either

Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you'll get a prize package. That includes say no. More. No. It's a game called say no. Wait.

Exclamation point, more. More. And Skull Girls second encore. Oh, Skull Girls is great. That's a good game. Fun game. Fighting game. It's good stuff.

Is it subtitled hubba hubba? I don't think that's... No, I added that. That's the downloadable. That's the DLC. Yeah. Big thanks to Dwayne Coyle for sending us those games right there. Excellent.

All right, let's get this show on the road. Put your hands on your buzzers and answer this. We ask 446 Tadpoolers to give their best answer to this. Name a cartoon bad guy, you most... Brian? Gargamel. Show me gargabell. number four answer on the board well done what a weird one to have at the ready you're weird man that's funny

I will repeat the whole question for Scott name a cartoon bad guy you most identify with oh man cartoon bad bad guy okay I almost instinctively yelled Immorten Joe and that would have been wrong all right cartoon bad guy let's go with a cobra commander from GI Joe Oh, are you good at me. I don't relate to him at all. I just couldn't think of anything. Who doesn't identify with Cobra Commander? Shall we Cobra Commander?

Oh, come on, you lazy burles. Early, nobody identifies with Cobra Commander. Did he even make the list? That's a really good question. Shite. He talks like this. Oh, yeah. Number 25, four people said Cobra Commander.

All right. Thank you, four people. But that means, Brian, you and Juteper are going to be working together. Look at you two. joining forces in the south will rise again. Oh, man. By the way, you can call me Judah. Judah.

Judah. Judah, I like it. Not Judas. Your guts aren't going to fart out the back end of your butt when you turn Jesus in or whatever you did. It's the judiper is supposed to be like a play on Jupiter. Oh, Jupiter like the planet. I like space.

Yeah. Makes sense. Make sense. I also like space. Go ahead. 21. I'm just trying to think at 21, was I into space?

I think so. Yeah. Yeah. No, you were spacey are right. There's way worse things to be in your 21. That's awesome. Astrophysist, man. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Physist? All right.

Brian and Judah. What else he got? What other cartoon bad guys you think of? Hey, Judah, you're like 21, so you've probably seen some more modern cartoons. but hey hey i've got one that i think you did that just i think it may i'm kind of i don't know do you think it was on purpose don't know let's make a bet i say you didn't mean to say that the way you did what i say so what you said hey judah yeah hey judas like hey jude say oh yeah yeah

hey judah oh my gosh that's amazing and look this 21-year-old knows what the beetles are it's fine all right You guys, sorry, go ahead and commiserate. I just thought that was hilarious. So I'm an old man. And when Scott, when this question got asked and Scott didn't instantly pull out Skeletor, I was like, what? Of course. What?

Yeah. Everybody wants to be Skeletor. Come on. Go with that one first. Sure. I identify with them. I'm surrounded. Actually in the tadpole.

So come on, he man. You've got to be getting me. Come on. Until next time. Hey, man. Hunglers. All right, let's see if if everyone feels like

they're surrounded by incompetent boobs. Yeah. Yeah, number one answer on the board. Absolutely. Skeletor. How stupid am I? That should have been an easy answer.

Yeah. I was shocked, I said. And then Scott's like, Cobra commander. I'm like, don't do drugs. You could have even said Destro. Destro would have been a better. answer. Oh, Destro is cool. I love

him. Hey, Judah. What do you think? Don't feel so bad. I'm thinking like a really old here, but Wiley Coyote. Ooh, Wiley O'Cote is a very, yeah. Wilee. Willie Cootie.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Because he's Wiley. That's right. And once that Roadrunner does one thing to tick you off, I mean, you just want, you read, after the second episode, it is purely revenge. Yeah. You're right. Every time. He may have started wanting to eat the Roadrunner,

but after, started with episode two, it just really became a revenge fantasy. I just want Wiley Coyote's credit extension that he has at the Acme Corporation. He doesn't even have pockets, but

whatever. I think he sells his blood. Show me Wiley Coyote. Yeah, number two answer. Look at that. Dude, you guys are killing it. Look at that. Nail it.

Well, we're getting low points. We're getting, we're getting, uh, getting the low hanging. We're getting. Yeah, yeah. But it's, boboo, all right. That was my only one.

I can't think of anymore. Hey, I have good news for you. Dunaway is a massive 80s, 90s cartoon. Oh, boy. So you're in good hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're in good hands.

The problem is, am I going to guess what these people say? because my second instinctual guess was going to be everybody wants to be guest on. Oh, my Lord. What? Is that true? Wow. Do movies count or I guess you didn't say? Yeah, cartoon, bad guys.

Movies are cartoons too. There's a whole song about how awesome guest on is. I mean, and how everybody wants to be guest on. Dude is buff. He's got good hair. Yeah. Yeah, sure. Is that, so we're going with Gaston?

Yeah, that's fine. I'm good. What do you think, Judah? Is that a good one? Well, wait, what are you going to say? You got another one? That was it. That was the one.

That was the one. That was a good one. But if you disagree, all right, let's do it. We'll go with that one. All right, sounds good. Show me guest on. Oh. Son up a butthole.

I knew the tad pool wasn't cool enough. I could take. They were pretty close to cool enough. It, uh, Gaston did make the list. Where is Gaston? I'm surprised about that. Tide for 56th. Okay. Oh, gosh. Wow.

That's way down there. That's way down there. Yeah. All right. I'm going to go with Megatron because everyone loves Megatron. That's amazing. Who doesn't want to be a giant gun? Right?

Not only that, but you can only be fired. You can only get fired by a talking tape recorder. That's the only way you can get on. Another giant robot. You are, you are using. without another robot. Such a weird gun, too. I could never tell

what size they wanted to be. It's like a bazooka. Sometimes it was like a handgun. Like, that thing's upped up. But we still love him. He's great. Sure. All right.

I want to be Megatron. Show me Megatron. Oh. Are you kidding me? No more. Optimitigman is a lot higher on the list. Number 20 on the list was Megatron. You're getting there.

We got word on the street. His reaction to him not being on the list. No more Optimus Prime. All right, leave him alone, then. Oh, but I'll have to be sprym. Back to you guys. Okay. What do you think, Yogi?

Anything? Oh, Lord. I mean, some of the, some of my favorites, some of my favorites, I'm going to movies again. I'm going to the movies. Sure. Why do I keep going? And that's fine, right? I'm not going to get dean for that, am I?

Yeah, do it every one. There are, in the entire list of feud responses, there were lots of movies. Okay, well, good. All right. So, oh, but that sounds like a bunch of bullshit. So, Drew is who I love. I think Gru is an amazing. He is the, he's the good guy, bad guy.

Who's Gru? Oh, Gru. Drew, Minions. Right, right, right. Dispeakable me, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a whole generation of people who love that.

Let's see if it's on there. Or do you think we should go old? old school cartoons. Go ahead. Will you be a bad guy, though? Because in the second, in the couple movies after, he's always, yeah, he's always trying to be bad there.

That's a good question. He gets redeemed. Oh, no. You know, redemption. That's true. All right. Redhead redemption. That's a good question.

You think, Drew? You don't want to, okay. We could, hang on. But let's rethink that. Let's think it. Let's rethink it. I've learned one thing in today's episode. My favorite cartoons I watched during the 80s.

are going to be dungeons and dragons. Sure. I've learned one thing in this interaction so far. Here's the number one truth we take away. We need Judah to come to TMS Vegas. He needs to hang out with us. He would be, he's old enough to hang around the casinos and stuff,

and he seems like the kind of guy. I feel like I'm a pretty laid-back guy. I am, I am man. You've been to Judah. Yeah, Judah is a whole new level here. I'm loving it. I'm here for it. All right, sorry.

Go ahead. I think once we get, pulse of what they got going on. I think we'll do pretty good. But we got to get in the lane of what these cartoons are. Now, I said Gargamel. That was okay points. Um, I love Vinger from Dungeons and Dragons. And the only other absolute bad guy I can think of, it just off top of my head is a claw. Oh, yeah. From Inspector Gadget. So Inspector Gadge, do you like that? Is that the war? Yeah. Do it. Let's go with that one. Do it. Okay. Let's do the claw.

Claw or Dr. Claw Show me. Dr. Claw. Number seven. There's the points. There we go. Now we're tapping in. Now we're tapping in.

Now you're cooking with gas. All right. Very good. Six answers still on the board. And less than nine minutes to do it. Let's go. We got it. So you're saying.

Well, if he hadn't called me so late. Okay, then fine. We'll go to our 90s kids. We'll go to our 90s kids. What about? everybody's favorite shredder. I don't want to be shredder, though. Does anybody want to be?

How much does it? It seems like to me nobody's actually using the question the way Brian pointed in it, which is like, they're picking names of things they would never want to be.

Who wants to be Gargamel? Freaking nobody on this planet. These people are, these people are voting like people vote when they go to vote for local elections. Yeah.

Hey, I know that name. Yeah, I know that name. Gargamel's whole thing is revenge, too, because as we learn from this week with John Oliver this last weekend. Gargamel was, he was poisoned by the Smurfs in the first episode, so it was all pure revenge.

This is true. That was a very good episode. Gargamel was his mind in his own business. As a matter of fact, his birthday is on Halloween. And what does, what does, it was a smart ass murf,

the one that blows up the boxes and stuff, he sends one to Gargamel on his birthday. Smart ass. I'm sorry, Jokey Smurf. There was a joky smurf. Anyway. Oh yeah.

He had little boxes, and when you open the ribbon, it would go, did he stand in front of a brick wall and go, what's the deal with airline food? Was that kind of joking? Yeah, asked about airline tickets. And dogs are all like this. And dogs are all like this. Do you guys ever notice that lady smurf over there doesn't wear any pants?

Am I right? We only have seven minutes. We only everything has to say smurfing. You ever notice that when you're smurfing, you, uh, Sorry, yes, we do only have seven minutes, Brian, you're right. What about Magneto from X-Men? I love that. That's a little later, but yes, I do like Magneto in the X-Men cartoons.

Yeah, yeah. It was, it was. Yeah, he was great on there. Let's do it. Magneto. Show me, Magneto. No. Number 12, just outside of the top of that.

It was, yeah, very, a lot of people do sympathize and, say, you know, some of you humans need to bow down before us superhumans. And I can really do that. Scott, back over to you. I'm going to go with a movie choice today. Let's go with Scar from the Lion King. Ooh, that's good. He's got his own little band of hyenas that follow him.

That's good. That's right. All right. Show me, Scar. Are you kidding me? Really? having a hard time tapping into what the tad pool is. I think shredder.

I think we're going shredder. I think, once again, I think name recognition is what it's all about here. Okay. The turtles are big again. The turtles are as big as ever right now. Do it. Do shredder. All right.

Show me. Last strike. Let's see what you got here. Show me. Shredder. Oh, come on. I knew I should have went with that. All right.

I won't say it. 49th. shredder really technically tied for 40th place because everybody those are all the two answer all right I'm gonna try I'm gonna guess that people are thinking a little more modern me

all you gotta get is like one of the lower lower ones you that's true it's a couple it's at least two all right so right now everybody's I just watched all the fatalities for the Mortal Kombat 1 DLC and so I think on the mind is

Omni Man so probably Omni Man's on here oh that's really good. He's a villain. I mean, all I want to do is just wreck your planet and take it over. Show me Omni Man. Oh! All right, let's see what you guys missed.

I want to start M-ROMRA. No one did Mumrah. No way. Always one of my favorites. A lot of folks in the chat room were shouting this one out. Fiddeus and Furb, I never saw it. But, Dr. Dufon Shepin That's a great one.

I don't think about modern stuff. Is that a real name? Duchen, what is it? Yeah. Dr. Dufusen. He's a great, he's a great character. Duchen Fertz. Duchen Fertz.

Oh, man. Somebody quickly get on that title. It's Duchen Fertz is what you're looking for. It's amazing. From the TV show Pinky in the Brain, we have. Oh, my gosh. Pinky in the Brain, of course. 90s kids.

Gosh, dang it. From the SpongeBob Square Pants, we have. Plankton He's good Well He's great He's a villain For sure

He's totally He's great Name recognition though Call on it Sure From the Specifically people Were referring

To the Harley Quinn Version of this But Joker From Harley Quinn Bain also Didn't make the top ten But it was also in there And I put Bain higher

The Joker as far as A villain I Identify with He's so great Give me back my pasta maker. What's going on? No one wants to come to my party. He's just the funniest character. They kill it with that. I mean, you got to, we all owe Christopher Nolan a thanks for making that character the way it was and Tom Hardy for doing it the way he did because now the

cartoon has this thing that is priceless. It's so good. Yeah. Totally. And that is, that's Alan Tudic, right? Doing the voice? No, that's, um, he's clay face. Oh, Clayface is who I'm thinking of. Yeah. I don't know who does have to bane. I'll look that up. I'll look it up while you're giving us the rest of these. Look it up on doing this. Number nine, Dick Dastardly and Muttley from Wacky Wacky races.

We're all over the places now that's old. I never would have been able to guess any of these. Right, well, and number 10, might have said this, but didn't go with it. Groo. Good points. That would have been great points. That would have been.

It didn't matter. Because you had enough. You had plenty. you had plenty of points to win and congratulations to judah you are going home with these prizes i'm going to put them in uh discord right now congratulations you're a winner you did it man this is where i'm at big loss for me but uh i'll zip through a few more of these just to let you know squidward poison ivy elmer fud maleficent harley quinn mojo jojo lex luther Mr. Burns, Mr. Freeze,

Snidly Whiplash, or Snidly Whiplash, Bluto slash Briniac. No, right. No brainiac, no. Ridler, Syndrome, Ursula from Little Mermaid, poor unfortunate souls, Doc Gok, Ice King, Jafar, Crunk, Star Scream, Thanos.

Who doesn't agree with Thanos when you're out driving and it's all traffic? The Grinch, the Monarch from Venture Brothers, and Isma or Isma, I don't know. Oh, Izma is great. Kit. What's her name? She used to be the... Emperor's New Groove?

That's who I was thinking is Emperor's New Groove. Yeah, but it's played by... She played Bat... No, she played Catwoman in the old series. The old... That's her name. She was one of the Cat. Lee Meriwether. Hertha Kit.

Eartha Kit. That's it. Eartha Kit. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, that was one of her best last thing she ever did was that... He's my character. She's fantastic. Anyway, well, there you go. Man, big winner this week. Nicely done. Oh, right. Thanks for calling in, and also happy 21st, and don't, you know, moderation, okay? Moderation in all things. Don't drink too much, bourbon from where you live. Got it. And hold your local and state leaders to account, and we'll see you later. Bye now. All right. He won. Brian, you lose just because I'm kicking you out. You lost. I mean, you won, but you're leaving.

Later today, 430 today, Mountain Time, we'll be doing play retro, and we're not doing it Friday like normal because of all the holidays. shenanigans. So if you want to see Play Retro, watch it tonight. I'll be all done and dusted with DTNS. We would roll straight into that. And we talk about the South Park N64 game, which is the most Thanksgiving, leading us to Christmas video game ever made on the N64, in my opinion. Yes. Thank you, Tass for suggested that. I think Tass may be in the chat room. That's finally forgot who suggested it. There you go. Nice. South Park. Well, I like him. He is, 1999. Yeah, seven or eight, eight, I think. 98. It was after the first season.

That's right. It was the first season of the South Park. So old. Yeah, very old. And you could throw snowballs at each other kind of shooter style. It was kind of amazing. So we're going to talk to us. What time did you say you're doing Play Retro? 430 Mountain today. So watch for that. What a great timing. I'll be well done with Coverville. Way before then. Good. Good. I don't like when we cross over because I'd like everyone to have their time. Give people plenty of pre- Thanksgiving entertainment, which is the best thing.

That's right. kiss our butts. And there he goes. Can't even respond. Can't even say anything. We're going to take a break. When we come back from said break, we will spend some time with Tom Merritt for a little bit of tech time because it's his day, damn it. And then after that, recommendals

before that a song. Brian, you have said song? I have a song, and I'm so excited about this because I've talked about how much I love Power Pop. You know, you look at Power Pop as being stuff like Nick Lowe, Dave Edmonds, uh the knack uh the kinks and i'm gonna go i'm actually going to point to the knack right now because

the uh song i'm going to be playing feels like it was right up there with my shirona and good girls don't and uh all those songs that made the the the knack think that they were bigger than the beetles at the time uh this is uh their sophomore studio album uh it's called the blips again came out uh last week and last friday via cornelius chapel records this is the first single from it it's called What is it called? It's called Stay Up from the brand new album from The Blips called The Blips Again. Here is Stay Up.

Because I'm done when somebody Oh, ain't going to still Stay up to the sun comes But the morning going home with both of my kids I'll get in the field The Nick Rock is always a bit And that wheel is always going Still, stay up to the sun comes

I'm going still Stay up to the sun comes, stay up to the sun comes I ain't die remote is all going if somebody don't want to have fun and still stay up to the sun comes So on it going to be On the front of it going home with my speeds

I'll get loaded The next rock is always a bit And that wheel is always going to stay Stay up to the sun comes I'm going to step Stay up to the sun comes I ain't tired of one because of the gun No, somebody on the right for

No step Stay up to the sun comes I'm going to stay Stay up to the sun comes I don't steal Stay up to the sun comes When you clean your house this fall Mr. Clean will clean it all

Dirty ceilings, walls and floors Basement stairs and halls and doors Mr. Clean gets rid of dirt and gram and grease in just a minute Mr. Clean will clean your whole house And everything that's in it You guys sound kind of sparkly And we've returned. Who was that one more time?

Sure. Those are The Blips from their brand new album, Again! That's a song called Stay Up. Sounds like, I'll remind me of, again. Oh, nothing up my sleeve. Presto, the whole thing.

Exactly. It's supposed to sound like, yeah, I'm supposed to remind you of... Exactly that, right? Is that the whole thing? Again! I love that. All right, that is it for that. Oh, you know, we could have said,

was Boris Baddanov on that list at all? Did you say? No, no Boris Badenoff. I'm kind of surprised about that. What's wrong with you people? Come on. Yeah. Gargoyles, Gary from Pokemon,

side show Bob. Yeah, the best Bob. Tom from Tom and Jerry. I feel like Tom from Tom and Jerry should have been higher on the list, really. I agree. Or the bull from Tom and Jerry. was pretty good. Oh, yeah.

Was that, was his name Ferdinand also? Was it Ferdinand? Like, does it play on the whole Ferdinand, the bowl? Oh, I don't know. It might have been. I love those cartoons, though. I'm going to go find out. Let's do a deep dive later. Great idea. Excellent idea. In the meantime, we got this. Please, let's be civil. Tom, play us a quick solo to show everyone how hard you've been practicing.

You heard the man. Tom Merritt is here to talk about that and other things in the tech world, because that's what we do on Wednesdays. Tom Merritt, joining us from Los Angeles, California. Hello, Tom. Well, hello, Brian and Scott. Oh, thanks, man. Los Angeles, California. That's right. Represent. You're the Tinsletown of,

no, you're literally in Tenseltown. That's me. Sort of. Tinsletown. Yep, always hobnobbing with the rich and the famous. Yeah, like, Stuart Dogg. All those things. Yeah, this is all true. Everything we say is true. Here is what's true. Tom works on tech news all week, really. And today, no different. We have to have tech talk today. So let's get a little preview. What's going on out there?

Well, the upshot of the story that's probably going to lead daily tech news show today is that OpenAI has dismissed three of its board members, five of its board members, five of its board members, and added two new board members. But nothing else has changed. Oh, my. So wait a minute. Sam. Did you all follow this? Did you all follow this? Yeah. So it's a, I thought, five minus two plus three.

Wait, quick. I gave you the end. The end is that one board member sticks around and there'll be an investigation into what happened this past weekend when Open AI CEO, Sam Altman, was fired. Greg Brockman, the chairman of the board, was dismissed from the board, then quit. Then most of the rest of the company threatened to quit and all go work at Microsoft. Microsoft said, we totally back open AI. We also totally will hire Sam Altman and all the Open AI employees if they want to work here. And then it was drama, drama, drama, Game of Thrones, Succession, et cetera, et cetera.

And finally, last night, late last night, they got an agreement. Sam Altman is returning as CEO. Emmett Shear, former Twitch CEO, had been interim CEO, he'll depart. And the only member of the board staying is Adam DeAngelo. He happens to be CEO of Cora, which has their own AI product. He will stick around for the initial board. The initial board will then add former Salesforce CEO. And former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Larry,

Oh my gosh. That is a, that's a weird one. I didn't see that one going for summary. Was he already there or that's a new appointment? No, he's new. Oh, he's new. Okay. So when I was hearing about this, I thought it was settled with Sam Altman's going to Microsoft. And I thought, well, that's, that's it for that. But then I was Sunday. Sunday Microsoft said, we're welcoming Sam Altman to head up a new division at Microsoft. But, you know, these things are always only as firm as everyone involved wants them. to be. And with the employee revolt happening at the same time, the open AI board, the remaining Open AI board felt pressure. So the board used to be the DeAngelo guy who's sticking around, Altman, Brockman, and two other folks, I want to get their names right, Toner and Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner and Tosha McALE, and OpenAI's chief scientist, Ilya, Sutskiver. Sutskiver seemed to be the swing vote. Everybody was saying, well, Sutskovers much more conservative about the dangers of AI, and so he led the revolt. But then he posted on Sunday, I regret this, I will leave and go to Microsoft as well, which made it look like, okay, so now you've got three board members who didn't leave the revolt, what's going on. But it's still dragged on from Sunday until Tuesday night before they agreed.

and then Toner and Macaulay stepped down, leaving DeAngelo. And again, you get Brett, I keep wanting to say Brett Stewart, Brett Taylor and a former Salesforce CEO as the board chair. And Larry Summers joining the board, which, yes, is a little surprising, but he does bring a lot of regulatory experience. So Open AI is going to need a lot of connections in the government and things like that. So that seems to be why they would bring him on. Okay, that makes sense. I went to chat GPT yesterday and I

asked it. Please describe in a couple of paragraphs the current goings on and controversy happening at OpenAI and its answer was I'm sorry I don't have data past 2022 of April or April. Oh, because it was the free person.

Yeah. I asked Bing. Yeah. But it didn't really get Bing. It didn't help. It just said like over the weekend Sam Altman was dismissed, but the negotiations go on it was actually you know decent sure it was a decent factual account but it didn't give me a special insights the people the staff and the employees and the others there they really

do seem pretty dedicated to sam altman as as he they liked his leadership and they liked the dude um and you saw a lot of postings from people who just work around or in we know a few people who work at open a i and they were very complimentary of the man um so i think there was like an initial feeling of like oh another greedy CEO doing pulling some kind of weird what and instead it's a lot of stuff we don't know and the investigation will be interesting but tom what i'm really waiting for is the twenty 26 Netflix three-part documentary they'll tell us what happened right it feels like that's what always happens these tech companies do something weird and there's always a dog what are we thinking alt-man alternative alternative man uh the story of sam altman altman intelligence oh

Oh, look at that. The smartest computer in the room or something. I don't know. I don't know what they're going to do. But it's fun. I like corporate intrigue personally. I'm a fan of it, even though it affects all their lives. This one was for the agents, right?

Like, it took everyone by surprise. Nobody saw it coming, including Altman. And then just immediately devolved into, you know, unprecedented stuff like most 95% of the company signing a letter, including the guy who is credited with leading the revolt against Altman, Sutskiver, signing a letter saying, you don't, you don't bring him back. We're all leaving. And Microsoft said we have jobs, so we're not worried. Yeah, I don't, Microsoft's like, all right. And actually, Sautin Adela played this perfectly, which was, look, we have locked up rights to open AIs intellectual property. So whatever happens, we're not losing that. And we're going to

keep working with Sam Altman. If we have to hire him and all his staff to do it, great, we'll do that. We'd prefer for it to just continue under a stable regime so we don't have to rebuild everything from scratch. Maybe we could make that happen. And it does look like these three board members are the first three of what will be a nine-person board is what everybody's reporting, and that Microsoft is considering whether they want a seat on that or not. It could provide some regulatory issues if they do conflict of interest and stuff, but then it could help them keep this from happening again. So I could see why they might want it. The other thing to remember is open AI has this funky structure. Some of you may have looked into this where open

AI itself is a non-profit. It's 5013C company with a public benefit mission to develop safe AI. That's at the core of one of the theories about this dispute. And the board is not beholden to the shareholders of OpenAI Global. OpenAI Global is a for-profit company that is owned and governed by OpenAI, but is 49% owned by Microsoft, 49% owned by various investors and employee shares, and then 2% owned by the actual OpenAI company itself, but structured in such a way that OpenAI's nonprofit company has full control of that. So the board members unusually are not answerable to the shareholders because they're not the board of the for-profit company.

They're the board of the company that governs the for-profit company. Wow. What a tangled web, man. Yeah, right? Crazy. Well, when something's that big, this is what you get. When things take off and go crazy, it turns out it's a little complicated. Side note.

It just get peaked. Yeah. Yeah, there you go. Now, I have a little side note about this. I think that it's very interesting that DiAngelo was the only other name bandied around along with Sutskova at first, and he's the guy staying. And with him staying, some stories were leaked to the New York Times that maybe Toner was one of the problems with Altman. But DiAngelo, the only person on the board with a potential conflict of interest in that Cora has a competing product. It's got GPT.

That is interesting. So I will say, so a couple things. I always think that a guy named toner arrives in a like a 50, maybe a $50 car, but the person themselves is very expensive and you have to replace them all the time. You're always having a new toner in, you know what I'm saying? Secondly, they, and just like we saw, they run out. That's right. They run out of toner.

You got to shake them up before you put them in an office. Exactly. I, so I just randomly saw this yesterday, but there was a video of Satchinadella 30 years ago or so doing videos on how to use Excel. It's amazing. Yeah, real low-level stuff and long before he would, you know, arrive where he is today. But if anyone wants to track that down, you can find, just look for Satchanadella, you know, Microsoft, Office, how-to or something. And there's a whole YouTube video of him showing everybody how Excel works. It's fantastic.

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Get some more Sam Altman talk going on there. Altman. All right. We're going to bring in Randy. He is showing his offline, but I don't believe it. No, don't believe it for a second. Mm-mm. I don't believe it.

I just don't. I don't buy it. I don't ken to it. Is that how they say it? I don't ken to it. that's a way of saying it I don't I don't ken to it or can to it

whatever it is maybe they do it in the dark tower books use it but I think it's a real saying and thank you can say it's an old Western kind of thing I think so like I I can't it's a way of saying I I'm into it or I agree or I'm all there or something like that

oh he didn't answer this is weird hold on no Randy what are you doing man how come Oh, okay Didn't Discord have a little side tray Oh, there he is I think I see him now

All right, here we go, let's do this Well, what do you recommend? Oh, yes, that's right Let's recommend some streaming content from various streaming services And let's do it Or pal Randy. Hi, Randy, how are you?

Good morning, morning, stream. I am doing great. I hope I sound okay. You are getting the power of the AirPods Yeah, look at you. You sound fine. Yeah, you sound good. It's not quite, you know, it wouldn't be, we wouldn't allow this for film sac.

No, it's not your warm normalness, you know. Yeah, yeah. But we'll take it. Well, I, okay. But you're in a pinch. You're out of town, right? You're like on vacation with the film. No, I am not.

I'm just out of the room. Oh, all right. So really, you could just walk back to the room. I could. You could. I could. Yeah. But I'm not, I'm not going to.

Uh-huh. because it's just too far. I can't do this. That's what I figured. Hey, but it's good. It's good to have you here. We're going to talk about stuff we've all seen and recommended or will recommend on streaming services.

Hopefully all of us like something. Nicole's out in an appointment today. She'll be back hopefully next week. And let's dive in. Brian, we're going to start with you. Tell us about your clip and what you got here. Absolutely. This is one that I was excited to see, but I did wait for all eight episodes to

to fully arrive before I start. started watching them because I did want to binge this one. This is one I didn't want to wait. And I'm glad I did. I really enjoyed this. Probably get it from this unusual orientation video that you're about to hear. Oh my. Here we go. I know there must be many thoughts going through your mind right now. Is this the right place for me? Do I belong here? Well, let me assure you that we see something in you, something you may not even see yourself, even if you do have X-ray vision. I'm super focused. I'm super inclusive. I'm super inclusive. I'm super. I'm super. curious. I'm super able.

What kind of a super are you? I'm Dean and Deerichetti. Congratulations and welcome to Godalkin University. We've trained the best and brightest young heroes since 1965. But more

than that, we're a family. A community of supportive faculty and peers who will accept you as the unique, culturally rich change agent that you are. Perhaps you'll join the Crimson Countess School for performing arts. Alumni include stars from such shows as so you think you've got super talent.

Or maybe you'll be accepted into the Lamplighter School of Crime Fighting. You can become the best crime fighter you can be with classes like victimology and self-offense. So whether you want to walk the mean streets or the red carpet, Godalkin is a safe space for you to thrive. We're super excited to meet you. Did I hear some Mr. Crabbs? at the start of that. You did. That is Clancy Brown, the head of one of the schools, the Godalkins schools there, not the dean. We also heard from Dean Shetty. Got to see that carefully. That is Gen 5 or Gen. Actually, you said really is Gen V.

Which is it? Which is it? I've heard multiple ways. It's Gen V. It has to be V, right? Because. Yeah, because this is that V is what the what makes people super. Yeah, the shots, the injections and stuff. It's a spin-off of the boys, and it focuses on a college, basically somewhere between Professor Xavier's school for gifted mutants and Hogwarts, somewhere between the two, because you've actually got a sorting hat kind of thing that helps determine which of the schools you'll go to. Will you go crime fighter or will you go performing arts major? So obviously because it's a spin-off of the boys It has that same level of dark, dark humor

It's also got that same level of nudity Which is all male nudity So you're welcome, ladies Oh yeah What do you mean ladies? That's true True, we appreciate the And there are plenty of not ladies

In our audience who would appreciate the malnitity as well Sure Of course It's a very interesting kind of dark secret that the school holds you won't find out about I won't tell you about that

you'll find out about that as the show goes but it does focus on a group of students that that help uncover this dark secret and what they do about it you do get a couple of cameos

I won't say who who shows up but you do get some of the seven and there you go is it is like what's the word here is it is bloody violent yeah all those things it's all it's all in it it it does not feel like a kids kids show version of the boys this is a spin off of the boys that feels like the boys that uh uh just happens to feature kids yeah

or younger younger students still the same some some biting social commentary all that kind of stuff going on uh you know some some some yeah i mean obviously the there is a lot of well there's a lot of transgender stuff which is very very interestingly presented in a obviously a way that you don't normally get in a

non-superhero comedy drama or dromity which is really really interesting so would you would you compare this to when we had a couple of seasons of the rebooted Dr. Who, and then we got Torchwood.

Is it like that? Oh, Torchwood. That's an interesting comparison. I mean, not the same kind of show, obviously, right? No, but that's a really, that's a very good. It's far better than the X-Files spin-off. The, one of those kids? Actually, there were a couple.

There was the, oh, my God, the three, the three conspiracy guys, the heck were there. What the gunmen? The lone gunmen. Lone Gunman, thank you. But then you also got Millennium, right? It was a staff of the X-Files. Far better than those. I never saw Torchwood.

I watched all of, I've watched everything, Doctor Who since the reboot. Oh, see, I really like Georgewood. Yeah, I love Torchwood. I liked it more than, well, I've only seen very little Doctor Who, so I can't really say that. But I really did like Torchwood and of the, and I really like Millennium, actually. Oh, did you? Super rad. Not a lot of people agreed with me, but I thought it was cool.

I was into it. Well, I think you'll like this then. Yeah, like the boys, it's on Amazon Prime. No surprise there. Eight episodes. It's been renewed for season two. Thank goodness because, boys, they're a nice little cliffhanger at the end of season one. I think it did really well for them.

I think they got a lot of eyeballs on it. I'm not surprised. Boys, you know, right now the boys are, it's a popular franchise. so anything people are ready for more stuff from that universe and somebody said it leads this i don't know who said in the chat but that this season of the boy or sorry gen v leads directly into season four of the boys it does and it makes sense because basically you're trying when you're at this school you're trying to get you're trying to graduate and be invited to join the seven so anything that that uh you know that you can do to kind of connect to that main um that

main team from the boys kind of gives you that connection. Are there any scenes like a tiny, tiny little man inside of someone else's urethra and then having them explode? Is that at all represented here? There is stuff like that. Okay, wonderful. One of the, um, there's a

woman on this named Elizabeth Broadway or Lizzie Broadway and she is fantastic. She plays the roommate of the main character. Her name is Emma, but she also is known as Little Cricket. Um, and she can shrink

down and you find out what she has to do to shrink down and um okay and what uh you're really selling this like you're selling it so well i really have tried to these incredible things that we're not going to know unless we watch it i know i really don't want to give away because there is so much like not really shocked value but like oh wow okay that's not something i was expecting but I guess when you think about superheroes and sex or people with superpowers and sex, yeah, I guess that would be a thing. Yeah, and they're not afraid to do that on the boys. I don't know why they would be afraid to do that here.

Not at all. And then I just looked through the whole long cast list and I see appearances by Billy Butcher and The Deep and A train, Homelander. Is that like on a TV screen or do they actually make appearances? Do you want to, I'll tell you. They actually do make appearances. Okay, good. Yeah.

It's not just, oh, we had this footage from a deleted scene from the boys. Let's use it for this. Now there is integration with the show. All right. Oh, that's good to hear. I'm in. Every one of those guys, man, Chance Crawford as the Deep and Jesse Usher as A-Train. These guys are like, I want so much more of them, you know?

Yeah. You won't get a lot of them in this, but you'll get it. get a little bit. But it does lead right into the next season. Somebody said in the chat room. It leads right into the next season of the boys. That guy that Pizetrain was really good in that horror movie I recommended

called Smile. Oh, yeah. That guy's real good at it. All right. Well, there you go. Let's move on down the road to Randy. And Randy, tell us what you got there. Let me just tell you a little tiny story. So, as you know, I love stand-up comedy. And I like to come in here every few months.

and give you a stand-up comment, like a half hour, an hour special that I vetted, and I know is you're really going to enjoy. Cool. And so I'm doing my usual thing, and Netflix has been advertising Jenny Slate to me a lot lately. And it's like that her special is like four years old now,

and I didn't remember really liking it. And so I decided, I'm going to just watch that Jenny Slate special. And I love her. She's one of the greatest little voices, you know, she's on the Great North. And so I started watching, it and it was terrible and I'm like no this is not good I don't understand what Netflix is showing me like the best three minutes of the entire special in an ad and so I just like started digging around and I just came I came across one of the best hours I've seen in a long time and it's a brand new stand up it's a new special from a standup who's been writing comedy for a long time and I think you're going to recognize her work if you don't recognize

her voice. Sure. Well, let's play it and find out. And now is also the perfect time to announce, I plan to age. Thank you. Thank you. Naturally, ideally from the comfort of my own home.

Somebody's got to do it. We need a control group in Los Angeles. Otherwise, we won't know what old ladies look like. So I volunteer. If I do get surgery, it's going to be a lobotomy. I like her a lot. Yeah, this is Beth Stelling. And she's a writer, a comic writer from, originally from the Upright Citizens

Brigade. That's where she came up. And she has done so much in so, like in the last five years. Like she wrote for the, uh, TV show crashing, which I recommendeled at some point. She wrote Strange Planet. She wrote

a movie Good Boys. She was part of the team that made the movie Good Boys, which is like Super Bad, only newer. I enjoyed that way more than Super Bad, honestly. I thought that Good Boys was hilarious.

Yeah, and Beth Stelling is like many stand-ups like she's a great writer but she's also just got a voice that she's found and uh this this half hour hour i keep saying half hour because so many so many comic specials are you know only 30 minutes long this is over an hour long uh it's called if you didn't want me then and uh it's uh it's just it's just awesome it's from beginning to end um great ideas great jokes um she's just really really good at this. All right.

I'm in. Where's the show and sorry? Where's the streaming service? It's on Netflix and that's the thing. Like I feel like there's an abundance of good stuff on Netflix and it's all scattered. It's really hard to find the greatest of the Netflix offerings because Netflix pumps these out. Like apparently stand up comics will work for beans and you can, you know, I think they make pretty good money over there. My understanding is they do really well with their specials.

Prime also pays really well. but the the thing that Netflix needs to do, they have a, they once in a while will like showcase some stand-up comedy, but they don't have a category that's easy to find. And they have so much of it, I think it justifies one. Have a damn category,

a big up-front one that says stand-up comedy specials. Because you've got, you currently control the market on those in terms of volume. And I, there is a category number. If you browse them on your computer, there's a category number that's like new stand-up comedy and it only shows you stuff that's,

hit Netflix in like the last two months yeah and that's pretty helpful like to me because i want to see everything but i like i say it's just there's so much hit and miss and it's also really it's really hard to recommend stand-up comedy to like general audiences like there's an older there's an older comic right now that they've finally discovered named lunel and lunell is a real acquired taste. She is really funny. She is really vulgar. She is older. And it is just not, like, I'm not going to make people watch Lunell. Like you can, you know, maybe if you, if you stumble upon Lunell on your own and you have a few minutes, like maybe you'll like it. Yeah, you can, you can always be pretty safe with like Gaffigan specials. And I would really recommend that Nick Bargazzi one on

Prime. It is some of the best stand up in a long time. And it is 100% cool for every, and the family to watch all at once. Like there's still that kind of thing, but you're right. These are hard. There's some Bill Burr stuff I really enjoy on Netflix. But I can't say to my mom, oh, hey, mom. This Bill Burr guy, you'd love him. And she would hear the level of swears he drops on a single, you know, in 10 minutes of comedy will be too much for her.

So, yeah, I get that. I've never heard of this Lunell before. Oh, really? She's like an older Gen X, you know, like a... sort of um like i said just very vulgar but um beth stelling is right in the middle of the millennial generation and like uh one of those millennial voices oh you're putting up a picture of lu now yeah that's she is she is really funny she's just uh incredibly crass like yeah um like i say i had an acquired taste okay and like you when you look at the netflix offerings there's

all kinds of things like that and i'm i'm glad they're doing it i really really am because Sometimes you're like, wow, they found something here, right? With Beth Stelling, she has worked her way up to this level. She has done the time writing and doing a great job of it. And her hour on Netflix, this one, if you didn't like me then, just like perfectly well-written. I don't want to oversell her, but the quality of her writing reminds me of George Carlin. again please don't don't take that as direct comparison but like

it's just it's really really incredible when a comic gets to this level and you see them and it's like her first big special and it's just good it's really good all right well there you have it go check that out on let let let flicks that's right yeah let's let's fix let your flicks fly uh all right i'm talking oh man we we went heavy Netflix this week it turns out two of us anyway. I also watch

something on Netflix and Rainbow Bright in the chat will like that I'm bringing this up because they recommended it earlier as something I would like and guess what? It's today's recommendal. So I'll say that. I'll say it's animated and here's the clip. Impressive. I've never seen a gun like it.

Front loading. Not a Japanese pistol. A European design, isn't it? That would make it illegal. Hachimony the flesh traitor. Of course. I heard of you. Never leaves a village without buying one of its daughters. All right. That is audio from a animated short series, a limited series on Netflix called Blue Eye Samurai, which is this beautifully animated tale of a girl, a young war.

You know what? I don't think it's, it is obvious in the first episode. It's a, it's kind of a Mulan piece of business where she's masquerading as a man samurai, but there's a girl under there. And she's got revenge on the mind and she needs to break into the all boys network that is feudal Japan and through a series of very bloody encounters and some really, really great characterization and story, the character Mizu tells the tale. And I don't want to get too deep on the story because I think it's worth experiencing for yourselves. But this features people like

George Decay in a role Masioka from Heroes. He's in this. Hero from Heroes. Hero from Heroes. Oh, cool. I see Stephanie Sue is in here as well. Yep. Love her. Kenneth Branagh's in this. Carrie Hiroki, Togawa, who I love is in this. Randall Park. Like all the people you think are cool that work in like Asian projects

are all in this. And Long Duck Dong. I see Long Duck Dong. He's in here. Getty Wuntonabe is in it? That's him, right? Who else? Let's see. Clyde. Knoot Sua is also really great.

I like Patrick Gallagher. Anyway, great cast. Really great style. The animation here is really something else. And it's co-created by a producer and writer who's known for his writing of Logan. He wrote Green Lantern,

which is an unfortunate little smear on his record. That's the poopie movie. But he also... I can't hold that against him. After the greatness of Logan, let's not hold that other thing against him. He was also a producer and writer on heroes. And then Blade Runner 2049, he is the chief writer. And I love that movie.

That's a really awesome little credit. Yeah. All kinds of other stuff, too. Had time on American Gods. He was producer on, I was it called Kings. Do you remember Kings that weird? Yeah. It was an NBC show, which is the worst part because it got canceled too early.

But it was basically that Kings, well, Britain wins and there's a king in America and he was played by Swegian Ian McShane yep okay it's it was so cool nobody saw this thing

except apparently Randy and I saw it Kings was badass it was such an amazing concept and they freaking cancel it after a season midseason cancel it wasn't even a full season piss me off so much I'd love that the whole concept it was like Game of Thrones but like not fantasy it was alternate history

And it was really, really cool. The important thing about that is, as far as I'm concerned, that's the show that makes Sebastian Stan. Sebastian Stan comes out of nowhere, and he is such a star in that show. Yeah, he's really, really good. Well, the good news is all that talent, as well as Amber Nozumi, I think is how you say her name. She also has done some pretty cool stuff, but mostly this is her first gig. She's co-producer and writer. They have made a really, really cool thing that I don't hear Netflix promoting it all.

I don't understand why. Yeah, this is the first I'd heard of it, actually. It is not straight, like, this isn't some Japanese anime that then came over here, and now we're getting a rough translation in the dubs or anything. That's not that at all. This is like an original, with an original English cast. I'm sure you can get it in other languages, but it's not, it's a little more my framing of, like, Western storytelling,

but in a motif that is obviously influenced by anime. It's a great combo, and I love it. So I don't want to say any more than that because I think it's worth watching everybody out there. Do you say what the like tone and rating and appropriate nature of it? Teen age kids are going to be fine. There are some, there's some cartoon nudity and some implications there if that's your thing to be bothered by. Is it weird that we just don't care? Like if you put the word cartoon in front of it.

Like I was like, okay, I don't care. do you say cartoon violence cartoon nudity i don't care you know it doesn't really matter i mean obviously i'm in cartoon i guess if you're just trying to figure out which kids are appropriate i would say you know 16 and up is fine uh if your parents are wondering yeah but it's in a very it's a it's an adult story with adult themes and the the fighting while amazing and beautifully rendered is pretty bloody you know they don't hold back think like elder scrolls or not elder scrolls um ninja scrolls or something like that uh it's very cool cool though and it's getting extremely good reviews everywhere including audience reviews and i think

it's worth your time so check it out eight episodes i think uh is that eight total i believe yeah blue eye samurai blue eye samurai very very cool uh stuff with lots of interesting and you got a utah connection and get a watanabe yeah i love him he's cool anyway uh there's that go see all three of these things They're all up on QuickTMS.L.I. And thanks to Brian for keeping that up because if he didn't, who would. And if not now, when? And if not, they're all there.

And then this weekend, we got a film sack coming up. We're returning to our Bond watches. And we're going to watch. Speaking of Japanese stuff, that's very uncomfortable. It's laughing because over in our Discord, there were like consecutive messages from people, like different people saying, oh, this is my favorite Bond movie. And then someone's like, I just watched it.

was crap. I'm like, oh, goody. Oh, no. Okay. But anyway, yeah, it'll be fun, though, because we get to see Sean Connery pretend to be Japanese. And who doesn't want to see some latent 60s racism? Let's do it.

Who doesn't? Yeah. Yeah, let's get in there. I'm sure Sean Connery doesn't want to see that. Well, didn't. I definitely haven't seen, like, as we're rewatching these and we're rewatching them in order or taking years and years to do it. I am realizing, like, oh, I haven't seen this in like,

30 years. Same here. I'm going to, you know, like it's going to be all fresh and new to me. Yeah. If I've seen it, I don't remember. So this might be new for me. I never saw much of the Connery stuff, to be honest, back in the day. It all seemed like my dad's stuff, you know.

Yeah. But I don't know. Being around you guys, especially Brian, he's a, you know, diehard Bond fan. Big Bond fan. Yeah. This has been a fun go through so far. So I suspect we'll enjoy this one as well. Well, I had read the books a couple times.

And so, like, I'm all messed up there. And I've decided I'm not going to do that anymore. I'm not even going to look at the book. It's become such an icon, like a cultural icon, that it seems crazy to read that book now. For me, not every. I mean, I'm sure that Ian Fleming books are worth reading. Not saying they aren't. Obviously, it's, you know, they're big for a reason.

But I, sometimes I do that. It's like, can I even read the, like, it feels, that would be like reading Harry Potter now to me. Like, I read those as they came out. but if I was going to go look at them now, I think I would be less inclined to just because I'm so familiar with the movie universe that it just feels... Yeah, but they're, man, do they veer off?

The movies veer off from the books. Oh, big time. Almost all of them. Like, The Spy Who Loved Me is a completely different story, the movie to the book, if I remember correctly. Yeah, yeah. So that's the other reason. Like, should I...

Do I want two versions? I don't know. I probably do. Yeah. I mean, it's like basically getting an additional additional bond story that you didn't that you didn't get from the movie or from the book. I'll read, you know what?

I'll find out what Ian Fleming's best Bond movie, like what the consensus is on the best Bond book to read, and I'll read that. Yeah, there's one that's, the one I recommend, which is a really good one if you just want to dip your toe. And I'm trying to remember what the name of it is, but it's four short stories. It's a Bond novel that's got four short stories,

three of which I think have been turned into films. They all feature I'm sorry, they're all Bond stories though, right? They all feature James Bond, yeah. I'm trying to see here the... I should know this. Yeah, I had to, I'm having to look it up because I don't remember.

There we go. maybe the broccoli's have it maybe they got it maybe the broccoli's had it like quantum of solace view to a kill for your eyes only living daylights and octopus were all short stories

that got adapted in movies there's one book that's got oh here we go after Fleming's death no that's a different one um this is what I would ask I guess it's called for your eyes only and fear eyes only the book

has the that's why we're having a hard time remembering it because it's called the same it's the same name as the yeah i would read that that sounds great if they made movie four movies out of short stories on a single tome that's amazing i'll do that all right i'm in i'm doing it i'm going to report back on that right before uh right right after parasite or right before i don't know but great excellent yeah we'll see how that goes uh randy i'll see you then have a fantastic week and oh happy thanksgiving friends yeah bye bye It's going to eat lots. Yeah, eat a lot of food.

And you see how he stealthily switched his headphones out for his regular mic during that. Oh, I didn't even notice it until you said that. I was like, oh, yeah, he did start sounding better. Yeah, the Fear Eyes Only short story collection has, from a view to a kill, very different. No, Grace Jones, no Christopher Walken, no aha, Fear Eyes Only, Quantum of Solace, and then two that haven't been turned in movies, Risa Coe and the Hildebrand Rarity. and the Hilda brand rarity is, if I remember correctly, the first short story that was ever released and it was put into, the first Bond short story that was ever released and it was, it made its first appearance in Playboy magazine. Oh my. Okay.

Yeah. Look at that. That's when I went there for the articles, you know. Yes, I went there for the Bond short stories. Yeah, all the James Bond short stories. That's why I get Playboy still. that's my whole reason I don't get it

all right well that's awesome we're gonna get out of here now here's the deal it's uh it's Wednesday we didn't have a chance to mention this earlier but uh Brian's doing coverville today Brian tell them what you're doing that's right it's my annual Beatles Thanksgiving big super duper huge episode

that's now about the same size as the other super duper huge episodes that I do every week but that means fewer interruptions it's still going to be three sets of music very short sets, very short talking bits in between them just to announce the songs and

a lot of great, great Beatles music. And to do that at noon today. Yeah, looks like 18. Did I get 18, 19 Beatles songs? I usually do 15 song episodes. This one's still a little bit larger than the typical Coverville episode.

And of course, going to be playing some Marvel Snap during the whole thing, working on my Werewolf by Night deck, which I really like. That's cool. Bounce him around, make him bigger as he, as he bounces around from lane to lane. Nice. I like it.

Yeah, noon, twitch.tv.TV slash coverville. And today, play retro for 30 p.m. So stick around for that. And then also Friday, so no show Thursday, it's Thanksgiving here in America. We take that day off. Friday, 10 a.m. play date. That means everyone's invited. Patrons will get first shot at being in the game.

But everybody else can come watch. We're going to do a combination of some of our favorite jackbox. and finish things out with some among us. So that'll be this Friday. And then at, there's something else Friday. Shit. Something else is going on.

What was it? Oh, Core that night, because I had to move Core. So Core's not on Thursday this week. It's on Friday. And FilmSack this weekend. That'll be on Sunday this weekend. I think that's everything. So I hope you wrote it all down

because I ain't saying shit again. Okay. All right. That's going to do it for today's show. Patreon.com slash TMS is a place to get under the wire before this month ends and support your favorite podcast do it today and find out all the reasons why just by heading over there now at patreon.com slash tms brian brought a song he'll play it now and then we'll all be glad we heard it what

is it you sure will uh tally writes in she says hey susy and baca my birthday is on the 23rd this month of november i'm not thrilled about it can you make me slightly thrilled by playing a cover of a ninja sex party song sometime soon they do good covers themselves but even i agree they sometimes sound very much like the original. So how about one from a tribute album to them? I gave you two options of ones I think are better covers and own the album if you need it, but I wonder if the big

scary F word in one of the songs would make Cowardville say no. If you deem this unacceptable, I don't know, maybe something's Baldur's Gate 3 related. The show's okay, I guess. I can definitely see why you like it. Wow. Really going down with the flag there. First of all, Brian's not afraid of an F-bomb. Not at all.

Never. Never afraid. Second of all, you get this version for this new birthday. Happy birthday That's where you transitioned into That's not an inside joke about transition I promise That's very interesting Yeah

Not what I meant But you know what I'm saying You're getting older You can't be Let's part You can't be doing that Right yeah You can't keep up with the young

hipsters anymore It's gonna move on to the The old lady Yeah, that's right You're playing I don't know Bingo with your friends On the weekends or whatever

So By the way Two octaves lower And that's Elvis Costello Happy birthday Hold on, I gotta hear it now Happy birthday You're right, dude

He does that thing with his throat Anyway All right This is from the tribute To a ninja sex party Called above the covers A 10 year, I'm sorry Ninja Sex Party 10 year anniversary tribute album

This is good because it's got like That Danny Don't You Know song Which I really love Their originals are great, and so it's about time that people pay attention to those great originals that come from the ninja sex party. Here is the one that will probably surprise Talia that I picked for you. Happy birthday, Talia. This is called Orgy for One. You know what that means.

It's by Ross Childs. Oh, very nice. Let's play it now, and then we'll see you all soon for all that other crap. Not safe for work. Not safe for kids. I'll just get that out right now. Yeah, just so you guys know this song, just, you know, watch your stuff. We don't mind playing it.

We're just warning it. That's all. All right. Here it is. We'll see you guys soon. Tonight's the night for the big orgy. I'm going to have sexual relations with multiple partners and enjoy every second of them. What's that?

Nobody is coming. Well, that is disappointing. I wonder why. Hmm. Stacey had a headache and he was in jail Renda had to work late King was getting Ginny's babe Angelou got scurvy, Ashley caught a cold Sally's dad exploded, that's what I was told

Michelle had to play checkers and was baking pies Wendy's dad exploded too that might have been alive Pam had Frisbon lessons Stella had been L.A. Now I'm by myself, but I can have fun anyway. So, dim the lights, remove my ties. Nobody's short, but I'm going to have some fun. Let's get this party started. It's an orgy for one. It's me in my hand, and it's harder than the sun. So break out the tissues it's an orgy for one I'm working out my issues

in an orgy for one Margaret's cat got nauseous Jane was way too shy and Steve he was invited I'm told that he declined There was parasailing Brooks said she was in space but it doesn't matter

because I'm rounding second base all through the night My grass Is tight Tines Feetting so hard You'd think I was a drum

And I don't even care It's an orgy for one I'm here on alone And I'm tugging on my clubs It's not just masturbation It's an orgy for one It's a fucking celebration It's an orgy for one

O G for one O J for one. Yeah. And is my date. 69 Without the night Now pour The wine

I'm mine Oh my the thousand a nailing everyone's Thank you everybody at this orgy for one These pillows are stacked to look vaguely like a butt I know I'm going for it It's an orgy for one My junk is getting soaring

It's an orgy for one You know that I'll be scoring at the orgy Orgy A jeepo-one. A-G-a-1. Get more at frogpantz.com. I mean, b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b.