The Morning Stream - TMS 2561: The Squid Ink Games

Episode Date: November 29, 2023

Death Star Technical Support. Left Ball Therapy with Dunaway. How do you Herd Nerfs? Who's the Big Fat Guy and the Skinny Guy? You CAN watch shows with words on the bottom. I'll Take Whale Semen for $400 Alex. Unaffordable gallons of liquid. Milking the scorpions. Stan Lee defeats the Avengers. Opening the Worms of Can. Wookiee Up on Top. Worn A Pair, Never Owned A Pair. Focus on the Left Ball. Wanted, But Not in a Poster Way, with Tom. We're Going to Foggy Mountain, Charlie with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Milking the scorpions. Stan Lee defeats the Avengers. Opening the worms of can. Wookie up top. Born a pair, never owned a pair. Focus on the left ball. Wanted, but not in a poster way, with Tom. We're going to Foggy Mountain, Charlie, with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.

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The morning stream. We're not toys. We're action figures. Hello, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, November 29th, 2023. I'm Scott Chons with Brian. Hello. Brian Nebert. It's hump day, Brian. Get ready to hump. It is. I'm ready to hump. Hump to hump. I'm going to do the humpty dance. I've got my groucho Marx glasses with a fake nose. And I'm going to be standing in front of Dan Aykroyd in a mock courtroom at some point.

do you know okay you just thought made me think of a thing i hope i just made you think of like 11 things you did there were about 11 things that's straddling every pop culture reference i can think but one in particular the de groucho marks fake mustache and nose thing that that were you know there was a thing ubiquitous back in the in the day yeah you probably i don't know oh yeah yeah i don't know oh yeah i don't know i assume you could probably some start yeah that'd be a great competition you and I like someday we we say all right

as soon as the show's over it's a race to see who can put a photo of holding a pair or wearing a pair of Groucho Marx glasses Oh that's fun that's a great idea

there's a whole game in that somehow we can do for other stuff too I like that well anyway I just wondering like do you even remember have you I don't think I've ever worn the Groucho Mark's fake nose glasses thing

Oh, I've worn a pair. I've never owned a pair. Okay. Like a Halloween thing or just like a friend had it? I think somebody had them and I was like, oh, look, I'm Groucho Marx or I'm in disguise or whatever. It is the goofy, the goofiest, like, amalgamation of disguises, glasses, glasses, nose, and mustache all in one. It is really weird. It just seemed like that had a ubiquitous quality to it.

You'd see it in TV. You'd see it in skits and sketches. and, I don't know, Halloween, whatever, you'd see this thing. But as much as it felt like it was a part of our, I don't even know, why it was part of our culture. Freaking Groucho Marx was like 30, 40 years before we were born. Right, exactly. But for whatever reason, it was a thing. Mark's brothers were at a huge thing when we were coming of age in the 70s.

No, no. I mean, I remember seeing old movies on like a Saturday afternoon on TV and going, well, this is something. My grandma was a kid when this happened. and that's about as far as it went for me. Those never really made me laugh either. The Marks brothers. Yeah, who did find that funny? Like who put one of those on

and to guffaws from their family members when they put it on? There's stuff in there that's entertaining. I'll give them that. But I'm never laughing. And same with the, I never found the Three Stooges like funny. I found them entertaining. Again, it's just like mildly like,

oh, a guy slap him. That's kind of, I don't know why. you'd do that but okay cool and and whatever but then I never found any of that era stuff funny except I thought that um oh shit who's the who's the scamp I can't think of his name oh Charlie Chaplin actually made me laugh oh really as a kid yeah see yeah you know what I'll take I would agree with that uh the second part of that I think uh there are things I've seen in three stooges that are funny and I'm trying to remember it was a there was a music video that basically was music just

overlaid with Mark's Brothers comedy and their physical comedy at times was really funny. I did watch a night at the opera thinking that, you know, there has to be something about this that inspired Queen to name their album

after their movie and as well as day. Oh, I didn't know that. That's news to me. That's cool. Yeah, Night at the Opera and a Day at the Race is two Queen Alms. The Queen Alms that has Bohemian Rhapsody is a night at the opera. and they took the name from, I believe, from the, they had to have taken it from the Marks Brothers film

because the second, the follow-up album was another Marks Brothers title. That's wild. I didn't know that. They were fans, I guess, or something? I guess. Yeah, duck soup, monkey business are the ones I need to see? All right. Yeah, duck soup's really good.

It's pretty good. Again, I never found any of it laugh out loud funny, but it's entertaining. It's a good time. You know, I used to, I was more of a, I was more of a, it's the big fat guy and the skinny guy. What's wrong with me? No, the other one, the other one. Oh, TMS.

No. Wait, wait, which one's which? No, what's wrong? Laurel and Hardy, geez Louise. Oh, Laurel and Hardy, sure, yeah. That stuff used to crack me up as a kid. I may not laugh today, but at the time, I thought that shit was pretty good. Yeah.

Well, anyway, we're done talking about old shit now. We're talking about new stuff. Let's move on to new shit. Let's talk about new shit. We're all glad you're here. It's a Wednesday. We got all kinds of stuff. Pretty sure Nicole's back with us today.

So that'll be good? Yeah, she, I think so. She, um, her recommendal was just basically saying that she hadn't seen one of our recommendals. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think it's the same one she's had for three weeks or something. She has one that she's been holding on to, yeah, I see it.

Okay. Yeah. So I capped from that. I hope that's still the one she's doing today. Um, and it looks good. That movie. I kind of want to see it. Or is it a series?

Yeah. I don't actually know. I don't know. I know it's been on Tina's in my list as well. You know I've been watching, this isn't going to be a recommendal, although I'm not, I'm not, so there's a part of me that's embarrassed that I'm watching it, or not embarrassed, but like, Ooh, this sounds fancy. It feels guilty, pleasurey, but I am watching that Netflix, Squid Game reality show.

Oh, yeah. Four episodes in or something? Five, basically they released the first five episodes, and I'm, I'm almost, I think I'm probably out halfway done with the fifth episode, and then in a couple weeks they'll release the next batch. Obviously, it's tone-deaf because it's, you know, the whole point of the Squid Game series, fictional series, was that it's anti-capitalism,

and there's these big fat cats, bigwigs, who are taking advantage of these poor people who will do anything to get money to be able to survive. And so it does, you know, they basically put them through these, concerts or contests concerts you're going to watch smash mouth

that sounds like a hellish concert no it's hellish I can't go can I just jump off the side anyway on its on its surface and that's all you can do with this thing because there's no there's no

fictional storyline behind it you can't really say oh well what's the real story behind these squid games etc it is basically just people saying, all right, let's stick 456 people in a dorm. Let's make them do mostly the same challenges that they had to do in the TV series. And just based on that and kind of watching the people's, the stuff that I feel you can't edit and put into context. You can do anything with editing and make it look like, oh, you know, I think I want to vote out 135.

And then you get a reaction shot of somebody going, oh, really, they're just reacting to fart or something like that, that's somebody else. It's a B-roll as B-roll as you get when they do that. Exactly. Exactly. But there's these interview segments where you're actually getting to know the people. And those are harder to take context out of and rearrange the order of things to make them sound like the villain or the hero or things like that. And there's a couple people, there's a mother and son that I just adore who are awesome on this thing.

And then there's this woman from Aurora, Colorado, named, I think, Felicia, Felicia. And, man, really rooting for her. I don't know what's going to happen. So are there anyone famous in it? It's not like a celebrity thing, right? Only one famous person, and I don't know what team he played for, but a basketball player named T.J., who's in the pros for a little while. A NBA player, or ex-MBA player or something?

Yeah, exactly. All right. Yep. That's interesting. Iqor asks, is they're really voting out because the real squid games didn't have that? There is. And it's done fairly painfully. This is interesting because I know Tom's watching this.

I see from people saying it, then he's really, he's liking it too. Yeah. But yeah, you're having to, you're basically having to stand up in front of a group. At times, you know, a challenge will come up where it says, all right, pick a player to eliminate immediately. And they're just kind of scanning the group and saying, all right, 319, you're out. And that person didn't do anything,

but just got eliminated for no better reason than... Interesting. But nobody's getting killed, is the point, right? Nobody's getting killed, yeah. Although there have been some lawsuits filed because of hypothermia or something. Like, during the filming of that first challenge, the Red Light Greenlight Challenge, you know, the stop and go, weird statue girl.

Dull, blah, blah, blah, yeah, it spins around. There, apparently people were having to stand in place for such a long time. That thing took hours and hours and hours to film, probably because they had to review video of who moved after the stop. Oh, right, yeah. And so they're making these people sit there while they're probably reviewing tapes and saying, okay, yeah, yeah, number 64. moved a little bit, they're out. But, so they don't do the, they don't do, like nobody dies. However, they do have like exploding gel packs in their shirts.

So instead of, instead of getting shot, the thing goes, and you see this like black, ink, splooge right over their shirt. And then they're told to collapse and act like they're dead. Is that how they find out that they lost? Is that right then? Yes. In some cases, that's how they find out. I kind of love that.

I may need to watch this as much as... I haven't even seen the show, and I still kind of want to see this. Oh, you haven't seen the... Oh, watch the... I mean, between the two, the show is great. It's really, really good. Listen, you'd think growing up with three Korean siblings, I'd watch every Korean thing ever made. I don't know what... Have you seen, and you've seen Train to Busan.

Yeah, I did like that a lot. Okay, so you can watch a show that has words on the bottom. Yeah. That's true. I did watch that one. physically can do it. I can totally physically do it. Although I may have done the dub on that.

I can't remember. I don't know what I did. If I did or not. I don't know if I read it. Tina did the dub on Squid Games. She said it was fine. I did the subtitles on it. I heard it was all right as a dub.

I just got to watch the damn thing. And then I could watch this game show and I could catch up with all the cool kids, all the shit they're watching now. And I will say that the second. challenge features a lot of what gross got out the most oh does it now yes well then i look forward to that it's gonna make you but not in the team not in the fictional series but in the reality show right right well uh let's see how that goes okay so one quick thing here um robert from hender tuckie who who yes types in once in a while has a little correction for us i had stated okay i had stated

kind of unequivocally the other day or maybe he was in yesterday or no it's two days ago whatever It was yesterday, I don't remember, that printer ink was the most expensive per, if you broke it down like a per ounce sort of thing, printer ink was one of the most expensive or if not one of the most expensive liquid on the planet. The most expensive liquid you could buy. And it was all, you know, we had a whole conversation about it was kind of artificially that way and all that. Well, turns out I was wrong. And he wrote it and says, Good morning, Scott and Brian. You mentioned the world's most expensive liquids. Printer ink is certainly on the list, but not the most expensive.

Here is the 16 most expensive liquids per gallon. Oh, go ahead. I have not looked at this list. Okay. You want to guess at some of these? I want to guess at a couple of these. Is there a champagne that's on the list? Let me see if we have anything that is drinky, drinky.

Okay. No, no champagne. Okay. Are there any animal... um, ejaculations. Is there, is there basically like,

is, is, I guess I'm just going to say, is whale semen on the list? Because I think, uh, well, I'll tell you that there is one,

two, three, maybe more, but at least three. Oh, and if you're counting mammals and humans, then four. Oh gosh.

There are four substances. What do you mean? What's the, there are four total, four total substances on here. I won't say, what substances, but they are all from a creature.

Interesting. I will say none of them are semen. Oh, okay, good. All right. None of them are from anyone's balls. That'll make almost all of us happy.

Yeah. We will not get into who. Who will not be happy. All right. Let's get into the list because now I'm, yeah. All right. So I'll tell you at number 16. This one surprised me.

Liquid paper at number 16. Oh. Oh, really? Yeah, okay. I didn't even know people are still using it, but too... I was going to say, who... To use liquid paper, you have to be typing stuff. I agree. Who types...

Who uses a typewriter when a computer, you know, a word processor and a printer could do the same thing and give you a chance to make a fix your mistakes. Exactly right. So 200 bucks a gallon for that stuff. Now, you don't buy it in gallons. Obviously, buy it a little thing. But if you broke down the cost and put it all in a gallon, it would be 200 bucks per gallon. Next up at 15, we have the scintillation cocktail.

I don't know what that is. Cintillation cocktail. Every liquid scintillation cocktail contains one or more scintillators and at least one organic solvent. So this is actually not a drink like a cocktail you get at a bar. It's used in experiments for detecting alpha and beta particles. Okay. So that makes sense. Here's one.

Penicillin. This one helps people. Sure. Familiar with that. Yeah. So you get rid of some of your STDs. That's right. $300 per gallon.

So it's up on the liquid paper there. Actually, why isn't that number 16 then? No, no, no, I get it. We're going the other way. So it is correct. I was thinking the other direction. $200 per gallon is the smallest amount on the list. Right, right, right.

Cheapest thing on the list. Pechule oil. Wow, really? Yeah, 810 per gallon. Holy cow. Yeah. I didn't realize that stuff costs so much. Also, we're not even in the halfway point, and we're already tickling the $1,000 mark here.

It's crazy. Yeah, no kidding, almost $1,000 per gallon. Next, or go ahead. You can go to a fish concert and get some petulio oil. You'll get all, it'll all be in your lungs by the time you leave. That's right. Exactly. How about this one?

Human blood. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Number 12. $900 per gallon will get you cover girl nail polish. Specifically cover girl. I wonder what other brands, is that the, that's probably the most expensive? Either that or it's the most prominent? Yeah, interesting.

When I hear Cover Girl, I just, I just see 1980s hair ads, you know, because we were flooded with that crap. We were, yes, exactly. Not Coverville nail polish tally, cover girl nail polish. Get that straight, tally. Here's another one, human blood, $1,500 per gallon. Your blood and your body. right now is worth a bunch of how many gallons do we have the human it's like um i forget now it's whatever it is yeah see this is where this is where i've uh there was something i know that there was

something about two pints but i know we've got more than two pints in our body but there was something about that's the maximum you can donate or something oh that's as much as i'll let you give i think that's right yeah at any one time because if you get more than that you're you're in uh right you the anemic territory. Yeah. Something like that. So yeah, you got, right now, if you gave a gallon of your blood,

you'd have enough to buy a pretty decently equipped gaming PC for that much money. Yeah. No kidding. Not bad. How about this one? Gamma hydroxy butchric acid, buttrick, butchrech.

$2,600 per gallon. That's pretty good. What is that used for the? Oh, GHB. Okay, gotcha. It's, yeah, it's a rave. You'll find this at raves with the glow sticks, The GHB drugs.

Yep, that's the one. Number nine, we're now to black printer ink. $2,700 per gallon. $2,700. That's really a lot of money. I'll rip through the rest of these. Mercury, which is just a metal that appears to be in liquid form, depending on the temperature. $3,400 per gallon.

Insulin. This is where I get pissed because this should not be this much. This is artificially expensive. Yeah, this is Schrelly. style business. $9,400 per gallon. That's just because the market is a piece of shit. Right. Exactly. Chanel, number five, $26,000 per gallon. We have made a real leap. Seven to six is a leap, dude. Yeah, no kidding. From insulin to perfume, and we've gained nearly $20,000 per gallon. Holy cow. Now we get to creature excrement number two. Excrement, excrement. Excrement.

Shrew crab, so blood from a horseshoe crab, 60 grand per gallon, $60,000. What, uh, I don't know what this is used to? Let's see. Contains vital immune cells that are incredibly sensitive to toxic bacteria. Researchers use these smart blood cells to create a test called limulis amoebusite lysate. It's been used to work across the world to test new vaccines for contamination. Interesting. Okay.

So every year, the medical industry, Catches more than 500,000 horseshoe crabs. They drain 30% of their blood and nearly one third of the crabs died during the process. The survivors are returned to the water. Do they eat the rest of them? Because you could still, you drain them of their blood and then still have their fleshy flesh, you know? Yeah, I don't know. It seems like it would be better to, to, I don't know, can you eat horseshoe crabs?

I don't think it's like, I don't think it's like your red lobster dungeness. I think it's like eating carp. nobody wants carp right it's like that but the fact that that they're able to drain some of their blood return them to the water have them produce more that's great i mean it's like uh yeah um i feel bad for the ones doing it for all of us yeah yeah they're making big sacrifices for us how about this one now we're jumping another huge number number four LSD short for losing the sky with diamonds lecergic acid dilumithamide anyway sure sure uh 120 $123,000 per gallon. That's a lot. Holy shit.

Surgic acid diethamide. LSD. All right. Good. Sure. By the way, they have a stat on here. I don't know if it's correct, but nearly 10% of U.S. citizens have used LSD at one point in their lives. Oh, really? 10%. I have not. Knowingly? I don't even know how I get it. So one in 10 of us. Yeah, one in 10. Where's, where's everybody's got these sources? I don't know where to go. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure I could go somewhere, but that's expensive. Holy shit. Yeah. Also, but that's a little goes a long way kind of substance, right?

Exactly, right. You don't need, uh, yeah, you don't need that, uh, 12 hour trip. A lot of that to, to get anything from it says right here, does it say how much? I doesn't say it, but it's, uh, but I bet you, you basically, what, like a drop or something is, um, probably all you need, right? Because that, those acid things back in the day, they were just paper infused with it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I am not a drug expert, everybody. Number three, coming in at $150,000 per gallon. We got the Thailand Cobra venom. Sure, the old TCV.

Yeah, what does this do? This is, it says... And it's to create an antidote for venom, isn't it? I think so. Hold on a see. One bite, you suffer from vertigo, blurred vision, drowsiness paralysis before you slip into a coma. Often you die because your respiratory system fails. So pain treatment, one's thought to be an aphrodisiac.

It's also used to stop excessive bleeding during surgery or major trauma. They write findings cure for breast cancer and Parkinson's disease and anti-aging treatment. Got a real sharp editor over there working on this article. It's funny. Just the way it's like, what are three things people like? Aphrodisiac, anti-aging, and cure for cancer. All right, cool. There's no snake oil here.

Number two, now we're getting into the big weed. I can't believe this is the jump. That was $150,000 or $100,000, whatever. Scorpion venom, $39 million per gallon. Wow. Now, what's interesting about this, the thing I didn't know is I thought all scorpions were deadly to humans. There are thousands of species of scorpion, only about 25 are deadly to humans. Oh, interesting.

But what makes it so expensive is this. The venom is hard to get. Scorpions usually milked by hand, one by one. milked. I mean, I guess you that is what you do with a snake and milk their venom. I know it's used as a term,

but I just picture a little lady underneath the scorpion pulling on its teeth. With the metal pail. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, don't make a gift of that. Whoever just saw me do that.

Please do make a gift of that. Let's see. It says, okay, it only produces about two milligrams of venom at a time. If you do the math, that would milk, you'd have to milk 2.64 million times

to get a gallon. Wow. So that's just like a, that's a process problem with these things. Yeah. Yeah. What do you people use them for?

Let's see. Brain tumors. They say brain tumors and muscle rebuilding damaged nerve and muscle cells. That's crazy. Yeah. And some components of the venom can effectively block signals from cancer cells preventing them from growing. So like a... I like that.

Yeah, don't get it. Number one. It'll also reduce all of the cards in your opponent's hand. The energy costs... I'm sorry, they're power. power by one. Right. Right.

Yeah. Definitely that scorpion is the one we're talking about. That's the one we're talking about. Yeah. Exactly. It'd be funny if the one we're really talking about is the one that says, get over here and throws us a spike in. Right.

Yes. Here's your big one. This is the big money. 2.1 million per dose, which is 5.5 milliliters. What does that work out to a gallon? They don't actually say. Oh, yeah. Anyway, Zolgensima, this is a used to treat a rare neuromuscular disorder called spinal

muscular atrophy. It was approved by the FDA in 2019 as a treatment for children less than two years old. It's one time only gene therapy treatment. Why is it cost so much? Probably, let's see. Oh, it takes $2.6 billion

and more than a decade to create a single new medicine. So really it's just prices. So it's how long it took to produce to create this. This is what makes it so expensive. Yeah. And it's also one of the Gensma. one of the chief problems with biomedical stuff yeah anyway so now we've been corrected number nine we have the the printer ink everything else is stuff you never would have thought so thank you

robert from hendertucky i just want to make i'm gonna go by a bunch of thermometers and bring them open get some of that sweet sweet mercury that's right that's right now speaking a list we got something else that was pretty rad from gabby okay all right um we're always talking about especially on film sex like who's our most sacked actor or director or whatever. Sure. One thing we never talk about is, like, who are the top stars at the domestic box office? Not how much they made, but how much they...

The movies they were in. Exactly. Like, who's the biggest? And it turns out, it is not the list I expected. Although, in some ways, I should have expected it. But at number one, according to this list, is Stan Lee. Yeah, sure. Because all of those Marvel movies made so much damned money.

he was easily in the top spot and right behind him not shocking Samuel L. Jackson not just because of these but very similar reasons those are what pushed him ahead. Jurassic Park and Star Wars and Freaking Incredibles.

All that stuff, right. Where's my super suit? By the way, hold that sec. You're going to walk away from the mic and throw up. He's by the weighing. He's walking away. It was very sudden.

Scott doesn't know what it was for. Maybe he's grabbing a 3D print, perhaps. perhaps not perhaps though I don't know current little current little 3D printed model that just finished this weekend

and now is ready to be painted oh look at that is this uh Stan Lee oh I love that got a little and it's got a little you know Excelsior

his his his uh his uh years basically it looks like he conquered all these people like killed them all and now he's like reveling in the him get killed

right Right, he defeated the Avengers, and so now he has all their stuff. Yeah, has all their shit. Spider-Man mask. That's a great model. Is that one of your patron people you follow that you support? No, this was something, my uncle found the STLs for this. He had to buy it from the artist.

And so he got it for me for my birthday, and so I just finished the printing. Had to break out the Dremel to make pieces fit together a lot better. But, yeah, this is going to be. be a fun one especially because like you can see on his on his base there's all these stacks of comic books yeah i need to i'm sorry too close to the camera sorry um all these stacks of comic books that i'm going to print out like fantastic four number one amazing fantasy number 15 all these you know first appearances yeah and size them and glue them onto onto the tops of those stacks oh that's a great idea i love that that's a lot easier than trying to paint them

paint them all small would be really hard but i love these got his own little infinity going let's great you had to print that separate or is that these are this thing is made up of about 20 different pieces oh my gosh to be sanded and glued and stuff like that so nice yeah well it'll be a good it'll be a good dedication to a guy who currently sits at number one by the way that number 11 billion 919 million dollars plus jeez samuel l jackson also in the 11 billion 11.6 billion then the list gets weird we drop all the the way down to seven billion and frank welker voice actor frank welker known for uh obviously mostly megatron sure uh is at number three on this list like we're nowhere we haven't gotten anywhere near

the name of all the disney stuff aladdin um transformers movies lion king yeah yeah call the grinch still christmas rares the lost arc did stuff in there i don't remember what but he did uh and then Everyone's favorite mailman from Cheers. John Ratzenberger, obviously for all his freaking Pixar crap, right? Yeah, yeah. And then the list goes on. Robert Danny Jr., Bob Bergen, I don't even know who that is. Chris Pratt for, again, MCU reasons, Andy Circus for everything reasons.

And Jurassic Park reasons and... Yeah, and Lord of the Rings reasons and everything else. Bob Bergen basically does voices, Secret Life of Pets, Minions, Despicable Me, Monsters University sing, et cetera. Gotcha. Okay. He's in a bunch of big ones, then. Warwick Davis on there. He's got the Harry Potter's and the, anything that needed a small guy.

Yeah, you're good. John Favreau at number 10. Now, the rest of the list is like a lot of smatterings of stuff you'd expect. Tom Cruise, or excuse me, Tom Hanks is on here. Tom Cruise is a little lower than him. Morgan Freeman, Chris Evans, blah, blah, blah. At the very bottom of this list of 100, So Sylvester Stallone shows up at 100.

Oh, wow. Like he's beat by Steve Bouchemmy, Maggie Smith, Brad Pitt, Mark Hamill, like other, there are people ahead of him. But that surprised me, so I thought, well, I'll bet Arnold's right below that. Arnold's like 300 something. Oh, really? Crazy.

Yeah, 310. 310th. See, and you got to also look at how many movies they've made, right? Sylvester Stallone took him 71 movies to have a box office score of $3.2 billion. Yet, um, Lupita Nyango did it in 15. Yeah.

Yeah. Look at this. Like, like Michael Clark Duncan, rest his soul. Yeah, yeah. Three hundred and second.

He's beating Arnold by almost a full 10. And he's dead. He's not even here. Anthony Daniels, 13 movies. Bet you can name all of them. 4.8 billion dollars. So yeah,

it is funny. It's really down to the movies, but, um, yeah. I think Anthony Daniels is the, fewest the fewest movies

on the list. Yeah, he's the Lupita and Young go at 15, but Anthony Daniels at 13. Like if I asked

you, what does Lee Pace, Peter Dinklage, Chris Cooper, Michael Sheen and Evangely, Lily,

all have him common. They're like all on the 300s. They're all like right next to each other. Yeah. Wow.

Tessa Thompson's on here. That didn't take much. You just needed to be in a couple of Marvel movies and you're on there. I mean, end game, basically.

Ragna Rock end game. It's interesting. Anyway, Gabby, thanks for that. That is a fascinating list. It really is fascinating. You know what else is fascinating? Babel Royale! I agree.

Got to have done a way in here to do it, though. So I'm going to add him to this call. Please do. That is a requirement. And if you out there are interested in playing, I will take the third person to ding us or ping us. We'd love to have you on. Ding or ping.

Your choice. I will favor new faces. So if you're too much, of a regular don't don't be surprised if you get skipped over for somebody i haven't seen before but if you want to be in just ping me on discord send me a dm and we will hook you up and get you in here all right all right all right let's do this now hey looky here it's brian done away joining us for uh tad pulley feud hello brian oh hi scott and brian hi hello how are you what are you doing how is your wednesday well let me just tell you pretty day

Oh, God. Oh, did I open it? Did I open up the can of worms? You did. The worms of can have been opened. No, I'm doing all right, actually. I'm having a decent time. You had to go, were you okay? Because you weren't feeling good yesterday. How are you feeling today? Are you all right today? I haven't felt great for the last three days. I've had some lowered back pains that kind of getting into my abdominal area. And I was like, I'll just call the teledoc and see what they have to say. and so after about three hours of back and forth waiting and whatever and so finally he came on was like really really really nice doctor super smiley basically told me go to the urgent care center you couldn't do anything for me so i did that instead and then they focused on the one thing i said which like to hear i said my back is really killing my admin is really killing me i feel like i got a poo and so also by the way one of those three days my left ball was hurting so she spent

the rest of the time focused on my left ball and it was like it was like it might be getting strangled I'm like oh Jesus no I just saying it was torsion right yeah yeah the torsion thing and I was like yeah yeah but that was like for like

30 minutes I don't think that has anything to do anything I was just mentioning it heads on the side it's good to get old people don't do it yeah getting old sucks these bodies are timorous As Elaine Benis famously said, I don't see how you guys walk around with those things. That's right.

She was not wrong. I can tell you who else isn't wrong. Our third caller today. But the moral story is, I feel better. Oh, good. That's great. That's important thing. I'm glad.

Yeah. Winmagus joins us today. Hello, Winmagus. Hey. Oh, Winmagus. Hello. Hello, Scott. Brian, Brian, Brian.

Hi. How are you? You covered all the brinegis. You missed a couple of brines. It's okay, though, a lot of people are. Oh, darn. It's good to have you here. Always love playing with you.

and we're going to throw it over to Brian now, who will explain the rules and what's on the table to win. What are the stakes? Well, that's right, because it's time to play the tadpull if you. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian have to predict the answers that they gave us.

It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Now, you have a job to win, Magus, and it's more important than ever, but even more important than your regular day job, because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you'll get a prize package. That includes Yakubu. a four remastered and GhostWire Tokyo.

Two pretty top-tier freaking Steam games. I agree. That I almost took for myself, courtesy of Wesley. Wesley. That's fantastic. That's a hell of a load there. I like that. That is a hell of a load.

Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Oh, my. Oh, my. Oh, my. All right.

Great. We know the stakes. Now we've got to play. Let's, uh, let's, uh, let's, Let's get to your question. It's going to be a tougher one. I'm just going to let you know right now. You're going to work a little bit harder for this one,

but it'll be worth it all in the end. We'll all grow a little bit inside once this is done. I'm down. All right. Put your hands on your buzzers. We asked 447 tadpoolers to give us their answer to this. If you didn't have force sensitivity, what job would you have? Scott.

Uh, uh, uh, a, um, uh, chit, uh, what are they called? Uh, the, the, the name, you, you, smuggler. That's the word. Smuggler. Smuggler. All right. Show these. Smuggler. Number three, I'm going to give the, uh, full question to Brian to see if he could come up with one of those first two answers. Yes, please. Oh my God. If you didn't have forced sensitivity, what job would you have in the Star Wars universe. The only job I can think of. I mean, it's stupid. I don't want it, but you know I'd have to be Jabba Hut slave for some reason.

I don't know why, but it's going to happen. So slave dancer, basically is what you're saying? Slave dancer. Okay. That's me. All right. Not a single person. Single person.

Yeah, I mean, even like not in the top 10, but also not at all. in the world. Yeah. I'm a little surprised this on. How that's possible, but... All right. WinMegis is me and you. We got this. Yeah.

So, yeah. WinMegis, you and Sout working together. Answer number three, cargo slash smuggling ship pilot is already on the board. So what would you want to be, WinMegis? Want to be, I don't know. But I have a... I mean, I feel like the empire is such a lack, better term, military state that you'd be probably a stormtrooper. Oh, yeah, that's a good point.

Yeah, there's probably a lot of jobs there, if I had to guess. If you were hard up on work, I think you probably, you know, you just have to be bad at shooting shit and you're in. So let's do that. Let's do a stormtrooper. Show me Stormtrooper. Oh, man. Number 12.

Number 12 on the list. Really? Yeah. Shocked by that. I mean, maybe it's not a desirable job. So that tells me this list is going to be things people think is cool, you know? probably exactly exactly and when i actually stopped having the uh the slave girl and i got that out of my head i started thinking i the one thing i always wanted to be was jaboda i mean i just said i like to have been a bounty hunter

oh yeah but da all this is going to be number one isn't it gosh dang it all right show me bounty hunter oh number five oh wow more points than number one would give you put your head interesting. Yes. Yeah. I would have thought that would have been one. All right, then I guess, wow. I really, wow.

Mm-hmm. What would be number one then? Jebus. I know. This is harder than I thought I would be this list. I guess I would want to be, I guess I would want to be a translation droid, right? I'd want to be C3PO, right? That would be my job.

Okay. Can I be a droid? Sure. Does it have to be a human? What do they call protocol droid? me the question again. Read me the question again. If you didn't have force sensitivity, what job would you have in the Star Wars universe?

Yeah, I would totally be a protocol droid. All right. Okay. Show me protocol droid. Oh, you people have no imaginations. These are people answering these questions, not droids, but... Yeah. Okay. So you think there's not a people in that droid suit?

Is that what you think? I think that. Oh, well, he was in that droid suit for exactly 13 movies, and made $4.8 billion. And I am very skilled in human pleasuring or whatever he was always good at. WinMegis, you said you had another one? What was it?

Still watch the different series than we did, I think. Yeah, cargo and smuggling pilot, so probably a fighter pilot of some variety. Like an X-Wing pilot. That is a great, of course. Desirable jobs. I agree. Let's pick that one.

All right. Show me Fighter Pilot. Oops. Sorry, let me give you the right points. There we go. Give a points to Scott. Fighter Pilot slash X-wing pilot. Nice.

Number one up on the board. That's right. It doesn't really help us, though, because this is a hard one. I'll do a teeny little bit. Oh, man. How about a, oh, no, that's bad. That's not good.

How about, shit. Okay, I'm going to throw it. Windmegis is for you to shoot me down or say it's okay. Sure. Lando ran Cloud City. So I'm thinking somebody probably said something, maybe a little more general, but like government. Like someone in charge of shit. Like a senator?

Yeah. Yeah. Like an imperial, not imperial senator. What are they called? Whatever they are. Galactic Senate. Whatever it is. Let's do that.

Something like that. Someone in charge. A political leader. A political leader. Administrator, right? Some sort of like administrator of... Yeah, general manager, whatever, whatever it is. Show me any of that stuff.

Damn it! Yeah, the closest would be... The people actually, a lot of people did say, like, Cloud City Comptroller, Cloud City Administrator. Number 27 on the list was what it lumped all those into. Okay. What I'm really starting to realize is how she... shitty jobs are in the Star Wars universe.

Yeah. It's what I'm really starting to realize. That's the lesson here. Yeah. All right. Give us another one done away. You got this. Do I?

Wow. Okay. So I can't be a senator. I can't be a protocol droid. Droid's obviously all out of there anyway. Let's see. We didn't say

bounty. Not all Mandalorians are bounty hunter. but that's not really a job. That's more of a lifestyle. Yeah, it's a cultural thing. It's kind of the way. It's the way.

Right, it is the way. So, let's see. I guess bartender, I would like to be, they always have a cool job. You just watch people get their hands shot off. That's a pretty cool job. Stand back there, wipe off your glasses. That's right.

Tell the droids they're not welcome. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Show me bartender. And number two answer on the board. Damn it. Oh, my God.

It's not a lot of points, though. All right. Yeah. Well, I'm old school Star Wars, but I'm trying to think about episode one. Maybe I'm a junk dealer. Junk dealers always get some pretty cool stuff in Star Wars. Sure, a junker. Yeah.

Junker. Junk dealer. That one guy. And that one guy that was really offensive. You know what talking about that guy? Yeah, you're talking about that guy. Yeah, you're talking about it. Well, the guy ran the diner?

No, the Wato. Wato? You know what I'm talking about. That guy. You're your mom if you win this in the face. Ray of all the stereotypes. All right. Show me junker or junk man or anything like that.

Uh-oh. That's a bad sign. Oh, but so was Ray was a junker too. She was out in the field. So many junkers. She was a junker and a spalunker. I'm trying to think of what we did have somebody oh a traitor probably that's the closest thing I did lump a couple of those in there 24 on the list oh

that's down not as far as I thought it would be that's not bad yeah how do you win megas how do you feel about Nerf herders because that's a scruffy no actually I was thinking ship mechanic shit now see that's a good one did you say oh shit shit shit for T-shirt mechanic I'm like, wait, what? Because based on the work I did on my car, I am a ship mechanic. Yeah, I'm pretty shit mechanic. Ship a mechanic.

That's interesting. So like, like, Wookie up on top, hitting it with a thing while Houn says, hurry up. And he goes, yeah, or like the guy who's in the Furton's New Hope, it's like, hey, this droid's seen a lot of action. Are you sure you want to use that one? And Luke, of course, is saying, nope, that's our two. He's the hero of the story. They're just work-a-day dudes. I like that.

Okay. The only other one I had in my head. we'll decide between the two was a pilot, an AT, an ATT pilot or ATST pilot. There you go. One of those dudes. What do you think is more likely? I feel like ship mechanic is slightly more likely.

And the only other one that I think of, yeah. You know what, never mind. I'll save that one. All right. Hold on to it. Let's do ship mechanic, Brian. All right. Show me ship mechanic.

Oh, my Lord. Yeah, you did. Ship mechanic. Number six. Ship mechanic. Engineer, designer, all of those. lumped into one category. And that put us in the lead.

That's very nice. Put you in the lead. Yep. Yeah, look at that. What was the other one you were holding? Farmer. Because, I mean, you know, if it's not, like, that's one of the first jobs you run into and the new hope is the moisture farmer.

Oh, yeah. I don't know if it would be up there, but, you know. We never got any full closure on what exactly he was doing that moisture farming, did we? We never really. Well, we know it's a desert planet. We just kind of hand-waved it. It sells moisture for 2,000 credits per gallon. Yeah, it's a very expensive per gallon kind of thing.

But no, I think we were supposed to assume that, well, it's a desert planet. There's no natural water source, except somehow they get it underground or whatever. So they farm that, and then people need to drink and use it for crops and all that. So they sell the, I assume that's what's going on. They're farming water, literally. That's all it is. Drinkable, potable water. Anyway, I like your, you're thinking, let's do Farmer.

All right. I'm scared, though. Show me Farmer. Che! Third strike. Yeah, Moister Farmer number 11. So just out of the top 10. And I'll also tell you Blue Milk Farmer was number 16, just put that out of the way.

Yeah, they never did say where that came from. Blue Milk Farmy. Yeah. Well, Luke, apparently on Octo. Just that's... Oh, no, that's the green milk farming. Let's see where you farm green milk. Amperu.

Yeah, that's where you farm green milk. Blue milk, Aunt Baru. She, that's comes from her. That's her milk. She goes out and milks the bantas or whatever. Yeah, yeah. All right. So, Brian, currently losing by three points.

Five answers still left on the board. Jobs in the Star Wars universe that you could hold if you don't have force sensitivity. Yeah. Well, we probably don't consider it a job here on planet Earth. in a current but you know if I was playing at the at the canteena

I wouldn't mind being in a band that that's a real job in the Star Wars universe right that might be good a little jiz musician is what you're saying yeah yeah yeah yeah sure a little musician there

show me cantina band musician but Furgundan and the modal nodes damn it number seven so now we need you to run the board four answers left on the board oh snap

Oh, I didn't mean to give a good answer. For Wittnagus to get these prizes, you need to run the board. And you can look at the chat. Look at the chat, too. We'll give you suggestions as well. Maybe my problem was I was too logical in my thinking of what I would actually have not the job I would want if I didn't have. Right, right, right.

That's true. It isn't what job you would want in the Star Wars universe? It's what job would you have? Like, what would your job be? Yeah. All right. Well, so it, so, yeah. Oh, is it bantamilk? Okay, good.

Oh, is it? I didn't know that. Thank you, I called. I didn't either. I thought I was Aunt Bruce milk. I thought it came right from her breasts. Oh, my God. I'm just saying, you know, I was a kid.

I didn't know. What do you know? All right, well, give me some, give me some stuff. What do you think? What are you guys thinking? I'm seeing Rebel Spy in the chat room. That's pretty good. Rebel Spy.

Death Star Technical Support. Good job. I kind of like Death Star Technical Support for some reason, but I don't think it's on there. I don't do it. So was Brian trying to hint because I remember he mentioned this is the way

kind of as a throwaway line when he was I was joking about Nandelurians. Oh, okay. That it's a lifestyle. Yeah. Right. They could have said that. I always.

You know what I'm saying? Always envision myself. The listeners are like at home going because it's always you got to think like tadpoolers putting Mandalorian in there they may think of that as a job yeah but I think Brian just said that he was meant that as a joke and not

as a you know I would say let's I would yeah if it was I'll tell you if it was in the top ten I probably would have nudged a little bit on that one that's a good you're reading the tea leaves that's good somebody's got to do it I do I do always imagine myself as the guy

who would be like what the receiver the people who are always like when they're whenever they're coming up, the rebels are always coming up, pretending to be somebody else, and I have to be the guy calling in, hey, what are you doing here? Send me the call sign, blah, blah, blah.

What's that called? I still don't even know what you're describing. It's like when your ship comes in, you're like, Blue Leader, you're free to land. You've been cleared? You mean that guy? Yeah, like you're always trying to let in space traffic control, basically. Yeah, there you go.

Because every time Star Wars person is trying to, sneak in somewhere, they always got to get the permission. The permission guy, the gatekeeper. The guy who says, what's your, the flying into Bestbin? What's your clearance code? Okay, yep, you're allowed to land. I like what you call him Star Wars people. Dr. Demos says a good thing.

Arms dealer, which I was thinking job, I was trying to think of what his actual job was. He's kind of an arms dealer, right? He hires a bunch of smugglers. He did, but he was mostly, he's like the mob, space mob is what he is. So he's like the godfather style. dude in the, you know, on tattooing. Interesting. And the huts, there's a whole organization.

The huts control all the underground. All this tells me is I have not thought nearly enough about the jobs that people do in Star Wars. Now, just to kind of steer you back into port a little bit, you know, you had ruled out a bunch of things or you'd ruled out based on your first strike, I believe, ruled out something that still might have a related. occupation on the board interesting do you remember what your first guess was that got a strike oh my oh my

don't you just give me the answer would you just give me the answer coverville oh my oh yeah because I got really mad about it I was like you said the slave girl was the first answer

oh the slave girl yeah not that one maybe your second strike oh well shit slave girl was your slave girl was your opening thing strike i'm talking about the thing that got you right right right i got you um

i can't remember what it was this also come out actually something that i just saw in chat that i remembered is didn't this this survey came out right about the time and or was going on which i haven't really but i know there were a lot of jobs in there yeah on force sensitive jobs there yeah right i mean you've got stuff in prisons you've got imperial officer an imperial officer wouldn't be too crazy. That wouldn't be too crazy. It just depends on your faction. We're so specific, right? All right. Well, whatever you want, Brian. It's up to you, man. Man, I'm so lost in the chat rooms is saying, like, stuff like Witcher. I don't even know what you guys are talking about right now. Witcher. I know so many people said witch. You know, the very common answer to Star Wars questions, the Witcher.

Right. It's got to be something so obvious here that we're not looking. The number four is a really high. pick has got to be above bounty hunter but below cargo smuggler my god yeah you people right gunman gunman sure gunman all right holy shit just uh just to put the final nail in the coffin uh no what's the what's the guy who has to what what of those is it the rank oh maybe that's it uh is it the rancor hang wrangler the one of the guy he's like no you killed my The rancor, the rancor guy. I like that job. That's a cool job.

All right. Do that. Show me a ranker keeper. Oh, my God. Believe it or not, Rankerkeeper did actually make the, well, number 33. It was up there, but not super high. No, I was trying to get you to remember when you said protocol, droid, and figured maybe you could figure out the... A droid technician, mechanic, designer, exactly.

Some people would have basically the same job that they do right now in the Star Wars universe. They would be computer techs or programmers. Horrious. Always need those. Somebody's got to clean up the Death Star and other places. So we need janitors. Space janitor was right. Space janitor was right.

Scott, you're going to kick yourself for not fighting for this one. The biggest points on the board. Number 10. A scruffy nerferter. I should have gone with my instincts. It's griffy-looking nerferter. You know what, no, you've got it. It sounded so ridiculous I couldn't imagine it.

Well, and I agreed with you at the time. I think it does sound ridiculous, but look at they did. That would have put us, that would have definitely won. But done away, you cleaned us up today, 35. Geez. Well, I don't go through all of them, but like lightsaber maintenance and tech, engineer, pod racer. accountant, librarian

scoundrel I don't know the librarian I forgot about that yeah yeah armor I did say was under number 26

Grand Muff I guess is a job yeah Senator number 34 teacher number 36 just just you know take a leave of absence

when Anakin comes back for the Padawans yeah blinking light button pusher barista a barista

a barista Barista. Nice. Bantha burger vendor, Bantha Groomer. A lot of Bantha things. Wookie hair salon, uh,

stylist, uh, Corrissot lift driver. We'll end with that one because there's a bunch of other. I think, uh, my first thought when I saw the question is like, if I was in the,

if I was in the Star Wars universe, that universe is dangerous enough. I'd probably be a corpse. Yeah, you'd be dead. Yeah. You would definitely not be a, you would everyone be an OSHA expert because they don't have those in Star Wars.

Yeah. Everything's all left up. Well, winemagus you did your best we all tried to get you there sorry man I had a good time it's all good it's still fun those games might actually be on PlayStation plus catalog which I still have for a few more oh well then you yeah then you're covered either way your lemons have turned into a lemonade yep that's also your fault that I played a bunch of guild wars too yesterday so thanks a lot for that all right we'll see you later uh hey done away you you know I think you you did great

because you're one you you're the winner Yeah. Well done. You don't feel bad. Feel good about what you did. No, it was good. It was a real good thought exercise. That's been one of the most challenging ones we've had in a while. Yeah, that was a tough one. And you guys did great for how difficult a question was. Mad respect to Ibit who had to go through all of those answers and the compile the ones that needed be put together. Because that's all over the place. Nobody wrote their answer the same way. So like, all right, smuggler. Oh, cargo ship pilot. Yeah, kind of the same thing. X-wing pilot, fighter, pie. Okay, you've got to combine those. Yeah, it's a lot of those.

For sure. It was super fun. Next Friday or this coming Friday at 2.30 Mountain Time. You and I will be sitting down talking about Super Mario RPG, not the one that just got re-released, not the remake, but the old-ass Super Nintendo game that started at all. Made by Square, still considered by many people to be the best thing Square ever designed. I think they're close to being true there.

So we'll talk about that at length this coming weekend, or Friday, I guess, at 2.30 Mountain Time. So check it out. If you can't watch live, you can always get the podcast after at Play Retro over at FrogPants.com slash Play Retro. Brian, is there anything else that you'd like to say to us before we kick you out? Yeah, it stopped hurting. Oh, good. I'm so glad.

Yeah, quit pulling on your nut, your left nut. Bye now. All right. Well done. We're going to take a break. When we come back from this break, Tom Merritt will join us. He has things to say and stuff to do. so we're going to do that right after this break

but Brian we've got to play a song and I think you probably brought one so let's do that sure look if you're a fan of bands like Foo Fighters Queens of the Stone Age I mean come on who isn't listening to the show you're going to love this this is this is a band that easily could open for either of those guys on

tour it's a British punk rock band called The Sleeping Souls put together by Frank Turner this is their debut full length album called Just Before the World Starts Burning This is their new single it's called scared of living, here are the sleeping souls. Move in 22

I felt like a fool A conjure A vision Sewing patterns on those linen strips Like Hieroglyphs Images are stole A fountain It's for me

I don't want to be in control We don't have to be so I don't want to be a loo I don't want to be too Skare away There we'd be happy in the deep No bad deeds I swear Quitching

Not persisting Give us something we can shout about We're down and out Save our sick and souls A-clanting Or pretending I don't want to be controlled We don't have to be so

To take the power I don't want to be alone I want to be so good Scarlete I want to be so Scalade I want to be so Scarlete

This could take a while we can talk under skies of gold and fire, we were made to make a while, we can talk under skies of gold and fire, we were made to make a change, a subtle sound and turn. the page on the regions hold the ways I don't want to be I don't want to be controlled I don't want to be controlled I don't want to be alone I don't want to be soul Scarlete

Scarlet Scalry Scalry Scalry I don't want to be so I don't want to be so Stand Well, it's time to figure out dinner.

How much do you think this advanced operating environment is worth? And we're back, everybody. Tell me who that was one more time. Sure, that was Sleeping Souls and their brand new song, Scared of Living from their upcoming album just before the world starts turning. Nice. Don't be scared of living. Be scared of dying.

Oh, wow. Don't do that either, though, I guess. Deep. Yeah, it is pretty deep. Deep, man. This built-in instinct all humans have. to survive. Think about it. If one, think about it.

All right, we are pulling Tom Merritt from his safe place that he lives in in Los Angeles, California. We have a new thing for him here. We want Tom. We want Tom. We want Tom. Yay. We want Tom and we got him. Tom Merritt is here. I feel wanted.

Not in a poster way. No, you should feel wanted, always here on the show. We're always happy to have Tom Merritt here. Tom Merritt, of course, the purveyor of all things, a daily tech news show and is always scrounging around on Wednesday mornings for some awesome tech news to cover later. I don't know about scrounging. You know, that's not the right word.

He's journalistically digging through the day's top stories. He's journalistically digging through the day's dirt. That's right. Find the gems. Yes. And if you show up for that show later, you will be able to partake in said gems. But you'll get a little peek at it today.

Yeah, all for free. but you'll get a little bit now and so Tom what are we talking about what's going on out there well I figure you y'all might be interested in Apple rewind Spotify replay Spotify wrapped stuff did you talk about that yet

we have not we have not no yeah well how did it all turn out I always look forward to these it's not even the end of November and we're already getting them which feels early usually they come in the first week of December is yeah but for the next month all we're going to listen to is last Christmas on repeat so really

what does it matter? Basically, it means Wham and Mariah Carey have no chance of making your Spotify that's right, exactly. That's a shame. Yeah, so Spotify always has the better one. I'm an Apple music user, but I'm

willing to admit, Spotify's wrapped, which kind of takes all your data of what you listen to the year and packages up in a cool, interactive feature. This year, it will include a description of what town best matches your music interest.

I haven't listened to anything on Spotify So I won't be able to partake But I would be very curious What town would they put me? Is Eileen still I don't remember if she used Spotify or not? She is, she is And I will let you know whether it's soul or not

I bet it's Soul Korea How could it be not Soul Korea? Yeah, exactly, yeah I mean it could be Los Angeles Maybe Yeah, she's into that soul music As we all are Which is great

Solo music, not soul music but I do like Apple Apple replay. Interesting fact about Apple replay, which I don't know if this is true of Rapt or not, but you can start your Apple replay in like February. It just needs enough listening to have been done so that it can create

a baseline and then you can kind of watch it all year long. At least the list. You don't get the little fancy package with the shareable cards and things like that until they officially launch it like they just did yeah um but uh but spotify's better it just looks better it's cooler it's got more fun stuff apparently the spotify a i dj have i don't know if you have ever used that

i haven't they've got they've got an a i that will talk to you as if it's a d't announce your songs and stuff yeah it'll be like here's one of your old favorites because it knows you know your listening history and stuff um apparently that will start referencing rapt once you once you go create your Spotify wrapped. It will say like, here's the one that topped your Spotify wrapped this year, a song from Lesserafim or whatever. Yeah. I know they're kind of or late to the game in terms of the overall music streaming business, but YouTube music does something like this and I use them now? Yeah, I haven't heard when theirs is coming. I haven't seen that it that it's out yet. I'm curious. Curious about that one because I think that they roll in your

viewing habits as well. So they do. They do. I remember that last year. I actually had enough data for a YouTube version just because of using YouTube, not because of using YouTube music. Right, right, yeah. So that's interesting. I, um, it is one of the ways Spotify seems to keep its edge in this, in this

very competitive streaming music market, by doing this sort of like creative interfacing with your music, you know? Yeah. I like that. Um, I wish the others would do more of that stuff. And obviously they do, but, uh, and of course Taylor Swift named Spotify artist of the year, most streamed artist.

on Spotify. Bad Bunny right there behind, though. Not far behind. Not too bad. I don't think I've listened to a bad bunny song since I was forced to during the halftime show at the 2019 Super Bowl. Not a fan of the bad bunny. What's that?

You don't like him. I said, what do you have against him? I feel like he's, no, it's nothing I have against him. I just haven't sought him out, but, uh, yes, no, I feel like he's accurately named. Do you feel like, do you feel like Taylor Swift is always looking over a shoulder because there's a bad bunny right behind her just creeping up. You know what I'm saying?

That's how I work. I think they'd be friends. I'll bet she's this thing across all the platforms, right? It's going to all be Taylor Swift year this year. That's just the deal. It's Taylor Swift's world world just living in it. Morgan Wallin was Apple Music's global number one.

Morgan Wallen. Oh, really? Who was that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, country. Morgan Wallen. Yeah, he had a billboard number one streak. over the summer if you missed it.

Oh, this guy with the no sleeves when he performs. There he is. I know this guy. He could finally afford sleeves after the success of this. For whatever reason, whenever I see him, he's never wearing sleeves. Oh, yeah, there he is. Okay, this is the guy I was thinking, I didn't know he had stuff that popular. Wow.

Look at that. Well, well done, country, I guess. He's not the guy who got in trouble. No, you're thinking of Jason Aldeen, I think. Yeah, Al-Dien. Maybe that's it, yeah. Not in this town or whatever. Let you say, what did he get in trouble?

in trouble for, because maybe it was Morgan Powell. But St. Aldine made more headlines for getting in trouble. It was like social media racist comments right after he was on SNL or maybe right before. Oh, that's different than I thought. Maybe that was Morgan Wallin that you're talking about there, yeah. Might have been. Allegedly racist. I don't remember.

Sure, sure. Hey, Tom, did you, are you, I understand, well, I think you are watching it, but you're watching this reality show based on the Squid Game thing. You're watching that as well? I am. Squid Game the Challenge. and apparently I am very out of step with the culture because I have seen everyone online saying,

and even a friend of mine say, I just feel like it's so inhuman and mean, you know, and all of that. And I found it pretty compelling. Like, I don't know, it follows the game, or it follows the game from the series much closer than I expected. and tells the story in a surprising way.

So you think, oh, I'm getting to know this person. They must last a long time. And then they'll see them immediately eliminated. So you're a fan. You and Brian are both telling me to see it. Would you agree that poor $2.99 got short shrifted just because he was kind of an introvert? 299. Umbrella man, basically.

Umbrella man. Yeah, no. Well, didn't he like go out on his own? like he just he just uh i i know he got ill treated by people but then he also just he didn't get eliminated by other players he no he didn't he was he was the cause of his own demise but yeah he was he was hated poor guy it was one of those things were like hey get to know this guy oh by the yeah yeah um there have been a few like that 492 or 493 was the guy I'm like oh this guy's gonna last and then he he didn't the uh the really cocky guy

432 or no yeah oh yeah how do you keep track of these numbers of people though that seems hard you know they focus on some people and you get to know them by their number like 301 and 302 in the confessional interviews people will refer to them by their numbers yeah the mom and the son I love those two 301 and 302 that's great yeah well now I'm convinced to see it you guys are convinced me I have to say this though Tom merit is partially responsible for why I hardly watch any reality TV and he probably doesn't even know this. I'll tell you this real quick. Here's what happened. Years ago, we had a current geek interview with somebody Hammond set up for us who was the editor. Yeah, the editor guy who did Pond Stars, Storage Wars, a bunch of other stuff. Housewives

shows. Housewives, yeah, one of them anyway, Orange County, I think. And he basically said to us flat out, none of what you see in any reality competition shows with maybe the excitement. Back then, I don't even think when we interviewed and we even have, we didn't have, we didn't have British Bakeoff. So we didn't have that to compare anything to. But he said it's all BS. It's all made up. The stories are all fake. Everything's planted 100% across

the board he told us. And he said this in this interview and I remember that day forward I was like, I don't know if I can ever watch the stuff again. Yeah. Did you say that because the shows you described weren't reality competitions. They were just reality shows. Oh, that's what I meant to say. Yeah. I mean, when I think a pond star, not pawn stars,

but like storage wars, I think competition, but it's not even, it really isn't. that yeah i mean i think there's there's definitely some of that in everything i think there's even some of that in british bakeoff i found out yesterday that the time calls that noll and and allison do this season and matt did last season those are all recorded outside of um when the bakers are in the tent they're not in there yelling it they're not going three to one when they're saying you're halfway done bakers or you've got 15 minutes bakers uh that's all done while the the bakers aren't even in the tent so that they're not unfairly distracted the closer ones to

to the front that sort of thing like it's not even a big deal but it still annoys me just a little bit when stuff's oh really see that doesn't bother me it's kind of funny now that we watch because we're still watching the current season of course and now when we see them say that it's like they're not even in the tent when they're 15 minutes yeah there are definitely a few times in squid game the challenge i which i don't think any of the actual competitions are are faked i think you know if they're dalgona split their gona split. But I do think there are portions, especially in the dorm, where a producer might go like, hey, maybe, maybe go ask 493 that. Like, you know, overhears something and gives them a little

nudge and a little prod to like stoke the drama. You can kind of see that outline of that happening. Sure. Well, yeah. Now you've both, you both convinced me to at least try it. I was, I didn't think I would like it, Scott. I started it with the idea of like, I just want to see how they handle the eliminations and then I'm going to turn it off and we ended up watching all the episodes that have been out to that point. Wow. All right. So controversial, uh, a controversy aside by about people getting cold or getting hurt or whatever, sounds like a, right, a good watch. But Tom, would you agree Scott should watch the fictional squid game series before he watches the reality show? Oh yeah. If you haven't watched the original squid game, it will increase

your enjoyment. I think you can watch the challenge without having seen the original and have a good time. But it won't hit you the same as it does when you're like, oh, this is exactly like the TV series. Okay. All right. I'll finally get that thing done. The other problem is that they learn how to compete in one, like they figure out the secret to one by watching, by something that happens in the fictional one. And I thought it was fun how they did a twist on that because in the original, the contestants don't know what's coming. So they make a choice without understanding that.

that that is a bad choice because they don't know what the game is. Whereas in the contest, they know exactly what the game is. So they changed the game a little to say, well, you all know that one's a bad choice now, because you've seen the TV series. So we're going to switch up how you make your choice. I thought that was really, really well done. Very, yeah, very well done. All right, there you go.

A couple of thumbs up, everybody, for the thing. Tom Merritt, later today, we got the Daily Tech News show. 2 p.m. Mountain Time, everyone, be there. But also what else is going on in your world? Yeah, I'm right in the middle, as I talk to you, of writing up my newsletter that goes out every day. Daily Tech News show is a team effort, and rightly so. You're going to get opinions from all sides of our conversations. So when Scott's on today, Scott and Sarah and I will all have a collaborative conversation.

And my role there is often to say, like, hold on, have you thought about this? Have you thought about that? if you want to know like okay great what does tom think the newsletter is the place to go uh if if you want for example uh to know about my opinion uh about yesterday's story uh which which was all about i'm trying to remember the story uh exactly but uh scientists at oxford internet institute uh put out a paper that said there's no evidence that the internet causes uh harm to mental health oh which kind of counters the narrative we've all been talking about online want to know my opinion about that i put it in the newsletter we didn't have a lot of time to talk about it in d tns because of the amazon reinvent

news so uh that's a place where you can get me unfiltered go check it out at tectom dot substack dot com that is awesome we love you unfiltered otherwise where are we getting our minerals from wait that's like apple cider yeah there it's tom merit everybody watch him as he goes Until next time, as Skeletor would say. You bunglers, you boops. All right, let's get into the milky way of recommending films and television shows.

That's called recommendals, but I got to add people to this call. Okay, that's the deal. We got Randy, and then we got Nicole. Let's see, she's not showing online, but that doesn't mean she's not here. Okay? it could just be we're going to wait a second we don't know exactly so sit back and enjoy well what do you recommend uh yes the sound and song means it's time for recommendals tv stuff movie stuff things on

streaming services and Nicole has returned hello Nicole hey we missed you I miss you guys yeah we missed you pretty bad but you were busy it's stuff things come up yeah exactly it was like one thing out you know how stuff happens so yes for sure and they and it you know the whole rains it pores or what is that the phrase yeah right not the way it does what it means of pores yeah so i've been trying to teach uh matteo like old sayings so like don't it's like the pot calling the kettle black uh don't throw stones if you live in a glass house and he's like i don't understand yeah the you don't come with age she'll be fine eventually yeah yeah yeah But it's the ones where it relies on like, yeah, when you have to rely on the current date or things you grew up with that no longer exist for kids, then you're like, I don't know what to tell you, kid. You got to make up your own, I guess. I don't know. Anyway, new generation. The little save icon is a disc and nobody knows. Yeah, nobody knows. They still put them in new games all the time. People are like, what is that? I mean, they associate it with like saving their game so they know it's saved, but they don't know why.

that's a that what is what it is that icon like what about that icon is safe don't worry everything that is now old is called boomer yeah and i i'm like dude i'm gen x back off i know i get i get upset when they people do that i'm like i'm gen x quit quit with this boomer talk boomer talk anyway also also with this today randy jordan hello randy good morning morning stream i also missed you very much Nicole I saw your post that you went to get some barbecue, what, yesterday or the day before? Day before, day before, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was just like, like, any time you're in the South or the Midwest or some of the Southwest, I'm just like so jealous because, like, I live in the land of barbecue forgot.

But I was in Minnesota. You got it in Minnesota. What are you doing in Minnesota? That's cool. I was at the Mayo Clinic getting some tests done for all the issues I've been having. Oh, that's right. last year so that's right i forgot they were there that you could even and that's not that far i guess you guys all live next to each it's like a seven-hour drive um so it's not too bad but um yeah i was

in rochester minnesota for a few days and i noticed they had a dave's uh famous days barbecue and i love famous dave's barbecue there's like a really amazing one in peora arizona it's hands down the best one i've ever been to everyone i mean it's a chain so they're a a little different depending on the state that you go to but it was right there and it was an old one too and it was really good so I don't know if we have those do I have famous days maybe you probably you probably

yeah yeah Utah let's just find out real quick it says yes oh my gosh it like less than I could walk there there's one you should go all right I'll go I have the best corn biscuits yes everyone talks about the cornbread all right I'm going there for lunch

maybe not today but soon All right, well, it's good to have you both here. We're going to dive into our recommendals for the week. Brian, we start with a clip from you. What are we doing? From moi. Yeah, this is a new comedy show that is made for people who like this kind of comedy, or comedy movie, I should say, and doesn't feature any of the three people you would think of

when you hear this name. Oh, all right, here it is. Treasure. Why is it always so goddamn hard to find? This is the story of the treasure of foggy mountain. The priceless golden bust of Marie Antoinette. It was stolen from Versailles by French naval explorer Jean-Pierre LaRoche. He fled to America and hid it deep within the mountain.

In his final days, he built a map, a key leading to this legendary treasure. It was his dream that the bravest, most feared adrenchers in the world would find it and solve its puzzle. That is not what happened. By the way, I'm John Goodman from the Big Lebowski and a ton of other shit. Any go. I was going to ask, hey, I think that's John Goodman, but I guess he let the cat out of the back there at the end. Definitely John Judman. Yeah.

He doesn't want to leave with fraud. he returns. As the movie he was in. I like that. Yeah. All right. So this is, you heard kind of it

in the description there, it is the Treasure of Foggy Mountain, or please don't destroy the Treasure of Foggy Mountain. So in the past a couple years, one of the highlights, sometimes the only highlight of that night, that week's episode of Saturday Night Live, is a pre-recorded segment done by these three guys,

Martin Hurleyhee, John Higgins, and Ben Marshall, who are the Please Don't Destroy guys. Three writers who got hired as a team because they have always been a team. They started out together at New York University writing comedy bits for things like TikTok and YouTube and Twitter. And then in 2021, they got hired by SNL to produce pre-recorded segments for the show. Which they've done for the last two years. They don't appear in any other segments, but quite often the host for that week or the musical guest will appear in their videos. They were totally influenced by Adam Sandberg and Lonely Island, I feel. For sure.

And there's even connection there because Martin Hurleyhee, one of the three of them, is the son of Tim Hurleyhy, is Adam Sandler's longtime comedy partner. Oh, wow. Adam Sandler? or Adam Sandler? Adam Sandler. Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, yeah. Lonely Island. I'm sorry. Sanberg, right, you were talking about.

Lonely Island. Yeah. Because he kind of came, those, that group came in to S&L. And that's when you had like, oh, what was it? You had deck in a box and like the lonely, yeah, you're talking Lonely Island stuff. Yeah, that was. It was a, oh, God, what was the one where it was like the cupcakes and the licorice and the chronicles of Nardia? Oh, oh, oh, yes.

Right. Past the chronicles of Narnia, yeah. I was thinking of the most earwormy thing I ever heard, which is I just had sex. That song? Yeah. Stays in your head for months on end. Yeah, I had years. I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat. I'm on a boat. Was on my... Flippy floppies, all that stuff. They're really, really good at that. Or even the, you know, the one with the Jack Sparrow one with...

Yeah, yeah. Michael Bolton. Michael Bolton. It's an amazing song. It's so good. So all of that, nothing to do with the police don't destroy guys, except they were all on SNL together or SNL, not even together. They get the feeling they were totally influenced by that whole air. 100%.

Absolutely had to be influenced by all that Lonely Island stuff and the Andy Samberg stuff. But, yeah, so this is, if you have been watching SNL and you like, Like me, you find those segments to sometimes be the only funny thing in that night's episode. Then this movie is for you. It is a, you know, a fictional story about the three of them going after the treasure of Foggy Mountain, a bust of Marie Antoinette that you heard John Goodman described there in the intro. By the way, I will be working at the Genius Bar shortly, and I can help you reformat your IMAQ. By the way, by the way, internal episode connection, please don't destroy his sketch with the Bad Bunny episode of Saturday Night Live.

It was amazing. They had Bad Bunny come in and pitch a Shrek sequel. It was so freaking good. That was so funny. On the fly. And the fact, what they're able to produce in that amount of time, too, with that whole thing is brilliant. We've got them higher. Yeah, those are what's seeking on, actually.

Where's the movie stream? This is streaming on Peacock. It's called Please Don't Destroy the Legend of Foggy Mountain In addition to John Goodman And of course, the guys you hear there You also get a weird A cameo by Gailen Matarazza From Stranger Things

Oh, okay, I don't know that is Conan O'Brien as the parent As the dad of one of the... That's where I saw that clip. I could not figure out why Conan O'Brien was a dad in something. There's a clip floating around on TikTok or somewhere and I went, what is this? And I never...

That's it. Yeah. That's it right there. And even Bowen Yang. So if you like Bowen Yang on SNL... I love Boeing. Yeah, you'll like him and this as well. This isn't...

I'll tell you right now. This isn't for everybody. And even, you know, even if you're a fan of, please don't destroy, about 80% of it hits. About 80% of it lands really well. About 20% of it is like, okay, but the good news is

they kind of treat it like the skits where it's, you know, let's do all the funny things related to this tent or let's do all the funny things related to this weird hawk that is part of the movie for some reason. Or let's do all the things related to that. So if a joke doesn't hit, you don't have to wait too long for them to move on to something else

that's going to be funnier. And like you said, it's about 80% of it for us actually had us laughing and sometimes even out loud. Wow. I'm glad you recommended it. I would never have watched it because for some reason, since we talked about this on FilmSack,

I've been tracking the differential between audience score and critic score on Rott's Vitos. I didn't even looked at what is on there. It's one of the highest I've ever seen. Oh, really? Like it's the highest differentials you mean. Differential, right. The audience score is 54 points higher than the critic score for this movie. Yeah.

The only bigger one is Five Nights at Freddy's. It's 57% higher audience score than critics score. I think both of those are for the same reason, that the people who are typical. going to see it or watching it and reviewing it are the people who want like who are fans of the material five nights game fans are watching the movie and saying oh yeah it's a great tribute to the game whereas critics are like i don't know what this chucky cheese bullshit's about but it sucks it's so funny material loved that movie yeah and mark was like i was in pain

the whole yeah he was on twitter or threads or something he was talking about it's like oh my god So it kind of goes along with like the, um, uh, what's the police, uh, oh gosh. No, it was the movie based, they came from the comedy troupe, but it's about troopers, super troopers. Oh, super troopers. Yeah. Whereas if you didn't like that comedy group's style, you probably weren't going to be a fan of the movie. Same with kids in the hall brain candy, brain candy? Yeah, yeah, if you, yeah, broken lizard.

Yeah, if you don't like that comedy group's style already, you're probably not going to like the movie. Monty Python, great example. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I saw someone say, I can't remember where I saw it, but I kind of agree that the movie Hot Rod was 15 years too early or too late. Like, for its time, at the time, it was like, what the hell is this? Yeah. But it would fit perfectly today. It would do better today than it did.

Yeah. My kids, my girls, in particular, they think of that movie's the greatest movie ever made. They love Hot Rock. Oh, really? Cool beans. They were the right age for it, I think. They just happened to be of age for it, and that cracked them up every time they saw it. Did anybody ever come up with a name for the Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Carrie Kenny?

Like the Slate Group, right? Or is that different than the Slate Group? I don't know. I never heard of her name for that. 911 group. Oh yeah, that's the same group. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of the slate because that's the, they did the camp movie. Oh, what was it called? Oh, Wet Hot America.

Yes, it was kind of like that that group of people. Oh, but they have, those guys have a name the state, right?

Yeah, the state. I'm sorry, not the state, the state. The state. That was the MTV, MTV SNL type show.

It was a sketch show. They're an empty state. They're a blank state. I love those guys. I could watch Reno 911 and I'm on repeat. I love those guys so much. Well, all right then. This seems like a good one. Peacock, everybody. Get that there. Let's roll over to Nicole. Nicole, you've hidden holding on this one for a while and I've been

holding on seeing it because I wanted to hear what you thought first. So yeah, I've been holding on to this for about three weeks now. But it's great. I absolutely loved it. It's streaming on Hulu. It's about an actress that we've already talked about. It was kind of funny because I I think it was right after we talked about her. I watched this movie, and I'm like, much better, a much better role for her. Yeah. I'll let you play the clip. All right, well, here's the clip.

And your time starts now. What is the square root of 196? 14. Ron. 14. Correct. How many hearts does an octopus have? Three.

Ron. Three. Correct. What spice is derived from crocus sativis. Saffron. I feel like an answer, hog. Saffron. Correct.

Carbon dioxide. Very good. Wellington, New Zealand. Correct. Saturn. Our American cousin. The Equal side. Harry Potter.

The Hobbit. Correct. Ron. Miss you. Ron, please list for us the gods of Mount Olympus. Aphrodite, Apollo, Aries, Artemis, Artemis, Demeter, Dionyses, Hephaestus. Hey. Why haven't you gone on that show?

Are you scared that you would win so much money that people would try and kill you for it? You know, that's a thing with lottery winners. I recognize Jason Schwartzman's voices. in there just because I just saw them in the Hunger Games thing. Shortsman's in there. Any other ones you recognize? Yeah, Will Ferrell is the host. Will Ferrell.

Yeah, he's the game show host. That cracked me up because, you know, that's just like them saying, what if we took those Jeopardy things and put him in a role that's just like that? I love that. I don't, I'm with you on the whole, I'm with you on the whole Aquafina. She can drive me crazy in some things. And then sometimes I love her in things. So which is this?

yet? No, I haven't seen it yet. I've been waiting for you. Okay. So the name of the movie is called Quiz Lady, and Aquafina is the girl that you heard answering the questions of the quiz. So she is wonderful in the movie. I loved her in it. Her sister, Sandra O, was also in that clip, and she was like, why have you been on this

movie? So it's actually kind of a little bit of a sad story because Aquafina's character is just kind of invisible. to everyone. She's incredibly smart, but she really, she doesn't really have much of a life. Her life ralls around taking care of her dog, Mr. Ligweeney, and watching this quiz show. She's been watching this quiz show since she was a little girl, like seven or eight. you can see they kind of do like a time montage that she had a hard family life her parents gambled a lot and she kind of retreated inside you know within so because her environment and her home life was not

very good and her older sister you get the impression her older sister played by Sandra O is a total mess she's always borrowing money from her and so the scenario sets up around their mother leaving and it kind of brings the sisters together and another thing happens and a bunch of hijinks happens and the ending of the movie

is probably the best part of the movie I won't tell you the surprise cameo but it's absolutely wonderful and it made me enjoy the movie even more I loved it it's so great it's such a fun movie because her character is more invisible and more demure and that sort of thing do we get the we get the subdued aquafina for a lot of this

a little bit of it there is a really funny scene where she takes some mushrooms to try to calm her anxiety because she's very she doesn't like to be looked at she doesn't like to be perceived and it's it's weird because just recently I kind of I mean with all of my recent anxieties and issues and stuff, I've looked into this a little bit more. And it's a thing where people,

they don't like to be perceived. So even if, so like, I'll give you an example. I went to Famous Dave's to have barbecue. And the waitress sat me. It was weird because there was, there weren't many people in the restaurant,

but she sat me in a seat where a guy was on the other side looking right at me. And it made me so uncomfortable because I'm like, I don't want you looking at me what I mean. Oh, that was the same thing would happen to me. Regardless, like, I don't want this. But there are people like her, she doesn't, she gets really uncomfortable. And that's why she doesn't go on this game show. But she's incredibly smart. But she is afraid of the world, afraid of her environment. And it's the people and things in her life that kind of push her out of her comfort zone. And that's the journey of the story. So Sandra O actually is an executive producer. So I was watching an interview about her talking about the characters and kind of what

motivates them. And yeah, I just, I really enjoyed it's called Quiz Lady. So she becomes who's Paul? Who's Paul Rubin's play? Because it looks like one of his last roles here. What does he do? What? He's in there. I'm giving you said, she said something like a couple minutes ago. Oh, did I miss it? Oh, I missed it. Right on air, Rubens. Well, she said was there's a surprise cameo by somebody.

Oh, well, it's just in the IMD thing. It's not like it's hidden or anything. When you look at the cast, it doesn't show him at the top. They put him at the bottom for a reason. Well, he's only four down. He's right in the middle. He's not at the bottom. I'm just, I'm looking at the Google cast.

All right. How about Tony Hale? Is he safe to talk about it? Oh, Scott. Dang it. How many of these are getting spoiled? He plays. So part of there's a road trip that Sandboro takes Aquafina on and then they're going to Pennsylvania. And Tony Hale plays the innkeeper at a Benjamin Franklin hotel. And it's very, he's supposed to be like in character. And there's a funny exchange. that happens between his character and Sandra O's character. And it's not a main part of the story, but it's a very funny part of the story. Well, I like him a lot. I actually just watched Holland Taylor. She's very prominent in the most recent season of the morning show, which I'm really enjoying. And it just blows, I mean, blows my mind.

It's a romance for the ages, I guess that might be a funny way of saying it, but that she and Sarah Paulson are a couple and have been for a really long time. A really long time. Holland Taylor plays Aquafina's neighbor. And she's a very grumpy neighbor. Okay. All right. I like grumpy neighbors.

I highly recommend it. I like her as that kind of character. I liked her as the boss and bosom buddies too. So I like me some Holland Taylor. She's great. She seems to live forever, too. She's never going to die. All right.

So there you go. Well done. Go check it out. Hulu is where you will find Quiz Lady. Randy, you're up next. What do you got here? We're not going to have to spend much time on this one. It's one of the best movies of 2023.

Huge splash at the box office. It's now on streaming. If you've seen it, you need to watch it again. If you haven't seen it, of course, you've got to hurry up and watch this movie. It's really one of the best. Ever, I agree with you. Here it is. I'm sorry, who exactly are you supposed to be?

It's classified. You're the Blue Panther? No. The Caped Blue Sater? No, I'm... Dark Garfield. Stop. Mato.

Libre. I'm from another dimension. You are? Wow. Actually, I'm not confused. My name is Miguel O'Hare. I lead an elite strike force dedicated to the security of the multiverse. Actually, forget it. Can you go to any dimension you want with that watch? It's much cooler than a watch.

Okay. Sensitive. I love this movie. Such a great movie. It's my favorite theater movie I've seen in years. It's so good. And it has led to such interesting discussions. I have just really enjoyed unpacking this movie

with co-workers and family and it's just, it's so much more than the sum of its parts. And this is Spider-Man, this is Spider-Man across the Spider-Bers. Yeah, yeah. And it is just, like, it is the sequel to make the point that sequels are often better than the first somehow.

I don't know how. Yeah. Did you go into this movie knowing that it was going to be a to-be-continued? Because we didn't. No. The kids were like, It was stated. No, although it ends, it ends fine.

Like, this is not, this is not an ending that makes you go, like, throw your popcorn. This is a, this is an ending that does wrap up the story that you've been told in this movie. Yeah. It's a little like Frodo and Sam staring off toward Mordor at the end of fellowship. Yeah. Where you're like, oh, shit, there's more to this. I got to wait a year. I don't want to do that or however long it's supposed to be between these.

but yeah, this movie is so good. This was the first movie that Ava actually sat through, and it was a long movie, and she was just captivated by it. Yeah. It's easy to see why. I mean, I can't imagine. If I was a kid and these movies existed, I would lose my mind. Like, you know, we had Star Wars growing up, and we had, you know, all that kind of stuff.

We had a great run of amazing things that defined our young people time. but if you're a kid now and you see these two Spider-Verse movies what level of Cloud 9 are you even on? Yeah, no kidding. Oh my gosh, dude. And then you have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle that kind of has the same feel

for art style. Yeah, that thing's awesome too. Well, I've only seen a chunk of it, but I need to finish it. I'm told that the little one, Van, wants me to sit and watch that whole thing with him, which I am very happy to do. But he wants to do like a whole afternoon where it's that, Mario, and then about 10 episodes of Blue,

That's how we do things. Nice. What blows my mind about across the spider verse is that into the spiderverse was a hero's journey. And it was a real straightforward one too. It wasn't like it innovated on everything that you saw and heard a lot more than it innovated on how you tell a story like that. It really stuck to hero's journey. There were very few things going on around Miles Morales becoming, you know, Spider-Man and so on. across the Spiderverse is, like, it's this whole other thing.

Yeah. Like, you know, like the, that who, like, I've, I've been asking the question, who's the hero of this movie and who's the villain? And it's really interesting to try to unpack. Again, we're not going to spoil it at all. For those of you who haven't watched it, please watch it. And, and we'll, uh, we'll pick up that discussion some other time. But like, it is just really interesting.

It introduces some characters that are, uh, not so much gray area as just questionably different than any kind of comic narrative that you're used to. Yeah, I agree. Also, we're getting some double dip in here, some MCU double dip in Oscar Isaac. It's not really MCU, I guess. It's still sort of its own thing, but Oscar Isaac in there as 99, Haley Steinfeld in there again doing her thing. She's great as Gwen. Here we have Jason Schwartzman once again and a thing we're talking about.

No kidding. Well, that guy's in everything. And not on Disney Plus, because of the thing, right? It's Netflix. This is Netflix for some reason. And it's like I felt like it looks really, really good. I realize that you can make animated films look, you can transfer them like better than than film films. But like I just,

I was blown away by how good this movie looks on Netflix. Yeah, it's a really, really tight version of it. We saw playing briefly on my OLED TV. Now you're making me want to just go watch it. I'm in the mood now. Well, you should watch it again. Like I say,

there is so much in depth in this movie for you to kind of realize and discover like the movie shows you a bunch of action you know but the story underneath it if you give yourself a moment to think about it's very complicated you know yeah no it's awesome if you haven't seen it you're crazy watch it if you have seen it watch it again all right like i i just asked a question yesterday like What was the, how would you characterize the relationship between Miguel O'Hara and Gwen Stacy, which you hear the very beginning of in the clip I played? And it's like, uh, wow, hmm, I don't even know. Like, there's, that's a very interesting thing that you don't often get in, you know, comic books. And my kid was saying that he, uh, he couldn't imagine a comic book here.

Like it, that the movie is so, you know, again, it has so much depth that he, he really couldn't. even see it. I'm like, yeah, because with a movie, you get to hear the characters. You don't just see what they're saying. You hear them. You're their tone. You hear their, you know, their happiness or their anguish or what have you. Right. And man, it's just so, oh, it's so interesting.

I'm amazed. I'm amazed by this. Like, I don't even know, like, I'm looking forward to be on the Spiderverse. Like, because I want to, I want to see how they wrap this all up. But I don't need it. This movie is great all on its own. Yeah. Those that lord and what's the other guy's name

anyway those guys don't know how to write bad bad animated films they don't know how to do it when's the third one supposed to be coming out next year right or no 2025 I don't know yeah two years I don't know because of the delay the strikes if it pushed those things out yeah because we

so the kids when it ended we're like and so they they were like and it was relatively I found an article that was supposed to be like an eight month turnaround like a really fast turnaround, but you're right about the strike. Yeah, I think that delayed everything. Maybe it's

next year, though, I don't know. Maybe we just, maybe they haven't said. I don't know. I haven't seen it any, like the things that listed zero MC films and Deadpool and the Venom and or not Venom, the Madam Webb and Craven movies,

nothing listed Beyond the Spiderverse. All of the principal production of Beyond the Spider verse is done and was done before the strike. but you know these movies they take forever in post right they like they go through a dozen studios and get all you know edited together and punched up yeah yeah well it'll be great i hope if they nail it it's one of the great trilogies of all time it's so good i'm glad you are brought

my them forward i'm going to talk about something old today uh and mine is really old but i'll but i'll play this and then we'll talk about it welcome to voice print identification when you see the red light go on, would you please state in the following order? Your destination, your nationality, and your full name. Surname first, Christian name, and initial. Moon, American, Floyd, Haywood R.

Thank you. You are cleared through voice print identification. I go. All right, I use that clip because this movie has very little dialogue in it. And if you've never seen it, it you do yourself a favor right now and watch the version that's on amazon prime uh called a two thousand one a space odyssey and you might say scott that's a famous film of course we've

seen it i'm not sure i've ever seen it yeah one of the the the recommendalers haven't seen it oh my gosh you should see it it's really worth seeing at least once um it is very long very slow and very beautiful it is one of the most it's one of the most it's one of it needs to be though for what the kind of movie it is, but there is such an amazing transfer over there on Prime Video. I don't know what happened. There must have been a recent restoration or something, and this is a 4K presentation of that. I've never seen it look so good. It looked insanely good right now. So for whatever your reasons, if you never watched it or didn't see it or whatever, this thing looks like it was filmed yesterday in terms of like the quality of the transfer.

It's beautiful. Speaking of really beautiful transfers like Randy was talking about, it is really something. I did not expect that. What I went in to watch it was just like, well, I haven't seen this in a while. Let's just have this. Let's watch this. And I've been thinking about Kubrick and his whole career and like highs and lows and all that. And man,

this thing is a trip. And I'll tell you what. The special, so it was 1968. This is old as shit. Yeah. Older than us. Yeah. And the special effects of that time were nowhere near what we would soon get with Star Wars and other stuff a decade later.

This thing somehow holds up. I don't know how they did it, but all the space station stuff, all the ship stuff, the planet stuff, and even the trippy, you know, fly into the void

and see all the weirdness before he comes out into that bedroom thing toward the climax of the film. All of that looks so good, even today. And it holds the hell up, man. Now, I will say,

if you're a person who gets sleepy watching some slow rotating, docking sequences, The kaleidoscope is what does it for me. I need coffee before I can watch that second. Yeah, it's a lot, right? There's a lot. And if you're put off by that stuff, maybe this isn't for you.

Like, as a kid, I hated this movie as a kid. I hated it. Because they're so boring for a kid. But as I got older and watched it in my teens and then later in my 20s and now, now, I just appreciate it more and more every time I see it. There's a lot of prediction stuff in there that they got right. There's some stuff they got horribly wrong, but it doesn't mean. matter. It feels visionary. It feels important. You know, the stuff with Hal feels ripped from

today's headlines in a lot of ways. Very much so. Yeah, that's sadly prescient. Yeah. A quick, quick note. It's on Amazon Prime for the next 35 hours. Oh, shit. You've got a little over a day to watch it, almost a day and a half to watch it. So I don't think that's going to happen. Probably not going to happen. Probably not going to happen. I mean, it's how long. I'm being realistic here. It's probably not going to happen. It's two and a half hours long. I think that's just right, but a lot of people are going to think it's a little over long. It'll end up somewhere else

shortly. So if you don't get to it in the next day, you can watch it somewhere else, but just a heads up if you're excited to watch this and you haven't seen it and you're planning on doing it, jump over to... Get in there quick, because now's the time. I think it's an all-time great, and I'm

blown away by how well it holds up and how beautiful it is. And I'm not a guy that likes to go back to the 60s era of film and go, ooh, look at the 60s. They're beautiful. There's examples that this thing is something. There's a great kind of parallel, not parallel, but like a through line with your recent rewatch of Interstellar. I feel like there is a cut from the same cord, cut from the same cloth. Very much. Yeah. In fact, I remember at the time of Interstellar, I loved it, of course,

and a lot of us did, but there were people that complained about it saying, oh, it's a lot of slow ship stuff and this and that. And I'm like, yeah, that's the, that's the, that's the, that's the beauty of this thing. Get in there. Space is empty, man. Have some emptiness in your movie. I remember that movie I recommended a while back. I think it was called Life. That reminded

me. Yeah. It was made by somebody in that one. No, no, no. It wasn't Ryan Reynolds. It was an actor. Jake, Gellenhall? No. It's no famous actors were in it. Oh, okay. Then it wasn't life. Let's see. Yeah, Life had Gellonnell.

I mean, it's, it was made by a band and there's it's about a guy that gets, he's he's in space, not all the way in space, he's kind of in, he's in that atmosphere where you still have gravity, I guess, I don't know, because he

has gravity in the ship, but like, like everything ends life on earth and he's stuck up in this space station by himself. And so it's him in space going slowly insane.

It's not, but it was, it's not moon, right? It's not moon. You're not thinking of moon. No, not moon. It's like, I thought it was life. And it was really hard to find. It was on Amazon Prime. And I can't remember the band.

It came from a song that this band created. Oh, Devald says, Angels and Airwaves made the movie. It's called Love. Yes, love. I knew it would be hard. That would be hard to find, uh, it's hard to find love on the internet. It would be hard to find that. movie. But it was very

it was very boring but very I watched the whole thing it was I mean I recommended it a long time it's been a long time we were still in Colorado when I recommended it. Yeah I'm having a memory of this there are so many movies called love I can't actually freaking find it. It's hard to find it. Oh there it is it's got a little astronaut on it that one is currently on Amazon Prime as well

oh really yeah I came on 2011 I'm in the mood for this shit right now so maybe I'll watch it. There you go. Watch it. Yeah, I've been, I've been listening. It's the same vibes as, uh, as 2001. Okay. Yeah. I kind of want to revisit 20, 2001 or what was it, 2020.

In the year we made contact, is that the one? Yeah. I kind of want to revisit that just to see if the tonal shift. I know we saw it for film sec, but that was like the second. That was like a third or fourth episode, it feels like a film set. Very early, but I kind of want to go back and just see what kind of tone shift it makes. But anyway, that thing is, uh, that thing is on prime it is great it is old but holds up i think if you have never seen it you or yourself to at least check it out the question i always want to ask is do you think it's

kubrick's best film um when i when i first moved to austin i joined a little film uh club and watched all the kubrick movies right and then had the discussion and everybody thought 2001 was his best film and i really i really thought it was full metal jacket I'd put the shining above both of those for me. Yeah, me too. Same. Yeah, that's a hard one, man. I think I'd put, oh my gosh, probably would also put the shining above that.

But I, yeah, that's a fight at the top. I think Space Odyssey is pretty close to being his best. Really? Wow. I like it a lot. Spartacus is pretty good. That's really old. I need to find a group like that, Randy.

I like the idea of. A little film snob group I feel like I feel like it's something you could do in your 20s I guess we kind of do it right I mean that's kind of what we do here Sure sure yeah Yeah that makes sense

Nobody nobody's saying eyes wide shut Okay fine sure yeah Yeah weird movie actually I put a clockwork orange up there too Near the oh that is a good one Yeah that one's good Barry Lyndon's pretty good He's got a lot of great movies What's the one with the Cold War one Um, Dr. Strangelove.

Yeah. That's how I learned to not fear the bomb or what it was called. I think that's him. That's the first time I'm, oh, there it is. Yeah. How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Came out in 64. That was his movie before Space Odyssey.

But that, that thing left a mark on me, man. That thing. I don't know. He's a genius. Whatever. Scott and I have made a deal. Scott's going to go watch Spiderverse. I'm going to watch 2001.

All right. Good. We made a deal. And I'm going to watch Quiz Lady with Kim when she gets home from Florida. Then he's going to watch. Squid game. Good. All right, cool.

And then Squid game, and then maybe this comedy Brian found. Well, we'll have to see. It's always great having you guys on. Of course, quicktm.l. I is the place to go get our recommendations for today and in the past,

so you won't miss out on what we talked about. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Have a fantastic week, the both of you. And Nicole, it's good to have you back. I'm glad you're doing it.

We'll see you. All right. There they go. Watch them as they go. Watch them as they go. Interesting, like the Rotten tomatoes. they've got all of the Kubrick's sorted. Are they sorted?

I can actually click them and sort them. No, I can't. Dr. Strange Love, the highest on Rotten Tomatoes, 98% followed by the killing from 1956. Paths of Glory from 1957, Spartacus. I always forget Spartacus is his.

I do too. Lowest on the list is a tie between fear and desire and eyes wide shut. Those are even, those are 75%. So those are still pretty high in relation. But shining at 84%, 2001 at 92%. That sounds about what I figured. I mean, I would not turn down somebody if they said,

hey, we're going to have a Saturday film fest, all Kubrick movies that we're going to do 2001. We're going to do maybe full metal jacket and we're going to do the shining. And full metal jacket, I love until the halfway mark. Yeah. I don't like the, I don't like the Vietnam. part it's rough it's rough and it's it's it's powerful i mean the whole matthew modine i mean his his character path is incredible yeah it's a really good marmy guy and man i love that first

half so much it's so good yeah well anyway uh that's that that's sorry what you're gonna say stephanie's just going nuts in the chat room with love angels and airwaves love angels it would i think she's she might be on a little bit of a delay because uh we've covered that about uh 10 minutes ago. Oh, yeah. She got here late. She's busy avoiding all the app talk and she missed out. That's right. Exactly. Well, well done, everybody. We've done it. We've finished this here episode. I would like to remind you that if you like what you heard and enjoyed yourself, maybe you'd like to help us out on our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. All the details are there. We're about to roll over into a new month and there's no reason not to sign up now. So check it out.

And big thanks to everybody who already does. That's patreon.com slash TMS. Brian will now give us a song, Brian, will you? Yeah, Brian Kickbush, who a longtime listener of the show, said on October 30th, 2023, you badmouth mastodon as one of those screaming bands, and I just heard this version of their version of the Led Zeppelin Classic. No other reason for this request. I haven't requested a song since 2011 when you played the D&D song by Stephen Lynch. So this is basically him calling me out for Lumping Mastodon as one of those screamo bands. You weren't ripping on the social network, Mastodon. It was the band you were talking about, right?

The band, yes, sorry. The social network is fine. It's fine. There's a little screaming on there as well, but not nearly as much as X. You know what? I stand corrected, Brian. You're right. I gave a short shrift Mastodon. From the single they released in 2019, here is there.

Get tuck in, folks, eight-minute cover of stairway to heaven. Oh, my Lord. All right. Here it comes. Thank you all for listening. It has been fantastic having you here. Please tune in tomorrow for a brand new Thursday edition of the show and a bunch of other shit in between.

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