The Morning Stream - TMS 2572: Rooster McCogburn

Episode Date: December 20, 2023

Oswald Copperpot. Big Lady Leg Drinks. I'm a Log Worker and That's Okay. Danger-Boy Nipples. Bad at the Wife Stuff. Sand in his crack with Dunaway. Drooping Hardware with Tom. A Pinkie in your Cocaine. Both Loud and Illegal. Maybe I was the Bully. The Wood Whisperer is TOO LOUD! Establish Your 100. Grab a thing, Move a thing, Control a thing. Incorrect correction. Just your typical beheading with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TMS is brought to you daily by the support of our patrons at patreon.com slash TMS, like Joe McNally, Rick Pontachfract, and Easton 328. Coming up on TMS, Oswald Copper Pot. Big lady leg drinks. I'm a log worker, and that's okay. Danger boy nipples. Bad at the wife stuff. Sand in his crack with Dunaway. Drooping hardware with Tom.

A pinky in your cocaine. Both loud and illegal. Maybe I was the bully. The Wood Whisperer is too loud. Establish your 100 Grab a thing, move a thing, control a thing Incorrect correction Just your typical beheading

With Nicole and Randy And more on this episode of the morning stream Where's Merlin, where did it go Jenny's got to play in tic-tac-tac-toe Now where's Merlin When I seen it was out with dad playing blackjack 13 Where's Merlin now

It's not fair It's out with Billy playing magic square Ready for the action now Danger boy The morning stream. What do you say? We get nipple to nipple. Good morning, everyone.

Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, December 20th, 2023. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hello. Hello. I'm happy to report.

I'm at about 96%. Oh, wow. See, that's great. You know, and I remember we talked, when we brought up percentages before, you said, well, I never feel 100. So I'm hoping that what you're doing is basically you're establishing your 100. Your 100 may not be your ideal place. Right. But it's where you, when you feel fine, that's where you're at, is your 100.

Yeah, ideal place about, when I was about 25, that was my, I was. deal 100 yeah and in relation to that i'm nowhere near that anymore but you know i'm at a good 100 for where i am you know and it's a sliding scale as we've talked about before can't complain about that no yeah not at all uh we hope you're all well you got five days till christmas i hope all your shopping's done and all that stuff you know i need a good idea for tina uh anybody got me good i'm bad at the wife stuff dude no idea sorry okay well i'm bad at the wife stuff. I'm terrible at it. We already get...

Gift card to the Walgreens then. CVS guest certificate. That's right, exactly. Yeah, no, we're mostly done around here, I think. There's a little odds and ends and stuff, but I kind of don't want to go. They just released a

one of those wastewater studies nationwide that checks for all sorts of stuff. But one of the things that checks for is COVID levels. Oh, yeah. It's like checks your poops. Basically, it's what you put in the sewers, we analyze for COVID. And put on our mantle after.

Put on our mantle. Exactly. I feel like I do a pretty good divido, and I've never tried to do a divido before. Oh, well, look, there's always room in your repertoire for more celebrity impressions. It might be just that phrase. It might be just him as Oswald Copper Pot, Cobble Pot. copper pot i like copper pot that's fun there's nothing wrong with that copper pot um there was there a character in copper pot there might have been we're thinking of pepper pepper pop pop popper cops that's it yes

yeah that's the one we met um so anyway so what was they saying oh so they test brave bobride ever ever the ever the critic um yeah so the wastewater thing analyzing for coven yeah so they they do it for covid but they also do it for like you know drug traces they use it for all sorts of stuff like what are it's to get data on generally where the public is in terms of like here's where all the meth is uh-huh yeah truthfully it's like opiate use is higher in these states and you know that sort of thing and uh anyway covid is uh is back baby because it's this time here and they have the states all all laid out in like color intensity and the higher the higher the red the more in deep you are with the COVID this year yeah and you

Utah is so red. Oh, no. It's almost black. It's so red. It's like the darkest crimson red. And I have a theory about this. Wow, why Utah? I have a theory.

So I could be wrong, but this is my theory. We famously have a ton of kids and families in Utah. It's a cultural thing, just tons of kids. So on the national average, you might have two kids on average. Here in Utah, I think the average is like four. So it's kind of double everybody else. So you're just coming off of Thanksgiving and you're entering the rest of the holidays. It's this time

a year when, you know, the bugs do get out and get into people's systems. These families get together. They have parties. They have, you know, Thanksgiving together. They have Christmas stuff together. Office parties, all of that stuff. And I think they just, I think they just get doubled up because of the sheer number

of kids, schools, families, and sizes of families and all that stuff. I think that's it. Passing it all around and stuff, sure. Colorado was pretty red, but not as red as we were. So you guys are up there. But, like, Wyoming was like not even in the color zone. They were doing good.

They were all clear. Sure. Everybody's so far apart. It's like they live social distancing. Yeah, I guess so. They just, that's how it is up there. They all live like Roy, Sheriff Roy, what's his name in the new season of the, that's funny about that character, by the way.

Yeah. Sheriff Roy reminds me, when I see him talking and doing his stupid stuff he does, it reminds me of Wyoming, even though I know he's in South Dakota. Dakota, but I swear it's Wyoming. I know, I know. It's just like such a Wyoming vibe about that guy and everything he does. Yes. Yeah. Kind of a very yellow, very like

Yellowstone, very yeah. Yeah, totally that. And I'm, by the way, I hate waiting for new episodes. I hate it. I know, see? That's the tough thing. It's like if at least if you, if you pull them all up and binge them all at once,

you're not getting that, that little taste. That little, oh, Hey, you know, how about just a, just a quick little snort. And then you'll be fine. I'll be fine. Just one little snort is all I need. Yeah. Just a pinky in your, pinky and your cocaine like the movies when they always tested.

Exactly. Just like that. Like that. But now you're, you know, it's a, you're, you've tasted it. And now you just want more. Yeah. So be careful out there. All your poops being tested.

We know when you have COVID. That's right. All right. Here's another thing I wanted to mention. So last night, or yesterday afternoon, I had a. scheduled stream multiplayer game stream playing with the core guys so me and Bone

John played games and we're trying to do this every Tuesday we're trying to get more multiplayer runs yeah and we started with a new game that's just out since the game awards they soft launched it last that night and it had been in beta testing for a while but anyway it's a game called the finals

and it's I think like future sport running man kind of story around it There's no real, it's not really a story. It's more like world building because it's a, it's a pure multiplayer game. But it's like the horrible future of reality competition.

Exactly. And what they figured out how to do in this future is, there's a giant circular arena that people are in and cheering and doing all that. And then down in the action, the whole place is constructed basically like a, almost like a holodex. So it is physical. You're there.

things explode and blow up and move and you move around the environments as if they were real but they're artificially constructed and your job you have three teams of three in the main game mode and you're all fighting over dominance over these cash boxes that you then cash in and then the people with the most money by the end of the match they win

and it's really fun built in the latest Unreal Engine beautiful game super hyper realistic lots of you know exploding stuff the place you can you can tear building down just by shooting at them long enough. Like, it's crazy. Very cool game on its own. That is cool.

But here's where it really got me. Here's what really got me. And it's free to play, so everybody can download and play. It's on PlayStation and Xbox and PC and everything. And we get to a mode, so it's all set in like the year 2036 or something. And there's a Vegas map. And I see it pop up and I go, oh, Vegas, cool. That's exciting.

And the load screen, the static image looks like, fremont to me okay but it's got names a little different stuff but I'm like oh this is cool based on kind of the yeah the grand theft auto the gta version of fremont street that's kind of what I thought right so I'm thinking all that'll be it'll be a stylized kind of vagusy idea I get into that level and while none of the casino names and bar names and all that sort of stuff are real they're all fake they've been made up it is a one for one representation of fremont really Yeah, and it was so cool because I'm down at whatever they call the plaza. I forgot to remember what they called it.

But you can go from the plaza all the way down to the other end of Fremont where they load people up for the sky zip thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they have the whole over thing with like projected shit happening on it. And the bars where you buy the big lady leg drinks and all that, like truly it is Fremont. Like it's crazy. And I had so much freaking fun in that level. just tearing it up and remind me you and I thought about, I almost called you

when I was playing it so you can see it. I got to figure out a way to tour that level without chaos so you can see it. Right, without the game being on. Yeah, sure. Which I don't think there's a way to do that. You have to, it's all multiplayer, so I don't think I can. But anyway, it was so, like, dead on.

And all the other, so far anyway, at least from what I've seen, all the other levels are not based on actual places that I know of. More completely fictional. Yeah. Whereas this one is just like, dead to rights it's Vegas and it is definitely old Vegas and it's so fun to run around in there

and it just i don't know there's something about it because we're at we're so focused there when we go there in april every year yeah in that zone that it just felt like going home it was great we know that we know that area well especially those of us who you know spent a lot of time scouting it out for taskmaster only to find that when the day uh when the day comes that you actually need to film there it's both loud and illegal. Yeah, yeah. Really the only big difference here is it's completely empty of people. So it felt like 2020 COVID zone in that street.

And that was, and it's weird because it's so well rendered to have it completely empty except for these three teams of three fighting is haunting. It's kind of haunting. Yeah, it's weird, man. God, I'd love to, I'd love to check it out without having to. delve into the game. I mean, the game sounds fun.

It sounds like a fun little jam. Oh, it's super fun, yeah, it's really good. Yeah. I think we're kind of hooked on it because there's a lot of like

control point games out there, games where you have to go grab a thing and then take it to a thing and then control that thing for a period of time. I mean, that's not the new part about this. What makes this thing crazy is the chaos of,

I can blow this building up. One of the heavy guys can tear through the building kind of juggernaut style. you can use a hammer against the wall and cave the thing in on the people trying to protect the thing they're protecting and wipe their team like the environmental stuff

is so cool. Honestly, I think this is going to be the hot thing for a bit. It's going to be a big deal. So watch for it. Cool. That's called the finals, everybody who's listening. Who wants to go?

Check that out. The finals. I don't love the name because there are other games that have finest. It's like saying, well, hey, do you go to the League of Legends finals? Well, yeah, but this is not the final. No, the final. No, it's almost like name

me your game, um, uh, play. Yeah. Yeah, this is that whole, the, the discussion we have about bands all the time. It's like, right, about what bands, you know, never thought about SEO. These guys at least know, oh, the finals, but, you know, yeah, the SEO was around for them, but, uh, bands like the, the, and live, uh, it's great though. I love it. And I fought, I fought a team yesterday where the leader of the team looked like Aquafina and I couldn't get it out of my head. It was really weird. Anyway, it's fun stuff.

We'll be doing more of that game, I'm sure, on Tuesday's coming up, so watch for that. Cool. Cool. Quick Fargo correction from a listener. Before we pulled Dunaway in here, his subject is the discussion of Fargo. Brian says something to the effect of, quote, there's very little Fargo in the movie Fargo,

meaning they're embranored, you know, all these other places. Right, right. He says, it's been a while. but if I recall correctly, the only scene in the movie that claims to be in Fargo is the external shot of the bar at the King of Clubs and the events that happened within that bar. The external shots were actually shot in a bar in northeast Minneapolis about a mile from where I grew up. The building was redeveloped maybe 20 years ago, but it also cracks me up. When I think about it, I don't think there was an actual FAR, there is any actual Fargo in Fargo unless I'm forgetting something. I think he's right.

I think they're never in Fargo. proper they pretend to be for the bar part right which is what i was referring to that there's very little fargo in the movie fargo that think that was like you know brought up at the time like if you're going to this uh movie expecting to see what fargo is like you're you know you're basically gonna get one one scene and that's it so that's why i meant by and it's kind of a running gag in the show too because the show very rarely sense spends any time in fargo yeah multiple seasons there are times in Fargo, but most of the time they're in Sue

Sioux Falls or they're in surrounding areas or whatever, and it's part of the it's part of why that shows great. It's part of why that movie's great. It's weird and it's, for no reason is it called Fargo in a kind of a weird way. Right. Yeah.

Except that that's, now that's the name you think of. It's just always be associated. It's a great, it's a great name. It's a short little name, easy. I'd love that part of it. I think that's great. Yeah, ICOR says, so this is more of a confirmation, not a correction. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, more of a confirmation, not a correction.

Yeah, yeah. I guess I called it a correction incorrectly. Tomorrow I'll correct your correction. Yeah, and tomorrow we'll correct that correction and get a hold of us at correction at gmail.com. All right. Listen, I get a lot of stuff wrong on this show, but damn it, when I get something right and somebody, I'm going to, I'm going to crow about it like. you got to dig in rooster

mcogburn it's a guy who didn't do a lot of crow in the movie True Grid and also didn't have a Mick in his name I just threw that in there anyway rooster Mick Cogburn Rooster Mick Cogburn

I like that a lot I was gonna go I was trying to think of a famous rooster rooster Mick and then it's like yeah you know just go with the name that I know goes with rooster which is Cogburn

just get Cogburn in there yeah Well, look who just washed up on shore. It's old Brian Dunaway from South Carolina. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Just getting the sand out in my crack. Hold on.

Oh, gosh on the shore. Oh, geez. Because you just watched the shore. I watch the shore, yeah. Some sailor who tried to get away. I knew a girl in high school. Her name was Sandy Cranch. Oh, geez.

The last name was Cranch with a K. I don't even remember how you totally spelled it, but it was with a K. But we used to call her Sandy Crack all the time. You know, the more stories I hear, Scott, the more I think maybe you were the bully. Well, I might have been. You might be on to something there. I don't know if I was so much a bully as I was like, I don't know, I do it here too. It's like I'll hear a name.

Whatever tall boy. I'll hear a name and the names, if the name's funny to me, I can't help it bring up why, you know? Right, right, right, right. I mean, I didn't make fun of anybody who didn't deserve it. No, they all deserve it. Oh, my God. Yes, you're definitely a bully of it. I was quoting Scott there

Oh, it was me the whole time Scott the whole time Well, Donaway, you're here, I'm here, Brian's here And we just need a listener here So yeah, we need a listener, we need a player Pretty sure I can pull in our third person Let's see, who's number three Okay, that's interesting

Let's see if we can get him in here Here he is I believe TRPW is our third Yeah, there he is Oh, hi uh well he's not there to say anything yet hold on i'm gonna give him the name rooster mcogburn oh brusker mcogburn just put that title for the show you're gonna ride that one out ain't you i got you okay hell yeah i just one out till it till that horse falls over all meaning all taste

uh t rpw are you there are you with us i think so hello can you know fantastic you know what i never knew you had an accent until this very second yeah oh very sorry about that no no no it was fantastic No, I love it. Bring more of that on. I love it. We've used some international flavor here on the show. It's great to have you, man. One of our prolific title submitters in the show. Oh, my gosh. No kidding. Yeah, yeah. I've got to give him big fat credit for that.

But today, you're the one who might win some things and play with us. Hey, Brian, I'll explain to him what it is and what he might win. I will totally do that. It's time to play the tad bully feud. I've surveyed the tad bull on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brangeneff will predict the answers that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of them. those answers, they can guess.

T-R-P-W. Tim, if you need it. Tim, okay. Do you have four names, Tim? I do. Robert, Patrick Wilson or something like that? Yeah, something like that. Dox, Tim.

Thanks for Doxon, our good friend, Tim, over here. Come on, man. Yeah, it's a name from my father's side of the family and name from my mother's side of the family. Oh, that's nice. So, you know, so Nick and Nick Johnson would be Nick Scott Kimman's father or something and then

Johnson. Oh, so it'd be like Reverse docs. That'd be like Nick Nick's. That'd be like Nick Scott Daniel Johnson like that. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. Okay. That's cool. That's very cool. All right, Tim. Well, you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian and

they can call you whatever they want. If your team wins, you get a prize package. Oh, what includes Shotgun King, the final checkmate. Yeah, there's like eight different games in that title. And Disco Elyzi them the fun. Oh, that game is like one of the

best RPGs ever made. Yeah. Does it take place in the disco? Like, uh, are you, uh, are you, uh, are you taking out like Anita Ward? No, in fact, that, the name is weird because it kind of doesn't describe, well, I don't want to give anything away about the Elysses. I say, don't let him find it.

Yeah, you'll find out on your own, but it is an awesome detective story. Some of the most intensely dense RPG mechanics and it is so, good. It's so good. It's so good. Game of the year a couple years ago. It was so good. Yeah. Well, that could be yours if if our friends here

do well with the game with you on their team. Let's get to that game. Put your hands upon your buzzers. I think they're just your space bars, but way more fun. And give me your best answer to this. We have 451 Tadpoolers to name

a movie soundtrack that you listen to on... Oh, Brian. Oh, Jesus. Jurassic Park. Show me, Jurassic Park. That is our number 10. It's a good point.

It would have been great points. It still is great points. You get the points for that. Let's just hope you get control of the game. Scott, nine answers will beat it. I'll repeat the whole question. Name a movie soundtrack that you listen to on repeat. I'll just answer it honestly.

Mad Max Fury Road. Really? Oh, gosh. I would never. in a million years have guessed that. By Tom Briggs, aka Junky XL. That guy's amazing.

You've all heard his music. You just don't know it because he's in a million movies now, but it's an amazing... Oh, shit. Gosh, dang it. Chad, Tadpool, you let me down, man. One person in the Tadpool said that.

So, yeah, I think we know who's playing favorites there. All right, Brian, that means you've got control of the board and you've got CHRFW on your side. And, Tim, on your side, and you've already got 10 points to start with. So, you know, it's yours to lose. What name is soundtrack. Thanks for that. That the tadpullers listen to on repeat.

And I will tell you this. Yeah. I lump, if there's a series, I lump them all into one. I'm not going to make you, you know, name an individual movie if there's a series of movies. I thought I'll have good soundtracks. Oh, that's a good idea. Oh, shit. I don't like that.

Now you totally confuse me. Now, Tim, I don't know what your expertise is. on soundtracks. None? Not much. Okay. No, I mean, but you know, John Williams, so you're going to look at Harry Potter and you're going to look at Star Wars. Yes, I think those are fantastic guesses.

Now, I will tell you that I was shopping for some soundtrack, vinyl soundtrack this past week, and there was a couple of them that caught my eyes. What do you think about the Guardians of the Galaxy stuff? You were looking for them on wax cylinder, Brian? Yes, on the wax vinyl cylinders. Yes, please. Yeah, I mean, in terms of songs, they're good.

right right is it sound is it soundtrack or is it song so it doesn't it matter yeah right and I and I will clarify this that I tend to use the term soundtrack and score

indiscriminately when I'm referring to music from a movie however if I'm ever talking about the score I specifically say score but in this case either and then everybody's confused because you yell it out

just by no context to score right exactly yeah I can't imagine who just yells things like that out Anyway, right, right, right, right. Is that your guess? What do you think, Tim?

You think we should go with Garys Galaxy? Okay, let's go with some Guardians of the Galaxy. All right. Show me, Guardians of the Galaxy. Awesome mix. Any of the volumes. Oh, my Lord. Oh, yeah.

Damn, dude. All right. All right, Tim, what are you thinking now? What's you got in your back pocket? Anything? I'm just wondering if there's any musicals that people would like. Oh. I know the one that we listen to around my house all the time.

We'll do it. What do you got? It's the greatest showman. What do you think about that one? Yeah, that might work. I don't know. Baz Luhrman. Greatest Baz Luhrman.

Is that the one you're going with? Back off. I'm thinking. Come on. Burning daylight here. Burning daylight here. We pay $75 an hour for studio time. That's right.

You've got, you know, you've got Star Wars in your back pocket. I think we should go with a Star Wars. thing. I think a Star Wars soundtrack is going to be a better guess. I think more of our people would have listened to that. Do we need to be more specific than John William's okay. Star Wars like I said, if

it's any of those movies and I lumped them all into one. Show me the Star Wars. Yeah, number three answer on the board. Pretty much everybody who said Star Wars or meant a Star Wars thing said Star Wars. The couple people said episode four and a couple people said Empire Strikes Back. Of course, I lumped them all

to one nice right all right okay uh tim what about now now should we go with the uh greatest showman yeah or should we go for it or you could go harry potter you just get another oh harry see see i'm with you and the way he said harry potter people yeah and the way he just said harry potter you can't deny harry potter i mean it feels like if anybody knows harry potter it's gonna be tim yeah i agree i i would once serve the drink by um uh daniel radcliffe whoa really whoa the story we did i i i would I was at a theater quiz, and he was helping out. He was about, he was about 15, so lucky it was a soft drink and not alcohol.

But, you know, he was, he was just, you know, he was just about, I think he'd just been in the first movie. Wow. Wow, that's awesome. And, yeah, he was just helping out with some friends. Was it, was it? Was it butter beer? What was it? No, no, it's just dark, cocaine.

He's truly the Swiss Army man doing drinks. making movies. It's fantastic. The Harry Potter and the missing ice bucket. All right, let's get to any of the Harry Potter films here. Show me Harry Potter. Oh.

It was number 16 in the list. It is some really good stuff. Yeah. Okay. Well, this is interesting now. I'm going to say one that I think may have fallen out, but at the time, it's all you heard about, and I'll just say it. Garden State, the sound?

Oh, that's a great one. I love that record. The Shins. Oh, yeah. I want to listen to the greatest music ever made here. Put my headphones on and stare off in a space. All right, show me Garden State. Oh, come on, you guys.

Number 20. Number 20 in the list. People said it, but just didn't make the touch. It's been a while, I understand, but I was introduced to the Shins. Image in Heaps, first time I ever heard her. Like, there's so much stuff in there that is so freaking great. I mean, I will say that, um, Um, the, the, the tadpool did not disappoint with options.

222 different soundtrack slash scores that they listed. So that's why, that's why points are a little bit lower on this one, but, uh, interesting. We did have some clear, uh, clear winners. Ooh, now that made, that makes me curious then. Okay. Um, damn it. There was one that I thought that, uh, uh, me, man, man, I don't know, what, Tim, Tim, do you have some? I'm thinking. Well, I mean, you know, thinking of the best-selling one, see, certain folks, I think of it, but it might be a bit too old for most people.

That's what I was trying to think of, because when Scott went kind of older, too, and I was like, well, how about, oh, brother, where art thou? Because I saw that one. And I was like, ah, that's so, that's so worn out even to this day. So good, though. I don't know if I could get it. The bluegrass in there is so good, man. What a great idea.

Yeah, go for it. Go for it. We're going to, we're going to shoot for some old brother. or art avowal. I am a man of constant sorrow. Show me that one. Oh, my gosh. Oh, brother, where art thou?

Another one that was up there, number 21, right after Garden State, as a matter of fact. Oh, my gosh. We're tied with Garden State. All right, Scott, back over to you. All right. I'll go something a little more recent, although I think it's been 10 years now, but let's go with that Tron. Oh, that's a good one. I love that one.

Is it legacy? Tron Legacy. That's right. The movie is punked. Yeah, the movie wasn't that. great, but man, that soundtrack freaking kicked and still does, so I'll go with that. Totally does. All right, show me

Tron Legacy. Yeah. Number five. Nice. Nice. The damn board here. Okay. What's another one I was thinking of? Let's go with how many...

Yeah, I need to re-watch that movie and try and decide if I liked it or not. Yeah, I kind of need to revisit. I like it. I watched it. Re-watched it recently. And I liked it then, and I like it now. Now, someone says, Brian, is it a good movie? I'm like, oh, I can't settle. There's things I like about it.

There's things I really like about it. I think visually and like the tone of it is dead on. Exactly. You know I am a tone guy. I really like a good movie with a tone. The tone is good. That's really super strong. I'll give you that.

In front. Like I see. Boy, they really did miss the boat just barely on how well you could deep fake a character, though, in CGI. Oh, yeah. Just missed it. All right. I don't know how. many nine-year-old girls we have in our

in our tad bowl. But I'm just going to say it because it's one of the it's the best-selling soundtrack of all time. I'll just say Frozen. Frozen, Frozen, Frozen, too. All the Frosons. Interesting. All right.

Show me frozen. Damn it. We do have some nine-year-olds. Well, we don't really. We have some parents of nine-year-olds. It's 19. Basically right in that same little, little tie at 19, 20, 21,

Frozen Garden State, oh, brother, we're out that right all together. It's funny where we're all landing on those in the 20s. Yeah. Can we guide Lord of the Rings next? What was it? The Lord of the Rings. Oh, those are epic. That's pretty good.

All right. That's pretty good. Let's do some of Lord of the Rings. Yeah. All right. Show me Lord of the Rings. Oh, yeah. Good job, Tim.

yeah well done hey tim what do you think about uh your your your name's first batman with the prince what you think about that one yeah yeah you're gonna do the bad dance i mean it's none of it actually it's none of it's actually in it is it no no you're right but people like that danny elfin soundtrack burn it was really good it was really uh what do you think team is that way to go bad day yeah bad look give us some, give us some prints. And we want a bad dance a little bit. Yeah.

No. Go with a smile. Bannab-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d. That's how it ends. It's one of my least favorite things. And where? I love Prince, and I, I, I, not a thing. This one needs an enema.

Oh, no, that song is bad. It's a very bad song. All right. Show me the Batman. Oh, son of a bottle. Come on. Classic. No, but of all of the, you know,

Those movies, Batman did rank the highest. And it was, where is it? A couple people said it. It's somewhere in this list. I can't find it right now. All right. Well, I'm going to stick with kid adjacent. Sort of, although I love it as an adult, which is why I think it might be on here.

I'm going to say the nightmare before Christmas. Oh, that's a good one. That's a good one. Another elfin. Please be on there. Very good. All right. Let's see where it plays.

Show me the nightmare before. Christmas. Shit. Who are you people? I know. I am amazed that that isn't even in the top 20. Like you don't get to Nightmare Before

Christmas. Where is it? It's like Man, where is it? It's such a good soundtrack. I mean, I realize it's kind of seasonal, so I get why it's maybe not on all the time, but I love it. This is Halloween.

Hell, I don't know. I can't remember if I did this, but my vote would have been for the original taking of Pellum 1, 2, 3. Oh, now that's a good. Yeah, that's a good. Oh, that's a great. Yeah, that original movie's got a great soundtrack. I like that. I like that movie.

Yeah. I like the remake personally. I learned composition some years ago. And that's a serial. He uses a serial note row. Oh, that's cool. If you can know about those things. Yeah.

Oh, I bet. But the thing is up there. Go ahead. Carpenter. Maybe. Um, well, one that you said and didn't go with is on here. Show me number four. Backgum it.

The greatest showman. I forgot it. I forgot it and said it. I forgot it said it. One of my favorite response from that is, do you want to build a showman? Oh, you know what else is going to be here? I just realized. Can I do a guess that has no bearing on the winner loss?

Sure, of course. The other Bazelerman thing, of course, the freaking, um, uh, the French one. What's wrong with me? Oh, Mulan Rouge is on there. Oh, that's a really good one of the top ten either. yeah really yeah as a matter of fact is it even I love that soundtrack so much oh one person said it is it the

is it the overplayed crap like forest gump pulp fiction and that kind of stuff that I'd like oh shit number six really surprised me makes me think I need to go back because I guess it's a lot of um it's a lot of heavy heavier rock uh the crow soundtrack at number six that's a really good one actually that is a good one How about the faculty? That was a good one.

The faculty not on the top. Inception number eight. Oh, really? It wasn't thought that. The faculty. No one's putting the faculty in there. He said it was it. Did people pick the faculty at all?

No. The faculty. Somebody did say the faculty. That's right. That's some amazing Allison Chains. It was probably you. Another brick in the wall. Shut up.

Probably done away. No. Zero mentions, actually, of the faculty now that I do the search. Sorry. Number nine, interstellar, so they love in that... Okay, yeah, I don't... Inception, Interstellar, I just don't think of those as something that I would... I would think that it does work, sure.

Probably the stuff you put on when you're working, so you don't get lyrics like nothing distracting out of there, but... Yeah, but Inception would freak me out. I'd be like, am I in an inception? I can't stop thinking about it. What I'm curious about is, does the movie go bong all the time? Is that in the soundtrack? There's a song on the Inception soundtrack. It's not really a song, but a part of the soundtrack called Time.

It's toward the end of the album. It's also toward the end of the movie, or is it the end of the movie. And that little montage of coming back from the airport and the top spinning at the end and all that. That is one of the best, sounding, coolest sounding things in the history of music and movies. It's so good. Yeah, I'm going to put that on later. I got to do some work this afternoon, a lot of typing and writing and stuff.

And I can't have any lyrics. So for me, it's going to be the Inception soundtrack. Well, I mean, the only downside is it short. It's the only thing I don't like about it. It's only like three minutes long. I wish it was like big extended epic. Oh, that song is only three minutes. Yeah.

But maybe they use those musical cues in other parts of the soundtrack. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't listen. Are you worried? Are you worried it'll take up too much brain bandwidth if you're listening to the Batman? I mean.

Yeah. No, it's, uh, I just can't do it. It's like. and it's really just that one song it's just bat dance but it just it irritates the crap because it's so you know the reason is

is because it feels like it's not prince it's barely prints it's backup singers going bat dance it's audio clips from the movie it's like repeated sounds over and over do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do that's pretty good

that's pretty good in it yeah and it's so little prints And you look at the stuff he did right before that. You look at the stuff he did right after that. Hey, hey, Ibbett. Yeah. They can't all be winners. No, they can't.

They can't. Also, he's just paying the bills. That was just a way to pay stuff off, man. There was no way he was, his heart wasn't in that. But he, but he looks so cool in that one. Well, looking cool. The video was awesome. We're looking cool and sounded cool.

Two different things, man. Yeah, exactly. It was all, it was all about the look back then. Hey, Ibbing. You know what I did last, you know what I did last night? What did you did last night? What did you did last night? I came home.

with some REM CDs I picked up from the thrift store and I just sat there and sip my hot tea and with the lights turned off with this to Christmas tree lights on and just sit there and focused on the albums. That was you in the corner? That was him in the corner.

Did you not even a spotlight? With Christmas lights. I see what you did there. Well, it's the end of your world. Automatic for the people, baby. Is that the one you got? It's automatic for the people. Yeah.

Dude, REM rocks, man. You kidding me? Yeah. There's none of it. They used to, they put so many songs on that freaking album. I just think, every time the next song, come, I'm like, is it just another song? Yeah. Holy.

Yeah, you used to get more for your eight bucks or whatever you paid back then for. Yeah, I paid, I paid 50 cent. Oh, 50 cents. What, wait, eight bucks. Wait a minute, eight bucks for a CD? No, obviously didn't go into Sam Goody. I'm thinking of tapes. 13, 15 bucks for a CD there.

I'm thinking of tapes. I used to buy tapes for eight bucks at, Strawberry Records and REM's Automatic for the People, my first version of that was definitely a tape. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't even know if there were, were there CDs when Automatic for the People came out? I don't think so. There probably was.

I remember one of my friends, he was, he had all the latest technology, and he had a CD way before. I think because even Green, even Green came out on CD. 1992, there were definitely, because the first CD was like born in the S.A. Yeah. Yeah, that was like 85. Or an ABBA, the arrival by AB, or one of those two. It depends on who you ask what the first CD ever pressed was. Yeah, in a long time.

Really? There's a thing. There's a argument about who's who? It just really depends, right? Like if a lot of sources say born in the USA, uh, well, Americans, real Americans. But then there's, yeah, there's, ABA is another one. I'm looking at me pull it up right now here. Speaking of which, real Americans who forget the actual meaning of the, the lyrics of born in the USA.

They all think it's a rah-rah anthem, and it's not. It is so not. So much not. Yes. But they all think it is because they're stupid as rocks. It's dumb as rocks, Scott. Dumb as rocks. Hey, look, stupid as rocks is as stupid does.

Well, this is great. Here's the important part. Fletcher would have his way by saying this. Congratulations. You're a winner. Tim, you've won. And I feel real good about that. I can't think of a nicer.

dude to give some codes to. Brian will be sending this to you via this word here shortly. He's already got them. They're already there. All right, you guys want to hear, here's why there's all this this, this kerfuffle over the initial CD. So the first test pressing was a recording

of Richard Strauss's and Alpine Symphony. So that was the test pressing. The world presentation took place at Salzburg, home of Sound of Music. With a let's see here. No mention of what the CD was.

there. The first public demonstration was on the BBC program Tomorrow's World, and they had a copy of the Beegee's Living Eyes on CD that they used for that demonstration. The first commercial compact disc was produced on August 17, 1982. It was Chopin Waltz's performed by Claudio Aro, but the first 50 titles were released in Japan on October 1st, the first of which was a re-release of Billy Joel's 52nd Street. Oh my gosh. Wow. it's uh the first artist to sell a million copies on cd was brother his brothers in arms by dire straits fantastic album uh the first major artist have their entire catalog converted to cd was david bowie um i'll do the entire yeah no mention of bruce springsteen in this article yeah i'll do the

the figure i know about cds is that they are the length they are because they wanted to put the beethoven's night symphony on them oh that's cool cd that's the standard That's the line. That's right there as long as they are. 81 minutes or whatever is there. That's cool. I didn't know that. Yeah. Not either. Yeah.

Well, we've all learned a little something today. Yeah. We hope you at home did as well. I feel smarter for it. Yeah. Tim, you've been awesome. Thanks, dude. And I hope we have you on again.

Hey, Brian, on Friday, you and I'll be sitting down to talk a little play retro time about a fantastic old ass game. Do you want to tell to find folks at home what we're doing? Absolutely. We're going back to 1993. Was that 30 years ago? Now, X-Wing. Ah, I remember that one?

Yeah. The X-Wing series, we're just going to cover the first one because, my God, I'm no good at it. So it's taken me all week to get through even half of the first game. Yeah. It's rough. So it's a flight sim. It was the first, it was the first Star Wars from Lucas, the game. It was the first one.

Yeah, because they finally got it back from Broderblen, the rights for games. games and stuff, and it was the first one they came out. Yeah, and it was a huge hit. People love it. And later you'd get Tie Fighter and then X-Wing versus Tie Fighter. And like the series would go on, but we're going to focus on those beginnings and talk about why that's such an influential series. And also get stoked for the possible remake that has been rumored, which I hope is true. And if you look out, if you're out there, you can find X-Wing VM, which is like a modern re-scenning of it. And it looks so good.

And you can even do it in VR. I got my flight stick out. I had a lot of fun this week. And I even stopped by the thrift store. And just coincidentally, they had a say tech full setup for flight stuff. The whole thing. That's cool. I was like, no, I can't.

And they said, but you, then they said you must. And I was like, you'll find out Friday. Did you? Well, did you really? Oh my gosh. You bought more of that shit, didn't you? I don't know. I will find out.

Friday we'll find it. All right. Everybody hold on until Friday at 2.30 Mountain Time or no, 1.30 Mountain Times are new time. So be there for that. And we'll do it on frogpans.tv live or check the podcast out at frogpans.com slash play retro. Brian, kiss our butts. No, you. Oh, I should have said Merry Christmas because

we won't see him before Christmas. Oh, yeah. I mean, we will. But, and not the normal. Well, you'll talk to them on Friday. I won't see them. Yeah, you won't see him. Yeah. It's the last time you'll ever see Brian Don't know. Last time we'll ever see him. Well, that was fun. Good job. Let's play a little news time stuff.

It's time for the news, and it's brought to you by. Hey there, Tadpool. Maybe it's much too early in the game, but I thought I would ask you just the same. What are you doing, New Year's, New Year's Eve? Whatever. If you follow September on Twitch at twitch.tv.tv. It's going to be a great New Year's event, and for a great cause. An hour before the TMS stream for Extra Life, September will be joined by Syrinx,

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I like that one a little bit. better but uh there you go i like it uh well check that out that sounds awesome stoked for you guys uh let's get to the story the most dangerous states for driving during the christmas and thanksgiving holidays are you ready to learn how bad Colorado might be yeah whatever oh god yeah Colorado is bad traffic wise it is it has been horrendous yeah we're having like being out on the road keep me out of my lift people become patrons of all all the shows we do yeah let's get that let's get that better so you never have to drive again Yeah. Motor vehicle crash fatalities by holiday in general happen like this. So from 2017 to 2021, this is how long they've been tracking this particular set of data. Thanksgiving, 2,456. That's the highest on average. Labor Day, this is nationwide. Labor Day, 2351, 4th of July, 2345, Memorial Day, 2191, and Christmas, 1680. Christmas is the lowest of the traffic fatality stuff.

More than 32,000 lives in total were lost to motor vehicle crashes in the months of November through December across those five years at a rate of about 1.2 fatal crashes per 100 million miles driven. So it's still, you know, it's low percentage-wise, but you don't want to play that lottery, okay? Yeah, right. Let's see. Massachusetts is the deadliest state to drive in November and December with 0.61 crash fatalities per 100 million miles driven in the state between 2017 and 2020. You're in the least deadly state. Oh, I bred that as most. Whoops, sorry, Minnesota, Massachusetts.

I gave you a little shit you didn't deserve. They're the best. It's like, oh, man, so I've got the colors completely backwards on here. But, yeah, Massachusetts. After that, you got Minnesota and then Utah's the third best record, which surprised me because we're always wiping out shit on our freeways. But whatever, I guess my perception's wrong. I think it's because nobody has to go very far to get to their family's houses for Thanksgiving,

Christmas, any of that stuff. I guess so. Because they all live right there. Yeah. I don't know. Utah's, we're pretty spread out, though. I don't know. And I feel like we're weird.

That's kind of anomalous. Because there's other ones they sound like, they're more populated, right? Minnesota, Massachusetts, tightly packed. Yeah. Closer, I would think. I don't know. But why am I on this list?

I don't know. Rhode Island, New Jersey, and New Hampshire and Connecticut are also in the top 10 safest. Now let's get to the most dangerous. Yeah. Things get a little gnarly here. Poor Brian, poor Bobby. Yeah.

They're in the worst spot. Poor the South, basically. Yeah. South Carolina, deadly estate to drive in November, December, with more than 1.9. They cracked the full percentage point between that time and this in the 2021. Mississippi, Louisiana, Montana, and Florida complete the five most dangerous list. Yeah, those other ones like Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, they're all dark. Montana is alone kind of up there, you know, darkest of all of the northwestern states.

And I think it's just because of their lack of speed limit on their highways in Montana. Drive whatever speed you want. And people think, oh, well, let's see how far my cat, how fast my car can go. Mm-hmm. Yeah, no kidding. You know, it's weird, though. They don't really say in here, I don't know why they don't include the first because that's your drinking holiday, you know? The first.

The 1st of January. That's not in this data. Oh, nobody drinks on the 1st of January. Well, the night before. New Year's Eve. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess that if...

Yeah, but yeah, no, you think, right, New Year's Eve should be on here as well. And if they're counting that in December numbers, then Christmas is still less. I don't know. They didn't... It's weird how they did it. Yeah. Yeah, it is funny because, right, you think Thanksgiving, Labor Day, Fourth of July, Memorial, Christmas, New Year's Eve needs to be on this list, and it's, it's definitely an omission

to not have it be in there because I'd argue it's probably higher than Thanksgiving as far as Yeah, no doubt. Here's a crazy bit. This is crazy to me. The holiday month motor vehicle crash fatalities by gender,

2017 to 2021, wildly male. Yeah. Wildly male. Now they do it by age group. So at 16, obviously, this chart goes beer. Yeah. And the men

bananas. They're at the 500 level on this chart. 200 for women is where they peak and then they both kind of declined in the same way and then they start to narrow down as you get to be real old you're getting in accents. The high 70s

you're starting to, the numbers are starting to join together. A little bit close in the 44 to 48 range. That's where men kind of dip and women only slightly dip so they get a little bit closer but

Yeah, I mean, you look at the the youngsters, the teens to early 30s, and they're just like way up there. Yeah, let me put this up for the chat so they can see this. This is crazy this chart. I love data like this because I just, I'm dying to understand it.

My guess is it's there's a lot to read into this. Yeah. But I don't have all the info here. Like I don't know what rate of men drive versus women in terms of actual driving. Also, how many of these fatalities up in the upper echelon were men driving with women as passengers and it just

so happened to be that the man was driving like i got a lot of questions i got a lot of questions or women driving where the men are always in the passenger seat because they fall asleep if they tend to drive yeah like me that's i'm one i'm one of those low numbers with my wife driving yeah i guess i'm a no number because i haven't died um let's see there is the this one number of deaths in motor vehicle crashes per 100,000 people. 10 dangerous states, we talked about the top for you, let's get the rest.

South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Montana, Florida, Oregon, New Mexico, at 8, we have Oklahoma, Arkansas, and at number 10, Arizona. Arizona really was a mess. I don't like this

hexagonal map they put in here, by the way. I think it's horrible. Why not just use a regular map and color in the areas? Because look at the location of Colorado to Utah on that little hexagonal. Oh yeah, look at that.

Look at this chat. It's like, apparently Colorado shares a border with Nevada and Utah is southeast of Colorado. Yeah, what is this? Warhammer 40K tabletop layout?

Like, I don't like this. Like we're playing risk? What's going on here? Yeah, I don't like this. This is dumb the way they did it. Why don't just do the state? There's no reason to. Yeah.

Just do. I guess it makes the state. States, like the New England states a little bit bigger so you can see how Massachusetts compares to Vermont, for example. Oh, that's a good point. And then California. And Rhode Island is big and stuff. California and Texas aren't, like, gigantic. Yeah.

It would be cool if the whole country was laid out like this, though. Would it actually kind of would be? Yeah. Everybody would be four, they'd have three corners in every state. If you could go visit. Every state has multiple three corners. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that's true. So depending on which side you live closest to, you just go over there. Yeah, unless you live on the coast, you've got, you know, six, three corners that you can go visit. I'm down for this future. That is going to do it for today's news. We're going to take a break when we come back, Tom's Tech Time, Recommendals, and more. Stick around. Brian, you have a song we can play in the meantime?

I do. And just like TMS, which is the place that makes me happy. I'm quickly trying to pull up my notes because I didn't do that while we were talking about that last. news article. So this is a little bit of a, you know, a stall, right? Sure. Yeah, I recognize it. It's familiar to me.

Oh, my God. And I'm still not, there it is right there. Ah, whew! Okay. The Moss, this is a band that is selling out their winter tour dates. This is a song that is just thriving on radio and people's playlists. These guys are based in a faraway land called Salt Lake City, a band called The Moss. They've, man, they've thundered through the beginning of their December tour dates with a streak of sold-out shows all over the East Coast, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, New York City, Charlottesville, Nashville, Nashville.

But home there with our friend Scott Johnson. This is their new song. It's called The Place That Makes Me Happy. It's already approaching top 25 on alternative radio. Remember radio phone? So check it out now. It's also been at Spotify Adidas. it to their alt now playlist and apple added it to alt control um i'm gonna start my own podcast

called alt delete here is the moss and their song the place that makes me happy all right we'll see you guys on the other side you ready yeah i'll pack the food if you pack the clothes gonna drive up into the mountains until we're lost shit caffeine and the thing to boil water market's closed so I'm having wine

for dinner I will find somewhere makes me happier than you I almost forgot the psychedelics on my dressing You know I love getting scared in the woods That's time I swear I saw my body decomposing And I felt so alone

But I don't want to go home I will find somewhere It makes me happier than there I Keep on searching for the place that makes me happy I'll keep on searching for the place that makes me right

my baby got a twist like you've never seen shaking her eyes in the grass she's a dancing queen smoking blood in the bushes making love underwater like a couple of fishes and I don't want to go because I know the condition

I don't want to go home I don't want to go home I will find somewhere makes me happier than there I'll keep on searching for the place to make me happy

I'll keep on searching for the place that makes me right Watch your eyes are closed But you're misinformed Are your feet getting cold Just looking for someone to go I'll keep on searching for the place that makes me happy How I'll give on searching for the place that makes me right Mmm, clean, I mean really clean, and it holds any set I want

New beer and rich shampoo, body on tap, gives your hair super body, Super hold. Brewed with one-third real beer. Wow. But don't drink it. Now, hold on. Just a second, lady. And we return.

Tell me about the Moss again. Sure. The band is The Moss. They're from Salt Lake City, and that's their brand new song, The Place That Makes Me Happy. I got their band page up, chat. this hairdo going on with our

singer. It's a pretty blonde mullet. Yep. Bringing it back, baby. Bringing it back. I have heard of the moss around here, but I've never heard their music. I've heard of the band. I should probably check them out. Now you've heard their music or when you put the show together, you will have heard their music. Yeah. I mean,

I really like the Aces. I really like brother and I'll probably like the moss. You'll probably like these guys too. I wonder if when they roll down a hill, they gather any other band members. Because a Moss, you know, a stone. Yeah, never mind.

They should open for the rolling stones, right? Ding, there you go. That's a much a better idea of mine. All right, Tom Merritt on his way in. We're going to get that going. And that would be fun. Always a pleasure having him around. So watch for that happening shortly when I pushed the button that corresponds with his name.

We want Tom. Yeah, we do. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. He is here today to talk about technology news because that's what he does every day. But he's doing it today because, you know, Wednesday. are no exception. Tom Merritt, welcome back to the program. Wednesdays are exceptional. They are exceptional.

It's when I'm on usually, unless I'm definitely ill like last week. Are you better? You sound better. I sound better. Yesterday I sounded pretty not better, but today I sound better. Yeah, you sound way better than that voice message you sent me. Some people would say worse, is the word you're looking for. Yeah, I sent Tom a a quick little voice memo the other day to capture how garbily I got. A Barry White

you sound. I should have had you do a bunch of voice work for me. I know. I missed a real window there for a late year revenue possibilities, but instead I'm feeling much better and looking forward to being on today. I assume you're out there with your tech

shopping cart finding all sorts of stuff to cover. What's going on? Indeed. So Sony recorded its best ever in November for the PlayStation console and is out there just touting and Lekin and Crowen about how good the PS5 is doing.

It had set a target of selling 25 million PS5 consoles in its current fiscal year. Companies have these weird things where their fiscal year ends not on December 31st, so Sony's ends on March 31st. They wanted to sell 25 million by then, and it looks like they probably will. According to an interview with Eric Lempel, who's the vice president for global marketing at Sony, Sony Interactive Entertainment specifically, said given the momentum we've had in November and a lot of what we're seeing in December, we're feeling very good about sales overall. And they're especially, especially good when you compare them to the Xbox. PS5 sales grew 65 percent, according to Amper, over this year. Xbox sales fell 15%, particularly in Europe.

Oh, wow. They just bottomed out. So the PS5 has outsold the Xbox series X and S by about three to one. Wow, it's pretty good. Also, they've always kind of had a lock on Europe. Xbox has had a hard time over there penetrating it. Worse in Japan, obviously. Got a shock there, I guess.

Yeah, but that's good to hear for them. I feel like they owe, well, I guess they're owned by them now, but they owe the studio behind Spider-Man a lot of money. And the reason I say that is because Insomniac is literally carrying the PS5 right now. There has been very little, other than third-party stuff that's great on everybody's platforms. There's very little PS5 this year to speak of, but Insomniac keeps putting out these amazing hits that just carry those guys through the holidays.

I think that's great. And they better never lay those people off. I better never hear any news about Sony doing layoffs at Insomniac because they don't deserve it. They're carrying your console right now. So be thankful for those guys, okay? That's all I'm saying. Yeah, for sure.

I mean, we're going to talk about Insomnia getting targeted later today. But if they were to suffer, it would be because of that, not because of sales. And they certainly were the support. supplier of a lot of Sony's success. I think there are other reasons, right? I think there's some other things about the PS5 that made people who were going to choose, choose it. And it is setting us up

for what I think will be a leapfrog situation where Microsoft probably is already betting on the cloud and not that worried that the Xbox is falling behind. Not that they're happy about it. And they're going to want to try to stay in the race. But I think Microsoft is more focused on we believe gaming is going to happen as a service, not as a console for that much longer. And Sony could risk being left behind because they don't really have a solid cloud strategy. I mean, they have one, but it's not nearly as developed as Microsoft's. Yeah, it'd be interesting if my theory ends up coming true, which is it aligns with yours. I think that this is true. I think that this is true Microsoft services in games is growing.

Their reliance on the hardware end of things is drooping. And sales reflect that. I could foresee a future where if Microsoft does at some point, I don't know if they ever do this, this is the real hitch for it, but if they ever decide to bow out of the hardware race, that does open up the possibility that Game Pass as a service could show up on something

like a PlayStation 5 and 6. And it would really put Sony in a position of being the lead hardware platform for the foreseeable future minus Nintendo, which is always there. That could be a really interesting future. But as I say it, something about it doesn't sound right. It feels like Microsoft might be more willing to take losses on hardware to always have a hardware solution that's just in the wings, but still rely on the growth of services, which GamePass is a part of and Cloud is a part of. I don't know. It's kind of one of the weirder, not transitions, because it's not really a transition, but there's something with this

that's as unique as we've ever seen in the business at the turn of a platform. So this It feels a little bit like Nokia touting how dominant it is in cell phone sales in 2006. Yeah, a little bit. That's probably too close of a metaphor. But yeah, I think Sony will have lots of hardware options.

They make a lot of hardware. They have sensors. They have a lot of latitude and advantages that Microsoft does not have. Microsoft as a hardware maker is really just a boutique maker. The Xbox is probably the one that has the most development in it. The surface stuff is really just meant to be

flagships, you know, demonstration models that HP and ACER and AIS and all the rest copy off of. So I don't think we're going to see the Xbox become that, but I don't know there's a whole handheld console

burgeoning market there with the Steam deck and even the Switch and the Switch 2 which we'll probably see next year that I'm very curious what Sony and Microsoft are going to do about that

Microsoft's obviously going to make its cloud gaming available on whatever platforms they are but doesn't it want to have a Surface game platform too? I would love a Surface handheld I would think that would be a really smart move for them but at the same time

you know, Microsoft has spent their entire existence making a thing that OEMs to everybody. I'm not saying we're quite there yet, but there is a potential future. We've tried this before, 3DO, and there have been other consoles in the past that have attempted this and failed to some degree. But the idea of third-party game system makers, either tied to your television, portable, or dockable or both, or whatever. Yep. Could that, this could be the time. that that actually works and the service unlike the OS, although they could provide that too, I suppose, but the backend could be a Microsoft provided backend and that just fits within

the Microsoft business model. I don't know why they wouldn't pursue that. So I don't know, it's going to get weird. They're all cloud all the time and AI, which I don't know how that plays into this, but that is one of Microsoft's biggest area of developments after cloud. So I would keep an eye on what they decide to do with video games there too. Yeah, it's going to be interesting. Well, today we're going to be interesting. Well, today we're going to talk about this insomniac leak a little bit more, along with a whole slate of other great stories. Tom, is there anything else happening that you'd like folks to know about? Yeah, keep reminding folks that if you really want my take on tech directly, just from me, and some people don't.

That's why we do daily tech news show, so we can get a lot of other perspectives. But if you're like, man, I really want to just hear what Tom thinks, I've got a free tech newsletter, free tech newsletter.com. It comes out free once a week. And if you want it every day, that's available for a paid subscription as well. So go check that out. Freetechnewsletter.com. You'll get it on Thursday. Fantastic.

Tom Merritt, Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas, Scott and Bryant. Yeah, we want you to just have the merriest of possible Christmases. Oh, you two. By now. Aw. It's cute, right? It's adorable.

It's very cute. Very cute. Yeah. Let's get, oh, yeah, recommendal. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Some stuff I want to hear about in this today. Right. Not that I don't, you know, there's always stuff in here I want to hear, but in particular.

There's a couple things I really do want to hear about. We're going to go ahead and start that call, get these guys in here and play this. Well, what do you recommend? Ah, yes, that's the sound of recommendals spinning up. And we have with us Randy Jordan today. Hello, Randy. Good morning, morning, stream. Hello, Scott, Ryan, and Nicole.

How are you? Oh, Nicole's here as well. Hi, Nicole Spagnolo. How are you? Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. Hi. Nice to hear you as well. I'm great. Morning, morning, morning, morning, morning, morning, stream. Pretty good Randy, you did. Sorry, I was doing Randy. It was very good. It's not bad. Keep workshopping that.

You guys are here again, and that means time for us to recommend stuff. And you might think some of these could be Christmas recommendals. Maybe they are. You'll have to wait and see. Yeah, we're about to find out. But we take stuff from streaming services. and we recommend them, and we always start with Brian. Brian, tell us about your clip and what we're doing here. Yeah, this is one that it's a movie.

It just came out the beginning of this month. Jumped on it because the premise sounded really intriguing, and I really like the actors that are in this thing. You're going to hear a couple of those actors in this little clip right here. All right, here we go. I'm so sorry to bother you. Hello? I'm so sorry to bother you.

Casey didn't know. Well, can I help you? I know it's late. I knock out the door way out here. You couldn't decide if you should knock at the front door or the side door, and this went on for some time. I thought we should try the side door because it has glass. You've seen us and you've known we're just, uh, you must be Amanda. Amanda Sanford, right?

You two know each other? No. We have not had the pleasure of meeting face to face. I'm G. H. G.H. Scott. George. He's George. That's how it reads in his email. Forgive me. I forgot. See, this is why I much prefer life before the Internet.

Because we would have spoken on the phone, would recognize my voice, and knowing that this is our house. Oh, hello. I'm sorry? This is our house. I'm the George you emailed back and forth with. No, I remember the name. I just... this is this is your house so that's erin brocovitch talking to blade that's right exactly yeah julia roberts uh there's amanda mahrusha ali incredible uh work from him as g h or george you're a little tiny bit of ethan huck there as um amanda's husband clay and uh the daughter of um merrishal ali's

uh g h scott is uh miahala um it's a fairly you know small capital for this thing because this takes place at a somewhat remote Airbnb, this family, Julie Roberts and Ethan Hawking, their two kids, have rented this spot, this little vacation, just to kind of get away from things for a while. And as they get there, they realize that maybe some weird things are going on. Sorry. That's all right. It's Mark. It's Mark. I'm closing a door. Could you ask him to whisper? It sounds like he's barking, but I think it's wood. He's hammering wood.

Yeah. It's what he does. Just ask him to whisper for a little bit. So they're in this Airbnb and all of a sudden things stop working. The router stops working, which really bums the daughter out because she wants to, she's been binging friends and she wants to watch the series finale. But also, they're, you know, their phone signals are even. getting cut off.

And weird things start happening around this house, not, of course, the least of which are its two owners coming back and asking if they can come back and stay in their own house while the people who are renting it via Airbnb are there as well. Some things that you want to know going in. This is a very suspenseful paste film. I was talking with someone in the Tadpool earlier in Discord, Racer 951-W, about the pacing. He didn't care for the pacing, didn't like it. Is it slow?

It's a slow-paced movie. And it sets up what I consider to be some incredible suspense because you are finding out about what's happening in the world through these people as opposed to the way you'd find out about it. movies where it would cut to the government and here's what's going on here or cut to the police or cut to someplace else. You are basically just as in the dark, literally and figuratively, as this family and the information. It gives me the happening vibes. Is that accurate? Remember the happening? Other than being shitty, other than being terrible with the happening. Right. Yes. Very. Yeah, it's got kind of that, that confusing, what's going on.

From that aspect, yes, yes. Yeah. I still don't know what happened in that movie. Well, and that's, I won't say that this has an ending you might not expect. It does. It has an ending you might not be waiting for, but I think for me it was a compelling ending. satisfying ending? I don't know, but a compelling ending. It's a movie that you think about a lot after. Would you say the name of the movie? Oh God, did I? I don't think I did. She's sorry.

Christine Fletcher is hastily typing an email right now. Leave the world behind is the name of the film. There you go. It's on Netflix. Came out really quickly in theaters, probably so that it could potentially capture awards and things like that and qualify as a motion picture release, but just came out on Netflix officially on at the end of November, beginning of December. How's, how's, it says, it's based off a book.

Yeah, it is based on a book. And they, the only thing it looks like they changed from the book is that Mahershali's daughter, it's his daughter instead of his wife that comes back to the house. So what's to Kevin Bacon's role?

What's he do? I see using the cast. He, uh, he plays a, um, uh, a,

another person who kind of lives on the outskirts, somebody that, uh, Mahershali is familiar with. And, uh, and kind of represents one extreme level of of what people react in the situation that's caused by this movie.

Interesting. So could, but it's a small part. So you might even call it. It's a bit part like bacon, like bacon bits almost is weird. You get bacon bits, exactly.

Not the kind of you got in wild things, but you get a different kind of bacon bits. Different kind of bacon bits. Cheshire Cat 42 says, I've heard this movie is shite and a waste of time. You would hear that. I even brought that up before. If you go to Rotten Tomatoes,

you'll find critical reviews are in the 70s. Like, it's a fairly good score for critical reviews. But you find that a lot of the audience reviews are low. And part of the reason for that is because it's co-produced by Barack and Michelle. Obama. Yeah, higher ground. So, yeah, anything made by higher ground gets review bombed by people who come

from specific websites. They post the exact same. They copy, paste the same review. Go look at Google reviews for this thing. There's like over 7,000 reviews. Over 4,000 of them are one-star reviews, the same exact copy post. Yeah, they have a deal with Netflix, this new company,

this production company of theirs, to make a number of things. There was a documentary. He hosted about something with animals. I don't remember what it was. It was like a nature documentary. Oh, no, it was our, it was national parks is what it was. And, yeah, I mean, honestly, I don't know how, I don't care who the ex-president is. If they have a production company and they're making content, this will happen.

Yeah, exactly. No matter what side of the side of thing. It never matters. It's just, it's just so, you know, I don't know why they're in this business to begin with because you're just going to get heat for it, but whatever. Now only, you know, to clarify, though, that's not the only reason, that's not the only complaint people have. Some people probably don't care about the production company and were unhappy with the pacing of the ending. The person I mentioned, Racer, didn't like it because of the slow pacing and the ending. Actually, I guess he didn't mention the ending.

He didn't like the simplistic commentary, social commentary, I think. I disagree. I felt like the pacing added so much suspense to this thing that it really, really. um really created a very very compelling story that guy who directed it i know this guy's name why do i know this oh he's the mr robot guy that's what it is the executive producer of mr robot right oh that's cool and did that did it have that vibe you know a little bit yeah a little bit of that yeah because uh mr robot was very i mean there's a very tech heavy of course component to mr robot there is in this one as well

and there's a pacing that I think Mr. Robot had as well that knowing that yeah there's a little bit of a I'd say there's a little bit of a pacing consistency between the two interesting all right yeah I remember that name going oh that guy

I know him that's why I know him awesome all right so that's Netflix it's called Leave the World Behind and Cheshire Cat 42 yeah don't watch it if you're you know you're going into it kind of based on what you've heard about and what you know about it if it's not for you you know it's not for you so definitely

don't worry about seeing it but if the rest of folks out there like suspense and kind of like these perspective from a kind of a mysterious suspenseful perspective from movies like this almost almost one location kind of movies then i think you'll get a kick out of it so one final question i like end times kind of society upside down stuff I like Apocalypse. Then I think you'd like this. Well, let me, so let me ask you this, though. This kind of gets you there.

If I like that, here's the reason I like that, though. Usually I have to have someone to root for. Does this give me people to root for, or are they unlikable? Aholds. No, 100% of the person, like, Mahershal Ali is absolutely the person this movie that you, you love, you support. You're like, oh, my God, this is who I'd want to be in a situation like this. Julia Roberts is paranoid and kind of on the edge

and kind of goes into this thing with a lot of trepidation probably has some baggage but the fact that these people are just showing up in the middle of the night wanting to be back in their house kind of already sets her off and she never fully recovers from that you kind of root for Ethan Hawk as well as her husband so I think between you know you've definitely got people to root for in this thing Ethan Hawk, Mahershal Ali especially and all right that's usually a

a key for me. I have to have that. We are still firmly entrenched in the era of mystery thrillers being ripping off black mirror and I'm all for it. I'm all for it. Yeah. Yeah, I am too. Yeah, C-SPON who said that he really enjoyed it also said it's Hitchcock-esque and I would say yeah, kind of in the way

rope. It reminded me a little bit of rope by Alfred Hitchcock It was made to look like that was done without any cuts. It was one long take rope is. Obviously, there are ways that Hitchcock faked that. But that's what this kind of reminded me of. There's something going on. Maybe somebody in the group knows about it. Maybe they don't.

But you're kind of waiting for information. You're waiting for stuff to happen, waiting for a thing to a plot point to drop. Interesting. all right well there it is uh waiting for tomorrow should i just read the wikipedia go go to tomorrow what is it oh what are you you're wondering if it was scary or leave it war a fine sorry well yeah it's not scary not uh not bloody not uh no gore um no suspense is the is the thrill right on this one so i'm just wondering if i'll get impatient and go just tell me what it's what just tell me yeah yeah i mean it's not it's not so slow pace that things

aren't constantly happening. Yeah. It sounds like, I like to be spoiled on certain things. Like, I don't know. I don't hold the, oh, you spoiled it.

Did you like the mist? Because there's a lot of points in the film where people are just kind of talking about what's going on outside without, um, I didn't watch the miss. Okay.

Only in clips. And I think I watched the point in the car. And I was like, what that? Oh, wow. You jumped to, you jump to the part that nobody should know about it. into it. Damn. Yeah, that's one way of seeing a film like the mist. Holy crap.

All right. Well, let's move to... Leave the world behind on Netflix. Let's move to Nicole. Nicole, we got a real sea change in tone here for what you brought. Tell us what you want to say before I play this clip. So every holiday season, I like to add movies to our kind of lineup. So for us, it's always Christmas vacation. Elf. Daddy, Daddy home. Daddy's home too. That's the just, Daddy home. Daddy's home to. All of the, Rudolph and the kids stuff. Yeah, the classic. Rankin' bass animated stuff. Yeah. So I'm always looking for, like we've tried to add Arthur Christmas. I can't, don't really like it. And so, but there's been actually two that's come out this year.

that we've watched. We watched one last night, which I did not put in a recommendal because I'm still not sure. I don't think it'll, I don't think it's going to go into our, our rotation. But this one might.

It's out on Amazon Prime. It's cute. I really enjoy, I was expecting, I was expecting a different animation style, but I was pleasantly surprised by the, animation style. It's my favorite thing about it. I mean, I haven't seen it, but based on the trailer,

that's what I, I love that look. It's insane. And it just came out a couple weeks ago on Amazon Prime. So you might not have even heard about it. It's controversial in that for some reason Max passed on it and sold it off to Prime, which is weird. Oh, really? Yeah, because Warner Brothers, I mean, they own the rights to the characters we're talking about. I don't know why they didn't feel good about putting it up there, but it's become this little underground hit on Prime. So I say boohoo on Max for skipping. But anyway, let's play it, and you guys can hear it for yourselves. Here you go.

Merry Christmas, Gotham City. In breaking news, Gotham is officially crime-free, as Batman continues to clean it up. Dad, I'm ready to be a superhero like you. Woo-hoo! Merry Christmas, kiddo. My own utility bells. Which should only be used in case of a bat emergency. Oh, come on, Dad, I'm not a baby.

Hey, I never said you were a baby. Emergency, call for help. My precious little baby is in danger. It's the Justice League. Sorry, Damien, I got to go. Shall I assume we did not see the bat razor? I like it. Totally ups my intimidation game.

You have donut crumbs in your intimidation games, huh? I promise. I'll be back before Christmas. Oh, man, I'm the worst dad ever. This looks so great. It's cute. The kids loved it. This is Merry Little Batman on Amazon Prime. You heard Luke Wilson as Batman, Bruce Wayne.

And in this futuristic world, all the crime has been taken care of. So Batman has settled down to raise him. his son Damien and but Damien he wants he wants to be a superhero he wants to be a Batman so um in this little story uh the Bruce Wayne gets lured away and you get your classic villains like the joker and Mr. Freeze and the penguin and poison ivy uh bane is in it too do they do they do the Bain that I love with the whole I wish it I know it would be so great if it's your city

Bain is going to play Santa so it's all you know the villains are trying to ruin Christmas and little Damien kind of it's his story and finding his way it's super cute and from what

I was I was expecting it to be the Teen Titans Go animation and it's sort of And in fact, I'm looking at the Wikipedia right here. It's directed, Roth accepted, directed in the film While Teen Titans Go Writer, Morgan Evans was hired to work on the script. So there is a Teen Titans Go writer.

I was going to say very much in that really stylized look, which is so cool. I love that look of the animation. It's so different. Yeah, we're going to see this this weekend. That's the plan. It's cute. Yeah. Nice.

So what it also says on Wikipedia, it's a, there's a TV series based on this film called titled That Family that's in development. Really? Oh, that's cool. Yeah. Pooh, poo on Max for selling it off. They should have done it. God, no kidding.

Yeah. I surprise me so much to see this thing over on Prime as opposed to Max. Yeah, they're trying to cover debt. And I think one way of doing that is selling your projects to somebody else. And I don't know. I don't know why they're doing that. But whatever. Amazon's got money.

Yeah. Yeah. And DC does their. kids stuff so well. Yeah, kid stuff. Their adult animation's amazing. It's D.C.'s got no problem with any of that. It's just their live action bullshit, which hopefully I'll get fixed here soon.

But, yeah, this looks great. I can't wait to see it. That's Luke Wilson, by the way, the voice of Bruce Wayne. It's a little weird hearing him because he's very recognizable. Yeah, at least it's not Owen, though. Yeah. Owen would just take you right out of the film. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. And you have

James Cromwell as Alfred. Oscar winner James Cromwell. Yeah, that's awesome. My favorite is Brian George. He is, you know him as the father of Dr. Oh, what's the doctor on DS9? Doctor, who's the doctor? Bashir.

Dr. Bashir. He plays his dad on there. He's on Seinfeld. He plays the guy that runs the Pakistani restaurant. Very bad man, Jerry, very bad man. That guy. He's great. Love that guy.

He plays the penguin. I saw another name on here that reminds. me at Randy it was um oh yeah Fred Tadascori he is like right on every lizard game you've ever played that guy doesn't voice is in is that how that's pronounced I always thought it was like tachatory I don't but you might be totally right I've no idea but no I eat a lot of the olive gardens so that might just be what I'm just more breadsticks do you really I'm curious no I really I really I really don't I go there maybe once every like eight months or something because Tina are like you know it'd be good

right now salad breadsticks and soup let's just go get some like no none of their big pasta things just some salad never ending oh it's so good um all right this is merry little batman on amazon prime the other movie we watched last night that's on peacock is called genie and it has

a Melissa McCarthy as the genie and it's all it's around the holidays and it was yeah I don't know if I recommended I don't know if you're if you're just looking for a new Christmas movie to watch I guess you could watch that

yeah there's some fun people in that Luis Guzman yeah it was alright Mark Marin Alan coming that seems alright podcaster Mark Marin

Mark Marin's busy these days I finally watch I'll probably recommend it on the show in the future but I watched an animated show where he played or an animated movie I won't give the name away yet but he played Lex Luthor in it

and that was weird Lex Luthor played by Mark Maren Just a very odd Really? Really? That's interesting. Yeah. Cranky,

like your cranky Lex Luthor. It really, I have to say, it really worked for me. It really worked. I'll recommend that next week, though. And before people send in emails,

Scott's talking about the doctor's father, Dr. Bashar's father, Alexander Siddig played Julian Bashir. Yeah. For one, that guy was. Yeah, yeah. I'm just talking about his dad

who only showed up once or twice or something. Yeah. He's the one that Jerry, screwed up and sent back to Pakistan back. That's way more like a very bad man, very, you know, a way more of a memorable role than the, yeah, he's great though, good and everything.

Oh, he was the first, he was the husband, Avicarala's husband on the first season of the expanse, but for some reason they got rid of it. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't know why. The other guy was fine too, but they got rid of him. I like that guy. Anyway, uh, all right. Randy, let's go to you. What do you got for us,

uh, Mr. Jordan? Uh, as you know, if a new sitcom is funny, I will watch it and if it's good I will recommend it this is an animated sitcom it takes place 3,000 years ago when people were still living among their gods and monsters

and you're going to recognize the voices I got to capture it a bunch of recognizable voices Oh yeah you did that thing's full of those people Anyway here it is let's give it a shot Yeah yeah no that follows Guess what today is Everyone gets us what every day is We have no calendar.

It's the day, Mom, promised you tell me where my birth father is so I can go beat them up. Whoa, that doesn't sound like me. Why would I promise to do anything for anyone without any leverage? Remember, I asked where my real doubt was because I wanted to go beat them up? And you said, I'm not telling you. And I said, why? And you said, because you're three. And I said, so when when you tell me and you said the day you could swallow an entire baby pig?

Well, I've been practicing, and that day has come. No, no, no, no, no. We'll take your word for it, and we really need a calendar. Sweetie, I was clearly just blowing you off at the time. I don't know or care where your father is. These are Cyclops, right? Wouldn't he just be on that island where all the Cyclops live? There's a Cyclops island?

Who's taken me there? That would be the flying monster that ran his mouth. Oh, I don't think I should get involved in your daughters. And yet you did. Have fun, by now. Flapp, flap, fun, fun. No, don't finish your food. Leave hungry.

Learn your lesson. Which is? Stay out of it. Got it. some great voices in there wow this is crappopolis this is uh you know a laugh every 10 seconds it's um i i'm curious to hear what scott experienced watching i guess you watch one episode or so i watched three of them first three i yeah i plowed through this whole first season and my gosh it's just it's so funny it's so witty it hits on

so many things that sound like they could be well researched, like sound like they could be historical, sound like they could be about actual mythology, but it's twisted, really twisted. And you got Hannah Waddingham.

I'll give you an additional little recommendal here. If you just absolutely love Christmas variety shows, Hannah Waddington, Home for Christmas is awesome. I've been wondering about that. I saw that. Is it more than just singing? Like, is it a kind of a variety like you're saying?

It's a lot of singing. It's almost all singing, but it's got, it just, she's visited by everyone in her, in her orbit. Yeah. And it was just,

oh, it's so fun. And, and, you know, it's what you want from a Christmas variety show. Cool.

But Hannah Waddingham is the, is the mom on Crappopolis. She's a, not a great mom. She's a, she's a goddess. She's, very distant from everyone.

around her her husband is a monster voiced by Matt Barry who is just absolutely riffing on his character from what we do in the shadows Matt Barry cannot get very far away from his character on what we do now that Barry's kind of always the same guy and really everything yeah I was going to say toast yeah but in this case he's literally a monster who is sex driven I'm telling you that's fair very much what we do with the out of us here. Yeah, that's a, that's a fair thing. I really like Richard Aoi, I don't say his name, but the dude from Iiwade, Richard Ayoadee. I never know how to say his name, but he's kind of your main dude. He plays this character called Tyrannis or Tyranus.

Right. So he's a human who's entrusted to be the king of like the first city in Greece. And he's, you know, he's neurotic and he's just not, you know, he's not right for the job. and these people don't particularly like him. But it's all very fun-loving. And like after a while, you start to realize this show's got a real heart underneath it. It's like it's taking you to some really nice lessons and morals and values and so forth while just trampling all over, you know, TV 14 comedy. Right. So it's like it's, it's fairly racy.

I think that explains its, um, it's review scores. I think it's too racy for little kids, and it's not, it's like, it doesn't really reach the heights of adult comedy, right? It's animated, you know? Yeah, it's a definitely adult animated. Like an 80% family guy kind of thing? Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I feel like it's even racier than family guy, but it's just.

So the first three episodes I watched, to answer your question, Randy, I was really impressed with the cast. This is a, we haven't mentioned it. It's a Dan Harmon joint. This is his next thing. Oh, cool. Dan Harman's writing it, created it. You know, not since, I guess he's not, I don't know what he does now for Rick and Morty.

I don't know if he's even involved. Is it, yeah, is it over? It's still going. Apparently they had just had the best season ender they've ever had. It's really funny. Yeah, it was a great, a great final episode. I feel like they've done really well without the usual over there. But anyway, this thing has all this cast, all this amazingness.

And I don't know why, but I just, I got three episodes in and I just could not. I just I wasn't grabbing me it wasn't holding me and I don't know why Randy do you feel like anything changed after the first three it like do you think it got tighter or funnier or something like that after the first three episodes is it is it you know is it funny story when we went to watch it we accidentally watched the ninth episode first and then we realized our mistake and started from the beginning

and it didn't change a thing like we when we got back to the ninth episode we're like wow this is a show that doesn't require you to watch in any particular order it's you know so all of the stories are real tight and it also like the characters are all fully developed there's not really anything for uh you to worry about you know like it's just funny and a lot of the humor for us came from the fact that my kid is a history buff and really really loves like all of the the references to the Greek gods and so forth. And that's like, that's something that I wonder if Scott, like, if you, you know, like, when a joke just is purely a reference to a Greek god's weird behaviors elsewhere, you know,

like maybe, maybe that didn't work for you. I don't know. It's that specific. It just wasn't, I don't know. I can't explain it because it's all the ingredients I would normally like. And I'll probably go back and revisit it again because I, yeah, I mean, the reason I ask that is because usually three episodes is a barometer for me. I don't like something after three episodes.

Unless somebody says, oh, yeah, no, stick with it because they figure things out in the fifth episode or something like that. But if you're saying that, you know, no, it's a, be like, if you don't like the first three, then you're probably not going to want to go back to it. It's not like I just had, it didn't like I had no taste for it at all. It was just like, I don't know, it just wasn't grabbing me. And they've got great guest stars on here. John DiMaggio has a couple of shots. Every episode. It's a game of who's that voice.

every episode. Keith, Keith, David's in this thing for four episodes. He's a recurring character, but like you're constantly getting an episode where you're like, oh, is that,

that's Susan Sarendon. Oh, listen, listen, I think I hear Steve Buscemi, like every episode. And you hear a lot of those people, too, on Rick and Morty, like doing guest voices and just appearances,

Keith David, like every third episode, he's, yeah, I think I may, I'm going to give it another shot at some point. I just, I don't know why I didn't grab me

because when I heard about it, oh, this is for me. for me and I watched it and went it's not for me so much I don't know why I can't even put my finger on why I don't know what it is I enjoyed this so much that I went and watched the behind the scenes clips because you know there's a bunch of them in Hulu and oh my gosh like that just like every single

person they had like they're talking to Duncan Trussell about his development of his character and oh my Pat Murphy Pam Murphy is freaking amazing in this show she's the one that you heard yelling about she's going to eat a Pig.

Okay. Just absolutely amazing. I can't like in addition to Iowa and Waddingham and Matt Berry, you have these other people like Pam Murphy that are just killing it. I can't imagine that many people would watch an episode or two and not want to see more. Well, I hope I hope people enjoy it and I hope I can get back to and liking it. There's that. Crappopolis with a K, everybody.

It's on Hulu, right? Hulu. Crapopoulos. It's a fox joint, so it will be ruined in the future. Yeah, it'll be canceled and maybe Hulu will pick it up by somebody else. It made better. Yeah, who knows. All right, I'm going to finish us out today with a movie recommendation other than the color green.

It has nothing to do with Christmas, okay? So here's the clip. Surely your knights have spilt enough blood in your name to bind them closer to you than I. True. but you are my sister's boy Clift from a womb They are not I look out upon my friends here today

And I see Songs No muse could ever sing But I turn to me and I see what I recognize but I do not know thee I say this not in your approach but regret

Okay, that's one of my favorite actors in the world By the way, I love that guy His name is Sean Harris You know him from Rome And a ton of other British stuff Anyway, he's not really in this movie that long But he does a really good thing at the beginning So I figured I'd put it in there

This movie is called The Green Knight And it came out, oh gosh, 2021 I remember at the time everybody I knew, said, Scott, you got to see the Green Night. You're going to love this movie. It's crazy. You got to see it. And I just never got around to it.

I finally did. This is one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. I still kind of don't know what I watched in a lot of ways. And I love movies like this. I like movies that leave me thinking and wondering. It's very apocryphal and very steeped in lore that I'd never heard of. It's kind of a side story. to some Arthurian lore that exists that I never heard of.

It's set during that time. So we're talking like, I don't know what era or what decade this is, but we're in like the 16th, 15th century, something like that. And Dev Patel plays a character called Sir Gawain, Gowin, Gowin, Gawain, I was saying wrong. You saw the movie, maybe they pronounced it differently, but one of the nights of the roundtable. Yeah, I can't remember, but he's the one you never, you never hear about this guy. And this is his quest as sent by the king. And they only just call him the king.

They don't call him King Richard. They don't give any of these people real names for the most part. His mother is just called mother. Joel Edgerton's in this for a brief couple scenes. He's called the Lord. You'll recognize Kate Dickey in this. She plays the queen along with the king. And you know her because she's the one that's the Wackadoo in Game of Thrones,

the sister that has the... Oh, from the Erie. Yeah, the Erie. That's her. This also has another alumni from that series. Ralph Innocon as the Green Knight. You know him as, well, most recently video game players know him in Final Fantasy 16 as Sid. But he's also in tons of stuff.

He's in Game of Thrones. He's in The Witch. He's in, oh, geez, you'd hear his voice and go, oh, that guy. Of course him. He's in it. That Barry Kogan guy that we were talking about yesterday from, from Insharon and stuff. He's in it.

Very small role, but he's in it. And he's as weird as he ever is in anything. He's just a weirdo. And Alicia Vikander is in this. And I like her a lot. Oh, yeah. It is very weird. It's an Odyssey type story.

So as you heard in that intro, he's talking a lot of these and vows and, you know, kind of biblical talk a little bit. There's a lot of that. there's a lot of unresolved questions that I have about the movie, but I'm okay with it because it's that kind of movie. The Green Knight is an actual character played by Ralph Inneson, who is literally like a dude who's half tree and half dude. So he's made of like green bark and all this.

And you have to go on a quest that has to do with him. That's all I'll say about that. And it is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen. And I absolutely loved the Green Knight. I slept on it I shouldn't have it entered my pantheon of favorite things

this is on Amazon Prime I believe let me make sure That's where I've got it linked to In quicktm.lI Directed written by this David Lowry guy Who I'd never heard of before But I hope he keeps going Because this thing was a freaking trip

And it's not what you're used to It is like it's kind of a high fantasy movie But it feels like a dream most of the time I can't explain it that's just it's beautiful it's acted extremely well there are moments of real discomfort there are moments of real sort of jubilation it's confusing I've been studying the ending on Reddit I'm trying to figure out how I feel about it oh that's a good movie when you're studying it yeah like I couldn't stop thinking I think about it still like every ever since I saw it almost a week ago I think about it like every day at least once I'm like

Oh, yeah, that one part, and this thing and that thing. So, yeah, I'm going to recommend it. It's called The Green Night and it's rad. And it's not, I know this is not going to be for everyone. Someone's going to see this and write in and go, Scott, I watched it, and I freaking hated it. I get it. It sounds like a movie for me, though. It's weird.

I think you would like it. Like, how do you feel about, how do you feel, because I'm still mixed on this, but how do you feel about the fountain? Remember the fountain? You want to remember that? Yeah, with, what's his face? Wolverine and. Wolverine. Yeah.

Oh, Jackman and, uh... The fountain. Crap. I made that. I think I watched that. Oh, that was an Aaronofsky movie. Yeah. If you like, you know what?

I'll say this. If you like Aaronovsky movies, and I don't mean the brutal ones like mother or the drug one, but if you like the weird ones that are just a little discordant or whatever, this is a lot like that. A lot like how I felt in the fountain. They're totally different stories. I know the movie.

I just can't remember if I thought. Yeah, the fountain is a wild. trip that thing is a weird i had a really hard time with the fountain yeah a lot of people a lot of people do a lot of people do i i walked out of it saying i think that was good but i don't ever want to see it again yeah i'm i'm more i'm in the mode of like i want to see the green night again to see what i missed because there's stuff in there i know i missed now that i that i just didn't see coming and uh rated r for um i think it's rated r for uh there's a beheading that is graphic but not, I don't know, no more than

no more than your average middle age beheading fight. Pretty much your, yeah, your typical beheading. But it's still a pretty, you know, it's like, oh, the head and there's blood. That feels like, yeah, pretty severe. What else? There's no

nudity. Probably no F bombs with the... No F bombs. Based on the language, this is... Yeah, the closest they get to nudity is a very uncomfortable moment of, I'll just call it regret. But it's not nudity. It's more like, you'll know when you see it.

I don't want to say it on the air, but you'll know it. But I think also just tone, it's a little like Fury Road. People don't know what to do with it. It's just weird. So they don't know what to call it or what to rate it. So they just give it our art to be safe. And I think that's probably fine. I don't think kids would ever like this anyway.

If this was, even if it was perfectly suitable for your average 14 year old, they're going to, unless they're film buffs, they're going to go, what the hell are you making me watch? this is for people who want to have something a little different that doesn't follow the normal fill in the blank sort of movie tropes and I I really liked it a lot that again it's called the not the fountain it's called sorry I went to the other page called the green night on prime go check it out

as Brian mentioned earlier quicktms.lI has all of these things listed today and all the previous stuff we've done so you can keep up with what we are recommending I think it's going to do it I hope you two have a really great Christmas, by the way. You too. Did you get my package? I did. It's so awesome. I love it. I was going to text you this morning, but got busy with show stuff, but we got it yesterday and we love it. Kim was like, what is all this? I said, I know, right? So it was really kind of you, by the way. It was very, very nice. Well, and I found out I've been sending Tom a Christmas card for the last five years

at the wrong address. Oh, no. I did that. I did that. Get them back? I just now, and It says on it. You've been sending cards for five years. He no longer lives here. Oh, hilarious. So they've been, instead of like sending you something at the very beginning, they just said,

yeah, they'll figure it out. So I've been giving some stranger Christmas card. I did it to Fletcher for nine years, so don't feel like that. Yeah. Well, all right then.

And also, Randy, may your Christmas be full of, I don't know, good nog or whatever it is you want. Thank you. I just, I just got an email from Bobby Kotick saying farewell.

Oh, good. that's the best that's a Christmas miracle for all of us that's fantastic uh well enjoy yourselves have a great time be safe and don't drink or I guess drink do whatever you want I don't care all right we're back to life back to reality let's get out of here before we do a quick text somebody who wants to say thanks and we know him because he sends us cool stuff all the time Brian and Scott this is Mike Pacholic this is him talking I just wanted to say thank you for the entertainment and all the laughs. It makes my drive, to and from work, less of a chore.

But people in other cars must think I am in nuts, and sometimes I get laughing so hard. I look like I'm insane while driving. Also, you both have been good boys this year, so one or two gifts are in the mailbox. Scott, you have an extra one that will be in your PO box on Monday. I just love surprising people and don't expect anything in return, just knowing it made them happy.

So thank you again. Dude, I cannot let this go without telling you what he said. yeah oh shit it's upstairs damn it oh yeah i've got mine over in the 3d print room dude sent me a huge box of filament like different colors of uh uh filament that is so nice what a stuff that i'm definitely going to be put into good use so thank you mike yeah you'll absolutely use those i ended up getting something i promise you will get used it is the complete mad max set of 4k everything so so original mad max in the 70s really The Road Warrior, Thunderdome, Fury Road, Fury Road,

Fury Road, Black and Chrome, Fury Road, another version of Fury Road, I can't remember what the deal is. And then the whole other disc or two that is all these documentaries and extras and interviews all across that whole run of late 70s up to Hill now. I didn't expect that. Very cool.

Boy, talk about knowing the right gift for each of us. No kidding. Anyway, I was thrilled. I could not believe that showed up. Mike's awesome. He is awesome. This is the guy who sent me like, you know, the chode butter the night before the big ride and the dummies guide to American Sign Language, for which I say, thank you. Yeah.

Very nicely done. You've learned from your thing. I've learned. We also got a book. This was, I don't know if I should, how I should quite take this, but he sent this to me. And Carter already has commandeered it. but it's the parasite,

the movie, Parasite. It's not the movie, though. It's a book that is all the illustrated storyboard stuff the director made. Oh, that's cool.

Don't look at that until he watched the movie. Oh, yeah, I'm not going to read that. Yeah, but I've never had more motivation to see a movie than him sending a thing that I do want to read. And so that may work.

He may have pushed me over the edge. Interesting. Okay. So thanks a lot, Mike Petulik. You're the man. And may all. your Christmases be white. I don't know why I said it that way.

You can text us anytime you want at 801-4710462. You can email us FilmSack at gmail.com. That's going to do it for the show. We should get out of here. I bet we have a song lined up that will take us out. We absolutely do. And yeah, we're getting close to the year. So I'm pulling in, you know, like grabbing, grabbing certain dates.

Sometimes they match up. Sometimes they don't. This one actually does match up. Jason wrote in and said, hey, Snow and Blitzen. I don't know. Coming up with S&B names is hard. Since it's Christmas time, could you play a cover of Frosty the Snowman by Tara? This song sounds like it could be used in a trailer for a snowman-themed horror movie.

Totally does. You can play this request at any time. I'm sure you already have tons of Christmas-related requests. Happy holidays to you, wonderful people in the Tadpool. Signed Jason, you know him as Free Rangers in the chat. Thank you, Jason. The guy's been around forever. We love that guy.

It's the best. This is great. I had no idea about this whole album. It's called Dark Christmas. Came out this year by Tarha, T-A-R-J. and it is exactly what the name sounds like. It is dark versions of Christmas songs, modern and traditional. There's a great cover of All I Want for Christmas is You done in this weird, weird style, wonderful Christmas time.

Yeah, the Paul McCartney one. Last Christmas by Wham doesn't count against your Wampocalypse. White Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock. If you really want to, like, turn the lights off in your house, get down with some really weird, creepy Christmas music. This is the thing that's Tara, T-A-R-J-A. Here is her cover of Frosty the Snowman, going out to Free Rangers. ...and... ...who...

...withal... ...that... ...with... ...that... Frost in the snowmower was such a jolly happy song and two eyes made out of course. Frosty, the snowman is a fairy tale, they say. He was made of snow

The children Know how we came to life one day How he came to life one day There must have been some magic In that old door that they found For when they placed it on his head He began to dance around The frosty, the snowman was alive,

And the children say he could laugh that way, Just to stay as you have.