The Morning Stream - TMS 2576: Change the Chicken Oil

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

He Got Tina's Chest. Catheter Inserted by Janitor. Ibbott Flu The Coop. The Lady Numbed Me. You gotta take me to dinner before I relax my tongue, lady! Are teeth bones? Because I'd like, really wanted to know. I've Never Shuffled That Truffle. An interesting use of Johnsons. First rule of Puke Streak is you don't talk about Puke Streak. Bash Bro Top. Reccamenntals! Pre CES talk with Tom and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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D. D. M. S.S.S. S. S. The morning stream. They wouldn't give us any more fish. Good morning, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It is Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. And that is Bobby Frankenberger.

Hello. Hey, man. You're not Brian Abbott at all. That's not who you are. I can pretend to be, but I will fall short. That's right. You will fail, miserably. Brian is out.

He is sick. He got Tina's chest virus flu bug thing and it wrecked his night. He was up all night and couldn't sleep and also super sick, coughing already. It's not a great time for the virus. Well, it is a great time for viruses. The viruses are winning right now.

They're having a great time. And it's the rest of us. There's like a COVID surge going on. There is. We don't talk about COVID very much anymore because it's, you know, it's endemic. But there is a surge going. on, as well as the yearly flu surge. That's going to be it, right? Yearly COVID surge as well.

Yeah, that's just kind of how it'll be. This one's pretty significant in terms of, I guess, size compared to previous surges. But, yeah, about half the people who are sick that I know have the flu or strep, and then the other half have some level of COVID. This is just the world we live in now. I never got it. You never got COVID, dude? I made it all the way to now, and I still.

haven't well you have to be if you're you have to be precise about how you talk about it right like I never tested positive for COVID oh gotcha because that doesn't mean you never had it it just means you never tested positive maybe you had it when you never tested um and you just got over it really quickly and then that made it so that you never got you know what I mean like it helped boost your immunity in the meantime maybe maybe you were asymptomatic for all you know you have no idea yeah exactly so I never tested positive never went through all the symptoms that like you had it right yeah yeah it sucked i hated it yeah exactly the worst i don't know why i got to be the atypical recipient why do i have to be all the worst symptoms for the exact

runtime it's supposed to take to get through you from a to b i or a to z i matched every criteria of a stupid covid infection well if there's any if there are any long covid listeners right now they're gonna they're gonna say you did not get it the worst that's true no i don't think it was definitely not the worst. I have some friends. I got a friend in Provo here, not far from me, who is still just everyday issues from his original COVID he got back in early 2020. So like pre-vaccine, pre-everything. He just got the big, nearly one. So that's definitely a long COVID thing then. Oh, yeah. And his doctors are like trying everything, but, you know, there's not a lot. There is no like. There still don't know a lot about long COVID. They don't know exactly what causes it, what makes it stick around for so

long. We just, speaking of a podcast that I do all around science, we just talked about it recently, an update on where the science is. And while we have learned some things about it, the truth is that we still don't know very much about what causes long COVID. Yeah. And that's frustrating for a lot of people. Yeah, I don't like it. No, sir, I don't. I'm like that horse on Ren and Stimpy. I don't like it. No, sir. I don't. Do you remember that? I love that. I remember Renan Stimpy?

What a great show. It was great until they tried to do the new episodes on Spike, and then everybody saw what he really wanted to do with those characters, and it changed everything about it, and it was awful. It was terrible. Oh, I never saw those. Was it Nickelodeon was always keep raining it in? Well, there's two things at play.

John Kay, who is the creator, was constrained somewhat by Nickelodeon, but he also pushed the limits a lot over there, which made that cartoon kind of edgy and cool, and everybody liked it. Right. Well, it turns out the kinds of things he wanted to do with these characters way over the top compared to the rules you might have at a cable network. So for whatever reasons, the Spike people are like,

bring it on, whatever, whatever you got. And even just that first episode, I kind of was like mouth open. I couldn't believe it. I could not believe what they were doing. And it was kind of just shocking. fundamentally changed the characters. Like, it was just a terrible idea.

It's the reason it didn't last. It's just, like, petered out almost immediately because people are like, this is not Renan Stimpy. What the hell is this thing you're doing? Right, right. It was bad. And then that John K guy got in all kinds of trouble for his own little version of a Me Too lifestyle business.

So, yeah, it's a bummer because he's very influential. The entire, I think the entire, quote, unquote, adult animation world are, they benefit from really. three main factors in terms of their branching out with creativity. The Simpsons, Renan Stimpy, and, what's the third one? The third one would be, I would give it to, who would I give it to? I would give it to another one that I can't think of right now. I don't know.

I'm really into that scene, though. I love that stuff. So was John Kay the one who was the artist? Yeah, he's the artist creator. Because that art, art was really influential, right? Oh, yeah. Like you see it in SpongeBob? Oh, South Park's the other one I was going to say, by the way.

South Park, yeah. But yeah, you see it in SpongeBob, like the weird close-up, disgusting shots that you in SpongeBob. Like, I don't know that any of these other hits are hit as hard without Renan Stimpy laying the groundwork. But as always, I guess never meet your heroes or whatever. How does it work? Rocko's Modern Life, did you watch that? I liked that. That was fun. That was a great show.

I liked all the early Nickelodeon stuff. Yeah. And I like a lot of adult swim, and I like a lot of cartoon network, and I like all those things. Oh, yeah. I've been wanting to re-watch Aquitine Hunger Force. Ah, yeah. They got new episodes of that. Do they?

Yeah. They just came out. Yeah, and they're apparently pretty good. I've not watched them yet. But, yeah, I liked Aquitaine. Yeah. Aquitine in the hood, G. Or however it did it.

Anyway, let's get going here. We got a bunch of stuff to cover. And, oh, I guess I didn't thank you for joining us today. So thank you, Bobby, for being here. I appreciate it. Yeah, I was waiting for it. I know. I almost blew it.

So we got a couple of things here. I went to the dentist yesterday right after the show, or pretty close to that, after I posted. And it was to fix a feeling that they discovered was cracked, I don't know, three weeks ago or something before the holidays. And then I got sick. So I had to cancel my appointment. Then when I went to go, the doctor canceled the appointment. He had something come up. So we're both like just put it in January.

It was not a big deal. It's not the kind of tooth that was about to go south or something. It was just a simple crack. So I go in there and yesterday. And I get in and first of all, when they change things up, they make me nervous. The lady who usually does my cleaning and I really like her shows up first. And I'm like, do they not know I'm here for like an actual procedure? they're doing another cleaning and you know like that's i thought she was there for him but no she

sits down she says i'm going to administer your numbing today did she say numbing yeah she did she didn't say novocaine she didn't say shots she didn't say needles or you know any of other reference just i'm in charge of your numbing today i'll administer your numbing's how she put it and i went oh you do that too crap this feels like an experiment i'm i in a learning hospital like what are we doing like i kind of panic a little bit. And I don't like it. I don't like the feeling of new people doing new stuff that normally a dentist with, you know, 30 years experience. Yeah, it's like when you go to the doctor's office at the hospital and they're like, oh, so-and-so here is a student at the university and you're like, oh, geez, are they going to be touching me? Yeah. We're going to have this,

we're going to have the janitor, insert your catheter. Yeah, we're doing some cross-training. Yeah. So good luck. Anyway, so she sits down. And I have to say, normally, I got like a nerve ball I've talked about this on the show but in the back rear both sides of my jaw whenever there's work on the bottom they have to put it back in that back corner

and most people just pull it out fine. With me they always have to go through some tight little nerve ball that's like in the way and they have to push past it and if they hit it just right

it sends like a shock wave over my whole head and when that happens I can tell that I'm going to be numb till like four in the afternoon that's how it'll be It'll be my eye and my whole tongue and everything. Well, this time, I'm bracing for it. Just mouth open.

She goes, now relax your tongue a little. And I'm like, well, I barely know you. We got to take me to dinner or something before I do any of this, right? Just kidding. So I tried to do that. And she was so good with this. Like it was the most, I won't call it pleasant, but it was the most pain-free dental injections have been for me. Maybe my entire life.

She nailed it. And it got number quicker. It usually takes me longer. and they usually have to do a second one just to beef things up. Wow. She nailed it the first time. It happened very quickly. In fact, so quickly that I was worried they were going to take forever to get in there to get it done.

And I was going to start losing it before they started doing the work, which is one of my worst nightmares. Anyway, she did great. Fear number one, assuaged. See, now if you were one of my kids, I would say, you see, now the lesson we learned is that sometimes it's okay to try new things. Yeah, see? That's right. Parenting 101 with Bobby. So anyway, that all went fine.

Doctor comes in and he says, oh, man, how you doing? I said, I'm good, I'm good. And we shook hands. And we always, he's been, he's as good a friend as he is, my dentist. We've known each other for, since 2004, 2004, we started using him. That's good that. You got a relationship like that. Yeah.

And he's great. I totally trust him. He's very professional. He's the one thing I'd like about him the most, I've said it on the show before, but he invests heavily in the latest dental tech. So if there's a new hot laser thing, he's got it. If they're doing a fancier camera thing and a new way of taking that data and crunching it and doing something cool with it, oh, don't use the word crunching.

You're talking about Dennis. But anyway, the point is, all of that stuff. Only the best for a Hall of Fame podcaster, Scott Johnson. That's right. It's all pulled out. It's all for me. And I do like that about it because I'm, I don't know, I'm a big believer in following where innovation takes you and that sort of thing. Sure.

Yeah. So anyway, he says. how you doing sorry about last time i said oh yeah and he goes yeah i heard you were sick i said yeah i did like a strep like throat thing that wasn't covid and it wasn't strep but whatever it was was gnarly it's one of the worst sore throats i ever had in my life took like six days and a little bit of a sinus infection he says oh yeah that sounds rough my household during the holidays was just kids throwing up just barfing barfing barfing barfing and i went oh that's not my favorite thing in the world and then he says you know i can't do it i can't throw up can't even make

myself to it. And I realize, we have a new thing in common. I've got a street going from 2005 where I've not barfed in nearly, well, I guess next year it'll be 20 years. That's crazy. Anyway, I say that to him and he goes, oh, no way, something, something, something. And then they just kept going after he shoves all the shit in my mouth or starts to, they just want to keep telling stories about, oh, yeah, last time I had to throw up, I think I sat on that bathroom. room floor and like stared at that toilet for half an hour and I couldn't I just couldn't get it done and and they kept and then the girl would pipe in and go oh not me I got to throw up immediately if I don't feel well at all I just puke as soon as I can puke and they're going they're doing this while

they're putting giant dam blocker things in my mouth like a big old rubber thing that I have to put in the rear so my mouth won't shut and then on the other side a whole bunch of gauze and little plates and stuff and like she's putting wedges in this little metal thing he wrapped around the tooth and like they're on the verge of having me break my street because they're gagging me to death. I'm going to hurl right there in the chair. Do you worry that he feels like threatened by your record and he's got the power to like activate your gag?

Oh, he 100% could make me barf. 100% he could. I don't know how, I don't know if he was tempted. Be like, be like, boop, looks like I'm the winner now. Yeah, he was, and they went on for 10. minutes talking about this and how oh i wish i could i wish i could throw up i know i need to and i'm like yeah no no this is great can we wait until i'm done can we wait until i'm off of this can we talk about something else do you feel when they're in there in your mouth like that and you can

barely talk you can't really talk yeah but they're talking do you feel compelled to like make noises to to to participate in the conversation 100% and i did it i did it during that's the same as me i'm always like uh-huh uh-huh all right i'll do a lot of her like a yo i agree or whatever yeah yeah i don't know why i do that even when he was talking to her and he was saying uh you remember in the 90s how something something and i'd go oh like like i don't know why i don't know why i do the same thing and i know exactly why i do it is because i'm so anxious that they're going to think that i'm not interested which is a stupid thing to think like like they don't care first of all they're just doing

their job. Second of all, they know I can't talk. Of course. Of course. I don't know. But I get inside my own head about it and I'm like, I need to make sure that I'm letting them know that I am interested in what they're talking for. Yeah. Like it's something, it feel like I'm in some kind of social contract and I can't just like not do my fiduciary agreement, you know, to talk to them. But anyway, everything went fine. It was once they got in there, it was quick. It's still hurt a little, but I wasn't going to tell them. Because I was just like, I can't numb very well down there.

Even at the best, and it was the best numbing I've had. It's still, I can still feel it. Like, it doesn't matter. I got nerve issues down there. Up top, no problem, dude. You could almost not give me the shot and I would,

you could do the uppers. It's freaking doesn't hurt at all. I don't know what my deal is. Like the gravity has taken all my nerves down into here and they all just hang out down here. Yeah. I don't know. It's been that way since I was a kid. So,

F off. Teeth, you're the worst. Also, somebody told me the other day, the only part of your skeleton that you'll ever wash. is your teeth. Hmm. And I thought about that.

Now, the problem is this. It's not contiguous bone, right? It's your jaw bone, right? Mm-hmm. It's like, if I cut into my arm, this is kind of gross, but I cut it into my arm and I look at my ulna or something. Wait, is that the, is that one of the arm ones? I think so, yeah.

I think it is. I took a big... It's in the forearm, I believe. I think it allows you to rotate or something. I was required by my commercial art teacher in college to take, a massive course of anatomy and we used it in our art stuff because we got to go to the university and draw cadavers and like people they would flay arms open on on a table with a cadaver and then we would get to draw the muscle structure and where the bones connected and all

that it was actually kind of great but terrifying at the same time anyway so that's why I think I remember some bones but anyway the point is yeah if I cut that open and look you'd see my bone my white bone peeking out you know and that's the only time you're ever going to see that is either an accident or a surgery or something like that this person was saying well the only part of your skeleton you ever clean or ever see or touch outside of those those circumstances are your teeth but it doesn't sit right with me because teeth are real easy to pull out and they go into like a gum thing and then they got like nerves and roots but the roots end they don't just keep going down into your jaw, like the bone isn't

contiguous, right? Right. So, F that guy and his dumb idea. That's what I'm saying. F that guy. Yeah, screw him. All right, we got another thing here to talk about. That is, Brian and I brought up the Cobblepot, Oswald Cobblepot stuff

for Batman 2, and we continue the relationship here. Or the relationship discussion is what I meant to say. And somebody wrote in, gave us a text, without a name, so sorry, whoever you are, I don't have your name, but they sent it into 8014710462 and said, for the Cobblepot Copper Pot confusion on Wednesday's show, Chester Copper Pot was a character from the Goonies. Now, is this where I get to make an admission to the world that I'm not exactly proud of,

but as a child of the 80s, you're required to see the Goonies. Yeah, that's true. I've never seen. I even own the Goonies on. DVD or Blu-ray or something. Wow. I've never seen the original The Goonies. You know what?

That sounds like to me. Sounds like a perfect excuse to go on to our friend TV's Travis's podcast. You know what? I've been on a while. Maybe this is the one. I'd love to put it behind me, right? Because it's, it appears to be culturally to be as important as, I don't know, seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark or a new hope or anything that's shaped

us as kids around them. It is, yeah. It feels like it's a cultural touchstone. You should definitely see it for that reason. I don't, I haven't seen it in a long time, so I don't know how it holds up. You know, there's some movies that, oh, you got to see this movie, and you're like, oh, this is not interesting or. Yeah, we're kind of unwatchable now.

But there are some that definitely hold up. Like Jurassic Park, I think, is one of those ones that just holds up wonderfully. Yeah, yeah, of course. I mean, Jurassic Park is on my list of movies, I think, that are perfect. Yeah, it's in my top 10 movies of all time, for sure. Yeah, it's a perfect movie. Other examples might be, let's stay in this. I would never be able to guess.

Well, let's stay in the same era for now. We'll say, back to the future is a perfect film, in my opinion. And when people say, what do you mean by perfect? My definition, I've done this on Film Sex, Patreon before, but my definition of perfect is it's a combination of pacing. pacing timing and direction that make up a perfect film everything all the other elements can fit wherever wherever but you just kind of know it when you've seen it you know that that was perfect i think raiders is a perfect film i think that um oh geez there's so many actually a recent

example would be uh edge of tomorrow i think is a perfect film it's perfectly constructed to be what it is and be as entertaining as it is and i would put in that list of course Mad Max Fury Road. Okay, moving on. Anyway, to the cobble pot, Chester Copper Pot thing, I'll just have to take your word for it. Here's what I know about Goonies. I know there's a mom who's kind of evil or something. I know that she's got a son with like one eye or something like that. He's all like deformed. I don't know much about him. I just know he exists in there and I know there's a fat kid who acts like he gets shot with a machine gun out in the yard because I've seen the meme. And that's it. Oh, and it's got short round in it.

Right. Right. And young versions of Thanos and other kids that are now old. He hasn't learned how to snap yet. No, it's early days. Early days for Thanos. He'd get there, though. He'd get there. Anyway.

Before we leave the movie topic, I did have one. Do you think Die Hard is one of those? Yes, diehard is a perfect film. Yep. That's a good one. Perfect action movie. One of these days I should just make a definitive list. because when I did this for FilmSack,

I just kind of thought of a handful and then talked about them. But I'll bet I could come up with something that's just like a big giant list of things you could just see any time, always find them enjoyable, never really tire of them. And it's a smaller list than you think.

Yeah. And there are a few that I would put in there that I don't think I want to see all the time, but I also think they're kind of perfect. Like I think Goodfellas is a perfect film. Right. But I don't want to see it every other day. I want to see, I want chunks of time between me and my viewings of that, you know?

And in that regard, there are plenty of movies that you probably really love, but don't consider them to be perfect movies. Right. Like, for example, the black and white Nebraska movie, Alexander Payne movie from some years ago, I love that movie. Right. It is an amazing film. And I do want to see it again, but I don't want to constantly see it again. it's hard to explain so I wouldn't call it a perfect movie but I would call it a great movie and there are plenty of those and they don't always line up with what the rest of the world

thinks is a perfect film so I realize this is a very personal thing you know of course I mean do you have one like fury rubber you just love it and you can't stop thinking about it there is a movie that if it's there is one movie that if it's on I will have to watch it and I do try to watch it every once in a while and it's a guilty pleasure kind of movie everyone thinks i'm not crazy but but they laugh when they hear like one of my all-time favorite movies is the kevin costner uh robin hood movie oh that's a good time robin hood prince of thieves yeah it's a good time great time i love that movie yeah um i i've loved it since i was like i don't know first time i saw it had to have been like six

years old yeah you had to been a wee boy then yeah um yeah I would have been like what are you 10 years younger than me or something a little more 84 is when I was born jeez so you're 14 years younger than me so as I was 14 going girls and stuff when you were born that's that's good to know yeah it is good to know I will say this to your credit you're a yellow you're a young soul or an old soul sorry that's what I meant to say you're an old soul. I don't normally, I wouldn't think of any, I don't normally think of people that are 14 years younger than me as an older soul, but you seem to be a, uh, someone. I had an eighth grade, um, my homeroom English teacher in eighth grade said the same thing, because I was always talking about like listening to, um, uh, really old classic rock of the time. Like I was, I was constantly talking about like, um, like Led Zeppelin and, and she, uh, she, she said the same thing. I was, because I was into older stuff. He was like, you are older. then you look. Yeah.

And my daughter's like that. Carter's like that. Carter, you over there? No, I thought she was here. Your dog's here. Oh, hi, Ripley. Sorry, Ripley just showed up. What are you doing in here?

I can't help. I can't play with you right now. Hey, Carter, call your dog. Where is she? Taking a lake run herself. I don't know what's going on. Anyway, let's move on to this. We got to, speaking of movies,

we've got a call about Zach Snyder's new film. I don't know if anyone will agree with this, but I'm going to play it, and we're going to talk about it. Here you go. Hey, this is Rocky from Denton, Maryland. I'm just going to say that Zach Snyder might have did the best Star Wars. Bye. Love to show. That's a bold statement.

And he's talking about Rebel Moon. That's what he means, because that's the new thing. And it's very Star Wars-ish. And in fact, it was pitched as a Star Wars film to Disney, and they rejected it. So he did his own. Really? Yeah. I haven't seen it.

Yeah, reviews are bad. I'm not saying it's bad. I haven't seen it yet. I can't say. I'm sure that it's... I'm sure I'm going to find some enjoyment out of it because I just generally do with Zach Snyder movies. I don't think he's as bad as everyone says.

It depends on the film. I think Justice League was terrible. His remake was or his remaster or whatever the hell. His cut of it was better, but it was still not great. I love 300. I really like the 2004. Oh, yeah, 2004, Don of the Dead remake that he did. I thought that was really good.

And I quite like Watchmen, but everything else kind of hit and miss with me. And Rebel Moon sounds like one that probably will miss more than it hits. Right now, it's at 24% on Rotten Tomatoes from the reviewers. Yeah, 60% from readers. But once again, it just feels like one of those divisive things. You either love what Zach Snyder's up to. I almost call them Snack Snyder. Snack Snyder

Yeah But anyway The point is I don't know if saying It's the best Star Wars movie Is gonna get you Too much agreement out there I mean even from the people who like it

I think it's just It's just its own movie And I mean they did He's not stole He he cribbed things From Star Wars Like these people use

Straight up lightsabers In this movie Oh I think there's some kind of mystical forcey shit going on. Wow. I don't know. A lot of very Star Warsy-looking business, you know, space religion and all that.

They get their powers from Jeddichlorians. Ooh, Jeddichlorians. No, they get it from chlorine, is what they do. Spending too much time in the pool. That's right. That's right. Never forget. I'll never forget when somebody.

Maybe you can confirm this because of your science show. But is it true that the reason chlorine smells like chlorine is only when it reacts with pee, and that's what makes it smell strong. Otherwise, you'd never notice it in a pool that was fresh. Say a pool, no one's been in it. No bacteria in there, nothing yet. And supposedly that chlorine smells like nothing. Is that true?

No, I think the smell is just what chlorine smells. I could be wrong about this, but I think I remember it means that you, just have too much chlorine in the pool. It shouldn't smell if you have the right amount. All right, so it's not supposed to... Because what I was told is it only smells when it interacts with urine, human urine, and that's what gives

the chlorine the smell it gives. What I was told, I was told this for the source. A quick Google search says that that's true Chlorite NCL3 is formed when organic matter is... So it might not just be urine, though. It could be like, sweat and other things just not just not pure water dirty chlorine yeah yeah no yeah that's true

it doesn't have to be someone's peeing in the pool it could just be that guy was sweaty before he got in there or i don't know enough people get in there after each other and you and then they overdo the chlorine to kill all that which makes it all that much stronger i don't know yeah so that's a little side thing for you folks chewing that for a while finally before we get to today's news or at least some of it. We said something about how fast food restaurants deal with their oil, how often they change it out when they're on the deep fryer and that sort of thing. And Brian was like, oh, it's probably like every week or eight days or something like that. I think McDonald's was our example. Anyway, we got a call from somebody who worked at a KFC. He's a local and I know him and I trust

him. And here's what he said. Hello, Scott and Brian. This is for TMS since other Brian also does play retro that's not narrowing it down enough anyway this is hooty 42 I was just listening to the you guys talking about fried foods and such and McDonald's I actually had a little bit of insight

on what they do with the oil I worked at a KFC so not McDonald's but KFC in high school and the friars got filtered every single night we had this special filter machine with, you know, kind of like a big, thick coffee filter on it that would filter through all the oil and get out any impurities and stuff, and the friar that we would make, like, their fries and stuff,

not the chicken, that would get changed weekly. The chicken friars went through so much oil that we just added oil constantly. It came in big blocks of shortening. The stuff that we threw out Actually went into a big barrel out behind the store And there is a place that would come pick it up And they used it to make of all things cosmetics So have a good day

Love the show And Scott We gotta do lunch Yeah we do I keep putting them off We keep scheduling stuff And then stuff comes up And then we don't go to lunch

We should go to lunch We're not going to KFC I can promise you that After hearing about this block of shortening that you got to put in there. Well, I can think of any other chicken place. I'd rather go anyway, so... Oh, yeah, no, this...

KFC's my last choice on chicken. That's unfortunate, because as a kid, I used to... Well, whatever, you love everything when you're a kid, but I thought... That's true. I thought KFC was amazing when I was a kid. Pizza Hut was so good when I was a kid. And they had a restaurant then. They had a place you could sit down.

It was great. We'll ask the kids, what do you want to go? Let's... You guys pick where we go to dinner tonight, and they're always like, Cici's pizza! I'm like, what? What is Cece's Pizza's? Should I know that chain?

Do you not know Cece's Pizza? No. Oh, Cici's is a, it's one of those pizza buffets. Oh, okay. And so they like it because there's macaroni pizza. Over here, we have a place called Godfathers here that is definitely that. It's like stuff under a lamp and it's been there too long. It's just bad pizza.

Yeah. Yeah, I don't like, I'm not a fan. Why do you want to go there? Not only are we going to eat bad pizza, but we're also going to get diarrhea. Yeah. Like, yeah, you want to go out for pizza and diarrhea? but kids are great that way they'll eat anything man they don't care it is cheap i will give give them that but yeah i used to work at um wendy's that was my first job i worked at wendies

and i can confirm that's that sounds about right for for what we did was um we we never we hardly ever changed out the chicken oil because of that you you're constantly adding more because the the oil sticks to the chicken you know oh yeah yeah and uh not a lot of of course, but enough of it where you have to refill it. And yeah, we would run it through a filter. And the filter when you did have to change the oil?

Yeah. When you had to change the oil, you had to wear like a big giant rubber apron and big boots and these rubber gloves all the way up to your shoulders and it was like, it was very dangerous. Oh yeah, a little spit and

hot freaking oil. Forget it, man. Oh, yeah. So, but did the filter does it work it doesn't sound like that it's just running it through paper or whatever i mean it's it's it's pretty heavy-duty paper and it's not it's it works yeah it works fine all sounds gross to me it is gross yeah uh and eventually it it stops working enough that you eventually do have to change the oil but um it's all gross i think i think i think everyone every teenagers should have to work fast food before they graduate high school. Yeah, I kind of agree, and my kids never did. Yeah. And I feel like I gave them a disservice. They worked at job.

They had jobs, you know, they had jobs and they were hard jobs, but nobody, nobody did the fast food thing. I did. My wife did. But for whatever reason, other opportunities arose for my kids and they never had to. And I don't know if I regret that yet or not. I guess I'll have to wait and see when I think there's so many good reasons to make your kids work fast food. It's very hard work first. It's thankless. Like literally, people are yelling at you. But on the other side of that, I feel like, so my wife didn't ever work fast food.

And I feel like she's way less patient with fast food workers, and I am way more patient because I know the, I know the shit that they're dealing with. Yeah. No, that's a good point. It'll make you much more empathic to those around you. So Nick did work at a movie theater. It's pretty close. Pretty close to that. You know, dealing with popcorn and butter and having to hurry your ass up. And people are impatient because their movie's about to start. They got there late. They're trying to get their popcorn or their concessions or whatever. And this one had like four different kind of restaurant things in the main court. So if you wanted a burger, you wanted corn dogs, whatever, you could do all that. And those, that was hard. So you know what?

I did have Nick do that. Yeah, that's close enough, I think. Yeah. The girls had it cushy. I had, I had a, I got my oil, hot oil dropped on my hand one time. And I, it was, I can't remember if first or third degree is the worst, but it was the, it was the lesser of them. I think it's a first degree burn. First degree burn is lesser than a third degree burn the worst, yeah.

So it was almost certainly a first degree burn. and the shift manager or whoever it was at the time just had me go in the back rub some like burn cream on it and then sit down for 10 minutes and then get back to work. Wow. Wow. That feels like an OSHA violation,

but maybe not. I don't know. I don't know how that works. Yeah, why have we done that as a society? We call it first-degree murder, worst kind of murder, but we call it first-degree burns, least hardcore burn. Why have we done that?

DefCon 5. Yeah. DefCon 5 is low, right? I think. And then DefCon 1 is when the poop is really hitting the fan. Yeah, we got to unify some of this stuff. Were you the first or last? Yeah, exactly.

Maybe it's golf. Golf did it. Because golf is like, no, you want a low score. Well, the rest of all competition ever is a high score. What are you doing over there? All right. Well, there's that. let's get into some news

probably not a lot but a little bit let's do it today's news is brought to you by Trickster who is just a cool dude and a nice guy and we're glad to have him in the Frog Pants community that's all I wanted to say about that guy all right once in a while you guys just show up

and I'm impressed with you and I just want to mention your names that's all let's talk about a Florida man he is seen taking live fish from an indoor pond at a bass pro shop that's not good the Lee County Sheriff's Office is searching for a mail who was seen taking a live fish from this pro shop on Wednesday evening

according to the sheriff's office and a release deputy said the mail entered a bass pro shop in the Gulf Coast Town Center while carrying a fish net he then used the net to remove a live tarpoon tarpawn is that a fish must be a tarpon tarpon tarpon tarpon not tarpon tarpon and says would you like an agree tarpon.

Let's see, from an indoor fish pond before fleeing the store with it. You see a guy just running with a fish. Ah, I get the fish. I'm fleeing. If you have information about this, you're supposed to call this 800 number, Crime Stoppers number, which I'm not going to announce.

But I will show you a photo of the security footage of this guy stealing fish. Which, you know, in the right situation, might be us. I don't know. Yep, there he is. See, look at him. He's got a net.

He comes in there. He's like, I'm getting me some fish. Yeah, there he is. Let's see. Did he run? I can't tell. This video is a bad handheld camera thing. Oh, there he is.

He goes running off with it. Big old bag of fish. Well, all right, then. you know when you need a fish sometimes you just do whatever it takes so good luck to him what what's i want to know why no we still don't know we they got to catch the guy i guess my my assumption is like okay let's think about it for a second if it's a pro bass shop these are big bass fish you what do you buy those for do you eat them i guess you do yeah why are they in the i've i mean i guess i don't i've never been to a bass pro shop i'm

case you couldn't tell, I'm not the bass pro top bro. I can't even say it. That's how Brotop. You're not the bash bro top. Yeah. Yeah. But why do they have this tarpin in a pond in a bass pro shop? I don't understand. I don't know. We got any smart people in the chat who know how this is. They're on display. Is it just to show them off? Benjin says pretty much pets. I don't know about that. Who's got bass pets? Because we would catch, we would go down to like Lake pal and catch bass and then eat the bass we would have a fishing license and we would that's why we would catch the fish um but having them in a place because the bass pro shop is also about those tools for fishing it's about fancy reels and rods and you know all the gear and

the camping stuff and all the other stuff and then bait and everything but then there's this there's actual live bass there i don't understand that that's weird to me yeah i mean it could be it could be like like Tom Norm said in the chat that it's like a marketing thing like it's just like that's the bass pro shop that has the live big old fish pond

it's like Cabela's having all the or shields if that's where you live these places that have like big trophy deer like full body deer and stuff yeah it's to show that hey you're a hunter come on in here and look at what you're going to kill.

Yeah, I don't know. It's very weird. Someone in the chat just made me laugh. Who was it? Let's see. Who was it? It's going so fast. There's so many of you in there.

Oh, the boy who cried wooft says every kid should have to work at a bass pro shop. It made me laugh. Nice callback. Nice work on that. Let's see. Let's rip through this story real quick. Pizza topped with 1,0001 varieties of cheese. cheese was baked in France.

I don't know if it's some kind of world record. It must be. Guinness Book of World Records has finally recognized the pair of French pizza chefs who teamed up with a cheesemaker and a YouTube star. Oh, good. That's important. That's a star-winning team-up right there. I don't know why you need that part, you know, like other than exposure, right?

So you've got somebody who's got a lot of audience or whatever. and so that's why you would do it. I'm going to assume that's the reason because why else do you need two French guys a plan to make a 1,000 one variety of cheese, pizza, and a YouTube star. It sounds like a start of a terrible joke. I don't want to know the punchline for him.

Anyway, this happened. Chef's Benoit Broulet and Fabian Montalancio. I helped it. Worked with cheesemaker Sophie Hattatat Richard Richard Luna and YouTube Florian on air

because they never used their real names these people to break the world record for the most varieties of cheese on a pizza.

The previously set record was 254 cheeses in 2020 and it was the same person this Bruel Brule person but his record

was later broken by Morgan Niquet who cooked a pizza topped with 834 cheese varieties Is there a photo of this?

Because I like picture as just a giant mound of cheese. I need to see how they did this. Because if it's just a sprinkle of each cheese, I mean, it can't be a lot, right? Yeah. Okay, it does look kind of Chicago style, now that I see it. It's thick.

It's like a cake. Oh, geez. Yeah. This pizza holds the record. So some of this cheese is like chunks of it, Other cheeses are like sprinkles of it as best I can tell. Yeah, I'm looking at it too. It just looks like a regular pizza with a ton of cheese on top of it.

Yeah, this would kill you. Don't eat this. I mean, maybe a taste. But if you ate a whole slice of this, dude, you're backing yourself up for a month. Why? Yeah, that's the real question. The real loss here. Think of those people.

Although maybe good if you're going to be going on a long plane flight. Oh, yeah, that's true. Plug it up. Get that cork. Get the nature's cork. All right. Google says there are only about 1,800 varieties of cheeses in the world or close to 2,000 varieties. So they're halfway there.

So you're saying I have a chance to go even further. Well, why wasn't this 1,0002 varieties or three? You know what I mean? Why 101? Is that a fun number? Is that why? Must be. It's marketing.

Marketing. We'll do 1,234. And the headline will be Home Chef, Bobby Frankenberger, and a podcaster Frog Pants. Yeah, because I don't go by my real name. Yeah. Yeah, YouTuber Frog Pants.

Somebody told me once that the reason Frog Pants hasn't taken off on YouTube in terms of like just overall, it's been fine, but, you know, hasn't been like a big explosion or anything. I have all my own theories, but this person thinks it's because I don't have a wacky name.

He told me that. Oh, because it's just Scott Johnson. Yeah, I'm just like the most boring name ever. I was, it's so boring and common, dude. I went to the dentist yesterday and there was a sign to the next floor up for a guy who specializes in root canals named Dr. Scott Johnson, DDS. I'm everywhere. There might, I mean, there might be something to do something to that, you know. But you would think it would work the other way, right?

Like people who were looking for you would find you. And then other people who were looking for Scott Johnson, the root canal. specialist which also find you I used to be the number one Google result let's see if it's still true Nope now it's the murder

of Scott Johnson Oh my God There was Scott Johnson murdered Yeah It's some horrible I guess it's in case from 88 That's all big again Scott Johnson

Gay US student Killer jailed in Sydney After 30 years on the run Great I got completely usurped It used to be, I used to be the number one result. Nope. And then right after me or some kind of fighting with me was this Australian rugby coach with my name.

So, yeah, the goal has always been for me to be the Scott Johnson that you know and not the one you. The top Scott. Not the murdered one. Top Johnson. Yeah. And don't confuse me with Scott Peterson, the murderer. Don't do that. Yeah.

But do this. Come back after this break because when we come back, Tom Merritt's going to join us. We're going to get a little tech time in the morning. And recommendals after that with Nicole, Randy's on the road. He's traveling back from his vacation away for the holidays. So he will not be joining us today. But me and Nicole are definitely going to be here. And we're going to talk about some stuff we saw.

And also I'm going to warn people about a thing I saw that I still can't quite get my head around. I still can't believe it. Anyway, to this moment, I'm still kind of in show. I'm having, I think I had a, not PTSD. about a movie, but it's as close as I've come. Well, consider me teased. Yeah, you've been teased. You've been Johnson. Just wait for more. Anyway, before then, I want to play a song. This is one Brian forwarded to me to play today called Scarlet Tungs. And this is from a band, an American duo called The Glass Hours, which is kind of a cool name. And they have a new

single from their upcoming album. And they have a self-titled studio album calling, It drops March 1st, so that's coming soon. This is thanks to Cornelius Chapel Records. And anyway, we're talking about some cool stuff here. Brad Armstrong, Megan Barbara, and their music blurs between Sunday afternoon, country folk, and the golden age of the 70s. That doesn't intrigue.

I don't know what will. Plus, this guy's got a wild beard on this album cover. So that's cool. Anyway, we're going to play that song. And when we come back, all that stuff I mentioned. please stay tuned. Nightfall in the city of a thousand scarlet tongues that I make my way back home to you

and the boardwalk it is singing with a thousand golden tongues but I make my way back home to you Though the evening Like a river runs a thousand miles from here I make my way back home to you I've seen a thousand empty bottles And I have yet to drink my fill When I make my way back home to you

If ever I forsake you, it never was my choice. I got canyons in my heartbeat, and razors in my voice. taken that never was alive because I'm bound to be the only person waiting at the end of the line I see in destruction in the neon lights raining on the strip, I make my way back home to you. And the words a man was singing, I found a promise I could slip. But I make my way back home to you And whatever I have planted me, it wither in the sun I make my way back home to you

And whomever I've departed, know my journey's just begun And I make my way back home to you If ever I forsake you, it never was my choice. I got canyons in my heartbeat and razors in my voice. If ever I am taken, it never. was a lie because I'm bound to be the only person waiting at the end of the line. If you're alignment in charge of keeping the lights on, Granger understands that you go to great lengths and sometimes heights

to ensure the power is always flowing, which is why you can count on Granger for professional grade products and next day delivery. So you have everything you need to get the job done. Call 1-800 Granger, clickgranger.com, or just stop by. Ranger, for the ones who get it done. You mustn't eat candy, Mr. Whiteside. It's very bad for you. My great aunt, Jennifer, ate a whole box of candy every day of her life.

She lived to be 102, and when she's been dead, three days, she looked better than you do now. We want to watch cartoons. Hey, don't talk back to your mother. And we've returned. That song, once again, was The Glass Hours and from their new Untitled album, the song is, I Lost It. Where'd the song go? The song is called Scarlet Tongues, which if you have one, talk to a doctor.

Definitely see your doctor. Yeah, don't be messing around with that. nobody's tongue should be scarlet. All right. Let us now call Tom. How about them? Apples, right there. It's always good having him here.

It's got stuff to say, things to share. A world of technology, really. To share with his best friends, TMS in the morning. Let's play a little intro for him. Why not? Why not I say? Where is it? Where's Tom's?

Here it is. We want Tom. Yeah, we do. We want Tom Merritt. And good news. He's here. Tom Merritt joins us as he does every Wednesday to talk about all the cool. happenings in the world of tech. Hello, Tom Merritt. How are you? Hello, Scott Johnson. I just texted

you a picture of an interesting use of Johnsons. Oh. At IKEA that I saw over the weekend. Let me check this real quick here. If you're in the mood for romance, you might want to be like the Johnsons. Yeah, says the Johnsons. Quote, I love traditional elegance. He loves smart home gardens, gadgets, rather. We found a balance with lush textiles, deep colors and practical modern upgrades that make our quality time together more romantic. Oh, Tom, I didn't know how you felt. I did know that this is how the Johnson's designed their romantic getaway until I went to. Oh, that's great.

Yeah, the name Johnson, very Swedish in origin. That's where my relatives come from, so it makes sense to me. But I've never... Would there be two S's, though, when they spell it? Oh, that's a good point. John's Sons, the Johnsons. They tend to like to double up their consonants in those Scandinavian languages. Yeah.

Also, Swedish, or sorry, IKEA stuff is usually things like Borka and Gbergerger. It's like they don't have things like Johnson's there. It's weird. And I do love that Kim, I think, loves traditional elegance. She does. And you love Smart HomeGaddes. We do. And together, it makes her very romantic time together.

Mm-hmm. Well done, IKEA. You've nailed it. Well, anyway, thank you for that. Hey, Tom. we're back from the dumb holiday it's time to figure stuff out what's going on in the

yeah yeah it's get back to work 24 style right well that's what I'm going to do next week when the consumer electronics show happens I can already feel the pain in my feet Daily Tech news show is not going in force it's just me but I'll be meeting up with Molly Wood

and Shannon Morris and a few other people to kind of report from the floor Sarah Lane's going to anchor or the home front so she can keep track of all of the announcements that happen. That's one of the things we found in years that we didn't go to CES. We had a better chance of keeping on top of everything because you're not distracted by having to move around CES. But when you're at CES, you do get to see some things and talk about some things that

you might not catch otherwise. So we're trying to do both this time. We did that last year. We sent Rich Straffolino and Amos. and so I'll be going this year just on my own to kind of save a little money and it'll be interesting to see what I find

you know what I think I'm going to do I think I'm going to I might use a GoPro I might just use my phone but I'm going to do video tours of the press events maybe the show floors but the show floors are so massive I'm not sure I'm not sure if that's going to work if I'll have time to do that frankly

but the press events are a little more navigable You can walk a whole floor in less than an hour. So if people are interested in just getting a virtual look at the floor, I might be recording those and uploading them to YouTube. Yeah, and there's plenty of, so, you know, we've all been to conferences of different kinds, and they range in size from small and manageable to very large. I don't think people realize how big CES is. It is freaking huge. It's bigger than it used to be, floor space-wise. They cover the expanded Las Vegas Convention Center, which is now bigger than it used to be.

It also includes the Venetian and other hotel areas, the sands, all of that. So it's, yeah, it's massive. Are you, is there anything on the, I don't even know if we know, is there anything that's leaked ahead or people are looking forward to from this particular event this year? Or a thing you expect to see. You know, there's the usual like, expect every press release to include AI somehow. Yeah. So, so we're seeing that already. There's also going to be some cool wireless tech, some interesting.

headphone stuff with mems is expected. We're probably going to get a lot of matter and smart home announcements, which we got last year. So, yeah, we've got the usual suspects, but there's always some surprises. So I'm interested to see what the trends are at the end versus what they are looking like at the beginning. And if you keep up with Daily Tech headlines or Daily Tech News show, you know that LG has been doing their usual thing of trickling out a bunch of announcements that they'll show off at CES, but they're giving you the details ahead of time. Samsung's been doing that too. And then Samsung's going to come back with an unpacked announcement on January 17th after CES. So you're going to get your Samsung Galaxy S announcement earlier this year. I've had a few people

email and say back in the 90s. 1994's CES was the last year that gaming was part of CES. It was the that's where, you know. 1994? Yeah, Sega and all these guys have go to. No E3 yet. E3 happened in 95. Oh, I see. I see. So the E3 happens the very next year. And then there's a big shift. There was a little trickle. There was more of a trickle away, though, over time, because there was still some stuff at CES for a couple years, but most of it moved to E3. And I'm getting these emails now going, well, with E3 gone, do you think that CES will pick up any of that slack? Will we see anybody exhibit there? Like, will Microsoft have an Xbox Studios, maybe small thing? Or will somebody else? That would be interesting. Since Microsoft doesn't have a booth at CES,

hasn't had for years. Yeah, that's true. They just show up at other people. people's announcements and do private appointments and stuff like that. So it would be interesting if Xbox went to the show floor. I kind of don't expect that, though. I think game developer conference, GDC is probably your best bet to pick up a lot of the E3 Slack that doesn't go independent, right? Like Sony and Nintendo just doing their own announcements, I think, is where you're going to see the bigger folks go.

Yeah, and the game awards and the Summer Fest and all that Jeff Keely stuff sort of picks up all the showy bit of it. and all the behind the scenes. It would go to CES, I feel like goes to GDC. And then, yeah, Keeley's going to pick up a lot of the fun, you know, let's show some game trailer stuff, which is cool. And he does a great job at it. And then the bigger folks will have their own events.

And it'll be E3 distributed, a different E in different parts. Oh, there you go. I like that. Move your ease about a little bit. We'll have some electronics over here, some entertainment over there, your Expo over there. And this year doesn't compete with the Adult Entertainment Expo. don't believe so you're safe there so you won't walk into the wrong call as far as I know but

that used to be a thing they always put it at the exact same time yeah it's been a few years since that was the same because the adult entertainment expo got too big they just couldn't share the city anymore yeah they can't it's literally the city uh for these events now yeah yeah really um our very own kT data will be there bumping around i kind of hope he runs into you and you guys oh yeah give me a shout out kT data i'd love to say hi yeah also i'm gonna pick on him for for checking in on him for a little TMS results here as well. So TMS may be a great place with Tom and him combined. We're going to have the greatest reporting of CES of all time ever.

Yes. Except not true. That's not the news today, though. Oh, what's the news today? Tell me more. That a human beat Tetris. What? Hold on.

Kill screen style or what? Yeah, kill screen. Wait, beat it. Beat it. Yeah, we have known for the last couple of years that 157, was the max level because people have used machine models to play through and beat it. But no human had

done it until Willis Gibson, 13 year old Willis Gibson in Oklahoma. Of course there's a 13 year reactions of a 13 year old, exactly. Uploaded a video on YouTube of him playing through in 38 minutes, 157 levels of Tetris

causing the game to crash and stop releasing new blocks. Oh my gosh. That's the, I mean, a kill screen is everyone's goal if you're into that stuff. and can't believe he did it. That's over four levels per minute. Yeah, that's a lot. That's a lot.

There's apparently a strategy that I was unfamiliar with before today called hypertapping that is described as vibrating your fingers in a way that can move the controller faster than the in-game speed. Yep, this is correct. It's also how speed runners do it

with a lot of different games, actually, not just Tetris, but this kid probably, and they also hold their controller real weird. I haven't seen, I'm not looking at video yet. I'm going to go check the stream out later, but it's apparently all up on Twitch. But he, they hold it really funky.

They don't hold it like you hold your controller at home, everybody. They hold it in a very weird way. I assume this is the NES version of the game. Let's see. Yeah, it's the Nintendo NES, the classic 1989 version. Yeah, that's what it looks like. So this is Tetris before they added the feature of holding a piece for later. A lot of people think that's just standard Tetris.

that came out like Tetris 2 or some way later version of Tetris. The original, you had no peace and reserves. So not only is this kid doing this to a kill screen, he doesn't have any long pieces up in his corner that he can pull out any time he feels like. It's impressive. Now we've got to get him working on, you know, what girls will date a boy like that, you know?

I imagine he might not have a problem with the kind of notoriety he has and the world we live in of Internet fame. What he does have is a bunch of people trying to beat his 38-minute speed record already. People are out there, you know. People get fired up immediately about this stuff. You can have stuff go kind of stale in the speed running. This isn't really speed running, but in that world, you can have a record go stale for a decade.

And then somebody will come out of nowhere, beat it by 0.32 seconds. And then that entire world explodes and 50 more people are trying to get it because they can't believe somebody broke this unbeatable record. It's actually really fun if you get into some of that. I could never play like that, but it's fun to watch. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's cool. And I guess that's where we're at with Tetris now. Now that there's a kill screen, now it's speed running.

Like how fast can you do it? Yeah. So good luck to everybody. I hope that kid holds that record for a long time, and he's got a cool mullet. So happy, happy for him. This and many other stories can be found on the Daily Tech News show. And today is Wednesday, which means I'll be on there. Tom is still in town, so he'll be there, of course.

And I guess it should be there next week, too, just in a different way. in a more remote way. Yeah, I'll be on the show. Let's see. Let me look at my calendar. If you don't mind real quick, make sure I've got the right and right dates. But I think on Wednesday next week is when we have one.

Nope. We don't know who's on Wednesday. I'm on Wednesday. But not from CES. Surprise guest coming next Wednesday. Who would you like to be on our CES? Oh my gosh. Anybody.

As I mentioned, is we're going to have, you know, me there with somebody and then Sarah and you on Wednesday anchoring it from outside of CES. So I'm looking to fill that slot. We'll have Molly Wood on Tuesday, the 9th, and Shannon Morris on Thursday, the 11th. Oh, that's awesome. I'm happy to be in that sandwich. Those two are awesome people.

We'll try to hold one. We'll try to be the good meat you want on your sandwich on Wednesday. Indeed. A Johnsonville Brought. There you go. That's a callback, folks. That'll do it for us. Tom, anything else going on? Let's tell people where they can find more of your cool business. Yeah, I got a really nice note today from somebody who has been following DTNS and Daily Tech Headlines for a long time and recently subscribed to my tech newsletter, the paid version of which comes out every day.

It's free tech newsletter.com gets you a free edition once a week. And this person was just very complimentary about the format of the newsletter and how it's supplementary. supplemental, and he's like, I don't even need to use any other sources anymore. I just listen to DTNS, read the newsletter, and I get all the news I need. I'm always the most informed in the room. When somebody brings up a tech story, I'm like, oh, yeah, I heard about that. So if you would like to be, like him, go check it out, free tech newsletter.com. You can just sign up for the free version to try it out. And if you want to get it every day, pay a little extra to do that. That's free tech newsletter.com. Very nice. Tom Merritt, everybody. Watch him as he goes. a weird way of sending somebody off but whatever I'm doing new stuff today okay

check it out you guys it's 2024 you know what that means nothing really we're just going to do this segment like we always do and we're going to add Nicole to the call I'm glad she's on because with Brian being sick and Randy on the road you know I don't have enough

enough recommendals to do it on my own also I gave Bobby no time this morning yeah I've pulled it out that quick before but this morning was You were busy, man. Chores, as we said earlier. Yeah, the fact that you were willing to come on at all is good enough for me. Oh, why am I getting a Recommmental's planning ring?

That's weird. I think Nicole thinks she's in the wrong room. Let's see. Oh, there she is. I see her there. Ah, you're fine. Let's do this. Well, what do you recommend?

I recommend things on streaming services, movies, TV shows, and more. And joining us today, Nicole's bag. Hi, Nicole. Hi. Happy New Year to you. Happy New Year. year. That's right. How late did you stay up? Oh, gosh. I think I made it to 11.30. And then I, because I conked out on the couch and we don't really care about watching a ball drop.

So here's what I did. At about 1115, I texted Taylor and I said, hey, are the little ones up? And she said, no, they went to bed at like eight. I'm like, okay. Does she do the fake ball drop? I don't know. Something to that effect. Yes, she wanted them. We do. We do that too. Netflix used to have some really cool stuff, but I can't find it anymore. Oh, weird. Maybe they got rid of it. That's weird. I remember that too. They had like, they got rid of their fire too, their Christmas fire. I thought that was cool. Yeah. I don't know why they got rid of that stuff. I loved it. Jerks. I think what happened is probably people would turn that fire thing on and not turn it off for like five days during Christmas. And that's a lot of

bandwidth of enough people are doing it. And they probably were just like, why are we doing this? Seems a waste of money. But anyway, so I call her set of the kiddos up because I want to celebrate with them. We'll do a little FaceTime. Let's do this. She's no, they're long asleep. So I shut my phone, told her Happy New Year, put it in my pocket, sat back on the couch, watching whatever we were watching.

And next thing I know it, I'm dead asleep. It's 2 a.m. I get up off the couch and go to bed. So it was lame. I'm old. How about you, Bobby? Did you stay up until midnight? Yes, this is the first year that my kids both made it the entire time.

Last year, they were awake at midnight, but it's because they wanted us to wake them up, and they had fallen asleep on the couch. But this year, they were both awake and everybody was happy and not grumpy, and we had a good time. I like staying up till midnight. I like watching the ball drop. And New Year's is one of my favorite holidays. I don't know why. Oh, really? Why?

Yeah. Yeah, what is that? I think it's, well. New beginnings and hopefulness and all of that. I'm kind of an optimist at heart, you know, and sort of, it's just. I like that it represents change and starting over and trying again and all that kind of stuff. And it's also like one of the few secular holidays, which I like, you know. I like it because I'm like, oh, I survived the year.

Right, right. Yeah, that's, I can feel that way too. I like, I like to think that the next, the new year has a ton of possibilities and it won't be until November that I complain about the previous year. you know because especially for me last year was just dukey yeah you didn't have a great 2023 i'm glad you're over that hump though very well well i'm still on it on the path but i'm like way way way better yeah so um i'm kind of getting back into things and uh i told you in the chat but i'm going to tell you here because matteo is very adamant that i express how wonderful the game Pizza Tower is.

Mm, yeah. He, so this kid, are you familiar with this game? I am, yeah. So it's, so basically, for those at home who aren't familiar with it, it's a platformer that is based very heavily on, but I think supersedes, the old

Wario games that Nintendo used to make for the Game Boy and stuff. They were, they were amazing games and they were really cool spins on platforming style. What's like that rushy kind of game, Sonic-y, you know, you're rushing through, and like super meat boy kind of I saw him playing

I'm like yep that's not for me yeah it's a very cool game a lot of people thought it should have been like the indie award winner of the year and that's what he thought too so he wanted me to express that to you that pizza tower is his game of the year and that this kid he did

what it's called P level which is like a perfect level yeah he did P level on all of the levels wow he's better than me then Remind me of the Tetris kid There is something about being around around that age Where you are just a monster at these things And sounds like that's where he's at

That game's awesome. Tell him he's right and that I approve this message Because it's very good There you go I keep forgetting to tell you It's very good It's on Steam everybody I think on sale till the fourth

So it might be Oh it's on sale tomorrow Yeah so I think it's like I don't know five six bucks off or something right now Anyway It was already kind of I think it's $20, so that's probably $15 right now. Yeah, it's an inexpensive game.

Yeah, it's not bad. I might have to check it out. My daughter's gotten into side scrollers with Mario Wonder. Oh, I bet she'd like this. Yeah, I'll bet she'd like it. It's very different, very throwback in a lot of ways. And it kind of has this 90s aesthetic to it that I really appreciate it. It's very good.

Yeah, for sure. All right, well, let's get to it. Nicole, we're going to start with you. In lieu of Brian not being here, we're going to start with your recommendation. And I got you a clip together for the thing you mentioned. I hope we're still good on that one, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what we're good on, because that's the only thing that my son has been watching.

So, therefore, I have been watching it. All right. And it's on Netflix. I don't know. I got lots of thoughts. All right. Let's go to the clip, and then we'll find out. Here you go.

I have an extra person in this game. Somebody I know I can trust, and I don't know if everybody's going to have their mom in this game. I don't think so. So I'm lucky. Please, for the love of God, they get through this challenge for me, okay? I will get through this challenge. I swear I will. I've been practicing.

Bend your knees. Bend the useful knee that you have. My mom, she was like a superstar athlete. She's going to outlast me and embarrass me in front of all my family and friends. Oh, the squids are playing games. games again. Yep, the squids are playing games. This is the reality show version of the squid game. What's the full name? It's Squid Game something. The challenge? I think the challenge, right? Probably the challenge. Okay. I'll look that up in a sec while you're talking.

So I will just say I have not been a fan of reality TV for a very long time. early was it when the hell the survivor and 33 years ago for survivor what about the real world so like I was I was of the age when reality TV kind of started yeah and so I even applied to be on the real world so there's a I'm sure that the VHS tape is long gone but I made a video

oh my gosh do you have that still is that a thing we can share look at or is you're never going to show it to the world? Hello? Do we lose her? The people at MTV are shutting her down? What happened there? I don't know. Nicole, did you mute? What happened to you? We lost you. Oh, she's offline. Something hung up on her. If she's on her phone, I bet she got a call. There she is. While you're trying to. I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. That's really weird. Did you, do you still have this video someplace? It was like then

late 90s and you were lucky to have a VHS to make one copy. Yeah. One take, send it off, cross your fingers. Maybe you'll get, maybe you'll get caught. But I'm sure I was not extreme enough. I feel like I would be too level headed. Like, I just want everybody to get along. Sure.

No, you would have been the big peacekeeper in a season. So it looks like it was 92, by the way. So we're now 20 or no, I'm sorry, 34 years since that. I know, dude. That's crazy. Oh, my God. So, yeah, my kids will say things to me like, was that the olden days, the 80s? And I'm like, oh, my God.

Well, to them it is like, you know. There's like a whole bluey episode where the dad's talking about, it was the 80s. Yeah. I mean, look at it, look at it this way. this helps you. We are now further away from the 80s than we were from the 50s in the 80s, which we thought was the olden days, right? Yes, exactly. And yeah, it is what it is. But anyway, so I will say, I was really, really into reality TV when it first came out. It was very raw then. And since then, it has, I mean, it's a production. It's not, it's never been real. But it's, it's even

less real than it ever was. So I stopped watching all of it. And so this was interesting for me to watch a reality show and actually kind of get into it. So Mateo was watching it. I would not let him watch the movie or the show. So when the show came out, I was working at his school. And this was at elementary school and all the kids started emulating squid games. I'm like, who the hell are your parents? You're watching about people being killed and they started emulating the games at recess and it was this whole thing at the school. And I was just like, oh my God, but I hate squid games. So I have this like instant, oh, I hate squid games. But in this reality show version, of course, nobody died.

and it's almost hilarious how they dramatically die when they get eliminated. This is their acting debut. So it's kind of funny when they actually get eliminated, this little black ink thing goes off in their chest and they go, ugh. Like squids. Just that alone made me laugh quite a bit. So I didn't see this.

I never saw the series, the original series. I don't know why. I just never got around to it. Is that a thing in the series? Is that how people knew they were out? Because they were actually killed. Right. In the series, like, boom, you're dead and blood and all of that.

Yeah. So it was from a high-stakes kind of perspective in the reality show, course nobody died, but there are all of these horror stories coming out of the recording of this reality show and how even, again, going back to it's not reality, it's a production, the people that are producing this game have an idea of what they want to create the most drama. So that clip that you, it's funny that you pick that clip because that is, um, the, a mother and son team that actually did make it through the first game, which is the red light green light game.

And that's what this, it goes back to very simple games, red light green light, rock paper scissors. So all of these old school playground games, which why the elementary school kids love to do it. But then when they fall down dead, that's not always so wonderful.

Yeah. Death is hard. But those two right there, apparently the mom was too slow and so they extended the time to get her into the show oh boo I hate that I hate when they do that

that's why I don't like that's why I don't trust them we interviewed a guy we've talked about this before we interviewed a guy and current geek who uh thanks to Hammond I don't know if he's listening but anyway this guy did editing for pawn stars um storage wars and I can't remember the other one oh one of the

bachelorets or something and in every case he said we asked him he says well how much of it percentage wise you know it's just a happening and you're filming it versus what you guys kind of contrived and he says oh no it's all contrived all of it

yeah it's like you you change everything you make villains you make people who aren't you know opposite of villains you take people out early because it makes for better TV like none of this is real so reality reality TV has a lying name to it except for he he says those early

days like the first season of real world, wasn't like that. Those were just their personalities doing their thing. It wasn't a competition, but that makes a difference maybe. But he says that since then, you just can't trust any of this stuff. The closest you get are like amazing race, to some degree, survivor. But even then, they really bake stuff up to be, you know, villains and who's against who and all that. So, yeah, I don't trust any of it.

But I think I might find this entertaining. I, yeah, because there's, I enjoyed it. We watched it to the end, and I was happy with the end. There are some, it was funny watching Mateo get so invested in liking and not liking certain people. And so I used it as an opportunity to talk to him about the psychology of people and how certain people can think and act differently in different situations. and, like, to him, things are pretty black and white right now. And people say what they mean and do what they say.

And watching shows like this kind of shows you, nope, not everybody thinks that way. And so it just gave us an interesting vehicle to have conversations about friends and people that you think might be friends and all of that. stuff that's so hard um as you're growing up to kind of figure out so yeah it's it wasn't a bad show i i actually did enjoy it oh there's my dogs sorry oh which one who what's the story of them are barking at something okay well that's what they do that's their job that's their job so the squid game is on netflix um squid game squid game colon the challenge currently on netflix uh colon. Yeah, there's a colon in there. Always get your colon checked. All right. All right, here is mine for the week. And it is one of the weirdest things I've ever seen in my life. It was when I went into it thinking there was a feeling of either I'm going to hate it or like it. And I came out liking it. Partly, I think I'm a little biased because I like his earlier work. But this is definitely one of the weirdest freaking things I've ever seen in my entire life. And this is what I recommend. I'll tell you after this one that I think you all probably should avoid.

I'll get to that in a second, but here's my clip. One day you will meet a woman. The story of your meeting will change according to who tells it, that you were lost and she helped you find your way, or that she was off course and you guided her home. She will see your fears and your pain and your dreams. dreams and your potential and you will see hers in finding your other half the gifts of your life will multiply sometimes she will look like a man to you all right there's a fun one to end on there um this is

Beau is Afraid from Ari Aster, both wrote and directed by him, if you don't know who that is. He's the dude what made his debut Hollywood film, or debut Hollywood film, was hereditary. And he followed that up with

midsummer. Midsummer, also very depressing, or not depressing, very shocking and weird. Hereditary, much more horror movie, but also very weird. And this is so freaking weird. and I really liked it. A lot of people don't like it.

I get it. Reviewers were not super kind to it. I talked to some personal friends who are like, I just can't, it's too weird for me. I totally get where these people are coming from. But I really am a fan of like things like the lobster and killing of the sacred deer by that your ghost Lathamos or whatever's name is.

I really like his stuff. The favorite member? oh yeah the favorite's very good that's him yeah that's also him and he's got a new one out the one brian just saw uh crap forgot the name the one with emma emma emma in it forgot her last name anyway whatever that one's called oh yeah yeah yeah uh emma stone emma stone it's called and she's like her eyes are like giant yeah she has big eyes uh poor things that's the new one anyway i can't wait to see that that guy's never let me down with his weirdness ari aster very similar vibes for me but also

often darker, a little more shocking, whatever. This story, I don't even know how to describe it. I mean, IMDB says this, and it's the most, it's the most basic description I've ever heard. But maybe it works because what you're about to see is so insane. Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic Kafka-esque odyssey back home. That is one way of saying it, I suppose. But this is a long movie. It's almost three hours long.

Three. Yeah, it's big. I recommend doing it in chunks. That's what I did. I did it in three. Or just read the Wikipedia like I've done with all the other movies. Or yes, or do that. And also, if you are prone to anxieties of various kinds, I think this movie is not for you.

And whoever out there is listening who may agree with that or feel that way, this may not be a good movie for you to watch. It is some of the best acting I've seen Joaquin Phoenix do. other people like Amy Ryan are in this from I don't remember from the office she's the one that got Michael to leave the office Nathan Lane is in this in a very weird role nothing comedic really about it although maybe it kind of is in some ways Parker Posey's in this and the weirdest thing she's ever done by far and that's saying a lot because she's done some weird stuff yep and you know that that kind of he's an African American actor who has like kind of shocking gray hair oh he was in the

the first Dune part one as the general that would like eyes would roll up and he'd do some calculations. Do you know what I'm talking about? If you've seen Dune enough, you'll know who I mean. Anyway, that guy is named Stephen McKinley Henderson and he is in every weird thing ever made. I love that guy. He's in this. He plays a psychiatrist. I don't know how to it's, I don't know how to describe it. People are either going to hate this thing or really enjoy it. And I really liked it because it showed me stuff I've never thought of before. It did some very uncomfortable things. It did some very I thought enlightening things. The whole middle section is super visually interesting. The first segment is crazy. I don't understand the ending at

all. And I've gone on some deep holes to try to get some meaning out of it. And there's lots of theories. But I don't know what the hell happened there. I kind of think this is the whole thing's bit of a fever dream. And it was just weird as hell. Just so weird. And I really, liked it. So I'm going to recommend it. It was on percy. I watched it on Prime, but I think it was because I have Paramount through Prime. So I think it's Paramount Plus. And it's weird as hell. I don't know how else to put it. It's just really, really freaking weird. And you'll know if you, I mentioned that other stuff like the Lobster. If you watch the Lobster and went, oh, okay, I'm in, you'll be totally in. This is that kind of vein, that kind of movie, which doesn't need to

so weird. It doesn't even need to make sense. It's just sort of, here's what we're presenting to you. Take it all in. This is the world you're in. This is the world you're in. And it's freaking weird. And I don't know why I appreciate that stuff, but I do. Now, what I'm going to recommend against, I started watching yesterday, and I haven't finished it. I'm not sure I can. But I started watching salt burn, which is just out. A lot of talk about it right now. People saying it's one of the most shocking films of the year. And when it started, I went, well, I don't see it yet. Where's the shock? And nothing here is really freaking me out yet. And then they got to the parts that people talk about. And I cannot believe this movie did what it did. It is also very weird, but not in the

same way exactly. But it's so, oh, there's some horrifying stuff in there. I'll just say this. I'll just be Wikipedia in all these movies. To those who, to those who have seen it, I'll just say the vampire scene and the tub. I don't know if I can go on after those two things. And you know what I'm talking about if you've seen it. It's freaking weird. I don't think I recommend it. It's pretty jacked in more ways than one.

All right. There's our recommendals for today. Pretty nice short one today. Hey, what about Bobby? Bobby didn't have one unless you got something on the side, Bobby you want to throw out there? You just want to mention? I just finished the last season of the, crown that was good oh yeah i got to catch up on that did you feel good about how it ended and you

know nice long run uh yeah i mean it's a good show it's a it's a great show yeah i liked it that's a ringing endorsement bobby really ringing yeah i saw the first to the royal i don't really like neither am i um i i like that show for the for the historic it's a more of a historical take i feel like i don't know how accurate it is i don't even care how accurate it is it was interesting. It held my attention. The acting's very good. The acting's amazing. Yeah. It's like Game of Thrones without the fantasy or the constant sex scenes.

So do either of you guys like Stephen King? Scott, I know you like Stephen King. I'm a massive fan. Bobby, do you like Stephen King? I've seen some Stephen King movies and I've always enjoyed the movies. I've never read the books. My wife is a huge Stephen King fan. So I just finished because I do audiobooks now. I've found that I have trouble with reading books now. So I've converted myself to audiobooks and I just finished fairy tale and it was wonderful. And it kind of, I thought of the book after you said the crown because it talks about like royalty and like what kings and queens,

what if they actually meant something. And so Stephen King kind of takes that and runs with it in this story. And it's, if you have the ability to listen to the book versus read it, it's just wonderfully narrate it. And Stephen King even does a part in it. Oh, he has a multiple role kind of thing, different people talking. Yeah. Well, it's the main, one main guy reads the whole story and does different voices for the different characters. And then Stephen King comes in on a specific part and you know it's a different actor just by you can tell by the voice um but it's 24 hours long but it i i went through it so fast because it was so good wow 24 hour book that's crazy i guess you could do that one sitting as long as you eat and pee and stuff be fine well i did

i just i just listen to it in the car oh man so i highly recommend that if you're if you're into like royalty and like the concept of of that in in a fairy tale setting with supernatural stuff Stephen King's latest book I think it came out last year fairy tale okay I'll definitely check it out I love me some some I haven't read a recent book in a while for of his so that's probably but you're a big dark tower fan oh yeah I've read that thing what four times I read the stands six times I've never reread a book and I just reread the Dark Tower Gunslinger

first book I just finished it I love that I was 16 when I read that and so I was like I remember it as well as I think I remember it

totally worth reading again and it's yeah people a lot of people think the first book's the weakest but I actually love the way that book sets the world

I love it yeah he sets the stage and that whole thing yeah plus he's in the desert in kind of a wasteland and I'm prone to those things I like that shit well there you have it

Nicole I hope your 24 is awesome and I can't wait to do this again next week. Yeah, and tell the family hi and make them all play that video game that your son likes. How about that? Bye. See you later. Bye.

All right. Brian will probably retroactively shove all that into the, I don't have access to it so he'll put it in the quicktms.l.i at some point so you guys be able to follow it there. Okay. Okay. I think we're about there.

Oh, I'm going to do a thing. Where is it? Oh, you know what? I have to... No, I'm saving it. I got to save it because Brian needs to hear it, so we'll do it. I'll save that one for Brian. But I will tell you this, at the end of today's show.

I picked a cool cover this week, okay? I did. Me. Me! And let me tell you what it is. You get the credit. I've talked to Brian a bit about this during the week. He showcased it on his countdown this year for Coverville, and I just wanted everybody to hear the whole thing.

you haven't heard it. So tonight or today, we're ending the show with that warpigs cover from T-Pain. And you're like, T-Pain, come on, the freaking rapper guy who uses the, what's the word, I always forget the name of the thing. What's it called where you make your voice? Autotune. The autotune guy. Isn't that him? Yeah, that's him. But he turns out has an insane voice that I did not give him credit for before. And this cover of Warpigs is so good that you're all going to hear it today. All right. Them's the rules. That's the way it's going to go. What are you going to do? Sue me. All right. Anyway, that's coming up here after the show. Big thanks to everybody supports us on Patreon. Uh, patreon.com slash TMS is how you do it. You'll never get

commercials. You'll get pre-show content and post-show content every day, couch parties, art in the mail, and so much more. One only needs to go read about it to learn. That's at patreon.com slash TMS. And big thanks to all our brand new folks we've had already in January. We really appreciate you guys. Bobby, tell people about the show you do and why people should listen to it. Well, I do a show called All Around Science. It's a weekly science podcast, me and my co-host Mora. We just talk about science. What's going on in science news? The things that we're interested, things we've read about that were interesting in science and just we like to geek out about science. And it's, the reason I think people would like this show is that

It's not like other science podcasts in that we're scientists or science journalists or anything like that who are digging deep and, and, you know, all this kind of stuff. We're just regular, like, we're just science lovers who just are talking about science. So we try to make it as approachable as possible because we're not experts and we have some people on to talk about things every once in a while. But, you know, for the most part, it's her and I just nerding out about what we enjoy about science and we try to teach people something every episode. So there you go. All around science is what it is. Oh, we had an episode released on Monday, or no, no, no, it wasn't Monday. We just recorded a live episode last night.

That's what it was. And I learned all about these cute little birds that teach people. They're called honey guides, and they teach people, or not teach people, but they lead people to honey, beehives. Really? They commute, the African tribes, local tribes will communicate with them, and they have special calls that they call out to the birds. The birds have special calls that they use only to guide humans to beehives. It's really interesting. So birds are weird, right? I think they're pretty weird. Birds are pretty amazing. Yeah. Every once in a while, you know, you'll see a dumb one like

a pigeon will bunk its head and fall into a ditch or, you know, something dumb. Right. That's not a specific example that I actually saw, but I'm just trying to think pigeons are sort of stupid. But then you see these birds sometimes where like that they're communicating with people and leading them to bees of all things but like crows how they have like more vocal range than any animal alive outside of humans

crows and ravens are amazing they're they both belong to the corvid group I don't know if it's group or family or whatever but they're both corvids and corvids are just like so intelligent yeah it's crazy to me we don't give birds enough freaking

I don't know credit or maybe we do. Maybe we give them too much credit. Maybe we need to thin the herd if you know what I'm saying. Maybe not. Maybe not. Too much competition. Too much competition. We're the smartest. That's right. We are on the top of this damn food chain, not your corvids. All right. We're going to go now. There's that song I'm telling you about that we're going to play here at the end.

And once again, it is War Pigs by T-Pain. It's his cover of War Pigs, the amazing classic that is War Pigs. And we'll be back tomorrow. How, Brian will be feeling, I don't know. we'll have to wait and see. Hopefully he's getting tons of rest today and getting over whatever the hell this thing is. Bobby, big thanks again for being here with me. Thank you everybody for listening and watching. Those live here right now. Stick around. We'll have a little post show, pick some titles, all that fun stuff. So that's all coming up next. Thanks everybody for listening and we'll see you tomorrow.

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First time I'm calling in, but I got a random email that said, said, congratulations, you've won. And I'm usually about three or four days behind TMS, and I finally listened to the episode, and I was cracking up. That was a great morning half-asses there. But Brian actually touches this. I was curious if you guys could tell me your favorite Doug from TV show or a movie.

It's a weird, it's a blessing and a curse that I have this name. But it's a common but very oddly named name that you come across to me. movies that no Doug is ever a normal person in movies. So I'm curious who your favorite Doug is. You guys do pretty good. Pretty good. Love the show though, guys. Take care. Hey, Scott and Brian. This is Nikki from West Virginia. I'm a teacher, so I'm rarely able to listen live. This is all about the pronunciation stuff. It's just a cute story from our niece. She's about six years old, and she was in the car with my husband and her mom, and they were going across the river and she looked down in the in the river and said look there's a booby and my husband

and our niece was like what in the world is she talking about and they ask her you know what she was talking about and she points down into the river at the buoy and she goes it's a booby so from now on we have to call booies boobies have a great day guys thanks for the So, bye. If your alignment in charge of keeping the lights on, Granger understands that you go to great lengths and sometimes heights to ensure the power is always flowing, which is why you can count on Granger for professional grade products and next day delivery, so you have everything you need to get the job done. Call 1-800 Granger, clickgranger.com, or just stop by. Ranger for the ones who get it done.