The Morning Stream - TMS 2580: PonBon

Episode Date: January 10, 2024

In Space, Hootie Can't Hear Scott. Jessica Cheese Stain. Snow-crab is for Losers. Ruby Rod Slippin into your Capsole. $2.29 Steak Buffet. Underworld: Red On-Air Light. Wasn't she married to a One Direction? Hot Brads in your area. Hootie, No Blowfish. mmmmm Bottom Feeder Fish. This is a Ponderosa county, sir. The Gardanese of the Galaxah. Gardenese Passport. Viva Las CES with Tom. Trading off He-Man and Barbies with Randy and Nicole 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 John Oliphant. I wonder if they're related. Brian Gately and Nightwing coming up on TMS. In space, Hootie can't hear Scott. Jessica Cheesstain. Snow crab is for losers. Ruby Rod slipping into your capsule.

$2.29 steak buffet. How do they do it? Underworld, red on air light. Wasn't she married to a one direction? Hot brads in your area. Hootie, no blowfish. Mm, bottom feeder fish. This is our.

Ponderosa County, sir. The gardenese of the galaxy. Gardenese passport. Viva la CES with Tom. Trading off He-Man and Barbies with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of the Morning Stream. My salary seems to be getting smaller and my family's appetite seems to be getting bigger. But luckily, Ponderosa is doing something about it.

Because now Ponderosa has two delicious complete dinners for just 229. This tasty chopped beef dinner, or tender fish filet dinner with unlimited fresh salad, baked potato, rolling butter, only 229 each. How do they do it? Keep making your stupid videos. They'll tell you what to say. The morning stream. I must break you.

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, January 10th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hello, I'm still Brian Abbott, and I'm still alive, and I'm healthier than ever 85%. 85%. Look at you. Before we get too far away from it, that opening thing you just played, the Ponderosa. $2.29? I know it's marketing the shit, but how do they do it? Yeah. How did they do it? What era, what 1920s BS of a steak dinner with all? Oh, big time.

And that would have been like, I was looking that up because I was curious. It was like 84 or something. And even then, even then I'm like, wait a minute, you have a complete meal with unlimited salad and bread rolls. Yeah, yeah. For $2.29? This is, this sounds insane. I want to make sure. We're not talking $229.

Like, just to make sure. I'm like, where else could we put the decimal to make this make more sense? Right. So even back then, and I know inflation's a thing, we all get it. Don't, you know, we're not out of touch. Brian and I understand this. But I really truly would worry about a meal being that cheap even back then. I would have been like, oh, I would question the hell out of that meat.

I would, I want to see pictures of the cow it came from because. Yeah. That sounds like rat to me. That sounds like 229 as a rat. meat price, not a cow meat price. Yeah, I don't love, I don't love the sound of any of it, and he was stoked. That guy was so excited.

Well, exactly. I mean, it was, if I got to be the announcer, they got to tell people they could have a steak dinner for 229, my God, I'd say, please, where do I sign? I'll do it for free. My guess is, so Ponderos is a, I mean, they were, or maybe they still are a, they're a buffet. Like a bonanza kind of thing.

Yeah, buffet. Like, you know, yeah, but I think you still got, wasn't it, you got your side. and your salad is a buffet, but they still brought your steak to the table, or was it all buffet? Like even the steak was buffet. I don't know, because maybe you,

you kind of like a buffet at a regular hotel, you can either do the buffet or just order a la carte kind of combo or something, and maybe this was, maybe this was that. But either way, I don't think I've ever been to a Ponderosa. The closest I ever got was like a sizzler, I guess. But even Sizzler admits they used to do deals that screwed them. Like, didn't we have a story recently?

It was the all-you-can-eat shrimp thing cost them. Oh, no, no. It was a red lobster. Red lobster, right. A lot of a shrimp fiasco. Yeah, and they got hosed on that deal. They did. They really, they lost their money.

I'm going to be doing that to a Cajun place Friday, or Saturday night called Pier 8 locally that says, that's having an all you can eat. It's a shrimp boil place or a seafood boil place where they boil it in the bag. And so for 59 bucks, they say, well, it's all you can eat. But we do limit you. I'm like, all right, let's see what the limits are. no more than four clusters of dungeness crab like no more than four like I could have four is a cluster a whole is that a crab with all its legs is that that is

no a cluster is one side of the crabs like so a crab is made of two clusters okay that's cool so you can have basically two crabs full crabs I can have two full crabs yes that doesn't feel like all you can eat scallops and shrimp and clams and mussels and stuff like that I mean that is That's an insane deal. Yeah, that's an incredible deal.

And all the rest of those are unlimited? Or do you have... Yeah, all the rest of those are unlimited. I think they might limit snow crab. You know what? My limit of snow crab is, if you've got dunginous, my limit of snow crab is zero. Yeah.

Snow crab is... Yeah, it's... Snow crabs for losers. That's what we're saying. It's for losers. Exactly. It's for losers. Sorry, sorry anyone who loves their snow crab, but...

Nobody says, my favorite. kind of crab is snow crab. Yeah. I mean, you know, even, uh, those are the same people that really like a piece of cod, you know, like a nice piece of carp or a carp. I like a fresh caught carp. Oh, is there, could you give me some bottom feeder fish? Yeah, that'd be great.

That'd be wonderful. Thank you so much. Well, good. That's actually, we have placed, you know, we went, how I feel on, uh, Sunday morning. We went with KT Data to a place like that. And, uh, they didn't do it. We didn't do an all you can eat, but it was like a big full package. for. But it was a dim some place, right? Not a

No, this is a separate place. Oh, it was a secret boil place? Yeah. It's very close to each other though, funny enough. But it's out kind of where he lives. But they had, or was it him that I went with? Maybe I'm thinking of somebody else. But anyway, it was like the corn and the potatoes and the crabs and the, they may have had crawfish and they may. What else? I don't remember. And it was really good. And it was about 50 bucks. So I could go, if I could go back in time to Ponderosa and say, what are you doing? Yes. How are you doing? Yes. How are you doing? this. By the way, did you realize I did not know this until right now. Today I learned. Ponderosa and Bonanza Steakhouses were the same company. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. And you can still find them at pawn-bond.com. Does that mean? Pondon. So wait a minute. So that, okay, well, that makes sense, right? They're the same damn thing. They don't do it. They pretty much are the same damn thing. It's just really funny that, you know, that they're like, well, should we do the, should we do ponderosa.com or bonanza.com?

I know, let's pick something that no one's ever going to be able to guess, which is pawnbon.com. Ponbon. Ponbon. Still plenty of locations, the more we know. East of the Mississippi. That's crazy. That's like Hardee's and Carl's Jr., right?

Carl's Jr., yeah, exactly. Same damn place. Our only Carl's Jr. within driving distance shut down. I don't know what happened there. Maybe someone put sand in their salad like the one I have. I don't know. I think there's still one by us, but it's in a gas station. It's like in a come and go.

Oh, one of them. Okay. Yeah, exactly. We have a few of those. It's usually like for some reason, dairy queens get stuck in gas stations here. Oh, really? That's a weird one to get stuck in the gas station. I agree.

When we go to Vegas, we always stop in Beaver, and Beaver's got one. There's a number of them around here. I don't know why. I don't know what deal they made with the devil there, but get your DQ on when you're getting gas. Or have a DQ give you gas. I don't know, whichever way you want to. How about a tank in a blizzard, please. My brother, Matt, used to work at a Dairy Queen when I was in high school.

And I loved it because he would come home with all this leftover stuff. And none of it was good. It was all cold. It was like three or four cheeseburgers. It were just the ones left when the place closed for the night. I loved it, though, dude. It's like free fast food in the house It was amazing

That was so good You can You can always reheat those I don't know if you had a Quick access to a microwave At that point in your life We did but you was all bready And you'd have like the ketchup

Would like cook into the bread It's true yeah you want to do bread in the microwave Yeah you got to do a toaster oven Yeah so I'd often eat him cold But he would also bring home like blizzards Those were good It was great I liked when he worked there

I wish he still did and then still brought me things, but he doesn't. He still brings me things. He works at UPS and occasionally would bring me a box. He literally brings you things. Yeah, once in a while I get a brown box. Just brings you order. What can my brother Brown do for me?

Hey, I thought this would be an interesting discussion. And I saw it. So this was inspired by a very short video that said, Hey, did you know that Highlander 2, the quickening is set in this year? This is the year of Highlander 2, 2024. Let's go. Highlander 2. And I was like, oh, that's interesting.

And then I thought, well, what other movies are set in the year, 2024? And I found quite a list. One of these I wrote twice for some reason. And then in that case, you can ignore the one I added just underneath it. Oh, yeah. No, very good. So here's what we've got. See how quickly you'd read through these and maybe read that one again.

Highlander 2, the quickening happened. That's the thing. Weathering with you? I don't know what that is. I don't know either. It's some sort of anime thing. I looked it up because I wasn't sure. A little animated anime deal.

Fair enough. We also got Beyond the Time Barrier. Again, that's an old one. It's like 60s or something. Probably a very shitty time travel movie. Probably very bad. Doesn't adhere to any of your time travel rules if I had to guess. Nope.

I don't even have to look at the premise and I already know that there's no way it is true. But now we get into some interesting weeds because you're going to see a theme here. Yeah. Specific to your likes and needs. And I have, so when this is over with, I have a big question for you about why. Sure. Sure.

You may or may not be able to answer this. I don't know. But I can definitely answer it because I know the question you're going to ask. Okay, good. Venom, let there be carnage set in the year 2024, although it came out in 2022. One. 2021? Let there be carnage 22, I think.

I think. Two. I think that's right. A couple years now. Yeah. Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Another Marvel piece of business. Yep.

Direct MCU business there. I guess that Venom stuff is technically in the MCU, right? it's in the MCU now yep okay uh Godzilla versus Kong uh for some reason was set during 24 I don't know why didn't need to be could be set anytime that's really weird to me uh dr strange in the multiverse of madness and the forehead one eye that came out or uh what happened during that year uh which is also funny because that movie featured a ton of years all spread out doing different shit different timelines did not feature different multiverses yeah but aren't they also different or they all said at the same time

Is that how that works? Also at the same time. You're just traveling between multiverses. Okay. I thought some of that was the best. I mean, what is time when you're traveling between multiverses, right? That's true. All we know is a guy with a go-tee was able to go through the mall and do whatever you need.

That's right. And then Charlie's Theron showed up and yelled at him. Yeah, for a hot second. But you did. Yeah. She's Furiosa officially in the MCU. Eternals, another, another MCU movie. Black Widow.

This is what I'd argue with. Like, if we're going to get, if we're going to be specific, this one takes place in, it takes place after Civil War. So, 2015, 2016. Well, then it jumps forward, though, because it goes. You've got your book ended by, by, post end game. Your book ended by after Black Widow's death. Right. But the majority of the film takes place when Black Widow is still alive.

That's true. That's true. one i would also take issue with uh here's here's two that i don't far from home and no way home the two spidermans those are both set in the year 2024 again if any of these were individual i'd just say well that seems like no reason but we'll get to that in a minute uh underworld awakening and underworld blood wars also probably put underworld red on air like because i almost said this movie twice um i was really hoping you'd barrel through this list and uh at least start underworld red on so he like tried to disguise it as maybe oh maybe it's like an armageddon

kind of weird spelling i like how he did it our one word r e d d o n red on red on red on air light or light anyway those two underworld movies the rest of them i don't think have dates but anyway so why all the mc u stuff crammed into 2024 in films that aired in different years here is the here is the the two second explanation all right because uh end game took place five years after Infinity Wars, but was released one year later. Oh. There you go. So they had to, they had to jump forward five years, right? So all of the end games, everything post-end game is technically in the future.

And I'm guessing that with this nice little year that Marvel is taking off. They can trim that down by 12 months. We'll kind of be able to, yeah, we might be able to get things in sync with each other. Okay, but it's not some other big story arc reason other than the big story arc of Other than the fact that they said, you know, well, we need five years for the blip. And it's 2019. So I guess everything now takes place in 2024. And so that's why all those things, like basically it was like everything post endgame had to be just bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam right after one right after another.

That's funny. So in a way, though, they also achieved something else, which is the blip feels a little bit like the pandemic kind of. kind of yeah yeah which obviously you know unintentional because the blip came the blip happened before the pandemic but but not much before though right like 2019 no like yeah a year before the pandemic but but it's just funny how they write this story like heck did you imagine if everything just kind of shut down for five years that's crazy all right well enjoy our movie everybody yeah that's funny timing on their part well anyway there you go go watch some of those movies i don't remember highlander two the quickening much other than i remember it being

very bad. Travis made up. Yeah, well, I mean, it's the one where Sean Connery somehow comes back. That's so dumb. After dying. Being, you know, one of the things

that I did during my recent illness, which I'm still climbing out of, is binge watch the thing I'm going to be recommendaling today. But yesterday, because I'd finished my binge watch, I decided, you know what, let's

sit on the couch. I don't mind if I fall asleep, we'll watch back to back X-Men Apocalypse and X-Men Dark Phoenix. Oh my gosh. Because those two movies kind of go one right after the other. Right. I mean, obviously, chronologically, they go one right after another.

Right. But it's the first class X-Men. It's you know, Fastbenders Magneto. But it's also Sansa Stark's Gene Gray phoenixing out at the end of Armageddon or

Apocalypse arm again at the end of Apocalypse and then Dark Phoenixing things to Jessica Cheese Dane in Dark Phoenix Right And um Cheese Stain. Oh my God Talk about

If nothing else I'm just going to say this Dark Phoenix is probably worse than I remember it I remember it being really bad but I but it it was worse than I remember it Um Apocalypse I'd forgotten about

how much damn fan service they have in that thing oh yeah it's loaded yeah because it's completely loaded like you get you get a dude who might be the blob kind of in the background of one scene that uh the angel is fighting uh you've got um jubilee hanging out in the background you've got uh i mean so so many like little little nods and little uh nudges to things but did did they um that was that still what's his name directing brine singer brine singer before he left okay or we got in trouble or whatever they all happen there. Yeah. I really hope we get news soon on some

something more. I mean, I guess we have Deadpool and the kind of the closing out of all things, Hugh Jackman. Right. But I really want to see what their X-Men plans are. I'd forgotten that in Apocalypse, you also get freaking Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. I'd completely forgot they shoehorned

Weapon X in there. Oh, I forgot about that entirely. yeah what part when was it was it was it that wasn't that post-credits thing that was for something else no no it was during the thing they're trying to escape from strikers base and you get striker you get they're trying to escape from strikers base and uh um they decide the best thing to do to stop all the uh strikers men from attacking them is uh open a metal a really strong metal box that's got some sort of angry creature in it and uh Wow. I forgot all about that.

Yeah. That's a good, you know what? I'm looking at that cast. What a squandered. What a squandered group, you know? It really was. I mean, Ty Sheridan, you know, pretty decent Scott Summers. I still can't remember names. Sansa Stark is Jean-Gray. Sophie Turner, I think you. Sophie Turner, yeah, thank you. Oscar. She was married to a one-direction or something.

No, it's one of the Jonas brothers. Oh, the Jonas Brothers. That's what it was. They ended up having a kid, and now they broke up. So I don't know what's going on there. They're Splitsky, yeah. Yeah. Jennifer Lawrence is always good. Nicholas Helt's always good.

Tyler McPhee. What's his name? Cody Smith McPhee, that kid? Cody Smith McPhee, yeah. He's a weird looking dude. He is, but he's a perfect night crawler. Yeah, he's a good night crawler. I mean, that's what I'm saying?

They had all the ingredients. What the hell's going on over there? Yeah, and Fastbender. You almost can't go wrong with Fastbender. Like, yeah, prior to those two movies or any of the, I don't know, first class was good. days of future passed pretty good it's okay and at that point i would have said yeah you know michael fastbender elevates everything he's in

and it's true he does elevate all the the uh the these last two movies are are slightly better because of fastbender but i certainly can't say i like everything that michael fastbender's in because now i don't now you don't there's something you don't like oh you should see when we need to do it for film sack but the uh assassins creed movie with him terrible oh yeah is it really bad oh it's so bad actually you know i say i think i might have seen it oh it's so bad that's such a such a potential that had so much potential it's such garbage man that one made me sad um all right and jennifer lawrence of course anyway so there you go so uh x-men uh uh apocalypse and dark phoenix yeah watch it if you're

sick and you don't mind falling asleep and you really kind of want to appreciate whatever you watch right after. Yeah. Maybe that's why I liked Echo so much. It was right after those two things. Oh, yeah. Artificially boosted your echo enjoyment. Yeah, I think so, exactly. Yeah, that's an interesting idea. If you have something you're not sure about or is new, and he really just want to ensure you have a good time, go watch one of these bad X-Men movies. Watch one of those, too. And, you know, if we're saying, if we're ranking the X-Men movies, and we can't count Logan, which I think is by far the best X-Men universe film, agreed and who and who please please show me the person that would disagree with that um i'd say first class

i liked better than any of the the original three yeah too i like first class a lot it was pretty good but uh first class i think they they did a great job i'd go logan first class second movie that'd be my top oh okay before days of future past yeah yeah wait yeah yes days of future pass i probably give fourth even the rogue cut of days of future past i don't think i've seen it have i seen it have i seen it? I don't think I have. I don't know if you've seen it. What changed? What, what they do?

They sent Rogue back instead of Kitty Pride, I think, was the deal. Oh, right. This one wasn't on, I didn't find it on Disney Plus, so I would have watched that. They've only got a couple of the X-Men movies on Disney Plus, and that's weird that they don't have that one, but. Weird. That's weird. Well, I look forward to whatever they do next, you know? Yeah, yeah, let's hope it's better.

We got a response about this cocaine in the jar thing the kid found at school. Oh, yeah, yeah. In the jar, oh. That's right. Greg from Texas Road in says, when I was eight, because we were talking about an eight-year-old

that found this, when I was eight and I come across a jar of anything on the playground, my first inclination would be to throw the rocks at it or something to bust it open in the most exciting way possible. See, now that I can relate to. I don't, my first instinct is not to taste it.

My instinct is to break it or poke it. What's the coolest way I can break this? Yeah. Yeah. There is, you get no argument for me. I think I would do exactly the same thing. Not taste it though, man. No, taste it would be the absolute last thing.

I don't want to smirch an entire family, but you guys raised that kid weird with the eight-year-old that tasted it. Don't be doing that. My gosh, eating cocaine at school. Are you kidding me? All right. But that's it. he did ACE's, he went and took the SATs and he did great. Oh, he just rocked it, did he got a 30?

He's rocked it, yeah, that's fantastic. Is 30 the high-lining espresso? Is 30 the top score? I can't remember what it was, SATs. Do you remember? Yeah, I have no idea. I think it was 30. I never took the SATs.

Oh, I went to our college, dude. They let you in without all that. That's true. I had, so I took it and did really well on it, but my grade sucked. So I had like, I had killer test scores. across the board, including SAT. But I had loads of Ds and Fs and shit because I didn't do my homework. That was just my life in school.

Smart, but not. It wasn't indicated by any of my grades. My grade point average, terrible. I think the graduating year I may have graduated with like a 2.0 or something. Because my grades suck because I didn't do my homework because homework is stupid. It's boring BS. It's not, it's just, it's, it's. No point to it.

It doesn't help your education. The SAT is like $1,600 for the top score, but the ACT has like some sort of double-digit score. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking of, I guess. Dr. Calhoun. Right? Whatever the one was, I got like a 28 on whatever that was. Oh, I think I did take. LaSage, now you say that, I think I did take the ACT.

I could not tell you what I got in the ACT, because I did have to take that one for, for, to take the ACT. Well, let's go to the place where they don't ever take test for anything. I am, of course, kidding. Absolutely kidding. We love everybody down there. You guys are awesome. Joining us now is Mr. Brian Dunaway for a little bit of the tadpooley feud. How are you, sir?

Oh, I'm doing just fine. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Just a little cherry to put on top of that homework thing. I agree. I think homework is stupid. It's an excuse not to have enough tax dollars to cover the amount of education we need to give her kids. And as teaching our kids bad habits, such as taking your work home with you, which you should not do. Teachers also have to work from home.

Grating these papers is a terrible idea. Put some money into our education and stop with this bullshit homework. I'm done soapbox away. I didn't expect this, this level of a level of smart answer from you. I don't know why. Here's a genuine question. Like, do Japanese students have homework? do they do all their work in class?

That's a great question. I would like to see some of the top countries for, you know, education. Now, I do know that the Japanese in the past, one of the things that they have above us is they recognize early specialization for education for kids. So they tailor those kids and push them into more career paths instead of this general education that we have that has turned into this. political positioning to brainwash your kids with whatever your side believes. Stop doing that. Let's get some specialized skills out there like some of these countries that are excelling. I'm not passionate about education.

No, not at all. Brian Dunnoy for a PTA president is what I'm voting for you. That's great. No, that's a really good point. So did anyone Google it? Does Japan have home? work. It's a good way to delay things while I

waiting for people to pipe in for someone to pay you. Yeah. We're looking for, hopefully looking for a new player. Somebody who hasn't played Tad Polly Feud at all before, or somebody brand,

like somebody relatively new. Relatively new. It's been a long time. If kids want to do something after school, it should be extracurricular activities like banned or that kind of thing. It shouldn't be banned and then go home and do another two hours worth of homework.

That's BS. If you want to have kids doing something after school, great focus on it yeah focus on it so here's here's what this says oh my god zoe you know us what are you shy about you you know we uh so we should never be shy that's stupid yeah not certainly not with us my gosh all right first person we hug at tms vegas when we see you here's what it says uh do japanese students get a lot of homework this is a question that has been asked for decades and the answer is not always straightforward in this article we'll explore the issue of homework in japan from both historical and modern perspectives then they go on to say uh what is homework

Homework is defined as blah, blah, blah, blah, SEO strategy. They go all the way back to 1603, the Edo period, where they were expected to complete their studies at home. They were hardcore about it these days less so. So it looks like they do some homework. Okay. Here's the conclusion.

It is clear that Japanese students do indeed receive a bit more homework than their counterparts around the world, but this varies greatly depending on individual circumstances such as grade level and school type. The mountain type of assigned work also depends heavily upon teacher expectation and regional differences between prefectures and cities within the country itself. But overall trends seems to be increasing due to included new technologies such as computers and tablets. So if anything, you know, it's a great idea teaching your entire people, no matter where you're at in the world, that after you work all day, you should continue to work when you go home. This is a terrible thing to do for our whole world.

It's just another way to, for, for, here goes, here goes conspiracy, for them to control us. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So what would you say? What would you say if they, let's say they extended school one extra hour on average. Yeah. And you did your work, like whatever quote unquote homework you did, you did there at school.

I'd be done for that. That's fine. Yeah, I do that. Yes. I think that's the way to do it. You need to separate the place your work. We learn this as we get to be adults. When we start trying to, we finally almost destroy ourselves in our 20s and 30s, we discover, oh, we need to have personal time away from work.

Most of us learned that. Yeah, yeah. And so, but we have to learn it on our own. We have to wait until we are almost dead. I can also, but I also see there is some value. And trust me, I hated homework and I've failed a lot of classes because I didn't do it. So this is coming from me, but I think there is some value in a kid who is now in a home situation. He knows he has a paper due tomorrow.

and he goes in his room he shuts out all the distractions and he pulls out pen and pad and he gets the work done there is something to that yeah but those are yeah there's absolutely something to that to be

oh oh the education the American education board just shut him down oh shit that's fine oh you're back now you're back hello sorry that's fine that's good that's good does that what you wanted you wanted you wanted you wanted to be proven right by being cut off that's perfect that's how you're You know you're right.

That's right. Oh, I must be on to something. That's right. All right, we're going to bring in one of our listeners. This is the person with the least, or the most time since we last spoke to them. Yes. And we'll bring him in right now. Hello, Hootie 42.

What do you do? How's Hootie? What's up, hooty? I'm here. I'm trying to get my audio great. You sound good right now. You sound great. Yeah, you sound great.

Did you not go in today because of the snow or what's your deal? Did you work? What are you doing? Oh, we lost him. he's fixing his phone. Oh, there he is. There we go. What did you do to this school board?

Did you go to work? I saw you saying something in Discord. Nope. I missed half the conversation, so I'm just going to stay out of that one. Oh, gotcha. Fair enough. Fair enough. Well, I hope you're enjoying our local shitty snow.

Let's get into it with this game. Brian, but explain it even though we all know it. Sure. It's time for Scott to log into the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tad bull on dirty topics. And Scott and Brian and after break the answers that they give. campus. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Houdi 42.

Your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you'll get a prize package. That includes such art, genius artist simulator. Happy fun time. Go. Number one. I added a few words to the end of that, but such art,

genius art simulator. And hot brass. Yeah, by the way, such art genius art simulator currently has overwhelmingly positive reviews. It is a fantastic video game. I own this. Really? I highly recommend it. Yeah. It's real good.

What is hot brads? What is that? Hot brass. Oh, oh, hot brass. Well, I don't know. We still don't know the answer to that question, but it is hot brass. All right. That's great.

Besides Pitt, we'll name another Hot Brad. Yeah, no pressure here, but that game's rad. Hooty. You'll like it. No pressure. Yeah. No pressure on winning, though. No pressure to play it.

All right. Let's get to it here. Put your hands on your buzzards and get ready to answer this. We asked 451 Tadpoolers. If you could spend a year living on a sci-fi spaceship, which would you choose? Brian. I would get on the Enterprise. Please don't make me to go which one.

You glued them together, didn't you? Go ahead. I did. The Enterprise. Damn it. I did group them together. The only reason I grouped them together is because if people didn't put just the Enterprise, they put Enterprise D

and I couldn't just assume that anyone who put, who just put the Enterprise was talking about one of the other versions of it. So yeah, most people said either Enterprise, Next Generation Variety or Enterprise with Holodex or Enterprise D and then a few people just said

Enterprise. Yeah. Not surprising to hear. This is what I expect people want, yeah. Yep. Turn, turn, turn, turn, you're ready to say, yeah, what was that? Yeah, I'm hearing, I'm hearing some hooty-42 background noise.

I can't hear Scott. I only hear Brian and Brian. Oh, you don't hear me. That's weird. That is weird. I don't have you muted. Do you have me muted? Right-click me.

I guess he can't hear me. He can't hear you. Right-click Scott. See if you've got it muted by chance. Yeah. I guess he's on his phone. Oh, yeah, that's true. Long press or what I don't know what you do.

Click with your, tap with your right hand. Not your left, but your right hand. Yeah. It sounds like he's going. got me muted, which... Might be. Which explains why he did, why he answered my first question so weird.

He hasn't heard me this whole time. He's still can't hear me. Okay, so, so Houdi will just address you directly when you need to do something, and it's time for you to do something because Brian has control of the board. Enterprise D was the number one answer. So you guys work together. If you could spend a year living on a sci-fi spaceship, which one would you choose?

And I know there's a typo in the... Oh, I know which one I would. pick hooty um i i would probably pick one that could you know do some pretty good parsec uh going so what do you think what do you what are you thinking i'd be down with that one's a little grungy look in uh yeah yeah a little millennium falcon is a little scary compared to you know when you watch the old uh the solo movie but uh yeah i'll be down for it yeah cool let's get all right uh you still haven't said the name of the ship do you want to say i said millennium falcon I said it, did you again?

Did you just was teasing about it being the one that could do a lot of parsecs? All right. Let's see the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy. The Millennium Falcon. Number three answer on the board. Well done. Number three. What beat that.

All right. You got any guesses now? How about now? Oh. I've got one that I'm kind of thinking of. You should hear the stuff that Scott is saying about you right now. He is taunting you like nobody's business. maybe I prefer it this way

Maybe Avenue 5 Now that's interesting That could be a high points one It's not in the greatest situation But it is kind of fancy and that It does have like everything It is a it is a deluxe A deluxe ship

All right I'm gonna yeah let's do it Avenue 5 Avenue 5 it is Show me Avenue 5 Oh. No, that's a strike. Number 22 on the list was the Avenue 5. People did say it, but it wasn't super high on the list. All right. I'm going to say the serenity from Firefly.

Oh, that's, yeah. Serenity from Firefly. Yeah. We got to relay everything to Hootie. I love it. Let's do it. I do, exactly. Show me serenity. Number two. number two now okay interesting close game four points for uh brian and hooty and two points for scott scott has control

of the board um okay seven answers left on the board it's uh you know what i love i you know what i love 45 in the a m mountain time that's right that's right what do you love don't i love those uh those uh charts that like do the different sizes of the ships oh yeah those are always fun i'll just kind of like peruzos occasionally just going, oh, look at that one. Oh, my God, that one's huge. Let's go with, oh, gosh. I had one on my head.

I know. It's hard to think, because there's a lot of small ones I can think of. There's a big one I can think of because you don't want to spend a year in a small one, do you? I guess you could. No. Yeah. Okay.

I'll say. You want to spend a year in a tie fighter. Are these, yeah, yeah. And this can be. TV or movie, right? There's no distinction. Yeah. Even it could be books if you want. Oh, books. Oh. How about real ships? Sure.

I guess it could, but that seems dangerous. Spend a year with Bezos and the giant new penis? Sure. All right. Oh, I just thought of another good one. I hope Scott doesn't think of it before I say it. Well, he'll never know. Something better than the Avenue 5.

Let's say, let's do the... Sci-Fi has the best title right now. In space, who do you can't hear Scott. Oh, that's hilarious. Screamer anything. All right. I'm going to do the, the, I don't know, I forgot the name of the damn thing.

The expanse ship that the team stole from the Martians. It's called the Expanship is good enough. I think that's. The Esposito, no, I don't know what it is, but it's called, it's the ship. Shit. Yeah, it's the expanse ship. That's what I'm saying. Sure.

I'll let you work with that. You're looking for the Rassanante. Rossinante, thank you. Yes. Really not a lot of amenities. on that thing, but they do have a kitchen with a bunch of plants in the walls. Yeah, and coffee makers.

Show me the Rassanante. Number six. Oh, look at you, Scott. Other people do want to stay on the Rassanante. I like it. Scott takes the lead, by the way. Look at that. Wow. All right. Let's do

the, what's the Flotsam Paradise thing from, you know, A big cruise ship on... Fluston Paradise. That's the one. From the fifth element. All right.

Another one that's got everything, yeah, including screaming Ruby Rod. All right, show me Fluston Paradise. Oh, boom! I love that answer, and that would have been my choice. Number 13 on the list is where that one ended up.

You know what I like most about this ship is they have these the little beds where they put you to sleep so you don't have to experience the long travel. I love that. Right. Well, that's, and that's, that was the ship that you take to get to Floston Paradise is the, uh, the, the little, oh, that's right. That was their little, uh, cruiser, transport or things. Yeah.

I, I want that. If you're lucky, if you're lucky, Ruby Rod will slip into your little capsule, too. I want all of those. I want that for every kind of travel. I don't like how you said that. I want travel to every travel I do. I want that to be a thing. I want to be able to just knock myself out.

Yeah. Oh, for sure. Oh, I'd love that. Anyway, all right. All right. Hootie, I have won this in the title of the TV show. And I wouldn't mind, I don't know, would I want to stay on the Battle of Star Galatica? It seems like a bad bet, but I kind of always love the ship.

I'm seeing people say it a few times in the chat. I also have another one in mine. Okay. Whichever, I'll give it the Hootie choice. My other thought was the TARD. Oh, that is, yeah, it's a time ship. It gets us a spaceship, too, right? Yeah, it flies through space.

I'm in space. Yeah. It's space time. Yes, is space, yeah. I'm in relative dimension in space, goes wherever that's right. That's right. Which one do you all you go with? I'm going to let Hooty pick.

Sophie's choice, if Sophie were named Hooty. Uh, oh, Tardis. All right. Okay. Went with his heart. When with his heart? Yep. All right.

Show me. It's bigger on the inside. The Tardis. Oh, wow. Number four. I didn't expect it to be that high. That's great. Yeah, I didn't even think of the Tartis because I don't think of it as, I guess, yeah.

It makes sense. I think that's what I answered when I did. Not a lot of amenities, but in something like the Tartis, you can go to where there are whatever amenities you want. You can travel to the places with the amenities. Plus, it's got that Harry Potter thing where you walk into it. it's huge as opposed to looking all small. Yeah, I like that. I used to always want to be hooty

since Battlestar Galactica doesn't seem to be tickling your fancy. The heart of gold ship, the one in hitchhikers is, I used to really would like to ride in something like that, but now I like something with a little character.

Yeah, that was my other thought was the heart of gold. So it was if not that, then the Battlestar Galactica, either maybe Battlestar Galactic because I see it's coming up in the chat. Yeah, lots of times he just end up being, you know, I got to think of a spaceship, quick.

What's one? Yeah. Answer. Heart of Gold, do it. Do it. So which one are you doing? What are you doing? Scott wants you going to Heart of Gold.

You can't hear it, but he does. It's a trap. I'm going to say. Oh, that's a good one. Galactica on that. Okay. All right. Galactica.

Let's do it. Go. Hold on, Brian, Brian given Ool. Did you, is there something? Well, whenever I said it's a trap, I started to remember another ship,

and I'm thinking maybe I want that one, but go ahead, Hootie. You're not doing the fishman ship. We don't even know the name of that thing. That'll start galactica. Yeah, we do.

We just got through playing the darn game, Scott. You play retro. We did. We did, but I don't know, man. Whatever. You know what, actually, you know what? arguing with me right now hoody i know you can't hear it you can't hear it i know you should do it

making good points all right somehow like the uh adventure club but i can't unmute him it's not letting me i don't know what happened i have no idea i blame discord going with uh the the battle star galactica is that the that the final choice final answer i think that's the safest all right show me battle star galactica number 11 just out of this Yeah. Okay. Well, that makes me want to maybe try heart of gold. So I'm going to say heart of gold. I'm going to say heart of gold. He's still on our answer. Heart of gold. Oh, look at that. It's a tie game right now, eight to eight. Ooh, doesn't happen too often. All right. Show me the heart of gold with the infinite probability drive. Yeah. Number five. Oh, dagummit. He got it. He got the heart of gold.

Yeah, he did. All right. We can hear me, Brian. Yeah, he can hear. I can't hear you anymore because I just muted you. This is kind of fun. Like, just randomly make somebody mute and just see what, you know. Mute roulette. That's right, exactly.

It wouldn't be me if there wasn't some audio issue, right? Right. All right. Four answers left on the board. All the big numbers, right? 7, 8, 9, 10. What do we got? Well, okay.

So the Rostanante makes me think that there are ships that people just think are cool. And it doesn't matter if they really want to live on one. So I'm going to say the Nostromo, Nostromo from Alien. That's a good one. Yeah, let's do that. Having mother. See, it's another one where you just sleep, really. Like going someplace?

Ah, sleep. Yeah. Waking you up when we get there. Cool. Yeah. All right. Let's do it. Show me the Nostromo.

Nostromo. Nostromo. No stromo. Oh. said damn it uh yeah no nobody uh let's see nostromo uh didn't didn't come up somebody somebody put alien the only one i could think of is is uh that that's hilarious

i'm thinking that they meant alien they meant the nostromo and not uh the big geiger uh organic looking ship with a dried out oh yeah the guy with a gunner with a thing hooked to his crotch or whatever was going on there that was weird i love that stuff Always been fascinated with organic ships, like Lex, and that kind of stuff. That one from Farscape. Wasn't that an organic ship as well? Well, I just like Lex because of the pretty blue-haired lady that lived on Lex.

Oh, duh. I mean, yeah. I mean. Hubba. I've seen a couple suggestions of the Botany Bay. I don't want to be on. Botany Bay. What's the name of that ship?

What's the name of that ship that Kylo Rinn was in in, what was it, 69? No, what was the name of the movie that we just watched, a million? Nice. 65. 65. 65. 65. That wasn't my sleep ship until he wrecked it.

No, the sequel. A bunch of other good suggestions around another British sci-fi show. Oh, yeah, yeah. What we got? The Red Dwarf. Oh, yeah, the Red Dwarf. That's a great. That's a good one, yeah.

All right. Is that what you're saying? Are you saying that? If we don't get it, we're going to lose, though, because Scott's ahead of his final strike. Any other suggestions, Brian? That's the best one, I think, of Red Dwarf. I can't think of any more good ones. So everything else is going to be a guess.

So I think anything that either you see in the chat or what you just said, Red Dwarf is a good guess. Red Dwarf and Deep Space Nine. Who wants to know who wants to be on D-Space? It's not a ship anyway. It's not a ship. It's a space station. Red dwarf. I go Reddwar.

They converted it to a ship because they had to get closer to the black hole. Yeah, they had that one weird-ass episode, but that's not. That doesn't count. It was briefly mobile. Yeah. I mean, they built it out there, right? They didn't fly it out there. So it has to be a space station, not a ship.

Exactly. Red dwarf, going with Red dwarf? Red dwarf. Red dwarf? Three red dwarfs? Three red dwarfs? Okay. Red dwarf. Show me.

the show with one of the greatest theme songs of all time. Red Dwarf. Number, there it is. Oh, there it is. Got it. Now we got ourselves a game. Look at this. Shit.

Shit. Three answers left on the board. All right, you guys. Everybody's sitting on two strikes. I'm down with that. Brian and Hootie have the ball. What was that stupid ship that we made? for

was it yeah atlantis remember that stupid big ass stupid ship they had at the end of SG1 what's named that thing oh yeah let's the uh Atlanta show

oh yeah that was named that was called the I'll even tell you because I'd like who do to win that was just how much of that's going how many people in the TED pool are going to say that

that's the nobody that's the datilus by the way datilus what's the name of the show I don't think it's on there if you're asking me No way. The ship from Alien.

I already did it. Yeah, are you telling? Yeah. It's like, Mm-hmm. Hmm. This must be whittled when it's like that people. That's right.

You can't call it red on air light when, uh, yeah, when you can't hear Scott saying it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, discord on my phone is not letting me unmute Scott. That's weird. By the way, Scott did guess Nostromo, and that's how he got his second strike.

Oh, well, thanks. I'm trying to think of anything that we might have missed. What's the stupid... Oh, what's the name of the stupid... Why can't I think of the Guardians of the Galaxy's stupid ship? Mm. Oh, the Milano? You can just say it's the Garden, Gardens?

Gardenies. The gardenies. I'm going with the Gardenees of the Galaxa. The Guardian ship is what I'm in to say. I could go with the Milano. Lights up like a Jackson Pollock painting with a black light. Sure. That's a good one.

All right. Let's go with the ship that was, I mean, we all know is named after the Pepperidge Farm cookie. The Milano. Oh, that's too bad. The Milano is, was on the list where is at number 20 on the list. Nice.

All right. I'm going to try for Orville, the Orville. Oh, that's a good one. That might be actually, that might be really good. He might get us here. Ooh, that's scary. All right. Show me the Orville.

Number nine. Scott killed us. The only way to win now is if Scott runs the board and he's got one strike. He cannot make any mistakes. Okay. Didn't totally think about the Orville. Do it, Scott, I got to get redeemed for my terrible performance with the crayon colors.

Oh, that's right. Oh, that's what it was. Oh, yeah, that was a long time ago. Slave one. I know that sounds weird, but it's a cool ship. That's a good kiss. Yeah. I mean, he stays on it for a long time.

Why not? I'm saying slave one. Scott is saying slave one. How do you feel about that answer? They renamed it, didn't he? Oh, they would. I can imagine that doesn't hold up well. Yeah.

Well, they changed it because they didn't like the name slave in there or something, right? Slave one's not bad. That's what I mean holding up. I thought he named it after Leah. That's what they're wrong with that. The Slave Leo one. Slave Laya. The Laya one.

All right. You going with Slave 1? Yeah, let's do it. All right. Show me, Slave 1. Oh, that's the game. Oh, man. Oh, man.

He was muted. I'm going to have to go back and re-listen to this to see just how dumb I'm not being able. You know what? You didn't sound dumb at all. You did a great job. It's funny. If they just call it the Boba Fet ship, really? Is that what they call it now?

Jeez, that's lame. That's dumb. Anyway, but I thought they called it to a boba fit vet. No, all right. So what's, who'd we miss here? Yeah, let's look at number seven. So a lot of people in the chat room was saying this. No, Battlestar Galacta you guys guessed, and it was number 11.

You already got that one wrong. Do you want to get wrong again? I can't hear you. muted. Show me number seven. The Axiom from Wally. That's a ship that's got everything and makes you fat. Yeah. That's a good one.

And finally, I think you guys, like once you got the Enterprise D, you stayed out of the whole Star Wars. Star Trek universe. I will pretend why I didn't hear that. The whole Star Trek universe. You're muted. The Voyager. Oh, God. The Voyage. Why did that make a Voyager. Gosh, dang it.

Yeah. Some other ones rounding out the top choices here. Deep Space 9 was number 12. People don't care that it's not a ship. The Cerritos from Lower Decks. The Death Star, there's a ship that's got everything. As long as you avoid Darth Vader, I mean, it's not a bad ship.

Right. It's all right. Planet Express. People want to go deliver stuff with Fry. Home 1, which is the Calamari cruiser. I told you, Scott. It's a trap. It's not in your 10. Moia, Avalon. People actually really want to live on Avalon,

which is the ship from the movie Passengers, where Chris Pratt wakes up Jennifer Lawrence, in essence, kills her. You know, Jennifer Lawrence isn't going to be on there, people. That's not how it works. Right, it's not how it works. Farscape ship, people wrote, which is what the Normandy, right?

No, no, Normandy is from Mass Effect. Mass Effect, Normandy, yeah. Normandy, by the way, also getting some. the Benatar, the replacement to the Milano Alpha from Valerian in the city of a thousand planets. One person said that, which is the one person who saw that movie.

I like that movie. I love that movie. Yeah, it was a fun movie. Babylon 5, the Battle School from Enders game, Destiny from Scargate, executor, the foundation, Halo. One person said Lex.

Halo. Yeah. It just said Halo. Just Halo. Okay, that's fine. One that doesn't get blasted and half the crew dies, that's a great answer. Okay. Let's see.

Tant of four. Yeah, that's Leah's ship at the beginning of New Hope. The Corellian Corvette or whatever it's called. The Behemoth from the expanse. Behemoth. Behemoth. The one from Siameth. I can't remember that one.

The one from Sunshine and the one from Lost in Space. We'll cut it off there because... I don't want any ships that crashed. I don't want Sunshine, and I don't want the Lost in Spaceship. Yeah, but Sunshine saves us. One person said the Winnebago from Spaceballs. There you. That's a good one. That's a great one to end on.

I had that thought earlier, but I was like, I don't think that's going to be in the top ten. That's pretty good. Now, what Houdie cannot hear me say is that you've won, or you've lost. He's going to hear this. Scott, who's playing the horrible sound for you. Yeah, and now he can't hear anything because I've literally. kicked him out of the thing. Hey, Dunaway, Hey Dunaway. Rhymes with Faye Dunaway. Look, you're, you're only here Monday and Tuesday or Wednesdays, but on Friday, you and I record a show at 1.30 p.m. called Play Retro. And this week is going to talk about a very, very old Bethesda game. Turns out is one of the biggest games ever made in terms of actual space you can explore. Yes. And I can't wait to talk about it. And I got lost so many times this past week doing just that trying to explore and not understand. standing anything in Daggerfall.

Daggerfall recently released the 1-0 version of the Unity conversion. And it's been pretty cool. I've enjoyed myself. Never played it first time. Yeah. I played it back in the day. Love it then. It's a little wonky now, but I still

think it deserves some credit. And it's also kind of the time you can pinpoint when Bethesda was about to explode and become huge. So come with us on Friday and talk about the Elder Scrolls Two, Daggerfall. with me and Brian Dunaway at play retro over at frogpans.com. Slash play retro. Hey, Dunaway. Kiss our butts.

I know. Damn, dude. That weird mute thing threw me. It threw me off. It really did. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's go to take a break. To the land of Gardanese of the galaxy. In Gardanese. That was so stupid. We're going to go take a break. We're going to come back and talk to Tom Merritt, who was on the ground in Las Vegas at CES.

We're going to see what he will see. Yeah. Holy cow. A bunch of cool. stuff there. I don't know what he's going to want to talk about, because there's a lot of cool things I've been hearing about. Yeah, I want to hear about this foldable LG OLED transparent TV thing. I must know more. That's cool. Anyway, that's all coming up after this song from you.

What do you have? Sure. Well, if you're a fan of bands like Obits, the Cops, and Holy F, they really, they totally spell it out. Members of those bands have formed a new band called Savick, S-A-V-A-K, and they have a brand new album called Flavors of Paradise that comes out March 1st on Ernest Jenning Recording Company. This is their first single from the album. It's called Leash Biter.

Here is the band Savick. Dogs on every corner, biting at my heels. Teeth cut through like a razor, scar that never heals. And I know that you're scared. But I never know how you feel I hesitate to compare Because we all live our own life Dogs on every corner walking in their bones

Never give a straight answer And they won't meet me alone And I know that you're scared And I never know how you feel I hesitate to compare fears go unanswered afraid to look out for control looking through the cracked mirror self-proposy unfolds and I know that you're scared and I try to feel what you feel I'll

I hesitate to compare Because we all live our own lives Our own fears to survive God can control me Can't control me that you're scared but I never know how you feel I hesitate to compare

because we all live our own lives our own world to survive Yeah we all live our own lives Our own lives Our own fears to survive Every day is dark on Every night is there Every morning a shot on

Everyone keeps pushing you experiments have shown that we need at least 36 inches and that 42 inches is a more desirable length for the mixing counter right now we've got about four different types of computers We're back. Hey, Brian, tell me that artist again in that song. Sure. That is the song called Leash Biter. I said it really fast. So somebody thought I said Leash Spider. Leash Biter by the band Savick from their upcoming album, which I said was called Flavors of Paradise. And I stand by it. It's still called Flavors of Paradise. The Flavors of Paradise. That's right. Engulf yourself in the flavors of paradise. I don't quite know what to make of those, but here's this. We want, Tom. 229. What a deal. Hey, look who it is. Is Tom?

Merit, in the land of cheap buffets, or at least it used to be the land of cheap buffets. That's right, yeah. Is it still? I don't think it is anymore. Well, it is if you go to some place you don't want to go to eat. I think the, I think the Excalibur Knights buffet is probably still pretty cheap, but don't eat there. Yeah, I wouldn't do that. Yeah.

But you're there for CES, which is always very exciting. In fact, I think you weren't there last year, so this is a big exciting new day for everybody. Oh, yeah. I was last at CES in 2020, January 2020. One of the last things I did. Wow. Yeah. Wow.

And it was back in person last year, but I didn't go. Rich Truffalino and Amos went. But it's just me this year. Walking the halls, snooping on the gadgets, and doing walkthroughs. If you haven't checked out YouTube.com slash Daily Tech News Show, I've been going to these evening press events, and I just walk through. slowly walk through. It takes like 15, 20 minutes. And you get a sense of like, here's what's happening in these events. Here are all the vendors.

You get little snippets of conversations and stuff. So if that sounds cool, go check that out. It's been one of the more fun things for me to do because it gives me a great overview of what's in each of these events. Oh, yeah. Look at you walking here. Oh, man, this brings back memories. You're in a place at the moment in your latest video where I'm pretty sure this is where the Star Trek convention was last time. Oh, at the, yeah, the Las Vegas Convention Center, right?

I think, or let's see, maybe this is Bellagio. No, it was at the Rio, sorry, not that. All the ballrooms look alike. Which one? Is it showstoppers? Showstoppers, that's the one. Where is that? Yeah, that was at Bellagio.

Belagio, okay, it didn't remind me of that. It's, wow, these are bringing back memories. Have you seen anything where you were like, whoa, the world is about to change. Yeah. I don't think so. I've got a couple of things that I think are pretty interesting. Obviously, the big trend is AI and everything, which is kind of like saying everything has software.

Right, right, exactly. Yeah. Not that it has AI, what are you doing with it that makes it interesting? One thing that's caught a lot of people's eye, including myself, is the Rabbit R1 from, what are these guys, teenage? Mutant Ninja Turtles. Teenage engineering made the rabbit. It looks kind of like a play date.

It's not a phone, just Wi-Fi with it. It's not meant to make calls or anything, but it has its own algorithms. They call it a large action model instead of a large language model, a little bit of marketing spin. But I think it's cool what they tried to do here, which is train it to use apps. so Spotify you know Uber etc it can it can use them it didn't train them to use Uber it didn't train them to use Spotify it trained them how to use apps so it knows what a settings looks like how to look for confirmations theoretically you could throw any app at it and it would be able to operate it the idea being you can just say hey book me an Uber to take me from the Renaissance to the Belagia

and it would be able to do that. So almost like just taking the place of a Siri kind of thing or, you know, some sort of personal assistant. Yeah, it's meant for you to just be able to talk to it, tell it what you want, and it'll go find the apps and websites that needs to do it. Yeah, there's a real simplicity to it, which I think I like. And it's hard for me to tell how big this is because I've never seen anyone's hands with it. They're only showing like renders in a commercial and there's some shots at the event.

Yeah, put a chocolate bar next to it. something so we can't tell how big this thing is but there is a camera in there and I see a like some kind of scroll wheel knob yeah because there's there isn't it's a touchscreen interface and they have category cards to kind of give you information sometimes just because it's easier to read like the weather or something that it can you know hear it read out but also to make sure you're like oh yeah it's doing what I asked it to do so is it is the is the the thought behind this that you would just install those apps on this device, or would it somehow do those things for you on your phone? Because I know obviously if Uber, it would have to do it on your phone. You don't want to take two

devices with you. Right. You would do it on this device. You would have, you would have Uber installed on this. It's the Rabbit OS. So then you've got to take two devices when you travel. Yeah. And see, that's my big question is like everybody's got a phone. This device, I understand the AI part of it is interesting. I mean, right? About half the size of an iPhone, so it's tiny. Okay, so it's pretty small. So I understand the AI advantages, or potentially what they are,

but all this is going to come to your phones at some point, right? So why would I buy this thing? I feel like this is a way for them to show that their stuff works. Okay. Because that eventually, right. So one of the big phone manufacturers say, well, let's buy these guys and put that as the new personal assistance. on our phone or improve our existing personal assistant with their software.

Yeah. So either Rabbit OS starts to become an OS that phone makers put on their phones or they license some of their large action model to other folks. But yeah, it's, I think it's pretty interesting. That does sound cool, yeah. And it's, yeah, it's one of those things where it kind of reminds me of the sling box if you remember the old sling box where you could stream your television

to your phone or to your in fact would it begin I don't even think it was to phones I think it was just to laptops and that that was like well why would I need this sort of thing and eventually it became really really useful and then eventually it was less useful because we got streaming

and all that but yeah I think this is I think this is one of those out of the way interesting ideas that maybe isn't obviously something you want right now. But worth keeping an eye on it, at $199, you know, I think more people might take a

flyer on trying it out. Yeah, that's actually, that's a decent price point for the gamble, for sure. Yeah. I'm very curious about it. They did a hard thing and not making the hardware, like, you know, super expensive. So I think that helps. Yeah. I have some curious.

I wish there are more colors, though. I don't think I like this orange-red thing. I don't know. You know, it's the kind of device that you want it to kind of look cool in your pocket. I'd like a yellow one or like a black one or something. Yeah, yeah. The other one I found is the Vision Zero One, but spelled with an X, V-I-X-I-O-N-Zer1 glasses. Excision?

But they're not smart glasses in the sense of like they're not trying to put augmented reality in front of you or anything like that. They use time of flight sensors, you know, the kinds of things you have in VR. and stuff to measure distance to objects and focus them. So they can sense what your eyes are doing and kind of try to, you know, optimize what looks good. And as soon as you say, oh, yeah, that looks clear, then it zeroes in and makes everything in focus for you. Oh, wow.

See, I'm looking at this, the site right now. This would be great, like, doing miniatures or something, right? Where you usually have to wear, like, you know, glasses where you've got as have like a little magnifying lens on them this would be perfect for that because you could just focus in on what you're painting and have it go right up very close to it yeah and that that's a good point is they're not they're not marketing this as a replacement for glasses they're like we don't think you should drive with these things on you know focus on that car no no focus on the car probably not jogging or anything but but yeah if you're doing something you know focused and you want a little a little little bump to your vision i think making miniatures is a great example of that kind of thing. It's got a 10-hour battery life, too. That's not bad. That's really cool. When I first went to the website, I thought, oh, I must be on the wrong website because this looks like a

fashion site. But they are nice looking, yeah. They're very dirty LaForge, but 2024. Yeah. Little Utah connection says it's based on a prototype that came out of the University of Utah back in 2017. There you go. That's cool.

These are available for pre-order in Japan right now, 99,000 yen. That's close to 700 bucks. So they're not cheap. No. And we don't know. We didn't get an idea of when they're coming outside of Japan anywhere else. Okay.

Well, that's cool. See, there's nifty little bits and bobs out there. That's kind of my feeling that the CES is there's some big announcements. Don't get me wrong. Transparent televisions all over the place. Samsung and LG had them. There's, you know, Sony showed off their afilic car and rolled it out onto the show floor and all that. But overall.

Lots up the wazoo. Lots of robots. Intel, AMD, they all had chip announcements. They're always secondary chip announcements, follow-ups, you know, more affordable options and stuff like that.

And I'm not putting that down. It's not, it's cool. But it doesn't feel like, oh, it's dominated by this. There's a lot of little interesting things. And that sort of makes sense to me

as we're kind of moving into a new world with large language models that you'd see a lot of little attempts right now to figure out what it's good. Yeah, that does make sense. So on the transparent TV front, real quick, has anyone tried to explain there why you would want it other than, I know they make really pretty showpieces. Like if you had a TV that is, yeah, it's transparent.

Yeah, but why? To what end? To what end? Yeah. I take a lot of money to paint these walls, by golly. It looks cool. You get kind of a holographic sort of feel from things. Things seem to be floating in the air.

it does feel like it's more for putting up cool decor than it is for any kind of home entertainment use. But maybe that's yet to be discovered too. What the content for transparent TVs is has yet to be created. I know LG had one prototype where it had a contrast screen that would roll up behind it so that you could have it be transparent when you want it, or you could have it just work like a regular television. Well, that sounds very inexpensive. Not going to cost much at all. That's right.

Only probably $90,000 to $100,000. I'm sure that's all. It'll be fine. You could put another TV behind it and watch two things at once. Oh, my gosh. Oh, yeah, it could be like an augmented reality for your television. Instead of picture in picture, it's picture on picture. Yeah, yeah.

Go to Costco, spend $1,500 on one of those. Stick it behind it. You're all done. Perfect. Well, excellent. I can't wait to hear more about what you've seen and what you're doing out there, and I know that a lot of that is happening on the show, DTNS, which is happening

today. Tom will be there from the floor. Anything else you want to say about any of that or anything you want? What do you want to say, Tom? You say it? Yeah, yeah. We had Molly Wood on the show yesterday, so if you haven't checked that out. We talked about a new battery advancement that Microsoft was a part of,

that could reduce the amount of lithium in batteries, which would be a huge deal on its own, but it's also an example of how machine learning and deep learning can accelerate development. They developed this battery, which should have taken at least two years to come up with the design. And they did the entire thing from conception to prototype in nine months. So that's pretty significant.

We talked about that. We also talked about the big E.V.TAL aircraft from Hyundai's Supernal that's coming in a couple of years. Molly got to see it in person. And then today on the show, Trish Herschberger is joining us. So we're going to talk about some cool motherboard that she found, like a gaming motherboard. Also, some of her other favorites that she's seen at CES. And I want to get her opinion on the SAG After Deal that was announced yesterday for providing royalties from training AI models on voice actors. So the idea is there's one company that signed the deal.

And it says, like, you can use a model for this long. pay people this much and you can't use it forever and all that sort of thing. But a lot of the voice actors are not happy with the deal. So we'll talk to Trish about what she thinks of that. That'll be fascinating. I always like being on with her. So I'm excited to be on today as well. Check it out.

That's 2.30. No, sorry. 2 p.m. Mountain time. Right? It's 1 p.m. Pacific. So yes, 2 p.m. I had to think about it too. I don't know what happened there.

Anyway, Tom, be safe. Have fun. Enjoy the beautiful places in Vegas so that we can hear all about you. your awesomeness we'll see you soon thanks man bye now see you tom all right cool this back here that is cool he's getting the place all prepped for us for april you know yeah so we can

go out there and all the seats will be worn exactly he's gonna he's gonna seek out he's gonna go check out that that sphere we gotta do the sphere while we're out there I want to do the sphere how does one get in there what do you do to have to buy a ticket you see that Darren Aronovsky thing how expensive is that do you know oh I don't know 50 60 bucks would be my guess I would do 50 60

I do that. Yeah. You're watching a movie. You're seeing, you know. If they tell me it's 250, forget it. Oh, forget it. Even if it's over 100. I was looking at, like, T and I are thinking about going out Saturday and having one day for the two of us before Sunday when producers and stuff like that.

Stuff happens. And I'm like, well, let's see, you know, what shows. Oh, my gosh. Kylie Minogue is playing in Vegas. Tina and I both love Kylie. We'd love to see her. Not for 750 bucks a ticket, though. Sorry.

Not happening. Yeah. Holy shiz. I did see something. For that amount of money, I better get my own Kylie. Yeah, that's crazy. Rich, I forget his last name. Anyway, Guy Faholo was out there in Vegas, got to go there and got to see the cameras they used to make content for that thing.

Oh, yeah. It is a 18K, yeah, 18K by 18K, so it's square. It is, what was it, 36, no. yeah 36 terabytes of data on each cartridge it was it was some crazy stuff man I really want to go in there I'd love to tour that place anyway hey let's do this right now well what do you recommend yes it's time for recommendals time for us to talk about things we've seen on streaming

services and why we like them and why you should go watch them yourselves let's welcome to the program Nicole Spagg hello Nicole hello friend also Randy Jordan hello Randy Jordan hello Randy good morning morning stream happy new year oh thanks this is our first year isn't it yeah it is it's our first 2024 show not yet not yet you know how you know how i'd know if it was february or not because it would be a one month away from dune part two and i'm very excited about that so you're going to see that in theaters you're not going to wait for uh streaming on

that oh hell no i go day one on that thing and probably the biggest theater i can find i love how scott keeps trying to jinx this thing yeah oh wait are you We are not going to talk about it until it comes out, lest it get delayed again. Well, that's true. Yeah, I don't want any more delays. That'd be nice. I haven't seen the first tune. You just sit down and watch it.

It's up on Netflix right now, I think. Someone has it. I'll just wait until the other one comes out and I'll watch them both at the same time. You would just read the Wikipedia article about it. You know, that's what I did last week for Salt Burn. And yes, God, ew. Yeah, that confirms. That confirms why Nicole is not.

going to watch salt burn yeah saltburn's gross yeah but god i'm hearing so many good things about it besides its grossness though it's like oh yeah but it needs the grossness to be noteworthy because otherwise it's not that it's a shockiness of it yeah just keep holding your horses of it we're gonna get our oscar noms and then you and i watch salt burn yeah you think it's gonna be uh it might follow you know what the golden globes did and have a barry keoggen get a uh a nomination but uh we'll see if it makes it into the 10. I mean, he got one last year, a friend of Sharon for supporting. He could do it again for actor.

And he's very good in it. Don't get me wrong. He's very, very good in it. Sure. But that movie is effed. I liked it the first time when I saw it the first time when it was called the talented Mr. Ripley. Yeah, except so much more weird shit goes on in that movie. Yeah. Anyway, yes, Max and Netflix both have Dune Part 1, so you should go watch that. There you go. You have no excuse.

I have many dunes out there. I have all the excuses. They're called Ava and Mateo. And if you start watching Dune now, you might be done by February when the sequel comes out. That's right. It's nice and long. Almost three hours. All right. So let's get to these. We're going to do a slightly different order today. We'll start with Brian and we will end. And then after that, Randy's got a meeting and then we'll go from there. Brian, let's start with you. What do you got here? Yeah, I was going to do a show called The Crowded Room. And I'm saying, I'm mentioning it because I probably won't.

use it for a future recumental, because as we get further and further away from these things, I tend to forget all the reasons I loved it, but I still remember loving the crowded room, which is the Apple TV thing with Tom Holland and Amanda Seafreed, or Cypred. It's excellent, and it's really worth checking out, but something I saw more recently just jumped right in front of this. And a little background, I get the Hollywood Reporter daily email, and that's how I found out about. movies coming out and what things are, you know, Randy and I, what things are rumored to be in the Best Picture nomination category. And one of their articles recently was, uh, the best, the 50 best TV shows of the 21st century. Um, and so I said, oh, well, this is good, because then this gives

me a list of things that I can check out when, when I'm done watching crap like moonlighting or, or whatever. And, um, so I took the list. I, I took out all the things that I've already, seen and um and then you've got you know number eight girls haven't watched that yet bojack horsemen started watching that need to go back to it we get down to number 19 and i see something that i've never even heard of among all of these shows that i've heard of and and thought oh man these are all great shows that i do need to check out number 19 was something i'd never heard out from sundance tv and well there's a reason yeah well kind of uh and we're going to hear a clip from it right All right, here you go.

This is my wife says I'm nosy. I like to think of myself more as curious. So if I happen to crawl some kind of imaginary line with you, just let me know. Sure. So my buddies said you could have conjugal visits on death row. I told him it was all BS, more like an urban legend. There are no conjugal visits. I knew it. You couldn't even touch another person, right?

No touching. I've got to work on your psyche. You weren't supposed to anyway. What do you mean you wasn't supposed to? Things were a lot different when I was first incarcerated. Certain element of guards were less supervised. So it created an environment for things to occur. Things, what kind of things?

Encounters, I guess Oh, not by chance More like an initiation of sorts Initiation? Yeah This sounds like, I think my wife saw this This is a show called Rectify She may well have seen this

Yeah, this is I can see why this was on this list of great TV shows And I can also see thanks to Sundance TV Why I'd never heard of it before Four seasons, all of different lengths, 10, let's see, like season one is 10 episodes, season two is eight, something like that. Anyway, there are 30 total episodes. I binged, I went through the whole thing while I was sick, and man, this is a great show. It focuses on the, the guy you heard there was on death row, a guy named Daniel Holden, and because of some DNA evidence

that came out, he was released from prison after, or released from death row after being in there for 20 years, nearly 20 years. And the prosecutor, one of the prosecutors still wants to get him back in there. They think that the DNA evidence was falsified or crap. His mother is having a hard time adjusting to him being out. his sister, who was the one who kind of pushed to get him out, is kind of his cheerleader and protector and kind of almost overshields him. And then you've got the guy you heard in that clip with him, Clayton Crawford, who went through

some problems when he was Riggs on the lethal weapon TV show. Oh, that's why that guy's familiar. He got in big trouble for something. He got him some big trouble, just being a problem on set. But he's really, really good. He plays Teddy Jr., basically brother-in-law to Daniel Holden. And it's watching the two of their evolutions throughout the TV show, their growth throughout the TV show that makes this thing so good.

It's got an incredible cast. Like Abigail Spencer, who plays his sister, she was on that TV show, the Time Travel One shoot, timeline. It was the one where she had to go back in time and fix things almost like a quantum leap, but

she wouldn't leap into somebody's body. They would just time travel back. Oh, yeah. I forgot the name of that. Again, another one, my wife, was it timeless? I think timeless. Timeless, timeless. There we go. That's it. Yeah, Tina really liked that one too. I watched the first season and said, yeah, this is pretty good.

But you also get J. Smith, Cameron, who recently was nominated for her incredible work on the TV show Succession. She was Jerry, the foil to Kirid Culkin's character. She is fantastic. She plays the mom, and she's really good. This is available on AMC Plus. It is well-paced, but it is a slower TV show.

Think justified in its delivery. so a slower kind of country pace it takes place outside of Georgia I'm sorry outside of Atlanta Georgia in a place called Polly Georgia doesn't get graphic with the stuff that Daniel was

put into prison for but they do describe it so you know if that triggers you it's something to be aware of but it is God it's such a brilliant show and I'm so happy that

that I finally heard of this thing and was finally able to watch it. Yeah, and this is streaming where, did you say? Streaming on AMC Plus, but I think you can watch the first season on Amazon Prime, or you can, maybe you can get a free trial of AMC Plus on Amazon Prime. And listen, if you're, if you have a plan, you can watch all 30 episodes easily in a week.

I did. Yeah, it's not long, so. And it's a full concluding thing. You get your whole story. Oh, absolutely. You get a, you get a conclusion to the story. They knew, They knew just what they wanted to do with the story, and they went from start to finish with it.

I remember Kim raving about it, and I was like, oh, I should watch that. Why did you watch it without me? And we had this whole conversation that I forgot entirely. So I'm glad for the reminder. The main guy, Aidan Young, is so good. I don't know if I've ever seen him in anything else. But he just does such a great simmering. His delivery of certain lines, like, you know, most people can do like an okay.

Like that and kind of leads things on He does that a lot in his character And it's not all like tell me more Or I don't know why you're saying that kind of thing It's like he's been just released And he doesn't understand a lot of things So okay All right

Interesting I'll definitely check that I just want to offer a mini rant On that Hollywood reporter list Because I understand listicals You almost you almost designed them to be questioned and argued, right? Of course, of course.

This one just feels so designed and not well thought out to me. And I want to explain why. It has reservation dogs at number six, which I mean, great, but not number six of the last 24 years. It has 30 for 30 at number 13. It has peep show at number 20. And it has Survivor at number 23. And I'm like, okay, you put those four shows about.

Above, Veep at 32, Chernobyl at 35, Band of Brothers at 38. How is that not in your top 10? Yeah, that should be top. And then my thing that I would always overrate, it has parts unknown at 43. That is such an awesome and important show. And it's at 43. I just can't, I don't know. That list just drives me.

Well, if you get weird about this order, though, it's still helpful to have 50 in whatever order, right? I'm looking at some of these that I've never seen South Side. I've never watched. I need to go back and re-watch BoJack Horseman or re-get into it. Peep Show, Broad City. I hear great things about it. I've never watched an episode of Broad City. So if nothing else, this is like a, yeah, I mean,

there's nothing that stop me from watching it. Broad City is wonderful. I love that show. When you watch, you're going to love that. I'm not saying, Pete Show doesn't deserve to be in the top 50, but it could be like 45 or something. It doesn't need to be at 20. Yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah, sometimes when I see these lists, I look and see if Pace does this a lot and it drives me crazy, where it's like, oh, here are the 50 best albums of 2023. And each album pick was written by a different person. Like you see, you know, the description of the album at the end, it says, submitted by so and so. And so it's not really a number one through a 50 list. It's a, here are 50 great albums that our editors recommend rather than, well, he said it was better than these other albums that this other person recommended.

Yeah, their mistake they made is ranking them. They should have just given it. So here's a list in no particular order of the 50 best things. Yeah. Yeah. I would have been better. But I'll be the one, the one person I know, especially out of the four of us who'll argue that Survivor has gotten so much better over the last few years with its less focus on. on alliances and strategy of the strategy of the social game and more on the action.

Absolutely. Absolutely. I totally agree that if you're trying to get people to watch TV and great TV, you can put Survivor in your top 50. Just don't put it above Chernobyl. Yeah, that's a weird place to put it. Real quick here, Nicole, I noticed because I, well, I know we're all fans of this, but in particular, Nicole's the one that introduced me to it. But how-to with John Wilson's on this list. It makes me want to go re-watch it all. I still need to finish the third season. Third season's amazing. I don't know if they're coming back or not.

I don't know if there's a lot of stuff on the on the edge over there at HBO. So I don't know where that thing's at, but I hope it goes on forever. I kind of love that he had almost an existential crisis with his celebrity and like that whole thing kind of playing out in real time was weird. It was weird. And the whole thing with the toilet thing they set up to look. like it was flooding, but it wasn't. Yeah, and faking that. Yeah. That was great.

Yeah. I love that. Yeah. It's in the, it's in the show. It's in season three. Yeah. It's in, it's in third season.

Yeah, it's worth seeing. It's very good. Because he's like, such an outsider. Yeah. Sorry. Speaking of things that are coming back, I hope that a week from today,

I am sitting here recommending the new true detective. I'm about to dive in. Oh, yeah. Ooh, I'm hoping. I'm so hopeful. Big same, dude. I'm very excited about that one. A lot of buzz on that.

that new season. I think it's because it's in the snow and it has a Fargo vibe. That's my personal opinion. Anyway, hey, moving on. Randy, let's do yours so we can get you to your meeting. Let's talk about one of the best series of 2023. Deserves the accolades. It's getting, deserves more accolades than it's been getting.

And you're going to hear in the 1950s, a chemist is dealing with life and love and loss. And the fact that the genius chemist is a woman makes it all the more difficult, a thousand times more difficult on her to navigate this strange place she finds herself, which is Los Angeles, California. And you're about to hear her hosting a TV show. All right. Here you go. Welcome, viewers. My name is Elizabeth Zott, and this is supper at six. See this? Presto soups. Cook so quick, it's done in a presto.

It's my line. It is a real time saver, and that's because it's full of chemicals, and not the good kind. There will be a surprise indeed. Feed enough of it to your loved ones, and they'll die off, saving you tons of time

because you won't have to feed them anymore. Today, we will be making a fan favorite, lasagna, but we will be testing a new variable. Sharing for loved ones takes work, real work. Anyone who tells you differently does not cook dinner for a family of five every night. So let's make something hearty. Let's make something delicious. Let's make something that keeps our family alive and gives us leftovers for a week.

Let's get started, shall we? I want to see this movie. You have to watch this series. Our series, I keep thinking it's a movie. I don't know why. It's because it's Brie Larson, and I don't think of her as a television actress, but yeah. Oh, that's all I think of her. She was amazing in the United States of Tara.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. She was good in that. That was easy. That was like her first role. It was easy to forget about almost everybody else in that show because what's her name was so dominant. But, but yeah. See, I'd never heard of her until the room and was just blown away by that. And so that's when I became a fan.

She's great. She has a three episode arc in community, by the way. So this is lessons in chemistry. And I think you guys talked about the book at some point. The book came out a year and a half ago that it's based on. It is different than the book. The book is a dog book. And the TV series only has one dog episode.

It is much, much more, the TV series is much more about all of the characters and what they're going through. And Brie Larson has to carry this thing with grit and determination. and boy she does it is it is a 1950s TV show you're gonna you're gonna start watching it and go oh I'm getting madman vibes yes that is it is on purpose it is very very carefully set in its time periods when you go from you go from 1950 I think to 57 it jumps back to 20 sorry 33 at some point and every time every time you're in a specific year everything is very very specified to that year. You're seeing that time and hearing it and so forth. And it's a, it's a, it's a feminist series. But it's also just, it's got a huge heart. It's so beautiful. The music is awesome in this series. Is she like a scientist? She is a chemist. She has a master's degree. And as the series starts, she is working.

as a chemist in a lab that where she is the only woman who is not a secretary and there's tons and tons of men all around who are just mistreating her basically and she meets one of them and they fall in love and uh it's uh it's just um it's a it's a it's a it's a harsh show i i got to put that out there over and over there are a couple of episodes that are absolutely r rated um i watch this with my 14 year old and had some regrets at times but it's also just it's so wonderful

and I'm glad he watched it with me because it gave us a lot to talk about in terms of first way of feminism and what things were like but there's a whole subplot here where the black neighbors across the street are going through their political difficulties

and it's it's so deftly handled just beautiful show I want to see it Um, the real woman, Elizabeth Zott, uh, also really fascinating person, obviously, and we made a TV show about her, but, um, I look at her. She looks amazing. And it tells me that she knew the right chemistry for the food to eat. Because look at her, dude. She's, what a beautiful lady in her later years. Like, I need to eat better. Good gosh. Uh, now that sounds great. I will definitely put that on the list. Looks awesome. Second it or third it or

however many people are, because, uh, yeah, Red Fragel recommended this, uh, the book last month. And Tina watched the series right after that and just loved it. It's fantastic. Awesome. I'm curious, Brian. Did you feel like it is not getting as, like, did I felt like it didn't get as many nominations for Golden Globes as it deserved, for instance. Oh, yeah. For sure.

Definitely got shafted. Did Bree, did she get a, she got a nom for, yeah, because she was there. I remember seeing her jokingly disappointed. Like she made this angry face and then laughed at, like, when they did. did all the shots of all the people when the winner got announced. But that was the only nom, right? Was just her? No, the show was nominated in its

category. Oh, was it? Okay. Yeah, no, it should have gotten a lot more. It's ridiculously named category. Yeah, well, Golden Gloves needs to have a new category. Women in Chemistry. Best film, TV show with women in chemistry, making food.

Where is this playing again? Apple TV Plus. Apple TV Plus. Yes. Just another, another home. run for Apple TV. How do they do this? I don't know. Well, they have all the money in the world and they can just buy all the best people and make all the best scripts. And I think that's part of it. But they don't seem to have any losers. You know, there's no bummers over there. Yeah, it's crazy. That's good, though. That's a very Apple thing to do is not want to screw that up. So I guess I'm glad. But also, you know, maybe they're hard to work for? I don't know. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. You never know.

I could just make this up. Hey, Randy, if you need to leave or whenever you do, do, but hang around as long as you want, whatever you want to do. Right on, right on. And I just want to say, again, the book is really a dog book and the series is not. But there is a dog in this series that I fell in love with the instant I saw it. It is so amazing. Like, if you like dog stuff, it is like just, there's just, ah, it's magical. It's absolutely magical.

Oh, oh, and it has Mark Evan Jackson, Captain Raymond Holt's husband from Brooklyn Nine-Nine. He's a doctor in this. He's amazing. I'm trying to remember. Rain Wilson plays one of the bad guys. He's such a good bad guy. It's just like there's every reason to watch this series.

Please do. I like Mark Evan Jackson a lot. That guy's great. Excellent. Well, thank you for bringing that to our attention. Again, that's Apple TV Plus, and the show is called Lessons and Chemistry. All right. Nicole, let's fly over to your place, and you tell us what the clip's about.

Well, I wanted to recommend something, but it's not streaming. I actually bought it, and it's something I wanted to watch for a really long time. And I'm kind of disappointed. It's not streaming anywhere. I don't even know if it has streamed yet. But if you have not watched, Ghostbusters Afterlife, I highly. recommend, especially if you have the nostalgia feelings for the original Ghostbusters movie. Agreed, especially with the next one coming out soon. Yeah. Yeah, good time to watch that.

It'll help you forget about Ghostbusters 2. Forget Ghostbusters 2. Yeah. Though the video game, amazing, the Ghostbuster video game, honestly, that was like Ghostbusters 3 for me. I apparently need to play that. Oh, Scott's a little, yeah, not a percent of you know. It's not my favorite, but I loved it. Some people love that game, and I don't, I don't. It just made me feel like I was, I was doing, I was watching Ghostbusters 3. It gave me those good Ghostbuster feels. But the only reason why I remembered that I had bought this movie was because I saw a spoiler picture on Facebook and I was like, I got to watch it. I got to watch it right now. I have to watch it right now. So in that case, the spoiler was actually really good for me because it got me back to remembering that movie. movie was there and I needed to watch it. So you can't stream it. You have to either rent it or buy it.

I bought it through Amazon Prime. It's well worth it. I love it. Highly recommend it if you haven't had a chance to see it yet. All right. Have you talked about the change Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video is doing? With the commercial stuff or whatever.

I was just looking at the email and it was like for an additional $2.99 for months. You can get ad free. I'm like, wait. You can keep having what you have. Yeah, exactly. They've framed it in a way that's, they've decided it's better than saying it's a general price hike. Instead, they're saying, well, for just another two, you know, just for another Ponderosa meal in the 80s, you can, you can come over here and watch this with no ads like you already had been.

And I don't know, they annoyed the hell out of me when I saw it. Yeah. And I just, I just want to ask, how do we not have more of the new Ghostbusters movies? They should have been cranking these out the last six years. I think pandemic, I think. The strikes screwed them up. I think you might have seen more or sooner. I think the newer one would have been out by now had we not had all that.

I loved it. Seriously, afterlife. When is the next one coming out? Because you can't say two. It's like, is it afterlife two? Sometimes this year, I believe. It's called Ghostbusters Frozen Empire and it's this year. And it comes out in, let's see.

No date yet, though. Just says coming soon. So there you go. Maybe they'll put it on streaming to kind of get people. Because you know, you want to get people ready. Right. To go see the one in the theater. It's a surprise.

It's not streaming. Yeah. Yeah. So instead, I'm recommending a movie that I saw in the theaters. I think it's on Amazon Prime, but I watched it on HBO Max. Ava and Mateo and I have watched this multiple times. Absolutely love it. The clip I'm sharing,

I kind of disappointed how it was treated at the Golden Globes. But that's, yeah. A little tone deaf from Joe Koi for that joke. Yeah, he's an idiot. But he admitted

he didn't watch any of the movies. Or write any of the bad jokes. He also didn't write any of the bad jokes. All of that just tells me they had a hard time hiring people for that job. They did. Yeah.

And 10 days is not enough time to prepare for the Golden Globes in his default. fence. No. I don't blame him. I sent Scott a clip. Yep. It's a very funny clip. It's a pretty funny clip. Here it comes. Oh, by the way, Max only unless the reason you're thinking of Prime, Prime's got their whole deal now where they have Max content. If you add it on, it's an add-on channel for Prime, but it's still just Max. I think it was there on Prime at first. Oh, was it? And I think it moved off. Yeah. Well, anyway, here we go. Here's your clip.

Oh, it looks like this beach was a little too much beach for you, Ken. If I wasn't severely injured, I would beat you off right now, Ken. I'll beach off with you any day, Ken. Hold my ice cream, Ken. All right, Ken, you're on. Let's beach off. Anyone who wants to beat him off has to beat me off first. I will beach both of you off at the same time.

But you don't even know how to beat yourself off. How are you going to beat yourself off? I'm going to beat both of us off. Nobody's going to beat anyone off. It's the scene my mother-in-law would walk out on if she saw Barbie. She'd leave. Right. And it's almost the scene.

that doesn't belong in the movie or it's a joke that doesn't belong in the movie yeah it's right that's the point of it though right yeah the point of it is to have everybody just to show how unaware right yeah exactly yeah so you love innocently stupid yeah

the kins are amazing what it so do you like the movie then a lot eh I absolutely adored the movie I love that they addressed everything that I thought my preconceived notion of the movie. I love just how they played with

the history of Barbie. I grew up with Barbie. Barbie, that was my toy. I would trade my brother. He would want to play with my Barbies and I wanted to play with his He-Man. So we would trade. Still, Barbie

was but, and Ava loves Barbie too. I don't know. It just Barbie is classic to me but as the movie addresses you know there's preconceived notions of Barbie

and how it's affected girls and I guess for some it's not a good I mean they address stereotypical Barbie in the movie but then Barbie is so much more than just stereotypical Barbie I have two Barbies

that I've held on to in the box, software developer Barbie and game developer Barbie. I love it. That's awesome. Oh. Sorry. Are you still there? Yeah, you just, your mic changed.

Your mic changed. Yeah, my mic changed. Yeah. You're back to normal now. So I'm back to normal. I was Discord Barbie there for a minute. But yeah, I just, I love the movie. I love the pacing of the movie.

I love the storytelling of the movie, the history. I love the just the adult jokes that went way over the head of my kids. You know, of course, the big scene that America, is it, what's her name, America Ferreira? Yeah. Ferreira does is, it's true. It's all true. And that's what's moving about it. Like, when you, when you are a woman walking through life, depending on your race and your area and your background, it's all different.

And I like the fact that Barbie has tried to grow with that and to give women more than just a Barbie doll or a baby doll. And that's what the whole big scene in the beginning is like, you know, girls only had baby dolls to care for something else whereas barbie came in and said no you can be anything that you want and an astronaut and then they play with all of those things so i cried of course because i that's what i do that's my job and i think i think anybody with a heart is going to cry at some point in this movie there's a lot of like that billy eyeless song is used so like like a knife to the heart that The music is wonderful.

That song superseded. The one that used to get me was the one in Toy Story 2 by, what's her name? When somebody loves you, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. I can't think of who sings it. Anyway, that song used to choke me up so bad. Used to choke me up so bad. This is that level or more. And I'm not even like a, I'm not like a mega fan of Billy Eilish, but I think that song is so good.

That is an amazing song that just reaches right here. It's performed it on SNL. was beautiful. Yeah, she's very good. I got to go. I just want to say, Barbie is the most self-aware movie that's ever been made.

Yeah. And that's the point. Like Greta Gerwig sets out to make the most self-aware movie it's ever been made. And for me, it really hits its peak when it refers to itself as a movie where you have Barbie say, I'm not stereotypical Barbie pretty. And then Helen Mirren, the original Barbie, by the way, look at pictures of Helen Mirren from 50 years ago. Helen Mirren says, note to the filmmakers,

Margo Robbie is the wrong person to cast if you want to make this point. It's just, what a great line. What a moment. Yeah, it really shouldn't be possible, but that movie's awesome. It's really good. See you.

And I really encourage you if you haven't seen the movie, especially if you're a male, watch it. It's wonderful. I like the Ken. storyline because Ken is nothing without Barbie and that's and he he doesn't like that

so much so I love all the the storylines that they do with Ken and the Patriarch there was one scene where he's like a woman asked me the time and it was a big yeah it was really good

it's just a wonderful movie and I encourage you to watch it with your kids too because there will be good questions that come up and it's it's great it's great it's very very good so there you go Barbie max excellent excellent choice oh and you can watch the on max after you watch Barbie you can watch the making of the Barbie house in we watched a little bit of it where they took a house in I think it was Malibu California and they turned it you know they had that big pink house yeah yeah they filmed that whole thing for a reality show of

course of course where they built they built the whole house so and that's that's a fun little watch too yeah also i don't think so co-written this movie was co-written by noa bomb back he does not get enough credit uh for his writing talent and uh i just think he should get something cool him and gretta gurwig worked really close together on this and i think that says something about a guy who has to hang around Wes Anderson most of his life that he gets to write really cool shit so big credit to him too All right, I'm going to tell you

about a documentary because today it was all dramas and, you know, serious stuff sort of, Barbie's not, but it's you know, let me give you something that's a little bit more how about some information about our past. Sure. How about something real? Yeah, how about something from our past? Here's an idea with my clip.

I feel like it could be the beginning of the end of the world. I feel like our days could be numbered. I feel like nuclear bombs could go off, nuclear plants could melt down, we could suffer famine, and I don't want to go through this alone. Y2K, how can we prepare individually, how can we work together, and how can we, humankind, utilize Y2K as an opportunity to look at ourselves, to analyze where we've been, and to adjust our sights for the future. Now, as much as it may sound like this documentary is narrated, it's not. It's just clips from back then. Definitely not narrated by somebody who passed away several years ago.

Yeah, no, definitely not. So it's all clips from back in 99 or so. And I was working at a company where I was in charge of making sure that we had all Y2K readiness possible. It wasn't a huge deal. But the stuff we did required it, I got put in charge of it. And I hated that job because so much of it was unknown and you couldn't really control a lot of it. And there was a lot of hype around it, too. I work for a computer company.

Thankfully, the date, the way the date worked in our company, it was a numerical. So day one started in like, I don't know, January 1st, 1970, whatever. Yeah. And it just went one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, ten. So we didn't actually store the actual date. It was a numeric that was then converted to the date. Right. So we didn't have any problem.

Part of the problem was, it was a big deal. Yeah, part of the problem was. everybody had something different, or at least it was thought that because they were so different that this was going to be a giant nightmare. And it turns out, and what I'd like about this documentary, which, by the way, the name is before we get emails from Shudaddleck.com is time bomb, sorry, time bomb Y2K. I saw this on HBO Max. This is a Max original documentary. It is told just through clips of stuff happening at the time. Interviews, you know, people who claim in the world was going to end,

scientists, computer scientists, all this stuff. And you're just sort of watching sort of the historic thing play out. And as it turns out, we were way, it was way overhyped. The actual threat was not nearly what we thought it was going to be. Part of that is due to preparations, but it turns out a lot of those preparations were easy and done very early. And all the freak out toward the end was mostly just freak out. And it's kind of hard to see that while we were going through it.

but this documentary does a good job of showing some people who are kind of grifters about it. There's this one dude that drove me absolutely crazy who was charging $8,000 for a speaking engagement, was selling all this swag, doing all this like total grifty work. And he would just say, no, this is all part of the, I am here to save humanity. I'm going, you know, he was praying on people's fears. And he turned out to be full of it. And in the end, when they even ask me about, he's like, well, I believe this just shows that I did my job right. I got the information out there and people, you know, like taking credit for it.

Total horseshit, right? But you don't know it at the time. And so a documentary looking back 24 or five years is a great way to see that time again through a different lens. And I really enjoyed it. Some people have complained that it's literally a documentary of a bunch of slapped together clips that isn't really structured. I would disagree.

I don't need a narrator for every documentary. I've seen plenty of good ones where they don't. And this one is one of those. And the way it's structured is a timeline. It's like, well, here's when we first started talking about it in the late 80s or early 80s. Here's the guy who brought it up to IBM back in the 70s and was told, oh, don't worry about it. It's like 30 years away. Who cares?

It's not going to matter. And then you go all the way kind of through this timeline and major moments in it and all that. And then they get to New Year's Eve, New Year's Day. Nothing major happens. They talk about all the risks that could have happened, but it's just interesting. So if you like that kind of thing, you like history of tech, this is a great time to go check it up. Did they talk about people filling up their bathtubs with water? There was a mention or two of that.

There was a guy who. That I don't remember. What was the? So a lot of people filled up their bathtubs and there was some kind of water shorter or something. Thinking that like the water pumps would stop working at midnight. Yeah, yeah. the reason they did it is there was a case up they were doing a Y2K test in some city i forgot where maybe i can't remember and they did this test and the water system screwed up during the test

and started gushing raw sewage out into some fields and everybody took that as a sign that if we don't fill our tubs with water and load up on water that that will happen in every city and it turns out it was very localized and had nothing to do it had less to do with Y2K and more to do with how they administered the test but people panicked and as panic people do they buy too much toilet paper in 2020 and back then they fill their tubes full of water yeah every every disaster or every impending doom is going to have it's people who take advantage of the situation the grifters like you say and the people who buy every resource they can that they think they're going to need yeah they have some really annoying like political footage of like Clinton and gore trying to act like

they got a handle on any of it they don't know they didn't know shit about what they were doing. So they were going to schools and doing some kind of internet connectivity thing to show that we're how prepared we were. And one of them just totally failed right in national TV. And I don't remember any of that. I never saw any of that stuff live. So that was interesting. So anyway, yeah, it's, it's a good watch. I recommend it. Time Bomb Y2K is the, is the documentary and it's on Max. Excellent. We had a lot of Max today. Captain Tipper said what I was thinking. The cobalt programmers did make a ton of money. Oh yeah. If you went in there, if you were a cobalt programmer at that time, they got into that a little bit too. People that were

experts and stuff that everyone thought was dead. Yeah. Were like suddenly in huge demand and had to like come in there and do stuff. And a lot of times they didn't do anything. They got hired for millions to go work for a corporation. And it turns out they did piddly poop and walked out with a ton of money. like it's a funny it's a funny thing we do to each other when we're panicking anyway check it out on max that'll all be up on quicktms dot l i along with all the other stuff that we talked about today Nicole it's always nice to talk to you hope you're having a great week talk to both you too yeah and we'll uh we'll do it next week how about that that'll be fun hey that sounds good i'll try to figure out a movie again yeah us too figure something else out that's not streaming

get sick for get sick for eight days and watch uh binge something cool like we're there you go I'll pass. You don't want to get sick? All right. No, no, no. I support you in this decision. For Nicole has been, has had sicknesses that have lasted longer than eight days. Yeah.

I think you deserve a break today. I'll see you soon. Yes, for sure. All right, Brian, that's it for today's show. Yes. Okay. I'm trying to remember how long it took us to change our supercard stack to support the year 2000 when I worked at the software company. Oh, yeah.

You would have been going through all that right then, right? Yeah. Yeah, it was all, it was working to the software. company basically took three minutes, I think, to change the code. Like, okay, we're done. All right, good. It wasn't really, that's the thing of this documentary, too. They just, there was so much hype around it and so much of it was just bunk.

And people had genuine fears. I don't, you know, I don't want to discount people's fears because they were being told what they were being told. But, man, I'm glad the internet wasn't what it was today. If you had freaking social media back on. We'd have had a whole bunch of Facebook programming experts. Yeah. It was telling us what.

They would have all shifted from being. communicable disease experts to Y2K experts. Anyway, one final thing about commute times. We talked about commuters yesterday. Yeah. Some stats. We got something from, who is this from? Musical chemist sent this in.

Oh, yeah. It's a text. It says, hi, stop and break. I like that. And it's on the theme. Yeah, it's very good. I was listening to your TMS commute discussion on my commute. I have about 30-minute commute from Amish Country, Pennsylvania to Newark, Delaware.

I didn't know there was another Newark. in the uh i didn't either in the country why would you boy what a name you it's like naming your ship the titanic why would you want to hit your wagon of that monica i guess so i don't know i know i know no one from newark so maybe that place is awesome now it's just always screwed in tv and stuff no it's it's always a mob thing right new work the airport's just a just a very industrial area that uh not represented the great state the garden state of new jersey all right balls in your court, New Jerseyans, send us your rebuttals. Prove me wrong.

Anyway, it says 20 minutes of that is in Maryland. So my commute spans three states. Gotta love the East Coast geography. Love the show, though. Yeah, that's crazy to think you go through three states every day, just a commute. And some of that is Amish. That's awesome. That's great.

Yeah, right. That's so cool. You have to honk behind a pulled wagon sometimes. Time for milking. Anyway. Why is he drinking a mountain, do? By the way, by the way, if you want to, to be like musical chemist. Do you want to send in your thoughts? You're like, man, I love Newark,

New Jersey. You guys are crazy. That's fine. Send them in 801-471-0462 and let us know what you think about anything. All right. Brian, we got to get out of here. Do you have a song? I have a song. Holy cow, it's already after 11. My gosh, that's crazy. Luke, also in Pennsylvania, I don't know if he's an Amish country, says, hey, Scooter and Beaker. For the umpteenth time, I'm requesting a cover for my birthday, but with a twist. My girlfriend's 40th birthday is three days before mine, so this request is for both of us. Oh, you know what? You're getting this one.

Happy birthday. Oh, 40. You know, I don't know. We did a 47-year-old. You said they were young a couple days ago. That's true. I give you both. Let's party.

But with a touch of. There you go. Nicely done. Wow, very good. Can I get the Darius record chicken sandwich shingle? I didn't see that they'd requested that as well. I think I have that right here. The Tendicus, bacon, cheddar, ranch.

There you go. I haven't heard that in a while. Not in a long time. Luke says, I always request a cover of a queen's song, and I'm leaving it to the master to choose. Thank you both for the things you do and to the best, most caring community, the Tadpool.

Love the show, though, signed Luke, a.k.a.a. whatnot. Nice. Yeah, we love you. Happy birthday, guys. Let's get to this. this is a queen cover that came out last year. Great album that was released by the Zach Brown Band,

a collection of covers that they've done in concert. And one of the ones they do in concert, they take on the challenge that is known as Bohemian Rhapsody. Here is the Zach Brown Band. Is this a real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landisthine. Stay from reality, open your eyes, look up to the skies and see.

I'm just a fool, boy, I need no sympathy, because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low, any way the wind blows doesn't really matter, To me To me To me Mama Just killed a man Put a gun against his head Pulled my trigger now he's dead

Mama Life has just begun But now I've gone and thrown it all the way. Mama, ooh, didn't mean to make you cry if I'm not back again this time tomorrow. Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really mattered. It's too late my time has come since shivers down my spine.

Body's aching all the time. Goodbye, everybody. I've got to go. Gotta leave you all behind me. be faced in truth My moon I don't want to die sometimes wished I'd never been born at all

I see a little silhouetteo of a man scaramose will you do the bandando thunderbolts and lightning very very bright be Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, Pegaloo My name be go I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me He's just a poor boy from a poor family He's just like from his parts of the tree Easy come, easy go, you let me go Bishmilla, no, we will not let you go

Bess Miller, we will not let you go Ballylla, we will not let you go, Bess mella, we will not let you go, Bamilla, we will not let you go, will not let me go, We'll not let you go. Never, never, never, never, never let me go. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Mama Mia, Mama Mia, let me go. Mia, she's both has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me, for me.

in my eye So you think you can love me and leave me to die Oh baby Can't do this to me, baby Just gotta get out Just gotta get right out of me Oh, yeah, oh yeah. Oh, yeah.

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