The Morning Stream - TMS 2600: Fob Dylan

Episode Date: February 14, 2024

I don't like runny Beeeeeeer! Utah Disconnection! Doing hard brain shit. One-Drink Memory Lubrication. You can't eat when you're her. Pregnant Breakfast Evil Twin. Atari, Atari, I love you Atari. You get no pressure, no prize, and no Lieutenant Yar!!! Dunaway is used to the fart smell. What was the name of the high school in Fast Times at Richmont High? 50 lbs of illegal gum. Doublemint Dave Rides Again. I did Moonlighting, I'm leaving. Zuckerberg endorses Vision Pro, with Tom. A pile of Miracles with Randy And Nichole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Atari, Atari. I love you. Atari. You get no pressure. sorry, talked over you. You get no pressure, no prize, and no Lieutenant Yard. Dunaway's used to the fart smell. What was the name of the high school and fast times of Regmont High? 50 pounds of illegal gum. Doubleman Dave rides again.

I did moonlighting. I'm leaving. Zuckerberg endorses vision pro with Tom. A pile of miracles with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of the morning stream. I looked at his face and all I wanted to do was to slap him. I have three and I don't know who to give it to, so I just do any mini-money mode. That's the best way. The morning stream.

Am I still here? Hello. Two morning streams for the price of one. nicely done Fletcher it's my fault hey everybody welcome to TMS it's the morning stream for February 12th 14th sorry it's not the 12th that's

two days ago it's the 14th I don't know why I did that it is 2024 though and I'm Scott that it is correct yes hi Brian good morning how are you oh hi you guys good we have to play this it's happy 2600 day yeah 2600th episode

of the show that's right my I got my joystick right here, my 2,600 joystick. Nice. And I've got a fine collection. Oh, suck it done away. Look at my fine collection of Atari, Retro Atari games. Oh, my gosh.

Yars Revenge, berserk, asteroids, Pac-Man. You got them all. Oh, that Pac-Man. So worst Pac-Man, worst Pac-Man port of all time. It's so bad. It's got those long... Without a doubt. Even on the cover, he's eating big, long...

long bars. They're not even circles. No, they're, they're bars. They couldn't manage dots. It's like he's actually what he's he's about to reach and grab a pez is what he's about to do. Yeah, and it's going to go bad for him, you know. Three ghosts of all the same color. There's no

there's no red. There's no inky, binky, pinky and clad. I think they're all pinkie. That's right. Yeah, pinky. If you don't like pinky, sad news, everyone. That's all you get in that dumb stupid game. Oh yeah. Sorry, one more day on the They'll sign up for the pond, by the way, folks. I was hoping to get it done last night. I did not. We had to run off to Puzzled Pint.

If you follow me on Be Real, you saw Tina and I scratching our heads on the final puzzle. What was it? What was the gist of it? The gist of it was, all right, you've got a four by four, I'm sorry, five by five grid. Okay. And you've got 10 clues, almost like crossword-style clues, that have answers, and they tell you the number of letters in brackets. And all of those words, when you pair them down, are really just made up of five letters. So the word filling, for example, F-I-L-I-N-G, you can spell that with F-I-L-N-G, right?

So it's just those five letters. Sure. So every answer had a word that you could get down to five letters. And still have it be pronounceable as the idea? Like it's still phonetic? No. No. No.

Okay. Then each row and column had a number on it, on both ends, that told you how many letters you could see if you were standing at the edge of that column and looking with the knowledge that as you, go through the alphabet, A is the shortest letter and Z is the tallest letter. So if you look at the word high, H-I, you would see both the H and the I because the I is taller than the H, right? So you'd see two letters.

But if you looked at it from the other direction, you'd only see the I because it's taller than the H. So you had to arrange those five letters in order. So like if it told you, you could see three letters. Well, you know you can see three. You don't know which three, but you know that you know that you won't get the letters in alphabetical order because then you'd see all five letters. And you know, the highest, the tallest letter wouldn't be the closest one because then you'd only see one letter. It's just devious sounding.

It really was. And then you had to make all five clues, all five clue words, anagrams of them fit in that box. So even if it's, you know, filling, which is, like I said, F-I-L-N-G doesn't mean that the letters were in that order. order. As a matter of fact, the letters were hardly ever in that order in the grid. So you had to figure out, okay, it's going to be G-N-I-L-F so you can see these letters in the order. Wow. That's cool, dude. That's cool. That's hard. It's a fantastic set of puzzles last night. We tackled it in 90 minutes. I think we were first. We were fastest. Because we left before anybody else. One team left and just said, we're bashing our heads against this.

we're leaving and just handed their clue packet back to the puzzle runners to what happens then they just go to another bar and try again or what's the plan just go home no no no they just go next next month and try it again they just you know sometimes the packet just isn't uh you don't connect with it for whatever reason i get it that's cool mac addict 89 that is not that is nothing to do with the pond the pond is a trivia game back and forth trivia game this is this is puzzle pint this is the thing i do on uh the second tuesday of every month and uh um it's so much fun it's it feels like it's staving off alzheimer's for another year every every time i go

it's a good idea though pushing things off yeah do do hard brain shit sometimes it helps yep and it's in every it's in just about every city so if you go to puzzle pint dot com you can see if it's in your city and there's no there really is no pressure to be fastest it it there's no prize there's no um you can go up to the clue masters and uh the puzzle master's and just say, hey, we're really struggling with puzzle number two. Here's what we got so far. And they'll nudge you in the right direction. There's no, you know, you can use your phones.

You can use anything you bring. It's not like a pub trivia where you're lucked and you get no clues or anything. Does the drinking help or hinder your ability to solve these puzzles, do you think? One drink helps because it kind of lubricates the memory. Sure. Yeah. Makes you chill a little bit, you know, relax. It makes you chill a little bit and you don't, you know,

that thing that you and I both do, where we struggle so hard to remember something that... I hate that. Yeah, that it blocks it out. Multiple drinks do not help. So I had a lovely... Oh, what was it? It was a... It was an ale.

It was a gram cracker... Oh. ...ail. Cinnamon grahamcracker ale. So a little sweet, but not super sweet at all. Like a really... nice. I don't know. This was a perfect level of of sweetness. Love those. There's another place in town that has a

gram crack reporter that is fantastic. Denver beer company has a gram crack reporter. So this isn't like unusual. This is a thing people make. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you go to these breweries and you get your standard like, you know, IPAs and your regular beers and stuff. But they always have these like unusual. Here's a coffee stout. Lots of places, by the way, I have coffee stout. Yeah.

A lot of good coffee stout. And stouts are, those are thick, right? They're thick. They're dark, dark beers, yes. Yeah, that's a beer you can chew right there. That's what you got there. Exactly. That beer is a meal.

That's a preference of mine. I like stouts. I like, I like Guinness. I like dark beers. I like a beer so dark you can't see through it. You don't like a runny Coors or something. I don't know. Oh, I definitely don't like. I mean, beers are runny. I don't want a thick beer. I don't want a thickened beer. Thank you. No thickened beer. Oh, yeah, not right. Thicken liquid. You don't want that.

Yeah, I don't want that at all. All beers should be runny, but I don't, the less clear the better. The more opaque, the better for me. Bears should be liquid, it turns out. Correct. All right. You don't want to come out of the bottle like a, like a freaking cranberry. Like Ed Jemima pancake beer That's not what I want Oh that sounds awful Good Lord No baby yet by the way

Sorry everyone I kind of jump the gun So the long or the short of it She is such a pest Oh she's just blocking the entrance really It's what's going on Yeah yeah No this was all due to the hospital The hospital they called

They were supposed to go in yesterday early Like 70 a.m. And when I was on the show I figured they'd been there couple hours already yeah when i was telling everybody about it but um what happened is they called them and said since you're being induced and not you're not actively in laborer that pushes you down slots if there are women who are in natural labor and it's time and you get bumped basically wow wow so um velvet rope at the uh the hospital yeah they only have so much room i guess in

this place and she really likes this doctor so that's why she's going there yeah um but this hot hospital called and said, yeah, you're, you just got knocked down. So there's a couple of ladies, they came in. They had all day labor. So they were like, we'll call you when, you know, we're good. They called and checked a couple of times. And they kept calling them and saying, yeah, we're still hoping for a slot and all this. Just never happened.

So now it's this morning, I think an hour from now they go in. And so they're coming here. Kim's going to make him breakfast and can't eat when you're her. But they're going to, they won't let you eat or else you're going to have a eat when you're her yeah you're gonna have if you're pregnant and you're and you're gonna have a you're gonna have a sorry a guitarist from ushers a half time especially you just can't eat when you're no but you also have you'll have an evil twin and you don't want that if you know what i'll say that's a thing anyway so sir having you we'll have to talk i'm not sure yeah if

you all here i'll explain it in simple terms if you eat before birth birthing yeah you have a chance of pooping on that table i see what you're saying that's the Evil twin. Okay. Gotcha. That's the deal. Anyway, you don't want that. I knew someone who had that and that was not a fun time. Anyway, point is they're going to come here and hang out for a bit. They'll be gone by the time the show's over. But today should be the day. All right. So, Valentine's Day. Oh, yeah. No kidding. Wow. Valentine, baby. Valentine's Day, 2600 day. Like, there's so much to celebrate today. I mean, it's only 2600 day for us. That's true. For this show. To all who celebrate, we're with you, okay? But from now on, especially for those of you who don't celebrate Valentine's Day, like Tina and I. Yeah, we don't either really.

Kim does, but I don't. It's a long story. Have you been getting your, have you been getting your post-it notes all over? She does the little 14-day, bring me a little note, and then sometimes a little treat or a little thing or whatever. She's very good. She loves doing it, and she doesn't even care about this holiday either. She knows it's like this corporate-driven, freaking Hallmark card bullshit. She knows.

But she just loves an excuse to do this sweet little thing. And I, in the other hand, I'm terrible with these things, so I don't participate. But I do try to, you know, reciprocate in other ways during the year, like you guys do. It's like that. Yes, exactly. Exactly. That's what we do. By the way, I think the stream just went down.

Well, that isn't good at all. What happened there? Let's find out what's happening there, because that isn't good. What's up? Okay, we're back, everybody. It was temporary, a temporary outage. Yeah, that seems to be an intake server thing because it's full speed ahead now. Good.

Anyway, Brian, we've got a call about your point system. Okay. I can't remember what this is. Oh, this is about, it's probably about the game on Monday and how difficult things are or viewed or something. Something to that effect. I think it's a Monday thing. But anyway, let's play it, see what they have to say. Hey, there, Scott and Brian.

This is Bob Dylan calling into TMS. That's terrible Bob Dylan. Just to see that Brian needs to do a better job at announcing the points in the game. It's very hard to know what the hell is going on when all you hear is the ding. And you don't know how many points were scored. Oh, yeah. These me all tangled up in blue. Oh, geez.

Anyway, I love the show, though. Yeah. All right. Two things. One, fine observation, whatever, you know, it's a little tricky to follow. But number two, that's the worst Bob Dylan I've ever heard of my freaking life. There's a little bit of nuance with the Bob Dylan. You can't just, yeah, you can't, it's not just every word ends with it.

Yeah. Oh, mama, this can't be the air. Yeah. By the way, done again. Is it? No, it's showing full speed here, no frames lost. Oh, okay. Never mind.

Oh, Jeannie says, and back on, so never mind it's bad. Okay, yeah, we should be okay. Sorry about that. All good. Tedpool, don't give it a second before you freak me out because I interrupt Scott and the things we're talking about. Yeah, and we don't want you to be without the show, but, you know, just do whatever you do, people. Yeah. All right.

Thanks, Bob, not real Bob Dylan. You think it's not Bob Dylan. Yeah. That was weird. But, yeah, no, you know, it's a really good point because I do, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I try to remember it always say, oh, we're going into round two. Scott's got this.

Brian's got that. And I'm really bad at, really bad at doing that. So thank you, Fobb, Fob Dylan. And we'll try to... We're going to do our best, right?

You're our best to remember to do it. Yep, we are. Now we're going to add Dunaway to the call and we're going to play a game. I already have a third caller, so nobody call in yet or again, because I've already got one. I'll be bringing them in shortly.

So don't worry. That music signifies the arrival of one Brian Dunaway. Hi, Brian. How you doing? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I love I could tell you're having technical problems because you didn't sing the song with joy this time. He said, eh, eh, eh, and, eh, and, eh. Well, when something goes weird, you're like, oh, shit, is it going to happen again? Now I'm paranoid about it.

Yeah, so I'm watching this, like, bitrate, making sure it doesn't get screwy. it looks like it's holding so everything should be fine uh it's good to have you here dude we should call you shock effect number number six yeah number six yeah nicely done how does that how's that feel to be right behind me though how's that feel I'm used to this fart smell oh this normal it's normal actually maybe you can confirm this to me do the other top people the top four are they all playing at weird times of the day and beating bots all night that kind of thing? Or are they, is this just from the big human-on-human matches? No, we've, I've played these people.

Though, these, all those names up there are really good players. Okay. They are all way better than me. Okay. And they usually only play, um, when, when everybody's online. Okay. And we can actually, we can actually pull, um, we can, uh, change those stats and we can tell it not to count bot kills. You should do that. Uh, yeah, we will. We was waiting for enough people to get involved. And now there's enough people. Yeah, there's plenty enough people oh there's way enough there are people waiting so i can't just log in on off hours and just kill bots and uh and help uh get my score up there nope it'll help your score because you'll be better when you play well that's true oh you know what nowhere to go nowhere to go but up for me that's a great way to look at it i like that a lot yeah um all right but we're gonna pring it pring we're gonna pring we're gonna pring them on in you're gonna be really disappointing when you try to log into the to the to the ms game thing because mine's giving me an air Oh, let me. I bet it's me. Oh, no, it should be fine. Okay, now it's going. Now it's going. I just hit a refresh. Now it's going. Oh, okay. Oh, I see you too. Shut up. Yeah, shut the hell up. I was, I was thinking those tech issues. Oh, you're, we know. Hey, let's go buttholes herself. It's Sarah. It's a show joe beat. Hi. Hi, Jojo. How are you? Yeah, we can. You mean's butt holes. Can you hear me? Yeah, we can. You sound great. How are you doing? I just ran back in the house because my dog needed to poop and I was like, hurry up.

Oh, shit. Yeah, we almost missed you. Well, I'm glad it worked out. Are you still, you're like swimming in TikTok money now, right? Because they just love you over there. They're just sending you cash, hand over fist. I wish. Hand over fist. Yeah, that's a shame that you're doing so well.

Pickover talk. Yeah. No, her TikTok is amazing. People should follow it. Even if you don't play Wow or whatever, you should just follow her TikTok. It's amazing. Agreed. You know, Shogho, if you were standing on the strip right now underneath the canes, the raising cane sign, I'd be able to wave to you. I'd be able to see you. but I've got that live webcam thing going on my screen for a while instead of my front door cam,

just because it's getting me in the mood for TMS Vegas, so I've just got this up. And the weather's so much better than the other time we were looking at it. It was all rainy. It is. Yeah, exactly. It's all sunny. Yeah. There's a bunch of sad 49ers wearing the jersey wearing people on the strip, slowly, looking down at the ground, slowly.

just making it away. Rude. I'm going to have to pull one of these up. I like this crap. Well, anyway, Sarah, you're in line to win some additional game properties today if you can pull this off. Brian, why don't you explain to us and her and the world at large how this works, please? Okay. It's time to play the tadpooly feud.

I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian can have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Sarah, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian and if your team wins your tired thumbs will get a prize package that includes some more Scott and Carter signed

free comic book day prints. I don't know if there's some you don't have but you can complete your collection if there are any you're missing. Yeah, are you missing any Sarah? Do you have all or none? Most likely not because Danny will absolutely grab one of each of whatever. Oh, good.

Okay. I'll get with after the game and you can choose which ones you want. Yeah. If you win. Oh, yeah, that's right. You have to win first. That's right. In order to win, we have to play. In order to play, I have to give you guys a topic. So please put your hands on your buzzards and get ready to answer this.

We asked 455 tadpoolers to name a well-known fictional high school. Yeah, Brian? Riverdale. Damn it. Somebody I think has been looking ahead at the

the questions. Riverdale's on there. Seven. I heard almost all the question. I heard you say hi. When you got to high, I was like, oh, he's going to say high school. Indeed.

Yeah, name a well-known fictional high school. Six answers will beat it, Scott. I just hit me that I don't know if this is fictional or not, but I'm going to say, oh, shit. The one that, can I be vague, like, because I don't know.

the name, but I know the movie. Will that work? Okay. Yeah, tell me. Yeah, tell me. All right. Let's do Breakfast Club High School. Just remember, this will be your partner if he gets it. I'm just saying. That's right. Yeah. Do you remember the city? All those movies took place?

Chicago. Always Chicago. No, well, not quite Chicago. Outside of Chicago. Shermer, Illinois. Shermer High School. Show me, Shermer. Number six. Shermer. Beat you by one down away. 16 candles, breakfast club, barely. Bueller's day off, yeah.

Six and seven. Scott's butt. Yep, that's right. All right. So, Sarah, you're going to get Scott as a partner. Good luck with that. But you already come into this with six points. Let's see how many more you guys can rack up.

Sarah, you got any popping up already? Okay, so it's fictional high school. It doesn't matter if it's a movie, comic. No. Correct. Okay. TV, video, game, movie, the magic. visionary book, whatever, yeah.

Because someone buzzed in early, whatever. You know what? I think my answer was, I don't know if this counts, but I put Hogwarts. Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. Shit, of course. Oh, of course it does. Absolutely it does.

They're in high school. Yeah, it's kind of a coverage of, I think they do like junior high age up through high school, but still, I think that fits. Let's do it. Hogwarts. All right, show me. Hogwarts.

Yeah. Number five, giving you guys 11 points. 11 points for Scott and Sarah, 11 points. Going into the next question, they have 11 points. All right. What else can we think of here? How do we like... You ever heard of it?

I don't even know what this is from. Sweet Valley High. Does anyone know what that's from? Oh, yeah. That's a movie, right? Is it? I can't think of what that's from, but it's ringing. a series of books maybe movie

I think so yeah I don't like how Brian sounds right right you shouldn't be allowed to talk do you have do you have anything you think might be better or hotter on the deal

hotter hotter god I really oh I don't know if this is fictional we could do the Spacoli one the yeah from that movie from what was that called?

The one with everyone's favorite red swimsuit coming off. I'm going to get about my chances here with Johnson not being able to name a single school yet. All right, the Spicoli. You know what? Let's do that one, because I think we got a lot of fans out there. Let's do the Spicoli School.

I cannot remember the name of the movie. We can't even come up with the name of the movie. Exactly. That's exactly what I can do it. I can do it. It's the name of the game movie. I almost feel like, come on. We got to have something here.

Spicoli. Colise High School. No. We have to have the high school, don't we? At least. You can help, Jojo, if you know it. Well, because I think I'm alone in this,

because this is from, like, a series of dolls that turned into a television show on Netflix. But it's Ever After High? She's going to, she's going to counter to the Johnson. All right. You know what? I'll try it. What did you call it?

What was the name? Ever after High. Ever after High? It's kind of like. monster high, but it's like fairy tale. Okay. All right. Cool. All right. Show me ever after

high. Damn it. I know. It's not going to be good. Now that I just said, Monster High. I was like, cool. Yeah. Let's see. I'm not even saying, I don't think anybody said ever after

high in the tadpole. Everybody has a tail and Ibbots is when he says cool. When he says cool. Yeah, cool. Say that. All right, cool. Yeah, it's funny. I get, like, and Claire's like, wait, now all of a sudden you're not going to accept the high school from that one thing?

No, he's got to get at least something more than just, you know, one character's last name. I think that's fair. That's fair. He went to school. You know what I'm talking about. I now remember the name of that high school, but I'll wait for our turn because Brian's time now. Brian, what have you got? See, now I want to take it.

Now I know the name of it and I want to say it, but that's not the one I was going to answer with it because I thought he would get it. Well, you do whatever you want. Yeah. you're number six I steal it from you regardless that's what I want I want you to lose so I'm going to go

I'm going to fast times at Ridgemont High God deliver my pizza baby son of a bitch isn't it isn't it our time Mr. Hand yeah show me Richmond High

shoot that's right yeah why couldn't I think of that until it was over like here's what I'll just say bottom line if you can't give me the high school you have to at least be able to

effectively name the movie or show or book or whatever that he came from. Yeah, which ironically in this case... At least the movie title. Yeah, which in this case is both. Because Ridgemont High is the title and the high school. Wasn't there a movie about a high school at Richmond High called Fast Time something? Yeah.

Yes. It's pretty dumb. I admit it. Should just ask, name a movie that has a high school in it that people like. That should be a question maybe. Yeah. Exactly. All right.

Brian, you get control of the board. By the way, you've got 11 points as well. Both players are tied with 11. points. See what I'm doing there? See what I'm doing? I see what you've done. Now, since I can only think of one more actual, well, I might have two.

I can think of at least one more real name high school. And I want to stick with my real name high schools for I start willy-nilly naming movies. So I'm going to go with Wagstaff from Boss Burgers because I've been watching, I've been running through that again. And they did the whole, they did the whole, I had to do the, the song. Oh. The episode I was watched.

Is that when she had diarrhea and she was on a trampoline? I love that one. Oh my God. That is such a funny episode. Oh my gosh. That's so good. I love that show. All right.

All right. Wagstaff High School. Waxstaff. All right. Show me Wagstaff. I think Waxstaff's a junior high, isn't it? Is it junior high? I think it is a junior high.

You know, it may be. You might be right. I think they're all too young for it. Nobody's in high school. Yeah. You're right. You're right. But again, it doesn't matter if it's right or not.

It depends on what the tadpool says. At least it was an actual movie or school name. Nobody said like stuff, surprisingly. I thought, based on the property, yeah, based on the IP, I thought. I don't know you people. Sarah, how do you feel about the school from high school musical? Yes, I was going to say that. Okay.

It's called high school musical high. It's called. High school musical high. That was filmed here, and my Korean brother and his kids are, in it. So if you ever see some Koreans in the first high school musical, those are my, that's my brother and his kids. Anyway, high school

musical. All right. All right, let's do it. Show me East High School, the high school from high school musical. I said high school a lot of times. Oh, really? Are you kidding? Number 14. Number 14 in the list. Again, it had a really

strong showing when I was at the top of list and then it just got appeared out when I sorted everything. Like, wow, I'm surprised this is this isn't higher. So, yeah. All right. What else you got, Donaway?

I'm going with, I'm going to go, how about Buffy's high school? It doesn't sound right. Is it Sunnydale? Is that the right one? Or am I getting that wrong? Something like that.

Okay, Buffy. Buffy's high school. And Sunday Dale, I'll tell you right now, Sunnydale is correct, yes. All right, show me. Show me Sunnydale High School. Oh my gosh.

After on the board. Get out of here. That's what I say. Get out of here. I'd say, get out of here, buttholes. That's what I'd say. All right. Keep going, Mr. Winner.

Chicken dinner. And you're leading by one point. The only other school I can, I'm really trying to think of, ah, it's a real, it's a real pee wagon, that place.

I can't think of the, I'm trying to think of the, I'm trying to think in the song. if they ever say it. So Greece, Greece is the word, but the school name is a bird. Okay, now I say, yes.

Oh, I'm trying to, I can't, I can't remember name of the school. I feel bad. Well, you could come up with the name of the movie or the, you or the play that it comes from. Show me, Rydell High. Rydell, that's it. That's it.

Rydell High. And it's number two. Number two on this. Nice. Right now. But hole. For real. Oh, my God.

I know, right? I'm shocked by these. For some reason, it always seems like it's musicals and stuff that really trigger my memory for high schools. So I'm going to keep going with that. I'm going to keep going with that. And I can't remember the name of the school in fame. I'm going to live forever. Yeah.

That's like grease light, right? It's grease lightning. Yes. Yes, it's grease lightning. Yeah. All right. What's the name of that school? All right.

Give me the, New York School of Arts. Yeah, there you go. Is it just your school of arts? They're all this? New York School of Arts. Yeah, I think so. All right.

That's not high school then, is it? Depends on what the Tadpool says, right? All right. Let's do it again. Let's see what they get. Okay. Show me the School from Fame. Oh.

Yeah, I was making up the name because I didn't want to, like, lead you in saying, oh, I can't remember what that's called because that sure as hell would have made you not choose it. Cool. Cool. Cool. that's interesting that's too old for a lot of our crowd i think that's an old yeah greece is not yeah that's good point yeah grease is older than fame that's true but grease has more reach i think i think it had a big impact um all right how about all right last strike for both of you

by the way currently brian's leading 14 to 11 stuck it johnson suck my my butt there you go there are like chill out butthole okay there are like three other things I could think of off the pap that all of them feel wrong how do you feel about another John Hughes movie like say oh like Ferris Bueller's day off high school oh we didn't mention okay I was going to bring up something else no what you got tell me what you have it's okay if we commiserate here the high school that the saved by the bell kids went to what's that one called oh oh I know this one saved by the bell high school that's the one

You know what? That feels right because there's a lot of 90s kids in here. I can probably think of that school name, too, if I can just. It's called waste of your time, high school. It's called Always on TBS. No matter what time of day, you turn on TBS. Let's try it. Sarah, I like it.

Are you cool with it? Let's do it. Syndicated side. Show me Bayside High School. Oh, it's on there. Number three, tying things back up at 14 each. And I will let you know, if you look at answer number six, that might steer you away from choosing another John Hughes film.

Oh, interesting. Really? Yeah, what is answer number six? John Hughes movies. Oh, because they're all in that damn school. They're all Shermer High School. So I'm saving you from, really I'm doing this for show, Joe. Cool.

I forgot they were all in this. read i swear um all right four answers left on the board all the i'm sorry three answers left on the board all the big money eight nine and ten somebody needs to there everybody's on their last strike tied up at 14 yeah i don't know what to do here i don't okay there's so many like you can say it's been so long since either of you've been in high school hasn't it yeah it's been a bit so i mean here's the thing you know you guys are both on your last strike i don't think there's any detriment to talking about answers that you, you know, if you give away an answer, it's not like you'll get to use it a second time. So, so you feel free to talk about answers that you like. And I bring up

like Monster High, that's a little bit more popular, I guess. Oh, that's from Monsters Inc. Is that the one? No, no, no. No, that's the, sorry, Monster University. That was college. Never mind. I get that wrong. What's the, what's Monster High? I don't know what that is. Monster High Oh, you've never seen Monster The dolls It's the Dolls It's the Monster High dolls

Oh They're purple and black Okay They're all the makeup on Very emo Yeah the goth All right Hey I'll go with your wisdom

Here Sarah I don't have any I have no goose In this game Sarah I'm gonna go with Monster High final answer All right

Show me Monster High And those weird Gothy dolls Oh I know that was I think somebody did say that one. That was tied for 27th. Damn.

Other answers. There we haven't heard of that. All right, Dunaway. It's yours to lose or buzz and then... If there is a tie, the tie goes to the caller. So if you get this wrong, Brian, Sarah wins. Yeah, Sarah wins either way. Yeah, get it wrong. Get it wrong. Yeah, get it wrong, dude.

No pressure. Thanks. You know, don't throw it or anything, but, you know. Well, let's go to Barbie High. No, I'm kidding. I would like to go. Does she even go to high school? She was a dropout. I'm going to go with... She took the GED.

How about we go with some... I think you're right with the 90s kids. How about some Gravity Falls high? How about that? Oh, yeah. My daughter loves that. I've been watching Kim Possible and Gravity Falls. Gravity Falls is a couple of DVDs.

That's a 2000s thing, but sure. I just don't have any time to watch anything, usually watch anything that I've seen before. Usually, there's usually a comfort thing in the back pocket, but... Yeah. All right, Gravity Falls High School. Oh. I'm not going to say you threw the game there, Brian, but it sure feels like you through the game. And that's really nice of you to do such a thing.

And the winner, through Ty, is Sarah. Yeah, also. Or I'm sorry, Shogho. You probably don't want me to reveal your real name. Docs. That's right. Oh, fine. Her real name is Sarah.

We've been saying Sarah the whole time. It's fine. Yeah. All right. So that means there are three answers up here you guys didn't pick. I've been seeing a couple of them in the chat. So the two that I've been seeing are number nine. Degrassi.

Oh, Degrassi. Drake, I think, went there. That's all I know. Anything I know about that is that they're like 18 television series about that. And I haven't seen a single episode. Yeah, they're all Canadian and it's a junior high. But good job, Tadpole. Oh, is it a junior?

I've never heard of it. I've never heard of it. That's right. All right. And this football. team rules from what I do. Yeah. Yeah. St. Deba's high school football rules.

Oh, duh. That's a good one. Now, number eight, it surprised me because it's like, wow, this feels like it's, it should be lower on the list than a lot of the other ones that gave you guys strikes. Number eight is

Sky High. Oh, the movie Sky High. The movie, the TV or the movie with the superhero kids. They had such a great soundtrack. Scott, um, uh, what's his name in it? Yeah. It does.

For Russell. Star Lord's dad was in it. He's great. All right. Let's tell you about some of the ones that you missed. Hawkins High School. That's Stranger Things. Hill Valley High School from back to the future. Sweet Valley High was on the list, number 13. Sunny Vale High School, which I'm wondering if people meant Sunny Dale, but I looked it up. And there is a Sunny Vale in a couple of horror films and things.

So I was like, no, I probably meant Sunny Dale, but probably not. James Woods High School, which is now called Adam West High School. school. That's right. The family guy. That's right. Midtown High School, where Spider-Man was on my shirt, went. Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. Okay, sure. It's kind of a K-12, but we'll take it. So is Hogwarts, by the way. It's K-12. Angel Grove High from Power Rangers, Beverly Hills High, from the show of the same name. Dylan High School from Friday Night Lights.

Smallville High School. Springfield Elementary. Two people. Two people said Springfield Elementary. good job yeah well done they even said elementary obviously you didn't go to high school uh video game high school apparently it's a new show that's on right now uh no i don'tson alcott high canterlot high uh chilton from gilmore girls uh oh chris high school from uh twilight i guess there's somebody put glee high school i don't know what glee high school is

no it's the glee show the glee series yeah i mean i know that but it's not called. I don't know, I don't know what that high school is called. I do know what Glee is. Yeah. Gross point. Yeah, gross point, baby. One person, so it wouldn't have given you any points. Jefferson from Happy Days. Let's see, Pretty and Pink Meadowbrook High School. So apparently she

did not, in that John Hughes film, did not go to Shermer. Oh, all right. Oceanside High School from Veronica Mars. Reginald Val Johnson High School. Let's see, Tom Landry, I guess it's Landry High School from King of the Hill. Nobody did Professor X's school for the gifted one. That's what he did earlier.

That was late. Did you do that one routine? Oh, okay. They specialize in the red light, the on-air red light. Trump Academy, Twin Peaks High School. I'm sorry. Someone said Trump Academy? Someone put that in me?

Somebody said Trump Academy. Is that a, oh, nice. Well, it's a, it's a quote-unquote, it was a quote-unquote a real college, but I don't know if they're still in existence, bankruptcy, I think. Yeah, they specialize in bankruptcy certification. By the way, Dunaway, for the record, I don't know why you think Gravity Falls is in the 90s. It aired from 2012 to 2016, so there's that.

I said, I've been watching some 90s show. I got Kim Possible and I've been watching Gravity Falls. Oh, you meant separately. I'm sorry, I did not put all the punctuation in my language. this is why you're behind me in Unreal Apologies grammar and Nazi from 10 minutes ago couldn't really count I was so hung up on that missed the other part

with the red on their air like couldn't get looking it up That's right Congratulations I'm playing this with or without you You're a winner Hey Sarah that means you've won That means you get to choose which card you want

And then you can put them in some special place So when me and Carter die In a horrible plane crash You'll have these like mementos of our time I have a lot Yeah Yeah, it's going to be great. You were fantastic, as always, and let's go buttholes.

Let's go buttholes. Hey, Dunaway, this weekend, you and I are going to be sitting down talking about black and white. If you don't know what that is. Yep, 2001, which is about when Kim Possible came out. Yeah, that's right. This is an old game on the PC where if you chose the monkey, he would throw his poo at your villagers. I prefer a cow myself. The cow is more amusing a movie.

the poo, huh? I like it all right. It was okay. Lionhead Studios. We've talked about them before with some other games, but this is going to be a interesting one because black and white happened. It was a massive hit, both critically and from the players. However, it all stopped, and we're going to figure out why.

Yeah. No, nobody is, it's never been released online, and we'll talk more about why it has not and why it's so hard to get now. Yeah, we can't. You can't even go to good old games and get it, can you? You're screwed. No, you cannot. No. That's effed. That's effed. That's effed up, is what that is.

Anyway, we'll talk more about it on this Friday, 1.30 p.m. Mountain Time for our episode of Play Retro. And we'll probably play a little Unreal Tournament after that. So if you guys want to check that out, sign up today. Get in there and try to beat our top scores over at RetroGib.com. Retro Gid.com. Brian Donnerway, kiss our butts. No, you.

He was very quick with the number. He was ready. He didn't want to get cut off. Yeah. That was impressive. All right. we are going to do a little bit of news and we're going to do it right freaking now.

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He's a great dude. All right, Benjin sent this story in. via the Discord Benjian, thank you for this. 50 pounds of prohibited gum has been scraped off the Red Rock's amphitheater seats in 2023. Brian's, this hits right at home for you.

Well, you know, it hits home and just ashamed of people. People, it's probably just one dude too. Have you, only asked you an honest question. There's a lot of concerts and leaves it at Red Rocks. Now, when you were young, was there ever a time where you left some gum under a table or a chair or something like that?

No. Uh-uh. Never. I would swallow it rather than vandalize something by leaving it there. Well, I'll tell you, with one exception, and this is gross, so what gross scat-out the most is about to happen. Let's do it. We have an amusement park or still have it. It's called Eelich Gardens, and it used to be in a different part of town.

They moved it to now more central, closer to downtown, downtown Denver, Eelich Gardens. and they have a log flume ride and when you walked up the stairs to get onto the log flume ride there was a tree that everybody could reach from the decking and the stairs that led to the log flume and people would stick their gum

to this tree to the point where you could not see the bark of the tree because it was covered with gum of every color, pink, blue, red, green, whatever. And I did stick. my gum to that tree. It's like the wall in Seattle.

Same kind of thing, right? They do that there. They have a wall there. Do people do that to a wall in Seattle? Yeah, and I've seen a horrible video where a girl got dared to go just lick the wall of gum. Bio Cow says two words, Seattle gum wall. Yeah, that's it. Thank you.

That's three words, but I love it. Thank you, BioCow. Yeah, thank you, BioCow. But, yeah, that gum wall, if you look up, you can find these videos. There are people that dare each other to just lick the wall. oh god oh you've sent me you tweeted this or something and just said it's so gross yeah i can't do that anymore it's horrible yeah no yeah and one of those one of those pieces of gum is my i'm pretty sure one of those pieces of gum is my son nix he went and did that put some gum on there sure sure when

you're looking that wall you're looking him i'll bet you uh you could ask a hundred people from denver who went to the eulches at its old location and uh 99 of them would say that they stuck a piece of gum to the gum tree outside the splinter. That was what that ride was called. Is that tree okay today? I have no idea because that's now apartments. The old location of villages and now townhomes and apartments

and stuff and retail. The new location has no tree close to any of the rides. That's not good. I just don't think the tree itself is going to last long covered in gum. No, no. I mean, the leaves still can get their sunlight and make their chlorophyll and do

their whole thing that they need to do, but there's got to be something with that stuff going into the park. I don't know. When we scientifically find out, we verify that plants hurt when we cut them. I want to know what that tree's thinking, you know? Because you'll find out, oh, the grass.

You all suck in your stupid ass gum. Because every time we mow the lawn, it's like little bitty screams, ah, little blades of grass, right? Or a tree cut off the limb. Oh, you cut off my arm. And we don't know they hurt, but then one day we'll find out, and then someone's going to ask that tree. They're going to say, hey, gum tree. how's this feel?

How did you feel about all that stuff? It just won't even know. It won't even be able to talk. It can't even get boards out. It's a disgusting. Would you do that to an end to Lord of the Rings? No, I don't think so, people. No.

No. Even if it was carrying two hobbits on its shoulders, I wouldn't do it. That's right. But 50 pounds at Red Rocks. That's a lot. Yeah, so the Red Rock seats, by the way, are really just long wooden benches. There are no backs to them. They're technically not even seats.

it's a it's a hundred rows of benches and uh like a traditional amphitheater right because most amphitheaters are like that where there's yeah there's no seats there's no backs it's just like a ring of seats and then stacks exactly yeah yep it's beautiful though you put your you know like i put my i'll get a drink and i'll put it under the seat i never look to see what is already under the seat but i'll take my drink and put it because it does it cuts it cuts in and that way I don't accidentally step on it or knock it over or whatever. So I'll tuck it under the seat as I stand up to dance to that great number by Christina Aguilera. Sure.

She's performing. Or giving a standing o to some sort of comedian or whatever, whoever's there. Exactly. Right. Exactly. But, yeah, no, that's gross. And I'm glad there's somebody who's going up there and cleaning all this stuff. It's a volunteer.

It's actually a volunteer group. So the theater itself doesn't do it. This volunteer girl goes up there. Here's a quote. gum is not even permitted inside the amphitheater. No, it's not. It's like Disneyland, no gum. But how do you prevent that?

People have it in their purses, in their pockets, says Valerina. Or even in their mouths. That's right. We hope that people chew responsibly and put a paper, sorry, put it in paper and not stick it under their seats. Yeah, yeah. I agree with her. I agree with her, too. I would not.

Yeah. I may have stuck one of the tree, but it was one of those, sadly, everybody's doing it kind of situation. Yeah, you can't control. that but I would not stick it under the seat or under a table that's just foul yeah that's not good I think I did this once at a Denny's I'll admit to it but that was years and years and years ago I think I was probably 16 and I left a big old wad of gum right into the table before I knew better I love this story because it's the greatest headline of the year cool disturb show you know the band yeah disturb show postponed after singer comes down with a sickness uh what a

lucky dude got to write that was that actually that really was the uh the news headline that's the headline just the headline you gave it that's brilliant sometimes you get like uh you get lucky in journalism and you get to write a headline as brilliant as that yeah people so many people have been waiting for this to happen yep it's an unfortunate irony for music fans in central iowa disturbed the band made a fame made famous by the song down with the sickness is postponing its thursday show at wells fargo arena due to illness lead singer david drayman who by the way is a wonderful follow on all sorts of social media. That guy is really really smart

and really interesting, really kind-hearted, just a nice guy. Nice. Anyway, he says he was able to perform... He's got so much metal in his face. Yep. Oh, yeah. Although he took it out at 44, he took out his... You know the studs he had in on his lip thing? Yeah. He took it out and he said,

and somebody said, oh, why'd you take it out? It's iconic. And he goes, dude, I'm 44. Good. You know what? That's awesome. I love the... I'm getting told for this. Yeah. What am I going to do? Keep this until I'm 80. Give me a break.

Right, right. I love that. But anyway, he lost his voice because he's ill. So they had to reschedule it for May. They said, they did a statement. Disturbed ones of Iowa. Unfortunately, we must reschedule tonight's show in Des Moines. At the West, excuse me, Wells Fargo Arena.

David is unable to perform due to laryngitis. We wanted to bring our fans the best show possible. And dude, that guy with laryngitis is basically, forget it. You're done. Yeah, I know exactly. that is the thing that will sideline a singer like of course obviously nobody's business especially that voice i mean man yeah anyway please hold on to your tickets as we have rescheduled the show for may 14th all previous tickets will be honored for the new date ticket holders check

your email for more details so they covered it it's good they're you know yeah this is like that time in Vegas when uh you two had to cancel a show at the sphere because they got stuck in a part of town where the streets had no name they really struggle with that yeah it was hard it was a difficult time. It doesn't matter where they tour. If they find a street and there's no name on it, they're lost. They can't get around. They look around, but they still haven't found what they're looking. They call on their phone and they go, Bono, where are you? And he says, I'm in streets with no name. Right. They say, well, we're going to play with or without you. It's like, we're going to dive cold. Edge has a hat, but the rest of us are screwed. All right. Let's move on to this story. No, we're going to take a break. It's 10.

Sure. Let's take a break. Yep, when we come back from this break, Tom Merritt will join us for some Tech Talk. We'll also have some recommendals today at your Wednesday lineup before that a song. Brian, please play the song. Yeah, well, we're talking about drugs a lot this week with toads and mushrooms and things like that. Let's talk about this one. This is a song called Microdose. It's by a band called Total Tommy.

And you might be thinking, oh, my God, this is going to be heavy and offend my ears. And it's not going to, I'm not going to enjoy this at all. No, this is actually a really cool, like, well, I describe it as. It is indie, indie grunge pop. So it's not heavy, not dark. Anyway, this is a band called Total Tommy and her debut single. Sorry, this is the person not a band, her debut single called Microdose. Very nice.

Here it is, everybody. We'll be right back. Was an accidental crush, I think I went and gave you too much. Yeah, she's got this thing I want. I guess I'm thinking of. It started out when we were friends. I made a move could and pretend it's kind of a fantasy. I've had in my head the weeks.

weeks Pulling for the late nights Breathe heart sleep tight Took it to the lips Right you know I never want to leave Got me left for book You can't tie I thought mine

Making out in bar lines Cut it got me in slowly Hold you till you fall asleep I don't know why my head is spinning I could have 10 cigarettes and I'll high in a minute Not into my throat, don't stand Want the whole amount

Come in a stanchet Because I could do without the calm down You're a ticket time bomber that I want to take a risk to find out where were you going to lead? Charging me off the keeps. Full of your late nights, breathe hard, sleep tight, took it to the lips right, you know I never want to leave. Coming in the work again, tired, I don't want to leave. I can't have a barline's got you got me in so deep I hold you to you for a dream

I don't know why my head is spinning I could have 10 cigarettes and go high in a minute I need to microdose and want the whole amount Cruling in a distraction Because I have to do without the calm down I don't know When my head is spinning

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Oh, Mr. Button, Mr. Hall. Tell me about that fantastic solo artist again, please. Her name is Total Tommy, T-O-T-A-L-T-O-M-M-Y, just like you think it would be spelled. And a brand-new single Microdose, she worked with Mark Zito and Dan Carey, and some Lofi Indy Grudge. She really is going to hold this song against me for a long time. Lo-Fi indie Grunge. Very, very nice. We want Tom.

We do want Tom. Tom Merritt, everybody is Ace Detect, and you know him and you love him. And he comes here on Wednesdays and talks about technology. and I don't know what we do without him. Some of which is failing him in his audio. You get a little bit of hiss. Oh, we're on the right. Are you on the right, Mike?

I don't know. Oh, there we go. Now you sound good. That was weird. Yeah, you sound fine now, though. There was a snake. Oh. Oh, no, it's slittering tongue or whatever the hell is called it.

Parcel tongue really is what we're here. Yeah, parcel tongue. There's probably a Discord's parcel tongue filter. There you go. Nailed it. Tom, it's wonderful to have you, as it always is. How's things going in the tech world? Is there anything we're supposed to know about right now, like today?

Oh, no. No, nothing new. Okay. Well, good talking to you. By the way, it is our 2,600, 2600 episode, Tom. Do you have any Atari things nearby? Of course he does. Look at this shit.

I do you have the best of 2,600 magazine. Oh, my gosh, dude. That's amazing. That's a huge toll. I got this at Nurtacular one year. Whoa, someone gave you that. Did somebody huck that out at the audience? It's a lot of 10.

2010. You know, that was many years ago now. This was a prize that I won. That's great. The fact that you had it at the ready is not shocking, but always fun to see you do that. I love that. Yeah, so I don't know if you saw, but Mark Zuckerberg, you might know him as the CEO of Meta, posted a little video on Instagram, also owned by Meta, oddly enough. showing him trying out the Apple Vision Pro.

So, you know, a perfectly unbiased review of the Apple Vision Pro. That is Quest 3. I'm sure. I'm sure completely objective review. Objectionable? Objectionable is what I almost said, yes. This is making a lot of waves. A lot of people are talking about it because, of course, it's juicy, you know, to see the

Quest, the head of the Quest company trying on an Apple Vision Pro. I can't decide if this is desperate or smart. It's a little bit of both. Quest sales haven't been bad. The rising tide has started to carry Quest sales up as people learn about the Apple Vision Pro and go, I can't really afford $3,500, but you know what? Maybe I'll try that Quest. I don't know that they needed to do this. However, I do think that it's a way to get the quest back in the conversation to have your CEO come and do a video, because then everybody wants to talk about the fact that the CEO did a video. And frankly, his review was not unbiased, but it wasn't unfair. He granted Apple some things. He acknowledged that it's higher resolution. He said it's better for entertainment.

You know, these are also sort of backhanded compliments, right? Mostly he found the quest to be superior. In the end, he said the quest is definitely the better product, whether it's cheaper or not. Yeah, he said, in fact, his exact quote here, or two quotes, the better value and the better product, period. Exactly. Which means nobody asked me any follow-up questions.

I'm done talking about this device, probably. Well, yeah, because there was no one there to ask questions other than meta-employee. So there were, yeah, there weren't going to be any questions. Yeah, I'm going to do in my substack, the TechTom substack, I'm going to do kind of a breakdown of each of his claims and what I think of them. But overall, yeah, this is not shocking. No one's going to be shocked that Zuckerberg thought the quest was better than the Applevision price. It does have the advantage on price. I will say that.

It definitely has the advantage on price. I think they're entirely different products. They really are. Virtual reality headset for gaming, and Applevision Pro is a mixed reality headset for productivity. So far as I can tell. So far, the only game I've seen anybody play on it is that what the golf, where you like pinch to get your club back and then release to have it.

Oh, really? Yeah. I'm sure there are other things. But three ninjas on there. There's like a Sky game that I can blank it on the name right now that Eileen was playing when we had it. You can sync up a controller and play all the Apple Arcade stuff. Well, sure. Yeah, yeah.

You just play it on a flat screen in front of you, right? Yeah, like a big screen that's set up in front of you. So it's almost like the two, they're like two ends of the spectrum. One is focused on a more VR experience with some AR possibilities. The other one is very AR with a couple of VR-ish

like things. But I really do think that the big advantage here is price right now. If you're peaked by the experience and you go, oh, so wait a minute, can I kind of do this with this quest for like a fraction of the price? Yeah. Yeah, you kind of can. So, yeah, it's, it's like, it's like saying, you know, I could buy the Pac-Man arcade cabinet for a few thousand dollars, or I could get the Calico version that's battery powered and sits on my desk. Yeah.

Playing Pac-Man. Yeah, yeah. You're still playing Pac-Man, dude. That's a good way of looking at it. That's fascinating. I look forward to the substack, of course, but there'll be more discussion today on the Daily Tech News show. I'm also going to attempt to, I don't know, have a discussion today about Nvidia's position in the market versus what it used to be. I know you guys talked yesterday about some big growth over there,

but we're going to go, or Monday, I guess, but we're going to go a little deeper on kind of where they're at. They used to be, everyone just thought of Nvidia as a gaming GPU company, and we don't do that anymore. There's a lot more going on. I mean, they do that. Yeah, yeah. And they still dominate it.

Yeah. No, what we talked about yesterday is two things. Jensen Huang introduced a local large language model that you could run. If you have Windows and either a 30 or 40 series Nvidia RTF, you can run a local large language model. It's very impressive in capability, but also very demo, like not much of a UI. It doesn't remember context. It can only take one query at a time. But still, the fact that you could do what other chat, GPT type things within the past year or two could only do with a data center you can now do on your Windows machine is pretty impressive.

But also the fact that they are quickly becoming more valuable than Amazon. And I think briefly today caught alphabet in their market cap. And so that's what we want Scott to talk about today is like, how do we get from there to here? is now one of the big five. Yeah, how do you go from taking voodoo out of the market by having a superior GPU in the 90s? And everyone just went, all right,

I guess this is the new video game thing, and it's kind of a limited market. They didn't really break into consoles. Still really haven't broken into consoles the way that AMD has. And why? Like, where and why? Like, that's fascinating to me. So we're going to dig into that a little bit today

and look at it from the games perspective. It's a crazy thing. That'll be a little bit later, 2.30 Mountain Time today on the daily tech news show. I said 2.30 again. I meant two. That's what I meant. And Tom Merritt, of course, your substack, you mentioned, is there anything else that people should be on the lookout for when it comes to you and yours? You know what? Substack is available at free tech newsletter.com. Free tech newsletter.com. And it comes out free once a week. Usually on Thursdays. Last week I did Wednesday and Thursday. Sometimes you might get a couple of issues free. And if you want to pay, you can get it every day.

But also, I want to mention Applevision show, which I'm not even on. But it comes from the DTNS family of podcasts and is hosted by Sarah Lane and Eileen Rivera. The second episode just came out this Monday. So it's still time to get on board and say you were there from the start. You can listen to episodes one and two. Here's Sarah's tale of having to take the Apple Vision pro in for reset last week. Thank goodness the firmware fix that. I hear, and they give away a free Apple Vision Pro in every episode for listeners.

Oh, yeah, of course. Check in for that. We're going to make that promise without any confirmation from Tom and then hang up on him. Yeah. No, I have a question about that. So the firmware, because as of last Wednesday, there was no update. Is there an update now that makes it so you're not going to do? Yeah, and they talk about that on this week's episode about the fact that we got the update

and how, gosh, Sarah, wish you would have that last week, but better late than never. Sure. I'm sure they'll have some things to say about the Zucker. Berg video as well, so I'm kind of looking forward to that. They talk a little bit about Super Bowl, Apple Music, Halftime Show. There's other Apple stuff in there as well. If you're not into the Apple Vision Pro, you're going to find plenty in there, so go check that out at Applevisionshow.com.

Sounds fantastic. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. You know him as Ace Detect on all the social media. Go find him there as well. Tom will see you later. Bye now. Boy, he's got the hiss today. He does.

Yeah, I didn't want to interrupt him to tell him, but hopefully he gets that face before DTNS. I'm sure that he uses a different setup probably for that. Yeah, I only ever hear it on Discord calls. So I don't know if that means that it's something the way is audio is routing or I don't know. I'll talk to him. Yeah, I was wondering when we were watching the Usher thing since it was an Apple Music sponsored deal, if there was some sort of like Apple Vision Pro puts you on that little round stage with all the people roller skating by you or something in 3D.

That would have been cool. That would have been great. I don't think they did, but that would have been smart. Maybe there's not a way. Again, the folk. You get to be left shark. As long as I'm standing next to virtual Cat Perry, Katie Perry. Katie Perry.

I don't know why I said Cat Perry. You and me, you and me both. All right. Go put your headsets away, everybody. Let's move on to recommendals. All right. It's a fun time. We always have a good time.

Let's see. I get to remember who's who. There we go. Randy. All right. Bringing him in. making it happen, talking recommendals right now.

Well, what do you recommend? Ah, yes, that's soothing music and lady voice means only one thing. Time for us to discuss the things we've seen on streaming services that we liked so much that we're going to tell you you should see them as well. We call it recommendals. And joining us today, Nicole Spagg.

Hi, Nicole, how are you? Hello, I'm sick. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. What have you got? You must have kids. I know.

Well, no. So Mark got it first. Yeah. And then I got it. And I think Mateo's going to get it now. So it's like, must have Mark. Yeah. Mark!

Yeah. It's a weird one, too. It just settles in your throat. And then it feels like something's in your chest. And now I'm like coughing and hacking. Oh, geez. That's why he spells his name with a sea. It's got cold and cough right in it.

Chest. Cold. I'll probably be mute myself quite a bit because I'm coughing like crazy right now. I'm so sorry. Well, I'm glad you're here though. Musinex. Yes, Musinex is your friend.

The little booger in the commercial, get him out of there. I think Nicole just had a really, she just really partied hard for Fat Tuesday. I think that's what it was. Did that happen? Yesterday was Mardi Gras. Yeah, yeah, it did happen.

It was very fat. Too many hurricanes for Nicole, but okay, call it a cold. Whatever. Sure, whatever. Show us your boobs. Just kidding. Randy, show us your boobs. It's Randy Jordan who's here also. Hi, Randy. How are you?

Good morning, morning stream. I'm curious if in the last two days you've talked about Apple music, uh, whitewashing or retconning what you actually hear during the Super Bowl halftime show. No, why? Do they change an Usher song or something? Yeah, this is a real scandal. They have, they have taken the audio of what you hear from the, during the Super Bowl halftime show and changed it so that it's better. I was wondering, because there was that one song by Usher where he kept going yes yes yes instead of yeah and it really threw me it really confused me well also the sound mix was also bad like it's totally joking yes the sound the sound mix was terrible like it was kind of like muffled and not good yeah I did notice that but it sounded uh I could see them wanting

to get their money's worth and like changing it later or whatever so what is it just for like the rebroadcast or something like that for everything for every like our historical record of this performance has you know wrong notes corrected and so on It's a fascinating little thing. We talk about it all the time with streaming. Post auto tune kind of. Yeah. It's a very Apple thing to pull off.

Yeah. It was all right. Boop, boop. I know that song. I liked it better when Dr. Dre did the halftime show. Yeah, that Dre, the rapper, Snoop, all that stuff was awesome. Yeah. That was really good.

I like that. The Prince one's the best. For me is the hardest. That's the bar for me. I was wondering when he was going to sing Pony. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He didn't do it.

You know what else? I like when Lady Gaga jumped in jumping. He doesn't sing that song, by the way. Oh, is that not his? I don't know. I don't know that one. He gets confused with Genuine all the time. I have no idea.

I know enough about Usher to fill a thimble. I know that he exists. Yeah. And that's it. I know that I know the song, yeah. I know love in this club. And I know that if I wait long enough, he'll show me to a seat. Perfect.

That's all you need to know. Yeah. And he'll dress in a weird Tron uniform while he performs. at the Super Bowl. That was weird. It was very weird. It was like Muscle. Muscle Tron.

We used to get that on. Jeez. Yeah, that was funky. All right. Well, let's get to these recommendals. We're going to start with Brian because that's how we always do it. Brian, you got a clip here. Do anyone want to set this up?

Yeah, this is a TV show that just dropped earlier this month. And Tina and I just plugged our way through the whole series. I know that's not the right word. We, we binged our way through the whole series. We put our heads and noses to the grindstone, our heads down, and we watched the whole thing. but it was a labor of love because we really enjoyed it. I'm actually going to recommend this thing without even playing an audio clip from the show. This is actually an outtake or a deleted scene that I thought was hilarious.

So it really shows off the chemistry between these two actors. All right, here we go. This isn't working. I'm going to treat this and then take it to the dry cleaners. That doesn't need to be dry cleaned. Yes, it does. The dryer destroys nice clothes. No, it doesn't.

Yes, it does. What do you think lit is? Lynn is... Pieces of clothes? Wait. Yeah. This pieces of clothes. What did you think it was? I thought it was, like, dirt.

Fluff dirt. Okay. Oh. No. You didn't really mean... It looked spun, like webs of hair. Come on, Bighead. So, call me that.

You can fold your clothes. No, wait. I want to hear this fluff dirt theory. That's what I thought I was, too. I hate dry cleaning. Not a fan either. That's great. Yeah, it's Donald Glover and Meyer Erskine as John and Jane Smith,

Mr. and Mrs. Smith, a brand new TV series on Amazon Prime, based kind of based on I mean obviously inspired by the movie but I think done a lot better than the movie was I mean if nothing else the chemistry of the main characters I can never see you know aside from that movie Brad Penn Angelina Jolie those two would never work so it's like you know why put those two together but these two I think are a great combo this this has the dry humor that you would expect if you were a fan of both Donald Glover's Atlanta and Maya Erskins Penn 15. Both of those things had a dry realism to them, and that does seem to carry through to this show. They basically play, I guess I'll say what the kind of the plot of the show is, they play a disguised as married pair of hit people who are hired by a company called High High to take people out. And, you know, they meet, but they have to immediately pretend that they're married to be able to pull off their capers because married couples are a little bit more invisible than individual people in this sort of situation. Isn't this set up in the movie that they don't know each other as a spy?

And so they kick the shit out of each other and figured out eventually or they find out their spies throughout the film or something? I thought in the movie they just all of a sudden had to kill, like they were tasked. One was tasked with killing the other. I thought that they were married. I thought that they had already been in the gig for a while. I never saw it, but I just thought they were unaware that each other was a spy. They knew themselves were a spy, but they didn't know each other was a spy. Is that the, is that the concede?

Yeah, that was how the movie went. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that is very different because, yeah, these two, I haven't seen it either. I'm waiting for film sack.

Yeah. These two meet and have to have to all of a sudden pretend that they're married. Right. And so just a quick note here. I've been watching it as well. We didn't quite finish it. We're going to. We love or loving it. It's very, very good. It's got such a great tone to it throughout. And they still do different things in different episodes. There's a great episode with Sarah Paulson as a therapist that's kind of like, and I wouldn't call it a bottle episode, but it's a self-contained set of therapy sessions that are really good. Ron Perlman guest, I mean, so many great guest appearances. John Terturo, Paul Dano. Oh, Tataro, dude. That Tatoro roll.

Oh, my gosh. Yes, the Tertor. I kind of blocked it out. That was a weird thing for him to be. That was crazy. That's my mind. Anyway, yeah, they've got a really great bunch of supporting cast. Really do.

Ron Perlman is great. There's Sharon Horgan, who maybe the name doesn't sound familiar, but once you see her, it's like, oh, I've seen her in so many different. things she does a lot of voice voice work she's a european accent uh plays a uh a woman with a net worth that's a small that's like the gdp of australia i think is what they described and um it's just such a great show eight episodes about an hour long each on amazon prime and um uh really really good oh parker posey uh another you know great again another great episode with uh Wagner Mora and Parker Posey.

I don't want to say what the connection is, but yeah. David, he says David Tells in this. He's a kosher food mark. Did I miss that? Oh, I missed it too. Really?

Foodmark clerk. David, I love Davidel. Yeah, I do too. Well, this is a late, something late with Dave Attell. Yeah, he's just a love that show. And his stand-up is insane. He kind of works dirty, but he's great.

But he was in one episode, and I don't Maybe I haven't gotten to it because we're not done. I don't know how to look. No, but I guess if he's a food clerk, oh, I know where he is. Yes, okay. Yeah. He must have missed it. He's in a farmer's market.

Yeah, he does like kosher food something. And he doesn't have a name, which is interesting. But so did they stick the landing? Because that, you know, it's hard to tell. It's a great, it ended very well. Definitely sets up for a great next season, which this thing is doing well enough. there definitely will be another season everybody's that's my question yeah everybody's um it's not self can i mean it's not uh it doesn't wrap up um everything leaves something for season two

but um uh this um how don't want to phrase it it it's it closes the initial story and and leaves it open for for future seasons and it's already been named one of prime amazon prime's top debuts ever U.S. views so it did really well yeah that's awesome that's what it was called thank you tally insomnia there was also up all night with david no not not not he had a couple of things exactly that was all night he had another weird thing on i think it was on maybe showtime i don't remember it was a thing where him and some friends would like review really bad old 70s porn or something yes right yes and he would show but just show the the setup and lead him and stuff because it was so bad he was he just cracks me up i don't know what it is about you made

you made me think of uh up all night with ronda sheer on us that's that's that's the up that was the up all night yeah i think i'm just confusing up all night because they had all kinds up all night crap on that channel right that was a whole thing with the name up all night u s a up all night yeah his the show you were just talking about was called dave's old porn that's it that's it yes i love that and it's a couch with like three of them on there and they all make jokes about it. Yeah, it was like his comedian buddies would come and they would all, I mean, it seems like a, it's a thing I would never want to do with a friend, sit there and watch some nasty old, you know, 70s porn.

Yeah, but I think you're watching, you're not watching the actual sex parts. You're just watching the, well, we are, but they're not. They're watching the whole thing together and joking about it. Oh, are they really? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was the whole, that was the whole premises. They were seeing all this stuff and they were commentating about the things we weren't seeing.

Oh, right, because it would cut to them. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. It was gnarly. It was something else. Anyway, this show is really great. Brian is right. And I'm glad it lands well or ends well. Great chemistry between the two.

And it's funny because you think about what this originally was going to be was Donald Glover and Phoebe Waller Bridge. It was going to be the two of them. They would have also had great chemistry. And she dropped out because I read an interview with Donald Glover about it. The two worked together, sort of worked together in Solo. and great, great friendship from that, sort of, but never met, but connected through that. And they decided it was two, they both, because they're both showrunners, they both wanted to kind of captain this thing. And she said, you know what, this show will do a lot better.

If it only has one captain, I'll bow out. And then they brought in my Erskine, who was the Japanese American girl from, Penn 15, playing much younger in that show. Now you get to see her playing an actual adult of the right age that she is. And she is absolutely hilarious. She's great. She's great. Did Fieber Waller Bridge then look at the camera after she made this decision?

Did she stare at the camera for a second? She just kind of glanced at the camera, kind of like a side eye and a rye grin and a tattooer. Maybe she said, hey, do you want to work with a British person? And he said, this is America. And that was it. That was the end of it. Yeah. I'm here all night.

I'm here all week. Tip your weight. Yeah. Tip your weight. Yeah. Speaking of Amazon Prime, did you see that Ronald from jury duty was in an ad? No. Was he in one of the Super Bowl ads?

Yeah. It was an, it was an ad for ELF makeup. Oh, I didn't. I saw that ad. I remember that ad. Yeah. And he's like the, he's like a jurist. That's right.

He's the beauty judge. Judge Beauty, I think is what it was, right? Oh, there it is. Yeah, Judge Judy in there. I thought that was a real promo for the new Judge Judy show that she's doing. I thought it was true. And I first saw it. Why they call it your Judge Beauty?

That's really weird. Oh, you need to watch that again. So that's the dude from jury duty. Hilarious. And of course, one of the funniest things to me is how often the producers of jury duty are being asked to talk about the second season. And they're like, we're not talking about the second season so we can make the second. How do you think we're going to make a second season if we,

if we let everybody know what we're doing. Oh, he's in the jury itself on the show here. I'm looking at it again. He's sitting in the jury box. That's where he is. And also Zoe from Firefly is the plaintiff. Yes, Zoe was the right plaintiff for defendant. Yeah, he's sitting in the jury box.

That's great. That's awesome. All right. Let's move on to our next one. That's once again, Prime and Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Amazon Prime. I can't wait to watch that. That's right.

Nicole, let's get to yours. I was very curious about this one. And I want to watch it with the kiddos. Tell me more. It's on Netflix. Yeah. And if you have a kid that has a lot of anxiety, pretty much every kid nowadays has all the anxiety.

Yeah. I think it's a good, it's a good one to open up a discussion about fears and anxiety. And Mateo and I watched it. And then Ava kind of came in. and Ava and I every night she talks about me dying and I have to say

girl it's okay I under you know I understand like I'm like how do I address this so I look for for ways to help her with her fears and so like Mark got her these little worry dolls and so she whispers her worries into

the little dolls and she puts it on her that seems to help but every kid's going to be different but she came in kind of part way through and started watching and really got into it kids and adults too I think one of the number one fears

is dark and that's what this is about the dark there you go wait wait why are we going in here well kid it's break time the other night entities and I take one every new time zone we're fun you're gonna love us hey you gang what's up welcome back

huh great work tonight You brought the kid? Oh, brought the kids? So irresponsible. Are you nuts? Well, this is the opposite of encouraging. I've got this. Orion, allow me to introduce you to the other night entities.

There's sleep, quiet, insomnia, unexplained noises, and of course, the most creative and poetic of us all. Sweet dreams. You brought the streamer! The kid who's afraid of everything? Is this your latest attempt to trying to commence the world that you're not so bad? So I'm getting like, uh, what's the, what's the Pixar movie with the emotions? So yeah, so like they took a page from Pixar where they make everything, uh, a person.

So like Pixar likes to make cars have feelings, they have emotions, have feelings. This is our, you know, fears. So that was the introduction of the night entities and it centers around dark, who, who, this kid, Orion, has a lot of fears. And so he journals all of his fears. And one night, Dark finally has had it. And he shows himself to try to win this kid over. And so I am just now looking at the voice acting.

Yeah. I, you probably heard Natasha from what we do in the shadows. She plays sleep. I instantly recognized her. I'm like, oh, I love this movie now. is the is the voice of dark is it that guy um from cobra kai the paul walter paul walter hauser he's the dude he's the one that got the oscar nomination for being the the the falsely accused bomber oh yeah that that one's more recent right oh yeah the more recent one but yeah with the falsely accused

he's stingray from cobra kai but the Atlanta thing where the guy found the bomb under the oh yeah yeah that's the guy he's really interesting he plays dark and that that jacob trembling kid from room or room that kid is I love child actors who are amazing they blow my mind it's like wow where do these kids find it but when they start getting puberty the kid that plays Orion they start hitting puberty Jacob Trembly yeah they hit puberty and they look

so freaking weird the kid looks so weird now anyway he's good though he doesn't look that weird Colin Hanks is in it Angela Bassett and there's a really so this has vibes of Mitchell and the machine versus the machines There's like, there's that kind of essence to it. It's a really funny clip with Warner Herzog, and it's actually him. Really?

I love him. I thought it was just a joke. Rob Delaney is also in here. Nice. It's a fun. I would like to see the baby. There he is. So, yeah.

Or Orion in the dark. And what you find, you kind of listen to the story, watch the story unfold, it's a father telling his son a story, and then our daughter the story, and talking and actually addressing fear and talking about fear and how you get through it and worries. I came across something the other day that I thought, huh, I might need to try that with my kids, that not everybody is taught how to worry. So the idea is that you list all your worries and then you put stars next to the ones you can actually do something about.

So like I'm worried about failing this test. Well, I can study more. And so you try to kind of get a plan of action to it. So there are things that you can do for fears and anxiety and worry and trying to get into the bottom of it. But I really like this kind of opens up the door with my kids to talk about anything that they're scared of at night and stuff like that.

Well, that's good to know. Van inherited his mother's night tears, which she used to get around his age, around four or five. And it's actually... Mateo had them too. Yeah, they're scary. It wasn't until I started getting vitamins

that they went away. Yeah, it's weird. How long did they last with Tay? Oh, my gosh, probably a year. It wasn't like a long thing, but it was probably, she was about four or five, and they took tell she was about five or six. And then they stopped.

And he's the, exact age and so he started getting them and they're just those crazy walk in the room they don't really see you they see through you they're not really a way out meto had those too this might be a good time to for something like this for him to because he loves animation loves this kind of stuff already so he'd probably get a kick out of it and also you know might help bring up some of those questions or whatever it's funny and yeah so it's not too scary there are some a little scary bits to it but yeah um yeah because i was worried that abel was going to get a little scared, especially the first scene

where he presents himself, dark presents himself. It's a little, kind of reminds me a monster's a little. He's kind of a freaky looking design. Obviously, he's super friendly and you know, all that, but yeah, there's something about it that's a little freaky if you don't know what that's

what that character is yet. Kind of looks like death from like, or the third ghost from all the Christmas story movies. Oh, sure. Yeah. Christmas carrels. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There you go.

If he flies. It's a sweet. All right, well, it looks good. It's Orion and the Dark, available now on Netflix. I'm looking forward to this one. The music is by Laxen Lidecker, a pair of composers who have been, they've been scoring the Kung Fu Panda TV series. It's called the Dragon Night. And they're just really good.

There's a really good music in the new Kung Fu Panda TV series. Yeah, those movies also have good music. And that new Kung Fu Panda 4 I'm sort of interested in. Sure, no, it looks neat. Those series has always been, you know, like, it's consistent. Pretty good. Pretty good, yeah. Yeah, it's consistent.

Consistent. And it's got noodle folk in it, James Hong. Those are the best folk. Yeah, the best folk are noodle folk. All right, we're going to move on now to Randy. Randy, you got a clip. Tell us all about it. I watched a thing that it seems like everybody watched over this past weekend.

And it dropped last week on Netflix. And it's a documentary about one night in the 80s. Oh, wow. I think I know what this is. One fateful night. Yep, one night. Here it is. Just had our first big hit record.

And I received the tape, the cassette tape in those days of the song and the invitation. And I played a demo in my car. I'd never met Lionel or Michael. So, you know, it was just an amazing invite to get. And then I remember thinking, oh, yeah, this is going to be a hit. Quincy's office sent me a copy. I listened to it a couple of times, and it definitely had a memorable chorus. When I first heard it, I thought it was very broad, you know,

as music that's going to carry all those voices usually has to be. So I said, okay, that's cool. In the letter that was sent out, one of the lines was blacked out. That is where it was. It says that A&M studio McKinson, no, you can't let anybody know it's there, man. For him to give me details at that time would be unnecessary.

I, like many artists that I know, don't remember shit. All right. Very interested in this. Tell us the name. This is the greatest night in pop. And it is a documentary by Bao Wen, the Vietnamese documentarian who made that

Bruce Lee movie a couple years ago there was a really awesome Bruce Lee documentary and the greatest night in pop is about the recording of We Are the World which is a miracle it's a pile of miracles a mountain

of miracles that this happens steaming pile of miracles exactly and those miracles were all brought together by both the support staff and a bunch of randos for Lionel Richie and Quincy Jones

and so our primary speakers here are Lionel Richie and a lot of like Bruce Springsteen the beginning of that clip you just heard was Hughie Lewis the end of the clip was Kenny Loggins calling his memory a piece of shit and it is just it is just chock full of all of those people that you remember from that thing

as well as some things that you might not have ever known and a lot of just like it was really like behind the scene stuff that it's kind of been out there but when put it all together and it's a really fun ride like from beginning to end this little film is is like joyful and that's why I want you to watch it that's cool yeah been wanting to see this definitely on my list obviously for for music reasons but uh because I was fascinated with what the process was to get all those people together and and uh uh uh Just stories that I've heard over the years about Cindy Lopper and her involvement in them kind of wanting to kind of squish her down kind of thing. She was pretty, I mean, you even watched the old video of it, just of the song, she is total, like, freaking out the all time singing.

Yes, exactly. Like really into it. And you can see other people's faces just going, dude, calm. Somebody stamp her down. Why is she doing this? And see, this movie is not about that at all. In fact, the depiction of Cindy Lopper in here is just a truly legendary singer in her moment, at her peak. Oh, sure.

And a lot of the questions you might have are about the people who weren't in it. And really, there's not a lot to say about them, right? There's like a really quick scene at the beginning that's like, Van Halen was on tour. We asked them. They couldn't come. And it's like, you know what I mean? So it's like, this is about the people who did show up. and one guy who left in the middle of recording.

Oh, really? Do you want to know who that is or do you want to watch the movie? Harry Belafonte. Was it Prince? No. Prince couldn't make it. Prince was not available. All right.

Who walked out? I'm curious. Waylon Jennings. Really? Okay. Yeah, Whalen, Waylon Jennings sang on the first few passes of the chorus. Just never be a hit.

And then, like, literally, yeah, he walked out. He was mad. at a couple of different people for trying to focus on Africa and African languages for a little while. Yeah. And he was just, he got mad and left. Well, you can't have that. Yeah, that doesn't fit with his country, Southern art style.

And this is a, this is a film that made me cry multiple times. Really? Wow. The first time is when everybody is kind of like getting, really getting into their element. Now, they're all together in a room without any assistance, without any extras all night for like 12 hours after the music awards.

They're all in a studio together, right? All of these famous people. And there's a point where they all kind of realize what's happening and how amazing it is that they're together. And that's centered on Harry Belafonte. They're like, my gosh, this is a legend. We're here with this absolute legend to us even. And so they all start singing Deo.

And it's just, it's awesome. It's so beautiful. And then there's just other moments like that. throughout the whole film do we finally get an answer as to why dan ackroyd is singing on that song we really don't there's almost no mention of dan ackroy why they can't do that to us i need closure it's been one of the biggest mysteries of my entire life you see the photo of all of it we are the world's like oh look at these great musicians and dan they asked they asked everybody who had anything going in music basically and he had the blues brothers 2000 or not blues brothers 2000 just the first one and i think he was in town for

the music awards and he performed at the music award. So it was like natural for him to just go over to that, to follow that invitation. The really, the amazing thing to me is how seriously some of them took it and how unseriously some of them took it. And they still all pull it off so beautifully in the end. And you really spend the whole film wondering, are they going to, are they going to succeed here? Like, they only have one night. And some of these people are starting to get really tired.

Lionel Richie's stories about Michael Jackson were funny Oh my gosh It's sprinkled with Lionel Richie telling jokes Seriously And he's so good at this Like I just Apparently Michael Jackson had a lot

A zoo at his home studio And Lionel Richie hung out there While they were kind of like writing the song And preparing Well this is great I can't wait to see it It's been on my radar since I saw it pop And I was like oh Brian do you see this

And he's like oh yeah it's on my list Can't wait to see it I might see if Hammond wants to do it for, watch it for soundography. It's funny, like Wicked Kitten, Monica in the Sharm says, he's a blues brother coverville. Like,

yeah, but that was five years before this song. Yeah, plus he's not really putting on the glasses and the whole get-up, he's just there. And I think 10 years before he was going to do that thing again with John Goodman and the other Belushi.

Yeah. Yeah, it would have been, I don't know, he has been better if he was singing as Ray from Ghostbusters. Be closer in time to the right moment. Yeah, about a year after that movie

came out. Closer in time to him singing put a little love in your heart in Ghostbusters too. There's just like there's so many things

that fly right by you in this movie and it's like that's why I had to watch it a second time because I was just like I realized the song was written by Lionel Richie

and Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones. And then I'm like, but the whole time you're watching them trying to record this thing their accompanist is Stevie Wonder. and it's like and I was like

where did they make that agreement like because it feels like Stevie was just brought in you know at the last minute and like is he really that good and the answer is yes he is so good that he just kind of came in at the last minute and blew him

away with his ability to learn the whole song and so forth I'm so hoping that they do a companion one for the Band-Aid do they know it's Christmas group because that, for me, like the music that I listened to in that era, way closer to, like, all of my favorites

in that one. You know, Sting and U-2 and, and I said Bono or is U-2, but the George Michael and culture club and stuff like that. Yeah. More so than Stevie Wonder and

Ray Charles and... Plus, Gildof's just an interesting dude. I'd like to hear about his stuff. Yeah. I wouldn't mind that, too. I've tried and tried and tried to not pay too much attention to all the people that don't get really fleshed out in this thing because if you do that you'll spend the whole movie staring at them when they're all in the chorus and going oh look that's right i forgot uh you know like um there's uh there's letoya jackson i wonder what you know no it's just there they were there are a bunch of people there and they

just kind of are there you know she'll e right is uh she'llie she'll E is a major, actually a major story in this movie. Oh, really? Okay. Not surprising me. There's like a step away from the glamorous life to be here, part of this. The editors for this movie tried to find some drama, and they've had a little bit around really. Okay.

Interesting. All right. But like a lot of these people are dead, and you have, you know, you have people who are alive doing all the narrating. So, of course, they're talking about their experiences. Yeah. And you're not getting that much about those who have passed. interesting well uh definitely on the list there's there's a villain while we're doing some guessing

oh really okay it wasn't whalen jennings there was a there was a villain in this thing besides michael jackson i'm i'm overselling it there's a person there was a person in the room that everybody stopped getting along with dan i'm just kidding i want it to be uh oh did did the quincy godfrey go get did quincy jones bring young rashita in with him for this was she at all i don't i don't not i didn't see that in the movie okay um i'm gonna guess let me guess i just want to guess you tell me if i'm wrong dion warwick just pissed everybody off nope nope she was lovely all right i like her but i just thought maybe she she she could be a little uh real young uh not not the answer but uh good guess interesting okay okay i'd want to give it to you it's it's not a big deal i

shouldn't have used the word villain it's not a big deal it's not a spoiler al adro what got so drunk that he couldn't continue at some point. That's great. Because he's over the corner and goes, Some walk my day. Exactly. Some walk by night. I did moon lighting.

I was hoping Kenny Rogers or somebody. Or Kenny Loggers. Either of the Kenny's. I wanted some Kenny business. Yeah. And of course, he's one of the ones who is in the rest and peace list at the end. And so, like, you're like, when you watch this movie, when you first see Al Jaro, he's relatively sober.

Yeah. As you watch, every time you see or hear, Al Jaro, pay attention to the quality of his performance. Oh, good. Okay,

I can't wait. Excellent. Was there any annoyance with David Burns wide shoulder pads? Was everyone like, oh, this guy,

get out of my way. Was he part of that? I thought he was in it. Wasn't burn in it? I don't remember seeing him. I thought David Burns sang in it. Maybe I'm mixing it up. Maybe he was in the other one.

He wasn't in the Band-Aid one. I felt like he was, would have been too indie too out there for maybe he was but they gave a bunch of solos in this thing to people who deserve them and then one who was not at all prepared and i'm not going to tell you about this one because i want you to enjoy this as it lays out but an interesting thing to me is that a lot of the music that you hear in the final cut is performed by toto like they brought all of toto oh really and of course steve perry is one of those great soloists Steve Perry's in the song.

Yeah. And they apparently, the Toto guys are just like in love with Steve Perry. And like it's just a little thing. They also had all of the news, all of Huey Lewis's people. It's not just Huey Lewis. He brought the news with him. That's great. All four of those guys other than Huey Lewis are also present.

That's fine with me because they deserve some credit. Those four guys minus the news minus Huey Lewis were. the backing band on Elvis Costello's first album as a band called Clover. And they're all really good and don't deserve just to be labeled as, oh, the news. The saxophone players specifically,

the sax player Johnny Colla is like a legend on the sax. And you hear him, but you're not going to actually see him in this movie. It says here that Paul Simon was there. I don't remember that. Oh, yeah. He is all over this movie. Do they interview him now?

I think so. Yeah, yeah. I mean, some of the interviews you're like, wait, is this really contemporary? This feels like it's about five years old or ten years old. That's fine. That's fine. You know, it all works. All right. Well, there you go. Can't wait to watch it. I think our discussion of it was longer than the actual thing itself. I think you're right. Sorry. Greatest I really enjoyed this guy. Because it's because we're all looking forward to seeing it or Nicole, I think you have seen it, right? I started watching it. It was like, I wanted to put something on the TV that I knew the kids wouldn't necessarily. all about. Here, kids, watch

all these musicians out of whom you're familiar with. That's Tina Turner. It's like Mike Teo's going to go, why is Christy Brinkley there? She doesn't sing. You know, he's not going to care about that.

All right, well, let's move on to the final recommendation of the day. I'll make this one quick. This is old, and I still love it all these years later, and every once in a while becomes a rewatch of mine. I've never recommended it before, but I'll do it now. Here's your clip.

Well, I've been choosing members for this expedition for Munza doctor. I'm not the one who needs convincing. Well, I'm convinced. Have fun. It's a little more complicated than that. We need the ZPM to power the gate. What? ZPM. He's, uh, he's Canadian. I'm sorry. Oh, zero point module, general. The ancient power source that you recovered from Prokler, Arsh-Tanas, and that's now powering the outposts defenses. I have since determined that it generates its enormous power from vacuum energy derived from a self-contained region of subspace time. That was a waste of a perfectly good explanation. What you're hearing is the pilot crossover episode of Stargate

Atlantis. And even though most of the people in there, except for David Hewlett, are from Stargate SG-1, they're kind of, like Star Trek did with the S-9 or even Voyager, there's a little bit a baton passing because those shows were still in production and now here's a new show and so we're going to send them on their way uh this is stargate atlantis it's actually i really like all stargate except the movie um i think the series the sg1 and atlantis are amazing i even think that one they did that names escapes me but the one that didn't last very long they tried to reboot it i thought was really good but it only lasted this season um but atlantis might be my favorite it overall. I really, really like the leads in it. Joe Flanagan is your main character. He plays

Lieutenant Colonel John Shepard. Amazing character. David Hewlett plays Dr. Rodney McKay. This is the first time I ever saw Jason Mamoa do anything, probably for a lot of people is the first time. He became a regular character named Ronan. Right? Yeah, Ronan Dex. He's fantastic in it, perfectly cast for it. And is this a case where in recent times he has become more prominent in the posters. Oh, yeah. Wait. It's like, um, I noticed this with last week's recommendation of St. Elsewhere, where the posters are all Denzel Washington now, but back in the show time, he was barely in it. So absolutely that's true. Okay. Um, he's the big, you know, obviously the big star these days, but Jules Slate's in it. She plays a doctor in it. Um,

this was post, what I say slate. I meant state. Yeah. She, she, she, this is post firefly. Um, this show started in 2004, ran through 09. And, and, It is just great. It's a lot. It's kind of the Star Trek structure, the way DS and the way SG1 was. It was like, you know, kind of villain of the week, but also some overarching story stuff. And Mitch Pileggie shows up at some point, T-1000. What's his name's on the pilot? A whole bunch of great actors kind of come in and out of this thing. And the guy that played the Swede on Hell or Highwater, hell or Hell or High Water. No, Heller, Hell on Wheels, sorry. That weird, tall guy from Sweden, that actor, I can think of his name. He's in the, he's all over the first five episodes of this thing. I was, okay. Can't think of his name. I like him though. Anyway, it's, uh, it's really good.

And it's comfort TV for me. Whatever, for whatever reason, the Stargate shows just really got their closet to me back in the day. I, I, I hold them in the same regard. I hold TNG and, you know, Star Trek stuff at the time. Um, I think it's that good. And I think this stuff holds up. There's also way better effects in 2004, thank goodness. So that stuff improved.

And the bad guys are the wraith. They're basically space vampires. How can you go wrong? And it's a really good watch. That currently is on Hulu. I think all of SG1 is also on Hulu. If you've never seen any of this, I highly recommend it if you're a science fiction fan.

It's all good. Atlantis is rad. Also, funny enough, in Randy and I liked it, the Apple TV Plus show, C, the one about everyone's blind. Oh, yeah, yeah. That had Jason MMO in the main role.

and that show a little bit in the first season, but tons of them in the second season had the return of Joe Flanagan, David Hewlett, some of these people from this show, from Stargate, were in there also. They played pretty bad people. They were evil, but it was just kind of cool to see them all kind of getting together.

I don't know how that worked out, but they were all in this thing in that show together. Anyway, check it out. It's Stargate Atlantis. It might be old, but it's good. And it's over on. Hulu. All this stuff will be

at quicktMS.L.I and you can find all the links and all the stuff there right away, everyone. Nicole, I hope you're cold of Bates. Yeah. And Randy,

I hope you don't get one. I will not. Hey, happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day to you as well. And may your fat Tuesdays be huge. All right. Get ever fatter. That was yesterday, I guess.

Okay. That's right. Yes. Brian, we got a. Have a good Ash Wednesday. That's right. We got a quick thing here from Brian Hartzell, who wrote in about the miles versus kilometers thing we were talking about. He says the easiest way to remember how many feet in a mile is to remember five tomatoes, which is 5-280, 5-280, 5-2-8-0, five-tumato. Okay, all right, fair enough.

He says it's dumb, but I never forget. Yeah, but see, this is the problem I have with imperial measurements. You have to come up with a bunch of dumb shit to remember everything. That's a weird number. 5280, it's so arbitrary. Like, so we had to make up a portmanteau to make it work. I hate that. I would much rather just say, well, it's a thousand or it's 10 or it's 100. Like, let's change America, all right?

Let's be the change we want to see in the world. Just start adapting or adopting it and see how it all goes. Yeah. When someone says to me, my print needs to be 12 by 18 inches, I'm going to say, excuse me, it's this much in centimeters. The easiest way for me to remember 50-2-80 feet in a mile is by living in Colorado where everything is 5-2-80 because we are the mile-high city. So everybody thinks they're super clever in calling their restaurant 5-2-80 bar or our magazine is 5-2-80

or all this stuff is 52-80. I did not know they were doing that. That's interesting. Are any of those places any good, though, those bars, those, you know. Some of them are, yeah. Actually, the 5-2-80 magazine is regarded as one of the best. local magazines for finding a new restaurants and things like that. Nice.

All right. Yeah. That actually does stick. Now, if you're a Van Halen fan, you'll get confused and think 51-50 all the time. That's right. Or, oh, you wait one, too. Yeah. Or let's go to Cabo or whatever the hell that was called.

I don't remember that any of that. All right, that's it. For 1984. Yeah. All these numbers. It's very confusing. That's going to do it for us today. A reminder that if you're looking for anything around the shows,

content needs, whatever it may be, you can find it all at frogpants.com slash TMS any time of the day or night. That will do it for us. Brian, oh, I was going to tell people again that those clearance mugs are happening that we put the TMS clogs on the clearance, but I'm told as of like 10 minutes ago,

we are now out of them. They're gone. Wow. Okay, those clearance mugs have been cleared. Never making those again. Room made for the 2,600 mug that has a little 8-bit picture of the two of us. We should have done that, but we are We are going to do something for 3,000.

That I can assure everyone, but... Oh, it'll be, I love you 3,000. That's right. Love the show, though, 3,000. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Wait, what's the source of that, though? The 3,000.

What is it? What's it from? I love you 3,000. It's from a little film called Avengers Endgame. Avengers Endgame! I knew it. It's an indie film. Kind of snuck by.

Like, it was in theaters for like a hot minute and then left. Yeah, it wasn't like the number one or two grossing films. of all time or anything. That is going to do it for us. If you'd like to send a message in like Miles did and Miles, sorry, Brian did as Brian Hartzell guy. Miles is the thing you talked about. You can do that easily at 8-1-14710462. You can email us the morning stream at gmail.com.

That is going to do it for us. Brian, let's play a song to get us out of here. Okay. This is going out to Brenna. I don't know if we've had requests from Brenna. She says this was last minute. It was. Got this on the fifth for the.

the next day. Sorry. I finally found time to make a song request for my birthday 9 p.m. before my birthday. Dang. Now 10 p.m. I got distracted. So let's see if it makes it or not. L.O.L. It's a big one, a very important one, the answer to life, the universe and everything. 42. Wee. A thought for fitting, how's the cocaine going, brother? A thought for a fitting song would be a cover of Journey of the Sorcerer. Would the talent, or would the extended theme by Joey Talbot for the movie be considered a cover? If you haven't already done it before. However, if that's a no-go, then how about an 80? synthwave version of a nine-inch nail song or a cover of Barbie Girl by Little Big. And now it's 11 p.m. Started watching a music video. Thanks for the enjoyment, signed Brenna. She has got some energy. We'll say that. Yes, she does.

No, I'm sticking with Journey of the Sorcerer, but I'm not doing the version that was released for the film, for Hitchhiker's Guide film. I'm doing a version that is synthwave. So it's actually kind of a little bit of everything you requested, all rolled into one. This is by a band called, where is it here? It's by Zach Vortex from a single. This was the B-side of a single they released in 2021 called Neon Rain. Here is Journey of the Sorcerer.

Zach Vortex? Zach Vortex. I'm sure that's 100% his real birth name. Totally for sure, 100%. Nice. All right, that'll do it. Thanks everybody for being here. We'll be back tomorrow.

We'll have windy. We'll have all the fun Thursday things you come to expect. We'll see you then. Thank you. You know, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be able to be. Thank you.

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