The Morning Stream - TMS 2603: Freehand Freebird

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

I prefer Steely Dan's brother, Aluminumy Jim. wrapped in Mylar. The Sominex half time show. Tramp Stamp in perpetuity. Does my chewing gum lose it's flavor on the burlap overnight. Kimâs tattoo starts with onions. You get NO Adele, NO Lionel Richie & NO Lieutenant Yar! Starter Farter. Dutch Shake N Bake. How Do You Like Them Maggots. Boujee Buoy. Motley Crue Ft Wheezer. A Hellava Lotta Hellos. YOU DON'T NEED RICE! with Tom. Yeast-free recommentals with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The morning stream just keeps on, keep it on every day, but it can't actually do that without the help from our listeners. Good thing there's a patreon.com slash TMS for people like Quakeholio, James Garcia, and Charles. Be like them. Coming up on TMS, I prefer Steely Dan's brother, Aluminimi Jim. Wrapped in Mylar. The Sominex halftime show. Tram stamp in perpetuity.

Does my chewing gum lose its flavor on the burlap overnight? Kim's tattoo starts with onions. You'll get no Adele, no Lionel Richie, and no Lieutenant Yard. Starter, Fartter. Dutch Shake and Bake. How do you like them maggots? Boogie Booy. Molly Crew featuring Wheezer.

A hell of a lot of hellos. You don't need rice. With Tom. Yeast free recommendals with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Every boy wants a Remko toy, and so do girls. Mr. Kelly's car wash, that's the one for me. When did you grow that mustache? The morning stream.

He's taking a dump in a can. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It is February 21st, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Ibit high. Hello. Hello. Hello, it's me.

I was wondering if you were going, you're doing Adele? You're doing, that was almost Todd Rundgren, but it wasn't. Nope, a little bit of Lionel Richie, maybe. Little Ronald Richie in there, too. Yeah, little Adele. All of them have good helloes. So, why not? Go down either of any of those paths.

Hello there. I have that somewhere. I like playing it. I'll see if I have it. It's fun to play. Take bets on how many he plays before. he finds china that's not it's hello china all right so that's one if you bet one you win uh if you got two let's see uh where is it i know i have this shit oh there it is no hello there no that's not it

it's too okay hello up there wow look no no oh oh there no four hello there there there there we go oh four dang it oh shoot nobody had four dang it that's all right the house always a lot of sevens a lot of sevens house always wins Brian. That's just the rule. Anyway, hey, everybody. We're here. It's Wednesday. We've got stuff to do. We're glad you're all here. And we're going to get straight to some things. We got a phone call from Amy. I thought we'd start with today. And, you know, she's very active in our community. She's always got something to say. And she has a whole thing about that gum tree, you know, the whole put your gum on the tree deal. The gum tree at the water, the log flume ride at the local amusement park. Yep. And she adds this to the story. Hey, Scott and Brian, this is Amy. And you guys were just talking about the gum tree.

And Brian was specifically talking about one that was at an amusement park. And, yes, I concur. We had those in Six Flags over Georgia, but our gum trees, they would actually put, like, a sheet of burlap around the tree. So you could stick your gum to the burlap and not harm the tree. Oh. So, there's good. Maybe after a while all amusement parks will do this and save their trees from, I don't know, whatever the gum does to them. But anyway, just thought it's true.

But why doesn't the mylar hurt the tree? The burlap? Yeah, or yeah, I'm sorry, not mylar. Why am I saying milar? The burlap. I guess it's porous, right? It has, you can get air through there. It's porous, but if the tree doesn't need air on its trunk, it gets what it needs from its leaves.

That's true. So you can't kill. If I wrap a tree with something, you can't kill the tree that way. I mean, you've seen people who put metal like aluminum or tin or something, like metal around the tree itself to keep scrolls from being able to climb it. Oh, yeah, that's true. It's sometimes lower. As long as you don't do something to the roots or the leaves, you're fine.

Okay. Well, there you go then. Mylar. No. What did you say? Burlap. Why do I keep saying mylar? Why?

Because you really want that, you want some acid-free mylar. You want to protect that tree so you can sell it on Tree Trader You're used to come It's worth a lot more Yeah The hot news site, tree trader

So hold on a second Mylar Mylar's like that It's like a plastic And shiny kind of Like comic book bags Or Milar Those are Milar

Some of them are yeah Okay I don't know what I'm thinking of Something in my head It's metallic But I don't know why I think that It's just me My brain

Um, you can do food storage. You can do, um, um, yeah. Yeah, like a little, oh, oh, okay. Computer components are good in myelar. There is a kind, I'm thinking of then that's like a, it's like a, it's like a, almost looks like a metal wrap. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the metallic ones. They use those for like, like, like, when you get computer components, like chips and things like that. Those are my, anti-static myelar bags, right? Right. Right. Okay. I still want Mylar now, it turns out. I want that around my tree. That's what I want.

But anyway, we also got a guy calling in about sleeves. There you go. Sleeves. We got a guy calling about the buoy thing. I know this has been going on for months, but I just thought this was an interesting take. So here's 10 seconds. Hi, this is for TMS. My last name is BoJ, spelled B OJ.E. In German, it actually means water buoy. So you guys would find that interesting. Thanks a lot. So Bogey is German for water buoy. Water buoy. I'm going to call that from now on I see a buoy. I'm calling it a bogey.

I'm going to call it a bogey. Watch out. That thing in the water that you're going to hit with your boat, it's a little boogie. It's a little bougie. A little bogeoisey. That little basic. I like that. Don't get that basic.

Then we got a question about who we think should do the Super Bowl next. And I actually had a thought about this, but we'll talk about that in a second. Sure. This person who did not leave a name texted the following. Hey guys, question for the morning stream team. Who do you think has the chops to put on a good halftime show for the Super Bowl next year?

Has to be somebody slash team who can appeal to multiple generations and have a deep and recognizable song catalog. I'm thinking white stripes, get Meg back, or maybe a Beck slash cake combo. A 2010s combo with Dua, Ariana,

and Keshah, or Kadaler Ha, as we prefer to call her here. could be pretty cool, too. Well, Doa Lepa's a little more like 20-20s. Yeah. Late 2010s. Yeah, she, I think 2018 was her. That's what she really levitated was in the 2020s.

2018 was like her first album or something, so she's a little later in the group. But anyway, yeah, I mean, I think all those things are true. I don't know if Beck and Cake would be a draw. Oh, it would be a draw for me. It'd be a draw for me. Don't get me wrong. I'd love it. But you want that multi-generational thing.

Yeah. Yeah. I think post Malone, now that we've seen him do a song beforehand, I think a whole post Malone halftime show would be fantastic. Yeah, I'd go for that. You know, like a no doubt. And you could do a no doubt combo. Who'd you combine? Like, do no doubt blink? You do you want to stay ska or do you want to go like? You go, you go ska and ska punk, right? So, yeah. Yeah. I'd, that'd be great. That's a thing people are into.

And right now, all of those three, three bands, maybe not hers or maybe not Gwen Stefani. But the other two have new albums. She's, she's doing the whole, the voice stuff. So she's still in public eye. Yeah, so maybe they'd be perfect. That's a good call. I like that. Yeah.

But here is my thought. Yeah. Next Sunday, or next Sunday, next Super Bowl Sunday, which is a whole year from now. It is. Yeah. Because halftime shows kind of. suck. We should do a live stream during the halftime show. Oh, you and I should? Yeah. And make up our own, you know, whatever it is. Whatever we want to do for that. How long is the halftime show?

It's like 15 minutes or something. Yeah. Yeah. We could totally do that. Yeah. We'd have it on. We'd be live casting it basically talking over it, but we'd be watching it. Yeah. Either that or we do our own thing or we make shit up. I don't know. Whatever. Like, you know, they have the puppy bowl and the, I don't know what the, did the SpongeBob thing cover, did they have their own version of the halftime break? I don't know. It must have, right?

I would think so. Did you see any of the video from Dora the Explorer, like explaining football? Oh yeah, I saw a little bit of that. That's pretty great. Yeah. That was great. He's known as a hold, that's a holding call. Let's all shout,

Holder, no holding. It was pretty great. That was great. It was a good year for 90s cartoons, I noticed. It was. Yes, it totally was. Yeah, both that and that commercial with Patrick Stewart and stuff. Yeah.

Football-shaped head kid, whatever's name is. I can't think it was name. Anyway, that stuff was great. Anyway, we'll see. Yeah, we'll see what we do next year. I like this. I like this idea a lot. I would like...

We've got a whole year to forget that we ever said this, by the way. Yeah, yeah, we'll be fun. I would like somebody like... I don't know. I'd go for like Metallica out there. Let's get some metal out there. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you know, we haven't...

that'd be good and some you know some metal that's that is widely appreciated by an audience as opposed to like mega death or anthrax or something but you could do like you could do could you do a mix of like

Metallica and then some like more pop metal like Def Leppard and yeah I think you could you could do like a here's that era Monsters of Rock basically Monsters of Rock half time show Yeah. It's the biggest problem with most of those bands is they are aging very quickly. Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, you get Axel Rose on there.

Yeah, da, man, jump a day of me. I know, I guess it was, who was it? It was Motley Cruz, Vince Neil. Vince Neil, yeah. My heart, yeah. I heard him breathing more than I heard him singing. That's right. Was I watching Poison or Weezer? Because it certainly sounded like I was watching a Weezer. on stage. Yeah, he was wheezing, for sure. Pull his sweater and he'll unravel. Squeezer, though. Again, Weezer, nice deep catalog, a big audience, you know, wide audience that likes the music of Weezer. Yeah, I would do. Weezer's a great idea. Bring out the

the jackass guys to do stupid shit while they play. Perfect. Because they got that song they did with them. I loved that song. It was for, what was it, for the 3D movie or 3? Anyway, yeah. Like, you know what? That's where what we need. I think that's what we're, what we're coming to here is the 90s need some love. Let's go. Yeah. Let's get it done.

Sure. Although I guess Usher is kind of 90s, right? Late 90s? I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Usher's. And, you know, a lot of the rap, the hip-hop superstars that they had a couple years ago were 90s as well.

Oh, right. Yeah, the Dr. Dre thing. That was, I really like that. So maybe we need to go further back. We need 80s. So let's get, we got cheap. we got cheap trick everybody's still alive and cheap trick i think right yeah bunny carlos yeah benny carlos still still with us yeah why not nielsen mm-hmm how's steely dan doing can we get steely dan out

of the grave or are they all dead half half uh half in the bag unfortunately you get donald fagin but no walter becker oh that sucks um but you know don't fagin the voice of steely dan but i think that's and now it's our somenic's half-time show Steeley Dan Doo deen Do you know Your number Everybody's fall asleep

That's great Speaking of that That's the reason I brought Steely Dan up We were playing Hell Divers Two yesterday with John and Bo And the game is awesome But there was a guy on our team

A rando named SD And we just called him Steely Dan I just called him Steely Dan I love it Yeah we're like Oh Steely Dan got killed again can somebody bring him back up oh sorry steely dan it was great had a blast doing that um all right

did he do it again oh oh he died again oh he died a lot well i'm saying do it again because i was a steely dance oh that's a steely dance oh yeah it's you're a music guy and i don't know shit do it again that's the reference there then and then and then four people in the audience got that for uh and they're all over 80 yeah they're all they're all on pills that we don't know the names of I actually With Enix I do like them sometimes

Like today I might listen At some Steely Dan I listen I joke around But Steely Dan And Tina And Tina hates Steely Dan

And I put Steely Dan In one of my Probably my top 20 favorite groups Really Why she hated Maybe even top 15 Why did she hate it so bad

Uh She She's not She says she's not the fan of Yacht Rock. She says, I don't like Yacht Rock. And then Toto comes on Do, do, do, do, you'll take a lot to get me away from you. I was like, oh, I like this song.

And you're a rich girl, but you got, oh, I like that song too. And it's basically like the kid who says, I hate this food. And they started it's like, oh, yeah, I actually kind of really like this. Yeah. She probably likes Steely Dan's in a secret way. Just won't, doesn't want to tell you. I don't think so. I don't think so.

That's great, though. Funtastic doesn't like Steelydon either. I will admit it to... Yeah, and it's got to be a certain... I can't do it just any time. I have to be in the right mood for that. Yeah, and, you know, their lyrics, they can be a little...

I mean, you know, it's kind of the whole Randy Newman's short people. Randy Newman likes short people. But it's a character, right? It's like, you know, you write these songs from a character point of view. Eminem didn't really, you know, put his wife in a trunk and drive into the water

or anything like that. Right. But so, you know, some of their, some of their lyrics of characters like Cousin-Dupree, little misogynistic, but it's a character, yeah, hey, 19, little, little, little, little, little, little, kind of like this guy. He's not that cringy, he's all right. It's Brian Dunaway. Hi, Brian Dunaway.

How are you? Hi, Wednesday. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I'm going to call you Wednesday. Wednesday. Wenzda, Winsdaway. He's Mundaway and Wendaway. Wendaway. Wendaway. Winda way. Oh, Wendiggy. Oh, my gosh. I haven't heard that in a while. It's good to have you here, dude. I hope you're well. Oh, yes. Yeah. Are you, uh, that was that was unconvincing, but I still think you're probably doing. Oh, yes. Just remember that you're doing okay. Good. I'm glad you. That's right. Yeah, I'm glad you're all right. We're going to add a collar to this. And it looks like,

like number three this week is somebody named Hellbot. Oh, is it Helbot? Is it Helbert? That's my favorite person to play against

in Unreal tournament is Helbot. Hellbot. Oh, he's the best. He's the best. Let's see if this is truly him. Hi, is this Helbot? Hello?

Hello, Helbot? Speaking to Helbot? Is Helbot home? Helbot? Hello, hello. Oh, hi. There's a Helbot. There's the Hellbot.

I forgot my push to talk. Oh, it's all right. So you are Hellbot, not Helbert, right? Yeah, you know, Discord's weird. That's an old wow name. Oh. You have different names for every different server. I'm T-Y-V-M in the text.

Oh, okay. Okay, we've seen you in there. That's awesome. As in, thank you very much. Yeah, we know what that's about. As in, thank you very much, Scott never remembers that and always tries to puffle and pronounce it, so it's awesome. That's right.

Oh, congratulations. T-M-V-Y, you got our show time, T-V-Y. I always try to pronounce it, and it's never right. Tivim. Tivom. Well, anyway, I'm glad you're here. And I'm glad that we get a chance to try to win you some prizes. Hey, but why don't you explain how this works and what's on the line today?

Well, okay, because, yeah, so nicely. It's time to play the Tad-Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tad-Pool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Bride, you're going to have to predict the answers left way gave us. It's Scott and Brenn's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Tyveum, your job is more more than ever because you're going to be working with either Scout or Brian. If your team wins,

you get a prize package that includes the gunk and the pale beyond on Steam. You know what? The gunk is awesome. That's a rad game. Yeah, it's made by those people that make the robot dig, SteamWorld Dig, one and two. Oh, those games. Yeah. It's really cool. It's their first.

like 3D game and it, I thought it was wonderful. I enjoyed the hell out of it. Nice. Oh, very cool. Well, those could be yours. Hey, what, what can we call you? What's a real first name of yours? Pick any of your real first names. Any of my real first names. Let's call it Jacob. Jacob.

Jacob. All right. We'll call you Jacob. Scott, Brian, let's give you your topic. See you both logged in. Good. All right. We asked, 455. Oh, let's put your hands on your buzzards. Oh, good. Good. Oh, whew. Almost went right past that.

We asked 455 tadpillers to tell us their answer to this. What is the best handheld? Oh, oh. Game Boy Advance. All right. Show me Game Boy Advance. Yeah. Handheld.

Contain the words Game Boy. No, Scott got it. And I'll repeat the whole question because there are three answers that will be at number four, Game Boy Advance. What is the best handheld gaming device of all time? And I will let you know that I did break things, you know, kept things broken apart. Game Boy Advance does include Game Boy Advance SP, so don't throw SP. Because the SP is the ultimate all-time best. It is.

Right, right, right. And those two are left together. All right, three answers will beat Game Boy Advance. Brian, what's your guess? I'm going with the PlayStation Portable. PSP. Oh, the PSP. Show me PSP.

Oh, right down there. Not better, so Scott gets control of the board. He also gets Jacob as a teammate. Get control of Jacob. Jacob, how are you feeling about your handheld? What do you got there? I mean, just the classic Game Boy has got to be number one. I mean, it's absolutely on the list, if not number one.

So I agree. Let's do the GB, the original GB. Show me that monochrome master of Tetris, the Game Boy. Number two. Number two. Well, I'm going to guess the Nintendo DS is on here, so let's get the DS out. Let's do that. Show me Nintendo.

Dual screen. Yeah. Oh, nice. You know, I never really thought about what the DS stood for until if it said dual screen. Never really thought about it. It makes sense. Yeah, we got a problem. We got a problem I just realized.

You mentioned earlier that you lumped some stuff together like Game Boy Advance would include the SP. That's the only real one that that's the only one where is like. Like, a lot of people put Game Boy Advance slash Advance SP, so I lumped all those together. That's the only one where you'll see that. Okay. So Game Boy, because Game Boy had a ton of variations. So not DSI then. Ritz asked if that would be something separate as well.

Oh, right. D.S.I was lumped into D.S. Actually, nobody said D.S. Although that's a really good point. Having Internet connectivity really made the D.S. a lot better. Yeah, I had that one. Really made those games of Advance Wars so much more fun. Yeah. Even though I downloaded them and then never got.

to play him later when the when they stopped supporting the store those bastards um all right let's see what do we like jacob i um i mean the reason i game boy color is a huge deal for me i love that one but i don't and that's why i asked brian the question it sounds like that might be on the possibilities list but what do you what do you think yeah i would separate out game boy and game boy color in the list okay forgive me but was this nintendo titles only or all hand No, any and all handouts. I mean, the steam deck's got to be on there late. Oh, yeah, shit.

Yeah, I spent two hours on that thing last night. Of course it should be. Let's put it on there. All right. Show me Steam deck. Yeah. Look at that. Yes.

Look at it. Look at it. I felt a strike, but I was wrong. Yeah, you suck. So let's find out how much influence Scott Johnson and Brian Dunaway have from their plate retro show. And can you save that RG-35-X? Oh, that's a good one. I love that thing.

I do that. The Embernik. Big fan. Let's do it. Let's try it. Show me the Embernik. No. Very high on the list, though.

Number 13 was the Embernik RG-35XXX. Look at us. This is some influence on the community. I mean, I bought one because you, I bought the little transparent purple one. That's right. Like and subscribe, everybody. We're our influencers now.

Well, done. That's right. Well, Dunaway, it's in your car. All right, Dunaway. You've got control. You've got controller. All right, all right. Let's go for one of the longest running, highest selling.

How about the switch? Oh, sure. Show me of the Nintendo Switch. Number one. There it is. By the way, played a lot of Ball Toro or whatever it's called, Balatro, whatever it is.

Allotro. Played a lot of that yesterday. I will tell you, on the Nintendo Switch, they need to come out with a 2.0 of that game that increases the effing size of the text. It is like, their typical text size is three by two pixel letters.

And it's like, I'm picking up my readers, my old man readers, trying to read this thing. It's very, very tight on the tool tips, especially for, like, what a card does or changes the jokers. But it's a great game. The game is amazing. That's what I was playing last down on my steam deck. It's so good.

It is so good. Yep. Oh, my gosh. All right. Well, Dunaway, you keep going, I guess, Mr. Switchhead. Yeah. All right. Then I'm going to go with the Game Boy Color.

Oh, take you. Steel. Brian Dunaway with the steel. Show me Game Boy Color. Oh. Yes. Good point. Brian moves in the front.

Number eight on the list. So right now, score is 16 to 15. Brian Dunaway leading. I would call that a headshot. Three headshot. Three answers still on the board. Plenty of points.

Number five, number nine, and number 10 have not been exposed. Motie Kim. Oh, exposed. Oh, nice. I am going to go. Holy shit. Sorry, go ahead.

I'm going to go with the. the device that I'm currently working on trying to get working. I'm doing a recap kit on it. It's a real battery sucker. I'm going to go with the Sega Game Gear. Give the Sega a little love here. Yeah. Give it some love in about 15 batteries, okay?

Yeah. So true. Yeah. All right. Show me the Sega Game Gear. Oh, you son of them. Also, I have the list. Number 11, like just outside the top 10 is the same game gear. All right. This tells me, that the 3DS is probably on here.

Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, let's go 3S. I didn't think of that. That's really good. Smart. All right. Show me the Nintendo 3DS. Nice.

Number nine. Did you love him to the 2DS with that? Can you tell us that or is that a secret? Nobody said the 2DS, so I didn't have to. Oh, wow. Okay. I like the TDS. sure nobody likes it better than nobody says it's the best hand

gaming device of all time that's true why would they i disagree the 2DS excel the new version is hot is fire at it's hot but would you call it the greatest handheld gaming device of all time consider uh just as much as i would call the game boy the greatest handheld device you would put it in you put it in the top 10 is what you're saying game boy is not the best original it is the original it is the original

and highly influential. I would agree. You're asking me to pick up any one of these that are on the board here and play with it. The Game Boy would be probably of the ones we've exposed, the last one I would get. Yeah, I would only get it because I want to collect it and that's it.

I don't want to play it. Yeah, right. All right. How we feel about, I mean, the Vita might be on here. PlayStation Vita. I like the Vita. Yeah, that's probably better

than what my next. guesses. Let's do Vita. We'll try Vita. Did someone say PlayStation Vita? Oh, do you have your Vita? Nice. Nice Vita. Yeah, nice Vita you got there, man. Thank you. That's my, I'm proud of my Vita.

Show me. I like to show everybody my Vita. Show me the PSVita. Oh, come on. Yeah. Even though I have one, number 14 on the list. It's popular, but not. I love it. I love it. They didn't support it. it very well, but I loved it. My 3DS right here, a 3DS XL, yeah.

Nice, the Excel was awesome. I have that same red one, exact same one. Yeah, I mean, it's a sweet, sweet color. Yeah, that Mario color, you know. That's right. All right, done away, you got two holes to fill, buddy. What I'm really confused about is, you know, number 10 missing is no big surprise. There's probably tons and tons of obscure shit we're not thinking of.

But number five, I'm number five, I know, exactly, right? confused at what my what's left out of this list um that would be all right then i'm gonna just have to say people have weird love for it i don't know why i've never owned one but people love that Atari links i don't know i don't know why i don't either that but you know what that screen was like posted stamp size it was horrible yeah but i kind of liked it i liked mine it was all right i'm gonna yeah i'm yeah let's go with let's go with the Atari. Okay.

All right. Show me the links. ROR! Uh, number 18 on the list. It actually did get some love. But it was, it's tied for 18th with every other thing that just got one vote. Interesting. Starting to think there might be something on here where it's very tad pooly,

ha ha, tongue and cheek. Yes. And by a lot of people, like fifth place, a lot of people, like more than 30. Yeah. Yeah. I have a couple real dumb ideas. So, one, I had the biggest battery sucker of all when I was a kid. It was the Turbo Graphics 16.

Oh, yeah, the Turbohraphics handheld, yeah, dude. 8,000 double A's, my dad needed it. Yeah, that thing sucked. And I don't think it had a good way to plug it in easily. It was horrendous. Yeah, it was bad. And top heavy. What was your other one?

Those, like, those old tiger games, the like, one-off. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a good answer. that be on like like a whole bunch of tiger games they're all up together their hand yeah they're handhelds that are the the Nintendo

watch and what were they called oh the game and watch oh why am I telling you shut up I'm wondering which would be a bigger one let's do the game and watch I think probably right shit you know what let's do game and watch

I think people are very fond of those I hated them but I think people have love for that Yeah, that's like, you know, kind of on the same line as Game Boy, right? Like, oh, yeah, influential. Like, it was a thing we had, but. Yeah. There are kids, like, 10 years younger than us, and I would say, and they were, like, loving that. I'd go, we had Calico Vision football.

We know what little blinking lights do. Exactly. This isn't a big deal, but anyway, let's do it. All right. Show me game and watch. Oh, it's right, Brian, with a last chance to steal. By the way, game and watch was number 15. So I did get some love, but not any love that mattered, unfortunately.

No. If I hit number 10 and then don't get the last one, you get no game. You pull, that's right, you pull the, what is it, the gunk and the pale beyond right out of Jacob's hands. Right, right out of the sands, yeah. Well, let's see what happens, Jacob here. Let's see, I have, oh my, it's got to be one we're not thinking up. But the only thing I can think of is the one I keep in my bag is the one I played a lot on the school bus, which was that, it was Mattel, right? Mattel made the football, we made the basketball one and the football one.

Well, that was a Calico thing, right? Was that Clico? I don't remember. I think the Clico made one, too, but I thought that was Mattel that made that one. You might be right. The football, the green football one was ubiquitous. Everybody I knew had that thing. Yeah.

I loved it. But it's old, man. Like, pretty old. It's very old. So I don't know how many of the kids in our chat are going to have any. Well, I don't want to help you. You do what you do. Me and Scott are so helpful that we realize we're playing a game.

Oh, screw you. You're not retract that from the record. I want you to be influenced. Right. You know, how about the Nokia engaged? Now I'm going to go with. side what was it side talking side talking yeah yeah yeah yeah it looked like a taco it was stupid oh jesus i don't know man i the the the the rog ally i'm going with the rog ally that's my final

answer the rog ally rachel so let's show me the rog ally it's a way to fall on your sword nicely done can i guess can i guess one more just guess sure okay the only the only thing i can think of is that you that we did not talk about the um this is the trolly answer i think but the nomad the sagan nomad oh yeah the second no so they didn't put the game gear on there but they went all in on the nomad yeah the nomad was number 17 on the list surprisingly yeah okay that's why i didn't say the nomad i'm completely lost on these two there's no way i would bet people in chat are saying iPhone and oh that's interesting yeah like the first of the ip i would yes that it's something you've played game on in the last two or three days

if not the last 24 hours probably the most profit in handheld. Oh, you brought holes. That's right, the smartphone. You bought holes. Holy cow. So glad, because this one has snatched the video where you, Brian. Oh, no. Number 10 is

Mattel electronic football. Scott taught me out of it, too, because he's like, oh, that's so old, Brian. No one would say that. Don't embarrass yourself. That's why we abstain from saying, no. I mean, Calico had one, but Mattel was the big one that everybody, like the one with the little oval on top, beige.

Yes. It was shaped like a little stadium, kind of. Yes, exactly. Yeah, that game, dude. It was barely a game. It was just memorize where these lights go. Right, exactly. Oh, I know the

dash patterns to get through this game. Here's some other ones. Calico Baseball did make the list. A deck of cards and dice. Oh, nice. You guys are also fun. Those are handheld.

Those are handheld. Penis also made the list of Sandheld gaming device. Mattel, a Mattel Battlestar Galactica Space Alert from 1978. Okay. NeoGeo Pocket. The analog making a... I was going to...

I got mine on my desk and I didn't think enough people would have had it, but the analog pocket... Is that the one? That's the wheel, right? Or that a little crank? No, no, no. This is the analog pocket. It's a, no, it's an FPGA-type emulator. So it's like real hard where you can put real carts in the back of it.

We've got Pokemon gold in the back of mine right now. And then playing the Lion King for this week's. So when you're, Brian, the one you're thinking about is a play date with the crank on it. Play date. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I do want one of those. You're thinking of the penis. Yeah, think of the pink of the crank down.

Tiger Hen Hill Double Dragon, Turbo Graphics, Turbo Express. Water ring toss, you know, those like, push a little squeeze buttons. Yeah, I hate those things. Yeah, I hate those things. Wildfire and Merlin, both. in the list here. Somebody said your mom and finally, boobs.

Oh, boobs. So, Tedpool, again, you don't disappoint. And I'm giving, I'm basically making it so that you fools will keep putting these stupid answers in here and destroy the credence and the true nature of this game.

I'm surprised nobody put the Wonder Swan in there. Those are highly regarded. Especially overseas. No mention even at all of the Wonder Swan. I don't even know what that is. It's a Japanese handheld thing. It was very popular in Japan. They never really made it here. But I thought somebody was going to be a jokester and say Tomogachi,

but I'm glad they didn't. That's good. I mean, it would have fit on here as much as a lot of these other ones. That's true. Yeah, I think you would like the Wonder Swan as a, it's a Bandai. Yeah, Nanko Bandai. I've, yeah, I've, I've been on a couple on eBay before and I haven't won one yet. Back in the day, they were, you had, you had Wonder Swan stands that would just,

they were relentlessly trying to convince everybody those were the best things in the world. Yeah. I got to look this thing up. They look pretty cool. And you can, and it's actually, yeah, they actually have interfacing. Now they've got some new updates and stuff and you can use what's called the Proto Web and you can get online with it. It's a neat little tool. It's interesting. So you play it, so they've got the double joystick. So you play it, you don't play it on its side. Then you play it. You can't. You can. Okay. Yeah. You can. Gotcha. You can play games that way. That makes sense. Yeah, they basically made it so it had dual, you know, you could flip screens.

And so if you wanted to play Pac-Man, like a proper Pac-Man, it offered that as a vertical. Yeah. Yeah, vert. A single AA battery, that's unheard of. I guess it is black and white screens. Yeah, they had a color as well. I don't know how many batteries that took. Oh, there's one.

Just one. It went too bad. I think you had two AAs, I think. That's when I was a bid on was a color one. It's like the Game Boy. It's great and all. But if you're going to get something like that, go with the color version. Yeah.

It was a weird little device. Just never really got, never hit here. I don't think we ever even released it here. I think that was just Japan. Maybe it was here? Yeah. As far as I remember, that is accurate. Well, there you go.

You know what this means? Here's the good news right here. Congratulations. You're a winner, and that means that these games that Brian talked about will be yours shortly if they aren't already. Already, he's already playing them. He's already downloaded the music. Yeah.

Thanks, guys. My kids can eat this week. Oh, good. Fantastic. Take it easy. It's good to have you here, Jacob. Slash. Jacob.

Wizzer Waz. Uh, Dunaway, look, it's Wednesday. That means we're awful. We should have said, thank you very much for being here. Yeah. But thank you for being here, too.

And also Friday, we're doing a bit of the old, the old play retro. Everybody, yeah, everybody's favorite rental, the Lion King. That's right. Disney's Lion King. where Disney said, uh-uh, uh-uh, and they tried to stop us from renting games by making them super difficult in level two.

Yeah. Level two was designed so that you could not finish that game and had to return it before the rental window. Yeah, not a weekend. Not going to finish it a weekend, my friend. So you'd have to come back later and rent it again. It was really quite a scheme and it pisses me off to this day. So we're going to talk about that.

Pretty lame what they were trying to pull on. Disney. Yeah, kind of a cool game, though. The game's good and holds up. Oh, it's a great little platformer. I get to play as Simba. Oh, we should try to name the characters like y'all, like that little video y'all been passing around from the Lion King. Oh, oh, with our Pumba, all that. Yeah, Pumba, Simba. I don't want to get in that discussion. I think if I see them, if I, if I actually see them, I have no problem naming them. It's when I, it's when I try to separate all that shit in my mind that I get all confused. Rafiki, right. He was the monkey. Anyway, so that's what we're doing, and it'll be 1.30 p.m. Mountain Time on Friday. Please tune in, everybody, because we have a great time on that show, and we'd love to have you there. Brian Dunaway, kiss our butts. All right. He's gone. He's gone. He's gone. That's it for that. It is time for a little bit of news. Not a ton, but enough. So here we go.

Oh, look, it's the news, and it's brought. to you by. Brought to you by the 3 a.m. revving engine again, but this time with a slight change. Scott, what happened? He farted before he started the car.

Really? And I heard it. Yeah, I woke up. Here's what woke me up. Like a really loud fart. Well, I heard the door first. That's what woke me up.

So I hear, bang. And I go, oh, here he goes again. He's about to start that car. And then I hear, before he gets in the car and shuts it. I hear, and then he got in the car and started it. And then the whole pattern, as usual, happened.

But I got to hear a little fart, the morning fart. Nice. Well, You know, you don't want to do that in the cab of the track. You want to make sure that stuff stays outside. That's right. Why do you want to, you don't want to, what do they call that?

Shake, not shake and bake. What do they call that? You don't want to Dutch oven. Dutch oven. Dutch oven. There does. Yeah. Shake and bake.

What the frick. Shaken bake. You can't do shake and bake in the Dutch oven though. That's true, probably, right? You can cook anything in there. Oh, man, Dutch oven like a peach cobbler in a Dutch oven. Oh, yeah. That sounds good.

Or meatballs in there. Anything, whatever. Meatballs, yeah, sure. The Dutch knew it was up. Look at this here, deal. Delta Flight forced to turn back after maggots fell on passengers from the overhead compartment. Good Lord. Was Heifer Sutherland somewhere going, how do you like those maggots passengers?

I hope so. He was the pilot. Pilot, pilot. He was the pilot. How do you like those maggots, Michael? They're Chinese noodles, Michael. What are you doing? Yeah, what are you doing, buddy?

Delta flight was recently forced to turn around after this thing happened. These maggots fell from the overhead compartment, and this was only in the economy seats, of course, first-class didn't have to deal with any maggots. Of course. Flight on Tuesday, 13th February was transporting travelers from Amsterdam to Detroit to Michigan when a passenger's suitcase containing rotting fish was in the overhead bin and opened up, resulting in maggots falling on to passengers.

After the plane landed, all passengers are instructed to deboried the aircraft, and the suitcase containing the fish was placed to, in a bag and destroyed. The plane itself was also deeply, deeply clean, do they say? Deeply clean. How was the, how was the running fish not caught in security? Oh, God. Yeah, awful.

If there's enough gap that maggots can get out of the suitcase and fall on people, there's enough of a gap for the smell of running fish to be caught before this person gets on plane. Yeah, or scanned at the very, very least you took it through TSA or whatever Amsterdam does for TSA I assume it's similar um geez yeah that's gross uh they were let's see a person named Kelsey ended up on uh Twitter to comment on their experience uh wrote this quote really lovely to be in two hours and eight uh sorry be in to be two hours into an eight hour flight delta to Amsterdam to find that there is rotting fish and maggots hitching a ride with us unquote he uh revealed the staff uh the

Delta staff had identified the owner of the riding suitcase and detained them on the plane after the rest of the travelers left. So I don't know if anything come to that. You don't get arrested for this sort of thing. Maybe you do. Jeez. I don't know. What's going on to Detroit? Why this guy from Detroit bringing home dirty fish?

It's gross. That's gross. Okay. Here's another kind of gross one. Although some people are into this. There's an Ohio funeral home that will preserve your tattoos when you die. Okay, all right, so there's a little stretched out leather thing that you can give your family? Yeah, like that Dr. Who thing that's all stretched out on that board.

That's exactly what I was thinking of, yeah. Yeah, it says, save my tattoo when I die. That's the quote from Matthew Burleson's final request, a request to his sister, Cindy, from the hospital bed in the intensive care unit last April. One night he asked me, he said, I want one of my tattoos saved. And I was like, okay. She said with a laugh. Yeah. It says here that she didn't know if it was possible.

He'd never know if you didn't honor his last request. That's right. There's a place called Save My Ink Forever, a Northeast Ohio-based company stationed out of a funeral home in Northfield. And they say they're the only company in the world offering post-mortem tattoo preservation. They remove the skin. They preserve it. And then they frame it for the family. There's some photos of this that I'm now going to share.

Oh, geez. And it puts the lotion on. the skin. Yeah. Why, why when I look at this guy is it the guy that I absolutely would expect that would have this company? I don't know why is it. It looks like a, oh sorry, like he's Amish or something. He looks like an Amish guy. Yeah. Well, time for milking. Time for peeling. I don't know what he does. Right. Oh, this is so. So there you go. Look at that. That's somebody's arm. It's just a chunk of skin. Yeah. If you go down here. There's a close-up of it. Yeah. That's your skin. Oh, really? Let me see. Do I want to see the close-up?

It's just a little tighter shot. There's the dog and the free bird. I mean, they're beautiful works of art. Maybe, I don't know, a photograph would be just as good. Yeah, I don't want this on the wall. Sorry. And a little less silence of the lamsy. Yeah. I'm not putting it on my wall ever. Kim's got her whole, like, she tattooed her jumboleya recipe down her arm. So it's got. Did she really? Yeah. So from here, it starts with onion.

It goes all the way down to shrimp or something. And they're all just little icons for each item. Oh, that's great. Yeah, it's really cool. And so I would hate to have that be lost to time. But we'll just take photos of it. We don't need. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, my God. That's awesome. I mean, looking at these. None of them are ones I'd really say or were saving. Yeah, the one, the free bird one? I mean, was that a bad choice during a, concert or something like done freehand free bird and uh and that fox looks like trash

oh geez the dog looks okay but also the dog looks okay but the dog looks very angry yeah wouldn't want this is for a certain kind of person that ain't us yeah yes so you know what if this if this makes somebody happy uh power to them sure yep more power i'd even say yeah i will say that um uh you know if something god forbid were to happen to Tina and I had to put her and save her tattoo and like frame it put on the wall. The irony is that it says Survivor.

There you go. And that kind of. Yeah, there's some, I like that though. That's irony. Yeah. So I don't think I don't think I'll be signing up for their services. People who are confused, you just say, oh, she'd love the band. You know, she's really into

Survivor. She really liked Eye of the Tiger and the reality competition show. She was a big fan. And the Chuck Polonic book. She liked all three of those things. All three of those things. Everything with the word survivor in it. She was into.

Everything with the word survivor in it. Except anything that Steely Dan made. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here talking some tech. And we'll also have some recommendals. So stick around. Brian plays a song. Why don't you in the middle of it?

Well, we haven't any pop in a while. We're all thirsty for a little bit of pop. Sure. We call it soda. That's fine. That's right. This is a singer named Casey Feifield. Fifeield, Fifth Field, Fifeield, F-F-F-F-E-L-D. It's like Field with F-I-E-L-D. It's like Field with F-I-E-L-D.

So why wouldn't I just pronounce it, Fyfield? Here's Casey, Fyfield. A little bit of fun pop here for you called Never Reply. What does it mean? You'll have to listen to the lyrics. Wish we never met, I turned back the time, never replied. I know I've changed for the better. I grew when our ties were severed. You still crack under pressure, stuck in high school forever. And I will never reply, and I didn't cry when we said goodbye. Never reply

I wish I could say I don't think of you when I drop home I swear you curse me to relive the days Before you're through when I'm alone That you're doing worse things But you're doing worse things But you're doing worse things But you're doing worse things And I

will never reply And I didn't cry When we say goodbye Never reply I know I've changed for the better I know I've changed for the better I grew when our ties were severed I was it guilty as pleasure

you're stuck without me forever and I will never reply and I didn't cry and I will never reply and I'll never reply Never reply

Never reply thing to hit the fashion industry since hot pants we need 300 more blue scrubs this one chicken nuggets and we're back who is that again that is a casey five field and a brand new song called never reply this is coming from her forthcoming EP nostalgia haunts me uh blending light and beachy vibes that contrast stunningly with a hauntingly optimistic tone oh well all right then casey i field i have officially been convinced or fifieled feffield new york city new york city new york city new york city get a rope all right time for this we want tom yeah we do it's tom merritt everybody ace detect on twitter and all those other kind of social services and you know what he does he comes on

here and talks about technology because it's the daily tech news show you should be tuning into on a daily basis. Tom, welcome back to the show. And you're muted. Well, this is the way. It is the way. Thank you for having me, Scott, and Brian. You're welcome. Thanks for me. It's just as good delayed as it was when it was fresh. Don't worry about it. Thank you for having me, Scott and Brian. There you go again. It's the entirety of today's subject. Speaking of subjects, Tom, I am Groot. I'll just respond. It's your I am Groot. I like that. Speaking of grutes and things that, you you have to plug in. I don't know what that means. Let's talk about technology. Is there anything going on right now that any of us should be worried about or concerned with or, you know?

Nope. Nope. Everything's fine. Back to you, Scott. Great. Thank you for having me on. All good in the world. Today. Yeah. There's a lot, obviously, and we will fill daily tech news show with it. But one thing, I don't know if we'll end up talking about this on the show today or not. I had it in my substack newsletter earlier this week. A lot of folks are making a big deal out of the fact that Apple specifically added, don't put your phone in rice if it gets wet to its support document. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah. This was all over the place. Like, don't do it. Yeah. It's a trap. And I think they changed the support document maybe a week ago. Some folks noticed it over the weekend. And then today, for some reason, like the BBC has it.

Now, everybody has suddenly picked it up. But this is actually something that people have said for a long time. time is that the rice trick doesn't really work with phones. Rice can't absorb water, but it absorbs small amounts of water over a long period of time. And so it's not effective enough to really dry out your phone. And one of the reasons for that is because phones are so good at locking things up that they just can't get the water out. So you're more at risk of having small pieces of rice get into your ports and stuff and damaging your phone than you are of actually trying out. phone do you have is there did they offer an alternative or anything say like silica gel or

yeah use those little silica gel packets same same thing like it's probably not going to work but at least those are usually packaged up so they won't get into your ports so you're not going to risk any damage no they say uh these days that the best thing you can do is kind of tap it uh you know try to try to knock the water out of the ports uh because if there is any water that got in it probably didn't get far because of the way there these things are are sealed up these days uh and you know if you have any hope of recovery. That's the best hope is doing some things like that. Leave it somewhere dry with lots

of air flow is another tip. So that the dry wind, wind is probably overstating it, but you know, the dry air moving air will take away moisture. Don't use a hairdryer though. Use an external

heat source like a hair dryer or put it on the radiator. Oh God. Yeah. Or a sun. Don't put it in the sun either. I wouldn't do that. It's one of those things we're like, yeah, but I want to dry it out fast. I need my phone back and people panic. And the fact of the matter is, if it's going to dry, it's just going to dry naturally. So you want to put it in a place where it's going to dry naturally faster with a little airflow, but not try to accelerate the process in a way that's going

to damage the phone. So yeah, it's, and then they're like, just try plugging it in again after it sat for a while. Sometimes the act of plugging it in will clear the water out as well. And again, phones these days, I mean, depends on how old your phone is, I guess. But phones these days are, you know, you can dump them water for 30 minutes up to six meters and all of that. So you're not running into this being as much of a problem as it was back in, you know, 2011 when I sat at the edge of my pool with my phone in my pocket. Have you, I was going to ask you, have you ever dropped? your phone into a significant body of water and had any concerns about it?

That was the one time that I just totally ruined a phone. I had the phone and we were having a thing at our house. I don't remember what it was, but a bunch of people had come over to our house when we lived in San Rafael and we were renting a place with a pool and I had my phone in my swimming trunks pocket. And then I went and I just sat on the edge of the pool next to somebody and was talking to not realizing that, you know, my phone was just right under the surface of the water. The entire. Oh, that sucks.

That sucks. And that would have been like an iPhone four? Five, I think. Yeah. I think it was the five maybe. Yeah. Those weren't super watertight yet. They hadn't gotten there.

No. You could splash them, but you couldn't dunk them. Yeah, that's true. And I put mine in rice and it didn't do anything. Of course not. But you had a lovely curry later that afternoon with that rice. I did. I had an iPhone curry. I love it. Well, these are the sorts of things you can count on as being part of the big thing known as the Daily Tech News show.

And today there will be one. Sadly, I won't be there today. Usually I am on Wednesdays, but I'll be having a crown put on. Ooh, that's right. A coronation. Yeah, a real coronation. Yeah, I guess that's one very positive way of spinning it. Yeah, that's how I would. Will your dentist be played by Olivia Coleman or Elizabeth Faye or... That original girl, what was her name? Faye, not Faye. Foy, Claire Foy, that's who I want. Yeah, let's do that.

Or, you know what, I'd take, who played the queen in the queen? Judy Densh? No, the other one. No, the other one. That was an old, she's old like Judy Dinch. Help me. We know her. Helen Marin, that's who I want to be the queen.

Helen Miran, classic. She can take care of my crown. Well, that's great. People should tune in. Tom, is there anything else going on that you'd like to tell fine folks about? Not after that image. No. I am working on my substack newsletter right now.

Some of the stuff will end up in Daily Tech News show. But as I always explain, Daily Tech News show is a chance for Sarah and I and Scott and others to kind of share our perspectives on things and and help the audience understand, uh, things. My Substack newsletter is me just talking to you about my perspective on things. Now, they're not always all that different, but you'll get more of just what I think, uh, and my opinions on a rundown of the news of the day, uh, at free tech newsletter.com. It's free once a week on Thursdays. Uh, or if you want to, you know, shove a little coin my way, uh, I do it every day, uh, for, for the paying subscribers.

and I'm working on the paid one right now. Apple upgrading its iMessage encryption for quantum computers to keep the encryption solid. Google open sourcing some models. Chat GPT lost its mind overnight. All that's going to be in there. Oh, yeah, I heard about that. That was so weird. All right.

Yeah, check that out, everybody. It's Tom Merritt. We'll talk to you soon. Bye now. All that sound he gets behind them. I know. We got to talk to him. Can you talk to him this afternoon?

just say we'll do some tests I'll be at the dentist but I will I will bring it up and I'll just say because what's weird is we have a Discord call planning Discord call every week for DTNS that he does every day and we don't get it in there at all That's weird because it's over the same

Everything is the same as far as I know He must be using something different like a different Yeah just feels like a game thing Like something's game some game things off Or yeah or something Cause interference or something Yeah it's really weird Oof, I say.

The way it creeps up makes me think it's a, like, I don't know what that is. Oh, I see what you're saying about the game. Yeah. Really weird. Anyway, we'll figure it out. That is going to do it for that. Let's get Nicole in here. Randy is in a meeting, so he will not be with us today.

But Nicole will. Just three recommendals today. That's right. One of them is a little less visual. Well, it's very visual. That's true. You have to read it. You have to use your eyeballs.

That's true. I guess you could listen to it. But anyway, we're going to do that now. And if we had the right thing up, here we're here. Well, what do you recommend? Look at that. We got Nicole here. Hi, Nicole.

How are you? I'm sorry, I sent you guys Girl Scout cookie emails, but Ava got a batch for the emails that I sent. Oh. Oh, no worries. Yeah, I don't know if I did I get it. Maybe I didn't get it. I don't know if I did get it, actually. I said it to Kim.

I think I sent it. No, did I send it? I thought I sent it to both of you. If you sent it to Kim, she doesn't. I haven't checked email yet this morning. No, that's awesome. It's going around. I'm noticing everybody's got the stuff now.

There were some Girl Scouts of trivia last night, so we bought a few boxes there. That's awesome. Smart girls, because it's held at this dining hall, you know, like one of these places that's got six different restaurants, upscale food court. And it's like perfect time to sell to sell a Girl Scout cookies.

You're the one of the first. told me that those places existed and we still love going to the one downtown. What'd you call it again? What's it called again? Dining hall. Dining hall. It's just such a nice step up. We have one of those here in St. Louis, too. It's pretty cool.

Yeah. I like them. I wish there were more. There's probably six within a five mile radius. I can be at six different dining halls in five minutes from where I'm at right now. Do you have a favorite? Like when you prefer over the other? Yeah, the one that we went to last night that has trivia is it's called Freedom Street Social, because the person's mom that opened it up, I grew up on a street called Freedom Street, and she always had everybody over and cooked for everybody. And so it's the Freedom Street Social, and it's got a great taco place.

Oh, it's got a guy who was on chopped, an Argentinian guy who makes the best bison burger, the best burger I've ever had, but it's $24. I did have one last one. Oh, $24. $24. But my God, it is the best burger I've ever had. All right. I would try it once. That sounds all right.

Bacon jam on it. I can't eat anything right now. Really? I'm doing a, I'm doing a sugar. It's not a fast. In trying to get rid of my ticks, I finally went to a functional medicine doctor. And I'm being treated for an overgrowth of candida. Have you ever heard of this?

No. Apparently, when your immune system. gets out of whack and you've had a lot of antibiotics. You can have this weird overgrowth in your intestines. And so now I'm sugar-free, which I cannot believe I'm sugar-free, which is mind-blowing and yeast-free. And everything has yeast and sugar-ins. Yeah.

Sure. Yeah. But my ticks have gone down like 75%. Really? That's good. Yeah. That's great. Candida overgrowth?

Yeah. Cibbo. So S-I-B-O is usually the condition. And it's different for everybody, but it's working for me. So I take a, yeah, for me and Mateo, both are doing this, which is crazy because he's the pickiest eater I've ever known and he is sticking to this diet. That's great. It's a lot easier to do it now than it would have been, you know, 10, 15, 20 years ago just

because there's so many great sugar-free options that still are really good. Monk fruit is the best. It's my savior in all of this. I love it. Do you get the, do you get the link? What's the brand? Ling. Shit.

Anyway, they're, yeah, it's like lacto, Lank, yeah, I know what you're talking. Whatever it is.

They're here in, they're here in Provo. They have their, they're super nice too. I think one of the, somebody over there listens and sent us some bags. Oh,

that's awesome. Yeah, I love monk fruit. It's really good. It's really good. Munk fruit now. Yeah, monk fruit rules.

A little hard to bake with. Anyway. Anyway. All right. Well, let's get to it. Sorry. Sorry. I went into my medical drama. No, no, that's all right. It's all right. I like having every segment we do begin with some medical stuff. Yeah, we like a medical drama here and there.

I recommend it saying elsewhere. That's a medical drama. It all works out. There you go. I'm like, ah, that's so cold. Before we get to my recommendal, I have a quick note, like sort of recommendal for folks or like a public service announcement. So, Dune 2, coming out in a little over week, the 29. end of this month. Dune 2, Dune Part 2,

coming out the same day that Dune Part 1 leaves Netflix. So if you want to watch Dune Part 1 before you go see the new movie, I don't know if another streaming service is going to pick it up.

Probably will, but just in case, make sure you watch Dune Part 1 on Netflix before you go see it. And based on its length, make sure you start Dune Part 1 on the 27th before it disappears from Netflix on the 29th.

Yeah, give it some time. time you know it's a nice long film and uh you'll be fine um i ended up buying that in 4k but i believe it's going back to max i think is it okay i think so because they are i mean they technically they own it too it's their studio but oh really okay so it probably will but just in case yeah so make sure you watch it because it rocks and i cannot wait for that new movie i'm so excited uh all right brian tell us about your recommendal today yeah so my recommendal um i'm giving you a dubbed version because this is a japanese import a truly Japanese import, not like the Japanese import that I told Scott about a while back that turned out to be Korean and I forgot about it.

This is actually truly a Japanese import. And this came from the recommendation of a ton of tadpoolers based on other things that I liked. So here we go. All right, here's a clip. Registration is now closed. The game will now commence. Game? Game.

Dead or alive. Difficulty, three of clubs. Three of clubs? What does that mean? Rule. Select the correct door within the stipulated time frame. What? Clear condition.

Leave the building within the time limit. You'll die if you just stand there. The time limit for this room is two minutes. Sounds a squid-games. A little squid-y. Yeah, it's a squid game-like. This is a series called Alice in Borderland. This is on Netflix.

And, yeah, I mean, it's very, you know, there's this, this rage right now of these survival, hunger game style, battle royale kind of things that are, that are coming from Korea and Japan and all these other places. But this is really cool. This is, so it's two seasons, and basically the premise is that these guys, these friends are, are in. in Japan. It's super busy, full of people, crossing the Shibuya crossing. They duck into a little closet to get away from the police that are chasing for something

that they did. And when they come back out, everybody's gone. Like the entire Shibuya area is completely cleared out. And they see this thing that says, game commencing, follow the arrow. And sure enough, they do. And they find some other

people who left behind. Very few people left behind in Tokyo. and they have to play these survival games. Now, unlike Squid Game, it's not like, you know, you're forced to play in these games. You can choose whether or not you play in these games, and they each have a difficulty level that is based on a playing card. All the club games are team games, all of the heart games are mind games, but they range in difficulty from Ace all the way up to 10 for difficulty.

And, but if you choose not to play game, you basically, when you, when you complete a game and you either die or live, if you live, you get a visa that expires five days after the end of that game. So you have basically five days to play another game. And the way you die in this thing is that a mysterious laser comes down from the sky and shoots you in the head.

Oh, no way. Like a precision strike, orbital strike or whatever. Precision satellite strike that just zaps you in the head. Love it. That's one of the ways you don't. in the game, Borderlands. Oh, that's true. Really?

There's like a whole storyline with the laser in the sky. Interesting. Well, they probably got it from that. So obviously what you do is you follow these characters. The main guy is, his name is Arisu,

which translates to Alice or is pronounced. It's kind of their pronunciation of Alice is Arisu or something like that. I don't know how that all connects. But anyway, that's why it's Alice in Borderland. Then you've got these other great characters Usagi and Cheshiyah and Rizuna, these are all other players that they encounter.

And listen, if you read manga, if you play Japanese video games, you see these tropes of characters like this bad guy who's carrying a sword and has an eye patch. And this girl who is like in a bikini top and pants, you know, does the whole like, you know, the two-figure, you know. super happy fun time yeah good times yeah um so many so many tropes as far as characters go you know the old mysterious guy that guy yeah um but this is a lot of fun i will warn you it is gory it is uh not not for um uh not for the kids uh and i i the you heard the dubbed version there i didn't that's the only time i've ever listened to the dub and it's okay i did the subtitled version. It was great. But there's a transgender character that I'm sure caused some kerfuffle because it was not

played by a transgender actress, which I know here in US would be a much bigger deal than it might have been. I don't know if it was a big deal there, but I couldn't find any details about it because I looked it up. The character was like, oh, wow, okay, that's really cool. And then I go and look up, nope, the actor is actually a woman. Um, but anyway, the, uh, the story is great. The, the mystery is great. There's another season plan. So, and, uh, Netflix says it's coming. So we will get hopefully some, some closure on the story, uh, two seasons, uh, and, um, and a lot of fun. That explains the big number two on the poster I'm looking at. I was wondering. Yeah, that's season two. Right. Exactly. They do it like a movie. It's weird. It's like a big old fat Roman numeral two on your season. Not used to. seeing that. Cool. All right. Available now. Netflix it up, baby. It seems like Netflix has the, they've cornered the market on these squid game likes over there. I don't know if that's bad. To clarify, I do mean a cis woman. Not a, oh, it's chat giving you shit. Chat, relax.

Yep, of course they are because they know that I'm a horrible, horrible person deep down. And so they want to correct me because they, you know, this, they know this nice guy is just a facade. So they do have to do this. They have to get in. They got to get in there. Exactly. All right. Let's get to the cold. on Netflix. Nicole, you got a clip here for us. This looked interesting. Any set up for it? Well, before we go to the clip, you keep saying Borland's, and all I'm thinking about is the Borland's movie trailer that drops today.

Oh, yeah, yeah. But I haven't seen, but the poster, I go, all right, has Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis. That's pretty cool. But then it has freaking Kevin Hart as Rawland. What? It's a weird, weird casting. I'm so torn on the whole thing because it's directed by Eli Roth and I don't like Eli Roth movies at all

but it's also co-produced and written by Craig Mazin who I really like for things like his adaptation of Last of Us and also the Chernobyl thing was amazing so and then it's got these actresses I really like

I like Keith Blanchett I love her as Lilith yeah and I love what's her beak whose name i just forgot it was everything everywhere all at once Jamie Lee Curtis she's great

yeah these are all good things but then I just think Jack Black is clap trap I just just use the voice of clap trap really oh yeah just use the voice of a clap you might not be able to though the clap trap trap voice guy

there's a whole thing with that he got in trouble it's a whole thing yeah they fired them and then they found another voice actor that sounded like um yeah he got he got screwed he's just not around yeah i don't think he'd be around for it is he should have done the uh what

what on back to the future the actor um oh crap what's his name christen glvers so he sued because they took another actor and made it look like right for back to the future too yeah right his likeness so it feels like that would be the same a similar thing either way so anyway that was my borderland thought as you're talking about your boardland movie All right but here's my actual I've been getting a lot of

recommendations on Facebook for documentaries and I don't know what can I say they know me I went ahead and watch this one I had never heard of it before fascinating story about a

unidentified person but what really surprised me about the documentary was the incredible representation of what it's like on the internet nowadays. Oh, all right, good deal. There you go. Here you go. Here's your clip.

Call your county 911. What is your emergency? We just found it dead body. There was nothing there with a name on it, no wallet, no credit cards. no photo ID. We don't really know who he is. How difficult is this going to be?

This is my first case. By day, I'm the mild-mannered delivery person. And at night, I get unidentified people identified. I went on to Facebook. I felt like maybe I could help. I don't know anything about sleuthing cases, but this was a member of my community. We take care of each other.

The group blew up. All of these different Americans were using the internet to do something good. It moved and fast. You know, people were throwing out ideas. He was seen in Georgia. He was seen in North Carolina. Small bits of personal information that he would reveal. I was shocked.

Holy shit. Like, look at this. This is the guy I camped with. If you don't mind, can I take a picture? Smiled and clicked his picture. Ah, internet sleuthers, man. Yeah. I love and hate those people sometimes.

You're going to, I mean, you would love this documentary. It's on max. It's called, crap, what was it called? They called them mostly harmless. So in Florida, they came across a tent with a man, unidentified man. He weighed like 80 pounds. He was like skin and bones. Permaciated.

Yeah. And they could not figure out who he was. And this is like this is like this is a number, a few years ago, 2019, 2020. Um, and they just, he erased his digital track. He did. So it's an interesting kind of thought experiment of can you, can you erase your identity from from the world nowadays and so it starts off them trying to figure out who he is and so they're doing these little things and they start the the police department puts up a doctored photo because

the original photo is so jarring because he's so emaciated and then it takes you down this path because he was he was hiking the appalachian trail and there's a whole tight-knit group of hikers and you have trail names and I had no idea any of this was a thing but you know like every kind of hobby or you know thing that you get into there's there's nuances to it so when you meet somebody on a trail you don't give your real name so people knew him he would introduce himself as mostly harmless that was his that was his trail name. And so this documentary takes you through what people did to try to identify him. And so there was a Facebook group and the woman that was in that clip, she delivers dry cleaning during

the day. But at night, she's like on Facebook. That is her life. And like it is serious business for them. And it kind of makes me sad because she, you could tell she, she's lived a life unfulfilled. And this is what she kind of thinks is her calling. And so there's a lot of like internet drama that plays out with this case and the groups. And then a guy from Wired magazine actually writes an article about it that kind of pushes the case forward. So it's a great watch. I think it's like an hour and a half, but not a satisfying end,

but you know what? Sometimes that's life. Life, you don't always, you don't always match up the person of who you think this person is to who they actually are. And so I, I enjoyed the documentary

for that. And it's still, I still have questions about, that just doesn't make sense how he died. So there's a few questions per se. But it also shows how the internet can be dangerous in assuming things. And they profiled a guy that this Facebook group like wrecked his life. Yeah. Because they thought it was him.

And like it was it was really good. The first real heinous example of that that I remember was the Boston Marathon bombings and this Reddit group that thought. they had it all figured out. Oh, yeah. It was terrible. And if you want to look like kind of pre-in-net. And they can turn into mobs with pitchforks so damn quickly.

Yeah. So quickly. You can go prior to that and that dude, they made movies about it and stuff with the guy from the Olympics in 96, that whole thing. Turns out he had nothing to do with that bombing. And it didn't matter. Like we just, we, we, you get the sights on somebody and then you just wreck him, whether they're the right guy or not.

Right. Like, vigilante group justice doesn't always. work the way people think it does you know no and it becomes a mob mentality and even when you have the person saying I am not dead I am here I have a family please stop harassing me yeah kind of thing yep oh he's lying yeah yeah no they can that's the problem is once they've locked in they're in and yeah and even even when a person is completely exonerated at the end of it people still will have the conspiracy theory like it's just sucks I hate that yeah This sounds interesting, so I'm definitely going to check it out.

It's definitely got a vibe of a documentary I would watch. Oh, yeah. And it's just, I was amazed at how well it captured that how internet drama around Facebook groups and, like, communities can just go really, really wrong. I mean, we've all been in those forums where you're like, what, who? Okay, we're taking this a little too seriously. Yeah. Like, when it crosses over into real life, okay, we need to take a step.

step back from the keyboard kind of thing. Yeah. The wisdom of crowds isn't as wise as it thinks it is. Gosh, no. No. No. Excellent. That sounds like fun. It's only as far as its dumbest member. That's right. They called them mostly harmless, which is a reference to hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, apparently.

Nice. Well, my recommendation this week does not have a clip. I could probably find some audio from the book or whatever if I wanted to. You could read us a passage. I have been so busy reading that I haven't had as much time, especially last week with the baby coming and all that. I haven't had time for... Yeah, what are you reading? So I'm reading this series called Edge of... I'm reading Edge of Collapse.

It is a seven book series. I'm only two books in, and I really like it thus far. And I thought the first book in particular was extremely good. It's called Edge of Collapse. It's basically a world set. It's set in Christmas, 2020. the book was written years ago, but it's set kind of in our future by about seven months or however long we have. No, more than that. Anyway, whatever it is, 10 months, nine months.

Anyway, and on Christmas Eve, specifically in Michigan is where most of this takes place. There is a huge EMP event, some sort of electromagnetic pulse. And nobody's sure where its source is. In fact, even all the way done with Book 2, they still don't know what the source is because they don't have any contact with the government. They don't have any contact with anybody. They don't know if this is worldwide, if it's just the states, if it's just Michigan, for that matter. They have theories, but nobody knows. And they don't know if it was intentionally done or if it was something with a solar flare or, you know, a bomb went off above the atmosphere, hydrogen bomb that would have caused this. There's all this, all this speculation.

Wasn't there a TV show that the electricity goes out? Probably. Yeah. Oh, what was that? I have no idea. yeah it was like some sort of yeah it was one of these more recent mysteries and yeah and stuff yeah um and there's there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff you know a lot of themes like this in different things like jericho is kind of like this it's just like it was jericho was it jericho yeah i don't remember it being an empe but basically everybody everybody has to really struggle when basic services and things like electricity the internet uh heating all that stuff just goes off you're done and anything that had a computer chip in it is screwed.

The only vehicles and devices that survived this EMP in this story are stuff without chips in it. It's like old trucks that don't have any computerized crap or, you know, a really old snowmobile that still starts or whatever. Or the world's movie did that too, right? Yeah, there was a bit of that in there. Yeah. Basically all your basic services, the power grid, all that stuff is shut down.

And that's what it deals. with, but it deals with it and very personal stories on the ground. It's always, it's not about the bigger conflict. It's about, well, how's this guy affected? And what's he going to do in the situation? And what's this lady going to do? And why is she even involved? And it's very kind of on the ground personal stories set within a world that's doing this. Now, I can't speak for book three through seven. I assume it's similar stuff. They are connected these two, the first two books, but they're also very separate stories, even though they're connected. And I'm really liking it. And I've spent all my time reading lately.

Do you think that it would be an okay story for me and Mateo to listen to? I mean, he listens to stuff that cusses and that's fine. It's not super. And what's funny is this isn't full of cusses. It's kind of actually kind of light on the swearing. It's just, it deals with themes that are kind of scary,

you know, it's like everything shut down and that's awful. But that can be good stuff to watch with kids sometimes, you know. We listen to Ready Player 1 and Ready Player 2. Yeah, if you listen to those, you'd probably be okay here. I think you'd be all right. This isn't overly violent. It's not very gory.

It's, you know, scenes of collapse and destruction and airplanes falling out of the sky and some of that stuff. But they don't like go and his eyes burst from his face or any weirdness like that. You know what I mean? Well, we listened to the Martian and then we watched the movie. But there was one part in the Martian that insinuated cannibalism and that he was. was like, okay, let's talk about it. We're not going to watch a live. Yeah. We're not going to do any of that. Right. So, um, so I'm always on the hunt for books for, because that's how we read now is just, we just plow through books in the car together. Yeah. And if you're doing that with him and

he's enjoying that, I'll bet you'd probably like this. It's a female author as well. I really like her take on all this. Her name is Kyla Stone. And she has some other books as well. I'd probably get around to them. There's something called The Last Sanctuary. She focuses on this kind of post-apocalyptic stuff, which I obviously have a taste for. But nice thing about Edge of Collapse is the whole thing is free if you have Kindle unlimited. So it's zero bucks to want to read it on Kindle. If you're doing audio, you'll, you know, I think that'll cost you. It's $7 for the audiobook.

See, that's nothing. That's good. Yeah. That's pretty good. Anyway, it's really good. And she's considered one of the cool voices in this space. And I agree with those reviews. I think it's very, very good so far. And it's kind of just hard to put down. It's one of those series where I'm just like, I've got to keep reading this.

Can I give you a book recommendation too? Yeah, please. Go ahead. We're currently reading the insignificant events in the life of a cactus. And it's a young adult book, but I have absolutely, I adore it. It's about a young girl with no arms and a kid with Tourette's. And I've never, I've never read a book about, that talks about someone that's dealing with Tourette's. And they do it in such a wonderful way and a kind way and an educational way.

And it's a great story. What's the title again? Insignificant events in the life of a cactus. Significant events. I'm going to write this one down. Yeah. It's a short, little. book. It's, we're just, we're laughing. It's just, it's just wonderful. Nice. All right. There you go. A little

bonus book recommendation. There you go. You got your read this into my recommendals. Hey, you got your recommendals into my read this. Taste good though. I like it. Mmm, yummy. It tastes great together. They will be up at quicktms.l.I. They're there already. So if you want to go read about it and watch about it and do all those things, they're up there as a resource for you, the fine listener. Nicole, it's always had good having you on. Can't wait for having you back next week. And good luck with all this anti-sugar stuff. I'm on the same good diet with the sugar.

It's so weird. Different reasons, but it's very weird. It's inspiring. I should do the same damn thing. But I won't. It's hard. It's hard. Not until I'm ordered to by a doctor that says, oh yeah, you really should have

started doing this years ago, Brian. Yeah. Functional medicine doctor was the key. Finding just the right doctor was, it took me about a year to find somebody that was like, okay, we're going to look at these things and find the root cause. Right. Well, that's awesome. I will see you next week.

Have a good one and tell hi to Mark, who is probably working wood right now. Working his wood. Working that wood, son. Whisper in that wood. Whisper to the wood. That's right. All right. That's it for today's show.

Big thanks, everybody, for being here. We got a new Monday show went up yesterday on a Tuesday, so you can check that out. What else is happening today? Usually DTNS, but nope, I've got to get teeth done. Yeah. I'm really dreading. You're just doing the T of the DTNS. Just dreaded.

Yeah. The daily teeth. No wait. The daily teeth show. How are that works. Doing teeth, not co-hosting. That's what DTNS stands for today. I could not be dreading it more, but anyway, it'll be later today.

I'll be about $1,000 poorer, and it'll be great. So I look forward to that. But we'll be back tomorrow. We should have Wendy here, all that stuff. So look forward to your Thursday version of TMS. Frogpants.com slash TMS is the place to go for all the links. And now we'll leave you with a song. Brian, do you have one to leave them with?

Yeah, Bob Finnegan wrote in, or mailman Bob Finnegan. Hey, gents, this is a birthday request for my 56th birthday. I'm getting this one a little bit late, too. This was from earlier in the month. This cover is one of my favorites. It's a way better version than the original Moth the Hoople version, in my opinion. Can I get a hunk?

or a tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch from Darius. He can get both. What? It's a birthday miracle. Here's one. It's a tender crisp bacon cheddar ranch. And then you can get this guy too. Or this guy.

Oh, no, same guy. How about this guy? Well, those two are like this twin brother. Yeah, it's almost like those are the same exact clip. Weird. I don't know how that worked. Exactly. Yeah.

Anyway, nice. Congratulations on your birthday, dude. That's a high watermark. That is 56. Very cool. I'm heading towards one of those, not. too long in the future myself. All right, so the song is Sea Diver by The Down and Outs.

This is a cover of a song originally done by Motha Hoopal. This is great. It's a Joe Elliott-led band, so that gives you some lends a little credence to who you're about to hear. The Down and Outs from the album, The Further Adventures of from 2014 with Sea Diver. Oh morning shadows Your world's spend It's time you send

Or is it time you win I tried so hard to leave you I tried to sleep the hours you keep oh Lord I wish I could escape this iron veil right on my son

Right on my son Until you fail Something comes And something goes And something goes And something dies Before it grows And I'm like a sea diver

Who's lost in space A sweet savage grace Oh Lord, I wish I could escape This iron vase Right on, my son, right on my son, right on my son, until you fail. Get Frogpants.com. The Phantom of the Opera.