The Morning Stream - TMS 2607: Potato For Now

Episode Date: February 28, 2024

Bacon, Georgia. Look In My Eyes, What Do You See? A Molar With A Cavity! Booger Dough, Though. Ringing in the new tech with Tom. Creamed Coen. Lesbian Road Trip. Making Eggs Worse. I wiped it on a slice. Dox Your Dentist. Tense up and hope for the best. More fun than Madame Web. Wasn't There a Road Trip Movie Called Road Something? The Business End of My Rocket. Sticky Teenagery Theater. The Longest Short with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If I could take just three friends like Sam Dunn, Graham Schroll, and Quistaz Hadratch with me on a trip to the moon, I don't think there's any limit to what we could do up there. They are just three of our supporters on Patreon. Be like them at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on TMS, Bacon, Georgia. Look in my eyes. What do you see? A molar with a cavity. Oh, man.

Bougar dough, though. Ringing in the new tech with Tom. Creamed Cohen. Lesbian road trip. Making eggs worse. I wiped it on a slice. Docs your dentist. Tense up and hope for the best.

More fun than Madam Webb. Wasn't there a road trip movie called Road Something? The business end of my rocket. Sticky Teenagerie Theater. The longest short with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. What comes down can also go up, but this goes up and a skip a hop. And a hurry. And smooth it.

Do the bees know they make honey for you? This is the morning stream. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for February 28th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. Brian Abbott here. So, hi, Brian.

That's right. Normally, normally today. Yeah. We would say goodbye to February. But we've got, we've got Apple's one more thing. That's right. We get one more day. One more day.

That's right. I keep forgetting that's a weird one this year. Not weird. That's right. This would be our year day if we did that whole evenly divide the calendar among 12 months kind of thing. The show still gets emails about that. People going back and forth. Yeah.

They think it's, this is apparently a more thought-provoking topic than you and I had considered when we started. It's kind of, it feels, there's something that feels kind of, I don't know, like the first step towards a utopian society, right? Like, we can finally, if we can finally get our months to agree on length, we could maybe find a way for the rest of us. There's a path forward for all our ills as a, as a species, you know, as host. as top of the food chain of this planet finally we found some common ground hey everybody we're back I had a so I had a three and a half hour dental appointment yesterday

that was fun oh geez and the reason it was three and a half hours they got to do the bottom thing over here and they got to do the top thing over here and it turns out the one they thought was going to be the hard one was the easy one and the one they thought was going to be the easy one was the hard one and didn't expect that

because normally normally I can even predict it If it's on the bottom, it's going to be a pain. It's going to hurt more. He's going to hit the nerve ball. It's going to suck. It'll hurt the whole time and I just have to deal with it. And then the upper one will be a piece of cake because that's how it always is with me. Not this time.

For whatever reason, the bottom one was like lickety split, done, no pain. And the top one hurt and never felt right and still hurts like right now. So not terrible, not so much that it's killing me or anything, but it's just normal. It's normal. But this one of the bottom was a broken crown. He just replaced the crown. that's fine and that made it easy. The other one was like an old high school inlay or on lay, on lay.

Something, I don't know, freaking dental terms. What do I know? Those are called. But they, that thing's been in there since, I think, like 87. So they were like, yeah, that's coming out. So they took that out and replaced everything. And for whatever reason, that one hurt like hell. But here's the big part of this story.

Last time I went in there for the evaluation, as you recall, I ran into a 19-year-old assistant girl who was, blown away that I had been coming to the dentist she worked for for longer than her life. And she just couldn't get her head around this 2004. Her birthday hadn't even come up yet for her 20th birthday.

So this time I came in and another girl, 19, not quite to her birthday month, I think it's in August, makes a whole other point. And I didn't even bring it up this time. I said, she goes, oh, it says here, you've been here for a long time. And I said, yeah, I've been coming so forth. She goes, that's not even my birthday yet. I wasn't even alive. I'm like,

Oh, shit, another one, dude. We've been podcasting longer than those women have been alive. Oh, my gosh, dude. I didn't even think of that. Well, we were doing that no four. Yeah. Oh, that's painful to think about it. And more than half of her life of TMS, you know?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's insane. Well, anyway, so this is the whole conversation we're having. and this is the time. So my dentist, his name is Jeremy Matthews. He's great. I really like him.

Liked him for all these years. It's a fake name. It sounds fake, doesn't it? It sounds fake name that Ben Linus would have used and lost. Jeremy Matthews. It's my cover. And it wouldn't surprise me because he looks kind of like a secret agent. He's like super buff.

Oh, yeah. He's like ripped. He goes to the gym every day. He's like he's super in shape. He looks like he might just be. a handler or something like that for some spy anyway he's working on my tear he's doing the shot part and he goes all right you're ready for the fun part and i said yeah like usual let's do this and he's usually pretty good you know needle in i can feel it but it's not killing me i just sort

of tense up and hope for the best right i hate needles no one likes needles in their face but he gets this one down here and down here i'm known we talked about the show before you and i think are both prone to this. Our nerve bundles are lower in our jaw than your average person. And so it's easy to Nick one or stab one directly or whatever. And he did just that. And my whole head went like this for a hot second. And I tensed up and he goes, oh, I hit that nerve, didn't I? And I said, you did. Or I go, uh, and he goes, that's good. And I'm like, well, how is this good? He's going to explain it. he goes because that means you're going to be numb immediately on that tooth and it's you're going to get to feel nothing because when that main nerve is numb nothing no pain so he goes so you had a little discomfort a little bit of shock but then the long term today this is going to be a better experience for you and you know what he was freaking right and it was immediate I was I've never had a shot like that where the nova cane didn't take forever to kick in in this case as soon as he pulled that needle out I was already feeling all puffy and numb over here yeah oh that's Anyway, it's great.

Bottom line is it made this easier on the side. Upper was a little harder. Three and a half hours it took. It's all fine now. I'm really glad to be out of there. I don't want to go back. Still is probably more fun than Madam Webb at the theater. Yeah, you know what I was thinking.

I'm trying to think of things that are worse. I'm like, I could be a prison in a prison camp. I could be in the audience of a Madam Webb showing. Right. Or Morbius for that matter. Or Morbius. I could be sitting on a plane next to, Gerard Depardue, you know.

Sure, sure. There's these things that are worse that I could be all up to and I wasn't, it wasn't that bad. But it was fine. In the end, I got a J-Dog certificate. I got a... I love that.

I keep forgetting you get that. That's so awesome. It is pretty great. I didn't go there after because we had dinner playing with the kids, but anyway, it all worked out in the end. When they can finally make great VR glasses

that don't look like the largest ski goggle as you can possibly fit on your face. I think the dentist office is going to be a great place for that because, you know, having one of those on that doesn't interfere with where the doctor or the dentist needs to place his hands, obviously, which right now a quest or a vision pro or whatever is still too bulky for that. But then you can just like, you'll still hear them and they'll say, hey, can you turn to the right, that sort of thing.

Plus, I don't know if you have this problem, but when I'm at the dentist, they're in there working on your teeth, and they're looking at your mouth, right? They're all up in it. But their faces right over yours, they're looking at your mouth. And I try to do anything but look at their eyes.

Like ceiling tile, I am like, oh, yeah, look at that ceiling tile, because the last thing I want to do is make eye contact. There's something wrong. Yeah, that whole idea sounds awful. Why have I never thought of it before? You're so right about this? Yeah.

It was like, oh, my God, the last thing I want right now is to be looking at his eyes or her eyes if it's a hygienist or whatever. That's a weird thing. Now that I think about it, I either closed my eyes or stared at the ceiling or they had a TV screen. I didn't do a movie, but I watched a lot of previews for what's coming up soon on Netflix. I know. I really should have. I was there long enough. enough hours. It would have been enough time.

Perfect. Perfect timing. But, yeah, I can't either. Now that you say that, I've never looked in his eye. I've done it when we talk just casually. Like if he's like, all right, well, so what you see up here or, hey, what's going on in the podcasting world or whatever? We're looking at each other's face. Right.

But when he's on you and he's in you, freaking forget it, dude. That's weird. That is weird. Good point, man. I don't want to, yeah. Anyway, it was fine. Yeah, just realized, oh my God, our showing of Dune is at 7 p.m. Thursday. yeah and it's i mean it's it's do we know the length on this one is it uh same

find out real quick probably long right gotta be i would assume so dune heart surprisingly there we go 166 minutes what is that so not quite three hours that's uh two hours and 45 minutes i can deal with that that that sounds great was the old was uh part one uh i thought part one was three hours but felt like it yeah in a good way i don't want up to end. I was enjoying it. No, it was a very entertaining film. You know, I never talked about it. I saw drive away dolls last weekend. Oh, shit! Yeah, I can't

believe we haven't talked about this. Is it good? I know, I forgot to say it. So it's just Ethan Cohen, not both Coen brothers. Right. And it feels like it. It feels like there's interesting. Something missing. Now, all the

acting in this thing is fantastic. Shoot, I got to pull up about Kwali, Margaret Quali, who is Annie McDowell's daughter, who in this film is the first time you actually, she actually sounds like Andy McDowell with the accent and everything. Oh, really?

She gets older, she gets more like the home. Well, I think she's playing it. She's definitely playing it up to sound more, more kind of hillbilly. Yeah. And then Geraldine, oh, and I can't remember her last name. Viswarna-thon. Something like that, yeah.

She's in that, she's in that Miracle Workers show that I recommend a while back with Daniel Radcliffe and Steve Bessemi. It's really, really good. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Is it good? I mean, like, look, Ethan usually writes, and then Joel directs, right? That's the combo.

Yes, and I think there's a little bit that Joel would probably said, you know, this part feels a little too wacky, let's kind of tone it down. Let's do another take this time, tone it down. And I think without that, it lost something. So it's

closer to the physical comedy combined with the wackiness of Raising Arizona more than any other Cohen thing. But it just felt like some jokes were a little bit too long, some wackiness scenes. Basically, it's about two lesbians. It's a road trip film with a couple of lesbians who don't realize they've got a suitcase in the back of their drive-away vehicle.

You know these drive-away? You can go to a company and say, hey, I need to go to Tallahassee. Are there any cars that need to be delivered to Tallahassee? And for free, you get the car to drive to Tallahassee. Oh. I thought that sounds great. I've never heard of that.

Isn't that great? What a great deal. Yeah. Yeah. You can do that. That's the thing I could do. That's the thing you can do. Yeah, I don't know how you find these things.

I think I've only seen them in like Craigslist or something like that. But these drive-away vehicles that need to get delivered somewhere. Then you have to figure out how you're. going to get back because chances are you're not going to find a similar situation with a car that needs to come back to Salt Lake City. That's a good point. You have to fly or something. But there's a lot of, there's a lot of simulated sex that's done very slapsticky comedy like, um, like, like, okay, you remember, do you remember the scene in, uh, it's another road trip movie? Was it just called road trip? For some reason, I think it was just called road trip. The one

with Sean William Scott and I don't know the road trip I think of is the one with Tom Green. Yeah, Tom Green does kind of the narration of it, but it's really it's the other guys who go on this trip. Tom Green is, he doesn't actually go on the road trip. He watches the guy's snake while he's on the road trip. Oh, I don't remember. I don't remember. It's been so long. But it's the, but it's the one with Sean William Scott where he,

they need some money so they stop off at a, a sperm bank and he's going to donate some sperm and the you know he's he's hidden he's chatting up the the woman who runs the facility or the person's contact there and she says how about if I massage your prostate wow wow and he agrees to it but it's this whole like feels like a five minute scene of Sean William Scott making horse noises and screaming. There's a little bit good morning, everybody. Thanks for

joining us for the show. That's right. Good morning. But there's like, it feels like there's a lot of that kind of stuff in drive-away dolls. Maybe too much. It's a long way to go to get there. Some of the slap sticky simulated sex stuff was a little bit was a little bit much.

How's Joey Slotnick? I like Joey Slotnick. Joey Slotnick, like he's amazing and his head's completely shaved now so he doesn't have that that afro that little blonde afro thing that he had in the 90s and 2000s and he was he was really funny he's one of the the two thugs that's sent after these women to get retrieved the the case in their car oh i could see that he's great for stuff like that matt damon's in this is kind of like a one of these Thou protest too much Features, ministers.

One of those deals. He could probably play that pretty well. He can and does. Anyway, worth seeing when it hits streaming, but it's all right. It's okay. It was okay. All right.

It was okay. Kind of a mechamental. Yeah. Yeah. It says that as if we can't cram him in enough things, Pedro Pascal's in this as well? Yes, he is. I know our new Mr. Fantastic appearing here in this one as well. It's a lot.

I'm a little worried. We need to slow down on, on, you don't want to overexpose this poor guy, because we love it. He's going to go the way of Chris Pratt where now we're going to start ruling our eyes. Pedro Pascal's in this. Okay. Yeah, and I understand that business, like they want to, they want to cast what's hot, right? I get it. Right, exactly.

I know he's, I know a lot of you consider him to be a zaddy, but, uh, Yeah. I just want him to, I just don't, I'm more concerned about him. I don't want him to get hosed. He seems like he's got it together and it'll all be fine. But I just don't want to overdo it, guys. Come on, Hollywood. Yeah, yeah.

Real quick here, we got a guy who called. Okay. Okay, all right. And he's real. And that's all I want to say before I play it. He's real. Okay, here you go. Hello, morning stream.

This is Sven from baseball camp. Just want to drop a quick voice now, say hi and prove that I'm not AI generated or anything like that. Also, regarding the potato for now bit at the end of my last text message, I thought I typed ta-ta for now, but autocorrect had other ideas. So, yeah, although I do kind of look like a potato anyway, so close enough. Anyway, keep up the good work and ta-ta for now. Oh, my gosh.

Freaking Sven from baseball camp exists. He's real. He's real. That wasn't just an AI-generated text message that we got. I love also the potato-furted. For Now, if we weren't so entrenched and love the show, though, potato for now would be a nice runner-up for a way to close out your email. Yeah, it's not bad. Potato for now, and then people do different vegetables or different tubers or whatever they're going to do.

Like, it would become the new meme, but I think love the show, though, is just too powerful. It's too strong. It's too powerful, yeah. That's the, that's the, there are always, too, a teacher and a student. And right now, the teacher is still love the show, though. The student is potato for now. Yeah, you can't fight. You can't fight what's real, is what we're saying.

We are going to call Dunaway, though, and see how real he is. Yeah. Because today, well, we're making up for Monday. We're doing the Monday thing. The great experiment of, can we swap our two game shows and have it work? Yeah, we're about to find out. Brian Dunaway joining us all the way from South Carolina. He's going to play this game with us.

Hi, Brian. Welcome back to the show, sir. Well, I'm Scott and Brian. How are you doing on the Wednesday? Yeah. Oh, we're good. Did you miss not being at the business end of my, my rocket launcher the other night because I couldn't show up to.

I did not miss it at all because it's never been a thing. So there you go. Oh, how can you miss a thing that doesn't exist? Oh. Yeah, done away, me and, me and Ibit couldn't go for two very different reasons. but we're sad. We missed it. We're glad Fletcher and you.

It sucks and one blows. I know. One sucks and one blows are. Yeah, I totally. I can't argue with that. Yeah, I was in the car driving a long, like, 45-minute lift ride, and I get the call on Discord. I'm like, oh, crap. It's like, how quickly can I turn it off with this passage during the car?

Do you need to take care of that, sir? It's kind of hard to deal with. But what's great, well, I had a thing I was going to say about that. I forgot what it was. It was, oh, you called it. You said you guys either sucked or blow. That's what we do around here.

People write in and they go, hey, suck and blow. See, what I mean? So you're blow. I'm suck. Yeah, take that. All right. I don't know how I feel about that. Hey, Brian, we're going to play a game.

You're here for that. And this other Brian here will explain to us how it works. Brian, take it away. Okay. Yeah. Hey, welcome to a Wednesday. Halfass is a trivia game where I'm actually going to be giving you the answers. I'll give Scott and Brian a category in six.

possible answers, three of which are correct, and three, like, wait a minute, it's a Wednesday and we're doing half-asses that are incorrect. Depending on how confident they feel with the category, they can provide one, two, or three guesses, but if they get any wrong, they get zero points for that round. Get one right, gets a point, two right, gets you three points, and three right gets you five points. The player with the most points after three rounds, wins of the prize for their contestant, and I've pulled contestants from members of the tadpool that aren't able to listen live. Scott, you're playing for JP in Montreal. Woo, JP. JP.

JP. And Brian, you're playing for Joe Saperito in Portland, Oregon. Wow. He sounds like a guy that can rub you out if you treat him back. Joe Saperito. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll talk about what those prizes are in just a moment. But first, let's get to the game and the first category for you, gentlemen. Your first category is inventions named after a place.

Inventions named after a place. God, just dawned. me that that we could use this format for the questions for the pond for pond yeah

yeah that would yeah that would actually work wouldn't it that would actually work because we could do this I don't know what you're talking about all right whatever you need to watch the pond

Brian because we want to have you as a player next time yeah you should go you should go watch the archive it was a game we played a week and a half or no last Friday Friday yeah yeah and we did it on the feed as well as on YouTube you should go

we watch that and see how that went. Go watch a little bit of it because it was a lot of fun. It's something fun. Yeah, I'll check it out. Cool. We get you and Randy and Nicole amongst the players and Bill and Bobby and Amy and whoever wants in, really, you just can come on in. I just want to make sure I don't leave anybody out.

I'm feeling less and less special the more names you mentioned. I just have to make sure I name every guest that we have during the week. Do you? Travis. I guess I want to make sure nobody feels like. they're getting left out. Yeah, yeah. All right, but not Veronica.

That is correct. No, she no longer attends. Yeah, it's fine. If you feel snubbed, yeah. Bobby. I said Bobby. I did say Bobby. He may have pronounced it, booby, but it was, I heard it.

I might have been called it, Boobie Frankenberg. All right, let's get to this. All right, inventions that are named after a place. Inventions that are named after a place. So which of these inventions were named after a place, pretty obvious. mayonnaise, marathon, cotton gin, limousine, bocce, and bacon. Would you really call any of these, like, mayonnaise and an invention?

I mean, come on. Somebody invented mayonnaise. We're being very loosey-goosey with the term invention. Somebody said, how do I make eggs worse? Yeah. Yeah. Although I like mayo in a situation or two. I like nail.

For the most part, though, I don't want a spoonful of that, you know? Gross. all right all right you lot i locked in locked in uh you guys both locked in on mayonnaise the aforementioned mayonnaise well i got put glasses on because i like looking at the additional information that they sometimes provide sure uh mayonnaise is uh named after port mail yeah everybody everybody knows that yeah did you okay fact i did i did i have i have a condiments uh trivia book i keep next of the bit do you every night

a box of condiments yeah it's neither it can be that's why you get so many kids brine ketchup uh

ketchup and uh limousine limousine also named after limousine and bacon not named after

oh shit oh no that's great gosh um marathon is named after marathon

in Greece oh that makes sense that makes a lot lot of sense. That was one I couldn't decide on, though. That's the origin of bacon. It's like, you know what I mean? It's named after a person. It's named after Kevin Bacon.

It's the, is the most wonderful place in the world. Zoe can tell us, Zoe will be able to tell us what, what the name of, where bacon came from. Right. Joy, it's, it's, uh, bacon, Georgia. There you go. That's right. Bacon, Georgia. I love it. Get rid of the M, you got your bacon. So it's like somebody with a cold referred to, uh, Macon, Georgia. For Baker, Georgia.

All right, let's get to question number two. Speaking of Oscars, we weren't yet, we weren't yet, but we will later today. Speaking of Oscars, which of these stars never won an Oscar for acting? Which of these never won an Oscar? Oh, I like how you qualified it for acting. Yes. Which means it possibly for something else. Possibly.

Carrie Grant, Jerry Lewis, Alec Guinness, Jeremy Irons, Orson Wells, and John Hwain. Sean Hwaid. John Hwayne. I'm going all out here. I hope I'm even close to right. You kind of have to at this point, don't you? Yeah. You guys both locked in on Jerry Lewis.

Yeah, Jerry Lewis won an honorary Oscar. He still, didn't, it was still live when he received. It wasn't posthumous. Isn't he still alive? I think he's still around. I think so. Yeah, I think so, too. Is he still doing, is he still doing a marathon?

Oh, I'm sorry. He died of nine. He died in 2017 at the age of 91. Okay, okay. That's what I was thinking he would have passed away. Okay. Yeah. Couldn't remember.

Kerry Grant also never won an Oscar for acting honorary Oscar only and Orson Wells. He won a screenplay Oscar, but not an acting Oscar. Jeremy Irons did win an Oscar for, what was it? I was curious about Orson Will's. But, yeah, Orson Walls, I think, won his screenplay for... Yeah, Carrie Grant famously snubbed. I figured Jerry Lewis wouldn't get anything. Most comedians like that, you have to do it.

You're destroying me today. You're absolutely killing me. Well, you killed me Monday. You win that... You win that... You win 9 of 12. You destroyed me. That's right.

Reversal of Fortune where he played Sunny Brist... Not Sunny Bristow. Sunny Bristow. Sunny D. It was the guy who... Enjoying your game September. questionably he killed his wife and uh like it was the asker with him and uh glen close glen close right yeah he was vallelow that's right it was sunny von bulo that's right it was sunny d and the evil nemesis

was the purple stuff yeah killed by the purple stuff yeah um well so uh we got question number three but uh scott you know you just need to just need to show up for it really yeah uh brian's got six points. So you need you just want to have some points on the board, right? Yeah, I need to have some semblance of respect when I leave this game. Yeah, like I said, you'll destroy me. Here's your chance with the

sports. Oh, yay, sports. Let's do it. Cities that baseball's athletics have called home. So you know the team, the athletics. Yeah, the A is. Where else? Where all has it been? Kansas City, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Milwaukee

and Oakland are your choices. Oh, baseball athletics have called, okay. The athletics. The athletics, interesting. Shit. Might help for you to think of them as the A's, as they're sometimes called. Yes, yes. I don't help any, though.

I don't know anything about baseball history. That's as close as I'm going to, you know, I can already see my mistake. But anyway, there it is. Yeah. Good job, Scott. Okay, you guys have both locked in. Oakland, of course, right? Oakland A's.

That is the... That's what I was thinking, then I was like... It's kind of the obvious one. Kansas City, also, former home of the A's. Your other one was Philadelphia, not St. Louis. Every single answer I've done today is two correct, one wrong. Yes, exactly. All I needed to do was just do two that I was sure of.

In each case, I would be at least tied or winning, this damn game. That's right. That's right. And that's the cyborg dude asks, are there. they go into Vegas next. I think that is the thing. That's where they're going to be putting the stadium over there where the Tropicana is. I hear

it's a little bit in a bit of a bung up right now, but I think that's ultimately what they want, right? Yeah. A bung up. A bung up. They're just going to, any team that ever existed in Oakland, California, will eventually be in Vegas. That's the rule. Exactly.

Yeah, exactly. Congratulations, Brian. Well done. You did manage to score early and keep your lead. So congratulations. It's going to be going to Joe Saperito in Portland, Oregon. Joe, you're going to be getting a copy of Arcadecraft

and Alien Shooter. I'm sorry, Alien Shooter 2 reloaded. I'm a little worried about the arcade craft code because now I'm looking at it and I'm looking at the email from the person who submitted it and I'm only seeing four letters in the last section of the Steam Code.

Doesn't that need to have five in each? Usually, well, I know they're equal in each section but I don't remember if it's four or five. Are the rest of them five? The rest of them are five. So just keep entering letters and numbers into that last spot until you're able to download. Congratulations, winner. You've got some work ahead of you.

Let me know if it doesn't work. And I will get with you, the person who sent it and see if they've got a fix. But don't worry, JP and Montreal, you're getting a copy of From Space. also from Steam. Wow. Sounds like everyone's a winner. Congratulations. Except me. I'm not.

I'm doing terrible with these half-asses, but I do feel good about a feud on Monday. So next week, we'll put it all to the test once again. It'll be a blast, of course. And a reminder that Dunaway and I do a show called Play Retro, and we're doing one this very coming Friday at 1.30 p.m.

Mountain Time, you want to watch it live. Hey, Dunaway, what are we covering that day? Tell people that. We're playing. We're going back and playing advanced Wars that that game on the the game boy advanced uh and i got to play old man log pocket this week and this is my first time got to say i like it scott seems to be scott loves it from way back when yeah the from way back when too yeah they're they're advanced wars one and two are two of my favorite handheld games of all time and they still hold up and those remakes i meant to grab those this year because they did find you ask you if you picked up the remake has anybody

picked it up not in this group i haven't i haven't picked it up yet but i've been reading some stuff and there's a lot of hate going on on what's how it got out or whatever so i'm curious to investigate that further tonight well part of it was they took forever because it was all due to the ukraine ukrainian invasion and because you know what's funny you know it's funny they said the same thing back uh on 9-11 because they released it like uh they were supposed to release it like like that weekend or something or something on 9-11 so either bad luck or possibly excuses. Well, to me, it sounds like they

take the advanced wars. The cartoon world of advance wars a little too seriously, in my opinion. I don't think it's any big deal at all. Oh, is it? So the complaints are like about the lore, basically? Well, they're just like, oh, this is two countries at war, and now we have that now, and we can't have that. It's like, no, go

ahead. It's fine. You know how many more games exist? It's ridiculous that they took so long. But anyway, the originals are amazing. The remakes are supposed to, at least gameplay-wise, be very good. And we're going to talk about its origins, why it's awesome, and why one is a little better than two, in my opinion. Oh, interesting.

Just a little bit. We'll agree. Oh, yeah. That'll be Friday. 130 Mountain Time will probably play some Unreal Tournament 2K4 after that as well. Absolutely. And test out your new server rotation. That'll be fun.

Brian Dunaway, is there anything else? No, you. Oh, well, okay, bye. You didn't want to get cut off. I was going to really quickly see if I could find my cartridge in case for Advance Wars. oh do you still have it you probably still have it somewhere right i do still have it yeah somewhere because i love that was a game as like oh i i i love this i could see myself coming back to it and playing it and now it's like oh well i could just get that thing on switch and i'll have any

physical media and get it again so the advance wars for ds was a different game though right let's see that was called yes as opposed to the right oh dual strike did that just include both games let's see oh oh no it's the third so you got i i i i i That's the one I never played. I don't know why I never played the DS game. I just never did. It seems like it'd been perfect as the stylist moving your units around and all that. Never did that.

But the first two games on GBA were amazing. It's still 60 bucks for the Switch one, reboot camp. Yeah, it's two games, so it's, you know, look at it 30 and 30, but still. But their remake, I mean, they're, they're, not remakes. They are remastered versions of the same game, of the games I've already played. So it's like, I'm in a way. and see and get those cheaper, hopefully.

Maybe those are going on sale like Nintendo rarely does, but maybe they will. I mean, I'm just going to play, I'll pull up the old ones of my Amber and I can play it there. Yeah, exactly. That's a good way to do it.

We're going to do some quick news, and that news begins here. I don't watch the news. Well, we do, so let's talk about it. Brian, the news is brought to you by. J.K. Grammer. He plays games, and we have proof when he live streams by going to

YouTube.com slash at J K Grammer 01. That's JK.G.R. A. M.M.E.01. Go follow. So you get notified when he goes live. That's right. And if you're in Vegas, you'll get to meet him. This guy we bring up all the time.

We get to finally meet him. Oh, my God. Finally getting to meet J.K. Grammar. Yeah, him and his fiancé. By then will be his married lady. Oh, are the aliens are going to be married before then? I think so. Does she wait and got married in Vegas?

Yeah, don't quote me on this. I'm not sure. maybe they get i don't think they're getting married there but i could be wrong not that we haven't seen that before i mean chloe did that chloe did it a couple years ago oh you got married on the uh the wheel yeah big wheel yeah we were trying to the high roller yeah the way that was supposed to work because i have a card that lets me marry people i was supposed to do it but as it turns out las vegas is very very stringent about who they let marry people because they have a whole business economy there for marriages.

So if you want to perform the marriage as somebody, you've got to do some special hoops in Nevada, it turns out. I've been asked by a relative to officiate their wedding, so I can't wait. I get a whole...

I get to come up with my solid 10 minutes of stand-up. Can you for that? Yep. All your material. Let's talk about marriage, shall we? Why is it? That people... What's up with? the throwing of the garter. Who invented that? When's the first time you'll leave the seat up in the bathroom? Oh! Exactly. Let's do the story about Domino's. Domino's in Japan, the pizza place,

not the game, not the game, the board game. Is that a board game? Would you call Domino's a board game? I would call it a tabletop game, but not a board game. Okay. Yeah, I think that's a good way to do it. No board is typically included with dominoes unless it's, I mean, even wagon train or train, whatever train dominoes has the little plaque thing that you put on the board that you build from, but still not a board game. Not a real board. You've got to have a board to make it a board game. That's a good distinction. One that seems obvious now that I say it, but yeah, you need a board for your board game. Not just a table, I guess.

It is kind of a requirement. Well, you know, some people could say it's a general term, meaning a game you play on a tabletop, right? A board game. But, I mean, I think of it as literally you have to have a board for a board game. And tabletop game is the more general term. Yeah, table top is very different. Although tabletop can include boards, though. So it's the other way it can include a board.

Tabletop is, right, the circle of board games fits in the tabletop game realm, but not vice versa. By the way, is the dominoes in Japan? Is it 30 minutes or sepucou? Yeah, except the problem is they really have to hit that timer else nobody works there, so. Right, it'll lose a lot of employees, yeah. It says they have apologized

after employees' nose-picking video went viral. Oh, no. Oh, geez. Oh, Japan. What are you doing? Well, it wasn't just that he picked his nose according to this first line. Oh, God. Yeah, this is worse.

Pizza delivery giant dominoes is in damage control mode after a video surfaced online of an employee appearing to pick his nose and then wipe it on the pizza dough. His bug there, he took out a bug and wiped it on the pizza dough. The incident has sparked outrage and raised concerns about food safety.

Well, do they mean in general or just at this dominoes? Because, come on now. I hate that kind of talk. It's like, well, the incident's got people thinking more broadly about food safety issues. It's the entire problem is all food safety and not just this horrible, horrible.

employee who should never work in food service again. Well, that, dude, I vote for that. Where do I sign? Yeah, but do you think, I mean, can you, I know there's like, you know, you put on a no-fly list. Mm-hmm. They need to have an equivalent of a no work in food service list. Yeah.

Yeah. Because right now somebody could just call and say, hey, did this employee work at your dominoes legally. Yeah. Yeah. You did. Yeah. Well, we do it for sex offenders.

We do it for, um, who else do this for? multiple DUIs and things we have record yes right exactly i think we need a no working in food service no yeah yeah yeah and i'm not saying it's as bad i'm not a public facing job exactly anywhere that you could put your finger in the dough after picking a bug right exactly gross or or or a sausage a mcmuffin don't put you in this so leave it'll take him out of there no five dollar foot long doesn't have to be dough just anything anything with anything anything I'm supposed to eat. Freaking enough that.

Yeah. The video which went viral on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter in parentheses. Did they really? Yeah. It's right there. Shows the employee using his gloved finger to pick his nose and then wiping it in the dough. When interviewed by the Japan News, the employee... Great gloves.

Yeah, at least he was wearing a glove, right? That's somehow better somehow? Yeah. Talking to the Japan news, the employee admitted to the act saying he thought it would be funny, but regretted his actions. as a result domino's has terminated the employment of the individual involved now that may sound like well obviously they fired him in japan it takes a lot to get fired a lot yeah oh yeah like you have to really well you got to wipe a bug into your dough to get out of there because they don't fire people that's how you get out yeah yeah they're having a hard enough time filling jobs over there anyway because they're population issues but you know you if you want to get out of your job at domino's in japan wipe a bug on the dough so that's how you do it uh Domino's pizza, Japan issued an official apology as read by the stop motion character, The Noid. Just kidding.

This didn't happen. I made that up. On its social media account, which stated that the incident took place at their Amagasaki store in Hayago Prefecture, after hours. Yeah, happened when they were, I don't know what after hours means. I guess not during. Just after they'd close, like they'd make them the dough for the next day, basically. Oh, even worse, dude. the whole, they sit there all night and have that booger just being in there.

Yeah. I'd rather have, I'd rather this story be about, I wiped it on the slice, the guy ate the slice, and now I'm in trouble. I don't want to know that it's in that dough sitting there. Right. Like, was it in the big mass of dough that they used to make a bunch of pizzas, or was it after he'd rolled out one pizza? Oh.

They, like, wiped the bug in the, uh... The story. It's worse the more I think too hard about it. They got rid of the dough. They assured the public that the contaminated dough wasn't used in any pizzas and all remaining dough was gotten rid of. So they chucked it all. In an apology, they promised to take steps to ensure

such incidents never happen again and expressed deep regret for the secret ingredient that was in the dough. All right? We've gotten some all caps in our chat room. Stephanie Inipats has asked us to stop talking about boogies. It's the one thing that she can't stomach

talk about. I got to tell you, though, Scott, I played this app on my phone that was like the booger endless it was a booger endless runner game and it was an endless running nose game and it was great. Oh, it sounds amazing. And it ends up, you have to jump in the dough at the end

if you win, you jump in the dough. That's right, exactly. Sorry, Stephanie. You're fun, you're fun to tease. Final story, this has been the big story over the last 24 hours. Kids have left in tears and police have been called over the shambolic or what we

would just say here in the States, a sham of an event. Shambolic. Which was a thing called Willie Wonka. See, Willy Wonka, Glasgow, they called it. Okay. It is parents forked out 35 euros for this per ticket per person. In an event promised to be, quote, chocolate fantasy like never before. a day where dreams come to life,

but the reality was more like a nightmare. So, Brian, think fire festival, but for kids. But for kids? Oh, no. That's kind of what happened here. Styrofoam box with a half-eaten cheese sandwich in it. It's pretty bad. Like the photos they use for marketing were all AI bullshit.

Yeah. Not photos, but art and stuff. They art, yeah. And then the actual event. Oh, no. Was this, oh, these are really the? Look at that warehouse. It's just a warehouse with a couple of things in it.

It's so bad. Oh, my God. Whoops, closed that. Yeah, I would be pissed. I'd be so pissed. They couldn't even be bothered to, like, line up the mural pieces correctly. Yeah, they don't even look right. They look bad.

They look really bad. They're crooked. There's a small bounce house way off in the corner somewhere. I want to know what's in these, like, urine sample cups on. this folding table on the side I know dude look at that a little half drunk whatever anyway people that got there early

like not only left early but like are threatening to sit like their people are fried they're so mad I would be so pissed yeah pretty lame this whole deal oh Ireland what are you doing oh northern Ireland wow this was uh Glasgow Glasgow no oh Glasgow okay so yeah sorry Ireland

I'm not Ireland you Scotland yeah thanks a lot Scotland you guys ruin it for everybody I think he's at Belfast. Oh, Scott. What are you doing, Scotland? Yeah, right? You're supposed to be cool. You've got the kiltz and the whatnot. Come on. The bagpipes and the lockness business. And you can't pull off a single rolled doll-inspired freaking thing for kids. Come on. Come on. Come on. Anyway. Sorry, folks. I was pulling up the music for the show and I thought he said Belfast. I didn't hear it. Didn't hear Glasgow. Okay. Okay. It can happen. It can happen.

Jay's people. I know Belfast. I know where Glasgow is. Speaking of which, we're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here. So why don't you tell me about this song? You've been researching. Yeah, absolutely. Well, let's go to Glasgow for this music. And then we'll immediately take a trip from Glasgow to Alberta, where this band really is from. This is a band called Royal Tusk. They have a brand new album that just came out last week called Altruistic.

These guys are great. These guys are, oh, what's a, what's a comparison I can do? a kind of rock with a little bit of maybe a little bit of punk new punk okay all right um all right anyway this is the alberta rock trio royal tusk brand new album just came out called altruistic this is the first song from the album it is called hated here's royal tusk I can't show my face where I come from I cannot erase what I have done Nothing you can say will take me Go ahead and I hold myself

I don't have a place where I belong I cannot explain how things went wrong Nothing I can say will free me from the grave I took my sale If I could breathe it out, I can't ask it the truth that holds me down when you're... It's all you can become. You're always on the run. It's all you can become.

I'm not the only one I can't really say that they are wrong made all these mistakes all my own now I gotta pay for it no I won't burden anybody oh I've gotta say you want me gone turn up I can leave, I'm moving on remember when the world turns

and might be you who need somebody And they will breathe you out You can't escape their truth It's all right It's all you can become You're always on the run It's all you can become Not the only one

I'm not the only one We'll find no love We'll find no not no mercy live without The man's, no shout, there's no doubt Because I know forever will be It's all you can become You're always on and none It's all you can become

I'm not being only one. Dermick-McRoney. And we return. Tell me who that was again. Sure. From Belfast. but really, actually from Alberta, Canada. That is Royal Tusk with their song hated, which is from their brand new album called Altruistic.

If you like that, check out the whole album's out. So go check it out right now. Yeah, you got, what are you waiting for, people? Go get it. Exactly. Let's get Tom Merritt in here, talk some tech. Yeah. I don't have his Discord thing.

I forgot to ask him about it during the week. Oh, gosh, yeah. Let's see if he's still got audio issues. Totally spaced up. but we'll find out. Oh, I hear myself a little bit. It doesn't matter because I'm about to play this. We want Tom. Yeah, we do. It's Tom Merritt, joining us as you does

every Wednesday to talk about the day's technology news. Tom Merritt, welcome back to the show. Well, thank you for having me back. Brian, Scott, and all of you. Hello. Yes. You sound great. I don't hear that weird hum this time. I was a little hiss in your microphone the last couple times and we always forget to mention it after

the show to say, hey, let Tom and always get a little bit of hiss in his way. I always forget it. And then I'll, like, I'd show up at a meeting and then you sound totally normal on a Discord call for the meetings on Wednesday so I'm like, then I totally forget it. Then I never bring it up again. So I don't know what that is. It's very weird. It's like a weird

little. There it is right there. Yeah, there it is. It almost sounds like a guy going like this in the mics. Almost like that. Weird. That's so weird. You sound great today. No, I'm glad it's gone. I'm glad the echo is gone. I'm glad I remembered to turn on pass-through. I'm glad about so many things. I'm glad it's

multiple world Congress this week. Oh my gosh. That's always a big. deal, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Yeah. What's expected? Anything big and massive this year? Because we never get, like, Samsung kind of does their own thing, but don't they also do stuff for this? Yeah, yeah. They're definitely there touting their Samsung Galaxy ring coming later this year. We don't really know that much about it. They showed it off at a media event, but wouldn't let the media take pictures of it. Instead, they're like, here, here are the pictures you can use. So it's not done. There, you know,

there's there's something still wonky about it maybe it's not the final design or whatever um but also honor uh says it's going to do a ring um mark german says that apple has investigated a ring although it appears that they're not actively developing it right now uh it feels like smart rings are a product category you are going to get tired of soon because that's usually what happens is everybody starts well i'm so tired of hearing about foldables. So I'm so tired to hear it about tablets or whatever the new category is at the time, right? So I think by the end of this year, we're going to have several competitors in the ring space and it will become a

conversation about, well, when's Apple going to do? Is Apple still making it the ring? When's Apple going to make a ring course? But yeah. Okay. Have a galaxy ring out by the end of the year. Honor says it will also have a ring out by the end of the year. Of course, URA already is out there. Amazon had theirs, but

but I haven't heard anything about Amazon since they... Oh, they had a ring? You don't mean the ring doorbell. You mean Amazon actually had a ring. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This one right here that I got... Yeah, this one right here that I got that has the little clickable or the vibrating... Oh, maybe that's not a ring.

Oh, sorry. Maybe that's enough for my finger. Oh, goodness gracious. This was like you could talk into this and ask, and it would do... As long as your phone was nearby, you could do... A-L-E-X-A questions, and you'd hear the answer, hear the answer out of this thing. Would you call that a ring tone when you hear it come out of there? A ring tone?

It definitely has a ringtone now, like, why haven't you warned me in a couple of years, Brian, or whatever. Because isn't the whole, okay, so Tom, just for the, just as educate, including me, because I haven't really paid attention to this ring stuff. These are mostly health devices, I assume. Yeah, they're fitness health tracking devices. Samsung says that it will definitely do things like track your sleep. It'll track your heartbeat, your heart rate and all of that. They also are trying to work on adding things like glucose monitoring and blood pressure, which those are difficult.

Those are those kinds of technologies that you can technically do, but if you can't do them well enough to get regulatory approval from places like the FDA in the United States, for example. example, then you can't really tout them as blood pressure or glucose monitoring and then they're not worth doing. So usually what happens is these technologies exist and the companies are trying to figure out how to make them reliable enough to pass regulatory scrutiny. But Samsung's out there talking about them. So they feel confident that they're close and by the end of this year, maybe they'll have it. It's just such a moving target because every country's got their own restrictions, their own rules, their own levels of what they'll accept. And you're aiming for a global market, not one

or two countries that accept your thing. You always hear about Apple trying to get A1C testing with the watch. And they just have not been able to get it because, you know, there's more than one standard they have to meet. So, you know, that makes sense. And then there's a thicket of patents. Of course, we've been following Apple's travails with the oxygen level monitoring. Yeah, yeah.

So, and a lot of people wonder just exactly how useful these sorts of tracking really are. Because a lot of times they'll get approval to say it. it exists, but they won't get approval for clinical use, for example. And so, you know, and sleep tracking is at best a guess science right now, not because you can't track sleep, but because the data that's returned, we don't really know what it means. You know, people are still trying to do studies to figure out how it actually should be interpreted. So a lot of questions about this kind of stuff. But URA has made a splash in its little niche, if you haven't heard of it, that, that,

They had a big partnership with the NBA during the lockdown when they were playing in the bubble. They gave Roa rings to everybody to help monitor their health. I'm not sure how much it really helped with their COVID health or not. But a lot of people liked it. A lot of those players kept it and said, yeah, I like being able to have that data without having to wear something around my wrist. Interesting. And I guess I can see how much these costs. Do we know what a market expectation is for something?

Yeah, you're talking a few hundred dollars. They're less than a smart. watch, but they're not super cheap. All right. I don't know why I'm kind of interested in this. I just... Of the actual URA. Yeah.

I'm interested. From what I know, the euro is the one to get, right? Like, if you're going to get... I'm the only one right now. Oh, that's the charger. I was like, that's... That was pretty cheap, but no, that's just a charger. Yeah.

It looks like $2.99 for the heritage model and the Horizon model, whatever that means, is $3.349. That sounds about right. I mean, you're going to pay that. for a nice ring anyway i'm not a big nice ring kind of guy but i could be i could be convinced like if you gave me enough reasons why like what brian described is most it's more interesting to me pay three quarters of a year's salary uh for one of these things aren't you isn't that the tradition yeah wait are you asking me what i think you're asking me so you're not into big cars and big rings yeah yeah let's put it that way yeah and this is the echo loop is a big

honking ring like it's like hey you know vini i'm going to rub you out there uh yeah how much are those anyway those are like uh this was 129 but discontinued i don't know if the software still works but uh they just quit doing it they're not into it they did they stopped it in november the year that they released it oh my gosh dude yeah amazon doesn't have the reputation that google has for retiring products but maybe they should yeah they do this a lot remember the the buttons that you could press to order your tide or your toilet? Yes. I still have one of those somewhere. Yeah. That felt like a thing you wanted to go ahead and get one so that you could say

you had one because they weren't going to last very long. Yeah, yeah. And they were free for a while. Eventually you had to pay for them and that's what I was like it. Yeah. Did they still like there, they've got that echo that lets you make, what was it, the fashion decisions? I haven't heard Jack about that day. Yeah. It would look at your closet. Yeah.

I don't know if that does that, or if that's even a product I can buy there anymore. I guess I could look, but weird. I mean, yeah, we could all look. We can all look. It's just basically like what Amazon does is what most companies do in private, but Amazon does it in public and sells you the testing devices. Somehow, somehow, well, anyway, I mean, they've had a couple of winners. I have to look it up.

Yeah, I'm going to find out. The closet one? Yeah, it was the Amazon look, was what? it's called. Amazon will no longer support the Echo look. May 29th, 2020. You know what's great?

I have two, in my search engine, I have two results from the Verge right on top of each other. One's from 2018, it says, Amazon Echo's fashion look camera is now available. The very next one, 2020, Amazon will no longer support the Echo look.

That's a chance. They discontinued it in May 2020. That's just rude. It's very rude. It's very rude. Or maybe it's like, well, none of you are going out right now. I was going to say, that's when most of us were just spending so much time licking our closets. Although, you can't ever need it to dress up for those.

Yeah, everybody's in those Zoom. Pajamas for a while. Not everything could be the original Echo or the or the Kindle, right? Everything's got to have its lifespan. And I guess the Apple Car is out too. Oh, yeah, now we're done. Yeah, we talked about that yesterday on DT&S. And, you know, the fact that a lot of people are,

clowning Apple, you know, for spending 10 years developing a car and then not developing a car. And that's fine, you know, I'm not trying to rate on anybody's parade. But that is something that Apple has the luxury of doing. And it's not a bad idea because they did the right thing, which is like, let's investigate every avenue and see if it works. And they're like, nope, it doesn't work. So instead of forcing something out there, they just said, no, we'll take these people in this technology and apply them elsewhere. So my thing is keep an eye out for technology coming into Apple's other devices that you hear Mark German or somebody else saying, you know, this technology was originally started as part of Project Titan, the car project, and now it's made its way into whatever that new product. Yeah, and I'll probably leverage Apple in a better position to be the go-to for car manufacturers that don't want to do all the guts, you know.

A lot of that's going to go into car play. And I get, you know what, I hadn't thought about this until just now. A lot of people will leave Apple. German said that there's probably going to be layoffs, but Apple's so good about avoiding announcing layoffs that I'm like, I bet they figure out a way out of this. But whether it's layoffs or not, people are going to leave Apple because they wanted to work on Project Titan

and they can't anymore, and they're going to do startups. That's true. And there's going to be a bunch of startups that'll be like former Project Titan, Apple engineers, you know, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, there always is with these things. So I'm sure we can watch for that. well all right this all looks great we're going to talk more about the day's tech news today on the daily tech news show i'll be there i've also got a little bit of something to say about uh historical records and tracking for video games not necessarily preservation of games but like what does it mean to have a historical record of it we don't have a lot of documentaries we don't have a lot of books we don't have a lot of stuff compared to other things yet we're this huge part of the market and why is that well there's a cool new effort uh

being pushed forward that does this very thing. We have some thoughts about it. I'm going to bring that to the show along with a whole lineup today. Very excited about that. Tom, Eric, anything else going on? You want to mention? Just that, you know, if you want to hear from me every day of the week, I'm out of the daily tech news show, four out of the five days, of course.

But if you want to hear my tech perspective every day of the week, and just from me, free tech newsletter.com gets you that one day a week. And then if you upgrade to the paid tier, you get it Monday through Friday. So I, you know, talk about all the different news of the day that I think is important and give you my perspective on that in a newsletter delivered to your inbox for you to read at your leisure. So go check it out. You can try it for free, free tech newsletter.com. Tom Merritt, everybody. You know them, you love him.

We'll see you later today. Bye now. His hiss wasn't as bad. It was there. It's funny. The last couple times it started out quiet and then got really loud by the time we were done. Yeah, it gets really loud, and then sometimes drops and then goes up again. It's a weird, like, gain thing.

I don't know what that's. It really is. Yeah, I don't know. Just like snowballs. I have made a note, though, today during our meeting, I'm going to say, hey, we heard it again, see what he says. Not that it's a big deal. He could call in the middle of, like, you know, Fallujah bombing. It's fine.

Well, I mean, that's not fine. But if it was happening, we would take him. We don't care. We don't care what he does. We'll take Tom Merritt. Of course, absolutely. We'll take the, joining us now is Tom Merritt from, from Fallujah. And they're just a long pause.

Yeah. Thank you, Scott and Brian. Yeah. Yes. A seven second delay on satellite. Love that. Right, great. All right.

Nicole incoming. Randy's not here today for recommendals. He had a last minute meeting that apparently is going to take all day, according to him. It sounds like a lot of stuff going on at Blizzard right now. So instead, we're going to bring our pal Nicole in, and we're going to do this right here. Whoops. Well, what do you recommend? Well, let me tell you what we recommend.

streaming things from services and stuff. And welcome Nicole Spagged to the program. Hi, Nicole. How are you? Hi. Usually, they're streaming on services, but mine's going to be a buy. Yours is a buy or a rent? A rental, sure. It's an inexpensive rent.

It's worth a buy. Yeah. It is. It's one of Nicole's favorite things in the world, right? You love this thing you're going to talk about. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're going to talk about.

Yeah. I can't wait. Brian, we're going to start with you, as usual now. What is different today is that, well, you explain. You're taking this in a little different direction than usual. Yeah, absolutely. I did this last year, and this is a thing that Tina and I really, really enjoy. So after we finish watching all of the best picture nominees and all of the best acting,

like if there are any best acting nominees that aren't in the best picture category, we've pretty much covered all those. We still have to watch the color purple, and I think that's the only one we have left. So we've watched all of the major category nominee films. And now we move on to the shorts, because shorts are great, very comfortable in the summertime, keep you cool. And there are three great, three shorts categories in the Oscars. There's the animated, the live action, and then the documentary. And some would argue that the documentary is live action as well.

I would argue that. How short does it have to be? to be a short. Yeah, good question. The longest short that we watched was about 40-some minutes, but I think anything that's less than the hour and 20-something minutes that something is required to be a feature film, I think it's an hour and 20 is what...

Really? So you could do a short film and it could be an hour long? Yeah, I mean, one of the ones we watched this time around was about 40-something minutes, 43 minutes? I thought that I don't know where... It doesn't feel so short though. It doesn't feel that short, especially when you're like looking at like wanting to jam a few of these into one evening's watch. It's like, oh, this one's. But I'll say most of these are, the animated ones are almost all under, well, we'll get to that.

But they're all super short. The live action and documentary, usually the live action are 30 minutes or less. And the documentaries then get up into the longer, the, um, longer the, the, uh, 40 minutes or 30 minutes or... Documentary... ...is says 40 minutes or less. So what do you call... What's something that's in between 40 and an hour and 20?

Probably just a TV show. What are those called? That's just a TV show on a weekend. Right, exactly. I don't know. All right, so let's talk about the first category, which is animated short films. This will be a quick one because very few of the five nominees

are available to watch right now. The ones that aren't available are Letter to a Pig. Our uniform and Pachyderm. And then there's one called War is Over inspired by the music of John and Yoko. Also not available to stream, but the trailer is available. And my God, if you have not seen the trailer, you need to go check out the trailer. It's only two minutes and 45 seconds long, but it is so, you get most of the whole story in that short time. And it is so powerful and moving and incredible.

It's set in an alternative World War I where you've got two opposing soldiers playing chess using a carrier pigeon to get their moves back and forth over the front line. And it is beautiful. It is powerful. It's gorgeous animation.

It's really, really good. Yeah, it seems like the essence of the story is there, but I can tell there's a lot more to tell. There's a lot more, and there's probably more of an ending than what you get in the trailer. Yeah, it looks awesome. I was blown away by it.

I first saw it yesterday when Brian Post, did it in Discord and it was immediately just stylistically very evocative uses this weird sketchy pen like kind of art made full color obviously and then I find out later that things

all rendered in Unreal Engine 5 all in the Unreal Engine yeah which is amazing freaking beautiful really really something so go seek that out if you haven't seen it seek that one out there's a link in this stuff though I'll tell you as a matter of fact so you can watch the trailer for War is Over inspired by the music of John and Yoko on YouTube.

I've got, I'm having links to everything that I talk about will be on quicktms. Uh, so you'll be able to click any of these and go right to the thing where you can watch it. And I don't want to watch the trailer. I want to watch the thing. Yeah, that one, that one you have to go to, that one you have to go to a theater that's doing like the entire, like showing all

of the shorts. There was a great thing. So shorts TV, during the pandemic would let you rent and watch all of the animated live action documentary shorts that gave you 48 hours to watch it for 8 bucks or something was totally worth it. Now that theaters are back open, they've moved these back to theaters.

So you actually have to go to a theater that's showing all of them. However, about 50% of all of these are available online to watch either on Netflix, Disney Plus, or YouTube. with a couple exceptions. Yeah. So that one, the trailer, that one, you can watch on YouTube and you'll want to keep an eye out for when the full thing gets released, which it will be eventually. Another one that's in animation is called 95 Senses.

This is on Documentary Plus, a website Documentary Plus, which apparently is a really good streaming service that you can watch nonstop documentaries. And I looked at some of the ones on there. It's like, oh, this looks really cool. And as far as I could tell, I either got a free month trial. or a free seven-day trial, but I didn't have to enter any credit card information,

anything like that. Just basically said, oh, you want to watch something here? Go ahead. Like, didn't even have to enter in anything. So documentary plus, this one is called 95 senses, and it's by Jerusha and Jared Hess,

the Napoleon Dynamite team. Wait, who told us about this recently? Didn't someone come on here and what am I thinking of? Oh, I don't know. This was the first I thought I'd heard of it. I swear somebody... Maybe it was a core, did John and...

No, somebody was saying... Somebody said the Hesse's were working on an animated short and it was the coolest thing they'd ever seen. Huh. Shit. I swear it was TMS. Anyway, sorry. Maybe it was Randy.

It might have been. Maybe. Yeah. I don't remember. Well, this one, this one, you can watch the whole thing on Documentary Plus. It's about 15 minutes.

And this is another one that's got some incredible animation. And what's cool is that each of the five senses is done in a... a different style of animation and then the the narrative because you've got basically an old man who I swear it sounds like Tim Blake Nelson but I didn't look it up to see oh it is him it's totally is him that's right why do I know this why do I know this somebody came on here and said Tim Blake Nelson narrates it and it looks incredible and I saw it and you guys should see it and we all said yes I swear it was here wow how long it was uh it could have been weeks but something

like that. I cannot remember. Someone in the chat. Someone in the chat's got to let us know where this was talked about because I'm going to lose my mind. But anyway, go ahead. That is him. So, yeah, Tim Blake Nelson. Okay, well, then that makes total sense. It sounds like Tim Blake Nelson for a brother, where art thou? As an old man, I won't tell you why he's talking about his five senses. But it's basically an ode to the body's five senses. And each sense is done in a different style of animation. And they're all incredible. And they're all like describing the things that you smell or that you hear or that you touch or that you see

and you get this incredible again kind of heartbreaking story that about this person who is telling the story of his five senses. Wow. Did you guys remember that movie I recommended where everybody's in the world losing their senses one at a time?

No. Oh, no. Holy crap. Well, that wasn't Sense 8, was it? No, no, no. I can't remember the name of the movie. I'm sure I'll look at it up real quick. But I think about, that's like, it's one of those haunting movies that kind of interjects in my head every once in a while. Did you think about it once in a while?

That's cool. Like, what would you do if you lost your sense of smell or sight or touch, taste? And it was like, it was an apocalyptic movie. It sounds like everyone in the world this was happening to. Oh, and they lost their sight. last or something? Yeah. I remember you talking about this.

I think it was maybe Ethan Hawke was in it. I don't know. But yeah, it freaked me out. It was disturbing. All right. So that's your animation. So definitely go to Documentary Plus and watch this for free.

Watch 95 cents or 95 senses. Yes. 95 senses. Fantastic. Moving, touching. Like, you have to basically think about these shorts is like, all right, we've got this entire story that we need to tell in these little short periods of time.

And so it's more packed in than a movie. So a lot, I don't know, a lot richer, a lot denser content. It's really, really good. Let's move on to live action short films. Can I tell you? It's called Perfect Sense with Ewan McGregor. Okay. Perfect sense.

Okay. And it's a movie, right? Not a series? Yeah, it's a movie. It came out in 2011. Okay. All right. Putting it on my list.

Writing it down. Excellent. All right. So live action short films. there's a there's a couple in here that are really really worth checking out again we were only able to watch three of the five invincible and red white and blue are not available to watch but we did watch trailers for those so that when the the Oscar category comes around we won't be completely left in the darkest what these other two are one of them is actually about a woman living paycheck to paycheck Britney snow plays her she's a but works in a diner she's getting pregnant she she gets pregnant, she has to go across state lines to get an abortion. It's a story about her travels. But the two that I want to point you to, oh, God, the three, because there are three, they're really good ones in this category. The first one is called the after. And this is

about a guy who is, who witnesses an incredibly harsh, heavy, um violent crime and um and has to deal with the deal with it afterwards and is uh the actor is david o yellowo oh yeah loo god i don't know i'm sure remember what uh oh leo o yelloooo i nailed it i've always seen his name but i've never had to pronounce it but he was in uh selma uh he was in Jack Reacher, uh, British, uh,

uh, uh, actor. Anyway, um, this one is, sorry, I can't help you.

That's all right. This one is moving and, and really, really powerful. And I will say could be, there's not, um, there's not a sexual attack in it,

but it still has some violence in it that could be triggering for some people. So if you're easily triggered by, um, by, by, violence like crowd kind of violence then you may may have an issue with that um oh was he in silo he was oh he's the guy in silo he's the right the first guy yes he's also that lawman bass reeves guy that i need to see that's western on paramount i knew that name was familiar it was bugging yeah now

i get it he goes by david oh apparently which i think is a good idea for him uh so that's called the after you can watch that one on netflix incredible but but just a little bit of a trigger warning for folks. Night of Fortune is a, this one you can watch on you basically, there's a link to the Vimeo, or I'm sorry, YouTube, where you can watch this one.

This one is, I believe, a Danish import or a Swedish, definitely Scandinavian import, so you've got subtitles, and it's about a guy who, and you kind of won't believe that there's a little bit of a comedy element to this thing, but it's about a guy who has to go to a morgue to identify his wife's body or view for a viewing of his wife's body.

And what I describe it, it sounds like there's no possible way there could be a comedic element in this. But there is, and it's really, really heartfelt, very emotional, but light, if you can believe it. The last one I'm going to recommend, and I'm waiting for Nicole to chime in on this one, is the wonderful story of Henry Sugar. Now, this is a Wes Anderson short film starring Ben DeCumberbatch and Ray Fines and Ben Kingsley, like, great cast. It is, it's based on a role doll story, and it is all narration with action that, takes place behind the narration. So as people are describing, as as Cumberbatch is describing the things that are happening, describing his story, these things are happening, but he's looking directly at the camera

telling you the story. And it's kind of like a story within another story. And I'm curious as to how far you got through it, because you found it to be really boring. I thought it was beautiful. So if I known it was going to be a video book, maybe I would have. gone in with the right expectations. With more expectations.

Sure. Yes. I got to Bing Kingsley. Uh-huh. Okay. His part. And I was like, I'm out. I'm just done.

I'm bored. I'm going to fall asleep. Okay. Okay. Yeah, it's pretty. And I like how they swoop everything in. Yeah. It was just a bunch of dudes talking, to be honest.

It absolutely is a bunch of dudes talking. There's no. Just a bunch of guys talking. I just like, oh, this is boring. I haven't looked, but I'm pretty sure that it's just, it's the, it's the role doll story read. It just felt pretentious. I don't know. I know.

I just, it just didn't hit for me. Yeah. So, and I'm sure people are like, what? But yeah. Nope. And I got it. As soon as I saw your review of him like, yeah, or as soon as I saw, after I talked about it, you saying, yeah, I watched it.

I couldn't even get through it. I was like, I could totally see why. You, A, if you're not ready for that and you're not expecting that, you want more of a traditional Wes Anderson film, this is not the thing for you. Yeah. Well, and I was like, oh, it's only 45 minutes. I'll just watch it. And I can't.

It's 45 minutes. I will say that Tina and I, I liked it a lot more than Tina did. Tina wasn't quite to the level of like, this is boring, move on in the next one. But she's like, yeah, that was okay. And I'm like, oh, I really, I liked, I, I loved the presentation of it. Yeah. But, I mean, that said, I am really into audio books right now. Yeah.

And I wonder if I would go back to that and kind of, like, put it on in my car and not watch it. It's a great story. So you don't, you know, find out what happened after the Ben Kingsley stuff. No, no. I just got to the part where he was like, I can, I can see beyond what's, yeah, without using my eyes. And like they were studying him. Okay.

And I was like, stupid. I don't want to. I didn't want to. I'd be curious if you feel, because there's a, there's a great redemption story in the second half of it that, that, um, are there any women in it at all? Because I look at the cast and it's not. nothing but guys. No, no, I don't think there is.

I don't even think in background. Yeah. Well, there's a nurse. I think it's maybe there's a nurse. No, it's all doctors. Yeah, no, they're all doctors. Listen, Shawshank Redemption had two women with one, one line speaking roles. So, come on, you can't.

I'm not saying it. It was just a spirit. I just noticed. Yeah. It was very noticeable. No, I'm kidding. Short film sausage festival. It is, it is a total short film sausage chest.

That said, I think people, some people really enjoy it. Some people might have a hard time with it as well. But I found it. I found it an amazing story and really a lot of fun. I am amazed you haven't seen it. I know you're a Wes Anderson. I am. I meant to.

I meant to watch it and I just haven't had a chance to get around to it. I'm glad to hear. My guess is I'm going to like it because I like even the most controversial or less liked West Anderson things. You liked Asteroid City a lot more than I did. Oh, I loved that movie. I did too. I enjoyed Asteroid City too. Yeah. I loved it. And I love most of his work. So this is, to me, as a no-brainer, just got to get around to it.

I didn't know it was a short film. I thought it was just like a full-blown, you know, two-hour movie or something. I didn't know how short-old was. You know what? I have an audio clip of that very thing. Could you play my recommendal one? Yeah, here it is. This is a little bit. This is Ray Fines as Roll Dahl at the beginning of Henry Sugar. All right, here you go. Henry Sugar was 41 years old, unmarried and rich.

He was rich because he had a rich father who was now dead. He was unmarried because he was too selfish to share any of his money with a wife. He was six feet two inches tall and not perhaps as handsome as he thought he was. He paid a great deal of attention to his clothes. He went to an expensive tailor for his suits, to a shirtmaker for his shirts, and to a bootmaker for his shoes. His hairdresser trimmed his hair once every ten days, and he always took a manicure at the same time.

He drove a Ferrari motor car which cost him about the same as a country cottage. All his friends were rich, and he had never done a day's work in his life. Men like Henry Sugar can be found drifting like seaweed all over the world. They're not particularly bad men, but they're not good men either. They're simply part of the decoration. It's so funny. I didn't realize this was a story by... Roald doll. Roaldol. So I finally introduced Mateo to...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Oh, cool. Which one did you start with the Gene Wilder, the original? Hell, yes, I started with the Gene Wilder. He is at the age where he wants to be safe, scared. And I'm like, this is a weird, bricky movie. And we got to the, we got to the boat scene. The boat.

Yeah, that tunnel thing, that tunnel thing will scar you if you're not the right edge, man. That thing is a freak show in there, that tunnel. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's like, what? the snodberry. I'm like, I can't tell you that right now. Yeah, you'll learn. You may never learn. We'll talk about when you're older. Yeah, the world

may never know. Anyway, so that gives you a little bit of a taste, Ray finds you know, sitting down, getting up, walking towards the camera, things moving behind him to set the scene, but for his for all this, it's like, the stuff takes place in the background behind the characters in

that Henry Sugar. Cool. Let's get to documentary shorts. Lo and behold, you can watch all the documentary shorts online right now for, I wouldn't say for free, but if you've got the streaming services associated with them. Let's start, this is actually going to be another one, my other audio clip. This is from, and I'll give some set up, this is from a documentary short on Paramount Plus called the ABCs of book banning. And it talks about, it talks about the book. books that are banned, but not from the perspective of the authors or from the people who are

against it, but from the kids who want to read these books and can't. And they're wondering why. And you're going to hear a little girl read an excerpt from a book called, shoot. It's about being a strong and powerful young woman growing up into a strong adult. And for some reason, this book is banned and it's ridiculous. And here's the clip. Here we go. Standing tall like a soaring tower. I am valued.

I am love. I have a purpose. Hope and power. It's about like celebrating who you are and like celebrating you. It's like it's it reminds me of who I am because I really have like I don't have great self-confidence. My teacher keeps saying that, like, she wants to, like, open a self-confidence camp for girls because she says, like, with the group of people she teaches, like, fifth graders, girls have really low self-confidence, so she's always saying that.

And I think that's right. It's just telling us to be powerful. Like, I don't get what the problem with that is. Like, I just don't think it's, like, telling anybody, like, to do anything bad. It's like, it's just telling you to, like, be who you are and be powerful. If you read this book and still after you read this book, read it twice, read it three times, realized that, oh, this book needs to be banned, then something's not clicking in your brain. Sounds like a really smart kid. A bunch of smart kids.

And, yeah, they're basically looking at these books that are banned, challenged, or restricted. three levels of like you just outright can't get it or you have to get it with a you know with adult permission that sort of thing and you know the diary of Anne Frank graphic novel unavailable mouse M-A-U-S that great another great graphic novel

band and it talks about these kids are looking through these and saying oh the Rosa Parks story for some reason band or restricted and this girl is like so if you're whoever decided to ban this or restrict this, are you saying that you think Rosa Parks was a bad person?

I'd love to know why you chose to ban this. So this is on Paramount Plus, and it is fascinating. And when you see this list of books, and they're going through a lot of these books, the most prominent of these banned books, and these kids describing, I don't understand what's wrong with this. I'm looking, I'm reading it right now,

and I can't see what could possibly be wrong with this. Really, really good. That one, I feel like it's between two of these that are going to win the category. And I think this is probably the one with the best shot. Well, there's a whole segment on John Oliver that just came out on Sunday. Yes. Did you see them reading the book? Yeah.

It's like clips of these people who are protesting these books and they're reading, you know, these very salacious passages. from them. I'm like, I don't know. I just always feel like there's more to the story. Yeah, but this is a strong,

powerful women book that these kids are reading or the Diary Van Frank or Rosa Parks, none of those have the kind of salacious stuff that these people read. There's always more

to the story no matter what. So, yeah, fair point. Yeah, for sure. For sure. All right. The second one is called

the Barber of Little Rock. This is, it takes place in Little Rock, Arkansas and focuses on this guy who noticed this big, um, this big gap between the haves and the have-nots or the wealth, the big wealth gap, basically, um, that's racial. And, um, and seeing a lot of these black families and, uh, black people in the community that don't have the means to, to earn enough to even pay their rent or their mortgage or

whatever. And so he opens up a hair dressing training facility, barber training facility. And he teaches these people how to do hair. They're able to open salons. They're able to open hair cutting facilities, things like that, both in Little Rock and outside of Little Rock. And because they now are getting the problem with what's called Banking While Black, which I've heard of driving while Black. I get introduced to the term banking while black. He opens up a community bank, an FDS-insured bank that caters towards these people who would not be able to get loans to start their own businesses, who would not be able to get the kinds of backing and funding and stuff. That is, yeah, this one's incredible as well. It's called The Barber of Little Rock.

This one is also on YouTube, and you'll find a link to watch that in QuicktmS.org as well. two more the last repair shop really quickly this is about Los Angeles this one this one's great this is on Disney Plus and this one's about this group of people who maintain and repair musical instruments

so that kids in kids who can't afford instruments can actually get instruments to learn how to play music yeah and it's the last publicly funded music program like everywhere else Like my kid's school, you have to pay to join band and you have to pay for your own instrument or rent your own instrument. This is all free from what I understand.

It is. And they talk with the people who do the repair work and these stories of like them growing up and how they got their first instrument. This guy gets his violin at a garage sale and now he's like in a band, in addition to doing the repair work. He's also in a band where he plays where he plays the fiddle and has played with, you know, numerous famous people and, God, his story was just great. This is another quick watch. It's on Disney Plus, and it's

called The Last Repair Shop. Nice. And finally, this is another one. I think, Scott, you would really enjoy. This is also on Disney Plus, and it's called Ney-N-N-Y-Poh, or Naini and Wipo, which basically is grandma and grandpa. I'm sorry, grandma and grandma. Oh, wow. And it's two grandmas, uh, the two grandmas of a couple who get married, who are living together. So they are, they are only, they're only related by the,

the, the, their grandchildren who got married, but they live together. And, um, uh, and they are so sweet and cute and hilarious talking with each other and, and the games they play with each other and dancing and stuff like that and uh and there's farting scott there's farting in this and dancing and stretching and organizing shoes and it's all so like this this of all of these stories just gives you the most warm fuzzies inside when you watch it nice nine-nye and wipo uh look these cute old ladies man love this yes they are adorable and uh uh that's that feel i think that's maybe a a 10 minute short, and it's, and it's, uh, really, probably won't win. That one's on Disney Plus deal, you said, Disney Plus? That one's on Disney Plus as well.

So I think category-wise, I think it's going to be either the ABCs of Book Banning or the last repair shop that wins at the Oscars, but, um, but this one's beautiful. Barbara of Little Rock is touching. We didn't watch Island in between, but that one's also available on YouTube. And it's about Taiwan, uh, Taiwan, United States and China, um, from the Islands of Kinman. I think for live action short, I don't know. I felt

I feel like I thought more about the after than I did about the wonderful story of Henry Sugar or Night of Fortune. Has Wes Anderson ever won an Oscar? Yes, multiple times. For fantastic, like animated for Fantastic

Mr. Fox, right? Wes Anderson won for wasn't Grand Budapest Hotel a big winner for a bunch of stuff? Oh yeah I think so

definitely nominated across the ton of categories I can look it up and see yeah screenplay maybe right original screen play yeah or something it was the best picture nomination also best director

but I don't know if you won I don't think he won I didn't think you won for other of those okay here we go it is Rushmore got Golden Globe Tannenbaum's got let's do a cat

Award. Nominations for Tannenbaum. Fantastic Mr. Fox, two nominations. Oh, here it is. Grand Budapest Hotel got nine nominations, got four wins. That's his biggest by far. Ile of dogs. Did all right. Visual or not visual for sets and costumes and stuff, probably. Seems like there was some. He got something that year. I can't find the damn thing. Where's his awards? A box office, language. I don't care. What about? I get to see if he hasn't won in the past that he would win for something like that. And they maybe could give it to him for a short, yeah, for a short or something. They could.

I feel like, I feel like, you know, the after was way more powerful for me and one that I thought of a lot afterwards and the compelling story that's in there. So I would recommend Henry Sugar, I'd reckon them all three of those that I talked about for live action short. Night of Fortune, Henry Sugar, and the after. They're both, all three are really good. Nice. And if anyone can find Wes Anderson's winnings, let me know, I can't find shit. I'm looking on his page and it says, he's been nominated, nominated, nominated, and they don't talk about the wins at all. He doesn't talk about wins.

Yeah, he'll win before he's dead. So all of that again, quicktms.l.I. You'll find links to everything I've talked about where you can watch it. Basically, it'll take you right to the movies on YouTube or on documentary plus or on Netflix, whatever. Nice. All right. Let's swing over to Nicole. Nicole, you've got one here that's, well, it smells a little old, but not in a bad way.

It pulls up for me. So I'll just say, I've thought about this a lot. And I am a big fan of Shelly Long. Yeah, I like her too. I have quite a few movies that I really, really enjoy from her. And she's not everybody's cup of tea, but she's my cup of tea. So go ahead and play that clip. All right. Here we go. Money Clips own. What's her name from Cheers? Here we go.

Not money clip. Money Pit is what I was the good. Oh, money pits on that. Not the money clip. The money clip with Tom Hanks. I liked her. I loved her in rehearsal of fortune. Yeah. Rehearsal of Fortune was amazing. Oh my gosh. They finally got it right after those many rehearsals. All right. Here we go. This is it. Mrs. Neffler, it's your turn. A scary story? Yeah, yeah. Yes. It was a cold and rainy day. It was a cold and rainy day in March.

I went to Christoph's where I usually get my hair done, but Christoph had mysteriously disappeared. And in his place was a stranger named... rinaldo i'll never forget him his eyes were steely gray very cold and his hands are like ice

oh okay i still have never seen this movie in my life oh my goodness oh it's all right so since eva is now in girl Scouts. I was like, hey, but we have to watch True Beverly Hills together. And I'm looking, I don't know why, but none of like my top four Shelley Long movies are streaming anywhere. So True Beverly Hills, the money pit, um, outrageous fortune and hello again. Those are my top

four. Shelly Longer. Oh, hello again. I forgot that. That's right. I was thinking, oh, again, was confusing reversal of fortune with outrageous fortune. Oh, my goodness. So I went ahead and bought it on Amazon. So we now are the proud owners of Troop Beverly Finally, you just bought the damn thing. Good job. So this is I feel like

I was never in Girl Scouts growing up. We didn't have Girl Scouts in where I grew up. I grew up in the middle of nowhere. So when Ava said she wanted to join the Girl Scouts, I was like, okay, I'll look into it. And so we've gone full force into the cookie sales

because we've dropped in right when cookie sales. So if you want Girl Scout cookies, let me know. It is Girl Scouts cookie season. So before we did Cookie Booth Duty at Lowe's over the weekend, which she absolutely hate it, we watched True Beverly Hills. And I was really, she goes, mom, they're cussing. I go, it's okay, honey. It's a PG, it's an 80s PG movie. Yeah, yeah. It's a different standard back then. And, you know, there's actually some heavy concepts in here that usually Ava watches cartoon movies.

She's really not interested in live action. She was really interested in watching this because it's about Shelly Long, who lives in Beverly Hills. She has a daughter in the Wilderness, which is the Girl Scouts. They can use Girl Scouts, so they called it Wilderness Girls. Okay. But it's 100% Girl Scouts. And she's married to Craig T. Nelson. And, oh, Mattel, leave me alone.

Yeah. Yeah, come on. You should be in school right now. What are you doing calling? How dare you call me with the default Apple ring that we've heard for two decades? How dare you? I was my computer. But so there's this whole introduction of the concept of divorce and splitting up.

And they're trying to navigate those feelings. And you have girls in the troop that can't afford to be in the troop. And so there's just like, I mean, it's a lot of fun. But it also has it kind of wraps around some, you know, serious topics that are a little hard for kids to talk about. So I found Ava and I having conversations about, you know, why people divorce, stuff like that. So I love the movie. It's held up. I loved it.

If you had to watch it. Where'd you buy it? I bought it on Amazon. I think it was like five bucks. It's three, it's four bucks on Amazon, or I'm sorry, rental is four bucks. Amazon and Apple TV, basically everywhere you can rent is it's about four bucks. Yeah. I've never seen it.

My sisters adored it and we're like, they would rewatch it constantly. And I just, for me, it was like the way I would watch like back to the future. It was just on all the time for them, just always. My brother always had Goonies on. I think I had true Beverly Hills on quite a bit. Yeah, that's your deal. And look, it's your thing. And it was important for a big generation of girls.

So I have nothing but respect for this thing I've never seen. Well, and you'll recognize a lot of the young wilderness girls. Because they wouldn't do other things. Yeah, Tori Spelling is one of them, right? She's one of the mean, she's one of the mean girls. Okay. She'd play a good mean girl. I could see that.

Of course there's, you know, it's an 80s movie. Of course there's going to be a villain. So that's the whole, the whole crux of it is there's just a really mean head wilderness camp leader that hate Shelly Long and like trying to be good and with people not liking you and stuff like that. Sure. Speaking up, hey, I know, I know Brian, you were talking about, you know, young girls trying to build up their confidence with that one. Yeah, that book. Yeah. I would like to share something that I started doing with Ava, but it's a small startup, and it's turned out to be one of the best things that I do with Ava every night. And it's called Legends. And I thought it was going to be like a little five minute introduction to like notable people doing things. But it ended up, it turned into something that her and I do together almost every single night.

And it's building her confidence over time. We do it five minutes every night. And so they'll profile people like Serena Williams, Kobe Bryant, just a ton of people. And it talks about like giving her actionable things to build her confidence up. And it's been one of the best things that I've done because she was having some troubles at school. It's been one of the best things I've done with her because I share too. So it's not like you're lecturing your kid about,

oh, you need to have more confidence. Well, how do you do that? How do you do that, right? It also doesn't feel like, look what they were doing by the time they were 12. Right. Yeah. Wow. That's cool.

Is that like on a streaming service that you watch these or YouTube? And it's weird because it's not an app. It's a website that acts like an app. It's called Build Legends. And if you go, they have like a free trial. And that's what I did. I was like, oh, I'll give it a try. And I was like, oh, wow, this is different.

I wasn't expecting this to be so awesome. And it's something that she will ask to do every night. And so you have a coach that kind of walks you through that five-minute training session. And at the end, it tells you've been training for 30 days. You've been training for, you know, 200 minutes. And it just kind of keeps building them up. It's one of the only things that I do with her that I can share my experience. experiences and she can share hers and then we can talk about it.

So if anybody is, yeah, it's called build legends. Nice. Very cool. Well, look at all the recommendals we're soaking in today. So many. You might wonder why Scott didn't bring one. Two reasons.

I knew we wouldn't have time. And number two, I've not had any time to watch anything new anyway. I'm watching the ER episodes for hell sakes while I work. So it's, it all worked out nice for me. So get all this at quicktms. dot L.I. As always, Nicole,

having you around is a pleasure. Thanks for being here. Tell Mark to make some wood or something. Hug those kids for us. That's right, damn it. That is it for that. And that means we are just about done with today's show. What do we have left here?

Oh, I got a quick email. This is from Stephen, not our Stephen, different Stephen. This is about the Star Tours conversation we were having, whether it was around or not or whatever. It was the feud topic. That's right. Let's see. This came to The Morningstream at Gmail.com. My wife and I went to Disneyland for our honeymoon, pretty much just for the Star Wars stuff. We highly recommend the current Star Tours. They revamped it a while back and now it has multiple stories. So each time you go, you can get an entirely different scenario. We went during the day originally, but went back in the evening when most everyone else was out trying to find a place for the fireworks. I hate that. I always avoid that. It's the best time to go on rides because it's like, it's just, you know, all right, Disney does it up.

It's a nice fireworks show. It's, you know, it's, it's better than most fireworks shows, but still it's fireworks. Yeah, and you see it once. Go to the, yeah, Brian's right. Go getting the rides are less packed. Anyway, says there was no line and it was a great place to sit after walking all day and we got different scenario than we did the first time, says Stephen. Yeah, I thought it was gone gone. Yeah, no, it's still there.

And like you said, totally revamped. they've done is they've breaking it into two parts. So the ride is two parts, I think with the same thing in the middle of the same Oreo filling, but two different cookies. And each of those cookies can be one of like eight different scenarios. So you'll start off on Hoth and then you'll go into space and then you'll end up on Batu or you'll start up on Endor and then you'll end up on Kashik or something like that. And there's a storyline for each one. The other thing they did, unfortunately is they took out Pee Wee Herman or the Paul Rubin's voiced robot, but they did move him to the, uh, to the canteena. So now he's there DJing all day long. Wow. And you get

the, the Paul Rubin's voice there. And then they have new stuff in the Star Tour's, uh, that's cool. The Star Tours right. So yeah, I mean, with all those combinations, it, I don't know how many different possible combinations there are, but you're, you're almost guaranteed to get a different right every single time. I don't know if it's universal or somewhere that has, who has the King Kong stuff. Do you know who does all that? Universal. So I guess there was a 3D thing and they took the 3D out and everyone's freaking out about it now because now you can still do it. You just don't wear 3D glasses to see it or something. Something like that. Yeah. Some big. Oh, interesting. Some weird freak out I was reading about the other day. I can't remember what it was. Somebody I found. You're happy about it because it's like, oh, I'd have to put on those glasses that I doubt have been sanitized to any degree of completion. I don't trust any of those. Plus they're just annoying and it never looks right to me. It's never looked right to me because my eyes are kind of shit, or they were. I guess I haven't done it since I had my surgeries, but just never looked right. Well, there you go. Thank you, Stephen, for that. It's a good update on what's going on in Disneyland with Star Tours. We're going to get out of here before we do a

reminder that all things point to frogpants.com slash TMS. If you're trying to track us down or anything about the show, it's all there. Go find it. That's frogpans.com slash TMS. Brian, let's get out of here with a song. Do you have a song? Sure, I have a song. And this one is going out to G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G. Good morning, Sun and Burn. The 9th is my 41st birthday. Yes, this one is about 19 days late. Happy birthday, belated birthday, Gag-G-G-G-G-G-G-Gitch.

Ninth is my 41st birthday, and instead of requesting some goth industrial band, I need the covermaster's help. My wife, once again, saving my life by finding them all in a not-eas-seen area, but that would have been melanoma. Lucky Tess came up negative. So everyone, go get checked. Anyway, I need something that's got that disco funk magic to jumpstart the heart. Thank you for what you do. And Scott, hope you got a chance to play the SLC Fallout mod that I texted you.

I did. It's awesome. It's cool. I would play a whole game set in decrepit, burned out Salt Lake. It really rubbed all my buttons. That sounds terrible, but it rubbed my buttons. It rubbed all your buttons. Yeah.

Did it find a mole in a not easily seen area? No, it did not. But I did find the other day I found them. mole that I didn't know I had before. It turns out it was nothing, but, you know, they start showing up at weird times now. You just get them. They totally do. Oh, my God.

I don't like it. I found one on my thigh that, well, fortunately, it turned out to be a melted chocolate chip. But still, get checked everybody. Yeah. That's a mole-like discovery. Sure. It's a mole-like discovery. But taste it and then find out if it's chocolate.

Yeah, always lick your moles. Especially the ones on your thigh. Let's get to this one right here. This is by a, uh, a, uh, a, uh, a, A new, I'm totally into new disco funk. Like, believe me, I love my funkadelic. I love my, you know, old school bands that do the great mix. But bands that do the stuff now and make it feel authentic and genuine and not just a,

oh, let's do another cookie cutter cover stamped with disco funk. Cachunk, Cchunk, Cchon, Cchon. Sure. This one, this one's great. This is by Argonaut and Wasp. And this was a single they released in 2017, covering the, covering the Rolling Stones, Beast of Burden. Also, it sounds like a toy I would want in the 80s.

Argonaut and wasp, yeah. I'd have to go get my, it's like part of the micronaut scene or whatever. That's awesome. That's right. Batteries not included. Argonaut and wasps, all separate. Freaking Galube or Kenner or somebody making it. Oh, man.

All right. Well, there you go, everybody. Let's play it now. We'll be back tomorrow with the Thursday edition of the show. We'll see you then. You're going to be able to be able to be able to be a bit more. Never be your beast burden My back is broad

And yeah, it's hurting All I want is for you to make love to me Never be your piece of burden of what the miles and feet are hurting all I want is for you to make love to me yeah I'm going to do

do you do to do it I've never been a beast of burden, so let's go home and draw the curtain, come on baby, make sweet love to me. Am I hard enough? Am I rich enough? Am I rough enough? Am I not too white to see? Oh yeah?

Am I rough enough? Am I rough enough? Am I rich enough? Am I rich enough? I'm in love enough, oh, please. Am I rough enough? Am I rough enough? Am I rich enough?

In love enough? Oh, please. Get more at frogpant.com. Hey, I'm going to actually have to put the headphones down for a second and go throw up.