The Morning Stream - TMS 2610: Blue Diamond Phillips

Episode Date: March 6, 2024

Spread Your Seed With Purpose. Let Them Eat Kellogs Cereal. No show yesterday. Fondle My Chips mmmmm. Smells like duck tongue in here! Tarantino approved feet chips. Sex is a first person shooter. I do not know the name of Luckeeeey. Recipe Upgrade. Feet and Flavor Never Belong Together. The Eye Pupil. Le Grand Fromage. Scissors Etiquette. Talking about whatever Tom wants, with Tom. Randy has become Recommentals, watcher of movies and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bika, Sean Francis, and Elvish Link, all walk into a bar. The bartender says, hey, what's up with you guys? And they answered, we're just three of an amazing group of supporters at patreon.com slash TMS. You should sign up too, unquote. Coming up on TMS, spread your seed with purpose. Let them eat Kellogg's cereal. No show yesterday. Fond on my chips.

Smells like duck tongue in here. Tarantino approved feet chips. Sex is a first person shooter. I don't. know the name of lucky recipe upgrade feet and flavor never belong together the eye pupil la gran frommage scissors etiquette talking about whatever tom wants with tom randy has become recommendals watcher of movies and more on this episode of the morning stream i'm the computer man i'm the macintosh man with the virus scan moving your files all across the land some

photoshop filters in after dark get your microsoft office express your quark millions of colors with a V-RAM chip. How about a system crash? That'll make you flip. I'm not to do a man. Thanks, game. Greetings and welcome to TMS. The morning stream. Don't eat that. It's Pluto. Couldn't see it out of the corner of my eyes. The sixth. Yeah, now everybody who thought that we didn't do a show yesterday, for a second, they said, oh, wait, there was a show.

Oh, crap. Now we've confused them further. I tried to let everybody know on all the channels and stuff. There's always somebody who's like, where's the show? I apologize to them. Well, and things were down. Like, we couldn't let people know on Facebook or Instagram because they were down. That's true.

The only place that was up was Twitter, formerly, or no, X, formerly known as Twitter. and no i don't want i didn't you know whatever i put it there but nobody reads that anymore and at least i get the feeling they don't and so you know i let you know via other methods and it was as good as we could do and we apologize with serious technical issues on many fronts it made no sense it had to have been tied together had to have been because how do you have massive web service outages including uh discord who briefly had a uh a login problem so we couldn't get back in or we could intermittently, and it was weird. We were having audio issues.

We thought were Discord, but then it was also Zoom. We're like, well, what's that? Then my ISP crapped out, and I think my ISP was responsible for the voice problems. And then my second ISP crept out. And then later in the day, the best I could do was about a megabyte up and about two down for a while. It all came back. But the point is, I think there was like a thing. I'm not saying a cyber attack because that's bullshit.

And there's no, you know, actual, there's no, like, evidence of one. everybody jumped to that conclusion yesterday but whatever and then and then it all came back and everything's fine but by then you know TMS chances were shot in the dark so we were done it was done it was over it was apologies to everybody involved uh anyway we're back we got stuff to do including oh you know what we haven't played in a while or done this so let's see what we play let's play uh oh almost washed your food down all right well let's see if we can do that We got a thing that sat in the back room of my P.O. Box place for way too long. They should be fired. I swear to God.

I know. It pisses me off, dude. I'm like, they're kind of mom and pop, and I want to support that. But I'm like, well, it's the one thing. It's the Seinfeld thing. You had one job that was to receive my post in your office. And then ping me that an item has arrived because that's what I pay for every month. and so that's all you had to do and instead i called and called and called visited twice and you kept saying no we didn't get nothing got nothing finally they find it oh it turns out we did get something weeks ago and it's been in the back that sucks but look what we got from chris hold on let me see your bags here's one okay so yours are your hyperinflated like mine i mean

these are oh yeah they're puffy they are their own packing uh protection yeah these are like breast implants. These things are monster. I know. I just want to, I just want to have fun. Oh, yes.

Touch your bags. So anyways, this is from Chris, hold on, Vega. That's almost Vegas, which is pretty cool. And he sent us two bags

full of, I assume this is Japanese. Is it? I think Chinese. Is it Chinese? These are definitely Lays brand, but from another country.

Yeah, the lettering looks more Chinese to me than Japanese I could be wrong though I can't tell The Chinese characters Oh I could do the translation app Oh yeah do that let's see

Let's see what you get Because I'm curious Translate Google Translate What should I let's see Let's do a detect language camera Yeah Okay

Let's see what you got Hot and tongue flavor Oh what Saturated fat Recipe Upgrade It is, but it's not telling me the language. Recipe upgrade. Recipe upgrade.

I love. Asian names that are translated are so great. They're so great. Yeah, they really are. There's this game coming out in a couple days called, it looks amazing, but it's called, uh, what is it? Something unicorn. It's so dumb.

It's the dumbest name. I love, and I kind of love it. I love it. It's just, it is one. it is, you know, they're just going to make it what it is. I'm going to actually give you one of these that I, that was so good, I have to share it. Let's see, Scott, sending it to your text messaging thing. Got it.

So prepare to receive it there. This is what Google Translate translates the back, that white text up in the back, right corner of the duck tongue flavor. Okay, let's take a look at what we have here so the chat top can also see it and it's not coming up and I don't know why oh yeah it is all right here we go lays delicious secret thinly sliced real potatoes thin and crispy enough thin and crispy enough pure taste pure taste secret oh okay what's uh I love it I love it well anyway that someone tell me what that unicorn game is crap I got to find that out

Anyway, which one do you want to try? You want to try the blue? You want to try the green? Let's start with the green, because that's the one I have in my hand. All right. Here we go. Thank you again, Chris Vega. I'm sorry this took so long.

Oh, just cut into the bag and all that air that's been sitting in there for months. Holy! Holy- Gosh, and it smells like duck tongue. What smells like duck tongue in here now? And that's what that is, right? That's supposed to be a duck tongue? Like, you look at that thing? Would you be able to identify that as a duck tongue?

Well, I'm playing enough helldivers to think this is an enemy I've killed. It feels like, exactly. It's like, oh, finally, Half-Life. Yeah, these are like facehuggers, dude. That's what these look like. All right, well, we're going to, I've never had a duck tongue in any form, so this is going to be weird. Ooh, it does stink. There's a stink to it.

It's like a, it's a strong, savory smell. How's that? Yeah, yes, that's a nice way to put it. All right, here we go. Oh, I don't know. Tastes better than it smells. It's often the case with these things, right? Yeah.

Sometimes they... If you didn't tell me this was duck tongue, I would have said it's a light barbecue. Yeah, you know what? That's not bad. Boy, the smell really ruins it. Oh, finish is spicy, though. Yeah, a little bit of kick at the end there.

Ooh. Hmm. Yeah, these are okay. I'll probably eat these. I'll probably eat these. Yeah. You know, because sometimes you can't after you try it. And you're like, okay, that's good.

Yes, exactly. But I could probably eat that. All right, blue bag. Blue bag. This is the chicken feet flavor. Shut up, dude. Oh, is that what that is there? Is that the thing?

Is that a chicken's foot? Yeah. It looks more like, uh, it doesn't look right. I know. Well, it's a brazed chicken. Lemon, hot and sour lemon braised chicken feet flavor. Ooh, it smells like candy. Oh, it does.

Like lemon heads. Yes, that's the, there you go. It's the lemon. Weird. Okay, here we go. All right, enjoy the chicken feet. You know what? That's just weird enough.

I might like it. That's a good chip. That's weird. I feel like I'm eating a dessert. Kind of. A little bit. It's sweet, but a lot of, there's like a, there's definitely lemon and chili. yeah it also ends a little uh a little uh not hot it definitely ends a little spicy yeah

well why don't we make these sorts of things here do you do you think is it just a marketing thing where we can't sell weird shit people would see those those uh last of a slugs on the front of the bag and immediately say yeah nope not for me thanks if this was just if this was just hot and sour lemon brazed chicken flavor you took the word feed out these would sell in america no problem. Yeah. But we see the word feet. Yeah, we can't do the feet, man.

Feet are gross. The word feet and flavor really never belonged together. Certainly side by side. Oh, it's got a text from Tarantino. Please send chips my way. I will take your feet. Weird. That sounds really good.

Hey, could you send us to me? That sound really, really good. I'm making my 10th final movie, and I need some feet. I mean, chips. Can you send me a picture if you eating them with your feet? Oh, gross. Oh, Tarantino. You're the gift that just keeps given.

All right. We are going to, there was some word about that. His final movie is going to have Tom, or no, they're bringing Brad Pitt back for whatever it is. Really? Well, he's in Hollywood once upon the time in Hollywood, too. Yeah, yeah. So they'll bring him back.

I don't think anyone else has been announced. So I don't know if it's going to be like a, there's probably a temptation. on his part to go, you know, how can I get all my usuals? Can Bouchemmy be here? Exactly. Got to have, yeah, who would his stable of regulars? Samuel L. Jackson, Bishemmy.

Kurt Russell? Who cut the ear off? This Kurt Russell was just in one, right? Just in Right, he just did one. I think he, oh, no, no, he was also in the double up grind house thing. Oh, right, yes, right. So twice, I guess. For whichever one.

Michael Madsen's good Umah of course Yeah you gotta have umma thir Anybody who's been twice I think you gotta bring back You know so Busemi definitely Uh wait Has he only been once?

Was he Reservoir Dogs only? Who? Boussemi? No Boussemi was Reservoir Dogs What else? Wasn't he in Pulp Fiction? I don't think so.

What am I thinking of? I don't think so He was like a he was a jackrabbit Slims? I don't remember. Why am I thinking, hold on a second. If he was, that's amazing. I don't remember that.

Oh, I know who. Your Tim Roth's got to be in this. Yeah, Tim Roth for sure. Yeah. Maybe what's his name from the piano? Bad Lieutenant. He's in two Tarantino movies. Oh, wow, I found the list.

These, okay, yeah, Reservoir Dogs Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction. I don't remember that at all. Weird. I've only seen that movie 10 times. I don't know why I remember. He played the memorable Buddy Holly impersonator at Jack Rabbit Slims. Oh. Well, I remember the Buddy Holly guy. I don't remember that being Buscemi, but. Yeah, Bissimi. All right. So, who's been in the most? This is good. Okay. Can I guess?

Oh, well, yeah, you can guess. Let's see here. Let me go through the list because I don't know if they put this in. Oh, does it build up? It builds up. Okay. So I got to scroll down the very bottom. I'm going to say it's All right I mean this seems obvious to me It's got to be Samuel L. Jackson Seems obvious Samuel L. Jackson is six films Yeah

There is somebody who has seven And It's not Tarantino himself is it It's not although That's interesting Yeah It's a woman and Oh well okay

Let's see how really this counts Oh no she did acting Okay She was a stunt double and glorious bastards also had roles in the hateful eight De Jenga, Django Unchained Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Would I know her name?

Is it a common... No, I don't know if... Oh, I don't know if you would, because I didn't quite recognize her name. Hold on a second. Because in my head, I can't think of anyone I saw in all those movies. No, I don't think you'd know this person's name.

Her name is Zoe Bell Yeah, I don't know who that is And she is most frequently Like stunt doubles She was Lucy Lollis' stunt double For Zena Warrior Princess And And Emma Thurman's

But then she transitioned into acting And had actual roles in In some of these other Tarantino films Can't really, I don't feel like you can count her Because she was stunt double for a couple of them For both of the Kill Bill films Yeah

Madsen Five films Five both kill bills Reservoir Dogs Hateful Eight and then Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Yeah

And then what Tim Roth, four films Four films Okay Well then we know Thurman 3 Then it's got to be Jackson's the highest

Or the highest Samuel Jackson is the highest Like actor actor Actor actor And not stunt double slash actor Right Yeah

Do you think if Oh Harvey Kytel three films Three? Yeah that I think that sounds right Although the only two I can think of his Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. What else did he do?

In Glorious Bastards as well. Oh, I don't remember that at all. I didn't either. I need to see that one again. He's an uncredited phone cameo as a commanding officer. That movie's great, but it's been a while. I don't like Eli Roth in it. He irritates me, but whatever.

Who am I to say? Well, thanks for the chips, is the point. Yeah, yeah, thanks for the chips. That was nice, Chris Vega. And may you add Ness to that, name in May or April comes to you. Chris Vega definitely sounds like a Tarantino

character. Doesn't it? Or against Vincent Vega. Vincent Vega's brother shows up. Yeah. Avengers as Toilet brother's death and all that. Oops, spoiler. Sorry everybody if you haven't seen Pulpiction. It's been a lot. It's been long enough people should be able to send it. Smoke 1969 if you look for him in the Discord.

Smoke, 1969. That's cool. Smoke 1969. Smoke 1969. Is that I mean he was born the year we were born? That's cool. Probably. Probably, yeah. That's awesome. Brian, do you know, speaking of food?

Yeah. There are a few phrases that get thrown around that are food related. Like, has anyone ever said, you're the apple of my eye to you? I've heard that phrase, yes. I don't know if anyone's ever said it to me, but... I've heard it too, but I don't think... I'm trying to think if I've ever heard it in real life. I've heard it in movies and TV and stuff.

I've heard Steve you under sing it. Oh, what was it? You are the apple of my eye. I was thinking Stevie Nix for some reason. You said Stevie. Stand back, stand back. You're the apple of my eye and I'm not here for you. Well, look at this here.

Yeah. Way back when people believe the eye pupil, you know, the pupil in your eye. The eye pupil, yes. The eye pupil. The good old eye pupil. Yeah, was a solid object and referred to it as an apple. Shakespeare used the phrase. yep the midsummer night's dream he wrote flower of this purple

purple dye hit with cupid's archery sink in apple of his eye interesting okay so there's a thing now we think of it as the figurative meaning of like oh you're my favorite thing to look at or whatever so you can say oh well a little grand baby you're the apple of my eye an old lady might say I'll never say because I originally thought that the center of the eye was a little object and not a hole right we thought There's a little piece of fruit in there. Now you're the apple hole of my eye. Now I know you've been referred to as the big cheese before.

Sure, sure. I have it on my desk plate with my name. Yeah, Tina's required to call you big cheese every day, at least once. And I got good news for you. And in the 19th century England, Zoe, this one's for you. The cheese didn't have to be big, and the cheese was synonymous with being a big deal or being of high quality. When the idiom crossed the Atlantic in the early 20th century, the cheese got big. possibly in reference to the literal big cheeses product

were produced in the U.S. for display and consumption. So once again, we screwed it up. That's what we do. Yeah. Yeah. But when they say the big cheese, they're referring to a large, quality wheel of cheese.

Therefore, you are the big, you're the best one in the window, aka you're the top dog. You're the big cheese. Makes sense, right? Excellent. Yep. I can see them even saying that on piggy blinders.

Courtesy of the pinky blinders. By the way, you're the cheese. You're the big cheese. Give me those guns, Tommy. All right, how about this one? Red herring. By the way, if I don't interrupt you and let you know that Faisal I would like you to know, the game you're trying to think of is Unicorn Overlord.

Unicorn Overlord. He's going to freak out in chat because he's typed it three times so far in the last three minutes. Sorry, missed it. Is that not the dumbest sounding game ever? It's a fantasy strategy. Unicorn Overlord. It's a fantasy strategy game. I mean, unpacking sounds like the dumbest game ever, but we know that.

That's a pretty darn good game. That's true. Don't let the names fool you, guys. Yeah. That thing looks like a threat. Oh, one of the ones, um, against the wind, I think. What was the one you recommended to me? Oh.

It's like a little city builder, something. Oh, uh, uh, um, against the storm. Against the storm. Against the wind is Bob Seeger's song. Yeah. Uh, that one went on sale on, uh, at, uh, steaming. So I picked it up. Nice.

And I haven't played it yet, but I've got it. I just pick it up because it's on sale and I know I'm going to play it. So it's really cool. That game's rad. And Dan, who's, Dan has spent the most time in there, he'll tell you. He'll back me up on this. Excellent. Okay.

All right. Well, I love that kind of game. So. How about sowing your wild oats? Brian, let's talk about that food use. Sure. Sure. Avina fatua, a species of grass and the oat genus, has been called wild oats by the English for centuries.

Though it is thought to be a precursor of cultivated oats like we'd have today in our oatmeal. Farmers have long hated it because it's useless as a cereal. and hard to separate from cultivated oats and remove from fields. Literally sewing wild oats then is a useless endeavor and the phrase is figuratively apply to people engaging in idle pastimes. There's also a sexual connotation in that a young man sewing his wild oats

is spreading seed without purpose. Is that really? Okay, I guess so. I guess that's what it's spreading seed without purpose. I mean, you can sew your wild oats with a prophylactic. That's true. That's true. You could also have a purpose, you know. You could be, right, exactly. You could be Nick Cannon and you're spreading your seed with purpose.

It's funny, though, because it has a judgment to it. It's like saying you can go out there and waste your, quote unquote, waste your seed. Yeah. And nothing good will come of it because this is not, in the literal sense, wild oats are not good cereal, are not good for bread or not good for anything. And so they're just kind of a weed. So it's just temporary and a waste of your. time but go ahead and do it have fun knock yourself out it's your 20s go wait go sew your oats i think that's the idea of that yeah yeah i just don't like the i don't like the fact that they're calling you know going out and having sex idle past times yeah an idle there's nothing idle about that it's an active no it's first-person shooter if you know what i'm saying

i mean i've been i've been called idle yeah i love it Brian's an idol. Hey, Brian, could you be a little less idle? Can't wait for that prom date clip to come up. Yeah, that'll happen at some point. Finally, here, this one's for Zoe, who I believe is in our chat today. Yeah. This is another British one.

Yeah, another British one. Oh, no, it's a more important one. Yeah, this is more important, but also British. The bringing home of the bacon, bring home the bacon. That's what they always say, oh, what's the dad do? Well, he brings home the bacon while the wife makes the, you know, cooks the bacon or whatever. the origin bringing home the bacon is uncertain but it might have come from an old English custom or from the world of boxing but here's what it says one possible is the

tradition of the Dunmow flinch flitch rather which began on the great Dumau Dumbow Essex in 1104 AD probably Dunmo I'm sure is it Dunmo what I say done done Dunmow you said Dunmell or dumbow I have no idea anyway it was there let's see I'm so impressed the prior of Little Dunmow, or Mo, with the marital devotion, he was awarded them with a fitch, a side of bacon. So the guy would give people bacon if they committed to marriage is the deal. Interesting. All right. So like a, your first wedding gift is a, is a side of

bacon. Is a flitch of bacon. Oh, it should be Zoe brings flitch of bacon. Yeah, flitch. How much is a flitch of bacon, do you think? I don't know. I'd be curious, is it bigger than a racher, for example? Rasher is my favorite amount of bacon, by the way. Yeah, but it's a close second for flitch for me now. Bring me, bring me a racher of bacon. Yeah. No, I don't think you understood me. Son, I don't think you understood me. I said, bring me all the eggs and bacon you have. It's a fantastic episode of that show. It really is. One quick thing before we get on to the Tad Pooley feud today, which we are going to play. This is about sewing scissors.

I know we talked about them forever ago and how our moms would kill us if we ruined them. Remember that? Our moms were nuts. All moms of that era. They went nuts whenever we use those great sewing scissors for anything but sewing. Yeah.

For cutting thread or fabric. Don't know what happened to their generation. Something hurt them. I don't know what. But that's what the deal was. Barbara wrote in and said sewing and buttons, those are our names. When you discussed using mom's sewing scissors or, sorry,

for something other than sewing, you mentioned that you could go buy new scissors this is true however when you need good scissors and someone has made them not good by using them on paper or whatever you're stuck this needs to be fixed now not after i go to the store to buy new scissors i hide my good scissors despite my best efforts the show brings me pleasure says barbara barbara they're coming to get you barbara coming to get your scissors barbara yeah i pick these like this was a This was the wire cutter fantastic pick. Let's see, what do you got? The Amazon Basics

scissors, these are, you know, Amazon basics, nine times out of him, you get what you're, what, as described, they're basic,

right? These have been, these have stayed sharp through cutting everything. And I'm talking, not just paper or whatever, but like cutting supports on model,

I've used these for if I couldn't find better ones or, yeah, this look a lot like the ones I have. I think these might be, oh, no, these are Scotch brand. Are they Scotch? Okay. These are pretty good, though. But funny enough, maybe this isn't just our mothers. My wife has her name initialed on here. KJ.

Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. That's hilarious that, yeah. I don't know why. That's really funny, actually. I never noticed it until just now that she wrote her name on here. Do you have a Sharpie handy?

Cross that off and put S-J and see what she does. I should do that. I don't even think she'd remember. Or I've already ruined these and she doesn't care anymore because maybe that. Right. You've already used the first stuff you shouldn't be cutting them with. It's entirely possible. All right.

We are going to do some fun stuff and we're going to do it in a slightly different way. Dunnways out today. Hold on. So we're all missing Brian today. Yes. Yes. He's out. But TV's Travis is in.

and he's going to join us. Let's get this going. Where's my damn thing to play? Here we go. Yes, that's right. That music means it's time for the Tad Pooley feud. And joining us as a guest combatant is TV's Travis. Hello, Travis Crawford.

How are you? Hello. Hello. How are you? How are you? Oh, excited. I got big shoes to fill. Dunaway's not here.

I don't know how this is going to go. I think it's going to go great. He also has really big shoes. I don't know if you knew that about Dunaway, but... Yeah, it's mostly in the toes, though. Big old fat toes. Small feet. It's actually...

He has really small feet, but he has one lung toe, and so he has to actually get special shoes for that. Yep. It's gross, too. It has no nail on it, so it's just a big... It's a lump of flesh. It looks like a four-inch lung or a pencil eraser. Yeah, disgusting.

It's the same color, too. Yeah, like his nipples. They're the same. Hey, look who it is. Who we also have on the line with us. It's Stephanie in a Pets. Hello, Stephanie. How are you?

Hello. I'm weary. We can hear you. We can totally hear you because so we tried to do this last week and it didn't work. And I said then and I stand by it that you would get first treatment today. And now here you are. So this is great. We're really glad to have you.

Let's get going. Brian, you want to explain these rules and tell Stephanie what she might win? Absolutely. And today a little bit of a change. Normally we have Steam games today we have apps So it's gonna be great It's time to play the tadpulley feud I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics and Scott and Travis are gonna have to predict the answers that they gave us

It is their job to see how many of those answers They can guess Stephanie your job is more important than ever because you're gonna be working with either Scott or Travis and if your team wins You get a prize package that includes Lacuna a sci-fi noir adventure and Neihilumbra I don't know what that one is, but that first one, Lacona, is very good. It's like a cyberpunk point-and-click kind of thing.

It's very good. I like it. Nice. Yeah. Cool. Do you and Kyle play Steam games? Kyle does, yes. Kyle does?

Okay. Oh, good. Well, you're playing for Kyle. Awesome. Playing for Kyle. You create those awesome Spider-Rane costumes and Mermaid Tales, and he'll play the game and report back to you to tell us how it was. That's right. Yep.

It is. And we'll get you some apps as well later on. Awesome. Let's do it then, Brian. What's our big topic today? All right. Well, again, I'm going to remind you people before you pile on that all of our questions this season come from listeners. I basically take, like, during the survey, the very last question is, do you have an idea for a survey topic?

And I copy that and I paste it into the form. Usually I don't even edit them. I edit them if they need to be edited. So this one comes from a listener, and this ought to be a lot of fun. I have a feeling that the board may get run in this one. So I think you've got a really good chance of winning, no matter who you end up with, Stephanie. All right. Travis, do you see how to buzz in?

Yes. Okay, good. All right. Put your hands on your buzzards then and answer this. We asked 455 tadpoolers to name a lucky Charms Mark. Marshmallow shape. Scott. Blue diamonds.

Show me diamonds. Number eight answer on the board. Travis, seven answers will beat it. Oh, my gosh. Red balloons. Red balloons. Show me red balloons. Oh.

Number five. Travis, you have control of the board. You've also got Stephanie as a partner. I think you guys have got this, yes. But I'm glad your disclaimer is a good one today, because obviously this is going to be weird and not just simply the few of these that we know from the commercials. Exactly, yes. There's 10 spots on the board. And, uh...

Oh, boy. Yeah. And I don't know how many original shapes I remember, but it's really funny. The, uh, the answers to this without giving anything away, most of the answers were an actual marshmallow shape. the other answers I got were I don't eat any of that fattening American shit Wow Hardly an answer is it

But hardly an answer But many much of that Well plus in some countries The stuff is banned because of the color Die involved Is not allowed in some other country Sure All right let's go back over to you guys

Travis and Stephanie what else have you got Oh, all right, Stephanie, what are you thinking? Do you think? I mean, we got to go with the obvious, the shamrock. Yeah, the clover. Yeah, all right, we'll go with clovers. Clovers. All right.

Show me Clovers. Oh, number one. Yep, a couple of people did put shamrock, but come on, they're green clovers. Also, I'm glad you didn't get colors because I'm sure that my memory of colors is all off on this. Yeah, colors are not important in this one. because for a while there was like oops we effed up our colors uh marshmallows for a while which right and then you got a box that was oops all marshmallows didn't you scout at one point uh i try to remember oh yeah yeah there was lucky charms that entire box was marshmallows i ate a bowl of

it it was a huge huge mistake i shouldn't have done that i was sick for a day it was awful so don't do that that was the special that was the special run diabetes edition yeah the Become a diabetic in one bowl was the ad on there. No, it was just like nothing. It was obviously a mistake at the factory, but you've never seen it since. It's funny that it would have been even funny if it was one big rectangular block of marshmallow all jammed together. Like multicolored marshmallow jam together. That sounds so bad.

Just snap off part of it and put it in a bowl. Exactly. All right. What else you got? Oh, what do you think about stars, Stephanie? Oh, I, is there like a... Because I think there was stars and moons, right? There was moons.

I don't think there was a star, though. All right, well, let's go with moons then. I'm picturing it in my head, and I did, like, Lucky Charms was my jam growing up and still is, so I'm, like, I'm trying to picture a star. I feel like stars would be a weird shape to try to marshmallow a five. because it would get fat. All the points, yeah. It would be like a starfish. So I would, I would go with moon.

Okay. I would say moon over star. Yeah, my moons. All right. Show me Sam Rockwell's favorite marshmallow shape. Moon! Oh! Took a while to ding that one, six.

Number six answer on the board. Currently, score is 12 for TV's Travis and Stephanie to eight for Scott. Boo. And Stephanie still has. Scott's not even a good chance. I know. You guys are going to kill me. I don't know. I feel like the tail end of this is going to be tricky, but whatever. Yeah, it's going to get there. What do you think?

We should, yeah. And now I'm second guessing. Rainbows. Yes, definitely rainbow. I'm second guessing the stars now because I'm reading the chat. But I think we should go definitely with the obvious stuff. Yes, I think Rainbow would be one of the obvious. Yeah, rainbows a good one. Before we start guessing that. Yeah. All right. Let's go show me Richie Blackmore's Rainbow Marshmallow.

Number two. Gosh, dang it. Also, good deep cut. I could still whip you guys if I get the bottom two. If you lose, if you buzz out here. That's true. Yeah, you need to, yeah, we'll see. We'll see.

Hearts. Yeah, I want to do stuff. Hearts? Is that what you said? I'm sorry. Yeah, there's a pink heart. Oh, yeah, pink hearts. Yeah, yeah.

Okay, all right. Show me hearts. I could have gone the end and Nancy Wilson route. Yeah, Hart, number four, answers are on the board. That's tickier scored at 18, now beating Scott by 10 points with his eight. Damn it. Got another one. I got another obvious one.

What's that? Okay. I got another obvious one. Okay. All right. I would say, I believe they're purple, but the horseshoe. Oh, yeah. Purple horseshoes.

I can hear him say it. You can hear Lucky saying all of these once you're saying. Yeah. You know? Purple horses. His name is Lucky, right? Bring me a penis. Yeah.

Yeah, lucky leprecha. I don't know why I needed a verification of that. It should be easy, but it didn't sound right. Wasn't there? A guy named Lucky, he's a, like, a lepricon? Yeah, wasn't there a guy named Lucky or some kind of Lucky Lepricon? Isn't there a lucky lepricon? All right, yeah, horseshoes.

Horshoes. Okay, show me horseshoes. Yeah, of course. That's actually a lucky thing. You think horseshoes and four-leaf clovers are very lucky. Yeah? Yeah. I don't know about hearts.

Oh, that's a lucky. Boy, you found a lucky heart. We should tell people currently they're leading by 21 to 8. 21 to 8. Alcabab actually, he fitted me with an ankle thing connected to my computer via USB that buzzes me if I don't give a score update. Oh, does it hurt or is it pleasurable? Oh, it stinks. Yeah, it stinks.

Okay. All right. It's also useful for polygraphs. Sure. It is. I can't. That's no lie. I'll give you a chance to say something. I do think stars. I think we should go with that. I'm picturing them. I know I have a couple other ones, but let's do it. Let's do stars. Do stars. Go for it.

Show me, you may be my lucky star. Oh, number seven. I think that knocks me out, right? 28 to 8, no, 20 points. Yeah. Yes, it does knock you out. Yep. Officially, Stephanie has won. All right.

But we still have two more answers on the board. The biggies, nine and ten. I'm not been answered. What do you got? I think there's like a, the other shapes I'm thinking are so distorted and weird. I don't really know if I know what they are. But I think one of them might be like a pot of gold.

his like pot of gold I think I'm talking about like the shade and might even have like a clover on it I don't know I'm like They wanted to have a pot of gold

And it just looks like a mush But yeah I think so Yeah she's like green mush Nothing Nothing tastier than a black marshmallow too Squid ink marshmallow Right yes exactly All right is that what you're going with?

Yeah a pot of gold All right Show me a potter gold Number nine. Run the board here. Wow. Look at the drop off between diamond and pot of gold,

though. 28 to 3. No, it really, it really like, it's funny how, and you look at clover to rainbow, 156 people think clover and 61,

the next time this one, think rainbow. And it's like such a huge jump. Yeah. But when you think on the lucky charm, even if you don't know for sure, it's like,

well, I think Clovers are lucky. so it's got to be a clover. Stephanie, how do you feel about like coin, like gold coin? Uh, ding, but ding, but ding. Well, there's already a balloon, which is kind of like a circle.

Yeah. I don't know if they'd put like another circle. I feel like they have like unicorns, but it always looks like an upside down melted ice cream cone or something. I kind of remember that. Or it was like a, sometimes they do special marshmallows for limited runs, right?

They didn't always have the same. yeah probably um oh man this is where it gets off i mean we won either way so i mean we can yeah yeah let's let's go with unicorn why not do it all right nothing to lose right unicorn overlord let's do it show me unicorn oh oh it totally ran the board well done i think uh what a great uh way to have your your first ever uh uh uh uh Feud, Tad Pooley Feud, TV's Travis, and congratulations. Leared it. Now, what, I got to know what other people said, just because.

Yeah, you do. You really do. Number 11 was Claire. Oh, geez. What? That's a marshmallow-shaped. Because she's a marshmallow-shaped Irish person. That's why.

That's right. Number 12 answer was cube. Cube. Yes. And then I'm just going to read these next six or seven. verbatim. Don't get that cereal in Australia. So, cloud, question mark.

Don't have in Sweden. Circle? Don't have them in Australia. Don't have in my country yet. So, round. Fat American shape. I have no idea. We don't have that diabetes food here.

I don't effing no. What about pot of gold? Oh, I did add that one to the pot of gold, but I kept it separate. I have no idea what they are. I'm Australian. Wow. The Australians really hit a wall on this one, seems like. Let's continue with a few more of these.

Mishapen is very good. Rectangular. Another one for round, treasure chest, triangle, vague genitalia, and my favorite, purple brown. Purple brown. Purple brown. Purple brown is not a shape. Oh, yeah, I have purple brown every morning.

It's not a shape at all. It's not even close to a shape. Not even a shape. Purple brown. I love that one, though. That's great. Well, well done. I like defining shapes as colors.

Yeah, if you can, it's a good way to do it. Congratulations. That means Stephanie walks away with these codes, which means Kyle walks away with these codes, really is what it means. So congratulations, Kyle. Your wife is awesome. And also, Stephanie does really cool stuff. Stephanie, is there anything like people can see, like, your cool costume work online? Is it available anywhere?

You have a site where people can see your cool mermaid? Tales and Spider-Ban photos and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. So I kind of don't really do that anymore because of like a half copyright I had with people.

Oh, geez, okay. I'm kind of bitter about it. You mean the mermaid stuff? Oh, no, really? I'm sorry. No, no, it's totally fine. I don't really post much about it anymore. I do have like an Instagram. Sometimes you'll see my name, my mermaid name, pop up in YouTube.

because I use that for other things. But my mermaid name is Mermaid Cypira. Okay. I came up with it myself. Nice. Even though it's not very unique, but, you know. I like it. I'm on the Instagram.

Sure. If I'm ever there, but otherwise, not really. All right. Or Spider-Stefony on Instagram, that one's pretty easy. Just know she makes cool stuff. All right, she makes cool stuff. You do make really cool stuff. Yeah.

The Spider-Man mess that changes. Yeah. Cool. Yeah, the Spider-Man. mask that glows behind me and changes color is, uh, was made by Stephanie. That's awesome. That's so cool.

You're going to wear it, uh, for the MS-150 and who needs peripheral vision? Who needs it? I don't need it. Nobody needs it. Go full tunnel that day. Well, I guess it to have giant lenses so you're, so you're able to have the peripheral. And they are.

They really are huge and I can't actually see pretty well out of them. Yeah. Well, congratulations. There's a science behind. I'm glad we finally got this working. And hey, look, your mic works. Wee. Hey,

Travis, that was fun. And also, you're on the show coming up soon. What day do I have you for? Is it next week? It might be. I think it's next week. Yeah, it is next week. We're squeezing Amy in for Thursday so that we can not miss her this month. And then we got you next week. So we'll hear your voice real soon. Is there anything you'd like to say to the people before you go? Done away, that win was for you. Oh, that's adorable. All right. Very nice. We're going to do one new. story. One news story. One news story. It's the news, and it's brought to you by. The Monday Show, also not affiliate with TMS, with Scott and Carter. There was one on Monday. Go get it. Frogpens.com slash Monday. Yeah, it's a fun one. We had a great time, so go check it out. Cool. What did you talk about? Oh, too many things. One of them was, um, can anyone, draw and there was a bit there's a there's a real argument going on about whether somebody can just

who thinks they're terrible can pick up a pen and then with enough practice you know be good and carter and i make the stand that yes you can some people wrote in and said no you can't and so we had a little back and forth on that it was super interesting so anyway we're checking out cool uh Kellogg's CEO speaking of cereal we didn't mean to do this appropriate very appropriate today yeah we didn't mean to do this at all but uh he uh Kellogg's CEO says poor families should consider cereal for dinner. Yeah, that's a, that's going to go over with like a fart in church. Hey, poor, you don't need to be pouring anymore.

Eat cereal for dinner. Yeah, let them have cake or whatever the old phrases or bread and circuses or whatever. Anyway, multi-millionaire chief executive officer of the U.S. food processing giant Kellogg's has drawn scorn from some quarters after recently suggesting the families with strained finances could cope by eating cereal for dinner. Gary Pilnick was speaking live on CNBC's squawk on the street I hate that name for a show I kind of do too yeah

it's horrible dude freaking go change that anyway delivered the remarks in question which some have compared to the let them eat cake phrase frequently attributed without evidence to Marie Antoinette before her execution during the French Revolution

here's the quote the cereal category has always been quite affordable, and it tends to be a great destination when consumers are under pressure. Destination. The category. Okay, I see what he's getting at. It's very poorly worded, but I mean, okay, yeah, cereal. Basically, he should be saying, you know, cereal is nutritional enough

that you could eat it for dinner if you had to, and it's probably cheaper in some cases than a full, like, different kind of meal, a larger meal or different kind of meal. But boy, the way that that was phrased. It's horrible. It's horrible. And nobody, no family should have to rely on frosted flakes, fruit loops, corn pops, and rice Krispies for their freaking family.

It's the symptom of a much bigger problem that, you know, cereal won't solve. And there's, you know, the way inflation worked in with groceries is about 26% higher than they were prior to the pandemic. That's a lot. It's a big, but jump. And some people can't straight up just free. can't afford it. So I don't know. If I was a millionaire CEO, I think I'd turn off the salesmanship for just a second and not say something that dumb. That's just dumb. A little tone deaf. Yeah, let them have cereal. You know, that's a for, uh, if you're a family, you guys are

struggling. I got a perfect solution for you. Eat our cereal. Yeah, exactly. F off. Jackass. I hate that. And Amy's right. Cereal is way more expensive than I remember it being when I was shopping, you know, when I was living in an apartment with roommates, cereal was like, oh, you know, buck something, a box is great. And I could, and very often, if I was tired of ramen, I would have a bowl of cereal for dinner. But now it's like, what, four, five dollars a box for something like the aforementioned lucky charms and stuff. Yeah, all the prices have gone up on that stuff, like ridiculously. Also, it's not good for you. Also, I'll bet you big money that multi-millionaire chief executive officer

Gary Pilnick doesn't eat any of this cereal Has never eaten a bowl of his cereal for dinner Maybe for breakfast, but definitely not for dinner Maybe he was an 18-year-old Where they call rich kids who have a trust fund Trust fund baby Maybe when he was that

Yeah, yeah A foff douchebag Exactly Holy cow raisin nut brand Sparkle House is eight bucks a box a box Oh, crazy. Yeah. Some raisins, man. I mean, come on, you can get a dozen eggs for less than that and bread and have eggs and toast.

Yeah, I did this morning. Have a proper morning breakfast. Exactly. Not this stuff. This makes me want to boycott cereal. I'm not saying to. I do. I'm a big proponent of, uh, I don't feel like, I don't feel like cooking a big meal.

Let's do eggs and bacon and toast for dinner tonight. Totally, totally fine with that. Breakfast for dinner is wonderful. Breakfast for dinner is great. Yeah. Kim made her homemade cracked wheat pancakes. Oh, they're so good, Ryan. I'm also a fan of pizza for breakfast.

Cold pizza for breakfast? Totally fine with it. Just reverse everything, you know? Yeah, yeah. It's upside down day. What the heck? I have lunch at 2 a.m. Anyway, that's your news.

We're going to take a break. When we come back, Tom Merritt will be here. We're going to talk some tech after that. Randy Jordan will join us for some recommendals, all after this song break that Brian will now explain. yeah this is uh this is interesting because i got this email um and uh uh looked at the just the photo before i played this song and i said oh man this looks like it's probably to be pretty heavy but let's let's listen to it and see if it's uh if it works for the show and i was kind of surprised uh

this is a guy named dimmer or damer deemer d e i think yes if it's german you pronounce i so it'd be kurt dimmer oh like dimler chrysler kind of like that kind of yeah right german He says, I boarded a Southwest flight in January of 2022. It was a last-minute flight, and I was crammed against a window for four plus hours. I convinced myself to endure this flight, I was going to write a killer song. And he did. Again, not the name of a song that I would expect from looking at this guy, but the song is called Dance. It is a brand new single from Kurt Dimer.

Here is Dance. Quiet. hurricanes, you need oxygen to start a fire. Silky lace on bearing skin under the sheets under the wire. Stormy waters, the tide is low. Find the courage to let it all go. Dance with me when I fall With me when I rise

When life gets me down Dance with me when I'm high On top of the world When it's burning to the ground Burning to the ground Dance You can't get out of the war within it's feeding on our solace. The plan's alive we must escape before the bell tolls.

Stormy waters and the tide is low. I'm a courage to let it all go Dance with me when I fall With me when I rise When my gets me down Dance with me when I'm high On top of the world What is burning to the ground

Burning to the ground Burning to the ground Now. Dance with me when I fall With me when I rise Or when life gives me down Dance with me when I'm high On top of the world

Or when it's burning to the ground Burn into the ground Burn into the ground Relax. You don't have to be so stiff with us. Welcome aboard, Mr. Leader. Shut up and get out of here while you still can. Stupid mute, and we're back. Tell me who that was one more time.

Stupid mute. That is Kurt Dimer, actor, musician, rock, singer, songwriter from Cincinnati, Ohio. Trying to see if he was a member of any bands that we know, because I'm sure, no, he's always been a solo performer. Nice. But he's worked with Queensreich and Bon Jovi, Jeff Tate from Queensrach and Phil X from Bon Jovi.

Anyway, this is, that was the song called Dance Brand New Single from Kurt Dimer. Excellent. Check it out wherever you get your music. Yeah. He put out a cover of have a cigar that I have not heard yet. I'm going to have to look for that one. We'll have to go look that one up.

Yes. Let's do this now. We want Tom. We do want Tom and good news. Tom is here. Tom Merritt, the Daily Tech show's own Tom Merritt. joins us on Wednesdays. Talks about tech and anything else he feels like because just that's how easy we are with Tom Merritt.

Tom, welcome back to the show. Have you heard La Serafam's new album? No. How is it? No. Is it good? Really good. Really? Okay.

I liked that I have to, I mean, I'll admit, I'm not on the cutting edge of the K-pop as you are, but my first exposure to them was that BlizzCon performance, and I thought it was good. And it kind of hooked me a little bit, and then I, but I didn't know they had a new album. So thank you once again for being the great ambassador you are for the Korean pop music. You've done it. The title track is called Easy. it's a it's like we make it look easy kind of vibe there's like an afro beats one called smart

yeah it's good it's good stuff nice said i can talk about whatever i want whatever you want you can talk about whatever you whatever you want we trust you yeah we don't give that we don't give that that uh that privilege to everybody but you i appreciate that yeah yeah you've earned it because you you know i'll try to use it responsibly if silly but definitely that's all we can ask really is that you're responsible with what you say here um which is what absolutely Apple does not think Epic is being. Oh, gosh. Yeah. So I heard rumblings of this. I don't know the details. Apparently, this is all on fire again. What's going on there with that conflict?

Yeah. So if you haven't been following it, it is a little intricate to explain the backstory. But the short version is obviously a lot of you know that Epic and Apple had a lawsuit in the United States. That only impacts this story in so much as it's bad blood. And Apple is sort of using it as a justification for its action. today. The other thing to know is in Europe, the Digital Markets Act goes into effect tomorrow. And Apple just published an update to iOS that will allow third-party app stores and therefore third-party apps on iOS. So if you want to have some choice of apps that isn't curated by Apple in the European Union anyway, you can do that. Epic, makers of Fortnite, had said, we're definitely

going to do that. We're going to have a third-party app store for our stuff. It was sort of unclear how much other stuff besides Epic they would allow, but they were going to create a third-party app store and put Fortnite in it, and Fortnite would come back to iOS in the European Union, except Apple has now revoked Epic's developer account, which means they can't create a third-party app store for iOS. Is that just a goof because it already happened and it happened before the rule. It is very much on purpose. Okay.

A lot of them said, yoink, basically. Damn, dude, that's dark. Wow. Essentially, Phil Schiller of Apple on February 23rd sent a letter saying we see your

application to provide a third-party app store for iOS through your developer account. Why should we trust you? Because, remember, prelude to the lawsuit, Epic just put third-party payments in Fortnite on iOS, which was a violation of Apple's agreements. We can argue all day whether Apple's agreements should be legal or not, or whether they're fair or not. But it was a violation of the agreement. And so what Apple's saying

is, in the past, you just flouted our laws, explained to us why we should trust you this time. What assurances can you give that you're going to honor your commitments and not poll something else. Because the CEO of Epic, Tim Sweeney, has been very public on X and elsewhere saying that Apple's way of implementing third-party app stores on iOS is, in fact, pretty bad. He's like, this is rubbish. I can't remember the exact words, but he used not nice words to talk about. He says it's a devious instance of malicious compliance. And so Apple very, you know, reasonably, I think, is like, all right, you're out there trashing our implementation of this. What makes it makes us think you're going to play by the rules when you're saying the rules are fixed?

And to Tim Sweeney's credit, he wrote back a note that said, I absolutely implanned to comply with your rules. You can, you know, let me know what assurances you need and I'll give them to you. Apple didn't respond, they just revoked his developer account, saying the response that he gave was insufficient. You know, because I guess they wanted more details. Maybe they wanted a signed agreement. I don't know what they wanted. But they didn't get back to him and say, that's not enough. They just revoked the developer account. Wow. What a, what a bunch of junior high corporate bit. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, I don't, you know, I get whatever. Phil heard the Tim said. Phil Schiller, dude. I haven't seen Phil Schiller on stage lately. Maybe he's just an angry old fart now

and he just wants to cause trouble and kick dirt. I don't know. But no, that's interesting. It really doesn't seem like that to me. It seems like Apple looks at Epic and says, you're untrustworthy. We're trying to hold the line and keep our control of the platform

as firm as possible. We can have differing beliefs amongst us about how much of that is them wanting to make money off the app store and how much of them is of that is a real concern about security. It's both. You know, it's just the percentage mix that is up for argument. But they're trying to hold that line and they are, I think, reasonably worried that Tim Sweeney is going to try to push that line because Tim Sweeney has said as much. Like, I'm going to try to push that line. Yeah. I think we're probably having heard the end of it,

but it is such a weird fight. And I expect a lot. suit. Yeah, probably. This is what I want out of it. This is what I want and this is not what I'll get, but this is what I want. I want Epic to say, all right, fine. Everything's under the rug. We've solved all our issues. And the reason is because we've committed to make Unreal tournament again and not let it languish. And that's all I care about. So my needs overweigh the needs of Apple, the needs of Epic, the needs of everybody. I would like less Fortnite, more Unreal tournament. Thank you very much, corporate world. I'm sure. I'll get what I want. Well, that's great. We'll talk more about that today. Also, another thing we're going to talk about. I'm preparing for this now, but I'm also waiting for Microsoft to say what they're doing. But today, it'll probably be over by the time this show's over.

But anyway, they're going to do a partner preview for a game showcase today. The reason this matters, they do these all the time. Sony does their state of play. Everybody has their thing. This is Microsoft's first since the big kerfuffle around, are we going to stop making consoles, are we doing just services, you know, and all that back and forth, which turned out to be kind of a fart in the night. It wasn't really that big of a deal, but people are still kind of all eyes on this because this will say something about multi-platform and some other

stuff. So I'm going to talk about that a bunch on today's show. So you're not just going to get amazing tech coverage. You're going to get this really great look at what's happening at Microsoft today. And the only way to do it. You're reading the tea leaves for us. That's right. Exactly. And the leavings of the tea, the little bits at the bottom when you're done. Yeah. Well, those are the leaves. Yeah. Yeah. There are the leaves. Yeah. Because they are the leaves.

The leaves and the leavings. Yeah, the leavings of the leaves. I always think it's people reading the leaves before you make the tea. Like as they're floating in the, oh, before you make the tea. Yeah, like that's the instructions on them. Yeah. Why would you even have the tea then? I don't know.

Just throw some leaves in a cup and say, oh, you're going to die tomorrow. Why waste the time in the hot water and all that? Yeah, you're going to die tomorrow because these leaves are poison. I'm still making the tea for you. I just have this thing, this mix up in my head about tea leaves. Anyway, well, we'll do that today. Daily Tech News show. It's going to be fantastic.

So tune in for that. Tom, anything else going on do you like to mention? Yeah. I've got a special announcement coming tomorrow about a book. It's a book about technology, not a fiction book. So keep an eye out on the GTNS Discord, on X, on Mastodon, threads, wherever. because I'm partnering up with Unbound, whose CEO is Will Harris.

You may or may not know the original Brito. And we are definitely excited to bring a nonfiction tech book your way. And we'll call upon you and hope for your support. So keep an eye out for that tomorrow. Ah, that's awesome. We love Will here. He came to Vegas a couple years ago. It was a riot.

So much fun having him there. Will's the best. He's the best. Well, Karat's on that, and look forward to it. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. You call them Aestatex sometimes, and if you do, well, you know where to follow them on socials. We'll see you soon. Bye.

All right. Brian, it's time. Oh, Nikki Haley bailed out of the race, did she? Yeah. I'm shocked. I'm shocked. She had a snowball's chance in Haley. I like that.

I want to. Yeah, I beat whoever, Huff Poe or whoever. Yeah, who missed out on that headline because Brian just stole your ass or something. All right. That's it for that. Let's get Randy all up in it. Let's introduce him to the world. Well, I mean, he's been here before.

I don't know why I said that that way. Yeah, let's introduce him. Hey, everybody. Hi, this is Randy. You may have heard of him. He's been around for a bit. Okay, let's bring him in and play this here song right here. Well, that's quiet.

Let's fix that. Here you go. Well, what do you recommend? I'll say what I recommend. on streaming services and we all do it. We all saw stuff and then we went, ooh, this must be a thing people see. And so we come on here and we call it recommendals. Nicole's out this week, but we do have Randy Jordan. Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning stream. Allow me to introduce myself. It's Oscars Week and I am watching movies. How are you? Very good. Hey, are you excited.

I've been there, done that, Randy. I know you're excited because you're a big Oscar guy. But are you, I mean, how excited are you? Give us a range here. I 2023 was one of the best years for films in my lifetime like one of one of the four best years for films in my entire lifetime yeah well now I got to know the other three what were they the other three uh 20 okay so 2008 always comes to mind 2008 was just unbelievable good year yeah um I don't know I need to I need to think about before that it's it's I've been around a while yeah you've been around for a bit 84 is real strong um sure something some some some other 99 was good oh 99 might be my other one yeah 99 was big yeah 99 had all kinds of good stuff well uh having me here in 2024 is just a treat so we're going to get straight to the recommendations and we start with brian he's got a clip and an explanation brian what do you got well as a matter of fact uh mine is also a oscar nominee and boy i want you all to pay very close attention when you watch the Oscars this coming Sunday, and you'll see

this movie has absolutely no chance of winning the best picture Oscar, but it's a really good film. Fair enough. Here we go. It's an excellent film. Oh, sorry, I'll play the thing. Do you want you to have something else? Yeah, you know, that's it.

Go. Just go. Okay, here we go. Is he attractive? I think so. He's really masculine in this way that I think is so. Are you attracted to him? I don't think so.

I don't know. I mean, I don't think so. He was just this kid in my head for such a long time. And then he was just this image on my laptop. And now he is a physical person. It's really intense, but I don't think that that's attraction. I think I just missed him a lot. I think I missed soul. Did he miss you?

I think you missed the 12-year-old crybaby. He knew a long time ago. You were a cry-baby? Yeah. Most of the time, he'd have to just stand there and watch me. When is he leaving again? Damn, this is. Yeah, and that's the entire film is exactly like that.

I disagree. I see that you and the boy who cried woof both say that in the chat. I feel like this, there was a lot more to this film. That scene does sum it up. It's, it was a, and there's a lot of Korean in this with some subtitles, so that's why I had to go with like a scene that had a lot of English in it. The movie's called Past Lives. It is a, it's probably the, of all the movies,

in the best picture category, it's the one that was released the earliest. It was released in January of 2023, and so there was a lot of time. I guess that was when it was in Sundance, June, is when it came out for general audiences. But that's pre-Oscar season. And it is good.

Does it belong in the best picture category? No, but it is a good film. I think so. And I think it's got... Tremendous film. Very, very good film. Yeah, a lot of heart, a lot of emotion. And a lot right there,

I mean, you hear Greta Lee, which she's the actress you hear there. You've seen her in Russian Doll. She's basically, she has the party that Natasha Leone keeps waking up in at the start of every day in Russian doll. She's the one who's having the birthday party. Yeah, right, sweet birthday baby, exactly, Dr. Cowan. She's also in a morning show and those are the two big things. And then you also hear John McGarrow, who you might know from Orange is the New Black or Umbrella Academy, the big short.

He's got a very unique voice, a unique sound to his voice, that I really like. He plays her new wife, her new husband. But she's got this kind of relationship, this friendship that was kind of this maybe potential budding relationship based on a date with this guy that she knew. soul, 24 years before the rest of this movie takes place. Sure. She leaves Seoul with her family, ends up in America, and through the magic of Facebook or whatever they call it. I don't think they call it Facebook in this one.

They find each other and start chatting online and rekindling their friendship. And that scene right there, what? really um hit me the most the hardest about that it was it would have been so easy for the screenwriter to say to have her say no i'm not attracted to him and and have that be kind of like this this weird awkward moment of twisted you know uh uh suspiciousness on on both of their parts on the husband's part especially but for her to say i don't think so it it brings in this whole extra level of oh my gosh all right this the fact that you're struggling to know whether you find this guy attractive that um that you haven't seen for 24 years is a very very telling sign

that you need to figure this crap out and deal with it um it uh i found it i found it full of heart and um and sweet again it probably probably doesn't belong in the um best picture category maybe in the screenplay best screenplay category where it is as well but that's about it I think it

it's a good it's a good sweet watch and it's available on Hulu actually it's available on everything I'm seeing it on Paramount I think Paramount plus Hulu and Prime Amazon Prime as well as Hulu

Why is that a that seems nuts to me that it's everywhere There's only one film that you can't really have to pay money to watch that's nominated for multiple Oscars and that's poor things for some reason poor things just came out late enough and was small enough that they didn't feel like getting rushing it to streaming yeah i can't get that anywhere is anatomy of a fall now available because we paid money for that one and uh we we paid the five bucks to rent it which was god that was excellent i was going to recommend that but i

didn't think it was streaming yet um that's right you guys bought or rented it or whatever you did Yeah, so poor things is not even viable digitally? It is viable. You got to spend $20 to watch poor things. Oh, you can't even rent it though. Interesting. I just want to rent it. I don't want to buy it. I don't buy anything. Just wait and stream in about two months.

Yeah, that's true. I want to add one answer to your question earlier, Scott. 1994 is way up there. That's a good year. And years for Oscars. And that was the year of Pulp Fiction and Quiz Show and Forrest Gump and Shawshank Redemption. And you might have forgotten, but like. And three other movies that you named that should have won instead of Forrest Gump.

You might have forgotten it was the year of four weddings and a funeral. Oh, yeah. Okay. That was a good time. Yeah, like, I mean, we remember those years when there's a lot of popular films in the best picture category. and I mean this I feel like this current 2023 was just it's just kind of hard to believe yeah 93 wasn't bad either you had Jurassic Park and Schindler's list the same year you had well that's maybe all we had 93 I'm sure we had other stuff but I don't I don't have as strong a memory of that as I do 94 good good pick all right excellent so you would recommend it go to go to highly recommend it go to any of those streaming services where it's streaming and watch past lives which is some of out about a graphical from the director

Celine Song who probably she should probably should have gotten a director nod I think but yeah not going to win

Best Picture but maybe Best Director could have not going to win Best Picture no All right Randy let's go over

to you I'm recommending the film that is going to win Best Picture it's also going to win best actor

for this tremendous performance as I was looking through the film again to pick a clip, it occurred to me that it's a movie you can watch multiple times because it

rushes at a breakneck pace through its story. And even though it's a very long movie, it never lets off the gas this film. And as a result of that, there are scenes early in the film that are huge portents, huge foreshadowing. And you don't have a chance to catch up and recognize what you're seeing at the beginning, early in the film. So this is, you know, You know, this is early in the film. This is the star of the subject of the movie being introduced to a person who's going to betray him, or at least we think maybe betray him. And you just, you just don't know it when you watch it the first time. All right.

Here we go. Pleasure. This is my little brother, Frank. And this is... Still Jackie. Hello, still Jackie. Chivalier, you're in languages and your reputation precedes you. What have you heard?

That you're teaching a radical new approach to physics. I have no chance of understanding, but I hadn't heard. You were a party member. I'm not. Oh, not yet. Frank and I are thinking of joining just the other day. I support a rage of causes. Spanish Civil War.

A democratic republic being overthrown by fascist thugs. Who wouldn't? Our government. They think that socialism is a bigger threat than fascism. Not for long. Look at what the Nazis are doing to the Jews. I send funds to colleagues in Germany to emigrate. I have to do something.

My own work is so... Abstract. What are you working? What happens to stars when they die? Do the stars die? Well, if they do, they'd cool, then collapse. In fact, the bigger the star, the more violent its demise. Their gravity gets so concentrated, it swallows everything.

Everything, even light. Can that really happen? The math says it can. If we can get published, then perhaps one day an astronomer finds one. But right now, all I have is theory, which can't. can't impact people's lives. Well, that sounds a lot like Oppenheimer to me. Yeah. Yeah. And if you if you've only seen it once and it was last year, you really owe it to

yourself to watch this again before the Oscars, not just because it's nominated for 13 Oscars. It's going to win half of those. Like, it's going to be highly celebrated. But it's such a good movie. God, it is so incredible. It's such an experience. And Christopher Nolan does this, right like if you watch insomnia you're going to be tired the whole movie and if you know what I mean like if you watch this movie if you watch this movie you're going to be constantly thrilled by Oppenheimer's sort of mental state and the movie really takes you into his constant frenetic mental state and it's just it's just tremendous how they how Nolan pulls this off like and everybody like like I say Killian Murphy's winning an Oscar for Best Act

and he deserves it 100%. And, you know, other people in that category also deserve it. But wow, what a, you know, what a, what a masterpiece. What a work by him. I forgot what a, sorry about the slight unrelated note of this, but I forgot how much of a chick in the bucket he was using a film sack term in, uh, Tron legacy. God, no kidding. It's so weird because you see it at the beginning and you thinking, oh, great, awesome.

Yeah, you think it's going to matter later. it doesn't matter at all that he's there he's the son of dillinger he's supposed to be kind of the evil guy in the real world he's nothing it did they don't do shit with it it pissed me off anyway then nothing to do with offenheimer good for him no but it is a it's a good point yeah he'll probably win though I think you're right I haven't even seen Oppenheimer yet and I'm already sure oh please watch it as soon as possible please all right now hanging up on you guys are going to watch the thing I just I can't I just can't I just can't I can't stress how important this film is.

And that's the thing, like, when you talk about these big Oscar years, you're also usually talking about films that, like, everybody saw and they shaped the industry going forward. Yeah. And this is absolutely one of them. It's like I say, it's, it's, it's Nolan at his peak, which is really impressive, that alone, you know, like, it's very, it's like saying Martin Scorsese at his peak, you know, like, what even is that? well here it is he's done it he could he could retire and never do another thing and he is you know in the discussion about the greatest filmmakers of all time because of this movie well yeah that's a hard thing to follow up on right like wouldn't i'd be nervous who does this all the time they'll they don't want to keep trying to top themselves but they keep trying

yeah another another year in that discussion by the way is 2016 because of because of moonlight and manchester by the sea and hell or high water and la la la la land. And the film in there that has really outperformed over the years in our memories is arrival, right? Yeah, yeah. It was, it was a thing. It was nominated. It was good. But then as the years have gone by, it's become, you know, a masterpiece that everybody remembers. And, like, this, with Oppenheimer, like, in the first 30 minutes, you're going to, you're going to realize I'm watching something really special, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm, Yeah, I just got to freaking sit down and watch it.

I don't know why I haven't. You wouldn't think that, by the way, if I just came along and told you, hey, there's this biopic about the man who ran Los Alamos. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of like the story itself is not all that exciting, but he's the right filmmaker for this sort of thing, right? Like, he knows how to squeeze that stuff out of not mundane ideas, but, you know. What I didn't tell you in that simple summary is that it's a,

movie about these two competing narratives of history yeah it's about these two men who are testifying in separate trials sort of they're not actual trials and they are telling you know they're one of them is defending himself and the other one is trying to not be uh connected with uh you know the happenings and it's robert downy juniors part of this is just incredible it is like I don't even know what what do you compare him to Brian like a young Brando or a you know like De Niro like he's like he's it he's on that level he'll get he'll get that supporting don't you guys think he'll probably win that yes oh yeah for sure I mean he had it at the globes and the saguards right yeah there's usually the bellwether for there's a few

locks this year and he's one of them I feel like a spider man across the spider verse for best animated film is like a lock that's a lock I don't even know what else is in the category yeah um actually I do not watch the boy in the her and if you get a chance wow but um but Robert Downey Jr's and credit and it's not just it's not just these two guys everyone in this film um uh forgive me I'm forgetting the name of the genius who plays Kitty Oppenheimer um judge Lawrence Pugh. Oh what's her name No, Florespue plays his mistress. And she's also incredible, but she's got almost no screen time.

Emily Blunt. Emily Blunt. Thank you. Emily Blunt is amazing. Oh, my gosh. You lose all sense of Emily Blunt. So I forgot her name because she becomes this character that was a real person. And then the whole film, I'm like, man, I want more of her.

And then near the end, you get her big turn. And, oh, it's awesome. I don't think I could cheat on Emily Blunt. Even with Florence Pugh? Yeah, I think that would be a hard call for me. I like Florence Pugh a lot, but Emily Blunt is, I don't know, should kick my ass, dude. I don't know what. Should be so, I cannot imagine how mad she would be.

Well, yeah, and vice versa. I don't think I would cheat on Florence Pugh either for that matter. There you go. Either direction is not good. Yeah, exactly. All right. Well, that's awesome. And it's, sorry, who's streaming at Peacock is it?

Peacock. Yeah, it's on. It's on Pacaque. You just have to watch like three minutes of ads at the beginning. So you just put it on and go get a cup of coffee or whatever you drink. That's for free. Yeah, that's the free cock. And then there's the,

you can pay a premium and not have any of that, right? I think. Exactly. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Well, I want to talk to you about things that like I don't want you to try to talk about

before seeing it. Like there's there's twists and turns and there's these moments in this film that are just like, you'll remember your whole. And that's the thing. I sent you a clip of a scene that's just remarkable for the acting and the direction and the editing and so on. And there's so many scenes like that in this movie. And I want to talk about them, especially the very, very end. This movie ends with the most awesome little turn of narrative. And I don't, I don't even want to say who's in it. Just please watch it. Just occurred to me, so Nolan making a movie about a relatively boring subject that has big implications, but kind of a boring subject and making it so exciting no matter how long it is. He did that with Interstellar. It's basically a movie about E equals MC squared. It's about relativity and space time continuum and all that kind of.

That's really all it is, but he does it in such a way that, you know, puts things down on the ground in a very personal way and all that other stuff to make it interesting. I love that kind of stuff. It makes you feel like you're there. It really, and I realize that's a very trite thing to say about movies. But there is an art to the top tier of making you feel like you're there. Dunkirk is incredible in that regard. Oh, Dunkirk was amazing. You really genuinely feel like you're trapped on a beach and you're about to die for hours.

And it's just so, you know, like so, I find it invigorating. I realize there's some people who are going to want that experience. Sure. Sure, sure. I enjoy that. Well, there you go. Our final recommendation this week is something that is still an ongoing thing. It's not done yet.

And normally, we don't like to recommend those until we're kind of sure if things have stuck landings or, you know, a whole series is out or whatever. The case of films, it's easy because it was two hours, but this is a TV show. But it's so good that I couldn't help it. I'm only three into this thing. there's four out now maybe five so i'm still even behind them what's out but it's a miniseries currently airing on fx and showing up on hulu for streaming and here's my clip these people are godless savages or maybe they just don't give you shit what do you think young scheming little pirate why do you believe i'm a pirate you had 20 guns on that sheep 20 guns to defend ourselves

from unlawful portuguese galleons piloted by Spanish dogs We drifted here by accident. We're just merchants hoping to once again cast eyes on our coast of origin. I like your English, I do. All right. Voices you're hearing there are Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorne. We'll see if these names are familiar to anyone yet before I say the title. And the other person talking is an amazing role.

I was going to keep this a secret, but I'm not going to. You know, it's in the credits. Should I cover my ears? I don't know if you're going to, it only mattered Brian. The other reason I made it kind of like sneaky with Brian on our text yesterday is because you're a giant Lost fan and this is someone from Lost and I just thought that was interesting. But anyway, that is Nestor Carbonell. And he is so good as Vasco Rodriguez in this.

A man with permanent eyeliner. Yep, totally. And he is so, he, he, he, in the first five seconds of him, on screen, I went, oh, Emmy time for best supporting right here, this guy. Really? Oh, nice. He's fantastic. That's a strong statement. Yeah, and it's, you know, you're not going to get a ton of him. That's all I'll say about that. But the show is, with the Nolan Batman movies. You're not going to get a ton of Nestor Carbonell, but you'll notice him when you see him. You'll remember him. Right. Always memorable, that guy. He really is, yeah. This is as well back in the old tick days, too. Exactly. This is an adaptation.

Deflater mouse, I figure he was. Yeah. This is a adaptation. of Shogun, currently showing on FX. And it stars, your main stars are Hirooki Sonata, who you know from everything. If you need a Japanese actor that's cool, you hire that guy because he is just your guy. He's amazing. And then this Cosmo Jarvis guy who plays John Blackthorn, the role played famously in 42 years ago by Richard Chamberlain, is this actor who was actually born in the States, raised in Europe. And you've seen him in stuff, but rarely he's, this is a real breakout moment for him. He's having a, he's having a thing here.

This is real good. For those wondering if Scott will bring up the thing I always bring up about Shogun, which is does, does a Japanese warlord pee on him when he arrives there unwanted? The answer is absolutely yes. It's a huge part of the book too or the book so you don't want to. Because it's more than, yeah, it's, it sets, it tries to set up the dynamic for those two. that carries through the rest of the show. Yeah, you kind of have to.

But anyway, it is great so far. Like, I'm talking early seasons, Game of Thrones, Succession, think of other quality things, especially ones that are set in a time period where impeccable costuming, impeccable setting, historically, you know, down to the dirt clod looking real. This should not be missed. And it's not going to be an honest. ongoing series. It's just a, you know, it's like the first one was. It's a mini series. Exactly. It's a mini series. When it's over, it's over. It feels really special so far. It feels like the kind of TV

event kind of thing that I just don't want to miss. If that stuff's interesting to you, if historically, sort of feudal Japan, the incursion of European countries, the trades and all that stuff, piracy, you know, what it means to understand another culture at a time when the clash couldn't have been more culture clashy, then this is totally up your alley. It's great. I love it. As a kid, I watched this either right before or right after reading Frank Miller's excellent Wolverine Limited series, which kind of had a very Shogun vibe.

You know, Logan goes to Japan, meets Yukio, and they have their whole thing. And it was right around the time of watching Shogun who's like, oh, that just totally invested in this. I love it. I love the Gaijin, you know, the American. in Japan kind of thing especially feudal Japan. Very much that vibe and funny enough

Hirouki Sonata was Siebel Iguchi or whatever in or what was his name Shinjin in the Wolverine so he's actually in both these things. Yeah the Silver Samurai. Yeah he's also for those who may not know who he is he was the captain in Sunshine he is in John Wick he is in Mortal Kombat

he played Scorpion. Am I thinking he was also in Lost as Dagan? The In the temple? Oh, maybe that would be amazing. Hold on. What year was that?

He's been working a long time. Let's see. A lot of Japanese stuff pre-2000, so I don't know. Yeah, I can't find it. I don't see him in lost. Might be a different guy. But he's great.

You'll know him if you see him. He's in the MCU. He's the one that had the showdown with Hawkeye, when Hawkeye was Ronan in the street. Oh, right. Yeah. He's just, you know him, you see him, you go.

Lost as Dogen. It's the same guy. So, oh, it is. That is that guy. Sweet. 20, 10, yeah. That's amazing. He was in Westworld, bullet train.

Like I said, end game. Just an amazing actor. I love him. Anyway, he's already, just demand your attention. Everybody's good so far. If you like this shit, you're just going to be so happy. It's so good. So I can't recommend it enough.

I cannot wait to see how it all ends up. I know how it ends because I read the books. way back in there, the book right back in the day, and I know the old series. I don't know if they'll do the same stuff. There's already a difference in tone. Like, this is a much more realistic, um, less 80s TV take on things, but, uh, man, FX is killing it for me. Everything they make seems to be gold. So anyway, check it out. That is Shogun currently showing FX and Hulu. Oh, I'm so excited about it. And I am waiting until the final episode is, is pending, you know, and then we're going to watch, watch as much of it as

possible and try to get through it quickly. I realize 10 hours is, and especially when it's episodic, like, it's really hard to do anything quickly and 10 hour. Yeah. For me, I was like, well, I'll let it pile up a little. I'll check out this first one. And I went, oh, I had to just keep going. Yeah, I couldn't stop.

It was like a problem after that point. So anyway, I can't wait to finish it. It's great. All right. All three of these are going to be up on quicksack. I today. So if you did not follow. It's already up.

Yeah. You can go get it. go link to it go go find the stuff randy having you here it's just been a real pleasure i have a question for uh brian abut go you got any uh oscars categories where you're just really shaky you have no idea who's going to win um you know what you got to be honest i haven't looked at the list uh in a while so um let me pull it up really quick and feel see if there's any uh uh by the way scott to answer your first question you asked me i'm i'm going to be making uh those little smokeies where you put them in the crock pot

with some barbecue sauce. And then I'm going to take flour tortillas from the Mexican market. And I'm going to cut them into quarters. So you can then just pick up a quarter of a flower tortilla and put a couple of little smokies in there. Oh, man. A little portable doggaree tight.

Yeah, that's a doggaree tight. Yeah. Holy shit. I want what you're having. That sounds great. Actress in a leading role? Probably Lily Gladstone. That's, yeah, that was going to be mine. Like the hardest one for me to figure out because you just know that the voters want Emma Stone as well. Yes, for poor things. And I think Annette Benning, Nyad was incredible.

I think that's a, that is, I mean, Jody Foster was amazing. Either one of them could get the Nyad Oscar. Divine Joy Randolph, though, is going to get it for the holdovers for a supporting role. Yes. Cinematography, Oppenheimer. Costume design, Barbie, that's where Barbie's going to really shine, I think. Costume design is another one where I agree with you, but more things is in the running. Also Oppenheimer's in there, isn't it?

Oppenheimer's in there, but that's, I mean, you know, just Salvation Army is your costume design for Ophemer. I guess so. Directing, oh, I would love to see Justine Triet get it for Anatomy of a Fall, but that's easily. Nolan's. Yeah, I would too. And I actually feel like the number two there is Jorgos Lantamos. I am overrating poor things making a surge in the last couple of weeks. Yeah.

But that's just me. A lot of people think that Scorsese is going to get that as sort of like Lifetime Achievement Award. And I don't. Because they're thinking that's his potential last film. Yeah. And I don't think it is. I think that guy's got at least one more in him personally. I think, okay, this is another recommend.

whole society of snow, I'm going to say now that that's going to take international feature film, what used to be the best foreign film. Zone of interest. Because, like, thought of interest is so, it's such a juggernaut among

a film. And zone of interest is a German production? Is it like a foreign? It's a UK submission, but it takes place in, uh, it actually takes place in Auschwitz. Okay. So they, so they can't, that anything outside the states obviously counts for the category. It doesn't matter who. Yes. Yes. And, and,

And it's funny because there was a surprise that France, yeah, France did not submit. I never submit. No, that's not true. They always submit. Ah, we kid, we joke. We love the French. There was a movie. All right, hold on a second.

I got to find it. There was a surprise that, where is it? Anatomy of a Fall was there. Huh. There was another movie that the people were surprised. I guess it might have been Society of the Snow that they were surprised did not get submitted for Best Picture. And I would argue between Society of the Snow and Past Lives, Society of the Snow, which is the new version of the Andy's Plain Crash with the soccer team, cannibalism and stuff. That is such a great movie.

That probably belongs in the... As you know, my argument is that Maestro didn't need to be in that category. Mestro did not need to be. That was my least favorite. of the of the 10 in that list I'll give you I'll give you one more that's just fascinating to me best original screenplay

I actually have three that I just can't figure out like I'm pretty sure anatomy of a fall wins but man holdovers do not be surprised if these Oscar voters are like holdovers for screenplay because they're going to they're not going to give best actor unfortunately to Giomadi

Divine is going to get it for supporting and that's the only other real, real good point for holdovers to kind of have a lock. So I think screenplay could be the place that holdovers. I think voters who love weird screenplays, though, are going to look at past lives real hard in that category. Oh, maybe. Because it's about what's on the page. It is. And it's autobiographical and the voters like that.

People love that stuff, yeah. That's bait. I have no idea. May December was a little, a little, not schlocky, but it was. it was really overwrought sappy was it sappy sappy yeah

I'm excited it's just yeah it's gonna be a fun yeah it's a fun year to celebrate great movies like I always try to talk people down

from the you know the Oscars are about boring little films you never would watch like we're gonna we're gonna have three hours of talking about Barbie you know like come on it'll be all Barbie jokes

and they're doing that thing that I don't know if I mentioned on this show, but something I'm really excited about. They did in 2009. They tried it once. They never did again until this year where all of the major acting and I think best picture and probably the screenplay, the nominees are going to be read by five previous winners for each category. So five people will get up there who've won the category previously, and each one will say,

now let's talk about divine, or let's talk about Robert Downey Jr. And it'll it'll usually be somebody who's kind of worked with them before and can say, oh, man, you know, me and me and Bobby Downey did this. We went to rehab together. Right. Anthony Michael Hall talks about Robert Downey Jr. I'd like what, I mean, what more could you get out of an Oscar show than Billy Eilish performing what was I made for, right? Like that happens to happen.

Yeah. And do we even need any of the other songs in that category? Unfortunately, it's just, it's such a, that, that is the most official lock of the show is what was it made for. Oh, I agree. Maybe they'll medley it with, I'm just Ken. Yeah, maybe. Both of those songs at the same time. And Gosling is going to perform it, too.

Gosling is going to perform. I'm just Ken. And, yeah. Yeah, they've done that before, where if it's two songs from the same movie, they do actually do the medley of them. So, we could see them doing that. Well, her song better win, because it's, it's the only, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the, well, I shouldn't say it's the only thing I like it, but I liked Barbie a lot. I liked Barbie a lot, but I think that song...

But it's one of the things you liked most about. I love that song, yeah. I think it's legitimately an incredibly well-made, cool thing. And I'm not even that... I'm not even like a giant fan of her music, but I think that song is really good. All right, well, there you have it. All available for your fingertips this Sunday.

I guess ABC.com is going to stream it also, so this year you can watch it if you don't have regular TV. Hopefully it's not on Paramount. Plus so that you don't have weird high speed people going up to accept their award moments. No, this is through, that'd be CBS, right? Yeah, this is ABC and they've got, you got two ways. Two ways you can do it. ABC.com, ABC app.

That's it? That's it. Oh, really? So not on Hulu or Disney Plus, I'm surprised, because that's... Because ABC is Disney. Yeah. I don't know. It's not on here.

I guess they... advertising deals or who knows what. I think I'm watching it at a friend's house. We're going, the people that we usually have over, we're going over to their house for this. And I don't know if they have even TiVo and are going to be able to like pause if somebody needs to run out for a bathroom break or something.

It should be interesting to see what that experience is like. Just old school TV, man. Old school terrestrial broadcast. I don't know how they have it set up. You have to watch a Tide commercial or who knows what. I guess that's true of all of them. All right, Randy, thanks for hanging with us, dude. We will see you soon.

Be good. We're done, everybody. Quick note, though. We got a quick text here from somebody that is confusing to me. I need more about this. Yeah. I don't feel like we have enough information, but we got a, somebody sent in a correction. This is from Rocks, R.O.X is his name.

Says correction for TMS 2601. When Brian said total eclipse of the heart was written by Paul Stanley. It was actually written by Paul Simon, who gave it to Paul Stanley as a gift for his 45th birthday. Okay. So, we didn't have a show yesterday. And when that didn't happen, and I saw this in our notes, I decided to listen to what you uploaded for episode 2601. And I heard nothing about any of this. And total eclipse of the heart, I know was written by Meatloaf's buddy Steinman, Jim Steinman, not by either Paul Stanley or Paul Simon. And I even Googled to see if I could find any song that

was written by Paul Simon that was given to Paul Stanley as a gift for his 45th birthday, and I could not find anything. So, rocks, if you're listening, uh, what? Yeah, maybe you're thinking of a different song, must be. Maybe a different podcast you're listening to? Or maybe even, maybe even that because we didn't really bring it up that we know of. I didn't know either. I could not figure this out.

So I knew you would either have the answer or you would agree with me that we don't know what the frick rocks is talking about. I want to rock and roll all night and party every day written by by Paul Simon and given as a gift to Paul Stanley. I don't know. Were they friends? No, I couldn't find anything. I like did a search for quotes Paul Simon and quotes Paul Stanley and could not find a page

that had the two of them interacting other than just lists of greatest songs of the, you know, 70s or something like that and listed both artists on the same page. So, Rocks, tell me, please tell me whatever you're, whatever, whatever. you're thinking about because I this this befuddles me I'm befuddled maybe you sent a text when the when the gummy hit I don't know what's going on anyway let us know we're very curious that is going to do it for today's show there is a link that you can go to they'll give you access to everything we ever talk about do need have stuff whatever it's over at frogpants dot com slash TMS please do that at your leisure Brian we should leave but we can't we need

a song it's a tune yeah we do a tune we don't call them Tunes enough. Let's call it a tune. A tune. How about a tune? The other site you should always keep an eye on is QuicktmS.L. As Scott mentioned, that's where you'll find all of our recommendals and songs played on the show, including this one. Julia H. wrote in, sweet and simple. I'm turning 40 this year, and I want a song to celebrate my birthday. I've been listening since the beginning.

Can I get a fish sandwich with that? Thanks for all the countless hours of entertainment. You can have a couple of them. How about this one? Hey, two are I get a fish sandwich? And then this one. Hey, is it too early to get a fish sandwich? Both excellent.

Both great. Both well done, you know? Love it. She says for her request, anything, I trust Brian. Well, that might be where you're downfall right here. Wow. No, this just surprised nobody. Heard this, came out last week from one of my favorite groups, Scott Bradley's Postmodern Jukebox.

And because it's so awesome, I had to find a way to play it here. I'm playing it here. It's them covering one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite girl groups. Yes, it's The Spice Girls Say You'll Be There, done Andrews Sisters style by Scott Bradley's postmodern jukebox. I'm giving you everything, all that joy can bring this, I swear. Last time that we had this conversation, I decided we should be friends. You got what I need with George's a friend. But now we're going round in circles.

Tell me when the stage of whoever can. Will it ever end? Now you tell me that you're falling in love. Well, I never, ever thought it would be. Who knew, who knew not me. This time. This time. You've got to take it easy, throwing far too much emotions at me.

But any fool can see they're falling I gotta make you understand Make you understand I've given you everything All that toy can bring this I swear And all that I want from you is a promise you will be there If you put two and two together, you would see what our friendship is for. If you had a word of this equation, then I guess I'll have to show you the door.

There is no need to say you love me. It would be better. And left and said, I'm giving you every friend. Thank all that joy can bring this, I swear. Better believe me, and all that I want, all I ask if you tell me you'll be true, just promise you will be there, yeah, I want you. Did, me, yeah, because any fool can see they're falling.

I got to make you understand that I'll give you everything on this, I swear, just promise you'll always be there. I'm giving you everything, yes, every little thing, all the joy you can bring this, I swear, I solemnly, solemnly swear, and all that I want from you, I'll tell you what I want. is a promise that you declare you'll be there. Oh, I've given you everything all that joy can bring. I swear, dilly debop, I swear upon my life, you know I do. And all that I want from you is a promise that you'll be there. Oh, my darling, say you'll be there. Oh