The Morning Stream - TMS 2633: All I Heard Was Spanish Yelling

Episode Date: April 17, 2024

I Don't Give Two Chits About You Meeple. You're Dead, Go Sit In The Corner. Diamond Pants Babies. Showy McShowFace. The Smell Of The Irish. Sorry, It's A Long One. Donny the slack jawed yokel. Bull Scrotum Dice Cup. Grubby Fingered Chiclet. No time for timer. Doing the Top Hat. I thought about tweezers once. Brian Ibbott, Tax Attorney. I don't like cryptocurrenceeeeeeee, with Tom. Book Him Dano, Recommentals with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I don't like cryptocurrency with Tom. Book him, Dano, recommendals with Nicole and Randy, and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Now lie quietly for as long as you want, while I copy both sides of your insurance card. Well, here are some other phrases you want to know if you want to be sure to sound hip in the 90s.

The morning stream, two weeks. There's no such thing as two weeks in the news business. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for the 17th of April, 2024. Scott Johnson here, Brian, a bit there. Good morning. Good morning.

And if you still have not paid your taxes, you're late. You're late in the IRS. will be knocking on your door. I assume some people probably have, not expansions, extensions, you know? Yeah, yeah, I'm probably, you know, exactly. This is this one people were like,

oh my God, I'm never going to be able to pay this thing. Yeah, we did it last year, but it was a screw-up on my accountant's part. It had nothing to do with me. And it costs you money. It's not like a free thing to do. Yeah. Oh, yeah, no, it's exactly.

It's interest and it's, oh, it's just, yeah, don't do that. Don't do that. Don't do that. If you can avoid it. I mean, some people don't have a choice. So do that if you don't have a choice. Do it.

Do what you got to do. Also, if you haven't already done it, you're too late to do it. That's true. You're in trouble if you haven't done it or gotten an extension. Here in the States, I don't know how you other people do it. I'm listening, I'm looking at Zoe saying, oh, I haven't paid my taxes. I don't even, we still haven't established who has cut off dates or is it the same? Oh, you know, until the end of the month.

Yeah, Zoe does. The UK does. Yeah, and you didn't hear it from me. But if you just go to the IRS.gov site and make a payment that you can make and then do so every month. But don't request an extension, you'll be fine. But you didn't hear that from me. No. I didn't hear it.

Everybody else heard it? I didn't hear it. Nobody heard that. Good thing this isn't being recorded. No. No. I'm sure no transcripts of this show will be made available to the federal government. Listen, I paid.

I've paid. I'm good. I'm paid. Back off. Lord knows the internet is not permanent, so don't worry about it. You're good. That's right. Big shout out and congratulations to our old pal, Justin Robert Young and his wife Ashley. They are pregnant and having a baby soon.

In fact, I wonder if I'm allowed to tell. I think people know the gender, right? It's not just me. I talked to him last night and I just realized that maybe I'm not supposed to say. Or maybe it doesn't matter. I don't know. I haven't seen it, but I don't know if that, well, okay, Wabababababag just said that they did announce it. Oh, okay. Well, they're having a girl. And I'm very excited because I'm a big fan of the dad-daughter vibe. It's one of my favorite things in the world. Sorry, Nick. Yeah, sorry, Nick. Sorry, dude. But it actually worked out with him really well because I wanted him to have older sister, sister or sisters, and he got two, who, you know, I don't know. I'd like the feminine. Look after him. Help him out. Help him understand. Help him respect women at a young age, this kind of stuff.

you know yeah and they did they they i think he turned out to be a much sweeter natured kid uh because of his sisters so anyway the point is grats you guys are going to be great parents good job uh to to justin i would say look you knew where to put the thing and get the job done good job on that deal Pedro Pedro went to virginia that's right and then in ashley's case uh enjoy that nine months uh you know you might get a little morning sick or whatever but we're all here for you and we think that's freaking great. Congratulations, everyone. Oh, I went to the future and got some audio.

Congratulations on your new little dependent. Yeah. I got to the, I went to the future so I could hear the baby, and I came back with some audio of their baby. Would you like to hear it? Oh, good. Wow. Amazing.

All right. Yeah, check it out. It's a little unusual for a baby, for a child. That's typical. That's typical. That's just the normal thing. It's how they come out. They come out making that noise.

Yeah. Apologies, you'll hear that later again. I bet you're going to play. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. That's what I thought you were going to play. Oh, that's actually a good idea. I should have done that.

I think what you do is funnier. Way funnier. So here's the deal. We got this, you know, the neighbors that the Tesla neighbors over there that I always talk about? Yeah. They were having some scaffolding work done. And I don't know what it was. They're in a four-story thing.

And something with the. something with the stucco or something. I don't know what's going on. I don't know the details of why these guys were there, but they had a scaffolding thing set up so that these guys could get to the top and do whatever work they're going to do. And he's just having them do it or hired them or whatever.

And that's all well and good. Sometimes you can set that stuff up early and then you come a day or two later and then you do the job and it's no big deal. But what they didn't count on was some excessive wind that we've been having. And we all, Almost this close, really, honestly, from what I could tell, almost had four stories of scaffolding crash into our house.

Oh, my God. So, like, did it, you're not, you're not four stories distant from them, right? So, like, it's not like a toppled from their yard. Did it actually, so it did topple over, but it also blew towards either? Well, it was going to. So we're in a back alley kind of thing with them. So, oh, okay. We're like a kind of Midwest-y.

Anyone in Minnesota, areas like that will know what I'm talking about. But for whatever reason, when they design this whole area I live in, unlike most of the rest of the state, it's kind of designed in this kind of Midwestern style. And so there's like back alleys and garages. Some are out front, summer and back. All the houses are drastically different than the one next to it. It's all on purpose. All design community stuff. And these guys are part of that back alley.

And they're relatively close, even though. they're quite a distance for me to go to their front door and have to go way around the block and over their front door but where their back alley is it's pretty close to us and so like they put their garbage cans on the edge of where my yard ends in the back so it's very close

and if that thing had fallen it's four stories worth of length that it would have gone right through like my bathroom window just I see what you're saying okay wow this thing is swaying out there and we're all like oh shit and Kim and I were you know freaking out and then they came somebody shows up in a truck. I assume the people they're doing the work

and they tied ropes to it and they had two trucks. They had one over here with a rope to it another one over here with another rope to stabilize it and then some poor guy climbed up to the top of that thing. All I heard was Spanish yelling. I didn't hear any English but I heard a guy up on top going just screaming at these other guys and they're

trying to make sure it's okay and the traffic couldn't get through there because the trucks are in the way and all this stuff. So they got it all worked out everything is fine. It didn't fall but I felt like I was inches away from like I had my phone out because I'm thinking this is going to go viral dude this thing's going to crash through my window I'm going to catch it on video I'm going to show it to all my friends

I'm going to put it on the internet it's going to be huge but it didn't happen it's all good no crash that would have been like yeah not just for for live content but also for um you know great for insurance purposes having that video yeah I would have I mean that was my main motivation obviously but of course yes yeah the whole the whole thing freaked us out a little bit but it's all good now get they had done whatever they got done that stuff's all out of there now big thumbs up from

old neighbor johnson up the road here uh brian another one of these because there's something in here i think you'll like yesterday is history today yesterday is history today we're going to look at today's history this day in history and we're going to focus specifically on uh on this in april 17th in music in 1970, Sir Paul McCartney, although I don't think he was Sir yet. That probably happened later. No, no, uh-uh.

Released his first solo album called McCartney. Yeah. Was that album good? Did you like that? I do actually like that. There was this era right after the end of the Beatles, because this is the one with junk and, oh, it's a double song.

It's a, da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. for two. Oh, I know that. I know that melody. Yeah. What else is on that? That's the one with, it's just, it's like you're looking at a bench

with a bunch of apples on it, I think. Yeah. I'm pulling it up right now. Something like that. Was he working with, what's her name yet? Broken, broken something? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he was with Linda during the end of the Beatles.

You see Linda in that whole get-back, Peter Jackson documentary thing. Well, I still haven't watched that. Oh, you need to. good it's you know i will say that it's a good put it on um while you're doing other stuff but but oh it's a yeah okay so it's not a bench with apples it's a bench with little berries in a bowl oh well you were close fruit had fruit close um yeah song number one is the lovely linda um but then oh yeah you get every night junk um god junk is such a great song maybe i'm amazed

oh that song's great man we was man we was lonely man we was lonely man we was lonely So there was the stage right after the end of the Beatles that Paul was not yet cranking out the sing-songy, you know, someone's knocking at the door, somebody's ringing the bell. I hate that stuff. I hate that song. I don't hate it as much as I hate, as much as I hate wonderful Christmas time. But it came from that same sugary gland that Paul McCartney has. that he sometimes uses for his

his songwriting. But, no, this was in such a cool creative phase of his. And, God, it was like this, band on the run, Ram. Yeah, those were, those were some... I always think Baby I'm amazed as a Beatles song.

Obviously, it's not, but I always think it is. Yeah, I know, because it feels, it feels like it is. and it feels like it was recorded at the same time as O'Darland. Oh, darling, please believe, because it has that same kind of vibe to it. Oh, darling, Beatles' song,

but maybe I'm amazed solo, solo McCartney. Yeah, if you sat down and said, hey, here's some trivia. Scott, here are these two songs. Which one is solo? Which one isn't? I'd get them backwards. I'd swap them.

I would think that other one is more McCartney on his own than it is, and it's not. It's Beatles. Also, on this day, April 17th in film and television history, 2011, our first year on the air, by the way, for TMS. Game of Thrones, based on the fantasy novels by George R.R. Martin, premiered on HBO on this day. Oh, really? Wow. That's pretty cool.

That's funny. Like, our first few episodes we were talking about this new television show. Yeah, yeah. And then also, one final note that is important, I guess, in 1492. Christopher Columbus signed a contract. Sailed the ocean blue? Yeah, he sure did. He signed a contract with the Spanish monarchs to find the Indies with a stated goal of converting people to Catholicism. This promises him 10% of all riches found and the governorship of any lands encountered.

Wow. Yeah, 1492, baby. This was interesting. I guess you don't think, you think about him sailing, right? You think about him going out, but you don't think about, like, all the paperwork you have to go through before he could. Oh, it was all a money deal for him. People always think, oh, well, not people. Some people think it's like this mythical, you know, we so glamorized the story of Christopher Columbus and his discovery of things.

But at the end of the day, it's kind of an ass. You know, he was drunk all the time. He's doing this for the money. Yeah. History, man. History. Oh, that's cool. That's really cool.

Hey, Brian, you got a shout out here. I don't know who these people are. I go have a shout out. Yes. So when I went to, we went to the Mammoth game, the final Mammoth game of the season. They didn't, they didn't rank high enough to make it to the playoffs this year, which is the first time in, like, many years they haven't. But the Colorado Mammoth National League lacrosse team had their final game on Friday night, and I was joined, or we met up with another Tadpooler, a guy named Anthony. Those of you watching me build the Millennian Falcon might know that he's a sponsor of those episodes, those that build.

He is super cool for doing that. And he brought his son Malcolm, who's 11, and is one of the coolest kids I've ever met. This guy, he was excitedly watching the game. So Crazy Neighbor and I have a pair of seats, one's sitting right in front of the other because there's a stead of stairs to our left side and then some bars and then a wheelchair section to our right. So basically they didn't have room for a full row, so they just have two

folding seats, one right in front of the other. So I don't have to wrestle with people, elbow, elbow, my shoulder, anything like that. I can kind of stretch out. I can put my legs in the aisle and we're right up on the glass. You've seen my photos of the game. We are, Dave is in front. He can bang on the glass from where he's at.

I'm directly behind him. I can walk a foot and bang on the glass if I want to. But I don't. Of course you wouldn't. Why would you do that? No, why would I do that? Anyway, we met up with them during halftime, Anthony and Malcolm, and had a drink with them, and then proceeded to go back to our seats. We said, do you guys want to sit in our seats?

You want to sit in the front row? And Malcolm was super excited about it, and Anthony was excited about it. So we let them have our seats, and then we took a couple empty seats, a few rows back, or a couple rows back, and watched the second. second half of the game with people against my shoulder and cramped seats where I couldn't stick my leg out into the aisle and that sort of thing. But it's totally fine. Yeah, no, they loved it. He had a great time and it was great getting to meet them. And a big shout out to Malcolm, one of the coolest kids, certainly one of the coolest 11-year-olds I've ever met.

Man, that is the best year to be alive anyway. God, it is. Yeah. I wish I could be 11 again. 11 is awesome man 11's great no puberty yet you're just out there rocking it exactly finding snakes and doing cool shit and it's just like get a little sip of somebody's jameson here drink part of brian's hard seltzer there who knows i mean who knows what it's like being 11 i don't know yeah who knows all that drinking i didn't hand it to him it's not brian's fault come on now i don't do anything nothing there that's great though uh very cool and uh Also, the Tadpoolie feud survey is up, you guys. There's no excuse. Get in there. Go fill it out. It's up.

Tiny.ccc slash tadpool survey. You can capitalize Tadpool and survey, TNS. You can just capitalize the word tadpool. You could go lowercase tadpool survey. But those are your only choices. So just do all lowercase tadpool survey. Tiny.ccc slash tadpool survey and get it filled out. Yeah, get in there.

It's how we get this. Like today, you'll hear a next. example of, you know, your hard work out there with your surveys. That's right. That's right. Let me see, let's see if I've got how many responses I've already got. Probably a good amount. I saw a lot of people talking about it. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, already, yeah, already

up to 65 entries. And it was just, that's just from last night. Oh, this one clearly came from Ireland. I'm going to delete this whole row. Yeah, delete anything that has any the smell of Irish anything. It's got like swears in it and it's complaints and not following any of the directions that I indicate in the questions and just set it on fire just the whole just

put it on fire for the whole thing down that's right turn down sweet take that Ireland uh well anyway that's the thing so tiny dot cc slash tadpool survey tad pool survey get in there now be more than the 65 fill it out and be part of the thing and here all right let me just say it you know one or two funny answers cool you might get them read at the end when we say oh, what other answers did you get? I might read yours. I might, but I might not. And you might have wasted an opportunity

to actually contribute to the game itself by providing a real answer. So, yeah. So make those decisions on your own. But I'd say, there's 32 questions, sorry. It's a long one. I've actually never had to say, sorry, it's a long one before.

Usually it's good. But it's a long survey. So 32 questions? one or two funny answers, fine. 30 funny answers, guess what? You're no Henny Youngman. You're no, you know, the old reference. You're no Don Rickles of getting closer.

You're no John Mullaney. Ah, finally, made it to the century. We're into the modern era now. Man, I just watched a bunch of Don Rickles. I guess I told you, I watched a bunch of Lettons. Yeah, David Letterman, Don Rickles on there. They have an entire, somebody made a compilation of all his visits, and it's just, like, the best stuff from all of them. Just magic.

The guy was amazing. I love it. He was so good. He kept, he was so good at keeping a straight face during all that stuff that you kind of thought he was, that he really hated people. Yeah, yeah. It's a real, it's a hard mix. I don't know how you pull that off.

It's a hard mix. Yeah, I mean, uh, nobody does it quite like he does. Larry David can kind of do that, but nobody can do it like Rickles. Yeah, the problem with Larry David is he's known for being a crackup. He laughs at everything. He's the one that causes most of the, like, if they screw up a scene, uh, according to his castmates.

I saw some interview. If they screw up a scene on Curb, it's him. He's laughing too much. Oh, really? They're always having to have him like, all right, are you okay now? Can we make the, can we do this scene, Larry? Like, he loses his freaking shit. And there are times on that show where you hear him laugh and you realize that is his, it's like his real laugh.

Yeah. And they don't cut it because who knows how many other takes it'd take. I love that. I landed on YouTube on a video from Max. showing the basically the finishing of the last scene of the finale and the guy going, all right, the director going, that's a wrap on this series, the greatest series, comedy series of all time. And it's, you watch Larry David get up like, oh, I'm so glad I'm done with this.

And he's like trying to get off the set. And people are like, you know, Cheryl Hines is like, Larry, I just want to tell you that this has been the most amazing part of my life. and I love you. And Larry just looks like he wants to get out of there. He probably does. All right. Thanks.

I assume that guy is always uncomfortable, you know. I think so. Because this is like when, you know, the regular cameras are off. There's one or two cameras on them for this little documentary. So it's really funny. Just try to get out of there as quickly as possible. They should do a full-blown, like, retrospective documentary, you know, history of Kerr. It's a 20-something year thing.

Like when they start, 99 or 2000 or something, 01, maybe? I think they said something like 20-something years, 25 years or something, 24 years. It's crazy. It's got to be at least 20. Carter, what are you, 26? So that would have been 97. I know, Seinfeld was still on then. Yeah, they show a clip in the finale without giving any spoilers.

They show a clip from one of those early episodes. It might have been one, easily from the first season. And Larry's got kind of dark hair. He's still balding, but he's got this kind of dark hair. And he just is a little skinnier, not a little skinnier, but just built a little bit differently. Oh, yeah. And it's like, God, I can't even remember a time when Larry did not look like the Larry we know today. Yeah, it's weird.

It's pretty weird. Also, he, those old ones were four by three, and they were also filmed with what looked like a freaking news camera. I don't want. Yes. What were they doing, man? It was like, it was, you know, it looked like it was filmed with one of those giant recorders that you put an entire VHS cassette into to record. your program. Yeah, like, it was, it was very poor.

Like a VCR with a lens on it, basically, that you put on your shoulder. Yeah, well, you had better cameras then. Hell, Seinfeld had better cameras, so I don't know what they were doing, but anyway, it's a fantastic show, and I can't wait to consume this final season. Yeah, go watch that final season, and then, and then you'll find the video of, uh, of that uncomfortable Larry getting praise from all of his, oh, yeah, you get, uh, Richard Lewis also Because he was there for the rap

They finished the season He was there for the rap And just watching him talk about You know, I got treated like a king This guy's amazing And I never would have had any of this If it wasn't for Larry David And Larry still was like

Okay great Got to go That's awesome I love it Did you find it, Dr. Calhoun? Thank you He found it, eh? I'll check that out later

That's an Instagram one I wonder if it's the same thing Oh, yeah, that is it. That is it totally it. All right. I'll check it out. Weak, we, we, we, we, we, we, as you can tell, we got a game show to do here, and Brian Dunaway is here to do it with us.

Hi, Brian. How are you? Hi, Scott and Brian. How are you guys doing on this? Hump day. Hump day. Doing all right, man. How about you?

How are you doing? Forget about us for a minute. How are you? I do a much better thank you on Monday. I was struggling. and I had some rotator cuff pain. And so I told my doctor, I said, hey, man, it hurts. And he said, come in, I'll give you a shot.

Like, all right, do it. Stick it. So he did. All right. So I've been riding high on steroid shot since then. Is that a cordon this? Is that a, is that a cortisone shot or what do we got there? What do they do for that?

Yes, it's a cortisone shot. Yeah, yeah, it is stick it right there in the meat. The meat. Were you at all tempted, by the way, to say, Doc, it hurts when I do this just to see if he would do the phrase back and say, well, don't do that.

Yeah, you shouldn't try it. No, because I was in so much pain, I didn't feel like messing around. The only thing I did was when he, yeah, only thing I did was he started looking down his chart and goes, well, there's a couple things I can do,

I can give you a shot, or I can, he was starting in the second sentence of what else he could do. And I was already pulling my shirt off going, stick it in, buddy. Yeah. Stick it right there. I want to see you.

I want to see you rapidly pull your shirt off. That's cool. I've never seen you do that. I was like, let's do it, dude. Yeah, man. Well, uh, he was all like, he must have people who are afraid of needles. I'm not a big fan, but he must have people because he was all like, he was like trying to convince me to get a shot. And I'm like, dude, stick it.

Yeah. Do it. Yeah. Let's go. Well, I'm glad you're feeling better, man. That's the important thing, you know? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't get to stream for two nights this week and at work.

I'd work at computers all day, so I had to be very careful. my arm with the mouse. I got a new ergo, stupid-looking mouse for stupid lame people who have to use them. Whatever. Yeah, whatever. You're like an old man now. It's fine.

Just embrace it. I appreciated my, I appreciated my doctor not calling it what it really is, which is Bersitis. Oh, a rotator cuff thing. Dude, Bersitis,

that has some old school talk right there, that name. Jeez. That's what like, that's what like cowboys got in the old days. We got a case of Bersitis. Oh, hi. Hello.

We got an all right. It's Vro Baby from the chat. Hi, Vro Baby. Welcome to the Tadpoly Feud. How are you? I'm doing great. Oh, that's fantastic. You're our contestant today.

Yeah, we're glad to have you here. Brian, when you want to explain to Vro Baby how this works and what he might win? God, do I have to? Okay, all right. It's time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian will have to pretty good answers that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess.

Bro, baby, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian, if your team wins, you will get a prize package that includes next jump, schmup tactics. Sweet. More fun to play than to say. And the oil blue steam legacy edition.

Nice. Both of those really good. I like a schmup. I like a good schmop. Yeah. I'm all about the schmup. Yeah. Short for shoot them up, you know, and you guys like a shmup. I didn't. I thought it was shoot me ups. Okay. Lots of, lots of hot fireballs coming at you in rapid succession.

You just don't know what to do when that happens. Upgrades as you go along, upgrade to you know 20 missiles at once. Yeah. Yeah. And then die and then go, shit, I've got to start over. I guess I'm not playing this anymore. That's how you do it. This game sucks. Yeah. I'm never playing this again. Big thanks, by the way,

to Kim Quimazabi for his contribution to these games. Oh, very cool. Nice. All right. Let's get going on this thing. Let's give you guys your question. Please put your hands. gently above your buzzers and answer this. We ask 459 Tadpoolers

to name a component you'd find in a popular board game. Scott. The thimble. Sure. Show me the thimble. Surprisingly, number three.

That is so weird. Let me hear that question one more time. You bet. Name a component you'd find. in a popular board game. I'm going to say dice. Weirdo. Show me dice.

Damn it. Yeah, look at that number 153 of the 459 people. I like that you go to Thimble. A third. Actually, an exact third of the people who answer the question answered dice. I don't even like Monopoly. And it's all that came to my head. And you're not the only one.

Yeah. Right. And who, I mean, obviously. a lot of people go for the thimble. It's interesting. It's apparently a piece that people fight over. Yeah, I guess I'll, I guess I'll spend your game called fimbled. Yeah, what are you going to do?

Use that shitty little will barrel or something. That thing sucks. You got to go fumble, man. Anyway, all right, Donoway, it's you and Vro baby. You and Vro baby are, you've got control of the board. Already going into this thing with Scott with three points, Brian, with one point. But really, anything you do will either give you a tire, take the lead, as long as you give an answer here. Give me an answer. What's something

that, name a component you'd find in a popular board game? Bro, baby. What popular component are you thinking? You got one? How about meples? I am meples. That's what I was thinking, too. Meeples. Sure. Show me meeples. There you go. You did exactly what I told you

to do, and you tied things up. Three to three. That was answer number two, meeple. Three to three. Meeples in. Meeples in. Three to three. Yep. We're looking at you, Jesse. You hear that score? Three, two, two. three. All right, you two. Keep going.

For those of you mapping this out on your vision board with red yarn and photographs, the score is now three to three. That's right. Meeples, so I start, at one point in time, I started, I was looking at doing a board game podcast and I was going to call it meeples and chits. Because chits are kind of like the little markers and things you have. Do you think we should do chits or do you think, meeple's pretty obvious because you've got to have your little icon on there,

little people meples to represent your player. I think chits is pretty good. I think that's a good answer. Yeah, what do you think, bro, baby? Got something else? Uh, chits are fine. Chits are fine. Yep.

Yeah. All right. It sounds like, it sounds like Vro baby couldn't give two chits. Yeah, nobody gives a chit. Markers are chits. Do we have it?

Well, what are you saying? You're saying chits? Yeah. Give me the chits. Yeah. Okay, show me, show me chits. Number 12. I thought that was too deep of a

I was worried that might be too deep a cut. No, I'm surprised. He's just out of the running, so, I mean, it's, you know. I'm surprised, honestly. I thought it'd be in there. Because when you think meatballs, you automatically think chits. That's right. Yeah.

I'm going to go with, with cards. Cards, sure. Your, your community chest, your chance out of your favorite game. Your advanced four spaces. Sure. Show me, without saying any more than that. Show me, cards. Yeah, number five.

Got to have your cards. Yeah, how do you not have your cards? They're in everything. How do you not have your cards? In fact, is there anything without cards anymore? It feels like there's not. Um, all right. Um, I mean, uh, hmm, Yatsi.

Oh, yeah, Yotsie, that's true. See? Um, ba, blah, blah, blah. That's all the time, baby. All dice all the time. Do you feel fancy when you get, when you get to play in the Yatsy? You feel fancy with that little, that little cup, that little leather cup on the outside? Did you have, like, nice leather cup or did you get the plastic one?

No, we had a leather one. We had a leather one growing up. Yeah. It was all leather. We didn't even have the furry interior. It was just like a leather. Oh, I had the furry interior. Oh, I had the furry interior. That's always nice. It makes that noise too. It was pretty good. My neighbor has a dice cut made from a bull scrotum. Like it's really furry on the outside, leathery inside. Really furry. It's like mine.

Yeah, it's a, you know, whatever. I'm going to do the thing that's obvious and stupid because it's right there in the name, but let's do board, the board, the board game. Oh, sure, the board. If you got a board game, must be a board. Sure. Yatsy doesn't have one. Show us a board. Number seven, bringing spots to 12. 15. 15 to 3. 15 to 3, Jesse, jerky Jesse out on the road by the lake. All right, let's do, that's interesting.

Some kind of timer, like an hourglass, or I don't know if this is a general thing. I guess I've got to be, do I need to be more specific? probably do, right? Something specific? No, I will tell you that timer, any form of a timer is a timer. I'll say timer. I'll say timer. I'll just do timer. All right. Any form of a timer is a timer. Any form of a timer is the timer. Show me a timer.

Oh! Not time for timer. What? No time for timer. That surprised me. 29, number 29 in the list is the timer. And one person said timer, one person said hourglass. People do not like to be time.

I guess not. You know what? I don't either actually. That's funny because actually it's my least favorite thing in video games or board games. I don't like being timed. So I don't know why I chose that. I should have should have not. All right. You guys back in your court. What are you going to do with that ball? I'm a bro baby and bride.

Yeah. What do you think? Money. I'm going to say money. That's funny. Money. That's what exactly what I was thinking. Money, money. All right. Show me the. Show me the. Money!

You gotta have the money, baby. Get to say that for this. Yeah, number four answer on the board, bringing you guys up to seven. Scott's still leading with 15, but you guys still have control. The fact that Femble is so high up on here makes me think that Monopoly games

are what people are mostly thinking of. Probably comes to mine a lot, I'm guessing. Right. I always think of, there's a couple of mechanics that you can do for movement. We've already done dice. That's number one.

So I don't think like a pop-a-matic, popper thing is. going to be on there, but I do think maybe a will spin, like on life or something or what do you think? Yeah, like that, yeah. All right. A spinner. Give us a spinner. All right. All right. Show me

the spinner. Oh, spinner. Really? 13 on the list right below Chit. So how many votes for that one? Just curious. Seven people said spinner. Oh, all right. Like, so many more people said spinner than timer. Let's say, uh, oh gosh, instructions, I guess.

I don't know. Oh, yeah. My favorite part of any board game, yeah. Board of the instructions. Yep. Show me, show me the how to play guide. Oh, amazingly. This, again, oh, I'm sorry, no, no, two people said rule book.

Okay. All right. So rule book is in there, but, uh, how far do you get in the instructions where you just go, ah, let's just start playing and we'll refer back and try to figure it out? I like the ones that. just have a QR code that take you right to the YouTube page where you can watch a five-minute video on how to play. Yeah, that's the best.

That is a great way. I don't mind consuming them those ways. But when I'm around a table and someone's trying to explain it and we're all just like, let's just play one. Let's get around going, you know? I don't know. It's just a bad thing. Yeah, but you went up with those games where it's like, well, I was going to tell you

earlier when it was your turn that you probably don't want to do that, but you didn't want me to explain the rules of the game. So I didn't explain it to you. So you're dead and you can go sit over there on the corner. Want you the rest of us play. Yeah, you know what? It depends on how much power they have. If they're like a DM-style thing where they could really wreck your day.

Right, exactly. Yeah, that's a good point. All right. Let's you guys again then. No instructions. All right. Well, the fact that Thimble is still left on the board. The fact that Thimble is so high up there, do you think other people might have said either the car or the Scotty dog from Monopoly?

What do you think, bro, baby? I was thinking the car, but then again, they could have just said Game Piece. oh right like your little yeah i mean because meatballs and chis that be too vague that would be too vague why am i helping you i don't want to help you guys technically everything on this list is a game piece what about a what about a score card or something

because a lot of games you've got to keep got to keep score yeah that sounds good but they didn't like timer people don't like mechanics apparently right what do you think or the box that is a universal truth of all board games and car games.

There is a box involved, yeah. Name a component. That sounds like a smart-ass hands me a little quick. I'll say, name a component you'd find in a popular part game. I'll just say, yeah, maybe. Well, there's usually more boxes inside. There could be, yeah, sometimes, yeah. So what do you think?

Scuddy. Gloomhaven. Gloomhaven came with about 45 boxes inside the box. That's true. If anyone wants to buy my copy of Bloomhaven, please hit me up. All right, so what do you think? You think Scotty Dog or? a scorecard. What do you think?

Scorecard, I think. Scorecard. Let's go, scorecard. All right. Show me the scorecard. Son of a bottle. Let's see. Score card. South Carolina education.

At work, baby. Yeah, no scorecard in here at all. Again, surprising, like pad of paper I would have included as a scorecard. thing like that so yeah sure um all right well there's a lot of they're going to be pissed yeah that would suck you got a pencil and no paper on there oh man so here's the deal there are four answers left on the board bro baby right now do not does not have a uh does not have the win but scott if you run these last four questions bro baby gets the prize if not if these carry on to next week and i have a strike left you have two you have one strike left yes lord

Um, all right. Oh, I really don't even know where to go here. All the stuff I thought would be there is not there so far. So let's go with, um, oh, geez, uh, I'll do it. You know what? The top hat. I'm just doing it.

We're just doing it. We're going monopoly. I think people's brains are there. Top hat, that's the one you're going with. If the thimbles on there. Oh, hell no. The Scotty dog and car are the worst, dude. The pot, the way it's people love.

No, they don't. don't love those. They're the worst. They're bad. You're in the wrong part of the world. You don't like, you like things that are bad. Let's, let's do that. Let's do that. All right. Show me the toe fat. Yeah, number six. Gotta think like a Johnson. Are you kidding me? 21 points to seven. Three answers left on the board. We need, uh, need you to get all three for Vro baby to get a prize. All right. Now, now it makes me wonder if these other pieces are there. So I'm going to say, Well, let's do the Scotty Dog Let's put it in there Let's let Dunaway Let's roll the dice in Dunaway's direction Roll the dice All right

Show me the Scotty Dog What is wrong with you people? Scotty Dog was number 15 Surprisingly Yeah Boy, you guys really had a couple of these You talked about Never did anything with

Show me number eight The Pop-O-Matic bubble Are you kidding? That's just dice and a thing. It's just dice and a thing. But it's a thing. It's a separate thing than just dice. It's the bubble, the pop-a-matic bubble.

Show me number nine. Race car. Way more popular than dog. Race car. Race car and top hats say wealth. But Scotty Dog doesn't say wealth. Starkey Dog says we have a dog. Yeah.

Scotty Dog says you have better choices and you made the wrong one is what Scottie Dog says. Of all the dogs you could have. Yeah. No. No, no. And then finally, number 10, didn't even get mentioned, although it came from the same place. Hotel. Oh, shit.

Chat room said hotel a bunch, I think. Wow. This is very heavy monopoly. It is very heavy monopoly. Let's go, and we'll go down the rest of the list because I really love this. Number 11 is shoe. So again, keeping with the other thing. Wow.

Number 14, this is really good because I did combine some answers, battleship. and that was another monopoly piece but then you've also got the battleship from the game Battleship so and people and people said both right people said Battleship Monopoly token and then people said Battleship from Battleship

Surprise I wasn't higher because he had two games going for it. Dog number 15 Queen so the only chess piece to get, no I take that back a couple chess pieces got named but Queen was the most popular of the chess pieces cardboard

It is the box The box Yeah but I didn't want you to I didn't want you to say box Because it's so low on the list Boot Mousetrap The actual mousetrap

Even though really the whole thing Is a mousetrap Train cars from ticket to ride Candlestick Our first clue piece To get mentioned in here The Dark Tower That gorgeous dark tower

That sits in the middle And the board there And spins around And pukes out My favorite Things House If you get your hotel, you got out of a house.

Oh, yeah. Got out of a house. But who likes it? Yeah, nobody likes it. Nobody likes it. Nobody likes it. Letter tile, scrabble piece right there. Token, tweezers.

A little love for operation. Oh, operation. I did think about tweezers once. No, no funny bone, no Adam's rib, no water on the knee, just the tweezers. The only thing really that gets mentioned here. Wheelbarrow, Bandit from Carcassel. on, let's see, buzzer. Buzzer, taboo.

Yeah. Let's see. Chicklets. I don't know. Somebody ran, like, lost their Scotty dog, and then they put a piece of gum in their Monopoly game for a. No, you used to do that. I knew people used to use, you would use chicklets to kind of represent things.

I've done that before. Really? I have never heard of that my entire life that someone used a chicklet in place of a thing. Chiquet. That's wild to me. Children, like in the game of life, you stick them in your little car. Yeah, little pegs, mebles. Hextile.

Oh, yeah. Do you wouldn't say miniatures? We talked about. Did it miniatures end up on there at all? No, no miniatures. I'm shocked by that, given our community. One person said tokens, and I wasn't sure, like, you know, how to break that out and do it. But let's see.

Lead pipe. You have a clue again. Somebody just basically said, Monopoly takes too long. And I think they missed the point of the question. think they took name a component of a video game to be a little bit more ethereal yes right yeah yeah the biggest component of monopolies that it takes too long

let's see I agree by the way Pip didn't know how to deal with that a pip what's a pip a pip I guess it's it's a dot on a on a die but I don't know what else like has an actual physical

pip I just thought of something use what you do and then if you use a chicklets by way in the game, any game. The rule should be whoever loses has to eat these grubby fingered chicklet you've been using all night. He has to chew that guy. All night long for the whole course

of the game. Are you think you're making up rules, of course? That's what you got to do. Is that what you do? All right. Eat the chicklet. Yeah, that's true rules. And then we also have people who said trivial pursuit pies and trivial pursuit wedges. So like the individual wedges and the pie.

The cloves and the bulb, basically. No pictonary, no drawing, no pencil, none of that, eh? No pencil. That's an amazing thing because it feels like I've got so many games that come with a little stupid golf pencil that never comes with a, like, where's the Crayola built-in sharpener for your pencil that you provided

to me, which is useless after the fourth time I've played your game. What is this horse shit they speak of? Yes, exactly. Well done, though, because me, well done me, but bad done, you guys. That means no longer today. And bro, baby, it's been a while, so I feel slightly bad. But not too bad, because we already like you and you're a cool dude, and we're happy to have you around.

How do you feel about your loss? Well, I don't like losing, but in two weeks I'll make it up. All right. Sweet. Oh, are you coming to Vegas? Sweet, dude. Ro baby in Vegas. Yep.

He's going to throw every piece that you guys named at me for making you can play this damn game during the board game of Palooza. I'm very excited about that. Well, it's good to have you on, man. Thanks for joining us. Brian Dunaway, I don't blame you. It's fine. You did fine. It's got, Johnson. Yeah, you did fine today. It was good.

It was good. It was a crapshoot. You never know what the Tapu's going to bring. Sometimes they bring Monopoly. Sometimes they, uh, they don't. Are you excited, uh, are you excited this Friday to talk about roller coaster tycoon on Play Retro? You excited about that? Dude. I have, yes. And once again, I ate a big old, we, we picked a big old, picked a burger this way bigger than my face. Holy crap. There's so much roller coaster Tycoon. I thought it was isolated

and just it existed in 1999 and then 2004 with Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 and I thought it was a bunch of crap that Atari did, which they did. But oh my God, there's an open source version of Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 that allows you to play online with other people and all kinds

of crazy crap. I'm like, oh my God, I've been missing out. Yep. It's a big wide birth to that thing. That's kind of crazy how much there is. So many different ways to play it on your phone, on your tablet, on your steam, on your good games and different versions of it is crazy. Yep. It's one of the

everyone's favorite tycoon style games and we're going to talk about it. That's Friday 1.30 p.m. Mountain Time for Play Retro. Go to frogpants.com slash play retro for details on how to get the podcast. Brian, I would like you to kiss our butts. Damn it. Got us early. Bastard.

All right, we're going to dig a break. When we come back from this break, we're going to spend time with Tom Merritt. We're going to do recommendals. We need a song first. We need a song and this one comes to us which label sent me this one it was Earshot Media Big thanks to Earshot Media

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But then you know It's not like First The person's name And the band Or Mumford and Sons Or Jerry and the Pacemakers That sort of thing

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Right, exactly. Yeah, straight. No, he's like, I guess I'll put the word band after my name. It'll be fine. I'd look like Mike Judge. I'm fine. I wish he actually talked like that. That's the thing that bums me out about Dave Matthews is it's totally. Okay, well, welcome to Cleveland. and we're going to put a show on for you now.

I wish he did too, but he doesn't. He sounds like just a normal-ass guy. It just sounds like a normal-ass guy. Yeah, it's a bummer. Anyway, these guys are from New Jersey, alt-rockers Bobby Mahoney, just signed with Wicked Cool Records, and they have a new album coming out called

Another Deadbeat Summer comes out just in time for Another Deadbeat Summer, June 14th. This is the first single from the album. It's called Empty Passenger Seats. Here is Bobby Mahoney. Is the burning world? Don't you die a little closer

And it's just like me to do these things To manoeuvre myself so perfectly To the crosshairs of our enemies And just like me to do these things And you and me and every past and just seeds You and me and everything waiting any one of me You and me

And if you pass And your sex You and me And everything Staring Staring at the Dushin' Staring at the dashboard off the drown in your home

painful sort of release with nothing next to me Won't you die a little closer You and me and every passenger six You and me and everything waiting anymore be You and me at the passenger six and everything And we were driving straight home from Richmond through the middle of the night

chasing the sun, dreaming of drovins and other things we leave behind. We were driving straight from Richmond through the middle of the night chasing the sun, dreaming about a sign of life beyond the top of mind. You and me and have the passenger sticks You and me and everything we're waiting

You and everything waiting for me You and me at the passenger six And you and me are everything Oh you be in everything You have me in everything You are in the past and justice You are a love to pass and just You have me of your passion just in

You are a love to pass and laughing You are me You and you have me You and you have me You have me and you have me To a train it out We know Weenor

we've returned who was that again it sounds like that cat is about to throw up hey that's the band bobby mahoney from their upcoming album coming out in june another deadbeat summer and a song called empty passenger seats for the record that was a pug not a cat forget the pug okay uh pug is about to throw up then pugs and uh frenchies are effed they are effed i know with their poor little breathing uh i don't know how they do it we've we've made a horrible air by breeding them things the way we did. What have we created, you know? All right, excellent. Let's get Tom in here. He is patiently waiting on his end to join us today. Yeah.

And discuss some things in the tech world. We're going to do that now. We want Tom. We do want Tom. And guess what we're going to get, Tom? Oh, I hear myself. Do you hear me? I hear myself twice.

Oh, now it's going away. No, it's all good now. I don't know what you're talking about, Scott. I don't either, Tom Merritt. It is, it is you. though. It is Tom Merritt. He's here. He's here. We can see you. Yeah, I can prove it. Good. I hear me and everything. Wonderful. Technology is great. We're all about to become surrogate uncles once again with somebody in our, in our community, having babies.

Oh, yeah, I know. Big congratulations to Ashley and Justin, too. Yeah, he did all the hard work. But really more Ashley. No, I'm super excited for both of them. It's great to welcome more Diamond Club the frog pants, diamond pants, babies. Diamond pants babies, yeah. We could use more of those in the world, I can tell you that. Joining the diamond group. Per usual, per ush on the weekly.

Tom comes in here. We talk some tech as he prepares for the daily tech news show. Tom, I wonder what's knocking at your door this fine day. Well, it's power. The lust for power, Scott, that is knocking on my door. And I'm talking, of course, about the need to power data centers. As we expand the use of generative models, everybody loves their chat GPs, their clods, their stability AIs, their mid journeys. But those things run in the cloud for the most part.

And in the cloud, they use a lot of power. There's a lot of estimates, and we'll cover them on DTNS today, but a lot of estimates about how fast this is going to grow. But the upshot is really fast. a lot of people want this we need more data centers and the places that usually are the places you put new data centers like northern virginia northern virginia i don't know if people realize partly because of the government but also aOL is there and a lot of companies are there is one of the biggest data center hubs if not the biggest data center hub on the planet and it is running out of power the the dominion power company has had been advising the government

that it's going to have trouble keeping up with demand, which is driving a lot of companies to look at locating data centers elsewhere. But then that's causing regions like Ireland and Netherlands to go, you know what, we don't want to run out of power. So let's restrict the number of data centers we allow to be built. Singapore, on the other hand, is lifting its moratorium on data centers, saying, okay, we'll take a bunch in. Ohio, Texas, Italy, our places folks are looking at.

But you need water as well as power to run a data center. and Microsoft is among many companies who are looking at the option of building power into the data center so that you're not relying on the local power provider, but instead you're bringing the power in. That can be solar and wind, but Microsoft even hired a director of nuclear power, just, you know, to investigate the option of a little nuclear cell running your data center. Well, there are two things I was going to ask you. One was, do you think that this will push more in? to nuclear power

after we've sort of been skittish about it for so many years. It just feels like that kind of got back Bernard while the rest of the world seemed to invest more in it, but we didn't. We got spooked and so we, you know, three mile island and other things made us go, eh. So maybe our appetite maybe, yeah, that was a big one. Our appetite

may have grown, though, given all this. So maybe, I don't know, what do you think about that? Do you think that's a possibility that we, you know, see more of that development happens? It's really difficult to say, right? obviously what this is going to do is it's going to first cause a lot of people to be anti-AI in this world of outrage you're going to get a lot of people say more power is bad and therefore we should not give them more power and we should stop AI AI is going to ruin the planet the the idea that this will increase fossil fuel power is certainly worth considering but most of the proposals I see involve increasing solar and wind. In a weird way, it's possible that this actually forces companies or forces governments to develop renewable energy faster. One of the problems in rolling out wind and solar for data centers

is the regulatory process is very slow for putting these into place. So it may be necessary to wear safe, make that process more efficient so that you can get wind and solar up faster. It may put some pressure on folks to reconsider nuclear and say, okay, what is the safety record? Can we do it safely? Can we do it in a way that that doesn't cause more problems than it solves? But I think because governments are starting to crack down on CO2 emissions, this won't necessarily directly lead to more fossil fuel burning, although it might. So you got to be careful and say, let's not let it lead to that. And if we don't, it can be a driver for developing clean energy sources, which we all could use.

I don't say that because I'm trying to be Mr. Optimistic, everything's going to be fine. I say that because I know 90% of you are like, this sounds horrible, and I want to say, like, it doesn't have to be. There could be another way to go here. So it's up to us as humans, where we go. Hopefully we're smart about it.

The other question I had was, if, how is I going to put this? Back in the day, well, in the day, When we were first being deluged with information about how Bitcoin and cryptocurrency was taken off. And to some extent, NFTs at the time, and blockchain in general, there was a lot of same talk around that. Like, we're going to have to really increase our capacity because this stuff takes big computing power. And, you know, all these rare to find GPUs are not going to run themselves and blah, blah, blah. Is this worse than that? Or is this the same as that?

Did that ever materialize? Is it all the same, it's all part of the same pie? Like, I don't know. I always felt like the cryptocurrency concerns were overblown because people just didn't like cryptocurrency all flat out. They just thought it was a scam. I thought NFTs were dumb. And like, why would we use any power on them?

The amount of power the cryptocurrency uses now is small in comparison to what the data centers are looking at using. We're talking about, you know, $1 trillion to be spent on data centers over the next couple of years. We're talking about needing to double power use for data centers to 1,000 terawatt hours by 2026, according to the International Energy Agency, if you're going to meet the expected demand. Cryptocurrency seems to have flattened out because Ethereum changed to proof of stake, which is not as energy consumptive as proof of work. Bitcoin still uses proof of work. And proof of work means you have to churn the computer to do the math to.

mint the new coins proof of steak you don't have to do that so that seems to have helped quite a bit uh and also just you know the general calming of interest in cryptocurrency not that it's really declined but you know it finally kind of reached a cruising altitude i feel like uh in in the minds of people you let that level out i found in in what numbers i could dig up that cryptocurrency's power use wasn't as much as the traditional finance uh world's power use so to me it felt like oh a if cryptocurrency ever does take off, it'll just take away power use from the existing financial world, which also uses a lot of power to process your transactions and all of that sort of things. Yeah, that's true.

I think that's still worth keeping an eye on, but it seems to have receded as a concern. And even at its worst, I don't think it was near what these power consumption numbers I'm seeing here are going to be. Do you think that there is a way to offload? well let's look at it this way everybody who's using chat GPT professionally or casually they're doing it from a browser their phone whatever locally

none of that local processing power is being used at all for this like you said it's mostly in the cloud a few things here and there Apple wants to do it all on phone but then we don't know how good their update's going to be blah blah blah so maybe the answer is and I know that the I know the answer to this

because there's no there's money and information and if all of it is being stored locally or being processed locally, then the money's not there. So why would they do that? But do you think there's any hope of that of more like, well, let's use the computer you have to process this stuff.

Let's not be so reliant on the cloud. You're already using your computer. It's already doing energy. You're already using power from your local grid. Like, why not that? Why isn't that an option? Well, my first reaction, I don't really know. This is something I would defer to

to somebody who studies it closely to answer for sure. But my first assumption is you're still using power. So if you are doing the calculations and the AI processing on device, you're also using power. It's not a zero-sum game exactly, but you use more power when you run your machine harder and when you are processing these things, you're running your machine harder.

However, I also think that the, answer will be, there is a limit to what you can do on your device. One of the reasons that you need a data center is because you need these specially tuned tensor processing units, these H-200 processing units from Nvidia, Intel's making these special processing units. So it's just not something you can do on your device at the same quality that you can do it in the cloud. So those are the two things I think is like the first is probably that, you know, to keep the quality level up and make it useful and keep it useful, you need the higher level processing in the cloud. But also, even if you did shift it locally, you're still using energy. So I'm not

sure it saves you anything. Yeah, I'd be curious about like degrees of what the differences would be and stuff. But I don't know, who knows? Ten years from now, we're going to have a really good idea in about ten years what this looks like. And maybe we'll, maybe we'll have huge Simpson's-ass-looking reactors all out in our view of our cities. And that's how we'll do it. Oh, it's the data center. The data center's melting down again. Oh, no. What are you going to do?

Offline until they clean it up. Yeah, I don't know. And 10 years from now, the gap between what your local processor can do and what the data center in the cloud can do might narrow too. And then that might provide some efficiencies by distributing it out. So, you know, you're not, it's worth thinking about because certainly there's a lot of stuff we do on device now that we couldn't do on our local devices because processors have got

more efficient and that does seem like it will continue to happen yep well we'll have to see today we'll talk all about it on the daily tech news show catch it live or catch it in archive form as the podcast if you'd like and i'll be on there as well i'm going to talk a little bit about these leaked specs from the playstation five pro seemingly confirmed because sony did a take down and all this kind of stuff for everybody who was showing it price that effect yeah they're like no you can't say that uh why we can't tell you why i'm like i think we know why but they're gonna they're if If they hold, they are significant bumps, and we'll talk about those and what that means for gamers coming this fall, potentially this fall, although we still

don't have a date. All that and more later. Tom, anything else going on? You'd like to mention? Yeah, just continuing to thank people for supporting the book. We're on our way towards funding, so if you haven't got in on it, you want to get in so you can be the first person to have it and get some of the perks that go with pre-ordering it. The book is called Sinked. It is about all these kinds of things, right? This sort of explaining what's really going on in the technology world so that you can wrap your head around it

and know what you really need to be concerned about and what you don't and answer some basic questions. That is all coming at tom's new book.com. Go check it out there. Nice. Be like Ladies of Leit, aka Nick Holspagg, who has already ordered her book or his book. Yeah. Be like her, jerks. All right, that's it. Tom Merritt, everybody.

Have a good one. We'll see you later today. did his video freeze at some point or was that me it froze when he did the uh when he did the thumbs up which happens to me on discord during d and d but doesn't happen other times like it's really weird i can do it now and it probably won't freeze it must be when that stuff's turned on and then something's funky right there's some other thing yeah because like i'll turn mine off mine's off right and uh and i do it a lot without thinking about it in um in d and d like all right uh you know let's We'll take five minutes while I figure out this other nice rule thing, blah, blah, blah, and then I'll just go, yep, cool, and then I'll get the fireworks behind me, but it'll freeze, and it'll be me dark with, like, the first starting of the fireworks. Oh, devil horns? Does devil horns work? What used to? I'm not, because I turned it up all.

I turned all my shit off because it was driving me crazy. I do thumbs up too often, and it was going off all the time. Is it the hang loose? No, there's something. I don't remember. what it is. Yeah, doesn't like

throwing the birds see if it does anything. I don't think it does. More fireworks. Yeah, more fireworks. Oh, two hands for the devil horns?

Is it doing it? No. Oh, there it is. Oonts, oots, oots, oots, oots, I like that. Yeah, I had to turn that shit off.

It drove me crazy. I couldn't do it. Yeah, because we, we tend to speak a lot with our hands, you and I, and we tend to actually do this stuff.

with thumbs and fingers and hello. Yeah, it's not very gesticulation friendly, you know? Yeah, right, exactly. Let's move on to a little bit of the old recommendals. We're going to bring Nicole, the aforementioned Nicole and Randy into the call. Let's do that now. Let's see here. Pull those guys in here right there.

And we'll do some recommendaling. Yeah. Various sorts. Well, what do you recommend? I recommend stuff. from streaming services. So the people at home who may have those streaming services

can find out about stuff maybe they didn't know as good or available or whatever. Hi, Nicole. How are you? Hi, sorry, I was just making sure my mic worked. Test. I like it.

First words out of her mouth is test. Happy birthday to your husband, by the way. Remind me reminded me that. Yeah, that's awesome. Getting older, but still a whole week. Yeah. Oh, really? That's the overlap.

That's funny. Yeah, I'm his old lady. He's a sexy bastard, that guy. Sexy, sexy beast. That's cool. Speaking of sexy beast, Randy also here. Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning, stream.

What a time for streaming right now. We have such a plethora of treasures. I can't keep up with it. It's overwhelming right now. There's a lot. You never know what to watch, you know? Which is partly why we're here. Yeah, we provide this service for you guys at home.

We're going to start with Brian this week, as we always do. and Brian, like you to maybe explain your clip before I play it? I've been in the mood for this. It'll be no surprise when you hear what it is. But yeah, this is something that when you find yourself running out of the new thing and you want more, you can go back to an old thing and get a different kind of more and make yourself happy. It's not vague at all.

Let's go to the clip. All right, here's more. But yeah, still kicking. Laura, take the others and go release the prisoners. I've missed you, my friend. Good to see you, too, Chuck. Been looking all over for you. Have you?

I knew you'd be waking up at the Institute soon. But the last time I checked, you were already gone. Hope you weren't on your own for long. I wasn't. Your fight against the machines are spawned to devoted followers. It's been my pleasure to join them. They're a good crew. Still missed the old one, though.

And I as well. What happened, Logan? When our last communication was cut off, you told me Gene had been taken. Yeah, I couldn't get her back. And then... And then we were at war, and it was all over so fast. What went wrong? Where was the flaw in our plan?

Me. But there's a chance I can fix it. that. Shing, shing, shing. Snick. Is this fallout? It is not.

It's not fallout. Whoa. It's not fallout. I mean, it sounded like when you said the Institute, and that's part of fallout. Is it four? Yeah, there is an institute thing in there.

No, this is freaking X-Men. Gene Gray and Wolverine and it's great. That's right. Charles, Chuck, Chuck, Chuck Xavier. Yeah, this is Wolverine and the X-Men. This is an animated series that came out

after the end of the X-Men 90s series is the fourth version, fourth animated adaptation of the X-Men characters. But this one starts out with a huge psychic attack that leaves Gene Gray missing and Charles Xavier in a coma. And, but you do get, like, this is a series that I think at the time people are like, yeah, it's not as good as the X-Men. 90s series, which is true, but going back to it, I like it a lot more now than I did back then.

This was Nickelodeon's release. It's now owned by Disney and, of course, is available on Disney Plus, but you get a lot of the same, you get a lot of the actual storylines, a lot of Genosha, the Sentinels, the Hellfire Club, the, you get X23, you heard Logan there talking to, uh laura laura x23 you get some characters in here the stepford cuckoos you get um there are cuckoo's stepford cuckus you get a bunch of other characters and you get some of the voice actors that you know from the x-men 97 reboot uh jennifer hale who took over as jean gray for this is now your current jean gray in the x-men 97 series uh leo mo brian uh the voice of angel and archangel

a Nightcrawler and Nitro for this series. So you hear a bunch of him. Fred Tadishore as a Beast, Hulk, a bunch of characters. You're hearing Steve Bloom there as Wolverine. He wasn't your X-Men 90s Wolverine, but they used Steve Bloom a ton since then for things like the Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Superhero Show, Squad Show.

And then a lot of the video games, Marvel versus Capcom, Ultimate Marvel X-Men Destiny, like a bunch of the video games. That dude's in everything, man. He is a busy dude. Are you watching X-Men 97? Oh, I absolutely am. Yes. Okay.

So the only thing I know about this is the TikTok that I saw of a girl crying saying, stop. All I know about X-Men 97 thing from last week's episode. Okay. Because she was like, just stop. Yeah. What you're saying. you're saying X-Men, the animated series, is the thing to go watch,

because there's only like six episodes of 97. Correct. When I'm not saying the X-Men 90s series, I'm saying it's a series called Wolverine and the X-Men. There are 26 episodes of the Wolverine and the X-Men. This was a Nickelodeon series. So a longer one than your typical like 12-episode season. Do they use the sound?

They use the intro of the same music or no? No, they have their own, and it's a lot more, it's a lot more dark. The, the sentinels and the anti-mutant hysteria is kind of at a peak in this series. It comes in as a peak. So they've got this thing called the MRD, the mutant something division mutant. They just keep talking about the MRD, I can't remember what it actually stands for. A mutant response division, which is a government organization to capture. detain mutants.

So, you know, as you're going through and watching the X-Men 97 series and you're like, oh, I want more. And I've already seen all the X-Men, the original X-Men 90s episodes, go to this one. Go to Wolverine and the X-Men. I think it's far better than X-Men Evolutions, which I think was them all as high school students. I hated that show. That one sucked so bad.

It was bad. So really, like, you know, your choices, go to this one, Wolverine and the X-Men. It's not that it couldn't have been good That was just terribly done It was just bad It was just terribly done Yeah Kitty pride is a very prominent role

Rogue is a lot more like The Anapaquin Rogue than the Hey Sugar You love to eat some of your Benyais Gambit You don't need that stuff You know You get more of a regular

The Anapaquin rogue But you get everybody you'd won in this thing Oh this like This kind of goes into what the X-Men in the late 90s and 2000s, you had Emma Frost, the white queen, show up

at the X-Men's door and become a member of the team and become even romantically linked with Scott for a little while. And who knows if we're going to get that in the X-Men 97 series, but you do get that in this one. Colossus, Ice Man, Kitty Pride, Angel. I mean, you get all the characters that you'd want in this thing. And there's plenty of Charles

Xavier, even though he's in a coma, you get the days of future past, Charles Xavier, because they cut to the future in some of these episodes for storylines, and you see kind of like this future group of X-Men with Domino and Helion and Merro, who are all working with Professor Xavier in the future. That's right. That's great. I never saw this one. I knew it existed.

It didn't last long, so I just didn't know if it was. you know worth getting you know what i i also watch an episode of that uh silver surfer thing you talked about the other day yes what you think also good it's fun i like it's surprisingly good and it's like you know it feels clunky animation style but the stories are great for the silver surfer thing and it's you know i agree it's uh it's almost weirdly a throwback to 80s stuff i love like you know thunder cats and yeah there's a real vibe of that but also the you know there's an adherence to story and character that's really good. I think that show should have lasted longer.

Yeah, totally got a humanoids, like the old humanoids vibe from the Silver Surfer cartoon. Yeah, I liked it. So that's worth going to it too. Yeah, you get Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, who are Magneto's children,

as they are in the comic books. And there's Lorna Dane Polaris, who's another child of Magneto. Yeah, it's worth checking out. This is a good, this is, this is good um not substitute but while you're waiting for each new episode of uh the x-men 97 series this is a good thing to catch up on and get some other uh great x-men storylines nice check it out and streaming where again disney has it streaming on disney plus okay yeah cool that's good um

all right Nicole let's do you next uh give us a little setup here what do you got here I just want you to watch it I just want you to watch it All right You don't have to if you don't want to It's streaming on Netflix Well this will be a really short segment If that's how you say about it

Play a blip of the clip For like one second I just I didn't know a lot So I didn't know a lot going into the movie I'm glad I did that It's based off a book It's emotional

But it's wonderful And it's sci-fi All right So there you go I'm in I've been curious about this So on the reviews have been kind of poop, but I'm happy to hear it's, you know, it affected you in this way because now I think I may watch it. Anyway, here it is. On behalf of the Eurospace program, 189 days into your solo journey.

Commander Prohatska, how are you feeling? What I'm doing is for everyone back home, and that makes me very proud. and your wife, Lenka, of course. I'm sure she's looking forward to having your home sick and found. He's not doing well. He misses his wife. And he shouldn't have left. Okay.

Oh, my gosh. So I'm looking at the cast. So you first heard Isabella Rosalini. I did not realize that, from the Big Bang Theory, Raj. Is it this? Oh, really? Interesting. Okay.

Paul Dano. And one of my favorite actors, a lot of people don't like them. I love his drama roles, Adam Sandler. It's called Space Man. And it's on Netflix right now. Yeah. Oh. I love, I love drama, Adam Sandler.

Like, Punch, Drunk, and Raina or Me and Shortcuts. Senglish, I love, I love Spanglish. What was the diamond one? that was yeah something quick oh uncut uncut gems yeah what a movie dude that thing tore me a butthole that movie anyway so um

so you never get the you never get the Adam Sandler the oh I'm making space oh no I love him too I love Billy Madison but you don't get that in this movie right you don't get any of no oh I'm stuck out here in space like that okay good good this is the kind of movie that you watch and you go, did he think all that up?

Because he's alone for 190 days in space. He's on a journey to find out with this nebula, this purple nebula that's been above Earth for four years. And so it's like this whole thing that the different countries are trying to get to it first to study it. So he is a one-man solo journey to this kind of place, and it's about self-discovery, it's being alone in your thoughts, it's how we as humans cope. It's a very, I mean, you can, on the surface, you could just watch it and go, okay, that was a space movie and his interaction with an alien, right? but it's it's definitely more than that especially if you want to kind of go inward into a deeper thought of a movie

but it is a sci-fi movie it's a space movie so yeah um it did cry it was a very emotional movie at the end and and i was like i can't believe i'm crying over it wow all right Sounds good. Like, big recommend from you then. I really enjoyed it. I had no idea what to expect from it. I don't want to tell you much more about it. There must be some good twists here.

Yeah. Well, yeah, it's weird. It's weird. So Paul Dano is also in it. And I didn't realize that until the end. It feels like he's in everything now. Yeah, he's got a good agent. Yeah.

Very good agent. I think he's just in the band. I think everybody's like, we need a weird dude. Can we get Paul Dano? Okay, great. I was going to say there's a weird one scene where I swear I saw Ann Hage. And I look, I'm looking in the cast and it doesn't show her. But I swear Isabella Roslini was talking to Anne Hache.

Be hard to do. Well, I wonder if it was filmed before she died. Oh, could have. Usually you find like a, even if something's a cameo, uncredited 90B. It's still be posthumous credit. Yeah. The scuttlebut on this movie was that it was made years ago and the first test audiences that looked at it hated it. And so they spent like three years in reshoots and rewrites and extra stuff to edit it into something good.

Yeah. I like they did it for Nicole. Makes me happy. I liked it. Yeah, I liked it. It was, it's like, it's one of those weird movies that I find that I'm, I'm the only one that wants to watch in the household. Yeah.

So it's thought-provoking. It's about, you know, our humanity and us as tiny human. Yep. And how we think. Insignificant little blue dot that we live on. Yep. Excellent. I'm glad you kept it vague because I'm curious about this too.

And I'm just hearing that it's like recommended, but no more doesn't need, we don't need to know any more about it. and that is kind of all I need. Awesome. There you go. Do we get plenty of Carrie Mulligan? I like her so much. Yeah. So Carrie Mulligan is his wife, Lanka, and you go along

it's a relationship story. It's a love story. It's connecting with another human, being vulnerable in space. Vulnerable in space. Well, I love it. her too she's great looks like she uh cool i didn't like her role in saltburn because saltburn disturbed me but it's not her fault i just read about that yeah you're good you're good you don't

need to watch it i don't think i'll just think of her as promising young woman and that's all i need good enough uh all right let's get to randies randy your pick this week tell us about it yeah let's go fun i'm i'm having fun with uh new season of a TV show that I've recommended before and it is also about relationships but it's about relationships among people who are sort of out of sorts

in life. You're going to hear a couple of flatmates who are having a little dance party and a third person walks in. All right. It sounds like a start of a good joke or a good drama. Either way, here it is. It's a joke. Wait, why are you happy?

Well, I shouldn't I be? Boom. You don't remember last night? No. I've got too drunk and blacked out. You kept turning back time to try and stop me from breaking up with you. Well, she did anyway. Well, that rings a bell.

I think we should break up. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, it's all coming back to me. No, no, no, no, unring the bell. Unring the bell. Don't be sad. Look, Gordon gave Jen his cum money for the clinic. And Jisler and I are a couple. A couple of what? A couple. A couple, couple, a romantic pairing.

What? I know. It is adorable. It's gross. Isn't that illegal? You can't fuck your cat. Hey, no. He's a man that can turn into a cat. Not a cat that turns into a man. It's totally different, right? I have no idea what this is. And Jislord and I are totally a couple is my favorite line from that episode.

That is, we're on to season two of Extraordinary. And I recommend it season one when it came out last year, a year and a half ago. it is just never nonstop funny and weird and fun and I just I need you to watch this it's a it's a world where everyone gets a superpower of some kind when they become an adult yeah except our main character for some reason hasn't figured out what hers is and uh that's the the fun of their world they live in is figuring out what your superpower is right some of some of them are sometimes they're great yeah sometimes they're horrible yeah and uh yeah uh the the mention of uh someone's come money is just the result of their superpower being that they can touch someone and make them have an orgasm so they make money doing that it's it is really weird it's way out there like this is this is what you've what you've always hoped for in terms of wild comedy you know who's streaming this where is this it's on hulu and uh disney plus which i guess is now the same thing

got to figure this out guys right no don't make me change all my icons again disney yeah i think you're i need to i need to pay for him separately like an idiot i need to do the combo i don't know why i don't i'd save money i don't know what i do too i need to look into that i'm yeah i'm doing the combo and i threw max in there as well and i don't even know what else i get as part of that it's like what am i paying for yeah what are you doing there disney uh with your freaking weird It's everyday people, and they're just living their lives, and it's very, very funny. And that's what you want. You want extraordinary when you need to laugh.

Yeah, that's what you do. It's what you need when you need it. What was the name of the show again? Someone's answering in the chat? Extraordinary. Extraordinary. And we're in season two? I wish it had a different name because I watched the first season, and I completely forgot about it,

even though I loved the show. so it's a very forget it's a forgettable name of a show title yeah yeah if only it was called i don't know uh jizz lord and the girl i don't know what to call it's lord and the girl i don't know what to be called but that would be better yeah is the character actually called jizz lord that is yes yes and there's there's a whole explanation i the thing about this is it it's so serious about the ridiculousness and that's why like Scott you once told me that your favorite comedy is when earnest people don't realize they're being funny yeah you know and this is like this is that exactly yeah I like that I am I'm all in then I don't know why someone's talked about the show before

and I just didn't want this in with um I did was it you okay okay yeah yeah yeah I lump this in with I am not okay with this is kind of like the the feel of it maybe a little this is a little bit more comedic, but kind of in that same, that same non-comic bookie superhero world, which are a super, super power world. The fact that we're never going to get a sequel to that pisses me off. I'm not a sequel to the second sequel to the second season. I still need to watch. I am not okay

with this. I really, I promise I'm going to watch this. I love that so much, and now I mean, don't let it stop you that they're done, but they shouldn't be done. They should do more. Makes me mad. It's a little series. It just deserved a better, better chance. All right. Excellent. Yeah, boo is right. That's extraordinary. Now let me tell you about something I found to be rather extraordinary. And that is a TV show currently on Amazon Prime that everybody can't shut up about it.

This probably seems obvious to most of you, but I binge the whole thing because it all came out at once. And I loved it. Here is my clip. Well, I tell you what, boys. Whenever somebody says they do one last job, it usually means their heart's not in it. Or you wouldn't happen to be a doctor, would you? Because I happen to be looking for it. All right. Very short clip. It is Fallout on Prime. It is a series that is put together or executive produced anyway by Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan's brother, whose previous project was Westworld, which was also a thing speaking of things cut short. He still wants to go back and finish that. But anyway, this is him and his wife producing their next big thing. Todd Howard over at Bethesda is also a co-producer on this. So they've got direct involvement from the creators of the

modern games um it is a lot of justified people in this tons of just it's like a justified reunion at least at least at least three people are justified alums they're also a ton maximus is oh i didn't know he was on justified what'd he do on there he was the he was the um he did the barbecue no that's not maximus you're talking you're thinking of um you're thinking of the first episode and it's the guy that played lime lime house That's not him. He's the guy from, he's the dude from, um, Forrest Gump that was the Bubba Gump shrimp. Yeah, he's the one that I want this kind of shrimp, this kind of shrimp.

Remember that, that whole scene on the bus or whatever? That's that guy. Maximus is like young. That guy's like 23. Anyway, uh, this movie stars Ella Pernell. You probably know her most recently, uh, especially Brian. I think he's a big fan of, uh, of, uh, yellow jackets. She was.

Oh, yeah. young um who's the yellow jackets girl uh yeah um right the main uh young teen jacky the character jacky yes right okay i did not finish that show yeah that's lucy she plays your main character her eyeballs are so big oh she hasn't she has insane eyeballs thank god her eyeballs freak me out they're almost this is an elita battle angel like they're not cg i using cgai to make her eyes bigger for no in fact she should be oh my god it does remind me of elita yeah she should be in that next movie and just take over the role and be herself. I mean, they're beautiful

eyes, but she's, they're just so enormous. Anyway, it's her, it's Aaron Moulton, who plays Maximus. It's Walton Goggins in the role of Cooper Howard. The most important thing here is his character. And it's not because of how it's written. It's because

Walton Goggins steals every scene he's in and steals it wholesale. He's so good in this. It is the show. pretty much. I mean, there are a lot of other great things in it. Don't get me wrong, but everything complements what he brings to it, in my opinion. And I loved his whole art. Everything about his story is amazing. I won't say much else because I want people to experience

the movie or the show for themselves. They very deftly made a great adaptation for a video game. And I think this is the reason why the world, the references, the stuff in it, tons of things in it. If you played any of those games, you're going to go, oh, you're going to be pointing out of constantly. Like, oh my gosh, they said the thing. They showed the thing. They did the thing. So all the game references are there. But what this thing does is it sets a story in a world that we know the world.

And that's good. The familiarity is good. But they're telling us a story we don't know yet. And with characters we've never met. So this isn't them trying to say, do the story of Fallout 3. This isn't the story of Fallout 1 even. They're not doing that. They're just saying, here's the backdrop.

Here's a story in that backdrop. And the backdrop is 100%. percent fan service for the game. No question. Everything about it. The way the vaults work, all their suits, the way the wasteland works, who ghouls are, like all this stuff. Even the phrases like war, war, it never, war never changes. You know, like these, these phrases that come out of that game, the music that you're familiar with the game like that. I don't want to sit the world on fire and what's the one with the big sidearm. I can't think of the name of the damn thing. Anyway. The music is such a key part of the world. Oh, it's huge.

it's absolutely huge oh really cool yeah and they do it they nail that stuff they nail the tone of it they get it all right it is violent not for kids at all um i loved every second of it steals every scene he's ever been in in any show uh matt berry oh yeah matt berry oh is he in this too nice excellent his role is a weird one but he's in it in two different ways i don't give away why that is um moses arius i think is how you say his name he plays the younger brother of Lucy named Norm. People know him from some like Nickelodeon stuff. I don't, I didn't know

him prior to this. He was Juan Pablo and Nacho Libre. Oh, that's right. Yeah. It's an Ender's game, I think, King of Staten Island more recently. Anyway, he's a little short guy and that's important, I think, because his portrayal is so good. He's, as far

as I'm concerned, it's him and Walt Walton Goggins that are the most compelling things in this in this entire thing. Everyone's great, but they're just very important corners stones to the way this story plays out and i loved every damn second of it i want to watch it again i think i'm gonna with kim because she couldn't watch it while she's out of town and uh i will enjoy it also the second time expect some humor it's not all super serious that kind of stuff it's still that's the other question was all right is this something i watch with tina or is this something

i watch uh when she's sleeping how does she feel about shotguns that take entire heads off she actually told me when we before we got married that that's one of her favorite things so i'm glad did Tina watch three body problem she did and she liked it okay because there's some like pretty gory gore in there too some parallel there is yeah yeah this thing is yeah she doesn't like she doesn't like john wick level of violence and gore but she you know she liked the last of us okay i would argue that this one is this one is this one is more like a lot of the gore is at times that it feels like you do when you watch the gore in the boys it's shocking often humorous often out of nowhere often ridiculous but also like

geez did he just do that thing to him that I thought he did but it's also not as constant it's not as every five minutes the way it is in frequent okay all right yeah they should love it It's spread out. Go ahead. I think in the fallout world, it's also mysterious. The thing that I like that this show is captured is like just the mysteriousness of the vaults. Like, what's really going on in that vault? You know something weird is, but you don't know what, but you're going to find out.

Yeah. They said there's game of, some of the chat says game of Thrones level sexy, sexy. No, it's not like that. There are, there's a couple of things, but it ain't even, it's not even close to that. Game of Thrones set new record. I think she would like it. Not boys. Not boys level sexy sexy. No. Not even Gen V level sexy.

It's like it's still, you know, a lot of adult themes. I wouldn't recommend this for kids at all. But I think it's some of the best swagger you're ever going to get out of Walton Goggins. I absolutely loved his character. I'm obsessed with his character. It's so good. And yeah, I mean, everyone's seeing this anyway. So I'm not here to change anyone's mind.

you either know you're going to want to see it or not. But I do think if you like good storytelling and you like good genre storytelling and that sort of thing, you don't need to be a fan of the games or even experience those to enjoy this. And that's why I think it's such an achievement. Most of the time, I think Last of Us is also very good at this. That show can be watched by anybody.

You don't need to play the game. This is a case of that as well. And I think this is now, we have two of these now where that proof is out there. You can make amazing adaptations to video games. Don't be afraid of it. Just tell a great story in the world that some people love and know because other people who don't have any idea are still going to enjoy it because you didn't spend so much time on the game part. And this is great about that. I would say we have

more than two. Like I don't think you need to know anything to enjoy Arcane or the Witcher. That's true. The Witcher is more like the books though and less like the game. But yeah, it's a good point. Arcane especially, though. That's a great. example. Oh, Arcane is good. Yeah, Arcane's amazing. You don't need to know a thing about League of Legends to enjoy Arcane. In fact, I think it's more enjoyable if you don't. What are we thinking about borderlands? I have real concerns just because it's Eli Roth, but... It looks like... It may be bad. I don't know. I'll wait and see because I'm a wait and see guy, but I don't... I've never liked an Eli Roth movie, so they have a lot to prove to me. And if they do great, I'll be thrilled. But I, you know,

I'm not holding out a lot of hope for that one. So... Anyway, on Prime, permanently, because it's theirs, and season 2 can't come quick enough. They hinted a thing at the end of this that I know it's fan service as hell, and I know I'm the prime target for it, but it worked on me so hard core. Nicole, you played it so you know what I'm talking about, but don't give it away, but there's something at the end. Do you think? Yeah. So I've only watched one episode. I finally got it.

Oh, then you, okay. I thought you saw the whole thing. Because you claimed it in our chat. I was like, damn it. that's why I did it I finished Alan Wake 2 I was what I wanted to finish Alan Wake 2 before starting it so I I finished Alan Wake 2 this week and then I started on fallout well you're gonna you're gonna love it and keep an eye out for that thing they show in the final scene because I wanted to I did want to ask you do you think this will bring people to the games

yes already already is right now already is they have sales they have all kinds of stuff so So Fallout 76, Fallout 4 and Fallout New Vegas, and there was one other one maybe, 03, are all either on sale or some kind of promotion. But also, even before the sale happened, all of them were like in Steam's top 10 concurrent player lists out of nowhere because of the show. So they're all having this moment. Next week, there's a big Fallout 4 next gen patch that makes it faster on consoles, adds a bunch of stuff to the PC version.

So they're taking advantage of it. but the only thing it would be better is if they had five like in the wings and are ready to go. That would be amazing. That's what I want. But I'll play four again.

I freaking love four. It's one of my favorites. And 76 deserves to be looked at. 76 is in great shape. I hear New Vegas is the one if I, you know, this is the one I need to jump into if I'm going to play it.

New Vegas is maybe the, you've never played New Vegas. I have never played New Vegas. I know. I'm one of the greatest RPAs. You know, Veronica did voice acting for the old world blues DLC of that.

She sure did. Oh, really? Yeah. Is she complaining about the rules of the game while I play it? Oh, that's a deep cut for some. That's a deep cut. Five people in our streaming audience got that. That also has a bunch of Liam O'Brien's got a ton of Felicia days, and it's got a lot of people we like.

But anyway, yeah, no, that one's amazing, but it looks like shit, Brian. Just be warned. It looks like shit. It's old. Okay. It's old. Yeah, I just looked up when I. played New Vegas because the ladies of elite told me to. And, uh, 13 years ago. Yeah. And the game

came out in 20, 2008 after having Mateo. Yeah. But this 08, man. I mean, I'm not saying 08's that long ago, but it's pretty long ago. And we're, we're creeping up on 20 years. You can definitely tell a difference. Yeah. It's a big difference. Fallout 4 looks beautiful still. And so does 76. So the newer games are also awesome. Uh, well, anyway, go see it. It's out there now. It's freaking fantastic. Can't recommend it enough. All of these will be on QuickTMS.L.I. They're already there, so go check it out and make your streaming plans known. Nicole, it's been good to have you here.

I'm going to see your space movie now. You did it. You convinced me. Well done. I can't wait to cry. I'll make Carter watch it. Let me know. Let me know. Yes, Carter would love it, I think. I like making her woo-hoo in movies. Hey, Carter, I found a movie that won't make you cry at all, I swear. Yep, I'll let you know.

Randy, also great talking to you. What are we doing for FilmSack this week? We should tell people. It's super fuzz. We're watching old movie no one's ever seen. You got 50 bucks. Love it. Yeah, can't wait.

Very, very excited. Tune in on, yeah, go ahead. Before you cut me off, I just want to. Oh, he cut himself off. That's what he did there. Very funny. I just opened up on my PC, just opened up Steam, Library, Fallout 4. last played November 11th, 2015. Playtime, 60 minutes.

Wow, an hour. Maybe I need to, I know it lasts an hour in that thing. I apparently need to go back and play more. I think four is great. I love four. Four is my favorite of the games. Back then, I was playing on a junkier PC and, you know, easy to kind of go back in. I'll just restart it. I'll just start a new game and not try and continue. if you had the PlayStation version

you're getting a next gen update next week but I don't know if you have that version or not I do not no but I've just got the the Steam version the Mary Steam version yeah it will have an effect on people watching the show you will

be compelled to want to play again because it did that to me and I'm I've played the shit out of those games and I still want to play them anyway there you go that's going to do it for today quick note if you're ever like when's the next

live show happening or when's the next podcast supposed to post even the ones that aren't live well we've had a link forever that I don't ever mention to people and it's at frogpants.com slash schedule and if you go there you'll find all the times sometimes they change and when they do it's reflected in real time on there so it's just a calendar and it's real time so if something changed you'll know so go check it out and be a part of the flowing information that is frogpans.com slash schedule we also got something from a dan fan who wrote in after dan's visit yesterday says for tMS I love it when Dan calls Scott Johnson.

Dan sounds like a gym coach when he gets excited talking about games. Johnson, you'll love this one. Get out there and play, Johnson. Yeah, he is like a coach. No one's done that since, I don't know. No one's called me Johnson since like high school. I don't even remember if he calls me Brian or calls me Ibit. Oh, yeah, I'll like this one.

It's got a big thick rule book. Johnson, you're not going to like this one. I think he does it with you as well. He just, he does. Does he call me I think so. Yeah. I don't think it seems like as much because we have so many. Brian's on that it's sometimes we do that anyway. So I call you with it when

Dunaways around. Yeah. Yeah. So it's a little easier. But yeah. I encourage. People are confirming that he does call me a bit. I never get, I get called. It is so he does it so, I guess, innocuously that I don't even know when he's doing it. So yeah. Yeah. It's all good. Uh, website for everything over at frogpants.com slash TMS. Just put up an episode of the Monday show, put up an episode of a word on the street with Greg Street Although he Funny enough isn't on the show that bears his name

He was on his way to China But I had Brian Holinka, another Brian on And Holinka is infamous over at Blizzard He's now with these guys at FPC And he is doing some killer work We had an amazing discussion That guy's awesome I could talk to him for six hours straight on a show

And it would be no problem I moved to fly by We only did an hour and a few minutes But go check it out I think you guys all enjoy what they're doing over there for their game. That's going to do it for us. Brian, let's get out of here with some music. I'm happy to do that. Amanda wrote in, says, hey, Scott and Brian, and the whole TMS community.

It's Amanda here. I grab my husband's phone to send this message on his behalf because he won't. April 14th was his 40th birthday. 40! I know it's a Sunday, but when you have the time, can you play a yacht rock cover of a late 90s rock band? He loves it all. We're coming from Edmonton to Viva TMS, Vegas, and cannot wait to meet all of you. Thanks for all you do. See you all soon. Amanda and Michael from Edmonton. Did you say Michael's 40?

Is that what she said? Michael's 40 was that qualified. That's what you get. 40 and up. Sorry. Ends the rules. Free Monster. Oh, that's you.

Cool. Free Monster is Michael. Well, happy belated 40th birthday to you. Did you feel different? Yeah. Michael, I don't know. Yeah, what's the first thing you did when you hit 40? And you go out and buy a Ferrari.

Did you? what'd you do. Yeah. All right. So boy, this is a, this is a, this was a difficult one to track down or difficult one to come up with, right? Because it's like, all right, a yacht rock cover of a late 90s rock band. I would love it. There, I found some really, really cool yacht rock, modern bands that do yacht rock style music.

I made a list of them. Where did I put that list? Oh, I put it in Kraft. Let's see. Young Guns, Silver Fox. Samuel Purdy, Powder Blue Tucks, Monkey House, Sunset Roller Coaster,

and I look through all of their libraries to see what covers they might have. None of them have covers of something from a rock band from the 90s. But kind of a favorite of mine is a band called Magazine, Two Eyes, M-A-G-A-Z-I-I-N-E. And last year they came out

with a cover of Weezers, Islands in the Sun. This is tangentially, yacht rocky. I feel like you could hear this alongside Pablo Cruz and Steely Dan and all these other yacht rock bands, hollow notes, and it wouldn't be too out of place. This is Island and the Sun. Weasers Island and the Sun covered by magazine featuring

Sarah Nimitz and Moira getting cut off. Name is getting cut off. Moira Mac. Moira Mac. Here it is. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Hell, hell, when you're on a holiday, you can't find the words you say. All the things that come to you, and I want to feel a do. On an island and the sun, we'll be playing and have fun. feel so fine I can't control

my brain I'm here hip hip hip you're only go

a sea we don't need memory just a place to call your own as you drifted to do this old on an island in the sun we'll be playing and hide upon and makes me feel so fun i can't control my plane

we'll run away together we'll spend some time forever we'll never feel ever we'll never feel been any need more Oh On an island On an island in the sun We'll be playing and having fun, we'll be playing And it makes me feel so when I can't control my brain. Yeah, yeah.

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