The Morning Stream - TMS 2655: Nine-Toes Nick

Episode Date: June 5, 2024

Too Much Rear, Not Enough Window. There are places you hang washing. It's content until it's creepy. Come for the Loins. Stay for the Butt. Lefty Nipple McGee. Butt Pinchy. Gay mating rituals. That's ...a Typo. The Globetrotters are real to me dammit! I'm good, but my son's day sucked. The New Era of Piracy. The Pantyhose Confuses Me. Julia Freakin Roberts! Please Pack Your Phone and Go with Tom. An Uncomfortable Scene 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 Here on the morning stream, we have three rules. Number one, don't touch the wildlife. Two, don't aggravate the hosts. And three, help us keep this show on the air by joining us at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, too much rear, not enough window. There are places you hang washing. It's content until it's creepy. Come for the loins.
Starting point is 00:00:21 Stay for the butt. Lefty nipple McGee. Butt pinchy. Gay mating rituals. That's a typo. The globe trotters are real to me, damn. Damn it. I'm good, but my Sunday sucked.
Starting point is 00:00:32 The new era of piracy. A panty host confuses me. I sound like that lawyer. It's a host a little kid crats, right? A little bit in there. Julia Freaking Roberts. Please pack your phone and go with Tom. An uncomfortable scene with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream.
Starting point is 00:00:50 I said it before, and I'm going to say it again. There ain't no way. No way that you could come from my lawn. I'm going home and kick you mom in the butt. I'm going to shove your head in the toilet. The morning stream. The good guys will come and get you. Okay.
Starting point is 00:01:26 Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday. June 5th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. Brian David also was here. Hello, Brian. Well, hello, Scott. How are you? I'm better than yesterday. I slept. Yeah, I went to bed at 9 p.m. Oh, that's early. Holy cow, that's early. I know. The night before I went to bed at like one, so that tells you the difference. And it was great
Starting point is 00:01:50 because I slept real solid and woke up nice and refreshed today, only to find that at about at 6.30, we had a power surge. And I thought for a minute all my routers were dead but uh we're good we're here everyone don't worry my son had a worst day though he was at work and he's got this new gig you know and he's carrying he's uh pushing around a lot of heavy stuff and uh something fell on his foot and cut off uh the front of the part of his toe oh no which toe pinky toe no big toe they sewed it on though uh they were able to sew it back his nail will probably never be the same um oh and they gave uh workman's comp and all that business.
Starting point is 00:02:27 Oh, my God. So they have to, like, put it on ice and rush them to the hospital and all that stuff? Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, and I see, sent me a picture, and it's wrapped, but it's still kind of bleeding, and his toe looks bigger than it should and all that stuff. So I told him, you got to get yourself some of them steel-toed boots over at the RIEI or something.
Starting point is 00:02:45 Yeah. You should go to Red Wing. Oh. Oh, Redway. Actually, now do you say that, he probably has a pair. He has to have a pair from when he worked at Red Wing, right? Yeah. Yeah, I wonder why he didn't wear those.
Starting point is 00:02:57 You know what? I'm going to bug him about that. I didn't even think about it. I called him yesterday to check on him, and I didn't even think about it. So I'm going to say it right now in the group text, hey, Nick, how come you didn't wear steel toe shoes? From Red Wing. There.
Starting point is 00:03:13 I mean, he ended up with like eight pairs of shoes from that place. I was going to say, yeah, I think he got quite the parting gifts. Yeah. He did really well there on shoes. But anyway, he's fine, though. so no need to worry everyone his toe is intact it will heal and his toenail probably will never grow right but that's okay you know we all have these kind of yeah something kind of cool about that right like a you know like a like a like a battle wound or a scar or something like that yeah this is from
Starting point is 00:03:41 the from when i lost my almost lost my toe in a workplace injury yeah you know we all have these battle scars and uh we like to tell stories about i got a scar up here i always like tell about I got an ankle that all it takes is someone to blow on it and it'll freaking fold in half. It's such a piece of shit, things like that. You know, it's life. It's life as we know it. I don't have a left nipple. I got torn off.
Starting point is 00:04:04 Just kidding, that's not true. Wait a minute. All right. I'm officially annoyed. Up to this point, I have let it go and said, well, I get it. Sure, I guess they're going to go up a little bit here and there. But I'm going to just make a stance today, Brian. I am tired.
Starting point is 00:04:22 of streaming service price hikes. I've had it. Every one of them goes, oh, just so you know our ad tier is going up, we'll still have ads, but you have to pay for it. And also our tier with no ads, well, that's also going up by such an, such amount. Max is the latest one to do it.
Starting point is 00:04:38 I get this email and actually yelled at my browser when I got it. I yelled, nobody was here. Tell me it was a, come on. I was like that. I was like, oh my gosh. plea, I think I yell. Now, it's only a dollar, but it's, they do it over time.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Dollar here, dollar there, do, do, do, do. Before you know it, you're paying out of your ass for, basically, we're back to cable. Stop it. You know what I think this means? I think we're heading toward a new era of piracy. If they keep this up, people will be forced to go, well, I can't afford that anymore.
Starting point is 00:05:17 I guess I get it off my friend's Plex server. I guess I'll go get it off Pirate Bay, which still exists and thrives. Is it really? Wow. That's still there. That's still going. So like I'm not, I'm not ready to do it, but I am ready to cancel a few of you.
Starting point is 00:05:30 Yeah. You're pissing me off. It's like, you dicks. I've talked about it a bunch, but, you know, whoever comes up with that really, really cool all-in-one website or app that will, A, keep your list of all the shows that you want to watch things that people have recommended to you or things that you want to check it on your own. and keep track of which services they're on, or movies, right? Like, oh, that was just in theaters. I'll wait until it comes on streaming. Let me know when this is on streaming.
Starting point is 00:05:57 So it's got your list in there. Then it's got all of your, you know, the subscriptions to whichever services you use, as well as the ones that you aren't on anymore. And then say, all right, we're coming up on the beginning of June. Cancel Netflix, cancel Max, and pull up. Showtime so you can watch these eight things that you've got on your list for the month of June. Yeah, I would love this. It has buttons that automatically take you to the unsubscribe or the cancel my subscription page.
Starting point is 00:06:30 How hard is this to make? Somebody out there just make this. BioCow and a million dollar idea. Yeah, give us, give Brian credit, but immediately give us access because I would do this in a heartbeat. Yeah. And I would pay that service to do this service for me. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't pay a lot, but I'd pay...
Starting point is 00:06:50 I mean, we have an issue because we're film sack. You know, we are film sack. But we have to have the services that work with whatever movies we need to watch at that time. Yeah, we're willing to eat the bullet on that. But everybody else, this is starting to suck. And they all get little ideas from each other. One of them's like, oh, they're doing an ad tier that people pay for it. Yeah, yes, exactly.
Starting point is 00:07:17 It's like, oh, we could probably do that. Let's try $2 more a month and see what happens. Let's see if people start to do that. I, Cor has a good point. Somebody makes the service you're dreaming of, and then they start raising their prices every once in a while. It's like, yeah, we're going to do it. It was five bucks now.
Starting point is 00:07:32 It's going to be seven bucks. Yeah. Oh, I know. I know. It's just you don't need, these are companies that make so much money. And all this is is them going, well, we need to perpetually make money. We can't have any slow quarters. Right.
Starting point is 00:07:47 So stick it. to the people for another dollar and they'll think oh it's just a dollar and they use language like it's just a dollar yes and you can cancel any time there's no commitment eff off dicks i hate it i hate it man yeah anyway uh there's that um i got an update for people in one of my diary episodes i brought this up i didn't talk about it here but my neighbor across the way early in the morning i saw i witnessed while i was recording i watched the guy play various large format size format large size women's underwear placing them okay well I need to know more Scott he was placing them wet a genie's got it wet wet on the the um what do you call
Starting point is 00:08:36 the balcony edge yeah right like the railing on the balcony yeah he's in like one of these town homes across the way from me and he's and he's just laying them out there one by one and they were various sizes little little panties and then big ones like big old like grandma panties big ones okay all right and uh it couldn't make sense of it and i also know who this is this is the guy they're a little weird over there they've had police come before because they get they fight him and his wife fight all the time there was like yeah someone called the police one night anyway i know it's just him and his wife they're both fitness freaks and in really great shape uh to the point of being annoying they're that kind of
Starting point is 00:09:11 people okay you know go to the go to the what do you call it every morning not the gym but the what's the CrossFit thing every morning at 4 o'clock in the morning, that kind of stuff. Yeah. And they're just there by themselves and they have no kids. But he's out there laying out like five, six pairs of panties. Some are huge. Some are small. It makes no sense to me.
Starting point is 00:09:34 So everyone in the, everyone who heard that episode kept writing and go, well, maybe he's a cross dresser. Maybe he's into a lady's pant. You know, all these things. I'm like, well, I don't know what it is. He then also laid out a bra or two, but it was all lady stuff. And I assume, well, the washer's broken. His moms may be visiting.
Starting point is 00:09:51 I don't know, right? Yesterday. Yeah, sure, that makes sense. Yesterday, I catch the same guy putting what looked like long, what's that stuff we talked about in eggs the other day that our moms were? Oh, legs. Legs, panty hose. What looked like panty hose now, he's laying over the ledge of this thing.
Starting point is 00:10:11 Okay. So what is up with all the undergarments that are all just ladies? I don't know. It's weird. Well, ladies, like, could one of them be one of his speedos or something? Like, could it be, um... Could be. Could be. You would have a larger one than his wife would, right?
Starting point is 00:10:27 As far as, like, his speedo would be bigger than his wife's panties, of course. But these were like, I mean, they were, they were like that, dude. Like, like, big, yeah, big wide load pair. Like, no offense to anyone who has to wear a huge pair of panties. I'm just saying these were, like, no way they fit him or anyone I could see. They almost, like, I almost couldn't see both sides in my bow. binoculars, they were so big. With my telescope pointed over there, and they looked enormous.
Starting point is 00:10:56 Yeah, and that was the other thing I was trying to do is make sure this dude could not see me looking at him. Yeah. Because I didn't want to, I didn't take any pictures of you for the same reason. I'm like, I'm not going to, I don't want to be that neighbor. I know. That's weird. There's a point before it, like, it's content up until it becomes creepy, and then it's, you know, stocker, not stalker, but it's, I mean, it's creepy is what it is.
Starting point is 00:11:19 Yeah, I don't know what it is. But look, I understand that other countries, as said in the chat, there are places where you hang your wash. We used to do that. We used to have a line out in the backyard. And in the spring and summer, we would air dry certain parts of laundry. Like delegates you don't put in the dryer. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:35 Which, you know, we'll be these things like panties. And I don't think bras you put in the dryer either. I think Tina dries her bras outside of the, like we have a drying rack. in our laundry room that she puts them on. Same with Kim. And I think that's because the material if it shrinks.
Starting point is 00:11:53 The wire inside. Yeah. The material can get, yeah. It gets all bit pinchy and stuff. So that makes sense to me. But this guy is only, as best I can tell, he's not putting out mail articles.
Starting point is 00:12:05 And then you know that they don't have somebody coming to visit them or, or maybe they've got, I don't know. Maybe they've got a, like a sister. Oh man, my laundry, my washing machine isn't working.
Starting point is 00:12:18 Can I wash my stuff at your place? Oh, it's fine. It very well could be. It could be all of those things. It could be more things than that, even that. Like Dr. Calhoun said, so what's the problem? There is no problem. I'm just telling you, I see this thing and I'm trying to make sense of it.
Starting point is 00:12:33 Why would this couple who are alone have panties that fit, you know, Ursula from the freaking little mermaid? A little mermaid. Yeah. It's a little, but it's a little. It's a little rear window. It's a little Jimmy Stewart in his chair with his busted leg in a cast and can't get out. So he's learning everything he can about the neighbors and maybe a little bit too much about Raymond Burke. Yeah, a little rear window going on here for sure.
Starting point is 00:13:01 A little rear window, yeah. Well, anyway. Maybe too much rear in that rear window, if you know what I mean. Sure. And they're fine. Let them have them. Let them do what they do. I'm not judging.
Starting point is 00:13:13 I just trying to understand. where the chat room really going to bat for big panties guy big panties guy why why can't this guy have big panties yeah yeah what's the problem with that you probably got them too what's the matter with big panties uh claire says worry about your own dirty laundry oh i do in fact today's laundry day because um since kim left i've done none so i got to do some and uh i'll be doing it later i will not hang ready for pink shirts everybody pink shirts all next week I'm going to do my best to separate colors. I don't know how well that's going to go,
Starting point is 00:13:49 but I'll do my best. Maybe I'll film some of it. And look, if I have an item, I need to hang out in public in front of everybody. I'll do it. I'll do it. It's not a problem. All right.
Starting point is 00:14:01 Speaking of theories or lack of them, we have a theory here. This is from a listener. Hi, Scott. I just listened to the hilarious bit about your post-furiosa urinal incident. This has been coming up almost as much. much as Brian's mystery girl in his dream.
Starting point is 00:14:16 I'm, I'll be honest, I'm kind of glad that the focus. Here's what I'm hoping to have, because everybody's shouting out these names of people I know, right? Oh, maybe it's Debbie Mazar, or maybe it's Kate Walsh, or maybe it's a Pippa Middleton or something like that. And it's like, no, it's nobody's name you'd recognize. It's nobody's got like a household name, not Megan Malawi, not, you know, Bugs Bunny in a wig. That was a good one. I did like that one a lot. Sure.
Starting point is 00:14:42 But it's going to be a point where I'm going to be watching some sitcom at some point. I'm like, oh, my God, there she is. It's this person right here. I'm going to find that clip, and I'm going to post it, and I'm going to say, here's the person. Here's the name you've never heard before in your life, and there you go. Yeah, it's just going to hit you one day. I agree with that. You'll be a dinner.
Starting point is 00:15:05 You'll be sitting there. Tina will say, Brian, do you remember the time? And then you're just sitting in a sudden go, Kay Walsh, as loud as you can, or whoever it is. It really was Kate Walsh, but she was playing a weird character. It's just going to pop. Not Annabeth Gish. Anabeth Gish, because she was in that Mystic Pizza with, you know, your Lily Taylor and your, why can't I think of, can't I think of the woman who played the main character and pretty woman? Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:15:38 Aaron Brockovich. Oh, my gosh. Okay, all right, not just me. Julia freaking Roberts, thank you, Monica. My God, is that weird? Like, it should be the most obvious name. It's the name you think of, because she played both herself
Starting point is 00:15:53 and a person who happened to look like Julia Roberts in Oceans 12. Anyway, um... Ugh, I was so bad. But Annabeth Gish was in that, and it was one of Tina's in my favorite movies who actually went to the pizza place in, uh, in, uh, not Vermont.
Starting point is 00:16:09 Where is it, Massachusetts? Connecticut, in Connecticut. Connecticut. Connecticut. Yeah. And ate there. We had a pizza slicer that we bought there. It was great.
Starting point is 00:16:21 But Annabeth Gish at that time kind of reminded me of Tina. She was like the, you've got these people that are the actor or actress equivalent of people in your lives. That you basically say, oh, yeah, if they made a movie of my life, Annabeth Gish would play Tina kind of thing. Right. Oh, yeah, I can totally see that. I'm looking at her now. Absolutely. Totally could see that.
Starting point is 00:16:39 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not her, though. not Anabeth Gish now Okay All right Oh who else do they say
Starting point is 00:16:45 Not Katie Segal Not Gina oh Gina Bellman I don't know Gina Bellman Definitely not Eid McClurg You guys are horrible Eadie McClurg I mean I love her But that ain't her
Starting point is 00:16:55 I like the girl on friends That Ross cheated on Rachel with They were on a break Yeah You're talking about the girl from the copy The copy place What was her name? Not I own a sky
Starting point is 00:17:09 I can't remember the name of the girl from the copy. Cloris Leachman, no? No. Not Cloris Leachman. Not Phyllis Diller. Let's get some of these other ones on the way. No B. Arthur. No B. Arthur. No, Rue McClanahan. No, none of the Golden Girls. Let's just get them all out of the way. Yeah. They're done. They're absolutely off the list. Yes. I remember when I said I was so glad that your Alpha P guy had taken the spotlight away from this? Yeah. He hasn't. And now it's all flipped back.
Starting point is 00:17:39 well this theory this theory goes like this uh he says this by the way mark in portland wrote this in he says i just listened to this story as a gay man who has been around the proverbial block he says i can with 99% certainty that's a high percentage that's a high percentage of certainty he says he can tell us with that amount of certainty that you are being cruised he says here's the evidence empty or near empty bathroom true check that's true. Somebody coming up to the urinal next to yours when propriety would say otherwise, check. Someone showing you their goods, check. I mean, I didn't look at his goods, but I guess in theory, they were there. But it does, I mean, it's like him doing that would make you turn and look to see why he's doing that. And in the process of doing that, you'd see his good. It's true.
Starting point is 00:18:34 And then it says, had you been any other gay man, you would have known the mating ritual that follows. otherwise it is just a bizarre yet hilarious story hope that clears it up for you i'm here for you if you have any more questions says mark brian has a question brian take it away what's the mating ritual that follows like do you put your wings up and like do a little circular dance puff your chest out really big yeah yeah because it doesn't when he says a ritual that implies there's more i know like oh more pomp to the circumstance, you know? The alpha is showing interest.
Starting point is 00:19:12 I need to reciprocate. Yeah, I'd like to know more about that as well. Follow up, let us know. We'll talk about it on the thing. But, I mean, Pride Month hadn't started when I saw this movie. That's true. So it's not a celebration of Pride Month, I don't think. But if this is true, if what he says it was true,
Starting point is 00:19:32 how would I ever have a way to disprove it? I don't have, I can't. You won't ever see this guy again. No. And I wasn't going to go, hey, let's go to the next stage of the mating ritual. Like, I'm not, I'm not gay. So how would I, I mean, I just don't know. So if he has more information or has an answer to Brian as to what follows, within reason, you can tell us.
Starting point is 00:19:53 All right? Let us know. Anyway, thanks. I'd love to know it. Yeah. Thanks from Mark, or to Mark from Portland. All right. We're going to play a game.
Starting point is 00:20:01 It's Wednesday. That's the day we play this game. And it's a great time. So buckle up. Buckle up. Also, if anybody in the chat wants to be our third person to pipe in and be a part of today's call, well, I'm going to choose you. All right. So get your calls coming. Just choose you like Pokemon. That's right. Dunaway should answer any moment now. Oh, there he is. He's not even logged in, but he answered. Oh, that's quiet. Hey, Brian Dunaway. What are you doing, you weirdo? oh hi scott brian am i a weirdo i don't know i don't know a weirdo who knows i never heard back from
Starting point is 00:20:46 that guy that thinks i'm mean to you when you're on here oh yeah right yeah i don't know why he thinks well one of two things happened either he said this is my final email to scott i don't care what his response is or uh maybe he's just busy yeah it could be could be uh let's see who number three is ooh have we had dj axes on before we have i think I just talked about DJ Axis. He's the one who told me about Star Wars. Oh, Hunter. This is the guy.
Starting point is 00:21:15 All right, cool. Hello, welcome back, DJ Axes. How are you? Hello. Hello. Yes, you did. Hi, how the heck are you today? And do you like, tell us what you love about that game.
Starting point is 00:21:28 You seem to be a fan. The stacked javas is a pretty big selling point. It's a really big selling point. I tend to agree. That's pretty awesome. Has there been, have you gotten to a stage where you can unlock like clans and can you start a frog pants clan and? Maybe I'm scared to open my iPad at the moment because of how Bluetooth works.
Starting point is 00:21:50 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe we'll wait until this call is over. Yeah, no, we'll let's not mess things up. But we would happily, you know, you should be our guy. You start the clan, start adding people. I think you're the one. You're the man. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:05 We'll see. We'll see how it goes. Dunaway, it's good to have you back, of course. We've hardly talked to you. Oh, thank you. I don't want more. I know. It's just, geez, it's been like Monday. I'm going to get more posts, more post.
Starting point is 00:22:18 I guess it wasn't an email. I was a post in the Facebook group. But it didn't affect you any. That's what's important. No, it doesn't affect me at all. The thing is you didn't let it affect your life. No, I don't bring it up all the time or anything. I don't bring it up.
Starting point is 00:22:33 I don't talk about it. It's good. No, no, not even a little bit. I just don't like it. Like, I've been, it feels like lifeline friends with Dunaway. So someone questions that friendship. Yeah, I get a little defensive. That's all, you know.
Starting point is 00:22:46 Yeah, well, that's true. It's a good point. Let's get in here and play this game. Brian Abbott has prepared it. Therefore, he will explain it. I will. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics.
Starting point is 00:22:59 And Scott and Brian are going to have to smell the answers that I dealt that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers. can guess. DJ X's your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package that includes steel rising and ladle-knot. Steel rising. Steel rising and la-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-l-lap, both courtesy of Wesley.
Starting point is 00:23:23 I don't know what still rising, still rising like a meck thing or a, oh, it's tanks. It's all one word. It's tanks? I think it's tanks. Is that the movie with Wolverine and the boxing robot? Yeah, yeah. Real Still Rising. Funny enough, me and Brian saw that together in a theater in Utah.
Starting point is 00:23:40 Yeah, we sat next three, I think we had a big thing of popcorn in between. We did. Every once in a while, our hands would meet as we grabbed kernels of popcorn. And I liked that movie a lot more than I probably was supposed to. I liked it. You know what? I think it was good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:52 That was all right for what it was. By the way, I know what it is now. Steel Rising is this really rad-looking French Revolution era robot souls-like thing that I've always had my eye on, never played. It's supposed to be pretty cool. so that sounds odd or awesome nice and odd it's a little odd it's a little awesome a little odd anyway
Starting point is 00:24:12 very cool all right well let's get to the game in order to win you got to play you need a question to be able to play let's get to it uh we asked 505 taboo oh that's going up growing they're growing exactly to give their best answer
Starting point is 00:24:28 to this put your hands on your buzzers and tell me what they said when I asked them to name a Fictional sports team. The Harlem Globetrotters. Show me the Harlem Globetrotters. The problem is, is they're not really fictional. Yeah, they're real, but they do fictional shit.
Starting point is 00:24:50 They're real, but they don't play for real. Now you got me worried. Three others all, I expected way more than three. Damn it. Yeah, I know. Anyway, Brian, Every other answer is available. The first thing that came to mind is the movie upcoming,
Starting point is 00:25:09 which I have a copy of on Laserdisc and VHS. The mighty, mighty ducks. Just one mighty duck. There we go. Sure. All right. Show me the mighty ducks. Yeah, number two.
Starting point is 00:25:21 Now, technically, the Anaheim Ducks do exist now. When the movie came out, there was no Anaheim Ducks. So they weren't real at the time. Oh, fiction-informed act. Do you know if that's how it went? Like, they named it based on that. Do we know? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Oh, we did? Okay. Because it was a... Yeah, yeah. I talked to them. They said, yes, absolutely. Yes. Because it was a Disney-based movie and Disney rules Anaheim.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Oh, good point. I didn't think of that. Good points. Yeah. All right. Very good. Well, Brian, you and DJ X's are a team now. And there are nine remaining answers on the board.
Starting point is 00:25:56 You guys have two points. And let's see what else you can come up with. I want more. More points. Hey, do you have any ideas? Because I got a few. They mostly involve TV shows and movies. That's kind of where I am.
Starting point is 00:26:13 What's the team with the dog? Oh, wait, no. Oh, you're Airbud? Yeah. That's not a team, though. I think he's the whole team, though, isn't he? Yeah, that's true. I don't know the name of the team, so that's not a good one.
Starting point is 00:26:27 I do like after... Thankfully, don't know any of that. Thank you. Randy is happy though yeah yeah yeah um I do I do reference the airbud rule pretty pretty frequently um what about bad news bears that's pretty good yeah yeah that was actually the second one I was going to because that's two of the big ones in my own life well actually there's one more that I have in my head but yeah I think the the the uh yeah they're the bears I guess the bad the bad news guys the bad news kids do we have to get the exact team name or you kind of like well I mean it is the bears so
Starting point is 00:27:02 Well, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're okay. All right, go on with that? Chicago exists, and that is definitely the bears. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You require a city name for these answers, Brian, I guess.
Starting point is 00:27:14 I don't, but, you know, you just can't say the wild cats and hope that there's some fictional team out there called the Wildcats. That's a really good movie, too. High school is a cool wildcats. It's not on the list. Got it. Thanks, Brian. All right. We're whizling it out.
Starting point is 00:27:29 We're whizling it out. Right, right. By the way, that was a tribute. question we had last night and no one at our table had ever seen any of the high school musical films and so well what about that wild cat who's driving the bus right now oh yeah i don't i don't know what that is speed oh my god did you not watch oh oh oh yeah okay that wow yeah but who's the wildcat you're talking about she's wearing she's wearing the jersey oh kentucky wildcats good lord The, uh, uh, so we just went with what we know as the local Denver East high school mascot, which are the angels.
Starting point is 00:28:04 Nice. All right. Are we playing a game still? You guys said bad news bears. Show me bad news bears. Ah, dirt monkeys. Number three on the list. Five points.
Starting point is 00:28:16 Brian and DJ axes. Well, I don't know if they had a team name or not, but I definitely like this is the third one. I was kind of movies. the sandlot did they have a team name they called themselves the did they name themselves after the dog I know that one of the players ended up going on the sandlot team okay
Starting point is 00:28:37 I don't recall a specific team name or anything right right sand lot team I don't like how I don't like how it said that all right go ahead show me you want to go with that team number
Starting point is 00:28:54 41 in the list. Two people said the Sandlot team. The Sandlotters. Yeah. All right. I'm going to go with I think they're Springfield, but the Springfield isotopes. Dern, that's a good one.
Starting point is 00:29:07 Show me the Springfield isotopes. Oh, number one. Number one answer on the board. Gets you one point. Yeah, that's a good one. It keeps you in the game. Oh my gosh. Now we're going to, now we're in places.
Starting point is 00:29:20 Yeah. Yeah. How about I'll just see I saw a typo. How's about? That's a typo. That's a typo. Ovalade of Crenshaw. Should be a three quarter of it. That's a typo.
Starting point is 00:29:36 Oh, gosh. Fictional. Fictional. Once again, just has to be what the tadpool said. Doesn't have to actually be factual. It just has to be what the 500 and some odd people said. That's what 505 people said, yep. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:29:50 Yeah. That's fine. The 505. All right, how about the, um, the, I don't know, this isn't going to work. The angels in the outfield angels. Oh, that was going to say angels and outfield. That is hilarious. All right.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Right. Right now I'm doing the angel thing, doing the, you laying on the ground making a carpet angel. No, no, you stand, you stand up and you have to get to flap your wings. That's their, that's their equivalent. Oh, my God. Me neither. We have some, we have homework to do. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:22 Yeah. It had two things going against it. It was about sports, and it was aiming towards an age that I was not at the time when it came out. Currently streaming nowhere, including Disney, who owns it. But Disney has decided that they don't want to show all of those A-list actors in that B-list movie. Apparently not. It's really the hard R at the beginning of that movie that killed the one. It really is.
Starting point is 00:30:46 Yeah. Matthew McConaughey. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. All right. Show me the Angels from Angels. in the outfield. Boo. This is hard.
Starting point is 00:30:57 Isn't it the Oakland? I mean, isn't it supposed to be the Oakland Angels or the Well, the California Angels. That's a good question. Yeah, I feel like it's not a fictional team. It's like, oh, this struggling to you
Starting point is 00:31:08 and got blessed by some angels. Yeah, but they were called the angels in the movie, right? Touched by an angel. They were still the angels, but they weren't, it's like the Mighty Ducks. It's the same kind of comparison. Except the team existed before the movie. Oh, good point.
Starting point is 00:31:21 Yeah. That's true. That's a key difference. Still, it really doesn't matter. Like, before or after, it's what the tadpool says, really is what it matters. I've got two. I'm trying to decide between, and you tell me, unless you got another good guess, I have two of my head.
Starting point is 00:31:40 Would you like to get one? I just took a sip of my Michael's secret stuff, and I'm thinking about the Tune Squad over here. That's what I was going to say, the Tune Squad. That's perfect. Let's do some space jamming. all right show me the tune squad number six oh well then
Starting point is 00:31:58 I thought it was T O O N but I did like before I Because people who suggested it said it was Tune with an O Really? Is it that makes no mighty no it doesn't make any sense It doesn't make any sense because you think it would be tune short for cartoon Squarespace and uh yeah the the oh interesting Yeah because loony tunes right Looney tunes I guess it is
Starting point is 00:32:21 tunes, but I always say tunes interesting. I would have thought T-O-O-N? Oh shit. Now I lost a thread of what I had to guess on earlier. Maybe we could say the same thing and say like the monster squad. Is that the the opponent's there?
Starting point is 00:32:37 Mm-hmm, that's right. Yeah, the monster squad is, it was called the monster squad, right? No, mon stars. Oh, yes, you're right. I'm sorry. I did not emphasize the mon stars. You're right. You're right. All right. Go on with that? going with that one you want to go with that one go with something else sure i'm i'm running dry so
Starting point is 00:32:55 okay i know that feeling show me the mon stars number 13 just out of the top surprise it's the thing oh it has to be 11 right has to be 11 you have to get the 11th one surprised that wasn't on there um yeah okay i just watched an episode of this yesterday and they mentioned it uh bet it's not on here but i have nothing else in my head so i'm going to say the bob's Burgers, Wonder Dogs. The Wonder Dogs. The Wonderdogs. All right.
Starting point is 00:33:25 Show me the, what is it? It's the, what's the beach? Oh, the, oh, shit. Wonder Wharf. Wonder Wharf. Wonderwarf. Wonderwarf. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:35 Yeah. All right. Show me the Wonderdogs. Yeah. It took a second for that one to come up, and I'm looking to see if anybody said that. uh no and no and also no no no no three three three that were not that damn it i remember i remember the one that i was thinking of and i'm going to say it before i forget it i was watching that uh the the darkness or whatever is the one about everything
Starting point is 00:34:08 from the 2000 anyway charlie sheen lost his shit and he was in that movie where they were the indians right wasn't that the right one am i thinking the right one I'm getting that confused the other one? I don't know. I don't know. You're going to have to ask yourself. I don't know. I also don't like sports movies, so I'm kind of a bad teammate for this one.
Starting point is 00:34:29 Right. The other one that I had was the average Joe's from Dodgeball. Oh, that's perfect. Can you dodge a wrench? That seems a real tad pooly answer there. Yeah. We'll do it. It could be.
Starting point is 00:34:44 Okay. I say that. What are you going with? all right going with that you did that at the average jo's okay all right show me the average joes oh shit number four answer yeah fourth most popular answer so take that and now i'm losing all my cred with the person who defended me i didn't i didn't poo that i think that was a great answer i like that that's what i'm saying yeah i i think the indians for major league i think that's i think that's the way to go. I just keep seeing
Starting point is 00:35:15 Charlie Sheen's stupid Mohawk thing. Yeah. Plus that logo that logo was featured pretty heavy in the movie. Didn't they have like a, the poster was a huge version of it or something. I can't remember. Something like that. Randy would know. He loves that movie. Randy would definitely know. All right. Show me
Starting point is 00:35:31 the Indians. Oh, come on. Yeah, Cleveland. They're the Cleveland Indians. Real team. I guess. Real team. But they did not starring Charlie Sheen. Not starring Charlie Sheen, yeah But two people did say that in the tadpool All right
Starting point is 00:35:47 They're real and they're spectacular So as it is right now If I buzz out, he wins If I get points enough high I gotta try to clear the board So let's see what we got here Exactly I'm gonna say one that I can't imagine people did
Starting point is 00:36:02 We have a lot of gamers in here I've been thinking a lot about Fallout lately Fallout 3 had a team Yeah And I'm just gonna say it And I'm sure I'm wrong but it was called It's going to be the biggest points ever
Starting point is 00:36:15 Was it four? Maybe it'd been four Well anyway, there was a team and a stadium I don't think it was four because I played four to death So it's probably three then Anyway three three had a stadium and everything I guess four had a stadium That's what I'm mixing up
Starting point is 00:36:27 Yeah, four had a Diamond City Stadium That's right And they had a whole base in there in stores and everything Yeah Fallout three had I believe the capital congressman It is a capital congressman Yep All right
Starting point is 00:36:39 The fact that Brian knew that I might I'm nervous or that's a good sign I'm scared. I'm scared all right I'll say that all right show me the capital congressman shit! Yeah it's on the list
Starting point is 00:36:56 it's tied for 45th place because one person said it but what if I said the sharks jump it when you're a shark you're a shark you're a shark all the way. No, sharks are not even in the top
Starting point is 00:37:14 10. I'm trying to think. Which sharks, by the way, like from what franchise? I can't remember, but there was definitely a movie that I remember that was like, that featured the sharks. I can see their stupid helmets, but I can't remember. So we got the Tiberon sharks. I think you were just watching Katie Perry's halftime show.
Starting point is 00:37:29 It might have been. You thought that was. I was actually watching, I was watching the baby shark while I was also watching football. That's my favorite. How's that one go again? Any any given Sunday had the Miami Sharks. which might be what you're thinking of Miami what was again
Starting point is 00:37:43 the Miami Sharks from any given Sunday that's it yeah that's it that actually was that made it on the list it was actually number 19 on the list let's talk about the top 10 here though that you guys didn't get number five
Starting point is 00:37:57 aFC Richmond from Ted Lassow oh they're not real that's a really good one fairly popular show yeah they're not real though I would have assumed they were real I did too
Starting point is 00:38:10 I thought that was a real team. This was an auto-correct, so don't get on my case about this one. The Charleston Cheeks from Slapshot, not Snapshot, but I don't correct it. Don't get on my case about it. It's got to be a show title. Milwaukee Beers from Basketball. Oh, they had a whole bunch of teams. It was called Beers?
Starting point is 00:38:32 Yeah. They had a ton of fake names in that. Probably not as popular as that. That was the one they played on, but, yeah. So this one I had questions about, is it just called the Gryffindor Quiddish team? Yep, that was the other one I thought about, but yeah. Yeah, I don't know if they had another name because there were some other names that people put in the thing. And then finally, number 10, from Batman's hometown there, the Gotham Knights.
Starting point is 00:38:56 Oh, my God, I would have never guessed that one. Damn it. Rounding out some of the other ones, they had the Gotham Rokes as well. I didn't know what the story, if one of those was a basketball, one was a hockey team or something. the Holy Head Harpies and other quidditch team the Globo Jim Purple Cobra is also from Dodgeball
Starting point is 00:39:16 The Washington Sentinel's From the replacements Besed Arrokes from Final Fantasy 10 The Blitzball team That was one of my first thoughts But I was like I'm not pulling any of those games From 12 years ago It's a pretty deep bet
Starting point is 00:39:32 The INAF Krakens from the Sieglerverse It's one of the Galactic Football League Scott Sigler's Eagles books, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, I got you. I got you. I got you. I'm sorry. The new New York Matt's from Futurama. Oh, shit. The Rockford Peaches from a league of their own. The Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs from Shorzy. The London Jets from Red Dwarf. The Niners, the team that Worf and everybody are on from Deep Space Nine. The Purple Cobra's, Atomic Superman, also from Futurama. The Bedrock Boulders from the Flintstones. The Caprica City Buccaneers. Love it. Did you mention the replacements or wherever that counter
Starting point is 00:40:12 Reef thing was? Yeah, the replacements had the Washington Sentinels. Washington Sentinels. The Polk High School Panthers for married with children. Married with children, yeah. He's always talking about how well he did. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:40:25 Yeah, and then a bunch of people thought they were really funny and just put their actual local team. So, you know, the Utah Jazz, the Dallas Cowboys, the Colorado Rockies, et cetera, et cetera. Maybe the joke is their teams did bad last season, so they kind of are fictional. what they meant. Yes, they might as well be fictional. Yeah, especially
Starting point is 00:40:43 Arlem Globetrotters. Especially the jazz. They have a great two acts of their story in the season and then fail and then to complete crash and burn in the final act. They are fictional this year. What was Giligan's team in the
Starting point is 00:40:59 Globetrotters? Oh, right. When they played they played the Globetrotters? Yes. Yeah, that's when they finally got off the island, right? I think that's how that worked. Gilligan's. Oh, I thought the Globetrotters crashed and then they played basketball
Starting point is 00:41:11 and then the Globetter just flew away, just rose their arms out and spun around the Lafuss and helicopter died there. There was some hardcore... I love your memory. Hardcore shark jumping in that season of that show. Gosh, yes. It was really bad.
Starting point is 00:41:24 I cannot find the name of the team. The New Invincibles? Let's see. The Gilligan. After numerous devious acts, Pearson tricks most of the castaways into signing Gilligan and the skipper uncovered the conspiracy before Thurston
Starting point is 00:41:37 Howell the fourth signs. Mr. Howell forces Pearson who agreed to tear the fraudulent contracts if the Globetrotters play his team, the new Invincibles, which has robot players. That's right. Broadcasters. Powered by coconut. Why aren't we watching this? We need to watch this.
Starting point is 00:41:55 I remember it being Even as a kid though, even as a kid I went, this is really bad. Yeah. What are we doing here? I was down with it. Yeah, it was like bamboo and coconuts, the robots. What are you doing, Dobby Gillis? Come on. It was some shit.
Starting point is 00:42:12 I guess the Gillian's Island team was called the Castaways, obviously. Oh, the castaways versus the Harlem Globetrotters. So not the Minnows that would be lost or nothing like that? That would be great, the minnows. The minnows perfect. Why didn't they do that?
Starting point is 00:42:27 Yeah, they should have done that. Jump on the shark, even on the name. My favorite team is, in in Grand Theft Auto 3, there's a team called the Liberty City Cox, which I think is pretty great. Anyway, that's true. By the way, neither of the
Starting point is 00:42:43 previous actresses who played Ginger agreed to reprise their role for this film. So, Bob Denver's wife, Dremah, having previously appeared in an episode as a cavewoman, appeared as Lucinda. This is Howl's overly punctual secretary? Wait a minute. How'd she get on the... That sucks. Gilligan sucks, dude.
Starting point is 00:43:01 That's... What a terrible time for that show. All right. Well, well done. Big congratulations goes out to our winning team here. Congratulations. And to me, but that's okay, Brian, tell him what he's walking away with. Yeah, you're getting those games, Steel Rising and Lottel-Nots, see if you can tear yourself away from Marvel, I'm sorry, from Star Wars, Hunters to...
Starting point is 00:43:23 Marvel, Star Wars, Hunters, Rivals. I'm probably trying to decide, I was like, oh, wait, instead of, nope, nope, no, sis. I did not find a clan, a clan section or guild section yet. So I did send you a friend invite because I assumed. It was just your name. It's Coverville. Yeah. It'd be pretty easy to find me.
Starting point is 00:43:39 My guess is they will introduce something if they don't already. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, we still haven't even gotten clans in Marvel Snap. So it's coming. It's happening soon. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:50 Speaking of Snap briefly, though. They've killed Pixelborn and now second dinner is hiring for a super or a super fun unannounced game and the big rumors they're going to be developing the online client for Lorcona. Oh, really? That's cool. I would love the meshing of those two things. Oh, my God, that would be fantastic. Yeah, because we're having a blast playing those, playing Larkana here.
Starting point is 00:44:12 So a digital version would be fantastic. Yeah, I would love it. That's great. Well, I yield my time. It was fun. Thank you so much. Yeah, you were awesome, dude. Be safe.
Starting point is 00:44:25 We'll see you later. Hey, Brian Dunaway, this weekend, you and I sitting down together to play games. What are we going to do with our play retro episode? How will we spend it? I think we should play a little bit that S&ES classic. earthbound or as some of the other people in the other world may know it as mother. I guess mother two. Yeah, mother. So earthbound. I played it briefly years ago and I really enjoy what I played. It's weird. It's
Starting point is 00:44:48 kooky. And I can't wait to talk about it. I played it this past week already a couple of hours, but I hope to get in plenty of time tonight. Considered by many to be one of the best games ever made. One of the best games ever made. Ask Tonda. Yeah, Tonda goes and knows. He knows what's up. So we're going to do that 130. No, I'm sorry. We're doing an hour. early on Sunday or Saturday because I got a ton of crap going on Friday so as soon as we do our play date about an hour after that will start about 1230 mountain will start instead of 130 so one hour early for play retro fans and it'll go up right after that uh that whole day is just insane
Starting point is 00:45:23 I got core after that we're doing the summer fest thing it's just insane so Friday is going to be wild done away I look forward to it greatly would you hang up before me um I could but then I then I would look like the jerk, so no you. You're a jerk. Oh, he hung up on me. He did it. Yeah, he did it. Yeah, good job. Good job, Brian. Good job. You look like the jerk. That'll teach that listener. Yeah, take that. What's what?
Starting point is 00:45:46 Yeah, take that, man. All right, we're going to take a break when we come back. Tom Merritt will join us. We'll have a little tech time, and after that some recommendals. First, we need a song. Brian, take it away. Yeah, big thanks to Mike Kubilios from S-Bam Records for sending this one over. This is a band called Diesel Boy. They've just released the 7-inch record with two brand-new songs. Side one is taped. Side B is what you're about to hear right now.
Starting point is 00:46:11 And if you like this, you can pick up a physical copy at all of their upcoming North American shows. They're going out on tour. This is some punk for you. Diesel Boy and a song called Punk Rock Minivan. Pre-programmed GPS Worn out misfits Ciccissants
Starting point is 00:46:40 Gotta take for a gas Got an easy pass to pay my toll Teenagers fighting for the front seat Bag of snacks and a large coffee I'm showing them the sights Punk rock highlights from coast to coast That's CBGB's now We're more dissipators
Starting point is 00:47:03 and at the hotel Chelsea Seditious Stap Nancy Our next stop is the hog in us We're being hung with young Rylans And I do all in charge V8
Starting point is 00:47:18 At the disc what I swore with This place is called Gilman Street, it's birthed green day and I'll buy there. There's no drugs or violence, not like the buoyant gardens across the bay. Welcome to Los Angeles. The mask was there right across from us. Mad at Wong to burn down At okey dog It was mayhem after a show
Starting point is 00:47:57 At the Hong Kong Cafe The Bags an X would play And there's the cafe to Grand One and boony mini-gram See that steakhouse Over there It was a place of punk rock print Back in 1979
Starting point is 00:48:17 Black flag with a turn to quine No, but all jokes aside, thanks for breaking me out of that curse. Last thing I remember, she was sucking a soul right out of my asshole. I saw a guerriller do it on a nature show. And we're back. Tell me who that was a game. Yeah, that's a Diesel Boy and a song that they described. as this is me imagining a road trip with my kids to see all the important punk rock sites across the country but i don't own a minivan and my kids don't care about punk rock the song is called
Starting point is 00:48:59 punk rock minivan wow wow yes i love that i love it yeah man custom vans when you and i are growing up was there anything cooler than that that was so cool no that was so cool we all wanted one we wanted to airbrush the side to have something super metal on there sort of uh yeah some sort of a barbarian holding a giant sword with a shine of the she devil sitting next to him kind of thing riding some fiery steed hell yeah this is all this is what we wanted and we never got it but we wanted it all right y'all check this out right here right here we want tom tom merritt is joining us as he does each and every wednesday to talk about technology news tom merritt welcome back to the show sir how are you i'm going to lower my monitor hi hi lower and lower
Starting point is 00:49:48 that monitor. Oh, there you are. Oh, hi. It was me all along. How's it going? It was never not you. It's good. How are you? You've been having a good week? All said, whatever. Yeah, yeah. I hadn't thought about it until you asked. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's going okay. Well, that's good. I'm always glad to hear that. Tom, Mary, you guys know him, you love him. He comes in here on Wednesdays and talks about technology. Why? Because he covers it on the Daily Tech News show every day. It's why it's called Daily. And today I'm on and there's probably stuff. Brewing? What's going on out there? There's stuff brewing. Yeah. What's happening? The Worldwide Developers Conference from Apple is coming on Monday. So most of the news is
Starting point is 00:50:29 I wouldn't say worthless, but speculation on what Apple might or might not do on Monday. When we get to this part of the cycle, I tend to just look away from all of that and say, you know what? We'll find out on Monday. Especially when you put out a podcast
Starting point is 00:50:46 that sometimes people don't listen to the next day or the day after. I don't want to have a bunch of stuff that says, you know, they might do this on Monday. And then by then it's Monday and everybody knows what they did. So there's a lot of that out there. But there was a really interesting article from The Verge called The Future of Netflix games could look like reality TV that caught my eye. Oh, tell me more.
Starting point is 00:51:08 I didn't see this. What's up with that? So Netflix is releasing more and more games all the time. You probably have heard about their weird. weird little mobile games, you know, Solitaire and stuff like that. Most people have heard of that. You may have heard about
Starting point is 00:51:25 some of the big name titles like Grand Theft Auto or what's another one? Case of the Golden Idol is coming to Netflix. So they're getting some big name titles. They're getting some fun indie titles in there as well. So slowly kind of building up, not that I'd call it retro, but you know,
Starting point is 00:51:43 library games. So stuff that you may have already played, or may never have gotten around to play. But, you know, if you already subscribe to Netflix, there's no additional charge for you to play these games on Netflix. But they also announced titles in the reality show genre. So we're talking about games like Too Hot to Handle, perfect match, selling sunset, the ultimatum choices.
Starting point is 00:52:12 Of course, these are shows that none of us watch because we're much too sophisticated. But apparently they're very popular among other people. And it's kind of a brilliant strategy of like, hey, you watch Too Hot to Handle. What if you were in the house with all the hot people for four weeks as they promise not to engage in any kind of sexual content, including kissing? You know, you can play the game and be along with. with all of the hot people as well. And one of the key things they did with that game
Starting point is 00:52:49 is they made the avatar super customizable. So you can change your hair and your outfits, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And it's become pretty popular. Do you think that there will be interactivity in that when things happen on the show, the game will reflect that? Or something you might do in the game as a group.
Starting point is 00:53:05 Oh, yeah. Okay, so that's the idea is to kind of show it on both ends. Yeah, yeah. So it seems to me the appeal is, you watch the show. It's 10 episodes, whatever. whatever it is. And then the show goes off and you wait for the next series. Well, you can keep the experience going by playing the game. Interesting. I mean, I don't know where I land on this
Starting point is 00:53:26 in terms of interest, probably very little. Of course. None of us are interested in reality shows or playing reality show games. Yeah, no, we're too sophisticated, right? Like you said, but I, but I, here's the thing, though, the concept that's on here could easily be parlayed to something like the science fiction genre or fantasy or something else there's stranger things and everything like that I think the thing that fascinates me about this is that while
Starting point is 00:53:53 none of us are interested in this these shows have huge numbers like gargantuan numbers they are cheap to produce they give huge responses and you get a bunch of people that may not
Starting point is 00:54:09 play a show a game related to stranger things but they're absolutely going to be addicted to this kind of game. And it's, yes, there are all kinds of strategies within the Netflix gaming offering that will bring actual, you know, people who identify as gamers in. This is going to bring a lot of people who might not identify as gamers in. I mean, I'm looking forward to there's, you know, the Taskmaster franchise has a VR game coming out in a couple weeks.
Starting point is 00:54:37 There you go, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, VR is perfect for that. That makes perfect sense. It is. Yes. So you're actually, you know, doing some actual VR things with that. What I play, like, you know, we've talked about how there are a couple reality competition shows I like. Things that aren't, don't have the word housewives in the title or selling sunset or anything like that. They don't need someone showing arms and midriff in their logo.
Starting point is 00:55:01 Right, exactly, yes. But like if they made a survivor-based game, because it would predominantly be puzzles. It's not like you're going to, there's, you're not going to get the social aspect of the game. I might be interested in that. And that's kind of perfect, right? The puzzling part of that really fascinates me. Or Amazing Race could do something like this. But that's about as far as I could go on that.
Starting point is 00:55:21 It would be cool, though. See, in that scenario, see, what interests me here is not that there's a game based on a thing. There's Kardashian games. There's all that. And they're popular and they're whatever. They're fine their audience. What I'm saying is it would be really cool, like in your survivor comparison, that what you're doing in the game either has an impact on what happens next week on the show or what happens on the show will affect how you play. the game. You know what I'm saying?
Starting point is 00:55:43 Yeah, yeah. Your competitors in the game, maybe those get eliminated right along with their real-life counterparts getting eliminated, and you, see, I don't know how that would work, because I guess you could get eliminated. Or you get the game before you see it the next
Starting point is 00:55:57 week on the show and see how you did compared to the players. Yeah, yeah. There's a few ways to gamify this. I think that's a good one. Like, those that's interesting. That's too hot to handle is a great example. They have created on Reddit, just the fans among themselves. main character Monday, where they all show off their avatars that they've customized, right?
Starting point is 00:56:18 And it's sort of playing off, you know, the idea of who is the main character of the storyline of the day, whether the show is active or not. Yeah. Interesting. Well, we'll see how it goes. You know, I try to apply this to existing reality concepts like if this was like storage wars, could I bid on that weird box in the corner, you know, things like that? Can I play a game based on Big Brother that slowly removes oxygen from the house? Yeah, without them knowing. They don't have any idea that you're doing them.
Starting point is 00:56:49 Another fantasy element. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, let us truly live the dream. I think the fascinating thing about this is not that, you know, I'm joking around, of course, but I don't watch any of these shows either, and I'm not really compelled to play these. But just the idea that, oh, they identified cheap fandoms. right? And I don't mean that the fans are cheap. I mean, it's cheap to create these shows and they create huge fandoms, dedicated people who are super into these shows and want to talk about them, want to hang out with other people and talk about them. And they gave them something else to talk about in between the shows, in between the series, to keep that dedication alive. And it seems to be working. And that is another brick. It is not the entire wall of Netflix's gaming strategy, but that is a huge brick. that you will bring people into this gaming service
Starting point is 00:57:42 that you're not going to bring in with, you know, Nvidia G-Force now. You're not going to bring in on Amazon Luna. But Netflix has figured out, yeah, we don't have to go for AAA titles because a lot of people are doing that. Not as many people are doing this. And suddenly people have something
Starting point is 00:57:59 that they didn't know they wanted and they love, apparently, and that's going to keep them subscribed to Netflix. And eventually, if this gets popular enough, I believe Netflix's strategy is to say, oh my gosh, the Netflix gaming program with, you know, it's multiple appeals, not just the reality show one, but also the Grand Theft Auto stuff and maybe original titles as they've bought some game studios that you can't get anywhere else is now going to be a separate service from Netflix streaming video. It's exactly what they did with streaming video. A lot of people don't remember you got Netflix streaming with your DVD by mail service for years. And then they split them up.
Starting point is 00:58:38 And everybody complained about them splitting them up, but then everybody subscribed to streaming and stopped subscribing to DVD by mail, and they eventually closed down their DVD by mail. I don't think they'll close down the video streaming, but I do think they'll split these apart at some point. Yeah, I think so too. This is a more natural way of doing it than that weird jump straight into a rental thing they were going to do some years ago.
Starting point is 00:58:57 What was that called? It was many years ago. Oh, yeah. All I can remember is Gamefly, but Netflix had their own name. Yeah, it was like that. And they had a separate name for it, and they, almost as soon as it was announced, they dropped it, it felt like. Quickster.
Starting point is 00:59:12 Quickster. That was it. Way too early for a thing like that. This is basically the fruition of that. Quickster was just renaming the DVD by mail service, actually, now that I'm not. Oh, was it? I can't remember what the game thing was. There was a game thing, though.
Starting point is 00:59:27 There was a game thing, and they, I think they bought a company and then closed it down or spun it back out. Called something for, and it was like a hot minute as all. Yeah, yeah. And then poof, it was out of there. Well, anyway, we'll see how it goes. I think it's interesting. So we'll find out as time passes. And today we'll talk about this and other cool stories on the Daily Tech News shows.
Starting point is 00:59:47 We lurch toward Apple's AI plans next week. Oh, that's right. Their big WWDC thing. Going to be big. We're going to do some sort of preview on Friday, I think. But we're going to look for sort of the unexpected things maybe. I don't know. We're still trying to figure that out.
Starting point is 01:00:03 And then, of course, Monday we've got Terrence and Nika from SnobOS joining us. Apple Vision Show will have immediate coverage of it. So lots of ways to cover WWDC from us. Sounds awesome. Anything else going on you want to mention? No, just that. Apple Vision Show. Go sign up for it if you haven't already.
Starting point is 01:00:21 Eileen and Sarah are killing it over there. And this is the week you're going to want to get their preview of WWDC from Monday and their wrap up next Monday. So the perfect time to go look it up, Apple Vision Show on your favorite podcatcher. I can tell you as a performer guest, it is a fine. show to be on too it's a good time yeah that was a great episode when you're on that was awesome really enjoyed it so if you guys are uh i want to check out a great show about apple stuff go do it tom merritt everybody we'll see you next time bye bye bye i didn't hang up on him either he let go before i'm hoping they
Starting point is 01:00:54 announced the apple vision pro nano uh you want a real one eye just one eye like a one eye one eye but the pro version max yeah apple vision nano pro max yeah i just want a little monicle that hangs from a chain. We'll see what they do. The best VR, one IVR. I have a feeling this will be, I could be totally wrong, but I'll bet you next week is almost 100% focused on the new Siri, iOS changes, MacOS changes, and iPadOS changes that will support all their new AI initiative stuff.
Starting point is 01:01:27 No hardware, all software. Yeah. And it usually is anyway, that's usually WWD, or at least the focus because it's developers. That's the whole point. That's the D in there. the big d i went to school and i got the big d i like that line in uh wet legs uh sheslown yeah i hate the all day long all day long on the shes long all day long it's the sheslown long i hate that part so much on the day long on the shes long all right
Starting point is 01:01:56 may i butter your muffin do you want your muffin buttered i really like that band i don't like the word shes long. Okay, we're going to get Randy. We're going to get Nicole. Although, I don't know if I ever got it. Did I ever get her link? No, and I've been talking with her. I almost don't know if she realizes it's today based on the way she replied to me.
Starting point is 01:02:23 She's like, oh, yeah, I should like two minutes ago. I think I'll be there, juggling kids and work. Oh, hi, Nicole. Are you there? Is that you? She made it. Yeah, I made it. Oh, hold on.
Starting point is 01:02:34 What do you recommend? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so there's that. No problem. It's good to have you no matter what, but I never got a clip from you, so I don't know what you watched. Oh, I sent it to you. Oh, you did? When did you send this?
Starting point is 01:02:46 Oh, you know why? It's because everybody tried to get in to feud today, so I have a million p.m.'s. Oh. Oh, you sent it at 918. Yeah, we're already doing the show at 918, so it's a little hard. Hard for me to see that. So the kids are out of school, so it's just. just a juggle.
Starting point is 01:03:05 Sure. I might not be here some weeks. Sure, sure. And we are fine with, you know, we'll miss you the days of you don't make it, but we're happy to get you. Yeah, we'll get you whenever we can get you. It's a good day of you here. It's also nice to see Randy.
Starting point is 01:03:17 Hi, Randy, Jordan. How are you? Good morning, morning stream. I'm doing great. Went to a middle school for the second to last time yesterday. Tomorrow's the very last time I'm ever going over to this middle school. Because of the restraining order? Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 01:03:30 Yeah. They don't even know that they're about to put one on me. But tomorrow is the last time. It's so flippin' weird to have a high schooler now. It is, right? So weird. Yeah, it'll throw you. It's like a time machine for you, you know?
Starting point is 01:03:47 Yeah, that's how they get you. They put you in the junior high and you get lulled into a sense that this is always going to be here. And then they screw you and say, nope, you're trying this other one. So I get it. Well, good luck to him. And they do big deals for junior high graduation these days? or how's that all? Yes, because capitalism. There's, you know, there's like, they're calling them the eighth grade class of 2024 and I'm like, no, you're just trying to sell extra 2024 graduate banners. You know, like, there's a whole promotion ceremony and stuff, you know, like an award ceremony, but like the extra, the extra things where they call them the wrong class year is just weird to me. Yeah. Well, good luck with that and enjoy. I mean, they did this with Vann's five-year-old one.
Starting point is 01:04:34 It was just too big of a production. It's like, come on, you guys. When I was a kid, I never saw a graduation until high school. Everything else was just like, see ya. They did a thing from elementary school to junior high for a sixth grade thing. I remember it was the day when there were tornadoes that would touch down near Arvada. We're all sitting there outside at the Foster Elementary looking up at these clouds like, maybe we just shouldn't do this. Let's not do this.
Starting point is 01:05:02 You're not giving us anything except a rolled up piece of paper that says they're giving you great memories. Oh, are they though? Are they? I mean, I'm remembering the tornado. I've seen some like fifth grade classes do they call it the clapout where they get the whole school to line the halls and then the fifth grade kids go down the halls like giving all the other kids that are still going to be there high fives. I like that. Yeah. And that's about it.
Starting point is 01:05:27 You know? Yeah. So every school does it a little different. I think it's, I think it's cool that they try to put a, you know, a cap on it. Right. Recognize, recognize the end of, you know, one door closing and a new door opening. The, you know, every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end. Yeah. I like that.
Starting point is 01:05:47 But then, but then do it by making everyone walk really slowly in a procession for way too long. Have them do that. I wish there's a way. They should just say, it's under your seat. And everybody just look under and there's your thing and go home, drive safely. that's how it should go. Jaseku Rigamortis. Hi, for in the chat room.
Starting point is 01:06:06 This is how you ensure every kid gets every germ. That's true. It's important to their little immune systems. I was sure we were going to get something the other night. Absolutely true. The way this middle school I've been going to over and over has prevented the spread of disease by doing a lot of things outside. I live in a place where you can go outside.
Starting point is 01:06:27 And so like the award ceremony we went to yesterday was outside. and that boy does that bring its own challenges. Yeah, it does. Well, be careful out there, y'all, during graduation season. There's a new version of the swine, or what's the one that gives you the barfs and the shits? What's that called? The not swine flu. Norovirus.
Starting point is 01:06:46 Yeah, there's a new variant of the norovirus. And it sucks. It's the worst. All right. Let's get into it here and get to Brian, who's going to start us off here with his Clip, Brian, tell us all about it. Are you ready for some noir? How about some noir?
Starting point is 01:07:05 Who ordered the noir? I like noir. That's what I'm breaking table this week. Do you watch Sugar? No, no, but that is on the list. I do want to watch it, especially I don't want to know anything about that there's a twist. I don't want to see it. No.
Starting point is 01:07:21 I don't want to see it. But that's not what I watched. I watched something else. All right. Let's play this clip and see what else you watched. Here we go. Dickie Greenlee. Yes?
Starting point is 01:07:36 Tom Ripley. From New York. We met at Bob Delancey's place. It was years ago. What a coincidence. Tom, what is it? Ripley. This is Marge. Marge. Tom Ripley. How do you do? Fine, thanks.
Starting point is 01:07:59 You don't seem to remember me. No, no, I just, I, you know, I haven't been back to the States since so long. That's okay. I think I'm going to go for a swim. Does I mean, do you want to care to join me? I will. Come? Oh, uh, sure.
Starting point is 01:08:29 an uncomfortable scene we heard right there it's an uncomfortable scene you can almost visualize the awkward looks that they're giving each other in that audio only clip Is that Matt Damon? That was not Matt Damon That is
Starting point is 01:08:43 You're so close The fact that this might take the award For the most times the name of the thing Has been said in the audio clip that I play This is just called Ripley This is a series on Netflix based on the same thing, based on the same novel, The Talon Mr. Ripley,
Starting point is 01:09:02 based on the same thing that the movie with Matt Damon and Jude Law was. But I think this, if that movie, you know, maybe I put that at a six, this is like an eight or a nine. This is so damn good. This is a neo-noir psychological thriller series, eight episodes, starring Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley.
Starting point is 01:09:24 Andrew Scott, I previously got him confused with the guy who played Perry Mason on the show on Max. No, Andrew Scott is the guy who played the priest Horny priest. Horny priest on Fleaback. Oh, I like that guy. He's great. Yeah. And
Starting point is 01:09:42 my God, he plays this character to the hilt. He's getting so many accolades right now. It'll be a real surprise if he does not get recognition when it comes any time because he plays this role so, so well. Um, it's entirely in black and white. So be prepared for that.
Starting point is 01:10:03 You've also got, uh, uh, you heard Dakota fanning in there as Marge, the character that, um, Gwyneth Paltrow played in. I, I did not hear her, though. You didn't hear her? No. Well, there's a woman in that girl? Yeah. She wanted to go swimming.
Starting point is 01:10:17 She's going to go get in the water. Oh, okay. I missed. Um, and then Johnny Flynn, the, the, the, is, uh, Dickey Greenleaf, the guy that, uh, you heard, uh, basically the guy that Jude Law played in the, the original as well. Oh, yeah, he's Moriarty and Sherlock, that's right. Is this a limited series deal, like a one-off and we're done, series?
Starting point is 01:10:36 No, it's a, it's a series. Yeah, but I'm saying, is it a, is it a limited series, like one? It's, uh, it's a series. I'll tell you this. They, it is not limited series. So they're having a season two is what I'm asking. This could be a, there could be a season two. And I try to say that in a way that didn't.
Starting point is 01:10:58 I didn't square up how it might end. Oh, I see. I've never seen the movie, so I don't know how any of that goes. Oh, good. See this instead of the movie. This is so much better than the movie. This originally was going to be on Showtime. They moved it over to Netflix, and I'm so glad they did.
Starting point is 01:11:13 You've also got John Malkovich in this thing. A little small guest role. You've got Fisher Stevens, whose head is so much larger than his neck. It's almost like he's a Funko Pop. He's in this thing as well. not a lot of other people that you would recognize Elliot Sumner
Starting point is 01:11:33 Margarita Bai Maurizio Lombardi this thing is so Andrew Scott focused I mean he's the title character and he just chews up every scene he's in so I would say
Starting point is 01:11:46 doesn't matter if you've seen telling Mr. Ripley put that one out of your mind watch this this is far better and far more sinister and smoldering than the movie to tell him, Mr. Ripley.
Starting point is 01:12:01 Is it very discomforting? Like, is the whole time you're just going, oh, geez, freaking... A little bit. Yeah, I mean, you know, he's a, if you know anything about the character, he's basically a guy who cons his way through life. And I feel like Matt Damon played at Conlight. For the movie, this guy plays it, like, this is a, this is a con man who will stop at nothing to get done what he needs to get done. And you, there are times, he plays it so well. There are times you root for him. There are times that you don't root for him. And, um, it's, it's just so, so good. The show is called Ripley. It is on Netflix, eight episodes. And, um, uh, really, really, really.
Starting point is 01:12:55 I don't know what it's getting right now on on Rotten Tomatoes, an 8 out of 10. Oh, 85% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Okay. If you're a person who cares about those sorts of things and it deserves every bit of that and maybe even more. Fisher Stevens play an uncomfortable Indian accented guy who's not. He does not. He never won at any point others, I am literally standing beside myself. Okay, good.
Starting point is 01:13:21 Never at any point says that. Okay, good. That's good. because I, you know, it was a rough time for Fisher-Stevens. Excellent. That sounds awesome. It feels like the kind of thing I need to get in the right mood for, though, right? Like, would you say that true?
Starting point is 01:13:35 No. I don't think so. I mean, I think you'll know instantly if you're, this, this show hooked us halfway through episode one. We were so drawn in by this because it hits the ground running. There is not a slow build in the show. It's, all right. you'll know you'll know instantly if you're in the right mood for it when you start watching it but i think i feel like i feel like even though it's black and white and it's neo-noir you don't need to
Starting point is 01:14:01 say all right settle in we're going to watch some neo-noir it's like no just jump in and start watching all right i'm all in uh Nicole let's swing over to you uh got a clip lined up here for you what do you want to say before we play uh I haven't really had much time to watch anything for me so Mateo has been watching us and I have been watching it along with him and It's funny because it's been out for a while. There are, I think, seven seasons. I've never watched it. Yeah, I'm really enjoying it.
Starting point is 01:14:33 All right. All right. Here we go. Here's your clip. George, what you have in your hand is the exact step-by-step instructions on how to make my brisket. I have never written it down until tonight because I was afraid someone might steal it. But I'm entrusting this to you. And I hope that someday, when the time is right, you will see fit to share it with one of your children.
Starting point is 01:15:02 Connie, I don't know what you say. Don't call me, Connie. Okay. I haven't seen any of this either. Oh, my goodness. I couldn't recall if we ever talked about it on the show. I reckon listed it a couple years ago, and I'm not surprised that Scott hasn't. watched it. Yeah, there's a, there's a, I think Scott and I both have this, this aversion to the end of the Big Bang, or like the middle, like after the first season of the Big Bang Theory, when they just started leaning into pop culture.
Starting point is 01:15:35 We haven't said what this show is, though. Oh, we haven't. Oh, we haven't had we? Oh, yeah. It's, it's young Sheldon. So, it's on Netflix. Um, Mateo has never watched Big Bang Theory. Yeah. So this is, and so it's been really interesting to watch him watch this and get to know Sheldon. from a different storyline. They do this show so well. I like it more than Big Bang Theory. Oh, yeah, everybody does.
Starting point is 01:16:01 That's what everybody's. It's not a live studio with a lot of laughter. Like, it's a perfectly composed comedy. Yeah. Yeah, which is something that I would like to see.
Starting point is 01:16:12 I think I just fell off that stuff so hard that as soon as I heard about it, I'm like, yeah, maybe I'll see that one day. I'll get around to it. And that's what I did too. I was like, I'll get around to it.
Starting point is 01:16:21 I never got around to it. it seven seasons I never got around to but Mateo started watching it and I love it because Sheldon I mean he's so smart and you get little hints of his upbringing in the Big Bang Theory but they really get a chance to like
Starting point is 01:16:42 dive into it with this show and Annie Potts who you heard in that clip is his me maw and I love her and oh what's the mom's name. What's the actress's name? Zoe Perry. In Big Big, no, no.
Starting point is 01:16:58 The mom. Oh, um, Frick. Zoe Perry. No, not yet. No. Conners. The Connors. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:17:04 Oh, that Metcalf. Laurie Metcalf. That's a, Lori Metcalf. That's her daughter. Okay. Wait, hold on a second. Zoe Perry is the actual daughter of Lori Metcalf. Yes.
Starting point is 01:17:15 That's, yes. It's the greatest podcasting that has ever happened. Oh, interesting. I had no idea. That's crazy. No idea either. Yeah. great. It's so good. I love that. Can I ask you this question? Does
Starting point is 01:17:28 Jim Parsons show up in this thing? Does he narrate it? Like, what happens? He narrates it. Okay. He narrates it. And his narration's real spotty. It's in like 100 episodes. You may be, you may be hear his voice in like 25. I don't know. Well, it says he's in 141 episode. That's all, that's all. He's credited in every single one of them. He's just not, he's just not important. Okay. Amy also shows up. Amy. Amy Blomick or whatever.
Starting point is 01:17:58 Museum Blomick, yes. Maya bomb blombic. Maya bomb Blossom. That's it. Blossom bomb blossom. She shows up in the narration too. Because here's the thing about the narration. You get little Easter eggs.
Starting point is 01:18:18 Museum Colonic. Yep. Yeah, she's great. Yeah, amazing. We got a little Easter eggs. I don't want to, I don't want to, like, spoil anything, but we were watching it. We're in the third season, and Jim Parsons' narration dropped something about past Big Bang theory, and we're like, we had to rewind it to hear it. So I just, it's just a fun, it's a fun show.
Starting point is 01:18:44 after this is done Mark's going to introduce Mateo to Big Bang Theory and see what he thinks about it and the character. And it's got comedy royalty all over the place. Craig T. Nelson,
Starting point is 01:19:00 Ed Bingley Jr., Wallace Sean, they're all over the show. And it's just amazing to see how they interact with these young first timers, you know? Yeah. Young, so Mima,
Starting point is 01:19:13 who's played by Annie Potts is dating what's his name? Correct T. Nelson. No, no, no. Early Wallace Sean. Oh, her first. I'm sorry. I forgot. Here's what's so great about introducing this to a kid. So
Starting point is 01:19:28 Wallace Sean was in Princess Bride. So Mark will make references to that. And Mateo's like, what? And we're showing Mateo clips of like things that these very famous people have been in and they're noted for. So it's kind of
Starting point is 01:19:44 It's kind of a neat way to introduce Mateo to things that he just hasn't. He has no clue who this person, he just, this is Mi Maude's boyfriend. He has no background. Wallace Sean rules, man. He's probably, you should tell, you should really freak him out and say, hey, do you know who the dinosaur is in, um, in, uh, toy story? Toy story. And it'll be like, it's Dr. John Sturge is played by Wallace Sean. He'll lose his mind.
Starting point is 01:20:09 Uh, no, that's, that's awesome. I, you know what? You can't ever encourage me here to maybe start this. Kim and I were always like on the fence of like, eh, it seems fun, maybe, I don't know, and then we'll get around to it and, you know, we never do it. Crazy neighbors love the show and so that enticed us, but then we also know that they're crazy neighbors
Starting point is 01:20:28 and sometimes our taste don't always line up. Yeah, I was going to say, Dave's got some tastes that may not line up exactly with you. As I said previously, and this is like really narrow, but like if you know Texas really well, the show is a celebration. of Texiana, you know, because it like they,
Starting point is 01:20:47 they really specifically follow their timeline. So they're like, they're like rummaging through 88, 89, 90, 91, that sort of thing. And there's like, there's events that happen in, in our history that kind of filter into the show. Um, it really, really takes off when my distant cousin, Montana Jordan meets, uh, Haley Joel Osment's little sister. Um, Emily Osment comes in as Sheldon's brothers,
Starting point is 01:21:12 future wife and baby mama and like the show just goes places it's so awesome there's no there was no doubt in my mind that those two people would get a spinoff like for years i've been expecting this spinoff between those two characters oh funny and you know what it reminds me of it reminds me of the goldbergs the gold the goldbergs are set in philly in the philadelphia area whereas young shelton takes place in texas but it has that same kind of vibe where you know you know, following this family and their adventures. Yep. I want to see it.
Starting point is 01:21:49 I will. I like Annie Potts too. She can do no wrong. Yeah. She's the best thing on the show, man. She's so perfect. I love her. If you've ever watched the Big Bang Theory, you kind of wonder, why does Sheldon love his
Starting point is 01:22:02 Mimaw so much? And then you see this and you're, oh, I get it. She's amazing. So, Matteo actually started calling his grandma Mimau. Oh, really? because of the show. He loves that character so much. So he's like, I think I might start calling you, me, ma.
Starting point is 01:22:20 Well, there you have it. Check it out. Young Sheldon on Netflix in its entirety. No, I don't think it's an, so. Oh, there's one more season. Yeah, because the season just, the final season just wrapped. Oh, okay. So it's CBS, why isn't this all on, oh, it is all on Paramount Plus?
Starting point is 01:22:39 I take it back. So it's on Max. Oh, it's also on Max. It's kind of all. over the place. Really? All over the place. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:22:45 Sheldon on, or sorry, Young Sheldon on Paramount Plus is up to date for anything they released. Okay. Check that out. Well, well, well done.
Starting point is 01:22:54 Let me dive over here to Randy Jordan. Randy, you got a clip. What's going on here? Yeah. I got a clip. I just, I bit brought up Rotten Tomatoes and I went over and was like,
Starting point is 01:23:03 what's the Rotten Tomatoes score for mine? Oh my gosh. It's 80, 98, 98. Wow. Wow. Okay. I believe it.
Starting point is 01:23:12 This is one of the, the greatest things that's come along in the last year or more. So that's cool. Well, it is cool. Sorry, the clip sucks, but you'll understand really quickly why the clip sucks. Well, let's find out. I told you. That's me.
Starting point is 01:23:30 Hold on. Here we go. Anson Shikishima, right? I was a mechanic at the Tsukuba Naval Air Corps, Tachabana. We were there at the same time. Tachibana. Oh, of course, yes. I owe you and your men.
Starting point is 01:23:45 This runway of ours is chock full of holes, and you were still able to land safely. You haven't lost your touch since we last met. Well, training for dog fights was simple. It's different in a real kamikaze. Yes, it is. Lucky you got this extra chance to rest, huh? It's strange. Your rig, we looked it over, and not a single one of us could pin down any issues.
Starting point is 01:24:10 What are you trying to say? I have no idea. This is Godzilla minus one. And this is the English dubbed version of Godzilla minus one so that you could understand something. The very beginning, a kamikaze plane lands with a bomb still strapped to it. That's odd. How does a kamikaze ever come back, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:24:34 It's right there in the name, Kamikaze. Yeah. So we learn a lot about our main character very quickly. And then it carries on from there. This is an incredibly human story. It's almost like Godzilla, the monster is the backdrop, the backdrop tragedy, right? Like how the boat is the backdrop of Titanic, right? And it's a story that really goes places.
Starting point is 01:25:04 I'm amazed at how this story takes us through. All of Japan in the aftermath of World War II, it's very anachronistic, very anachronistic. Like, it's an alternate universe altogether, but it's just beautiful, Scott. It's got such great music. If you can tolerate watching it in the original Japanese with subtitles do that, their performances are amazing. And, you know, if you got to, the English dubs are right.
Starting point is 01:25:41 I hear it's okay, but not better. You should watch it subbed if you really want the impact, I guess. Sorry, Brian. Yeah, when we saw the black and white version, Godzilla minus one minus color, it was the subbed version. And the acting really, like, the acting really is phenomenal. So I would say, I'm eager to watch it again because now I get to finally see it in color. We missed it during its run in color. I really don't think it matters.
Starting point is 01:26:11 The differences are color. I mean, it's like, there's no difference to the whole movie. I don't know. You can take this version. Yeah. You could just turn off the color on your television if you need to. Like, it's, you know what I'm saying? It's like, it's not, there's not something, there's not some artistic flair added.
Starting point is 01:26:27 Well, I thought they did, I thought they did like black and chrome for Fury Road, right? They do a treatment on it. He went through every scene and hand-tuned the black and white balance rather than just stripping the color, rather than, I get that. I get that. I get that. I'm just saying you as a viewer, I just don't, I don't see where you're going to, you know, where you're going to go, oh, that's breathtaking. It's not going to be a, yeah, I mean, it's not going to be a completely different experience, but I feel like it will modernize the film more than, because that black and white really served to make it feel like we were watching an old movie. Yeah, absolutely. Done really well. And for the, the scenes in the Japanese ghettos. Yeah. I would say minus color is the far superior version.
Starting point is 01:27:08 Oh, interesting. Okay. For the scenes that. include Godzilla. And I want you to know, this is a two-hour movie. It only has 11 minutes of Godzilla. It's so true. Yeah. But the color really adds something for Godzilla the monster. And I don't want to say more if you haven't seen it. But the color is a very, it's a very important aspect there. Wait a minute. Is he rainbow colored in the color version? Right. For the month of June, Godzilla Pride Month. Excellent. I love it. It's, but it's just, it's just an amazing movie. it is it is as good as it could possibly be that's the way i want to always put it because like you're if you're looking for faults you're going to find faults right there are a lot of tropes in this
Starting point is 01:27:49 movie there's you know like there's all kinds of of things about how the people come together to try to fight off the threat that's so so tropey but it's beautiful it really draws you in and like you want to jump on a boat and go join them in their fight you know right that sounds awesome. When they kind of stealth dropped it on Netflix, I went, oh, well, I'll watch this immediately, and I just haven't had time. So I'm going to try to watch it before this weekend. Yeah, um, pay attention to the music. The music is
Starting point is 01:28:19 stunning. It's so freaking good. One of the best soundtracks of 2023. Pay attention, pay attention to, uh, the, don't tell me what to do. I'm sorry. Like, pay attention to everybody who has a line in the first 30 minutes.
Starting point is 01:28:37 because they all come back. It's amazing how the movie holds on to people and has them intersect over and over. It's just beautiful. Yeah, I'm looking for watching it again. I am very excited. Finally, this. Let's bring a little horror movie to the table, y'all.
Starting point is 01:28:57 And let's get a little scared. Let's get a little freaked out by a thing that tries to reach back into the 70s and produce a feeling that we used to get about 70s horror. And I'll tell you whether it succeeded. Here you go. I told you not to look for me. Please, father. That's all I have.
Starting point is 01:29:17 The only proof of what they've done. But she looks so human. But don't let yourself be fooled. She wasn't conceived naturally. Ooh, weird. This is the first omen on Hulu, and if both those guys sound like, dude, you heard in Game of Thrones,
Starting point is 01:29:43 it's because this thing is full of Game of Thrones, people. It's another one of these things that has just recycled cast list from Game of Thrones. Yeah, it feels like these British productions, they tend to pull from this pool, and often those people have been in Game of Thrones, at least once or twice, if not more. But that was the first omen, and it just hit Hulu.
Starting point is 01:30:04 This is still, I think it's still even in theaters Or at least was at the time they put it there So we're getting stuff awful quick these days This is pretty interesting Neil Tiger Free is your main character She plays Margaret and I don't know if anyone knows who she is You probably know her from, if not Game of Thrones She was Marcella Barathean very early on six episodes
Starting point is 01:30:27 She's been in The Servant She's the main weirdo lady in the servant The Apple TV thing she's in oh gosh what else uh this other stuff you don't know anyway she's very good in this though i think this might be a star making moment for her um this is very much trying to reach back and go hey what was the omen like what did that feel like let's have it feel like that and let's make sure the catholic church is the most evil looking uh organization in the history of movies just like they used to do they still do this happens all the time but if you got demons and possession
Starting point is 01:31:03 and all that kind of stuff. Bring in the Catholics, bringing the priests and the nuns, have some of them look really scary, and bam, there's your movie. And that's kind of what this is. I won't get into specific, like, story stuff here,
Starting point is 01:31:16 but it tries to sort of establish the beginnings of all the omen movies. And the funny thing is, I think there's like a whole generation and a half who have no idea what the omen's about. It's just old, you know? So this is a prequel then to the Damien stuff. Yes.
Starting point is 01:31:29 Then the, okay. Direct sequel, or direct prequel, I should say. prequel. And the, do they capture, I mean, you can't, you may have alluded to this, but so capturing what made also the 70s movies so uncomfortable. Yeah, very much so. Like, I don't know what that even is. I don't even know what that sauce is. There's something. Yeah. About the settings, the costuming and the sort of era is very well represented. It's film like one of those old things, creepy music. There are a couple of cornball moments that I went, oh, wow, you're really going to do, you're going to do that, eh? But for the most,
Starting point is 01:32:03 part, it is not that. It is a little predictable. The minute I saw a certain character played by Bill Nye, I went well, he's not going to be quite like he's presenting, because this is Bill Nye, it's what he does. He's not. Reprising his role from Pirates of the Caribbean. Or Vincent, the Vampire
Starting point is 01:32:21 from Underworld. Yeah, he's very good in it. Bill Nye, the science guy? No, no, no. Bill Nijee, the Davy Jones and British actor. The British actors. It was the washed-up rock and roller and love actually. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:32:36 Okay. He's, he's, uh, oh, yes, yes. Blart Forst and, um, uh, hitchhiker's guy. That would have been a totally different. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. He's awesome. Uh, Charles Dance, who you heard in that clip is nodding in there very long, but he's very
Starting point is 01:32:50 effective, uh, in there. And, uh, Ralph Enison, you cannot miss his voice. He's also in it. It has a larger role. Uh, plays a character called Father Brennan. He's very interesting as well. Anyway, it's all you, I see Sonya, Braga is in this and I'm watching something
Starting point is 01:33:05 that stars her niece. Oh, no way. That's cool. Yeah, Sonia Braga plays a older, well, she is older, but she's a sister, like one of the older nuns there and she is really good. Cool. Awesome. It's fantastic. It's scary and
Starting point is 01:33:21 also very unnerving, which is what you want from something like this. It had almost gotten an NC17 rating and I'm dying to find out why. I don't know why. But there's a birthing sequence. Is it just probably the one that got cut a little bit. Oh, yeah, that'll do it. Yeah. So I will say this is a warning. If you don't want to see, um, how do I put this in a delicate way? There is a scene where, um, someone gives birth,
Starting point is 01:33:47 uh, seeming to a demon. To a demon. And, and, and it's very graphic. Um, let's just say the exit is a little graphic. I'll put it that way. Okay. All right. Go think of like, uh, what, uh, uh, knocked up but but not funny like that kind of hard kind of hard to explain I'm sure the NC 17 is something to do with that scene if I had to guess I'm trying to try to paste this out to see if it's
Starting point is 01:34:16 a thing for Tina or a thing for no Tina how are the is it jump scary a lot no more just like a couple jump scare but mostly it's like the ideas at play the dialogue it's a little more of a thoughtful movie it's not just but Tina's gonna watch this with me yeah she might
Starting point is 01:34:32 She might, Tina might really hate that scene, though. I don't know. My wife would not like that scene. She'd be like, oh, my gosh, what did you get me into? So I don't know. Maybe bring a blanket and toss it over it like my dad would or something. I'll just toss it over Tina when that scene comes. Yep.
Starting point is 01:34:45 Anyway, it is called the first omen. It is available now on Hulu, and I think it was good. All this stuff is on quicktm.s. So go check that out. If you are behind on that, you can check out last weeks and everything before it as well. So that you can try and keep up. Nicole, I hope you have a great. albeit busy week with the kiddos and the whatnot and all that have fun randy that was a quick
Starting point is 01:35:11 goodbye from her that's the quickest goodbye i've ever heard from her that was amazing randy is there anything you'd like to say to some things up here today i'm just really looking forward to talking to you on saturday for film sack yes well we're going to ride in a car driven by a baby I know. How do they make that baby drive that car? That's what I want to know. It's AI. That's what AI has wrought. Yeah. The greatest sequel to Baby's Day Out ever called Baby Driver. Can't wait. I'm on pins and needles here. Yeah, that'll be this weekend. I haven't seen it. So I'm excited to finally see the thing and see what's all about and get my, what's the director's name? Edgar Wright. Edgar Wright. I want my Edgar Wright dance card to get all the punch holes in it. And this will do it because I've seen. and everything but this. So there you have it. Randy Jordan, have a great week. We'll see you next time. Fine. Bye. Is it that everyone's surprised I'm not hanging up on them today? Is that what's going on? It must be. Yeah. That's funny. All right. Just trying to. That might have been one of the
Starting point is 01:36:12 best Randy exits. I think he thought I was cutting him off, but I didn't do it. I think so. Yeah. So we heard him. All right. What else is going on? That's it really for the show. We're done. Let's get out of here. On our way out the door, though. I would like to say that if you're looking for stuff related to this show, you can find it all at frogpants.com slash TMS. That's it. It's all there. All of it. Brian, take us out with a song. Okay. I will. I'm just responding to something TRPW asked about my film sec song for Baby Driver. I'm not saying. I'm not saying. Let's get to the request. This one's going out to Ducey. Ducey and Caducey, you know, Ducey and Kyrus's anniversary was right after TMS.
Starting point is 01:36:57 Vegas, but they partied too hard to remember to request the song in time. Ducey says, we've been together 18 years, and I love all, I'm sorry, I love that we're still finding new things to do together, like spend nearly a week with a bunch of the best nerdy people we only have ever met in Vegas. Nice. Caducey's favorite artist is BTS, so please play anything BTS related, but I'll leave the decisions up to the covermaster, and any date is fine. They left that out when we had dinner with him.
Starting point is 01:37:25 I didn't know about the BTS love. That's cool. Yes, we rode in their car, and we're looking at you and I're looking at each other like, I did not expect this music to be played in this vehicle with these two. It was great. That's amazing. It was so awesome to discover their love for K-pop that way. So let's go to BTS, or a cover of BTS, I should say.
Starting point is 01:37:48 This is by a favorite band of mine, Scary Pockets. They've recently announced that they're going to start focusing more on originals, which good for them. sad for me because I love Scary Pockets covers. But this one features Kenton Chen, India Carney, and Mario Jose doing a cover of Dynamite by
Starting point is 01:38:08 BTS. Oh, that sounds awesome. All right, that's it. We'll be back tomorrow for a Thursday edition of the show. Get your brains ready for the windy segment and all that stuff. We'll see you then. Because I am in the stars tonight so much we bring the far set the night
Starting point is 01:38:24 alive. Shoes on, get up in the moon, cup of milk, let's rock and roll. King Kong, kick the drum and the bop da-da-da-p-p-down. Sing song while I'm walking home, jump up to the top of the brine. Ding-dong, call me on my phone, and I got a ping-pong. This is getting heavy, can you hear the bass, boom, I'm ready. Woo-hoo! Life's sweet as honey, yeah, this beach's cheating like honey.
Starting point is 01:38:53 Disco overload, I'm into that. to go I'm down but you know I glow up let's go Cause I'm in the stars tonight So watch me bring the bus set the night light Shining through the city with a little fucking song So I'm a lighted up like dynamite Bring a friend join the crowd whoever want to come along Word up talk to talk let's move like we're all
Starting point is 01:39:26 the fun. Day and night, skies are light, dance to the radar. Ladies and gentlemen, we got the medicine. You should keep your eyes on the ball. This is getting heavy. Can you hear the bass boom? I'm ready. Life is sweet as honey, yeah, this beach chiching, like honey. This is going over low. I'm into that.
Starting point is 01:39:48 I'm good to go. I'm down. You know I go up. Because I am in the stars tonight As we bring the fast, yeah, Na-da-la-la-la-la-ha. Shining through the city with a little fucking song. I'm a light-it-up, like dynamite.
Starting point is 01:40:10 Oh, oh. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. Light is dynamite. Shining through the city with a little fucking song. So I'm a light-all Like dynamite Hey
Starting point is 01:40:29 Mm-hmm D-a-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D Oh, yeah Ooh Woo-hoo Woo-hoo Hey There's love
Starting point is 01:40:47 I'm in the stars night So I say Break the light Shining through the city Break the little fucking town I love it all Night-dur-a-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la and a lot
Starting point is 01:41:16 life in love like dynamite up Like dynamite. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpant.com. Bloodsport. There, there you go.
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