The Morning Stream - TMS 2673: Rubbin' Nubbins

Episode Date: July 10, 2024

Anal Funnel Cake. How to train your algorithm. The devil made this table. Space Camel Toe. She Spoke with her Fist. You'll Get No Data, No Chemistry, and No Lt Yar! New Borg Burrito from Chipotle. He Was Into Old Man Worm. Scott complains about his pencil. In there diggin' with my fingers. Getting Through The Garbage. Quarterly Apple Fritter. The Gap is a Design Feature. It happened in Gay Paris with Tom. Try Not to Lactate with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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How close are they to completing this ship? Is it operational? The morning stream. Save it for the French. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for July 10th, 2024. It's a Wednesday.

I'm Scott, and that's Brian. Hi, Brian. Hi, Scott. Hello. What was that? That sounded like you in that audio. There was me. Watching somebody play a video game or something.

No, it was my wife. She was driving, and I made fun of her, and she punched me in the arm. In fact, you know how hard she punched me. Here, listen to how I say ow. Listen to this. What, ow. Whenever you end a, when you end an owl with an ow, ow, wow. Ah, that means it really hurt.

Well, anyway, she didn't say anything. She just spoke with her fist. Excellent. Perfect. Sometimes that's the best response. Yeah. It's good to be here, everybody. We're happy to be here on a Wednesday.

Welcome to the program. We've got all kinds of stuff lined up for you. Yeah. I'd like to register a complaint. Okay. All right. We live our complaint music anymore. That used to have it.

It was like some sort of video game. Do, do, do, do, do, do, do something like that. Let's do. I don't know. Here. It's complaint music. Excellent. Excellent. All right. Here's my complaint. You know, the Apple pencil is about the size of a pencil, right?

It's like a normal little... This is not it, but this is a good example of facsimile. It's representation. Right. And I use it for an iPad Pro where I do a lot of art and stuff. And yesterday, that was one of those days where I had to get a bunch of things drawn and completed in between shows and stuff. when we had DTNS yesterday. So it was a little bit hectic around here. And I would like pick it up, work on it a little bit, put it down, do the show, whatever.

And at one point, the pen was separated from its mothership and was hanging out over here somewhere. And the pencil is magnetic, as you know, right? That's great. That's where it charges. Wirelessly just clips onto your iPad and boop-da-boop-boop-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-bo-be. It's great. And I like that a lot. Unlike the original design, which literally had you plugging in a cable into the tip of the thing,

which was the stupidest thing they ever did. Yeah, to keep track of this little tiny, like the cap, every time you took it off to charge it and plug it on there. And if you brushed against that thing, you were in the danger of breaking off the lightning port or whatever it was. Yeah, I was always paranoid about that the whole time. And I know they had something at one point where you could pull it out and plug in a thing to the side.

I don't know if that was the second model or whatever it was. But anyway, this is a new one, the pencil pro or whatever. whatever the hell they call it. And I was getting ready to take all my stuff up yesterday because I still had art to do after shows. I dropped the pencil. Not a big deal. I've done that before.

This pencil drops and rolls like you're supposed to win a fire, right? It goes, it stopped, it dropped and it rolled. And it rolled toward this, you know, this raising desk I keep complaining about that actually has way too sensitive of a button that makes it rise or fall. So once again, this thing is rare to its ugly head because the pencil hits the ground,

rolls over toward it, and because the magnetism is so good on this pencil, it got sucked up into the leg of this table, not leg, it's more like a T-shaped, you know, there's two, you know how, what I mean. Right, like it's, yeah, like a little T-bar kind of thing. Yeah, it rolled up under that T-bar and then went up into the T-bar

because of the magnet, because that's metal. Oh, okay. And stayed there and got up and behind a little metal lip that I couldn't reach into. And when I finally got this thing on its side, I'd take everything off of it. I had to tip it over gently. I'm cussing and being pissed the whole time. There's a glass top on this. Like it's a total nightmare.

I'm in there digging with my fingers. And I finally get that thing loose. I was so angry. I was so mad. And it's such a first world problem. I know that. So keep your emails to yourselves. But you know what I'm saying?

It's really frustrating. I'm like, I've got to get work done. And this table, which one, you know, the devil made this table. And sold it at Costco to its unwitting victims. Oh, geez. Anyway. God, I've never even thought about that. Like, the only thing I ever clip it to is my iPad.

I've never even thought about like, oh, yeah, this thing could, you know, roll under the fridge. Even though it's got a flat edge to it, it still rolls pretty nice. That's a short flat edge. It is. Blu, bloop. Yeah, it's just enough to be flat, you know, flush against the side of the. the iPad, I guess. Yeah, and it could easily roll under something like the fridge and require a massive ordeal like you went through to get it out. My gosh. Yeah, it sucked. It was lame.

So, you know, there was a minute there where I'm like, this is such a pain that I may as well just order another pencil and flip this guy off. Oh, no. Like, at what point is it worth more to me to get my life back in order than me sweating and freaking out and yelling and swearing at a table while no one else is in the room? Like, it was so stupid, which felt like an idiot. Anyway, it all worked out, and everything's fine now. I'm never going to do that again. And I also put a little blocker right there.

Can you put, like, a tape across the open edge of that standing desk? I like that. Yeah. I can't see it right now, but I have some of that great carpenter's, like, thick green tape. Yep. That stuff's awesome. I could do that. That stuff is great.

Yeah, you can put that. there. And that way, if it rolls under there again, at least it won't find purchase on the metal underside of your table. In my frustration and anger, though, I was not thinking clearly. That would have been something to do while I had it tipped over. Oh, while you had everything cleared off of it. Yeah. Sure. So now I've got to go back. But yeah, that was dumb. The lesson is, don't be fumble fingers and drop your pencils. Okay. It's a $229 device. It's not meant to fall and get stuck on tables. Still works, though. So everything's fine. Oh, of course. Good. And you got a great charge from your table. That's right. That's right. Also, I have a one, and the other complaint is

this is one directed at Apple. I really like the pencil in previous iterations from the first one on up till 2.0. It came with an extra tip in case you ever needed to swap tips. The new one does not come with an extra tip. So it's like, did you ever use the extra tip? Like did you, something happened to your, oh yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah, I've never had to replace it, but it depends on, it's your use case. Like if you're, yeah, if you're drawing it on all the time, you're going to rub, you're the nub's going to get rubbed down after time yeah so i can get more tips and that's fine they're like not that expensive but i'm still sort of annoyed by that yeah so thanks apple it's like it's like charging bricks they're like we're not doing charging bricks and tips we're

done we're out right exactly we figure you know go buy your own charging brick we'll give you a cable you're lucky you get that and uh it's really annoying yeah uh so there's that hey we got a quick note here from Russell in Chicago, who has this to say, hey, speed and blitz. He says, overcast goes three times as well. He's talking about our people who listen to the show at 3X. He says, I prefer smart speed to close up the silence gaps and bump the speed up to 1.15 or 1.25, depending on the podcast. I used to do higher speeds, but decided to cut my library and enjoy each podcast at a more normal speed, says Russell. All right.

the reason I breathe this is because I don't think we have a lot of gaps to cut here on the show. You know what I mean? What helps is that we have the music playing in the background. Right now, behind our voices, there's a little bit of music. So even if we do pause, there's music playing back there that will register

and not close up a, not have a silence gap to close up. Yeah. But also, we just never have, we're always talking, you know? Always talking. Yeah, unless, unless, Unless, like, if people consider a gap to be like a quarter of a second, like, we just don't, we just don't have big, big gaps. No, I'm, no, I'm hyper aware of every gap, every pause that we're leaving as we're talking now. It is kind of, it's almost an insult to the podcasting world because that's pocket.

That's, that's, that's overcast saying, we assume that all the podcasts are going to have a bunch of stuttering amateurs. So we're going to give you an option. You know what I mean? We're going to give you an option to close the gaps just in case every. one sucks. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I don't know. I mean, a stuttering wouldn't be an issue because it's still, it's still noise being made. It's just long gaps, which, again, you know, if you've got a storytelling podcast,

I brought up Dan Class yesterday, but Tim Coyne does this. Oh, who was the anti-ante, the anti-anti guy, gosh, Tina would totally remember the name. Another storytelling podcast, Lance Anderson. A lot of those Orange County podcasters who did, in the early days, did these storytelling podcast. And they would say, and then I saw her in the room. Yeah, but see, in those cases, it's by design to have the gap. It's by design. Exactly. And that's where you don't want to take that out. But I, you know, you can do it depending on the show, right? You can say, oh, for all these shows, at least in Overcast, I have it set up to say, five hundred by midnight, take out,

do smart speed close the gaps but leave it at normal speed i know you know a lot of people yesterday we were saying we were talking about this um obviously they can't do it for coverville because that would kind of defeat the purpose of the music it's like you're listening music at 1.25 speed and it's not even really it's not speeding up the music it's taking out chunks of the music to kind of close things up and give you just the the um the loudest points of the music kind of Evelyn Wood's Speed reading course or something. Right. That's why I can't do this on Netflix or something.

Same reason. Yeah. It's like it just sounds bad. Oh, I forget that you can do that on Netflix. Yeah, I can't. Netflix, YouTube, all those. They all do it. Yeah.

I don't like it. No. I'll tell you where I do like it. TikTok added an option. They don't even tell you about it. I did it by accident. If you're somewhere in the range of the left thumb area while you're in portrait, you know, watching a TikTok video in portrait,

and you thumb down and kind of this little blank space above the, username and the start of the description and not too high up though like it's a super phantom zone it doesn't really tell you where you're where you're supposed to do this but if you hold that while you're watching and you hold that down if it's like a long boring one or one you're trying to get to if it's a fail video and you're like hurry i'm get to the fail i don't want to see all this lead up there's a button there you can hold and it will kick it up to two times maybe three times really and just for that one like it'll go back to normal when you get to the next you just you don't even it's not even toggle you just let off so you're whole only only

only when you're touching it does it speed up oh oh gotcha okay so it's not like cool speed up until through the rest of this one but no it's speed up until i release yeah okay yeah it's a nice feature on there because there's a lot of garbage on there you want to get through and uh i don't trust longer videos on there i get to find uh the the knot girl so there are lots of good accounts on there i know there are i'm kidding show joes is like show joes is the one that's like no matter what always watch show joes i but i get on there and uh i just can't i have not got that algorithm programmed and i can't take the time to do it because i still like yeah what's worse is you got to claw yourself out of a bad algorithm turn so i've had times where i like mine right now feeds me stuff i like

but i will sometimes even by accident a video come up that i would normally just flick through and never see again but it'll come up and kim will say scott and i'll go oh what and i'm not looking at it now and you'll hang on there a little bit longer than you mean to yeah it'll play all the way through maybe twice because i'm not paying attention and the algorithm goes he sure likes that video we should send more of those and then suddenly i'm inundated with these things so then i have to like do a lot of quick flicking to get past stuff i don't want and then it settles back to my place my happy place yeah it's pretty crazy i just need to take the time just need to take the time i guess i mean it's or i don't i mean I'm perfectly happy getting my content from YouTube and a few things in Instagram and...

Yeah, you don't need it if you don't need it, you know? Yeah, I don't think I'm on Facebook enough because now when I do go on there, it's like, here's a post from a friend, here's an advertisement, here's a post from a friend, here's an advertisement, and I think it's because I'm not on there enough and they're like, oh, we need to catch up with Brian and really lay on the ads. Or is that not, or is that just what Facebook has become? That's just Facebook. You go on there now, all I get it is ads. I once in a while get something from people I care about.

Mostly I get bullshit AI posts where it's like a cop coming out of the ocean with a Bible. Oh, I saw that one. Yes, the Jolie Bible or the Holy Bible or something. And then 9,000 comments from bots and real old people saying, bless you for this. what amazing, what a crazy thing. You saved that Bible for that Polly Bible from drowning with your 17 fingers.

Well done. Yeah. I went pretty deep into reading about the dead internet theory. I don't know if you've done, looked at that much. No, I have not. A lot of it is Facebook-based, but the idea is that Facebook in particular is just nothing but

bots, AI generated garbage, and that's kind of it like it's actually just kind of running and not no one's really there doing anything so so dead internet meaning it is it is basically very few actual live humans using it on a regular basis compared to the number of bots and AI and all that's yeah and when real people do they come in they they they weighed into the water of stupidity and they see a thing and they and they think well look it's got nine million likes it must be good I'll like it

like it's that stuff I think I think they're just I don't know I think the Facebook model has aged out and now it's just being it's just a mess but you should read about it it's interesting dead internet theory is the is what you want to google it's putting that on my uh my list right now my to do list so yeah it's super interesting um all right well did i get to his whole thing i did thank you yes thanks for email you never know sometimes we branch out and we forget what we're talking we do we we we read the first three words of an email and then we get down a rabbit hole and never come out And I wouldn't forget to the person's. But we're out now.

And you know what that means? It's time for bringing another guy in here who's also out. And I don't mean that in the... I don't mean that in any particular way, if you know what I'm saying. Anyway, Brian Dunaway, out and about. That's what I mean. Out and about. There you go.

Very good. Very good. He's going to join us if he can. He answers. Oh, there is. Oh, look what we got here. It's Brian Dunaway joining us. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. Hey, man.

Hello, Mr. Dunaway. How are you doing on this fine Wednesday? I can smell barbecue because we're having a festival very shortly in all the food trucks that's pulled up this morning. And there's a lot of barbecue. What's the festival? Oh, my God. That sounds amazing. Where do you guys festing?

It's the festival of flowers, and it's pretty cool. We have all these topiaries that are sculpted like. different things like local mascots and there's a king kong out there on a on a on a on a building rah but he's all made out of plants and stuff that's actually pretty cool i i mean i i like um we have a place or we have a flower festival down in this place called midway and same thing the food is crazy good right right like why you guys just call this food days or something forget about the damn flowers who gives us shit about the flowers exactly i'm pretty much for the flowers Everybody's, exactly. Everybody's excited about the food trucks when they pull in. As a matter of fact, I think they kind of took over somewhat because we've had the food network down here before. And they always come down and try all the meats. It's expensive too, man. It's like, hey, you want a band? And then you can just walk around to all the trucks and get where are food you want or the samples. Okay, cool. How much is that? Like $40? Holy crap.

Are they, um, are they, uh, when the food network comes down, do you guys get on TV and stuff? Do you get like a, like a, I don't know, some part of some show? Uh, only if we're walking around in the background, make a stupid faces. Okay. But for the most part, they don't come, they don't come down to my place and go, hey, you're near them. You're near the meats. Let's talk to you. But yeah, I'm out and about. Fascinating. I make stupid faces in the background. Yeah, you do. I make stupid faces. Yeah. You like, push the, push your nose up. Like, like. You push the, push your nose up. Like. Like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, because I'm not sure. Do you say, can I have some? Do you say that to them? Yeah, can I get some? Can I have some of that? Usually, all I ever do is I walk around until I'll find funnel cake.

I'm looking for funnel cakes. Does anybody seem to funnel cake? You're so skinny. How do you eat funnel cake and have it just disappear like that? What's your secret? Well, the secret is only eating funnel cake once a year. Oh, that's the thing. Yeah, moderation.

Don't, no, no, no, no, that would be a bad idea. Yeah, anal, I'm sorry, annual funnel cake. annual funnel cake I did not mean to say anal do not make that a title oh that's a shame night box down that's a shame

nobody can support it that I have the the annual funnel cake and the annual blizzard and the annual peanut buster parfe and the annual like you know

great I've limited my funnel cake to once a year but I've also limited 359 other 364 other elements to once a year sure might's a little less than that

but I do have like a quarterly apple fritter. Oh, I love a good apple fritter. There's another one right there. Give me a bear claw, a very almondy bear claw I'm all in. Honestly, I can't even picture a funnel cake right now. Everyone talks about those. I don't think I've ever had a funnel cake. They look like a donut drawn by AI.

There you go. It's a bunch of squiggles. You just take some batter, some good, yummy dough. And you put in like a little squirder, like a cat. ketchup or a mustard squirder. You need to squirt it all around until it gets a flat. And you pull it out and you put some sugar on it. Okay.

So it's kind of like a twisted donut kind of thing. It's like a donut. Pretty much. Yeah. A plate of donut. A plate. Exactly. Yeah, like you said, dust it with sugar.

Sometimes jelly. Sometimes they'll jelly that business up. Yeah, a little jelly the business up. We don't get that around here. Come on. Well, now it sounds good. Yeah, put that fruit on there. Get out of here.

Yeah, forget it. What is this? What is this? What is this the north? It's more like a Belgian waffle drawn by AI. That's what a funnel cake is. A Belgian waffle drawn by AI. Well, here's what we need.

We need anyone, Belgian or otherwise, to be our fourth caller today so that you can participate. You can actually be on today. And what you do is you go into Discord, you send me a DM and you say, hey, I want to be a part of today's stuff. And we'll take, you know, whoever's fourth will take you. We don't care who you are. If you've been here before, I'll still take you. If you're new, I'll take you. all right

I'm uncomfortable with this conversation we'll take you however we can get you yeah we'll take you wherever we need to go um all right let's see who we have here oh we have the fourth now we have a fourth person this is going to be a new person I think let's see we're going to add them to the call I hope they're Belgian I hope they're Walloon

that'd be amazing Flemish Flemish that'd be cool they have no icon so we're we're in for it here hi who's this nice Well, hello. How are you? Desold? Desold? Does that mean you don't have a soul? Or is it mean you're the soul? Like, how does it work for you? Is your Kia Soul in the shop? Yeah.

Oh, no. There you've been. Oh, you really truly have been desold. You're also, it says you're playing Diablo four. So that's a perfect name for a guy that plays Diablo. That's fantastic. Yeah, I got it from Warcraft originally. Oh, well, that'll work fun. Clever play on words. I like it. Excellent. Yes. Well, Brian Abbott explained to D-Sold here how he may acquire additional video games in his life. I will be D-Hapy to do that. It is time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict the answers that they gave us.

It is Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. DeSold, your job is more important than ever because you're going to decide if you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you will derive a prize package. It includes East Side Hockey Manager and Observer. And some listeners might say, wait a bit of Bradda, did you give those prizes away on that day? And I would say, oh, man, you need some claret. And I would say, yes, we did.

And Fisgagg, who won those just started a new overnight job and is never going to have any time to play. So he said, donate them back in the prize pool, give them to the next winner. Oh, very nice. That's cool. It's supposed to be. The saddest gamer story ever.

This is one of those, that Eastside hockey manager is one of those. like hardcore sports sims it's not like you're playing all the time you're just kind of running a team and doing a franchise. Can I be like Emilio Estevez though? Yeah you can yes you're the stage one is drive out onto the ice yeah and you can completely uh you can name them that if you want name them whatever you want it's your choice the ice ducks I'm on it the ice ducks the ice ducks awesome hucklefish call them that uh let's get to our game you need you guys need a topic to be able to play this was a fun one I was really I'm excited when I saw this one come up in the survey suggestion list, and so I put it in.

Some people had problems with this, but we'll talk about that. 514 people answered, some of them with a, I don't know what you mean, but put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this. Name your favorite couple from a sci-fi TV show or movie. Ooh, Scott. Wash and Zoe. Show me, Wash and Zoe. Of course, we just watched Fireflies, so that that applies. I will finish the question for Brian, who then has five answers that will beat that one.

Name your favorite couple from a sci-fi TV show or movie who met as part of the storyline. Ooh, that's interesting. I want to say O'Hura and Kirk, because I want to say O'Hour and Spock, but, hey, you can laugh if you want to, that was a changer. That was a game changer. It sure was. Sure was, absolutely. But really a long-term couple, go ahead. Show me, Yehura, as Scott would say, and Kirk.

Oh, that was the first thing that came to mind, though. Oh, I got another one. Can I use another one? No. No, you can. But I'll tell you that Kirk and Heurah, Yehura, we're number 33 in the list. That's low. Would you have piled that in with Spock and Yuhura?

Can you tell me? No, I would separate those. Okay. All right. Yeah. So it might still be on there, is what he's saying. Might still be on there, you'll never know. Scott then means you got DeSold as a partner and you've got control of the board.

DeSold, do you have any big ones? The only one I could think of off the top of my head was Hans Solo and Leia. Oh, God, that's so good. Damn it, that's a good one. Yes, let's choose that. Luke and Leia. Let's go that one. All right, show me, of course, Han Solo.

I love you. I know. Yeah. Number one answer on the board. board. Come on. Easy, peasy, lemon squeasy. No brain. If you're a nerd and you didn't consider that for your cake topper for your wedding, what are you doing then? I'm also guessing sci-fi is broad reaching in the tadpool. So it's probably more, there's probably more here than we think. Is it frowned upon to have a Luke and Leia for your

wedding cake? Is that what if you only seen, what if you only seen the first one? I think in the south, there's a lot of southern nerds who probably had a Luke and Lay on their wedding cake. Well, if you never saw Empire Strikes back or return the Jedi and you just assumed. Right, you just assumed that you just saw that first movie. I love Star Wars. Never saw any of the movies, but man, what a great couple, Luke and Leah. Like, we could go, um, shit. I can't think of anything.

DeSold, you got anything else? I think popping. I can't, I can't think. I mean, I have an older one for whatever reason. It just popped in my head, but I mean, I guess it works. It's, uh, Lois of Clark. Oh, that's not bad. See, that's what I'm wondering.

wondering is how far did they, I was also thinking of superhero stuff because I just don't know what the tadpole is going to think. Let's, let's test that water and go with it. Let's say Lois and Clark. All right. Show me Lois Lane and Clark Kent. Damn it. Damn it. Damn it. All right. Yeah. I mean, it's, that probably actually helps for future answers because I don't know how far into that people would think sci-fi. Yeah. So I don't know. All right, Brian. It's on you, buddy. Back to you. You know, Brian. I'm racking my.

brain going through the Star Trek universe. Every time I think of one of them, I'm like, wait, they ended up getting separated, then hooking up with somebody else. But I think maybe Riker and Troy may be up there. That's one of my favorite couples until the, until the Klingon came along, and there was a big fight. You're right. Exactly. There was a whole thing, yeah.

All right. Show me. No triangle. Show me Space Camel. and can't sit on a chair properly. Yeah, number seven. That's horrible. Space cameltoe.

Tie it up the game, right? By the way, Brian and Scott, both with seven points. All right. Going into the next question here. Still, seven answers on the board. No pressure. There's so many smart-ass answers here. There are, and you know the tadpole is full of them.

They're definitely full of it with smart answers. But I would like you to follow this up later with favorite three-way relationships and sci-fi shows. I think those would be fun. So how about Kirk and Solo and Leia?

I'm going to say, you should do Chubacca and Han Solo. Those two, but a lovely couple they are. Didn't say a romantic couple. It just says, name your favorite couple.

That's true. So I'm going to go, I can't stop thinking about Star Trek. They're so coupling there. Don't happen as much in Star Wars. But I'm going to go with one of my favorites right now, Nurse Chapel and Kirk. Not the old ones.

My strange new worlds, right? Isn't it going to happen? Isn't that going to happen? I don't know. I like that you treat it like a secret, though. That's funny. I do have a little crush on Nurse Chapel and the current, the Strange New Worlds. Show me Kirk and Chapel.

Nope. But that was said as well. Really, only one person said it, but they were on the side. same wavelength as you. So tied for 38th place. How do you feel about, um, oh,

this, maybe it's too far, but how, okay, so, Dissold, how do you feel about Mulder and Scully from... Ooh,

that is a good one. Even though, I think they kissed or something. That's a good one. Yeah. Yeah. It feels like a good jokey one, and it's kind of true.

So let's do that one. Let's go with that. Sure. All right. Mulder and Scully, forever immortalized in a catat, Tonya song. Show me Mulder and Scully.

Number nine. Very good. Good points. Taking you guys up to 16. I was worried there for a minute. All the ones I could think of a very mainstream. So it's very not tadpooly. Yeah, it's hard, right?

I mean, you can see. I was just watching more. I was watching Futurama last night. How do we feel about, um. Ooh, that is a good. Yeah, Fry and Lila, I think. yes let's do fry and leila let's do it thanks a lot brian abit i heard it's done what's wrong with you brian i'll still you know you i already had it in my head but i appreciate

you vocalizing it's not a problem right what did i did it i said i said i said leila yeah i said determined this past week i got diarrhea of the mouth and i can't show up it right now i'm gonna shut up i said i bit when i meant done away that's oh gotcha okay all right let's what did i do what i say all right show me fry and leila number two 18 points for Scott and DeSold. Nice. Seven still for Brian Dunaway. Nice. Number two.

Four, Stryor, two strikes for each team left on the board. Two strikes? Jeez. Oh, lift. Left. Left. Two strikes left. I'm not very good with this topic. I picked the wrong day to give him a crack cocaine.

It's a good one, though. I wonder. Let me think here. Oh. Oh, you got one? What do you got? Homer and Marge. Oh.

I mean, not really science fiction, but, you know, maybe. People are... Oh, true. Yeah, sci-fi fantasy. It is the... It is the tadpole, though. I'm just saying. Yeah.

Shut up, Brian. Yeah, shut up over there. Oh, gosh. Can we do... Sorry, Scott. How about Vision and Wanda? How about that? Oh, yeah.

Wanda Vision, basically. Yeah. All right. me, Romanov and Vision, because he really just has the name Vision. Oh, come on. That should be on there. That was said by quite a few people, actually. Where is that? That was number 13. Not high enough to give you a bonus guess, but still high enough that people said it. All right. What do you think, Donaway? What do you got there?

well i've been watching a lot of star trek yeah right thank you amy not not romanoff natasha romanoff is uh black widow not uh maximoff wanda maximoff right good job i didn't even catch that um i don't know marvel shit one of my favorites do you think do you think i'm just going to go for it data and tasha yarr that could have been that could have gone places he only had sex the one episode, though, right? I don't want to help you.

Never mind. All it takes. Yeah. Forget what I said. It's just so monumentally, you know, one of those relationships that hits you, right? Does it? Right. I don't know.

I thought it's a weird... I don't know. I never felt like the chemistry was really anything more than that weird episode where they... They weren't really in control of their own faculties. Fine. Commander Janeway and Tuvix. You're going... I love that one.

I love that one. You think of sci-fi things that you like and try and figure out if there are couples. Fine. How about Chipotle and 9 of 7.9. 9 of 7. I don't think Commander Chipotle and her got together, did they? Chipotle is Chipotle. Yeah, it's definitely Chipotle. It's Chiquotay, but I love saying Chipolte.

So I'm going, fine. Scott's Taught me out of the other one. Going with seven of, going with the Borg and Chacote. All right. Show me, uh, Chacote and the Borg. No. All right. Not even, didn't even make the list.

Like nobody even mentioned that way. So we haven't done anything in the sci-fi realm here, or excuse me, fantasy. Because fantasy is included here, right? Or no. The movie was asked sci-fi. TV Shore movie, not fantasy. No. Fantasy.

Yeah. Okay. There's some really good ones in like Lord of the Rings and some other stuff. Sure. Yeah, I was going the Lord of the Rings route. Yeah, same. That's what I was thinking. All right.

So if we're stuck in sci-fi, assuming the Tadpool stayed there pretty closely. Who's the green lady and TV couples? Who's the Green Lady and Guardians? Gamora. Gimora. Who is she? Oh, she was with the... She liked the raccoon.

Yeah, I mean, Gruton, what's his name? Maybe are in there. But let's go with Star Lord and Gamora. Let's do that. All right. Show me Star Lord and Gomorrah. Oh, really? Third strike.

Damn it. That's a really good one. Brian has a chance to steal here. It needs 12 points to win. There are five answers still on the board. Have you run out of Star Trek guesses there, Brian? No, because I never did say Troy and Wharf. And as dumb as it seems to have it on there, there's three, four, and five.

Come on, what am I not thinking of? And eight and ten, by the way. Three, four, five. Oh, I see. Oh, I searched as saying. Like common answers, three, four, and five, yes. There's at least three and four that was pretty common. Over 20 people said it, right?

Like, probably. Yeah. Jesus. What am I missing? Who am I missing in the sci-fi world? Did Chipotle and his captain ever get it on? Did they ever have a moment? There was a lot of stress and tension there, but I think it was more workplace. I don't think that was the thing. She didn't gently caress his tattoo and, you know. No, and I'm trying to make a Deep Space Nine. There was a couple of, eh, but nothing serious.

Not like the next generation. They got really busy on the next generation. They were really tight. Commander Chipotle, please report to my ready room with chips and guacamole. That is correct. Maybe I should go away. Maybe I should look at the chat room. Let's see what they got here. Commander Paris.

I didn't say Commander Paris. You guys are idiots, not his kid. That's a really good one, actually. Oh, Doctor Who and Rose. That's a great one. You know what? Out of active desperation, I'm going to the chat room. All right.

Desperate, do it. All right. Show me the doctor and Rose. Oh, come on. That was a good answer. Yeah, that one, that is a really good answer. Rose Tyler and the Doctor, number 31 on the list. Really surprised more people didn't say that one.

But there you go. Congratulations going to DeSold. You won the game. Let's see what these other answers are that come from things not in the Star Trek universe. Number three, Holden and Naomi from The Expans. That's a good one. Oh, I never watched the Expans. You need to.

It's so good. you need to do it. So good. Such a great series. It really is. The Star Trek, when you didn't mention, and I'm surprised,

it sounded like you were on your way going down this road when you're talking about the Klingon, but you didn't mention this pairing. Dax. Damn it. Worf and Jedzia Dax.

Yeah, of course. That was the D-Space nine, so I was couldn't think, oh, come on. Yeah, now he was into a worm, really, is what that came into. Into an old man, right, old man? Yeah, old man.

That's what Wharf was into. Yeah, if you're ever like, hey, Hey, Worf, what's your sexual preference? Old Man Worm, he'd say. Old man, worm. Yeah. Anything else is without honor. Yeah, that's right.

Let's go to number five. Let's go to the movies for the next three. Neo and Trinity. Oh, that's a great one. Damn it. I was going to say that, but with the chat, with the chat, you know, it's kind of like, you don't know. Yeah.

It was one of the mainstream ones. Yeah. That's a good one, though. get your multi-pass ready for number eight. Oh, damn it. Lidlis and Lelu.

Okay. That's a good one. Well done. And a romance that started on a planet full of trash. Eve and Wally.

Oh, I never felt that great about the Eve and Wally relationship. Really? I did. Not that they're fine.

Did you think she was out of his league? She was a little bit of a user. You know? Oh, while he's a little trash guy. Okay.

You know, a little bit of a... I feel like she lowered her standards for... Oh, absolutely. That was the problem. Sure. You think trash should stay in its lane. That's what you're saying.

No, I'm just staying. Just a sanitary worker and, you know, a hot, hot smooth, a flight robot. Hot smooth, smooth and convincing. Let's look at what your other, what people said below or below on the list below her. John Crichton and Aaron's son from Farscape. Paris and Tom Paris and Belana Torres from Voyager

was on the list there. Luke and Leah did make it to number 15 by the way. Good job you guys. Simon and Kaylee from Firefly Adama and President Roslin from Star Galactica. The earlier mentioned work in Mindy, number 18. Worf and Troy, number 19. Anakin and Padmei, number 20. What a tragic. This is great. Brian, what did you say was 11? Sorry, I missed 11 was. Oh, 11 was John Crichton and Aaron's son from Farscape. All right. So that would have been our bonus. That would have been your bonus guess. Yep. John Sheridan and Delenn from Babylon 5. Buffy and Angel. One of my favorites, Dave Lister and Christine Kachanski.

Oh. From Reddwarf. Oh, right. Fitzon Simmons, Fitzsimmons from Agents of Shield. Gaius, Baltar, and Caprica 6. You think? Jake Sully and Natiri from Avatar. Michael Burnham and Booker from Star Trek Discovery. Peter Bishop and Olivia Dunham from Fringe.

Picard and Crusher, another Star Trek one right there. Starbuck and Apollo. Zerafel and Crowley from Good Omen's. I love that one. Miles and Keiko. Another Deep Space Nine one there. Mr. Incredible and Elastigurl. Sawyer and Juliet from Lost.

I don't know. You know, we had a Sawyer and Juliet. A few people said that one. A few people said Charlie and Claire. No one said Desmond and Penny, which I think is the true love story from Lost. That's the, that I feel like is the, she's his constant. Tony Shalub and the Alien Girl from Galaxy Quest. Two people said that one.

That's actually a really good one. Yeah. Alien girl. That was the girl at the big eyes. Hold on, what's her name? What's her name? She has a great name. The actress.

Yeah. We always bring her up. Missy Pyle. Missy Pyle. That's it. That's awesome. Amy Pond and the doctor. Eragorn and Rwen.

So there's, you know, somebody did say that one. Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams in the arrival. We're in just our rival. Let's see. Cisco and Yates. Bill and Frank from The Last of Us. Disappointed that only one person said that. I wanted that one to be like up in the top ten.

because I love that one. This really could have been Star Trek relationships. It really could. As many as there are. Because then we get to Janeway in Paris, Kirk and Spock, Kirk and the Green Chick, Kirk and Nurse Chapel. Hold on. Chandler and Monica. Somebody did not understand the assignment.

Paris and Janeway had a thing. I didn't know what Paris and Janeway ever spurred. I don't know if they ever did, yeah. They had like a, it was like a low simmer. It was there. I feel you. Okay. All right.

all right except for Janeway's poor ex her poor husband who was her I don't remember what his deal was reminded like the way

Paris or the husband the husband they first oh yeah she's just like I'm out you remember that that was like the whole rub that's how that series started I don't remember that at all

that's weird I've seen I've seen that series through a few times and I don't remember her husband yeah for Janeway all right it was like a discussion that she was out right

I'm remembering that correctly right I don't lose my mind I don't have a stroke right now you're having a stroke do you smell toast everything's fine I smell toast but I am making toast so oh so it's hard to say dang uh Decker and Rachel from uh Blade Runner oh that's a good one yeah somebody just replied I don't watch sci-fi for the motion stuff

well that's what do you watch it for yeah what do you watch it for? I mean who does but you know but you still can't argue that they're you know Luke Han and Leia have a thing going on. Well, plus every one of these examples, though, everything you've read, the point of the thing, either the TV show or the movie, is not romance. No, it's never that. There's a whole other thing. It's just a little side part. It's part of humanity. That guy is wrong. He's wrong. You have to have humanity in space, right? How do you read? That's the whole thing. Are we still human if we're exploring space in the future and stuff, right? That's always a big question. Yeah. Well said, Brian. last couple here if I'm going to do any more Catness and Pita from the Hunger Games

Mando and Grogu I love that one Rick and Mishan from The Walking Dead Ned and Chuck from pushing daisies I guess it's kind of sci-fi all right

kind of yeah adjacent fantasy sci-fi Ripley and her cat and Ripley and the xenomorph both each getting getting a vote Ooh, and four, Alien 4, she full on had the doody-duty with the queen there.

Not wrong. Right, true, yeah. Yeah, they made a baby. Rory and Amy Pond, there you go. That's the more appropriate one. Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese, very much part of the timeline. Scott Pilgrim or Ramona Flowers. Any other good ones here?

Tara and Willow from Buffy, good choice there. Tucker, Trip Tucker and Tappal from Star Trek Enterprise. oh man i don't remember any of that oh and uh tom holland and zendaya oh okay so chani and uh paul atraties we'll we'll take that one that's good it's close enough yeah they didn't say uh timothy chaline but they but tom holland so spider man and chani oh yeah i always uh yeah you're right i read a thing the day that made me happy apparently on set they had to when they weren't doing scenes together they had to keep Salome and Zendaya away from each other because they were pranking the entire, they were just cracking up and doing, pulling jokes and being dorks, like just acting like a

couple of siblings constantly on set. And it made me very happy to hear that. That's what you want. You go to a hot desert to film a thing. Goof around. Have a good time. Enjoy yourself. Absolutely. Yeah, kill time in the desert. Well, well done. Good job. Good job, everybody. We have a winner and that means this. Congratulations. win. And all of those codes that Brian mentioned, the two of them anyway, for East Side Hockey Manager and Observer, will be in your direct message Discord here shortly if it isn't already. So enjoy those games. And may all your souls be deed, I guess. Thank you very much.

Thanks, I'm sussled. All right, man, we'll see you later. Hey, Brian, I'm done away. I mean, I don't twice now. I keep doing you guys back to forth. This Friday, you and I'm going to be getting together and talking about, you know, skating around town and doing graffiti. Getting on an inline skates doing some jet grind radio if you're in the U.S. or Jet Set anywhere else. And Jet Set Future. I'm going to try to see if I can play a minute or two of that on my Xbox.

That's still retro for me, for me, man. 2002, I think. Yeah, oh, two. It's a long time ago. I forgot they put it on there. That was an interesting reminder for me. But if you have any. The superior of the two games, I'm just saying arguably.

If you have any love for turn of the century Sega business, you're going to want to tune into this one. So do and find us at 1.30 Mountain Time over at frogpants.tv. That's on Friday. And it'll also be on the podcast after, of course. So get it however you want it. Brian Dunaway, is there anything else you'd like to tell the people at home before I cut you off? Yeah, my my toast is burning and I need some barbecue. Oh, well then go get it and flower it up, buddy. No you. Bye. All right. Fantastic work. It is time to, maybe we'll do a quick news story. Okay.

I think I'll do a fast one. Here we go. This very fast minute or so long news story brought to you by. Tadpooler Leon has a new single out. It's called Studio 8G, inspired by 8G band from late night with Seth Myers, who are disbanding at the end of the summer due to budget cuts at NBC. Boo! Available on all streaming platforms this Friday, links can be found at HTTPS, colon,

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Anyway. Yeah, I think I saw this episode of the Daleks versus the doctor. It sure feels like it. So South Korea's city council says its robot administrator killed himself by jumping down a flight of stairs last week. Local media is now more. mourning the loss of the country's first suicidal robot. According to witnesses, the robot had been circling in one place for some time before jumping, indicating that something had gone wrong, but the circumstances of the incident

are still under investigation. Oh, no. Do they think foul play was involved? Well, they've got to rule it out, Brian. They've got to rule out the foul play. The robot was one of the first such creations to be hired by the mayor's office. Since August of 2023, it has been helping employees with daily document delivery, advertising, and providing information to local residents.

The robot was created by Bear Robotics. It has its own civil servant card, worked standard hours, 9 to 1,800. Unlike other similar robots, this one served several floors at once and could call an elevator to get them on its own. I don't know what that means. To get to them.

Oh, to them. I missed the two. South Korea is one of the most robotic countries in the world, according to this article. The International Federation of Robotics says that, well. They say there is one industrial robot for every 10 workers. That actually is kind of crazy. That is. That's amazing. It says here they have no plans to hire a secondary replacement or any kind of robot administrator replacement. So goodbye. Farewell, dear robot. I mean, you know,

I mean, aren't we thinking malfunctioned, didn't realize where the stairs were, got its little map and its head screwed up and started making its way down a, down a hallway that turned out to be a staircase. Yeah, 100%. It hurled itself based on bad data. It's not AI like deciding, I'm tired of this work. I feel like I'm going to be doing this forever. Yeah, goodbye, cruel world, and then hurled itself off a five-story building. The sushi place in there is a robot that brings your order and walks you to your table and stuff like, it rolls you to your table, basically. To take orders at all? Like if you...

No, no, they still have a person that comes around to take the order and to deliver the bill stuff, but from the kitchen they can say, all right, put stuff on the tray, boop, beep, boop, deliver this to table 22 and it goes around and then gives you a little smiley face and you take your food off the tray and there you go. Nice. Well, that's the future. Everyone embrace it. That's going to do it for the news.

We're going to take a break when we come back. Tom Merritt will be here for a little tech time. Got big Samsung stuff happening today. So we'll see what's going on there. As well as recommendals, recommendels. Randy will be joining us. That's right. Nicole's still on vacation

and recovering from falling in the in the river poor thing yeah hope everything worked out I guess we have we now have that in common I also fell off a thing in the Colorado yeah that very river

yeah I've shared well I've done raft I did the rafting thing once and I stayed on the boat the whole time you're better for it I felt like an idiot just had a just a lucky is I think from the sounds of it

that's right so before we do all that we need a song can you do that for us sure How about an artist named Bones Owens? Ooh, very cool. He's got a brand new album called Love Out of Lemons. Comes out, actually came out.

No, comes out this Friday, July 12th. Look at that. I'm totally giving you guys an advance with just a couple days to get the whole album. That's the best kind. He's going to be performing on album release day at Eastside Bowl in Nashville and performing summer skin on today in Nashville during release week. And then he's going out on tour with Blackberry Smoke, El King, and the Steel Woods.

So really good lineup for those shows. Let's get it on with a song called Get It On. Here's Bones-Owins from Love Out of Lemons. I'm feeling like a dog I can't get off of my chain

No mind of my own But baby I'm born I'm ready to get next to you So let it be known So let it be known I'm waiting lonely long And get it to get it

To get it on No way to round day I took the long way I stumbled through the jungle But it was an old thing The sun has gone down I'm putting in town There's nothing left to do

What I came to do now The wedding on it on To get it to get it to get it on The wedding on The wedding on waiting on waiting on there we are on

waiting on and get it to get it to get it on Greetings, Traveler from Beyond the Fog. I'm just following common etiquette, you moron! And we're back. Tell me who that was again, please. Sure. That's a guy named Bones. Owens. Got a brand new album coming out this Friday called Love Out of Lemons. That's the first single. It's called Get It On.

Yeah, man. Why not? Get it on. Get it in. Get it out. Whatever you got to do. It's a good thing to do. All right. We're going to call Tom Merritt and we're going to learn of tech. All right. He speaks of the tech. We want Tom. And we do want Tom. It's Tom. It's Tom. married everybody he is here to join us for a little tech time talk and uh big day for samsung lovers i assume i don't know i don't know what's going on yet but i guess that's happening soon right tom of some samsung lovers hmm yes i mean you know they're out there i don't want to i'm not kinkshaming anybody all right it's fine you do what you got to do people samsung lovers like a 70s soul song yeah i was trying to fit it into taylor swift's blank space oh there you

go yeah got to make it modern you know i like a lover interesting I'm insane. I'm insane. That's right. So is it already happened this thing? Or are they still coming? It happened in Gay-Pri this morning at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. And it lasted just a little longer than an hour and didn't announce any big surprises.

We got a new Samsung Galaxy Fold 6, which if you always thought the fold was a little like weird aspect ratio they widened it a bit so it's a little better Samsung Galaxy Flip 6 as well which brings a few more widgets to the cover screen there's a Samsung there's a new new watch the Galaxy Watch 7

and the Galaxy Watch Ultra which is kind of a competitor for Apple's Ultra being a little more rugged it can handle 10 atmospheres of pressure so you can go 500 meters underwater or 9000 meters up into the atmosphere before it explodes

There's also the Galaxy Buds 3 and the Galaxy Buds 3 Pro. Those are new earbuds. They look a lot more like Apple's earbuds now. And then there's the new Galaxy Ring, the Samsung Galaxy Ring, which is make Samsung the first of the big tech companies. There's URA and a bunch of others out there. But the first of the big tech companies to bring their own smart ring, that'll do optical heart rate and skin temperature sensors.

So it can do sleep tracking. It can do menstrual cycle tracking. It can also automatically detect walking and running. You do have to pair it with a Samsung Galaxy phone. You're not going to buy this ring if you don't have a Samsung phone. But if you do, it can do double pinch to take photos or dismiss alarms. Nice. So like you said, a lot of this was already, well, there weren't a bunch of surprises,

a lot of iteration and stuff. But yesterday we had this whole conversation on DT&S about who foldables are for. What is that form? Ramirez out too with that little flip flip foam format yeah right so I've been thinking a lot about that and I think one of the ways they get me is at least for me to find use cases is if they go larger and that's what they've done here they've gone wider with the with the flagship device and that's interesting to me because um I guess you know as much as these have already been around we're still sort of being fiddly with well what's the perfect ratio of fold to full size to it's top you right there. Samsung's late to the game on that. Honestly, the pixel fold, the One Plus, the honor, like pretty much every other one of the book foldables, like, you know, like that just kind of fold open like a book,

have hit on the like make it look like a phone when it's folded and then have it open into, you know, a mini tablet size when you open it. So I don't know why Samsung's form factor has lagged behind on that. It's still not exactly as wide as the, competition out there, frankly. But yeah, it's getting better. And so, yeah, if you're like, I've been waiting on the Samsung one, though, I want the Samsung one, then now this one's going to look a little less weird. I just wonder how much pressure there might be at any of these companies to make an aspect ratio that's somewhat in the standardization space of either four by three or

69 or something like that so that media content and all that other stuff can just sort of naturally fit there and not have giant thick bars and all that. I mean, I guess it depends on your use case and they're not really aiming for... I think most of them do. It was Sam's... Like I said, it was Samsung that was kind of wonky on that. Although, really, I mean, your candy bar,

your non-foldable phones don't really have the perfect aspect ratio, but you can still have the video fill up the screen. That's true. And that's true for the foldables, too. When you open them and go full screen, you don't really think about it. Yeah. Any more than you do with a tablet. Like,

Tablets aren't always exactly, you know, 16-9 or anything. Yeah, I finished my recommendal on one last night, and I said to myself, why isn't this tablet 16-by-9? And then I realized, I actually don't want that because for the art stuff I do, I like more height than I do with. Same reason you don't want your monitor to be always 16-9, right? Wide monitors have become huge because you can put more stuff on them. That's right.

Looking at one right now, and I got you way over here. Yeah. You know, look at this. Look at the real estate we got now. everybody. Well, that's interesting. Today, you'll break that down. I know you got some awesome guests on that'll help you do that. And that's exciting. Exciting stuff for it. Yeah, yeah. We got Hentway Dow from Android Faithful. We got Rob Dunwood from the Tech John and, of course, DTNS coming in a day early because he's a big Samsung Galaxy user. So we'll be breaking down all of this stuff. And not going

into the specs, you can read those for yourself, but going into the use cases. Like, how is this better? Is it better? Is it any different? Samsung raised the price on the fold and the flip. So you're going to pay more. I'm going to pay $100 more for the fold. Is that better? Samsung would argue it's got the better integrated experience. They kind of make an Apple-like argument with that.

And so we'll talk to Huen and Rob about exactly that. Someone in our chat just said, where is this? Incredible sausage says, I like making an ultra-wide monitor go vertical. I kind of want to see that, dude, like a big old, like tall one right here. I've seen you can do that. Not the curved ones. No, but Eileen is that in that

where she took the, you know, the long monitor and turned it turned one like that and one like that. So one was horizontal. One was vertical. She didn't like it. She went back to normal.

Yeah, I kind of wonder, I wonder what the use cases. I mean, coders, I think, would probably really like it. Yeah, yeah. You have long scrolling things like that. Yeah.

I'll have to mess with it. We used to have, God, who made it the radius? There was a manufacturer that made the radius. And it, it just had a hinge on it, and it had a sensor inside it that as soon as you turned it, it re-adjusted everything automatically on the fly-and-to. Just like a phone, right? It was like an accelerometer.

Vesonic radius maybe? Can I remember who made it? Oh, maybe it was Veson. Yeah, I'm looking at it now. Oh, I remember these were a big deal for a while. Yeah, yeah. And they were made just for that use case, but nowadays you can just kind of rotate whatever and make it work.

Well, Tom, I'd look forward to all the coverage that will happen over there. Daily Tech News Show happens today at, 2 p.m. Mountain Time. So do check that out. That's 1 p.m. Pacific for those on the West Coast. Anything else going on in your life that we should know about? Yeah. There is the daily newsletter that I send out. So if you miss me on a show or if you listen to a show and you're like, you know, I love that DTNS is compact and structured, but I want to hear a little more of what Tom thinks about this. Because I know some of you have said that. You can get that every day delivered right to your inbox. it's the free tech newsletter.com free once a week. that's why it's called free tech newsletter. Also easy to remember free tech

newsletter.com. And if you upgrade to the paid subscription, you'll get it Monday through Friday. So go check that out. Free tech newsletter.com. That sounds fantastic. It is Tom Merritt, everybody. We'll see you later. Have a fantastic day. You do. Bye now. May all your Samsung coverage be good. I don't know. That's fine. You know, like whatever. I do like it. another event comes around and people can start going oh this is just iterative they're not there's nothing really new here and i'm like yeah how does it feel to be an apple fan like same thing right exactly give us shit every time always the complaint levied at uh uh that uh that our events when we see

them yeah we're on a curve and that curve is i say r but you know apple events yeah sure apple events i mean we we like to take possession of our apple events that's fine Our Apple events, absolutely right. This is my Apple event. This is your Apple event. There are many like it, but this one is mine. And that one is yours, and this one is Tim Cooks. All right, hey, what do we have here?

We have a guy, and he goes by this. Well, what do you recommend? That guy's name is Randy Jordan, and he joins us here for recommendals on a beautiful Wednesday. Hello, Randy. Good morning, morning stream. I'm a guy. You are a guy. You are.

Standing in front of another company. guys just wanting him to love our movies for the last like three months of my life if someone says we're guys you have to start singing the dirt man song so i'm like you know i'm a guy yeah we're guys yeah we're all guys and i'm happy in this case to be a guy because it means camaraderie and closeness for guys you know we need that look women we love you but sometimes guys need guys okay all right yep uh randy we're gonna do a recommendals with you know nicole today she's on vacation but uh she'll be probably back next week. We're going to start, though, with Brian Ibid, as we always do. Brian, you have a little setup here, I think, for your clip. I do.

And this is an interesting take on a thing that we've seen a couple times before, things that I've actually recommendled a couple times before, but this one has some interesting differences, and I can't wait to talk about it on the other side of this audio.

I guess you're going to hear somebody discovering rules for a game. Oh, all right, here we go. Please hand in all your clues. Those accessories and all other personal items you may possess. Then we request that you please change into the uniform we have provided. In front of all the cameras? You can keep an eye on the accumulated prize money by checking the scoreboard.

What scoreboard? Food and shelter will be provided for free. You can access the intercom to buy anything else you may need. you may need. Intercom. However, the price of any purchased items will be deducted from your individual price money at a special rate. What's a special rate?

Items that you intend to use outside your room can be purchased in the square. Where's that? Oh, I see. All participants are required to remain in their rooms from midnight until 8 a.m. You are not allowed to block the cameras. violating any rule will deduct half of the individual's prize money. Half that's crazy. Shit, shit, shit, shit.

I have no idea what this is. I have overheard a thousand hours of Korean television in my living room. I've overheard it. And I can tell exactly the instant I hear someone English overdubbing Korean. I don't know why. Why is that? I don't get that. I think you just, there's just a certain, I think,

the um the translation seems to come up the same right you recognize certain words and phrases that only seem to come from a an english dub of a korean show okay all right i'm not complaining i just it's a very interesting little bit i thought that sounded really good it didn't sound like a dub to me i was impressed it was uh it well um it was a dub as a matter of fact and and yes indeed a dub of a korean show this is a show called the eight show and um if you're saying brian Isn't this just another squid game thing? Or what was the other one I watched? Allison Borderlands.

Well, you know, these things are all very similar, right? Squid game, you started with 100 people, and the game ends when only one person is left. Allison Borderland, we should be getting a new season of that pretty soon, is like the entirety of Japan is turned into a virtual game field. And that one's really, really good, and that one's seasonal. So we should be getting, like I said, more episodes. of that. This one

this actually only has eight contestants and the game ends when one person dies. So it's a very different very different situation. This is kind of a dark comedy dark comedy thriller

version of kind of that squid game dynamic. The premise is that eight people are picked and invited to participate in a game where they are sequestered away in a building that has eight floors, eight levels, and there's one room, one bedroom on each of these eight levels, but they don't contain a bed, they don't contain

a toilet. You just basically have a big open area with some weird playground equipment and these stairs that go up to these eight levels. And this kind of turns into squid game. My initial thought on this thing was it's squid game meets yellow jackets because they're trapped in this kind of almost like this kind of castaway situation where all these, the only thing that's really provided for them is food and water. Everything else, they either have to kind of create on their own or buy. and, you know, your $5.00 pack of cigarettes costs $500 or the equivalent in Korean money, not one, I think it is, taken out of your prize package.

Now, some interesting things. The way money accumulates per player, money accumulates per player in this one, as opposed to one big prize package that's shared between everybody. and it's all determined on by some mysterious force that they have to figure out what is causing their prize money to go up and how they control it and how much time they still have left in the game these are things that they all have to figure out what they what they don't plan on is that these levels turn into a little bit of a cast system a little bit of a hierarchy a hierarchy very much like that

what was that um show scott the movie with the food platform that moves down below levels. Oh, is it just called... Not platform. It's like that, though. It was a full platform. It was one of the big cement thing full of food. It was Spanish.

Yeah. I love that movie. As it lowers down, and that also determines kind of, you know, hierarchy, class level between the two. The next level chef is the game show that was based on that. Based on that. I can't remember. Is it just platform?

It's the platform. It's the platform. Okay. All right. Wasn't there a platform show with a platform? I love that show in that movie. But the hierarchy that starts coming from this, even though it's just eight floors, you start to see this thing develop.

And that's kind of where the Yellow Jackets thing comes in even more, is that on Yellow Jackets, the show about the soccer team that crashes in the mountains and a few people die, which can also be called Dead Lassow. They develop this hierarchy between them, this cast system. in between them, and same thing happens with the 8 show. It's actually not bad. I'm not going to rave about this and say, oh, my God, this is, you have to watch this. This is really good.

If you like Squid Game, this feels like it's going to be right up your alley. If you like kind of a different take on this kind of very common Korean style of sci-fi thrillers like this, then I think you'll appreciate this. I will warn you, it's a little bit, no, it's a lot violent. There's a lot of violence in this thing. That sounds great. And for a dark comedy, a surprising amount of violence, hence the dark in dark comedy. And not super comedic other than who these people are and what they become over time.

I will say also that this thing also throws in a lot of those weird on-screen visuals like we've seen on film sack recently with things like crank and I think crank might be the most recent version of this where like things that the people are talking about appear on screen is like overlaid numbers

and scores like you heard the bell ring in the clip I played where as he's talking about the intercom and the change into the uniform and there's like a ding and it kind of shows you what he what he's figuring out as he's figuring things out sure I like that stuff I usually think

things like Scott Pilgrim are maybe a better example of what I like versus what I don't but it you know what can be done right you know yeah and Scott Pilgrim if that's a level 10 of that sort of thing this is like a level five okay that sort of thing as far as how much they use it. As you could probably guess, there are eight episodes. It is the eight show after all.

It would be fun if that was different. I don't know. I don't know why. The seven episodes of the eight show. And there is kind of a, oh my God, the opening, you know, all right, I'm going to suggest something. If you want to get a feel of what this show is, go to YouTube and watch the opening credits. It's a, it's Mr. Lonely by Bobby V or Bobby Vinton. I can't remember who did it. But it reminds me so much of the Yellow Jackets intro that is like a mix of bad VHS and weird visuals and torn paper and blood or something sizzling in a pan or something like that.

If you want to get an idea, if you're on the fence on it, if you want to watch this or not, watch the intro to The H Show on YouTube. And then you'll have a better idea of what this thing is. all right i'm curious but uh but netflix uh the eight show and uh it's it's our new squid game like nice okay there's i think there's a room for more of that you know i'm digging it and i really liked uh alison borderland too i think that was a really that's a really cool take on a similar premise even though that's japanese yeah i'm i'm excited about the i can't think of the name director all of a sudden who made seven what's wrong with me um oh uh finch if david

Fincher, David Fincher. David Fincher. David Lyncher. It's weird in my head. David Fincher's got an American, English-spoken version of Squid Game coming out. There's some confusion about it. Some people think it's a remake and it's not. If you watch Squid Game, you know that that world is, that's them in Japan doing the Japanese game. But they're all over the world. They're happening everywhere. You're introduced to a whole Illuminati of Squidmaster. Yeah. So what I can tell, or from what I can garner from all of this is Finchers producing the one that would be, you know, the game that's being held in the United States. So still same universe, not new, not just retelling the story, but like here's, here's their version of it. And the entry continues. Yeah. So a squid game game averse. Yeah. I'd be, I'm all about that. I sounds amazing. No kidding. And what a great director to take that on. Jeez. Yeah. It's kind of perfect. I think he. I think he. I think he's only producing, not directing, but he's good to have in any seat, I think, that guy. All right. Awesome. And this is where, Netflix, you said?

It's on Netflix. Yeah, it's Netflix, The 8 Show. I watched it subbed and it was just fine, but you heard that dub version. And if dub is your preference, it's not a bad dub. Yeah. If you're like me, you can go back and forth. I kind of do that depending on my mood. Yeah. Even in the same show. Andy, let's swing it over to you. Tell me something a bit about what you got here for me to play. So I'm even a little bit more close to a mechamental than Ibit was here. Oh, really? Not entirely, though. I'm going to give you the reasons to not like this up front. It's a documentary about a person and the person doesn't ever appear in the documentary, or at least they aren't willingly in the documentary.

There's like footage of the person. But the person refused to engage with the people making the documentary. Yeah, that right there makes it hard to love this. But even harder to love this is the clip you're going to, you're about to hear, there's babies crying. Sorry. All right. Well, if that's it'll be. If you're triggered, if you start lactating as soon as you hear this, you'll know.

My milk is in, so this could be bad. But we'll see. All right. Let's play a Randy's clip. The average couple has 2.3 children in their lifetime. But the record that one couple have had is thought to be over 40. But what if I were to tell you that there is a man alive today who may have fathered over a thousand children? And it's still going.

What kind of man would do that? Wow. That's a lot of. That's a lot of babies. Yeah, this is the man with a thousand kids. It's on Netflix. It's getting a lot of views because of the title. Yeah, I'm sure.

Set up. I thought this is about Nick Cannon, but, okay, good. This is about a man named Jonathan Meyer, and this is a guy who's set out to basically commit a global crime of fathering as many kids as possible. Because he doesn't actually participate in the documentary, what it should be called is the parents of a thousand-half-siblings. Because that's what it's about. It's this two-hour long, I think it's two-and-a-half-hour long in split in three parts, documentary where the parents who didn't know that they were, you know, getting the children from the same, the same. same father all around the world were, you know, they're, they're being interviewed. They're talking

about what they experienced. And, um, the hatred for this guy is kind of incredible. Because it's, it's a thing you've never really seen before. You've never seen like a bunch of moms all ganging up to, uh, you know, to take down one man. You know, it's, it's, it's worth a watch. But it is again, it's missing the point. You know, it's missing the guy. They have a bunch of YouTube videos of him and he speaks into the camera a lot

and he's terrible. He's such a villain. And you got you, they immediately, the first thing they do is answer the question why did this happen, right? And the answer is he's really good looking to women.

Like, that's the answer. But the rest of it kind of plays out the story of how people in in Amsterdam and Sydney and just all around the world all found each other and found out that they were parenting a thousand half siblings man I mean that's a lot of babies you know yeah if you found that out you would be like oh okay I should stop sperming up the universe and I was going to say do they do they you know do they limit in certain countries do they limit how many times you can go and donate so that this kind of thing doesn't happen. They do now. This all kind of took place between 2007,

2017, that sort of timeframe. This guy was committing this crime where he was lying to all sorts of different agencies in all sorts of different countries. And it's not just the banks. he was he was hooking up with people directly in in person via websites that he and an accomplice created to trick them you know into sort of working outside the system and it's just oh it's just vile this is like it's just and it's it's kind of hard to explain how it's vile because everyone who's a victim of this guy is kind of happy they wanted to be a parent they've got a child you know what i mean so like they're they're like they're experiencing something that you've just never really seen you know wow that's wow so now they need to keep track so these people don't

you know accidentally hook up they need like a 23 and him kind of thing is yes yes and that's the over the breadth of this documentary that's what you come to realize that the real problem here is you want you want to you want to keep those thousand children separated globally, but you also want to provide ways for them to get to know each other if they want to. And, you know, like, people want to know their biological parents, even if the biological parent is a terrible person in some cases, right? And so it's just, it's just a big mess. It's the messiest thing. And I, like I say, I don't recommend it as pure entertainment.

as as documentaries go it's a very well-made documentary okay well that's i mean i appreciate the distinctions because it seems like yeah well whatever you're speaking my language because i'm very i get very picky about what i will exalt as a documentary and what i won't anymore because so much of it is either played for drama or played for you know just even music is used in a way that's supposed to point me in a certain direction and kind of hate that so uh a good honest take on an okay thing to watch everybody right and actually in the end um like i say because the documentary should be called the parents of a thousand half siblings um it works because you're getting to know certain people who have been through the same thing in different parts of the world and you're

hearing from them you're hearing their feelings and their experiences and that makes a great documentary you know like it's the the opposite of that thing we always complain about where it's like oh they're just reenacting a thing with actors i'm not really actually i'm not i'm not actually seeing and hearing the the the people right and this is this is just talking to those people they're they're all over the place apparently and uh and they all have a really weird story to tell you know well there you go check it out now uh again gives the name one more time the man with a thousand kids damn with a thousand kids on netflix it'll be up on quicktem s dot i'll I hear it out of sperm.com.

Yeah. I like that one a lot. That's a better title. All right. We are going to now swing over to something that is old and I've seen before, but it was fun to revisit it. I'm a bit on a kick when it comes to this director and writer, all because of a movie he put out recently that I love so much that I just couldn't help it.

So I went and watched this and I'm going to recommend it. Here's your clip. So how's that book coming, Miles? I think you were almost finished with it the last time. we talked. I finished it. Good for you. Wow. It's getting published.

That's actually why we're up here celebrating. Well, congratulations. That's fantastic. Cheers. Thanks. Are you a writer too? No, Maya. I'm an actor. Really? What kind of stuff? It's a lot of TV.

You know, it used to be a regular on a couple of series. but lately it's been a lot of commercial work. Nationals mostly. Anything I might know? Perhaps. Do you recognize this? Now with a low, low, 5.8% APR financing. That's hilarious.

You saw just like one of those guys. And one of those guys. You are not. He is, man. He says Hayden Thomas Church, or Thomas Hayden Church, rather. I'm so glad that you watched this. I'm glad I watched it, too. It's been a while.

And I love Nebraska. I absolutely love the holdovers. The holdovers is my favorite Alexander Payne film. I think it is so good. And it just got me in this mode of like wanting to just go back and watch old stuff. But was it really all to talk about Ganey during. Yeah, must have run. No.

It definitely was not. The mighty ducks. Oh, come on. It definitely was not. Although that'll come up anytime and NC Ganey comes up. That's just the rule. But yeah, he, he, he, He's definitely in this. He has his very important moment, we'll call it. But you got Paul Giamati, Thomas Hayden Church, Virginia Madsen, you heard in that clip. And Sandra, oh, I always forget that she's in this for some reason. And she's great in it. So there's no reason to forget it. So I don't know why I do that. But she's fantastic in it. Anyway, it is great. If you've not seen it ever, I recommend seeing it. If you've never seen it or if you have seen it, it's time to watch it again. It's on Hulu. And I mean, it's really just two middle-aged men going on.

on a wine trip. And if you don't like the pretentious side of wine people, and we know some wine people that are not pretentious. Like cork dorks. Yeah, cork darts. Those guys are awesome. These guys definitely go, they definitely put their feet in the end of the pool that is in that is the annoying side of winery business stuff. And it's done on purpose. That's the point of it. But it's so, some of that stuff is so cringe to me. And somehow, Alexander Payne writes this stuff in such a way that the cringe is important. It matters and it helps shape characters. It's relevant or important to the story.

By the way, the movie is sideways. I don't think we've said that yet. Icor pointed out that we haven't actually said, or it doesn't think we've actually said sideways yet. Oh, I thought I did, didn't I? I must not have. You might have, yeah. Well, anyway, it's great.

It's up on there. It's also 20 years old this year. So great time to revisit it. And it's crazy to think that Giamati, this is the only other. Giamatti thing besides the holdovers that he's ever done with Alexander Payne. In my head, he just kept working with him. Oh, wow, no kidding. But it's been 20 years since they did a film together, and they did one last year. So, um, and if you still haven't seen that, go see that. But between this, I mean, this, uh, Nebraska and the holdovers are just, I don't know what they are. I don't know

why they're special. They just are. Yeah. Up until last year, this was Paul Giamati's highest rated movie. Yeah. The holdovers has finally overcome it. Um, hard to believe the rate. on it. Like, I remember seeing it when it came out. And I had a friend who was a big wine snob who told me I had to go see it. And then I was like, okay, it's a good movie. And of course, my friend the wine snob called it the best movie of the year. And several reviewers, several critics also did. And I also kind of scratched my head for a while. And I had to like grow into this movie, you know, like I had to watch it again 10 years later and realize, oh, this is like superior writing and direction and acting, right?

And, like, sometimes when you don't like the characters, that doesn't mean it's not a good movie, you know? Yeah. And they are, they are at times very unlikable, these characters. Although I always like Thomas Hayden Church. I don't care what he does. I freaking love that guy. Oh, really?

Oh, I love him. Love that guy. He's just great. This movie, by the way, like, boosted Pino Noir production. Like, basically, this movie did this, this movie did so much good as much good for Pino Noir as it did bad for Merlot basically killed the Merleau not really killed it but affected the Merleau industry or Merleau production but then like increased Pinot Noir's popularity by 170% yeah yeah it's real good I mean it was nominated for best

picture that year best performance by a supporting actor from Thomas Hayden church best actress supporting role for Virginia Madsen they didn't win but they were nominated also directing and screenplay. He won for screenplay. Well deserved, but it's great. It's just, I don't know, and it's primordial Alexander Payne. It feels like, you know, it's like watching what's the Wes Anderson movie, not Bottle Rocket, but the one at the school, my brain won't work right now. Oh, right? With, are those your, oh, are they your aura scrubs? Bill Murray. Rushmore. Rushmore, that's it. Rush, this is, to me, this is,

Alexander Payne's Rushmore in that it's just kind of you see the primordial ooze that is this director and kind of where he's headed and it just gets better from there. So anyway, I highly recommend it and I think all his movies are on Hulu at the moment. Oh, cool.

It makes me want to watch the descendants again. I remember how much I love that film. Yeah. That's an interesting comparison because the descendants is a love letter to Hawaii and the characters are kind of meh. and the sideways is a love letter to like the Ventura river wine country in California right yeah yeah and like I wonder if I need to think about does

is this what Alexander Payne does like that is there a major part of this that is just photographing you know this beautiful part of the world and making you want to go there I also think he likes two different kinds of stories he likes road trip and vacation stories going somewhere else kind of stories right this is one of those and then the holdovers and in some ways Nebraska they are what is home stories like what is it like being trapped either literally kind of stranded like in holdovers sort of stranded but you know for all intents and purposes they were stranded for the holidays and then um even Nebraska is about you know dealing with what home is like though he's got these two themes that he's

he just knows how to farm that in a way that I just don't I don't know if it's I don't see this from a lot of directors. Yeah, when I watch the first 15 minutes of Sideways, I want to get in a car and drive to Ohio, California. Oh my gosh, yeah, yeah. Really pretty. Also, elections good. I haven't seen that in a long time,

but I may have to go back to that. I forget that's his. I think it's like one of his early, early, if not first, right? Something like that. Anyway, available now, shutout of luck.com. Hulu.com has it. I actually watched it through.

So if you have, like, if you're dumb, me and you have a separate Disney Plus and Hulu account, which I do still because I've just been lazy. I did. Yeah, I did until I merged them when I get the Hulu Plus deal or the Hulu full one deal. If you're dumb like me and you keep them separate, the nice thing is when I go to Disney Plus, I can, it knows about my Hulu login somehow. Oh, that's good. And it just works. So I just run, I don't have to leave the site and go to go back or whatever. So it's a nice advantage. Anyway, boy, that caused problems for me. So I had to merge them, which was fine. I basically, I decided to merge all

use the same email address for all the streaming services I use with Apple TV Plus. And that way, when I log in, it's like, would you like to use this same login for your other Apple TV Plus accounts? Like, yes, please. Please do. Yep. They like that. They like to put you in the garden,

as it were. They do, yes. And plant all the flowers with the same email address. That's right. Well, anyway, check all this out at quickdms.l.I. They'll all be up there. Randy, is there anything you'd like to say before you take off today? Just don't drink too much wine.

Don't inseminate too many people. And please, please, don't participate in Korean game shows. All right. These are all, this is all good advice and somehow parallel to the things we watch today. I'm very impressed. Nicely done. Bye now. All right.

There goes, there goes Randy. Hey. Yeah, watch as he goes, you guys. Keep your eye on that guy. We're going to be done here. before we go though um it is Wednesday right yeah my day's all different and weird i'm going to lunch with hooty hooty you in the chat oh right yeah you're still coming you still gonna meet me i see him all right i'm looking forward to that um he he like two years ago said hey i want to buy you lunch when can you

go and i said oh let's try next week and then had to cancel or something happened and then there was all this big period of time he got sick oh i'm one time so all right well we'll wait till you're feeling better and then some other thing so now finally we found a day we found a time it's happening. Make sure you order a soup so that you can get at least another lunch out of it. Yeah, I'm going to go, yeah, just have the soup, I'll say. So it's not a meal, Jerry. I'm not going to tell you that I just saw that episode, but I did see it like four days ago.

Of course you did. Yeah, like four days ago. It wasn't yesterday. Last night I saw the, what was the one? Oh, shoot. It was the one where Jerry, oh, It's kind of a gross one. It's where Jerry and George are over at the head of NBC's house

and he's puking and his daughter's over and she's 15. And Jerry and George are staring down her shirt. Oh, I don't remember this one at all. Oh, it's creepy. It's like... Oh, it sounds like it. Yeah, I didn't like it. They treated it weird.

I didn't like it. Anyway, it's about the only thing in the entirety of that series that it kind of makes me cringe. All right, that's it. We're out of here. Brian, let's play a song, get the F out. What do we got? I've got a song. to play for you. This one's going out to Patricia, says, hey, Brian, I would like to request a song for my husband, Jeff, who's been the most supportive, amazing, and just the best ever. We met in person 18 years ago on July 10th on a dating website, and after just talking on AOL, we met in person on July 15th, and Sparks Flu. Online dating tip, by the way, typing back and forth for days gives you a knowledge of how punny and well-written they are. That's a plus for me.

Wow. That's a very important point. We are now married 17 years strong, and he's my everything, and I want to request a cover song from his favorite band, Bad Religion. I admit I never knew punk or anything before him, but after attending live these bands at the House of Blues and First Moshing, I'm hooked now. It's reciprocated with him, being introduced to Romstein and other international bands from me. It's a match made in musical heaven. If you can't play it on Wednesday, well, I'm playing it on Wednesday. His favorite segment on TMS is Recommendals, and it'll be great to hear it after as a surprise. Thank you. Signed, Patricia.

Oh, surprise, Jeff. You just heard recantals, and now you're hearing a request going out to you from your lovely wife, Patricia. Nice. Congratulations, you two. How about a cover by Bad Religion? We haven't played this one on the show now, and it's a great one. This one comes from a tribute to Bob Dylan called Chimes of Freedom, came out in 2012. It's a great cover of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue.

Here's Bad Religion. You must think now, take what you need you think will last. But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast. You understand your orphan with his gun. Crying like a fire in the sun. Look out the seats on come. through And it's all over now

Baby Lou The highway is Pergambers Better use your sense Take what you all together From coincidence The empty-handed painter is drawing crazy dabbards on your sheets

the sky do is folding under you and it's all over now in air blue while you see six sailors they're all the wind And all your reindeer armies are all going home The lover who just walked out on your door Has taken all the blankets from the floor The carpet too is moving under you And it's all over now, baby,

Lou. Leave your stepping stones behind something calls for you. Forget the danger left. They will not follow you. The vagabund is wrapping at your door. It stands in the clothes that you once wore Strike another match ghost on a new

Because it's all over now, baby, blue This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpantz.com. She was crazed.