The Morning Stream - TMS 2687: The Tolbert Signal

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

Yup, now it's decorative. Vampire Humperdinck. Tinker Tailor Tuber Style. I Don't Trust SSDeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees. No Dill for our Pickles. Birdum's Fridge. The powder of hornet killer compels you. The powder of hornet killer compels you. Come getchyer damn fridge. Tech Time with Cubicle Tom. Utah: the Easy Joke State. Keep Out of Children! Lyfting Kevin the Nun. Dr. Tolbert, white courtesy phone. Dr. Tolbert, white courtesy phone. I would rather not play Would You Rather. Quicker Recommentals without Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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You could do those things, but you could also become a patron at patreon.com slash TMS for a whole lot less. Coming up on the morning stream, yep, now it's decorative. Vampire Humperdink. Tinker, Taylor, Tuber style. I don't trust SSDs. No dill for our pickles. Burtum's fridge. The powder of Hornet Killer compels you.

The powder of Hornet Killer compels you. Come get your damn fridge. Tech time with cubicle Tom. Utah, the easy joke state. Keep out of the children. Lifting Kevin the nun. Dr. Tolbert, white courtesy phone. Paging Dr. Tolbert, white courtesy phone.

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Let's do the latest dance craze, the macarina. What I have here is a Mexican centavo. morning everybody welcome to tms it's the morning stream for wednesday august 7th 2024 i'm scott johnson with brian ibid hi brian hello happy middle of the week to you yeah let's hump this wednesday you know let's get that going uh yeah we're back everybody we we uh we told you yesterday we would be and now we have committed we have fulfilled our promise to be here we keep our promises that's right that's right uh it's good to be here somebody in the chat sorry i'm going to go back to this for a Because just prior to the show, we were talking about SSDs and how they work.

And somebody in there just said that they're not good for cold storage, meaning just putting data in a drive and then putting it somewhere as a backup and not actively using it. Oh, really? Yeah, and I'm curious about that. Yeah, why is that, whoever said that? I can't find the name who said it. Ah, somebody said it. Is it because memory takes power to store?

Like, once it loses all power, it loses, since it's not writing anything physically to that. It just takes a long time to, or sorry, it's like a slow degradation because of the no power or something like that? Yeah, I'm curious about that. Do you see this Intel lawsuit? Do you have an Intel 13 or 14th generation chip, Brian? Do you have one?

I must not. I don't think I do. I don't know. How would I know? I don't actually know either. If you know that you have those, apparently they're getting sued because they were aware of a problem where these chips slowly degrade. over time and that people wouldn't even really notice it for a while because it takes so long

to do but then eventually it will happen and that it doesn't matter if you have one or you don't or if you have one it will happen is the thing is the thing so there's like this big demand for replace the chips they're going to lose a bunch of money it's going to be it's going to be bad people saying they have one but they don't have any issues i'm telling you go read up on it that's the point of it is it sneaky you don't think you've got issues until until you do because those generations of chips have got the problem. All right, so the answer came through. SSDs are flash storage, so if they short or something goes wrong, everything is lost.

Spinning disk physically store the data on the plate. Okay. Well, that makes sense, I guess. I don't know. I guess we're, you know, whatever. Everything's, everything's all temporary. 1 and 0 is actually on the plate on magnetic media versus just being in a stasis. but I would think that if power,

you know, they've got to have some sort of little battery or something that keeps the SSD, quote unquote, live. The rate says SSD controllers will refresh the cells periodically if they're powered. Interesting. The cells. Interesting. We call them cells, data cells. Is that what we're calling those?

Cool. That's fancy. Yeah, I like that. Well, anyway. So we've learned a little something this morning. I wanted to mention something that I think is awesome and I meant to bring the bottle I forgot crap Anyway Mike Pacholic a friend of the program

Once in a while we'll send stuff in based on things we say You know and he sent this Hornet killer stuff Because I've been talking a lot about hornets And it's in a bottle that's all it's a powder With a little spout on it Almost looks like a big fat Elmer's glue bottle almost Yeah okay But it's full of powder it's made by bear

the aspirin people. Bayer, okay. The Bayer. Yeah, you take one of those a day, it keeps the heart attack away or whatever they used to say. That's right, yeah. And so I thought that was a little weird.

I guess they compound powders, so why not? That's fine for a big company to do. I guess it does seem like an odd pivot for them, but it does. It makes me want to, I want to make sure those buildings are separate, you know?

Yeah, right. Let me not ingest an aspirin made from Hornet Killer. Yeah, this orange-flavored, child's aspirin taste funny. Hmm, what's going on there? Well, anyway, and it doesn't, but the other thing is it only has warnings for keep out of children, or keep away from children, and nothing about it being poison or calling poison control. So it may not actually hurt adults. They don't even say keep away from pets, although we did our best to do that anyway.

So anyway, whatever this stuff is called, it's a powder, it's white, it looks like cocaine or something. And we found a new Hornet's Nest growing inside of some rock. on the ground. So like not up high somewhere, but like in the dirt, which is worse somehow. I don't know why. Just worse. Yeah, that's interesting because, well, because with your, if it's up high, you can see them approach. Yeah.

But if you're walking, you can't see them with your feet. I think that's it. I think that's what freaks me out. I hate that. So anyway, we decided to sprinkle this all around those rocks just to see. I thought, pardon me, I'll admit it, Mike. I was like, I don't know, man, it's a freaking powder, really. I don't know, I just didn't buy it at first.

But anyway, we laid all this stuff out. These things, we didn't put any in the hole just around the outside of it. These things start swarming out, getting all into the white of the powder, and then flying around like mad things covered in the powder. It's like they did it to themselves almost like cats and catnip, like rolled in it. Like they rolled, yeah, right, okay. And, uh, it just adhered to them. somehow yeah yeah correction hobbs in the in the chat it's it wasn't it's not in the ground they're

in rocks that are above the ground it's like decorative rocks they're pretty big and they built a little home in there anyway they start rolling around in it brian they start flying around a little bit getting and you can tell they're i can't tell if they're pissed or if they're just confused or i don't know what's going on in pain 10 minutes later that hive is gone nothing left all the bees either died right there or got the F out. Wow. And there's no, it's all done. It's all evacuated.

It was insane. So what do you do with that stuff if, um, uh, if it's a pie? I mean, you can't, you can't fling powder. No, that was exactly my question and I don't have an answer. I don't know how they plan to do that. Maybe, there may be instructions that says you can mix it with water or something. I don't know. Sure. Sure. Interesting.

But it was weird. I wish I had the brand or, the name. I have the bear name. Let's see. Maybe I can find it that way. Bayer Hornet powder. I don't know what else to call it. Top bet. Oh, wasp powders. I guess this is a thing. Okay, bear tempo. Here it is. Tempo. Yeah, this is it. I'll send you a link. And this looks just like just like what you found. Yeah, it looks like Elmer's glue. Look at that. Whoops. Why didn't it work? It thinks I'm sending you a code. don't send me a code why is it doing that discord knock it off okay there we go uh here you go chat you can see it as well put it up here on the screen um 1% dust tempo 1% dust for insects uh building structures you just put it wherever they're hanging out or in the wall like it's a great for use

in walls crawl spaces other hidden locations so i guess it's a little more specific to the to the rocks which is why he sent it because we had brought it up on a scam or something now this one does say keep out of reach of children it does well ours did too it just didn't say it didn't have any yeah that's what i was saying is it had that warning but it said nothing about said nothing about poison control like ingesting it or any like adult warnings none of that was on there gotcha or pets understood i said it did not have any of that stuff yeah and i thought i would have at least pet stuff it didn't have any of that on there um i still don't trust it so i didn't let the dogs around but I noticed that there was a new hive being built little paper wasp hive being

built in our in the rafters above our patio and it's where we hang out like it's right there at our table we've got stuff out there and it's you know we go outside when it's nice and cool out and sit there and eat dinner or whatever so I'm like all right got to take care of it so dusk I got the the spray out and wait until you know till it's dusk and they're all back there and then I like fire that thing at the at the wasp nest and it foams up all around it and I like, all right, job well done.

I walk away and then I realize Tina's got several herb planters around. Oh no. One of them directly under the glop of foamy wasps that just landed, poison foamy

wasps that just land on it and said, was that one planter right there? Was that herbs you're going to eat? is, yep, now it's decorative. Now it's just going to look pretty. Oh, well. Yeah, oh, well. That's a bummer.

No dill for our pickles. Kim does the same thing, and I have to be careful because I don't know what stuff. Some things look like weeds to me. I almost pulled something out the other day, and she's like, no, that's the citronella plant that keeps the mosquitoes away. I'm like, I don't know. It looks like a weed. Yeah, last time I did one of those, she grabbed the planter, those underneath it and moved it. And this time she was right next to me and didn't even think about it.

So it's like, well, you didn't do it so I can't feel too bad. You didn't think of it either. So it's not on me. Well, take it from a new convert. Bear Tempo 1% dust for insects is pretty great. It did exactly what it said it would do. I checked it this morning again. No activity, nothing.

Just gone. And I actually feel like they bailed. Like I didn't kill them. They just got the F out. like they packed up and left there weren't bee carcasses everywhere or hornet carcasses or wasp carcasses everywhere and you can use it for ants you can use it for permont anything that's bugging you bugs

you can do it it just has to just probably has to be on a ground surface not on a roofs or a ceiling surface yeah yeah if those figure out a way to make it into a snowball paste that you can just huck at the ceiling oh there you go Get some water, mush it up in your hands. Right, a little spitball kind of thing.

Yeah, maybe use some gloves, I guess. Yeah, please do. I would recommend that. All right, we got a phone call that I think is awesome. I don't know if you sent a fridge in to get fixed. I didn't, but this guy thinks we did. Okay. So here's a call we got on the hotline.

Check it out. I don't know nothing about no show. The refrigerator is fixed. You might want to come get it. Thank you. thank you very much all right here's the thing got a little Elvis at the end didn't he a little bit of Elvis yeah thank you very much thank you very much um fridge just left the building when you call that number the first thing it says is you know state which show you want to leave a thing for and it obviously really confused this guy so i think i got a little high birdham there from that guy that's what that was yeah yeah that's really funny i hope he found the real owners of the fridge i hope maybe it's burdham maybe it's burdum's fridge could be burdum's fridge i'll birdham yeah no

That's great. I hope we get further messages saying, look, this fridge has now been here for three weeks. Come and get it. Yeah. Come get your damn fridge. Oh, I would love it if they called back. That'd be amazing. No, because that means somebody's without their fridge. I know, but it would be great. We can't do anything about it, right? We're stuck. We're stuck just having a good time, you know? That's all we would do. So what information now? Now in the age of identity theft and spam calls. and fishing and things like that. What information now is that you don't want to put in your outgoing message? You don't want to put your full name. You don't want to put your...

I think you don't even want to necessarily put the phone number. Oh, great question. Yeah, because if somebody gets to it in a way that isn't by dialing the number, now they have that number and they know it works. Yeah, I agree. I'm trying to think what I would do. I mean, that happens with Lyft. Like if somebody, if I'm driving for Lyft and somebody,

calls to say, hey, I'm actually going to be at the house next door, so just pull up in front of, you know, 81.42 instead of 81.40, then, but if I don't answer it, it'll go to my voicemail. They won't know my number until they hear my voicemail, and it tells them my actual number. Oh, right. Yeah, now that you're saying this, I don't know. I don't know what the right thing to, what is the right thing to do in 2024? I guess you just, I was thinking, I wonder if you just say you just give the last four digits. You've called my number and it ends with

4-513 and if that's what you're expecting then leave a message. Press one now, you could say at the end. Interesting. That reminds me, you said lift. It reminds me of a joke and I wonder if you've heard this joke. It was a

lift, it was literally a lift driver joke but it could work for Uber or even a, it could work for almost anything. It could be a taxi driver. But the joke went like this. It's very stupid. Here you go. You're ready for this joke?

I'm ready. Friend told me this. The joke goes like this. Thanks, Darren, if you're listening, for the joke. Here's what he says. He says, a nun is in the back of a lift. All right? Lift driver picks him up.

Let's picture Brian a bit in the role of Lyft driver. Sure. It's me playing the role of Lyft driver. Yeah. Sally Field playing the role of Nunn. Sure. And you're in the car and you say to her, boy, I've never had a nun in my car before.

And she goes, you know, it's kind of nod. and smiles no big deal and then he says uh you know one thing i've never done ever i've never kissed a nun and the nun says are you catholic and and single and he says yeah the driver says and she goes all right pull over into that that alleyway so they pull over an alleyway and she just max on this dude makes out like the biggest make out he's ever had all right with this with this nun and they're all done making out and they pull back out to get going and he he has a pang of guilt in his heart and he says he says um i have to admit sister i lied uh i'm i'm a methodist and i am married and she says that's okay my name's kevin and i'm going to a Halloween party it's pretty stupid it's pretty stupid that's pretty good

that's pretty good yeah i laughed when darren told me the joke If none of you laughed at home, I don't blame you. It's pretty dumb. All right. Got a quick ask Dr. Tolbert to play. Yeah, I love this. I love that he was paged. He saw the Tolbert signal up in the sky on the clouds and responded in turn.

He'd answered a white paging phone there at the hospital and called in with this information regarding COVID and reinfection. Good morning, gentlemen. You're a friendly neighborhood family doc swinging by to answer Scott's question from last week about protection from COVID after COVID infection. The current consensus is that the average person is going to have about 90 days where they have decent immunity from reinfection with COVID, and that drops off after that point until about six months where you're back to baseline risk.

The recommendation at this point is to make sure that you're getting vaccinated, and this fall we will have access to a new set of strains, similar to what we get with flu shots, and that COVID vaccine will be worthwhile for anybody who has, has been vaccinated before and anyone who hasn't in protecting against further infection. For what, it's good to be careful, so make sure you're wearing a mask if you have a cough or are sneezing or have other respiratory symptoms and try to steer clear of other folks that are doing the same. And ventilation is absolutely a good idea if you're in a small space with folks

that have symptoms and are concerned about catching what they have. As always, you can page me any time for any questions, and I hope you guys have a great day. See you. I love page him. I know. It's great. All right. That makes sense. So, Brian, you got three months of solid immunity and then you got like another three after that of like pretty okay drop off immunity. Yeah, which is good because I'll probably, that'll be about the time I get the the booster and the fall flu shot and all that stuff.

Yeah. It's usually around, what, like September, October or whatever they tell us to do. Yeah. Yeah, so this is good because in two months, oh my gosh, two months. I've got the Southeast Tadpool meetup. And so I'll be clean and still immune. That's right. Strong immunity. As long as somebody doesn't bring something worse and blow it on you, hopefully they won't.

Right. I may get chlamydia, but I won't get COVID. Well, good luck on that front. Nicely done, Dr. Tolbert. Always good to hear from you, man. And anytime you hear us say something dumb medically, please feel free to toss a file our way. Yes. And I hope he enjoyed New York.

I guess he was in New York for a bunch of time and seemed pretty cool. He's still there. Is he still there? He was at Niagara Falls right now waiting to get on the Lady of the Mist. Have you been to the Falls before? I have never been to Niagara Falls. We had the Niagara Gazette and that was one trip I did not get to go on. And, um, yeah.

I would have, I would like to. My wife's been. She liked it. Uh, yeah. My only experience with that is Superman and Lois Lane jumping into the falls and and pretty much sure that that uh superman was going to save her that's right uh yeah yeah and every other all the all the movies we saw with people in barrels and stuff that was a thing for a long time uh what a time to be alive i think people still do ride barrels down niagara falls crazy i cannot

imagine doing anything crazier personally no less i thought i was going to if i knew i was going to die the next day i might do that you know what i mean yeah no i don't think so if i was going to die anyway You know, it's just like... Yeah, not even if I was going to die anyway. It's like, I don't think any way of dying would be better or worse. I'm sorry, than being in a barrel going off of Niagara Falls and hitting a rock or something. No, thanks. Well, what if they said to you, Brian, you're going to burn to death tomorrow.

Would you prefer? Would that change it at all? God, I hate these kind of questions. You don't like these either-or's. They're hard. I really don't like these either-orers, because they both always... They always both really suck. God, burning or drowning.

Oh, yeah. Neither one sounds. I don't think I want either one. I mean, I can't, there's not one that I like more than the other. Let's put it that way. They both are 100% horrible. There you go. One's not 99% horrible.

It might help if my barrel was on fire and then they pushed it over into the water. I would feel at least like, You know what I mean? Like the water will at least kill these flames. But other than that, Yeah. Still going to die. All right.

Well, well done. Let's do this. Very patiently sitting there waiting to say something is one, Brian Dunaway. Hi, Brian. How are you? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. How's it going?

Good, man. Good. Good. That is the, look at you. You are a pro. He does not say word until he is introduced and welcome. He knows how to podcast. He's been podcasting for a long time.

He gets it. He knows. He knows. I know when to wait my turn. Now that I'm talking, though, you guys shut up, I'm talking. Yeah, you, you, no you. You. No you.

We are taking our fourth caller today, and, oh, look who it is. Oh, wait, is that who I think it is? It is. I'm not going to say his name because I'll screw it up again. Yanni, Yanni, Janie, Janie, Janina, Janini. Janini. John. Hi, Janani.

Welcome back to the program. How are you? I'm changing my name. Yeah. I'm Brian from now on. Just to make things more simple for you, Scott. It's Brian. Yeah.

Oh, Brian Regan joke. I'm all about easy. Easy is good. Welcome to the show, man. It's always good to have you on here. We're going to play a little game. Brian Abbott will explain the rules of said game. And we'll go from there.

Brian, take it away. I will. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics. And Scott and Brian, you have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Yanni, 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 the aforementioned prizes we tried to give away Monday, Heimerick and 762 Hard Life. A person that won them was indeed the Brad that I drove here in a lift for Marvada. But he could not use those prizes. So they went back in the pool and they are now available. to you. Nice. Thank you, Brad.

Thank you, Brad. Thank you, Brad. Look at the generosity on Brad, you know? That's right. So if you guys are ready, we will begin the game, put your hands on your buzzers, and give your best answer to this. We asked 519 tadpoolers to Name a Vampire. Scott. I was waiting for more.

I know you were. I know you were. Let's do the Lestat, vampire Lestat. Sure, show me a vampire Lestat. What is what's wrong with you? What do you mean what's wrong with me? It's number two, man. What do you mean?

That's a good high number. What are you talking about, you crack smoking? One answer will beat it, Brian. Do you think you know a vampire that's more popular than Lestat? More popular than Lestat? Let me think a vampire. Everybody knows would it be Dracula? Oh, geez.

Show me Dracula. Oh, he is number one. Damn it. I was hoping he was way down there. Gosh, you're all like my grandparents at home with these answers. Jeez, Louise's. All right. Very good.

Well, Brian, that means you've got control of the board. You've also got Yanna as a teammate here. You've got a bunch of strikes and eight answers to choose from still on the board. Nice. All right. How are you feeling about vampires over there, Jan? I love them. You love them.

Oh, maybe a little too much, maybe. I was passed on the... Ooh, maybe perhaps you're a vampire. Sure. Well, I blame the fifth. Oh. There I go. Hey, do you have one or do you want me to toss another one out?

Well, do you want a count that likes to count? Oh, Count Dracula. Yeah, I think he put Count Dracula on there, but that's not a... Yeah, but he's thinking the Count, like the Muppet. Oh, the count. That's right. Okay. The count who likes to count. Yeah. The count who likes to count. Oh, so Count Vaughn. Oh, yeah, okay. That count. Okay, Sesame Street count.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The best count, the most important count. That's the best count. I'm going to go with our special guest here. Is that the guess? You don't want to say his name either because you're afraid you're going to screw it up. That's your deal. I understand. All right. Dionne? We're going count. Von Count.

you're sounding ominous but yes it's my job not to get my favorite I love it with your own anything away one way or the other all right

show me one bat two bats ah ah show me count good points good points good points good points

nine is very good points yeah yes you've got ten points uh uh compared to Scots too while

technically not a vampire um i have one if you do not have any more do it i want to hear what you're technically not a vampire for a vampire question is that's right he's a day walker so technically kind of not a vampire i mean he's got he's he can bite you for the blood he's got stuff that makes him different you're right it's fair right he's a vampire like yeah that's right right

He's vampire-ish, you know? He's vampire-adjacent. Let's go with the blade. All right. Always bet on black. Yeah. Number three. Woo.

I know that was Passenger 57, but still, it's a Wesley Snife. But you said it when you watched Blade regardless, right? That it did. I did. Yes, exactly. Yes. All right. You got another one, Yanna?

I have one. If not. Well, do you tell that one? I don't want to say mine I have a sparkly I'm team Edward A sparkly vampire Is what I'm thinking yeah

Gosh dang it dude So I would like I would like Edward Cullen please All right one Edward Cullen Maybe coming up Show me Edward Cullen Number four Yeah right down the line Do you think people put that on there ironically

Or do they really like him do you think I mean, 29 people put it as their answer out of 519. So that's maybe half of those people did it jokingly ironically, but a lot of people, I think, probably put it because they like the Twilight movies. Yeah, probably. No judgment except I hate it. No judgment. I love that this name a vampire, not your favorite vampire. Nope.

Not your least favorite vampire, which is usually if it does. exactly yeah no you know and the reason we do this is um if i'm going through and i'm doing the survey and i see name your favorite this name your favorite that i try and move things around so it's like uh let's not let's just let's call it uh name a vampire or name of vampire or name a vampire who uh lives at the end of their movie or something like that like i try and make it so it's something a little bit more than just name your favorite this name your favorite well i think also it doesn't matter anyway because we found typically what usually happens is it's people name whatever vampire they know.

Yes. Right. And I wanted to be the first one off the top of their head. I want Rorschach test vampire business here. Nice. Nice. All right. So do you have another,

do you have any vampires in mind that you might not know the name of, but know the show? I have another one that I hope no one said, but I fear people did. Oh. I want one. Mobius. Mobius.

Moobius. Yes. That's a good one. Wait. Morbius. This is what he means. Morbius. We both said Mobius. That's fine. You all said Mobius like it's never ending.

And by God, thank goodness that. Yeah. Thank the Lord on high. All right. Show me. Morbius. Morbius. No.

Morbius was in the list, though, but low in the 20s. I think we'll look back on Morbius and think it was better than we remember. What do you think? You think so? I don't think so. I don't think You don't think so. All right.

You've watched it, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we'll film sack it and have a good time, but I don't think we're going to. I went in, I went in with Morbius already knowing everybody hated it. So, you know, it was like, it was like, oh, let's just see how bad this is. And I'm like, well, I saw it opening night and, uh, oh, you're traumatized. I was traumatized. I was very disappointed.

Yeah, I still haven't seen it. But, but, um, Madam Webb makes Morbius like a little bit better. it makes those venom movies real good oh yeah yeah all right scott back over to you let's see here what are we not done it's kind of everybody uh all right

let's do um I don't remember her name let me ask you a question if I name an actor that played up thing will that be enough or do we need something you might need to tell me like what thing they were in but you don't have to remember their vampire name

but the actor and the property how's that? Oh, I don't have to remember that vampire name. What is this? Well, I mean, all right, you know, I'll be safer. Let's stick with, I don't know which one's getting me more popular. I'll just say Laslo from what we do in the shadows.

Oh, that's a great one. It's either him or others, other vampires from that show are probably on here too, but let's go with him. All right, show me Laslo, Cravensworth from what we do in the shadows. Oh,

really? No, but that was number 11, so you get a bonus guess. Oh, sweet. Ooh, ooh. Oh, shit. Nice. I got to, I need to capitalize here. You do need to capitalize on that.

Oh, gosh. All right. Let's say, Count Chocula. Dang it, I wanted that one. I am so. So glad you got that one. That's got to be a lot.

Show me those delicious chocolate marshmallows. Ah, uh, uh, uh, Count Chocula. Damn it. Really? No, number, uh, number 15, though. It was popular, but... Boobberry, Frankenberry, or Count Chocolat, which one?

Go. Count Chocola. Oh, yeah, Frankenberry was... I got a, I got a little Frankenberry. But his fruit, is not bad. Is fruit fruit fruit? I never had fruit. It was, it was off the table for so long.

I sometimes don't even think about it. I don't think I ever had it. die number five or something, I'm sure. Yeah, but I do, I'll tell you this. Tarantino bought, Tarantino bought every box for his movies. The problem with Frankenberry, Frankenberry had a taste almost like cough syrupy taste

to the berry flavor, whatever the hell that even means. Had a aftertaste. Yeah, at least Chocula had like a chocolate. It tasted like chocolate. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it tasted like fake chocolate. It tasted like chocolate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ass chocolate, but sure.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, your turn. I blew it. She strikes for me. Brian and Yana. Yanna, what do you think? And you got another one? Angel. Oh, angels are great one.

Let's get some Buffy in here. All right. All right. Angel. Show me, Angel. Yeah, number seven in the list. Nice. Ding.

That's really good. Yeah, that does. I didn't even think about Buffy. There's probably a few others in there in the Buffy world. I can think of one. I'll see if. you say it or not. Now you put Count Dracula.

Sure did. Now are we going to... I want to do stuff like, what about characters based off Vlad the Impaler? And I'm like, hmm. I mean, Vlad the Impaler is Dracula, right?

Well, based on, right? Oh, I see what you mean the actual. That's the idea. Right, right, right. Ooh, that's a good one. Yeah. Yon, do you want to go with that one? Do you have voices in your head, Brian, that we're not hearing?

No, you didn't hear what? I didn't hear him either. What do you say? Not fratu. Oh, that's good. Oh, yeah, like Peter from... I'm not talking to myself. I hear Yana over here.

We really didn't hear it. I didn't hear it. Me and Brian didn't hear it. Well, let's say, let's check that. I want to see if this one's on here because that one, that Nisratu is badass. I can't wait for that new movie. I mean, Nusseratu is the movie. What's the name of the vampire?

Oh. Oh, that's right. I've always thought it was that. That's weird. I've watched... I'll give you a hint in favor of Yanna winning. I would throw to you the... It is another count, if that helps.

Okay. Count Vlad. There you go. I heard it. I heard him say it. Show me count Orlock. Orlock. That's right.

Yeah. Number eight. Good points. And I think that might even put... I think that puts Scott out of contention. Yeah, I think that clinched it. We just stuck your blood. 21, 21 remaining points on the board.

and Scott would need 30 to die. Now I can just say whatever crazy crap comes to mind. Is everyone here as excited as I am for that new Nostratu movie? I cannot wait for that. Yes. Freaking the witch, the Vivich guy doing it? Oh, man. The Vavich.

Can't wait. Well, I think we should go with Kiefer Fuddling. I didn't think of Lost Boys. That's a good thing. How do you like those maggots, Michael? Yeah. Yeah. What do you think, Yotta?

Sure. Sure, why not? I love his tone. I've always loved it. What was his character's name, though? I'm trying to remember. It was something simple. I'll tell you. It was David.

I'll tell you. David. There you go. All right, show me, David from the Lost Boys. Number 18 in the list. Okay. Interesting that they went that way. I still feel pretty strong about somebody in here.

or somebody from what we're doing in the shadows has got to be in here. So I'm going to say Nandor made it. Oh, that's really actually better better. I love Nandor. Show me Nandor the Relentless because I don't relent. Yeah.

Number six. Everyone loves Nandor. I hate to, I suck the blood of someone who is doing drugs and now I am a wizard. I freaking love that one. All right. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

A spike from Buffy, Buffy spike. Yeah, there you go. All right. Good choice. Show me spike. Oh. Number five. Pretty good.

Solid this out. I can't win, but I like the feeling that I could. Yeah. It's a nice little rally. One answer left on the board, Brian and Yano with a score of 32. Scott with a score of 13, the 10 point answer still remaining. on the board. I could win, actually, if I got it. No. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know. I didn't know. No, by a point. 13 plus 10. Yeah, is 23. Oh, he's 32. Yeah, yeah. I read 20. I read 22. I'm being stupid. Okay.

Well, either way, I want him to win, so it doesn't matter. I'm going to go with I'm all out of vampires. We'll do go with Colin. Go with Grandpa. Colin Robinson from what we do in the shadows. Let's get him in there. Colin Robinson.

All right. Show me Colin Robinson, the energy vampire. Number 10. Well done. So not Grandpa from the Munsters. No, not Grandpa from the Munsters. He was on the list, or he was in the stack. Alicard from Helsing.

Bill Compton from True Blood. It's okay. Strad von Zaravik from D&D Forgotten Realms. Asterian from Baldur's Gate Vlad the Impaler David from I know Vlad the Impaler Really should have been lumped into Tract to it

But I felt you know what If you say Vladbynipal I'm going to give you a separate Well I'll give you a buzz Because it was below 10 Selina from Underworld Deacon Frost Lewis from Or Louis from interview with a vampire

Mr. Burns from the tree house of harm That's a good one That is a good one Vladislav the poker Abigail Bella Ligosi Bela Ligosi Claudia from interview with a vampire

Count Ducula Eric Northman from True Blood Klaus Michelson Nick Cage I'm a vampire Oh yeah does

That's a good one We watched it on a film sack Yeah As well as his buddy Renfield Oh yeah Thomas Wraith From the Dresden Files

Vampire Abby from Let Me In Alistair Aver Levine Barnabes Collins I'm sorry For Avro Levine Hold on

Can we I'm trying to understand did she play something? She just looks like a vampire is told me. Okay. Did you,

did you mention, was it, Chris Sarandon? Chris Sarandon? Oh yeah, no, yeah, from,

really. Fright Knight. Fright Night. Oh, yeah. Humperdink. Yes. I don't have the,

I don't have the, I don't have the, what is his, what is his character name? Do we know? I was trying to remember. Yeah. Like something weird

like Charlie or something. It seems like, you know, Well, there's a Charles in here that I didn't recognize, so maybe it is. Bobby Kotick, Benicula. Capitalism. A real vampire. Yeah.

Count Dracula from Hotel Transylvania, I guess, because it's a different one. The Muppet, nope, that's Count Chalker, Count, Count von Count. Count. Count Floyd from SCTV. Oh, yeah. I forgot. I love that character. Yeah.

Gamon Salvatore from Vampire Diaries, Donathrius, Grandpa Munster, there we go. I shall name him Poker Face, also from Buffy. Jackie Dakota, Jasper from L.A. by night. Joel Austin. Oh, my gosh. Let's see. Marcelline, my mother-in-law.

Naja, finally get the mention in the list, the lowest of the shadows vampires. She shouldn't be low. She's amazing on that show. Wasn't Eddie Murphy a vampire and something? Um, yeah. He was, uh, uh, yes. What was that called?

Shit. Oh my gosh. I can see the cover box. Yeah. I can't remember that's all I can visualize. Vampire and Brooklyn. They're smiling. Vampire and Brooklyn.

Yeah. Yeah. That's it. I just search for it fast. But it's a West Craven movie. I can't believe West Craven did that. We should watch that shit. What are we doing?

Oh, yeah. Uh, rain from Blood Rain, um, Vam from Metal Gear Solid. Uh, and Vicky Nelson from the, TV series blood ties. No, Castlevania there then? I guess not. No, who did not see? But Castlevania is just Dracula.

It's just Dracula, right? Yeah. It's not a Belmont. I mean, it's anime. He's not a vampire. Yeah. Anime vampires don't count. Sorry, everyone.

Anime vampires don't count. That hurt deep. It hurts deep. Well, I think this is great because it means Yana has won. And not only you've won the big battle and the small battle, that small battle is to get me and done a way to see your name right. and I think that's enough to celebrate. But you're going to walk away with some awesome prizes.

Also, Fletcher's saying this to you. Congratulations. Brian, tell him what he's won one more time. Yeah, absolutely. You won a copy of Heimrich and 762 Hard Life. Both of those just been sent to you via Discord. Use them on Steam. And big thanks to Nighttime Visions who sent these to us.

No, Louis Loyo sent these to us. Nice. Gana, how do you feel? How do you feel about your big one? Thank you. I'm Rick is my favorite maneuver. Oh, the Heinrich. We'll see you next time.

All right, good stuff. Hey, Donaway, Friday. You and I are getting together to talk about video games again because we love the old stuff. We're big into it. I found, I don't know if I sent it to you. No, I did send it to you. There's a new board game called a card game called

Console Wars. Yeah, I cannot wait to see what that is. That looks awesome. I know. That looks neat. We'll probably bring that up and talk about it some, but I don't know very much about it. If you grew up during the 90s and you were part of the console wars between Nintendo and Sega,

it was a great time to be alive, very exciting things, as well as a book called Console Wars. And now there's a card game apparently being kickstarted. It's pretty cool. I'm excited. Well, what are we covering on Play Retro on Friday at 1.30? This Friday, we're doing flashback, the quest for identity, one that's been requested quite a few times, finally getting around to it. I thought I always started off on the Amiga. It released on the Amiga first, but it was.

was designed for the Mega Drive. And yeah, if you like Prince of Persia in that type of game where you kind of go screen to screen and got to make some very smart choices about how to move and solve some environmental puzzles, you're going to like flashback. Plus, it's kind of like futuristic, cyberpunkky kind of stuff, aliens. It's awesome.

It's so good. It's in my top five Genesis games I ever buy. Roto scoping. Yep, rotoscoped. That was a cool thing for a while. Out of this world, same people, or some of the same people made it. Yeah. I heard actually that it's a CD game on a cartridge.

Oh, my Lord, is that true? Well, I had a CD version on Sega CD. Yeah, Sega CD. It did eventually make it to a real CD, but it was really large. It was like 24 megabyte card or something, which was pretty big. It was big back then. For the time. And the sound in the CD version was so good.

Oh, my gosh. Anyway, and we'll talk about the horribly failed sequel that they released this year to Zero Fanfare. We'll talk about that. Anyway, that's Friday. 30 Mountain Time. Check out frogpans.com slash play retro for more. Brian Dunaway, please kiss our butts. Oh, no, you. All right. We did it. We got some time for a little bit of news. Let's dive in here and do some. Time for the news. Brought to you by. Brought to you by the Coverville 3D Etsy store. Yeah, we haven't talked about this in a while.

If you go to Etsy.com slash shop slash coverville 3D, you'll find my store. uh some khyber crystal holders for you lightsaber khyber crystal collectors out there going to Disneyland all the time getting those khyber crystals or the morning deck i'm sorry the morning stream steam deck stand uh in any color you like as long as it's one of the colors i have still available and uh if you're a marvel snap player uh even custom frames with your name on it and your logo like i did for scott did a frog pants one for scott it's a marvel snap card yep yeah it's over there i'd show it but right way over there can't reach it's awesome way too far too far to reach i have most most of brian's 3d printing things are right behind me in reaching distance yeah except batman he's over there waiting

to get painted but uh you can't see her but there's my uh my furiosus i will prize that until my death until my fiery death and uh that came out great and then chani's johnny over there somewhere by her they're hanging out there are two women that can get stuff of course yeah yes they are yes they are Let's get into the story about a middle school banning all black clothing, citing mental health concerns. They're worried that having all black clothes means, I should have, we're trying to ban goth. Yeah, I was going to say, you're going to ban freaking the cure? I mean, what are you going to do? It says they cite mental health concerns.

Texas middle school, of course, it's freaking Texas, is banning students from wearing all black clothing because school officials say it is associated with mental health issues. not that they want to actually check and see if it is. They just assume it is. Right. No, it's associated with it. So we assume that all kids who wear all black have mental health issues that need to be. Brilliant. And this will solve it, by the way.

If they wear bright, fun clothing, oh, totally problem solved. Yeah, geniuses down there. Students at Charles Middle School in El Paso, Texas, headed to school Monday, days after a letter from a principal, Nick DeSantis. It's got a last name that sort of invokes emotions. a little bit of displeasure. A little bit. Boy, you don't hear anything about him right now. No, he's kind of, uh,

I thought he would be like, you know, something. I thought he was going to be the VP pick, to be honest. I thought they'd pick him over Vance. I don't know why they didn't. I thought he was like everyone's favorite. I don't understand things in politics. Let's move on here. It says here, the letter,

Sades of the school is eliminating all black clothing because, again, it is associated with depression and mental health issues and or criminality. This is a broad assumption. Wow. No kidding. I wear black t-shirts all the time. Nobody accuses me at taking anything or doing anything stupid.

Yeah, and kids who wear bright clothing also can have mental health issues as well and depression. It's, you know. In fact, most of them do. The ones that are smiling are often the ones that need the help. They just don't tell you, you know. These guys don't seem like the brightest bulbs in the batch. No, they do not. Norman D. LaRosa, president of the El Paso T-T-shirts Association,

explained in more detail why the policy is in place and why what clothing is allowed. she says teachers see a sudden change in students going from dressing with color to all black when they are depressed or stressed again this isn't very scientific there's a lot of hearsay uh quote what they are not allowing is for students wearing clothing that is black from top to bottom they can wear black shorts to go to p.e they can wear it on free day or free dress days but they just can't wear it from top to bottom so you can't wear black pants black shirt black shoes but black pants with a dark gray shirt is okay what if it's like one little tiny pattern on it or something it's all black except for like a a logo they must think the new zealand all blacks are depressed oh the most depressed football team can you imagine they probably never win a game they're so sad over there no no so sad um anyway a bunch of parents and community members are disagreeing with policy commenting online the clothing color doesn't define a person's mental state duh Um, anyway, D. La Roses, his parents who are upset need to read the dress code policy very, very carefully, she says.

Yeah. Yeah. It's okay if they wear black shorts to P.E. Yeah. We said it's okay on free dress day. I freaking hate it. Everything about that sucks. Sorry. And when we were a kid, do you ever have anything get banned while you were a kid? Like t-shirts or, um, no, certain band names or anything like that? Oh, yeah. I mean, it was, uh, during satanic panic for heavy metal stuff. But, oh, no. even know about banning like like we had no yeah nothing nothing clothing wise in school was uh verboten for us i don't think we had anything like that either they had some stuff where it was girls skirts had to be a certain length boys shorts had to be a certain length where you couldn't wear shorts so there's that kind of stuff like modesty freaking rules but there was nothing on colors as far as i know you could pretty back in i don't know 85 to 88 or that range you could

pretty much express yourself any way you want it as long as it wasn't hurting somebody. Yeah. So this kind of stuff bugs me, especially coming from a state that's all about my personal freedom except for these kids,

make them wear different colors. Not my shirt. Let's take a break. There's so many his friends and Tristan who would have who would have had problems with this. Yeah, he liked the screamo and all that. He likes the black.

He still wears the black. He still wears the black. I think let him have the black. It's fine. The black is fine. Let them wear the black. You know how to wear the black? You don't know how to keep the black.

That's the best impression you're going to get today from me. We're going to take a break when we come back from said break. It'll be time for Tom Merritt, some tech time, as well as recommendals after that with me, Nicole and Brian. Randy has a meeting, so he will not be here. Stick around for all that. Brian, play us a song in the meantime, please. Sure, this one, this one's fun.

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Who was that one more time, please? Sure, that's Swami and the Bed of Nails with their song, Ketchup Muster and Relish from the brand new album. All of this awaits you. Interesting title or name for the band. Yes, Swami in the Bed of Nails. Yeah. Love to know the origin of that.

He even, like I'll give you a little link to their photo. I'll copy their photo and put on a deal. Sure. I mean, he even wears the, the Swami-licking turban and, uh... Oh, look at that. Yeah. Oh, I like this. Look at this chat.

That's very serious-looking group, and they're all wearing the same shirt, but they might even be wearing the same shirt. Not just, not just the shirts with the same pattern on it, but the same one shirt that all five people are wearing. I feel like, I feel like these are almost, okay, I'm going to say something a little weird here, but I think it fits. These look like people we know. So in the rear right, I think that's a version.

It's a doppelganger Dunaway, or on the rear left, rather. The rear right, I think it looks like Beau Schwartz. I think I look a little like the dude on either the far left or the far right, either one kind of amalgamation. And I think you look a lot like center dude. Like center dude? Yeah. Didn't see my bald head under that turban.

Okay, I'll take the dude in the glasses. Tom Merritt can be this other guy. Tom Merritt on the right. Yeah. Yeah. Turns out. we're all swamis now that's amazing like AI versions of the morning stream as swamis yeah why not well good luck to them seems like a cool band up to cool business for sure they're really good all right

we're going to bring tom in we're going to have a little tech time and uh you know see if we can't learn a thing or two i always like doing that and oh i heard myself for a second but now i don't we want tom hey you know what's uh here's an universal truth we want tom and uh thank goodness he has answered the call and is here to now to now today tom mayor welcome to now how are you i i am i am to well thank you oh good for having me that's uh any like we're looking over tom over his over the cubicle wall or something oh yeah but sorry i forgot i had my uh i had my monitor up oh i like it ergonomic reasons like hey did you did you hear what hr my my head is down in uh in this crowd strike explanation of the

Falcon sensor issue from July 19th. Turns out, when you want to pass parameters to an update, make sure you match the number of parameters. That's the simple version. The

Falcon sensor had 21 possible input fields. The instances that they were sending to update it only had 20. First couple of times they did that. It didn't cause a problem because nobody tried to use the 21st parameter. But on July 19th, one of the instances tried to make use of the 21st parameter, but there were only 20. And so the program got confused and said, well, wait,

you're telling me to use this 21st thing, but you only have 20. What am I supposed to put in there? That's out of bounds crash. That's really it, though. I mean, that's, that's really it. Wow. I thought this was, as the thing got more and more deep and investigated, you know, like start digging for details. I thought there'd be more than that, Tom. I thought it would be like, well, it turns out some guy inserted some malware into a Linux box that was housed in another server. You know, like some fancy technical reason.

They just, it's just a, it's, that's literally a bug in. It is literally a bug. And it's, the content validator didn't catch it. Because you, you just, you were just looking like, okay, do you, do you have the right number of, of, of, of, of, of, of content. 10 fields, you do, right? You have less than are necessary. And it wasn't testing the sensors template type, which was already up and had been running. Why would you test it? It'd been running fine. The first two instances just didn't try to use that weird 21st field. The third one did. And so they have now, you know, said we, they've, they've put in place ways to internally

test for that and make sure that, you know, the field amounts match. It's certainly one of those things where you and I can go like, well, why didn't you match the fields in the first place? But, yeah, it's akin to like, why didn't you use kilometers or millimeters instead of inches? Yeah. Well, now we know. Yeah. In a way, it's a lot.

You know, everybody was comparing it to this is the real Y2K or whatever. It's kind of a stupid thing they went around. but in a way it kind of is it's a bug nobody foresaw didn't think about wide ranging catastrophic results like maybe they were closer to the truth on that than we thought

I don't know it's not the same because you know they thought they thought we had a date problem this one no one thought we had any problem until it was a problem right and and anybody who has worked in you know code and and catching bugs knows how this kind of thing can happen

it thankfully gets caught most of the time it doesn't happen but this I think the most frustrating part about this is kind of a really understandable bug and the best way to catch this sort of thing is to test in a small level before you push out to a large level right because there's always those weird bugs like this

that you're like ah nobody thought that that would happen and it did and that's how you catch them is you put it in place you run it and go, oh, wait, it's doing a weird thing. What's causing that? And then you fix it. And CrowdStrike is doing that now. It's going to do staged rollouts rather than pushing it to everybody at once. And if you're like, well, why didn't they do that in the first place? You know, the rationale was they didn't have problems for years. And when you're talking about security, people want their updates as fast as possible. They want the latest and greatest defense

against the malicious stuff that's coming at them. So you don't want delays if you don't need them. And the staged rollout is a delay. Well, it reminds us all that Brian's Thanos fist at 50% was a smart idea because then you can work out bugs and kinks, right? Right. That's what I do testing. They should have just tested this.

I should have tested it the way you test 3D printing. There's a lesson here, damn it. Well, no, that's just super interesting. Any results from this other than, well, we found it. So now we know what to do and we're going to double. down on making sure it never happens again or is it any other real they had already said they're going to they're going to put in staged rollouts uh they're going to reduce you know uh every template instance is going to be deployed to customers in stage rollouts um and it's going to do some some memory checks

uh and things on the content end so if something did make it onto a machine uh it gets caught before it crashes. But yeah, that's that's kind of the issue here. I would point people who are like, wait, I still have a few more questions about this. I want to know more details. Obviously, you can read the CrowdStrike full report, but if you want a really good summary of that report that helps you understand it without having to wade through all of it, go to the register. Jessica Lyons did a fantastic explanation of what was in this report. And it's a great summary. So I highly recommend it. Nice. Well, you know who else writes cool things? Tom Merritt does.

Why don't you give us an update on any projects you're working on? Yeah, let's do an update on synced tom's new book.com. I love that. It's 63% funded. So it is rolling along. I have handed in the manuscript. I have to say it's one of the best things I was going through polishing it up. And I'm like, wow, this is really good.

Who wrote this? It was me. But you know how you do that? where you're like go back to something after a while and you're you're kind of like hmm that's not bad uh that's how i felt about synced so uh if you would like a just a paperback book uh you can go buy it at 16 pounds 99 don't get thrown off it's a UK publisher uh but you can you can you can order it in the US uh but there's also levels where you can like be on daily tech news show with a question do virtual meet and greets with me get your

name at the front of the book uh all kinds of things uh so go check that out at tom's new book.com. Please do, everybody, and check out the daily tech news show today at 2.30 Mountain, sorry, 2 p.m. Mountain Time, because that's when we all get together and remind Scott that that half hour hasn't been a thing for about four years now. So why does he keep doing that? Anyway, we'll be on there talking about all kinds of fun stuff. So I'm looking forward to that. Tom Merritt, he is ASE Detect on Twitter. If you still follow that place, I don't know. He's that name ever. I'm also Aase Detect on Threads.

That's right. I've been having a lot of fun there, too. Yeah, I've been enjoying myself on Threads. on there. Yeah. I like it a lot more. I did a thing. I did a thing the other day. I wrote, no one knows what an ankle rotary engine is. Knowing that, you know, people go, oh, he means wankle rotary engine. And it was really interesting to watch

the number of people who are like, you idiot, you mean wankle rotary engine. And I can tell you exactly what it is. You know, just a fun little test. The internet still works like the internet. Yeah. I think I sent you a gif of a girl tripping on her ankles i think is what i yes yes you did because ankle see you got it i got the joke oh yeah this we're just having fun i under as the kids say i understood the assignment tom merritt everybody we'll see you next time all right um hey brian you've been sitting on a recommendation and we're

going to talk about it now for a segment we call recommendals and i show nicole offline but that doesn't mean she is every week we say this well it goes offline but it doesn't mean anything yeah she may be here she may not be here. Let's find out as I ring her now. Sometimes she forgets. Talking about Nicole, Nicole, I think, has been sitting on the same recommendal for three weeks now. Oh, that's right. Yeah, we get to finally hear what it is. So let's do that if I can push all the right buttons. Well, what do you recommend? Oh, yes. It's time for us to talk about recommendals. Three of us are here today. Andy had a meeting. So, you know, meetings. They take you away from things. But Nicole's joining us. Nicole Spag. Hi. I'm tagging in. I'm tagging in.

Tagging in. It's all right. You always have a spot on the team. What's going on with you? How's life? I just finally pulled my phone out of my kid's hand. Thankfully. Yeah, you know.

They're so bored. This summer is the longest summer ever. I just want them to go back to school. Do they go back like next week or the week after? A week after. Yeah. Yeah. 19th and something like that.

I saw the thing. I saw something yesterday. I thought of you because you live in Missouri now, right? Uh-huh. And I saw a thing that I thought was kind of rude, and I just want to share it because I don't think it's very nice. Here's what it said. It said, here are the top 10 worst states to live in. And I'm preparing for like, oh, I hate these.

But then I see, it says 10, there is no such thing. Nine, all states have great things about them. Eight, you know, like it looked like it was going to refute. It was a number one's Missouri. Yeah, it got all these phrases and statements about all states are great. All states have positives, all blah, blah. And then it got to number one. It just said Missouri.

It made me laugh. And I thought, well, come on now, Missouri's fine. It's not a big deal. It's fine. We have quite a bit that I think, I mean, it's a, you know, it's an easy joke. Oh, it's, I trust me, I come from an easy joke state. So I feel like my, my husband likes to talk a big game about not liking Missouri, but he's done more here, Missouri than he ever did in Colorado. Oh, take that Colorado, Brian.

Yeah, she's well. Huh. Hmm. See how that is. It's not my fault. not for my lack of trying that's right out there working it every day damn it um all right well let's get to our recommendals today we're going to start with brian and a quip and a clip and a clip probably uh hey brian play your quip clip clip clip it's a clip um this is uh yeah what you're about to hear is a clip from

a movie um you won't hear the star of the movie until the very end but you're going to hear um the setup for the entire movie right in this little little clip here we go you're suffering from a condition known as Kreuzfeld-Yacob disease. It presents initially in much the same way as Alzheimer's. So what's the difference? Speed of progression. I'm guessing you don't mean it's slower. In your case, it's incredibly fast. What's the treatment? There is no treatment.

The thing you have to remember about dementia is the thought-feeling connection. You have a thought, creates a feeling, you lose a thought, you're left with a feeling. So you'll be going along and all of a sudden you'll be unreasonably happy and you won't know why. Or you'll have this wave of depression and you won't know why. I'm sorry. That's okay, Doc. even if I hated you for telling me I'd forget soon enough

This sounds like Michael Keaton That is Michael Keaton Yeah this is the movie Nux Goes Away Which just premiered on Max I'm going to watch this It's really, really good It's interesting because it's getting some mixed reviews

And I'm not sure what the complaints are But maybe I need to look at it But no, Tina and I really enjoyed it And it's a fascinating and very accurate depiction of this Kreuzfeld Jacob disease, which is like a form of

dementia. Michael Keaton plays a guy named John Knox. He is a hitman, hitman for hire, which kind of becomes a little bit of a problem when you start losing your memory or your ability to make memories

or reference memories. So he is basically getting his affairs in order. He's He's reconnecting with his estranged son, played by James Marsden, who famously left a giant poop in a hotel room and jury duty. Still got to watch that, but, you still got to watch that. You've also got Marsha Gay Harden. You've got Al Pacino in supporting roles with him. It's an amazing cast for this sort of thing, but Michael Keaton is the star of this thing and just does all the heavy lifting.

he directed it and so it is it is his all things are coming up michael keaton yeah they really are yeah you gotta love that dude he's amazing he's just fantastic and he's so good in this um uh and james marsden surprisingly like not surprisingly good but a surprising side of james marsden that you haven't seen before oh or at least that i haven't seen before yeah you typically it's it's not like it's all romantic comedies, but he's not known for super serious roles. Exactly, in a frenetic drama and that sort of thing.

It's great. It's very good. It's on HBO Max, and it is absolutely worth your time. And I know that clip sounded depressing. There's a lot of uplifting, and

boy, there's a lot of action and excitement in this film, too, because he's a hitman. But it's it's really really good don't let that little clip uh that little side me out bum me out exactly yeah i want to the reviews are pretty good i guess i know there's some dissent on the critic side you're right audiences love it though yeah yeah yeah big audience high audience score and then the critics are like mixed on it and i think uh you know tina obviously has to deal with a lot of people with um forms of alzheimer's and dementia and stuff like that and

She said that the representation was very, very accurate by Keaton and this. That's good. There's, I didn't know they added this. I just noticed this on Rotten Tomatoes. They have a verified audience category. That seems like a, prove you watched it be, so you're not just review bombing. Well, I think you prove that you are who you say you are. Like you have, it's a real name kind of deal.

You're not hiding behind some fake. I don't know how it works actually, but that's interesting way to try to improve your audience scores. I like that. Anyway, I'm sorry. you said we were this a streaming on max yeah HBO Max all right there you go to guys check it out hey Nicole let's throw it over to you and find out what you watched I know what you watched and I'm very excited I'm watching it's one of those shows that they have those weekly releases like a blame gotcha like they're like they've forgotten what the 2020s are for sure what year is this

some people prefer this stuff I don't know why they do I like it all at once personally, but I like it all at once. Yeah, I feel like there's there's always an argument for the other way, but I've yet to be convinced by it. You know what I heard, and I, I don't know if this is true, but I heard that the way that Netflix decides to renew a series is if they, they don't necessarily look at how much has been watched. They look at how much it's been finished. Oh, interesting. So like, did you get to the end of it? How many people got to the end of the season?

Hmm. If that's the case, then that's, that's a pretty good metric, especially if you're dropping a dollar once, right? If you've got 12 episodes and if you're not finishing the show. If you're not finishing it, how many people are actually going to want to watch season two, right? Yeah. Right. Exactly. Yeah. That's interesting. All right. Well, let's play your clip. And do you want anything you want to say about a setup or anything here? Um, I was very excited to see this trailer and I had been waiting for it after watching it. I don't know. I think it came up on Facebook. It has some of my favorite people actors in it. My kids are watching it with me. We'll talk

why Mark is not watching it with me. I have a feeling it might be one of the concerns I have because he and I are of a similar age. We have a similar feeling about that movie. The source material. So I will say I think I think this might be a series that might, for some people, they won't get to the end of it. But we will. We're loving it. I'm going to recommend it. All right, here we go.

Check it out. You're going to have to be on your own now because we are a crack team of expert thieves. We move fast so we can't let some book reader slow us down. Let's spread out see if we can't find something to steal. What is it? Is it valuable? Priceless. Stonehenge

Under construction Right, okay So how do we get out of here? It's the weirdest episode of friends I ever heard And you just hit on the point where Mark's like I can't So that was Lisa Kudrow If you didn't recognize her voice

This is time bandits And he's like It's just pulling me out I can't But here's the funny thing my kids have never seen friends and they are absolutely loving this so it's not the nostalgia aspect that is bothering mark it's lisa kudrow and he can't he can't not see phoe buffet uh going through the going through time yeah yeah yeah because that was my issue with it not that i haven't

i haven't seen it yet and i plan to see it but i'm nervous about it because i i hold the original time bandits in some very special light i love it yeah yeah so for me it's like but i like lisa kudrow a lot i think she's underused in the world so That doesn't bother me. I'm excited to see her in it. So the whole premise is you have this group of time bandits. And when did the original movie come out? And it was a Monty Python?

No. Well, it was directed by Terry Gilliam and there were people from Monty Python in it. But it wasn't, it was just him directing a movie. Right. But it felt Monty, I mean, it feels Monty Python. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's very British.

It's very 70s. And, uh, Michael Panthers. Palin was in there. Yeah. I think that was it. So this is, and I'm going to butcher his name because I always, somebody told me Mike, Tyke Watiti. Taika Watiti.

Taika Watiti. Yeah. I've been practicing. That's very good. Very good. He, uh, he rebooted this. And, well, not rebooted it. It's almost like a, like a continuation.

Uh, you got Germain Clement as the. the evil and they steal a map so the time bammots steal a map the kid I think the reason why my kids are into it is because the main character is a little kid who is a history buff

he's a nerd and he doesn't fit in and my kids don't really feel like they fit in and so it's just kind of been neat to watch this show through their eyes and it And it's a way to expose them to history without having to, like, sit down and read this history book, kid. So what you heard in the clip was, you know, they're learning about Stonehenge.

And it's, and there's a comedy relief to it all. So the kid finally gets to ask who built Stonehenge all these questions. And it's pretty funny. That sounds like it's, I mean, pretty true to the source. That's one of the great things about that. I think a lot of people, a lot of the like customer review or viewer reviews on IMB and other places are negative. And if you go read them, they're almost all just complaining that this isn't like the

thing I saw when I was a kid. It's not meant to be. I don't think so either. And I think it's, I understand it. Like I understand that feeling, especially based on what I was just saying. And Brian agreed that it's like this movie you hold in a certain regard. And so you're just nervous that somehow they're going to ruin it. But here's the truth of it.

I always have to remind myself. that movie will always exist in the form it exists. And this will be a thing that exists in the form it exists. And it doesn't mean you have to like both of them, but it's okay that they do this. It's not a big deal. There's no personal vendetta here to screw you with your childhood. You either like it or you don't. And the only big difference I can see here anyway when I look at it is, all right, adherence to some humor.

The kids of nerds, it's like the old movie. It's quirky and strange. The only big difference here is this isn't full of little people as the actors. Right. And I think some people think that's like key to the experience and I don't agree. I don't think it matters. But here's the thing. So not all the episodes are out. I think the little people, the original little people are going to show back up. Oh, you do. I think it's a continuation. I don't think it's a reboot. I think it's like integrate the, the previous movie into it somehow. Oh, is it? But I don't. It's not a prequel, is it? Because I think because that kid, that kid's name. is Kevin in the old one too.

Is it? Yeah. By the way, that actor that plays Kevin, I love this kid because his parents named him after Superman. I don't get to use Carl L. Tuck. Can you imagine? Amazing. But yeah, I mean, I'm going to see this regardless. I just kind of wait for it all to come out.

Don't try to compare it. Enjoy the ride. There's only four episodes, I think, out right now. They come out on Wednesday, so two more should come out today. Yeah. And then, yeah, it looks like, so they said they're releasing two. You say every Wednesday and then the last two will be on the 21st.

Yep. Is that new for Netflix? Is that something they just started doing or they've been doing this for a while? This is Apple TV plus. Yeah, it's Apple TV. Oh, sorry. I thought it was Netflix this whole time. But also it's new for them to do a two-a-week kind of thing.

I haven't seen them do that before, I don't think. Yeah. I know they've done like, here's the first two. It's more of a Disney thing. Right. Right. Yeah, exactly. give you a few at the beginning, but then it's

week to week by then. I don't know, maybe they did that with our flag means death or something like that, and I just didn't notice it. I don't remember either. But I love everybody involved, so, you know, I think I'll like it. I'm just happy to have a show that I can watch with my kids.

That's nice, right? And it's something, you know, and it's not a cartoon. Yeah. So I'm just like, hey, let's watch Time Bandits. And we, I will say, they've been putting it on and they've already seen the episode so it actually has some good

rewatchability for them too so it's a lot of fun yeah I would I would I'm just browsing more IMDB reviews they're all none of it has to do with the content of the show it's all about quit taking my childhood memories and changing them most of these people

aren't even watching it so F that F that noise fill upro butt holes all right time band it's on sorry Apple TV and available in almost its entirety, but on going to. Soon. Soon.

In a couple weeks. All right. I was over on Max, and I watched a thing, a movie that has been on my list for years and years and years. And I don't know what took me so long, but it's one of one of these movies where you're just like, I finally need to see this. It's one of Philip Seymour Hoffman's last films. It was released the year he died. And there's a lot to like about it. So here's your clip.

Hello. That's crony bastard. They call him the admiral. He's drinking at the Silversak Bar. I think you know the place? Better than I should, then. I'm looking at three seats from Abdullah's trip to Dubai. Why make you four hours over in Cyprus

on your way back from Dubai to Frankfurt? You can fly direct. I don't know, Gunther. Amals? With my luck, that's probably all it is. Seven friends. Is that all you have, Gunda? Oh, I wish.

All right. Sort of a clip decided on because I didn't want to spoil much about the story. But that is Philip Seymour Hoffman playing the character Gunther Bachman. And you might say to yourself, wait a minute, is he doing a German accent? You'd be correct. He is. Yeah, there's a few weird ones like that. He does an accent like that.

Rachel McAdams is in this and does a German accent. I don't know why they didn't just hire German actors to do it. The movie is not in German. It's all in English. But I still think you could have hired some German actors. I don't know why they didn't. That's weird to me. That being said, though, these are really great actors.

And they're playing Germans and it's fine. And this whole story is wrapped up in this idea that there's a, this is just post 9-11 and parts of Europe. are having more terrorist threats than ever. And there's a special designated agency in Germany. I forgot the name of the agency, but the Philip Seymour Hoffman's character is in charge of it. It's all off the books. Nobody really knows about it.

It's a counterterrorism unit. And it's very like Tinker-Taylor-Tuber-style. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Soldier Spy. Soldier Spy. I never remember all the words. Tuber. Yeah, it's your potatoes.

Yeah. There was a whole potato scene. It's really good. but it's like that. It's this level of espionage sort of spy movie. And boy, it ends. It ends in a way that is unexpected and completely out of the out of this world as far as I'm concerned. Like I didn't see it coming. I respect also respect a movie. This isn't spoiling anything, but respect a movie that leaves me going, well, shit, that did not work out. Like most movies want to give you a little happy feely and have Harris will wrap everything up in a bow and all that. Yeah, they don't do that here. They leave you going, damn it, dude.

And it's the point of it is to say, this kind of work leads to these sorts of ends, and it's not great. And yet you still have to do it. Anyway, he plays this really disheveled, kind of cranky head of this thing. But he's got his, he's basically got all the right intentions. He's trying to do good in the world. Same with Rachel McAdam's character. Robin Wright plays an American diplomat.

That's all I'll say there, because good Lord, that goes play. places is good. It's real good. It's available on Max. And as a usual, Hoffman puts in an incredible performance that's worth seeing on its own. And I think people will like it. So go check it out. A Most Wanted Man is the name of the movie. And it's available on Max. All righty. We did it. These are all going to be up on QuickTMS.L.I., which is, of course, linked on our website as well. And already up there to be ready to go. Nicole, anything goes. It was a fast episode. without Randy.

We got no Randy. You know, when you got four, four makes a difference. Three feels small. Four feels big. Anything going on with the Wood Whisper or anything you want to mention? Yeah. Mark just announced a new guild course that's coming out. He made Ava a really nice vanity. And so.

I want to see that. Is it up on the channel? Up on the channel right now? No. So we have free video. is on the main site, and then we have full-blown woodworking classes where he teaches you step-by-step how to build a thing in what we call our guild. So the Wood Whisperer Guild.com is where you can find the vanity.

Very nice. But I do see Oreo hanging out on a mortising jig. Yeah, he just released a mortising jig. I swear, that cat is the weirdest cat I've ever had. It's like a dog. Best cat you ever had. yeah crazy except that it lost his video caller right uh yes he did lose his video collar i did get a replacement for it but i've been really hesitant to send him out with it that's a pain uh well all right

then go check it out wood whisper on youtube and of course uh that guild information on their website Nicole have a fantastic day we'll see you next time okay i can tell you my my next week Recommendals is probably going to be Alien Prometheus and Covenant because I'm getting ready for that movie next week and so I want to watch the two most recent but prequels

I probably won't watch the first alien though beforehand even though the Romulus takes place between alien and aliens Oh, is that the time frame? I wasn't actually sure about that. I'm pretty stoked too. This is my next theater movie as well. Kim and I are going to go. Yeah. Stoked. Just a matter of which theater I'm going to choose. I want something big and loud, you know.

For sure. Yeah. I wonder if there's going to be, is there going to be an alien popcorn bucket that everybody wants to get with after the movie? If they do, man, we've gone too far if they do. We've really gone too far as the society when all we're thinking about is, what's the next popcorn bucket going to be? I mean, if it's alien, it's an egg, right? It's absolutely going to be an egg. Yeah, with the egg and they have the flaps out, I would assume.

Yeah. I would consider that. Actually, I would too. Yeah. Actually, that would be a cool, large scale 3D print, one of those eggs. They really would, yeah. I just have, like, one leg coming out of the face crabs, just, like, starting to creep out of there. Yeah, it's funny.

The photos I'm seeing are just xenomorph heads. Boring. I'm not seeing any eggs. It is lame. Yeah. Maybe I just need to make one and take my own there and say, put my popcorn. in this. Yeah, they're smoking crack if they think that's as cool as an egg. It's not.

It's not. We're done with the show, though. However, quick note about tomorrow, so a little bit different. Brian's going to be helping his mom out tomorrow, and that means that we will not see him tell roughly around 10. We're still going to do a show. We'll do an hour, but it will be later. And it may fluctuate a little if it's a little later

than 10. We'll keep you aware and we'll have a schedule live link up. But there will be a show tomorrow. It'll be shorter, and it will start later. 10 p.m. Mountain time. An hour later. than usual or so. So just keep an eye on me and Brian and we'll keep you updated on the Discord and our socials and stuff like that.

Perfect. As to that, should be good though. But no windy, so don't get excited about having your problems all fixed, okay? Yeah, sorry, sorry. You have to wait for another week. All right, that's it. Frogpants.com slash TMS for all things you need. Brian, let's play a song.

They need that. They need that, and I'm happy to provide it. Matt, aka Scottis X, wrote in and said, hey spike and boom boom I turned the not so special number at all age of 43 this year on August 1st and I just wanted to insert a song into the queue

for the heck of it I thought Lonely Rolling Star from Katamari Domacy play retro at episode when he says by the 8 bit big band could be a fun jaunty whatever but if that doesn't work I'm always down for anything by Dan Avedan of course scary pockets or the proto men

thank you all for the song and for testing the ship's phasers by destroying them with lasers sign Matt Scatus X. Happy 43rd with let's give her the phasers. Where is that? Let's test the ship's phasers.

There you go, dude. Congratulations. You know what? 43 is a good year for me, so I hope you have a great 43rd. That's a good time to be alive. It seems so long ago. Yeah, 8 big, big band.

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