The Morning Stream - TMS 2689: Amazing Underpants

Episode Date: August 14, 2024

Pushing a Johnson. Third Monday. Popcorn Ass Movie. He Knows Where that Butter Goes. Shift+Fart. Toasty Michael Clark Duncan. Canadian Snicker laws with Dunaway. You'll Get No Show On Monday, No Show On Tuesday and No Lt Yar. Back in my day, podcasts were silent! Recommental Robs with Nicole. Unpodfading. I Can't Believe its Not Brando! We All Need A Long One. How do I podcast again? This Kim, my Emotional Support Wife and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Coming up on the morning stream, pushing a Johnson. Third Monday. Popcorn ass movie. He knows where that butter goes. Shift, fart. Toasty Michael Clark Duncan. Canadian snicker laws with Dunaway. You'll get no show on Monday, no show on Tuesday, and no lieutenant y'ar.

Back in my day, podcasts were silent. I'm mental robs with Nicole. Unpod fading. I can't believe it's not Brando. We all need a long one. How do I podcast again? This is Kim, my emotional support wife, and more. On this episode of The Morning Stream.

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I recognize that dance, Brian's doing it. Yeah, this is like, this is some sweet moves. Sweet moves, sweet moves. Sweet moves, ladies from American bandstand back of the day. Yeah, you're tearing it up, that dance floor over there. Dick Clark called me one of the greatest dancers. Oh, I've missed that for two days. Danny Terrio.

Hey, everybody. Welcome to EMS. It's the morning stream. It's August 14th. A day before my weird brother Matt's birthday. So everybody get out there and wish the real ding pong or ding pong crate or whatever he is out there. Wish him a birthday. Happy birthday.

He turns what feels like 25 because he never ages. I know. He looks great. He's weird. Anyway, hello, welcome back. Sorry about the two days, everyone. You know, Brian, you were here doing some stuff. So you filled some of the time.

I did cover. I tried to make people feel better about us being gone. and did a Counting Crows coverville. Yeah. Where I actually forgot one of the songs. Like, I found it in my library like, oh, I had a great cover of round here lined up that I didn't play. Oh, well, I guess I'll save it for a future episode. And then did a guess the connection yesterday?

I tried to be, I tried to make people happy. Yeah, you filled the dark hole in people's hearts. And I think that's all he really can ask for. But, yeah, we had kind of a last minute thing that happened. I went to California for a day, really just a day and a half. I guess. So I flew out Monday. I had to leave too early for TMS,

but the flight was delayed horribly because we, in fact, it's so dumb. We're at the airport. We always do the whole, let's get there two hours ahead because I just like to be sure that TSA was fine. We're sitting and waiting. Like,

I just like feeling prepared. I hate being last minute. I would much rather have too much time at the airport than not enough. Yeah. Like, I, yeah, I don't want, oh. I hate that feeling. Just that rushed feeling. I don't want to be rushed.

Yeah. Especially with flying. I hate flying as it is. Why do I want to be rushed and hate flying? You know what I mean? So we get there plenty of time. It's all like City's new airport. They just finished phase two.

It's freaking beautiful and huge and I'm loving it. It's really nice. So we're happy to be there. Lots of places to eat if we want, whatever we want to do. So we're chilling. And I just notice a couple things. One, there's a bird living in there inside. And this bird is hanging out in this little stoopy area.

And it waits for. It waits for people to not be at the drinking fountain. Yeah. And then it will dart down into the drinking fountain, get a quick drink, and then the bird will go right back up into this little place it lives. And I watch that bird the whole effing time we're there. You know, it's been a while since I know during COVID drinking fountains or bubblers, as you call them in Wisconsin.

Yeah. Wrong with those people. Definitely out of favor. Usually taped up with masking, like a big masking tape X over them to let people. to let people know not to use them. So good to see that they're usable again. I mean, the ones where you put your bottle in for refilling your water bottle constantly, you know, those stayed open, but the ones where you actually put your mouth over.

Which, when you and I were growing up, that's all we had, you know? Yeah. Public drinking founts were you just used them. It was no big deal. Exactly. You just trusted them and you didn't care, right? Yeah. Nowadays, if I can avoid it, I won't go near one of those things.

but this bird he was down plus he was like kind of it was a little bit of a foody area so once in a while somebody would walk by with a sandwich and drop a little bread or whatever and this bird would go grab it and go back up to its little perch nice so I was getting really into this whole bird life thing and then I then I noticed out of the corner to the convenience store and take a bag of fritos though right no that would have been amazing that would have been amazing I tried to film all this I could only ever catch him up in his perch you would zipping right into the Hudson News for for Doritos's

cool ranch yeah grab a paperback get some yeah Eminems whatever you know you don't Eminems yeah the duty exactly what I get at the the Hudson News too I figure if I buy candy at the airport it doesn't count no no it doesn't even add there's not even calories we do it to the airport

no no the airport there are Hudson News calories there's zero nothing so we're sitting there and it's fine and then I notice out of the right side of my face my eyes. I noticed that there's really dark, heavy cloud. Way off, though. It feels like it's way in the distance. I'm like, oh, that's interesting. Probably going to get a little rain after we leave. And we got half hour before they, you know, this plane gets here and we start boarding or whatever. And it's a quick flight hour and a half to Orange County. No big deal. We're

doing Delta to, what's the, Santa Ana. And I like that airport. John Wayne. Yeah, way better than LAX. I freaking hate LAX. Oh, gosh. Yes. No, that's a great airport. Randy says, there's a good one at the is it newport airport no some beat one of the beaches has a oh really okay yeah but anyway we're the goal was to get as close to irvine as we could and santana's right there so so anyway that's what we're waiting for and um we the plane comes still no rain just kind of getting dark out or getting you know cloudy no big deal get in the plane sit down get my seat uh notice the guy in front of me this is such a weird sequence of events. Guy in front of me

and to the right, I was a middle seat sitting next to a very nervous kid who was about 12. He was terrified for some reason and watched the amazing underpants. What's that cartoon? The kids love the book. Captain? Captain underpants? Amazing underpants. Amazing underpants. He's watching that

the whole time. So he went from nervous and squishing his hands like this all the time and looking around to laughing maniacally at that stuff. So he had his little escape valve and that's nice. And then this girl next to me was very nice, but she liked to kind of spread everywhere. She was all over the place. And I am squished, six foot, you know, six foot three jammed in the middle.

It's kind of sucked. But I'm thinking, well, this isn't so bad. We're taking off in a second. And then we get the captain. Or no, then I hear this like, gage outside. And I'm like, did something crash? Like, what the hell happened? And I'm looking around.

And it's, imagine, it doesn't matter which one, John Lithgow or Captain Kirk. Shatner. Chattner up in, up in, what, 30,000? Nightmare at 30,000, 20,000 feet. Is that what it's called? They changed. They increased it when they did the Lithgow version, I think. Yeah, because I think we started flying higher in the 80s.

Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I saw it looked like that. Sheets of rain, we're on the ground still, but sheets of rain and just lightning and thunder just going gurgh, and this lightning went just spread across the sky. I'd never seen it before. It was crazy. and it and we get so after a while I'm like well what does this mean

the captain gets on and goes uh ladies and gentlemen you may notice we're having a bit of very bear bear very bad anyway he was doing this whole thing and he says yeah the the FAA does not allow us to do anything if it's light and we have to we have to sit out here we can't take off or no one can land either so we're like okay what is that five minutes ten minutes nobody's that worried about it nope freaking hour and a half just idling waiting for this lightning storm to leave and by the way it never did i'll get to that in a second it never really truly left but there was oh wow it just gave up they said all right let's try it well there was finally a break enough in it in it in the lightning part because they'll take off in falling rain no big deal but the lightning is the problem so we're an hour and a half late and he says and because we've been out here idling idling we need to uh pull in top off our fuel and uh double check at a hydraulic thing And then we're off.

And I'm like, okay, great. Here's the worst part about that. And I never experienced this before. When you're on a long tarmac delay and they've already shown you the safety video. Yeah. Which is a weird one anyway. Delta has swapped this. I don't know if you've seen the new Delta one.

I haven't seen, I don't think I've seen the Delta. No, no, we flew Delta last year for the Southwest or Southeast meetup. So the brand new one is them pretending like they're giving you green screen one, right? Like it's. No, not even that. It's everybody at like a. like an island spa walking around with like deck chairs

pretending deck chairs are like plane chairs oh really okay no that one I have not seen oh that's that's hilarious I wish I could probably find it on YouTube but they were like put your stuff in the overhead bin well instead of an overhead bin it's a lady putting her sandals and her little daybag up on a shelf at some kind of cabana it's really odd Brian that's really bizarre

I remember the United one was like super green screen of like, shoo, hi, we want to make sure you enjoy your right. Yeah, I don't know why they're, I mean, they're getting all creative with it. I guess whatever, it's fine. But that ended and I went, well, that was weird. Okay, no big deal. And then after all this rigmarole of being stuck,

going back to the thing, getting refueled, and then back out on the tarmac, the lady gets on and goes, I'm sorry, but an FAA rules and regulations require that you watch the thing again. Oh, no. So I was like, oh, my. gosh, dude. All right, fine. And I was watching today's Recommmental at the time, and I'm like, don't interrupt my

recommendal. I got to watch this thing, which we'll get to you later what I watched. And anyway, so we had to sit through that weirdness one more time. And then we finally get in the air, hour and a half late. People are grumbling, you know, because they're going to miss connecting flights and all the sort of stuff. I didn't care that much because, you know, I just had, Randy's my ride at the airport. So I just call them and go, yeah, we're running. He goes, I know I'm looking at you on flight

tracker. And, and, and, No, it turns out where we were going. So I can, the cat, the part of the bag that I can let the cat out of is that I was at Blizzard Entertainment, and that's as far as I can tell anybody anything. I was doing something very cool. You were auditioning to be the new Eeyore at Disneyland, like in the suit. You know, I tried, but they were like, you smell like onions in there. Get out.

I'm sure, yeah. So wait, was this solo or was Kim with you? Oh, Kim, they said, hey, you can bring a, like, a, you know, an assistant. I don't ever imagine you going anywhere without Kim. If there's any way you can. Oh, yeah, I was going to go without her. And then they said, you can bring a plus one. And I said, oh, well, then, of course, I'm bringing her.

That'd be fun. Let's do it. And she was down, of course. So, yeah, so she was there with me, which actually turned out to be a smart move because there were times where she literally was like having a hired assistant. It was like, I needed a thing. She was off to do it and take care. It was actually kind of great.

She needs a raise, I guess. Anyway, bottom line is we get there. We did a bunch of cool stuff. And if you want to know what we did, you will know soon. It will be about a week from now. You'll see the results of what I was there for. And it was very rad. And that's all I'll say about it.

But I got to do all the fun stuff that you get to do on the tour. I get to walk around and see stuff at dinner with Sam and Randy and Will, who is now taller than me. I doubt that, but still. He is. He's like 6.3. He might be right where I'm at, but he has more hair than me, so he looks tall. He's like 9.

How is that even possible? What are you talking about? He starts high school next week. None of this makes sense. I agree. None of it. Did they put him in some sort of, did they replace him with a larger, older version of their child? It feels like it or some kind of miracle grow thing, or I don't know what happened.

Holy cow. But he's a smart, good. kid it was really fun hanging out with him and um got to see sam and then a bunch of you know all the blizzard stuff that you want to see i don't know if you guys remember but at blizzcon or no no no sorry not bliscon back in the uh for the release of warlords of drann or so like 2013 whatever it was they had a car a taxi cabin in new york with a giant gore howl axe in it oh yeah do you remember that so that picture i sent you of the gore how axe is that actual axe they flew that was the one they put on a taxi oh that's incredible and it's huge i mean like would take up half my

my room in here it was amazing so i was like geeking out hard about all these replicas and stuff oh for sure anyway did you ask them if they would give me uh or like you know pass on uh or give it to you to give to me the 3d printed morgarum that um that they had at the at blizzcon was the year that they had like a whole bunch of 3d printed versions of of people's characters in a like a diorama of an attack on oh i don't remember your character is in that my character is in that yeah they just randomly picked a bunch

and uh oh no way um i didn't know that i didn't see any of that i did see um bow has his name on the big lilith statue out in the out in the courtyard oh that's cool yeah because he was one of the first hundred people to or a thousand whatever i don't remember what it was but the first people to hit 100 without dying in a hardcore character so that's cool jeez that just that just that just about killed him. I can't believe he pulled it off in the end, but there were a couple times on stream where it looked like

he was going to fall over out of his thing. Really? Yeah, it was really bad. But anyway, we got to do all that fun stuff. Had lunch and stuff with some cool people I haven't seen in a long time. And I'm telling you, the thing you're going to see from this is pretty rad and that's

all I'll say. Because I'm under NDA and I can't talk about anything else. You can talk about it when you can talk about it. And that is, that is like you've done enough to say for people to not say that you pull the Johnson. You've you've

pushed a Johnson. I like it. I like it. That works. I push to Johnson. You push to Johnson. Yeah, there's always a little push and pull. Today is a push. Next week will be a poll. That's right. Yeah. It'll be a full display of the Johnson. I think people like it. I think

it turned out real great. And I guess I would say it was nice. So it's been a while since I've seen like a bunch of old faces at Blizzard, some of which listen to the show, TMS, they'll hear this this morning. And that was awesome just to run into people. I had people come up and go, oh, I listen to everything. Hey, big TMS fan or hey, I love core. I love the instance, whatever. So there's a lot of that stuff going on. And it was just kind of nice because, you know, just haven't been around those people in a while. So it was nice. Anyway, big stuff coming up.

So watch for that. It'll be loads of fun. Also, oh, did I ever get to the point? The guy in front of me, I never did this. The guy in front of me's got his phone out, and it's got this, he's playing some game. And I thought this was part of the game, but he's playing on a big, I think it was just an iPhone, you know, 15 Pro or something, Max Pro, big one. And it had a big green line from the very top of the phone all the way down to the bottom, like a horizontal, sorry, vertical line if you're holding it portrait. Yeah, yeah. And it was off to the right, but very green, like bright neon green line. And I thought, what is he playing that you'd need that green line? I'm looking. I tried to get a picture.

It's all blurry. I can't really tell what's going on. This dude, his phone, I'm sure he dropped it, banged the screen, I don't know what. And then that same line showed up on his home menu

and in his email and messages. He's texting before we take off. And I'm like, oh my gosh, I would lose my shit if I had to work on that. And I know maybe you get used to it, like kids with their cracks and stuff.

You get used to it? I couldn't do it, dude. No, no, I couldn't either. I'd be like, Yeah, time for replacement. I mean, you know, whatever. You pay your, you pay your little subsidized amount to T-Mobile or 18T.

I guess he did not pay for the protection. No. And that guy farted so bad during that flight. And the reason I knew it was coming from him. You get up there and how do you know what it's? Well, here's how I knew it was him. The first one, we were just like, oh, someone's someone around us, right? It's a full, very full flight.

So I'm just like, there's no way to tell. But then everyone, so I'd see this guy kind of do a little shift. And then we'd get it And then we'd get it And I'm like, it's him It's that guy Slet of a bitch And because the flight was so full

I was in the middle And Kim was two rows behind me On the window So I couldn't even commiserate with her You know And then the flight We're all airplane mode So I can't text her and go

This guy and just farting Like a freaking howitzer No, but what you do is you You write it in a note And then you air drop it to Kim Yeah, no kidding But it was weird I've never done

You were talking pre-show about this, but you used to do a lot of, like, quick in and out, barely there kind of trips when you used to do the newspaper stuff. And this is the first time where I've ever gone somewhere where I get there in the day, cram it a bunch of stuff, go to a hotel around 930, sleep, get up immediately early in the morning for the thing I had to do, go and then take all our luggage with us, which wasn't a lot. We knew we were only going to be gone today. So it's just one bag for both of us. And then went to do our thing. I carried that stuff around with us

for the rest of the day. I never went back to the hotel. You never went back. I've never done that before. Oh, another funny thing. We get to this hotel. It's the Marriott there. And the person who reserved it for us

said that it was under his name and my name. So I thought, okay. So I'll just give him the confirmation number. The guy will say, which guy are you? Oh, I'm the Scott Johnson on the name. And he'll also see this dude from Blizzard's name on there. So he'll know that this. This has all been arranged.

They do this all the time at that hotel. This is where they put people up. Not a big deal. Of course they have it. Yeah. And this guy goes, oh, let me see. Do you have confirmation number? And I said, yes.

I give it to him. He goes, ah, this is how he talked. And I'm not trying to make fun of an accent, but he, the accent's part of the tone. He goes, I see, your name. He goes, your name is what again? I said, Scott Johnson, it should be on there. And I showed him the email and all that. And he goes, oh.

this does not have your name. It does have this man's name. And I go, who? And he goes, this man here. And he shows it to me. And I'm like, oh, that's my contact. He, that's his name. He said, as you can see in this email, he says, I'll put both our names on it.

He did not put your name. He did not do it. And this is like 930 at night, dude. So I'm like, oh, no. Yeah. So you're like, oh, my God. What do I do if he doesn't let me have my room? Yeah.

And I've got the guy's number. I'm sure we would have worked it out. But he finally goes, and he does this thing where he does this thing where he He sits back. He's wearing like his, you know, his nice suit looking, you know, he's wearing a suit. This is a nice marriot. He stands back, puts his arm under the other arm, it puts his finger to his chin for those not, not watching. And he goes, he goes, da, da, da, da, da, da, da. I kept saying that. Tapping his face. And I go, he goes, you know, I guess we can do it. But just so you know, it's possible this man comes in your room tonight. he comes out and he was serious he was like really it wasn't like a joke you like oh he might

show up and just pop in yeah it's like he may come to your room and i you have two beds but i am saying you know you just need to know and i'm like i know i know it's fine i promise you this dude is not coming into my hotel as long as he only comes into my room yeah don't come anywhere else near me and don't and these are also two um because this was also last minute these are like two single bed, so we're Ricky and Lucy in there, basically. We're not in the same bed. So anyway, at the end of the day, had a great time. It was very whiplash, very fast,

but what we did was cool. Also, it's Alien Week. Romulus comes out this week. I know Brian is working up a chain of trying to catch up on some, not catch up, but just sort of get all aliened up, right? Sort of, yeah, I just watched. I've seen aliens so many times, but I think I'd only seen

Covenant once. I I've seen Prometheus a couple times, but I did a rewatch of both of those, even though for all I, for everything I've heard, really nothing to do with Prometheus and Covenant. I mean, this takes place between alien and aliens, and I don't think there's going to be any talk of the engineers. I don't think there's going to be any talk of David and any of that stuff. So I think the David movie is still on, it's still going to happen, right? You think so? I don't think so. Well, I thought I read some...

Oh, that's right. Disney owns all this shit now. Yes, I think Disney said, I think we've explored the pre-aliant stuff as much as we'd like to. I'd like them to keep going. I'd love those movies. I would too. Well, we need to know. And I'll talk about this because I'm doing...

This is going to be my host special for August for Film Sack is going to be a deep dive into all the alien stuff. The chronology of the movies. not the release order but the story order and the you know the what we know and what we don't know questions that never got answered in the prequels and that sort of thing I am looking forward to that that's going to be a fun discussion you have so much fun and I'm deciding I've decided that I will wait until after I've seen Romulus I was going to do it as kind of a pre lead up to Romulus but also as part of this I'm going to be listening to the Alien 3 audiobook the William Gibson one that was the original plot line with Newt and Hicks and Bishop and Ripley

after they leave LV. 426, L.V. 426 on the Salaco. Good memory. Thank you. Well, I've been watching these things. So it's going to be, it like continues that story. So it's like, oh, this will be an interesting one. And it's an audio drama read by, you know, Lance Henriksen and Michael Bean and, you know, like they actually have a couple of the original actors doing the voice work.

It's as a, as an audio drama as opposed to an audiobook. That's awesome. I didn't even know that was the thing. It was a news to me. Yeah, I know. Somebody let me know after the discussion about Alien 3 and how I like it and my uncle does not. In the latest film sack, somebody said, hey, go check this out. I'm like, oh, great.

it's very divisive isn't it that movie that there really is yeah and it's really because of the the killing off of newt and uh hicks yeah um and here's so here's something right because um uh in prepping for the alien um host host special yeah i i found out that marvel has been doing a what if series what if burke paul riser's character had lived in alien three oh my I'm sorry, in aliens, in aliens. Then he would have gotten eaten by people, because he sucks. He basically makes it back to Earth and all that stuff. And there's, I've read the first issue, and I'm like, this isn't enough to grab me. But it was co-written by Paul Reiser, oddly enough, which is kind of interesting. Oh, that is interesting.

What the heck. All right. Yeah. So, but what it does is it talks about the scenes that led up to that, that were in aliens, where they figure out that he, his goal that Waitani Corporation sent him, or Wayland Utami, sent him with the plan to bring back some eggs and some facehuggers back to Earth. Right. And Hick says something like, well, you know, how's he going to do that when we know what's going on? And Ripley says, well, he was probably going to sabotage our sleep units to, um,

so that we died and he'd be the only survivor making it back with all these things. And it made me think, why didn't Fincher just lead right into that as the reason that Hicks and Newt were killed is because Burke had sabotaged the sleep units on the Salaco as planned. We just have him screw up on hers, like Ripley's is still working somehow or... Ripley's is fine because he wanted her, she was impregnated. Oh, right. That was the whole point. That was the whole point is to impregnate Ripley And with the Queen's eggs And then

They totally, you know If somebody would have thought about it They said oh well let's just use We were they were you know Burke's plan was to do this anyway Let's just say that he did it And that's why Hicks and knew it are dead Is that story still take place on a prison planet though

Is that the whole Go somewhere else They go all the way back So it's like aliens on Earth kind of thing I think they make it back to Earth I don't know I haven't listened to it yet but I'm excited to, I'm going to listen to it today. I love, I love how deep dive you're going on this.

This is great. Yeah, I'm, you know, I don't do anything. No half measures. No, no, no, no, have no half measures at all. F you, Walter, or whatever. Yeah, exactly. That's great. I'm excited.

And you know what? I will say this. And this is a, you know, this will be a little tease for the host special. But I really liked Romula, or covenant more than I did the first time I saw it. I'd like, I thought this is, you know, a lot. better than I remember to be. Yeah. Covenant for a lot of people is the weakest or whatever. I disagree.

I find it. That's the thing is I like Ridley Scott's style anyway, but I like those two movies and their methodical kind of vibe. They have moments of, you know, sporadic action and shock value and all the things you want out of an alien movie, but they do it in a way that it's, at least it's not something I've seen a hundred times, which I think was the point. Exactly. Yeah. And it's so

I mean, fast bender is just so freaking great as both Walter and David. Yeah, he's really good. Yeah, it's, those are worth a rewatch. It's a bummer that we're probably never going to get the third movie. But we are getting a TV show next year with, you know, thanks to Noah Hawley, taking a break from Fargoing. Yeah, I can't wait. This should be well either in post-production or close to it on that. I would think so, yeah.

Wow, is that going to be on Disney Plus, isn't it? The New Alien TV show. I think it's still a FX joint, but that's also owned by, that'll be on Hulu, so technically it's on Disney Plus, I guess. Pretty sure that's where that'll be. But yeah, I'm excited about all that stuff. So Romulus this week, we'll both be seeing it. I don't know where I'm going yet. Might meet up with KT Data, and we don't know yet.

This trip kind of effed up my week, so I'm still trying to figure out what we're doing. Anyway, more on that later. No spoilers, everybody. No spoilers. No, no, no spoilers. all right done away time i've missed him terribly yes i will say even when you're gone for just like a whole 24 to 30 hours or whatever the hell it was that i was gone

it feels like a month it does i know i it felt like forever since we did tms and we just did it last week no this is nothing and it had it been like oh one of us was sick or we had other whatever and we were still home it this wouldn't feel like that but it feels like i haven't talked to you in a month it feels like i haven't talked to done away in a month month. All of this is really weird in my head. So, you know, forgive us if we seem weird. Speaking of weird, did it. One of the weirdest people we know and we love him for it. Brian Dunaway joining us. Hi, Brian.

Oh, hi Scott and Brian. I know what you mean about the couple of days away. We've been doing this every week, not TMS necessarily, but getting together every week. You guys are coming close to the longest relationship I've ever had besides my children. Yeah. Actually, I met you before my children. No, or was it right after? No, okay, my children is still the longest. Well, let's see. You had a- Pretty close. Because what was that first episode of ELR? Because that was the first thing, right? Yeah, yeah, Drew was. Yeah. I mean, I knew you before that, but not long before. I think you had a baby then, yeah. Yeah. And I had a four-year-old. We did. Yeah. That's too weird to think about. Yeah, look at that. Real quick, though, this came up a lot this weekend because I saw Sam and Randy and I went,

oh my gosh sam i haven't seen you since nerdtacular 2017 it's been that long right yeah yeah and uh i saw her briefly i guess at blizzcon the next year but it's been that long and and she's like oh my gosh it has and but i looked at randy and went i talked to you all the effin time it may as it may as well you may as well live here like it doesn't feel the same when i don't like done away i'm i've only was the last time i saw you in person 2013 yeah 2013 or 2014 something like that 14 14 maybe Way back when. Yeah. Again,

a nerdtacular of some of some sort. Maybe it was 15. 10 years ago. Come on. We need to be ex-burt. Yeah, it's so weird, dude. So weird.

Well, I know it's been more recent for me, Don't away. That's right. I know. That's right. And we're going to see each other very soon again in Savannah. Twice more recently,

right? Because I saw you at a DragonCon and then the southeast meetup. That's right. When is DragonCon? That's right. And I'm about to do that again very shortly. DragonCon. It is.

It's a everyday weekend. Yeah. Yep, which is coming quickly in a couple of weeks. Quicker than you think. I was already outside this morning and I felt just a little kiss, a little kiss of the cool. And I'm like, oh, I like to be weeks away from a possibility of some cool days, not all of them, but maybe a day or two. Well, these storms that we had that made us so our flight was so delayed, I forgot to mention that the very next night, which was last night, the reason I was another hour and a half late getting home and got home at midnight was because of the same exact storm was still here and they were having lightning again.

and man, people were pissed. Tomorrow I'll tell you a story about a really a short little old guy that was so angry at all the wrong people that can't do anything for him. I just... Oh, I love it. I love this place. Airport anger.

I just about told that guy if I was so mad at him for treating people bad. It was such a dick. Anyway, it's good to have you here, man. We're going to play a game. Oh, I got to add somebody. Yeah, we need a cold test tant. It felt like Monday for a minute. Let's see. Who is our third?

Oh, have we had Toasty on before? Because he's our phone. I don't know, but I like the name. Toasty. Are you smelling Toasty? I'm smelling Toasty. I mean, we're smelling something. Is that a Quiznos thing?

Toasty? Yeah. No, it was from... Am I still allowed to Chipotle without being judged? Yes, you can go. You're totally fine. It was, Mortal Kombat was the Toasty thing where the guy would go... Toasty.

Quiznos had it as well. Did they? Did they take it from that? I think Quistow's did like, Mmm, Toasty. Oh, that may be. But like the guy in the corner of the screen that would pop up and go, Toasty, when somebody would get burned. Oh.

Have I remembering that right? Yeah. I think that's a thing. All right. Toasty. I think so. Yes. Yes.

Tosti, you're on the air. Hi. How are you? Hello, Scott, Brian. And Brian. Hello. Have we had you on this before? No, sir.

Okay. For some reason, I'm usually a day behind. I'm usually a day behind. I always get the audio version. I just don't work. I usually can't do it. But my boss is gone this week, so I said, screw it. Oh, yeah, baby, boss is out.

Yeah. Tosty will play. I love when we get somebody who hasn't been on this before. This is great. We love it. Well, Brian, Ibitt, why don't you explain to Tosty here how this works and what he might win? I will. It's time to play the Tadpool if you.

And I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Toasty, by the way, it was Michael Clark Duncan who used to say, Tosty in the Quiznos ads. Oh, weird. Okay. Yeah, very, very weird.

It's your job is more fun than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian if your team wins, you will get a prize package that includes a game called We Were Here Expeditions, the Friendship. Now, this is really cool. This came to us from Yana. It was also frequent...

Yeah, just talking to Yana recently, right? Exactly. This is a sort of an escape room game, but it requires two people, and so you're actually going to get two Steam codes, one for you and one for a friend to play the game together as a... Hey, Toasty. How you doing, buddy? My wife. I'm building our new PC right now, so that's great. Oh, that's good to be awesome. I love that. Congratulations. Very cool. Real quick, I found the Toasty thing I was thinking of. Hold on. Here it is. Okay. It's Mortal Kombat. They're fighting.

Who's the character that burns? Oh, there it goes. Oh, wait, did you do it? Wait. That's kind of quiet. Tosti. Yeah, I think it's a scorpion, does it? Also, also voiced by Michael Clark Duncan, strangely enough.

It's amazing. It was very little known fact there, but... He's kicked him in the nuts real hard, and you can get a lot out of a guy when you do that. That's right. I miss Michael Clark Duncan. All right, let's get to the game here. Put your hands on your buzzards, and get ready to answer this. We asked 519 tadpoolers.

What's your favorite candy bar? Oh, no. Damn it. Brian. It's not my favorite, but Snickers. I know everybody said it. Show me Snickers. Yeah, number one answer.

Very good. That means that, oops, that means that you've got Toasty and you've got Toasty and you've got control of the board. I don't know. I think I was going to say butterfinger. Is it kind of unfair to Scott? Well, I mean, he knows candy bars. I know candy bars. I love a good candy bar. Yeah.

I had half a candy bar at the airport yesterday because I was like so tired. I needed something. So I ate a kind of half a candy bar. It's all fine. And I will say this. The full question was, what's your favorite candy bar or what would be if you're off the shug? And amazingly, amazing. Like usually I'll get smart ass like, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, I don't eat candy bars. Somebody will put in a response on the survey. People think protein bars are candy bars or something. The worst it ever got was American chocolate is garbage.

And then they put some. That's pretty, that's a deep cut. And it's not wrong, but still it's a lot of truth. I got an idea. Why don't you prove to me your chocolate is better? I'll take samples at. Yeah. I think all, I think all three.

I'll take free samples at Prove to me.com. How much better your chocolate is? At g-mail.com. You have snickers from Canada to see if there are any different. Oh, do you guys, that's true sometimes, right? You have the candy bars will slightly be different up there. It's weird. You guys are weird, is what

I'm saying. Do you think it's like, you know, you think it's like legislation? It's like, no. Okay. I don't think there's any kind of like Canadian snicker laws where they're like different regions. It's like too high as sugar. It's like No, we can't have that kind of sugar.

Maybe. When I was down to Mexico last year or the year before, they have great big, like, signs on them that pretty much says, this will make you fat. Really? Yeah, I'm like candy bars. Sorry. Wait, but not sorry. It's Canada. You said Mexico, right?

Mexico. Oh, Mexico. Oh, yeah. Did you just skip America? I love this idea that it's like, I'm going to Mexico. Screw the, we're not America's hat. Well, we're a flyover country. That's right.

Yeah, pretty much. Fine with me. All right, well, let's see all. What else you know about the candy world, you guys? Hey, Toasty. What other candy bars are you eating up there in Canada? Kit Katz. Kit Katz.

That's a perfect one. I love me a Kit Kat. Agreed. Yeah, the big ones are so good. Crush one, a couple of those. Now, wait a minute. See, you're talking to an American and you're saying the big ones. So what you're talking about is the normal sized ones, not the ones you get, not the novelty

one to get at Christmas. They have jumbo ones. Yeah, not the massive ones that are like a Dura Flame log, but there's one that's happening between the regular and that. All right, Kit Kat, this would have been my pick, too. Kit Kat. Number four ants are on the board. Good job, with the kids and the cats.

Good points. Two. No hyphen in Kit Kat, by the way. A lot of people don't know that. Mandela effect, they think that there's a hyphen in Kit Kat. I was not. I 100% thought there was a hyphen. I was sure of it.

If you had said, Scott, I'll give you a million dollars if you can tell me. I would have thought there was a hyphen in there too. Yeah. Although I may have, I may have groked that you were trying to get me with the thing, and I would have said no hyphen? You probably would have. You would have crocked it?

Yeah. But I... Did you just refer to an AI? Dude, listen, the word grok, we're taking it back. He doesn't get to have that one. I like that. You know what? I like that. Yeah.

Yeah, that's been around forever. He doesn't get to keep it. F that guy. Nope. Yep. All right. Well, hey, there's like a million variations on the Snickers. Do you have another one?

because I got a couple of runner-ups, if not. I got the last one. You get this one. Okay, cool, cool. So I'm going to say, but what would they say in the tadpole? Because there's such divisiveness about this. Do you think Milky Way is the way to go? What do you think is the three musketeers?

I think they get two of them out there. I'll bet you. Milky Way is better. Is Milky Way? I thought you guys had something different than a Milky Way. Like it had a different name. I remember I thinking of Britain? somebody's got somebody basically has the exact same thing a milky way but it's got like a different

name called something else yeah yeah there's there's a few in here that uh they're like that yeah i'm going i'm going dark chocolate milky way it's my favorite candy bar love that one sure let's get to it right here show me milky way oh yeah number five um and i and this for this one i did lump dark and midnight in there so yeah yeah you know what As a matter of fact, I feel pretty good in telling you that, like, if there were subtle variations like that, then I lumped them in. I get heat every time I say my favorite candy bar is a Milky Way. It sounds like everyone here is okay with the Milky Way. I feel like I'm finally among friends.

Usually it's a fight between that and the Three Musketeers. It's like, they're not the same, you know. And it's like, it's fine if you like the other. I like Three Musketeers, okay. You know why? Do you know why it's called Three Musketeers, by the way? Why the Bar is called a Three Musketeers? Because four Musketeers was taken?

It was, yeah, exactly right. Yeah. No, why? Because originally, it was like in the Apollitan where you had strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate all in the same candy bar, and it was the three flavors made the three musketeers. And they said, people just want the chocolate. I think I didn't know that. I think I learned that here, actually. I think maybe not then.

I did learn it a couple years ago. I definitely learned it right now, right here, this very second. I learned some today. I get to go home early. Yeah. Nice. Plus your boss isn't around? Yeah, he's not even here.

That's awesome. All right. You guys are killing it. What else you got over there? So what do you think, Toast? Do you want to take one this time? Or you want to do it? Yeah, sure.

I've got a break room, so we've got tons. But it's all about what the Tadpool would say, right? So let's go Mars bars. Mars, bars. Bears, bears. That's the ones with a little almonds, right? And it's all light and creamy and everything. Or that one is the one I was thinking that in the UK was a Milky Way.

But maybe I'm wrong on that. I don't know. And that's the company's name, right? Mars, that's their... Mars, yeah, I think it's Eminem Mars is the name of the company, I think. Yeah, yeah. We're the making money.

That's right. All right. You go with Mars? Mars, baby. Mars. Show me Mars. Oh, my gosh. That's a long delay.

Wow. Yeah, no, Mars did not make the top 10. Mars, where is Mars in Derlist? 13, I know. It would be nice. Yeah. No, number 13, not bad. I always felt the Mars bar should have a hidden layer of drinkable water to mimic, like.

A hidden reservoir. Yeah. Like we think of the planet all the time. It's like, oh, we think there's water just under the surface. I just thought we think that would be funny. Yeah, isn't Mars, so Milky Way, Mars is the same thing as a Milky Way, but just with almonds instead of peanuts, right? Isn't it the same? I think that's right.

Yeah, because it doesn't have like the caramel or whatever. Well, the Milky Way has no nuts in it. It's just a. gooey caramel oh i thought milky oh i'm sorry mars i'm sorry mars and snickers uh mars is the olman version of snickers if i remember correct got you oh my snickers has peanuts right snickers has peanuts no it's got but it's got the it's got the layer of caramel in it right well marg they both do they both do yes i think all three of those have a little caramel in yes i think so too i'm taking a look right now i'm curious about a mars bar because caramel is the

i'm curious about a mars bar that is a great commercial that is a slogan right there. I'm curious about a Mars bar today. I want to dabble in, let's see here. Caramel Nuget, code with milk chocolate. American version of Mars Bar was produced, which had Newgate and toasted almonds. Oh, so no caramel. Oh, so no caramel. I don't think of a caramel. Okay. Interesting. All right. So, according to the... So, yeah. The American version was discontinued in 2002, then revived in a slightly different form the following year under the name Snickers Almond. Oh, really? No way. They fooled me.

So they did add caramel to it. So Milky Way was invented originally by Frank C. Mars, which is why it's a Mars bar in other places. Frank C. Mars. His name is Frank Mars made that thing. I'm seeing Forest Mars. Oh, this is, Wikipedia says Frank C. Mars. Forest for the trees, Uncle Tree. Let's see.

Forest Mars, Sr. is the son of American Candymaker Frank C. Mars. Oh, okay. Modeled it after his father's Milky Way bar. Did he also have lots of stories? I mean, who knows? About shrimp and, you know. Oh, just looking at this Milky Way is making me want it so bad. Oh, my gosh, dude.

All right. Let's get up to the game here. What is it? It's, Scott, you've got, yeah, it's your guest. Definitely my turn. Let's do Butterfinger. What the hell's wrong with everybody? That's a great thing.

Sure. Sure. Yeah. Show me Butterfinger. Better not. a finger on my Butterfinger. And I want to say, with that one, I think we've used up all of the Hudson Hot characters

that they're named after Candy Bar. Is that true? Snickers, Kitt Kett and Butterfinger, if I remember correctly. Oh, that's funny, dude. It's not a candy bar, but I missed the Butterfinger Beebees that Bart used to sell. Oh, those were great. Yeah, I like those better than the, yeah.

Yeah, chat saying audio. No audio. Yeah, I don't know what's going on there. Hold on you guys. Let's see, dismiss. I think there's a. You blew it. Could you hear that?

You blew it. Okay. You could hear that. Why can't they hear it? All right, chat, you, oh, weird. Okay. Hold on to your butts. I'm going to pause stuff for a second.

Something, oh, missing audio device. What are you talking about? Oh, no. These were really good. Oh, the butterfingers, you know, with the butterfingers and the whatnot. What if they heard my Hudson Hawk comment, too. Right, right. That was before it went out, so I think you could.

I think we got all the Hudson Hawk references, says Brian Ibit. That's right. And then I laughed. All right, I think we're good now. So, Chad, you guys should hear us. Everything's good and we're resumed. Where were we? Was I winning?

No, I had a name. Oh, Butterfinger. Yeah, you got Butterfinger and you got points for it. All right. So you still have control of the board. All right. So these are, one thing I was thinking is, did anybody do some Reese's pieces bullshit or something like that? I know.

Just trying to bait me into saying it. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I'm going to go. I'm going to go with something like the cookie crunch one from Seinfeld, that, Twix. That's the one. Let's do the twigs.

That's a great one. Wait, wait. The left or the right? I always go right if I can. I'll always take the right one. I don't know why that is, but I do. I actually make the choice to do that.

That's weird, right? If I'm sharing it, I'll take the right one. Really? Really well. Interesting. Don't know why. You share your twist. I shun them both into my mouth simultaneously.

Do you like that? I got friends who do that with that and Pop-Tarts. I'm like, you're not supposed to eat both of them as a stack. Yeah. You're not supposed to do that. You're not for me, not for you. You're supposed to put peanut butter in between the two and eat it like a sandwich. Yeah, yeah.

I mean, duh. You ever put butter on your Pop-Tart? No. Is that a Canadian thing or is that what people do? That's from Bob Burgers, I think. Oh, that's right. Oh, no, that's a family guy. Was it family guy?

Okay. Makes sense. Wow. Awesome. All right, let's get Scott said Twix. Let's go with Twix. Yeah. Number three, not a lot of points, but it does.

What was the gag? Cluster together. 10 for Brian and Toasty and Matt for Scott. Oh, go ahead. Now, go ahead. Now please continue. Oh, sorry. Puddy was, I apologize. You were, you were, you know, I was losing it.

But it was, it was the Seinfeld episode. And I remember Costanza was at Buddy. Wasn't Buddy, wasn't he selling cars or something? Is that right? Yeah, he was, no, he went, Jerry was trying to buy a car. Puddy was trying to sell him one. And George was trying to get something out of the machine. Right. And the mechanic

stole his twicks and he accused him of it. That's what it was. It's like, the cookie crunch or whatever. Because the other guy claimed it was a Mars bar or something and he was like, no, I saw the crumbs on your shirt. It's completely freaking out. It's an amazing episode. It's really good. It's great one. I haven't seen it forever. Oh, Sean Bloom says, how about some hazelnut spread

between the two Pop-Tarts? Oh, my gosh. Okay, that would work. Nutella is healthy. Whatever. It's good for you. Sure. Nice little, who doesn't want a 2,500 calorie breakfast. I mean, yeah. All right.

You still have control. You got nine points to Brandon Toasty's 10. I'm going to go ahead and choose those. I love a Charleston chew, so I'm going to hope that it was on there. Yeah, I like those. Very good. All right. Show me the Charleston shoe.

Oh, my gosh. I love them too, but apparently not known too well by the Tadpool, 33 on the list. Oh, wow. You put those in the freezer? You put them in the freezer. Did they freeze? You got it. Oh, they're like crumbly.

Oh, interesting. I like twixes in the freezer, actually. I like the, probably for the same reason. Yeah, very good. By the way, just in case there's any question, I did lump. Only one person actually specifically said peanut butter twicks, but I lump that into the regular twigs. So don't. Thanks, man.

Yeah. Thank you. I was worried about that. Yeah. Even though personally, I do prefer the peanut butter twicks over the chairwell. Yeah. Yeah. What you're going to do?

Hey, Toasty. Yes, sir. What do you think? Do you think we need to go basic with some, uh, just a plain out of Hershey candy bar? Just a plain. Yeah, sure. You got to make the smores, right? You got to make the smores.

Yeah. All right. Do it. Let's do it. Low-hanging chocolate fruit. Hershey's milk chocolate bar. Show it to me. Oh, are you kidding me?

Wow. That is, where is it? I know somebody said it. No, somebody. One person? I think one person said, yeah. I thought that was easy money. Yeah, nope, one person.

Hershey's no chocolate bar. Yep. All right, I'm going with the floater. Let's do a... Oh, that's a good one. Let's do a... I'll do a baby Ruth. I think that fits.

Baby Ruth. Yeah. Immortalized both in Caddyshack and Goonies. Show me, baby Ruth. Oh, my Lord. Baby Ruth number 15 on the list. I just watched Caddyshack last weekend. I'm on an 80s movie's kick right now.

Yeah. It's so funny. Yeah, that movie's great. I love that. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Making that stupid. So how about those shepherds for the effort? Yeah.

There you go. That's hilarious. Yeah. All right. Are we, are we waiting too heavy for North American consumers of chocolate bars or candy bars? Is that the problem?

Are Tadpool made of people that are more international? Maybe. I don't know. They could be true. They could be, you know, Starbursts might be on here because they're jerks. I don't know what they're doing. That'd be candy, though, wasn't it?

That's what I mean. But that's what I mean. The Tadpool can pull one on you. I'm just saying, you know? Tadpool can pull one on you. All right. You just never know. Um, what about?

What about some pieces? Oh my gosh. Do you think that's up there? The peanut butter cup. Yeah, the Rees is better. Yeah, Reesie. How about any Reesies up there? Yeah, the peanut butter cup.

The peanut butter cup's a chocolate bar, right? Kind of. Listen to Toasty and go more specific for me, please. Okay. Do it, turn away. Say it, Toasty. Say it out loud. Reese's peanut butter cups.

All right, show me Reese's peanut butter cup. Yeah. Yeah, number two. Answer on there. Not a bar, by the way. literally not a bar literally but what's a bar the title what's a bar though

well is not a cup I'll tell you that yeah but they have cups at bars you know well okay when this is all over I want to talk about that because you know there's a lot of the references you know a different shape but but are they considered candy bars

but we'll talk about that in a minute all right five four answers still on the board all the big ones 7 8 9 and 10 you guys are leading 12 to Scott's 9. Yeah. And don't let the fact that we're 10 minutes into Tom Time screw you.

Oh, no, that's right. Oh, my gosh, we totally are. Well, technical difficulties. Okay, in that case, what do you think? What do you got? I know what my favorite candy bar is. We haven't mentioned it,

but I just don't think it's going to be on there. Well, if it's your favorite, you might as well shoot it out there. All right. I like that, is it the $100 grand or the $1,000? Inflation is really messing with me. I'm not sure. I think it's $100.

It was $20. When William Shatner was in it, it was the $100,000. And then when John Lithgow did it, it was the thousand grand. That's right. That's right. It coincided with how high our planes would go. That's right, right.

All right. 100 grand, do it. Is that what you're saying? I like it with you. I'm not sure. Yeah, that's what I'm going with. Toses let me do it. So we're going to have done it.

No time to discuss. Show me 100 grand bar. Man. Number nine. Very good. 21 points I'm a total for you. That might, no, I could still edit it out, but not by much. You heard Scott say it.

He could edge it out. How about an arrow bar? What did you call it? What was it? Arrow. Arrow. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Well, I love the arrow bar. Well, you feel the bubbles melt in your mouth. Yeah, yeah. A little floaty arrow bar. I don't know this one at all. I like it. Let's get with an arrow bar. It's not an arrow, Scott.

It's not like a phew. Well, I don't know. I've never heard of it. Yeah. Show me the arrow bar. Ooh, third strike. That was number 13. 31 on the list, Arrowbar.

How about a big chunk? Oh, sorry, it's not my turn. No, it is not your chunk. And it's also a hunk, but whatever. It's a big hunk chunk. That's right. Those will take your teeth out. He's to take a white Sharpie and make them big chunks when they're on the 7-Eleven.

Two answers left on the board. Scott, you are trailing by 12 points, so you need both of these and one, yeah. And so, you know, if you get both of these, Toasty wins anyway, so. All right. Well, it's come up a couple times, and I don't know why it's not on here yet, but let's get the three Musketeers doing their thing. Oh, that's the good. I forgot. We said that.

Yeah, we brought it up, but we didn't. We talked about it for like five minutes. Yeah, you did. And nobody actually ever suggested it. Show me three musketeers. Oh, that's good choice. I forgot that the 10 is still available too. So, yeah.

17 to 21. So if you get, if you get one of these, you'll take the lead. But Toasty, you won't win the prizes. You have to get both of them for Toasty to win. I hate this feeling. Yeah. Good. But I also like winning.

So I'm just going to try. And then hopefully I win all the way. And then he wins. Sure. All right. How about the what you may call it bar? Oh, that's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. I like that. I don't remember what was in that, but sure. Everything. Peanut butter. I think it was. It was really everything.

I think it was rice, yeah. Yeah, let's do it. All right, show me whatcha mccallit. Look at that. Oh, my gosh. You got to get it now. What's left? Payday. Well, we got. More points to 21.

Mr. Good. There's Mr. Goodbar, almond joy, I think we haven't done. Oh, almond joy, that's a good one. You have the mounds or the almond joy. We did. Sometimes I feel like Scott's a nut. Sometimes I feel like a butt. Sometimes I don't.

Oh, I'm going to look at the chat too. There's Nestle Crunch Marathon. You're really going all in, though, when you make a candy bar out of coconut, though. Heath bars. People have strong opinions about coconuts. Oh, Heath bars are good. Oh, a score bar. Score.

Oh, yeah. dude payday heath bar um oh these are hard we tried her she's warped for a lot of people are saying payday no it's just a work forge that's what i'm saying what i say it's saying multiple times not i was kidding what i say warped forge oh i meant warp forge fork forge you might use it right warp forge clark bar oh shit claire no one does cadbury here you guys are weird take take five is one on you and you were candy bar that i really like those are good little pretzels in it all right I'm going to, there's a lot of payday in here. I'm going to,

I'm going to see if the chat is bright. I'm going to say payday. I'm scared. Oh, wow. I'm scared. All right. Number 11. For all of the marbles, show me payday.

Oh, my God. We did it. We did it. Got wins, but because all the answers were revealed, so does Toasty. So, Toasty, you're getting these prizes. And congratulations, best of both worlds. Oh, this is amazing. Thank you.

Yeah, no, well done. Good job, Scott. Way to go. Yeah, good job, dude, you too. And this will be in your hand shortly as Brian will be sending it to you. You will celebrate, like all of us, when we hear Fletcher say. Congratulations. And we'll feel better about our lives.

And also, I'd love hearing from Canadians and also new people. And you're one of those and one of those. So thanks for being both those things and stay out of trouble. Thank you a lot, guys. You bet. Have fun without your boss. See you in the war within, Scott. Hell yeah.

And go hack your boss's computer while he's out. Do something funny like that. Do something fun. Dunaway, you and I, together at last, this Friday, coming up, 1.30 Mountain Time. What are we talking about on Play Retro? Skies of Arcadia and Skies of Arcadia Legends on the Dreamcast and then on the GameCube. I did not know I loved this RPG game so much until this week, first time playing it. You guys been telling me to play it forever.

God, I love the music. It's so good. It's going to be great. Skies of Arcadia. Yeah, I can't wait. That was maybe the first time I felt like maybe JRP. G's might be for me back then. Yeah.

Because up to that point, I wasn't really good at them. I didn't like him that much, but that one really pushed me. So we'll talk about it. That's this weekend, Friday afternoon, 1.30 Mountain Time, right here at FrogPants. Brian Dunaway, kiss our butts. All right, we're going to take a break when we get back. Tom Merritt, who has been told about the delay. In fact, I think he's listening, so he knows what we're doing. Oh, good.

We'll have him here. It's funny. It's appropriate because it was tech that actually caused the delay. So how appropriate that Tom? Yeah, maybe he can help us solve it. Plus two days in a row of flight delays. Like, what is with all these delays? That's kind of driving me crazy.

Anyway, Brian, why don't you introduce a mid-song here that you'd like to play? Yeah, so the daughter of Bobby Amaru, who is the lead singer of the band Saliva, she has been tearing up TikTok with her music, both done with Bobby, with her dad, Bobby, and then solo. Here's the thing. she for a while wasn't even old enough to have a tic-tock account because she was under 13 so it was like they were all getting posted on her dad's TikTok account and she's been doing you know covers and duets with um let's see john cooper oh no i'm sorry so doing duets with um her dad but they got props from john cooper from skillet mike shinoda from lincoln park uh lacey stern from fly we fly leaf and jared letto from I guess he does music, I guess, 30 seconds to Mars, dude. I'm just kidding. He's also, it's morbid time for him.

That's right, exactly. Anyway, this is her song, her first single, her actually, her first full single. It's a song called Wanna Be Me. Here is Vita, V-E-D-A. And we're going to listen to it right now. Do I have to beg for your attention? Do I have to have it figured out of who I am, what I'm about? Did I ever ask for your opinion?

What if I don't want to be the pretty girl? What if I don't care if I'm popular, everyone? favorite what if I don't want to be the cool kid the one you want to need to be what if I what if I want to be want to be me want to be want to be want to be want to be me well I know I'm not the only one who feels the weight of all the pressure

It gets hard to smile, so I pretend Somehow I hold the ugly in, But I don't want to hide behind the filter What if I don't want to be the pretty girl What if I don't care if I'm popular Everyone's favorite What if I don't want to be the cool kid the one you wanted me to be

What if I, what if I, what if I want to be, want to be me Wanna be, want to be, want to be, want to be me? Wanna be, want to be, want to be, want to be me Do you care how I feel all my words that you're told here? Everything I say to you, it all fits so bad. Do I really have to try so hard? Do I have to beg for your attention? What if I don't want to be the pretty girl?

What if I don't care if I'm popular, everyone's favorite? What if I don't want to be the cool kid The one you wanted me to be What if I, what if I, what if I want to be, want to be me Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah

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one. You blew it, Diphead. And we're back. Tell me who that was again so I can write it down and go find it. Yeah, that's Vita, along with saliva and judge and jury with a song called Wanna Be Me, brand new single from the dog. daughter of I have a front man

Bobby Amaru saliva it's fine you know I'm not going to complain it's a little gross but if you're going to name your band

I don't know what gross got out the most saliva saliva it's just kind of gross like saying what's your band name mucus there probably is one too

yeah mucus is a big deal we're going to try to celebrate our 10 years on the road hey look everybody it's the very patient Tom Merritt who joins us from the

daily tech news show as he does every Wednesday morning to talk a little tech. Good morning, Tom, and thanks for being so patient today. Oh, and muted. You're also muted today. Unmute. We want to hear Tom. We want to add my own tech problem for you.

Well, your problem was much easier solved than mine was, but it feels like it has been gone a month. I was only gone two days, and it's just feeling nothing wants to work for me, right? I got half my ISPs are down today. We had crazy weather. My flights were delayed. I was in your neighborhood, sort of. I could have gone a little...

Yeah, I was in Irvine. I could have popped on the... I just had no time. There was barely time to do it. Oh, yeah, it would have only taken you six hours to get from Orange County to Los Angeles. Yeah, that's true. That is like me driving to, like, you know, Vegas or something. But anyway, I thought of you, though.

I thought of you as I flew over that area on our way to Santa Ana. I saw L.A. off to the side and went, Tom's in there somewhere doing shit. Yeah, and I was waving. I was waving back. Yeah. Flight delay. granted, crowd strike messed things up a few weeks ago, but you would think that would not be affecting things anymore.

Flight delays, I'm hearing them from everyone. Yeah, this one was unfortunately weather caused, but it's still, I'm hearing more flight. Like when I put up stuff online about, oh, this stupid flight delay, I got, I don't know, 20 replies going, just happened to me this week, or my United Flight did this, or, I don't know what's going on. It feels like either, are they just too busy?

Are we understaffed? Are we in nightmare time for flight travel? Molly Wood was coming back from Europe, and her flight just got canceled, just flat out canceled. Jeez. Good luck. You should probably book a new flight. Wow. Wow.

I mean, United and I have never really gotten along very well, but whatever. Yeah. Well, Tom, I do get along with you pretty well, and Brian does as well. So that's good news because whatever it is you brought us today, I'm sure we're going to all get along about it. So what did you bring? What are we doing? Would you rather talk about the new pixel announcement? from Google or whether

Google is going to get broken up. Oh. I didn't. I kind of want to hear, I mean, the phone thing will come out and everyone will go, oh, look at the info about it. But I'd rather hear about the controversial stuff about them being broken up. Same here. I think that definitely gives me my answer because

the phones were announced yesterday. Yeah. Yeah, there's a new fold. It's like other screens and yeah. They're a little thinner, a little nicer. Yeah. You know, they're a little they're a little more expensive. Are they,

there's a foldable in the lineup that they announced or no? Yeah, this is their second foldable. I actually have the original pixel fold myself and I like it quite a bit, but the new one is a little taller and a little squarer, which I'm not sure if I will like or not,

but it is thinner, so that part's pretty good. But yeah, it sounds like you were more interested in this news. you will see the headlines from Bloomberg and New York Times, Department of Justice, considering a Google breakup. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Now, if anybody hasn't followed the case, there are many antitrust cases against Alphabet, the owner of Google, but the one that was recently decided by a judge was about the advertising on search. Right.

So the important part is that the judge found there was a monopoly for text. ads in search. And I won't go into all the complexities because there were other things they were trying to get proved that the judge didn't decide they were guilty of, but they were guilty of monopolizing text ads on search. Part of the reasoning to oversimplify is because Google dominates search, it therefore dominates text ads on search, right? And so what the judge said is it is mostly because of the payments that you make, Google, you being Google, for, for exclusivity. The most famous one is on Apple.

When you do a default search on Safari, it does Google, unless you go in and change it. Most people don't. So that sends a lot of traffic Google's way. Google also has deals with Samsung and Mozilla and a bunch of other people as well. So the judge said those payments were so high

that it prevented anyone else from competing and thus was a self-fulfilling prophecy for your dominance. Now, that was decided, said you're guilty of that. What happens next is, you know, what would in a criminal case be called sentencing. It's a remedy hearing. So Google and the Department of Justice get to go before the judge and say, we think that the remedy for being found guilty should be this.

You know, Google's going to say something like, you know, we should be fine, $10. Or, you know, something probably a little slightly more realistic. The Department of Justice could advocate a whole lot of things. Most people think the judge will probably end up ordering a ban on those exclusivity arrangements, saying you, Google, are no longer allowed to pay for exclusivity. The Department of Justice, however, could advocate you should force Google to sell its ad business. The fact that it runs search and ads is the problem. Order it to divest itself. okay that's what the news is the news is that the department of justice is considering advocating that okay so they haven't actually done it officially less than the headline looks right yeah yeah if the

department of justice wasn't considering that they would be incompetent of course they should consider advocating that that's that's that's their side and that that's what they should do they may not advocate that they may advocate that the judge doesn't have to do what they say either the judge is going to decide what the remedy should be. He's going to hear their arguments, but he's going to make his own decision. And then the other part of this is whatever happens, let's say the judge does go for it and says, you know what? Yes, I'm going to order Google to sell its ad business. Google's already said it's going to appeal this decision. It doesn't think it monopolized and it's going to go to a higher court. And it's, you know, going to be years before we actually

get the whole thing worked out. So I'm a little surprised. The one part that surprises me is you just usually hear this from the EU going after some of this stuff. Or they're just a little more stringent or a little more, I don't know, not litigious, but they've got rules that are different, and they seem to be always on the top of telling Microsoft or Google or anyone else who they think are monopolizing their position to knock it off or to back down or whatever. The fact that it's coming from within the house is a little freaky, but also, yeah, I also kind of understand why it's maybe, this may not go anywhere, but it might be worth exploring just because it does seem like it's a bit of a stranglehold on a market that's self-serving,

and by it's a definition kind of monopolistic and I don't know and there's a lot of connected stuff that I know they're not bringing up here but you know browser dominance and all those other issues that come into play and there's other suits for things like that

around Android and the advertising marketplace itself. This only talks about text on search. There's a whole separate suit about you know Google operating the ad exchanges and the placements and all that sort of thing because everyone sort of forgets that Google bought double click

you know back in the first decade of the century. Yeah, that's right. I mean, that's really the impetus, right? Or the pivot point of all this. So if you had to predict in your Tom way of predicting, which is reasonable and based on factual information, do you think there's a future five, 10 years out where Google's like, fine, you've forced our hand, we've lost all this stuff, we're going to have to go ahead and do it. Do you think they end up doing this, divesting themselves of their ad business? I think there'll be a nuclear, no, I'm just kidding. He set me up to be reasonable. I had to be contrary. I do think that there's a decent chance the DOJ advocates for divestment, which would not be a breakup of Google in the sense of like they're blowing it apart. It would be you've got to sell parts of your ad business.

I doubt the judge will do that as the remedy. I think it's more likely that he orders a more limited thing. Even if he does order it, I think this. thing on appeal gets changed. That's what happened to Microsoft. I think that it is interesting that you pointed out that the EU is always passing laws. Whereas the United States is doing court cases, you know, a couple of different approaches here. One has a functioning parliament. The other thing I think is that by the time this does work its way through the courts, which could be five to ten years, frankly. Look at the Microsoft case. It took that long. Microsoft was ordered to

break up and then it won on appeal and it didn't break up. By the time this gets worked out, search won't be what it is right now. Right. And it's quite possible that you will be remedying something that is no longer a problem because people aren't using search engines now the way they have for the past 20 years, which makes sense. It's time for disruption. And that disruption is very apparent with the rise of chatbots and things like that. Yeah. And whether or not Google's place in that version of the search future is as dominant, it is now is a very open question, right? Like, they're behind. I mean, they're behind an idea share, market share, uh, in the AI thing. And I know they're scrambling. You know, I kind of like their

approach to be honest. I like that I can open docs or Gmail and have some really good tools in there that are just applied to that functionality. I can't even tell the AI in, uh, like say, sheets. I can't go, hey, who is the king of England in the year 14, 21? You can do that, but it'll just say, It doesn't seem to have anything to do with this spreadsheet. Yeah, that seems irrelevant to the table of your accounts from FrogPans. Yeah, and I kind of appreciate the narrowed focus of that. And I'm not saying this is going to be Google's win, but them going toward their other services and saying,

apply it sensibly to the service you're using. And that's how people are going to use AI. I actually think I agree with that. So, I don't know, whatever the future holds for them. That is actually the majority of that pixel announcement, yesterday was talking about Gemini Nano on device, the things that Gemini is going to be doing on the pixel devices first before it rolls out to other Android devices. So they definitely are pursuing that. And that is a bigger area for possibility and growth. You're absolutely right.

Well, we'll see what happens. I'll tell you what else happens today at 2.30 Mountain Time, 2 o'clock. That's what I meant. 2 p.m. Mountain Time. Tom Merritt will be hosting a show called The Daily Tech News Show, and I'll be there today, along with Sarah and you and Roger, and the whole crew. else exciting you want to mention coming up for you how's your book doing any of that stuff whatever yeah yeah uh no exactly i just uh to one of the uh chatters and you know who you are uh i just want to put it in terms you can understand uh btss will be back with the new album before the google case is uh is resolved so wow this is going to happen after 2025 all right uh think the book uh if you are interested in like how do these past

askies work or what the heck is a CPU anyway that's all going to be in that book and you can just take it down off the shelf anytime you want and and page through it and learn something uh that book is probably not going to be coming for a while but you can speed it up by pre-ordering it and there's even some perks in there on the pre-order like getting a spot on d tns uh like a recorded question answer, doing a hang out with me. If you want to just chat about how I wrote the book or anything else, that is all at tom's newbook.com. So go get in front of it, be one of the first ones to have it. Tom's new book.com. That's right. Get in line, everybody. They're going to go quick. Get in there. Tom Merritt, have a fantastic afternoon and I will see you a little bit later for the

Daily Tech News show. Thanks, y'all. Bye now. Getting that weird hiss again from him. Yeah, yeah. It's fine. He's a fan. Yeah, he's basically a fan of us. And so you hear that. That's right. We hear the fan noise. Yeah. That's great.

Just blowing on his mic or whatever the hell's going on there. All right. Recommmental's time. Randy's in a meeting. He's going to be very busy over the next week with this launch of this new game. So we're not going to see him much. It was great seeing him, though. He's a, he is a very great host.

If you're out in that, I'm not saying everybody go bug Randy when you're in Irvine, but I'm just saying he's just great to like take you around, knows where to go. Irvine's cool. That's a cool town. I liked it. It is cool. Yeah, it's nice. It's expensive.

It's nice. It is very expensive, but it doesn't feel, there's a little bit that doesn't feel like the rest of California. A little bit. That's a great way of putting it. I didn't know the history of it. That place has only existed since the mid-70s. And before that, it was a giant ranch.

I forgot the name. Sam was telling me the whole story. And so most of the buildings that you see are no older than like mid-90s. Wow. And newer. Most things are like 10, 15 years old. Like the whole place, it's like kind of new. It's crazy.

Anyway, let's get Nicole in here. Because she wants to recommend something at the very least. And I know we do. So we're going to do that now after I push this here button. Well, what do you recommend? Ah, yes, that music means it's time for us to recommend things we've seen on streaming services since we last spoke. And we have Nicole Spag joining us. Hello, Nicole.

Welcome back. Hi. How are you? Hello. How are things? do it good yeah did your son uh permanently take over the PS5 he's never going to let go again no my daughter did oh yeah what's what's her what's her obsession i know you told us on our message but she so they got into playing um because i have like the PlayStation plus plus where you get free games yeah and so she

start playing a roller coaster what the heck is it roller coaster giant not roller coaster Hikoon. No, it's a different Buildersim kind of thing. Yeah, I'll bet it's the roller coaster. Shit, they also make a zoo one. I know.

Yeah, they're coming out with the second one soon. Roller coaster muggle. Oh, it's like giant roller coaster or planet, planet, planet. Planet coaster, planet coaster, planet. Planet coaster.

There we go. Damn it. It's really good. It's the same team. He's the same team that did those those Jurassic Park games that are very similar. Those are also awesome. And they have all these DLCs, and so now they're like, Ghostbuster DLC.

And I'm like, oh, gosh. Ghostbuster. Oh, yeah, so you make your own Ghostbuster ride and stuff. That's cool. Yeah. So we had, so Mark and I had this like, because we've never really given the kids our PS5s. And so understanding how they can play our games under a parent account. Like, it was, it was way more complicated than it used to be.

so it was so we ended up having to keep our kids separate we basically had a PlayStation divorce and Ava Ava is under mine and Mateo's under his oh all right keeping it down gender lines there at the spec millis you can't have two parents and then two and then have the kids underneath it was it was really stupid that is really weird that seems like that should be that should be easier you know yeah but it wasn't it was what's very Nintendo-like in what they do. Yeah, their stuff is also a huge pain. I don't even know, I mean, I've never messed with it.

Microsoft stuff might be just as bad. I don't know who's doing it right. But Planet Coaster is a lot of fun. Yeah, it is. If you ever, like Brian, if we ever see one on our list of games, you should snag that one. Yeah, totally will. If I see it. It's very good game.

I do keep my eyes out for stuff like that as like, oh, maybe I will grab one from this set. Yeah, you should. That one's awesome. You know, we get to do that. you know. Of course. Once in a while. It's a host perk. It's a benefit. Exactly. Exactly. You have somebody in the chat room that says, my brother has way over a thousand hours in that game. Oh, wow. I mean, it's, it is the kind of game where you just kind of lose very siv-like, right?

Where you just lose time. You're like, wait, what? It's five hours later. It's awesome. It's really good. So good recommendation. We're also going to make some recommendations of the streaming variety. We're going to start with Brian because he is always first. That's just the rule here. It's just the rule here. Brian, what do you want to say about what you got here? This is a TV series that came out this year based on a British series, but stars one of my favorite actors, one of my favorite modern actors. And we really, really enjoyed it.

And, but it's, you know, I'll wait until after the clip. Okay. Here you go. She'll come around as soon as I sort out my situation. How's that working out for you? I'm a dead man walking. Supposed to pick up a package for my boss. My intel was shit.

I got one of his guys popped. What do you want for me, Colin? I swore that I could make it right. With your help. I'm retired from a life, Carl. You know that. And even if I wasn't, I don't shit in my own back yard. It's a simple lift, Gray. It's quiet. In and out.

In and out. Man at the wheel. One of my six in case shit goes sideways, real easy. Yeah, like it was for the last guy. Look, I'm a family man. I got my own problems. I don't need none of yours. You said I was family. Didn't I put money on your commissary every month like clockwork? Hold on to your piece like I promised. Gave it to you with interest when you got out? I mean, we're more than square.

I could have got years trimmed off my bed if I had talked. Oh, you were snitch now. Hell no. All I'm saying is, I stood tall for you. Now, I'm asking you to do the same for me. Dear Esposito, will you be in all things ever? That's right. Isn't he great? Yeah, Jean-Carlo Esposito is who you're hearing in that clip. And Skeet Ulrich is who you're also hearing. Skeet Ulrich, oh my gosh. Skeet Ulrich, yeah. This is a name you haven't heard since The Craft. Yeah. Or no, what was the show we liked, it was like an apocalyptic show.

Oh, Jericho. Jericho. Jericho. I never saw Jericho. Okay. Last time I saw him was Jericho. So he's probably getting all crusty and cool now. He is all crusty and cool.

And that's them, them working on a couple, workshopping a couple of Norland style accents there. They're not too bad, but probably the biggest complaint about this thing. This is an AMC series called Parish. One season, six episodes, start a story, wrap it up, just like you want them to do. This is about a guy who is, John Carlos Posito is playing a guy who is pulled back into the life after he's gone clean. Oh, boy, that's some fresh story that we've never heard before, pulled into a, pulled into a heist situation. but it is it is really done well and it's based on a BBC series called The Driver um this is uh boy it's interesting because there's another one that has really good um a bad

overall score on rotten tomatoes but a really good audience score i think i care of them is like 33 the other one is like 70 or 80 percent um but it's it's really good now here's a voice you did not hear in that clip and he's treated as a special guest star but he's in most of the episodes and he he he's amazing bradley whitford is a bad guy in this thing and he is such a great bad guy i love i love that guy he's the best yeah he is fantastic um so it's uh like you said six episodes on amc plus which you might have with your paramount plus thing or i think maybe it's it's on paramount plus or something like that you can you can get to it pretty easy It takes place in Orleans, as you hear, heard in the clip and is a little bit violent, as you would expect from hearing that clip.

It remind me a little bit of, funny enough, from another Breaking Bad guy, Your Honor, which also dealt with New Orleans and a guy who is recovering from or experiencing some stuff that happened to his. child his uh yeah uh his beloved child and uh that show rock i love them it was so good and if and if that show and that show i would totally describe as a as a 10 9.5 10 somewhere around there this one not quite as good but a 7.5 8 for me um and mostly because of how good john carlos posito is that's about where the audience is like you said 33 for critics for some reason but 76 for audience that sounds about right yeah yeah yeah i don't know what uh didn't read in uh read deep to see what the critics' complaints were. Probably the predictability.

I mean, it is a, it is a, we need you to come back in for one last job and, and, uh, all right, but I'm going to keep it from my wife and child and, you know, that sort of thing. Sure. And this is definitely designed as a mini series. They're not going past this. This is it. As far as I know, yeah, everything I've been able to find is, um, that it was, it's not intended to be a second season, although it's funny because I think even on,

Rotten Tomatoes. It says Season 1. So I don't know. They could do a second season of it. It'd be very interesting to see where they go. There is one thread that is left open, but I felt like it was a thread you expected to be left open,

but maybe not. So if they have a second season, it'd be great, but don't feel like you're going to be left hanging if you watch this and there's not a follow-up season. It's all the ingredients I like. This seems like something I would really enjoy.

Yeah. It's a very simmering, like it feels like a, who's the get shorty guy? The author. Oh, the author. Yeah. Wasn't that John Trampley? It was.

The author is Elmore. Elmore Leonard, right? Elmore Leonard. Yeah. It feels a little Elmore. If this took place in Florida, it might as well have been an Elmore Leonard novel. Well, Elmore Leonard also did,

I'll justify it was based on his book. So is this like that kind of vibe? This is a little justified vibe. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. You sold me. I'm in. Yeah.

There you go. I'll watch this. There you go. It's called Parrish. Shadatatleck.com. It is AMC plus streaming, but I even think you can get it. Well, maybe it's one of those Amazon Prime if you have an AMC subscription kind of thing.

Do your search. See if you can find it on one of the streaming services you've already got. Nice. Check it out. Parish sounds great. let's get over to Nicole's Nicole what is this file you've sent me what are you got going I was in the mood for some stupid humor and this movie delivers go into it with low expectations and you will have a fun time it came out in 2017 I believe yeah 2017

I had never heard of this actor before seeing this but he's very popular he is I like this guy a lot. It's very popular in Mexico, so there you go. All right. Let's play this clip. You just give us our money and we'll be fine. I spent it. I sincerely hope that you bought something you really wanted or needed.

God, you're terrible at this, Nick. Just think before you talk. Can you do that? It's not hard. I made a mistake. I'll get you the money, I promise. Come on, guys. I mean, it's, it's just a thousand dollars. Just a thousand dollars, man? No, it's the principal. If someone took a crap on your toothbrush,

it doesn't matter how big or how small that crap is. You're still crap on your toothbrush. I mean, that's true. It feels like a Scott parable. Yeah, a little bit. Tell me more. I saw Rob Wrigal in this. I think that's who I saw.

Yes, yes. Just has all the robs. all the robs yes this is how to be a latin lover and the premise so maximo is the main character who is played by oh god i'm like i going to say eugenio de breezy

that looks right or de brez yeah de brezio de brez the funny thing is like i don't know him by name but i know his face i've seen him in quite a few things he um he was in coda that awesome Apple TV Plus movie with the children of deaf parents. So this was before that though. This was released before that.

And I think he's also, there's that Palm, not Palm Springs. There's another like a series about a resort. Not White Lotus either, but like a... Is it ballet? Is it ballet? No, but he, I think he plays a valet or a concierge at a resort. And I remember for a while. He also did exceptions not included.

it, which I thought we I know someone has recommended that to me. It's one of his first movies that I... It's not just a Gigolo, is it Brian? Is that the one? No, it's something that's much

much newer. Acapulco. Oh, okay. I saw that. Yeah, that's an Apple TV Plus. Yeah, it's like I see previews for it all the time and it looks great and he's like the This gives me that lover boy. Remember the movie Lover Boy? Yeah, the McDreamy.

You're McTreamy, yeah. So it gives you those vibes, but what would happen to Lover Boy, you know, 25 years later? And that's what this is. So you see him as a young man, looting these older women. And he, that's what he wants to be. He wants a sugar mama. And so he finds this woman. It's a great cast.

Ken Marino, who is from the state and Wet Hot America. Rican Summer directs this. You party down. Yeah. You have Salma Hayek in it. You have Rob Lowe, Kristen Bell, who kind of takes him in after he gets dumped by the lady who hasn't passed away yet. Because that's what he's doing. He's just waiting for an old lady to die so that he gets your money.

Yeah. Yeah. No, you don't go over the fact that it's got, like you said, all the robs. Rob Lowe, Rob Riggle, Rob Huberl, and Rob Cordry. Geez. Oh, I've watched Rob Cordry doing anything. Every funny Rob is in this thing. Yeah.

So I, it's a fun, it's just silly and fun. And yeah, I recommend it. I have never heard of this until now and I will, I will now watch it. Where's this stream? Netflix. All right. Yep. How to be a Latin lover, PG-13.

Oh, that's good. You can, you're some, yeah. There's some laugh out loud scenes. Really? Well, I'm all in on that. The one that I'm thinking of is how he gets the older women initially when he's younger, he goes and takes off his shirt and, dives into the pool

and he does this same scene 25 years later. Is Ken Marino, I know. I want to send you that clip, but it's a very visual clip. So I know, I know Camarino directs because you mentioned it, but is he also in it? Does he do any acting?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he, I'm sure he, I'm trying to remember a little side. Yeah, that's what he does. He plays like, I love him. Yeah. Oh my God. Linda Lavin, so you got TV's Alice in this thing.

Oh, my gosh. Michaela Watkins, who was on SNL for a hot minute, Michael Sarah, Weirdall, Yankovic, Ben Schwartz. This is a weird cast. Michael Sarah. Yeah, that's a crazy cast. That's wild. And I love, I'll just why.

Cal Walsh, isn't it? Oh, really? Like, before she died. Yeah, she died just recently. Hopefully. Yeah. She's last year. She's a sexy older lady.

There you go. That's awesome. All right. I'm putting it on the list. I want to see this. Okay, I'm going to share mine now. This is a thing I saw on the plane on my way out to Irvine Monday. And it was the decision was made because of the delay.

I was like, if we're going to be this long, I'll watch a long movie. Otherwise, I hate starting a movie. You're not going to have time to finish. It's annoying. So I was like, well, I'll see something I haven't seen. And up popped this. And I went, oh, I wonder if this is bad. Let's give it a shot and see.

Because I assumed it was going to be not great. or whatever. But anyway, here's the clip. Let's check it out. all right you may notice there's zero dialogue are those the two title characters uh there is actually in this case no there's the bad guy and uh king kong hanging out and um the reason i did that actually did it on purpose i think this movie didn't need people at all and i'll give it a little bit of credit uh godzilla x kong the new empire does not overdo it with the people but When they're there, it's always this reminder of we don't need them, right?

Yeah. So this is my Transformers problem. This is my problem with a lot of these monster movies. Let the monsters do their stuff. Let me have a story. It doesn't have to be such a verbal story. I'm not stupid. I can get, I can intuit what's happening.

And I think that big CGI Kong and big CGI Godzilla can carry a movie without you going, well, let's get the human perspective. I don't give a shit. Let's have them explain what's, going on for the people who are watching the film. Yeah, and I realize the theory is that, well, what are the stakes if people don't? Because you're a person,

you have to relate to what the stakes are. And I'm like, no, I don't. I've done that enough. I've done it my whole life. The only time that this was ever done right, in my opinion, or the best it's ever been done, was Jurassic Park. That's a movie that does the perfect balance of people going

too far with an idea and the consequences of their dreams. And And mixing those, Jurassic Park is a brilliant version of that. No one's ever quite done it as well, including Spilberg, in my opinion. He has never quite matched that. So I'm not saying it can't be done, but I am saying for these kind of movies, I just want big, dumb, massive, awesome fights, crazy audio. I don't need to be talked to the whole time.

So that's why I play the top. Are you saying you don't need to see Dan Stevens do a crown replacement in a sleeping Kong's mouth? No. And I don't even, and I like Dan Stevens, right? I like, what's the girl's name? Rebecca Hall. I like her a lot. She's great. She's wonderful. I think Brian Terry Henry's great. I think this cast is great. It's just whenever they talk, I'm like, okay. And it's not that it's boring. It's just that I feel like it's being forced on me so that I'm, oh, right, I'm a human watching human issues. Like, I just feel, I feel weird to me and I understand it's a Hollywood thing. It's a lot of money on the line. I get it. But I, I, respect this movie for giving me a lot of story without a ton of humans having to explain everything and so for that i really liked it but i on the whole i came away from this going no all right then that's a good time and i watched it on a shitty little you know screen that got interrupted by the pilot every five minutes yeah so you watched actually on the in-flight the in-seat screen so with with uh little earbuds i had i had my own but uh oh they let you use like um wired or why let you use

wireless? Yeah, no, no, it's just wired. I had a, I had a pair of, I always take those with me, so I plug those in. And I really had a good time. I think that that movie knows exactly what it wanted to be. And it's, it's very easy in the same year that it's released to go, well, how do you, how can you even have it with minus one out there with such a, what a human story? And I'm like, you know what? Minus one is awesome, but minus one is a human story with a little monster in it. This is more like, well, what about the flip side of that? Let's just go all monster, all the time. So this whole monarch Monsters universe that extends

to the TV show and then through this and then the previous Godzilla movies and the previous Kong movies. I love this whole thing. This is like a side MCU style thing that is actually one of my favorite things without me really thinking about it too hard. I haven't really thought

that much about it, but I really like this stuff. And I love the hollow earth concept. I love where they're doing this like in this weird mountains on both sides. Yeah, up like the stalagite mountains, basically. Yeah, and the bad guy in this, who's another ape, scary as shit, this thing. Yeah, yeah.

I loved him. Yeah. Did you, and, I mean, you came into it knowing it was bean fork, but, man, I, I listened for bean forkedisms and I had a hard time finding. They did a lot of stuff. No, you're thinking of the wrong movie. This is not being part. Oh, am, aren't I? You're thinking of it.

That's a different one. You're thinking of the apes movie. I'm thinking of the apes movie, never mind, yeah. Which I am ready to watch next, because that's, this got me in the moment. mood for it, to be honest. I was like, oh, yes, but you know what's... Completely confusing my giant eight movies. Easy to do. Here's the thing, though, like, there's such, there's such, um, craftsmanship in modern CG. I know we, it's easy for people to get cynical and go, oh, CG is ruining me. I like practical. I'm fine, whatever. Go have your argument with yourself. But

in my case, when things are done well for the medium they're being done for, I always admire it. I think this movie is really good looking. Like, the fight. are insane they have a fight out on top of the um between kong and godzilla on top of the the pyramids in egypt insane um there's this thing it's not really spoiler but whenever godzilla gets tired he curls up in the in the roman coliseum and sleeps there and the romans hate it like they just hate it because he stomps all around the place and then curls up in there but he's not hurt he's not trying to hurt anybody right no no he just he wants a place where he can kind of like you know like a cat finding a nice little box to sleep in kind of thing.

And I think that they both do a good job of carrying the movie that is about them. Even though there are people, they have shit going on, whatever, they all have so far in this particular, you know, cinematic universe they've created. They don't do so much of it that I was angry. And in fact, I was surprised how much they leaned into let this story just tell itself when the monsters are around, when the apes are dealing with their stuff. And he discovers that there are more of him. and they got to fight it out with this crazy, lanky, freaking red ape, that guy. Yes, that shit was so cool. It does not sound like being forked.

This is a good time to remind people, too, that if you've got Apple TV Plus, the Monarch series, the Monarch television series, is really good and uses, you know, it's one of those great examples of using a father and son pair of actors to play the same character two different years apart or two different time periods apart with Kurt Russell. and Wyatt Russell. And it's so, so good. It's like, yeah, it's worth saying, especially if you're in, like, once you've watched Godzilla calling, you're like, all right, I don't want to know more about the inside Earth or whatever it's called, the monster land in the earth. Yeah, hollow earth. Yeah, hollow earth. This concept is silly. There's no way it would work, like all that, but they lean so hard into it. In a way, this. is like a throwback for me to movies that I loved in the 90s where I was there just to have a really great time. And it was a great way to, you know, for me to ignore the fact that our flight

was so freaking horribly delayed. But I got sucked in. Even on that crappy little screen with not the best audio, with it being interrupted by the PA all the time, I still just really had a good time. So I think if you've held off because you're just like, yeah, more Hollywood dribble. This is a good, this is a popcorn-ass movie, just waiting for you to happen. And it's also streaming on max that's not where i watched it but you watch it on max so and quick explanation for those of you new to the show kevin durand uh played bean but played a character in 310 to yuma that has something that happened to him with a fork with a bean on it and ever since then scott called him bean fork and it's just i've we've all just kind of adopted that so bean fork is the one

yeah if you're ever wondering you see kevin durand in anything that's bean fork you just say bean fork and if you haven't seen him as quote unquote bean fork then stop what you're doing and watch 310 to yuma go watch 310 to Yuma. One of the greatest westerns ever. Movies ever. Love that movie. Even I love that and I'm not a big Western fan. No.

But then you find out that James Mangold who made Logan, all that, that guy diverse as hell. Don't just think of him as, oh, he did the new Indiana Jones movie and Wolverine. He didn't do origins

because that thing is shit. That wasn't him. He did the good Wolverine solo movie called The Wolverine, which takes place in Japan. That was a great movie. He's a great director. Deserves more credit.

Did you talk about the what? Did you talk about Deadpool 3 yet? A bit. I mean, we haven't spoiled anything, but we talked. We both saw it and loved it. Did you like it? I love. Oh, we loved it.

We went, we went, the night it released. It was amazing. Yeah. Yeah. That movie is great. Most fun I've had an MCU movie since endgame probably. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For those of you who are like, oh man, you guys miss two shows this week. Don't worry, Scott and I're going to do a little. make up and do a

a little spoily Deadpool and Wolverine episode this week to talk about that. Stick it up on the main feed so not even just patron everybody.

Oh good. Everybody gets up. Yeah. Since we were gone, I was figuring, you know, we ought to give back a little. So,

well, anyway, this is awesome. These are all going to be up on TMS or sorry, quicktMS. Dot L.I. They're already there.

And, you know, should have Randy back next week, although next week is launch week, so I don't know if we'll see them or not. Mark and I are

plan. Oh, hell yeah. Dude, I'm so excited. Oh, my gosh. And after what I saw this week, I couldn't be, I'm out of my mind excited. I'm so excited. I can't wait. You're going to pull me back. You're going to pull me back in. It's all right. Just revive his dead body. You realize that Mark listens the core. Yeah. And then he'll go, hey, Nicole, listen to this. And I'm like, we're going to play it, aren't we? Yeah. He sent me a text. Your husband sent me a text not long ago when I talked about bringing back the instance once a month. And all I got was like, I think it was like, I think it was. I think it was, It was just a string of exclamation points? And I was like, I'm like, I still got Mark. I still got him. You still got him. That's fantastic. I just got to figure out my rig now because my eight-year-old broke my gaming laptop. That's not good.

I know. I'm like, man, this happened. The good news is any of the M series of chips on the new Macs, M1 up through all of it, runs, wow, so good. It is so good on there. Nice. Go to work. quote-un-quote work and play wow.

If you're playing, if you got an Apple Silicon, I mean, some of the intels are fine too, but the silicon ones all run wow like a dream. They're great. Yeah, highly recommend it. Nicole, stay out of trouble. Say out of the kids. Tell Mark to break your microphone

so the next time you have to struggle with that and we'll see you next time. I guess that was her phone. It's probably her phone. Always good. All right. Let's get to getting out of here. all right it's good to getting out yeah i think it's time to go we uh i don't have a lot to say at

the end of the show we didn't do any emails and stuff today i got to catch up on all that so don't worry everybody more stuff tomorrow we'll have windy here this week um normal normal thursday business tomorrow so that'll be awesome we look forward to it to get out of here though we have to remind people of two things one uh there's a website for everything tms related that's over at frogpans dot com slash tms uh so go there it's all there all of it request songs do whatever you need. It's all there. So let us know. Brian, the second thing we have to do is play one of those songs that you

probably got requested here at the end of the show. Let's do that. Yeah, and you mentioned it, but I'm going to underscore it. Request. We don't have any for the remainder. We have one more for the remainder of August. So let's get some requests. I will go back to July and pick up ones that I missed and other ones that have come in that I've missed.

So don't worry, if you don't get, if you don't have something really good, like a anniversary, a birthday, or some sort of thing to celebrate, song you like, Or, Brian, can you find a cover of Vanessa Carlton? Just try it. See if you can. Then, you know, all that stuff is good to make a request for.

All right. Gaspar Kalora, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, wrote in, said, hey, science and books. This is for my wife's 15th year teaching, but mostly I would love to hear a cover of a schoolhouse rock song because the tadpole, especially Dr. Jerry Tolbert, rock for helping with supplies for her new school. Any day in August is cool for the request. she starts back the first week of August. So she's back in as of now. Jerry Tolbert is one of the most embarrassingly charitable people I know. Like he's putting you all to shame.

I don't care who you are or what your status in life is. Jerry is the shit man. He's the best. He's not the shit man. He's the shit comma man. He's the shit comma man. Yeah. He donated to the MS-150 thing for me and does every year.

He's a prince is what he is. A prince, I tell you. He is great. All right. So something from Schoolhouse Rock. Now, there was that great Schoolhouse Rock cover album a few years ago called Schoolhouse Rock Rock Rocks. And I decided not to pull from there because it's such easy pickings. It's low-hanging fruit.

And we all have heard it. We've heard everything on there. But let's do this one, which you maybe haven't heard. This one came out in 2012 from an artist named Sarah Gazarek. She released an album in 2012 called Blossom and B. And on there, she unpacks her adjectives. Here is Sarah Gazzarek. got home from camping last spring saw people places and things we barely had arrived friends asked us to describe the people places and every last thing so we unpacked our

adjectives we unpacked our adjectives I unpacked frustrating first reached in and found the word worst then I picked soggy and next I picked foggy in then I was ready to tell him my tale because I'd unpacked my adjectives because I don't pack my adjectives adjectives are words used to really describe things Handy words to carry the ground Days are sunny or they're rainy boys are dumb or else they're brainy adjectives can show you which way

Oh adjectives are often used to help us compare things To say how thin her fat or short or tall Girls who are tall get taller Boys were small, get smaller The one is the tallest, another's the smallest We hike along without care Then we ran into a bear He was a hairy bear

He was a scary bear We beat a hasty retreat from his lair And described him with adjectives We described him With adjectives Oh, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, hmm. Next time you go on a trip Remember this little tip

The minute you get back They'll ask you this and that You can describe people, places and things Simply unpack your adjectives You can do it with adjectives Tell them about it about it Tell them about Tell them about

Oh Oh You can shout it with adjective You can shout it You can shout it This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpant.com. Ah!