The Morning Stream - TMS 2693: The Dick Bees

Episode Date: August 21, 2024

A brush with GOATness. The Barracuda People. The Wailin Jennies. Really into Procreating. Salt N Peppa and maybe some Paprika. Color Misregistration with Tom. Camptivated. Looking Pretty for Metzen. Walk Like an Ibbotson. Thank you for running over Thunder Pussy so quickly. I spent 300K for a Yak. Powdered wasps. Getting Back Into The Heroin. Vacation Exception with Tom. Alternating Recommittals with Randy and not Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Let me tell you a story about a man named Jed. Just kidding. All I really want to do is encourage you to sign up at our Patreon at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream. A brush with goateness. The barracuda people. The Wayland Jenys.

Really into procreating. Salt and pepper and maybe some paprika. Color misregistration with Tom. Camtivated. Looking pretty for Metzen. Walk like an Ibitson. Thank you for running over Thunder Pussy so quickly. I spent 300K.

for a yak. Powdered wasps. Getting back into the heroin. Vacation exception with Tom again. Alternating recommendals with Randy and not Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Right, left, right, left. Roll your hands and pull the cord.

Right, left, right, left. Roll your hands and woo, woo, right. I was dumped. This is the morning stream with Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbett. Big old freaking dirt blanket. Hey everybody. Welcome back to TMS. It's the morning stream. And today's date is Wednesday, August 21st, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. And it's Brian Nibit.

Hello. I apparently was pulling the wrong cord because I did not go, woo, woo, when that cord got pulled. Woo. No, I didn't either. That was from like a 19, early 90s workout tape. And it's terrible. It's really, it's bad. Yeah, you think the audio's bad?

You should see the video version of this thing. The video's even worse. Oh, my gosh. Imagine the worst video that you can that goes along with that audio, and it's worse than that. Yeah, it's worse than you think. So never underestimate the power. of garbage. It's good to be here, everybody. I hope you're all well. It's a, you know, it's Wednesday. We've got the usual Wednesday business. And even though DT&S is kind of off

all week, they're doing their experiment week, which is like people make, you know, shows based on some cool ideas, submit them to Tom. And then he runs them during the week while while they kind of take a production break. And it's always cool. Every year they do this in August. This year I submitted one, I think it'll air today that is all about art apps, which ones to get, look for various devices. So if you're not on an iPad and you want something decent for the Android tablets, there are stuff out there for that. I, of course, lean heavily into Procreate and why I love it, but there's other stuff like Clip Studio and, you know, Adobe's got their shit and all that. Anyway, I break it all down, talk about goods and bads and try to help people

with their kind of art plans or whatever. So all week, it's stuff like that. Despite all that, Tom's still coming on here today to talk about technology. Can you believe that? Look at him. What a trooper. What a trooper. Like, I'm taking a week off except for TMS. Yeah.

He's a dedicated. That's how much he loves us. Yeah. Dedicated morning stream contributor, Tom Merritt will be here. He is. And then after that, recommendals with Randy, Nicole will not be here today.

But we have a lot going on. Correct. So stick around. Real quick here, for those who maybe missed it, the Blizzard video I did last week or filmed a week ago yesterday. A week you go yesterday, weird. That's right, yeah.

It's very weird to think that way. I've been home by now already. Last Wednesday. That was like just yesterday. Yeah, it's such a strange week. But anyway, that video's up. If you were ever on the Blizzard launcher, you would have noticed it on the wow tab. It also got kind of pushed here and there.

And, yeah, you want to watch two old Muppets talk about 30 years of Warcraft. And here, Chris Metzen's awesome takes on that stuff is available now. So you can go check it out. which is perfect timing because later today, sometime this afternoon you will get the instance 2.0, episode 1 will air today as well. So all kinds of wow stuff happening

and the early access to the expansion launches tomorrow. Oh, cool. So a lot going on in the world of the Warcraft right now. That's so cool. Yeah, Warpforge in the chat asked me, he said, Brian, are you back in World Warcraft? And I said, yeah, it's like this.

I was just saying myself the other day, like, oh, my God, thank goodness. Thank goodness I'm done with heroin. Boy, it sure was hard getting off heroin, but now I've been free from heroin for quite some time. Oh, what's this? Oh, my friend is doing a podcast about heroin. Damn it! Yeah, now you've got to get back into the heroin now.

Exactly. Now, now you get back in the heroin. Brian's going to be down on the streets. It'd be like 2 a.m. looking for his dealer. Give me some of that sweet age. Hey, what could I get? Do you know where I can get this quest? Hey, do you know where I can get this piece of gear, man?

Can you just hook me up with this piece with these double blades, man? Yeah. For my rogue, for my two-handed rogue. Yeah, man. I love it. I like that had a vibrato to it. That was cool. I was actually in the game last night looking at rogues, and I realized of all of the classes, it's the one I've never really played as a rogue. That's me. That's really funny because it's the only, well, I have played, I played a death night. I had a reggae, a reggae troll death night for a while named Desmond Decker. He's still in my, he's still in my account. Yeah. They do this thing now where they list the character listing used to be by server. It's now listed as,

no matter where your characters are, they list in one giant list. And they'll still be on those servers and they'll say when you hover over and where they are. But it's all in one list. And I hadn't, I didn't realize how much weird little characters I've never touched for 20 years are sitting on the servers. Really? That you started on a different server and, oh wow. Yeah, I got a guy named Roy, literally. Oh, yeah, I remember Roy, because you were so excited you got a three-letter, a three-letter character name. You like locked it in.

The only problem is he's on a server that I'm not actively playing on. and so I can't really use it, but he's still there sitting there named Roy. Yeah. I got a guy, I got a warrior on some server that I, and I literally created this character, November of 2004. Wow. His name is Wet Blade, and he was just my bank alt. That's all he was good for. And he's just chilling in Orgermar.

Yeah, that's so weird. It's weird. What was the, what's the, oh, geez. I can't even, like can't even think of the, the, the. the role or the class or the whatever but there was the city way up north um on this is how bad this is how bad it's how long it's been said played wow too it's like an elf city up north it's all pretty oh you're talking about silver moon and um the blood elves right blood elves no uh maybe not no uh was it silver no maybe it was silver moon they're kind of

It was added in the, um, it was added in the, um, it was added in the, um, it was added in the, uh, tell flasselas. Oh, gosh. Was it at, was it added in the, uh, which expansion? He was added in the burning crusade, I think. Oh, that'd definitely be blood elves and silver moon then. Was it? Okay. I thought it was like way up north on the, like, north end of the, uh, of whatever continent might work started out on. That's Ashenvale. And that's, Ash and Vale. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah. That was after, that was after Burning Crusade then, probably. I think that was, I think Ashenvel's an OG. Oh, is vanilla? Oh, okay. I think so. So I've just got a dude sitting there. He's my bank, he's my bank mule, basically, with, like, the biggest bags somebody could make for me at the time. I want to say that someone in our guild made them for me. Tanner just made me some sweet 30, not that he'll do this for everyone, okay, everybody.

I'm not, this is not an open invitation. Right, he's doing it for everybody. But he made me 30, I think they're 35 slots. bags now something like that man i got room to spare it's great just killing stuff keeping stuff don't care at all not even getting close to full and then when i go to town i'm like i should sell some junk and i make like 300 gold on junk it's amazing yeah that's great anyway coming back with a bit of a that was that was something that was something that was something that was something that was that was something that was something that was something that was something like oh my god my bags are

full again i don't have enough space to pick something up all right well let's find a mailbox and let's go send some stuff to my dude up there and then i'm Okay, put that on the auction house. Let's see if it sells. Well, the good news now is a lot of that heavy lifting is now part of the war band system. So you have all your, you have basically all your characters, at least on the same server, will share reputation. Really? They share.

What does the – I forget all the stuff they share. Do they share a bank is the question. Yes. They do. They do. They do share – what was the other major thing they share? Oh, but I still have to go to a bank. You have to go to a major city and go to a bank, right?

unless you have if you're in a guild like if you're in the core guild we have a one of our core one of our guild perks is a guild bank that's like a deployable like a thing you can oh really yeah but that's just the guild bank not the yeah not the personal bank yeah i need a i need a one of those little i think it was a portable mailbox or something i had for a while that i could and one of the mounts has one of i think the big dinosaur mount from battle for azaroth has auction house on one side of the mount and then on the other side is the i think you're bank yeah somebody in my raid team had one of those several people in my raid team had one of those and i would always click it just after they unmounted and so these the auction house guy would disappear just as i was about to click it and like oh oh no no can you bring that back i just need to sell some stuff in case i get bracers that i want and they're very expensive you can buy one of those still but they're so expensive it's like in the millions of gold to get it wow and i would do it if i had millions of gold i don't um i spent 300 000 gold on the on the yak you get in uh pandarian that has transmog on one side and what is it just i guess

a bank on there or no like a vendor on the other side a vendor oh so you can at least sell your stuff if you can't auction house it see that would be good too i'd be happy with just a just a sell it dude and i'm a big transmog fan i love like collecting all the looks and stuff and combining them so having that all the time just pop that thing out and change my change my cape or my coat or my shoes or whatever i use the least in the game It was transmugging. In any game, you give me the option for, like, cosmetics. I mean, look at how rarely I freaking change my social media avatars.

I think I still have a picture of me as a 14-year-old on one of those social media accounts because I just can't be bothered to change it. For the longest time, Brian was just BRAC from the BRAC show. I was BRAC, yeah. Oh, no, I'm not. Now on X formerly known as Twitter, I have the Scott Flack. it's only right and good that you use that it's good it is perfect for x like it is it is the most x thing that i could do with my avatar yep well done uh well anyway go try go watch the video

you guys enjoy quick question about the video yeah were you wearing makeup uh yes they did it they did do it to look pretty for chris medson or did you do it for some other purpose i did it because they told me i needed to do it uh-huh i didn't go in there it's not always to look pretty for other people is it no you're absolutely right And so basically it came down. The girl's name was Gina. She was awesome. Shout out to Gina.

She was a contractor, but she works a ton with Blizzard, but also she just did something for Tom Brady. And there's like, and I said to her, I said that, you're telling me that brush. I like makeup on a goat. I said, she actually said something about that, something about a goat. Oh, really? I can't remember the joke. We were all a little nervous.

But she was doing this thing with this big brush. And I said, are you telling me that brush was on Tom Brady's face? And she said, it was. She was absolutely. You guys are sharing. a brush on your face. Oh, you literally had a brush with greatness. Yeah, I had a brush with the goat.

Anyway, it was a brush with a brush with greatness. She was amazing, though. Title people, get that as a title. She understood, she really understood the assignment. Her job is not just get makeup on people and have them look good on a 4K camera. Her job is also conversation and kind of let you know it's all good and don't worry, this won't get in your eyes. And kind of, she has a calming effect on both, both of us.

Chris said the same thing. He's like, oh, man, these makeup people, they just chill me out and make me relax. What's funny is I wore that. It was a little Giselle bundition on that, on that brush, too. A little bit, probably, yeah. Now that you say it. What else has touched his face?

Get a little Giselle on your face from the Tom Brady brush. I wish it would help me deflate my, get a little gait deflate going on. But anyway, she was it going to say about that. I forgot. Oh, the makeup she put on me was so just like, base and not crazy just keep you from reflecting and stuff yeah so i wore it all day i came home with it yeah it's all day makeup yeah it's uh you can feel good about that did you use some ponds

cold cream to take it off at night i used something like that though something kim had that she said was good it wasn't pawns though it wasn't the brand it was something else some kind of cream and it worked yeah it did the job and then i broke out for two days so that was nice and uh yeah i don't know i don't know how you women honestly i still say this it is so The ones that are either compelled feel like they have to or whatever, get up and do 45 minutes to an hour in front of a mirror every day. I just massive respect. I don't know how you do it.

I just don't get it. It's really hard, I think. I mean, again, it took me this many years to even have a situation where I needed to. But I guess they did it at BlissCon that year when I was on stage, but it seemed much quicker. You know, they were just like, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat and sent me out there. So, I don't know. Anyway, we didn't shine. and that's the important part.

Hey, we got a phone call about wasps. I love the follow up on the wasps. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have you had any problem? Because you hung up the little, the wasp, the fake wasp Chinese lanterns looking things. Oh, yeah. I should report on that.

I don't think those worked. I think... Oh, really? Because you still got wasps. We still got wasps. Yeah, the only thing that has worked is that powder that Picholik sent us, and that's it. Interesting. Oh, but that was just ground powder.

Well, you could use it. I guess you could kind of use it anywhere. but we used it on these rocks where they had one. Yeah. And the result of doing that stopped wasps. We had another half start of a thing, and they went away. Oh, really? So, like, even though you couldn't get powder up onto it,

like it was up in an eve or something. Something like that. And I don't know if they just sensed it or they were flying around. Some of them took it from one place to the other and said, oh, you got powder on you. Get out of here. Get the powder guy. I think there's something to do that, for real.

We've got a powder guy. Go next door. Yeah. I really think there's something. that because they just all kind of stopped and and we haven't had real problems since um in the mornings bumblebees some just good old fashioned bumble bees do hover around our flowers and stuff but they're gone by noon yeah bumblebees don't care about you like they're bumble i love bumble especially the bigger the bigger the fatter the fuzzier the better you know yeah the two or three times

i've been stung the ones that truly bumble yeah the bumbling ones they're the ones we love the I like the bees that bumble. I've been stung maybe six times, five times in my life or something, and none of them were ever bumblebees. They've all been wafts, hornets, yellow jackets. Yeah, it's the dick, the dick, the dick, the dick, bees. Yeah, the dick be, the dick bees. Performing live, the dick bees. Some old 50s, a crooner band.

Uh-huh. Duwop band, yeah, dick bees, yeah, sure. It's perfect. Saw them at the Hollywood Bowl. Anyway, let's play this call. This is about that again, and it's, you know, we like Hornet Talk. So here you go. Good morning.

Scorch and Burn. I've got to tell you a little story about what I've done about my wasp problem at my house. I've actually had four wasps nests around my house. Three of them were in an umbrella that was left behind by the previous owner, which was not fun because I got sung three or four times when I accidentally walked underneath it. Anyway, what I did was I got a can of starter fluid for a car. and a lighter and I lit the lighter

and then I did one little spray of the starter fluid big fireball next thing you know every single wast fell on the ground with no wings to fly away or attack so then I just went ahead and stomped on them

and yeah solved the problem admittedly this is the kind of thing that could have got me on one of your TMS stories man burns down home trying to kill a was luckily that didn't happen so anyway love the show y'all right oh my gosh yeah that is that is the start to a a florida man story florida man burns down house using a starter fluid and butane lighter yeah you're brave to do it i don't think i could do it i think i would be too worried about burning stuff that isn't meant to be burnt but uh sounds like it worked for him i'm telling you though this powder is like magic i don't know what's going on That's great. We still have the spray. We went and bought some more spray because there were a couple more nests up in the... So we have a thing over our patio, a little roof over our patio.

And, God, that's great. When it is raining, I can sit out there and smell the rain and watch the water coming down and just like get that cool. Oh, man, I love it. Big fan. Neighbor next door, crazy neighbor has a pergla. So rain just comes right through. No, nothing to block it. The rings just boom right in. Ha! Anyway. But it's got these little areas where a perfect place for a wasp to build a little one of their little mud nests.

And so Tina's like, Brian, can you go out and deal with the wasps? And she even gets the can of spray out for me and puts it on the table. Like, yeah, okay, I'll go do it right now. And so I go out there and I just like, I figure out exactly where it is. It's dusk. So it's a little bit dark and especially in those little box eaves. so I hold up my phone with the flashlight on it

to see where it's at and I get ready and I aim and right on it and it's the foaming type of spray so it like just completely encapsulates the wasps nest so completely soaks the nest itself and then any wasps that are in there

are either they take off like a bat out of hell or they tumble out like dummies They tumble out, they just flop out encased in foam. I know. Sorry, Claire. This probably makes you so sad. Me. But, you know, I'll do that.

And then I kind of go under the roof so I can just kind of watch and just make sure we're all good. And I watch as this big blob of foam and mud wasp nest just goes plop right into a planter that is sitting on the banister, the rail. of our patio. Oh shit. This is the one that has the... You talked about this. The one that had the... Oh, they're talking about this?

Oh, yes, I did, didn't I? Where I said, hey, hon, is the stuff in that planter? Is it herbs for eating or is it decorative? And she looks out and says, well, it's decorative now. Okay, I do the story already. All right, sorry. No, no, it's a great story. Just be covered this on a previous episode.

If you're just joining us with the L. Yeah, maybe you missed it because you skip that episode. Now you're hearing it for the first time. Yeah, right. Ryan, Ryan, Brian, Brian ruined the whole, uh, the whole bucket of freaking herbs just just no more dill

no cilantro not for us no thanks the only downside of this powder is that it looks like someone painted the rocks that we poured it on and it doesn't just come off

although I think the rain may have washed it away by now you mix it with so you mix the powder with water and then put it in there no it's just straight like sprinkler oh really okay now I think you probably could do

like if you had one of those pump sprays or whatever you could do the that's how you would get to higher places I would assume we haven't tried that but I think you can probably probably mix it, but we didn't do that. And it just looks like someone took white spray paint and just on the, on the rock. It's that kind of, it kind of matte finishes the rock. And then I think with

enough rain, it goes away. But man, that stuff worked. Can't recommend it enough. Brian's method works too. Look, if you've got hornets, kill them. Just move the decorative planter, please. Just do that. Then you'll be fine. Kill, kill hornets. Take that clip. Kill my hornets. C-I-L-L. Kill my hornets. That's that Eddie Murphy joke right there. It is. It's one I remember fondly. You watched that. That was the season you watched. Yes. That was the only one. You know what? I was into that show until right up until, I can tell you that it was, let's see, about a year into Will Ferrell, which is right around the time streaming happened. Maybe it was a little later than that. Oh, yeah, that's right. Right. Because it wasn't really the, you said it wasn't the content. It wasn't just a matter of of like, oh, I don't want to watch it anymore because they ticked me off or

no, they got bad or anything like that. It was just the, uh, I just got out of the habit. Live, live viewing. Yeah, but then you think, well, Scott, you're streaming now. Why didn't you watch more Olympics? I don't have a good answer. I don't know. And why did you watch?

Oh, yeah, the Olympics are great. Yeah, I barely watched any of it. I, we watched, um, after seeing the, uh, that Australian woman, the poor Australian woman. My God, she had to get off social media and, um, oh, I feel so. Yeah, she took too much shit for that. She really did. She didn't deserve all that shit. She didn't deserve any of that shit,

but we watched the rest of the breakdancing stuff, men's and women's. God, it was good. It was so, just so, I don't know. It was really, you could see the technical prowess, the knowing how many different things you can do or the different, like, what they called vocabulary, the different moves you make and stuff like that.

And it was great. I really, really enjoyed it. I know it's not going to be back for L.A. and four years, but what made that decision? Because this was the first year they did it? No idea.

No idea. I don't know if it's like a matter of, all right, we've tried it. We need some time to decide if we're going to keep it or if it's like an instantaneous. No, we don't want that.

Yeah. Yeah, I wonder, but I don't know how that works. I know they have some sports that are just like exhibition until they're real or until they lock in. And I think that happened with like softball

and there was some other stuff. and now they are there. So I don't know. Was this the trial? Are people blaming that poor Australian woman for it not continuing to L.A.? I don't know. I don't know, man. Yeah, I don't know.

Oh, God, I hope not. That would be horrible. I feel bad. We saw that Australian woman. We decided we don't want break dancing in Los Angeles with the Olympics. Oh, no. As Homer Simpson once famously said,

it's funny because I don't know him, but now that we know she's a real person, it's kind of hard. Yeah. All right. It is Ted Pooley feud time. This means two things. One, we're going to add Dunaway to the call. And the other is that you guys are going to want to ping me now and become the fourth person to ping me on Discord and be added to this call. So you know how it works. Now you have the work to do. So do it while we bring Dunaway in and have a little bit of fun with ourselves. Let's see if I can find all the right buttons to push. Here we go. Brian Dunaway joining us. Hi, Brian. How are you?

Oh, hi, Scott and Brian is hump day, man. Like, does it make you feel any different to know that you're in the middle of the week than it did yesterday, for example. Does it make you? Oh, yeah, it does. Yeah. It's like the old story, the old statement, like how far can a dog run into a forest? Only halfway because the other half he's running out. Oh, I like that. We're halfway running out of the forest is what we are. Plus, where I live, the humidity dropped overnight as well as the temp. And just for a brief second, I realized, hey, summer is leaving eventually. And I'm so excited. It's like starting all over.

It's like, yeah, it's time to do some stuff. Yeah. It's leaving faster than you think, man. The summer went so quick. I kind of hate it. Not quick enough for me. Get on out of here, baby. Well, here's the good news.

Someone picked up a white paging phone and the doctor is in. Dr. Jerry Tolbert is today's fourth caller. Well done, dude. You slotted yourself right in. How you doing? Doing good. Can you hear me? Okay?

Yeah, you sound fun. You sound like you're busy at work. You're taking a moment out of it, you know? You got people to look at. You got smears to pap. Tell us you're doing somebody's exam right now while you're playing the game. It would be great. No, I was on jury duty this morning and got rid of this time.

I'm just sending it all right now. So did you, so you're done? out or are they going to call you back? Do you know? No, I got out there. They always keep pulling me back, but I got it out. Did they settle or did they just not pick you? They just didn't pick me. It was, they actually,

the docket was, it was empty, apparently. And so they sent us all right, like 10 o'clock. Here's what I predict. I predict you got in there and they went, well, we could deny him because he's a, we consider him a more crucial person out in the world. He's a doctor. If something goes bad, we need him around for that frontliner that could be the one reason but the other reason is well on his little thing here is for me says he's really into tabletop games we can't have nerds we can't have

nerds here we're kicking all the nerds out this doctor has a full collection of green lantern figures no we'd like to eliminate juror number 12 please he's a massive nerds are too good at logic exactly can't have that i think i think a lot of these stuff isn't it like i don't know the stats but i'm pretty sure most cases that are going to be jury tried just end up being settled before he even starts. Yeah, a lot of them do. The lawyers on both sides are kind of like, look, we've done this a million times. This is how it's going to go down.

You take the deal. We're not fighting. Three times I've gone in for jury duty. Three times that's what happened. I showed up there. They showed us a little video. Here's what can happen with jury duty. And then basically, and then they come back and say, all right, lawyers have settled.

So you're all free to go. But here's a little voucher for a, you know, $6 towards a Wendy's double. And thank you for being a good citizen. Yeah, right. Yeah. This was my first summons in 26 years. Oh, my gosh. Wow.

Wow. You've got some, there's a lot of stuff between you 26 years ago and now. That's fascinating. He's ready to dodging the bullet. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Well, it's good to have you here. We're going to throw it over to Brian Ebbott here. We'll explain these rules as if we need them.

But we do because some of you are new to this. We don't know who's listening. We have no idea. That's right. No, it's time to play the tadpooly fuse. Scott's going to get into the game. And then we've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian are going to have to predict those answers that they gave us.

It is lair our job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Dr. Tolbert, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if they succeed in their pelvic exam and your team wins, you will get a prize package. That includes quantum replica. And then another pair of games from Yana, escape room games. This is good with two people. So if you have a friend who also has a Steam account,

you and them can play Escape First Alchemist together. Up to four players can play. Escape first, Alchemist. I don't know what that is. But only one can escape first. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Yeah, right.

Everybody else is in the second place. I don't know what that is, but it sounds great. You know? Yeah. I'm all about escaping things. Alchemy's cool. I mean, what else can you ask for? Look, Dr. Tolbert, you prescribe alchemist things all the time.

That's right. You're basically an alchemist. welcome this yourself. Humors and bad black black bile and yellow bile. We deal with that all. Oh, man, the humors. I haven't heard that in a long time. Humors.

Nice. What game was that that we played on the boop show that was all about doing that? I don't remember either. What was it? VR operation or something. No, no. You literally were like, it was like all story driven and you had to go around town. You had to like bullshit your way through it.

Not that that was bullshit, but you know. What was it? that that's you're right that wasn't this game though oh shame on you isn't one of those mobile games where you're the who's the company that makes all the ones with the card games right it seems like that no

this is a PC game it probably could easily be mobile yeah I don't remember what it was called it's too many games man that's our life well anyway that sounds awesome these are fine prizes I think fun games big thanks to Yana for sending the escape room game and Luis Loya

for sending the other one the quantum game. All right, guys. Put your hands on your buzzers, turn your head and cough, and give me your best answer to this. We asked 522 tadpoolers. What's your favorite all-female musical group? Scott. Well, my favorite is barracuda. Yes, barracuda. Hold on. What's wrong with me? Baracuta. Why can I think of their names? The barracuda people. Is I sing the barracuda? It's called, it's got the Wilson lady. Uh-huh, yeah. Two of them, as a matter of fact.

Heart, heart, heart, heart, heart. All right, all right. Show me heart, the band that has two women and three guys in it. Oh, shit. Show me heart. The tadpool doesn't know. Yeah, but I didn't say female lead musical group. I said, what's your favorite all-female musical group?

Yeah, you're right. 18 tadpoolers. I don't know anymore because it was so long ago from the time you asked the question. until Scott crossed the finish line. I don't know. You'll be all right. Six answers will beat it.

Brian, name an all female musical group. I'm going to go with Brian Ibbett's favorite girl group, Spice Girls. Show me the Spice Girls. Number one, shit. Yeah, number one, surprisingly.

And I, so it's very funny how people assumed that I put this question in there because I wanted them to say spice girls. Number one, I don't, I don't, I don't technically write the questions. I get questions, like basically at the end of the survey, every survey, it says,

hey, give me a question to use for the next survey. And I copy it and I paste it into the survey, right? Like I rarely edit it unless I've got three questions that all begin with name your favorite. Somebody sounds defensive. Somebody sounds like that's a very defensive about this. Here's why I'm defensive about this because so many people responded with, sorry, Brian, not the spice girls. I was like, I didn't ask you.

I didn't ask you to tell me if you like criticize me. Yeah, I get it. So, yeah, so that's why I'm defensive about it. It's like, come on, I have to defend myself. So Spice Girls number one, Brian, you get Jerry as a partner and you get control de la board. What do you think?

You got one in your head? I was thinking about the runaways, another of Brian's favorite. Perfect. It's got that. What's her face is the lead singer? Sherry Curry, you know? Lead a Ford, no, wait. Sherry Curry was the lead singer of, she's right here.

She's right here on the cover of this copy of the Runways album that I have sitting next to me at my desk right here. That is your actual favorite, right? Did you tell everybody on that? It was my favorite in 1978, absolutely. I had this album, Queens of Noise. What were you three? No, it was 78. It'd been nine years.

I was negative, too. Look at these ladies. Look at these fine, fine ladies. Oh, yeah, yeah. Look at them. I play trivia with her. I wouldn't run away. I play trivia.

Am I right? Jackie Fox right. I play trivia with her. Oh, that's right. That's awesome. Which was Lita Ford in there? Lita Ford is the, she does not look like she does that or did in the 80s. Right here is your Lita Ford.

Oh, man. Yeah, you're right. She doesn't look anything like her. Joan Jetta Ford, Sherry, Jackie Fox, and Vicki Blue. I like a good. I like a good Sherry. curry curry. A spicy sherry curry guy.

Yeah, it's very good. Oh, I think we answer a question to me, didn't we say? You actually said the runaways. Do you want to stick with that? Show me the run. I just did. I just showed you the runaways.

But you guys show me the runaways. Yeah. Yeah, number five on the list there. Very good. Very good. Is it my turn? Do you want me to take a stab at it? Yeah, six points for Brian and Dr. Tolbert.

Seven. Albert, you did a really good one with runaways. I have one in my head, but do you have another one? Bangles? Mm-hmm. Oh, good one. That's where I was going, so that's perfect. We're on the same page.

Let's get some bangles. Like an eternal flame. Show me the Bengals. Number two on the list. That deserves to be on that. We were just talking about Susanna Hoffs. That's perfect. We were, yeah.

We went so in Florida. You were just in Florida in Orlando, Dr. Tolbert, like, going to all the parks and doing all that fun stuff, making me super jealous with your photos. Yeah. I live in Florida, but yeah. Yeah, but you don't live in Orlando, right? Right, no, we're about three hours away.

Yeah. Yeah. So there's a place, there's a thing in Orlando, and it might even still be there called Mystery Funhouse. And it's big enough that it actually has road signs, or at least a road sign that says this exit, Mystery Funhouse. And so my uncle and I were out there, hitting up, you know, the Universal Studios and Disneyland and doing it up, and we're like, oh, well, we've got a free evening.

Let's do Mystery Funhouse, because we keep seeing these signs for it. And you go and you pay your 20, bucks or whatever and it's one of these things it's a building where you kind of walk through and oh this this room has mirrors all over the walls and you have to figure out how to get out of it and this other room um has like a like a a projection going all over the room and it's all psyched are you sure this wasn't your hotel room go ahead definitely definitely sure this one of the rooms was like egyptian themed and just had like hieroglyphics on the wall and whatever nice and then on a loop was walk like an Egyptian right and

And after playing eight hours a day, seven days a week, the tape had gotten so stretched out that it sounded like it was, um, it was exactly, walk like an Egyptian. It was like so slow down. Maybe, maybe that's it. Yeah. That's great. Anyway, all right. So what else you got? What else you got?

You got another one? Give me another girl group, or at least what the Tadpole thinks is a girl group. Oh, I think I'd take that as a hint. Well, so I still have a girl group, but I'm going to different genre here. How about the Dixie Chicks? Oh, that's good. Oh, you know what? That is very good.

Yes, the Dixie Chicks. Sure. Show me the Dixie Chicks or The Chicks. Yeah, that's a good one. They dropped the Dixie after all the stuff. Wide open spaces. They're great. But we know you still Dixie Chicks.

That's right. I like them. They're good. Let me tell you something about them. Oh, no, I've already told the story. My girls called them the Dipsy Chips. and I'll never forget it. Oh, I like that.

They could have stuck with that name and not had to change it, too. Like, if they would have adopted the Dipsy Chips as a name. Yeah, then they don't have to worry about it. You don't even have to get into the political stuff or the Dixie part or any of that. Just go straight Dipsy and chips. I'm with you, Brian. Yeah, Dipsy. Missed Opportunity.

Dumbies. Anyway. Dumbies. Tollbear, do you have another there? Because you're killing it. I'm telling you. I'm just really riding your coat tills today. I'm running thin right now, though.

I kind of like everything I think of although I guess we had we already saw that that they can have males in the band if the the front people are women so I don't know right here just whatever they would say correct just whatever the tadpool thinks yeah no I'm suffering right now okay what do you got done away you got one I got a few of my head but I'm not sure like I would like to say we haven't visited this let me take it we haven't visited this genre at all I'm thinking destiny's child but you know Oh, yeah, that's a good one.

That's a really good one. Sure. Pick it. Beyonce, Michelle Williams, and the rest are here on Destiny's Child. Yeah, show me Destiny's Child. I'm a child of the 90s, baby. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, number eight on the list.

Kelly, that's really, Kelly. Guys are destroying me today. So that brings up a bunch of those. That's a whole genre that unlocked your head when you said that. So, like, we got TLC now. Oh, yeah. That's right. I like TLC.

Don't chase them waterfalls. Don't go chasing a man. No, no. Stick to the rivers and the whatever's you're used to. You're used to, yeah. Yeah, get in there. All right.

Tender, tender loving care, please. Sure. T. Boz, Lisa, L. and Chile and Chile. Chile is correct.

I think that's it. All right. Show me the T, VL, and the C. Oh, very nice. Number four. Look at that. Yeah.

You don't want no scrubs. Oh, wait. That's good for Dr. Tobor. You don't want to wear any scrubs, you know? That means I have to go to the hospital and I don't like to go there. That's right.

I'm an office guy. So going back a little bit from there, how about a little salt and pepper, maybe some paprika? Yes, salt and pepastia. And Spinderella? Sure, yeah. Oh, Spinderella. All right. Show me salt and pepper.

Oh. Yeah, that's a pretty weird. Reality show. It seems like I remember some kind of reality show with them, but that just feels like a dream. I don't, I don't remember it, did they? Was it called push it? That would be great. Pushing it was Salt and Peppa.

Yeah, it would be perfect. I don't know. I've never heard of it down number 45 on the list, by the way. Wow. Yeah, really far down. You people have forgotten. That's right. All right, well, this is fun because I think, I don't know why you guys are skipping this one, but I think the go-goes are probably on here.

Sure. Go-Go's, that's a good one. Yeah. For the record, people, Spice Girls, I've seen zero times in concert. It's a tribute band. The go-goes I've seen twice. Okay, FK, cha-cha. All right, show me the go-go's.

So damaged. Three. It's because I have a crush on Kathy Valentine, or at least I did. Maybe I still do. You did. You still do, right? I still do. Go-Go's number three, bringing Scots total up to 10 versus

Ryan and Jerry's 26. Okay. So this one is one of my favorites, but I just, I'm feeling very unconfident about this. I'm just to say it. I'll say Veruca Salt. And I'm not even sure it's all girls. It might be some dudes in there. Yeah.

Show me, Veruca, two females in the group and three guys in the back. Salt. Ah. I love how all of, well, at least part of Johnson's girl groups are all half. Yeah. I think it's, I mean, it speaks highly of the bands that they have them so up front and center, though, because I never even think about dudes being in Veruca Sal. Yeah.

Two guys, I guess, Jim Shapiro. and Steve Black. Yeah. Are we mathematically Eliminated? Eliminated? No. Eliminated? No, you have not. No, no, no. It's not emily. Let's not do that.

Okay, so we can't, so we can't say stupid stuff. All right, I got you. Technically, well, here's the deal. He may, you may have, you haven't mathematically eliminated Scott from winning, but you have guaranteed that Jerry's going to get these prizes. Oh. I'll tell you that. Yeah. Because even if Scott gets.

Oh, he had to get all of them. He needs to get both of them to win. Ah, very good. So we can sit on our butts. Okay. How about banana ramma ding-dong? Oh, that's a good one. Wait, banana ramas all girls?

That's the only banana. I don't think it's all women. I don't know is, is heart all girls? No. Well, true, true, too. Well, so my argument here, Brian, sorry. No, no, give me, give me. I'm not going to override you, but I have to play my Kentucky heritage here since I'm a

Florida transplant. That's not where I'm originally from. the Judds If you have been killing it Why would we Step in with my dumb Exactly don't do Don't deviate

That's an amazing answer That's real good Yeah sure Get the Judds in there Put the Judd heads up there Yeah Sure show me Naomi Winona and the mom

No that was Naomi Yeah Naomi was the mom No who's the actress Oh Ashley Ashley She was in time Her and Wesley

were capturing shapes and a little... That's right, exactly. Rods and cones. Show me the Judds. No. Amazingly enough. I don't even know if the Judds.

Let's see here. Judds did make the list one person said the Judds, so tied for 50 seconds. All right. The tricky bit here is that I have a local favorite. I just know it's not on here

because they don't get enough love, but I really want to say them. You know what? instead. Okay, well, I'm going to go with a big one. Let's go J-pop and let's go with that thing. Tom's always talking about that thing. The group called Black

Pink. Sure. Black Pink's a good one, yeah. Good one, yeah. Show me Black Pink. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Oh, no, I don't want to do that. There we go. Hold on a second. You took one of my things away. There you go. They were number 11, so you get another guess. Oh, good job. Oh, they were 11th. No way.

They were 11. Yeah, on the list. Okay. Oh, gosh. Are they what now? K-pop? K-pop or J-pop? I thought they were K-pop. K-pop. Yeah, I think they're K-pop. Did I say J-pop? I meant K-pop. Yeah, I think you did. Oops. Maybe not. Maybe I mis-hide you.

My sister and brother will be mad at me if I say it wrong, so I got to keep that in mind. Let's see here. Let's go with... That's too old school. My mom's band. My mom's band. Who is it? Wilson Phillips? Who's your mom's band? I'll just say it. The Supremes. I don't know if they'll be on here. The Supreme does a good one. I'm a bad answer. Yeah. Show me the Supremes.

Where did my points go? Yeah, no. Supremes were number, they were in the list. Higher, by the way, than the Judds. Number 30 for the Supremes. Diana Ross on the Supremes. All right. It says supersizes. That's what they would call them now. That's right. Yes. Anyway. Creams were made with all the same ingredients as the deluxe is, just in a different order. You just add sour cream. Yeah, right, exactly. You take one of your seven ingredients and you add it. Surprised you and say the Andrews sisters, you old fart.

I know, right? Oh, you still can. There's still two stars on the board. Yeah, what are you got? You guys have 26 to Scots 10. What you got? How about La Trim? Oh, I was thinking of La Seraphim.

Oh, another K-pop deal. Yeah. They were a blitzcom. I was talking about the cars that go boom. but, you know, whatever. Yeah, but you're going to choose that, though. No, but me. I think you should do.

What are you going with? What's your answer? Either that or a pussy riot, just because I wanted to say it. I had to say it. Well, I mean, the pussycat dolls could definitely be. Oh. That's a good one. It's outside the box.

I'm not going to tell you guys what to do, but I like that one. I'd be winning. If I was in a position to tell you what to do, I would be winning. I mean, either way I win So it doesn't matter So you say what you feel In your heart, Brian Let's do the pussycat dolls

Sure, Nicole Scher And the rest of them Uh, show me the pussycat dolls No They were in the list as well They were down at Number 24 Hole

Oh I'm not I could have my grunge on I didn't think about that Yeah but nobody Nobody likes hole what they're fine back they're okay even Courtney love doesn't like hole anymore I feel like this is the best part this is the only thing they did that was cool

that right there and there wasn't any singing right not really they were mostly just going you know what I just meant that that part that that that lick was our riff at the beginning yeah we're and it's a killer song um all right I'm going to just say the one that I want to be here. I know it isn't, but because Jerry's going to win either way, I feel okay doing it, giving him props, the originally from Salt Lake band, The Aces. Oh, yeah. Oh, the Aces, yeah.

I love them. Show me The Aces and the 30, or no, is it the 801? 801. 801, that's it. Show me the Aces. You guys should all go listen to the Aces. The album with 801 on it is a great, is a great all-girls. album, it's fan-freakantastic.

Highly recommended it. Does that have 10 hams or is it just the 801? It's just the 801. There's no hams. No hams on there. Amazingly, only one person, I'm so bummed about this because I think I played them. I think we introduced everybody to him here as an Indian in the middle. Only one person said

aces. Bums me out. Boo. Boos. Two. Scott said it too. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, he can't, he cannot vote. But that means the round is over. He's a felon. Jerry, you won. You're getting these prizes. Let's see what these last two are. A lot of people in the chat room were saying this one.

Show me number nine. Kitty. I don't know who that is. Kitty. Kitty. I have no clue. Yeah. I don't either.

Wow. Okay. So I have to be on the list, but none of us know them. Wow. Okay. We're all. Yeah. A lot of people like him.

13 people like them. Like them. I have to put them on this list. A lot of people. Ten people like this band and we go back. Oh, metal. They're metal. Oh, I love metal stuff.

Going back a little ways for this one right here, a little punk. A donna. The Donnas, yeah. That's a good one. Great cover of strutter by the Donnas. Did the Envogue make it on here anywhere? No, it definitely should be on it. Yeah, let's go through the rest of these Black Pink

because you figured out was number 11. Heim, the sisters. Oh, the Heim sisters. Oh, I forget about Heim sisters. Number 12. Pussy Rat 13. Boy, Genius. Number 14, that is Lucy Dacus.

It's like a super group. And it's Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus. And I can't remember who the third person is. But that's great. Indigo Girls, number 15. Tegan and Sarah, number 16. That's a good one. It is a good one. Love those two. The Warning, number 17,

Josie, a Spanish-Mexican band, the Warning, all-girl group. Josie and the Pussycats, sort of, I mean, they're fictional. But, you know, you did have the real version of it that did the single for the movie. If this was a boy band, we could say the monkeys and it would still, it's like that kind of right. It would still count. Yeah, exactly. Well, no, because the monkeys were actually live living people.

The Josie and the Pusty Cats were cartoons. Oh, right. Good point. They weren't monkeys. Oh. Well, they were not monkeys. I always forget because they did that live action movie, but they were still just portraying animated. The characters from the animated series. We got to get into how the. The Archie's similar kind of thing, right, where the Archies were just a cartoon band.

We got to get into how the monkeys essentially started Saturday morning cartoons. Yeah, there's a whole, there's a crazy story behind those guys. isn't even in the music side, you're right. It's so weird. Everything about the monkeys is weird. Sleader Kinney, you know, the band that's got Carrie Brownstein from Portlandia in it. Four non-blonds, baby metal.

Banana Rambo was on the list. They were number 22, L-7. A band called twice. Veruca Salt, number 26. I think we talked about them. Vixen, number 27, and Vogue, 29. Tattoo. Waylon Jenny's, Fifth Harmony.

Abba, hate to break it to you, but Abba is half dudes. Wait, the two Bs in Abba are dudes. Who said Waylon Jennings? Who said Waylon Jennings? Did you say Waylon Jennings? No, no.

The Waylon Jennings. Oh. It's a play on, it's a play. Oh, that got me good. I had no idea. Bewitched, Babes in Toyland, Bond. Oh, yeah, they're like all string instruments.

They're really cool cellos and stuff. Fifth Harmony, first aid kit. Love first aid kit. Joan Jett and the Black Hearts. I think Joan Jett is the only woman, Joan to the Black Hearts. But I might be wrong. I might be right.

I don't know the lineup. Katzenjommer, Mamamu, Pointer Sisters, Cesar Sisters. Guess what, folks? Shakespeare's sister. It's funny that we have the Pointer Sisters, the Scissors, sisters,

all one right after the other. Shakespeare's sisters, by the way, two members of Panorama. Oh, no way. Didn't know that. Interesting. I know either. SWV, Sisters with Voices.

The 5-6-7-8s, the band you see in Kill Bill, the beaches. Brand new band or a new-ish band from Canada. If you do nothing else after TMS today, go listen to the song, Blame Brett by the beaches. Blame Brett. I'm writing it down. Blame Brett. Blame Blet.

Okay, I wrote it down. Bame Brett. Anywhere on there, the Ronettes. Did the Ronettes make it? The Ronots did not make it. Somebody said 10,000 maniacs, another, they're in for a rude awakening, too. All Saints, Atomic. bandmaid.

She's the only girl. 9,99 of them are men. That's right. That's right. And Natalie Merchant, not even with the band anymore. She left and the new woman came in. And then she left and the woman from Six Penson and the Richer came in. Lee Nash.

Blondie. Guess what, folks. Lots of dudes. Also, lots of dudes. The breeders, the brown-eyed girls, the butcher babies, the Crypta, Dream, Evanescence. Fuzzbox. Fuzzbox.

Fuzzbox. I don't like Fuzzbox. I don't like that. Hale Storm. Hanson. Very funny. Luscious Jackson. Metallica.

Oasis, Pixies, plush, red velvet, she daisy, Shonen knife. The aqua dolls, the be good Tanya's, the cheetah girls, the double clicks,

the Iron Maidens, the Judds. Oh, read that one right there. Yeah. The like. Good choice. I don't know who said the like, but you're one of my favorite people now. The regrets. Oh, there we go. The Ronneth. The Ronnets did make list. One person said the Ronnettes. The Veronica's Thunder Pussy, the waitresses, Zeparela, and Zoloff, the destroyer. Thank you for running over Thunder Pussy so quickly. Yes. Thank you very much for that.

We appreciate that. Well, Dr. Tolbert, this means one thing and one thing only. You get one of these from Fletcher. Congratulations. I get one of these. But you get to win these prizes. Brian, tell him again what he'll get, as if he probably doesn't already have him in his thing. I bet you've already sent him. You're going to get a, oops, I put it in there. It should really go, well, thanks, Britney.

See it in the list there. Escape First Alchemist, which is you get two codes. You can share this with a friend. This is an escape room game that you can play with up to four players. You can play it solo, but why would you, now that you've got two steam codes? Sure. You're also getting a copy of Quantum Replica.

Ooh. All right, well, careful with the replica of quantum origin. Make sure you redeem these quickly because I've got them right now. Yeah, I'm looking at them right here. You jerks. You jerks. You used to say you might not be my second. That's true.

Yeah. See, there you go. You got any turning coughs today or is it looking like a good schedule for you? What do you got going there? Looks like going to be pretty straightforward. It's raining outside and I'm just kind of hanging out. Maybe plans on wow. All right.

Nice. That's a good day. Congratulations on escaping your civic duty And I'm glad that you were able to hang out with us We'll talk to you soon There he goes He's awesome If you guys don't know Jerry, you should

He's amazing You know who else is cool Brian Dunaway And Brian Dunaway Part of the reason you're cool is Because we do this show called Play Retro on Fridays And we're doing that this week Why don't you tell the fine folks at home

What we're covering this week Absolutely We're finally getting down to Dune 2 That the game that codified the real-time strategy games and I never played it and I have been having a blast this week

even though I'm no good at it. It's still very good. It's weird though because it's like a Genesis game and plays very funky on a controller. Oh. You're playing the Genesis version. I'm playing the PC DOS version because I hate myself and it is a very different experience and it leads me into what I eventually played more of which was

Command and Conquer and I'm like, oh this looks like the same darn engine. Guess what? Yeah. A lot of connective tissue. Tons of connective tissue. I mean, you don't even have Westwood Studios without the success of Dune 2. It led to all sorts of stuff. And, of course, their downfall after they sold themselves to EA.

What a mistake that was. Anyway, we'll talk all about it on Friday, 1.30 p.m. mountain time at frogpants. If you want to watch it live or get the podcast at frogpans.com slash play retro. Brian, have a fantastic couple of days. No you. Kiss our butts. I tricked him there. Yeah, yeah.

We're going to take a break when we can. back Tom Merritt will join us a little bit of tech time talk and after that Randy Jordan will be here for some recommendals before all that a song Brian what do you got there yeah this is an indie artist she goes by the name Veronica Lewis because that's her name she's got a brand new album called Too Late for Tears came out this last Friday via Moonwink Records big thanks to the syndicate for getting me this track this is great really really good stuff brand new video on YouTube if you want to watch it as well and you can stream the

whole album, wherever you get your streams. The song for a single is called, where is it here? I'm not pausing because, no, for effect. Oh, there it is right there. Too late for tears. Oh, it's the title track. That's why I was, uh, that's why I was having a hard time finding it. It is the title track of the album. No wonder I couldn't find it. The album, Too Late for Tears. Here's the song, Too Late for Tears. Don't know why you called me last night I haven't heard from you in weeks It's a bad time to talk now

Live it alone It's just history You tell me, you miss me You open the door It's getting late I'm sorry I won't hear you This time It's too late for tears

Oh, it's too late for tears Oh, it's too late for tears You only come home to move away again Maybe you feel better when they cry chasing sunny skies that always turn away I bet you think you meet every time you'll say goodbye You push, you pull, you come back to start again

Oh, oh, you come, you go We'll never end There's too late for tears Oh, it's too late for days Because it's too late for tears Oh, it's too late for tears I'm sorry I missed you Just couldn't wait for you to find yourself

And so, this time else Oh, it's too. Don't know Oh, oh,

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Oh, yeah, yeah, or Too Late for Goodbyes by Julianne. Yeah, they all fit in. Tears for Fears by Tears for Fears. There's a band with a... No, they really don't have a song called Tears for Fears. I was going to say, if they had a song like that, you could have self-titled album, band, and song all named after the day. There's a lot of those out there. The band who has a song and an album that are all named the same thing.

That's great. Talk, Talk, Living in a Box. Big Country had in a Big Country from the album Big Country, so I don't know if that one counts. Oh, speaking of country, real quick. Quick review. Post Malone released his F1,000 or whatever it's called. It's basically a play on trucks. Anyway, it's his country album.

Everybody knew it was going to be a country album. He's released a couple of tracks already. They were very good. if you're into that kind of crossover or whatever and I just I guess this is more of a not really a warning but I would just say to people who are looking forward to that it is country as hell

like it's not just like oh what if there's a little hip hop thrown into the country vibe there's some of that but it's mostly I mean pure straight put the hat on ride the horse up the road country so I don't know if Brian will like it let's find out you'll have to listen to it I like the new Beyonce album

And I like that Sturgle Simpson, big Sturgyle Simpson fan. So there's some country that I like, not much. It's a very, very thin life is a highway, but it is, there is some space on that road for a couple of bands. You should try it and let me know what you think. Yeah, we'll do. For some reason, oh, there we go. They wanted me to start two different groups with Tom and I don't know why I did that. Oh, gosh, don't do that.

No, nobody wants that in their life. All right, let's play this thing for Tom. Where is it here? It's right here. We want Tom. Well, we got Tom. We wanted him and we wanted him. We got him. And we got him on a week where, I mean, he could have just said, no, I'm not coming on because, you know, Daily Tech News shows have an experiment week, gives him a chance to go see his brother and do some travel and wave at me from his airplane, which was really nice. But you've decided to be here anyway. And that's amazing, Tom. Thanks for coming on.

Oh, thanks for allowing me to continue even when there's no DTNS. But there is a DTNS because it's Experiment Week. And it's you, Scott. You are the DTNS today. That's right. So I wasn't. sure when mine was supposed to play, but it makes sense you do it on the Wednesday when I would normally be on. Yeah. Yeah, people out there want to learn more about what art apps are out there for burgeoning digital artists, what platforms are available for them, why you might choose one over the other. I tried to do as non-biased to look as I can. I currently think there's domination happening with an iPad Pro and Procreate, but I laid out a lot of options. So there's tons of stuff you can get and do. I really hope people check it out. If you're interested,

in that part of, you know, content creation. I think you'll get a kick out of it. So check out. Yeah, we've had some really good episodes and more to come with you carrying the torch today. But Monday was Andrea Jones-Roy doing an episode about data mining, specifically as it relates to polls and election data. And then yesterday, Blair Basterich from this week in science led an episode using her zoological knowledge because she is an animal science professional and works in zoos and has a degree in

it to analyze science fiction and fantasy animals, starting with Pokemon, you know, and trying to figure out. Yeah, yeah, like, okay, what kind of animal would Pikachu actually be in the real world? So that was yesterday's, and of course, today, all kinds of hard stuff. That's great. Yeah, I've always enjoyed it, but this is the first time I've submitted something, and so I hope people enjoy it let us know thank you for doing that yeah man that's that's exciting i'm i'm sure people are going to love it yeah it was it was super fun um the other thing i was gonna say was you're wearing a hat that is basically based on our contest did you put that on while you heard us talking about girl bands the black pink i put that on when i found out they didn't make the top 10 oh you're probably

kind of sad about that you love that ban you're into like why did how did kitty surpass black pink how is this possible you know what made it what made it up was when you were going through the rest of the ones that were mentioned, twice got a mention, Mamamu and Red Velvet. Oh, those are all J-Pops as well? Those are all Korean groups, yeah. Not necessarily high up,

you know, in my, a lot of my favorites, La Seraphim didn't make it, ESPA didn't make it. But yeah, I was like, all right, all right, there's some representation in there. That's good,

but Black Pink should be in the topic. Come on. Yeah, they're huge. They're the BTS of K-pop girl groups, aren't they? Pretty much, yeah. They are the most successful sales and concert and all that sort of thing. Lisa is going to be in the next episode or the next season of that HBO show about the hotel.

Oh, yeah. Oh, cool. That's awesome. Working with Walton Goggins in that season. Yeah, right? Yeah. That'd be awesome. Working with the ghoul.

Well, excellent, Tom. what do you want to talk about today since it's kind of a looser day for you? What do you want to do? We've got some gamescom news trickling out. And if anybody's like, wait, you just shut down DATN us for a week. We do have daily tech headlines still going, so you get the essentials. And Samsung

announced that that 3D glasses free 3D gaming monitor, they talked about at CES will ship by the end of the year. Now they give us a date or a price. So, you know, it's slightly condensed wear instead of total vaporware.

at this point. But they are showing off the model. And if you don't remember it from CES and why would you? It's a lenticular display. So same thing as in the Nintendo 3DS. But it uses eye tracking to be able to tell where you're looking to optimize the display for 3D. And everybody who's tried it says it works great. It's not going to work well for multiple people viewing it.

So it's not going to work for a television, for example. But for a monitor where you generally, especially for a gaming monitor, you only need one person using it. It works really well. I've got some people on the ground over there that told me it felt like the fruition of what the 3DS rudimentary version of the 3DS. Because back in the day, the 3DS was trying to do this. And they did, but it was very specific about your viewing angle. It wasn't tracking your eyes, obviously.

But this is like the fruition of that, which is kind of great, although in some ways I feel like it's missed its window. I don't know that people care that much about 3D. But if this is impressive enough and not too crazy priced, you know, I'd try this. I'd give this a shot. Yeah, I think people will care about 3D when it's easy, right? Like the reason 3D didn't catch on in TVs is because you had to do too much. And yeah, I know putting on a pair of glasses isn't all that much, but we want to be able to look away from our television while we're watching it. I don't think that was the big thing with 3D glasses is you looked away and you're like, oh, great, I have these stupid glasses on, hold on.

uh so i i think that was the hang up this gets us closer to that at least when you're gaming but it's not general use so i don't know that this popularizes 3d across the world and because it's using eye tracking to optimize the lenticular it's never going to be useful for group viewing uh because you you can't have well at least in this system you can't have multiple versions of the video going to someone there are lenticular displays that that can send two different videos to people, depending on where they're sitting, but they can't be 3D at that point

because you're using the lenticular. The other thing we don't have yet is a price. They are saying within a year, it'll ship, but that's it. By the end of this year, they say. Yeah, I would suspect it's expensive if I had to guess. I'm going to go ahead.

Within this year? Wait, yeah, let's parse this. Within this year. Okay, so by the end of this year. Okay, that's not too much. By the end of 2024. Yeah, here's my guess. $2,200 is my thinking.

Yeah, well, there's a 27 and a 37-inch size. Oh. So it could be more like, more like 1995 for the 27-inch, maybe. Yeah, maybe pushing three for the big boy. And then, yeah, 27 for the 37. Yeah. Some, I suspect when we start seeing hands-on with people like PC gamer and other outlets that are focused on this space, we'll get some good idea of what to expect.

technologically, a little bit more than just, well, we've got to look at it at gamescom and some actual down and dirty use. And then, you know, we'll see. I don't know. I feel like good regular monitors, curved, large format, large size monitors have gotten so less expensive these days that it's going to be, this better be really impressive for the price hike. So we'll see.

Yeah. And we're just guessing at that price. People are, the wraith is already like, that price, it's DOA. like, well, that may not be that price. Maybe worse. We are 100%... Debtor on a rhyme. Yeah, we are 100% speculating.

No idea for sure what they'll do. Cheaper to better. Claire asked the pertinent question, will a game need to be developed specifically for it? No, it's up converting. Which also may or may not work well, depending on what game you're viewing, but it's taking 2D and turning

it into 3D. I imagine games will be able to develop for it, whether they will or not. I have no idea. Yeah, we'll have to see what happens there. Well, awesome. This is just one of the many cool things you can find over the Daily Tech News show. And this week is especially interesting because you're going to hear a lot of new voices and different things happening over there. It's a really cool concept. We should do experiment. We, Brian, some

kind of experiment. I don't know what it would be. Yeah. I like that idea. People rip it off. Rip it off. TMS for a day. Yeah. We take it. We just take Tom's ideas and run with them, you know. Go of it. They're creative comments. Somebody will submit a DTMS idea for one of our days. Tom will submit a DTMS idea for one of our days. Tom will submit a DTSMS idea. I love it. Yeah, I love it. The Daily Tech Morning Show, which is basically

just Daily Tech News show hosted by Brian and Scott. That's exactly right. Right. Here's a feud, Tad Pooley Feud, but it's all tech topics. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Tech movies on TechMentals and Here's some good. Therapy, Tech Thursday.

Tech of Mentals is not a bad day. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. But it's only like I-Robot and it's just, Yeah, that's all it can be. This movie is about tech. Tom is also creating a book. And even though summer reading time is over, it's time for everyone to send their kids back to school and you'll have a little alone time to read soon.

And maybe they'll want to check out your new book, Tom. Tell them how to get it and what's going on with that. Go to Tom's new book.com. I'm going there right now as we speak. That'll take you to Unbound. You can also just go to Unbound.com and search for it. It's called Synced, S-Y-N-C-E-D. I submitted the manuscript a couple weeks ago, and it is, I'm proud of it.

I was going through it and having that feeling of like, wow, this is really good. And then remembering that I did it, you know, because it have been so long since I wrote some of it. That's great. So I really think this is going to be extremely useful for folks and extremely useful for people in your family. It's the kind of book that is written to target all experience levels. so somebody who doesn't know anything about tech should be able to understand it and get something out of it, but it doesn't try to speak down to people. So if you're a sysadmin, you know, I'll apologize to you at a few places for oversimplifying.

But, you know, you may still learn something even in the topics you know about. And hopefully there's some topics that you don't know about that you'll learn something about in there as well. You can, of course, sign up, just get a paperback. But we have some other levels on there. Like you can work with me to record a question that will be featured. on and answered on the Daily Tech News show. There's a virtual meet and greet level where you can hang out and chat. There's even an executive producer level where you get an EP credit on DTNS.

And if you really, really want to splash out, there's the patron level where you can have your name at the front of the book. You get all of the other perks that are on there, Q&A, the book signing, all of the whole ball of wax. So, you know, if you just want to make sure that this book happens, go. to Tom's newbook.com and sign up at whatever level you can. And thanks to everybody who's already done that. I really appreciate it. I know a bunch of you have. Yeah, thank you guys. And Tom Merritt, I wish you nothing but luck with that. And also a great rest of your

mystery week of shows. Ooh, mystery week. Sorry, experiment week. It's experiment week, but now it's mystery week. We just changed it. All right. Well done. We did it together, team. All right, we'll talk to you next time. That's awesome. Together we can make it happen. I really like that. What does that effect called on his book? here let me show you this up close so it looks it's a it's a it's a it's a lenticular 3d scott no it kind of has a vibe of that oh really yeah or more like what 3d glasses do you see what i'm saying about the word synced there oh yeah yeah like but it's just done with color yeah i like that a lot yeah yeah like it's almost like um misreregistration like where your cm and y aren't properly

aligned. Yeah, like bad, like a comic book when you turn a few pages back in the day and it was like, oh, this stuff's overlaid funny, but it actually kind of is cool in this case. I like it a lot. That's why you have those registration marks. That's right. Like little crosshairs. Yeah. Get your, what was the program?

Get your Quark Express updated. Oh, yeah. Right. You don't have the plug-in, the right plug-in for your Cork Express if your things are misaligned. It's more of a page maker guy. Your registration is off. I was a pagemaker guy, but I remember Cork irritating me because I was just like, well, I want to use Pagemaker. Oh, I know. Cork was based here in Denver, too. Oh, was it?

I didn't know that. They accidentally, somebody even accidentally delivered a copy, like the big box, the big Cork Express box to my cousin Kristen. Yeah, the thing was massive. Yeah. And didn't even have, like, had her, what was it, had her address, but somebody else's name and we couldn't figure out because it wasn't somebody in her apartment building. so she just gave it to me she's like oh you use quirk right i'm like yes yeah that was like a couple of grand back that was a it was like a 400 399 dollar uh i thought it was more than that maybe it's an inflation thing in my head or something it was shrinkflation that's why we have this little tiny

box of tickbacks the big box of cork expresses yeah i remember being really excited because n or nintendo uh Adobe bought page maker right and then eventually it became indes Aldus. Yeah, from Aldus, and it became Indesign. And then it became the standard again, and Quark lost. That just seemed like such a chaotic publishing time. We did. Yeah.

Yeah, Adobe was like they picked up pixel paint from somebody and turned into Photoshop. I don't know. They guess they were competing with Freehand, with Aldous Freehand. They had Illustrator at the same time. Illustrator and Freehand, yeah, they were the competitors, right? Yeah. And then they had, what was their web thing they bought from? Dreamweaver, which was from, yeah,

was from the company, Macromedia. Macromedia. Yeah, that's why they also got. I guess they acquired all of macromedia and ended up all of it, yeah. Flash. That didn't go well. Well, for quite a while,

but boy, is it not so looked upon favorably now with like the security issues and stuff like that. It was Swiss cheese at the end. Uh-huh. Let's get to some Randy time. Yeah. That's dirty for some of you, but not me.

Randy time. That's right. Let's get a little Randy in here. Let's get Randy in here, folks. Yeah. Well, what do you recommend? It's time for us to do recommendals. Sands, Nicole.

She's got an appointment today, so couldn't be here. But the three of us will hold down the fart, as they say. And we'll do it with Randy Jordan. Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning stream. Scott, it was so fun having you out here last week. I agree. I just like, man, Brian, we took Scott and Kim to a restaurant that's in like this

restaurant concept area. It was called Boss Cat. And there's like these other restaurants there and like they're surrounded by this master planned community. Yeah. And it was just they, oh, we sat down and they brought out these jars of fresh pickles like veggies that had just been put in the vinegar. We just sat like, could have just eaten that.

Just that. Oh, man. That's like as an appetizer kind of thing or like, oh, wow. Yeah. normally you pay for them they're on the thing but they just brought them to us that was nice it was like it was like bread it was like being it's a good concept it was surreal seeing irvine california through scott and kim's eyes because i've never been here before yeah and like irvine is weird it is you realize yeah it's very very strange it's weird how it's planned out the history of it's weird how new everything and why it's new is weird there's just a lot of weirdness about it that i didn't expect and we've been to john wayne before but that was always for blizzcon so we would go straight to anahehy the other direction and was just never in in irvine and irvine is unique is a very different different place yeah we sat in traffic on the 405 quite a bit of course as you do yeah randy randy was very good at handling all of the traffic he he's very californian did you write in the

copper colored uh box yeah was that what's the thing called it's gold it's not copper okay okay sure yeah we were in the gold the gold the old gold sion which just treated you well for a very long time Yeah, yeah. Denver once, I think. And I walked them around in the heat and showed them lobbies with motorcycles in them. Yeah. There are so many lobbies at Blizzard, you guys. You have no idea how many lobbies they have.

Oh, yeah. Every building has a lobby, and there have many buildings. It was really fun. And Randy's an extremely gracious and awesome host. He picked me up from the airport, took us back, did all that stuff. Super appreciate it. And it was fun. It was a really good time out there.

I'd like to say I abandoned you at the airport. I am so sorry. Oh, you didn't abandon us. You must have spent a total of 10 hours in airports. The only problem with that airport or the only problem with that particular leg of it was the plane delays from the storms that were here. But us getting there early was no problem. We were fine. I read a book.

Kim read a book. We watched an old guy yell at the help. It was great. Was somebody playing the piano? There's a piano in that. Oh, yeah, there was. We did see that. And by the time we were delayed, we were finally, we decided to finally get into the gate, right?

And now we're past the point of no return, really. And then we found out about the delay. And then so Randy's like, shoot, maybe if you guys aren't through TSA, we could come out and have dinner. And I went, I don't think they'd let you through unless you got a ticket, right? And so it was all effed up at that point. But anyway, it was awesome seeing you guys will going into high school. What the frick?

Oh, God. How is that even possible? I can't even imagine. I have no idea. So one day. I don't think we saw him when we abandoned you at the Elterino across the street from John Wayne Airport. a couple years ago.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, Brian, you're up. You guys, you and Nina need to come to Irvine and we'll show you the khaki colored buildings and the perfectly manicured lawns. Yeah. I am so up for that. I need a little Randy and S.J. time and some will time and maybe even a little time with the mouse.

A day or two with the mouse as well. Sure. Sure. Everybody likes some mouse time. Yeah, I haven't been there since they put in the runaway railway thing. So I need a, you know, there's a new ride. I got experience. Yeah, that's the deal. Well, good.

Well, here we are to do recommendals, and as much as we'll miss Nicole, we do have a lot here to go through today. Our third week in a row that there's only three recommendals. Yeah, that's true. We keep having this back and forth. We have not seen Randy and Nicole together at the same time on this show in about a month. So, a little sketchy. Interesting. I just told Nicole that in our secret back channel that were used a plot against you.

Okay, good, good, good. Real quick, was I going to say, oh, I'm just surprised we got you today at all because of everything going on at work there. It seems like right now is kind of a busy time. You know what? I'm going to be working on Saturday, but I'm taking it kind of easy right now. Good. All right. Well, good luck on all that.

Let's get to these recommendals. Brian, let's talk about yours. You have a little setup here for your question. Yeah, up until last night, I was going to do the instigators as my recommendal. And because, you know, was it my fifth heist thing in a row after a couple film sacks heists and a recommendal hise with Parrish last week, I'm a heisted out. But the instigator is pretty good, pretty good with your Casey Affleck and your Matt Damon. There you go. There's your recommend for the instigators.

But what I am going to recommend or recommendal today is also on Apple TV Plus. And we finished the last episode of this and I said immediately as soon as it ended, oh, this is my. I recommendal this week. This was so damn good. So let's play the clip. Here we go. My name is Rusty Savage, and I am the prosecutor in this trial. Sitting over there is the accused, James McDavid. And I can tell you that he sits there not guilty, because that is what our Constitution demands. Now, I will present evidence to show you that the accused committed this crime. And should you find that to be likely? Likely? Likely? you got to vote not guilty

should you find that to be very likely you have to set him free my job is to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and being on a jury that is a high calling and being entrusted with the prosecution

satisfying the burden of proof that is also a high calling I will live up to my duty and I ask that you rise up to yours let's do our jobs shall we I hear a Geelan Hall

you do hear a Geelan Hall the Jake variety there getting a chance to work with his sister's husband Peter Sarsgaard who plays the prosecuting attorney against him

this is presumed innocent so Rusty Sandwich there Jake Gillenhall is a prosecutor who all of a sudden becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a colleague at his office there

because he was having an affair with her the whole time and so he becomes the prime suspect and it's Sarah's Garrard's job to frame not frame but prosecute Guillinn Hall

this is turning into something I'll stop that right now You think that's bad. You should see these guys at Thanksgiving. I'm sure it's just a riot around that table. Oh, could you please pass the turkey there? SARS guy. Oh, sure.

No problem. Gulen Hall. Yeah, totally. So this is a series on Apple TV Plus. This surprisingly was renewed for a second season, not because it's bad, but because I feel like they started a story and they totally wrap that story up very well. And very shockingly, and I'll just say that. That's as far as I'll go with that. This is the same thing that Harrison Ford was in the adaptation for the movie in 1990, presumed innocent.

Oh, I didn't know that? Yeah. Okay. All right. It's all based on the Scott Turrell book from 1987. But this was created by David E. Kelly, who's got, you know, he's got some, turns out this, David E. Kelly's got some TV chops. Yeah. And I would say he's got four of the biggest shows of all time. Yeah. Like the biggest, 50 biggest shows. Like, he's got four of them.

Yeah. Right. And most of those are legal-based shows. Some of our hospital-based shows. And they're known for, and they're known for being kind of funny. This doesn't sound like it's ever funny. This is never funny. I'm sorry. If you're coming here for the laughs, you're going to be a little bummed. But you do get Ruth Nega as Rusty Sandwich's wife. You get Bill Camp, who you know if you see a picture of him, you say, oh, I love Bill Camp. He's great. It doesn't matter what Bill Camp does. I am captivated by Bill Camp. I love that guy. Campivated? You could say I'm captivated. That's very good. I would camp out for Bill Camp. I love that. You also get Elizabeth Marvel.

as Lorraine, who's Bill Kemp's wife, he turns, he's basically kind of the boss at the legal firm where Rusty Sandwich works. And I'm going to keep calling him Rusty Sandwich, because it's really funny. I like it. But he, and Elizabeth Marvel plays his wife, Lorraine. You also get Lily Rob, you get Rosanna Arquette, you get Mary Lynn Rajscub, which we haven't seen her in forever. You know, quite a kind of bunch of... Mary Lynn Rich. I'm lost. Who is that? She was Chloe on that season of 24. Okay. Okay. Got it. She's like a comedian by trade, but then ends up in a lot of serious stuff. Yeah. She's great. Yep. Big on that. Larry Sanders show, I think she was for quite a while. Is she the whole time? She's a very good TikTok follow, by the way. She's very funny. Is she really? Oh, good. Okay. That might be enough to get me on there. Anyway, this is on Apple. TV Plus, I'm not going to say any more about the story because it's just fascinating, but it is so extremely well done.

And I got to say, Ruth Nega's performance, Jake Gillenholl was great, but we need to see an Emmy nom for Ruth Naga for this because she was absolutely stellar as the wife who has to kind of defend and protect her husband and stand by him all the while he's, talking about this affair that he had and the problems that kind of go along with that of like having that dual love him and hate him at the same time

kind of thing. Just absolutely brilliant. She's fantastic. She was in Warcraft. I always forget that. Oh, really? Yeah. Who was she there? I just think of her in Preacher and how great she was in Preacher. Oh, so good. She stole that whole show, I thought. She really did. She absolutely did. Yeah, she was great.

Anyway, it's called presumed innocent. It is on Apple TV plus and it is 100% worth your time. Brian, I got to make another plea for you to get on to TikTok and the reason

is because you're missing out on the discourse and the discourse changes every few days like the current discourse is around Chapel Rhone wanting people to stop bothering her. What? Because it's the discourse

is about parisocial relationships and how people approach celebrities and it's very, very, very interesting. And like you've got to get on TikTok so you can follow this. I'm curious about that because I would approach Chapel Rhone and say, hey, I love

Red One Supernova. I think it's a great song and there you go. Yeah, not bad at all. The discourse, man. So once again, is there a discourse button that I can press and it just pulls me in the discourse? I would love a discourse feed. That'd be great. That doesn't exist. It has to kind of find

you, I guess. Apple TV, once again, they don't make bad TV shows. I don't know what their deal is. It's crazy. But I got to ask, did anyone watch that, what was it called? Hello Science or what was it with Billy Crude Up? Oh, I don't know. What was that Apple TV thing?

It was advertised for a while. Thank you, no, thank you, scientist. Oh, no, no, hold on. What was it called? Yeah, I can visualize the title card and I cannot tell you what the damn thing was, Hello Tomorrow. Oh, hello tomorrow. Did anyone watch that?

Was it any good? I didn't see it, but it reviewed well. people liked it did it okay all right i'm having a really hard time with new the late billy crud up like the later oh i thought you meant he died he said the late billy crud up the late billy crud up i get what you mean like late career i don't know something going on there that i'm not enjoying oh my god he's so he's he's he's i think one of my favorite parts of the morning show because he's another one of these people that you both love and hate at the same time and And, yeah, I'm all in on the crud.

I love the crud. The crud is great. Who doesn't love the crud? Yeah, the crud modeled for a big blue weaner. Yeah, it's great for watching. I have still never watched an Alien Covenant. You haven't seen the Watchman, the original Watchman movie? Randy?

No, I was saying I've still never watched the morning show because they call it TMS and I can't allow that. Scott has the same problem. That's why you can't do it. Also, half of that. smells like milk so he just can't do it it smells more like coffee it's more coffee creamer now is the deal a little coffee mate yeah it's just you know okay right all right that's a pretty good Jennifer Anderson totally stolen from whoever did the SNL but uh she nailed it it and uh that's great oh oh oh okay oh oh ross blah uh all right well that's awesome i can't we

to see that. Presumed innocent. Back to what that was, it was presumed innocent. So watch that. Randy, you got a clip here as well. What do you want to say about it?

Just that I had to watch this because we talked about it. We talked about it on Sunday. And I'm like, I got to watch it now. All right. And I said, as we were talking, recording a podcast,

I said, I'm going to watch the thing. I watch the thing. And I'm here to recommend it. And I know most people have seen it. But we're going to force everybody to see it. That's all right. You and I will have a lot in common.

A strange man gets in. So an older man, an older, an aging man is now in the later parts of his life. He's a limousine driver. Okay. And a strange man gets into his limousine and starts harassing him. I love Logan. Okay, great. Yeah, Logan's great.

All right, here we go. You know, you got some buckshot in your door. I heard you was in Phoenix. Then last night, some friends of mine and Texas HP called told me they found three. dead Cholos and a pull-out on 54. Not unusual, I know, except one was missing a hand, another one of the leg. So they was thinking it was either an escape tiger or Freddy Krueger. But neither one of them can drive.

One being fictional, the other one extinct. And since the wheel lugs they found belonged to a 24 Chrysler, and well, this is a 24 Chrysler. she found you yet gabrella see I'm not looking for you movie

well not really I'm looking for someone who's looking for you she took something of mine when I wasn't looking seems intense that is Boyd Holbrook and I always try to pull

the first dialogue in a movie and he gets it here and it's like man he is underused in this he's so freaking good and scary and and you know Kentucky and uh he's uh he's talking to uh you know the wolverine huge acman i know i was making a joke and he said oh old man is a limousy driver like oh logan yeah turned out to be logan you was literally logan i have this i have this feeling like it's really fun to watch logan again before watching Deadpool and wolverine again

Sure. And it's, the word fun is being misused there. It's, um, this is a rough movie. This is a, a very angry and very sad movie. And, um, it's actually not got a lot of action. But it is so freaking good. Every, every, every scene where someone is talking to Wolverine, they are putting on the performance of their lives. Yeah. Now, what's crazy is this guy, Boyd Holbrook, you just mentioned. Yeah. Yeah. He's in Logan. He plays a character named Pierce in the movie, Logan. So this isn't even in their first time hanging out, these two, right? I'm talking, I'm recommending the movie, Logan. Oh, I thought you were talking about. Are you saying that he's actually in the clip that we just listened to the movie that's great, he is recommended?

I'm looking at the wrong listing. I thought you were talking about, never mind. I'm looking at City Prime Evil, which I know we've already recommended on this show. Yep. But, okay. So you are talking about Logan. with old man Logan in the car with the knives coming out of his arms x23 all that that's the logan okay and it's and it's streaming so like if you haven't seen logan you've got to watch it

one of the best movies of 2017 which was a stacked year one of the you know one of the best superhero movies ever made but it's not really it's not really a superhero movie it's a it's a a pair of character studies that intertwine and end with a whimper but it's so well made just every part of it the music and the visuals and just like everything it's just everybody's like i said they're putting on the best performance they can give uh patrick stewart even in his like they he's not got a huge role here he's like he's you know he's he's dying he's he's going crazy yeah amazing performance by patrick stewart in this movie yeah yeah So is Stephen Merchant's character is really good. I love that part. Calaman. It's a weird take on Calaman, but it's very good. Well, and I think of Stephen Merchant as this guy who appears on every sitcom for one episode, right?

He's really tall. And he's like, he shows up on modern family and he's funny. He's a hotel concierge or whatever. And like, this is so not that at all. yeah who's uh who does eric la salle play uh from er i don't remember don't remember him in there at all it's a small role okay nothing big guy's not doing a lot looks like he plays a dark and brooding doctor that uh has a has a secret and doesn't want to tell you there you nailed it uh well there you go it is called logan everybody not not city primeval and uh yeah and like i say it's the perfect if

already seen it it's time to watch it again and if you haven't hurry up this is this is the best time to watch this movie when you got uh uh deadpool and wolverine right there so richard e grant this makes him a two-time emceu or now that fox is owned by disney right and marvel so when richardy grant shows up in your old marvel movie and your new marvel movie is alternate loki or guess tv show now richard e grant is is times too for us we love him double dipper yeah and he's also in one of the Doctor Who movies. Oh, he's in who stuff? I didn't know that.

So, like, that gives him the whole the trifecta, the nerd trifecta. Sure. Yeah. Well, that's great. He needs to be in a Star Trek. Yeah, that's the Nerd Trifecta. Or Star Wars, or Star Wars. You can have a Star War.

That's fine. But the nerd trifecta includes Star Trek. I know Star Wars, Star Trek and MCU is your trifecta. But Doctor Who, you know what? You can substitute any one of the three of those for Dr. Hool. I'll allow it. Just sneak those in. This is streaming where?

Is this on Disney Plus right now or somewhere else? On Disney Plus, yes. And it's a wonderful way to spend a couple of hours and then cry. Just cry your eyes out. You'll love it. Yeah. Yeah, I love this movie. But I have to admit, I've only seen it once back in, geez, was that 2017?

It always feels older because I think of 2017. I go, oh, yeah, Blade Runner 2049. And, you know, these. things that feel newer to me and this feels older and I think it's just because Hugh Jackman have been doing this so long

I just I conflate that whole Logan run Logan's run Logan takes place after Deadpool and Wolverine so they made him the character

look older or they made him look younger for this one and older in Logan which is just like you it takes a minute to kind of get into that space it's very weird

all around Deadpool and Wolverine. Okay, sure, sure. Yeah, I, I, yes. Sure. Now, I was going to give you guys a recommendal about an anime that I started watching, but I'm not now because I got to a point in this anime where they did a thing that annoyed me so bad that I

had to capture a tiny bit of it to share with you. Oh, please tell me it. It's worse than that. So this whole thing is English, it's all English voiced. It's on Netflix. It's called Yakutori, something I forget the full name. It looked like cool sci-fi to me, and the regular voice actors are doing great. It's not a problem.

them, but as soon as they showed this army of rat people, and the rat people have their own language. Now, in Star Wars or something, it's like you get a kind of a fake language, but it feels fleshed out and they're talking in a language. These guys are having full conversations in the subtitles, like, you know, we must go to this planet and do this thing, and everybody's got to work together and all this sort of talk, but this is how they say it. And I mean, only how they say it. It's just choo-choo-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. It made me want to die. I couldn't do it. I couldn't, I couldn't make it. Were there subtitles at least? Yeah, they definitely had, because they were treating it like a language. Like a language. So they were saying that, but then they were showing them the subtitles would be what they're actually saying. Yeah, and it made it worse because there's no way these articulated sentences were coming out of choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo-choo.

It's like, listen, it works for group. It's like that Gen Z thing where you edit together just people inhaling. Yeah. Yeah, those are great. Yeah. We actually started to make one of those

of Scott and Chris Metzen. Yeah, yeah. It's like, what are we going to do? This is going to be a lot of work for nothing. Correctors cut. You guys have some great outtakes. I hope they end up showing up somewhere because there's a pretty good,

there's a good line where Randy had had some craft services come in. and I said, just bring us a box of ding-dongs. And Chris says, Chris goes, Scott, this is a family show, he says. And I thought it was really good. There's a bunch of like little lines and little comments. I knew they weren't going to make it in. But they're out there. They exist.

So get them out there. Anyway, so I'm not recommending that. Instead, I'm recommending, I did a little bit of a baton grab with Randy this week. And I grabbed his baton and he worked it. He shoved that baton at you is what he did. He did, and I was happy to take it, because it's the thing I love, and it's going to be obvious when I play this what we're talking about. I'll go ahead and play it, and then we'll talk about it.

I too crave nothing but revenge. A big belly full of revenge. If I may, if the shooter goes around the back, the shootee won't know the precise moment of the execution. Minor torture, but every little bit counts. Either way, that rat shot will turn my brain into a pink mist so fast. I won't even hear the sound. the gun.

I'll hear it. I'll hear it for the rest of my days. Of course you will. I'll feel the kick back in my hand. Sure. I'll remember your face. As the slug warms its way into the soft matter of your brain taking with it what you call your reason. And your memory.

From which my mother will fortunately be absent. All right. That may sound familiar if you've seen it. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know. it is Furiosa, the prequel slash sequel to Mad Max Fury Road, my favorite movie of all time. And a lot of people are like, well, wait, where is this now in your list? To me, they're one big, fat movie.

They really are. I don't think of them as separate. In fact, this so much helped enhance the 2015 Fury Road that to me, they just run together in a way that made everything better. and part of the reason for that is they made a very smart decision director george miller made this really brilliant decision at the end of furiosa to roll right into post-credit fury road craziness and tie it all together and it does it in such a way it seems like a real simple idea to do that but it works so well and i highly recommend making

sure you stick through that part of it stay and for the credits i'm not saying it makes it a bad movie if you don't i'm saying it will really enhance your fury road love But Furiosa is, by design, a different movie than that, than the previous. And there's lots of reasons why I won't get into all of them, except to say, I think it is both refreshing that he decided to do some things differently and not just make the same movie over again, but also still managed to include some of the coolest action set pieces you're going to see this year or any other year. I think Furiosa is awesome. Yeah, and Fury Road takes place like in a weekend. Yeah, it's short. This is like the whole story of a character.

Yeah, this is a life of a character, really, from child to old, to, you know, to almost midlife. Adult. Yeah, adult. And that's a lot more of a, that's a lot more layer, a lot more to say, a lot more to do. You heard in that clip, of course, Chris Hemsworth just chewing that freaking thing up. He is amazing in it. And I hope I'm going to go ahead and predict it. I think he will get a Oscar nom.

don't think you'll win but it'll get a nomination for this and he deserves it he's very very good in it um everybody's good it's great you should watch it uh the other thing i was going to say was uh oh it's the kind of movie that you really do need to see at least twice um i think that it makes i feel that way about fury road too and i've seen it way more than twice but these these movies are best when you first get a you you come away with the initial shock of what you have just scene and how intense it was and then go back again and go all right this time i have a i have an idea of what happens so now i can pay attention to some details it's almost like a whole different experience the second time and then you just freaking love it um somebody the other

day said to me why do you think it tanked at the box office and i said well why do you think why do you well tank is a relative term yes but i said ridiculously high expected didn't read they reached our high expectations and i my answer to that is always well what happened in 2015 because neither did Fury Road these kind of movies are not everybody let's get in the car

grab the kids grab grandma let's go it's not that it is never going to be that they never were that all his movies with the exception of babe pig in the city and all that stuff when he's making these these Mad Max epics

they're not for everyone and they always tank a little bit in the theater so those who are worried about we're never going to get anything else out of him because he apparently has a whole third act he really wants to tell and I hope he gets to do it

I think he will but he has to hurry he's almost 80 he's old guy right I think the better controversy than the box office thing is when you have actors like Anya Taylor Joy come away from a George Miller set and say that was rough I don't suggest anyone ever do that

it's hard it's going to make it so difficult for them to make another movie. Yeah, I think they probably will, though. I mean, you had the whole, like in Fury Road, Tom Hardy was apparently a total debutante pain in the ass on set, and everybody was mad at him all the time, and he fought with Charlize Theron and all that. And then later, I saw a video of him at a Comic-Con or something,

essentially publicly apologizing to Miller, because he just didn't know what this was going to be while you're in the middle of making it. And I think that there are enough people who would die to work with Miller that I don't, I don't worry about what this means. I think it'll probably, I mean, who knows what it even would be about? I don't even think we have indications of what his third act would be. Is it yet another prequel?

Is it something post-Fury Road? We don't know, but I want it so bad. I can taste it. I love these movies. Furiosa fits right in nicely. If you haven't seen it yet, it's now streaming on Max and is available digitally. If you want to buy it, which is what I did. And that movie freaking rock.

Yeah, it's so weird that we talk about box office this way. Like, why aren't we talking about Horizon and American saga instead of Furiosa? Like, that's a movie that actually tanked. Yeah. And like, I can't wait to see it, though. I just need to, I need access to it.

I just want to see it. Yeah. But like Furiosa ended up making about as much money as Civil War. And Civil War is considered a box office success. You know, it costs less to make. But like, what's the deal?

I just don't understand these discussions. So it's also bad. Gaming is bad that way now, too. I remember back in the day, if you sold a million copies of a game, it didn't matter what the game was or who made it. That was considered a runaway success. You have a franchise on your hands. Let's now do 30 years of that game because a million is your success. Now these companies would come out and go, well, we sold 15 million copies and they didn't quite reach our expectations. So we're firing everybody and canceling the projects. Like, what are we, our expectations need to reset. Like, come on, man. Like, I realize the industry has gotten bigger. So a million is no longer what it used to be in terms of total people in terms of what the audience size is. But I don't know. You can't have perpetual growth. I don't know why people think we can. And there's also just moments when weird things happen.

Like Wonka grosses $630 million. And like, oh, no. Because it just makes everybody else look bad. You know? Yeah. Like Wonka has no business. It would get Furiosa gross to $100. 172 million worldwide.

Right. Like, and it may, like, Furiosa is great. It's great. It'll have a long tail, though. It'll have a nice long tail. Yeah. And it's a good success at the box office. And like, I don't know what, what we want.

Yeah. What do we want as people? You know, we got to ask that question. And when do we want it? Now. Wait a minute. Yeah, Free Rangers is right. Square Anix is the worst at this.

If something doesn't sell exactly what they want, they think it's a complete failure and they fire everyone. I hate that. She's. Well, anyway, so there it is. Furiosa on Max. All of these things. We'll be up on QuickTMS.L.I, except for Yocototori because nobody wants in their life. That freaking sucks. Choo, chew, chew, chew.

And they may have been saying some really important, like, scientific science fiction stuff. It may have been amazing plot progression. But you just can't get past the chew-choo-choo-choo-choo-ch-choo-ch-choo-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch. It's like, I can't take you rat people seriously. Anyway, Randy, it's always good having you on, man. It is. But most importantly, I'm glad that you're home safe. Yeah, I'm home safe, finally.

I feel like I spent so much of last week watching you sit at an airport. It was a lot of airport time. But it was also very quick, and the way it worked out was fine. I'll tell you what, get it. If you're in, if you end up at the Blizzard campus for some reason, it's Randy you want Torin year round. Okay. That's the guy. Torin.

He should torn you around. I get lots of requests from all around the company. And don't tell my boss because that's not my job. It's not your job, but you really know the place. And you knew all the places to go. And you knew all the stories and you knew all the stuff. And that's, I don't know, man, you should get a raise for that. It was really good.

Well, anyway. Have a great day and a great week. And I will talk to you. FilmSack. We're going to watch Daughters of Satan. Yes, we're actually going to watch it, even if it sucks. Because 666,

baby. Yeah, we got the number of the beast. We've been trying to pick a movie forever and we finally did it. And it looks awesome. Looks terrible, but awesome. It looks terrible.

And I'm all here for it. We've watched a lot of great things lately. I want to see something terrible. Yep. Let's get in there and do it. Have a good one. We'll see you next time. Hey, Brian.

Hey, Scott. We're almost done with the show. Real quick here, Instance 2.0 today, it'll drop around three or so on YouTube and the feeds. will not be live. I've made that clear in previous videos and stuff, but going back to an old-fashioned podcasty method, kind of like we do a film sack. I'd like to take it back where, you know, nothing wrong with the chat, but you guys can be distracting and whatever.

You're just, they're a distracting bunch of freaks. Yeah. Yeah. And I want to bring this thing, I want to bring this thing back as a much more, I don't know, crafted type thing. And that means, you know, there'll be a little bit of editing post. And the video go up on YouTube, though, full so don't worry about that if you're if you're wanting to watch it and of course uh all the audio feed so get subbed up now make sure you have the current feed um there's some weird cashing thing across the internet where i cannot get the old instance feed to see the change oh no really it's so old it's like 2006 so do you have to really call it 2.0 then to to no it's just another it's just a whole other feed so the other feed exists it's in there most people are getting it

fine but occasionally people will be on their player go this doesn't look like the right one so I even swapped out if you're getting the old one you'll get album art that will say this is the wrong one go sub over here I don't know what else to do because I can't control it but anyway go over and check it out this is not

the World Warcraft podcast because you do have to because you do have to yeah we'd like you to not have to that's the whole it's the whole slogan so get it at frogfance.com slash instance and watch for it later today that's going to do it us, the site for all the things we do, frogpants.com slash TMS, go there, check it out, see what

you need. Brian, in the meantime, let's play a song and get the F out. Okay, we talked about mailman Bob yesterday on the show. Well, we're going to talk about him again today. Robert Finnegan wrote and said, this is an anytime request, just got into these guys and loved the 50s throwback soul sound of the lead singer's voice. Punch a hobo, though, sign Mailman Bob from Connecticut. Nice. dude i had not heard this cover and it is so so so good um this is a cover of the inexcess song never tear us apart it is comes from the outer bank season three soundtrack although i'm sure it's on a on a teskey brothers album uh somewhere else as well uh that's right it is the teskey brothers

here's their cover of in excesses never tear us apart I don't ask me what you know is true don't have to tell you I love your response oh I was standing me I was standing me You were there, two worlds collided. And they could never tell us of all. I'll make a love for a thousand years but if I hurt you then I'd make a while from your tears I thought we could fly

Well, all that wins Someone don't mind I was dead and you were there towards good lines They can never, never tell us, oh. I was a stand You were there

To walk a life And they could never Ever I I asked me I was a stand And I know it's true And you

Oh, what is there? Your words could light and shine through. I think you'll never, I never, and they could never, and they could never, they could never, they could never, Never, never, never, never. Hey, Scotch and Bonnet. This is Chuck from Salem, Morgan. I'm calling regarding TMS 2685,

specifically where you guys were talking about, some pop singer, I think, drank a Coke out of a glass to help a hangover. Don't know if it's related, but a few years ago, I was at work and I was starting to get a migraine. I didn't have any migraine medicine and someone told me

I'll go talk to Steve he's got some things and some stuff at his desk. But I went and he gave me two Tylenol. He said take the two Tylenol go down and buy a Coke and just shoot it, drink it all at once as quick as you can. And supposedly that

would help. So I'm like, look, I want to avoid the hangover so I'm going to try anything. So I took two Tylenol and I bought a Coke and I found it and it did help surprisingly and I think what it how it helps is there's a lot of caffeine in the Coke and I think it you know opens your I think caffeine opens your blood vessels so blood flows better or something I don't know but it did help and then years later my oldest son who also gets migraines was at work and was starting to get a migraine and I told him about the trick and he tried it and it worked for for him, too.

You know, it didn't make it perfectly good, like taking, like, Tylol, I don't know the excedrin migraine, but it did help. So, anyway, food for thought. Thanks. Love the show. Hug the hobbo, though. Bye. Hello, this is for the morning stream.

Hello. Scoot and boot. I wanted to say something else, but it doesn't work. Anyway, this is kind of a late call for. the walking in the dog surprise

I'm going to say next to the trash can obviously in my opinion somebody just went for a little

kinky run they went for a little kinky run and something fell out yeah Anyway, have a wonderful day. Hey, guys. It's Rob Ustead calling.

Not Uston, it's Uston. Anyway, this is for the morning stream. You guys were talking about Dippin' Dots. And so my wife actually works for the company that owns Dippendots, which is J&J snack foods. They bought Dippin Dots about two years ago. And my wife, as part of the IT accounting implementation team, got to go to their factory in Paducah, Kentucky,

and she got to see them actually making the dip-and-knots. So it's not that they're freeze-dry, they're flash-frozen, and basically they have these machines that basically put out little droplets, and then the liquid nitrogen flash-freezes the little droplets, and that's how they make the dip-and-dots. There's a couple of videos on YouTube, search for it. It's a really cool process, but they actually, you won't see them in a lot of places because they have to be kept at that very cold temperature to maintain their, like,

structure. So you'll notice, like, you can only get them at places where they actually have freezers that go much lower than a standard freezer. So you won't see them in your regular like supermarket because they actually have to have special freezers, which they give to the retailers who have them. So fun fact about that is that those freezers that keep things extra cold, actually Dippendot was asked to repurpose those just after the vaccine start to be available from the pandemic because you may remember those things need to be kept like really, really cold. And so Diff and Dots actually repurposed a lot of freezers temporarily for the vaccines to be kept. So just a little bit about Dippin Dots and have a great day, guys. Love the show.

Bye. Hello, this is for the morning stream. Hello. Oh, I was going to think of bugs because I'm the pet control guy. And I did a terrible job. S&A. He doesn't even start with an S. And bees, that works.

That works really easily. This is Mike. I'm the pest control guy out in Florida, out of near Tampa area. Ground bees. You guys are talking about it on 2647. Ground bees are horrific. They are an incredibly aggressive form of bees that if you even bump their mess, which can look like, it looks like a cross between the big peat.

Paper Hornet, like, football-style mess, and, like, almost, like, spider webs. Like, they get into these areas in the ground, and I've dealt with them a few times. The only way I've ever wanted to deal with them is if I have a full-off B-suit on, because they are, like, they're, like, biblical levels of numbers. They come flying out of the ground at you, and I'm not kidding when I say, these things were coming directly for my space. They were aiming at my face and I had the B-suit on. And towards the end, I was killing, I killed thousands of these things. And at the end, there was these soldier versions of them that were over an inch long, probably two inches long. And they were orange or orange or whatever you want to call it.

Super aggressive, super mean, and their numbers were crazy. It was like I was spraying one area and 100 feet away. there was a second exit to this ground-wash thing, ground bee thing, nest. And I looked up, and it was like a cloud was coming out of the exit of this nesting site. And mind you, at this point, I have been in pest control for under a year, like six months. And I felt my body start to sweat in this B-suit. And, I mean, thankfully, you're sealed off to a point where you will not really get stung. if you put it all on right, but who you have to stop and breathe through it because, man, it's scary.

Just knowing that you could go all my girls on it. Goodbye, McCauley Culkin. It was nice to know you. I love the show. You guys are the mess. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpants.com.

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