The Morning Stream - TMS 2700: Let My Chickens Cake

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

All the whittling. Satanic Pecan. Crispy Pickles By the Stove. Tech Time with Little Tommy Merritt. Wasp-Plaining. Mom, Thanks For All the Labor. He has the Potato Voice. It's pronounced pralines. Turtle like gophers. Hold Down Your Thing. Sqeeezeball That Business. Diatomaceous Tomatoes. Committing crimes at close range. WASPS WASPS WASPS WASPS WASPS WASPS EVERYBODY. Making Poo-Tatoes with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There once was a man named Larry. Some say he was pretty scary, but when we caught on, he was on Patreon, we decided Larry was Sherry. Be like Larry and share on patreon.com slash TMS. So stupid. Coming up on the morning stream, all the whittling. Satanic pecan. Crispy pickles by the stove. Tech time with little Tommy Merritt.

Wass-splaining. Mom, thanks for all the labor. He has the potato voice. It's pronounced prolleens. Turtle, like gophers. Hold down your thing. Squeeze ball that business. Diatomaceous tomatoes.

Committing crimes at close range. Wasps. Wasps. Was. Was. Waswoss. Woss. Woss. Everybody. Making potatoes with Randy and more on this episode of the morning stream. A coop de grass I'll leave to the wolves and gila monsters.

I'm going to sell propane and propane accessories. The morning stream. The good guys will come and get you. Okay. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream. For Wednesday, September 4th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson. And that is Brian Ibit. Hi. Hi. Well, hi. And welcome to. Welcome to. the middle of the week, which doesn't feel like the middle of the week because we had a whole weird Monday bough thing and whatever. Yeah, screw that holiday, by the way, because I hate all the bank disruption. It just annoys me because it's always at the first of the month, right? Always. So what you end up having is at the end of the month, all your billing crap comes through

and you can't transact any of it because you're waiting for Monday to end. Like, it's literally called Labor Day. Go work at the bank. it should be called unlabor day because you're not working yeah yeah that's exactly my point uh hey it's good to be here once again we have to celebrate all the women who gave labor to have all of us oh is that i wish that was the reason that's all that it isn't is that not right is that i don't think so i think it's all uh you know just you know labor you know what though let's switch it i like your idea why do they sell labor day cards that is a dear mom thanks for

laboring i mean on laboring to squeeze me out do they really Does, can you really get those? No, I don't think you can. Oh, that'd be a, that's a great joke to play. That's a thing we could make money on. You know what? Next year we're doing. Let's do it for 2025.

We're doing it. 2025 is coming quick. We're going to be ready. The Frog Fan store, Labor Day cards for you to send your mom. Mark their calendars now, everybody. Hey, we got all kinds of crap today. It's going to be a busy, fun show. And I want to play a phone call to get one more freaking wasp call out of the

way. Okay. All right. If we have got, if there's ever been enough of one thing in the year 2024, it's probably all this wasp stuff. Yeah. The wasp, wasp dust is the new carbonated meat.

Yeah. Is the new mystery woman in Brian's dream. That's right. There's a lot of that going around. That's right. And honestly, it also had this other effect of multiple people trying to find me and saying, what's the brand again? Where do I get it?

Like, apparently the wasps are out to, to get you this year and everybody wants a solution so uh so anyway we got this call this is to answer uh this is really aimed at you so i'll play it here we go uh where is it here it is hey boot and scoot um long time listener first time caller i just wanted to answer brian's question on how you use that tempo dust the was dust that scott's been using um it's called a dust stick love the show though okay he says something about a dust stick a dust stick yeah okay got to do it in his accent though. Dust stick. By the way, you all cannot

ever, none of you can ever call a scoot and boot again. He has taken it. It works so well in his accent that all you other all you other imitatas are just in matators.

All the other potatoes are much more potatoes. That's it. That's it. All the other potatoes are just potatoes. Yeah, cool. That's exactly what Eminem said. Yeah, that was, those are the lyrics. Look them up, everyone. um yeah no he i love by the way love that accent all right so we are not making fun i actually really yeah i won't watch a movie a whole movie with it but i will i will i will happily go and

have a beer with him oh i'll sit and talk to him for days absolutely right let's sit on your porch let's talk about the old days the new days every all all the days in between some whittling whittling you know i'm stereotyping he probably does not he's probably never whittled but i want to take up whittling and i want to do it with that guy yeah it's right in let us know how much whittling you've done, because we're interested now. But anyway, or a lot of whittling? A lot of whittling. All the whittling. And anyway, so

that's interesting. I still don't know what he means by the stick, though. Yeah, wasp dust stick. Is there... We just poured it. Because it comes with the nozzle. It's like a little almost glue shape. You've got the benefit of your wasps coming from a hole in the ground, which

gravity and dust works together in tandem to bring the dust down to the ground to the hole. I've got wasps up in these eaves that you thought I killed stuff before when I used the spray and dropped it on Tina's herb planter. But I can't imagine that dust wouldn't spread more far and wide. Yeah. You know, if I just toss it up there.

Yeah, no, you're right. I don't know how, like I don't know how to do a higher nest with this stuff. So maybe that's what he's referring to in it, some kind of stick. I'm seeing the diana macius earth powder sprayer, multi-purpose powder sprayer, indoor and outdoor with length adjustable, blah, blah, blah. Seeing one of these things on Amazon here, I'll give you a link. Oh, yeah. So if that's got a nozzle on it or something, that makes sense, right?

Yeah, it looks like it's, um, uh, instead of having, oh, sorry for the long link, instead of having a little sprayer, um, it's got a little squeeze ball on it, right? So you put the powder in that little thing close to the, close to the business end. And then you just squeeze ball that business And he goes This must be it This has to be it That's got to be the wand

That's talking about That would work You know And then you just won the Wond the crap out of it And it's just Dimatious Dymatious

No No, diatomace No there's too many It's Dice tomato is what it is Dice Tomadius Dice Tomadius I haven't seen him in a while Is he in the chat today?

I haven't seen him Yeah, no, I haven't seen him in forever. D-I-A-T-O-M-A-C. I believe the aecious. Dytomaceous is what I would say. Daitomaceous. Let's see if anyone has a pronunciation. These are always fun.

Today we are looking at the pronunciation. I love that guy. He's my favorite. Loss powder spraying tools. Oh, there's no like, well, maybe there is and I just can't find it um it's a deposit though this is interesting it's a okay naturally occurring soft silius sedimentary rock they can be crumbled into a fine white off uh powder and this is the powder you use i guess i don't know if you treat it or do something

else to it but that's interesting um i have a link you want a link yeah please i can't find one okay here you go and and guess what guess who it's from scott uh youtube it's from our guy it's from our uh is it's from our uh is it's Is it our dude? From our guy. It's our dude, yeah. All right. All right, let's check this out.

I love this guy. Let's see how close my prediction was. All right, here we go. We're going to turn the volume up. I'm going to be looking at how to say more interesting and related names and some of the most mispronounced ones as well. So make sure to stay tuned and then consider subscribing for more learning. How do you subscribe to your how to pronounce words? I know.

There's no way in hell. All right, here we go. How do you say it? Diatomaceous. Diotomatomacious? Do we believe him? Sure. He's got a channel. No, he must be, it must be real. Must be legit.

Yeah, it must be the most of the good. Who tells him how to pronounce these things? Yeah. What's his learning process? Who watches the watchers? Interesting. There's lots of commercial uses. It says here, New Zealand is a big producer of this stuff, it says. Yeah, let's see.

okay here you go if you mill it or micronize it it becomes very fine and is used as an insecticide you know this sounds like it's actually kind of a natural way of doing this is good yeah so chemicals in it which which is why it's not harmful to pets or kids too which is nice

yeah was used for still I'm closing the barbecue grill lid before I toss that powder up in the leaves yeah you don't want it in your meat oh my gosh no although it used to be in toothpaste it says here let's see really yeah who's toothpaste doesn't say brands they don't do it anymore

it says the reason of this works is it creates an outer layer on the exoskeletons of the insects and it acts as a barrier that resists the loss of water vapor from the insect's body it damages the layer increases the evaporation of water from their bodies so that they dehydrate fatally

okay well that's that's a gnarly way to go isn't it yeah I thought it just deterred them but this is uh well my spray not as uh you know oh bright you're so horrible you're that spray you need to use the powder yep oh it's also a feed additive so there is a there is a food grade version of it and they use it in let's see it's approved by the food

and drug administration as a feed additive to prevent caking so some poultry uh let's see yeah i don't want to eat this i feel like i've learned something i don't want to know you know no exactly i don't want to food safer whatever i don't care i'm not i'm not eating this Not anywhere near any food. Yeah. And if it's in food I already eat, I don't want to know. Don't tell me about it. Let my chickens cake, whatever that means.

Shaken cake. I remember what Marie Antoinette said that. Let my chickens cake. Yeah. Remember that was such a great saying attributed to Marie Antoinette. She was famous for it, you know. She was. And then she said, off with my head.

And then they said, oh, well, okay, Marie. Well, speaking of, of a place you're never going to eat any weird powder. There has been a freeing up of a king-sized bedroom at the southeast frog pants meetup or excuse me, Tadpooling meetup, TMS meetup. And the reason I know this for sure is A, Brian's aware of it. And B, it was going to be my room, but we can't go now. Other travel things are happening, family things and all kinds of crap.

And I can't go. It was already kind of on the edge. But it's not going to happen this year for me, unfortunately. I would really like to go the next year and I will plan on it. However, on October 4th through 6th in Savannah, Georgia, if you all or anyone out there is like, oh, great, I was really hoping one would free up. One has. One has freed up. And look, you know, you go out there, we're going to do a ghost tour.

We're going to eat some yummy food. Chuck is going to make us awesome coffee in the morning. September is going to make us some awesome cocktails. They're all going to get together and make us a yummy breakfast. Brian Dunaway is going to be there with about a think three men. ton of old TVs, a VCR, a Laserdist player, a PSVita, a 3DO. And look, you've got, you don't have Scott, but you do have three-fourths of the film set crew will be there if you count my impersonation of Randy, which I will do

every morning while I drink the coffee that Chuck makes. Yeah, that makes a fourth of it, I think so. Yeah, it's totally fine. That's a whole fourth. Yeah, it sounds like... Coffee is great. Is this? Are you using a Nicaraguan, Nicaraguan blend for the...

And in fact that you did that pronunciation is the most dead... I'm telling you, it's almost more Randy than Randy, all right? It's something Randy doesn't do very often, but he did it once or twice, and because of that, it's always going to be my... Part of my impersonation. Yeah, and if you want to see something shitty on VHS, Dunnoway's got you covered, like all those reasons. to go. I can't remember what the crap we watched last year, but... Yeah.

So, yeah, it's going to be awesome. And if you want to go, October 4th through 6th, I think they would reach out and find Chuck, because they're kind of running that. The Discord is your best bet. Inside the Discord, the Frog Pants Discord, is a channel called Meetups. And in there, you will find information about the...

I'm sorry, FrogPants Meetups. And in there, you'll find one under Meetup Forum called Southeast Meetup 2024. Really, this thing almost should get. get top level status along. Could we do the TMS Vegas one in there? This is becoming, once you do, once you've done two, I think it becomes a regular, and you'll think it becomes a top level.

That's right. Top level deal. But yeah, you'll find the link in the, in the Meetup Forum for Southeast Meetup, 24. And that actually has not just your information on how to contact Chuck and get that room, but also like links to buy tickets for all the other things that we're doing if you want to join us for those. And if you don't, that's fine too.

This is a weekend where you can do whatever you want. You want to stay back at the awesome venue that Chuck and Amy lined up and I think September helped line up that plays some switch on the TV while we go out and drink. Do that. Do that. Do you do karaoke. We're doing that. Yeah, there's no rules.

Do whatever you want. I mean, there are some rules. Don't be running around naked in front of everybody or something. That's right. We have one rule. Keep it down at 10 o'clock. After 10 o'clock, you got to do that. keep it down. Yeah, keep quiet down over there. We're old. Unlike last year, we'll have

neighbors. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, no neighbors last year because we were up in the mountains outside of Asheville. And it was, uh, we had nobody could hear us for miles. Yeah. Well, and also I have a feeling that, um, you know, if you're new to the south, there are a few people there, Amy, Chuck, nine of 12, others who are going to get you covered on what to eat, what to do, how to eat it, why it's good, all that stuff. So check it out. That's right. Got to get those weird walnut, chocolate, caramel patty things that Savannah apparently is known for.

I remember what they're called. Those are, oh, yeah, I know what those are. What are those called? They're like turtles, but they're not turtles. They're like turtles. They are like turtles. All right, Brian, I want you to try some. I'm sorry, pralines.

Oh, prelines, duh. I'm sorry, prelines. But no, whatever those things are still called. It's the pranines, the caramel, the chocolate, and they're called something, but they're not turtles there. I'm sorry, proleens. Yeah, my wife, my wife would have given me a heat for that. She says, they claim it's... I deserve the heat for that, proleens, you know?

Yeah, but I don't like... I like the way we say it, Brian, you and I. Proline sounds really stupid, and I don't like to hear it. That's all I'm saying. When I used to go to Baskin Robbins in the 80s, I miss Baskin Robbins. I just miss being going on and having ice cream. Um, we, we called it prelines and cream, um, mistakenly because we're, you know, we're from Colorado.

We don't know better. No, we're Yankees. I did too the whole time. And I even spent two years, a couple years in Mississippi, and I still said it wrong. And they all said it, right? And I hated the way they said it. So I'm going to say, prelines. Take that, take that universe.

I thought I had one still in my, in my bag from last year. Like one of these that, the hotel had a, a bowl of them and said, oh, yeah, I grabbed these and take them up to your room. They're yummy. They're, you know, local thing. here in Savannah and I grabbed two or three. Tina each had one

and I forgot I had a third one in my bag until just recently I was getting this bag ready for another trip and found it in there. Amy wants us to say pecan. I say pecan. Other say pecans. Pecan. I say pecan. I say pecan pie.

Yeah, pecan pie. Pekon pie. My wife made pecan-based granola and I hate pecan pecans. I'm not a fan unless they're like sugared up and I'm kind of off the sugar so I don't eat those. Oh, no, I like, I do like, you know, just a regular old pecan. They're just so chalky and, I don't know, that and walnuts. I can't do them. I don't know what the deal is. Just not my nut. Those aren't nuts I like putting in my mouth.

Well, anyway. Listen, I've been to Vegas with you. I know. Yeah, you know what's up. rainbow brights is that pecans make you have weird dreams i believe that there's something isn't there something to that that there's some is that true weird chemical not chemical but weird thing in pecans that uh pecans well let's see this says here that uh dream not dream about okay 42 foods that make you dream according to the lucid dream society uh bananas so anything rich Triptophan, vitamin B6, and serotonin will help you, will prompt dreaming, and that's one of them. Pumpkin seeds, chia seeds, sesame seeds, a lot of seeds, flax seeds, cashew nuts, almonds, dried, frozen tofu.

That's very specific. What's Tempe? T-E-M-P. Tempe is that is what vegans, one of vegans meat substitutes, kind of like tofu and Not tofu is not really a meat substitute, but it's another soy-based product that is kind of like that they use for grilling and stuff like that. I used to think I didn't like tofu until I had a really good tofu once and I changed my mind. Claire correction coming in three. Two, one. Fermented soybeans.

She says fermented soybeans. So wait, so the difference between that and tofu. Tofu is also soy-based, I think, right? Yes, it is. Just not. Tempe's soy-based. And what's the satan is the other thing that is. Hail satan.

Yeah, why would you call food Satan? Satan. Yeah, it's Satanic. What are you eating on your plate? What could it be? Is Satanic? Is it supposed to look like meat? Because it doesn't, but what is it called?

What's the name of that food that you've got there on your plate? Well, I just don't know. Oh, man, there was a time where that was everyone's favorite thing, and then everybody was sick of it. It was like we just turned on poor Danny Carvey so much. Yeah, it was too good. He was too, flew too close to the sun. Yeah. So,

Paulines are the things. Okay, I thought proleens were a nut that you just got chocolate covered ones in, in Savannah. But it's, it's the whole thing. I thought there was another thing with chocolate and caramel and, and proleins in it, and they were like turtles,

but they were called something else, and I just can't figure it out. Pralines slash pralines, you make at us, they're not a, they are a nut. though, right? Or what am I thinking of? Because I'm like you. I think it's like a you add a proling to things. It's pecans and, um, what are they like? Candid pecans or something the proleens are? That must be it. Hold on. Let's see. Yeah, you're right. Uh, it is. Oh, I'll bet this. Okay. I got a picture. I got a picture on the internet.

Caramelized. So it's caramelized pecans are, are. so it's those things right yeah well no those are just those are just like prowling clusters how about down from that the cookie looking things just below that do you see that one um i might be i might be uh just there's french belgium versions of this that look like gophers they are gophers gophers jeez louise gophers named after the uh loveboat character right that's right yes exactly Fantastic. Gophers are your Georgia pecans covered in caramel and chocolate. That's exactly those gophers are what I'm thinking of.

Okay. All right. I'm not imagining things, and now we can put that one to bed. Yeah, we'll never have to think of that one again. I'm sure it won't become the new carbonated meat or bee color. It won't because, right, it's not Kate Walsh. It's not carbonated meat. This is a new thing.

We're all in. This is figured it out. And resolved it. I want you to try something on your phone real quick. This is something I discovered that I cannot believe is real. I saw this. I don't even remember where I saw this. But apparently there is a hidden kill switch on your phone that you can speak to it and it will power it off.

So imagine you're being, you're kidnapped, Brian. You're being held in a ship container and you're like, oh, crap, I've got to turn my phone up. Or let's say, let's make it more realistic. I'm in Vegas. I happen to step off the strip to go to Terrible's Casino, for some reason, because I find out that they've got a steak and egg special, the cattleman special for $3.99. So I step off the strip and I start walking towards Terribles, and a guy comes up behind me and says, give me your wallet and your phone.

And I hand over my wallet and my phone. Yep. And then what do, Scott. All right, here's what you do. You say, you hold down the, in the apples case, you hold down the Siri button, although I think this is just an apple thing. Oh, shoot. Why don't want it? Hello.

Oh, I know I. Hold on a second. Hello, Motto. why want this okay there we go here's what you're going to say so hold down your thing and you say the phrase at close range

that's it no way so I'm going to say at close range oh that's not it did they close it already it works for me the other day hold on at close range

maybe it's marked for death okay only why i'm using the app maybe it's um what okay it worked yesterday did they honestly they may have turned it off because what it does is it says just to confirm you want to power off this device and then you hit the power off button and it worked for me yesterday literally just did it i they may have closed this up because i think it's like in all honesty i think it's just like an internal developer thing where they're like, there's a phrase that works and nobody knew about it

and then somebody found it. But that's... Try under siege too. Try that one. See if that does it. I don't think that'll do it. It'll want me to... Mark for justice.

Try that one. That one will make me want to buy it on Apple TV or something. On deadly ground. All right. Let me try one more time. Fire down below. Try fire down below.

At close range. Oh, there it is. It did it. Just to confirm, do you want to power off this device? I'm going to say no. Interesting. That's at close range. Isn't that weird?

Isn't that weird? That's a weird, but it's a weird phrase. I mean, I guess it's one that you're not going to say that often, but, uh, yeah, it's funky as hell. It works on the, I think it works on my watch, too. Let me just try. Yeah. But then, you know, again, you want your phone on so that you can use find my phone and find your dude.

Oh. It's doing the same thing. It's asking me if I want to shut everything down. That's weird, dude. I think that's freaking weird. It's not, I mean, it is faster to hold, it might be faster to hold down the power button, but why is it in here?

It's weird. It's not really a kill switch. Plus, I think it would be kind of dumb for a mugger to take your phone because, again, you've instantly got a way to track him. If you can get to another phone to call somebody who can track it, which maybe that's the problem is, you know, they can get to someplace where they can, USB in and turn off your

location stuff faster than... Well, especially if they had a... Because it's an e-sim now, so they'd have to... It's actually a benefit now. Yeah, you can't pop up the SIM card. Yeah, the barobberkins go clink and run with it. Oh my gosh, I saw a video of a guy who was trying to sell... He was doing it on Facebook Marketplace.

He was trying to sell his... Um, Vision, uh, Apple Vision Pro. Uh-huh. And he had this guy who showed up to look at it. They met in some neutral place. okay and they my first thought was the thought you always have of like where is the camera being where is this being filmed from is this being set up or whatever right exactly like the first thought in my head right because i don't want to get i don't want to get duped and i hate that so i'm watching

this and this guy's got some kind of camera i don't know if it's his phone or something but it's like super muffled and it's in his shirt so it seemed more legit still possible he faked this so i looked at that first and i thought all right let's see what happens this guy puts it on his head kind of looks at it takes it off, says, now how does this hook up? And he's got a cable connected, because you have it connected to see how it works, connected to his phone. He takes that thing off, and I've never seen anybody run so fast. He took the headset and just beeline it down the street.

Really? Yeah. And the guy claims it was real. So it's the best I could tell that I just thought, man, you know how pissed I'd be. Yeah, the question is, okay, so it didn't look like whatever public place they were in, like their security footage kind of thing. It was just, it was coming from the guy. So either the guy was like thinking ahead that, you know, you want to be safe and have a

thing, or it's all made up, which seems likely because almost always it is. But I will say, if you run into this video, I've never seen anybody run so fast in my entire life. That part you can't make up. Well, I mean, you probably could, you know, if you're really good, you could AI somebody running really fast and you could look believable, but probably not. Probably not. This guy, I mean, he moved like I've never seen a guy move. But that's, yeah, the right thing to do.

do is always assume it's made up and you'll have a better internet time if you do that the uh there's a channel that a youtube channel that i follow that has gotten finally gotten back to putting videos back on and it is called it's something like uh it is one three one two one six i know like i'm going to go a channel that is one three one two one six why am i doing that brian but trust me that is weird this guy puts up these great videos um that he finds on youtube and ticot and it's just like a lot of security footage of people renting motorbikes, mopeds and things like that, and the front wheel falls off as they're just leaving the place.

There's nothing, you don't see any videos of people getting maimed or anything, you know, horribly violent. Just odd stuff. Oh, yeah, here we go. Oh, this is right up my alley, dude. I love shit like this. It is so great.

And it's quick. It's like, you know, a five to ten minute video every week. And there's always something on there that has me laughing almost to the point where I'm peeing my pants. Yeah, it looks like he was posting crazily often back nine months ago and then suddenly stopped until like a week ago. And he's finally back to doing it. All right. I am now subscribed. I love crap like that.

Yeah. The stupid or the better. I love it. Speaking of the stupider but better, we're going to get done away in here. That's terrible. That's a terrible thing to say. I don't know why I made that transition because he's not. stupid at all. He's one of the smartest guys I know.

Yeah. And we're also going to take the fourth caller in our Discord. If you ping me directly, you've got to send me a DM, then I'll add you to the show. And we'll play a little bit of a game with our old pal Brian Dunaway. Hey, lucky right here. We got Brian Dunaway ready

to play. What's going on, man? What are you doing? Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. What am I doing? Well, I just ate a little bit of chicken salad with crackers. that sounds all right yeah a little too much mayo for my taste but you know yeah you know what you need in there it slid right down you need lots of pickles and you need lots of mustard in there those those are your two key ingredients for a good chicken salad type thing crispy pickles for sure crispy pickles and if you're not doing that

then forget it you're doing it wrong that's what happened one time when I stood too close to the stove first oh yeah Oh, crispy picnic. Yeah, sure. I did do that when I was like in the, I think I was still like in the first grade. I was, I was, we had like one of those. I'm old. And so we had one of those gas, those gas heaters like in the, in the hall next to the bathroom. And so I had come outside and I was like, oh, it's so cold. I'm just going to stand in front of the thing here.

And I leaned over because I dropped my towel and went to pick it back up and I stepped my butt on the grill. Oh, you know what I'm talking about? Oh, no. Yeah. I mean, I know what you're talking about, but I've never done that. That seems terrible. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, I didn't go to school that day, but all I do is whine and cry.

Do you still have a little scar there, a little sign that? I don't know. I can't see my butt. Well, ask the next person who sees it, you know? Pardon me. Can you see my? Ask me at the Southeast meet up, brain. I'll tell you.

That's right, that's right. I love that. Do you see it? No, it's right towards the crack. Yeah, if I don't hear how that goes by. the end of October. I'm going to be very upset. I want to know. All right. We're going to add the fourth caller. Oh, look who our fourth caller is. I think we've had this person on before. Although it's not ringing. Why?

Oh, there we go. Hi. Is this, is this Jupiter? Oh, Jupiter. Hello, Jupy. This is not your first time to this rodeo, is it? I remember we've done this before. This is my second time. Second time. Did you win the first time or no? I don't know. I can't remember. It was too long ago. are you playing an exceptional game I have no idea

all happy to have you happy to have you we're going to find out if you can have the medal today to win this game that Brian will now describe to us in detail metal shop that's right it's time to play the tadpulli feud I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brian have to predict the answers that they gave us

it is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess Jupiter your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian If your team wins, you will get a prize package that includes Lego 2K Drive awesome edition. Oh, that game is great. That's actually a really fun game. That's good. Cool.

Well, and if that was enough, how about Warhammer 40K Battle Sector? Oh, also good. It's like AAA titles here or maybe double A title. We don't want you to forget when you come on the third time, whether you're one or not. Yeah, that's right. None of this. Maybe I won. I don't know.

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That is what you could win, but you haven't won it yet. To win it, you need to play and to play. You guys need a question. So put your hands on your buzzers, and please answer the following question. We asked 522 Tadpoolers.

What's your favorite John Cusack movie? Scott Gross point blank, please. Oh, that's a good one. Is that your favorite, Scott? Oh, by far my favorite. Like, by miles. Not even close.

Well, let's see if the Tadpool agrees, though. Show me gross point blank. Yeah, of course, it's number one. Come on now. Gotta be. Where else are you going to see Grosser get a TV on his head? Come on now. Grocer pointing in the blanks.

One of an amazing character. Grocy pointy blank. Most important, valuable thing. that that actor every made was the character Grossman. It's so good. Not Grossman, just grosser. I keep saying Grossman. You should say Grossman.

All right. Larry Grossman. So that's the number one answer, Scott. So you've got Control the Board and you've got Juteper as a partner in crime. What do you think, Juteper? You got one? So I have no idea who John Cusack is. Perfect.

So that's, uh-huh. This is going to be great. good one. Well, there were 35 people in the survey who said something similar, or I don't like John Cusack, or I don't, yeah, what does that I got to do? However, I looked at one thing that I can think of is Conair. Oh, well, I'll bet you con air's on here. Yeah, he's the, he's the cop in that, right?

He's a good guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, you know, it's arguable that whether Nick Cage is a good guy, but, by the way, I just saw, by the way, I just saw a lot. Money back in the box. That mullet is the good guy in that movie. Unless we have a better one, Scott. I don't know.

Well, I'm torn. I know a lot of 80s kids are going to say one that I have in my head, but I also think Con Air is on here, so I think we do it. Let's say Con Air. Okay, let's go. All right. Show me that hairdryer movie. Conair.

Number two. Geez. I didn't think it'd be that high. Nice. Nice. Very popular. I like Better Off Dead, please. Could that be on there, please?

Oh, that's a good one. It's got bugger in it. Sure. That's the one I've had in my head. Show me, I want my $2. Better off dead. Yeah, right there on Franch, number three. Can't believe we're going right down the list here.

Right down the list. Let's see. Good points. This one out. Another, you're really only up to six points. Another 80s hit that I think that comes to mind is one crazy summer. It's where he was, I think he was a cartoonist that had some weird art in that. I forgot about that one.

That's one. Didn't that have booger as well? Who was in the Godzzi? costume for that one. Was that booger? It might have been. Wait a minute. I mix those two movies up.

I forget which one had Van Halen Potato or Burger. Oh, Bobcat Goldway. Thank you, Amy. Oh, really? Look at that. Even sick, she is able to recall stuff like nobody's business.

She's awesome. Yeah. Hope you feel better soon, Amy. All right. Show me one. Crazy. Summer. Oh, God. How is this possible?

All right. Fine. Where was that in the list? Somebody I'm sure said that business. Number 13 in the list was one crazy summer. It's a great movie. I can't believe that's a good one. That's a good one, Scott.

That is a good one. It's a good one. It's an okay movie. Personally, I would just say anything to get on the board. Oh, shit. So I'm going to say anything. Yeah. Look at that.

I gave him a pen. He gave me an answer. Show me. Say anything. number five and just like that you're one point away from time

and judiper oh my gosh that's insane all right what else you got there's a couple more modern ones I know that

I don't think people have liked as much so I'm going to say some of the classic stuff like 16 candles is he in that

because he's in that he's in that he was like the first time I ever saw him I think was in 16 candles he was one of Farmer Ted's entourage, his posse

so he he helps guard the door when Anthony Michael Hall is holding up a pair of panties. Show me 16 candles. Number nine. Big points on that one. Big points. I don't like that.

Now, I remember this one because I told you guys I watched Sleepwalkers. And it's not related. He's not in that. But when I was going through the movies, Audra demanded that I get a better set of movies. So I went through my DVDs and picked out stuff that I thought she might like.

So I pulled out the DVD for Must Love Dogs. Is there fans out there for that? I know she loves it. Sure. Do it. Give it. Umma Thurman and Janine Garofalo and John Cusack and, yeah, like a dating thing, right? Sure.

Yeah, about dogs. Dating dogs. That's right. Dating dogs. Show me. Oh, Bombie is saying, no, that's something else. I think I'm confusing it with another film. Anyway, you're saying must love dogs.

Here is, oh, that's the truth about cats and dogs. That's right. That's great. Which did not have John Kuzek in it. Show me must love dogs. Oh, that's a shame. Oh, shut up, Scott, with that insincere. One person said must love dogs down at tied for number 23.

Okay, now. Judiper, I know another one that's more modern, maybe 20, 25 years ago, something like that. It's not really modern, but not 80s. That probably is on here. I'm a little worried that it's like fourth, so it won't give us tons of points. But I like high fidelity. So can we get high fidelity in there? Yeah.

Yeah, just like Jack says, your daughter does not want a copy of I just called to say I love you. Show me high fidelity. Damn it. Number four, just like you predicted. That's right. It puts you just four-shy of tying Brian with his two answers. Damn it. Great book, by the way.

It's one of the, oh, that British author who did About a Boy and Fever Pitch, and his name is... I didn't know what's based on the book. Shoot, somebody give me the cat's name that wrote all those books. Is it a literal cat? Not a boy. Thank you, Dr. Kellan. It's not William Shakespeare.

All right. William Shakespeare. Yeah. Okay. Now we're getting in the weeds a little. Because, oh, what else is? I mean, there's other stuff. I'm not going to lie.

I keep thinking of stuff and I keep thinking. Every time I think I got one, I'm like, no, that was Matthew Broderick. Okay, there was, what's the one? Oh, shit. hold on a second there's one where he's in uh it's like it's like a reference to stephen king or maybe it is a stephen king thing and he's with samuel l jackson's in it i can't think of the name of it and if i can't then probably it's not on here oh i know we did a film sack of one um uh what's the disaster movie that's a year oh no 2012 2012 2012

good call that's it 2012 thank you by the way nick nick hornby thank you chuck nick Cornby is the author of all those books I mentioned. Awesome stuff. All right. Show me 2012. This is a high jumping limousine. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Number seven.

Nice. Woody Heraldson was a crazy guy in there. It's been a while since I've seen that movie. Very long time. Yeah. I mean, last time I saw it was film second. Before that, I think at launch and then I just forgot what year it was supposed to be. Yeah.

He's a more badass limousine driver than Logan. It's pretty funny, though, Brian, because I am pretty pretty good at knowing movie years. And I couldn't think of the name of the year. I know. The name of the year. Yeah. That's funny.

All right. Did it come out in 2010? Can you what? No, it came out in 2012. Dang. Didn't it? Okay.

Okay. I think it's not. It would make sense to be the year before. It came out the year before because we were, oh, 2012. Oh, 2012. Oh, that camping predicted it was going to be the end of the world or something. Because it's funny. I can name, I could say, uh, Blade Runner,

2049 came out in 2017 like I know that I don't know why I can't think of this one but anyway wasn't the Aztec calendar ending that we had even earlier 2009 by the way is what yeah thank you stephanie and a pets well they had to make it to rental market they couldn't just you know well I don't I have no problem with that I just think that sounds insane like I can't believe that was that much earlier because I thought I saw it in 2012 anyway all right the power of suggestion um I can't even think of other movies. The one with Samuel L. Jackson, I can't think of the name of, which means probably nobody got it. I'm guessing.

Oh, shit. Three answers left on the board. Right now, the score is 17 for Scott and 14 for Brian. 70 for Scott and Juniper. I can't believe. Ambassador Domo said being John Malkovich. Oh. Oh, yeah.

Oh, that's a good one. I forgot about it. Duh. He's in that? Yeah. I can always forget everyone except John Malkovich and that. It's hilarious. All right.

You know what? Let's do it. Being John Malcovich. Okay. All right. Let's see if it's in there. Malcovich, Malcovich, Malcovich, Malcovich, Malcovich, show me being John Malcovich.

There you go. Number eight. Good job. That may lock it up, right? Is that, no? I love the scene in being John Malcovich where John Malcovich is reading this letter to John Cusack, and he goes, my daddy is coming home on June 7th. I'm going to finally get to meet my daddy on June 6th.

Wait, am I thinking of something else? On air. That's hilarious. You're making me laugh. You did it. All right, hold on then. Let's go with, if that made it in there, that hot tub movie did. Was you in the hot tub movie?

Time travelers. Hot tub time machine. Hot tub time machine. That's it. Hot tub time machine. Show me hot tub time machine. He was in one. He was in one.

but not in two, right? I never saw either. One of the major guys was in one, but not in two, I think. Oh, God, was there a third one? I can tell you this. I don't know, but that sounds like a horrible movie. Oh, yeah, yeah. I can tell you that I don't know how well it adheres to the laws of time travel

because I never wanted to see those stupid-ass movies. Look, it's actually really good. I like the first one. The second one and not as good, But all I got to say is we got a winner regardless. If I get 10, you get 10. Doesn't matter. Cleared the board.

I'm shocked. The Cusack board. Scott's got 31. Brian's got 14, but it doesn't matter because Jupy's getting those games. Yeah. So I'm going to just, I want to try one that's kind of out from left field and it's a bad movie. I actually don't like this movie.

Okay. But the grifters, I remember being excited because he was in it. I don't think that movie is very good. What's bad about that movie is fantastic? I don't know. why I didn't like it. I can't remember why. I remember really disliking it. Melanie, not Melanie Griffith.

Warren Beatty's wife. Annette Benning. She's fantastic in it, Angelica Houston's, his mom. Oh my gosh. Yeah, don't, ooh, maybe you need a rewatch of the Grifters. I might need to. You know what it is? It's disturbing is the problem with Grifters. It's one of those uneasy films. Yeah. And I like uneasy films. So maybe I didn't in 1989 or 90 or whatever it was. Maybe.

Wasn't Stephen Toulowski in that? I do like him. him. That I don't remember. I remember your three principles, and I just remember it was... Well, I sure is heckfire remember him. Get it? That's the right. I get the reference. Very good. All right. Show me the grifters. No. Number 22 in the list. A lot of people need to see the grifters. I'm going to watch it again and make it a recommendal someday. Yeah, maybe I need to see it again. Oh, it's streaming on Paramount Plus. I could do that. Oh, look at that. Yeah. All right. What else you got there, Dunway?

Oh, so I'm going to go with the movie that every time we watch it, my significant other forgets that we've watched it. And she always gets really excited in the beginning of the movie. And then she's like, oh, stupid movie. Identity, which I love is a great movie. Oh, that's a good big. I love that movie too. And I think, yeah, it's nice and twisty. And the twist doesn't come at the end.

The twist comes halfway through. Got Ray Leota in there. All the way through. Got Ray Leota. I love him. a bunch of other people. Yeah, it's got that dude. Remember that dude who was on Heroes

for one hot minute who could look at the camera and make his eye go, yeah, it's the Pruitt Taylor yeah, something. He's in all sorts of stuff, like justified. Does heroes hold up? No, season one does.

The rest of it's terrible. When that came out. Heroes season two didn't mean to hold up as it was airing. Yeah, the problem is it landed right. The cheerleaders saved the world. It landed right as they were doing a writer strike and they really took a hit on that it was bad really hurt heroes yeah um all right uh well let's see

identity oh weird look at that that's a new thing that alcab added that is number 11 you don't get any points for it but you do get uh the ding and you get another turn oh my gosh that's funny that cool yeah that's great i at first i thought something to glitching out but this is the thing you were talking about that's something else talking about so it even says it down on the bottom what number 11 was. By the way, it was tied for 11th place with 11 points with serendipity, which even though it rhymes, oddly

enough, does not have the same plot line as Identity. The two are very, yeah. Oh my gosh. I didn't know this. Okay, so identity came out in 2003. That's a James Mangold joint. Oh, is it really? Yeah, I didn't know that either. And no wonder we all liked it. Ray Leota, Amanda Pete, John Hawks is amazing.

Alfred Molina with his all his arms. Oh, that's Doc Ock, never mind. John C. McGinley. Oh, man, this Jake, Jake Busey, Rebecca DeMorne, what? Anyway. Wow. That would be a film sack, a perfect film sack movie. We should do it.

Let's get it on the list, Randy, if you're listening. Yeah, exactly. He's always listening. He's always there. Always listening. Still your turn, I think you gave one away because you said serendipity was not in the top. No, I said serendipity was tied for 11th place with identity. That's why you see both of them on the bottom of the screen.

Oh, okay. Well, I'm not looking at the screen, so that makes sense. Oh, well, there you go. Um, so I'm going to go with, um, probably my favorite one, uh, runaway jury. Oh, well, Grisham joint, right? Yeah, he's very, he's very, he's very slimy in that one. Hmm. Sure.

I like slime. All right. Show me runaway jury. Run away, jury. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Uh, man. What else is there?

Run away, Jerry. Uh, that was number 17 in the list, by the way. Okay. That means we are in the dregs here. Um, how about last strike for either one of you and, uh, still one answer on the board and, and lots more John Cusack movies that you haven't even thought of. Okay. How about, um, uh, someone in the chat said it since we've already won. I'm just going to go back and look.

How about? there it is pushing tin oh pushing tin i forgot about it was that and that's the billy bob thornton yeah i like that movie a lot and your naked angelina joly show me pushing tin really man was she in that really yeah it was uh oh i thought oh you're right unless i'm thinking of a different movie nope you're totally right i was thinking it was kate blanchett but she never does nudes so that's why i was confused all right now you're totally right number 21 in the list uh Uh, right there. I don't remember much except air traffic control or something, right?

Mm-hmm. That was the deal. And then something bad happens. Yep. And then John C. DeLancy crashes a plane and while he's thinking of, uh, Jessica Jones and a stuffed animal lands in a swimming pool. Yeah. Yeah. No, that's exactly the plot.

You nailed it. Yeah. Yeah. I might, I might be thinking of something else. I don't know. But, uh, yeah, sure. I love that. That whole season was great.

Uh, all right. Who's turn? Wait, do we have a buzzer left? We do. Bri-Bri. You do. Yeah, Brian has one

guest left. I'm racking my brain because I know he's done some voices in animation, but I can't think of what they are because I keep getting

them confused once again with Matthew Broderk. I don't know why, but I do. Um, man, shoot. I don't know if I can think

of anything else John Cusack has been in. Been on some TV stuff. Oh, my God. I don't know. I'm out of numbers here. Let's see. Um,

You're probably heading down a good, a good path right there is what you're. What was I, what was I say? What path were you on? That he's done a little voice work in animated films. Okay. All right. But you couldn't think of any so, you know, it's a path with a dead end apparently for you. Exactly.

So I believe he was, he was, he was, he was, he was, the Hulk and the animated feature. I don't know. wow wow I mean he'd make a good he'd make a good brus banner was he in fern gully why is it like he was in fern gully that can't be right no he definitely wasn't in fern gully you know what you're right it is that it's totally that era

the one you're saying I think it's probably the one Brian's thinking I don't actually know for sure but I think it's one Fern gully say fern gully let's say fern gully show me fring gully come on Larry wow

like I clicked that a minute ago yeah Scott, what do you think it is? I think it's that Anastasia deal. Oh, Anastasia. That's right. I don't remember how he played. But that was on a lot.

No, no, no. You're thinking of Fern Gulley. He just did Ferengully. Yeah, Mike Ryan, John Cousa, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher. Christopher Lloyd. And Cazaria, printed out of theater is Kirsten Dunstan, Angela Land. You guys, you know what's great about that. Christopher Lloyd played Rasputin.

Oh, Anastasia was the one? Oh, my God. Yeah, Anastasia was the one. That was the one. Christopher Lloyd was Rasputin. Think about that for a minute. How amazing that is. It was incredible.

That was a Don Bluth joint before he quit making features. I think it may have been close to the last one he did. Anyway. Wow. Well, there you go. Well, there's all 10 answers. Let's go down some that you didn't get to. I mentioned identity and serendipity being tied for 11th.

1408, the other movie that is a year title that John Cusack starred in. What year did that come out? 14-06? It gave that 14-06. Yeah, I had to come out. I thought that was a room number, not a year, right? It was, it was, it was a room number, yes, but it was another little four-digit. I thought I got all that mixed up.

I'm like, wait, what movie did I see? Was this a period piece with him and Samuel L. Jackson? Period piece from the 1400s. He was in a baseball movie called Eight Men Out. Oh, yeah. He was the nice, nice older brother in Stand By Me, Thin Red Line, America's Sweethearts. Avoid that one. It's horrible.

Everybody was in Thin Red Line. My God, there was so many cameos. Love that movie. Such a good movie. Breakfast Club. Nope. Somebody, nope, not paying attention. Dirty dancing.

Nope. Yes again. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Nope. Sorry. Then we get a bunch of, I don't have one. I don't like John Cusack. I have no idea who that is.

I'm too young and I've never seen one of his movies. Those all in one row, by the way, because of the way you saw him. I'm kind of glad I got Scott on this. Yeah. Are you? I nailed it. I'm right. Yeah.

Juniper, are you one of the people to. But still. Were you one of the. the people that voted, I'm too young for knowing who that is or whatever. Do you know if you voted in this one? Yeah, I didn't think I've voted but yeah, I do think I'm a little young. That's awesome.

Idaho, Igor, inside John Couss. Inside John Cousy. Jury duty, I'm pretty sure they were to think of a runaway jury. Less than zero. I don't think he was in that. Love and Mercy, that was a good one. It was the Beach Boys thing and he played Brian Wilson. It was very, very good.

Mad Max Fury Road. Oh, look at you playing into Scott's pockets. Martian Child, midnight in the garden of good and evil. My Blue Heaven. I don't think he was in that. He wasn't in My Blue Heaven. We just watched that other night. That was the other movie that broke Audra between Sleepwalkers and the My Blue Heaven double-frey.

I would watch that movie any day of the week. I love My Blue Heaven. We had been watching only murders in the building. And so I was like, oh, I got an old Steve Martin film on DVD. You want to watch that? Yeah, sure. and I did not fly. Really? Wow.

Arugula. It's a vegetable. Arugola. School of Rock. Again, I think somebody's thinking of high fidelity. Tapeheads. Another underappreciated John Cusack movie with Tim Robbins

and they are a couple of music producers who make it big with Rosco's chicken and waffles. It is fantastic. Don't sleep on tape heads. The Adam's family. I don't remember that. The contract, the factory, The Journey of Nettie Gann, The Raven, there you go.

The sure thing. One person said it. True colors. War ink. And then somebody just simply said, you know the one. Oh, you know the one. What? War ink.

Those people meant Gross Point Blank. I'm convinced. War ink was kind of the unofficial pseudo sequel to Gross Point Blank. Oh. Even though it really wasn't a sequel, there are people who say, isn't that the thing? It's like a similar, because he's a hidden. that is... I don't remember that movie.

No? No, I don't know. I don't remember it. I remember seeing... So the one it makes me always think of as Lord of War and I know it's not the same. That's what I was thinking too.

So maybe they have similar plots or something. I always assume that. They have similar titles, Scott, really is the really... Yeah, that's all it is. Wasn't the disaster film 2012 set in 2009? That is so... It's so effed up in my head.

Well, that's great because that means Juniper, one. A spiritual... I'm sorry, a spiritual... A cousin to gross point blank is how it's A spiritual cousin. I have never heard that. That's amazing.

All right. Well, you get one of these, dudes. Congratulations. You get a congratulations because you won. It doesn't matter how you won, you won. That's all that matters. So these codes are coming to you via Brian over there. He'll send these to you directly in the DM.

And it was good having you back on. How do you feel about your big win? Pretty good. Yeah. I'm not going to forget this time around, are you? No, that's right. You go to your grave at this one. Have a fantastic.

week. Brian, hey, guess what? You and I are getting together later this week. 130 Mountain Time on Friday to play a little old-ass video games. Tell people what we're doing. We're going to the arcade. We're going to, yeah, we're going to put our cowboy hats on and we're going to go do some sunset. Riders never played this back in the day.

Arcade Classic from the early 90s from Konami. After those successful four-player turtles beat-em-ups, why not go to the Wild Wild West and do some offensive things with some Native Americans? Why not? Why not, indeed.

It's a fantastic game. It's a very small part of the game. It is, but it's such a good game, though. It's so fun. Yeah. So we're going to be doing that. I've been playing that on my SP unit all week. Your SP unit.

Yeah, I like playing stuff there. You just shorten it to Spune it. Yeah, spewn it. And I highly recommend checking that out again if you haven't in a long time. It's also very colorful. It's a weird game set in the West that's just full of color. Yeah, and there's a follow-up that I did not connect until someone pointed out. Do you remember, what is it, the Cowboys from Mu Mesa, I believe it is, that early 90s cartoon?

There was a somewhat of a spiritual successor that came out based on this. It was a cousin successor. Spiritual. I'm on the War Inc. page right now on Wikipedia. War Inc. is not to be an informal sequel to the 1997 film Gross Point Blank. Both films are similar in style and theme. Both films star John Cusack as an assassin. and Joan Cusack as his assistant with Dan Ackroyd in a supporting role.

In an interview, Joan Cusack said, I think in a way, War Inc. was a gross point blank, too. John Cusack described it as a spiritual cousin to gross point blank. That's wild. He nailed it. He, nice. That's absolutely crazy. I've never seen it. Now I need to.

I have to see it now. Especially knowing that it's got Accurated in it. Yeah. Did it review well? Let's see. Oh, not great. Generally negative reviews from critics. 30%.

yeah it's not not good but maybe still i may still want to see it just to feel it you know just to have the experience yeah yes yeah feels because it's that gross point blank is like one of my all-time favorites this might you know maybe you don't want to see this to just kind of not not have that negative attachment negative is there anything gross in gross point blank no not spelled the way it is g r o s s with an e like point with an e and blank without an e yeah yeah yeah brian come on now But Brian, I'll see you then. And in the meantime, I would like you to kiss our butts. Oh, no, you.

Bye. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back from said break, we will spend some time with Tom Merritt. Look at the latest tech headlines, as well as some recommendals with Randy after that. Nicole's got an appointment this morning, but Brian's got two recommendals. What? I'm making up for it. Yeah, I'm making up for it is what I'm doing.

It's what I'm doing. Hey, let's look at a band called Moon Kist. These guys. All right. These guys put out some really, really cool singles. Irresistible swooping hooks with messages about consent, existential anxiety, and gender, gender, gender identity. Those two movies, by the way, were also tied for 11th place. Gentor and identity.

This is a New York City-based trio. They're Moon Kiss. They've got a brand new album called I'll See You in New York, which comes out later this month, September 20th. This is the third single from the album. The first two were cycles in 101. This is the third single. It's called Do You Miss Me Yet? It's great.

This is really, really good. Here is the band, Moon Kist, and Do You Miss Me Yet? I'd do anything it took if I could see you right now. To calm my beating heart, put my feet on the ground. To feel you like I go in my dreams. To hear your words and know what they need. me flashing back to crying on the subway train if only i knew then just what i'd have to face nothing ever is what it seems no nothing's ever really meant to be did i speak out of tune

Will it be one big less in a line I need to return Help me out Tell me now What's been going through your head Do you miss me? Do you, do you miss me yet? Me and for the time have been playing cards, but if we're wasting hours, do I win at all?

He tries to kill me slow, kill me slow. It kills me because I know, yeah, I know. I have this mental image of the drunken night, mascara down your face under the pale green light. Who got the last word? or me who cares cause i'll still never be free did i speak out of turn will up in one big lesson learned one else meeting to adjourn heavy out of time me now what's been good Do you miss me? Do you, do you miss me yet?

Did I know you think that but now she's ready to hear And she's trying to remember what color to be a heartro again And when she was hard for but she was hard It's like grass is green Did I speak Answer Will it be one big lesson When I'm sweet

Help me out Tell me more What's been going through your head? Do you miss me? Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me yet? Do you miss me yet? Yeah

I'd like me a splash of whiskey It'll worse the trail dust off in my gullet And keep my singing voice in fettle If you want to have fun with Billy Bob teeth I know you do That's why you bought this video And we've returned Brian who was that again please

Sure, that is a the band Moon Kiss. They've got a brand new album coming out late this month. That's the third single from it. It's called, Do You Miss Me Yet? Chat says, Colecast in the chat says, Gross Point has five different towns. Yeah, but Gross Point wasn't the town. It was the high school. Gross Point High School, right? Right. Do I have that right? I mean, it may have been also a town. But Gross Point was the high school. I think that's right. Yeah. And that was, the reason I think it hit so hard with me is partly musically, but also it was

this marriage of like, hey, what if John Hughes and Tarantino had a baby? Yeah. And also, it's the exact, it was my 10-year graduation anniversary, as it was the characters. And it just felt like it was made for us. I don't know. I can't explain it. I love that movie so much.

Okay. I'm sure I told you who I saw that movie with just recently. Yeah. I'll put it in the I'll put it right there. Oh, can I put it I can't, oh, don't tell me I can't put it in the thing. Can I not put in the thing?

Oh, there we go. What's the thing? Is there a thing? In our Discord chat. Oh, nice. I didn't know you went in, uh, maybe you did mention this. There was like a re-I think I did, yeah, who went and saw Gross Point Blank with John Cusack. That's right.

That's right. That's right. He did a Q&A session afterwards and talked about his, uh, his favorite stuff. Please tell me he spent, uh, 20 minutes talking about a television on Dan Aykroyd's head. Please tell me that. He did not. I'm sorry. I wish I wish I wish I could say he did.

Yeah. That's a shame because it's really a high point there, you know. All right. We got Tom coming in and see if we can get that going here and learn some tech in our lives. Nothing wrong with that. See if I can find his thing here. We want Tom. We do want Tom.

And we want Tom now. Oh, he's got a little tiny head at the bottom of the screen. Stand up, Tom. I like it. I like this little corner head. It's fun. It's cute. Hi there, everybody.

Hi, I'm Tom. Merritt. Yeah. Hold on. Let me lower it. No worries. Yeah, it just, it grabbed the wrong camera. Can you tell me what those large tomes are behind you when you're done?

I'm very curious about those giant books. I don't know what they are. I can't read them. Well, crap, I'm just going to do this. Yeah, that'll work. Discord just doesn't want to see my real camera. Which toms? The two big books behind you.

That's the, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, compact edition of the Oxford English Diction? Oh, look at you. You're so fancy, dude. Gosh, dang. Isn't that available on the internet? Sure, sure, Ibit, but does it come with a magnifying glass? Yes, it does. It's called command plus sign. Yeah, I guess you're right.

No, good point. I guess we do have a method for zooming these days. Yeah, but it doesn't sit on the desk behind you as nicely, does it? No, it doesn't. That looks great. In fact, I'm not surprised at all. Of course, you have that, and I think that's great because Tom Merritt is one of our favorite intellectual, tech-minded guests. He comes on Wednesdays, talks about the tech news of the day. And that's him. He's the guy.

His camera's a little weird, but we don't care. Tom Merritt, what are we doing today? What are we watching for? Oh, my goodness. It's EFA, the big tech conference in Berlin, Germany. Yes. FIFA and EFA are two different things. That is a very good point.

Yeah, and it is all chips and laptops and fun for everyone right now. So Intel is rolling out its second-gen core ultra processors, the 200V series. Those are going to be going into a bunch of laptops that will be powering co-pilot, Microsoft's AI, on Windows. And Qualcomm is announcing its first 8-core, Snapdragon X, plus chips. Those are slightly less powered than the Snapdragon X elite chips which are already in laptops, which means

they're a little bit cheaper. So, for instance, you can get a Dell Insperon 14 for $899 instead of $999. They have about half the graphics power, by all accounts. So these are not things you're going to be playing games on, but if you don't care about that, you just want a cheap laptop,

cheap laptop for productivity. They will have the specs on the neural processing unit to do all of the AI processing and things like Adobe and all of that. So, you know, they're not underpowered. They're just not gaming focus kind of stuff. A little bit like Apple Silicon. It's interesting because I feel like there's a wave now of, I don't know what Intel does with this information overall, but there's this wave of competitors hitting the arm-based chip world pretty hard and doing pretty good, right? Like they're impressive. The new, the new,

surfaces are pretty impressive. The Mac stuff with the M1s through fours have been very impressive. And they, I feel like they're eating their lunch a little bit. Are we worried about Intel? And we worried that they're, that they've got, you know, a life, a shelf life after all, after all these many decades of dominance. Yes. Yes, a lot of people are very worried about Intel.

The 200V is not an arm series chip. It's an X86 chip. Oh, I didn't know that. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. But it is, it's the Lunar Lake. chip, if you heard them talking about that, but it's meant to compete on the battery efficiency

level with the armchips. So Intel says that it's a big battery life advantage over the Qualcomm elite, that it's more power efficient. It kind of depends on what you're talking about, but mostly that's true in most situations. Apparently Microsoft Teams is more efficient on the arm for some reason, but, you know, office productivity and stuff is generally going to be more efficient on the 200B. The problem is Intel is not doing well with its manufacturing right now. In fact, Reuters says the next gen manufacturing process that it wants to roll out next year isn't up to snuff. They tried to make some broadcom chips and broadcom came back and said, yeah, this isn't ready for high volume production. Intel says, don't worry, it'll be ready for high volume production by next year

when it's supposed to be rolled out. There's also recent chips that had some voltage issues, and Intel had to do a recall on a large number of their chips. So, yeah, people are very worried about Intel. So this 200V series announcement is an important one, and how these

like Samsung Book 4 Edge and Asisem Book S16 compared to it are going to be really important. So it's, you know, what, we think about the laptops that have the 200V is going to be important to Intel. It's not, it's not the make or break, but they need a win here. Yeah, it feels like they've been a little bit

with that one. So let me ask you this, though, will these pair well? Will these chips pair well, the best way you know with, with a good GPU? So if people are like, well, my next gen gaming computer, I want one of those chips and I'll pair it with a 4080. And now these are mobile chips. These are meant to be in your laptop. So they just come with whatever GPU is integrated with them. and they have a decent GPU. That's one of the 200 V's big advantages is its GPU is a 60% better frame rate than the Top Shelf Qualcomm GPU

that comes with the SnapDGN. And it's a 16% better frame rate than the AMD HX370. So again, if you're really serious about gaming, you're not going for these at all. But if it's like, well, you know, I want something light, thin, easy to carry around, but I can do some gaming.

These are good. Whereas the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite has gotten poor reviews for gaming. You know, somewhere around 50% of the games don't run well on it. So that's a big issue for Qualcomm, and it's something where Intel compresses its advantage, I think. Yeah, interesting.

Well, we'll see what happens. I didn't know. You know, if you asked me 10 years ago if there would be like another sort of chip gold rush in the next 10 years of this level, I wouldn't have said, ah, that doesn't sound right. It seems like we're like,

oh, chips are commodity. oddities now. They're just going to be, you know, fade into the background, yeah. But mostly driven by what? Probably AI is the chief pusher here, right? Like just... Yeah, it's the efficiency of arm, you know, Apple leading the way, but not the only one who's been after this idea of like, well, what if we can run an entire operating system and the arm instruction set? That's going to be a lot more efficient. So making that work has been a huge leap and the AI stuff, right? And the neural processing unit, which is a new element of the chip that can power a lot of things on device,

so you're not having to go to the cloud for it, and it makes it faster. Yep. Well, we'll see how this goes for them, hopefully well. If you're looking for good coverage of this sort of stuff, of course, it's all over the Daily Tech News show, and I'll be on there today.

Oh, how's your power? I guess everything came back, is here you are. Yeah, yeah. Oh, thanks. I had to do the show off of my Ecoflow battery, portable unit. I had it sitting there on the floor, had just enough plugged into it,

including the cable mode. them to make the show work. So if you look at yesterday's video from Good Day Internet on YouTube, you'll see a little different perspective. And you get in a different perspective today with the different camera. I imagine that's why Discord isn't seeing my regular camera, because I had to disconnect all of that stuff yesterday and go from the battery backup. So maybe I just need to reboot Discord. Yeah. Well, today'll be normal because power's back and we'll all be on today. Knock on wood. Yeah, knock on that wood, everybody.

That'll be later today, of course, 2 p.m. Mountain Time. Make sure to check that out. Tom Merritt, is there anything else going on that you would like to mention? Yeah, Tom'snewbook.com. Go check it out. Get synced funded. We're almost there. So if any of you were like, all right, I've been meaning to sign up for that

or I've been meaning to talk my workplace into backing it at a corporate level, go check that out. It's all at tom's newbook.com. Please do. Tom Merritt, everybody. He is always on the socials at Ace Detect. Find him there. We'll see you next time. Bye now.

Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. All right. Oh, yeah, it did kick him. Okay, good. I mean, not that it's good to kick him, but you know what I mean.

Yeah. All right. Randy, in coming, like a bullet, like a, like a spear chocked by somebody, you know? That's right. Oh. Let's see if I can get all this straight. Gosh, dang it. It's not where I need it.

Okay. It's time for this. Well, what do you recommend? Time for recommendals. It's where we talk about streaming services, something we watched on one of them, and recommend you find folks at home. In this case, one of us has two. Dose.

Dose. Dose. Deca eckis. Anyway. That's right. Speaking of the most interesting man on live or however that old ad went, it's Randy Jordan. Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning stream.

I am the most interesting man in the world of Warcraft. Yeah. And I am doing great. Great. It's good to see you. It's good to hear you. I always wish I could, I wish you could overlap me with Tom just a second. So I could say hello to my friend.

Oh, yeah. We could do that one day. He and I live like 45 minutes away from each other, but it may as well be 45 hours. It just takes so much for us to get together. Yeah, it's a lot, man. The 405 ain't clearing out for nobody, you know? You got to figure it out. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here.

No, Nicole today. She had an appointment. but we are going to recommend things nonetheless. And we're going to start with Brian, who has, like I said, two of these things. So, Brian, take it away. I do. Yeah, we're going to start things off with a British TV series. This thing will last two seasons or two series in, as they say in the UK.

Six episodes each, but absolutely worth checking out. This clip features, oh, maybe a voice you'll recognize. Probably a voice you'll recognize. All right, let's try it out. It's called my head hurt. A beautiful girl falls in love with a traitor who's passing secrets that don't make any sense. What is a bright stone? Who is a bright stone? It's a secret dangerous enough to get you killed, even by a friend.

You're rambling. Have you even eaten today? It's my fault. You said he just fell. Step away from the story. Wait until the heat is passed on Tom's death. At worst, it was an accident. There are no accidents, apparently. Remember that when I'm found floating in the tent.

God, I don't want to die like that. I want to just disappear. Happy birthday. It sounds like a 60s-era Michael Kane for some reason. That's interesting. That's a good description of him. I know who it is. That's a good description of it was.

Who do you think it is, Randy? I thought I heard Ben Wischaw. That's exactly who it is. Yeah, Ben Wishaw. Our new Q, or our Q for the last couple of James Bond films. That guy's good in every damn thing he does. He really is. And this is no different.

Yeah, he's been with Daniel McCraig for a few movies, Layer Cake, The Trench, and During Love, and, of course, Skyfall. He always sounds like Paddington. He can't help it. Oh, yeah, the Paddington Bear movies. Yeah, and he's also in the reboot of that, Emily Blunt I can't think of her name

the Disney thing umbrella you fly with an umbrella what's her name? Oh Mary Poppins Mary Freakin Poppins He's in that returns or whatever it is Yeah he's great Yeah no he's great and this whole show is great

This is a TV show called The Hour Not to be confused with the movie called The Hours Boy it's tough to do a search for one And not find the other You have to put the UK after the hour To kind of separate the two This is if you're a fan of the old

I think Aaron Sorkin show newsroom about kind of the behind the scenes of a news program. This is about kind of the 1950s UK prototype for that. This is like them developing one of the first versions of that news

style program called The Hour. It was an hour-long show called The Hour. Ben Wishaw plays a writer named Freddie. He He's got a co-writer, a producer named Bell or Isabelle, played by Ramola Garay. I don't know if I ever seen her in anything else, but she is so freaking compelling every time she's on screen. She's got a little bit of an Elizabeth Moss kind of quality tour.

That's really good. And then it's also your kind of third part of this sort of triangle is Dominic West, who you know from The Wire. And he was, I think, Prince Charles in the more recent seasons. He was something in the crown. Yeah, I can't remember what. He was something on Whipset Porter's up. Sorry, Chad. He is great.

He is great in this, too. As kind of this, this face of the show that they, that is, you know, argues the fact that he's smart enough to be a writer, but it gets kind of pushed down by the actual writers and producers. It's got Anton Lesser in it who plays a Game of Thrones guy. I love him. Yes, Skyburn. Yeah. He is great, and he is, in the season one, he is your, your boss of all three of them. And he is fantastic.

Like, he is almost, he makes it worth watching the show just him alone. He's replaced in the second season by Peter Capaldi. Yeah. Who I don't know, played a doctor in something. Yeah, some sort of small indie pop thing that happened in the UK. We never heard of over here, yeah. And if they didn't have enough people from the Crown, you've also got Vanessa. Asa Kirby, who was Elizabeth's sister in the first season with Claire Foy.

Princess, the one that got lobotomized? Margaret, Princess Margaret, right? She getting lobotomized? Which someone did. Anyway. Anyway. Anyway, she's great. Una Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter is in there.

I mean, it's got an incredible cast, and it's just a really, really good show. the deal. You want to almost schedule this one. And why I say that is, because you can watch it on Prime, but you need an Acorn subscription to do it. Now, Acorn will give you a free seven-day subscription. You can get through 12 episodes in seven days. You can easily do that, but you want to be ready for it. You don't want to, like, say, the House of the Diamonds or or dance with power rings or whatever other shows you're watching already. You want to make sure that you're ready to start this show as soon as you fire up that acorn subscription. Nice.

I've never even heard of acorn. It's just a way to... Yeah, it's a British... It's almost like, this is our detective series streaming service. Wow. That's what it is. But this is great. This is one, great reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, only two seasons, and you're kind of, you're resolved in the second season.

There's a little bit of a, there's a bit of a yes or no cliffhanger that Tina and I just decided as a yes. Right. And it's like, oh, no, could I have gone one of two ways. We're going to say that it went in the way we wanted it to go for that final. that's that's exactly how i feel about the newsroom like i just oh was there was there an ending like that for the newsroom too it just it just doesn't end very satisfyingly a better example is last man on earth i made up a whole ending

like they were kind of they were lending themselves to an ending but there could have been other outcome so i just made it up yeah make your own pick your own ending it's a your own adventure or whatever there you go there you go good way to do i see tom burke is in this how is he in this because i love tom burke He's, of course, Petorian Jack and Furiosa. He plays Bill Kendall. Oh, yeah, he's really good. I love him.

He works for a competing show and maybe tries to wrangle one of our top three build people into working on his show. Wasn't Tina was saying, wasn't he on Boardwalk Empire? Oh, maybe. I only think of him as Furiosa now but I know there's other stuff obviously I saw him in that God only forgives I think I recommended it here maybe it didn't that was a weird movie hard to watch

He was in Where is it? Also in the Crown This is just basically We've taken all the actors from the Crown And put new clothes on them And had them act like somebody else He's got he's in the new Blade Runner 2099

Series that's being made I'm very excited about that. Okay, cool. He's cool. That guy's awesome. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, really, like, great, great casting in this thing. And like I said, if you like Newsroom, put this on your list and watch it.

Just schedule when you're going to watch it so that you can watch it within those seven days. And does it feel... We got to mention Mad Back, so reset the counter. Yeah. Well, it came up during the John Cusack, favorite John Cusack movies left. Well, the counter is Aberley. Oh, is it? Oh, is it?

Okay. Yeah. For this show, it kind of has to be. Yeah, you got to bring it up. Real quick, does it, it's set in the 50s, you said? It's set in the 50s, yeah. So it's kind of like the launch of these. And it does a good job of looking that way. Like it feels like you're in the time and all that.

Sure. Not it's very, it feels like you're watching British television Mad Men. Cool. Yeah, like it's got that quality of like Mad Men did a great job of making you feel like you were watching a show from the 50s into the 60s. Compare the look of it to, lessons in chemistry. I don't know what it is.

Yeah, I'd say the very similar vibe. Like, I thought, I thought lessons in chemistry did a great job of that, too. Oh, the, um, the captain, the Marvel deal. The Brie, Brie Larson thing. Yeah. Captain Marvel. Do you, did you not feel like, um, did you not feel like lessons in chemistry did that well, Randy?

No, I felt, I just, I felt a very specific thing. Like, this is, this must be what it looked like in the early 60s. And so, I, you know, I don't know. So I just want to, I want to believe it was good. Yeah. Nope.

This does the same thing as far as making it really feel like it's in that time frame. Nobody uses any phrasing. We did turn on subtitles a little bit because there are some people, especially in the first season, who speak very quickly with their thick British accent. And so you want to make sure you get all the weird mannerisms and phrases and things like that. But yeah, Very, very good.

Good. The hour, not the hours, the hour, H-O-U-R, and it's on Acorn on Prime. If you do search on Prime, you'll find it, and they'll say, Would you like to start your seven-day test period for Acorn? Hello. It actually says it in that accent, and then you click the jolly good button, and it'll start your seven days. Oh, I want a jolly good button. Can we get that going?

Can we make the Internet change to just be a little goofier like that? I'd be fine with it. I would like that, too. We have the technology. I can create websites with a jolly good button. Well, Brian, now we can tee up your second recommendal. And it's all set to play. What do you got going here?

We're going to move to a movie that came out a couple of years ago. Tina, I saw this thing. We saw trailers for this movie over and over and over. And we never got around to seeing the movie in theaters. So we watched it the other night and we're like, oh, my God, this is so good. All right, here we go. The African Kingdom of Dahome is at a cross-year. roots. A new king, Gesu, has just taken power. Their enemy, the Oyo Empire, has joined forces with the Mahi people

to raid the Hume villages and sell their captives to European slavers, an evil trade that has pulled both nations into a vicious circle. The powerful Oyo have new guns and horses, but the young king has his own fearsome weapon, an elite force of female soldiers, the Agoji, led by a general, Namiska.

Now, these warriors are all that stand between the Oyo and the Homies Anniolation. It always sounds like they're saying Oreo. The Oreos. This is a film

called The Woman King starring Viola Davis. Um, this is, uh, uh, early 1800s, this kind of elite force. It's almost like if, I, I looked around to see if the, the, um, Wakandan Dora Malaget were modeled after, uh, these guys. Because very, very similar in like, their, their, their, um, their, um, their strength and they're used as this, this kind of weapon. Fantastic. Um, couldn't find any mention of the Dora Malagia being based on the Aguji. But, um, this is, um, um, um, this is, um, um, um, um, um, um, about this group of warriors that are trained to act as a protector for the Dahomey kingdom and not just protecting it from the other kingdoms that want to kind of take it over, but also from, as you heard in that thing, the European slavers who are coming in and trying to take the residence. and even some of the other kingdoms selling some of their members to the European slavers, which we didn't realize was a thing, that it wasn't just, you know, that it was coming from inside as well as coming from the stuff we heard from the outside. This is, God, what's a good comparison?

Like, we got kind of a gladiator vibe. I know we talked about gladiator recently, but this one kind of has that, that. I heard it described as a more. accurate more historically accurate 300 like with 300 did for the whole spartan history thing with obviously some embellishment this was a more grounded but also you know awesome look at a at a at a at a warrior's thing yeah great comparison yeah i could totally totally see that um you've also got john boyega as uh one of the kings um in this uh um i mentioned viola davis I wasn't sure if I recognized anybody else, except I think, oh, yeah, Angelie Kidjo, a musician, Angeley Kidjo is in this.

But I think one of the guys, one of the European slavers, was also on the hour, which was really funny because we watched one right after the other. It was a bizarre timing. Weird. But what was I going to say? This is, man, what a beautifully shot. film in the wilds of Africa, obviously, amazing choreographed fight scenes and not super bloody and violent to answer Stephanie in a petz's question in the chat room. It's violent.

I mean, there's violence, but there's not like the kind of over-the-top gross, you know, someone walking around with a spear through their shoulder and bludges. kind of gushing out kind of stuff it's it's you know it feels appropriate to the story manner does not feel um egregious at all um i've been trying to i watched it when it first hit streaming and i've been trying to describe it without uh naming a couple of movies that it is absolutely not but i can't stop comparing it to avatar and to moulon i know those i know i know i know But it's like... I mean, there is that warring kingdom's kind of element to both of those that is spot on.

And I really mean it as a compliment. Like, those are pretty great films, you know? Yeah, like this is also, this belongs in that sort of list. Does Viola Davis, is there ever a moment where she goes Amanda Waller on everybody and tries to get weird? Yeah. Well, yeah, not... Amanda Waller would more use injunctions and paperwork. work to do the kind of thing that

Nenisa does to the warring kingdoms. But, yeah, this was great. Really, really enjoyed this one as well. Amazingly, initially written by Maria Bellow,

star of the cooler. The cooler and payback. We've seen her on a bunch of things. It was really bizarre seeing her name come up and thinking, is it the same Maria Bellow? And I looked up as, like yeah sure enough it's the same maria bellow wow um and uh directed by a gina maria prince uh by the wood and i don't know if she's done anything else saw that name and like oh well um she's got a bunch

of stuff but i don't know secret life of bees i've heard of the old guard oh the old guard was that cool uh um uh thing that was on netflix with uh charlie's theron yeah yeah yeah that was a charles charles Darren, you know. That movie was awesome. Oh, and it has, it has a Palo from Nikki and Palo season in it, which who's also in 300. So there you go. It's all big full circle.

It all connects. It all wraps around. Anyway, that's called The Woman King. That one is on Hulu. Again, The Hour is on Amazon Prime slash Acorn. And The Woman King is on Hulu. Nice. I wanted to see Woman King.

And I don't remember why I didn't. I think I just got away from me. So I'm glad it's out there. I want to see it. You should. And watch it on the biggest. green you've got because the like I said it is shot so beautifully well it's so my iPhone 14 just kidding that's not true yeah do that yeah exactly make sure it's the pro max yeah all right as long as it's

that we're fine as the 14 pro max it's not the 14 not the s e by golly geez you know you know what else was shot entirely in africa what's that uh Furiosa oh that's true well wait no some of it was shot in australia yeah forgot about that but a lot of it was you're right it's funny that they you'd think they'd have all the desert you'd need in Australia and just stay there. But they always go to Tunisia and like all these other places

to film that stuff. Namibia is the main thing that they like to drive around on. Yeah, and be extremely hot and sweaty. All right, check this out. You don't even have to looove. You don't even have to leave Hulu because my recommendation happens there also

and I'm going to play it now. And you could also go to Disney if you have Hulu over there. But either way, Today's a bit of a recommendation and a warning, okay? So here's your clip. Good morning, darling. Good morning.

You got in late last night. Sorry I was asleep before 11. It's fine. I got held up at the office. That's why I was late. What happened to your forehead? It's nothing. There was an accident.

I'm going to drive home last night, but it's not being serious. What do you mean? Shouldn't you see a doctor? I went by the hospital last night, but they assured me it's nothing. They just gave me some tranquilizers. Robert, you should have called. You went to the hospital on your own? It was nothing.

There's no need to worry. Okay. That's a veryly innocuous scene. And my gosh, we've said many times that we'll watch these two people in anything. So we have to consider. her this. Was that Hung Chow? That was not.

Oh, yes, it was Hung Chow. Thank you. I love her. I forgot which scene I captured, but yes, that's from the first segment, because this is an important note about the thing. It's basically three movies. And I don't mean that in an exaggerated way.

It's not even a really an anthology. It's three separate stories, but the cast are all the same actors, but they play totally different roles, and they're not connected. Other than York Ghosts, Lathamos is a psychopath, and he makes the weirdest stories you've ever heard. So this is your dude from like, you know, what was the one last year?

I already forgot it. Not weird things. Oh, the poor things. Poor things. Which was, you know, I regarded it quite well. I really liked it. I thought Emma Stone was amazing in it. And she deserved that Oscar.

And I'm glad she won it. This is their follow up. And it was very quick. They got this thing out fast. And stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Wollemons, Willem Defoe, Margaret Qualley's in this. Hong Chow, as you mentioned, is in this. She's fantastic. She's never bad at anything.

Monu Athi. I'll say his name wrong, I'm sure. But that dude from Station 11 guy, can't think of it. Station 11, yeah. Station 11, no, was the other one where he found the portal in the basement? Or was it? Was that also? Was that?

That was Station 11, wasn't it? That was Station 11. I think so. I may have conflated that was something else. I thought Station level was the one with McKinsey Davis. No. Oh, shit. You're right.

Yes. Yeah. Archive 81. Archive 81. I do the name and then number, and I get those confused all the time. It's a year like that John Cusack movie. Yeah, exactly. Oh, I can't believe I got that wrong.

Anyway, it is, it's what you, okay, so if you've seen his movies, you've seen things like the lobster, and you've seen things like poor things and any of his other movies, really all of them, you know that he is freaking weird. Everything he does is weird. And what I like about his movies, even though there are at times extremely uncomfortable, very discordant, you know, strange things for sure. What I like about them is I never know where they're going and I don't know where he's, I don't know where they're headed ever. Like that's why I like it. It's new. It's different. I can't predict these plot points.

And most movies have some, at least some predictability around them. His movies never have predictability around them. And these three stories, which may as well. be three separate movies. They're essentially short films. I think the total running time is almost three hours. It's actually kind of long. But you get three very distinct stories. I don't want to get too much into the plot of each one because I don't know. If you're going to see it, you're going to want to just sort of experience it for yourself. But all three are very strange. And if you have not liked his movies before this, you will freaking hate this movie.

I'm talking to you, Tina. You haven't said the name of the film yet. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. It's shit out of Dot com. It's kinds of kindness, kinds of kindness, which to this moment, I don't understand the title at all. It's got nothing to do with nothing in this movie. It's just a word. It's words he put up there for real. Like there's nothing tonally or like story wise that tie into this. With the exception, I guess, is you could probably, there's some parts where you could probably like apply it, but I don't think so. This is like a title. What? a title just it's just a title it's word soup exactly uh the wraith in the chat so uh all i can say is if you like his work then you're then this is really one of those and i was telling brian pre-show early on the one thing that makes his movies different uh or or can be different about his movies is when they're set in a period piece setting they're less weird partly because it's a place out of time and so you don't feel like it's here and now you don't connect it to real life exactly exactly but if you take something like the lobster or you take uh what was the other one with um the weird kid killing of a sacred deer killing of sacred deer and now kinds of kindness you take these movies i haven't seen his first movie i i hear i should dog tooth i haven't seen it uh it wasn't as weird it was weird but not as weird as the latest he probably wasn't allowed to be as weird by producers and stuff because now he's got he's got a free pass right you can kind of do it

whatever he wants. But kinds of kindness as a return to kind of the lobster era. And I don't even know how to describe it. There's stuff in here where you're just like, what the hell just happened? And it's all being acted impeccably. Like, that's the thing. You have some of the greatest actors working today, in my opinion. Emma Stone is great in this thing. In all three of her parts, they're all very wildly different parts. Jesse Plemons playing very different parts and also really stretching here. He's not just the, I don't know, he can sometimes be cast a little bit into a hole. And this is not him. I also just love watching him work. He's one of my favorite actors to watch. So there's nothing wrong with anything he's doing here. And Willem Defoe,

my gosh, he does some stuff in this movie. It's just like, come on, dude. I cannot believe you guys film that. Just some of this stuff. Yeah, there's moments like, all right, I'll tell you one just so you know, if you ever wanted to see Willem Defoe, who is now what in his 70s or something, born in 55, late 60s, whatever it is, if you ever wanted to see him make out tongues and all with Emma Stone, good news. 69 years old, by the way, not even 70. Okay. But if you ever wanted to see that, I got great news for you.

I've had that one on my list for such a long time. And I don't mean like off in the corner. in a couch somewhere in the distance. I mean, if you ever wanted a close-up, literally, of these two people's mouths, doing the... Yeah, if you're going to pay these two people to do that and pay for all the tick-tacks involved, you're going to get good shots. You're not going to put them at a distance. Yeah, you're not going to waste your time there.

There's also a scene where her, Margaret Quali, Jesse Plymonds, and the guy's name I can't pronounce very well, Mahondu, Athi, thank you. Those guys, they do a scene. that I cannot believe they did that scene. You're just going to have to see it or not. Like, I'm not going to recommend this to people who are put off by this level of weirdness. But I like it because it's the only, it's one of the only directors I can watch and writers where I go, I don't know where he's going. And it's not absolute nonsense.

That's different. This is, this is stuff that's just surrealistic and, and doesn't make practical sense. But in the context of what they're showing me, it's almost a horror movie without. that the horror? I don't know how to quite put that. I just watch Long Legs, for example. And Long Legs is good, although I think it's a little hammy on Nick Cage's part, but whatever. We'll talk about that when it's actually streaming somewhere, but I had to use a more complex way to watch that. Sure. I've been talking to Monica about it because it didn't quite land for either of us in a couple of ways, but it's interesting. But that's like a horror movie that's supposed to make you feel uncomfortable

and shock you and have moments of like real discordance. That's what he does, but he does it with amazing actors, and he gets away with it somehow. Lots of vibrant colors. Oh, it's beautiful, beautifully shot. It's interesting how, like, that's the current thing we're into. The filmmakers making odd scenes for you, like Jordan Peel does this. Like, they use a lot of vibrant colors. Yeah, they do that a lot.

He does that quite a bit. He also, it's like a, it's almost like, that's not exactly like a Wes Anderson style. there's something Wes Anderson adjacent pastels right yeah it's something like that 70s colors yeah but also like he often invokes

like hospital colors it's very odd how he can make you feel unsettled and perfectly happy at the same time yeah there's something about also this movie being set essentially in modern LA that just makes it weirder and I can't explain why

but yeah Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin kissing is a thing and it's gross you're the one recommending it I'll have to watch it that's what I'm saying like it's not I know there are people Tina and others who see a Yorgos Lanthamos movie and go

yeah not no thanks not my thing and I respect that and I don't want you to see this because it's all the things you don't like about it this is not for everybody but if you are sort of at least curious about what he makes and does this is really interesting

and I'm convinced Stemma Stone is basically like, I don't know what she is. She's the next Merrill Streep or something. Like, she's very good. She picks, she picks some great roles that aren't your cookie cutter rom-com one after another. Isn't that, didn't we haven't we seen this kind of movie before with her? I mean, her turn in The Curse, which I recommend told a while back, is, is just a weird off-putting,

but fascinating character and I feel like she takes these roles that are so multi-leveled and multifaceted. Yep. And everybody gets naked at one point. Just one. Everybody gets naked. Margaret Quali.

Just like life. Everybody gets naked in life too. No, it's true. We all have to get naked. I took a shower today. Guess how I did it. Naked. Yeah, naked.

Yeah. Anyway, it's streaming now on Hulu slash Disney Hulu, which is a very weird thing to see, by the way. I was telling Brian about this. I log into Disney And because I have the two tied together now, I see up top, the very first banner is

Kinds of Kindness, right next to it, bluey, season whatever they're on. Right. Yeah, those are the same. And it's this mix of hard R weird, you know, Hulu business mixed in with all this Disney stuff. It's a very weird thing to see on Disney.com. But anyway, or Disneyplus.com. Anyway, check it out. Available now.

Watch it if you don't hate things like this. And if you do. And, you know, speaking of Jesse Plumman's, I just looked it up. Civil War is coming to Max in a week. Yeah, I'm excited about that. I never, I was going to see it in theaters and I just thought, you know what? I can't go to a theater for this. I'm going to wait until I gets home.

It was just so, it was so like at the time, it felt like it was so ready for people to pop off about. So I kind of not avoided it, but I was like, I know I'm going to see this. I love Alex Garland. I love all these actors. I'm going to see this. But I had to wait. So I'll see that when it comes out. Randy, let's swing it over to you.

So again, that was Kinds of Kindness Hulu, all right, for all the shitoutelike.com. Jetoutleck.com, yeah. As I've been saying for weeks and weeks, I am deep, deep in my comfort food phase. It's just like, it's been a summer of comfort food for me. I can imagine what stressful things in life you're trying to not have to pay attention to right now, Ray. It's just, it's, I'm actually watching a lot of these at the office. Like, I go to the office and I've got my second screen showing me some of my headphones on, I'm working because I need that comfort.

So like, and by the way, I've decided that the limit is every two years. I will watch Interstellar every two years. It's like there's only so much of that emotion that I can deal with. So this movie is my latest every two years. I'm not watching it more often than that, but I just watched it to feel something. All right. Let's see what we. You know what it is.

Everybody knows what it is. Yeah, let's see what you felt. 1428, the particles were predominantly coarse. But in 29, they're much finer, and they should be ideal for chem analysis. Oh, wow, do everybody hear that? March just discovered dirt. Should we alert the media? Sorry, what are you doing today, Martinez?

Making sure the MAV is still up right? Well, I'd like you to know that visual inspection of the equipment is repaired at the mission success. I also would like to report that the MAV is still upright. What, do you keep leaving your channel open, which leads to Martinez responding, which is leads to all of us listening, which leads to me being annoyed. Roger that Martinez, the captain, would like you to please, uh, shut your smart mouth. We would prefer to use a different adjective to discard Martinez's mouth. Oh, did Beck just insult me?

Dr. Beck and yes. Uh, happy to turn their radios off from here, Commander. Just say the word. Hey, uh, Johansson, that constant communication is the homework of any team that we go. Oh, excuse me. Oh, Randy, tell, do tell. What'd you watch? Bring Mark Watney home.

that's what I've got to say it like I had you know two years is about enough to forget like the real details of how you know like when you feel what you feel and this movie is just it's got the action it's got the comedy it's got the you know that that there's a romantic feeling you can get for a character you know when it's when it's a really kind of a character study I just I love the Martian I think that you should watch it I'm surprised we've never recommended it there's somebody out there who hasn't seen this movie please why The Martian. It's streaming on Max. It's so great. That is Matt Damon. Yeah, it is Matt Damon. And the great director, Ridley Scott, man. That's that dude. Look, he can make a couple of bummers here and there, Napoleon, for example. Although, I see the director's cut. Maybe that's better. That's what I'm going to watch. That's what I'm going to do. Have you seen that you saw the, for, I saw the theatrical release. What was the main? What was the main beef with that? Just not to switch that. That he did not shoot off the nose of the sphinx. I think was the. that that was, like, added for the film.

Like, let's make up stuff about Napoleon that he didn't do. That's such a stupid thing to do. It is. Yeah. I hope that was studio interference and he can, like, take it out of his director's cut. But I will watch the director's cut because a lot of times those impress me. You know, I've always said, Kingdom of Heaven is one of the best and worst movies I've ever seen. Worst theatrical, amazing director's cut.

But anyway, Randy, so The Martian, written by X Warcraft 3, coder still man that movie I feel like is an all-timer we're going to look back on that and 30 40 years and go what a great movie the Martian was it's always yeah and you know you have to talk about book versus movie with this

with this movie because it is one of those examples of as soon as everybody read the book you're like oh that's going to be a movie very soon and why you know like why is that why do some books do that you know and like others were like well they're going to make a movie

movie, but it's not going to be good. You know, like, what are the differences? It's, it's really hard to say, but, like, across the board for the Martian, perfect casting, like, it's just so incredible. All the people back on Earth that have these small important roles in this movie are perfectly cast, you know, so it's not, it doesn't just all fall on our main star here. Like, but even then, like, you can, you could, you could say, well, I like the book more the movie that's great they're different they like it's the the the movie has this like all of these

visuals for you where where the book you're really focused on what the character's thinking and is you just don't really who cares what's going on like what things look like you know yeah i love the movie is freaking beautiful he's in a he you know he's in a home base out on on mars and the interior of that thing is this like one of the best sets you'll ever see you know Just stuff like that. I also think they don't give enough credit. Well, some people don't get enough credit for the other roles in this thing. So I think like Kristen Wigg in a non-comedic role, she's amazing in this.

All the people, Benedict Wong, one of my favorite Benedict Wong's like sub roles ever as the Chinese rep is so good. They've got Sean Bean back at home and he's so concerned. He's so concerned the entire time. So very, very concerned. Yep. Sebastian, Stan, Jeff Daniels. this cast is crazy. Back at home, they have one of the biggest caricatures

that's ever been put in film, which is Donald Glover as Uber Nerd. He's great though. He's really good in it. He is great, yeah. Yes, I totally agree. Totally agree. Love it. That movie's awesome. You're making me want to watch it. Where is the streaming right now? It's on Max. It includes Nick

Mohammed, you know, from Ted Lassow. Nathan from Ted Lassow. Like, just incredible cast all up and down. There's a bunch of of people on a spaceship who turn around and go back to Mars to save Mark Watney. And that includes Jessica Chastain and Kate Mara.

Like Michael Payne's on that thing. Dude, I love these. I love these people. Sebastian Stan is in that ship. Oh, yeah. You're a winter soldier. Yeah. I love all those. Also streaming on Amazon Prime. So if you don't have Macs, you can watch on Amazon Prime. Oh, Prime has it. Very nice. That's good.

Sorry, I had to do a really quick edit on quicktms.l i because uh oh did we oh yeah we you i thought it was going to be something else yeah you told me 2001 so i built all that stuff and uh so i was there red on air light well i can't be blamed for a red on air light when somebody changes what they're doing for quick dms during the segment i changed i changed it from for scott yeah needed me he needed me to change well i just i noticed that it was something i did about a year ago um but you know what O-1 is also very good, 2001 Space Odyssey. So if you're in the mood,

look, if you're in the mood for space shit, turns out there's a ton of stuff right now that is just awesome, old and new. Get out there and watch it. And 2001 is another huge piece of comfort for me. Like, there's, and it's because it's quiet, you know, and it's very contemplative.

Whereas the Martian is comforting because, well, you know, I know how it's going to end. Right. But, um, just there's something about this character. You know, he's just, he's just so interesting. And he's so brash, you know? Yeah. It's really good. Plus, he makes poo potatoes

out there in space. That's right. Right? I mean, think about that. Think about how, like, if you have to survive, you're on another planet. And all you can think of is, well, if I'm going to have a potato, I got to use my poo to grow it. Sure. That's a big deal. Some peepie water, too.

Yeah. Yeah. In water and poo potatoes. Peepee. Peepy water, poop potatoes. Exactly. All right. Well, this is fantastic. I want to see everything we've talked about today with the exception of, I don't think I need to see kinds of kindness again. I'm good. Yeah, you recommended the lobster a couple years ago and I went and watched it and I was like, maybe not for me. I'm not a second time. I'll watch kinds of kindness

if you say so, but not a second time. Yeah, it's not, his stuff is not a second time kind of stuff. I think maybe poor things, maybe is rewatchable, maybe. I think maybe the favorite for me would be the only one of his that I would watch again. I like the favorite. And that was easily, the least weird of his of his things oh by yeah by far dude yeah my miles i will say this the one thing i did like about this it's um he has his characters tend to be like yes i am coming over there i will see you soon i'm going to but it's like a lot of really flat delivery on purpose he does he has his actors do that on purpose this is less of that so it does feel like it's more dynamic the things people are saying they really mean it there's some emotion like it's not just

deadpan you know like the lobster it's just a lot of deadpan delivery is really weird um i always forget you know i always forget is in the lobster is a stepbrothers guy um oh john see or john se riley yeah i always forget he's in that until i've seen that one twice that's a weird one anyway uh these the screenwriter for the martian is drew goddard this is my last note um he and ridley scott are making another movie Oh, nice. Are they, uh, what's, what is it? Do we know?

It's called wraiths of the broken land. That's all we know. Oh. They've got a studio to give them money to make a movie called wraiths of the broken land. I'm in. Let's do it. If it's science fiction, sign me up. If it's not, I guess I'll see it too.

Uh, well, excellent. This is great. Go check it all out. Quicktm.s. I, Randy, uh, this weekend, film sack. What are we doing? You want to tell the fine folks? I've, I've totally forgotten.

I have two. Oh, me you're going to. We're going to, oh, Omega, that's why I've forgotten because it's only easy to forget. And we kind of inserted it, but it's this, I've never even heard of it until you guys brought it up last week. So I'm kind of stoked. I don't know how this one gets attributed to me. I don't know how I, we were looking at Just Watch during a pre-show about nine months ago. And you just said, oh, Omega Doom, look at that.

And we were, and I was like, oh, put that on our list. And we never even heard of it until, I felt like hadn't heard of it until last week, but clearly we talked about it. it before but I look I love me some Rugger Hauer. I like him a lot and it sounds post-apocalyptic I also like that so I'm in for whatever bullshit 1996's Omega Doom serves up

let's go on bring it brandy have a fantastic week you know what it was it was before we watched the Hitcher we were uh we were about oh we were in a Rutger yeah Rutger kick yeah oh yeah how well the shotguns I just hope it's not like um

daughters of Satan where the lead actor is about the only thing interesting about it yeah we will see yeah we're going to find out one way or the other uh have a good week do your dailies randy get out there and do your dailies bye see you all righty that is going to do it for that i got one final thing to take us out on we received this while the show was going and i thought it was interesting uh so we're going to read it now this is a quick text from alan alan he says on finding a thing in your chip bag this is the weird root thing i found in the chips oh yeah yeah says i'm an engineer for

a packaging equipment company, and I'm regularly at Frito-Lay plants. Tell them about this. They want to know these things. Food processing places take foreign objects in food very seriously. I wouldn't call it foreign, though. It's foreign to the edible chip part of the potato. That's true. I will admit I was this close to just tasting the root. I didn't do it. I'm sure it had a dusting of cheddar on it. Yeah, it would have been fine. I just, It just seemed wrong, and I didn't do it. Anyway, it's all the time. Yeah, it's true.

I like a, I mean, it's basically a, it's just potato wire, right? It's the potato marionette strings. That's right. Yeah, it's the Thunderbolt potato style. That's it. It says from the production code printed on the bag when it was filled with these chips, they'll be able to tell the day and time it was made. That's interesting.

And also which plant made it, and on what production line it was bagged on. Good Lord. that's a lot of information on one bag This says This might lead to them reviewing a few things in that plant And the equipment on the specific line To find out how that happened Something had to fail in quality control

To get you what came to And they want to fix it Let's see Don't think of it as a being Karen To get free things Think of it as you are helping it Not to happen to someone else Oh well that's a great way of looking at it

That's a very good perspective You know I only thought about it from the us you know, getting free stuff perspective, the Karen perspective. But this is absolutely something that they should want to know about. Yeah, for sure. He finishes by saying, and the best Frito-Lay quality control

fail story I have is the day I was at a plant and they were having issues with one of the machines that seasons the chips. Oh, the seasoning machine is probably my favorite machine. Right? You know, if I'm going to get a machine, that's the one to get. Anyway, says they had a large

bin of chip bags free for the taking by staff because all of the chips had gone through that machine, had double the amount of seasoning on them, so they couldn't sell them. It's a little like my, uh, uh, uh, lucky charms. You're all marshmallows or something. You're, yeah, right. It reminds me of that. It's just too good to be true. Anyway, I took an armload of over-seasoned jalapeno cheddar chips to D&D that weekend, and they were great, says Alan. Unfortunately, all the 20-sided dyes stuck together. Yep. Yep, but they were lickable.

Very lickable. Yes. Why are all these dyes orange? now. That's an amazing story. Thank you, Alan. And also, you know what? I do think I am going to have the bag still. Yeah, you still have the bag. So it's got the, it's got all the numbers on it that you need to give to them. So that's great. Yeah, and I'll just be, I just won't be an asshole about it. I'll just be like, hey, just so you guys know, I got this root. No big deal. Just probably something you should know. Here's the bag number, blah, blah, blah, and be done with it. Exactly. Exactly. And I'll bet because you're so nice about it, they give you more free stuff than they would have had you been a caring about it. Yeah, I'll bet you're right.

Oh, look at this guy, being nice and helping us out. Here's a, here's an actual Frito. But just in case, I'll say, P.S, I run a podcast, a network. P.S. Look at my followers. I'm on these, these, and these and these platforms. So just, you know, just so you know. Just kidding.

I'm not doing that. That's going to do it for us. Frogpants.com slash TMS will get you to everything you need. That includes song requests. And that's something we're going to do right now before we leave. Brian, who is it? Yeah. this is a request going out to

I didn't have a queued up can you believe that I didn't have a queued up Scott well you had to fix the 2001 space odyssey I understand doing so much of that during the show so much of that yeah holy crap why am I not finding it hold on a second the song is that oh yeah why isn't that in the list there it is

oh because it came in I was looking at the wrong it's September now did you know that I did know that I can't even believe that it's September but it is I hate it it. Yeah. And I have not created the filter for September. You know what? I love it for September herself because she's going to have a birthday. I like that. Oh yeah. But otherwise this month can take a poo. Actually, I kind of like September. What am I saying? I like September. It starts cooling off. My gosh. We need that. It's been 90-something lately in Denver. Justin wrote in and said,

Hey, Sonic and Bomberman, great pick there. I'm having an eventful year and thought I'd ask for a cover for my 37th birthday, getting close to the old lady bumper. By the time you play this, I may be getting my first home ahead of getting married at the end of September. It's an eventful time, but I'm glad to have you guys to listen to as I was house hunting and driving to and from work. The fun you have with the show carries over to all the listeners and makes my days better. Love the show, though, signed Justin. Oh, that's nice. It's really nice. And also, you do get one of these. Let's party. You're still young enough. You're fine. You're good. Yeah. This is a band called The Protomen. These guys are awesome. They did a

A very clever way of doing cover songs. They did a soundtrack to a movie that does not exist. Let me find that one. Because this one is from an album called Present a Night of Queen, 2012 album, where they do queen covers, as you might guess, from that name. But they did an album called The Cover Up, Came On 2015, it's called The Coverup Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Only, here's the thing, there's no movie called The Coverup that came out in 2015. 15 that they would have done a soundtrack to it was an excuse for them to not only do some amazing covers but also uh also insert dialogue from a movie that doesn't exist crazy that is a weird

idea i love it that's awesome it's great it's so so good um anyway this is a cover of queen's hammer to fall this is again from the proto men's album a knight of queen from 2012 to you guys tomorrow for a Thursday edition with Wendy and more of TMS. Lady Mercy won't be home tonight We don't waste no time at all Hear the bell She'll answer the call Come to the US to us all

You're just waiting for the habit of all Ah Oh every night And every day A little piece of me is born away But lift your voice The Western way

Build your muscles As your body decays Go Turn your line And play that game Let the air set Cover it cover it all Till one day

They called your name No It's now the song For the hammer to fall Ever Come on Come on Come on

Come on Come on Come on, listen. The rich or poor are famous, but your truth is all the same. Come on, come on. Like your jaws, the rain is falling through your wind of pain. Nothing that your struggles all in there Yeah

Yeah That is for me. Ah! Ah! Let it ispaw! That is! As far! Those who grew up tall and proud

Beneath the shadow of the mushroom cloud Convin' our voices can't be heard They just want to scream it louder and louder What the hell we're fighting for Don't just surrender anyone at all Just got time to say your prayers Nice, savage time for the hammer, the hammer, to fall. It's going to fall, have it, you're not.

Have it to fall. All right, let's you Have it to fall, baby Heaven to fall Oh, give it to me one more time This show. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes. Get more at frogpants.com.

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