The Morning Stream - TMS 2704: Spork Talk

Episode Date: September 11, 2024

Garlic Aioli Borealis. Team Dunawamy. Kim Spores Johnson. I forgot it's Remembrance Day. I got disoriented when I went to peeeeeee. Slap Your Momma Banana Nut Bread. Did You Say Fap Sticks?! Let's test the ship's feezers with Dunaway and Amy. Jeff Glowbloom. Our Nuts are Sweeter and Have More Girth. VPN: Virtual Poo Poo Network. Will It Suck. I've always wondered about the Alphabet. Google Plays Monopoly with Tom. Cat Batman with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don't look now, but there's a giant flying horse over Tokyo looking for feeble humans to feast upon. The best move right now would be to go and sign up at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on the morning stream, garlic aoli borealis. Team Dunaway me. Kim Spores Johnson. I forgot it's Remembrance Day. I got disoriented when I went to pee. Slap your mama banana nut bread.

Did you say fapsticks? Let's test the ship's feasers with Dunaway and A. Jamie. Jeff Glowbloom. Our nuts are sweeter and have more girth. VPN, virtual poo-poo network. Will it suck? I've always wondered about the alphabet. Google plays Monopoly with Tom. Cat Batman with Nicole and Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Now just turn your head sideways and you can see how it works.

There's a variety of these things. They're called emoticons and lots of intranauts use them. Making it even more useful and delightful. The morning stream, the good guys will come and get you. Okay. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for September 11th, 2024. I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Ibit.

Hi. Hello. Hello, Scott. Just realized it's September 11th. Just hit me. Yeah, Remembrance Day. Yeah, that's why I was lucky to see, do I have anything in the closet that has a flag on it

or is red, white, and blue or anything like that? So I said, nope, I sold it for blue. I don't have any Hawaiian shirts that are predominantly red, white, and blue. They're pretty much every color. Yeah. All my T-shirts are, I got a lot of black. I got a lot of white. I don't have a lot of shirts anymore with, like, stuff on it.

T-shirts, I mean. so I feel like I'm going to a black flag concert or something like that which you know nothing wrong that black flags great nothing wrong with that at all yeah Ba House maybe maybe Peter Murphy on there not Peter Murphy Peter what was his name Peter Murphy pretty Peter Murphy was in Bell House yeah that's right yeah you're out the way you will survive I love that guy I can listen to him all day anyway I'm going to his concert uh hey everybody it's uh we're back we hope you're all well, I didn't watch the debate.

I didn't either. Yeah, how was trivia? You went there instead, right? Trivia? No, I went to Puzzle Pint. And it was brutal. It was in a bar that had the debate on all the TVs with closed captioning. So my friends that I, you know, Tina and the Moors, I'd be, okay, so on this one, looks like we've got to transpose these letters into a different order to figure out the answer. and it looks like you just said people are eating dogs. Yep. So I was like, okay, am I doing this on my own? Am I puzzle pining on my own tonight? It's hard when someone's talking about mass, you know, dog pet eating.

So it's hard to focus, I suppose. Yeah, I did hear about that stuff. And I just kind of rolled my eyes and went, oh, I think I'm glad I'm not hearing this. I think I'm good, you know? And for those of you at home going, oh, don't bear your head in the sand, the people are eating dogs. No, they're not. A complete horseshit. That whole thing is horse shit.

All right? So knock it off. Total horseshit. I had a guy, I was making fun of something, and the guy on threads or something said, I can't believe you're laughing at this. I'm like, it's not happening.

Yeah. I'm laughing at it because it's literally not a thing. It's not happening. People on TV said so. People have been college eight events and telling them that. It's like, okay, no, none of that. None of that is true. None of that is accurate.

No. It's the kind of thing when you hear it, you immediately need backup. information to prove it one way or the other. I'm looking forward to seeing because, you know, we know we're going to watch a recap or highlights or something to 18 and I want to see Kamala's policies and stuff like that, the kind of stuff that I knew, you know, what Biden was all about. I want to see what Kamala is all about.

I know she's who I'm voting for. There's no question about that. The debate wasn't for that, for me. debate's not about that, but it's, it's, I want to hear what her, what her plans are for the next four years. Yeah. It never hurts to hear that stuff, I guess. Yeah. But everything else about it. I can't, I couldn't do it. I try, you know what? I thought for a minute. I'm like, you know, Kim's in bed. She's all short up in there. I'm out here on the couch. I could watch it. And then I went, I could play World Warcraft. Yeah. Yeah. I kind of, I kind of decided that

if Scott's not going to watch it, it's almost a guarantee what he's going to be doing. Yeah, I went and got some gear and we're into season one and stuff's going good. So, you know, I did that. That's how I spent my time. There you go. Nothing wrong with that either. Felt nice and productive. All right, we got a quick thing from Robert and Handerthucky.

We've not heard from him in a while. So this is nice. Yeah, yeah. And he wrote in about the whole pecan thing. I don't like pecans. I've made this clear on the show. And so he says this, dear Saba and Brazil nut. What's a Brazil nut?

I don't know what that is. A Brazil nut. What's a Brazilian? Um, isn't, didn't we figure out that a Brazil net is like the same as a Philbert or something? Like, it's a, um, it's a large, uh, if they're, if they're the ones I'm thinking of, it's almost like got the texture of a macadamia, but it's about five times the size of a macadena. Yeah, it's like a slice of orange almost. Yeah, right, exactly.

All right, there it is. But I don't know a sabah. I don't know what a sabah is. They find them. It's a hazelnut. Oh, it's a hazelnut? Oh, it's a hazeln lot. So it's got, oh, they're in Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.

All right, that makes sense. But Brazil got the naming rights because they have 3,000. What does that mean? Oh, 3,000 more tons of it available every year as far as what they produce. So you produce it, you get to name it as opposed to you discover it you get to name it. No, you produce it. That's a lot. 33,000 tons in Brazil.

Bolivia does ships 30,000 tons per year. Peru, 5,000 tons. and the rest of the world combines to, the rest of the world does the remaining 69,000 tons of, these are, that's a lot of nuts. That is a lot of nuts. I don't even show me peanuts and cashews. I'll probably have my mind blown.

Where are the tons of those coming from? Yeah, it must be a lot though, right? Oh my gosh. Anyway, it is, it's funny, though, because when you do get the mixed nut assortment and they've got the Brazil nuts in there, it's you reach in there to grab a handful, and you get a Brazil nut,

and a cashew. Yeah. Because the handful of nuts is, like the Brazil net is your handful of nuts. How do you feel about a cranberry, a little dried cranberry raisinette things in there? Totally fine with that. I love balancing the, you know, I'm a big fan of the sweet and salty combo. Me too. That's why I'm kind of on board with trying the cinnamon toast crunch bacon when it comes out.

I'm sure somebody's going to, if they're not going to send it to us, I'm going to buy it and just we'll try it on. the show. No, we should absolutely do it on the show. Bacon. That's crazy. Zoe, Zoe's probably stoked, but I think it sounds weird. But I'll eat it. I'll try it. Anyway, dear Saba and Brazil nut regarding pecans, Scott, you mentioned you don't care for pecans. Your description of a bitter flavor and chalky consistency reminds me of Georgia pecans you buy at the store in the baking section. They're also used in mixed nuts. I don't care for those either. But, Scott, have you ever eating a Texas native pecan. If you haven't, then

you really don't know what pecan should taste like. They're sweet and never better. Well, yeah, if you coat these things in sugar and stuff, I've had those. He's saying that they don't think he's talking about candied pecans. I think he's saying that a Texas native pecan is sweet and not better like

Georgia pecans. I guess I've never had one, so I don't know. They're also longer, or sorry, larger and longer than the inferior Georgia pecan. Boy, look at this. Longer than larger and longer. More girth than a Georgia pecan. That's right. Texas going after Georgia here a little bit.

He says, no offense in parentheses, so take it easy, everybody. It says, my whole family is from Texas. Those trees grow in front yards all over the state, and the harvest each year is enough to, or the harvest each year is enough to last the entire year. To this day, at any time, my mom has several pounds of pecanes in the

freezer ready for banana nut bread. Someone in the family in Texas will ask who needs pecans and mail them out. That's crazy. wow it's like her kim's dad does this with peaches we just she just went over there before she got sick and brought home like three buckets at just huge fresh peaches oh they're so good wow she's supposed to be bottling or canning them but yeah not not any shape to be doing any sort of thing like that right now yeah oh i don't know if i've told everybody she has covid the test was positive

yesterday morning so i don't think i mentioned that somehow i don't have it i slept on the couch and I wasn't used to it. And at one point I woke up and I got disoriented because I had to pee. And I stood up in the direction that I instinctively go to go pee is no longer the direction you go. That's toward the garage. So I'm like... You're not peeing on the dining room table. I feel like if I as a kid, I absolutely would have peed in the wrong place.

I'm sure of it. Because kids do that. They'd get disoriented. But I was just like, oh shit, that's right. I'm over here now. And it was just an annoying night. I slept like crap. uh whatever but it was worth it to give kim her space i didn't have to hear her cough all night i also

didn't have to breathe in the spores you know the virus the virus spores yeah yeah hopefully uh she's on she's feeling a little bit better today as i was telling brian pre-show so she's doing she's doing okay good good uh nothing in her lungs or anything it's all like upper respiratory and that's always a good sign so anyway uh he says this p s the next time kim makes banana bread cut a thick slide butter both sides sprinkle a little salt on each side and pan fry it until it's crisp it'll make you slap your mama oh that sounds amazing it really does doesn't it yeah i want some banana nut bread right now to try this for science for science yeah my mom would not be happy though if i slapped her she's getting too old for that i think it'd kill her i can't do yeah no no you're supposed to slap her with the crisp uh banana bread

slice yeah that she can handle she can take one of those Nonetheless, and notwithstanding, my love for the show persists, says Robert. Well, Robert and Hendertucky, thank you for the info. So I guess I'll just have to try Texas pecan because I really don't know. I don't know what they taste like or what the difference is. Yeah, I definitely want to try those. You do you think it's just a different strain? You grow it in a different tree.

Is it a hybrid thing? Yeah. You know, it's like, what's, there are certain things that taste that are called the same thing in different states, but taste different. I'm trying to think, I mean, somebody brought up oranges between California and Florida. Maybe if I had them side by side, I could easily tell the difference or tell a difference. But, yeah, be curious, be curious to see it. And I wonder if, you know, Chuck was saying in the chat room that the Georgia pecans that we get that are bitter and dry are probably because they're stale, you know, bagged at the grocery store. Absolutely are.

I have a bag of those stale Georgia pecans right there. bottom of this bookcase right here. So I don't know if I need to, you know, when I'm out there for the meetup next month, if somebody's going to provide for me some fresh Georgia pecans. Yeah. Because there's a, you know, there's a couple. Chuck is half of them that is certainly taking offense to Robert and Hendrituckie's shade being thrown on the Georgia, the inferior, girthless and short and minuscule

Georgia pecan. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's up to Chuck and Amy then to bring you the proper stuff so we can, you know, we can get Texas better, or get, uh, get, uh, Atlanta back in the fight here. Exactly. Don't let Texas take all your steam. All right. You guys, you guys, uh, they made freaking all the Avengers movies in your backyard over there. Texas can't claim that. What they make in Texas? Some kind of weird Western in the 70s. Yeah. Right. Take that. Take that. Yeah. Jerks. All right. Just kidding.

They're playing great listeners and people in Texas. They've promised that the nerd bus can stop off at a pecan stand. How many people are going to be riding in the nerd bus? It's like eight of us in there, right? Oh my gosh. Is that true? What do you drive it in? What are you all riding in?

I think Chuck rented the mystery machine. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. Okay. Zoinks. And you can go like solve crimes and pull masks off people and be surprised it was the genuder. For those meddling kids, yeah. It was the janitor the whole time.

Oh, shit. All right, well, let's play a game. I like games. Yeah, yeah. And we're going to play one. We need a player for that. We need a couple players for that. Yep, we need one name done away.

Oh, good. I just found one named Dunaway, so he's here. Oh, thank goodness. All right, good. And our caller is going to be a familiar person. Whoops. If I can pull it up properly. Here we go.

I'm going to add them both at the same time. They are one of our familiars. she is our familiar She is our familiar And I don't know if that That may not be nice I don't know if that's nice We'll find out

Momentarily Well what do we have here We have another edition Of the Tad Pooley Feud Starring Brian Dunaway Brian welcome to the show Oh hi Scott and Brian And now I'm starring

Oh my God Did I get a raise Yeah You got no Oh you didn't You got a raise You got a raise in title only Yeah, yeah. You know, it's like they do in your companies where it's like,

hey, we're going to promote you. That's your raise this year. You're just getting a new title. And new responsibilities. Congratulations. Yeah, and a pizza party, perhaps. That's always fun. Oh, we had an Amy for a second. We don't have an Amy anymore. Let me call her back. We'll hit ring there. I don't know what happened there. We have backups if this doesn't work. Hi, Amy, you there? Hi, I'm here. Yes. Sorry. I just had the rest.

start my Discord. Oh. You know, I'm in here working and just not paying attention. And Discord and my work VPN don't be nice to do that. Well, there you go. VPN. Virtual PooPoo Network is what they call that. Right.

And so normally when I'm doing my segment, I will have that all prepared. But I asked you the question like, hey, can I still play even though I'm a guest person? And then I like didn't like do all the restarting of Discord. and all of that before you called me. So I was like, oh, crap. Well, you are also literally the fourth person. I didn't give you, I didn't butt you in line. You actually landed right in the slot, so nice job.

Landed in the slot. Poor Talley. Love did you still use the phrase, but you in line. Yeah. Isn't that what you used to say? It's what I used to say. Yeah, always used to say that. Yeah, quit button in line, we'd say to people who are button in line.

Well, anyway, it's good to have you here. We're going to play this game. Brian's going to explain the rules, and then we're going to see who wins. Brian, take it away. Although Amy certainly could use my puppet to do these rules because she did at TMS, Vegas a couple of years ago. It's time to play in the tadpulli feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brian, you have to predict the answers they gave us.

It is Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Amy, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes Figment 2, Creed Valley, the person that we tried to give this to last week, or I'm sorry, earlier this week. I already had it. Monday. Already had it. And Heretics Fork.

Ooh, Heretics Fork. A bunch of heretics eating meatballs. Much more a fan of Heretics Spork, the follow-up game. Yeah, it's a little more versatile that game. You can use it in more situations. Do they still have sports with the KFC? KFC, I think so. Yeah, you can get a little spork.

I know they still do with the Taco Bell. Do they still have customers at KFC? Are you kidding me? Mashed Potato Bowls? I'm in. Oh, yeah, that's funny you say that. There's a court, according to this, I found just multiple articles all in a row when I looked up KFC spork. They claim that KFC is, is largely we have them to thank for the success of the spork.

The spork does not exist without them. That makes sense. We wouldn't have Toy Story 4 without them, thinking of that. Yes. That's right. Sporky. It makes sense, right? Because with KFC, you always had like your sides of coleslaw and mashed potatoes.

which would normally require two different utensils. It's less of a thing with an enchurito. And the colonel was like, I'm not having that. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Yeah. Did nobody like REI or like, you know, camping people invent the spork first?

Like, because it seems like that would be a very, you know, I know that it is a very utilitarian thing for people who like to, you know, sleep on the ground. We definitely, we definitely did have a, we had sporks in our, in our camping stuff when I was a kid anyway. Yeah, before then it was hard times trying to stab a meatball with a spoon. That's right. But you had to have cereal. Sometimes you'd have eggs. And so a bunch of plastic sporks would work, but we had metal ones too. Wait, wait, wait.

You can eat cereal with sporks? Hell yeah. It's a spoon, man. Sure. It's not a spoon. And you can even put the little short little tines against the side of your bowl and drain the milk out of your spork if you don't want as soggy. I don't know if I'm comfortable learning this about you, but okay.

This is true. I'll take it. You know, it's better than a, you know, it's better than a spork? Fop sticks. Ah, fop sticks. Look at those. Fapsticks? What?

Fop sticks. He has them right there. He's showing them on this camera. Fork and chopstick combo. These are, these are, these. Oh, yeah, those things. That's probably good for it. I keep these at my desk for eating cheddar-coated beaver nuggets because I don't want to get powder fingers all over my keyboard.

They're also got the, they got the good, easy use, uh, chopstick format, you know? They do, yes, exactly. I sure hope the tabooly feud is about spoons and forks the day. These are more like feasers. They're more like feasers. Yeah, feasers. There you go, feasers. I like feasers.

Feasers. Yeah, you got a travel pair of those that I got in like a little goody bag once for like, you know, eating, eating Cheetos off of one side. Yeah, it's the best. Exactly. Who wants to get orange dust all over everything they touch? Not me. I don't. Call me Howie Mandel, but I don't want to coat everything I have in a nice fine orange dust.

Yeah, yeah. All right, let's play the game. Let's do it. Okay. Let's play this game. Name a Feaser. No. We asked 522 tadpullers to name, oh, I guess put your hands on your buzzers.

We're going right into it. Put your hands on your buzzers. Give me your best answer to this. Name a celestial event. Scott. Supernova. I clicked the buzzer, but I don't know. Supernova.

He does this every time I have any hesitation at all. He totally does. Yeah, he totally does. Show me, Supernova. Yeah, number three answer. Nice. Two more super answers will beat it. Brian. Supernova.

It's a great Liz Faire song, by the way. Liz Farr's supernova. Champagne Supernova. It's timely. There's that one, too. The red wine supernova. from your chapel rhone sure yeah yeah I was just went I let I let Scott go first because I was like I wasn't 100% sure I was going to say something stupid like eclipse and then you're going to be like that's not a celestial event and I'm like but it's two celestial bodies moving in space so I think it is sure yeah yeah so that's what you're saying give me the eclipse can you be more specific oh my good solar eclipse are you happy show me solar eclipse number one answer on the board oh right on.

Godfooler saying that one. Amy, you got me. Dunaway. We got that. You and you, baby. Let's do this. It's Dunowamee. Gene Dunowamey.

Dunowamey's a great. That's awesome. Dunowayee. I love that. Because aim away. Aim away is not bad. The sport conversation just put me to make it a portment toe out of everything. There you go.

So Ibbett made us define a solar eclipse. I'm assuming that lunar eclipse is got to be number two or somewhere up in there. What do you think? I 100% agree. Oh, there we go. Then me and the Muppet handler are going for Lunar Eclipse. I mean, maybe I, you know, maybe that was the determination between something on the board and off the board. Oh.

Oh. All right. All right. Well, let's see. We're going to find out right now. Show me lunar eclipse. Yeah, it's number five. Yeah.

You pretty much, yeah. Damn it. Yeah. All right. All right. Name a celestial event. We went supernova. Scott with three.

Brian has control. Brian and Amy have control of the board. Right. Now, black holes are created by a celestial event, but would that be, that's kind of the result set. But does it matter because it's the tad pool?

It's a tad pool. Yeah. I could say anything. Like, what about like a solar flare? Ooh, a solar flare is much better. That's actually a celestial event that people know about. There was a recent one, too.

There was some recent... It was around the time we had all the Aurora Borealis that we were able to see in our part of the country, Scott. No, not that. It was something in the last few days. It was like a flare... Oh, really more recent solar flare. Some kind of crazy caught-on-camera thing.

I don't remember. It always affects... When it reaches us, it always affects like GPS and other weird communication systems. You know, the weird communication systems we have. All right, do you guys go with Solar Flair? Solar Flair. Solar Flair. Show me. Solar Flair.

Oh, man. Also, Solar Flair has a great voice. Yeah, no, number 13 is Solar Flair. Oh, 11 or not even 11. That was good. Sorry. Meteor shower or meteors? I don't know if they'd be the same category or not.

I think meteor is not really a celestial event, but sure, why not? Why not? One that comes and smacks into your planet or burns up in the air? I think it's a media, that's a thing. Sure. All right. Show me meteor shower. Ooh.

Number two. It's being kind of the one that most people were referring to because that comes around. It's one and more. Well, it's a popular meteor shower. Number two, answer on the board. A meteor itself is just a thing. Yes, it is a celestial. Yeah, celestial.

Yeah. Kind of my argument, though, about the thing earlier, though, right? Galactus, just kidding. we're not doing that one. He is a celestial event. He is a celestial event. And that would qualify, yes. My hunger.

Ego. I'll bet you that's... You ever think Galactus ever trips over any planets or moons or anything? Oh, sure. Sure. Yeah. He just kicks him out of his steps on him like Legos. And then he goes, oh, freaking hurt.

And he gets caught up in Saturn's rings. And he's like, I'm walking here. Yeah. To a surfer, to me, he'd say. Clean this up. All right. I'm going to do... I think

comets comets are celestial events I need I need more specificity please oh oh oh oh my really oh yeah I mean they're they're

really right I wonder why that's that's so specific well because a comet again is a thing right right but it's like saying planet

That's a good point. Well, no, because comets are hurling through space and not in anyone's, anyone's orbit, though, right? I mean, doesn't that? Yeah, does that define a comment? But it's not really an event, right? I mean, you're Scott. Well, no. We're orbiting, too, Scott.

Are we, are we an event? No, I'm saying it's, I'm saying it's not orbiting. Thank you, Amy. Thank you. Yes, I got, I saw what you were doing. Yeah, but they're not orbiting. us. You know what I mean? It's not like the moon. So it's not like I go, ah, the moon is a, I'm not going to call the moon a slest you'll vent. All right. I'm going to, I'm going to move away from

comments because I don't know, I don't know where to go with that. So let's go with, um, uh, wow, did you see black hole? I'm going to say black hole. Oh, you took our hole. Let's go with star. Let's go black hole. Let's go black hole. Let's go black hole. Let's go black hole. Let's go black hole. Oh, son, won't you come? Show me black hole. Damn it. I would argue that's also, I mean, the creation of a black hole is an event. It's a post-of-it-it-it's what's left over after the event.

Number 18, still didn't stop the tadpool from saying black hole, two people. Isn't a black hole what comes after a supernova? Yeah, that's right. That was my argument. Sometimes a supernova, but also a stark collapse. which is not always a supernova. It doesn't always result in explosion. Amy, I'm looking at these answers,

and since I don't think Gonzo from Muppets from space is up here, it looks like a lot of these appear to be terrestrial observed. Like, solar eclipse, meteor shower, supernova, which we aren't really assuming the naked, lunar eclipse, what about something like the sunrise? I mean, that's a rotation. Is that potentially? I mean, somebody in the chat said it.

Rainbow Bright in the chat said it. Oh, if Rainbow Bright said it, then it's kind of down here. But what do you think? I got something else? Yeah. Well, so I was wondering, like with it, by the way, I love the word specificity. So much fun to say specificity. How many syllables isn't that?

With that particular clue as to the comet, I'm wondering if we, if we name the comet. Oh, so we're going to say the Haley's comment of. or Hale Bop event. Yes, that's what I was wondering. Because, like, that, you know, the, you know, Hallie's comet, crossing the atmosphere is an event for Earth. Right. And so that was what I was thinking there.

Okay. Okay. All right. Let's do it. We're taking, uh, go with Halley's Comet. We're taking the, the, the, we're taking you. Hallie's Comet. Howley's Comet.

Show me, Hallie's Comet. Every 78 years, I think. Oops. Oh, my. No, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I should be that. Oh, look at that. I should be that. Amy? See?

Number four answer on the board, Hallie's Comet. Now, again, this is what the Tadpool said. I assume that they mean Hallie's Comet approaching Earth, which would be the event. Hallie's Comet always exists. Is an event? Yeah. Yeah. So the, the expectation that this is terrestrial observation.

Bobby, by the way, is having, I think he's having aneurism in the channel because he's saying. If something exists, it's an event. Like, uh. All right. So let's, let's, so let's, yeah. So, yeah. I mean, we could go with your other, your other comment there and say the hail bob. Oh, hellbop. Yeah, we can go back to sunrise. Yeah, we can go back to sunrise. Yeah, that would do that or do you do the hellbop. Let's, let's do the hellbop. How do you do the hellbop is I think you put your hands up and down like this and you kind of. Take a step to the right and then a jump. Yeah. And then I think you, you mutilate yourself. I think it's how they go. Oh, yeah. Let's go with, uh, let's go with, uh, Drink the Kool-Aid, yeah. All right. Terrible, Amy. Show me.

Here's where, here's where, Bobby, he's really going to have a hard time with this one, too. Show me, Hail Bob. I'm going to take this one because there were about five different comets listed that people said that weren't Haley's. And I was like, all right, I kind of got to lump those into just comet passing Earth. Because they list them separately from Haley's, so. Right. All right. Didn't I say.

Good, good. Comment passing. I didn't say that. No, you just said comment. If you would have said comment passing Earth, Scott, I would have, like, grin to give you those nine lovely point. But you just said comet. And I don't know if you were talking about the cleanser or the... It really shows you what centrist we are, man.

We're just all about us, right? How does it affect us? Have it? Passing the Earth. So, yeah, I think sunrise is now. I think that's going to actually be a good one. Yeah, go for it. Go for sunrise.

Give me some sunrise. That celestial event of... us rotating back around to see the sun. Show me sunrise. It took a long time. Sunrise number 14 on the list. It's a daily thing. Not a bad guess, but.

No, no. Oh, gosh. Now we got to make a decision because we're in the weirdness. What's the thing in the Iceland deal where you watch the sky and all gets rippily? Oh, penguins. penguin did I can't think what that's A celestial event there Scott

What's it called though It's called I'll take I'll take either of the The both Either the common name for it Or the official name for it Oh look at there

Sky What's it called? The sky It's called Sky I want to go with Sky Carter sent you a bunch of pictures I know I can't think of the damn name It's a

Sky Where is it located it's in the uh oh northern lights northern lights it's just too painful and how would you describe them let's see what you did there show me northern lights or aurora borealis six points for that one

i got 11 i got some ointment for that you got some ointment for the aurora borealis that's when you're running you got if you're going to do a long run like a 10k you need to put some yeah borealis on your aurora There you go. Okay. Well, now we're getting into the weeds. Ugh.

Celestial events. Three answers still left on the board. Seven, eight, and ten. And only an eight point difference between the two of you. Again, Brian and Amy with 19. Scott with 11. Scott has control the board. Two strikes left for Scott.

Just one left for Brian and Amy. Well, a common phrase that isn't all that scientific, though, But when people see it, they call it a falling star. And that sounds like somebody might put in here. So let's try falling star. That's smart, even though it's essentially like what? It's like a comet or whatever. It can be a lot of things.

I'm going to save you the strike and say that would be a meteor. Okay. Oh. That's typically what they are, small meters. I guess a meteor right is the ones that come into our atmosphere. Right. That's, yeah. But don't we see some, don't we, isn't it possible to see a star sort of blink out?

I mean, you could probably see a human if they were. bouncing off, bouncing off and burning up. You're saying like the collapsing of a star. Like the debt, like you're out and looking in the thing and you know, millions of years ago, some star collapsed but you just saw it today because of the speed of light.

That's what I'm talking about. Whatever that is. All right. Let's call it dying star. I don't know the best way to say it. Sure. Let's call all right. Show me a dying star. Oh. I 100% agree that that is a, that is definitely a, well, hold on a second. Yeah, I would definitely call that an event because that

absolutely happens. I'm trying to think if somebody, if it's in here and somebody called it something different, it wasn't in the top 11, but, yeah. Chat's saying it's a supernova, but supernovas are, that's the explosion stuff. That's oasis. We don't always see that, right? I mean, we don't see, the naked eye stuff is what I'm talking about. So I don't even know what I'm seeing when I see a star blink out or fall or whatever. I don't know what that is. I guess. Usually what you're seeing is probably light pollution.

It's probably just the MTV satellite passing the front of it. Actually, that could, that very well could do that. That's the reflection of Elon Musk car that he sent out. We used to see those. When we'd go to Lake Powell and you get such clear night, you'd see satellites all the time. It was such a wild thing to see. It is so wild. We have trash up there.

Celestial event. How about? yeah I don't know Amy we got any more what are you thinking well the one I had in my pocket was Aurora Borealis and then That's a good one though

You don't say it again? Nope nope because it's already there So I mean There are How about how about Mercury and Retrograde I'm always hearing that whenever I used to Go on dates and stuff What are you going on dates with

Carl Sagan people with astrological No, those people with astrology. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's true. That is right. Astrology versus astronomy. Yeah.

The pseudo- The pseudos science. What about a full moon? Would that be? I think that's a good answer. You like a full moon? Yeah, that would actually be pretty good. Waxing and waning.

Yeah, all that good stuff. Let's wax and wane this moon. You had to say something specific. I'll take that. I'll take that. Show me full moon. show me your full moon number seven

damn I think that takes me out of contention doesn't it or does it oh no I could still 15 if you get Amy still wins either way Amy wins either way and Scott can still win if he gets the last two okay all right

and number 11 still on the board oh that's right I forget about that rules number 11 is kind of one of my favorite celestial events right So yeah, there's a bunch of other moon things. We could do like a blue moon or a harvest moon. Ooh, people do like the harvest moons.

Yes, they do. It's getting near that time. I like that. It's a harvest moon. What is the harvest moon? It's like a... It's a big giant moon. Yeah, it appears larger in the sky and it's red tinted.

At least here we have our harvest festival based on that. Okay. It plays a big role in one of the Dark Tower books, and I never remember. Corona ejection. I always like saying that. Is that how to say it? Yeah. The solar flare.

I was going to say, isn't that the same thing as a solar flare? It is. But you never know. The tadpole could, I like, I just want an opportunity to say ejection. You just want to say coronal. I'm sure. Ejecta. Yes.

What do you think? Bobby. Boy, Bobby really should have been contested today. Corona. The gas injection is not the same as a solar flare. It's so much fun watching Bobby lose is crap. That's why I love Bobby. He's my favorite.

I know. Well, it's great. It's great to have somebody there to like be like, well, you know, especially when he's knowledgeable. It's annoying. Exactly. It's annoying when the person actually doesn't know as much as you. But when it's Bobby and he will readily admit if he doesn't know as much as somebody else. And so if Bobby is telling you know you're wrong, you could be pretty sure that you're wrong, right?

so yeah um okay yeah so what were to say we were to say like a a moon thing or a coronal mass ejection since bobby says it's not the same thing or think that maybe bob did bobby take this quiz because he might be the two or three people down there at the bottom that maybe you're i'm sure bobby uh answered like gave an answer but i'm wondering which one i'm curious i'll have to ask him which one he put in uh when he started when he did the survey yeah all right yeah let's do a one of those coronal ejections because i just like saying it How about that? All right.

Oh, my gosh. What must be the last two here? Holy shit. This is our dinosaur ending event. How about that? I mean, that's a comet. So I don't think he's going to. I guess this one says comet passing Earth.

It's a comet once it's buried into the Earth like meteor versus meteorite. Well, that's true. We haven't put the word asteroid hasn't been on here yet. No one said asteroid. Right. huh um yeah you know what i'll just do it let's say asteroid it's like watching bobby loses crap let's kill some dinosaurs let's do it all right show me asteroid oh man number number 16 was asteroid strike like us

i hate when they strike and you have to cross the the picture you gotta do that whole union thing yeah exactly yeah exactly more celestial scabs uh all right let's let's uh all right let's uh reveal these last two. Probably the biggest celestial event that we could ever think of. Oh, the Big Bang. What's doing? Our whole universe.

Did you save that, Bobby? Number 10. The solstice or the Equinox. Oh, yeah. Very good. I don't think of those as events so much as just like, I mean, it doesn't matter because that's what the Tadpole said.

Time is the year. Right. Yeah, just think of those. time of the year. That's a thing that happens on a very specific day every year. Yeah, but what is the celestial part of it? What do you get out of it? The sun's perfect

the end. Perpendicular, like, perfect to the Earth's equator, the perfectly perpendicular to the Earth's equator, I think. A bunch of people making videos about balancing brooms. That's right. Or eggs, right, being able to spin an egg vertically

or something, yeah. Yeah. All right. Count that. Oh, Chuck even. said when he did the survey says I did when I said winter solstice because that's the day red fragl and I had our first kiss all it's true it's true that's sweet December 21st that was trying to get in for the end of the year trying to try to meet your tax uh yeah burden or something there all right my was um tina's of mine was new year's eve because I wanted something easy to

remember nice oh well there you go that works uh your number 11 uh was let's I'll just show it. Conjunction of the planets, like when all... Oh, I hate when they line up. In the same, yeah, in the same quarter of the sky or same almost in a line kind of thing. And then kind of going down from there, we've got the transit of Venus, which is going to be happening pretty soon, I believe, or maybe just happened. I can't remember. So we get some astrology, what did you say?

No, the transit of Venus. Venus passing between us and the sun, I think is what's. I need to look that one up. Aurora Australas, which is the Southern Lights. Blue Moon, you guys touched on that one, but that would have been number 19, so it was still giving you up an X. First contact

day. Heat death of the universe, kind of the opposite of the Big Bang. I like that, yeah. New Moon, you know, the Duran Duran favorite right there. Sunset. We had sunrise, sunset. Somebody said Animal Crossing, because I know you've got

celestial events in Animal Crossing, so I love to do with that. It's my favorite part. Apocalypse, Apogee, Blood Moon, Christmas. Christmas. Eternal. Let's see here. Anybody say Galactus?

Not on there? Nobody said Galactus, but somebody did say, whereas somebody said the giant celestial in the ocean. Oh. Nice. From Eternals. Making tea with celestial seasonings branded tea. Somebody said.

Um, lunar occultation. Bobby, do you know what that one is? I don't know what that one is either. Lunar occultation. Orbital slingshot. Parade of Plymouth. Yeah. Yeah.

How are we going to get to, uh, back to Earth? Mr. Stadio, we're going to do a... Same way we do every time. That's right. Uh, Salain, second coming, Starlink satellites, uh, Sizagi. Um... Um... Uh, do, do, do, do, do, let's see.

Wait a second. Chuck, are you, sure you said solstice because Sizzagy is like one of your favorite words. You're like the only person in the world that I know uses that word. It was my Uncle Tony's license plate for a long time. Oh, that's cool.

Yeah. The fappening. So I did want to say this one because I don't know who said it, but I want to make sure the transit of Venus. Everyone else is probably saying in clips, but Venus deserves a little love, even though the Sousa March written to commemorate the event is pretty bad. Glad I'll be dead before it happens again.

And I'll have to perform it in 2117. We didn't ask for a story. Christ. And finally, when Jupiter meets Uranus. There you go. Those are your celestial events. You're going to love this figment to Creed Valley thing, Amy. It's awesome.

I'm excited. Yeah, this is going to be good. Yeah, it's very sweet. I'm excited for a new game. I need a new game. There you go. Well, it's a good time for new games. Yep.

And we can play it. We can play it in Savannah. And we can. Yes, that's right. Yes. I can't wait. Yeah, but can you play it on your crappy little CRT? You're going to truck down there.

They do not speak ill of the C to the R to the T. Did we take pictures of the hall that Dunaway brought last year with like the VCR and the Laserdist player and the CRT and the like all the stuff? Oh my gosh. If we didn't, we should have because he had like a whole like like the AV kid from junior high. It was like it. Yeah. It filled up. And, of course, a TV cart to put it all on.

Like, he brought the holding thing. CDs, we had video cassettes, we had regular cassettes. We had all the media. All the dead media was there. Yeah. Right. It was great. It was good fun.

Good, silly fun. Fill up your Trump. And we're going to do it again this year. It's going to be awesome. Well, this awesome that you also have won. And also, is it Wesley who gave us these codes? We should thank him again. I think it was Wesley.

Oh, yeah. I've already given the codes to Amy. She's already got him. No, no, no. Is this Wesley who you have. gave us the codes. I was just trying to get Wesley a shout out. I'm sorry. This is from Wesley. Yes. Nice. Wesley always. Talking while you were talking. Always such a good code giver, that guy. Just generous as hell. So big thanks to him. Amy, we hope you enjoyed. And I do look forward to our next read this segment with you.

Thank you. I missed you guys. So I wanted to call and play the game. Also glad you're feeling good. That's the most important thing. Yes. Yes. Much better. Pax Livid works. So if if Kim can get that, like, use that stuff. It makes you, it makes your mouth. taste terrible. It gives you a bitter taste in your mouth just like all the time. But while you're taking it, already have that, that's life. Yeah, it's like totally it's like, oh, man, this tastes awful

but it's worth it. It's like having a mouth full of those Georgia pecans in your mouth. Oh, don't be no. Oh, she's breaking up. She's breaking up. Oh, shoot, we lost her. I don't know what happened there. That's crazy. Hey, Dunaway, it's good to talk to you as always and we'll do it again this Friday.

when you and I get together for a play retro episode, why don't you tell the fine folks what we're covering that day? Absolutely. We're going all the way back to the 90s for Beetlejuice. Came out originally on the DOS, which was the one from the cartoon series. You may remember that to Beetleju's cartoon series, but then we're also going to be talking about the NES version

that was based off of the movie and may or may not suck, but we're going to get into it. I think it might suck, is what I think. There's also a Game Boy one too based on the, on the cartoon and it's all LJN brought it to us but guess who developed it rare did so you're saying you didn't like a rare type I'm saying that rare rare is not 100% rare has a couple of misses and that's one okay but uh okay the other one it took him a long time to have another miss and I think that was um you did good 360 launch title what was that called read uh you had to turn into a ball

sometimes I can't remember what it was called anyway it's got descriptions of stuff I don't remember that way. I don't remember the man. Turn into a ball sometimes. It's not Metroid, right? No. Turn into a ball sometimes. You were a big ball. You were a big ball and you were a lady and that's all I remember. Anyway. You're a big ball and you're talking about

Metroid. What the hell are you talking about? No, it's not Metroid. I can't remember the damn thing. Anyway, I'll figure it out later but that'll be this weekend. So check it out. That's Friday at 130 Mountain Time. Check it out wherever you get your podcast. That's Play Retro over at frogpants.com slash play retro. Brian Dunaway

I would like you to kiss our... I love you guys so much. Have fun. All right, he's out of here. Excellent. We're also going to take a break. When we come back from this break, Tom Merritt will be here.

Talk a little tech. We'll have recommendals after that. Got a full crew. So stick around for all that fun. In the meantime, a song from Brian. What do you got? Sure. Got one from a guy named Tyler Ramsey.

Boy, does this guy have a country-sounding name or what? And there's, you know, there's some little bit of your kind of twang to this. Not a lot, though. this is the brand new album is called New Lost Ages comes out in October it looks like do I have a date

does not look like I have a date but we do have this song this is the first single from the album it's called Song Out of My Head Oh there we go October 18th is one That comes out via soundly music Big thanks to Emily Ginsburg for sending this one over to me from Big Hassel Media

Love Big Hassel Media This is Tyler Ramsey and Song out of my head. I wish I found it easier to forget all this honing melody that's been playing in my head. I drank all. all of the wine that I had left try to lose the faded memories but they haven't left me yet

all the songs of love and leaving can't describe that's lost in traveling through this life some is drowned in circumstance and some in time but the memories that are left won't drown beneath the sea of wine I've got to get this song out of my head One with all the lines, I wish I would have said. The final verse won't let me be, it keeps repeating. It goes spinning on and on without an end.

I've got to get this song out of my head. I'm I keep waking up, I've been up half the night All these rest of the scattered notes keep playing in my mind Pull the curtain and I try to close my eyes But they hover in the dark like birds His wings are tip with light I've got to get this song out of my head

One with endless verses of regret And the fiddle plays a tune I cannot place but can't forget It goes drifting out and shifting round my bed I've got to get this song out of my head in the dark In the dark you sit up searching for the sound for the sound One that pulled you from your flying dreams and held you to the ground. Don't let it get to you, don't let it bring you down.

There'll be a song to lift you up again, and you will come around. I've got to get this song out of my head. One with all the lines I wish I would have said The final verse won't let me be It keeps repeating It goes spinning on and on without an end I've got to get this song out of my head She's losing

She's losing weight without diet pills. He's losing weight without strenuous exercises. And how do they do it? just getting rid of their excess body fluids. Perfect for snorkeling. A popular way to explore the underwater world. And we've returned. Tell me who that was again so I can write it down and go find that song.

You bet. That's Tyler Ramsey from his upcoming album. That is his first single from the album. It's called Song Out of My Head. And finally, he got that song out of his head. Oh, man. How did he do it? It's such an airworm, you know?

It's hard to get that out. All right. We're going to get Tom in here, and let's do a little thingy for him. We want Tom. Oh, we sure do. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. He is your favorite tech, not just enthusiast, but reporter, journalist, I would say. Bringing you that.

I wouldn't. He wouldn't do that. He is here to talk about what is going on in the world of tech so that we can talk about it later today on the Daily Tech News show. Tom Merritt, what is going on out there, sir? Well, I've just been sitting here looking at some of the testimony in the Google antitrust trial that's happening. Some light reading, yeah. Yeah, you know, to get myself excited for the day.

I think there may be some folks out there who are a little confused about what all is. going on like, wait, didn't Google already lose an antitrust trial? And then they said they were going to break them up or something, but that hasn't happened. So I figured maybe just kind of giving a previously on Google antitrust trials might be helpful for folks today. Sure. I'd love to hear it, actually, because I also thought that there was some recent massive judgment that this was all over. But I guess it's never really over. If you're this big and you're always, quote-unquote, you know, releasing services and doing things and dominating a market, you're always going to be under scrutiny like this. When Google sits around the house, it sits around the house.

That's right. Yeah, so there are two antitrust trials. You are correct. One of them wrapped up. And Google was found to be guilty on one count. It wasn't a civil trial, so it's not exactly guilty, like, you know, a criminal trial. But they were found that they abused the. their market position in the placement of search ads by essentially, I'm going to way oversimplify

because they paid so much to be the default search in lots of places. Not just Apple. That was the most famous one people talked about, but Samsung. They drove out the ability for there to be competitive text ads in search. So that's going to be what's confusing. Because there's another antitrust trial that just kicked off Monday about Google's ad tech. So the first one was about search and placement of text ads in search. And the judge said, well, Google has effectively created a situation where there isn't much competition for search. And therefore, when it places text ads on its search, it's got a monopoly position and it abused that position. And so the judge has said, I will decide what the remedy for this will be next August.

Oh, man. And so we're going to wait till next August to find out what the judge thinks should happen. Should Google be forced to spin something out, you know, change something in the way it does things? The Department of Justice has argued that, yes, it should be forced to spin something out. Judge may disagree. Judge may just say they can't have exclusive search contracts anymore. That's what a lot of people think it'll do, but we won't find out until next August, and then Google will immediately probably appeal. So that is the one that you thought was done, which it is done, but you get to appeal, right?

And some people are like, ah, this is awful. Like, well, if you were brought into court and you lost your case and you thought it was a mistake, you'd want to be able to appeal. So I think it would be bad to not let anyone appeal just because you don't like them. So they get to appeal. It takes all a long time to work through these things. Nothing's going to happen to Google for a couple of years. In that case, this is a separate case about Google's ad technology. And I think a lot of people forget this, but you think about Google and advertising, you think, oh, yeah, advertising on search, advertising on Google's products.

But Google bought Double Click years and years ago. And so they operate an entire ad technology system. This includes pretty much everything in the advertising business, not just the ability to bid on placing ads on Google products, but ad exchanges where you can go and say, well, I just want to bid to place my ad anywhere out there. I want to reach 25 to 54-year-old females. Put my ad anywhere out there. Exchanges do that, and Google operates one of those. So those can end up with ads not just on Google, but Google takes a cut as they go.

And technology for running your own website and saying, you know what, we want to manage our ads. We want to offer people the ability to come to us. We want exchanges to be able to tie into our system. We want to sell the ad space directly, but we need technology to run that. Google also provides that kind of technology. And again, I'm sort of oversimplifying. So if you're in the ad business and you're like, well, that's not exactly right.

Trust me, I know. But I'm trying to keep it understandable for folks. And that is what this trial is about now, which is Google abusing its position of offering all of the ad tools, at least online. Google's defense is, yeah, but we're just doing that for display advertising on the web. uh you know we are we are not dominant in app store advertising apple offers their own app store ads and the fact of the matter is the yeah they do uh but google also offers a lot of ads in apps a lot of those ads when you're in an app come through through google products uh they also say you know we don't place the ads on on facebook we don't place the ads on amazon we don't place the ads on x

so they're trying to say you know we may be dominant in a sector we're not dominant in the entire marketplace. And so right now the trial's going on and you got people coming up and doing testimony and this is where you get all the dramatic things. A former News Corp employee, Stephanie Laser, who I was just talking, reading about right now, said that they felt like a hostage when they were using these Google ad tools. And she described a situation where it's a little wonky, but you have multiple ad exchanges, right? And when you're accepting ads through them, you can have a floor to say, we won't accept any price under this. And you might experiment a little and say, you know what, we want a higher floor in Google's ad

exchange because there's more competition there. Maybe we can get a higher price. But we'll have a lower floor over in this other ad exchange that has a little less usage. Google in 2019 put in place a rule that said, if you're using any of our ad tech, you can't put a higher floor in our ad exchange. And in fact, News Corp was using Google's ad manager. It was called something else at the time, but they were using their ad manager to manage the ads that were placed on News Corp sites. So they were prohibited from experimenting that way.

And they say that's why they felt like a hostage. Apologies to hostages because that's probably not at all what hostage is actually. No, it's like, yeah, people that talk like, it was like being in prison, really. Was it like being in prison, really? Probably not. So I always wonder about the alphabet bit when, uh, I almost said, Blizzard, when Google split themselves up into these entities and put them under the umbrella corporation that is Alphabet, was that to stave off some of this and did it work? Are there like 50 cases that never went anywhere because they voluntarily move things around?

No, because that's all still one company. Right. I think what that did was made it easier to distinguish how well Google was doing from the. the other experiments that it was operating like Waymo or I think it's called Verity, the health thing. It allowed them to try stuff out without it making investors lose confidence, right? So if you lose a bunch of money on those other bets, as Alphabet calls them, you can still have a balance sheet that's like, yeah, but Google's doing great. Don't worry about that. This is funny money. We're playing around. One of these bets is going to take off like Waymo actually is starting to

show some signs that it might be a viable business. But don't worry, Google's doing strong. That's why they did Alphabet. It doesn't really have many antitrust implications. It could have negative antitrust implications. In other words, Alphabet could be sued for antitrust because it operates so many different kinds of businesses. I don't think it will because the businesses are fairly different.

Yeah, there's a lot of diversity there. But what's funny is all that the side businesses, the bets are not, are all running on this Google ad platforms, pretty much. for the most part. Or, yeah, or using Google, or using Android or something. Yeah, yeah, Google version of Android, et cetera. Interesting. Well, we'll talk more about it today.

I find that stuff super fascinating just because it's so, takes a long. Yeah, and I know it's a little wonky and maybe some people are like, just a bunch of billionaires fighting with billionaires kind of stuff, but you're going to hear a headline and hopefully this will help you go like, oh, that's what that's about and not be confused. Yep, and today I'm going to be talking about whether that PlayStation 5 Pro is worth the money or not. Spoiler, it might not be. Wow, have you been joined in that sentiment by so many people out there.

I saw an interesting analysis from somebody from Blizzard, formerly from Blizzard, who was like, yeah, nobody's competing with them. So that's why they could charge that. Mike Abara, Mike Abara said that. He's like, yeah, you know, yeah, of course they can charge $700. Who else is doing this? Yeah, they have a, this mid-generation bump thing was considered kind of a failure in the last one. So the fact that they're doing it at all is both interesting to talk about and also a little worrying. And also, I'm not going to get into like, it's not going to be fan boy.

This is too expensive today. It's going to be, here's what you're actually getting for the upgrade. if you've got a PS5, should you get it? I mean, we're going to answer some of those questions. So watch for that. Today's Wednesday edition of the Daily Tech News show, 2 p.m. Mountain Time. Tom Merritt, tell us about your book. We're nearing a crescendo moment on your books thing.

Yes, by all means, jump in right now. Please buy the book. I really need to just get it over the end line. It's going to happen. But you can make me rest a little easier at night. if you would go pre-order it right now. If you have any interest, if you don't have any interest, I'm not trying to force you, but go to tom's new book.com and help me out.

Help me sleep better. Exactly. Let Tom, you have a good night's sleep for one's sake. The puppy's sleeping all the way through the night. This is the only thing keeping me up now. That's right. Go get it. It's synced.

It's awesome. Understand technology to make it work for you. What else you want in your life? All right. Go get it. Grab it. Get it while taught. Tom Merritt.

Have a fantastic day. We'll see a little later on the Daily Tag News show. by now. Bye. And how do I hang up on it? Are you saying 67% more compute units is not worth the $700 price tax, Scott? 67% more compute units.

I'm going to say no. I'm going to say it's not worth $700. But the compute units. I've also seen some pretty good side by sides of like existing games that are supposed to be improved between the two. It's really hard to tell the difference. It's really, really close. Yeah.

Like last time. And also now you have a lowest common denominator to develop for. because most of your user base will have the PS5, not this one. So they're going to have to make games for those people, and they're not going to max them out for these others. This fewer player base,

it's just always bad. The mid-the-mid-thing, the mid-thing, it's bad when Microsoft did. It's bad when Sony does it. It's just dumb. Exactly, you know, the... It's just dumb. 3 Pro, PS4 Pro, all those, yeah. Yeah, they'll get around to, you know,

a new console at some point. I just wait for that. Yeah. All right. That's it for Tom Merritt. We're now going to bring in the crew for the recommendal segment. It's been a while since we've had them both together on the show at the same time. That's true. It has been a bit. Why can't I find one of them? There she is.

Okay. There's a lot of nicks in my Discord, so I have to go way past all these nicks. Many nicks. Sundbun, I keep hearing about how Astrobot is one of the best games Sony's ever developed, and I'm really curious about it. Yeah, it's supposed to be really good. If you like the 3D Mario's in particular, it's very much in that vein. Really? Okay. Plays like that kind of game.

All right. We are getting ready here. Where's the thing? I can't find it. There we go. Well, what do you recommend? All right, everybody. Time to talk about recommendals, things we've seen on streaming services that we, a crew of four, think you might enjoy.

All right? Let's start with welcoming to the show, the one the only Nicole Spagg. kind of call. Hi. So I have to tell you something very, very cute about Ava. So you were talking about PS5 and what she calls the PS5 is a PBS5. She goes, can I play the PBS 5? The PBS 5. I like that. Yeah. Public broadcasting station. On Channel 5. That's great. Now you'll have a thing you can always call it. So even when it's like the PS9, you can call it the PBS 9. That's right.

A PBS 5. I don't know where, I mean, I guess, you know, I'm sure it's because she's watched a lot of PBS in her lifetime. That's great. I mean, you're a good parent. I like PBS. Also with us, another fine parent among us. It's Randy Jordan.

Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning stream. Hi, Scott, Brian, Nicole. I'm a Scorpio. And I'm such a Scorpio that I've been told by people that they don't want. to have anything to do with me because yeah because like my astrological sign tells them everything

they need to know really I'm a tour I'm a tour apparently I'm stubborn which is I'm a cancer which just makes people think of cancer so I don't like it makes me think of crabs yeah I'm a Leo so I just make a lot of noise at the beginning of movies

there you go that's there you know I knew this thank you all for participating this is great we're all with a bad mood rising that's right we're all astrology fans now. Well, that's great. It's good to have you both here. We're going to dive right in, give Brian the mic, and find out what he watched this week. Brian, what's up?

Cool. I watched an animated series, Scott and Randy and Nicole, that, well, Scott asked me, so I was responding to him that doesn't have anything to do with the MCU for a change. What? You'll probably be able to figure it out from this clip. All right, here we go. Three explosions in two weeks. All three buildings can be traced to shadow companies operated by Rupert Thorn. The police ruled the first explosion a gas leak. The second, an accidental electrical fire. Someone's declared war on Thorn, but they're covering their tracks, being smart about it. That would suggest there's a crime boss we don't know about, one who's bold enough to take on

Rupert Thorne, but if that's the case, we could be looking at... An all-out gang war on the streets of Gotham. Good Lord. I need to find out who's behind these explosions, and I know where to start looking for them. Police headquarters, you think someone inside the department is covering up these explosions. It's Gotham, Pennyworth. Does the corruption really surprise you? Wow, Colin and Pennyworth. He sounds like a karate teacher from, uh, uh, getting it's a stupid thing from Napoleon Dynamite.

That's who that sounds like anyway. Oh, interesting, because that guy is also in this. Yeah, it's, Dietrich Bader. Oh, it's not? That's not Dietrich Bader. No, no, no, no. Dietrich Bader is two-faced in this. Your Batman is your Hamish Linklater from that Robin Williams sitcom, the crazy ones. He was in Legion, constantly chasing after.

Midnight Mass. Midnight Mass, of course. Yeah. A guy you look at and say, well, that guy's never going to play Batman. But here he is, doing the voice of Batman in Batman Caped Crusader. Shit out of luck.com. This is a brand new animated series on Amazon Prime. Brand new, but man, they've been working on this for quite a while.

They announced it back in 2021. Bruce Tim came back for this to develop this and work with J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions to bring it out. And this one has way, way more of a focus on the film noir, the kind of the Batman noir kind of stories. So more of a detective focus than a capes and cowls kind of beat them up kind of focus.

1940s, think 1940s, 50s. 60s, Batman kind of stuff. What's great about this, too, is that it doesn't start with the origin. We don't need it anymore, right? We've got it. This kind of starts at the point where Gotham is aware of Batman.

Like, they've seen, and he's almost mythological still as a vigilante in Gotham. There's no relationship with Commissioner Gordon or anybody like that yet. It's kind of like Batman has he's he's got the costume he's gone out a few times and fought some crimes but he hasn't gone much further than that so it's still very very early on uh is so brian here's the real question

have you printed have you printed a batman mask for your cat oh my god no because i like my cat and i'd like my cat to like me uh yeah it feels like the cat would not enjoy that for some reason. I don't know. Salem might wear a man mask. You're going to do it. I'm totally going to make one for Oreo. Yeah, screw your cat. Screw Oreo. Are you going to put a hole? You're going to put holes for the ears, right? Are you going to give it? Yeah, yeah. Have you not seen the meme? That's a guy. Oh, I have to send you the meme. So the guy puts, it has, it has holes for the ears. So the cat's just chilling out and he's like, yeah, meow, yum, meow. And then he puts the helmet on and the cat kind of looks down and looks up, he goes, man, man, yeah, me, man. That's great. That's pretty great. Definitely

send me to me. Hey, I knew I wasn't going crazy. He played Batman and Harley Quinn. That's what I was thinking of. Dietrich Bader did it. Yeah. And I thought he was really good in it. And they sound a lot of like those two guys. You could swap in between each other, I think, a little bit. You know, maybe when they're doing the Batman voice, but boy, when you've got Batman versus Harvey Dant, Harvey Dant in this one, it's, it sounds, It sounds like you're Diedrich Baderin all over the place. The, a lot of great voices in this thing.

I almost played some of the penguin, who in this case is played by Mini Driver, because yes, they changed the gender of the penguin. You get a lot of interesting character voice changes that I think are great that work really well in this. Oh, there it is right there. There's the,

there's the meme. Sorry. That's right. That's right. I'll look at it after the show. Who else do you have? You got John DiMaggio as Harvey Bullock. You've got Jamie Chung. Did you say John DiMaggio? I did say John DiMaggio. That guy. Bender, he plays Bender. He plays a dog.

Joe DiMaggio. Yeah, no, I did not say the baseball player Joe DiMaggio. Jamie Chung as your Harley Quinn, Tom Kenney, as. firebug a great Delisle as Lois Lane let's see

who else did you say there was no there's no Commissioner Gordon in this one there is a commissioner

Gordon but they don't have their relationship like they're he's still very early on in his

vigilante career so this Batman so he's not he's got no trust from Gordon yet or any of that exactly

Exactly, yeah. And the way they're moving this, it may not be Commissioner Gordon that he has his relationship with. Oh, could be a different person altogether. Maybe even a different Gordon even. I don't know. There you go. So it's called Batman Cape Crusader. It is on Amazon Prime. Ten episodes. They're great. Really, God, what a great. They're all available. they're all available I don't know if they put them all out right away

but they premiered on at the beginning of August and they've gotten them all out whether or not they all came out the same time. Something I was worried about with Mary Little Batman was that we had reached a point where all Batman stories that were animated were going to have some weird

aspect to them you know and so it sounds like this is back to sort of the center line for oh yeah as Bruce Tim any more detective comics. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So this one follows like kind of the more detective comics than the Batman, uh, the style of. Yeah. Way more, way more like the 90s series, wouldn't you say? Like just that vibe.

Very much so. Yeah. From what I've seen, I haven't seen a lot of the 90s series. But what I saw I liked, um, you will, first thing you'll notice is that the Batman's ears way bigger than, uh,

than the 90s animated series Batman ears. You got big old floppy ears. Yeah. The kind from like the 40 serials he used to do. Exactly. Yeah. Um, Bruce Tim's,

genius. So having him back is a huge thing. And I, uh, I think it's great. It's a little weird that Prime's running this and it's not Max or Warner Brothers. It's really surprising. Yeah, because I mean, you'd think you could, you know, watch an episode of Kite Man hell yeah, and then move on to Batman Cape Crusader right after it. And, uh, yeah, uh, no, you have to go to completely different place. Yeah, that's weird. I guess that Christmas one was also on Prime. So maybe they got some kind of Batman deal going. I don't know. Oh, maybe. A Batman bundle. The Batman Bundle. I like that. That man, Gabe Crusader is the name of the show, and Amazon Prime is where you'll find it. Nicole, let's dive over to your side of the planet and find out what you watch because it sounds, I'm really on the fence on this site.

You're going to either push me over or hold me back. It's been a very long time since I have binged a show and I could not stop watching this show. It is so good. I love it. I love, love, love it. um roll a clip and we'll talk about it it's on netflix here you go okay ring ring wow nobody's home what is this uh hi Athena hey it's Pap Pop Pop Um do you want to do some work and some myth making hello hello uh Apollo it's

It's dad. Hello, Aphrodite. It's daddy, Artemis. This is Papuza. Are they listening to these messages? You know, the Papuza? Armies, pick up the phone. All right, what is Jeff Goldblum up to?

What's going on there? So Jeff Goldblum plays... Blow Gloom. Blow glue. Blow. He plays Zeus and this is a show on Netflix called Chaos

K-A-O-S and I love Greek mythology I think it probably stems back to watching storyteller the Jim Henson I just loved it so much I love the stories

I love the weaving of all of these gods and how people worship them, and it's just fascinating to me. So this is a modernization of those stories and the characters in those stories. So you have Zeus, you have Athena. Actually, Athena didn't show up. His wife is Hera.

That's right. Yeah. So you have his wife, who's also a sister. and you have the gods in Olympus and then you also have Poseidon and you have Dionysian who he's a main character in this story because everyone gets a prophecy and whether you're a human on earth or in the case of Zeus he used to be human And so you're getting these kind of, I mean, it's very violent. It's very violent.

Really? I'll warn. Yes. It sounded like it was supposed to be a comedy or something, but no, eh? Yeah. Well, it is. It's a dark comedy. It is, I just loved how many twists and turns.

And even though I know most of the stories, it was just, it was just a fun telling of it. Because this is the story of the downfall of Zeus. Tell me about David Fulis's Hades. Is it as great as that that whole implies? Oh, yeah. So, I mean, this is what's in race. So if you ever play God of War, you get the idea in that kind of realm that these gods are super powerful. And Hades, he's kind of meek.

He's kind of, you know, not. I mean, he is powerful. All these gods are powerful. But the way that they tell a story and, what's happening with the humans and trying you know when you die where you go kind of thing and there's a big conspiracy there's a big mystery I don't want to ruin the show because it's so good and even though if you study Greek mythology I think this is just um I don't it's a fun telling and how they bring in those old stories.

So you also have the Minotaur. So that was a story I remember on the storyteller show, Jim Henson's storyteller show with The Minotar. And so because they've modernized it, they have taken that concept and there's a lot of political unrest and worshiping the gods and what happens to blasphemers.

and it's I don't know just there's also Medusa she's in there it's just she works she's a office she's like a office manager so that's perfect so so is it like like I feel like it's American gods adjacent is it am I wrong in feeling that yeah okay yes yes yes but but not it's sort of our world but definitely not our world okay so it's just it's really good I hope it gets the second season unlike dead boys detectives agency screw you there's so many people who i still see stuff online like that god it's so much you did dead boys dirty is you did that's i wrote that because it because i was kind of i'm kind of it's only one

season of chaos it's clearly set up for a second season yeah and i'm like you just need to make sure enough people see it because if enough people see it they make they make more seasons that if they don't they don't so yeah i feel like When I first heard about this, I was like, no, no more Greek stuff for a while. Between Crappopolis and hundreds of hours of Percy Jackson stuff, it's out there right now. Like, I'm all Greek godded out. And then you play this clip of Jeff Goldblum. I'm like, oh, I'm so in.

Yeah. I very much want to watch this. Cliff Curtis is Poseidon. Are you kidding me? Yep. Yeah. That's great. And so you get to see his relationship with.

And, you know, of course it's the god. So they're scheming. They're plotting and there's weird things with relatives. And the whole point of this is this prophecy of the family falling. And you have also Prometheus, who is hung up on the rock where the raven or whatever is eating his liver every day. Right. So. It's a real bummer for them.

Yeah. You don't have Pratos to say, for atheist this time from the but he's the kind of the storyteller the narrator of what's happening he's you get the feeling he's orchestrating this and he's talking to you

throughout this to kind of say you know these people don't know what's in play these are the pawns and this is what's happening oh it's Stephen Delane he plays freaking dude that's um Stannis Barathean I love that actor oh is it Stannis

I thought I recognized him I love that guy okay well now you i'm the cast alone i'm all in on this shit this looks great i i totally forgot did any of you watch um freak show america horror story freak show no yes that season i did watch so the actor that had the arms the deformed arms oh yeah yeah i haven't seen him since that show he's in this no way oh cool yeah uh it's all all the greek names are hard for me me to say. Dalisi,

dalis, I don't know. He plays. Daedalus. Daedalus. Yeah. He plays. He's,

he's a human and he is the president. The Minotar situation. Yes, he's in the Minotaur story. Yeah. Labyrinthian, I'm all in on this. I'm going to watch the hell out of this.

I might binge it this weekend. If Kim's still sick and stuff, what else am I going to do? You know? Yeah. I'm going to watch this. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. You can't do it. anything else. No, you can't do anything. Right. And what not. Yeah, he's a brain louder knelt. And you have a whole storyline with the Amazon's. And there is a transactor in this story. And it

plays into the whole story of, I don't want to give it all away, but it's beautifully told and there's a love story and the Amazon women and why they send the men out of their I guess their camp.

yeah so interesting there's there's a lot of layers to this story and a lot of kind of pieces to kind of keep track of but it's well well worth to watch it's great it's reviewing really well too people like it a lot should oh I hope it I hope it has a second season yeah that would be great yeah I'm gonna watch this one for sure and this looks awesome great great pick uh again that is chaos with a K on Netflix and Randy we swing the mic in your direction for your pick this week what do you got I got now of people saying there are no fun

action movies that aren't superheroes years of people saying this like hey I'm tired of the I'm tired a little tired of the superheroes right? We need to get back to people making fun action movies just for the fun of it

a gentleman series was really good I love that series great and this the return to form for the entire genre this movie oh wow all right wow lofty yeah lofty goals let's see if it reaches him he has fallen in with some shady people will kill call the cops we can't call the cops why not the studio will know that i am way over budget they will pull the plug on this you know that please go and find him why me you're a stunt man for god's sake no one's going to notice whether you're here on

Not. No offense. I mean, some taken. Ah. A tall guy. Rebecca. That sounded like Colt Sievers to me talking there. Yeah, it was. It was Colt Sievers.

And this is the Fall Guy, the new movie from the man who brought you the first two Deadpool movies. And boy, is there a lot in common here with the first two Deadpool movies. But this version also reaches. back into some other things like I watching this this extended version which is the the whole recommendation here like even if you went and saw it at the movies you need to get on

to Peacock and watch the extended version because it's just it's such a complete movie there's so much exposition and like lots of things that are given time to breathe in the same version both versions on Peacock or just the like I'm not going to accidentally find the regular theatrical

version yeah I think you're only getting the extended good good good all right I don't want to do a whole lot of searching. But like, our director here is David Lach. And throughout this movie, I kept thinking of Tropic Thunder and what Tropic Thunder would have been like if it was basically a rom-com. And that's what you get here with Fall Guy, which is like everything I've been asking for, you know? Like I say, you get a lot of this kind of thing from superhero movies, and that's great. but superheroes have superpowers and sometimes you just want to see people you know doing great things that are human you know

does um uh uh six million dollar man what's his name lee major show up so you come in there at some point he has a cameo in the credits oh really okay all right good yeah i didn't i didn't i was wondering um until you said colt seaver if this thing was connected to the to the tv show so it is it's like a re it's like a reem imagining though right sure sure absolutely and it's inspired by or whatever yeah it's a reimagining of like part one of the tv series like i'm not saying that this movie is begging for a sequel it probably won't get a sequel there's this is a big damned movie it's you you would uh it would take a lot for there to be a sequel but um it's just it's a love letter to a stunt and stunt film in general and like there's just a lot to love in

this movie there's so many great set pieces so many fights and car chases and explosions and you get to see ryan gosling um who has somehow gotten into some conflict with emily blunt and she keeps setting him on fire and throwing him against a rock over and over and over and it's just like the extent i'm pretty sure i'm not sure i'm not certain because i i don't have them both to compare but i'm pretty sure in the extended edition you get to see him get set on fire and thrown into a rock extra times oh you know what I'm saying wonderful okay that's what I signed up for I'm in so this sounds like a Brian movie no problem but is Tina uh gonna like it did Sam watch it with you yes uh I think Tina would love it I really do it is Kim saw it loved it she saw it with

the group of girls they all loved it I think it's I think it feels like it feel good everybody kind of movie it's just a bummer it tank so hard in the in the theater just didn't do well like the second biggest flop of the year or something like that compared to budget whatever it was i would think horizon uh needs to be on that list and uh yeah there's been some stuff since curious uh you know it was like underperformed but like i think we're in a year where we're just resetting expectations across the board yeah like there are perfectly good movies that you are going to love that are not going to do well at the box office from now on you have to see through that yeah yeah i think you're right there's a bit of a reset going on um and then the one

freaking tights and cows movie that comes out ends up cleaning house on all of them so it's kind of frustrating. I mean I love Wolverine Deadpool is amazing it's just like it's the only way we make money anymore I don't get it there are so many characters to love in this movie

you heard Hannah Waddingham she is a a guileful producer of movies you didn't hear and you might not even know that the person that Ryan Gosling is a stuntman for is Aaron Taylor Johnson slash quicksilver and Aaron Taylor Johnson looks so much like

Ryan Gosling in this movie that it's just it never stops being funny they're just it's just funny he's not quicksilver is he I thought he was a kickass is he quicksilver yeah I didn't know that oh the other one the age of Ultron one not the the non mutant one right right exactly yes not the time in a bottle of quicksilver my quicksilver is Aaron Taylor Johnson And he's just, he's just so freaking good. He's, his role is true scenery and he does it so well. And by the way, the scenery in this movie, the cinematography, the music, the sound effects, and especially the wardrobe, the costumes in this film are the best you could hope for. It's amazing.

I just want to sit, I want to have an animated background of Ryan Gosling in his various costumes in this movie. like it is so freaking entertaining very nice i want to see it i haven't yet um everybody in the house but me uh this is uh david leach did bullet train and i have nothing but love for bullet train so sign me up i'm all in yeah have you recommended that i think it was either me or someone did here but uh i did theaters and i can't remember if i recommended recommended it when we came to stream i think you did scott i think i might have yeah is that the one with uh brad pit yeah i didn't like i didn't like it. It's a divisive movie. Some people didn't like it. I really like that. Nicole, did you watch Hobbs and Shaw? No. What's that?

It's a fast and furious spinoff. It tells you everything you need to know. Not really into that. Not really into that. Yeah. Similar stuff. I think about bullet train is, I don't know how to describe bullet train. I really liked it, though. I don't know why. It felt like, It felt like the connective tissue between kind of the guy richie, gangstery shooting quick quick films, stuff going on really quick and the and the fun action films of the 90s. Yeah. It's funny. I'm finding myself, I used to not stop watching a movie if I didn't like it.

I would just watch it. I find myself stopping watching movies a lot in my older age. You start a movie and then just walk out from it. And I go. I'm not really yeah if you're not I don't think you know what I think that's actually a healthy thing to do I do with documentaries if I don't if the documentary isn't doing good documentaryism in the first five 10 minutes I'm like well I'm not bought I have other things I can watch goodbye there's nothing wrong with I tend I tend to give you know when I sit down with something I'll give it like 30 minutes or so but I find myself drifting and I'm like I just I don't know I'm having a hard time with this one I wish I could do that more I feel like there are so many things that I'm to do that with and then I stick it out and maybe I'll finish a season of a multi-season show and it's like

I'm not sure I'm enjoying this but I'll finish the season out and it's like yeah why didn't I just stop with episode three I'm not vibing with it so I think I just need to cut my losses and do something else. We gave up on Mrs. Maisel with like

four episodes left in the final season. Oh my God! I know that was that like we were that close to the finish line and we're like, God, do you care anymore? And I'm like, no, I don't think I do, Tina. And we just, I guess it was like, do you care anymore? That's a reverse commitment. That's, it is. We've been in for so long. And we felt like, you know, this feels like she's, she's reconciled with, we're not going to say who, spoiler. More than two weeks. Come on. And, and this got resolved. And this other thing got resolved. I think I'm good. Do you care anymore?

Nope. I think movies are a lot easier to walk away from than TV series. Like at some point, when you've gone a long way into a TV series, you kind of have to finish it. But with movies, they get about 20 minutes, you know? Yeah. Unfortunately, the only movies that I want to walk out of are ones we have to watch for Filmsack. Exactly. So speaking of FilmSack and this director and his other movies, I have put Atomic

blonde on our watch. Oh, yeah, we should do that. That's a movie I did not like. I actually kind of actively didn't like it. And so I want to see it again with you guys. She got hurt in that one too from when I heard. Oh, did she? I didn't hear that.

Yeah. I liked, I mean, I like all those actors. I like everything about it. I thought I remember you liking that one. I'm probably thinking of a different one of that style, like Lucy or something like that. Yeah, highly disliked it. I don't know why.

Like, we'll dissect it on film side at some point. I haven't seen it. And I know Brian Dunaway has. hasn't seen it. And the point of Philbsack is to ask the question, was that any good? So yeah, yeah, for sure. We should put that on there. It's a good one. All right. Let's go, let's go serious for a second and swing over to Netflix for a little thing I found, seemed to be rising very quickly in the rankings over there. Their top 10 rankings, direct to Netflix movie by a director I really like. So I thought, oh, let's get in. Let's see what

this is about. Here's my clip and I'll talk about it. A lot of cash you got on you. It's not a least. Well, drug currency is illegal. Well, it's a good thing, it's not that. You delivering it? Yes. Somebody else? No, for my cousin, but it's mine.

I'm posting his bail. You want a town hall? Courthouse. Same building. Okay, listen. I need to be there before five. What can I do? That's over $30,000 is what your cousin in for?

Tennis for bail, and the rest. We're gonna buy a truck and haul boats. I'm not a criminal. Your cousin is. you didn't answer the question. What's he in for? Possession. All right.

That's a low stakes clip because I don't want to give anything away for my favorite direct to Netflix movie of the year so far, Rebel Ridge. Sorry, cleared the throat there. The movie's called Rebel Ridge. It stars a dude named Aaron Pierre. I had not heard of him until now. He is this African American. Actually, I think he's from Britain.

Anyway, big, beefy actor dude who is, I guarantee you, this is going to be a star making performance. He is going to go on to be freaking ginormous. I'm just sure of it. So just watch that guy, stars on the rise. Don Johnson plays a bad guy, and I love Don Johnson as a bad guy. Always good. Yeah, yeah. Whether it's freaking Django.

Knives out. Knives out. It doesn't matter. He is always so skeevy at this age. I love it, love it, love it. and he's fantastic in this, just chewing scenery. Much other actors that you know from other stuff, like David Denham, he plays the cop you were hearing in that clip.

A couple other people you may know. There's this young actress who's just really getting going named Anna Sophia Robb. She plays a character named Summer McBride in this. She's also very good. She was Violet Beauregard in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Tim Burton. Oh, I didn't know that. yeah but you know I would not like she's from Denver apparently did not know any of this stuff until until you mentioned her name so this is set in a setting that I love which is the south I love I love backwoods

Louisiana deep south sort of stories you know where it feels like maybe the law is a little less around or more crooked you can kind of tell noir stories um in a place like that and I always enjoy those um you know it's like justified or anything else I just love stuff set in the South. And it's basically like a new version of first blood in some ways. He plays a veteran who's really just trying to bail his cousin out and start this business. Like what he said at the beginning there is exactly what he was trying to do. But these cops knock him off his bike and treat him like crap. So there's a little bit of like an underlying social issue going on where there's still systemic racism built into like a lot of the

systems down there. Certainly cops are not immune from it. But there's a much deeper conspiracy going on here. And it turns out he was doing stuff for the military that none of these people wanted to mess with. They just didn't know. Because it looks on his record like, oh, yeah, I was in the military where you never saw any combat. He didn't go overseas. I guess he's no big deal. We can just stomp on him. Who cares? Turns out that is not what he was doing. He was being specially trained in some very hardcore, very secret combat stuff. And so he is freaking. kickass. So we're talking like John Wick mixed in with a little bit

of First Blood, Rambo, mixed in with a little bit of like modern day systemic racism issues. Lots of great action. This is directed by Jeremy Solner. He's kind of up and coming as well. You know him from some true detective episodes. He did that movie Green Room,

which is fantastic from 2015, if you ever seen it. Blue Ruin, amazing movie too. He's really, really great. I've enjoyed everything he's ever done. This thing really, really got me. And I loved it. It's called Rebel Ridge, which I'm not even sure why it's called that.

There's nothing in there called Rebel. I didn't hear anything in the dialogue that said anything about a place called Rebel Ridge or anything like that. So I don't know why it's there, but it's in this fictitious town. They made up the name of a town in Louisiana, deep south, big issues, super fun. the action's really great and his acting sells it so hard this Aaron Pierre guy

just keep your eye on that dude man telling you he's carrying the flag up the hill for new actors he's fan freakentastic anyway Rebel Ridge really good and Dakota Johnson's dad is subtle or just flat out bad guy he's a mix

it's so subtle I guess is the answer but it's it's pretty clear early on which side of the fence he's on and he's so good at it dude just I cannot think of better casting honestly and in fact you know what if you all need to make any movies

where you got kind of a bastard older redneck guy running shit just call Don Johnson he's fantastic at it he's so good since Janko Unchained he's getting a little type cast for me maybe a little bit I mean he was even kind of like this in the watchman's

series a little bit. Yeah. Although it took longer to get to his bad side in that. Sorry, it's not really spoiler, but, you know. Yeah,

it's been out long enough. But he's just very good at it. And I think he's just maybe having a moment. I'd watch him do whatever. I've always liked Don Johnson, but I just love him in this. He's fantastic. So check it out.

Available now. It's, I think, number one in movies right now. Yeah, I'm so glad for Netflix because they've had some stinkers hit number one all summer. Yeah. Some real bummers.

This is not that. This is fantastic. and I would watch it again like soon. It's that kind of movie where I just, I enjoyed it so much. I can't wait to watch it again. It was very, very good. Very cool. That is available on Netflix and all of these things that we've been talking about

are available up on quicktms.L.I because Brian has put them there. So if you are confused or don't remember one, get up there and check it out. Links and photos and all that stuff. Yeah. Nicole, are you doing anything cool this week? A wood whisper or anything going on? Yeah, so Mark and I started up

our woodworking morning show again, and every Friday at 10 a.m. Central, we go live on YouTube. Nice. Fun. What do you guys do? Just talk, talk woodworking and, I don't know. Woodworking, answer a bunch of questions. The morning wood was taken. No, it, because it's so obvious to Matt. I don't want to do what's obvious. You don't want to do what's obvious. But yeah, so we just hang out and talk to people and, you know,

Yeah, you would think it would be a little boring, but it's actually quite fun. I'm sure it's great. I wouldn't. Yeah, I wouldn't think you would be boring at all. Well, if you're not into woodworking, but we get all types of people that come and hang out with us. That's great. Check it out. Fridays, you said 10 a.m. what time? Eastern? Central. Central? Okay. So it would be Eastern. It was 11 o'clock. So check that out. Randy, this week, Film Sack. What are we doing? What's going on?

Dark, Darkman. The Darkman. That's right, the Darkman. We're going to get a little more Liam Neeson in our life, get a little Sam Remy going. The Darkman rises. I am too. I think I love that movie. It has been so long that I'm not sure.

I have no idea. You know? Have you never seen it? You haven't seen this movie? I've seen it. I saw it one time, but I don't remember it at all. You just can't remember if you liked it or not. Yeah.

Well, we'll find out. You have to say it's been that long that I think I like that movie. But it's like the kind of movie where you go, maybe if I should watch it again with my current sense, I might not like it so much. Yeah, I do that all the time. Well, we're going to find out, that's for sure. It comes back to when I was in college

and there was a TV room in the dorm and the TV had a VCR, and so people would come and go with tapes, and they would record things off HBO and then come back and watch them. And I remember watching Darkman. Nice. On a TV with a VCR

next to it. I love it. I just remember all like you tell me dark man and basically it's like the you know the way scout remembers certain movies all I visualize is the camera zooming in really quickly on Benny from LA law's face that's it's all I can remember yeah lots of I think ramy let's still to this day love doing those zooms he loves yes he does he's like you know what the 70s never ended for him he's just going to keep that's great so watch for that this weekend filmtack.com thank you both for being here always a pleasure have a good one. Bye. Bye now. See you later, Randy. All righty. There's that. We did it. We got it. We got it. All right. Quick note. There is the day or the Monday show did go up yesterday. So you got it on a Tuesday. So had somebody asked me this morning. Where did that happen? I'm like, it happened yesterday. So go check that out. I'll be on DTNS today. So that's my usual Wednesday stuff. You got anything you want to mention to folks at home? No. No. Today is really just prep for Coverville. I'm, I'm, Thinking Tomorrow's episode is going to be a short one featuring the music of Leonard Skinnerd because there are very few Leonard-Skinnard covers that just don't sound like somebody trying to sound like Leonard Skinnerd. So it's going to be a shorter episode because the following week is Bruce Springsteen, and that one has got some great variety.

Like people all across the musical landscape cover Bruce and so a very big mix of styles in that one that I want to showcase. So who do you know is? What band would you say is the hardest to cover if you had to pick a band that's like just really hard to cover? God, that's really good. Maybe it's them. I don't know, but I'm curious. Leonard's going to know, because I think you can do some really fun stuff with Give Me Three Steps in like a blues style or even Sweet Home Alabama doing that blues or there's so many like, you know, there's the run of acoustic, everybody on YouTube doing acoustic.

I think the weirder or more specific of band's style, like the violent fems, I think are tough to cake, probably another one that's tougher to cover because their sound is unique. They might be giants. Woodall Yankovic is a really tough one. Chat says Primus is probably the real hard. Primus is the same, same reason. Yeah, but like you go, you and you try and find they might be Giants covers and they're, they can be, it's hard for people to feel like they can stray away. from the quirkiness of the John's sound

but still have fun with the lyrics. Yeah, that makes sense. Well, there you have it. Watch for that tomorrow. We're going to get out of here with some music of Brian's choosing. He's going to do a request, I assume. What do you got?

We are. Yeah, Jim, I beat a bloke, and Robin, the Jensen's. God, we love them. They are just such a great part of the community. Maybe the warmest, nicest people in the whole Fryman's community. Yeah, they even gave me COVID two years ago, and I still love them.

I still love them. But it's the best COVID you ever had. Oh, it's the best COVID I ever had. Plus, this dude just shows up with a stack of Dr. Pepper Cherry cans for no reason. They're just there because he's nice, and they'll be at my doorstep, and it's like, dude, I'll be in soda, zero sodas until the end of my life, maybe sooner because I drink so many of them. But they're so nice. They're just the nicest people.

I, and you and I, we both and our loved ones get cards from them for birthdays and things like that. And normally, normally, I only save the birthday cards from Tina and Tristan. You know, I've got a box of them that I've kept forever. However, their birthday card to me this year is one I'm going to keep forever. It is like a, it is a record crate with records in it and like a little miniature record crate, and I freaking love it. She's so talented. She's so good at this. She makes all these custom cards sometimes.

you open him and it's like a pop-out book with a million things going on. Totally, yeah. Really talented. She's awesome. So when they wrote in and said, quote, Robin and I are enjoying our 42nd wedding anniversary

on 9-11-24, since 42 is also the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, what better than to celebrate it with this song, 42 by Diplo and Marin Morris, which goes, I'll be sipping on you, sipping on 42.

Well, here's the problem, Jim and Robin. I could not find any covers of that. song and the original was just a little too close for popularity even want to touch for for posting in the on the show but uh i mean the 42 thing the hitchhiker's guide you can't go wrong with that and that's what i wanted to honor this is a song by lee terrell that was part of the 2021 hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy video game i believe but it's such a great cover of the TV Hitchhiker's Guide theme that I had to include it. More of an electronic version.

That's great. This is called Don't Panic, main theme, and it is by Lee Terrell. Happy anniversary, you too. Yeah. Have a great time. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Thursday edition of the Morning Stream. Thank you. Thank you.

You're going to be able to be. 4 to all against and falling, 3 to 1, 2, 1, probability factor of 1 to 1. We have no malady. I repeat, we have no vanity. So, you know, I'm going to be able to be. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Yes, get more at frogpant.com. I'm not here to make a record, you dumb cracker.