The Morning Stream - TMS 2720: Screw McDuck

Episode Date: October 16, 2024

Cheaters are Eaters of Peters. Was it the flu shot, or am I just old. Monitoring NORAD during Trivia. Sucking the Fun Out of Something Fun. Kiss Cam Control. Subaru Sally. Stench Adjacent. You Remember It, You Just Don't Remember It. Alright but no tongue. Cheating for 3rd place. Bucket O'Butt Cheese. Mr Kurgan's Patties. Bottomless Daisy with Dunaway. All the Tom Duckery. Who Is Crypto Soze with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I think I was taken by an alien ship and probed for information. One of the bits of info they wanted was to understand why our patrons are so rad. I did not give an answer. And they dumped me in a lake in the Midwest somewhere. Find out why they wanted that info so bad at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, cheaters are eaters of Peters. Was it the flu shot or am I just old? Monitoring NORAD during trivia.

Sucking the fun out of something fun. Kiss cam control. Subaru Sally. Stanch adjacent. You remember it. You just don't remember it. All right, but no tongue. Cheating for third place.

Bucket-O-Butchee's. Mr. Kergan's patties. Bottomless Daisy and Dunaway. All the Tom Duckery. Who is Crypto Soze with Nicole? And more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Pardon me. I'm really sorry.

Excuse me. Hey, is Disney World in Orlando still close? Because I have a cousin that like practically lives there. And if she can't be there every day, I think she might die. Watch my award. The morning stream smells like apple pie. Hello, everybody, and welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for October 16, 2024.

I'm Scott Johnson with Brian Ibit as always. Hi. Hey, oh. I mean, almost always on the days that Bobby or TV's Travis don't sub in for me. Rare, though. Very rare. Rare. I've got a pretty good record.

Pretty good record here, Scott. Yeah, I think so, too. I mean, if you think about it, we are at 2,720 episodes. That is a pretty consistent show for the last 12 years. And I've probably missed less than 15. Oh, easily. easily less than that, probably under 10, I guess.

And I mean, I've probably about the same for me where we have no show, so you never know. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Anyway, it's good to see you all. Hope you're all having a fantastic Wednesday. And we got stuff to talk about. We've got all kinds of things lined up. It's a show of shows.

You guys... It's your show of shows. As we hurdle towards, what are we, 30 days from the U.S. election, I think. Yeah, 21. Isn't it? Isn't it three? Wasn't yesterday like the three week?

Let's see. That sounds right. I think yesterday was the three week, uh, uh, 21 deal. Oh, there's a countdown. This is cool. You're right. We are at 19, uh, sorry, 19 days, 15 hours, 45 minutes and 42 seconds as of my reading. That's right.

And we're, and we're at, uh, 400 days until someone stops, some one particular person stops, uh, one particular person stops, uh, claiming that they won the election. Yeah. Yeah. Looking forward to that timeline. Oh, I'm hoping. I am hoping for that timeline because obviously we know what that means. We know that means, you know, something good. Yeah, I guess so. It also means a lot of potential disarray. I don't know. I hate this so bad. The whole thing just has given me gas. I do, too. It's, yeah.

I hate it. It's, uh... Hate it. I mean, look, I've tried to avoid it. I've done better than most times. The last two election cycles, I was way too dialed in. Yeah, you had quite a run there of threads, not a long run, but like you had the occasional, like, you know, messages on threads, but nothing like when you, when we were on X and you were posting. Back in the 2016, like 2015 through, well, late 2015 up through 2019, I'd say. I was a mess. I hated it so bad.

Yeah. And then I got a little smarter. and then 2020 happened and I got a little wrapped up in that but then you know eased off and this time I have been I've tried there were a couple times where I'll poke my head in and go and then I'm like damn it no you know what you're new

you know how to not do this back up you don't need to do this you know I'm just glad that we've got genitor of AI which is kind of like been a nice little side focus for you on threads I hate it I hate it I do love your I do just love the occasion to like, I get notified, of course, when you post on threads.

Like, yeah, here's recommended reply from Scott to somebody else. I look at it. I'm like, yeah, all right, good. It's any time somebody says, hey, I created my most, my biggest masterpiece. And I'm like, I can't avoid your bait. I have to take it. I have to take your stupid bait. I hate it so much.

Right, right. Anyway, so keep your eyes on the prize, everybody. Now 15 hours, 43 minutes, and 34. seconds away so uh great uh can't wait i really i really can't wait till it's over i mean uh i can't wait till it's over obviously there's one outcome i'd prefer yeah vastly i just can't believe i can't believe that the other outcome is even possible with people who have brains in the world but you know that's that's all i'll say anyway wish us luck rest of the world it's on us now to see what happens.

Hey, you want to, we talk about like a bad, fun stuff. We talk about a bad stink when we were talking about hockey players and their gear and stuff. Well, Jeannie Soros says this regarding Scott and the hockey equipment stench. She says this. Yeah. She says, I used to work in, sorry, I used to work for the in-house video crew for the Detroit Red Wings.

That's actually pretty cool. It's cool except for the fact that it was the Detroit Red Wings. but that's cool. Everything else about that's really cool. I was more of a Flyers fan back in the day. They're big time rivals with the Avalanche, so I can't like, I'm just not supposed to like anything

Detroit Red Wings really. Yeah, no, but if you get knocked out in some playoffs or whatever and Detroit goes forward, do you go, okay, now I'll root for Detroit or is it? Are you just mad the rest of the year until the next year? What do you do? No, I pretty much would root for whoever Detroit Red Wings are playing.

I don't have, I honestly, don't have anything against the team or any of the players, it's just, it's just, I, you know, it's like being predetermined to just dislike the, the, your, your home team's rival. Yeah, I get it. Yeah. It's like BYU and Utah here. Nobody, nobody, nobody crosses the divide and shakes hands. Yeah, exactly. But Jeannie Saras, I will always root for you. Oh yeah. Hell yeah. No question about it. Anyway, she says we were working on a college tournament at the arena and I had to go on the ice after a championship game of the tournament. That is a stench.

I will never forget until the day I die. It was a combination of BO, wet fabric, and skunk. It's up there with the worst smells ever. You know what? I can imagine it. It's adjacent to what I was going off about, and I don't envy your time on that ice. That sounds terrible.

That just seems horrendous. And that's just being out on the ice, like right after the game, that's not being in the locker room. That's a much more open area with way more, you know, a lot more space for the air to travel and get away and disperse. Yeah, I used to wonder why it are the local Grizzlies

games when they would bring out the Zamboni guy. The Zamboni guy would wear a little mask and I used to wonder why. This is a long time ago, like before COVID and everything. I was like, why you're wearing a mask? I'm like, oh, okay, I get it now. Apparently that's why, yeah, it doesn't have to do with breathing cold air or anything like that or

yeah, it's a wow. Yeah, go ahead. Jeannie Saras, very, very important question. So you worked for the in-house video crew. Tell me you were responsible for the kiss cam. Like, tell me that you had control of, like, directing where the kiss cam went and all the other specialty cams and stuff like that. Oh, my gosh. Hockey is, when I see clips of a kiss cam, it's almost always a hockey game.

It must be, like, bigger there than other stuff. Like, I don't see it in baseball games. Yeah, you don't really see a kiss cam at, like, football games. You just see the fans cheering. I mean, we see him, basketball games, I think, have the kiss cam as well, too, of course. Yeah, sometimes. But hockey, man, you guys get into it. You guys are always kissing, you know?

It's pretty great. You hear the story about Billy Crystal and Jack Nicholson? So there are floor seats at a Lakers game. Yeah. And they're sitting there next to each other, kind of chatting, and, hey, Billy, great to have you here joining me. And all of a sudden, they put the camera on the two of them, and the audience cheers. and they're like hey how's it going everybody and then they put the overlay on for the kiss cam and

Billy turns to check and says do you want it what do you want to do you want to do we give the people what they want he's like all right but no tongue this really happened I love this it's really happened and so you can you can Google that's amazing of Jack Nicholson and Billy Crystal kissing on the kiss cam I love that hold on yeah oh wow hold on Jack Nicholson And then here we go. Why I want it to come up? Okay, Jack Nichols and kissing. I got to see this.

This is amazing. So right now, oh my gosh, they did. Oh, that's horrifying. Yeah, is they great? I know, it's not a very, it's not a very, uh, it's not a very comfortable looking kiss either. No, it's awkward as hell. When did this happen, this recent?

No, I'm just looking at Billy Crystal's hair. And that is not, um, that is not current and day Billy, crystal hair color. Yeah. Yeah, this looks... But he just talked about it on Kimmel the other night and, uh, uh, they posted the photo and it's just so funny. Is Jack still going to, uh, he still goes to games?

I don't know if he still goes. Yeah. I wonder. I mean, he's looking pretty, pretty crispy now. He is. Yeah, 2004, it looks like is when that happened. Yeah, a 20 year anniversary we got going here. I guess so of the kiss, yeah.

Yeah, the kiss that changed the world. That's awesome. All right. Uh, I always like it when there's a real celebrity. at the game, and they do the, you know the kiss cams at the hockey games where it's like, the doppelganger one. So it's not a kiss cam, but it's like, here's a picture of George Clooney, and then they'll show a guy that kind of looks like George Clooney and he cheers and everyone

in cheers. And then it's like, oh, here's someone from the office. And he looks like, you know, Kevin from the office. And then I love it when they're like, okay, here's a shot of, I don't know, Amy Polar from Parks and Rec. And then they pan the camera over and it's actually Amy Polar in the audience. And it's actually Amy Polar after doing the doppelgangers for a while. I like that a lot when they do that.

Did you see, speaking of Parks and Rec, there was another one just recently, some game where Aubrey Plaza was sitting in the audience. Oh, where she's reading. And she's reading a book. She just hooks up. Makes like a smirk and then goes back to her book. This Aubrey Plaza thing ever. I freaking love her, dude.

Yeah, she's great. Who would have thought that out of Parks and Rec, well, whatever, a whole bunch of people did things. But, you know, now you have, does that make a lot of, two in the MCU, her and her and Pratt. Who else? That's a really good question. I've been from Reda or

Azizanzari yet. No Roblo yet. Oh, Adam Scott was, well, not really MCU. He was in Madam Webb. Oh, shit, I forgot about that. What about Ron Swanson? What was he in? Is he in something?

Oh, is he? He's in so many things. He's got to, Offerman's got to be in something. Yeah, I can't think of anything, I can't think of anything MCU that he's done. Hey, Claire. Of course he was in the last of us. Yeah, Claire, Last of Us is not in the MCU, just so you're aware.

Only, only the best episode of The Last of Us, but, uh, yeah. Yeah, but nobody, there's no crossover with freaking, uh, Falcon or, right, right, uh, the green listener. Yeah, I feel like we, we should get, uh, Rashida Jones would be a good addition to the MCU. She's, she's badass. Yeah. especially after watching that that robot Apple TV plus series that uh oh yeah she was in silo as well the first season of silo she was great in that yeah and that new trailer dropped briefly a super briefly but yeah i'm so excited for that new thing yeah she was only in like what two

episodes or something but and a couple of flashbacks it's not enough she should have been in that more yeah but it's an important character you guys are saying katherine hon did katherine han have a regular spot on Parks and Rec, or was she, was she even a guest, uh, trying to remember Catherine Han on, uh, she might have. She might have been. Um, she was a guest, she's a guest starting a lot of things, I guess. She is, yeah. Season two says Rainbow Bright. There we go. I don't know. Check that out. That's the thing that Kim and I have been talking about a rewatch. We're in the mood. That first season's weird though. Yeah, the first season wasn't sure what I wanted to do. Right. I know. And like Pratt is, uh, Pratt is like a douche. She's like a total tool.

Oh, she ran Paul Rudd's campaign. Oh, right. Okay, so there you go. Two more. Oh, right. All right. Pretty good. Well done, Parks and Rec.

You get a lot of crossover going there. Yeah. More than the office, I think. Well, wait. I think we need Jenny Slate to somehow make her way into the MCU as well. That'd be great. She's probably done some cartoon voices, I'll bet. I don't know if those are MCU.

Oh, I'll bet. I'll bet she has. Yeah. Yeah, she's great. All right. We have apparently the Potter stuff wrong. We were talking about Slytherin, and there's no good Slytherin house people.

Right, right. Yeah, we were to be smirching how Slytherin is what we were doing. Yeah, be smithering them. Be smithering it. This came in from nobody's name, so we'll just read it. In defense of my fellow Slytherans, or as they wrote, Slittnerins. Hell, that's Sly, Slyt, Slittnerins. Not all Slytherins are evil, even in the books or movies.

Narcissa Malfoy, Horacea, Malfoy, Horace Slughorn, Potions teacher, or even Draco are not evil. Well, Draco has a moment, dude. Yeah. Like, Draco's a pretty big dick. He may have some redemption toward the end, but he's a dick for a while. He's borderline, uh, Joffrey. You know, he's like, he's like, he's like proto Joffrey.

He's like the worst. He is proto Jopry. Yeah, exactly. I realize he does things clear up for him later. I understand that. Yes, exactly. He's a change of heart. But, you know, so does.

Took a long time. Darth Vader even had, you know, got nice at the end, but, uh, come on. Sure. And you could, you could say that, uh, oh my gosh, why can't think he was name? Uh, freaking, the most important salaroon of all time. Uh, the teacher. Uh, Alan, what's his name?

Why can't I think of his name? Snape. Jeez, Louises. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I was Snape hard to remember. Anyway. Yeah, Snape was a great example of that.

Yeah, he was a guy that kind of fooled you into thinking he was a dick. And then, spoiler. Things changed toward the end there. It turns out he was always trying to do a decent thing. But anyway, yeah, no, we get it. We get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It says, according to official canon, Merlin was a Slytherin.

On the other hand, Peter Pettigrew, who helped Voldemort regain his full body, was a Gryffindor. Well, you can't win them all. Aren't those? Isn't that what they call the exception that proves the rule? Yeah. Also, you know, you can't look at outliers, right? You have to look at the full body of the Slytherin. the Slytherin lineup for a long time.

A bunch of dicks. That's just how it was. It's just how it is. Yeah. Turns out the author's a bit of a dick. Anyway. Hey, I got to tell you about the thing I saw on has pissed me off. Yeah.

Yeah, please do. All right. In our neighborhood, we have some pretty easily accessible drop-off points for dog poopie bags and all that. So if you're walking, you're going to run into one. And there'll be bags there for you to take if you're running out. It's awesome. Yeah. It's great.

Very nice thing to people. And people voluntarily probably provide those as opposed to like the city or anything. Yeah, there's just a thing people do. They're always full. I think the HOA does the emptying, but that's fine. They're always clean. It's never a problem. It's never overstacked.

It's just a good, we do a pretty good job of that here. And I, as a conscientious dog owner and member of my society, pick up after my dog. And I don't care how nasty it is. I'll pick it up in its warm, wet form. It's the right thing to do. Exactly. It is absolutely the right thing to do. So what I'm doing out there with the dog is picking up, putting them in the bag, go to the station, put it in the thing.

And I even bring my own bags. I have a roll of home that we use here. I just pull off two, three sheets, take it with me on the walk. Maybe I use them. Maybe I don't. But we're always prepared. But you've got them in case you need them. All right.

Now, another feature of the neighborhood in certain spots are all kind of spread out. But there's little signs the city put up that say, for the good of the neighborhood, please, you know, pick up after your dog or some words like that. And they're just little signs. Well, one of the signs, it's kind of two, three blocks away from me, I notice as I'm approaching the sign, there's something around it, something going on there. I couldn't tell what was going on. It was like a weird something, some buildup around the sign. So I get closer and closer, and I see what somebody has done. It is covered in dog poo, both out of bags and in some bags, just all around it, like almost like a seant circle around the sign of dog poo.

digital circle like you like you know yeah like oh jee i don't know what they were i mean obviously some kid or something who knows like you know yeah but i was so annoyed because i was just like either they're making a statement like these are poops we found laying around and nobody picked up so your signs are no good maybe they were making a statement or i even feel like suborosallie isn't going to do something like that i feel like that's you know Subaru sally Subaru Sally you can visualize Subaru Sally's oh 100% 100% you can all I got to do is go to Park City and I'll run into about 500 Subaru Sally's on my way up there yeah yeah Boulder is full of Subaru Sally's so I was I was presented with a situation where I was like

if this was one or two or three bags I just pick him up and take them somewhere yeah but I couldn't do that dude it was a load it sounds like a lot it sounds like you would have had to you would have been there for half an hour like yeah bagging poop like a big like a big buckets worth like a large paint buckets worth of of dog dung and I just I decided well I don't know what to do so I took a picture sent it to my friend who is associated with the HOA doesn't do anything for him but he knows people and I just said hey I'm not trying to care in this or anything right seems pretty stupid so maybe bring maybe bring the shovel yeah come here and bring a shovel yeah maybe bring a hazmat suit and three men and uh get it taken

care of. Anyway, hey, how'd trivia night go? You went last night? It came out well. We took second place. We lost to just a couple who were sitting by themselves and didn't look. I mean, you can kind of spot the

people who are real trivia nerds. I mean, I work with a lot of. I play with a lot of them. Sure. But these two didn't look like it. But they, you know, they seem to do all right. But there's another team there that we think like for a while there was

at the place we go there was a cheating scandal we never found out for sure what team it was although I think somebody one of the other teams said they said they told us which team it was and it's this team that was there last night are they known for I mean was there a reputation around these people

or is this a big surprise everybody it wasn't a surprise like they you know they're they always have their phones out And in the old format, you actually used your phone or a laptop or an iPad to submit your answers. So basically you had to, you know, you log onto a site and then you put your answers in. And so there's, you know, it's really just like, well, there's nothing really we can do. You know, it's, you're using electronic devices to play the game and we can kind of walk around and see if you're pulling up a browser and looking up an answer.

but really we have a hard time doing that, managing nine teams of people and seeing what they do. So for about two months or a month and a half, they actually didn't have trivia at this place. There were too many technical issues, the woman who ran, we kept having laptop issues, and so they said, all right, we're going to look at a different setup here, and we'll let you all know when it starts back up. So he started up last night with a new one called DJ trivia, and I've never played DJ trivia before. I'm not a huge fan of the format because it's a slower game. The one they did have had seven rounds of between six and ten questions each. So you'd be doing, I think you'd do like 75 questions a night with that one.

This one has four rounds of five questions each. So you're basically answering 20 questions. So in the DJ format, though, you're answering them between sets or something, like music? You're answering, they play one song. So they ask a question, then you've got the length of the song to get your answer in. So it's two hours and about 20 questions, and it's like, all right, well, you know, this could go a little bit faster. I get it. But they have screens all over, like basically their little rotating PowerPoint display of rules says no phones even out on the table.

Like, you know, this is all paper-based trivia. So you're writing an answer and you're taking it up to the guy or he's coming around and picking up your piece of paper. and there's a thing like no you know phones down phones out of sight if we see if we see you on your phone you get a warning then the second time um you're getting zero points for for the round or for the game or whatever sure so like great we're totally we're fine with the format we don't cheat we're like great you can impose any limitations you want on us and we would hear it because we we believe in the sanctity of the game well this other team uh was there and they I don't know what what this one guy does for a living if he has to have a computer out in front of him because

he's monitoring NORAD or something and he has to make sure remotely that the systems are all up and running I love that idea we got to go to DefCon 3 but I'm at the trivia thing so keep me for me tonight so I'll keep it away on things so he has his his

tablet out I couldn't really tell if it was an iPad or whatever tablet but he has it out and um and he uh basically is just turning the brightness down all the way down now from where i'm sitting i've got a light that kind of reflects right down on it and shines back at me from upstairs yeah and uh or from from up of the rafters and so i can see that it's on but maybe somebody kind of walking around and seeing that it's off you know can can tell uh or can't tell that it's on. But there's no way to know for, you know, for sure if he's cheating, he just might have to have this thing on for whatever

he's doing. So second round comes, and I noticed that the host came over and talked to him and just said, no, you got to close it. I didn't say anything to him. Nobody in our team said, oh, check out this guy, but somebody may have, and so he actually closed it. So the guy came and told him he closed his

laptop or tablet or whatever. Right. Now, the final question is this double or nothing, and you're basically wagering all the points you've made on that round. and the question was what is Vanilla Ice's real name and we knew this right off the bat Of course you did

Of course you knew that one Yeah that's an easy one for Brian That's an easy one And but we're looking kind of I'm just kind of I'm talking to Tina And they're behind They're the table right behind Tina

I can kind of just look at Peek over at them And they're like looking And they're like you know They're talking amongst each other And they're looking And it's getting really close to like the end of time

because there's a little time ticker on the video screen. And one of them gets up and goes to the bathroom. And then, like, 30 seconds later, one of the women on the team looks at her watch and then writes an answer and they run it up. 100%. They cheated 100%. There's no way they didn't, dude.

That's insane. She looks at her watch and then knows the answer immediately. Exactly. That's the only, like, it just, there's no way to prove it I mean there's a way to prove it I'm not going to go over and say let me see your watch let me see your phone let me see what you did but uh but they took they ended up taking third place which means that if they are cheating they're just not very good at it yeah and they can't use that tactic constantly right if someone's always getting up and going to the shitter right if they always go to the bathroom exactly so and they missed they missed the next two write-in answers and stuff so you know they they they I think that this this um phones off and laptops shut or iPad shut or whatever is going to get to them. But, man, it just, I look at those people and they, they suck the fun out of something fun.

Yeah. What's the point of this otherwise? There's no, this is like gamers who use aimbots and shooters. Right. It's cheating if you get caught, your band forever, but they can do them because you can get away with it a lot of times. And I don't understand the point. You dominate everybody for nothing. There's no point.

Exactly. I don't care. Exactly. And sure, yeah, there's, there's gift cards on the line. There's money to be spent at the place, the bar where we're at. You know, the top three winners get gift cards. So there is money on the line, or there's cash cards on the line. But that doesn't mean, well, you know, if there were no stakes, whatever. No, I mean, whatever, you know, you're taking the fan out of something that's supposed to be fun and, and, and, and, uh, yeah, missing, missing the point. entirely these people. I have no, I have no tolerance. Yeah. It just, it just pisses me off. Yeah. Anyway, cheaters, cheaters, cheaters are eaters of Peters. Let's put that way. Cheaters are eaters of Peters. I love it. Oh my gosh, I want to use that as our team name next week. Cheaters or eaters of Peters. Yep, and that'll tell everyone else in the room to freaking cut it out and knock it off. Their freaking bathroom watch note,

that's bullshit. I know, exactly. makes me mad hearing this I wasn't even there all right well let's play a game that no one

ever cheats at exactly we need done away in it though oh I'm in the wrong group I almost

called the entirety of the film sack team yeah I hate when I do that all right done away incoming

we'll also take one of you I'll take our fourth caller today you just send me a DM message

hopefully you are number four let's see here who do we got they're coming in they're coming in here comes number three who's going to be fourth who's going to be fourth all right we have a fourth i think let's see sometimes i always i always worried that if this is someone who just happens to be messaging me right when we're doing the show right exactly they're just

like you know yeah they may not actually want to be here but we'll find out now as we do this Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of Tad Pooley Feud. Yes, that's right. Time for us to play a game. And we have on the line with us, Brian Dunaway. Hi, Brian. How are you? Hi, Scott and Brian. Happy hump day. Yeah, it's a hot. You too, sir. It's a day for humping. It's a good day for everybody. It's good to have you here. I just try to get my spirits up after watching a documentary on Alf and all that stuff yesterday. I'm like, oh, that's a real bummer. You've got actors hated it. And the kid who played Brian died and I'm like I gotta share that with everybody to bum them out as well I didn't know they're eating the cats they're eating the panic I didn't know about this at all this is all news to me I didn't know this was a documentary where is this where did you see it oh it was a YouTube thing it wasn't really a documentary I use documentary loosely very loosely uh well awesome it was a hot take on YouTube

how about that I like it hot takes or YouTube takes for sure hey look who else we have on the line with us. It's Gwakmar. Welcome, Gwakmar. It's been 364 days since the last talk to you guys. I know, it's been a while. Plus you. Really? Like, you know exactly like the last time you called in? Well, yeah, because last time I called in, my wife was in the car accident. The garbage can was destroyed. Oh, right. That was a year ago? Jeez. That was a year ago.

That's insane. That really seems like a really strong A story and a really weak B story in your sitcom. Well, to be fair, tomorrow is also my birthday. So this week is usually the day. I can call in. Oh, well, happy freaking birthday, man. It's nice to have you here. We're going to play a game, as you know. Brian's going to explain the rules, and we'll see if we can have you walk away a winner. That's

right. It's time to play the tadpulli feud. I've surveyed the tadpul on some nerdy topics, and Scott and Brian are going to have predict the answers that they gave us. It is their job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Gwokmar, 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'll

get a prize package. That includes, I think, real politics. and conglomerate 451. Now, these, they sound familiar, and I don't know if I've already tried to give them away, and the person said, oh, yeah, I can't use them or I already have them or something like that, or I may not have just marked them as given in the list. So if you try them out and they do, well, if you win, first of all, you've got to win. But if you try those codes out and they don't work, let me know, and I'll give you new codes.

How about I make it easier? And since tomorrow's my birthday, if I win, give them out to somebody else. Oh, all right. We'll do a little, what do you call that? First off, not posthumous. That's not the right word. Proxy. Proxies the win.

I know, right? Hey, that's very generous. B, that doesn't really solve the problem because now I've got to work with somebody else on whether or not those codes work. And C, happy birthday. Yeah, happy birthday. Thank you. Yeah. Well, we'll figure it out.

We'll do it in post. All right. Let's do it live. I'm excited. Do it live. All right, cool. All right, let's get to this one. This is a, this is going to be a fun one.

We asked 527 Tadpoolers. Put your hands on your buzzers and give me your answer to this. Name a fictional duck. Scott. Daffy duck. Show me with Daffy duck. I'm a Daffy fan. He took a Duffy.

It's probably a mistake. Two answers will beat it, Brian. Oh, my heart wants to say one, but my brain says that it's going to be Donald Duck. All right. me Donald Duck. Damn it. Number two answer on the board, which means Brian, you do have, you do have Gwakmar and you do have control of the board.

All the ducks for me. Yeah. All the ducks. Let's put them all in a row. Gwakmar, my heart was saying Howard. That's what I was thinking too. I was afraid. I got chickened out, but that one spot still up there.

I think you guys. I'd say Howard. Yeah, I'd go Howard. I want Gwarkmar to win, so I'd say Howard. All right. Show me the star of that song that Leah Thompson and her friends sang in that movie of the same name. Howard the Duck. Yeah.

Beautiful chance on the board. Almost double, by the way, Donald. Yeah. Oh, wow. When are we getting our new movie? Isn't that supposed to be still in production? We were supposed to get a Hulu series, but when the Modoc series didn't work out, they pulled the plug on Spruly Girl and. Oh, that's what in the Modoc?

Well, the Modoc series wasn't very good This is the problem It could have been way better I loved you know The design, the style of it was great The humor and it was And they came back with Hit Monkey So that worked because people liked it

Oh Hit Monkey is so good Hit Monkey is fantastic Yeah I maintain that if Modoc would have been good It would have stayed even if it wasn't great ratings I think they just had a bad series there All right, you guys are on a roll And they're also tied right now So you know

So seven answers the board. Why don't we go with Donald's Paramore, Daisy. Ooh, Daisy Duck. His better half. She's also not wearing pants. Bottomless Daisy. All right, is that what you're going with?

That's up to Gwakmar. Gwagmar says it's Daisy. We're going, Daisy. Let's go with that. Show me Daisy Duck. Oh, look at that. Daisy, if we do. Look at that. The big question is, how many Disney ducks are on here? Oh, we've got Scrooge.

He's a real Scrooge McDuck. I'm going to use once you get a strike. Well, that one was on my list. I'm sure isn't everybody's short list. Yeah, I got to figure Scrooge McDucks on here, so let's put him in there. So let's take it from Scott. That's Scrooge. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Screw him. Screw you, McDuckins. Screw you, McDuck. All right, show me Scrooge McDuck. Oh, thank God. Number five. I did that one. All right.

Yeah, of course you guys. So the next question is, are all. All the nephews together is one. Do they even care about the nephews? What if we went with Affleck or something like that? Oh, the Affleck duck. I like that. Aflak.

That's not a bad choice. Yeah. But it's Huey and Dewey, by the way. Scott, you're welcome. The nephews. There's no way they're on here. Which one will you choose? Yeah, exactly.

I think Guacmar's on to something. I think Brian would probably combine the nephews, but I don't know. I don't know that for sure. So I'll let you leave. I'll let you leave to Guacmar. What do you want to do you? Yeah, let's do the Affleck duck. All right.

Show me Affleck. Number seven. Oh, yes. Man, you guys are creamed. By Gilbert Godfred. Yep, Gilbert Godfred. Used to do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Used to could. Actually, he got kicked out of that before he died, right? They were mad at him for something. Yeah. They didn't like some other joke he made or something. Like, it was some. I kind of want to go with the elevator go down the whole plucky. Plucky duck.

Yes, from W. Kids, W.B. Steven Spielberg's Tiny Tunes, right? Yes. Oh, down the hole. I use that phrase all the time. Hate. Let me tell you what I hate. Where's the Muppet Babies? Tiny Tunes. Boy, you should listen to us, talk about that on the Play Retro show. Scott has an opinion on Muppet Babies. Real strong one, too. Apologies to anyone who loves that stuff. But, man, Muppet babies can burn. I'm kind of with you on any of that stuff. Yeah. To help you out, Scott, just remember, the Muppet babies were first puppets, or Muppets, before they were animated. Well, that's my point. Like, you should. That's what makes him angry.

That's what makes me angry. They're puppets. You don't need to make a cartoon about puppets. I freaking hate it. I just told you at the start of the show how hard it is to work with puppets. Alf, it almost killed those poor people. Yeah. And look, cartoons are much easier.

Yeah. Didn't W.C. Fields say never work with children, animals or puppets. Is that what he said? Or aliens named Alf. Or a guy named W. W.C. Fields. Anyway. All right.

So you're going Plucky, did you say? Is that what she said? Plucky. Yes. Do you want Plucky? All right. Show me. Plucky.

Number nine on there. Well done. Yeah. Amazing. That's solidifies it, doesn't it? Is that it? I think it does. Yeah.

I think you have cemented the wind because even if Scott gets the remaining 23, 22 points. Right. With his three, then it'll put some at 27. So. Gilbert. Got it.

Let's do you do and Louie. Yeah. Do it? Yeah. You want to try it? Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's roll the dice.

We'll tell you right now that I need you to be more specific. Oh, shit. How about what you could have been called turbo? Turbo. Hmm. There's a different. I forgot about, yeah, yeah, Dewey. I forgot about that.

Oh, Darkwing Duck, too. Oh, God. I forgot about those two. Yeah. Going through the Disney and is in my head. I'm changing my answer. Gizmo. Gizmo.

All right. Who's Gizmo? There's a Gizmo Duck. Gizmo Duck. Who is that from? Yeah. What's that from? Duttails, yeah.

Oh, there's never much of it. I like duck tails. I just never really got into it. So, sorry. All right. All right. Show me Gizmo. Uh-oh.

Gizmo was on the list tied for 15th place. Nice. Okay. Well, you guys said Darkwing, but you didn't go with it. I'm going to go with Darkwing Duck. Darkwing duck. It seems like a good choice. Show me.

darkwing smart four ends around the board we gave them the fewest points yeah you did you did actually

yeah yeah yeah so you give them anything sure right um this is where we get into the weeds

a little bit here I'm trying to think of anything that's not Disney that's a duck besides a few other things just on the WB

but yeah there's a lot of they got a lot of duck based duckery over there yeah yeah they got a

franchise going on. A lot of Tom Duckery. Yeah, a lot of Tom Duckery. I like that. All right. It's a good duck. Who's a good duck? This won't be on there, but you have to be more specific.

Oh, I know. You know what? I'll just say Huey Duck. All right. Oh, there you go. Okay. Because you said you had to be specific, so I'll just say Huey. Okay. All right. me Huey. Damn it. Number 12 was Huey.

I will say if there's a certain duck with a name that if it ends up on this list at all, even in the top 100, it'll make me very happy today. But we'll wait until the end to say what it is. So, Brian, I just thought of one that's not Disney, but Disney tangentially. Okay, okay, give it to us. Disco. Oh, disco duck. Yes. Disco duck.

I want to be a disco duck. That's not how that goes. that's not how it nailed it we're actually today is the anniversary uh 1976 on this date on october 16th disco duck was the number one song really the billboard charts nice timing which you know says what does it say about i wonder if donald will dance to that at one of his things I'm as political as I get that's that's as political as you get all right with his uh ear floss his brain floss yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah let it's Somebody has to make an animatronic one of those.

That I would buy. I would have one of those. Now I all I can see is him doing the floss, and that just weird to me out. Oh, yeah. Well, you know where he puts that floss. There's somebody did that once with a video version. They superimposed it, so it looks like he's pulling floss through his head. It's pretty good.

Yes. It's so good. All right, show me disco, disco duck. Oh. That too, yeah. Shoot, we should say Duck Dynasty. Those are all a bunch of fictional characters. Best duck.

sound i could come up with nice i'm gonna do uh you know everybody who thinks they do a good donald duck oh they're always bad i hate them all they're all bad and i don't i've never met anybody except the original voice guy and even even even then original don't duck yeah even even then i don't like it i've just the don't duck thing is stupid i hate it and it's hard and it's hard to say words like you can't say you know like you're trying to say words while you do it is It sounded like a transformer. That's pretty good. Roll out.

Optimus Duck. Optimus Duck. Now that would be a duck. I could get behind. All right. I'm going to say it. It's going to be painful and it's not on here, but I'm just going to say it. Is Steve the Duck on here by any chance?

Oh, I used to love that. That was Jason Alexander. No. It was a cartoon that I drew for years. It's okay. You didn't know about it. Yeah, it's fine. It's fine.

What am I thinking of? It's a cardboard cut out of it somewhere behind you, isn't it? Yeah, right over there. No, he's over. Well, he is somewhere back here. He's out of frame. He's on that wall. He's out of frame, yeah.

Anyway, there we go. All right, show me Steve the duck. Oh. That is tied for a row. Tied for 11th place, so I had to make it our 11th place answer. You still get another guest. All right. That pleases me, actually.

That pleases me. That's how Talia found me. You'll have pleased me greatly. Talia says she found experience points was the comic that Steve first appeared in. That's how she found me. That's nice. Oh, that's really cool. Wow. Thanks, Talia.

That's nice to know. All right. Two answers left on the board, number eight, number 10. You can't win, but you can at least, you know. Dewey. Safe face. Sure. Good.

Doey. Right. Say Dewey one time. All right. Show me Dewey. Oh. Dewey was tied for 15th place along with everything else that only had one answer. All right.

So no Huey. Louis or Louis probably we'll have to see Whenever Scott said that earlier though I thought he was talking about Duckman I don't remember what his character's real name was Remember Jason Alexander playing that? That's Duckman Yeah I was thinking Duckman

Count Ducula Oh yeah Count Ducula that's a good one too Everybody loves Count Ducula That's another that's a Disney one Yeah Count Ducula is not Disney Isn't it? Oh it's not Because it was Looney Tunes right You're right

That's right Yeah but in that case you could do Duck was Warner Brothers. What was the space name that he had that Daffy Duk did with the little Martian? Dodgers in the 24th and a half century. Duck Dodgers. I love All Productions.

I like Duck Dodgers a lot. Look at you in your knowledge. I'm sorry, I'm monitoring NORAD. Yeah. Hey, put that iPad away. That's a nice call back. DefCon 2. All right.

you're going with that you're saying I say we do Louie because it's it's specific yeah there you go you got the specific specificity okay all right show me Louis yeah two people said Huey

one person said Louis so doing the math zero people said Dewey Louis Huey got two Louie's not the one Willie did not even make the list Louis. Louie's not much of a, you know, whatever.

Louis sucks. Nobody remembers Louie. That's like Simon and Theodore. Louis blows. Okay. That means I have one chance here to just say something good. You have one chance to get some, save some. How about? I didn't lure them at all, Amy. They asked, Scott said, Huey Dewey and Louie and I said, need you to be more specific. I didn't say they're not on there.

It's true. No, that's it. I think you, I think that was fair and square. Yeah, all right. There's got to be at least one more duck of note. There's at least two. I'm going to try the Duck Dodgers. Duck Dodgers in the 25th century. That guy. I know it's Daffy, but you know.

24th and a half century. Or 24th, sorry. Do that one. Yeah. All right. Show me Duck Dodgers. Number 10 on the list. Nice.

Nice. A little late, but nice. All right. Nice. Yes. One answer left on the board. Holy crap. This is a tough one right here. How about?

Down to the wire. I mean, he's already won, so. Is there a mighty, is there a mighty duck? How about the mighty ducks? Yeah. I forgot. Yeah, that's a good one. A mighty, mighty ducks. Let's do a mighty duck. A duck of mighty nature. Mighty duck. Okay. All right. Show me a mighty duck.

Ah. So there was on the list, somebody said, Mallory from the Mighty Duck Sandman. series, which is great. I didn't know there was an animated series. I didn't know there was an animated series. Were they ducks in the animated series? Yes, yes, they were.

And they were fighting against dinosaurs. Really? Oh, I love it. Okay. Yeah, alien dinosaurs. And Mallory, it's what a great, uh, although it should be, I mean, it's a woman's name, but a mallard is a male duck. So it's like, it's a tough one to, uh, to deliver it.

Hey, let's look at what this last one is, shall we? Number, show me number eight. Launchpad McQuack That was the other one I was thinking Also from Who people like him? He's such a square Launchpad McDuck

Wait what? Yeah Launchpad McQuack There's never A trash who I've never walked away from I don't even know who that is You remember it you remember it No

You watch tailspin You watch tailspin I never watched tailspin I didn't watch it No he wasn't on tailspin Wait a minute Oh Tailspin is balloon

Oh you're right I'm getting it confused Oh I don't know Launchpad was Scrooge's personal That's right Oh 90s kids

And then he was Confused though Yeah 90s kids Brian That's what this is I know Yeah never watched any of that Hey let's look what else is on the list too

Yeah Let's look what else is on the list here DuckTective from Gravity Falls What Duck from Discworld A couple people said that I'm sure that makes Amy happy. Alvin, I don't know if there's an Alvin, the duck.

Somebody was just thinking it was a chipmong. Darling Duck, Doug. Duck from Don't Hug Me, I'm scared. The duck from Weird Al Yankovics, I want a new duck. Eric Duckman. Eric Duckman, that duckman, right? Oh, it must be, right? Yeah, yeah, that's what his name is.

That's like you say, Batman is Bruce Batman. Bruce Batman. Bruce Batman. Harold Jebediah Lansford Long Duck Dong Mendoza He was a goose

Mighty Ducks Nightwing Oregon Duck Scy Duck Finally got somebody Bring that one up Ernie's rubber ducky Sonia from Peter

and the Wolf The toilet duck Which I think is a product You can buy from Ronco That cleans your toilet Wow I don't remember that I think it's actually just A toilet cleaner

Is it? Oh it's like a like a liquid you just put in there? Yeah, because the neck of the bottle looks like a duck's head. Oh, okay. Interesting. What is our obsession with ducks in this country? We love them, dude. We're into them. We have to put them all in a row. Yeah. Get them in a row. Put your ducks in a row. Exactly. Put them on my shirt. Like water off their back. And finally, Wade Duck from Garfield and Friends. Oh, no, yes. That's the U.S. Acres side. Yeah. Wow. Look what we've done. Look what we've done here. This is insane.

Yeah, yeah. Here's the good news. You won. Now, what you do with those codes is a whole other issue. Yeah, you want me to give them, I can give them way. Give them away. Yeah. I'm happy. I'm happy just talking to you guys. Yeah, well, it's good to have you, man.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry it's been so long, but, you know, a year is a year. And we've all had a year. We've had a year. I almost said good year, but it's a bit a year. But you know what? Now it's, and a year is behind you. That bad year is behind you, and now you've got a great year to look forward to with your birthday coming up.

Yeah, that's good. I agree. Well, thanks for planning. you get one of these no matter what. Congratulations. And it's been a treat having you here. Stay out of trouble and be good. Brian Dunaway, listen to this.

We are normally recording play retro on Fridays, almost always. But the last few weeks, we have had stuff. And this week, you've got a birthday you have to attend. So we are flopping it a little bit to Sunday. Right after we do film sack with the boys, you and I will do a live play retro. We're talking about postal. Postal. You know what I found out about postal?

what'd you find out 1997 we were just overreacting those games weren't too violent and you know dark I've been playing it this week I'm gonna tell you

that's some dark stuff yeah really wow suicides executing people execution style it is crazy yeah it is it's many people

execution style you say yeah yeah it's controversial it's controversial for a reason I mean that game was was a big whoop at the time and people were all upset about it. Let's find out if any of that holds up, you know? So we'll do that on Sunday.

Check us out. Brian Dunaway, kiss our butts. All right. All right. So I'm going to do really quickly give this away the first person to tell me. And we're going to start the song right after I give this question and then I'll reach out to the person who gets this right. But if you want to win these prizes or if these codes don't work, I'll give you something else. I want the first person in chat to tell me the name.

of Howard the Duck's hot red-headed girlfriend. And the first person to type that into chat gets the prizes. Actor or the character? The character. Okay. Howard the, yeah. Okay. All right.

So let's get to the song. This one comes in from Lucy. Lucy says, Dax Riggs is a gift to the people. I can't find this new album anywhere officially, but it should be releasing soon. October 11, thanks Brian. Yeah, the album actually comes out.

The album is called Seven Songs for Spiders, and it comes out next year, early next year. um but uh uh this is the first single from the album and um this is going to be uh so it's called uh deceiver this is really cool some heavy heavy stuff here uh deceiver by dex rigs Particles dancing The old world burning Death had smiled in life There ain't no tomorrow

On a prison telephone She said maybe I'm a demon but you just don't see me And I said, maybe you know Jesus, but I just can't believe it. I laid in the cup and I closed the lid, I don't know where I am. And the darkness began. I laid it in the coffin and I closed the lid. I don't know why I have to do.

why I do, what I do, what I did, I just don't know where I get, and the darkness again. She said, maybe I'm a demon, but you just don't see me. I said, baby, you know Jesus, but I just can't believe it. No, no, I just can't believe it. Ain't no great deceiver. Ain't no brother Jesus either. Now I know Now I know

Now I know Now I know How this eye of sound is feeling Now I know How this eye is feeling Ain't a brave deceiver. Ain't no bride in Jesus evil. Ain't no brave deceiver.

Ain't no bad in Jesus ever. Now I go. How does I have some of this feeling? Now I know how does I'm sorry to sound is feeling? Ain't a great deceiver. Ain't a mad of Jesus seeer. computers are supposed to make life easier about one in three american households has bought that theory and purchased a PC but what they didn't tell you is that life does not get easier

right away for many newcomers PC stands for pain and confusion what's the poop And we've returned. Brian, I need to know who that music was by and from. Oh, for sure. That's by Dax Riggs, which is a pretty damn cool. It's like a video game character name, right? That is the star of your video game, Dax Riggs. That is from the up.

coming album seven songs for spiders and that is a song called deceiver excellent and well done we have a winner in the chat who won that thing you do jacob uh jacob crouch uh won that one so jacob if you are in discord send me a message i'm at coverville as you might guess and uh i will get you these codes don't work then i will get you uh some new codes excellent keep playing we'll keep playing the code game until we get some codes that's right welcome to code games We want Tom. Hey, we do want Tom, and the good news is this. Tom wants us, at least I think he does.

And he's here now to talk to us because he wants us. Tom Merritt, welcome to the show. How are you? Oh, I don't hear Tom Merritt. I can't hear Tom. His rings of greenage are green, though. Yeah, we have green ringage, green speakage. He's eminating noise of some sort.

Hello. Oh, hello. Now we hear you just fine. Is it, can you hear me? We can hear you. We can hear you. I worry, as I know you're not. Well, you can't see me.

Oh, are you? Are you in your office today? See me? I thought maybe it's because you were somewhere. No, I'm in my office. Oh, that would be why. Yeah. It's just a thing.

That's why, because I'm in my office. Yeah, there. I had just heard that Rob was on today, so I thought, oh, maybe Tom's away or like on a phone. No, I'm around. Yeah. Here, can you see me now? No. cannot see you at all.

Can you see me now? Yes, I can see you now. Can they see you? Yes, they can. Everybody can see you now. Everybody, everybody will see you later. Yeah, you got a haircut. I like that.

I feel like I need a nice tight. Oh, thanks. Yeah. Every time I go see my barber, he's like, oh, it took a while to get back, huh? Wow. That is like the most backhanded. It's not even a compliment.

It's just like the subtle dig of, a hair not growing as fast as it used to, huh? I know this bad. Or it's like, man, your hair's out of control. You should have come in earlier. Oh, gotcha. That can be his excuse if Tom took it wrong and got mad, seeing that's how it.

I mean, it's in his interest for me to come more often. I get that. That's how they survive these barbers. Well, anyway, it's good to have you here, of course. And we always like having you on on a Wednesday, talking about the tech news of the day before the daily tech news show happens. later um tom what is going on today that we might find interest in new kindles we just we mentioned

this very briefly at the top of the show but we didn't get into it i'm excited to talk somebody who knows what the hell's going on because from what i can tell they seem like e-ink with color and that that feels like a big whoop to me really yeah you don't like that no i think i know i think it sounds good because it is a it is an actual big who yeah like a big who oh oh i see sorry i think that is ironic. I'm like, oh, big whoop. No, I always say Big Whop, like it is actually a big whip. But I'd like the idea of, like, some of my comics might look good on there. Yeah. Other content like that, like, I don't want a tablet so much for reading. So I switch to a tablet for, like, reading comics or something. But if I could do it all in one place where

my comics already are, I mean, that sounds all right. Yeah, this is, Amazon took a long time to get to this. Cobo has had a color E-ink screen for a long time. There's a lot of other third-party manufacturers that you could buy on Amazon, ironically, that have color e-ink screens. And for anybody who doesn't follow this super closely, e-ink is a different technology than what you see in your phone or your iPads or anything, because it's, to oversimplify just little plastic balls. And with the monochrome displays like Kindle has had, there's just a white side and a black

side and you flip the little plastic ball one way or the other to make the screen dark or light and then create images on it. Color requires you to have multiple little colored balls in there so that you can do red, green, yellow, you know, and then mix them up and cause purple and orange and all the other colors. It's a little more difficult to do. It also is a little more difficult to make good looking with an LED screen or an OLED screen like you have on a tablet. you've got a backlight, you've got a rich color tablet. These are technologies used in televisions. They are more power hungry, though.

With an e-ink screen, you don't have that rich, like, emanating light that comes out like you have an OLED, so you have to do other things to make them look good. And I think that's probably why Amazon dragged its heels on this. I think the reason this is probably most exciting for people who wanted a color e-ink screen is that it's got eight weeks of battery life. So you can have color, but not have to charge it every day. And I guess the other thing is a lot of people are in the Kindle universe. And so if you buy a Kobo, it's not easy to read your Kindle books on Kobo.

You can do it if you really want to work at it. But it's not something built in, whereas if you buy the Kindle Color Color E-Inx screen from Kindle, you're in the universe. and a lot of people have all their e-books in the Kindle universe. It's also a pretty good price for its competition. Competition in this space is a little more expensive. This is 279. I'm seeing competitors anywhere between like 350 and 800 for this technology.

Yeah, you can find them cheaper too, but they're also cheaper builds. So, yeah, I agree with you. This is a well-priced e-ink. You're going to be able to find cheaper monochrome e-inks. In fact, the new Kindle Paperwhite is only. only 160 bucks, but if you want the color, 280 is not a crazy amount to pay, especially compared to the competition, you should realize that you're going to lose some resolution. Monochrome will get you 300 pPI resolution that's pixels per inch, whereas if you're doing color image

illustrations, it'll be 150 pPI. And I think they did that on purpose because they want to be able to show you nice, sharp letters when you're just reading black text on a white page, which you will still be doing a lot of the time. The color is for the book covers, like you say, for comics, because comicsology was folded into Kindle, and any illustrations and things like that that come along. Is it stylists included or no? It's not a stylus type of us. There's no stylus on this one. Interesting that you mentioned that, there's also a new Kindle Scribe, which is meant for note-taking, and they include a stylus, the premium pen, which is upgraded from the previous stylus to have a soft

tipped end to feel more like an eraser. So the scribe added some texture to the screen to make it feel more like paper when you're taking notes on it and then that soft tip eraser to make it more feel like an eraser when you're erasing. That was a little pricier though, $400 for the Kindle scribe and not ship until December 4th. So if you're buying it as a holiday present, you're cutting it close. These always interest me with the pens if they are good, if the latency is good. Like, I get a really, I get great performance on my iPad, but I love the feel of paper,

and I love the idea of a thinner thing I could take around for notes. And reading's great on these. Obviously, they're designed to do that. But any improvements they make to those, I'm sort of always watching that, interested. And then the reviews will come out and say, not as peppy as we'd hope. And I'm like, okay, I'll wait for the next iteration and see how it goes. Well, anyway, a bunch of new stuff. Kindle, still a threat, sounds like.

Still a thing. Yeah. Yeah. I've been using my phone mostly for reading these days. days and I don't know why I do that but I don't know maybe I'll switch I I I have always done that since the first Kindle I never got a second Kindle I don't think I bought the first Kindle loved it uh and then amazon brought the Kindle app to my phone and I just said well I already have my phone just always in your pocket some people that drives them crazy it tires

out their eyes and I totally understand that but for me it's been fine so I just I end up doing audio books more often than anything but if I'm reading an ebook I'm generally just reading it on phone because I've got it with me yeah well there you go that's how I'm reading my it's like you know the best camera you have is the camera you have with you sort of oh good point uh well awesome Tom merritt this has been fantastic and as always the daily tech news show happens uh on the daily and today at 2 p.m mountain time you're gonna want to check that out it's gonna be me sarah and robb today yeah yeah because rob's traveling uh for one of his daughter's school uh I think it's a homecoming event um so we swapped so I'll be on on Thursday this week which I'm usually not Rob you usually on

on Thursday. Oh, that's awesome. Rob's great. I can't wait. I don't ever get to be on when Rob's on it feels like. Yeah, exactly. Me either. So, yeah. So that'll be fun. Is there anything else going on? We're probably getting toward the tail end of your book campaign, right? Or where are we on that? Yeah, I actually just heard from the editors this morning. I need to email them back in case they're listening. I saw the email. I'll get back to you. So yeah, we're in the editing phase. And thanks to everybody who has ordered it. We're not quite finally over the line yet, but everybody is acting as if we'll get there. So I guess we're not worried.

But I'm a little worried. So if you haven't bought synced yet, go to tom's new book.com and buy it right now. Thank you. Appreciate that. I'm sure I shouldn't worry. No, he shouldn't worry at all. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. You know him, you love him.

And Tom, we'll see you later. Have a great day off. And we'll see you on Thursday. Bye. Thanks, man. Not really a day off. He's still, you know. Yeah.

There's no day off for Tom. Not for Tom Merritt. No. His name is Merritt. Come on. Right. You think that's an accident? Yeah.

You think that you think I'm a Johnson for by accident? If you know what I mean, Brian? If you know what I mean? A Johnson. Oh, uh, uh, I see what you doing there. I see what you doing. Oh, quick update. So yesterday, before we call the, uh, the recommendals, folks, um, we did this.

I put up this thing in the show, um, a fake rap album, uh, with Phoebe on the front. Yeah, the, uh, right, the Phoebe album. I wanted to share. I shared Brian's suggestions. I put a few in there myself. Here are the top picks according to my children. Okay, we had a whole vote. They really liked a kid cutie.

That was one of mine. Nice Cube was highly rated. Fun DMC did all right. Smalley Biggs ended up getting a lot of votes. That's really good. That's awesome, yeah. You did Shug cereal, I think. That also rated well, rated in the top six.

Let's see, Notorious TOT is in there. Good. Five cent. Let's see. What else? Okay, here's a new one. Nick. Nick did Poutcast, like Outcast, but Poutcast. That's pretty good. Oh, Poutcast. Yeah, good. Her album should be called That Hug Life without the T, so no thug but hug. And then finally, oh, Machine Gun Smelly was a pretty high.

And Fettie Knapp. Fettie Knapp was a high-rated one. Fettineap, that's really good. So now I'm, now I'm like tempted to, like, print like a full-size album cover. Nobody did Peanut M&Ms? No, but we did. did do Eminem spelled just like the candy. Just like the candy. Yeah.

They thought that was pretty good. Anyway, fun back and forth had yesterday on that. All right. Let us get in the Nicole. Yeah. Randy's tied up. He's got work stuff. He's literally tied up.

They have tied him up. That's right. I'm in the middle of reading that book, that Blizzard book. Oh, boy, I got stuff to say about that. Really? Oh, wow. Okay. I'm referenced in there.

It scared the hell out of me. because I'm in a footnote and I went, oh shit, what did I do? Turns out I was totally innocuous. But if you find my name while you're going through the book and you wonder if I did something stupid, I promise I didn't. All right, here comes this.

What's this now? This right here is this. Well, what do you recommend? All right, that music tells us that it's time to welcome Nicole Spagnolo to the show. Hi, Nicole. How are you? Hi. I'm doing great.

How are you? Fantastic. Welcome, welcome morning. stream. I thought I'd do that for you. That was good. Good morning morning. That's good morning.

That's all right. No, if you got it right, we'd be a little surprised. Yeah, I prefer the wrong way. That was really nice. It is Nicole, and it is recommendals. We take things we've seen from streaming services, and we recommend them for folks at home. These are usually on the more common services. You don't have to go hunting too far for these.

And we start each week with Brian, who's got a clip here all lined up? Brian, what do we got? I've got a thing. Yeah, this is. A movie that came out a couple years ago, but I'm rewatching it for a particular reason. It'll be an obvious particular reason. Oh, I like particular reasons. Obvious or not.

For some reason, your file didn't move over. Oh, I know why. I'll fix it. Hold on one second, everybody. Pretend. Pretend we did this pre-show and that... I was looking for a movie... I was looking for a movie that wouldn't wake Tina up, so I wanted something with a lot of

whispering in it. Oh, good. So it's the quiet place. Brian recommending... A quiet place. Okay, there it is. It worked this time. Let's play it.

He waited for him at the gym. He'd always like to work out late at night when no one else was around. There's a needlemark on his neck. Injected him with arsenic. Rat poison. Yeah. That seems to be his theme here. Look at this thing.

It's a maze. What kind of demented, son of a bitch, does this to a person? More symbols. That's another cipher. He blasted these out after his message went viral. The bastard murders you and your imputation. That guy pushes drops. Only he stand.

I'll get him. Why would Pete get him from something like this? Looks like he got crazy. You kidding me. After everything we did to take down the Moronis, he busted the entire operation, then he caved to some of the life deal. Maybe he's not who you thought.

Why did you say that name? More whispering than a Billy Elish album. That is The Batman. A few people in the, uh, the chat room recognized it. Yeah. That's Robert Pattinson and Jeffrey Wright as your Batman and your Commissioner Gordon. Fantastic role.

And this is, this feels like it's as much a commissioner, Gordon film as it does, a Batman film. And it feels like it's a, it's a detective Batman film, which is really, really good.

It's a good, you know, good going back to Batman's roots as a, um, as a as a detective in detective comics of course right there how does how does this link to the penguin movie that i saw on max directly it links it is it is an absolute uh the thing you watch before you start watching the penguin the penguin is a series series okay so it's all because there's so many levels of batman now that there are yes with with joker and what yeah well this is oh yeah

the joker now which right so this is a thing that will, uh, this is its own little universe. Um, and this is a universe that will be maintained separately from the DCEU. So Matt Reeves, who directed this, has a trilogy planned out and, um, potentially even some more series spinoffs, um, with Robert Pattinson as Batman, or the Batman. Um, so this will continue even though James Guns got the, you know, the DCEU stuff going on separately from this. Yeah. Um, makes me happy, by the way. because I love this movie. This movie, I liked it, and I'd forgotten how much I liked until I watched it again. And just hearing the Nirvana song, something in the way in my head, it gives, you know, makes the goosebumps on my arms rise up because that's such a great, it's such the perfect mood for this film. And you hear it a couple times in here. This one had Paul Dano as the Riddler and easily the most terrifying version. we've ever had of the Riddler.

He was a character. He was born to be that weirdo. Just absolutely. He really liked. Jim Carrey was pretty, oh my gosh. Jim Carrey was terrible. Oh my God. Like of all the people.

I mean, I like Jim Carrey. Don't get me wrong. Oh, I did. Yeah. But you've also got Zoe Cravitz as Catwoman. You've got John Torturo as Maroni. No, not Maroni. Falcone, right?

Falcone, yep, thank you. And Peter Sarsguards and Sarsguards in this. You've got Eddie Circus as Alfred. Great. Really good Alfred. And then unrecognizable, as you mentioned, Colin Farrell as the Penguin, who's continuing, obviously, to play that role in the TV show spinoff, the series. I shouldn't call the TV show.

The series spinoff on Max. And this was your goal, right, to watch this, be reminded of everything and then go straight into Penguin. Yeah. And boy, do I recommend it because the penguin picks up right where this leaves off. Like, you know, this movie ends with a very, uh, Gotham in a very bad state. And Penguin is not a prequel. This one picks right up and mentions Batman. I've not, I've only, um, halfway through the first episode of Penguin, but there's no, no sightings of Batman yet.

And of course, I don't know if Patinson signed on to make any cameos in the TV show, but, um, highest rated streaming show currently on, any service right now that thing is it really i can see why it is really good and my gosh i'm probably going to be recommendling that before too long but you got clancy brown in that thing uh there's a whole bunch of great actors in that uh with his crabby paddies how i met your mother mother uh malady christina milotti i was love it's about 50% of people go crabby or you know mr crabs and 50% of people go the kurgan and then a few other A couple extras go, wasn't he in Lost for like three episodes? He was lost for a hot minute.

Yeah, I love him. Remember Carnival? Yeah, Carnival was good in that. He was great in, obviously, Shawshank Redemption, a defining role for him. He's amazing. There's no, he'll always be Mr. Crabs. In addition to that Nirvana song, you've also got Michael G. Kino doing music for the Batman and does an incredible job.

It is, as you heard a little tiny bit of the strings in that one. but just the like this almost turns into a little bit of a of a buddy cop thing with with jim gordon and uh and batman it's really really it's what we've all been asking for years we want the detective side of batman to show up more less cape and cow more like weird mystery and they in my opinion they nailed it i think that the director matt reeves makes nothing but good movies his two apes movies are incredible yeah yeah they're amazing i'm a fan of cloverfield i know i know people have some issues with that, but I find Cloverfield in the way that it's

that it's presented with the found footage style, probably one of the best, my favorite of the found footage movies. Yeah, it's really good. And he's just, I don't know, he's got a touch for this stuff and the dark nature of Batman fits really well with his style. And if you

haven't seen War for the Planet of the Apes or Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, those two sequels to the first one are so freaking good. They're really good. Oh, and anyway. Yep. So this is actually streaming a few places. Right now it looks like you can watch it either on Max as to be expected, which is where I watched it. But I think it's also on Netflix and maybe even on Amazon Prime according to Google. So I think there's a few places I should look at Just Watch and tell you for sure. But chances are if you've got a streaming service, you can watch

the Batman on it. Yeah. No, it's for sure on Max. For sure on Max. There we go. Max. Um, the Hulu bundle. Oh, looks like it is not currently on Amazon Prime or on Netflix. I don't know why I was telling me Netflix, but, uh, it is not. I think it was and it just got pulled or something, but yeah, might be. That one, that one will dance around and be on different services, I think. Yeah. Um, that's great. I need to rewatch that before. I, I kind of want to do the same thing. I want to rewatch it and then go into Penguin, which I haven't started. Highly recommend it because A, this is a really good movie and deserves another watch and B, like I said, it, um, it picks up right where the movie. Um, it, um, it picks up right where the movie. leaves off so it's a good it's it's you know penguin episode zero really if you're like you're the penguin series yeah then uh yeah he also i always forget that matt reese directed that let me in now a lot of people say well it's the swedish the swedish original uh let the right one in let the right one yeah whichever everybody says that's the better movie but i actually think this is pretty freaking good so if you like if you like if you'd rather hear an english film and you want to see a young you want to see a young Chloe Grace Mortetsies and she gets an extra syllable every time you bring her name up that's right sausage let's get that Cody Smith McPhee kid that was still a kid it was right after the road it's great his version of that is great in my opinion but anyway cool he's got something upcoming called the wrecking crew an upcoming American buddy cop action comedy film with Jason Momoa and Dave Batista which bring it on it feels like it feels like um

how can you have that much that much testosterone in one buddy cop film right like yeah that feels uh like it might be too much his production credits for upcoming are interesting something called way station wrecking crew like you mentioned a dynamic duo which sounds like a batman sequel if i'm not incorrect mouse guard untitled cloverfield sequel and god's country i mean that guy's busy he's got stuff wow wow he was also an executive producer on the thing I recommended a few weeks ago, the animated Batman Cape Crusader. Oh, that's

cool. On Amazon. Yeah. He might be a bit of a fan, it sounds like. He might be. He knows the material. He's ready to do his work. Yeah, I really like him. Great recommendation. Check it out. Available now on Max. That's right. Nicole, what did you bring us?

What do we got here? Well, it's that time of year where I'm doing birthday parties and Halloween and all that And I don't have a lot of time to watch. But I am watching this again. And I feel the need to make sure, because I can't believe how many people I talk to say they've never watched a single episode. So I don't know how that's possible.

Yeah, shame on them. It's an all-timer. It will be a classic forever. It's amazing. This thing we're going to talk about. It's 15 seasons. And I'm trying to remember when it first came out. I'm sure I recommended it.

So it's been a very long time since I've probably recommended it. So I'm going to recommend it again because it's still going strong. And if you haven't given it a shot, I will tell you why you should after the clip. All right, here we go. Hi, everybody. Hi, Teddy. Hi, Teddy. Hi, little witch.

It has a motion sensor. It's okay, Teddy. Calm down. Woo! Look at it go. She's all that in a pointy hat. Is it me or she just doing the same thing over and over again? How's it work?

It's electronic. Just move your hand in front of it. I just explained it Turn it off She won't stop making eye contact with me Oh come on Teddy Tomorrow's Halloween We're trying to get into the holiday spirit

Boo Yeah we're even taking the kids To a haunted house this afternoon It's an annual tradition Like on dad her places all the sponges Sponge Day They last longer than you think Just a taste

But that is season six right That was season six The Halloween episode one of the Halloween episodes and in fact I sent it to you there is a list of all the Halloween episodes

and this is what we do every year we pull up the list and we put them on the TV because all the seasons are streaming on Hulu I'm trying to figure out how I can get them on my plex

without having to buy every single season because they have yet to make a compilation of all of the seasons you have to buy them them individually. That's what I was going to ask. I wondered if Hulu maybe let you do playlist, but it sounds like they don't. That's a bummer. No. And it's kind of a pain in the

butt, but I love watching all of the Halloween episodes on Halloween. I love watching all the Thanksgiving episodes on Thanksgiving. And I love watching all the Christmas episodes at Christmas. And we are going to do a trunk or treat and we're all dressing up as Bob's burger characters on Friday. So you might find some pictures. Oh, very cool. Yeah, we already got a tease of one. of them, which is great. That's who I am. Yeah.

I'm a big shock. All right. So hold on a second. I see that your kids are both wearing the burger costume. Are they both gene? Or what's the plan there? Well, if you watch the show, you know that they all take turns wearing this burger costume.

Yeah, that's true. So I made the burger costume. You can find it on my Instagram. It really, at first I thought, well, I made it too big. But then I looked at the picture of Gene. And it literally, like, he's all burger in the, in the, in the, So I'm like, oh, maybe I got it right. But I got,

Mateo is going to be Jean. And so he has like yellow shirt, loose shorts. It might be a little cold. So I might have to get it with some blue pants. Red shoes. And I got them a little keyboard that. With fart guys.

I hope. I hope it farts. If it farts, you've done, you're a good mom. You've done all you can do. That's amazing. Well,

you can put in any sound you want. So I told him, just make a fart sound. yeah this is great I'm uh oh j fengtastic says that Hulu actually has them all under the Huluene tab

oh perfect so that's a good way to to keep it as well oh I'm doing this dude I just want them to keep rolling because they're awesome yeah you want to watch those like binge them one right after the other

because they're so good that's great Bob's burgers when I when I ask people why they haven't watched it they're like I don't know it's such a whole like the family just loves they're just they accept everyone

and they're weird and they're and that's you know that's kind of life right we're all little weird and there's just I don't know I just love the show does this amazing job of capturing like the quirkiness the backwardsness the strangeness the town all these things that are all sort of combined

and the conflicts that arise and all that other stuff but there's there's like a certain the Simpsons does this pretty well, too. There's this certain kind of cohesion the family will always have. They will always be together. I don't know. Simpson's a little bit more rough for me. Like, I don't get warm and

fuzzies with the Simpsons. I get the warm and fuzzies with Bob Spurs. I want to live in that town. I want to talk to Teddy. You want your mail delivered by Teddy. Yeah. Wait, does Teddy be mail? You want your mail delivered by? Mike.

Mike? Yeah. Mike. And that's played by the guy from Messenel, whose name is? Tim Meadows. Tim Meadows. Oh, yeah, yeah, it is Tim Meadows. Good call. Yeah.

You also have Kevin Klein. Is it Kevin Klein? It is. Mr. Fishoder? The rich fish odor. Yeah, Fish Oder. Yeah. And Zach Alpanakis as his brother.

Yeah. So many opportunities for names. I know. I'm trying. I'm trying. So the race 86 says there's too much singing. I do skip over those episodes. really? I don't like it. Oh, I love the musicals. I love them. I don't like it when we turn the episode into a musical. Oh, I love those. A little bit of singing's fine. I don't, I don't enjoy it when they sing too much. So I do skip over those episodes. I like those. There's an episode where it's her, sorry, it's Louise and her dad and they have to, I can't remember the conflict, but it's one of the sweetest episodes and it's because that has that amazing song where they all come together in it. I love that one.

Yeah. And I like that sometimes you get the song at the end again in the in the closing credits too. I do I do like the songs that they do in the closing credits. Yeah. Yeah. Especially if Linda's singing eight. Yes. Yeah.

Linda's amazing. It's just a wonderful, wonderful show. It's, you know, like I said, 15 seasons. I can't imagine them stopping the show anytime soon. No. They don't have any kids doing any voices. It's all adults so they can do it forever, you know? Yeah.

No kids are changing their, uh, changing their, uh, changing. I do think it's interesting that I was watching Archer, and it was because of Archer, I started, I think, watching Bob Spurger's because Benjamin H. What the hell is his name? Oh, please, please continue that. Go ahead and keep going with that one. H. Benjamin. H. Benjamin. I don't know. You know who I'm talking about. The voice of Archer's. Benjamin H. John, yes. H. John Benjamin, just for the record.

H. John Benjamin. Yeah. Just so you know it. God. I knew it was, I was getting all the words just not. You were, you were,

exactly. I was expecting John or, I was expecting Ben John Jahneman, so you did pretty well. Ben John, Jane Chiman. Jane Chimin. My point was for the,

for the, I don't know, probably the first few seasons of Rob's burgers, I could not like take Archer out of the voice. Oh, yeah. And then eventually it's, point Archer went away and it it's Bob yeah because he doesn't really like when he

was coach whatever on home movies that's the one I had to get out of my head because I watched tons of home movies a lot of connected tissue with these animators too that was like a whole there's a whole history there but when they when I heard Bob's voice I'm like well that just sounds like coach whatever but that's the thing with him right he's the same voice in everything he does the can he was in that one hot wet summer or whatever that's called right Superfan or whatever. Yeah, he's just Bob. There's certain voice actors.

It's like they don't try and do it. Pat Nosswald, a great example. Never tries to do a different voice, and it's like, fine. I'm fine with that. And I know it's Pat Nosswell when I hear it. Yeah, it's just who they are. That's just who they are. I'm down with it.

Awesome. Check it out. That playlist is great. I didn't know that was a thing they've been doing. So that's awesome. Yeah. Look at Halloween. I'm guessing I really hope they do it for Thanksgiving, too, and then the holiday.

Oh, they're freaking. Thanksgiving episodes are so good the turkey and the toilet one oh my gosh dude I love that one so much it's just a really wonderful show even if you don't like animation it's it's one of those shows where you can

just put on right and just let her roll good it's a great background show I might do some of that today you've inspired me thank you for that all right let's jump to mind this is a documentary let's get serious for a moment and talk about

documentaries this is excuse me this keeps us over on max where we were pro oh have we frozen we've frozen okay that's great hold on let's see if we can figure out what's going on here talking about documentary

well you never know it was like oh is he about to play audio I think he's about to play audio I mean it was perfect timing as as it were well anyway so I'd watch the documentary it was very it's a serious one but also not that serious I don't know if you guys remember when I recommended here on

Recommendals, the documentary about Q and on. Do you remember that? It was like the Who is Q thing and they were trying to figure out who was and by the end

of it it's pretty obvious. Right? Yeah, it was on Max. Or HBO original, yeah. And so this is another one of those by the same director doing a lot of the same things but in a very different way.

I'll play the clip and then I'll talk about it. Here you go. Before you know it. Today we're having a funeral for Bitcoin. Despite all the doomsday prophecies,

just 15 years after launch, Bitcoin had become the 10th most valuable asset in the world, outperforming Wall Street by a massive margin. One of the biggest unanswered questions surrounding Bitcoin is who invented it? When you ask about the creator, who created this? We have no idea. There's these things called nerds. All right. Oh, Jesus. I can't see.

I'm a guy. That guy. He finds nerds. I don't like him at all. He drives me crazy. Bill Maher annoys me. But they have a couple of quotes from him. But anyway, here's the movie. It is called Money Electric, the Bitcoin Mystery. And it is from this same director, Colin Hallback. He made the one I talked about, the Q and on one. And I was riveted by that documentary. I could not get enough of it. And it really took me places. That was called Q Into the Storm, also worth looking up if you haven't seen it. He's done a bunch of others like Monster Camp. You may have heard of terms and conditions may apply. He's always digging into like stuff that we take we just hear about we go okay cool but we don't really think too hard about it he likes

to dig in and see what's going on so he basically goes goes and does a deep dive into the history of bitcoin where it started and it starts a lot earlier than you think like as early as the 80s there were people working on the cryptography that would eventually become this then there's the dude known as well what's his name the Nakamura guy anyway the one who the name that everyone claims invented the bitcoin who has not ever been seen and so this was a chance for him to say, oh, another anonymous, you know, a person, quote-unquote person that everybody kind of worships in cryptocurrency that no one's met. Hmm, wonder what that means. Might be some bullshit going on. So he starts digging around and he talks to everybody from

the Samson Mao guy who's really an evangelist for the movement. This guy named Roger Ver who's like on the one hand, he was supposed to be the savior of Bitcoin, and it turned out to be a bit of a douche and got arrested for some stuff. Anyway, Peter Todd, Adam back, a bunch of names you may or may not know, but they're kind of infamous in the world of cryptography, and they were known as the crypto, I forgot, crypto, some name is weird. Anyway, he digs in deep, interviews all these people to try to figure out who, who this mysterious Satoshi is, Satoshi Nakamura, that's his name. And nobody knows who Satoshi is. And everybody in the thing keeps saying things like, well, I'm not Satoshi, but also I am Satoshi. And like they're all kind of covering for each other

and like throwing people off the scent. And it all seems like a way to, I don't know, keep the mystery alive so that Bitcoin itself stays alive. It's just like this weird back and forth. And by the end of this thing, go ahead. No, you go ahead. No, I was going to say, it sounds like what I hear about Banksy, you know, the artist, that it's a bunch of different artists. Right. Oh, really?

Right. That thing's never, that never gets solved either because no one's ever really, no one interviews Banksy, nobody sees Banksy. Right. Yeah. It's a lot of, very similar stuff for sure. Yeah, yeah. It's like this modern day, like how can we absolutely fool people?

That's the vibe of it. Now, there's a possibility. At the end of this. thing, they kind of leave it with. There is a possibility that Satoshi Nakamura exists, but it is completely hidden and dumped his, you know, basically burned his bitcoins. If he didn't, he's worth trillions today, but never comes out because a person who's worth trillions is immediately a target for a billion things, including death. So there's that theory. But then there's a theory that a bunch of these other people, including Adam Back, who's this really nice

guy from England, who's a genius at this stuff, that he might be him. um this guy named peter todd and a few others at the end of it i won't tell you who they eyeball but they take a bunch of stuff that they've all said and it kind of points at somebody and that guy's a real prick hole he's a butthole and it just drove me it made it was fascinating equal parts fascinating this documentary and equal parts annoying as hell some of these people the way they behave um and also how we as a people like the q one did this too people are we are such easy marks for shit like if something's big and has big money behind it and celebrity behind it and loud you know well it must be true then it must be this or it must be

that because why else would it exist if it wasn't we're so freaking stupid sometimes the general public and and i kept being reminded of that in this maybe a little less so than the Q and on one but but it's so it's so like paints this picture that makes you then look inward and go well do I just see a guy with a lot of money and go well he must know exactly what's going on like some people do with you know big people like Musk or others like they just go yeah well it's obviously gene it must be Elon Musk why that rocket landed no it's like a thousand engineers who made that happen exactly yeah so like it's just this whole fake famous stuff right like Instagram and social media and like apparently the FTC it's finally getting around to trying to stop fake followers and fake commenters. And there's certain times where I look at somebody's channel and I go, really, $2 million? Like what? Like what's going on here? Yeah. No, there's definitely, they touch on some of that. But it's mostly, I mean, obviously it's mostly focused on cryptocurrency and its future. There's the cheesiest thing in this thing. They had an event for the Ethereum people who are like

their chief competition in terms of a accepted cryptocurrency with Ethereum. Those people, are really cringy like I they did a thing on stage at an event oh Brian I can't even they came out and did a rap on stage oh it went as it went as bad it went as bad as you're imagining it's so bad it made me just like I posted a clip somewhere of it but anyway I would recommend it though I think this Colin this Colin or Cullen is his name C-U-L-E-N Colin Hallback is a really interesting up-and-comer in the documentary space and his stuff is always good production value on this is great they don't really hold back he he brings receipts he doesn't just make claims um he's very investigative and really gets all up in it and uh i really

liked it so uh check it out let me know what you think that's money electric colon the bitcoin bitcoins mystery where's that at i think i saw was this max yeah HBO on max yeah and it's an HBO original which they have a history of good HBO original documentaries have always been good long before streaming so sometimes there's things on Macs that are Max originals that are kind of crappy docs but they're not HBO docs they're like some other thing discovery or somebody else is doing it this one is an HBO documentary you can tell that it is so check it out again money electric the Bitcoin mystery available now Nicole I did I did watch bad faith that you recommended oh yeah what did think of that? That was great. That was really good. It was really good. I think I bought it because

I was like, I just want to watch it on Amazon. You know what's annoying is nobody, the people I need to see that weren't going to see it. No. And it's not what they think it is. They think it's just a slanted thing against their particular belief, but it's not. It's like a very deep dive over. It's about Christian nationalism, not Christianity. Yeah. It's a very, it's very, very good and the right people aren't going to see it. Unfortunately. But do see it if you guys. You know what? We've been doing a lot of this lately. You watch one of my recommendals? I watched Brian's, uh, I'm still in the middle of from,

but I'm watching from loving it. And I watched the documentary, the Casa Benita one and loved it. Oh my God. Oh, I need to watch the Casa Benita one. You would really like it, Nicole. I can just tell it your thing. You're going to dig it. Lots of swears though. So keep the kids wherever you want them. Oh, and those kids hear more swears than I even realize I was in third grade. Yeah. Probably heard a lot of them in Casa Benita, ironically.

Yeah, no kidding. What is this? Fiffing food. Don't say it in school. It's just a word. That's true. You hear the worst stuff at school. But we're not going to hear the worst stuff from Nicole.

Oh, do you have anything you want to mention with Wood Whisper or any of that stuff going on? Nope, we're just cranking along. Oh, actually, I do. I just released new shirts on our store. So Oreo has become our shop mascot. And so I had some Oreo shirts designed. I even have kids sizes. So if you want me to send you some shirts, I can do that for your grandkids.

They're adorable. Oh, my gosh. They would wear them. I'm sure they would. www.com and they're affordable. I went and looked at the Peewee Herman's shirts. $40 for a T-shirt. I'm only charged a $20.

So screw Peewee Herman's legacy and get these instead. I'm just finding that shirts are, I mean, like, everything. It's doubled in cost. So if I try, I look for ways to keep the cost down. No, I get it. That's awesome. Well, good luck with that. And we'll see you soon for another recommendals. Barna. All right. And if Randy, if you're listening, we missed you. We don't know what you had, but whatever it was. I'm doing okay. Yeah. I'm sure you'll be very busy over the next couple of months. Big anniversary happening at Blizzard 20 years of Warcraft, World Warcraft. 30 years of Warcraft. Holy shit. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That's going to do it for today show. I got a quick, nice message to read and things out here. This is from Omega 9. He says, through the stress of buying a home and anxiety is through the roof. I felt panic attack coming on and threw on an air pod in my ear and familiar voices chatting away, gave me something to concentrate on and calm my dumb ass down. Thanks for all the last guys, Omega 9.

oh that's good man it's stressful home stuff and you know as someone who has panic attacks i get it like for sure yeah that's good we can be we're happy to be that for you and we'll always be here to be that for you that's right we commiserate my good man that's uh gonna do it for us if you want to send your own messages in 801 471-0462 text and voicemails can go there if you'd rather email us the morning stream at gmail dot com or the website will get you there too at frogpans.com slash TMS. Brian, that's it. Let's get out of here. What do you have for us for music? Well, got something here requested by Tyler Hurst, who says, hey, Scooter and Beaker, it's finally upon me. On October 16th, I'm hitting that half century mark. Not sure if I'm ready for it,

but you're only as old as you feel, right? For this special occasion, I figured I'd let the covermaster pick something for me. If it helps, I love 9-inch nails. They might be giants and everything grunge. Also, just want to thank you guys for the years of entertainment. I've been listening since 2005, been to six intertaculars, and love the community that you guys help build. Plus, I'm sorry, also, also, and one more thing.

Also, can I get some clips of Nicole mispronouncing movie star names? Oh, gosh. We use Don Chito and tanning Chatham all the time. Let's see, Nicole. Tyler's an old timer. We love him. Here we go. Guess what? And one more thing. And one more thing. And one more thing.

All right, here we go. Here's Nicole saying here's one. Derrick McRoney. That's classic. Here's her talking about a movie title. Bamba duke. Bombadook. And finally, let's see if I can find one more.

It's this peacock? That's just her saying peacock. Hold on. Here it is. Shedwick. Kira Shedwick. Kira Shedwick. Yeah.

Shedwick. Yeah. Fantastic. Anyway, happy to play this. Fantastic. All right. So, Tyler, you love a nice. Nine-E-Nish Nails? Well, I'm hoping you're going to love this. This year, I helped kickstart an album put together by Allie Gertz.

This album is called Peeled Back, and it is a cover album of all the songs from the shoot. Which album is it from Nine Inch Nails? Or was it, did it's like a bunch of different ones that they just followed the hate pretty hate, not pretty hate machine. I can't remember. We talked about this, though. We did, yes. I can't remember. In any case, it's a nine. inch nails cover album. And this is her cover of The Hand That Feeds. It's fantastic. Here's

Ali Gertz and The Hand The Feeds. but inside your heart it is black and it's hollow and it's cold just how deep do you believe will you bite the hand that feeds will you chew until it bleeds can you get up of your knees are you brave enough to see Do you want to change it? What if this whole crusades a charade And behind it all there's a price to be paid for the blood Which we died Justified in the name of the holy and the divine Just how deep do you be?

Will you bite the hand that feeds? Will you chew until it please? Will you get above your knees? Are you brave enough to see? Do you want to change it? So naive, I keep holding on to what I want to believe, I can see, but I keep holding on, and zon, and zon, and... Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Will you stay down on your knees?

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