The Morning Stream - TMS 2732: The Mourning Scream

Episode Date: November 6, 2024

Is Tom Too Early For A Korean Taco. Flesh flakes. Is There a Ring game called Elden Something. Hard as balls with Dunaway. Dry ASS CHICKEN. Holy Poopin Wild Robot. 100% Vince Vaughn. People did butts in college. Wallow-Free Wednesday. Armenian track suit, mustard in the biscuits. Sweetness to the meat. Sometimes uncomfortable garbage hole. Tastes like Dinosaur. Vam-Pier with Brian. Twinkle Twinkle with Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Remember your first Zit, your first dance, your first kiss? No, just the first Zit? Well, don't feel bad because you are in good company. Join your fellow awkward junior high classmates at patreon.com slash TMS today. Coming up on the morning stream, is Tom too early for a Korean taco? Flesh flakes. Isn't there a ring game called Eldon something? Hard as balls with Dunaway.

Dry ass chicken. Holy pooping wild robot. A hundred percent Vince Vaughn. People did butts in college. wallow-free Wednesday Armenian track suit Mustard in the Biscuits Sweetness to the meat

Sometimes uncomfortable garbage hole Taste like dinosaur Vampire with Brian Twinkle Twinkle with Nicole And more on this episode of The Morning Stream Rumor has it you killed a man, Billy You don't seem like the killing sword

Can't be any geek off the street The morning stream. I am a multiverse agent. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to TMS. It's the morning stream for Wednesday, November 6, 2024. I'm Scott. And that's Brian.

Hi, Brian. Hello. Good morning to you. It's a Wednesday. That means we will have recommendals, but we won't have Tom. Tom's still in Korea, doing Korean things. And he sent me some photo proof of something. I should share this real quick.

This is awesome. He went to a Taco Bell. Oh, really? A Korean Taco Bell. Yeah, just to see, you know, what you get out of that sort of thing. Let's see if I can pull it up here. Here we go. Okay.

So they're advertising. Oh, it won't let me... Here, I'll put it up here. Okay, so that way everybody can see it. Their advertising looks like what you'd expect, except, you know, obviously it's in Korean there. But you see, like, you know, a big, big frightfully logoed up deal.

But if you look at the tacos and stuff, that looks like, you know, that looks like Taco Bell. Pretty much what we... Yeah, like these look like things we have at our Taco Bell. And that bowl down at the bottom, I guess it's like some sort of power bowl because it's got a Pokemon coin of a guy flexing to show that it's a powerful.

Yeah, so I think so. I'm not actually positive about that, but I think that's right. That's the menu. It's kind of hard to see. That's a more. Here's some kind of, I guess is the ordering kiosk here. Oh, do they do the thing where you, well, it looks like that might just be menu on the wall.

Oh, right next to it is the ordering kiosk. Cool. So you basically, yeah, kind of like you can do it here is to go, boop, bo, bo, bo, bo. Yeah. Yeah, you just order it like a McDonald's, a dozen, whoever. I don't know if, I don't think I have any local Taco Bells

that let me do this, but. Oh, really? Yeah. The one, yeah, the one by us does. I wish they did. I like those. It's less contact with people. And then he showed a video of the bag here.

Let's watch him open this up. Okay. It's got a bagging, an unbagging video. Yeah, this is some tacos, I think. Focus. There we go. There we go. It's not a great show.

shot. It really isn't. Is this first time first time shooting a video, Tom? It might be. Here's a little bit of a better crop. Not much, but it's a little better. And then here he is eating it.

So there he goes. Big bite of the taco. He doesn't say anything, I think. No, he does. He says, yeah, I don't think. He says, tastes just like a Taco Bell taco.

But then later he told me that it had a sweetness to the meat he wasn't used to. Oh, Really? Interesting. Yeah. So for whatever that's worth, Taco Bell, Korea, making it happen. You know, I am not opposed to checking out a fast food place when you go to another country just to say, all right, you know, is it, is it, but I have to know that there's something different about it. Like going to a, going to McDonald's and getting a burger that's got beetroot on it in Australia, like a, you know, a slice of pickled beets. Which is really good.

And I want more of that. I don't know why we can't just have one place here. Why can't we just have one place here in America that has a sliced pickled beat on the burger? There's got to be somebody doing that, right? Probably more special to burgers or something. But I'm not even to walk into a place unless I know that there's something different about it. Otherwise, I'm like, oh, I'm just eating Taco Bell. What I find weird, though, is that the 7-Elevens in other countries, specifically Japan and Tokyo,

and we didn't experience this. We never tried the food. But the food apparently at 7-Eleven is really good. Really? In Japan. Yeah. Like really, you know, really good hand-roll, wrapped hand-rolls and parfay things with pandem jelly and stuff like that.

Yeah, dubious rascal confirms Chris says same in Thailand. What is the deal with 7-Eleven actually having good food in other countries? I think they probably just, the culture is more focused on quality overall. So if your company goes there and opens up, you're going to have to fit into that culture and provide decent stuff. I don't know. Yeah. Like I haven't been to a taco or a 7-Eleven and I couldn't tell you how long. It's been ages.

But when I do go there, I don't see anything on display where I'm like, oh, I got to get that. That looks great. I mean, I know you've talked about how sometimes those rolling hot dogs look. You know, there's a little bit of an enticing look to them. if they're fresh and been on they're not very long I'm in but if they're a wrinkly old turd yeah F that noise I ain't eating that shit

um all right well let's move beyond Tom and his proclivities for foreign fast food and move directly into this we got a message from Luke from Boulder this is another Denveride who gets it hey scoot and bot or boot rather

Luke from Boulder here as a non-founding club person aka Casa Bonita noob I'm here to report that I also landed a reservation in January. Membership has its perks. Kudos to Brian. Excited to see the TAR Nation welcome robots in 2025. Yeah.

Just to clarify, Luke, my reservation is for January as well. Just because I'm a member of the Founders Club thing, it doesn't mean I didn't get pushed all the way to January. The things that opened up, all the reservations that opened up were for January. I think they had a couple, like, November last minute, cancellations and things like that that came up but I did um I did end of January because Tristan's birthday is on the first and Tina's birthday is on the six so I wanted to make sure that I got uh you know basically a reservation for a fun night to go out with the with the two of them

but the soonest you could do is January but they wouldn't they don't let you pick further dates out like if you wanted to lock something in for May you couldn't do that right they don't let you No, it's basically they sent an email saying, we're opening up reservations for January. You guys got the first batch of them, and you're in the queue to get those, and then

they open them up to everybody. All right, nice. Well, you may vote if you guys go the same night, that'd be hilarious. That would be hilarious. I wonder, yeah, you'll have to let me know, Luke, what night you're going. Yeah, you didn't give a date or an actual day, but we'll see how that goes. Good luck, Luke. Enjoy your

amazing experience. And if that, the Tarnation robot would be amazing. They didn't, I mean, the dog really exists. Yeah,

if it really existed, it would be great. Or just have Trey Parker show up every once in a while and do it again. Just have him do it. Sure. Have him like, you know, wear the outfit and even get some makeup to look like a robot.

Howdy, Parker? You look hungry. Go this way. Uh, we have, I feel about nacho cheese, trench and everything you eat. We got further clarification on how the pumpkin would work

if you tried to preserve it better. This is all piles on top of Randy's original question about how to keep your pumpkins longer and they go bad quickly. Megan wrote in says this is for TMS. Hi Swiffer and Bleach. Just heard the follow up about bleaching pumpkins to preserve them longer. I wanted to chime in because I am a microbiologist who studies fungi and just wanted to remind everybody how important fungi is to age and decomposition. Fungi are so much more than just mushrooms and they exist all around us doing many beneficial things. bleaching your pumpkin will kill fungus spores as well as bacteria that are on the surface of your pumpkin or that you transfer to your pumpkin from your hands while carving love the show though Megan so basically confirming what we thought which is just getting rid of the bacteria that cause your pumpkin to mold and decompose more quickly yeah basically mummify your pumpkin which makes me wonder if that you know that orange I can't I don't know where it is in hand reaching distance but that orange I have you're petrified orange yeah I've had since like 2006 or something

and it just hardened in a drawer and then I found it. I wonder if that drawer was like in a particular state of dryness and I don't know, like just bacteria couldn't get to it. The shriveled rind of the orange did just basically act it as a barrier to keep bacteria out from places that it would cause it to decompose. There's something about, you know, like if you've seen when they do the dried oranges for some drinks. I know you probably haven't had a drink that had like a cocktail that had a dried orange in it.

But those are like practically impenetrable. Like if you accidentally bite on it thinking, oh, this will be a delicious little tasty treat to go with my cocktail. It's like chewing on a casino chip or something. So those are probably dehydrate or I don't know how they do those, but it sounds like a dehydrated or, yeah, probably more dehydrated than just left on a, Left on a fence for years. Have you ever had a dehydrated chicken before?

Dehydrated chicken? Like chicken jerky? I've had turkey jerky. No, not like jerky. Like straight up, just like dehydrated meat from a chicken. You ever had that? So I should bring it down to show everybody. But basically we bought a bunch of this that comes in bags

and we put it in this big tall container that you would normally put like flour or something in for baking. But we use it for the dogs when they're not feeling like they want to eat their food. we can sprinkle a little of this because you take it and it just crushes up like powder in your hands this chicken really okay and you powder it on their food and then they love it because it's got a little chicken flavor to everything but it's all dehydrated and can be out in the air it doesn't matter it doesn't go bad doesn't spoil but it's still it tastes like chicken so I had to try it of course because I was like well I need to know what dehydrated chicken taste like and it turns out it

just tastes like really dry chicken like it just dry ass chicken but it's weird we have a whole thing of it. People, when they come over to the house, they go to the kitchen, I go, what the hell is that? Because it looks like, I don't know, it looks like flesh flakes or something. Yeah, yeah. And you sprinkle in their food and they're happy as pigs and poo. Yeah. Have you tasted it yourself? Red on air light?

Yes, I did. Oh, you did. So you did. Yeah. Okay. Someone was calling me. I had to cancel a call. Sorry. That's fine. Do you have a deal? That reminds me, is your thing coming? Is your deal here? It's coming, but I don't know if that was them or not, but I've got the camera out so I can see it. I'm expecting a new mattress.

Our existing mattress, fortunately, is still under warranty, so they're going to replace it for free. And, well, technically for free. We paid for an upgrade, $100, $150 for the next level up mattress from a SIRDA as opposed to Simmons, I think is the deal, because mattress firm doesn't carry Simmons anymore. So, well, best we can do is give you a comparable mattress with Serta. and we're like, what about that one right there? They're saying, oh, it's a hybrid. Yeah, it's a little bit of an upgrade.

We'll take the upgrade. Sure. We want a mix of springs. We still want springs, but we want the springs and foam because what's happening is something broke down in the Simmons mattress, and it just, in parts, it's like a ramp down. So you wake up and you think you're just going to be on the floor. That's what happened to that bed in Vegas that one time.

Remember that? That slope, the sloping? Yeah, same thing. Same thing. I don't think it's the same quality of bed, but it was the same effect of like, if you're on that side of the bed, you're just going to slide off onto the floor. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's good. So tonight, you'll get the, you get a fresh, you know, fresh sleep. I get a fresh sleep. See how I do just in time for a workout tomorrow morning. So we'll see like the last thing is, last thing I want is, oh my God, did not sleep well on the new mattress. My back. Oh, but time to go do some burpees. Hey, that sounds great. Yeah. And it, it's good when you get a new mattress. Ours is got the problem where. it's a good mattress has been since we got it's a casper we've had it for years

but there is a kind of scott-shaped hole in it you know what i mean it would be good it'd be good to have some fresh some fresh territory that's the deal with me that's why we want the hybrid is because the foam tends to do that foam tends to just you know it's memory foam and it always remembers it always yeah and then and then when it forgets my memory foam has like early dementia because it is like going yeah you want to fit in here air tough tiddies. It's just garbage hole I live in. It's not uncomfortable per se if I'm sleeping in the right

position, but there are times where I'll shift around and go. Yeah, like, wait a minute. If you don't fit the mold, what do we even do it? We've got to, Kim wants a new one, but we'll see. Ryan, you went to saw a movie last night. Tell us all about it. I did, yeah. I leave the, uh, turn off the country for a couple hours and look

what happens. But no, we went to Alamo draft house and saw the wild robot and holy poop this is the sweetest movie i've seen in a very very long time the um animations got this really cool painted quality this is one that i'm glad we saw on the big screen because the painted quality of the of the um animation is just was was on full display fully huge um uh absolutely gorgeous lupita nongo a great job um giving voice to Ross, the wild robot, and they do some things that you would never, in my opinion, you would never see Disney doing in a movie that features a lot of animals.

Specifically, and this is not a spoiler, specifically the circle of life, like an animal eating another animal. You would never see that in a Disney movie, but, you know. Wild. But it's a fact of life, and it's a fact of nature. And so not, you know, not showing it would be, would be. disingenuous, but I get why Disney doesn't do it. It's like, Mommy,

why did that, why did that lion eat that squirrel? Yeah, I feel like you get away with it more on, uh, with, um, DreamWorks because they just everything's PG with DreamWorks. They don't have the same heritage or whatever. They can do whatever they want. Exactly. Yeah. Um, Matt Barry,

oh my God, Matt Barry is in this and he's great as like a, um, a beaver or big fat woodchuck. No, he's a beaver. It is like if you took Wally Iron Giant Bastion from it's Bastion from Overwatch It was the robot with the yeah totally bashion And and then mixed them all into a big salad

This is this is what you'd end up with And this will make Carter cry like nobody's business Yeah I have a feeling that we're I actually think she went with her friend and did did that just that I think they already in cry Yeah I think they bawled their eyes out um this is the book it's based on this peter brown book i keep getting told that this is worth picking up and checking out um and uh if you're a fan of the movie that you'd really like the book so yeah probably just the little note for people um that's great i want to see it still in theaters

still in theaters go see it uh while you can and uh take your mind away from anything else that might be you know plaguing it that might be occupying it i wonder who who streams dream works these days when they do stream i don't know actually actually. That's a good question. That's another thing. DreamWorks has a brand new opening. Like all these things are taking cues from Marvel. Maybe they were doing this. Maybe some of these guys were doing it before Marvel. Marvel is easily the first place. I remember seeing it where you're seeing different characters and oh, you know, there's Captain America. There's Ms. Marvel. There's blah, blah, blah. And then DC started doing that more with that, you know, their opening thing where they they show Aquaman and Superman and Batman kind of in frozen positions. as the camera pulls back and then you get the big wide shot of all the characters. Now DreamWorks has one that's got like the How to Train Your Dragon, Toothless, and Shrek and Donkey and Pussing Boots and stuff like that.

So it's really, it's interesting that all these companies are coming up with new opening title or opening studio cards that show all of their existing characters. Oh, that's cool. That saw that recently and something else. What was I? What was I? Oh, it's in the new Dragon Age. They have this a similar intro for BioWare, yeah. Although it may just be Dragon Age characters, but you know how Sony has one too now where it's like, here's God of War and here's Ellie and yeah, and all zooms around and stuff. That seems to be the thing to jour at the moment.

We've got a bunch of IPs. Warner Brothers starts having like Harry Potter and Batman and. Yep. Everybody wants those IPs, man. They really do. Let's showcase, hey, remember this? You like this, and we'll have another movie. Come see it. Yep, they're hoarding it.

All right, we're going to have done away to the call. We're going to play a game, you guys. It's a Wednesday game. Let's see if we can have some fun here. Oh, I need whoever wants to be part of it. You've got to be the third caller, fourth caller, rather, and I will take you in here. You can play with one of us.

You know how it works. I should probably log into the game as well. You should. Do that in a second. There we go. And here we go. It is welcome. joining us on the line we have one brian done away hi brian done away how are you oh it's just me oh hi scott and brian

just the one just the one we can afford actually we can't afford more than one brian done away party of one please there's probably a few of you right out there i'm never met oh there's plenty of brian's but i'm the only one but do you find other brian doneaways if you do a vanity search do you see other you know there's a copyright guy who has my twitter handle whatever brian on a way out there. Oh, geez. I didn't know about that. You don't have a social media presence.

I'm the social media presence. That's right. Well, I have some good news. Guess who's number four today? I can't wait to find out. Stephanie Inipetz is who it is. Yay. Let's see if we can get her to answer.

And when she does, we'll welcome her to the fray and have her play the game with us. Stephanie, are you there? Hello? We have rings of rings. Oh, there's she. Hello? Who's Stephanie's here. Are you there?

You're there. How are you? You know. Yeah. Yeah, we know. A lot of that today. A whole lot to the, you know. 100%.

100% with you. Yep. Let's avoid that for now. Indeed. It's good to have you here. We're going to play a game. Brian's going to explain the rules. We're going to have some fun.

Brian, take it away. Yeah, we're switching things up today. We're actually going to be playing a mobile game to give away these mobile games. Great. No, it's time to play. the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics and Scott and Brian you have to predict the answers that they gave us. It's their

job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Stephanie and Betz, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with, that's in all caps too. Either Scott or Brian, if your team wins, you get a price package. That includes Vampire, V-A-M-P-Y-R

and Hello, Vampir. Vampir. Is that how that's pronounced? Vampir. Cool. I have no idea. And then hello, Nehiel. I don't know how that one's pronounced. That's pronounced also a vampire. Is that the one where you're like, you're tiptoeing around your neighbor's house and you've got to figure out of...

Yeah, you're trying to... Are you saying hello neighbor? Is that what you're trying to say? Yeah, it is Hello Neighbor. We played that, bro. I remember for Boop Show back in it. Oh, I loved Hello Neighbor. That's such a great game.

It's got this weird physics to it that makes it infuriating and fun all at the same time. It's really good. You basically, it's like a survival horror stealth thing, but cartoony. It really works. Imagine trying to do stealth while the physics suck. That's exactly what you got here. Yeah. It's a good streaming game if you're trying to entertain people. Oh, yeah.

Nice. Great. Well, hopefully you can bend the rules a little bit, Stephanie, and enjoy those games. Or I know you've got somebody that you know that enjoys those games as well. Yeah, looking forward to giving those away. Nice. All right. Well, let's get to the game here. And, boy, this is a great one for. you to join us for. Oh, dear God.

Can't wait. All right, Scott and Brian, please. Put your hands on your buzzers and tell me this. 520. What's the most difficult video game? Scott. It would be Q-W-W-O-P. Q-W-P.

Yep. All right. Show me Q-W-O-P. Oh, you guys. That was on the list. Damn it. It's number 8. 18, but not high enough to score any points.

Oh, sure, that would be there. All right. Brian, what's the most, what did the tadpool say is the most difficult? There you go, what the tadpool say. I know what I think is one of the universally known as the hardest game, but I don't know what the tadpul said. Let's go with the universally hardest game of the world, Dark Souls. Show me, Dark Souls. Yeah.

Number one answer on the board, so you have control the board. And you have Stephanie, who, you know, if nothing else, Stephanie. Tiffany, you can be the proxy to the tadpool and see all the answers that people are saying in the tadpool and maybe offer some help that way. If you trust such a source. I think Stephanie's got a whole slew of cool, hard game she knows. Right? Oh, my, me losing me. Not hilarious.

Can't be embarrassed by not knowing hardest game. All right, Steph, do you have some ideas? Because I have a whole slew of games that kick my butt every time I turn around. Oh, my God. I'm relying on you down away. Oh, absolutely. Okay, good. Okay.

Well, after my nightmare of Dark Souls, I usually get frustrated when I play Super Meat Boy. It is a fun game, but dang is hard. I've actually heard of that one. It's frantic too. Really? All right. Let's see if it's on there. Show me Super Meat Boy.

Meets. Number six answer, giving you seven points. Ooh. Yes, yes, yes, yes. I might actually have an answer because I've confided in, I've phoned a friend. Oh, good. Oh, nice. That totally works.

Totally counts, yeah. Something called Eldon Ring. Oh, Eldon Ring can be difficult. Yeah, yeah, so people... Something called Eldon Ring. I love it. Something called, something I've heard of it before, I think. Isn't there a ring?

My grandma used to play it, I think. Yeah, it's hard. I think it's a good answer. Do you want to go with? Let's do it. All right. All right, here we go. Show me, Eldon Ring.

Number three answer on the board. Very good. Got a little nervous there. It's a lot easier than Dark Souls, but it's still pretty hard. Well, I know they're coming out with, Steph. I know they're coming out with a new game that's supposed to be kind of similar to a game that I played a few years ago that I never thought I would beat. And so I didn't. And it was an animated game called Cuphead.

And it's an amazing game. And I love it, but it is hard as balls. That's what I heard about that as well. Okay. And Steph says, okay, never heard of it. I mean, yes. Would you prefer Miss Pac-Man? Miss Pac-Man's hard to.

It's pretty tough, those ghosts are mean. It looks like you're playing a version of Chip, like the evil version of Chip from the beauty. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right. It's a couple of little malt glasses, essentially, they're little malt mugs that have been animated like 19, 20s and 30s type animation. Very stretchy, rubber bandy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, love it. Show me, Cuphead. Number five, very good.

kind of sprinkling all the place here stuff um don't quote me on that um too soon too soon too soon cue op was a good answer remember having trouble with that um do you think we should go something simple like pac man or something you think that uh you mean oh pacman's easy though you think it's easy well have you ever tried to get to like like like uh screen six i mean come on it starts if you know the patterns it's pretty easy but if you don't it's pretty big on it all right So I don't, I mean, I don't play many games, but I have like a little handheld, you know, arcade thing that has Pac-Man on it. And sometimes I'll just be sitting on it for like half hour, 45 minutes and I'll give up because I haven't died yet. Right, right. Oh, interesting. Interesting. Okay.

All right. Now, I know we, me and Scott played one recently that was, but that's stupid. I won't say that one. If it's retro. If it's retro, yeah. Yeah, maybe we should stay away from this difficult that Scott loves and we should just rip it out of his hands for even gets a chance to say it. Oh, What do you think about that? What do you think?

Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to go with Scott's favorite joust game, hard as nuts. Just joust. Just joust. So you're saying, your Joust game, one, because Joust two is no good. Yeah, Scott likes Joust. I love Jouss.

I love Jouss too. Yeah, yeah. I don't think it's as hard as you're saying. What do you think, Steph? Wait, thanks, Tiff. Well, okay. In my opinion, I'm flattered that you keep asking, but yeah, I literally have no clue. However, I would say maybe, I mean, we could go with it just to kind of feel the, you know, test the waters, but maybe we should avoid, like, the retro stuff.

Okay, okay. I don't know if that's what the tad pool would go with, but I think we should do it just to spite Scott because now we're on that role. Right. Agreed. Agreed. Any time we can stick it to Scott is a good thing to do. We could go with, we could go with demon soul. You think people would have said that instead of dark souls?

Sure. I mean, demon souls is harder than dark souls. Yeah. That's a, that's objective truth. All right. So give us some souls. Give us the other souls. Some more souls.

All right. Show me demon souls. No. Number 23 on the list. So it's on there, but didn't make the top. We tried. I'm guessing people lumped souls into dark souls. I figure as much as well.

They might have, yeah. Some of those dark souls votes might have been for demon souls. A lot of people did still say demon souls, like I said, maybe it's number 23, but they might have said dark souls to like all encompass all of that stuff. Well, I am going to go with retro and say one of the hardest games I ever played was, and I can't remember if the arcade version of the home version was worse, but the ghouls and goblins, goblins and ghouls? Oh, yeah.

Ghosts and ghosts? Yeah, there was several. Yeah. Ghosts and goblins, I think. Ghosts and goblins, the Capcom game that had the little knight, and if you hit him hard enough, his suit went off and he was running around in his underwear. He fell off. Yeah.

He ran around his little boxers. All right. Show me ghosts and goblins. Oh. Yeah, number four answer on the board. I have a miniature version of it right here behind me. Oh, nice. Is he pantsless?

Um, he would, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Just take a look at it. Oh, it's one of those. Oh, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. Yep, it's one of the, uh, that's awesome. The, uh, what's this company called, uh, New Wave Toys.

Yeah, look at that. That plays, you can play that game on there. And what's poorly, but can play it. It's got HDMI out. You can actually hook it up to a monitor and play using, using these little tiny controls. Mm-hmm. Play it, hook it up to a monitor. Although it's got USB ports,

so you could presumably hook up a controller and just use it as a one-game machine. Did they always have those ports? Did they just start adding those ports? It feels like my... They started adding those recently. Yeah, the Tempest didn't have it. Centipede doesn't have it. I don't know if Dragon's Lair, I think, has it.

I think you can do it on Dragon's Lair. I think we've got the HTML and the USB ports. that one would make Dragon's a good answer That's a good answer That's not that hard Oh yeah I just realize

I'm not giving you guys Dude Dragon's layer is not that hard I mean You just memorize it And you're good Once you know it's like nothing Well yeah

But trying to learn We didn't have the internet Back then That was the hard part Yeah I don't know I'm not trying to sway you One way or the other

On that answer by the way I think I think I'm gonna say A game that gave me A lot of hard A game that got me A lot of hard

Hard times on the arcade was any, not arcade. On my NES would have been the original or the old school. I assume these are lumped together because some are harder than others. But let's say, oh, what's it called? Oh, Mega Man, the other Capcom game, Mega Man, the Mega Man. Which one, Scott? That's what I'm saying. I don't remember the hardest one, but I'll bet people just said Mega Man like they said Dark Souls.

If I had to guess. Duck, why are we? Sure, all right. Show me Mega Man. That's some couple of things. Right there. Number 10. Right behind us.

Yeah. Yeah. Breathing down your necks. Boy, that makes me wonder what 11 is. I know. They used to call it Nintendo Hard. Remember, that was the thing. Mm-hmm. I think it's a difficult game. It's one that, you know, like, ah, all right.

Well, time to continue game and see if I can get the next one of the little buzz band. Yeah, the hardest Mega Man was the one with the U.S. cover. Ooh. That was ugly. So back, if I remember right, I don't think I remember this right. There was a lot of talk about, that's too obscure. Number two's up there is going to be an easy one. You think so?

It's going to be an easy, hard one. Yeah, easy hard one. I wonder if anyone would have been so modern that they put some like mobile shit in here. Ooh, mobile. Because at the time, everybody wanted to try to. It loves it when you call noble shit, by the way. Everybody, she, yeah, she's a terminology I use. Yeah, full agreement there.

Somebody probably did Flappy Bird, so I'm going to say Flappy Bird. Well, Ply Bird's a great one. I almost forgot about Floppy Bird. That was hard. Sure. All right. Show me Floppy Bird. People did say Flappy Bird.

It was number 13, very close to the top. Not hard at all, Scott. Almost floppy bird. But if you memorize it. that one was random you couldn't memorize it I know I like that dig if it's getting in on the digs now

if you memorize it I'm so far removed from mobile apps I didn't even know that was a possibility right that does remind me though during that time that we were doing all those weird

physics games there was one with those QWOP and there was the Flappy Burb but there was one called oh my God I can't remember is called getting over it with fraudy what's the stupid thing called?

It's just called getting over it, isn't it? It's just called getting over it. Do they finally shorten it to getting over it? The one where he's got these little pole and he's got to make him He's like in a pot or whatever and he's shirtless and he's using a big hammer and the hammer. It is the Q-Op developer.

You're right about that. Ben Frody or so. What was it called? Would you penalize it if we said? Yeah. I'll give you getting over it. All right. Getting over it.

All right. Show me getting over it. I mean, I'll give it to you, but getting over it with Bennett Fadi is the game. That said it was been something. Number 21 in the game. Bennett Fottie. Damn. I would have put that in something.

Was Bennett Fottie a real dude? Like, is he, because I see the photo, the game is like a realistic looking photo of this dude trying to get over it, apparently. Yeah, yeah. I'm assuming it was somebody he knew, right? That's what I always assumed. Like some sort of, yeah. Oh, yeah. It looks like he's the Australian video game designer, so it's really him.

Sorry, Steph, I should have, I should let you reaming back in with my enthusiasm with that one. That was a good, no, dude, you were the same guy that basically Q-op is by the same guy. Yeah, I did a Q-op. Yep, yep, yep, yeah. That was just follow-up. Yeah. It's okay, we could still clear the board so I can give these games away. It's good.

Yeah, let's clear the board. I'm telling you, Pac-Man's up there. It's number two. I used to think. I mean, it's not our turn, but like, yeah. Yeah, I know. I know just trying to get in Scott's head When we

When we were in the 16-bit era I had trouble with Was it not Aladdin? Aladdin was fun Oh, Aladdin was so good What am I thinking of? Disney games from that time Oh, the SNS

Super NES version of Here you feel the love tonight Can you feel Lion King, Lion King, Lion King that game was notoriously hard and they did that game was famous for it was famous for putting in a level that was meant to just it was just that monkey thing right that monkey shit

that you had to do with the yeah we talked about it tossed you around but you can just memorize it right ibbit just memorize it yeah but wasn't like cumba in it was he in that one who did the voice for the video game was that Robert Kjohn I can't remember

it was Gilbert got Fred let's do lion king show me show me lion king i'm trying so hard to get scott to laugh show me lion kick look that deck of scott good job man eight eight points 22 oh man good job i'm promise stephan i'm not trying to win here i'd rather you

oh you are to try you better try i'd rather her win the answers left on the board you guys could clear this out yeah these are all getable these are all very getable answers especially number two. Come on now. You think it's E.T. Everybody hated it because it was hard as hell because it didn't make any sense. It was hard, but it was broken is what it was.

So the hardness was something, something connected to being bad. So are we just playing both sides now? Oh, I'm sorry. I was trying to clear the board. I'm sorry. Apologies. I thought we were, I was thinking we were mathematically eliminated.

Apology. We still have a chance. Oh, no. You have more than a chance. Yeah, you definitely have. I take it back. Well, let's go back to the arcade and try Defender, because Defender gave me. Oh, my God, Defender is such a tough game.

Show me, Defender. I'm amazed that Defender didn't make the list because I would agree with that 100%. That game is such a quarter eater for me. Anyway, Stargate and Defender both. And one person said, a quarter eater, quarter muncher, quarter snacker, tied for a 53rd place, by the way. Wow, 53rd place. That means we get very loosey-goosey eventually, it sounds like. Well, it's another, it's another game that with the right control scheme, it would be a way better game.

But the way they laid out those controls, freaking terrible. It's just awful. Agreed, yeah. I just think with number two, I mean, it's got to be something obvious. I mean, it's not grinding like Diablo or nothing. You think Pac-Man? Just do the Pac-Man. Pac-Man?

It seems like such an old, like an old person answer. Beside by Buckner and Garcia. Do the Pac-Man. Right. Do the Pac-Man. All right. Step says we're going to do the Pac-Man. All right.

I'm going to go with just the absolute volume of people who have played Pac-Man that there's going to be a large enough people in there who have no idea of any other video game other than Pac-Man. All right. Show me. What do you choose? What are you doing? Oh, my God.

All right. Show me, Westman. No. Third strike. That means, Scott, in order for Stephanie to win these prizes, you're going have to run the board but you can do this you can do this all right i used to hate i don't remember when this came out might be too old i may be screwing myself here but i'm gonna say it ninja gaden ninja gaden that's a good one yeah it's hard as balls oh it gave me headaches that came

pissed me off like 80s or night early 90s late 80s anyway whenever it was uh okay show me ninja gaden ah come oh number 13 by i'm sorry number 14 13, Flappy Bird was 13. Can I get a fourth strike? Like, can I get a punch out? Like, the end was really hard. That's really hard. Sure.

Can we get relief? Yeah, can you give me another X? Yeah, can you really quickly program a fourth strike in this instance? Apparently, a tidily few. It is a very difficult game. Three answers left on the board. Let's go ahead and see what those are. Number two, never got even mentioned by, I don't even remember seeing if, oh, no, Tom

DeGos had just mentioned it. Show me number two. Battletoads Battletoads Very difficult Yeah The Ad Poole has been screaming that The whole time

Have they been screaming Battletoads? Yeah, several people All right Certain levels are That first one is not too bad But by the time you get onto the bridge Oh

Really? All right Number seven You know I think it's easier If you've got a code You can use for it But what is number seven

Contra That's a good one That's a good one I love Bendy, too. Do you ever guys ever play Bendy? That was a fun game. Never heard of Bendy. Yeah, I haven't heard of it either.

Do we talk about that? We did the Contra episode. We talked about that? Is it Bendy? Yes. Is it similar? No, no, no. Bendy's not related.

Okay, not related. All right. Now, I was just thinking about it because I was thinking that's always going to pull up. Got it. Go ahead. Yeah.

All right, show me number nine. This is kind of on the level of Pac-Man. Like, I feel like this is something that, and I'll tell you the argument for why people put this one in here. Tetris. Oh, of course. Tetris are as shit. Because you can't beat it.

Yeah, yeah. Pac-Man's the same way. It just gets faster and faster. I can't remember if Tetris has a kill screen or something, does it? Yeah, I know Pac-Man's got a kill screen. Maybe Tetris has one, but, yeah, that's the, that was some people's argument for why Tetris belonged on the list. Me losing this for Steph was a kill screen today. Sorry, Steph.

It really was. That's all right. Number 11, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the N-E-S. That was a good one. That one. Oh, yeah, I saw that in the chat, too. E.T. Atari 2,600, ET, was number 12.

This is one I'd never even heard of, but enough people said it that it made it to number 15. Securo, shadows die twice. Well, another soul's like... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Another derivative of that. All right. Legend of Zelda, we had a couple people who just, like, said, Ocarina of Time or another one specifically, so that one kind of got lumped together. 17 was Pong.

Pong. Unwinnable Easy rules But boy World Warcraft Number 6 EVE Online 5 missed Also number

With five people saying that Challenging Dwarf fortress Asteroids Bloodborne Call of Duty Civilization Hollow Night

Overwatch Animal Crossing Come on now Armored Armored Castlevania Celeste centipede cyberpunk dead cells

Donkey Kong Country and various versions of that. Factorio, I would agree, can get difficult. It ramps up quickly. Geometry Dash, Hades, something called I Want to Be the Guy. I don't know that one. I don't know that one either. Kingdom Hearts, Life, Mindsweeper, Mortal Kombat,

punchout, Sonic the Hedgehog, Souls, Starcraft. They are Billions and Adventure Quest 2. So then we start getting into the ones where just one person said it. And I'm not going to go through all of these, but, um, personal struggles at that point, right? Just pretty much. Somebody said Gallagher, especially when 40 people watching you. Yeah, that is a hard game. Yeah.

So I think that's one specific person who had to play it in front of a bunch of people at, uh, TMS Vegas earlier this year. Uh, let's see, just some other fun ones left for dead two and you have to carry. my broken copy of Double Dragon 2 that reset up to level as far as I ever got Rocket League I would agree that that can get tough until you figure out the controls it's very very tough

I don't know it always seems to match me with people who are just a little better than me always yeah that game doesn't really have a single player mode so when you play other people you're just you're left to their whims if they're good their skills I rock you, yeah. He Man and the Masters of the Universe on the Intellivision. Yeah, that's a good one.

Any game on the television where you have to play with that weird puck joystick thing, just horrendous. By the way, January of this year, 24, 34 years later, a 13-year-old kid hit the NES Tetris kill screen. Yes, yes, that's right. In the chat room the second we go, yeah. That's right. And that reporters reported on it, and they were all like, do not better go outside kid yeah

I mean he only he did it in 40 minutes 1511 lines total 40 minutes is how long that would take you to do I mean the reason that you can crash that one is that particular cartridge had very little

they're small the memory small so the arcade version I think looped but the home one you you could crash out but I don't know anyone who did it sounds like this kid's the first one to do it wow yeah

that's crazy 15 no I'm sorry 1,511 lines that's a lot of cocaine you guys a lot of cocaine I don't even think Charlie sheamed it that much yeah who would have known well the good news is the good news is bad news

but that's okay Stephanie because having you here is always a treat it's always nice having you here do you have anything to say about your your defeat it's good I'll just crawl back into my hole and wallow and my own self-pity it's good go go hug a spider I'm happy to be here I love you guys you're the best Go hug like a Spider-Man doll or something.

Gag-gag-gag-gag-gag-gag. Oh, my gosh, a Daryl throwback. Brian, way to go, man. Hey, don't forget this Friday, we're hanging out again. All right? We're doing a show. 130 Mountain Time. Speaking of retro games, tell people what we're doing so they can tune in and check it out live.

We're playing a gnome-kicking good time called Golden Axe. Yeah, you remember that. You want to go beat up some people as a game. Conan like character. That's what we're playing this week. Golden X for the arcades, mostly. Yep. We're going to be the dwarf. We're going to be the lady. We're going to be the dude. You pick.

It doesn't matter as long as you're fast at kicking things like gnomes who are running around with the potions. I love those guys. Those are the best. You're right about that. You're the best. I love smacking them and then watching the blue potions fly out of their little satchel. I don't know what the hell's going on in that game. But I love it.

Sign me up for gold. First game I remember that had like an ultimate. that you could fire off, that you would build up over time. Yeah, yeah, he's just going up in the air. And I'm sure others existed. I'm sure they existed. But I don't, I feel like that's the first game I've ever played where it was like every once in a while, you would get to a place where you could launch something terrible

and destroy 50 people at once, and it was amazing. And that was actually one of the things they were doing was it was inspired by another game that we'll talk about this Friday. And, yeah, they were trying to not look too much like this other game. But guess what? Guess what? They did. They did. Take that Sega.

We'll find out. This is Friday, 130 Mountain Time, me and Donaway talking old games. Be there or be square because our butts by. Oh, he didn't even get a know-you-in. Didn't not even get to rip off a no-you. That feels good. All right, we're going to take a break. When we come back from the break, Nicole will be here.

We're going to do some recommantals. Randy had as an appointment of some sort, so you will not be here today. But we'll hear from Nicole. We'll hear from Brian and myself about things we think you won't be wanting to watch on streaming that'll come up after this break and a song that Brian brought. What'd you bring? Yeah, this one is, uh, is fun. This is by a band called Nightfire. Um, uh, fun album called Ameripop. This is, uh, this is kind of like your, um, what how did I describe these? Let me pull it up here, Nightfire, because I actually had some notes on

this. It's like, um, it's like going back in time to some 90s killers and super grass and stuff like that. So the band is called Nightfire, all one word, N-I-T-E-F-I-R-E. The brand new album is called Ameripop. And this is the first single from it. It's called Love Won't Tear Me Away.

Teen sex gunning teenage sex, half a brain gun on the reed flex. It feels good, yeah, it feels so good. Gonna tell your friends like a big boy shirt. Ricky rock, Ricky rock to a song. He's 35 with a thin white dung. white don't, huh, uh, uh, husband cheetahs standing outside of theaters, talking up the boys in the browser deleter's. And we're to, T, Disco, we don't, T, Clash, we're do, do Electro button mash, and we're Do, T, Disco, we don't, to Clash, we don't do Electro button mash, and say,

LOW! Whoa! Tell me! Oh, hey! Love, love, love, love, love, love. Love, love, love, love. Love, love. Love, love.

Love, love. Friday night, I'll be there too. And so will I, I'll DJ too. I'll see you there between your thighs. Closer to the guy with the popper's eyes. And Ricky's looking at a wall. And we need another song. Because I'm sticking up the disco.

And a fit of isolation. Just to masturbate is all. I want this and I want this And we do T, disco We don't T clash We do

Do electro button MASH And we We're too disco We do To clash We do To electro button mash

And we don't Act British We don't Drink tea We don't Doe Do you get Confuity

Yeah we don't Drink tea We don't Drink tea We don't To get conform Fonity I'm

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Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love You know, to disco, we don't know, to clash with down, to electro, but am I shall, shall we go. To disco, we do, to clash, we do to electro, we do, to electro, playing match. Yeah, we do. At British, we do, drink tea, we do, to gay conformity. Yeah, we do, at British, we do, drink tea, we do, to gay conformity.

I say, hello, whoa, tell me. I said, love, whoa, tell me, I said, love, whoa, tell me, I said, love. What, tell me, I should love Won't tell me Hey, what's the password? What's the password? It's the same thing, you simple. Well, the belted earl has spoken.

Edward returned. Tell people who that was again so they can seek it out. You bet that's a band called Nightfire and a song called Love Won't Tear Me Away. Comes from their brand new EP, Ameripop, which just can. name out nice i like the term thanks to uh grace uh let's see gracier records and um uh 23 uh is also the label so nice thanks for them for sending that over to me very good all right we got nicole ringing she's showing us offline but that doesn't mean anything doesn't mean a thing you know there've been times where that was true and she was there and then there been times where she was green and she never answered that's right so who

we to guess ahead of it. Oh, there she is. Hi, Nicole. How are you? I'm all right. Yeah, yeah, you're all right. Well, guess what? I'm playing the intro. Well, what do you recommend? Ladies and gentlemen, it's Nicole Spagnolo. Joining us as she does on Wednesday is to talk about streaming stuff. Nicole, it's getting on me about it. I was focused on work. I was like just heads down in work. And I was like, oh, crap. No, nothing wrong with that. You got to, you got to do what you got to do. We're just glad. We're glad you take time out to hang out with us. We appreciate it. It's very nice of you. I like you guys. So it's my pleasure. Well, good. We're going to get into it and we're going to start with Brian. Although, real quick, I just got to check. Did you send me a clip of something? I don't know if I got

anything from you. From me or from Nicole? From Nicole. I did send you something. Did you? I'm actually trying to remember what did I send you. You sent me. I'm just trying to find your name in here. Why can I find it. Hold on. You probably did, and I just forgot. Here we go. Nicole. Oh, I found it. It's the Nandor Fodor thing. Oh, Nandor. Yes, yes, yes. Nandor. All right. So now I've got what I need. All right. Excellent. Brian, let's play yours first, though. They give us a little setup before we do it. What do you got? Yeah. Mine is a TV show that just based on where it was, which streaming service offered it and who's in it, I knew I'd eventually get around to it. And even some people in the Tadpool also recommended it. And I had really,

good time. Nice, here we go. So you brought this all the way from the keys because... My sheriff felt that this particular appendage might belong to one of your victims and could hopefully stay here in Miami where random severed arms are an everyday thing. So pretty pleased? Yeah, I've got the county's current inventory on body parts. Okay. And none of them match a black-haired white male in his 40s.

That, as you notice, his watch is missing. You see this? If someone took that, you know, I could make it a homicide. Yeah, well, my sheriff is not going to love the word homicide. How about this? Maybe the shark that mangled the poor fucker also likes to eat watches. I mean, if someone took the watch, why would they not swipe the wedding ring, too? That looks like it's platinum.

Look at you. Making a good point. That's not the first time, ask around. You know what? The humorous is tucked up pretty bad. Now we're talking. You know, maybe the guy went out fishing by himself. He's a lonely gentleman, and then he backed into the boat's propeller.

That's how my grandfather died. Oh, he didn't. Yeah. He's still alive, but, you know, could have happened. Yeah, maybe. It does look a little like a propeller, won't? Definitely propeller like, if not all the way it's a propeller. You're good.

Still doesn't make it my problem. You're killing me, Rosa. Please don't say what I think you're about to say. Sorry, not my case. I assume this is Vince Vaughn that I'm hearing. That is totally Vince Vaugh. It's 100% Vince Vaughn. And this is a show called Bad Monkey on Apple.

TV Plus. This is an adaptation of Carl Hyacen novel, 2013 novel that he wrote, and has absolutely that same feel as the good parts of striptease, the fun parts of the movie Striptees and other adaptations of Carl's work, or of course, if you're a fan of his book, of his writings, then you'll like it as well. This is cool. It takes place down, as you would guess, because it's Carl Hyacin in South Florida, in the Keys, and in Miami. Vince Vaughn is a guy named Andrew who used to be a cop and then got into a fight with another cop who was being a bad cop and then got demoted and basically shuffled down to a out-of-the-way job in the Keys and then later becomes a restaurant inspector.

He's basically embroiled in a case where an arm turns up in the water out off the keys, off the coast during a fishing trip, and he's trying to figure out the origin of this arm and where it comes from. And he's a detective? He's kind of his own detective. Yes. He's a rogue detective. He's kind of going rogue because technically, officially, he's a restaurant inspector, but he's able to kind of

circumvent because he's been able to kind of get some information. One of the, you know, you've got Alex Moffat who feels like he's basically playing his same SNL character guy who owns a boat. A guy who just bought a boat. Oh, yeah, yeah.

He's in it. He's in it. He plays kind of a similar character, a real estate broker that buys the house next to him and is trying to sell it. It is just basically the same horrible character. Michelle Monaghan is in this. She's fantastic.

El Scott Caldwell from Lust is in this one. Oh, yeah. Love her. And then you've got Rob Delaney, who you know as, oh, my, Peter, in the Deadpool movies, the guy with the mustache. Oh, yeah, sure. Let's say that, yeah. The guy with the mustache.

A guy with the mustache. A very large mustache. It's a huge ass mustache. You've also got Meredith Hagner in here. And I, a long time ago, recommended a show called Search Party. And she is, she was one of the people in the group that was trying to track down the history of what's her face from Arrested Development, her character, Navy's character in Search Party. She is fantastic in this. She plays this horrible.

conniving manipulative woman who's able to basically get Rob Delaney's character to do whatever she wants and she sounds great

she does a lot of voice work it looks like tons of cartoons I can see why she's got a she's got a very childlike voice so she can get away with kind of those

those younger characters she was also in Palm Springs with Sanberg and Christina Milotti or Kristen Melotti this is fun

this is like a 10 episode series that you think kind of gets wrapped up at one point or you think one story kind of gets wrapped up at one point and then things kind of continue on from there. But it's really the interactions between Vince Vaughn and just about everybody that really make this. I have to think that so much of this is based on, is funny because of Carl Heisen's dialogue.

Twinkle, twinkle. Twinkle, baby, twinkle, twinkle, twinkle. I think of Vince Vaughn, he's such a character. I mean, going back to Swingers and like what he brings. And I honestly, I think I appreciate him more now. Yes. And even in the movie, four Christmases, I was like, I first saw that, I was like, but I find myself wanting to watch it every Christmas.

And I'm appreciating those characters much, more. I don't know why. He's absolutely somebody that I like more now than I did when we were kind of at maximum Vince Vaughn's saturation. We had that for a little while and he's A, I think he's perfectly

cast in this and perfectly scripted in this. I imagine a lot of this is improv or at least it's his delivery that makes this movie so funny or I'm sorry, the series so funny but it's he's a lot of the reason why we really, really like this was his

acting in his in his uh the dialogue how's this uh crystal the monkey pretty good really really good that is the titular bad monkey gotcha and uh um crystals crystals crystal's great there's also and people are going to say well brian loves the soundtrack damn right i love the soundtrack the soundtrack is all tom petty covers so oh that's cool you can't beat that um although it's funny in the show they use a lot of the tom petty original versions but the soundtrack that you get on apple music is 100% covers or covers of Tom Petty

this monkey was in five episodes of community this yeah yeah there was the monkey it's not the monkey it's not the monkeys from it is the monkey no

oh no it's not the monkey from Jim crazy but it is the monkey from the hangover so yeah yeah he's still the monkey getting work yeah two

two point five business going on oh yeah no I watch that because of you and man that thing holy shit people should watch chimp crazy it's insane

But this claims that this monkey has made over 2.5 billion in box office revenue for all the movies it's been in. That's amazing. Yeah, between hangover and, I mean, community. Is it, what kind of, is it a cocoon? Is it a cocoon monkey? It's a, what kind of, first appeared in 97 in Georgia the jungle, and then 20 features to her name. It is. I'm looking, I'm trying to read it.

I don't see it. What kind is. It's funny. You think they would put. that is one of the first things like because it's not a chimp it looks Chris in the chat says

yes it is a capuchin there I finally found it yeah chimp crazy lady sells capuchin monkeys it would not surprise me that that monkey came from her that's how she has her whole farm is a wild exotic animal

sales here's a lot of the money by the way, for why Crystal is such box office gold. George of the Jungle and Night at the Museum, both the Night at the Museum movies. Oh, yeah, that definitely was a capuchin. Big money. But not Marcell. I wonder if she and Marcel talk at all. Maybe. I'm a little surprised

with each other. I'm a little surprised how long this monkey lives. I guess I thought they had shorter lives. Like, that's a huge career. Yeah, 1994. This monkey's older than my son. Jeez. That's weird. Like, if you wanted to go see the chimp crazy lady and her petting zoo, she lets you feed baby monkeys. Really? Yeah.

It's like a whole interaction thing that she has going on down there. It's only two hours away from me. You need to go because what I, that documentary floored me, dude. That was nuts. So you got to go. Get some pictures. Show me. Show me more.

You need to talk to her because she's nuts. Talk to Tanya. It's Tanya, right? Tanya. She's nuts. Freaking. nuts. Oh, my gosh, that documentary. Glad I watched it. All right. Well, anyway, this is

streaming where, Apple TV Plus. The show is Bad Monkey. It's on Apple TV Plus. And watch it for the monkey. Watch it for Vince Vaughn. Watch it for whatever reason. The soundtrack. But watch it for the soundtrack, exactly. But it's really, really fun. All right, Nicole, swing it over to you. What do you got here for us?

All right. I almost watched Bad Monkey. did you really? Oh, funny. I did. I was kind of hovering over it. And then I was like, I bet you somebody's going to watch that because it looks good. And I was right. So I was looking for, so I've been really into Infinity Train right now. And I recommended that a few weeks ago. And Eva and I are on season three. And it's just, it's such a shame that it was canceled. So I was in, I was looking for things like that. and I found this movie. It came out in in 2023. It has a really, you know, some very notable actors

and actresses. It's weird. It's really weird. And I'm going to recommend it. It's a little bit of comedy, a little bit of mystery, a whole lot of weird. All right.

Here's your clip. All right. Whoops, let me go back. All right. There we go. So, the mongoose. Jeff. Well, I must admit, I found your letter to be intriguing.

In my nearly 30 years of investigating unnatural occurrences, this is perhaps the strangest case I have ever encountered. Really? Mr. Irving, who owns a farm upon which Jeff resides, had written me 16 letters over the past four years describing the antics of this bizarre creature. Strange that he never wrote to me. Ah, the Irving family are peculiar.

Just to be clear, did you witness this creature during your investigation? Did you observe it speaking like a human? No. No. But I did hear it. You did? Yes, once from another room. All right.

I don't know what to expect here. I mean, we got famous people in here. Everybody identify Christopher Lloyd. You probably did not recognize Simon Pegg. That was Simon Pegg on the other side of that. Oh, I didn't catch that. Okay. Yeah.

So you have Simon Pegg, you have Mini Driver, Christopher Lloyd, and Neil Gaiman in this movie. in this movie. This is a movie based on like real things that happened. So it's based on a true story. And I didn't know what a mongoose was.

So I don't look it off. You never watched Ricky Tiki Tavi as a kid? I just, I didn't know what a mongoose was. So, and the other reason why I watched this movie is simply because I am a huge fan of what we do in this show. Shadows and Nandor in that show, I love. And the name of this movie is Nandor Frodo and the talking mongus.

Like, there's weird connections. So Nandor Frodo is Simon Pegg, and he is part of, like, a skeptics group. And so is Christopher Lloyd. so this took place in the 1930s in Britain it was a big to-do in the you know the tabloids that this family had a talking mongoose and everyone in the town had interacted with this mongoose and and so they're trying to disprove it and that's what nandor and his assistant who is mini driver go there to see this mongoose and to interact with the town and try to basically disprove it. And the family, the Irvings, really have no, like they're not charging, they're not trying to scam people out of their money or anything like that. So it's very perplexing to everyone. Like, what the hell is going on in this town with this mongoose?

And so, Jeff is the name of the mongoose. And you get taken along on a ride to, is it real? Is it not real? Is it the daughter who knows how to do, she is an accomplished ventriloquist? So it's just, oh, and Jeff is voiced by Neil Gaiman. Oh, it's voiced. The mongoose is voiced by it. It's very odd.

Excellent. It came out last year. It's on Amazon Prime. That's where I said it was, right? Amazon Prime. I think so, yeah. I think so. Yeah.

So, yeah, it's weird. It's a dark comedy. They kind of label it as a dark comedy because there's some funny stuff to it. And it's like, you know, weird. Says Houdini's in this. I assume he factors into the real story somehow. Houdini? Yeah.

No, they talk about Houdini. Well, there's an hour. actor here. Edmund Kingsley plays Harry Houdini, it says. So it must not be prominent. No. Or maybe it's, it was a scene that they did that they didn't include. I don't remember seeing Houdini. They talk about Houdini and like, oh wait, no, you're right. They do have a whole thing. So do you know Harry Houdini's story about life after death? This is what the movie is kind of, is their life after death. That's so Harry Houdini when he, was about to die, told his wife, if I, if there is something on the other side, let's communicate our what it's going to be. I'm going to tell you the word. And so he,

before he died, he spent his life trying to disprove charlatans trying to take care, take advantage of people that are missing loved ones. And so he, he was on a mission to kind of like, what's his name? Got out the beard, died recently? Yes. Yeah. The great, he had a, he had a stage name. He was always at Dragon Con and he had a standing, like a standing reward for anyone

that could prove that there was paranormal. He was, yeah. He forgot his name, but he was amazing, amazing Randy. Amazing Randy. Yeah, it was like this hardcore step. So kind of like that, right? And that's what this movie kind of ties into. into, you know, life after death and how, you know, because apparently Jeff is a earth being

and there's James Randy. Thank you for the chat. So, fascinating. I enjoyed it. I like that kind of dive into supernatural. I mean, honestly, when I was younger, I kind of got taken in by that TV show John where he would go there's somebody with a family member with starting with the left

yeah crossing over with that was that guy's name is there a Jay John Edwards somebody knows a Jay somebody knows somebody with a Jay in their name in this one yeah

the worst oh God I got sucked into it you know we want to believe we want and this movie kind of talks into, you know, talks about some of that and wanting to believe and wanting to know and sometimes we just don't know. And that's okay. Yeah. It is okay. You know, it's fine. Yeah. Cool. So worth it. You say, an hour and a half is all pretty short movie too. Yeah. It's a, it's a very

short movie. I was, I was actually surprised how short it was. I was like, oh, it's over. I was expecting more. Adam Sigel. Why do we know that guy, the director's name? Something familiar about that. Nandor fordor. Oh, he did that poker face movie with Russell Crow. That's what it was. So Nandor Fodor, not Frodo. What is it? Fordor.

Fordor. Fordor. Fordor. Fordor. What an unfortunate name. He was a real person. It's not like they're making that up for the movie. Yeah, I looked this dude up.

He looks like just a normal dude. But let's see, he was, oh, he was up. He lived till 64. He was around for quite a while. He was a parapsychologist. Huh. And where this happened was an island. More than just one psychologist.

It's much better to have a parasychologist. Yeah, you don't want, you don't want just one. This one says parapsychologist and also psycho, oh, psychoanalyst. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah. And he's from Hungary. He was very skeptical. Oh, Hungarian dude.

Hungarian origin, anyway. Pretty cool. There you go. This and all others that we talked. Oh, I have to do mine. What am I thinking? Oh, yeah. Do yours.

Yeah, I'm an idiot. Let me play it. Here it is. This is a thing that I've kind of talked about on the show just briefly, but I decided to go ahead and recommend it full-throatedly because I think it's very good so far. I'm only a season in, and there's plenty more to catch up on, including new stuff.

But anyway, here's your clip. We'll talk about it. So much has changed in Harlem since you've been gone. Bad and good. A lot of folks moved out to Brooklyn and Queens. They don't feel safe here anymore. It's department store went out of business. Can you imagine that?

Remember how we used to buy your shoes there? Yeah. Apollo's too there. As long as there's a Harlem, we'll have the Apollo. Who's the change the run? A singer, talented. Maybe we'll go see him sometime. I just knew you'll get right back into the swing of things.

All right, that is from episode one. I have a 2019 through current, Godfather of Harlem episode. and started it on epics. Epics got bought by MGM and then MGM got bought by Prime and now Prime owns it. So now it's part of MGM Plus is where you can go watch this. And because I did that for From, I just hung around and started watching other things and started watching this. I got through the first season and it is really hardcore and really good. And if you remember, I forgot it already, but yesterday we talked about it, the Russell Crow slash Denzel Washington movie that Billy Scott did.

talked about that. Just talked about that. I can't remember the name again. It's about the same guy. Bumpy Johnson is the character. And he says, dude, spent a bunch of time in prison, came back out and picked right up where he left off. And it was running basically a big crime syndicate in Harlem. And other folks want in on some of that business. And that includes a lot of political machinations from people like Giancarlo Esposito's character, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was based on, you know, it was an actual dude. This is all based on. stuff, although they take liberties for sure. The other person I was going to mention, oh, Paul Servino was in this before he passed. It's quite good. He's kind of the go-between between the mob families, so everybody kind of has to clear all the shit through him. Chas, Paul and Terry shows up in this for a bit.

I like him. Yeah, he's great. Vincent Donofrio plays kind of the worst bad guy, at least in season one. I've not gotten past it, so I can't tell you who gets worse. But he's the worst. He plays this. Vincent Chin Giganti, or I think is how you say the last name.

He's the Italian family boss that is trying to muscle in on Harlem and kind of did while Bumpy was in jail while he was in prison. So now there's this big fight between them. I will warn people lots of N-words, lots of stuff of the era, early 60s stuff. Also the beginning of what would roll into the biggest push of the civil rights movement. and the guy that plays Malcolm X is embarrassingly good at being Malcolm X to the point that this is not even his first time being Malcolm X.

That's what this guy gets hired for. So you guys have seen, what's the movie? Let me find him real quick here. There he is. Nigel Thatch is his name. And I'll show a image if Brian can see in the chat, can see that right there. I mean, you'd swear that was Malcolm X.

He just looked like him. Yeah, no kidding. He was also in Selma. in 2014 and played Malcolm X. There we go. So he's got a look to him that is insane. And it just looks like him. But I guess it's really just the only two things he's done where he's Malcolm X,

but it still seems like a lot. He's great. Just chews up the scenery every time he's on screen. And this, in real life, he had a history with bumpy and let's call it a bumpy one. So seeing what they have to do to try to be. you know, Malcolm X's new life, new goals, new mission, and no longer being a streethood really clashes with what Forrest Whitaker's character who plays Bump. Yeah, I should have mentioned that already. He's amazing in this. Anyway, Forrest Whitaker's crazy good. This guy's

great, this Nigel Thatch guy. I really like this Lucy Frye actress who I'd never really heard of before. She's been in stuff I'd seen. I just didn't know it. She was in Bright, which I kind of liked. 1122 63 yeah she's she's really good in this she plays the daughter of the italian dude of vincent nonofrio's character and she's kind of in a interracial sort of um i don't know what to compare it to a little bit of romeo and juliet i guess kind of a problem and uh it makes her a really interesting bit of story in that first season anyway it's very very good very hard hitting my favorite part of it maybe brian would like to hear about which is i don't know if it's my

favorite part. It's a really cool part. The music, they have decided to have a mix of era-appropriate music, but then there's parts where it's like modern rap takes on certain things or... Oh, really? Yeah, or even like songs that were like way later, like 70s, 80s, blues or something because it just fits the scene really well or whatever. I really like how they do it. I thought it would bug me actually, but it doesn't. It's actually very cool the way it all fits in. Got me hooked on checking out for that reason alone I love it when they do that like throw something that still sounds

period appropriate but you're listening to and saying oh that's totally a different song. Yeah it's very much like that and it's just I don't know for whatever reason that mix I was wary of and it ended up being really good. It's reviewed extremely well and I was like well I gotta see this

so I sat down and did and I'm ready for more seasons I think it's fantastic so go check it out. Godfather of Harlem available now on MGM Plus, and maybe Prime just has a season. I'm not sure. I didn't check. It also says Hulu, but I don't know.

I didn't trust that. I don't trust that because I don't think I saw it there, but I could be wrong. Anyway. It says one through three are on Hulu, but really? Yeah. I can dump MGM Plus for now and bring it back when I need new ones. Bring it back when you're ready for like to binge the last half of the from season. Yeah, real good though.

I don't know what to compare it to. There's not much to compare it to except maybe, I don't know, it's just, it's maybe Sopranos, but from a different perspective kind of like different culture, different time, different, I don't know. That vibe is there for sure. She's kind of hard hitting mobster stuff. Anyway, that piques your interest or any of these we talked about today. They'll be on quicktms.L.I. And they're there for the taking. Check that out. Nicole, anything you want to say about wood whispering today or anything at all? Oh, Mark. Oh, we do a live show every Friday at 10 a.m. Central. So what is that? 11, 11 a.m. Eastern. We do a woodworking morning show where you can come and hang out with us. Kind of like what you guys are doing right now. Nice. So interact with the chat room, talk about woodworking and other stuff. So, but mainly woodworking. Nice. If you've ever had any interest in getting into the craft, that's a great way to kind of start. start and dip you toe in. Nice.

Where do they? You're able to like answer questions live and things like that. Yeah. Yeah. So I moderate the chat. Just your Wood Whisper YouTube channel. Is that where you're doing it? Yep.

Okay. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah. You can head on over to our YouTube channel. The live, I put it up so you can actually have it remind you of when we go live. Nice. Very nice.

Go check it out. Tell Mark hi. Say hi to the kids and the dog and the whatnot. And we'll see you next time. Bye. Bye. all righty well there you go we did our recommendals and uh did no sign of the mattress yet so yeah i was going to ask you didn't ever have to tear out they must know and and tina's appointment

or tina's uh meeting zoom meeting just ended so uh so even if they show up now still good yeah we i didn't mention this but the reason that we started the show like right at 901 or whatever i had so my insurance company now that i do stuff with they have to send a dude out once in a while and that dude or lady has you assign stuff and just say checking in on you what meds are they you know they want you to just want to get an idea of where you're at and today it included pinprick and this thing bled this bled for half the show i did do the side yeah but it bled for half the show and it's because i had to do it's a whole thing but the first prick the first prick the first prick the first hole stopped bleeding very well it kind of stopped bleeding before we needed it to as

I don't have thin blood or anything. But he's like, oh, we better do that one again. We need more. So he pokes me right next to that same hole. And I think it just created like a wound. And now, I mean, it's better now, but it was just bleeding like crazy. So there's a little bit of blood on my keyboard here. A little bit of blood.

It's great. Anyone need some DNA evidence? I got you covered right here. It's going to look like a crime scene down there, apparently. Plus he was late and slow talker. It's just a awful experience. Well, you worked out just fine. It all worked out.

Yep. Well, anyway, I wanted to have to pee in a square paper cup that had a plastic lining in it. That was weird. Really? That is weird. Like, imagine a small Chinese takeout box. That's what it looked like. Yeah, okay.

Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But inside had a plastic lining so you could pee in there. It's really weird. Why are they using the little specimen shows anymore? I don't know. My doctor uses those regular plastic things. Maybe this is more eco-friendly or something?

I don't know. Maybe recyclable. Yeah, it was weird. Anyway, the plastic ones, we'll have to, we'll get another recording from Dr. Jerry explaining the switch over to the Chinese takeout. Yeah, tell us about that and also why it's cool to put a hole right on top of another hole to get more blood out of it. Like, why not another finger?

That seems weird. Could you have chosen another finger? They, like, insisted on the same one. Well, I said, I said, I can do another finger is what I said. He goes, well, you know, this one, we're already. here, so let's just, it was just like making it sound like you. We're already here. Like it's across town to go

to another finger. Yeah. I don't I can't be bothered to go all the way over here to get another finger. Oh, we're already here at this finger. Let's, uh... So dumb. Anyway, whatever. I hate stuff like that. Uh, hey, don't, uh, don't not skip on, or don't skip on DTNS today. You might think of yourself,

well, Tom's out of town and, uh, who cares when he's not around? But it's going to be me and Sarah today. Run in the show. That's it. That's all of us. We're doing all the tech news you can stand. It's got 2pm. It's the normal thing for DTNS, but it's me and Sarah hosting. So if you're around, I'd love to have you there. And we hope we're holding the fort down for Tom in a way he sees fit. All right? All right. Brian's time to get that out of here. Yeah. Could I tell you that I've got sympathy pains for whatever reason, like talking about another poke in the finger. I can feel it. I can feel it. Isn't that weird? I get that too when I hear about it. But I don't know. This thing is, see if I can get it to go again. Hold on. No, we're good now. Don't try and make you believe to finally stop.

I know. I just think it's like, another hour if you do that. Like, what did that guy do to me? Anyway. And he was such a slow talker. He was like, all right, now I'm going to prick your fame. It was like that.

I was like, man, I got a show in like. There was that too. There was that too. And he was supposed to be here at eight. He got here at eight. 30, and I'm looking at the clock going, I have a show. That's why I texted you when I did. I'm like, well, shit, if I'm going to, and I'm like, am I done?

Oh, no, there's just this one more. Oh, bird. I'm like, I was like, I was talking of snuffalo, I guess. It was awful. We couldn't coordinate the mattress on that guy at the same time. Could you do? My friend is getting a blood draw nine. Could we do it then?

Yeah. And we'll just start a little bit late. He also thinks he's funny. He took my blood pressure and he goes, oh, I go, what does that mean? And he goes, it's good, you're good. And I said, okay, well, that's, I hope so. So I've been working on that. And he said, I just expected to be higher, you know, after yesterday.

I'm like, I don't need to talk to a total stranger in my house about this damn election. Freaking. Yeah, exactly. Just prick my finger and get the hell out. Yeah, prick and leave. Anyway. Exactly. Brian, let's play a song.

You got something lined up. Sure. This is going out to, this is then from baseball camp. Howdy folks. Howdy folks? uh no particular reason for requesting other than the song is an absolutely needo cover that's his words well worth a listen go ahead and insert whatever random made up holiday you like and celebrate that happy international cataput you'll catapult yourself into a dumpster with a treadmill at full speed day everyone jeez I'll pick up something Much love as always

Sven from baseball camp This is great This is an artist I don't think I've gotten anything else from them Emilio Bonito A single that they released in 2016 Covering REM's Endgame Ooh

I haven't heard that song in a while All right that sounds great That's going to do it for us Thank you all for listening We'll be back tomorrow with more We'll see you then I'm going to be the I'm going to be.

I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to and I'm You know, I'm going to be able to be. You know, I'm going to be.

I'm going to be. I'm going to be able to be. So, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be able to be. Oh, looks like someone just got their ears caught in the audio cookie jar. It's okay. You can have another, and another after that, at frogpants.com. Gee, that sounds good.