The Morning Stream - TMS 2740: Bananamaniacs

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

International Banana. Attack of the Killer Coconuts. Little shark nibbles with Brian Dunaway. Claim your turkey. Meat Related Meal. Kim makes military grade eggs. I can haz Mu Deng. Hooch Policies. Trans Siberian Sabotage. Weird Ass Gizzards. Generic Old Men. Snatched from the jaws of Mulva. Rundle NOT Grundle. Shielding the Cable with Tom. Not a Chore with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Coming up on the morning stream, International Banana. Attack of the killer coconuts. Little shark nibbles with Brian Dunaway. Claim your turkey. Meat-related meal. Kim makes military-grade eggs. Ican has mu-dang. Hooch policies.

Trans-Ciberian sabotage. Weird ass gizzards. Generic old men. Snatched from the jaws of mulva. Rundle. Not grundle. Shielding the cable with Tom. Not a chore with Randy and Nicole and Moore on this episode of The Morning Stream. They're mouthwatering.

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We are. There's nothing we can do to see. stop it either it's happening yeah it's happening brian i know that you're you're going to be hosting this year you mentioned it on the show before correct do you have do you have any plans for like well if you end up doing the turkey how early how early you got to start working on that shit is it days before is it the day before um day before uh i think we're going to brine the turkey before we bake it again this year uh which basically just means filling a cooler full of um um uh Uh, like, what, what did she do last time? Did we do, um, do we do just water and spices and salt and stuff like that?

Or do we do a buttermilk brine? Oh, you're killing me. That all sounds so good. Yeah, I can't remember what, what, uh, Tina, Tina is in charge of all that stuff. So we'll start at the day before. Whatever it is, we'll start at the day before. Nice. And as far as I know, I remember last year, turkeys were, there was a, there was a shortage or something, wasn't there?

Yeah. Yeah. Something like that, and I don't know if that's happening this year or not. I hope not. I don't either, and I hope not, because we have not bought ours yet. We didn't reserve one, so Tina's going to go today and make sure to claim our turkey. Yeah. Because we need a fairly decent-sized one because we've got, you know, what, 10 or 11 people coming, so.

Yeah, you want a big turkey for a big group. I definitely want a big turkey. I love turkey meat. I don't want to be short. If I could eat turkey for every meat-related meal, I'd probably do it. Like, if somebody said, sorry. cows off the menu no more pork all the pigs and cows have died all that's left are these turkeys i wouldn't be that upset i'd be all right totally no problem with that whatsoever yeah ground turkey

turkey burgers uh just straight up turkey like yeah yeah it's better better for you you get the dark meat the light meat you get that weird ass gizzard for the weirdos out there yeah i'm not i like livers and gizzards i am not a turkey neck guy but i do like the i do like a fried uh gizzards and liver oh that reminds me i got an update about meat um oh good i'm glad we went here with the meat update kind of a poultry update so you know i showed i sent brian a picture of it but i talked about it on the show we have this oh yeah container full of freeze dried chicken that we sprinkle in you could crumble it and put it in dog food and the dogs freaking love it they just even if they hate their food they'll eat it now because it's got the sprinkled chicken and it's good

for them won't hurt them and it's you know all good um but the one i showed you is you know it's in very small little pieces, very crumbly already. But Kim said, you know what, I'm going to make my own. So she went and got some chicken, and we have a thing in there, a freeze dryer thing. And so she made them, and they're all like bigger slices of

chicken. So we have this bag that looks like, at a glance, it looks like a bag full of chicken, except it's dry. And they're all very brittle and it's almost like, I don't even know what, the consistency. It's like honeycomb consistency. And I thought, you know what? I need to least try this. I can't just talk about freeze-dried chicken and not. You got to have a little

bite of it. Sure. So I did. And you know what? That stuff's all right. Yeah. It's weird at first. It's weird at first, right? Because it's so dry and it's like, oh, but then it hits you. It's just like, oh, no, it's kind of reconstituting because I'm eating it. And it's good. It's all right. Yeah, exactly. It's rehydrating in my mouth. Yeah, which is kind of gross. But it works. And I, you know, We had to stash some of that away for, you know, a tornado or whatever that we need to bunker down for. Yeah, that would probably, I mean, it's like jerky, basically. It would totally. It's weird how that stuff's good, though, in that form.

Like, I can eat that out of the bag, no problem. She also freeze-dried a bunch of orange slices. And that's just for, she was just doing those for decorations because you can use them to put them around wreaths and stuff. But I grabbed one and I'm like, well, let's, let's try this. And he kind of, like, just bite into it. and it's like eating it's like eating the pure like a pure citrus kind of

taste it's really good like I could grind that up into a drink or on top of a dessert or something it'd be really really good and the other thing we had was um what was the other thing she put in there shoot I can't remember what it was she put something else in there

I tried it and I really liked it and now I can't remember what it was anyway whatever that was it was good also can't remember why I don't remember what that is. Dang. I know. I'm curious. I'd love to know what it is. Yeah, I don't remember. She put it in, oh, eggs. So. Oh, that would be good. Yeah. So she scrambles a bunch of eggs, put them in there. Now they're in a bunch. It's basically a big sheet. You break it apart, like honeycomb. Put in a bag. And then you kind of mash the bag up. So you've just left with, like, dust in there. And you take, it's got an exact amount thing you can do. So you take two teaspoons of it or tablespoons. Put it in a pan. Add water. you got eggs it's just eggs that's cool yeah you know they do make right they do make that stuff the um like the army always talked about that or mash always talked about that like how the army had uh eggs you just add water to and you get reconstituted eggs and that sort of thing powdered eggs

yeah i assume that's what that was i assume that's what they were making i don't know but it's it's quite it was good i was like wow this is just like eggs i mean it was eggs in the first place so i don't know why i'm so amazed but right it's just such a weird process but um I'm telling you, this dry, freaking, you know, keep it out in a bowl in the air, no problem. Chicken is weird and good. I was really surprised by it. And I could do that with some turkey if I needed to. It would be great.

There you go. If you had to. If it, yeah, if it was required. If it came down to it, Brian. If it came down to it, exactly. Syrinx, who is often in our chat, I think he is today, sent us a message, and I'd like to read it. Okay. It's a clarification on the shark thing.

We were talking to Dunaway the other day. about, and he'll hear this because he's listening to the show this morning. He sent us a link regarding the claim that there are more deaths per year by being struck by falling coconuts than being killed by a shark. And basically what this list is, it's literally a Wikipedia article called death by coconut. Okay. And it is all about, you know, what the likelihood of it is and what it is. there are notes in here about what deaths are less than it, and one of them is being killed by a shark.

Okay. So the point is, for anyone who was maybe confused about what was going on there, it is indeed a true fact that if you get, you are more likely to die from a coconut hitting you in the head. And that means us, we're not even on the coast. We're landlocked in the middle of the states, Brian and I. It's still more likely that he or I will get killed by a coconut on the head. head. You know why that is, because we are ill-prepared to handle it. We are ill-prepared to handle

a coconut because of how landlocked we are. Yeah, hell yeah. That thing comes down from the sky. We're like turkeys who drown when they look up at the rain. We're going to look up at that coconut's going to smash us in the face and kill us. Yeah. They have a bunch of examples here, like in 1944, there was a report that the Japanese troops or a bunch of Japanese troops are using coconut bombs to defend against the American invasion. Really? I love it. So that actually up to the percentage because they weaponized them, right? In July of 2004, 55-year-old Sri Lankan man was killed when he was struck in the head by a coconut. Police concluded that the blow was not the result of a coconut falling from a tree,

but rather had sustained it in a fight that developed after the victim invited a group of friends to his hut to enjoy a hooch party. A hooch party? A hooch party. Yeah. I love it. That's my, I would vote. I'd vote for the hooch party in an election. Oh my gosh, yes. How do I, How do I nominate myself for the Hooch Party? Oh, you could head the Hooch Party, dude. That's what I'm saying. I'd be Hooch Party chairman is what I'd be. I'm ready to line up to all your principles, your standards, your policies, whatever it is.

What do you think one of the Hooch policies would be? It would be, let's see, a freeze-dried chicken in every pot. And gin. The national beverage would be gin. Yeah. There we go. Yeah, you want to solve world wars? Vote for the Hooch Party.

I'm telling you right now. Vote for the Huch Party, for sure. Well, anyway, the most recent killing of a coconut was in 2020. A 37-year-old man died of severe head injuries after a coconut tree. He was hired to help cut down, fell on him. The incident occurred at a roadside near Banana Beach along the coastal road in Surin to Nathon. This is in Thailand. Okay.

I'm loving all of this. I'm loving just banana beach. I'm just loving the whole thing. I want to go to banana beach. It should be all right. Yeah, yeah. I wonder why it's not plantain beach. Oh.

Isn't that more of an international banana? I know they're different fruits, right? Like the banana. Yeah, it's a different fruit. It's funny. You call it an international banana. Number one, that's going to be a show title. I guess you said international fruit.

But I think I like the term international banana. Like our domestic bananas is just. a banana yeah everywhere else when they leave the US they become very worldly yeah I mean there's a place in Santa Barbara off the coast where the the temperature is just right and they grow

plantains oh yeah you have it's right it has to be the right climate right like that's exactly it's like there's like a the wind coming off of the mountains or something and the the coast somehow somehow makes it habitable by plantains. Well, if we have any banana experts out there,

correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is the modern banana is a genetic alteration of plantains. I could be wrong about that. Like, I don't think bananas in the form we think of them in grow, have ever grown that way without our intervention. I think I've heard that too. It's something like that.

I don't remember the deal. If nobody slips on a plantain peel, We hear about that. Right. No. Another shark. It's true, yeah. Is that international comedy as are?

He slipped out a plantain pill. Whip! See if a guy fall on his ass. Blantanes. Another guy wrote in, Ben wrote in about shark stuff too. He says in regards to the shark attack conversation during TMS, the most deadly animal to humans in terms of documented fatalities is the hippopotamus. It's the jaw size and strength, plus people think they are slow and approachable.

people am i right take care says ben i don't know why he meant people am i right but uh it's a weird thing to say right but uh it is a weird it's a weird it's a weird time to use that phrase like i like the use of that people am i right but maybe not in the use of uh about those hippopotam those deadly hippopotamai yeah but yeah no those are that is that's so uh 100 percent true that those are they are so you know they're way more deadly than sharks and they are you look at

Mudang most adorable thing ever and you're looking like oh my god that you know in however many years it'll take to become full size that that will certainly kill people. Oh hell yeah yeah you get near those things they're super aggressive like they're deceptively cute even when they're old it's like

oh at the play at the park thing they fed I'm a watermelon. That's adorable. It's like, no, dude, that's your head to get out of there. We all grew up with Henrietta Hippo. But I think Moudang is a pygmy hippopotamus. So I don't know if the pygmy hippopotamus are as deadly to humans as the other varieties of hippopotamus. Yeah, they're not a hungry, hungry hippo.

They're more of a slightly peckish hippo. That's all they are. Exactly. Schmitty, Google Moudang. I'm not going to do it for you. No, look, if you're not up on the world's memes, you need to go look it up yourself, chat room. Exactly. Don't come to us trying to explain I can has cheeseburger or whatever, you know?

And then look up Bowen-Yang as Moodang after you've done that. Yeah. And while you're at it, look up that gorilla that died. What was his name? Harambe. If you don't know about that guy, go look that up too. We're not here to fill you in on the world's memes. That's not our job.

That's right. Here at TMN. Harambe was an inside job, by the way. Yeah, that's true. I still believe that Okay, and then also You know as a kid you're like oh well If somebody said a teacher said to you

Well who would win in a fight a rhino or a hippo You would say rhino because one of them had a horn And the other one doesn't have a horn So obviously rhinos must be terrible But they're like kind of docile They get defensive of their offspring and things like that But they don't really Yeah

That horns us for you know You know because there's a Spider-Man villain based on the rhino There's not a Spider-Man villain named the hippo That would be horrible The horrible Supervillain. That would be horrible. Oh, I'm glad you said that.

I got a quick recommendation. I've only read the first issue, but this 2024, I sent you the image from, Doom, it's called. It's not based on the video games, based on Dr. Doom. And it's this apocalyptic story.

So you may know this already. You probably do know this. His niece, I guess, and him have like a working relationship. She's, she's Mr. Fantastic and what's her name's daughter. but she's kind of I don't know what the deal is there see that's the problems I don't know I don't know anything about her but it's the story it starts out with her and him and there's a whole galactus element I don't want to give too much away it is one of the most epic cosmic Marvel things I've read in a long time it's very cool is that the one that they're speculating that doomsday might be the the movie Avengers Doomsday might be loosely based on if it is it means some

serious destruction like some serious consequences are there um incursions here's here's my thinking of secret wars and doomsday my my prediction um they've already kind of hinted at it with um uh uh deadpool but i think it is going to be marvel resetting the multiverse stuff i think that's why this is the final season of what if because we're going to have the end of the multiverse the Marvel multiverse. I would guess that this, something like this would do that from what I'm reading. Now, this is brand new stuff, so it seems, it seems unlikely that they would be co-MCUing a ride-along as a thing is being written.

I think there's maybe even only an issue out. So it's possible that this is different, but it does feel like it is that kind of final solution, lack of a better term, sorry, but kind of that final like, oh, this is how things could go and it could go real bad and it deals with Celestials and all that. It's cool, man. Like, you should pick that comic up and check it out. It's really good.

I imagine it's been Marvel Unlimited, the app. It will be, I bought this one because I don't, I don't currently have the sub, but don't they, don't they wait? Well, I guess it's been since May. This thing came out in May. So, yeah, you should have it by me. I could probably read the first few issues, but maybe not all of them or something. It's really good.

I just got on a tear yesterday because I read all the stuff Schlecker told us about. the absolute stuff on DC side and they are all very good the absolute Batman and Superman are so good um I'm just start I haven't finished it yet but I started the Wonder Woman one as well last night but in between them I threw this doom one in because someone said it was good and they were not wrong it's very cool taking a look right now yes there we go um looks like I can read oh just issue one I think that's all that's out is one yeah I couldn't find a second issue so I think they're, I mean, we're at least, it's not a monthly, I guess.

I don't know. I can't tell what they're doing with it. Oh, yeah, giant-sized one shot is what it is. Okay. There is one issue. It ends in such a way that it feels, it ends in a way that it feels like there should be another issue. I don't know why it ends that way, but it does. Oh, really?

Okay. There's probably going to be another one shot that won't be called Doom that, you know, is a whole different, whole different deal. It's the most terrifying galactus I've ever seen. really okay like usually i kind of laugh at galactus a little bit silly you gotta watch you gotta read it okay not that there aren't moments for him i'm just saying sometimes it's like oh look at that hat and he's flowing he's just eating worlds and i mean the outfit the look of galactus admittedly is very is very silly tuning fork on his yeah but it's worth checking out um cool i think if you've got a a free comic moment anyone listening

to this that's that's one to grab I think any artist that draws Galactus, if, you know, that circular thing in the center of his chest, if they put a G in there, it's silly. Because who is he like, you know, just so you don't confuse me with anybody else who might look exactly like me, the G stands for Galactus. Yeah. I'm about to eat your world, but don't forget who did it. Look at the G. That's right. The G.

Like Superman at least. What's that stand for? At least Superman recond it to be like a symbol. and then they kind of made that work, you know. Yeah. So it's not just an S. Just got lucky. That was a clever retcon situation with the...

Yeah, I approve. We got a call asking for a thing, and I'm just going to play it real quick. It's short. Here you go. What up? Scooby and Boobie. This is the morning spring. This is Fenner in St. Paul, Minnesota.

I just want to formally request on your intro. I used to hear Scott Pletcher say something about, it's popular than a strawberry flop part or something. like that can i hear that again that would be great appreciate it love the show though pop teep top torch so i found the clip for him and i'll play it raw it's not currently in one of our intros but i'll i'll play it for him here you go buddy the morning stream better than a straw tart blue bloberry pop tarch pop torch can take me a couple to get that one hang on better than a straw tart this is recording right let me check better than a straw tart better than a better than a straw tart blueberry pop torch there you go that's the

final bit. It's one of my favorite things he ever sent me. I'd freaking love that. So much, yeah. So thank you for saying. I didn't catch his name because it was really hard to hear at the top of that call. Here. What up? Scooby and boobies is the morning stream. It's Fenher and St. Paulman. He says this is

Vennher. Ben-Hur. Oh, it's Ben-Hur. That's right. In her. Yeah. After he gave water to Jesus, he settled in the Twin Cities. Yeah, he eliminates a few syllables in that intro. It was more strong. Ben Hur.

No wonder he couldn't remember how it was said. Can't even say his name right. Just kidding. Thank you. Thank you for calling it, Ben-Hur. Yeah, thanks, Ben-Hur. You're great. Good luck with the race.

Yeah. And thanks for giving Jesus water that day. He needed it, dude. He's carrying that cross. It was rough. All right. We're going to get to a game. It's time to add Dunaway.

We're going to play. Play. Shit. I don't have it up. Shit. Stop. Shit. shit, shit.

Best shit. It's like in the bathroom. Yeah. I love it. All right. Done away incoming of musical play. You'll know when it's happening. We also need one of you to call them taking our third caller today.

Third caller. So people who are now have to change it all. Yeah. Pretend the fourth never happened. May the fourth be with you. Anyway, we're going to make that happen real quick here if I can push the right button. Donaway didn't answer, though. Let's see if I can ring him again.

Well, he's at the game, so... Oh, there he is. He's aware that things are happening. Yeah, he knows. He knows. He always knows. Hey, look who it is. It's Brian Dunaway joining us. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian.

Of course, I always know. Also, Syrinix is one of my favorite people in the whole world. But the data he's bringing is all wrong. I'm just kidding. look have you seen any sharks since we last talked that's the question look let me tell you this over a billion sharks in the world billions of people go to the beach every year 100% of coconut by noggin death are reported yeah i'm just saying little tiny sharks bite you on the leg you're not self-reporting because that's what you'd have to do little tiny sharks

data's not all there well it's we're talking about killings though right aren't we talking about dying from a shark no no that's what i asked last last last time I said, are you talking about DES? Are you talking about attacks? And I was told a tax. How many of coconut attacks are reported every year? I bet you none. None. So your, you know, your

estimation of number of great white sharks is a little bit exaggerated. Great white sharks? I said sharks in general. Oh. Those great whites are the only ones you have to worry about. Like a hammerhead, what's it going to do like nail you? Yeah.

Exactly. Turn his head side. ways and get this. I've seen. I've seen tons of sharks. You know how most of them, how big most of them are? Smaller than my forearm. They're tiny. Yeah. Most sharks I haven't counted. And they're not attacking you as the point. Like nurse sharks and stuff. Would you know? Would you? Yes, you would know if they attacked you. You'd fill a little pinch or something. You'd know. Would you report a Chihuahua attack? No. No, you wouldn't. No, wait. Let's say, the estimate is that there's about 3,000 to 5,000 great white sharks. You keep saying great. If you get, attacked by Great White Shark, you're dead. You're, you were dead. No, no, no. Yeah, it's like surfers who have like, you know, a bite taken out of their side, but they're still. Yeah, some of them losing arm even. By Great White's, I'd like to see that. I'd like to see your stats on that. Okay. But, all right, so let's say we say that number. I think there are far more coconuts in the world than 3,000 to 5,000 coconuts. Yeah. Exactly. By the way,

Great White, the band, doesn't call themselves a beluga or freaking boring ass tiger shark or whatever they're great whites I don't know what that's to do in anything but I do know this when Megas is our willing participant today and he's here now when Megas you were the third caller I am congratulations nicely done what is up your timing was impeccable sir well well done and it's good to have you back we're gonna play a game Brian will explain the rules and tell you what you might win if you perform well today sure we're gonna we're gonna play the game of name a kind of shark

and Scott's going to say beluga and I'm going to go It's a whale It's time to play the tadpulli shoot It's a cheetah shark. That's right. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpull on some nerdy topics. The two of these guys are going to have to predict the answers they gave us. It's their job to see how many of those answers they can guess.

When you may guess your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either one of them. And if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes infraspace. and You Suck at Parking, the complete edition. Both of those, courtesy of Wesley. Both of them fantastic, but in particular, You Suck at Parking is one of my favorite little games

no one knows about. It's so good. I just love the name of that. I mean, talk about your chore. You were talking about that one on Core, right? Yeah, so it's basically, it isn't even about parking. It's just these crazy levels of, I don't know what to compare it to. It's just chaos, and you can do multiplayer, and the online is insane.

It's so fun, dude. Just an amazing little game. game that no one's heard of it's so good anyway awesome i hope you win both uh i do too yeah all right you guys ready let's go ahead and get uh start here put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this we surveyed 525 tadpoolers and asked them to name a character from Seinfeld that is not Scott uh Kenny bandia Kenny ban you all right Banyan, okay. Show me Kenny Banya.

Oh, he's on the board. Good points. Really good points. Number 10 answer on the board. I will repeat the whole question for Brian. Sweet. A character from Seinfeld that is not Jerry, George, Elaine, or Kramer. I had a feeling.

Newman. All right. Show me Newman. Damn it. Well, Scott may have the points, but you pick the number one answer, which means you've got control of the board, and you've got Win Vegas as a partner. You may even have a dog.

Is it a chihuahua attack going on right now? It might be. You never get those reported. We have a cute little puppy. Aw. Well, they're allowed. They're allowed. Oh, but that's cute.

I was going to say, have we, Brian, you may have to confirm this, Brian, but I don't think we've ever had a split like this where we started with one and ten like this. No, no, never. I don't ever remember us. I think it's so rare that you get the, that somebody gets the number 10 answer on, on jump. You know, that, oh, yeah. I know I've never had it as far as I know yeah I don't think I don't think that's even ever happened so uh cool well obviously this is um you know based on the tadpool by the way

um Newman appeared in I want to see if I can tell you how many episodes he appeared in 43 episodes oh wow that's less than I would have predicted there's same here and Kenny Banya appeared in six just six episodes they're always memorable though here's the funny here's a tiny bit of info about uh newman's first appearance which really wasn't wayne knight so it was jera or uh kramer yelling out the window at supposedly a person named newman and the person yelling back which you never see is actually larry david for that episode oh really so they hadn't cast him yet he was just like this almost like his bob sacamano character is like nobody you'll ever see yeah anyway it's great there you go early on

yeah all right done way it's you guys to say your puppy is super cute i love this sweater all right oh do you have uh as is customary i'll let you do you have a sign filled tertiary character that you think would or a secondary character that you think would be up there on the board i mean soup nazi it's a good one no soon for you let's find out for getting no soup for you yeah appeared in two episodes i think one uh two right right yeah he was in the finale as well uh all right show me soup nazi he was also for some reason that guy shows up at all the star trek connection or all the star track conventions he's there for some reason yeah with a booth yeah he was there in the

Vegas one I'm like why are you here I forgot that yeah what a huge impact that someone can be in just two episodes of a series and that's the thing people remember I know right exactly yeah it's crazy yeah so there you go soup Nazi number two answer on the board you don't have a lot of points but you do have the top two and you've got control of the of the board so that's something that's something yeah when megas do you have uh have another one hang your hat on that i got one if you don't have one why don't you go ahead and take one all right well i i like i like me some putty i can't get enough buddy uh sure he's fantastic yeah all right hey peter uh let's see david putty are you kidding me

you're gonna tell me how many episodes you think uh putty appearance i'm gonna guess a couple of seasons there because he was elaine's love yeah but he wasn't like he was wasn't there all the time so it's actually kind of smaller than you think and part of it was he left to do another series and so he disappeared for a long time how many time how many putty attacks you think there were i think there were i'm gonna get take a guess here i'm gonna say six or seven i'll say six i'm gonna say more more okay it is more he appeared in 10 10 episodes let's see where he is on this on the board here show me david putty that's a miss that's a misprint uh yeah uh number three answer on the board. Again, you're whittling your way up to Scott's score of 10, but you're doing it in a very sequential way, which is really nice. Yeah, it is. Man. George's dad.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Costanza? Frank is Stanza. Not the first actor to play him, but no, no. He was another guy. I know they changed Morty's. Do they change Franks as well? Yeah, Frank had one episode as a different actor early on and then later it was

what's his name, Jerry Stiller. The same thing with Morty, Morty had a different guy. But the wives have never changed. They were always the same. Okay. I can't figure out if I liked him better there or in King of Queens. Oh, sure. Basically the same character.

It's the same guy. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. All right. Well, 24 episodes for Frank Costanza. Let's see if you made it into the top 10 list here. Show me Frank Costanza.

Oh, come on. Serenity now. You are making your way through these. And I clicked on that immediately. so it just took a little while. I love the lag suspense is what that is. It's artificially traded lag suspense. By the way, this is him.

This is the original. Oh, I thought that was the original. Oh, no, that's not the original Jerry Dad. Okay. No. So they both had multiple dad. They were both generic. Oh, sorry.

No, I put it on the stream. It is, I'll put it in Discord. But it's basically just generic old men for the first, for both those guys early on. And they just didn't, I don't know, they didn't click. Eric. So what they, I mean, the change was obviously brilliant when they brought in new people, but those original ones were weird. Anyway.

Okay. Well, you guys are right there now. You're tied, you're tied. At least you're tied. 4-3-2-1 got you to four answers finally got you to the score that Scott had going into this thing. So good job, I guess. Good job, I guess. Five answers still on the board.

All right. What's your next, I guess? Oh, my gosh. I'm sorry. I just realized Clark Griswold's dad is that same actor who played George's original dad from Christmas Vacation.

Oh wow. Hey, maybe quit Googling. Sorry. Sorry, I'm just looking at pictures. I'm not looking up names. I'm just seeing it. All right, sorry. You guys go.

Chat, GPT. Name some characters. It's our turn again, right? All right. It is. Do you have one? I've got a couple. I just don't know which one that's the best one for next.

I think, I would say the lawyer. Oh, yeah, everybody loves Jackie Childs. I saw something recently about that. Did I tell you to put my name in there? I didn't tell you to put my name in there. That's a penis. That's not that guy. That's a different guy, but I love that whole.

That's what was a Jackie? That's not Jackie Child saying that's a penis. That's a different dude. Hold on. Is it really? I thought that was the same guy too. I'm Googling that's a penis guy. I'm not looking up other names.

Look it up. All right. We'll have to depend on our memories. Yeah. That's what we're doing a little bit here. Yeah, this is definitely not the same guy. Here, I'll put him up on the thing, right? Oh, whoops.

That didn't work. Cool. Is it the guy with the mole? It's a GIF. Let's see if it works. Oh, it's the clerk from Nightcourt? Oh. Yeah, there he is.

That's not Jackie Child. Oh, no kidding. Yeah, that totally isn't him. Yeah. All right. Wow. Anyway. That was Jackie Chiles.

All right. Show me Jackie Childs. Oh, that is incorrect. It should be on there. Number 19 in the list. And Jackie Chiles, how many episodes? Have you guys been watching? How many, how many, Jack Charles?

Yeah. Probably four. I'm going to go five. Five, yeah. One more, five, yeah. I guess I should have given you a chance. I give me a chance to say the thing. The final two episodes, which was like a two-parter,

I think he was in both those. That probably gave him that extra one that we would have had. Possibly, yeah. Yeah, because he was definitely in that. I forgot that they released those. It wasn't it just, we saw it as one episode because they put both of them back to back. I think so when they did it that night. If I had to guess, I can't remember exactly, but I think so.

Nowadays, I think it's too on the, if you go watch them on Netflix, I think it's broken up, but I could be wrong. Anyway, he's great. Love that guy. He is great. All right. So, Scott, that means you get control back. He's cyborg's dad and that thing you had me watch, Brian.

Oh, the team titan, or just called Titans. What was that called? Oh, Doom Patrol. That's what it was. Doom Patrol. Yeah. Well, I'm probably also Titans since that was all part of the same universe. Oh, yeah.

He probably carried over for that. Yep. Yep. All right. So it's back to me. Let's do Peterman, Jay Peterman. oh that's a good one j peterman the late give me a better description of them long and drawn out give me the peterman description yeah show me the urban sombrero uh all right j peterman

yeah number's next yeah he's got to be on there me he's doing the wrong with us already leading feel like i feel like i'm cheating here because i watch it so much um i just started recently rewatching it so we have it on every day so it's like it's on all the time at my house um All right, let's do, oh, we are kind of getting, we're getting in a weird place here. Oh, gosh, Susan. Ooh, yes, lick too many envelope, Susan. Yeah, sure, sure. The former fiancé of George, show me Susan Ross.

Oh, what? Yeah. She is, you know, after, after Newman, she is the actor, the, the, the person who appeared in the most episodes of the show. Yeah. Heidi Sweatberg. Like two seasons, two or three seasons, something like that. Yeah. She runs like an emu farm now or something. She's like, out of acting. Liberty, Liberty, Liberty. She's sitting there playing a ukulele for her IMD picture. So. Yeah. I think she was like, you know, acting's fine, but I'm out. I went and did something else. I admire that. Nothing wrong with that. For sure. Yeah. Get out.

And she probably gets so many, so much money from residuals from the syndication of Seinfeld. Good for her. I agree. Did I tell you that that was a number, let's see, Susan was number 12. Oh, boy, you just barely got number 11. Yeah, barely missed the bonus. Bonus. All right. Back over to Winmagus and Brian.

What you got? Wing, Megas, do you have one? How about some round team? I don't know if she would be on there, but one of the more memorable quotes is Dolores. Yeah. Mova. Rimes with, oh, yes.

Gipel. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. I love when he was trying to do it. She was leaving. She was all pest and he's like, Gippel. Gipel. Yels out the window.

Dolores. So good. All right. All right. Show me. Well, let me phrase that. Is Mulva up on the board? Oh, that's a good guess, though.

Show me your vulva. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. She was, oh, I'm sorry. Hold on a second. What am I doing? Hold on.

Hold on. Nope. There we go. That was. Oh, Delores. So, oops. Good job. Yeah.

You guys get to go ahead. Nope. No points. you get to go again. Pull from the mouth of Mulva. Snatched from the jaws of Mulva.

Nope, that's not right. Nope. You got to think about Uncle Leo. Oh shit. Jerry. It's Jerry.

Oh, I love Uncle Leo so much. Yeah. I'm old. I thought I paid for it. It's Jerry. I love him. Okay. All right.

Show me. Uncle Leo. Yep. You're back. your sequential picking number five on the board yeah look at that that's pretty I love him hello I love it and he appeared on the show in 14 episodes he wasn't a lot of the earlier stuff he was in it was later on he didn't take I like the watch episode though where you where he took the watch out of the trash that's what it was yeah yeah

yeah love that one and it still um oh I'm a win mega he wasn't he wasn't he wasn't take the I don't. Oh, then why not Tim Watley then? No, I like Tim. Yeah, but you're Brian Cranston. Walter White. That's right, you're Oval Team. You're round team.

Tim Waltley White. Yeah. Didn't he do the round team joke? It was it. Give me a schickle of fluoride, he says. I love that. Where he claims he's Jewish. That's so good.

Yeah, that was good. Oh, my gosh, dude. Oh, that's great. All right. Show me, Dr. Tim Watley. Yeah. Continuing, go down the list. Wow, that is amazing.

And that does put you in the lead 22 to Scott 16, but still anybody's game. I know, we still got several strikes left. We got two more slots left. We did Peterman, we did, um, did we do, um, I think you're supposed to just say one. I think is what you're supposed to do. Did we do Morty? Is that Jerry's, uh, dad's name? Yeah, Morty Seinfeld.

Yeah. Did we do Morty? No. You have not done Morty. No one has done Morty. No one's done Morty in 20 years. I used to sell raincoats. Raincoats.

All right. You doing Morty? You're doing Morty? No, I'm just... Well, okay, you did for about three seconds. My power just went out. Oh, no. But your Wi-Fi held up.

All right, you're good. What do you think? How does that sound to you? Yeah, sounds good. Okay. Do it. Or would you prefer? And they're spectacular.

I don't remember the character's name, though. No, yeah, go with that one. Go with that one. Do it. Morty. Going with Morty. Okay, show me Morty Seinfeld. No, Morty was number. Geez, tied for 21st. One person said Morty. I love Morty. I do too. Underrated, but it's okay.

Big, big thick glasses. Yep. Didn't him and Kramer go into like that... He was selling his raincoats. It was selling his raincoats that he used to sell back in the day. And they got all moth eaten and the guy at the store wouldn't take him. And, yeah, it was great. A fun side note when they go to do the same similar thing,

but with all of George's dad's old records to sell them at a record store, the guy who owns the record store is jigsaw from those movies, the saw movies. Oh, really? The saw movies? Yeah. It's really weird. I could see him in there. All right.

I'm going to go with Mr. Pitt, please. Can I have a little Mr. Pitt? Oh, sure. Mr. Pitt over there, cutting his Snickers bar with a knife and fork. Show me Mr. Pitt. Ah! Really? Now I'm getting nervous.

Number 13. So we got two shots at this. Damn it. I was sure. What do you think about? But it did make me think of Steinbrenner. We start doing misters. I love.

Larry David Steinbrenner He's so good It's so good But what did you have Winemakers? Did she have something else? Either that one or George's mom

Oh Estelle Estelle is the most underrated actress In the entire history of the show She's wonderful She's so good She's so good Love her

And I forget remember her name So I'm glad I said Estelle Oh sorry Her real name is Estelle too So she used her real name In the show By the way Makes sense

Winnitus I'll defer to you Steinbrenner or Estelle Let's go Estelle Do it There we go Estelle All right Spin it up there

Give us number nine Show me Estelle Ah A third strike So here's Here's the thing It's not whiffs

Yeah By the way Estelle was also tied for 21st One person said Estelle Did they say You're not giving away our water pick Did they say that you're treating your body like an amusement park

she's so good so that means I got to clear it or he loses so it's either going to be bubble boy if you get nothing he wins if you clear it he wins but if you get either one of these then he loses right good point all I got left is funny characters like bubble boy in the moops episode

And Terry Hatcher is, I don't know her character's name, though. Well, so what I usually do is when we get to this point, because I really would like our color to win, I look at the chat finally. And in here, people have got some confusing ideas. The ass man is Kramer. So don't have it. That's a bad one.

Yeah, yeah. He wasn't the original ass man, though, right? Because he bought the ass man. Yeah. The person who wanted that license plate was. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he never should. We never see this dude.

So he's not going to be on here. And then, I mean, a lot of Steinbrenner, I feel like Steinbrenner was a real big presence. So at least for a bunch of latter half of that series. So I'm just going to say, I guess, Steinbrenner. Let's do it. Okay. All right. Show me George Steinbrenner.

Oh, number nine. Oh, no. Oh, no, the worst possible outcome. Now you've got to clear it. Crap. The pressure. The pressure. It's all good. It just means I chose poorly.

Well, all right. You didn't have a choice. You didn't get to choose. Yeah, you didn't get to choose. I got to first get the best answer. Well, I didn't get the best answer. I got the top answer. I mean, I've got a, so I'm a huge Kruger fan, but I don't know how much he'll factor in here.

Mr. Kruger and his finishing business or whatever the hell it was, steel or metal smoothing or whatever the hell this business was. Do not look up that actor's story. You'll be very sad. Don't do it. Oh, really? Yeah, it's bad. Oh, we've talked about that.

Yeah. a real bummer. And I really like, oh, there's so many little ones. Like the, Abu, it's like, very bad man, very bad man. I love that guy. What it is? So we can't, I don't know who to do.

You guys help me here. What do you like? The problem is there's so many good ones. Like, I even thought of the Cartwright guy. Oh, Cartwright. Right. That's great. Yeah, but James.

James Hong. James Hong. I don't think he's on there, but one of the ones that I thought. Right. What is Babu? I don't see Babu. You could do that one. You could do, someone wrote Mandelbaum. I like that one a lot.

Oh, Mandelbaum. That was a great character. Lloyd Bridges, but it's very short, so I just don't think it's on here. Jack Klompis is great. Oh, gosh. How about, what's like a moment people always talk about? like the contest episode has got some great secondary characters

but you don't think of them like John F. Kennedy Jr.'s in that and he's not really Oh, when they do the, yeah, when they do the Who wasn't the spit on him? Keith Hernandez. Keith Hernandez. Yeah, that's who it was. Yeah, right.

It was the magic loogie. We did Estelle Costanza, Biocall. Let's see. I what was Lloyd Braun's pretty Lloyd Braun that had two different actors too funny enough Oh really? Yeah

I thought it was always the Star Trek connection guy The uh It was mostly him but we had another dude First first appearance of that guy Different guy Wow Um All right

Oh my gosh It's never been so hard Why is this so freaking hard I know Yeah I can't think of another one This like They're just all even after that right

It seems like everybody else is just right so then it's just an issue of like well who chose what yeah who's the guy that peed on jerry's couch uncle or um uh whatever his name was he was great was uncle leo no it was poppy that's a great character that's a pretty good one he was several episodes he had two i think is all uh the first one where he didn't wash his hands then the second one where he was incontinent um all right did he was he a defendant or i mean a uh a woman question the finale as well he might have been i don't want to give you i don't want to say you know like suggest anything right all right how about the little tiny guy uh from bad santa was it micky

oh yeah he was Mickey was Mickey was in there all the time I loved Mickey was Mickey was Mickey was Mickey and Kramer's comedy chops are like top notch I love those two together so let's you know what I'm just going to throw it out there and say Mickey I don't know what else to say show me Mickey 13 yeah shoot close

so number number eight here Cidra it was not Cidra did get one

vote and somebody just put the real on their spectacular by the way legend

is that Terry Hatcher improv the second part of that line that she was just

she was just supposed to say they're by the way they're real and then leave

but she did a version where she said They're real and they're spectacular and that was the studio audience loved it and Props to her. That stuck. That's like, it is.

It's like one of the greatest improv lines in history, right? Yeah, it's like when Harrison Ford did the I know instead of I love you back or whatever he did. Right. Yeah, love that. Yeah, it's another great one. All right. So here's what's great about this one. We have all these characters who've appeared in so many episodes.

Here's a character that never appeared in a single episode. What? Your number eight. Is it, is it, is it? It is, Bob Sacramento.

One of the first people that you guys mentioned, but nobody, you never used it. Oh, that is great. I am so sorry. He's Seinfelds,

he's Seinfelds Vera like they have on Cheers. It's that idea. Yeah, yeah. I was watched that last night, too, the Thanksgiving special.

That was good. Oh, where she gets the pumpkin pie in the face or something. Yeah, yeah. Dang it. All right. Is Kruger in the

list somewhere. Please give me some Kruger, love. So here's, here's, let's see, you got 11, 12, 13, 14 was Mickey. 15 was the brawless Suellen Mischke. 16 was the Drake. 17 was Bubble boy. I forgot about the Drake. I love the Drake.

Bubble boy. The card says moops. Number 17. 18 was Franklin Delano Romano Romanoowski. Yeah, I remember him. 19, Jackie Childs. 20, somebody, two people said Larry David. So I, yeah. He was in, you done a lot of little things. He was a character, but he was a...

He was a actor. Many characters, yeah. And then we get into all the singles. Detective Bookman, Estelle Custanza. Frogger was listed as a... Nice. By the way, we had about five people who said, Seinfeld is funny. Signfield is terrible. Seinfeld should be wiped... Oh, my gosh.

I don't want to know who those people are, and I never want to be around them. Exactly. So don't tell it. Don't... If you see us at Team S. Vegas, don't introduce yourself as I was one. of the people who hate Seinfeld. Yeah. Right. I love when people would do that. Are you having fun?

Here, let me shit on it. Save it for someone who cares. Somebody did say James Cartwright Hong, so that's good. That's good. Got right. Chinese restaurant host, it wasn't in there. Joe DeVola, you ought to avoid Kessler. Kruger did get one.

There you go. All right. Phoebe. And it's funny because she showed up, yeah. She showed up in an episode. Or was it Ursula? No, it was Phoebe. It's Phoebe.

Poppy. But she was playing the Ursula character, though. right. I don't think she was playing I don't think it was a crossover with a character though. I think it was just Lisa Kudrow and not as a as a mad about you had a a connection I think

but not mad about you had right had the right well mad about you had Ursula right right but let's see Ruthie who cut out TDS sorry Roofie

Roofie Ced yes Ruthie Cohen Sally Weaver Cedra they're real and they're spectacular. Somebody just put the Jewish guy. The Jewish guy. I think they mean Wadley. I have no idea. I think they mean Wadley.

Oh, they mean the Moyle. Because that whole Moyle episode. That would be the Moyle. There's a lot of Jewish people in that show. And finally, somebody said, the Wizz, as in nobody beats the WIS, but that was just a Jerry thing. It was. Oh, no, I take that back. No, they met the, like, Lane was dating the guy.

Well, he's the. whiz. Nobody beats the whiz. Oh, yeah. I also like the priest in the car when Puddy comes out wearing all the New Jersey Devils make up and goes, where the devils! The Devils! And the guy goes,

Ir Diablo! And it's like, goes, Dixie's seen the devil. It's so good. That's right. Anyway, so there you go. There's your Seinfeld deal there with the stuff and congratulations to Scott, which is good for Scott, but bad. for Winmegas.

Yeah, but you know what? Windmagus, you are here on one of my favorite episodes of this contest, so that must feel like a bit of a win. No worries. Like I said, Scott had the thing. Besides, I still got stuff to look forward to. I'm going to Transylvarian Orchestra tonight. Oh, nice. That's great. I went last year

and I enjoyed the concert. Yeah, they really do. Do they do any sabotage music? Sabotage, like from Beastie Boys? Sabotage. So there's a heavy metal band called Savatage. John and Chris Oliver brothers that formed it.

And that's what they do the rest of the year, right? That's what they do the rest of the year. When they're not sabotage, they are the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. That's probably good because otherwise you're too associated with the Christmas thing. Yeah, plus who wants to go see you in February? Yeah. Well, like I said, though, who's heard of sabotage? Everybody's heard of Trans-German.

That's a good point. They're a baby Christmas-related. Yeah, that's a really good point. Well, I hope their power doesn't go out. As part of their stage show, they aren't getting fiber lines behind their house. Oh, okay, God. Sorry, what are you going to say, Brian? So when Transn-Siberian Orchestra performs on stage, do they have the front of somebody's house,

and then they just play all their music synchronized to the Christmas lights? I believe last year they did have, like, a front of a house motif for one of their songs, but not like all of it. That's great. Yeah, but not like the Christmas light flickering. They do a lot of weird stuff. They had somebody in a, like, a blowout. snow glow

thing last year somebody dancing in that one of their songs great until they suffocated but the first three minutes of that song were great yeah I mean three people died of air asphyxiation and one guy got hit by a shark

so you got to watch out you got to watch out then they switch doing covers of air supply which they had very little of well nicely done it's always good to have you here man I'm glad you were able to play with us even though you walk away empty-handed, but it was a lot of fun having you. Hey, Brian Dunaway, don't you forget that this Friday at 1.30, you and I, we sit down and we play video games. What are we doing this week?

This week, we're looking at the Nintendo's other half, Sega, Nintendo, don't. What they don't do is play some Vector Man. Yeah, we're going to play, that's one way of saying it, for sure, but we are going to be playing Vector Man. The Vector Man series was Sega's answer to what Nintendo was trying to do it. Donkey Kong. Yeah, so we did these back-to-back for a reason. And the contrast will be obvious when you tune in. So do check it out and find out why Brian... I'll tell you what, what I've learned so far about Vector Man?

Yeah. He's hateful. Yeah, he's not a happy guy. That Wally staying behind, cleaning up the world, he's just hateful. It pissed him off. With his level design and timer. Yeah.

He was still a raster game, though, oddly, right? It wasn't a vector game. was a raster game but and wasn't he he was just missing parts yeah he was he floated around yeah like he was pre-rendered yeah he was pre-rendered 3d floaty sprites and he faced us up against raster oh we're getting into the puns this time yeah yes we are this game this game is pretty meta but we're we'll talk about it too much away for uh just know that the game had a timer and that's enough for me to be pissed at it but we'll get into that also because i hate timers in games. Unless you're Mario, I think

that's a fair timer. But it's a fair timer. Most of the time, I hate timers and games. It doesn't matter what they are. Anyway, that'll be Friday. 1.30 Mountain Time. Check it out at frogpans.com slash play retro. Brian, kiss our butts. No, you. You got a long one in there. All right.

Brian, we're going to take a break when we can back. Tom Merritt will be with us. We'll then have recamentals after that. Before that, a song, if you will, if you please. I please, and I really like this. We're just going to get into some blues here. This is a group called Rebecca Havilland and Whiskey Hearts, or Whiskey Heart, I guess is the name of her backup band. Just straight up bluesy rock and roll.

Really, really dig this. This is a brand new EP called Late Nights. And the first single from this album, or EP, is called Sins. And it's really, really good. I guess they are from, this is a New York City inspired sound, a very gritty. Oh, yeah, this is like inspired by that feeling that you and I have never experienced Scott. but being out in New York after all the bars closed and trying to find something to eat, get some pizza or something. Sure.

We're old. Anyway, here's Rebecca Havelin and Whiskey Heart and Sins. I've been a gambler all my life. Don't know when to light in him. Pleasure and pain and sweet. embrace don't fool me once again off in the fire and I got burned flames up the back of my spine arch my back and I'm gonna do it again because the devil's gone Keep me satisfied

I breathe in heavy in my chest Swallow it down Tastes so good on my list Have my fill Till there rain Nothing left Don't want nobody

I can't be checked to feel wrong from a ride I keep on coming back now baby just a note as you let me in sometimes the sinning is so worth the same I breathe it in heavy in my chest

swallow it down tastes so good on my I might fail till there ain't nothing less I forgot what it's like today I forgot what it's light to live For the first time For the first time I breathe it in heavy in my chest, swallow it down, tastes so good on my lips I might feel till there ain't nothing left.

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Write it down and check it out, y'all. Do not forget. All right. We're going to call our good pal, Tom Merritt. Yay. Yep, he's going to join us. It's going to be great. Very much looking forward to this.

Let's play a little thing for him. hell is it i've moved all this around why did i do that here we go we want tom we do want tom he is here uh he's great tom merritt welcome back to the show oh look he's got we got some camera adjustment going on i always enjoy that there we is a wall of hats next to him i don't think i've ever seen the wall of hats uh well now you have congratulations yeah look at that is that a lot of st louis cardinals or what do we got over there oh no it's everything it's all all my hats in a hat rack change you have a lot of hats including the top hat

oh look he's got a top hat on top on top on top very perfectly that's ridiculous have you wear that on camera ever I'd love to see that once in a while I've done it a couple of times yeah not often special occasions

so usually around the holidays yeah yeah who nobody wants to overuse the top hat I can tell you that for sure nobody expects you to overuse the top hat that's indeed true well Tom it's good to be here I feel like we've missed you

even though we had you last week but for some reason in my head it's been three weeks since we've had you yeah no no I appreciate that it's nice to be missed it is nice to be missed but you're here now so now you have some pressure to tell us cool things about technology so what did you bring

today? Sorry it's neither cool nor really about technology exactly but it's about streaming television did you hear that Comcast is going to spin out all of its cable networks yes I did but I don't know much on the details other than it doesn't include like like you said it's cable it's not it doesn't

include mbc or some of the proper no no it's uh it's one of those things that i feel uniquely positioned to explain it uh and it may not be the most important thing in your life today but you know it's going to come up and uh maybe this will help you understand it and explain it to other people as well uh what comcast is doing is creating a separate company that it will still have a big stake it right so it's it's spinning it out to kind of shield the rest of Comcast from what it does companies do this a lot when they've got something that they need to gamble with a little more they're like well it might go down so we want to protect ourselves from it just going belly up but you know we want to be able to take risks because you know maybe we can save it but if

it's in the rest of the corporate enterprise then you know that's going to be seen as too risky and people don't want to do that. So you remember Viacom split into Paramount and, well, I think it was actually called Viacom. Viacom split into two companies, one that was Viacom and one that was CBS. Do you remember that, like, 20 years ago? Yeah. And that was done specifically for that reason, is like they wanted to shield parts of the business from other parts of the business so that they could be taking risks in their various areas.

And it worked. Those two companies thrived. they went out and acquired things like seen it in cbs's case uh and eventually were merged back together uh and became paramount that's the company that's called paramount today that company is by the way merging the skydance which is kind of irrelevant to my story but you when you spin a company out like this uh you may eventually merge it back in if it does well uh the other side of it is direct TV. AT&T spun direct TV out as its own

separate company, but AT&T was still a majority owner for it. That has not gone as well, but it has shielded AT&T from the negative effects and now AT&T is selling off its stake in direct TV and you know, God be with you, direct TV, we don't want to be

a part, but our shareholders are shielded. So that's essentially what it looks like to me Comcast is doing here. They're taking cable channels which are doing nothing but decline. but still make a lot of money and saying, you know what, let's move those out,

shield the rest of the Comcast shareholders from those. Those shareholders will get a stake in that too, risk-free, basically. But CNBC, E, Golf Channel, MSNBC, Oxygen, Sci-Fi, USA Network, Golf Now, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, and Sports Engine, also, so some digital properties too.

Half of those were channels. Yeah. Yeah, those aren't channels. Those are websites. Yeah. Those are digital streaming platforms. So those are all risky bets in Comcast's opinion. At least that's what it looks like to me. And they're saying, Mark Lazarus, you go and run those. And best of luck to you, see what you can make happen. Meanwhile, it won't impact the bottom line of Comcast. We're keeping NBC. We're keeping Peacock. They're keeping Bravo, interestingly. Because Bravo makes a lot of very cheap, high revenue reality. programming. And they're going to feed that into Peacock, I expect. So they're like, yeah, Bravo's worth keeping. We're going to keep that little content factory under here. But everything else looks like it eventually might go away. So we're going to push that out. What will be

interesting is the licensing deals here. So there was a meeting today, apparently, with the MSNBC folks. And they said, yeah, I don't know if we're going to need to change our name. I don't think they'll have to because these are all NBC people running. the, it's called Spinco right now. That won't be its name. They just don't have a name for it yet. But it's all NBC people running Spinco. So they may very well continue to use the NBC name, continue to use the NBC logos. You as a user, unless you're following this stuff, may not notice any difference. On the other hand, they may decide, they won't have to, but they may decide amongst themselves, you know what, let's let's change it up. Let's rebrand. Let's separate ourselves from that. Let's distance it. also a lot of this programming is going to go right to peacock still so there's going to be licensing in the other direction too where programming that is generated within here might end up on peacock

although i suspect most of the production is remaining in comcast remaining in mbc universal so the the production will be sold to these cable networks but also used on peacock because it's created there all right so we got two questions one is a very short simple one does a guy like Lazarus have to always feel like he needs to bring companies back to life. And number two. I mean, it's a pretty good name for that, right? It's pretty good, yeah. He's got his own pit and everything. The other thing

I was going to say is, does this affect the Xfinity portion slash internet service end of this at all? Is there any, is this connected to that at all? No. It will only affect it in so much as Comcast won't have to worry about whether losing money on cable

networks depletes resources that could go into its Xfinite stuff. So it lessens the burden on Comcast as a whole. But yeah, the ISP, all of that, that is separate. And it will actually make the negotiations interesting. These are fraternal organizations, obviously, but they will now be separate organizations. So Comcast might go in and say, we're going to play a little harder ball on the carriage fees, whereas, you know, up until now, if it was an NBC network, it was like in-house. So you never saw a fight between Comcast and NBC over its networks because they were all the same company.

So from a regulatory standpoint, you mentioned already this is like protect its subsidiaries by separating them, it protects shareholders because then this branch can take a risk that doesn't have to affect everybody. And that all makes sense to me. when you get new administrations and possibly new federal regulation or dropping of regulations or whatever, does that have any impact here at all on the decision to do it now? Or is that completely unrelated if you had to guess? That's an interesting question. I don't get the sense that there's anything related to that in this. I haven't seen anything to indicate that.

This is merely, you know, I've been banging this drum on chord killers and elsewhere. We are in the consolidation phase. We are in the phase where everybody's like, okay, we've tried starting things. Let's find out what works and let's keep what works and get rid of what doesn't. This is Comcast getting rid of what doesn't. It's keeping Peacock. It sees the future as being streaming. It's keeping production.

It's keeping the movie studio. It's keeping theme parks. But it's not keeping cable television networks. And it's not keeping some of these digital websites, Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. Interesting. Well, we'll see how it plays out. The nice thing, like even if you want to know how, do you want to know how I think it'll play out? Absolutely. Please. I think, because the other part that I didn't mention is they've talked a lot about like this new Spinco will be able to go acquire its own properties. I think they're going to milk these cable channels for the money they're bringing in now, which is in the billions. I think it's around $7 billion in revenue that this group of channels brought in last year. And they're going to try to try to acquire to. acquire things. Maybe pick up other cable networks. They've already talked about picking up local channels and create synergies so that as these networks start to fail, they can merge them. They can

consolidate. They can continue to get money out of the ones that continue to survive. And I expect them because they have these digital properties to also acquire websites, to also acquire digital properties and digital channels, maybe even some YouTube channels, to sort of build up a foundation that when the cable that works finally in 10, 15 years are just no longer generating any money, they've developed these other websites that can provide money. And at that point, it either stands on its own as a company or maybe Comcast brings it back in. A little future proofing going on there. I like that. That's my guess. This is just all my theory. That's not what they've said they're going to do it's just my guess the nice thing too is like even though paramount

did their big split uh that you mentioned earlier paramount plus still is the place where all their licensed properties get to go and be streamed even though they're spun out things well before paramount plus was even a thing like they they merged back together and and when they merged back together is when they renamed uh what was it cbs all access oh all access yeah is that right brian i think that When they merged them back together is when they renamed it Paramount. That's right. It was Star Trek you had to get there and you had to get all access. CBS?

CBS All Access. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I remember that being hard then. And now, for some reason, Paramount Plus is like a no-brainer. I don't understand why it's so different. I think they just got better at it. Yeah, they added more content. They added all the Viacom content once the merger happened.

You got Nickelodeon and MTV stuff. And they just got better at running the app. Yeah, because CBS All Access was a little weird in the early days. I remember that, too. It was very weird. Well, what isn't weird is that we'll be talking about this and many other stories today on the Daily Tech News show. I'll be there as well. I'm pretty excited because for some of the folks that support the show over there, after all of this, we're going to record an episode.

Myself and Sarah and Roger are going to sit down and do a live with it episode about the iPad M4. And I've had it long enough now to make some, give it some grades in various ways. How is it as an art tool? How is it as a replacement for a laptop? like lots of questions like that, we'll answer those. So if you're a supporter over there, you're going to get that as well. Tom, anything else going on either there or anywhere that you'd like to mention before we go? Yeah, we did another experiment.

We did one back in October, and we did one Tuesday, where we did Daily Tech News Show a little differently, and we did Good Day Internet, our live stream a little differently. And so if you didn't already listen to those, I know a lot of you probably did, but go check them out. Daily Tech News show was more analysis focused, more like, here's the news, here's what it means. And I got Huen Tway Dow from Android Faithful to join me to co-host that. I interviewed Andrew Heaton about the AI generated musical he made. So that's yesterday's Daily Tech News show.

And then on GDI, it was me, Sarah, Roger, and Rob Dunwood just chatting more informally about stories we thought were interesting that day. And we brought Brett Rounceville on to talk about holiday shopping. So you can find Daily Tech News Show in the Daily Tech News Show feed wherever fine podcasts are sold. And Good Day Internet is available to patrons or you can find it at YouTube.com slash Daily Tech News Show. Excellent. Tom Merritt, everybody. He is Aceda Tech on all the cool social channels that aren't Twitter anymore. He's still there, too. But go check it out.

We'll see you a little bit later. Bye, Tom. Thanks, Tom. Bye. Bye. Okay. We did it. We done did it, Brian.

We should probably do recommendals, though. That's kind of the rule. Sure. It is the rule. It is, you know, what we're supposed to do. Yep. You got to get Nicole in and Randy. It's good to say it, so I remember where they are.

Here we go. Okay. They're heading in. We're going to have some fun. So sit back and relax. Well, what do you recommend? Ah, yes, time for recommendals. Time for us to talk about things we've seen on streaming services that we think you might

enjoy as well. We have on the phone with us, Mr. Randy Jordan. Hello, Randy. good morning morning stream it's wonderful isn't it sure is isn't it isn't it just all wonderful well what is the it depends on the it you're referring to but i agree in principle yeah i'm referring to it can't you see me gesturing at it uh the book it by stephen king still wonderful check it out after all these years thick and rich in its content and quality thick it's thick

apparently indeed it is also a lot of people like it that way i'm a little thick as well hey guess who else is here. It's Nicole Spagg. Hi, Nicole. Hi, am I a chore to you? Not at all. You're never a chore of us. I just heard both of you of like, I guess we're going to do a recommendal. No, no, no, no. You are as far from being a chore as

there is possibly to be. I don't know. I feel like a chore lately. You're not a chore at all. In fact, not even a little. Yeah, in fact, just the revelation that when you guys go to a Barnes & Noble that either you or Mark or both of you have to poo when you get there has been really wonderful to learn. I love that. So thanks for that.

but it was not just my mobile at Target I'm not the only one yeah there's something here's the thing

we talked about it it's a thing it's got a word you're walking you're walking you're walking like it's it's a thing and this and it's relaxing

sure and then it just happens yeah I had gone for days without thinking about that days it's got a it's got a name

where is the Japanese name we don't have to get into it too much because we've already done this so basically you need to switch to and target pickup, curbside pickups,

so you don't have to do target drop-off. I do. There are certain stores. I'm like, I'm just going to do pickup on the curbside. There you go. This has a word, but I can't find it. Anyway, we talked about it on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's all right. Thanks, Mark. I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks, thanks, Mark. Marriages. All right, we're going to get into it. Talk about stuff we've seen. Let's start with Brian.

He is our first clip. Brian, set this up, and we'll play it. Yeah, this is a brand new. This is a movie that got released to theaters earlier this year, January, but finally made it to streaming just a few months ago. No, last, yeah, two months ago, September. And Tina, we're really excited to see it because we'd seen trailers for it, and it looked like it was right up our alley.

I'm happy to say it lived up to its expectations, and it's a movie. Here we go. Who the fuck are you? Where did you come from? You tell me, you're the one that took a bunch of mushrooms and summoned me here. Do you work for my dad? Elliot, come on. Dude, I'm you.

Well, I'm 39-year-old you. What? What's up? What the, what are you talking about? You're me. Fuck off. What? You f*** off.

Your teeth. Those aren't my teeth. What about my teeth? What? There's a fucking gap in your teeth. I don't have a gap in my teeth. Yeah, dude. Fuck you. Where are your retainer?

In your hair. It's so dry and it's dark. Take it easy. You've bangs. I don't have. I have bangs. I have no plan on getting bang. Take it easy, bitch.

First of all. And your boobs are saggy. My boobs aren't saggy. You can't even see my boobs. I don't see it. Oh my god. I forgot off the fucking dense I was. Let me show you something.

Um, this. Right? Nine years old, falling off that tractor onto the broken fence. Hurt like hell. Left boob. One cup smaller than the right. And no, it never catches up to the right, but honestly, you get used to it and it's okay.

Guys can't really tell. Girls can. but okay more um okay tada it's our missing pinky toe oh remember from the tequila accident at ruthie's second wedding oh fuck that has not happened yet shit i shouldn't have said that um that sounds like obri plaza one two you did some real yeoman's work on the f bomb coverage nice job like editing scarface there for uh for a little while yeah that is 100% Aubrey plaza and it's a brand new comedy science fiction comedy drama called my old ass and uh the the namesake my old ass being

aubri plaza who uh goes back well really uh um her younger version her like uh 19 year old version 18 19 year old version summons her um to to kind of appear while she's on mushrooms and uh and give her some life advice Now, this is directed by Megan Park, who did, who starred in The Secret Life of the American Teenager, but she also did a film in 2021 called The Fallout, not to be confused with Fallout, but The Fallout, which was lauded by critics and Cannes Film Festival and all that stuff. Oh, she's in a ton of these Hallmark Christmas movies. She has done three Hallmark, yes. And it's really funny, like, she just seems to fit this, the hallmark type perfectly. Wow.

That's great. Yeah, let's see, you hear Maisie Stella as the younger version of Aubrey Plaza there interacting with Aubrey. This thing was also produced by Margot Robin. It's got that kind of, would pass the Bechdel test 100% this film, kind of feel to it. It also stars Maddie Ziegler And if that name sounds familiar She's the little girl who dances And all the Sia videos

Oh what? No way And I think her In her actual acting debut If you don't count those Sia videos Oh yeah Look at her that's familiar. Her face is now familiar Yeah

Yep totally This is a really cute film And you know science fiction in the aspect That You've got this kind of not Freaky Friday, but you know, this kind of this element where it's not, it's important to the plot, but also the how and the why of it is not important to the plot. The important part is that, is that the old version of Estelle is visiting her and giving her life advice and, uh, and kind of hinting at what the future may bring, but not doing it in a way that makes her change what she does, um, to get. there. The Ziegler girl was also in that Fallout thing you were talking about. The fallout. Oh,

was she really? Okay. So she's, she's worked with Megan Park before. Megan Park has also directed some music videos. So there might be that. Oh, yeah. I can see those in here. Oh, and West Side Story. She was Vellma in that. That's kind of cool. Oh, was she really? Oh, I saw that. That must. She was also in that Sia

music movie. That There's a movie about Sia? No, it's not a movie about Sia. It's a movie that features her music. and an autistic girl. It's called music and it's about the autistic girl and the actress isn't autistic and that's right.

And that got slammed because of that. Yeah. Yeah. What do you call it? Yeah. What's her name? Kate Hudson's in it. That's what I'm thinking of.

Kate Hudson's in it. Yeah. That's a bummer. I haven't seen it. But yeah. Well, 3.2 out of 10 sounds like a winner. Let's get in there. And the 3.2, to be clear, for listeners, is referring to music.

This one actually has a very high Rotten Tomatoes, both ratings, 989% on Rotten Tomatoes. For a change, one of my recommendations, it doesn't have a high score for one and a low score for the other. Yeah, you really got to, everyone wins on this one this week. Exactly. Exactly. This is streaming right now on Amazon Prime, and this is, you know, this is a very cute film that goes, places you wouldn't expect it to go for something like this. And I don't mean it gets really dark and scary, but it doesn't follow the formula of these supernatural event either makes two

people switch bodies or give somebody a glimpse of the future or whatever and just gets her to the right place. This one goes different places and it's really, really good. Again, it's called my old ass. Yeah, go ahead, Randy. I have been watching, re-watching Parks and Recreation from the beginning to the end. We're in the extra garbage season when it becomes self-aware. And it is just unbelievable to me that today in 2024, Aubrey Plaza is in her 40s. Because I just went through a few weeks ago. I went through trying to make my child understand that she was the avatar of the millennial.

Like for so many people. was she was it and millennials are in their 40s now and that's just weird. It is a little weird. She's so great though. Freaking can do nothing bad. Everything's good. She is. And for those of you who are surprised, I have not

recommended Agatha all along. I recommend it, but it's so, it's, you're going to cancel it. They can't, they stopped it, right? It was a limited series. They completed it. Part three is going to be called Vision,

quest. So it was never, it was never intended to be a multi-season. No, and it's, and it's being, it's being, um, enjoyed as one of the best, certainly one of the best recent Marvel Disney Plus series. Um, and, uh, uh, kind of a re, a re, a re-centering and a, and a back to what made those series good after, after She-Hulk struggled a little bit and certainly Secret Invasion struggled a lot. Yeah.

I do like the idea that the vision, the Wanda vision thing, is this three-part limited almost anthology in a weird way? Like all three of those like that is a cool way of doing it. I kind of hope they do that with more stuff instead of just trying to decide whether it's a series or a one-off. For sure. You know,

do it in chunks like this. I like that a lot. It's really, it's, that's, that's the way they should be thinking about these things. Kind of like comic books, right?

Where, you know, you've got a series and then that character moves over to this other thing and becomes a new series and then, you know, comes back over to this other thing. and become something different. It's my favorite picture of her, by the way.

I love this picture. That's a great, that's a great Aubrey Plaza. Here, you guys, I'll throw that for Randy and Nicole to see them in the Discord. But she's just a hoot. You know, that's what she is, a hoot. She was great in that second season of White Lotus, if you haven't seen that one. And I think she was great as the Shadow King in Legion, her first Marvel character that she played. yeah she's great um so anyway there you go uh the movie is called my old ass it's on uh amazon prime and it's

absolutely worth your time great episode of the simpson she was in recently called uh or she played a character called amber it was 22 but she really elevated the material it was good oh i get it i'm so i'm behind on on simpson so that's something i need to catch up on really good recent seasons they've been kind of killing it uh all right let's get over here to Nicole Spagnolo. She's got a clip as well. Clip that you can set up for us now. Tell us what this is. You picked the clip.

That's true. I did. So, well, I can tell you that the clip is actually far from my memory. I don't remember what I clipped, but I know it was good. I'll set it up as this is a show that makes me think of when the

Goldberg's first came out. And I know there's a reason for that. But hopefully by recommending it with only two episodes out, you'll go and watch it so it doesn't get canceled because it's a really, I'm having a lot of fun with the show, even though I've only watched two episodes. It looks. It's a thing of its kind and I love this kind of comedy. So I'm so excited. I didn't even know it existed until you told us you were doing it. So this is good. We're going to inform the masses here. People magazine. I was like, oh, I didn't see that. Yeah. Love the cast too. Advertiting works. All right. Here's your, here's a clip and we'll talk on the other side.

A couple weeks ago, I got a promotion. Came with a small pay bump and a large responsibility bump. And Mr. Lasky wants morphine, oxy, and Vicodin. He asked, if we had a menu, and I said, I didn't think so. That's a party. Let's get out there and heal some people. Zapp, no more cirrhosis. Zap, no more cancer.

Wait, I have cancer? No, we're just kidding, man. You good. David Allen Greer rearing his head after what feels like an age. I've never, I haven't seen him in a long time, but. I was trying to remember like when, didn't, he did in living color, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

And, uh, Boomerang. Was he in Boomerang? Oh, I know. That was 30 years ago, though. Yeah, it was a long time ago. That's my time frame for him. So now he's bald with a really gray beard and he's, you know, he's a much older man. Um, but he plays a great doctor.

So. He was in, he was in one of the movies this year that was pants so hard the American Society of Magical Negroes and like these movies get advertised and then suddenly they watch them and it's just so

sad when they're bad. Yeah, it's funny though we think of not being able to see him for a long time I'm looking at his IMDB the guy's never stopped working he's in a million things. It's just that it's stuff who either haven't thought about like Central Park animation stuff Bob's burgers a couple of times but then a bunch of TV shows movies one-off

a couple episodes in a show that's already a staff He's busy. They get canceled. Like he was in a show a couple years ago called Dad Stop Embarrassing Me and they made a few episodes and it stopped. Yeah. There's a bunch of these. All right.

So if you're wondering what we're talking about, this is called St. Dennis. Good point. It's shit out of luck.com. It's on Peacock. Is it on prime time though? Have they aired it? Yes. You see it on terrestrial as well.

Yep. Yeah. I don't do that. So I'm like, You know, they have certain shows. They do. Yes, that is streaming only, yes. Yeah, especially, and it's really confusing when it's on Peacock and Paramount Plus,

because I'm like, I don't want to say a real show, but I'm like, is this like where anyone over the air can watch? So I'm glad to hear that this is on over-the-air TV, not just streaming on Peacock. But, yeah, so the first two episodes are out there. it stars the mom from the Goldbergs. Did the Goldbergs get canceled? It just ended. Yeah.

I don't think it. They actually finished it with the finale season and stuff. They didn't get canceled early. Those should have ended a long time ago. They ran whatever their full intent was to run. I've never seen the Goldbergs. Are we talking about Wendy McClendon? Yes.

You know I talk about Wendy McClendon? Oh my gosh. This show, I've watched both of these episodes. This show is such a. downstream result of Reno 911. It's like, and Reno 911, of course, like, had a lot in common with the office. So there's like a lot of all of those connective tissues. Sure.

But she feels like she is the character from Reno 911 who got a different job. Well, let me ask you this, Nicole. Is her role in this a hospital administrator? Because I haven't seen this, but I have to imagine that's who we've got here. He totally is. That's funny. She's perfect for it. That is like right in her wheelhouse.

Yeah. That's great. And she's not just an administrator. She's a dumb, like, procurement person. That's what you want. That's what you want. She's like procuring things for this hospital. And she's kind of dumb. I'm a massive fan of Allison Tolman. And she, I know she's in this, but she was my favorite thing about that first season of Fargo. So good. Oh, my gosh. There's a lot of actors other than Wendy and David Allen Greer. I don't recognize any of these actors. they had on the in the first episode there's a cameo from oh what is she from randy was she uh was she in the woman that they ends up getting admitted to the hospital she's trying to get in so it's a classic scenario i've actually been to the er just recently where you go to check in and they're like you're like oh i don't feel well and this woman's saying you know i i need to get in and the woman's saying you have to wait and she's like I can't wait and she's like

there's a whole she's like if you were had a serious serious then we would get you in so it was that whole kind of run around and the actress that played her I recognized her and I can't remember I think it's Mindy Sterling is who you're talking about

I think she's the one with you know her from well she was in the Goldbergs also office Austin Powers Austin Powers that's right I'm thinking the the bowling movie with Woody Harrelson.

She was the landlord. Oh, was she a Kingpin? Kingpin. Let's see. No, that was a different. I think that was a different woman, was it? The one who's in the rearview, Mary, going, she's old. She's a lot older, that woman. That was a woman from there's something about Mary, too, if I'm thinking of the same.

I don't see it in the 90s. She's not in here. I don't think she was in that. She kind of looked like her. But anyway, I'll do. I just say it's a good show. There's only two episodes out. They hit good. You know, sometimes the show needs time to build up, but this is, it feels like one of those shows that's going to be around for a while. Medical dramas always seem to catch on, but I think medical comedies, what was our last one? Scrubs. Probably Scrubs. It's a dominant one. What else? Last big one anyway, yeah. Yeah, there really isn't. I mean, I remember the original ER, which wasn't ER, but it was called ER. And that was a comedy. And also, ironically, had Clooney in it.

George Clooney. Yeah. Wasn't this thing elsewhere? That was kind of, because I had Howie Mandel. That was more like quirky drama. Yeah. Yeah. Kind of like you're very subdued.

It wasn't as full on, uh, full on self. People are weird. And I apologize. Did you already bring up Superstore that this thing? Yes. These all have, this is like the office universe, you know? Yeah. Like these kinds of shows.

Abbey element. There's no laugh track. Very important thing to say. There's no laugh track on this thing. Thank you. Yeah. You're welcome. The characters are so well developed from the start.

Like they have all the archetypes, you know, like the incredibly proud surgeon who thinks he can do anything. Well, he's a hero, right? Yeah. The brand new nurse who just arrived that day and really does not have any business being a nurse. like they're he's way way understudied um like there's just all of these all of these different characters like um the wise cracking uh Asian nurse the you know the main character is super driven like like a workaholic nurse and this kind of thing it's just it's perfect I love it yeah I'm all in on this I just didn't know about it they did a bad job marketing it I didn't

even heard of it do you watch TV not regular TV no but I know I know a lot of, about a lot of shows on a lot of services. I mean, I have Peacock. I go to Peacock. I watch peacock things. They've never put this in front of me and said, hey, watch this. So I don't know why. I've said the last two months saying out loud, St. Dennis better be good because I advertised it so much. Yeah. And I think it's pretty good. Yeah. When we stream Abbott Elementary, we usually get a thing saying, hey, don't forget to check out St. Dennis. You know what my problem is? I watch a lettuce on my desktop. and I think it blocks some of the promo stuff. Oh, probably.

I should stop doing that. I honestly think it's probably all the film sack movies has ruined all of your algorithm. That's true. Although, I was smart enough on Peacock to do a separate login for that. I was not smart about Netflix that way, but, yeah. Right, right. Brian's always been, you've been the big proponent of making sure we do this on film sack. Yes.

It's like, because one of us will complain and go, yeah, it's all crap. And Brian will go, well, then make your login. And we're like, oh, but that sounds like work. It's so easy, though, when you first log in to watch something dumb for Filmsack to say, I have a person in my household called Filmsack. And when they watch stuff, it's crap. And they get more crap recommended to them. Yeah.

But, no, the reason I brought up Superstore saying it was because it's also Justin Spitzer. Oh, right. Yeah. It's a paste exactly like Superstore. Yeah. It even features a couple of, like, the Hawaiian woman from Super. store is also in this. Oh, yeah, she is.

Oh, so there's three people I recognize. So for the latter, the latter half of seasons of the office, he was an executive producer. So the lineage is really the office. I didn't realize he was involved in that. That's great. And it's wild when you start going to like shows that have connections to the office, you know, like even beyond the obvious, you know, parks and rec and community and Brooklyn 9-9, and like you just start going down, there's a list of like 75 shows now.

oh man he did a show called american auto this this looks funny that ran for three years did it run for three years really yeah it was not i watched that yeah you didn't like it it wasn't enough to keep me coming back but it was it had it some moments he's got this template though doesn't he where it's like yeah yeah that rich hall was on that oh my gosh throw a throwback uh all right well that sounds sounds awesome i want to see it i'm in i'm going to watch this this sounds great. Kim would love this too. I sure it'll be as I recommended it.

That cocky surgeon you brought up, by the way, Josh Lawson was Cano in Mortal Kombat in 2021. Oh, the new one. I was thinking, the new one, not the old one.

That's great. Yeah, the new one. Yeah. Let's see. I want to see his face now. It's going to annoy me. Oh my gosh.

That's totally him. Is he British in this? Or did he just fake that accent in Mortal Kombat? Because he may have faked it. Yeah, he's not a British. in this. Okay.

Oh, yeah. He was born in Australia. Of course, he can do anything. That's what they do down there. All right. Awesome. Check it out.

Again, that is St. Dennis Medical, I think is the full title, right? St. Dennis Medical. It says that there's 18 episodes.

Right. Maybe that's planned. They apparently completed the whole thing. Yeah. So we're getting them, whether they get canceled or not, we're getting 18. Oh,

that's great. Okay. Yeah. We're definitely watching this. We're, you know, excited about the the pedigree and looking forward to check it's fun yeah i always love seeing uh what's her beak in here alison tomlin all right uh i am going to now uh turn it over to randy

randy what do you got here for us i got a movie that uh i i know you've been wanting to see and it's now streaming so you can it is not what you think it is and what you're about to hear is a woman in her 80s sitting on a couch with her grandson who's in his early 20s and they're watching a Tom Cruise movie. Oh, my gosh. That's crazy. All right. Here we go. Pretty fast. Very fast. You thought of stumbane?

No, that's the whole thing. He does it all himself. Wow. That's Cruz. Terrific. You got big plans tonight? Yeah. Just dinging around. You spoke to Allie? We're still on a break. I'm just, you know, trying to give her a little.

space and I'm just not really sure what my selling points are at the moment. Well, you're a wonderful grandson. You know computers. You have your hair. I think it's going to start to go early. Well, you can't get hung up on that. Yeah. We're just in different places as people, you know.

She thinks I'm stuck. You're too young to be stuck. I don't feel young. Well, I don't feel old. I love this already. it is so the clip you just heard this is endemic of the movie what you saw as a commercial six months ago or whatever did not lead you to what this movie actually is i i don't understand how trailers can get it so wrong this is this is a movie that is very very based in reality okay okay this is thelma

Thelma is about an elderly woman who lives by herself and is getting near the point where she can't really take care of herself that well anymore. She has a scammer enter her life with a scam phone call. She falls for it. And then all hell breaks loose because she decides she's going to go get her money back. When I say all hell breaks loose, this is not an action movie. This is not an elderly person doing anything that an elderly person can't do. And that is where it's so different than the trailer. And this movie is about knowing your limits.

And it's about meeting those limits and about not surpassing them. It was it, it bored my 14 year old to tears, although he stuck with it. He watched the whole thing multiple times. He kind of looked at me like, do I have to? And I'm like, I don't know, I don't know where this is going. This could be really good. for him it was about old people things

and that wasn't very interesting but the movie is about old people things it's Thelma the movie is Thelma I love June Squib June Squib could make I would eat any sandwich she makes for me like whatever she's fantastic her in here in Nebraska like a

career making role for June Squint she was so good Clark Greg's in this most importantly her partner in crime so to speak is Shaft Richard Roundtree And this is the last thing he did before he died last year. He is awesome in this movie because, again, he's an elderly person with limits, with a ton of limits. And he's barely getting by.

And he's not a, you know, superhero like Shaft. June Squib's adult children are Parker Posey and her husband, Clark Gregg. They're there. They're not. they don't have big roles in this movie. The real big connection for her is her grandson, played by Fred Heshinger. He is, I feel like he is a rising star. We'll see.

Oh, it's the gladiator emperor kid that's so skeevy in the new gladiator trailers. Oh, really? Okay. He's very compelling. I haven't seen, I've seen news of the world. He was great in that, but it was kind of a smaller role. And he was the kid, he was the teenage boy on the, the first season of the White Lotus.

Yeah, that's why, yeah. Quinn. The kid ends up sleeping on the beach. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, he's great. I really like this guy. For the rest of my life,

I will never forget that kid dropping a laptop into the ocean while sleeping on the beach. It makes me so mad. Yeah, he's the, so we see the trailers for the new gladiar, which comes out this week. I'm going to see it this week. He plays that, that skeevy-looking young emperor kid, just a little bastard. Joffrey looking.

Yeah, he's got Joffrey falling off of that guy. And he's white as you've never seen. It's like paper white this kid in that, at least the trailers. But anyway, this sounds great. I mean, as I assume it's heartfelt and,

you know, it's genuine. It's, it is what you know of it is what it is. It's just, it was advertised as old woman gets revenge, you know, kind of goes,

goes on an action story. And that is not. what it is about it like yes yes what i thought it was based on yeah so she she goes in pursuit of the people who stole money from her and she finds them and confronts them but it's not uh it's not about about the action at all it's about her about the limits uh when you're when you're elderly i'm i don't why they do that it's a disservice to movies when they screw around with stuff like that why do they do that i don't like i actually i actually kind of like i want to watch it again now that I know just how how deeply it is about being old.

Like it reminded me a little bit of nomad land, right? Like a beautiful, beautiful experience, but you don't realize going in that it's about this thing, about the end of your life, really. Yeah. And that's what, that's what Dama's about. Oh, I love Nomadland too. Not the sequel.

I mean also. All right. Let us throw mine up now. This is a clip. And this is going to be a thing I saw on Netflix. It is a series. As far as I know it's a one-off, they could do more. But I was so surprised how much I like this that I have to share it.

So here you go. Give me what I see, Ceynone. I told you it has a cost. This raven I have given. Killed is for the memory. And that will be your offering. No more looking back, I won.

Such is the cost of foresight. Oh, sound work is so good in this show. All right. It is called Twilight of the Gods. It is on Netflix. And it is animated. It is an animated series of,

I forget how many episodes. Eight total? Eight. Yeah. This is a produced by Zach Snyder joint. And you might, a lot of you might go, oh, Zach Snyder, really? Because lately he's, it's more misses than hits. In fact, it's been a lot of misses for years and not a lot of hits.

You know, with Rebel Moon not doing great with critics or audiences and all that. And then prior to that, the, you know, his, his DC stuff is not beloved. However, this might be where he's best. He's written most of this, directed the first episode at least, and is working with some really great writers. it's Norse god mythology stuff and it is way more Norse mythology than you're used to so this isn't like don't think Thor from MCU or even Thor from God of War

it's more like Thor in the original in the actual text of North North Miss a Norse mythology is kind of a dick like he's just a cocky butthole who's constantly doing terrible things and he's not a hero he's really never one of those things. And he features in this. He's not the main point of it, but he's definitely in here. I don't want to give away too much because I think it's worth just seeing how this whole thing plays out. But I will tell you a little bit about the cast. The main character, Sigrid, is played by this actress you all know from Blade Runner

2049 and the television show C, which I know Randy watched and quite enjoyed like I did. Sylvia Hoax is her name. She's usually a villain in most things she's in and a very good one. And this, she is not. She's very heroic and awesome. Cigarette is an amazing character. Stuart Martin plays Leaf. These are all people you may not have heard of before, but they are in other Snyder projects. Peter Stormair, Stormara, rather, shows up.

Fantastic. You may have noticed a trend here. These are all like Scandinavian, real Scandinavians playing ancient Scandinavian Norse mythology people. And it really helps the material to just know that these accents I'm hearing and this kind of talk is coming from people who live there, were born there,

you know, have some of that culture in them. The guy that plays Loki, Peterson Joseph is his name. Unbelievably cool Loki representation. It's very cool. But again,

much more steeped in the mythology, not our modern interpretations. This is not a Marvel thing. And obviously, Marvel was never that. It was always a play on that. It is really good. The action's great.

It's some warnings. It's very bloody. all right but kind of bloody and samurai jack kind of stylistic way that's the style of this animation it's very um hard edges it's hard to explain it's not meant to look uh this is an arcane this is also two d we're talking two d animation here it's all very stylistic and and flat kind of shapes and stuff like that and it works really well i think for the material um but it's very bloody sliced a lot of people in half chewing the head off a crow and like that lady did in that clip This sort of stuff.

There are many boobs and many weaners in this movie. Animated boobs and weaners. Yeah, boobs and weaners. And they're not afraid to sort of let that hang out. It's not gratuit. It's not like cartoon porn or anything. But it's, you know, they're not afraid to just be what it is. It's weird and it's compelling.

And the sound work is unbelievably cool. Use headphones or have a surround sound or something when you're watching this. because I just cannot overstate how cool the sound mix is. It's so well done. The music is very cool and very specific to this genre. High, high recommendation

if you like, you know, this sort of thing that I've described. It's eight episodes. Now on Netflix, I won't give any story points away because I think it's kind of a very cool story

that you're going to want to hear. Oh, the guy who plays Zeus? Or not Zeus. Odin is, who is it? It's the guy from John Noble. Yeah. Fringe. And

King of the Gondor King or whatever. Right. Lord of the Rings. Yeah. Denethor. Was he? Stuart of Gondor. That's what he was. The one that eats a tomato like he's never eaten a tomato before. That guy. He's very good. Everyone's good. Anyway, check it out. Twilight of the gods. Available now on Netflix. Do not let the Zach Snyder name scare you. It's really good. Did one of you recommend death and other details at one point? I don't think so. I didn't. No, me neither.

I asked because for years, I've been saying I want to see Rahul Kohle in something that isn't made by Mike Flanagan. Oh, yeah, totally. I want to see him. And he keeps popping up in these animated things, right? And like, I really like this guy. And it seems like, oh, the only time I ever get to see him is in, you know, Midnight Mass or whatever. Oh, you kind of recommended this? This is like a murder mystery.

It's really good with Mandy Patinkin. I think you may have done this. now that I'm looking at, it's really familiar. Did you recommend it? Yeah, I did. And it was, it was paced badly. Like, it was very slow at times, but when it was on its game, it was really, really good. But it, um, uh, it, it drags at times.

I wonder if I did recommend it or if I just watched it and didn't, uh, I'm not seeing it in quicktm. There's something familiar about it. It would have been this year if you did. So if it's not in there, you might not have, maybe you just told me about it or something. I think I just told you about it. I'm going to watch it and find out. It's very, it looks very White Lotus-esque.

Well, that's what it's trying to be. It's trying to be a mix of the recent Poro stuff with Kenneth Brannog and White Lotus and try and do this little combination of those. And the connection here is that he's a voice, the reason Randy brought it up, he's a voice actor in this thing. Anyway, Twilight of the Gods. Available on now on Netflix. Go check it out.

It's fantastic. And a tiny little extra today. I'm not going to say much about it. I'm just going to play the thing and then tell everyone to go watch it. I know Brian saw it. I'm sure Randy's seen this by now. Nicole, if you haven't yet, you need to.

So here's just a quick clip. I watched it and I didn't understand it. Aw. Well, I'll play the clip and then we'll talk about that. So here you go. There are always possibilities, Spock said. And if Genesis is indeed life from death, I must return to this place again.

Okay, there's literally, that is literally the only dialogue in this entire thing, which is an old recording from an older movie with Captain Kirk, K.K. William Shatner saying some stuff about Spock's death in Star Trek 2, Rath of Khan. And that's all I'm going to tell you. You need to seek this thing out. It is called, you don't even need to look for this number. It's a star date. But look for unification, or if you want the full thing, 765-874 unification. It's a 10-0-9. it's a 10 minute short film set in the star trek universe and that's all i want to tell you if you follow star trek lore and you wonder what happened after genesis or after um generations maybe you want to know what why kirk says the now famous oh my line as he died maybe you want to go find out maybe what the oh my was about my i'm just saying my take on this you're supposed to interpret this and my take is that this takes place in the nexus where kirk was before he died in generation. Correct.

Correct. And I think that's why I said, oh my. I think this all flashed in a moment for him. But it doesn't matter. That's the point. You're right. You're supposed to interpret it in your own sort of way. But Shatner's involved.

He did performance capture for this. They used a bunch of tech to make young versions of him, old versions of him. It's a real special tribute to Nimoy. His family was involved in this. So this is not a fan film or something. This was like a big, deal. I didn't know what's coming. Blew my mind. I absolutely loved it.

It is poetically everything I love about Star Trek. You have to see this. It choked me up as like a little baby. So I know you said to search for it, but the link you sent us was unlisted. Shouldn't be. It's just on YouTube.

Let's see. Hold on. If you just go to YouTube. I thought it was like a special hidden thing that people would find. I don't think So the thing had like 400,000 views. The chain agrees me. The link was unlisted.

Well, hold on. Let me look it up. When you gave, I mean, I was able to get it from the link you sent me unless you copy, unless you gave them a different link than you gave me. This thing's. Like, how did you get the link? Well, it has. This thing's got hundreds of thousands of views.

So I don't know how it's unlisted. But maybe everyone's got a secret link. And we all passed it around. I don't know. But that's, I have no idea. I just got it on YouTube. So I got it. Everybody's saying it's unlisted.

Search brings up no video listing. that's weird I see articles I think it's like it's kind of being passed around so chat I'll put the link in the chat if it's just being passed around

and it's got that many views holy shit just put it in the public let it take off and become huge that's insane yeah I don't know why that is but you have to watch it if you haven't seen it I put it up on all my socials it's on our discord it is so good

I loved every second of it and it's an example of doing this kind of thing right and not effing it up with tech too much. And I also think because we know it was his performance capture from Shatner, even though they overlay a lot of digital stuff to do the aging stuff and everything, this might be some of his best acting. And he didn't say anything. It's just like his eyes and how he looks and the way he's glancing around.

It's just so good. Oh my gosh, I loved it so much. And Carter bowled her eyes out. Sorry, Carter. I outed you. Wow. She goes, shut up. Anyway, watch it, find it, have it.

All right, that's it. All this is up on a quicktms.l.I, so go find it and watch what we watched today. We hope you enjoyed it. Randy, I hope you have a great week. Anything you want to say? I'm going to go watch The Foreigner and see what I make of that. All right. Let's get our Jackie Chan on this week for Film Sack.

What do you say? Can't wait. Old Chan. Our Jackie Old Chan. Yeah, by Old Chan, we mean like current day Chan, not old movie Chan. We mean like Old Guy Chan. Yeah, and serious, Chan, too. Apparently, it's a drama.

So we'll see how that goes. Nicole, anything you want to say about Wood Whisper or anything today? Not today. Just plug it along. Just keep making stuff out of wood, everybody. Go visit the Wood Whisper. Yep, cut down some trees, make a nice sofa or whatever you got to do. We'll see you next time.

Okay. All right. Brian, we did it. Yes, sir. We did. We did. Okay. That's it.

Oh, one quick thing. A Muppet email, not from a Muppet, but someone who wants to talk about Muppets, this keeps coming up. It says, Hey, Scott and Brian, it is, oh, sorry, I'm okay again. And I just called in about your thoughts about puppets and v-tubers. And, of course, Amy came on and you guys discussed my question already. A little follow-up. I remember when I was a kid, I was a huge fan of the Ninja Turtles. And I was amazed back then that they were Henson creations.

And all of their facial expressions were controlled by puppeteers. So all of the work for the movies was coordinated between. martial artists physical actors inside the suit and puppeteers controlling the heads then in post voice actors brought their voices synced to the puppeteers or what they did i still think about how awesome that was uh and it was done in 1990 anyway love the show though bye um yeah i'd heard that too i always thought the voices were recorded first like animation and then they did it later but yeah it sounds like it's flipped huh i wonder if amy knows amy you and the thing i used that makes more sense when it's live action like that because it's a lot you have to do too many takes to try and get

their voices to match up with what's already recorded and it's way easier it seems like to just go in and match the voices up to whatever's been filmed yeah when it's not animated probably haven't sound look more accurate to what was said rather than trying to fake it later exactly yeah but then I guess you would need know what the script was ahead of time and then the puppeteers move according that's hard that sounds hard like uh Darth Vader like you know David Prow's doing the motions and acting, give me my mouth plans. And then you get James Roll Jones in there and says,

I'm going to match up the voice to. That's true. The tricky part here, I guess, is you've got mouth movements, which is nuts. Right, right. At least they're not human mouth movements

that you have to match more closely, but puppet mouth movements that you can be a little bit more flexible with. They kind of had rubbery quality to them where they'd kind of go in, out up and all that. exactly that's really cool though yeah yeah thanks for the the stuff there i am okay and i'm glad you're okay you know yes uh that's gonna do it for today's show we are out of here we have a show tomorrow uh it's supposed to start on time but i have a doctor's appointment that if it goes long just if you're live and you're here hanging out keep hanging out even if the timer kicks over

it just means that i'm rushing back we just don't know until tomorrow morning how long it's gonna take but i should be back on time uh but everything else should go normal tomorrow Oh, shit up, Wendy, all that stuff. I think that's everything for today. Brian, you got anything else? I got nothing else. I'm working on the editing. This video of me building the open kate is over an hour long,

so that's probably what's going to get posted. I've been watching the video, and I've been taking out like a few seconds here, a few seconds there, but really, I think I'm putting the rest of it up because it's, you know, if I get granular with this thing, then it's never going to get up there. So, yeah, that's good. It's getting posted today. over at the

YouTube channel just search for Coverville on YouTube follow me subscribe whatever and you'll get it you get notification when it goes up there you go very nice

let's play a song as we leave sure this one is going out to Matt Boge Bohe Hey Bonn and Scott the request I have is for an ACDC song cover it was my dad's favorite band

and today November 14th would have been his 73rd birthday sadly he passed away in June after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer. I remember growing up and writing in his car, he would always put on the cassette and later a CD of Back in Black. Thanks for being awesome guys. Matt Boge, aka Corgral.

Oh, nice. And he did give me the pronunciation right there at the end. Bogey, okay. Quite possibly the greatest rock and roll album of all time, back in black. It's certainly one of them, yeah, in the top five, if nothing else. Let's go with that title track. This is a version, I don't know how many people have heard this before, but this is a version by Carlos Santana,

and it was included on an album whose title just made it, may have made you ignore it when it went by. It was called Guitar Heaven, the greatest guitar classics of all time. Came out in 2010, and it's true, it is one of the greatest guitar classics of all time. This is a version featuring Nas doing the vocals, and so it's done more as a rap, which is really cool. Santana and Nas doing Bancash do it.

Black in Black. Use it every one of them running wild I'm back y'all It's right I'm back Yeah that's right That's right Yeah Yeah

Yeah Yeah Yeah We back in black We back in black I'm back in black Colos Now

dope beat. Back in the back of a Cadillac. Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack. Yes, I'm in a bang. I'm with a gang. They gotta catch me if they want me to hang. Because I'm back on the track. Get in the back.

Nobody's gonna get me on another rap. So, look at me now, just making my play. We'll try to push it up. Just get out of my way. Get, yeah, get out of my way. Uh, let him know. Carlos Santana. Got an eyes on the ground.

Backer, yeah, yeah, braga, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, so I'm back and black. We're black and black and black. We're black and black. We back We back y'all We bet you Say what

Yeah, that's right What are we? I'm back and black. We're black and black. We're black and black. Because Oh Because I'm a bag

Like I never left That's right, y'all I'm back. I'm back. That's right. Tell them. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. We are. I'm back in black. I'm back in black. Black. I'm back in black. Yeah.

Yeah. I can't sit here and say nobody help me turn. Get a wealthy earn. Have you sit by myself? See that? Type of talk is bad. Like to spoil you brat. I'm making more you cash.

Making all you mad. Giving all you mad. Still ain't take too much ungrateful stuff It's just too bad, and I'm just too real, just too authentic, I'm just too wrong, too rhythmic. Carlos on guitar, relentless, makes me visualize the clubs when they spinless. So that's who I'm a ride with, and any conflict, that's not a threat, that's a promise. Yeah, be back y'all.

Be back y'all. Be back y'all. Yeah, be back y'all. You know, nice color shit, yeah 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.

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