The Morning Stream - TMS 2746: A little Weezery

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

I Don't Like Smelling Kimchiiiiiiii. Welcome to Jupiter, would you like a slurpee? Stay in your circle Booby Nun. Lake Inferior. Edging the board with Dunaway. You had me at Buttered Bread. Costco Throngs. Increased Sensitivity but not in a Sexual Way. Jaw Stew. Roger with increased Frequency. Pokey End, Roundy End. President Dunzo. Father Mayham. Because Your Tech Tips Are On My Lips with Tom. Bang Bang Bang Bang Recommentals Bang Bang with Randy and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They say the West was won through the grit and determination of hard men and wild horses. I'm here to tell you what won the West was the support of patrons at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, I don't like smelly kimchi! Welcome to Jupiter. Would you like to slurpy? Stay in your circle, booby-none. Lake Inferrier. Edging the board with Dunaway. You had me at buttered bread.

Costco throngs. Increased sensitivity, but not in a sexual way. Jaw stew. Roger, with increased frequency. Poky end, roundy end. President Dunzo. Father Mayhem. Because your tech tips are on my lips with Tom.

Bang, bang, bang, bang, Recommendals, bang, bang with Randy, bang, bang, bang, and more on this episode of the morning stream. Wow, look at that. Look at this perfect slice butter. Wow. That's so beautiful. Would you look at that? Just come for a ride with me and my mobile command.

Unity. The morning stream. Prepare the virgin. I don't like the sound of that. Well, well, well, hello, hello. Hello, everybody. And welcome back to TMS for December 4th, 2024. This is Scott.

That is Brian. Hi, Brian. Good morning, Scott. It's a brand new day here at TMS. That's right. You guys missed out. We did 24, 23 minute long pre-show today. And it went places.

You guys need to go. We talked about James Bond killing Blofeld. We talked about lakes and why some lakes have a lake before and after the name. We talked about nudie 3D sculptures. Yeah, sculptures. Sculptures. I'm telling you, you're missing out. if you don't get the Patreon and you're not hearing our pre-shows or you're not showing up for

the live stream you are missing out you are you're almost it's like you're missing an extra show or two every week with all the great content that we put out yeah so sign up now we have other reasons later in the show to tell you about to sign up as well but uh watch for that i have a big recommendation to start the show off with today before we get to all our fun business today including tabooly few we got that coming up we got tom we got uh recommendals all that stuff big wednesday plan for you uh i got a recommendation so uh that There was a sale at the Costco, down to the Costco, and the sale was on mini-fridges, specifically... Brave man going to Costco during the holidays.

It's not a great time in there in the holidays. They're wonderful employees. They all treat like kings. There's no issues of Costco itself, but the throngs decide that this is the time of year. They want to pack that place, and it's kind of annoying. But they have this really good sale on mini-fridges. They're a little bit taller, not too much, but... Like, it's definitely, if you'd look at it next to a regular, like, office mini

fridge, you might go, oh, that's a little bigger. And it's bigger usually in the height for some reason. I don't know. I've got one of those. It's like a, they call it a college dorm fridge. It's taller than a one of those like little little fridges. Ah, right. So you know exactly, you probably have the exact sort of the same thing.

Yeah. I might actually, because I bet I did get it. Yeah. So the college kids like it because they like the, they put the beer in there, you know. Yeah. Like, you know, it's enough to fit. half a box of pizza you have to cut the box and fold one side of the box to store the pizza but it's enough for that yeah we've all we've all been through that we've done that so uh so she

grabs it because it was super on sale it was a good brand i don't remember the brand um and she brings it home she goes guess what i did and i said what's that she goes i got us a kimchi fridge and i went i'm sorry what we have a fridge it's got kimchi in it what are you talking about Yeah, yeah. I got a fridge to go in the garage that is its entire job will be to, you put soda and other stuff and there are lots of room in the little shelves and everything. Sure, sure. But its main good job is to hold kimchi, diacon, pickled cabbage of any sort,

pickled everything, pickled carrots, all the pickled stuff is going in there, and particularly the kimchi and the diacon, because they stink so bad. Yeah. That as much as we love them, we don't necessarily want to open their fridge and go, it's like my brother's breathing on me every time I open it. Exactly. Which, which, you know, seems like, oh, great. So, you know, if we put some coax or something in there, the lid is going to smell, like, before you, you know, after you go and you open the top, you're, whoa, you take a drink every time.

Yeah. You'd have to pour that into a separate glass. Yeah. Because the can will have it on it, right? Kind of. Anyway. And so, um, that's, that was the whole idea with this thing. And you know what? It's actually freaking great because when I need kimchi, so it doesn't hold this. giant one I get at H-Mart. I get this big kimchi bottle. It lasts me in like a month or more. Sure. So when I get that big thing, I break

it down into like five smaller jars. You can you can take like a shelf out of the new kimchi fridge and have that jar fit. I guess if you do that, then you can put less stuff in the... That's a good point though. I could I have to go look because it's possible I could still keep as much stuff in there and still

remove a shelf. They're glass shelves too which make me nervous because I'm just nervous. I'm going to you know, break something. Oh, speaking of which, you know how we just talked about phone cases? And you were like, I got to have one for my phone. Yes, what did you do to your phone? All right.

I did a thing that I don't think the case would have helped with. And I can't show it because it's really subtle. It's going to drive me crazy, though. But anyway, so this is what happens. I'm in the kitchen. I have a bottle opener. I'm using it on something. I don't know what it was.

And this is laying on the table face up, my phone. Yeah. No problem. It's all good. It's just laying there. I'm not touching it. It's nowhere near the edge or anything like that. Sure. I'm using the bottle opener. My hand slips. This thing ricochase off the table, flies across the room and the little tip, you know, the sharp end that you used to like pop a can? Yeah. Or whatever those are for? Oh, is it for cookie dough thing? Is that what that's for? What is that for? It's for, um, it's for, um, uh, it's for. Because there's two ends, right? Pokey end and then a roundy end. It's for like when you had a can that you had to go kachunk and then kuchunk on the opposite side. Like, hook. looking in the little point in there. So you create an opening, a hole where air comes in, and another hole where your goo comes out. Like old cans of oil before they had plastic bottles. Oh, right. Or like a, like, what's not sour milk?

Any sort of sauce. Yeah, condensed milk. That's what I remember my mom doing. That's it. You'd open the can like that. And you just basically put a little triangular hole in both sides. and then goo comes out, air goes in. Okay, so that end, the little tippy end.

The pointy, the business end of that. Yeah, this thing goes, like, perfect shot. I couldn't have aimed it better. I would have missed if I tried to aim it. This thing goes, kind of in slow motion. And it just goes, kick, kick, makes kind of a skipping sound on top of my phone. And I went, and so I went and got it and looked at it. And I've got these two lines.

It starts here. it slid across Yeah, does it like a little About a half Not quite a half inch Maybe Maybe not Just shived a half inch

Little tiny little hairline And then a space of nothing No problem And then another hairline Exactly in line with the other one Where it went tink tink And left a line there That is about a half an inch long

It's not a crack It's not a break or any of that It's just this hairline scratch And it wouldn't A case wouldn't have solved it For me in this case I guess a screen protector would have But I freaking hate those

I hate those Yeah I feel like they I feel like those Always Decrease the sensitivity of your Sounds like a sex thing But they reduce the sensitivity of your screen And your touch

Like if you're gaming and stuff Yeah They screw things up Yeah so I don't know man I just feel like we talked about it And it happened It's like these celebrities that die We talk about them and it happens

I know that's exactly what I was gonna What I was gonna say is that we just did to your phone what we usually do to folks like Ernest Borgina and Burgess Meredith. Yeah. My wife's like, I told you you get a case. I'm like, in this case it didn't matter. The case isn't the problem. But now

I got, now I'm like so ginger. I'm like, oh, walking around, you know. Yeah. Nobody have any sharp objects anywhere. Nobody drop a thing. Now your phone is scored so if you accidentally you can break it to half accidentally now that it's got a score. It is like

a scoring. I don't like that. glass. I don't like it. It's like having scored paper. It's going to tear there. It won't, but I feel like it now. It won't, yeah, but it is exactly. It'll bend really easy.

Anyway, so two things. Big recommend on the kimchi fridge. No recommendation on scratching your phone. Don't do that. Big recommend on maybe a screen protector now. Yeah. Maybe that maybe. You know, I wonder if you could, number one, people are saying that your Apple warranty

probably is still in effect on that one. it's that new that you could probably it is that new dude i didn't know if they'd cover that kind of stuff though will they act of god i don't know i don't know it does feel like an act of god it does a vengeful god an act of a vengeful god you can say it was that god i think it might have been like a hades or uh yeah i'm going to go in there and go the god of chaos did this it's the god that i think jeremy irons uh voiced in herculey or who's the voice who's the uh I know it was James Woods

Kind of a dick now But I love him in that movie He's so good Yeah Yeah You know what makes it harder When someone's a dick now Is how great they were in things

It makes it so much harder I know You know You know Face and point Baby Driver Right It's like

Yeah, it's another good example Yeah Well the good news on that movie He's his part's kind of small He's barely in it And you know Yeah It plays himself

Plays a dick Yeah he does You're right. Just end up playing a dick. So where was I going with that? I was going somewhere with that. Yeah, so that's one option to see if Apple will cover it. Second option is sometimes those kiosks in the mall have like a little, oh no, that wouldn't

work for this because a buffing tool would. Oh, to like go in and fill it? Yeah, but I don't think you can use a buffing tool on the glass on phones. I think it's a, because it's tempered glass and I don't think it buffs. Oh, maybe it would just, like, do the opposite. It would look like crap. It would scrape it up to the point where it's cloudy in those parts. It's just so, it's so subtle that you really aren't going to notice it, except light will hit it the right way.

And I just go, ah, there it is. Yeah. Yeah. Ah. I had that with my last phone. And it was awesome. When I took it to T-Mobile, they're like, oh, yeah, it's a little tiny chip. That's not a big deal.

We'll, you know. Yeah, they usually, they know how this wear and tear goes. You know, exactly. That falls under regular wear and tear. But I'd love to not have it a month and a half after getting it, you know? Yeah, I know. I know. I'd like to have it next year, like two weeks before I have to turn it in.

How about that? Anyway. Another quick thing. I've got a text from the listener. This is about the 600-year-old Bible I touched. Oh, yeah. He says, just think, 600 years from now at a bookstore in the vicinity of Jupiter. An old rare art book by Scott Johnson is on display, and you have pages cut out and framed, if you like.

Crazy to think it's possible. but it is no no Jupiter you look Jupiter is the is you think Jupiter's the the the long shot I like that the you know you were thinking oh listen to how humble this guy is so cool it's like oh no Jupiter is the question Jupiter is the big asterisk no honestly you guys are silly it won't be Jupiter I'm saying as long a shot as Jupiter is it's even longer shot that anything of mine would be in a place where they sell you pages That's not going to happen. Gotcha.

It's just not going to happen. All right. Don't plan on it. Nobody writing anything down. That ain't going to happen. But there will be something, I'm sure. 600 years from now, there'll be something we do. It'll be 50 shades of gray.

Yeah. I have a 600-year-old copy of 50 shades of gray. Some of the pages are a little stuck together. But the rest of them are great if you'd like to have them framed. We call it a rescue so you can take pages out of it. Welcome to. to Jupiter. Would you like a slurpy?

I think they're going to... The only food in the world is slurpees now. They're going to undig stuff like this. They're going to find like this old game gear and go, oh, what a relic of a different time. I'm kidding. That thing took... That actually took six battery units.

Yeah. Remember those? Remember when they used old battery units? Yeah. You mean we were playing video games not with our minds? Yeah, that was the style at the time. Look, buttons. Oh, how quaint.

Yeah. I mean, imagine how fun that would be to find shit like that, though. Oh, totally. But you need society to kind of crash and burn for these to be interesting because otherwise everyone just knows what they are. If we have a continuous historical record on the internet, 600 years from now, if all things stay sort of normal, that'll just be a thing we already know about. And it'll still be a cool thing to collect. What I want is people to discover it and go, what were they doing with this? This strange, enclosed Sonic 2 hedgehog?

What is this? And for that to happen, you need like a complete. wipe of humanity and a start over, you know. Sadly, you know, AI will be the thing that people are like, oh, I know exactly what that is that is a game gear cartridge from the year 1987. Yep. Beepoo beep. 94 or whatever.

Yeah, that's how it'll have to go. We'll have to see how it plans out. Guys, you want to play a game? I know you do. One of you is going to be our fourth caller today and be pulled into today's discussion. First, though, we have to add Dunaway into the call. We do. it's a requirement got to have

yeah if we don't have done away what are we doing Brian Donnaway I don't even want to play if he's not here Joining us now we have one Brian Dunaway who will join us and play this little game we're going to play Hi Brian Donaway are you one Brian done away No I am one Brian done away

Oh hi Scott and Brian Oh you sound so much better than you did You do yeah I feel so much better Good Love your health Yeah I've been thinking a lot about it It's like this was the most

depressing sick I've been in a while because anytime you visit two Mondays in a row and both Mondays are sick you're like, the second Monday's like, is this life? Is this life now? Is every Monday going to be this? Yeah. I mean, you have to wonder, right? You have to wonder. If this is it, this is

going to be it. Speaking of which, is this going to be it for our lucky caller who is fourth today and let's find out if Rebel Scum is there. We're ringing Rebel Scum. Rebel Scum. It please come. to a white page on telephone.

Is this Rebel Scum? It must be because of your logo. I assume it is. Oh, hi. Hi, where do you hail from, Rebel Scum? Calgary. Oh, Calgary. I'm looking straight up with you.

How are you doing? Yeah, look at you in the Mountain Time Zone. Yeah, Mountain Time Zone. You got the flames. That's right. You got like a rough necks. That's right. Have they had the opportunity,

the honor really to play the Utah hockey club yet? Yeah, earlier in the season they did, and you guys smoked us. Oh, we did? Shit. Really? I haven't been paying attention. I did not know we won any games yet. That's the worst.

They're only worth paying attention to when they have their name. Yeah, that's true. That is how it feels. That is how it feels. Well, go flames while you're on the show anyway. It's good to have you here. Brian, you're going to explain these here rules to everybody and how we're playing and who we're playing for and how that goes. I will.

It's time to play the tad bully feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy topics. Scott and Brian, you have to predict the answers that they gave us. It is Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Rebel Scum, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. And if your team wins, you get a prize package. That includes cassette Beasts and Karma Zoo. Oh, cassette Beasts is such a good, like, Pokemon-like.

It's so good. Really good. Yeah, fantastic game. Really good. Nice. Very cool. Awesome. By the way, Brian, have you watched,

jaw stew yet? Have you watched Jaws stew? Have you watched Jaws Tew? You know, in the last six months? No. Have I watched Jaws Tew? Plenty of time, sure. I wouldn't have to watch it. I can really just wing it. But yes, it's leaving soon, right? Film Sacks. It's leaving soon. That's why I brought it up is just a little quick reminder to watch Jaws Tew before it leaves at the end of this month. What's the end of this month? We're doing it this weekend. I think we've got it covered. Weekend, yeah. But who knows when people listen to, people don't always listen to film sack day and day. Oh, so it's more of

education for the listeners and less about me that's right way less about you yeah exactly so that's currently on netflix and it's leaving in a month okay and i always i before i looked it up today i always thought jaws two was jaws the revenge but apparently it's not it's jaws no it's is uh this is baby jaws right is it oh don't give anything away i don't know anything away anything about it i've never seen two i've seen one a thousand times it's in two it's in two d i'll give you that how's that Dudeing. Good. Who directed this? Oh, it's not, Spilberg didn't do the second one? I thought he did. No.

Oh, he got time for that. Shit. All right. Roy Shider. He's like, I don't even want to do another one of these. And he's like, all right, fine. The mayor's back. Murray Hamilton as Mayor Larry Vaughn. He comes back. He's a dick still. Anyway. All right. Well, let's do this thing. Okay. Anyway, that has nothing to do with Chad Puli feud,

but I was like, oh, I got to mention it just to just. Sure. All right. Name a shark. Just kidding. Put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this. Name a performer who is known as a nerd or geek icon. Scott. Shit. Mark Hamill.

Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill. Mark Hamill. All right. Show me Mark Hamel. Oops. Oh! Yeah. Mark Hamel. Are you kidding? he's good lord he was on the list where was he uh there number 15 is mark hamill damn dude still still 10 available answers on the board brian name a name a guy uh you know

performer he got it be it doesn't have to be a performer who is known as a nerd or geek icon i was i was closing the tab that shows me what the so the question usually shows up on the screen i don't see it i was trying to okay let me listen to you this time you know the words you're saying I can say, let me say the whole thing. I'll say the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Name a performer who is known as a nerd slash geek icon. That's such a tricky question.

You mean the character or the person? I don't know. A performer. Yeah. That's the person. Yeah. I don't know. How about let's go with Patton, Patton Oswald.

Oh, yeah. He's always doing, he's doing, he's always a nerd. Sure. It's a good one. I hope that's what you're asking for. Show me Patent Oswald. Yeah, number six point, number six on the board, six point. Number six point. Number six point.

Lots of sculptures for six points. I think the performers was getting me. I'm like, do you mean actor? You mean a musician? Any of that. Any of that because I wanted to open it up to like a performer, somebody, you know, who performs. Maybe not as wide as a celebrity, but a performer. Right. Because then I was thinking about maybe you mean they're nerdy about their particular profession because I think of some people like. that too. It could have been one of those tassel nuns down

in Vegas walking down the strip. She's known as, yeah, she's a performer, just stay in your circle. Stay in your circle, booby-none. Yeah. Well, maybe maybe Rebel Scum has a better handle on this because Mark Hamill

I thought that would have been right on spot, right? I feel like we could start with one of the hotter ones and go Nathan Phileon. There you go. He's usually nerdy. He's not nerdy.

Oh, that makes me think of somebody else who's just as hot. Yeah, okay. All right. Show me Nathan Philean. Unbelievablely, Nathan Philly and number 12. So almost, almost the guess again answer. Okay. Now we're getting weird because I'm shocked by all these.

I'm shocked none of these two. I know. But Hamelin and Philean should have been higher. I agree. We're heading in the wrong direction. I think it's a problem. nerd icon. Okay. I'm going to go with Henry

Cavill is a huge, huge nerd. He's super sexy and he's super nerdy, loves video games. Yeah, builds his own PCs. Almost missed the casting call for Super Magazine's rating and wow. The guy's a huge nerd. Yeah, D&D. All right, show me, Henry. What's my mustache doing there? Cabell. Oh, number one answer 111 of you people, said Henry Cowell. Wow, good job. I'm a little surprised by this.

Okay, now that I... He's a freaking nerd. Nerd. He is a nerd. All right. So if he's number one, this is, um, put me into the thinking of who else is there.

Uh, how about, um, will, Will, Will Whiten. Yeah, Will Wheaton. Jill, Hewiton.

That's about almost one with the first. uh show me get off the bridge wasler number two answer on the board yep damn okay so we're in the right vein here you're in the right you're in the right you're figuring this game out um okay let's go with I've heard well I've heard this about her I'm a little nervous is gonna be dude centric though

shit all right I know because he said at the beginning he's like he let's do well I'll stay with the he's for a minute I just want to... Not that I want to... I would like to clear the board and have our contestant win. Go Flames. I'll tell you that, you know,

don't be afraid the board does contain men and women. Okay. Ooh. Well, let's go with Kevin Smith anyway. There you go. Comic book guy. Yeah.

Show me Kevin Smith. Number seven. Oops, gave you the wrong points. There we go. Seven points for Scott. Who's got 10 points now to Brian and Rebel Scum six. Okay.

I wish I knew more nerds. Yeah, this is a tricky one. Snoop dog. Snoopy, poopie, poop dog. Sure. Show me. Show me Snoop dog. Please.

He's pretty good at that. He's sizzle-rism. I mean, he streams video games. He's a, like, Game of Thrones freak. Like, he's a nerd. He's a nerd. It's a valid guess. I don't even know if anybody,

let's see if Snoop Dog even made because I will tell you the full list has 112 people on it and I don't see Snoop Dogg on this list at all How many?

100, how many? 112 different names people gave me. That's a lot. Okay. Yeah. Rebel scum, this is getting tough. You got something off top of your head there?

I don't know. If you got something, go. All right, all right. Well, I was trying to go through all the, you know, if you kind of step your feet into the Star Trek world, you're kind of automatically either, you're

Jonesing to be a nerd, but Simon Pegg, I think is, yeah, he's a good nerd. He's a good nerd. He's a good nerd. Okay. All right. Show me Simon Pegg. Oh, come on. I know. Simon Pegg, number 13.

Oh. Yeah. Just with Nathan Philean, just outside of the top 11. All right. Well, since this, it's, uh, since it's a, since it's about we're just edge in the board here aren't you though it's in the board i learned what that meant on uh core one asked edging the board yeah uh vin diesel i'll say he had oh that's a good one he was a big d and d guy or something like that sure sure show me then number diesel oh yeah shit if you're if you're kind of no they're not really all that

sexy there's about half and half here all right good good yeah i don't know listen i would say everybody on this list is sexy because they are a nerd or geek icon. But do they know it? They're sexy and they know it. No, no, no, getting Scott 20 points to Brian and Rebel Scum's cut. You guys, you need to get some, and we need

a shift here if Rebel Scum is going to get to play some cassette monsters or whatever it's called. Well, isn't there a, it's not like I'm starting a guitar hero thing. Isn't there, yeah, I was going to say, is it, uh, What's her name from her dad just died?

Jones, Quincy Jones's daughter, Rashida Jones. Isn't she known for her? She's, she's pretty nerdy. She's going to be the girl I put on here. I want that. I like her. I want that. Show me Rashida and from Parks and Recreation Jones.

No, no Rashida Jones anywhere in the list, weirdly enough. She's a great pick. She's vocal about her nerddom. She is, yeah, yeah. Look at all this sausage party we got going here. I don't know. Five answers left on the board. One strike left for each of you.

So we either need to hear in the board, we need some movement. Rebel, we can talk it up because, I mean, we either going to get something here or we're going to lose regardless. So I'm thinking, like Jim Parsons from Big Bang, people think of him as a nerd, but is it just in the role? I don't know. I don't know. What do you think? What do you think? I was thinking, um, uh, redhead gal from that internet show.

Oh, oh, um, Felicia Day. Oh, Felicia Freaking Day. Yeah. Felicia freaking Day. Shit. All right. All right. Let's see if Felicia Day is on the list.

Of course she is. Felicia. Oh, this is miracle. Yes. Damn it. Do you think they would have been. That concludes the. female representation in the top 10.

So I know her and I could send her a text and say, I want you to know that in the top 10 list of nerds, you're the only woman on here and see what she thinks about that. She might actually, that's either going to be offensive or awesome that she's the only one. I think she'll find it hilarious. Yeah, it's easily both. Yeah, it's easily both offensive and awesome.

Yeah. It's hilarious in the fact this is what we live with. I'm going to fraud that when we're done. That's funny. I still can't get out of the sexy nerd I think because I want to finish that sentence Terry Cruz is another sexy nerd There's a

There's a few that are just That's an amazing line Terry Cruz is another sexy nerd He's another sexy nerd But is that what people think about? I don't know How about Jim Pars is another thing I thought of Robin Williams was

Robby, oh Brent Spires is a good. Robin Williams was a big nerd when he was around. I don't know if people think about that anymore. He used to play Quake and Zelda. He named his daughter Zelda, so I mean... Yeah, he was into it. And Brian didn't say dead or living, you know.

Yeah, yeah, but people I think just don't think about it as much anymore. Maybe. What, you would you say, Rebel Scum? What did you think? Brent Spiner. Brent Spiner? Excellent. That's good. I like Brent Spiner. He's such a data. Yeah. Let's do it. What do you think, Brian?

Are you saying it? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Locked it in. Are you locking it in, Brent Spiner? I'm locking, locking her in. All right. Show me, Brent Spiner. Number, number.

Number, per, but, per, but, but, but, one person said Brent Spiner, it looks like. Is that right? Or is it? Where is it? I know, you know what? Maybe Brent Spiner did not even make the list at all. Oh, really?

Oh, no, he did. Somebody just put data. Yeah. one person so tied for 40th place i feel like a lot of i feel like a lot of people who play big nerds on tv i think is gonna be yeah i think that's we show a lot here on the rest of these i'm gonna stick with like urkel or something you know i'm just gonna say don't limit yourself to like people of the acting profession either yeah so you think you think scott johnson's up there no how about tom merit you think tom merritt is he might be he's a sexy nerd he's a sexy nerd

He's a sexy nerd. I'm going to go with people I've interviewed. What about Brian? I'm going to say. Brian Brushwood. Do it. No, I'm not putting Shwit on here. I'm going with, I may regret this.

Let's go with Hodor. Christian Nairn. Guys, a huge nerd. Okay. All right. Literally. Show me Christian. Hodor.

Nairn. Hodor. Hodor. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Damn it. I tried. I tried to help.

Christian Nairn tied for 40th place. One person said Christian Nairn. Man, this was a tough one and kind of amazed. The chat room's been shouting. I think Red Lings even guessed three of the names on this list. Really? Yeah, in the last post. Come on, number three.

I even said, don't think acting. Don't narrow it down to acting. We're at Al Yankovic, number three. Oh, shit. I don't think of him. All right. Number five, somebody we've all met. Multiple times.

Oh, Jonathan Colcon. Yeah, duh. That's a good one. Oh, my gosh. If they put what's his name on here, his frequent working partner, PC and the Mac and PC ads, what's his name?

John Hodgman. Is Hodgman in this? Oh, you know, Hodgman. Hodgman is not. Okay. It's a good one, though. That is a good one. A lot of people were shouting this one

and just questioning how the hell you spell it. sexy nerd joe mangenel oh dang another sexy nerd i knew it i'm not sure i know who that is who is that uh he was married to sophia virgara or still is yeah yeah okay good job yeah he's he's big into like he's a wow player and uh oh does he also be in the magic mike guys too i'm very sure yes he was absolutely was and i think he was on true blood what's our fascination with with uh nerds that are hot it's like Like, you don't have to be a nerd. No, there's no way getting around it.

No longer with Sophia Vergara. Oh, well, he was up to too late. Braden, I get it. Yep. He hosts massive D&D sessions is what people say. Okay. Massive D. Oh, I recognize him now.

I see his face. All right, cool. Another name that came up a lot was Matt Mercer. Oh, yeah, of course. Duh. Did Liam make of the list at all? Liam O'Brien on there? Well, let's talk about, yeah, you're a little.

11 and higher. 11 was Jack Black. That would have given you an extra gift. Jim Parsons actually was number 14, but wouldn't have helped you. MC Frontalot, Post Malone. Scott Johnson made the list at number 18. William Shatner, Adam Savage, Milakunis, Neil deGrasse, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Patrick Stewart, Rivers Cuomo, Robin Williams, Stephen Colbert,

Bill Nye, Brian Abbott, thank you. Chris Hardwick, John Barrowman, Keanu Reeves, Lady Gaga, Levar Burton. If you haven't seen, by the way, Levar Burton is host of a new game. game show based on trivial pursuit. Oh, I've heard good things about that. It's fun. It's a really good, it's a really fun game show to watch. And LeVar Burton really stresses every line. Yeah, love it.

You've got one more guess on history to get your lunch. Yeah, he probably read it in a book. It was in a book that he read. It's in a book. Anyway, it's great. It is awesome. Lindsay Sterling, M.C. Lars, Richard Ayudet, Seth Green. They might be giants.

So they just put the two Johns right there together. How do you pick? Adam Baldwin, Aisha Tyler, Alan Tudik, Beck, Ben Folds, Ben Starr, Bill Gates, Billy Eilish, Bob Cross, Bob Goldthwaite, Bob Newhart. You can see we're getting into like the one vote people here. Did anybody say slash? For some reason, I always feel like slash as a nerd. I don't know why I get that impression, but. He reads, he shoves comics up under his hair that's in front of his eyes.

He's got a full collection of the new 15. two under there. Brian Breschwood, Brian Cox, Bruce Campbell, Chris Metzen, Christopher Mince Place, David Byrne, David Tenant, Doug Jones, Dwight Shrewt, that's a clear. Ed Shearin, Eddie Deeson. Wow. Elon Musk, Felicia Day.

Oh, I said Felicia Day. Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa. Elon Musk? Why? Elon Musk. Yeah, I don't know. Performer. Because he's a performer, get it? Have you seen him jump into his X shape? That's really impressive. It's certainly not a performance. George Taked. Hugh Jackman, Ice, T, James McEvoy, there's John Hodgman, John Heeter, Ken Jennings, Kevin Bacon, Kamal Nanjani, Leonard Nimoy, Margot, Robbie, Matthew Broderick. Oh, my God, folks, we're just at the M's.

Michael, Sam, I'm going to go really quickly through the rest of this. Neil Patrick Harris, Olivia Munn, Rosario Dawson. What you're saying is no lack of nerds. Yeah, yeah. No, Stephen Hawking, Taylor Swift, I question that one. There's your Terry Cruz, Thomas Dolby, Timothy Schelley. Elamay. Somebody's hoping with that one.

No, he's a huge nerd. Before he got famous, he had a channel about hacking Xbox 360 stuff. Yeah. Really? His original username. It was like 360 hacker something name, username. He's like sort of famous for it. It's weird.

He's a nerd. He's a huge nerd. Yeah. Big time. All right. Trey Anastasia from Fish and Zachary Levi. Ah, Zachary Levi. Everyone's favorite guy who's not really their favorite guy. All right. Well, the bummer of today is clear and present, like danger, and it's this. Our caller from Calgary has lost. Flame on, Johnny. Do you want to,

do you have anything to say about your loss today? Are you okay? Going to be all right? Oh, yeah, that was cool. I was really nervous about getting like a Marvel question or something. Oh, so you're not Marvel yet. Yeah, those are always fun because I mean, Brian usually knows most of the knowledge on Marvel stuff. I know enough to get in trouble. Dunaway doesn't know shit. Yeah, Dunaway is a year old. I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I joke. I kid. Well, anyway, it was great having you on, dude, and we'll hopefully get to have you on again sometime and see if we can't revive your chances of winning. Have a great time and enjoy your losing season.

Hey, Brian, Dunaway, well done today. You've done it. You did it. And this Friday, we're going to finally get it. it together and do a video game coverage on Play Retro. Can you tell the fine folks what it was again that we were covering? Absolutely. We were going to play medieval last week on the PlayStation. We didn't make it. So we're doing it this week because I was sick last week. So I had an extra week to play it, which is good because it's a fantastic game. I love it. They need to do a proper

remake, not that weird controversial one they did. Yeah, and a couple years ago, at 2019 or so, they made a remake. People thought it was meh. But I just, I never played. played it when it came out and I don't remember too many people really like just going like I'm the biggest fan ever and but I'll tell you after this past week I can't wait to play some more it's fun I've been in a it put me in a 3D platformer mood and that's kind of all I've been playing this week so right I like to all kinds of hacking slash wasn't there like a game a couple years ago it's like pumpkin something yeah I just played it last night it's called pumpkin jack and it's it was originally released as a house

Halloween release. It's really good. Don't buy it just on Halloween, people. It's on sale right now. It's in the autumn sale on Steam. That game's great any time of the year. It's very good. It's like one of those.

It is very similar to that game. Very similar. We'll talk about that too. If you got a lot of the inspiration from for medieval. If you like that and just hacking and slashing away, which I do. Yeah, I like that. Silly humor. It's good stuff.

Yeah, it's good stuff. Check it out. Hey, Brian Dunaway. Kiss. Our butts? You. Okay, there we go. Oh, but's kissed.

We're going to take a break. When we come back from said break, we'll have Tom Merritt here. We'll have some recommendals. We'll have all kinds of fun. But Brian has to play a song first. So, Brian, what are you playing? Yes. Boy, you know, I'm a lyrics guy, Scott.

And this song I'm about to play for you here has some fantastic lyrics, a lot of fun. This is a song by delivery called The New Alphabet. And you'll need to hear why he's developing, why, The band from Melbourne here is developing a new alphabet, and it's a very funny story. The new album is called Force Meijer, and it comes out January 17th via Heavenly. These guys have like a, the new apples in stereo. Oh, what's another good comparison? Maybe a little weasery, kind of in their, like tongue-in-cheek.

That's a fun way to say it, weasery. We're a little weisery. How would you describe your band? Oh, we're a little weiserie. A wee bit wiserie. me right the band again is called delivery get them delivered right now to your ears with a song called the new alphabet I've been writing the new alphabet So I won't have to explain what I said

Or how I mean it I didn't need it In time takes it I take back what it took Download the movie saved me buying a book that I ain't reading I didn't need it Drumman

Randstand See my reflection It's an anthem Played as I'm talking to myself Repeat Last Street That screams my death Well, I've been checking out the internet.

I didn't need it. In time takes I put it back on the shelf. You hear these lyrics, yeah, I make them up myself. I didn't need it. I didn't need it. Won't that repeat it? No. And every time that I walk out of my door, you see a feat of architecture, you'll stand for yours.

That's what I came by telling me. Well, you think they would, but then you'd go uncompleted. The expectations are exceeded Still I'm defeated I didn't need it It's not my fault You know, I'm going to be able to be.

This is Redsend, see my reflection it's had. And the light as I'm talking to myself. With me, last dream, the screens are death and very old. I'm going to. to commit murder. It was funny. I had so much to say,

and now I can't think of a darn thing. And we've returned. Hey, Brian, who was that one more time, please? Sure, that's the Weezery Band, Delivery, from a brand new album called Force Majure, which comes out the middle of next month. Don't worry, you can hear this song right now. a song's called The New Alphabet. That was Delivery. If you guys are busy doing titles right now,

I think weezery should make the title list. Keep, I think somebody, yes, Dr. Calhoun entered in a little weezery. Nice. If you're not doing that yet, frogpants.combe.combe. A little reminder. Go vote for it, people. Go vote. Get in there. Big thanks. Big thanks to BioCow and to Talley for making it possible in the YouTube stream for people to bang-ass those right straight to us. We appreciate it. Heck yeah. All right. The now lower down the alphabetical list, Ace Detect, aka Tom Merritt, going to be incoming here.

He lost one space. It went down one, one whole space. One whole space. I didn't even give him, well, I did tell him about it later that day, but, uh, he was really all funny. Yeah, one of those things.

We want Tom. Hey, look who it is. It's Tom Merritt, everybody. He is Ace Detect on my list and it's now down two slots. Somebody else did a number. Uh, can't help it. Can't change it. But we can have him here with us and we love having him here.

Tom Merritt, Welcome back to the show. How are you? Thank you. The important question is, is my kiss on your list. Oh, yeah. Because your tech, your tech is on our deck. On my steam deck, doot, doot, do, do. Got to say this very carefully.

Your tech is on our list. Was that a lots of adunciation necessary? Was that a juice Newton joint? Who is that? Oh, holl and oats. Oh, holl and oats, duh. Both, both of them. Yeah.

I don't know why I was thinking of juice. Newton. She was your Angel of the Morning. Yeah, that's true. Yes. I used to think I loved her, but whatever. That was a long time ago. She was cute.

She had a Bailey Quarters kind of thing going on. Yeah. She was playing with the Queen of Hearts. She was. I'm known if it's really smart. Both of those songs covers, by the way. Oh, really? Yeah.

I knew Angel of the Morning, but Queen of Hearts is a couple. Dave Edmonds, yeah. I knew neither of those songs were covers. That's a good little bit. Well, Brian's really good at knowing this. and then telling us. Turns out. But her third hit,

Love's been a little bit hard on me, was a Juice Newton original. Oh. Hey, there you go. And the way of getting those two words, which I won't say together on their own, into the top ten. Ah, the Juice Newton original.

Fantastic. That's right. The Juice Newton original. Fresh squeezed. Yes, freshly squeezed Newton. Nothing like it. All right. Hey, Tom, Merritt.

It's good to have you here, sir, and talking about tech, of course, because we like to do that with you on the weekly. I'm sure there's something brewing out there. maybe even it's Korea related I don't know if it is or isn't I talked to my brother I'll tell you something funny about this so I was gonna say all this went down right there was like

martial law and everyone was like what's going on South Korea and so I send my brother a text it's like 430 in the morning he's not up he is there though and he's in some ruralish area near his wife's family and he finally answers the family text he goes what news what is happening I'm like I'm like that's great that's you know we're more worried about it here than they are there and as it turns out as usual we were actually because over there they were like

it's just this guy's a bluster monkey and he's you know it all got shut down before it could do anything it took yeah it took a little bit more effort than that to shut it down but they shut it down yeah uh that to your point uh and and and i think it was like 10 30 at night when he issued the the video the tv address right so he clearly did it you know in the evening when people were either asleep or still out at the pocha drinking soju soju so he was hoping that he could just kind of sneak it in overnight whereas here it was happening in the morning right so we're all waking up going the what happened yeah that was pretty well yeah uh and and i would like to say uh i i commend the the government and people of south korea because they they didn't stand for it uh people showed up at the national

Assembly to protest. The military, which was ordered to arrest people, just kind of slow walked it. They didn't disobey orders, but they were like, yeah, okay, we're going to do this, I guess. And then the National Assembly, both parties, including the president's party, jumped in and got a quorum. They needed more than half of the 300 people. They got 190 people to vote unanimously. No, there will not be martial law. And so that president is kind of... He's done so, right? I can't think of a nice word for what he is, but he's done. Yeah, he's done.

He's done so funny, though, because my brother, who is Korean, but has been an American citizen since he was like 10 or whatever we got naturalized. He still, he does this thing that we always get accused of in America, and he did it last night. And that is that we always see it through our lens, kind of like Apple fans always see Android announcements through their eyes. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know exactly what I mean. And so he's like, he goes, it is like Biden and Trump is same thing. He is this and that and the other. And he's like doing all this comparison.

I'm like, man, I don't think, I don't think there's, it's just, it's just a Korean, it happened in Korea. It's a, they've got their own reasons. This guy had his own reasons. I don't think we have to compare it to all these things. It was just an interesting, like, reminder. There are parallels. A lot of people compare President Yun to President Trump, but, but they're very different. And, and, you know, we would stray.

too far from what the purpose of my appearance here would be to talk about it. But yeah, I mean, largely, he is the conservative party. He is of the conservative party there. And the opposition is the liberal party. And they dominate the parliament right now, blah, blah, blah. So you can draw your own parallels from there. So I kind of get it. I get why he would say that.

But I doubt it would have gone down this way in the United States in many different aspects, many, many different ways. What I found the most interesting is that special forces, Unit 700, was deployed to the National Assembly as part of the martial law order with apparently orders to arrest the Speaker of the House. And among the five members of BTS that are currently serving in the Korean military, one of them is part of Special Forces Unit 700. Whoa, really? Yeah, so Kim Thayung, V, as he has known in BTS, possibly was deployed to the National Assembly. We don't know, but he's part of that unit. He is part of the anti-terrorism unit, so it possibly wasn't involved in this.

But if they were like all hands on deck, he might have been. That's wild. You got a K-pop star that's possibly in like this cool, elite little force? That's awesome. Yeah, yeah. When you join, you can express. your wishes, you don't always get them, but you can express your wishes of what unit you want to serve in, and he wanted to serve in special forces. So he's, he's been doing that as part of his

18 months of military service. Do you think he ever just goes into a dance move in the middle of training or anything? It's just like, you know. Well, he's been posting on Instagram going to dance practices when he has leave. So who knows? It may be. I love it. I also love how well, how well versed you are in this information. I think that's amazing. All credit to Eileen Rivera. He's the one that keeps me up the day. So we don't have to spend any much more time in Korea, but I am curious if you felt like it had any impact. I know it had an impact on stocks and stuff over there,

but it had affected any, like, is Samsung reeling over this? Is there any kind of weird Hyundai problems? Like, didn't none of that have an effect in that way? No, no. And I got a lot of similar questions yesterday during DTNS. And it doesn't feel like there's, and there's certainly no connection. There was a minor story about a company getting arrested, company had getting arrested in Korea for including DDoS software at the request of a

competitor or in order to target a competitor. So that just seems like industrial espionage didn't have anything to do with the martial law. The stock seemed to have recovered for the most part. The one thing I know is this guy, David Kim, who does Korean Pizza Club, that I follow, is somebody who follows the cryptocurrency market. And cryptocurrency in Korea, Korea crashed during the martial law announcement. And he was like, yeah, I bought up as much as I could while it was down because it wasn't down in the rest of the world. So there might have been a little buy in the dip by some crypto folks in Korea. But that's kind of the only thing I know about.

Okay. So it's not like, oh, now phones are 40% higher or working. Yeah, no. Okay. All of that seems to have stabilized because it was so short, because it didn't last. it seems like everything is like even back out. All right. Well, I will lovingly look at my micro SD card from Samsung today and think, good job, guys.

You avoided all the trouble. Also, I sent you some kimchi that I got when I was. I got it this morning. Kim says it's here. I haven't seen it yet, but there's like, she says there's kimchi from Tom. And I went, what? I haven't had a chance to look at it yet. I'm so excited.

Wow. Yeah, that was, I bought it at a convenience store. in Korea though in Korea in Korea yeah okay so what is it Korean kimchi from Korea is it a jar like what does this look like I guess she didn't bring it's a vacuum pack oh cool dude so when you go to the convenience store in Korea for people who don't know you can buy things and eat them there like they have microwaves and boiled water and all this stuff and so they sell these little packets of kimchi they even sell little little can half cans of spam if you just want to like add some kimchi to the ramen your making at the convenience store so that's what i that's what i got for i am so excited i'm gonna get i'm breaking into that today it feels like an m r e or something you know yeah kind of yeah that's cool yeah she she texted me right before the show started and said tom sent you some kimchi and that's all she said so far so i don't know what to make of it i was like really how do you even do that in twenty twenty four of it apparently there's a way and you found it so that's well it's what you

asked you asked for that or for me to bring back a k-pop star which i was not able to do so i got They were busy getting ready to help part of it if there was something going down. So I get it. Yes, exactly. Anything else going on in the world of tech that we should mention today or anything else you'd like to mention today? Yeah, no, there is one other story I'd like to mention because those of you who follow security news will get a kick out of this. The U.S. cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency or CISA had a joint press call with a unnamed official from the FBI. recommending that because of an ongoing intrusion into U.S. telecommunications,

that Americans that are concerned about their communications possibly ending up in the hands of foreign enemies should use encrypted channels for their messaging. So let me repeat that. The FBI was on a call recommending please use encrypted communications to keep your communications from falling into the hands of our. own law enforcement database that has been breached by foreign agents. Yeah. Boy, that's a snake eating itself, isn't it, right there? Well, because the FBI, if anybody doesn't know, has been on a campaign to have a backdoor for encryption.

One of the arguments against a backdoor for encryption is that it could be eventually used by the bad folks. And what's happening here is that Kalea databases, which are meant to collect data for law enforcement when they have a court order, have been breached by a foreign agent. And therefore, they want you to use encrypted communications to keep your data from showing up in that database that has been breached by a foreign agent for now. Wow. All right. Download Signal, I guess, is the answer, everybody. Get that going. Yeah. I've never used Signal. In fact, the SISA was really interesting. The FBI guy was like, use responsibly implemented encryption, which kind of leaves Wiggle Room to still be like, we'd really like a back door still. Whereas the Sisa guy was like, use Signal. Just, you know, you want to use something like Signal if you want to be really safe. And Signal really, I mean, it is considered by experts and whatever to still be like a secure, safe, encrypted method. Oh, yeah, yeah.

No, Signal is good. Google messages. If you're going Google to Google is good. I message on Apple or messages, Apple messages is good. Where you are going to run into problems is if you're sending SMS between non-platform members. So if you're sending an SMS from an Apple phone to a Google phone or from a Google phone to an Apple phone or an Android phone, not even a Google phone could be Samsung, those won't be encrypted.

If it's RCS, it might be encrypted, but it's probably not. So you've got to be careful if you're sending just general text messages. But if you're using Apple to Apple, Google to Google, any kind of signal or WhatsApp is also end-to-end encrypted, those are fine. Okay, so I have a, here's, here's my thing for Apple users. This is what you need to do. Remember, this will make it easy for you. If it's green, it might be seen. If it's blue, if it's blue, send it through.

Hey, that's good. Yeah. You like that? Green it might be seen. If it's blue, send it through. Fill free everybody to use that. Do whatever you want with it. All right.

Apply it to, apply it to your own lives. Tom, fantastic. As always, talking to you. You get any other projects people should be aware of? sure do but i'm not ready to talk about all of them yet uh patron you're about it first but we got some new stuff coming in january uh if you've been following the d tns experiments uh you probably have an inkling of some of the things we might be planning but i bet you can't guess all of them uh so stay tuned december 12th uh we are going to do one more experiment uh we've been doing

these experiments where we do good day internet and d tns separately and we do them in different ways to try out different ideas um and uh on on december 12th uh we'll be doing that again and uh we'll be doing a d tns with jason howl oh lovely keep keep an ear out for for all that stuff and more news to come nice that's exciting also uh you know cES looming oh yeah yeah yeah on the horizon a lot of the a lot of the new stuff is going to launch for cES uh gotcha yeah Yeah, and it'll be me, Rob Dunwood, and Amos in Las Vegas, Sarah, Roger and Joe, man in the home desk, and we'll be doing some good coverage. I'm looking forward to it. This is going to be great.

Always fun to watch. Check it out, Daily Tech News show. I'll be on there today, and we're going to have a great time. Tom Merritt, he is ace to tech on all the things. Two slots down on my Discord. We'll see you next time. Bye now. Thanks, God.

I'd like to just really hammer that home, you know. We really lay it in. Yeah. Why not? All right. I feel better about Korea already. Let's do this. Good, good. On Samsung. Yeah, and Samsung. Randy will be joining us shortly. Nicole's out today. She's got some stuff, but Randy will be here. And though we'll miss her, we will think of her as we play each other's things. Here is an intro that we use because I'm slow finding it for this. Well, what do you recommend?

Ah, yes, that song and sound means it's time for recommendals. Things we've seen on streaming services that we think. think you at home might enjoy as well joining us as randy jordan hi randy good morning morning morning stream hi scott hi brian hi good morning hi tom i am not eating kimchi today and now i want to oh you always want to but you got options and the oc good options yeah you could totally oh yeah every other restaurant's korean here so yes you really want you could make it happen yeah you could get out there and do what you got to do look i hope you had a great time in texas how's the family everything good everything's good yeah i messed around with critters

some good some bad and that's just how it is down there my mom had my mom had some red ants invading the yard and I murdered them by the thousands my mom had some really cool ducks that came up and ate twice a day and then you murdered those by the

thousands no no we're we love the ducks although the ducks don't love each other man they really fight like ducks are mean they're cruel it's terrible yeah ducks we always talk about how goose or geese or dicks, but ducks are right up there. They're not very nice either, especially to each other.

They're fine with people. They think you've got a loaf of wonder bread that you shouldn't feed them, by the way. But that's what they think, and they're excited to see you. But if they see other ducks, all bets are off. The whole ducking place goes up in flames. Here's the great news. Entire Thanksgiving vacation in South Texas, no political debates whatsoever. There was no.

How did you manage that? That's insane. I don't know. I don't know. I think we fled basically, like left the room when suddenly someone wanted to talk about the price of gas or something. We're just like, out. I've got a book to read over here. Yeah. Hey, how's that football game going? Let's watch that for a little while. Oh, I watched so much football. I'll bet you did. I watched the Texans versus A&M game. The Longhorns, yes. And I've never done that. That's an interesting. Or did I say Texans. I didn't mean. Yeah, I didn't mean Texans. Sorry. I was

I always screw it up because it's Texas versus, yeah. But I watched that game, and let me tell you something about that. I've never watched them play each other before. I don't know why it just never, just has never been a game I've seen. I know there's a big rivalry there. It's one of the nation's biggest. But when I see it, I didn't realize how palpable that that would feel through a TV screen.

Like, you can feel these teams wanting to just destroy one another and the fans and everything. It's crazy, that stuff. I would encourage you to temper those expectations. Like, like, I also watched the Ohio State Michigan game, and it was much more fierce. Oh, my gosh. Did you watch, did they show the end on TV where they, yeah, there's a live broadcast. And, of course, the game was called by Gus Johnson, the worst person to talk about real events. He's great to talk about a football play.

But when, when something went down after the game, like, you could hear a person come into the broadcast booth and physically restrained Gus Johnson. he was removed from his microphone at some point it was so ridiculous when the players are out there beating the tar out of each other do they have to come and hose them down how did they the police the ohio state police used pepper spray on football players oh my gosh dude i missed all of these shots of football players standing on their own sidelines crying because they they got pepper sprayed in the face wow it was amazing this is like we we need i want to do a sports show just to enjoy the craziness of stuff like this wow and then if and then uh the next night we stayed up all night watching a uh georgia georgia tech game that never ended it was like it was a six hour long football game the georgia versus georgia tech yeah yeah it's just oh it was amazing so yeah we had we had a lot of distractions from the political talk is what i'm saying yeah well i enjoyed a weekend of way too many b yu fans in town because of their game and there was freaking packed.

I don't even know how the game went. I don't know who won. Probably nobody or probably the other team. Probably not us. But the point is, all right, football, we get you. Calm down. Quit beat each other up. Everybody chill.

Anyway, let's get to these recommendals. Brian, you've got a clip here, and I don't want to play it until I know more about it. So what do you got? Well, I'm going to tell you that mine is a series, a mini-series, as opposed to like a continuing series. So you get six and done on this one. and it is the continuing story of a character that was introduced in, gosh, maybe the 50s.

Oh, my gosh. I think I have to look that up, but yeah, it's great. And you're going to hear some great banter from somebody whose voice you'll recognize, interrogating someone that he just gives zero Fs about. All right, here we go. One day when I was a child, the darkness was so thick. that I rode with my boat right over to the Cascade. I miss that boat.

I would row in the river every day. You understand what I'm saying? No, really, but then I was too busy wondering what day you might finish talking to listen. I speak in metaphor. So all that yap about shadows and waterfalls is really about your unhappy childhood. Wow.

You Americans understand nothing. F*** a French woman in a French bed and you learn all you need to know. I don't think you and I are having the same conversation. Of course we are. Then you're either really dumb, or you're trying to provoke me, which also makes you really dumb, or you're just what everybody says you are.

Handsome. Devil may care? Whatever you are and whatever you want me to think you are, you're not drunk, you're not bored, and you're not at all interesting. So you can knock off the bug act and listen to what I have to say. I promise to be quick, so you can get back to your sulking, and I can get back to the States where people don't butter their fucking fruit. You're just an American cry with copper, which in France gives you about the same legal authority as a rat catcher.

In my case, the two jobs are one of the same. Am I hearing that's Clive Owen? That is 100% Clive Owen as Sam Spade from the Maltese Falcon. This actually is a continuation of the character. This is called Monsieur Spade. Start out on AMC and AMC Plus. You can still see it on AMC Plus, but it's also on Netflix. So you don't have to subscribe to AMC Plus if you already have Netflix.

This is a six, excuse me, six episode mini-series that takes place several years after the Maltese Falcon. By the way, came out in 1941. I had to look it up how old Maltese Falcon was. Boy, what does that make? I think it like 80 years after the release of a movie, a sequel. Really? Wow. Yeah, a TV sequel. This, man, here's a requirement I want to give you if you're going to watch this show.

Number one, be prepared. It takes place in France in a really cool, beautiful city in France, Cadbozoult, which is, if nothing else, gives the most cinematic and beautiful backdrop to this whole series. Absolutely gorgeous. What am I preparing for, though? You are preparing for a lot of subtitles. Okay, because French, right? A lot of France. French, a lot of French.

And you're preparing for a show that takes two episodes really to get going. So the first episode really does a lot to set up the characters, especially, you know, Sam Spade and his new life in France living, his retirement in the south of France. second episode kind of sets things up continues this mystery that does get you know shown in episode one beginning of episode three is like

okay now I get this I'm fully invested and you kind of follow it from there so so make it to episode three before you decide to if you're in or out if you watch this but be prepared that it is a lot of subtitles so worth it

this thing Tina and I were kind of iffy getting into episode, going at episode three, and then we were freaking hooked for the last four episodes, three, four, five, and six is like, all right, this was great. And it really ends in a great, really, really well. So Maltese Falcon based on a book, is this also based on? It's also Dachal Hammett. This is not, no, this is not based on a Dachal Hammett novel. Okay. Just the character.

And they. Just the character. I was curious about that, too. like if, oh, is this also based on something it's not? But, um, uh, but that's all right. Yeah, totally fine. All good. It's well written.

And it's actually written by, um, Tom Fontana. No, Scott Frank, who's involved. He wrote out of sight with George Clooney and Logan. Oh, wait. Before I mentioned Logan. We talked about that earlier. Good writer. Minority report.

Don't tell Dunaway, but he wrote minority report. Oh, did he really? Okay. And then Tom Fontana, who, uh, worked on homicide life on the street and Oz. So good pedigree as far as the creators of the show. Of course, you know, Clive Owen is fantastic. The show is also filled with a bunch of French people that I don't recognize from anything else. And then kind of a surprise appearance later on in the season, again, or in the series that I won't reveal because it's great.

If you look at the IMDB or if you look at the Wikipedia page, you'll see it. But maybe save yourself from that reveal. the mystery is great and it's one that you get enough clues that you could be like oh okay i think i kind of got some stuff figured out um but it is a lot of it is kind of you're you're aware of things before even sam spade is so you can kind of solve and figure out what's going on without uh him figuring out what's going on and before he figures out what's going on interesting so um i like that. I kind of like that method of storytelling for mysteries sometimes where you're aware of it as you see the detective discover it and it kind of adds for a, adds for new thing. It's also, I think

it adheres to the old school, this kind of detective story from that era. Like, that's a way of telling that story that we don't see as often as we used to. No, this, this still feels very noir, even though it is in a very beautiful, well-lit French countryside. Yeah. It kind of It takes all that, the noir stuff that you associate with noir, which is, you know, dark, a lot of nighttime, New York, or some Gothic city, concrete jungle kind of thing. But it still manages to capture all that stuff. I did forget to mention Dean Winters is another person you'll recognize. You know him as mayhem from the insurance commercials. I know him as the worst, the worst boyfriend ever from 30 Rock.

Oh, yeah, that's another. I know him from Oz. He was on the prison show Oz is where I always think of him. Oh, really? Okay, yeah, he fits there too. He may have been a girlfriend there as well, if you know what I'm saying. It could have been. Is he playing his 30 Rock, Brooklyn Nine Nine, commercial character?

Kind of. He's actually a father. He's actually a priest, but he's the worst priest. I really like him, though. It's hard for me not to like him. He's great. Once he appeared on screen to him, like, oh, my God, that's mayhem. Father mayhem.

Father mayhem. I would watch a show called Father Mayhem. Hell yeah. Well, you could kind of watch that as part of Mulsir Spade. Again, it's six episodes. It's on Netflix. It's on AMC Plus. And it is worth your time.

Very, very good. All right. This was definitely on my list. So it's good to hear. It's good. Also, I know I didn't realize this, but that same, that guy he mentions, Scott Frank, the screenwriter or showrunner. It's also a show ran and created the Queen's Gambit, which was crazy good.

And Godless, wrote and directed Godless. Oh, shit. Well, then I'm all in, because this guy makes nothing but great things. Holy cow, yeah, if that, and I didn't know that either. So there you go. There's like, boy, talk about a great pedigree for this dude. Yeah, it's so good. All right, excellent.

One last question. Yes. This is the time of year when I'm evaluating all. recommendations for over the holiday break watching with my soon to be 15 year old. How adult is it? Some nudity and a little bit of blood. Yeah, more discovering bodies than actually witnessing the violent act that caused it. Witnessing the act itself, yes. So there will be aware of that. Think of the film. There will be blood, but think of it as a little bit of blood.

There will be a little bit of blood. And the nudity for those who care is both Clive Owen's butt and a few different boobs. A few. We haven't seen Clive Owen's butt before. Are there only three boobs? Three, March, just how many boobs I saw today. I love that one. All right, great.

This looks awesome. I'm going to watch this. That looks good. Yeah, you're going to like it. Be ready. I mean, I know you sometimes shy away from subtitles, but resist the urge to let that be a hurdle on this one. You are going to love it.

I only don't like the ones where that's all it is. I don't mind where it's like contextually correct about where they're at and stuff. It's fine. It's, and I would say it's only about half the dialogue, because a lot of the French people also speak English in this show. Sure. Yeah, I'm down with that. Okay, cool.

There you go. Randy, let's fly over to your zone here. What do you got for us? That's a good. Wow, what a perfect little segue line. Was it? I didn't even mean to. Yeah, because we are on our last episode of FilmSec, we talked about travel movies and we mentioned this one and it got into my head. And it's that time of, it's that time of our lives, like I told you a few weeks ago, when I am only going to watch things that make me happy. I am not going to recommend anything that's depressing. So I, you know, this came up on film sack. I watched it again. It was

so fun. The clip you're about to hear is some high school graduates who went on a trip immediately after graduating from high school. All right, here we go. Whoops. Well, we've got a couple hours to kill. What's there to see in this town?

Hello, the monument de questionaire. It's a monument to all the local fishermen that were lost at sea. Fromer says it's supposed to be quite moving. What the hell is wrong with you, C3P? we're here to see Europe not some crappy statue I'm taking a nap

Wake me up when the train gets here Says here this town has a famous nude beach All right look we can't all just lie around all day We've got to get out there and experience the culture firsthand let's go exploring Wow You know I realize when you put this in our Discord That this is one I'd never seen so now I get to hear your sales pitch

Okay it's real it's real simple it's real simple it's a fun comedy that is almost at the end of its time this this genre which is uh sex comedy uh we kind of ran out at some point like basically people had done everything there was to do and there was hardly any new takes on it and it has to you know like sex comedies kind of have to start somebody that you know blah blah blah this is uro trip euro trip came out in 2005 2004 2005 and and it is one of the best sex comedies ever made uh there's really not much sex in it like sex comedies are all about alluding to such things like people who desperately want to hook up but keep failing and it's got some of the most memorable comedic moments in all of film this i'm talking about uh the the most

memorable original song ever put in a movie period can't argue with that yeah uh it's got it's It's got Fred Armisen in a drop-in cameo that you will never forget and that people still quote to me at work all the time, right? You know, you get on an elevator with your work buddy, you put your hand on their shoulder, and then you say, miscusi, miscusi. It is when you're looking at the cast list there, you're getting spoiled for probably one of the most surprising appearances ever. we we didn't know going into this movie when it came out that really early on the lead singer for the song was going to be who he is and so on and so on it's hilarious the you know it's got the best uh the best buddy that i can think of in a movie ever i don't know what happened to that guy how did that guy not end up uh being in a bunch of movies like this but uh it's euro trip it's really fun there's a little Lucy Loll as you just split up on the screen. Absolutely unique in its little place in film. So I really like Michelle Tractenberg.

I didn't know Kristen Cruik was in this. I haven't seen her since the Superman show, Smallville. She's in the first 10 minutes. Go on. Okay. So that's it with her. She's just sort of there. Okay.

That's fine. I used to have a crazy crush on her. I used to think she was the end all be all on TV. she is very funny in this movie how's uh how's the so now let's let's pretend I had a 15 year old how's how's the content warning um

this is uh this is our rated and uh like I say there's not um there is nudity there's a lot of full frontal nudity but it's not um what you want I'll just put it that way uh this a comedy

you know it's very raunchy but it's also got there's this heart at the center of it, which is, like I say, the main characters and they're in a little quest that they're on. And it's, um, like I say, these raunchy, these raunchy teen sex comedy things, especially travel ones, they need that aspect to be good. They have to have some heart or else I kind of can't do it. Like, it's not that it's, it's not that it's debauchery. It's just, I need to, I need the human part of it. Even stuff like, um, American Pie, uh, had heart in there in,

in portions. Oh, you know what I mean? Yeah, I like that. I think that's important to these. I think it's a required ingredient or else why are you even making this movie? What's the point? And there's a handful of these movies in our history where when you're watching it for the first time, you're like, oh, this is legendary. And this is definitely one of them. American Pie was like that too.

As you were watching it the first time, you were having thoughts of somehow this is transcending its little genre. And these actors are punching above their weight class and so on. I like that. This is that. It's absolutely that. I'm often trying to get you to watch a movie like Saved, which has a very, very narrow sphere of influence. This is very broad.

Eurotrip applies to everybody. And like I say, it's super quotable and memorable. So you want to watch it just so you can understand when someone impersonates Fred Armisen in front of you. Nice. I think I'll watch it. I'll watch this with Kim, you know. There you go.

She's older than 15. She can handle it. She can handle a few decks on screen. Let me rephrase that. Yeah. Just spell it deck. A few decks. Yeah, maybe a handle is not the word.

Well, that's great. Looks awesome. And that's Netflix. It is on Netflix. Yes. For the rest of the month. Netflix is losing a lot at the end of this month. So this is the time to watch.

There must be some. I was like. finding so many it's like leaving soon leaving soon I was like oh man they must be some contract running out in 2025 yeah January I feel like every January we run into this and it's kind of a bummer when it hits film sack but we still have a month for Jaws 2 but just get on it just be aware you got to watch yeah get in there all right here's mine this is a documentary it is also on Netflix boy all Netflix two weeks in a row I think yeah I know it is yeah weird uh in this case this is a documentary in three parts.

Wait, was it four? No, it was three, I think. It is the kind of documentary I normally avoid, and I'll explain why in a minute. But here's the clip and a familiar voice. Eventually. That guy right there, that's why it earned. The toughest son of a bitch in the West. And right now, he's in the middle of the most famous gunfight in history.

You might have heard of it. The gunfight at the OK Corral. But here's what you probably don't know. This gunfight wasn't the end of a source. story. Nope. It was just the beginning. Ooh, leaving you hanging there.

That is a thing called a documentary called Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War. It is a three-parter. As you could tell, that was narrated by Ed Harris, who's great at everything. I could listen to him read, you know, a diary if you wanted, whatever. I don't care.

How did a man from Englewood, New Jersey end up sounding so southwestern? I know, right? He's got some crazy I think he has a love for that and it just comes out you know he's perfect yeah I do love him um he is uh see if I can find the actual link there it is this is a documentary about as you may have guessed Wyatt Earp and his family and his time and tombstone and all that and if you've seen tombstone one of the greatest westerns of all time um you assume going into tombstone there's a lot of apocryphal stuff being told there's that's the fun of the old west you can take real stories

and then augment them to be more legendary they did it Back then we do it now. That's the Old West. That's our mythology. It's what we mess around with. Turns out the real story of how that all went down. What came after. Who was involved is a lot different than the movie Tombstone or any other retelling that you've seen dramatically of that thing.

So much stuff is different. There are a few things that are very similar. For example, Ike Hanlon, who is your chief bad guy in most of this story, is portrayed by Stephen Lang in the movie. in the movie in that movie and he's just always drunk and kind of not in charge and sort of like third down on the rungs um in terms of who's who's like the big shot in the cowboy uh gang in in the real history of it he is the he is the kingpin he is like the mob boss he's everything and the guy played by powers booth i forgot his name um curly bill in tombstone who is portrayed as the leader is not the leader.

Like he's not even close to the leader. In fact, he plays a role very late in the story of this thing. And the whole thing turns out to be much more of a courtroom drama than it was anything else. They don't get into that at all in Tombstone. How he meets this girl he ends up with for the rest of his life is nothing like they tell you in Tombstone. There are a few characters that just straight up don't exist. How Virgil. And I forgot the name of the other erp kid um virgilin uh erp kid or uh billy erp what was his name hold on it's all here uh which will actually bring me in a second to my problem with the thing and and why i was able to overcome it morgan morgan thank you played so good by what's his name anyway uh rest in peace yeah rest in peace

they're they're they're in this they're in the story but there's a lot more to it he has a brother named Newton Earp who's like a whole other piece of this that he has sisters no one talks about in these movies like there's just a lot more layers like real life it often is when it compares to movies about all these people so in that way this thing is extremely interesting and the way that they do it is a lot like what you heard lots of sound work lots of Ed Harris clearly having fun narrating and then lots of reenactments and I hate them I hate reenactments so much. I'm a giant fan of like, just give me the facts.

Give me some Ken Burns. Don't give me a bunch of reenactments. But how I got over it here was they didn't cheap on it. They didn't go cheap. They went full on. The fighting scenes, the reenactments, the dialogue between characters. It's Hollywood quality, good movie quality stuff. If they hadn't gone that far with it, I probably would have not liked it as much.

Because I normally hate that. It always feels like Timo level, you know. Oh, God. yeah knock off they went fully in they they went all in they spent money cool i put it that way um the guy they hired to be wyatt erp this tim or yeah tim fillingham is uh he's basically just he's like a state he's like winter soldier and and railing givins had a child kind of is yeah and he really swaggers around just like both of them um you can see it here that looks like rayling given in this shot almost like totally does yeah he's very good in it though

very very good and who played ike ike was played by this guy who's nothing like stephen lang uh let's see if i can find him iike ike ike ike ike ike ike here he is jack gordon's his name this photo's not a good example of him at all he's a british actor yeah um he's very good in it as well everybody in it is good and that really helps that part of it because normally again i hate reenactments this is not one that shies away from just doing a good job of it here he is here is ike in the top image um it's just goes places i didn't know i love this time in history i didn't realize what a big dick uh the current president of the time was uh clark arthur no uh shit forgot his name chester a arthur that's it um and i've i'd forgotten

that he was a vice president and because the president the very popular one was assassinated forgot his name too he took over and then was considered one of the worst presidents we ever had and they get into why. The dude was corrupt as hell. James Garfield. Yeah, James Garfield. Everyone liked him. But he got shot.

Everyone, but one guy liked him a lot. Anyway, they go real deep into all of it. And if you love that era and you're into, like, just wanting to get the details and stuff, this is a very good one of those. The sound works incredible. Like I say, the filming of the reenactment's really nice. I still think overall, though, I would prefer, I can call it boring if you want, but I prefer the, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the, you know, the camera. Burns vibe. I would have preferred that. But we didn't get that. Instead, I got a thing that's pretty entertaining and fun and still gets all these points across and teaches us some stuff about

things you didn't know and the timelines and who died and why and all that. There is a Johnny Ringo and there is a Doc Holliday, but they're not involved in the way you think it is from Tombstone. They just, that whole thing with Doc Holliday, you're a daisy if you do and, you know, meeting by the old tree and fighting Johnny Ringo and all that. That is very apocryphal in Tombstone. Stone. Wonderful in Tombstone. Don't get me wrong. I'm telling you that's the right thing to do in Westerns. It is mythology and we should treat you as such. Have fun with it. But it's also fun to learn about the real stuff. So I went down some pretty deep rabbit holes. You might as well. Check it out. It is Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War currently streaming on Netflix. It is a Netflix original. Go check it out. Very cool. All three of these will be up on QuickTMS.L.I. Probably already there, fine to guess. Already are. Yep. Nice. And just click any of them to go right to next. Netflix and watch them. All three of them, very good, very different directions for all three. And all three.

Something for everybody. So go check it out. Randy, this week, Film Sack, Jaws, too. How do you feel? Jaws, too. Yeah. I feel great. It's great. You just reminded me, and I've said this before, I want you to read a book called Assassination Vacation. You will love it. That's it. That's it. Okay. That's fair. That follow the same family, the Clark Griswold and family. Exactly, yeah, perfect, perfect. Would you go to the Ford Theater or something? Yeah, sure.

It's a Sarah Vowl book, and she travels around to the last spots where three presidents were shot. Yeah. And she connects them, and it's really, really fascinating. And Garfield's assassin, Charles Gatow, is a major character in this. book. I think you would really appreciate it. It's very fun. I love her. I wish she would do more. I know she does a lot of history stuff, American history stuff.

I'd love more documentary style from her because her voice is also great. Yes. Well, there you have it. Real quick to somebody said something in the chat. Where to go? I lost it. Yep, can't find it. Well, that's fantastic. Anyway, it was really great and I was going to talk about it.

Randy. we'll see how Jaws 2 goes. I don't have high hopes. My hopes are pretty low. Maybe it'll surprise me. I don't know what takes back. There's a shark eats people. If you're expecting that,

then you will not be disappointed. Oh, shit. Well, then I'm all in. Let's go. Sharks eating people. Wow. Who would have thought with Jaws 2? I'm just guessing I've never seen it myself.

I really, really assume that what I'm going to get is a shark eating people. I feel like it's safe. I feel like it's safe. When you make assumptions, then you go in the ocean that's right making ass let me and sharks and sharks by randy all right there's that we did it hey guys guess what else is on the menu some leftover things we got to do real fast um we got a quick uh phone call or no a note here to remind people to phone call us here's the number write it down put it in your phone [phone] why because we're doing call now

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Brian, I think it's going to do it for us. Everything else is found at frogpants.com slash TMS, except for the song you're about to play. And then it will be found there. So tell us what it is. And then it'll be found there. Yeah, this is It comes from an anonymous submitter. Coverville, today marks the 20th anniversary of an event I think about every year. I traveled home with my then-girlfriend, ex-girlfriend for the last 19 years.

To meet her friends and family, and per Thanksgiving tradition, friends go out and hit the hometown bars to catch up. We joined a group of her friends at karaoke event, and one of her friends went up to sing. As the intro music played, I audibly groaned, anticipating yet another amateur that thinks the audience want to hear them butcher, Somebody to love. Was I ever wrong?

It was a soul-crushingly beautiful rendition that captured the beauty, passion, pain, and heartbreak of the song. So much so that it haunts me every year at this time sung by a stranger that I have not seen or talked to since that night. I pose it to you to play the most beautiful cover of that song that you have. Also, you can play this any time. There's never a wrong time for Queen. Signed, Anonymous. Wow. We don't get those very often when there's no name.

No, I love that email. I had to play this. um boy there are two versions that stick out to me that um that are that style hauntingly beautiful and unexpected and both of them are celebrities um i've played the other one before that one is by brittney murphy recorded for one of the happy feet movies and it's it's even more hauntingly beautiful with her passing because it sounds so oh longing and melancholy that i was like that brittany murphy i wasn't sure who you meant but that brittany murphy um the other one that we're going to play right now is another actress that you know and love and kind of

might find unexpected that she would cover Queens somebody to love. Boy, when you think about it, you've got these two versions by actresses. And then you've got Jim Carrey's version of the song by the same title by Jefferson Airplane in Cable Guy. Crazy. People, celebrities just love covering songs named somebody to love. Anyway, this version comes from Ella Enchanted from 2007. And his sung by the star Anne Hathaway, and you won't believe what a beautiful voice she, a beautiful singing voice she has. Here is Anne Hathaway and Somebody to Love. Can anybody find me somebody to love? Each morning I get up I die a little

Can't barely stand on my feet Take our soul in the mirror and cry What what you're doing to me I have spent all my years and believe in you But I just can't get no relief But somebody Somebody Somebody to love

Got no feel I got no rhythm I just keep losing my beat I'm okay I'm all right She's alright It's a place no defeat I just gotta get out of this prison cell One day I'm gonna be free

Lord somebody Somebody, somebody, can anybody find me? Somebody to love. She was on every day. I try and I try and I try, but everybody wants to put me down. They say I'm going crazy. They say I've got a lot of water in my brain. No common sense.

I've got nobody left to believe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hurt somebody to love find Hurt somebody to love find Hurt somebody to love find Hurt somebody to love find A somebody to love Find somebody to love

Can anybody find me Somebody to love Find me somebody too long. Find me somebody too low. Find me somebody too low. Those pants are made for froggin. If you know what I mean. I actually don't.

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