The Morning Stream - TMS 2750: Are Pancakes Bread?

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

You can't re-kill Betty White. Quadrapussy. Casino Royale with Cheese. The Kids With Their Skibiti Bullshit. Captain Mortality. Healthy mix of the rich and ignorant. Brussel Sprouts from Monkeys. Entirely Entitled to Your Wrong Opinion. Alien Corn CHOOOTS! Get a little tail in the back. Disney Movie about the Frog. The name's Bond, Missing Bond. Pigeon Pit. Violently agreeing with Tom. Defining bread 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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Casino Royale with cheese. The kids with their skibbitty BS. Captain Mortow. healthy mix of the rich and ignorant Russell sprouts from monkeys entirely entitled to your wrong opinion Alien corn chutes Get a little tail in the back

Disney movie about the frog The name is Bond Missing Bond Pigeon Pit Violately agreeing with Tom Defining Bread with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream

And listen you keep getting seen in public With human females And I can get your work in the entertainment industry Time to tear those aliens a third corn shoot. The Morning Stream. I am a multiverse agent. Well, hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Morning Stream for Wednesday, December 11th, 2020. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian Abbott. Hi, Brian.

Oh, yeah. Hello. I'm your driver. There's a water in the trunk and a phone charger right there in front of you. We'll have you to the Walmart in moments. Oh, we've missed my stop. Where are we going? Where are you driving this part of town? This is a sketchy part of town, driver. We're just going for it. You and I were going to be the new Thelman Louise as soon as I can find the nearest canyon. Really? Because I just wanted to go to that bar that you were going to drop me off on. I didn't realize, you know, this is a very different ride.

We're going to plunge to our deaths, but before that, please rate me five stars. Fantastic. I did it. We're good. Good. All right. Hey, everybody. It's Scott and Brian, and we're here for another TMS.

I hope you're all doing well. I always like, you know, when we come to the show, it's the, you know, the top of the show. I like to just share. If I learned something over the last day or so, I'd like to share it. Okay. I like that. Yes. Yesterday, it was president something or other back in the Old West and some white.

Earp stuff, or maybe that was a day before, whenever it was. Oh, yeah. I just like, I like it, and I like to share it. So I learned a little something. Well, these are lessons I think I already knew, but there's the sheer number of Simpsons episodes, right? That's one way that this happens. When you have 30 plus years of a show, you are bound to have so much content, you

know, they're always saying they predict the future and these things have all happened. Well, it's not because they predict anything. It's because if you do enough content, eventually, like, Like us saying the name of Betty White the day before she dies. Right. You go, oh, they predicted it because any time they say a name. Yeah, exactly. And I used her as an example so that she's already dead.

She's already dead. We can't re-kill her. Yeah, we can't, you can't re-kill Betty White. You can barely kill her, let alone re-killer. Right. A little of re-killer. So I'm listening to these in the background, having a lot of fun with my watch of The Simpsons.

I'm in season eight now. Okay. And there's this one episode that had a couple of really great lessons. in it that I'd forgotten about, one of them seems even more, even more prescient today. But I'm going to play one of these, and this one may seem obvious, but I just like it as an illustration about how when we were young, you know, we thought the violent fems were cool and getting a little tail in the back was cool on your hair. Sometimes that was cool. Sometimes you're talking about a car. Get a little tail in the back at the drive-in movie.

I mean, that was pretty cool. That might be universally cool over every generation. Not if you have the tail on your head, but yeah. That's true. So we have things that we... Everybody thinks they've got cool. The kids today with their skibbitty toilet and their bullshit, they think it's cool. So everybody's got the cool.

And there's this moment where Homer flashes back to when he was a kid in the 70s. And he says this. He's having a conversation with Barney's over at the house, and his grandpa's much younger. And he says this. You wouldn't understand, Dad. You're not with it. I used to be with it. But then they changed what it was.

Now what I'm with, isn't it? And what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you. I mean, basically, that's it. That boils it right down. Is there a better example of generational change and cultural change than that? Probably not, right? Probably not.

It's a great example, sadly. Yeah. So I enjoyed that, and I'm watching along. And in the same episode, Mr. Burns says something. Monty Burns is at a concert. and says this, which I think just feels like ripped from today's headlines. So here. You laughed when I bought Ticketmaster.

Nobody's going to pay a 100% service charge. Well, it's a policy that ensures a healthy mix of the rich and the ignorance, sir. Yeah. I mean, that's Ticketmaster now. That's them. A little prescient. Yeah, sadly, prescient. Yeah.

I've never had to use Ticketmaster for anything, so I only know the stories. But I mean, they kind of, didn't they kind of monopolize it? some point and then just jacked everything up everything had a service charge attached to it like it's like burns owns it and this was 1996 i think that you did the episode hilarious wow yeah i there's some there's some stuff in there that's really scary that they're that they're able to get dead on that whole um world series or super bowl or something that they predicted kind of like back to the future oh right yeah we're they never gonna win the world series or something like that but That was one on The Simpsons as well.

I, inspired by you, Scott, have started rewatching the Simpsons myself. Not really rewatching, picking up where I left off on the seasons. Oh, interesting. So you're way ahead of where I'm at then, probably. I'm way ahead because I've missed basically, I think the first season I haven't watched anything from was the one that had Lena Dunham as the pharmacist that Homer hooks up with when he, Marge get a separate or do a trial separation. Oh, yeah. I remember that. That's actually a pretty good episode. It's not bad. And I like the places they go with it. But man, that one feels just so dark for a Simpsons episode. Yeah. There's some of those. In fact, it feels like every

few years they do a, what if Marge and Homer had a real separation problem? Had a real problem. Yeah. Like even early on, they had Lerlene, the country singer that had the hots for Homer and he just about had an affair with her. The bowling instructor. that Marsh was almost with or the nerdy guy that was, that she turned down to be with Homer and you get kind of the, it's a wonderful

life thing. It was the John Lovitz. Yeah, all I remember was John Lovits character on that one. Yeah, he was great on that. He was great. They had, there's even a, let's see if I can find it here. There's an episode, episode 23, or season 23, episode 21,

2012, where it predicts the Twitter becomes X thing. really yeah it says here at one point in the episode homer checks his smartphone and one of the apps on his dock uh clearly or sorry quite clearly contains x as its defining symbol wow so there's that it's just the easy thing to create an app that looks like an x exactly right right it's still it's just like volume enough you do enough episodes you're going to have references it's just the way it is yeah wow um let's see here's another one um Oh, bloody billboard. Not that one. Where is it? America wins the gold meddling curling. Homer won in a season 21 episode, Boy Meets Curl. And it happened not long after that. The Americans finally won. Jaycey Penny files for bankruptcy. They predicted that. The Ebola outbreak, Barbie mania. Donald Trump being arrested. Kamala Harris presidential run. Robots as librarians. It goes on and on and on about all these things.

things that you can some of them are a little tenuous it's like yeah yeah right it's like well if you read it if you look at it this way then yeah they predicted this correctly but yeah i love it though i'm having a great so that's great that's funny you look at you burn it you're burning that candle on that end i'm burning it on this end we're gonna we're going to meet in the middle of the candle from closer to the top oh yeah i cut a little piece away of the wax and lit the wick inside the candle and i'm just going to let it burn its way to the top yeah and if you and i were on the same candle I would be unaware and I would get to where you burned it and I would fall off the candle unaware right thanks a lot Brian thanks a lot for what you've done sorry I'm sorry I did that

dang now I feel bad oh anyway it's I've been having a blast I keep getting I don't know why people want to yuck the um of it all but I keep getting these emails going how can you stand watching the show they lost their way I'm like okay I get it I understand it's the thing to do to hate on a thing that's old but look right I'm enjoying it so why do you care. Exactly. Quit yuck in my yum. Yeah, calm down.

This is yummy. And also, you're wrong. Yeah. I want to yuck somebody's... You're completely entitled to your wrong opinion. Yeah. I want to yuck somebody's yum in real life. I want to go into a restaurant, see somebody just going, mm, this steak, mm, and go.

Gross! Right in their face, you know? Yeah. I won't do it. Some restaurants just do that automatically. Is that part of their motif? It's part of their motif. It's part of their motif.

Yeah, exactly. Wonderful. All right, here's something interesting. I'm not the only one, apparently, who does this. An anonymous text her wrote in. It says, hey, TMS. Has had a Scott moment last night watching the second Harry Potter movie when Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape were standing in a room together.

And I said out loud, half the people in this scene are dead. My wife was appalled that I was so rude. Love the show, though. Oh, nice. I can't help it. I was doing the same thing. thing the other night with uh oh what was it something it's a wonderful death no oh i know it was uh it's when we were doing jaws two for a film sack i didn't bring it up on the show but i couldn't

help notice like all these people are dead like all these these some of these kids are alive that's it yeah right the mayor's dead shiter's dead the mom's alive the mom's alive she's like 90 but she's around so i guess i can give her that but yeah i do it all the time and i think it's just a My reckoning with how time works is a little broken and will always be that way. And I know it's no surprise, right? I mean, because we've talked about that you do this and there's nobody who's listened to the show for any amount of time that knows that you're kept in mortality sometimes. Oh, yeah. Fascinating.

Yeah. But I wonder why that is. Like, is it a way of not worrying about your own eventually? demise or is it a way of like trying to desensitize yourself to your eventual shuffling off this mortal coil? Maybe. I think part of it is I don't actually think about death. It makes you less worried about it or something. I don't think I actually, so I don't think I fear death. I think everybody has a somewhat healthy fear of death because we're creatures that are meant to survive and we do what we can to live on. But I don't really worry. Like if tomorrow, I don't know,

a boulder killed me and be like, all right, well, I mean, how do I control that? I can't control it. I was going to say, you know, you won't be there to say, all right, well, that happened. Yeah, well, I won't even have, exactly. I'll have nothing to say because I won't have seen it coming. And I'm just, I'm just out of there, right? So I don't, I don't obsess about it in that way. That doesn't bother me.

And there are times actually where it's comforting for me. If I'm, like, super sick when I had COVID really bad in 2022, that's some of the worst I ever felt in my life. And I remember at the time going, the way that I felt better that night to feel better through the night. was to say, well, if it takes me, it takes me. That's what I would say to myself. And it actually helped me sleep. I was like, all right, you're better now. He's just sleep.

Big deal. Who cares? Like, you have to kind of let go of that. So I don't think it's that. I think it's like, well, actually, I think I know what it is. But I've never, like, sussed this out in any kind of therapy or anything. But when my dad died very suddenly, and he was just such a massive pillar for everybody in our lives, to have him just go poof one day.

Yeah. I think I've never quite. figured out how to wrap my head around it. I don't think I've fully, not that I haven't dealt with it, like an emotional dealt with it. I definitely did. It's just this feeling of like he was there, now he's not. I worry less about me being here, he's there, now he's not, than other significant people in my life. It seems insane that they're not there.

And so I have to, so I have these gymnastics in my head about time and what it's like. And if you go watch something like the Maltese Falcon, the movie. and you see this old black and white movie and you just think every one of these people and the cameraman and the director and the sound guy who is involved in this film dead the only thing still standing is the multis falcon itself yeah the Smithsonian or something yeah that prop is sitting somewhere doing just fine but every flesh and blood human involved in that so it's almost like you're looking at a ghost when you see that movie and this is where my brain goes weird it's like they're all doing their thing but they're not really here yeah okay it's weird it's a weird thing i admit it is but it's but it's but it's interesting to um uh interesting to kind of take a look at at what that is you know like it why that happens and why you feel that way yeah i don't feel like it holds me down or back or anything but it does no i don't think so either i think it's but it is a fascinating you know this is i don't know if we've ever really talked about this when we've had wendy on yeah on a thursday but it might be on one of

these days that maybe we don't have a, where we want to take a break from an email or something, it might be like, all right, Wendy, what do you make of this? Yeah, what do you think of this? And she'd say, well, my brother is a weirdo and blah, bra, bra, blah. Probably something like that. Anyway, so we also got this.

Somebody asked us to do this. Ryan from Michigan asked us to rank these celebrities. And I don't know why we got this or what the deal is. He says that you can use any criteria you want. So, Brian, I'm going to do it to you. And you're going to use whatever criteria. you want to rank these celebrities. All right. Okay. Sounds good.

And I don't know what that means criteria. I think he means either like number or you could say five apples to one apple or you could say, I don't know. Well, no, I think it's not about, it's not unnecessarily about what if I use stars versus apples versus thumbs up or rating one to ten, it's what's the criteria? Like do I say handsomest or most attractive of this list? got it got it um okay do you have a preference of something you'd want to do that with um i want to i want to go through the list and then and then i'll develop the i've not thought about what because i've looked at this list yeah and i've not yet thought about what criteria i want to use to rank them so you will get a live unfiltered ranking and that's what i was hoping for this

would be great yes so this is one of the most diverse lists i've ever been handed in my life okay i will say that going into it here it is these are famous people so they are celebrities the one thing that makes them common is that they are indeed levels of celebrity beyond that though these people would never be seen anywhere together no there's zero in common with any of these

all right here we go ben savage the actor turned now director brother of Fred boy meet world yeah that kid I think I think right I think that's a kid I think he was the think Ben Savage was Boy Meath World and

I think Ben's doing a lot of Fred was wonder years right Fred's a little he's kind of didn't he do something dickish and got in trouble on something, something like that. Yeah, which bums me out. Yeah, every time, every time Fred Savage comes up, I have to mention that Rob Loe show. I'm contractually obligated to mention The Grindr, which is one of the greatest shows of all time, one of the greatest one season sitcoms of all time, the grinder, with all these people that you know and love on the cast, including Rob Lo and Fred Savage.

Well, so he was acting in it, too? Fred Savage was? Yeah, Fred Savage was the main character. Oh, I thought he just directed or ran it or something. he uh he he's the main he and rob low are the main characters and i think they're brothers and rob low is this actor who really wants this role as a um as an attorney and goes to live with his brother who's an actual attorney to learn the okay to learn what it is but he's like the cheesiest actor of all time but it's so good god is so good i knew just people go watch it nobody i know

has ever watched this it's what like eight episodes something short right yeah something short I think it's a full season. It might be a half season, like 13 episodes. Okay. And they concentrated all that, what they could have doled out slowly over a five-year series, concentrated all that funny into like whatever, 12, 13 episodes. So you don't feel like, did it feel like it's complete, like it didn't need another season? It's a sitcom. Yeah, I mean, it's a sitcom, so it's not like there's a resolution, but, um, uh...

Like laugh tracks and all that stuff? like audience? No, I don't think a laugh track. I think it's, uh, but it is comedy, but it's not, they don't have a, they don't have that fake laughter in there. Okay, good. I hate that. Yeah. Very Parks and Recreation style of comedy that like deadpan, the, the clueless people aren't aware that they're clueless kind of thing. I gotcha. Okay. But not quite like office, Abbott Elementary where they're looking at the camera once in a while, that kind of not, right, not mockumentary style like, you know, today's the day that we're going to be having the annual parent teacher conferences.

Oh, my kids, why are you doing this? And the parents would think is a problem. No, no, no, no. Oh, you just described Abbott Elementary's whole thing. Boiled it down to its variousness. Yeah. I don't hate that show, but there is a formula to it. No, there is a formula to it.

Oh, 22 episodes says Man Apart. And after seeing a thing I won't spoil that you're going to talk about later today. Yeah, yeah. It's sort of superior to it. I'm sorry, everybody. It is, it is, but only, but, but, yeah, and we'll talk about why it is. It's its own thing. I shouldn't compare them.

Anyway, because I do like, I like, Abb, it's fine. Anyway, so we got Ben Savage from your boy meets world. Just one, one name took us down that rabbit hole. Yep, we got there so quickly. Billy Idol. Sure. He of the rebel yell. Right, white wedding, all that.

Eyes without a face. Exactly. Wait, is that him? Eyes without a face. Yeah, that's Billy Idol. Oh my gosh. forget that's him. Brittany Murphy,

the late grape, Brittany Murphy, Yule Brenner, all right, King and I, a cowboy man. I'm already, I'm already going to rank him

lowest for spelling on the list because it's Y-U-L, not U-L-E. Yeah. I was hoping for more of a Christmas spelling, like Y-U-L-E. A Y-U-L-E-L-E, like a Y-L-L-L-E-L-L-E.

Yeah, Yul-Log-Brenner. Or Tom Rok-Haw. Tom Horok-O-C. Tom-R-R-R-C. That's just had. Oh, the news tonight here in NBC. So the only, like, there's another, it's really weird, but why, like, each of them have a B as an initial.

I don't know if that's, you know, if, how Ryan came up with this order, but, um. Oh, see, that's, that's your quiz, pub quiz brain going right there is what that is. It really is. Yes, exactly. Love it. Um, all right. Well, let's see. I'm going to rank them.

in order from most would like to get stuck in an elevator with them for a long period of time to leased. That is definitely a ranking of your choosing. That's amazing. I love it. And we're going to say Britney Murphy, in clueless, that time period is compared to right now, because I don't think. Orgyle Brenner for that matter. Well, yeah, they're desiccated corpses now. But think of them in their prime.

horrible. Yeah, in their prime, what would they... King and I, Yolbrenner, and in clueless, Britney Murphy. Sure. I'd put her on top. I would put Britney Murphy on top. She seems delightful. She's her singing voice in Happy Feet.

I'd ask her to, you know, we'd occupy the time by singing Happy Feet songs. That's right. And, you know, I had to apologize for that brief moment after her death when the whole world thought it was due to some drug thing or some horrible thing until we were like, oh, shit, it's black mold? God, we're all dicks. Yeah, we were kind of dicks. I mean, she had other issues going, but that was definitely the problem. And that documentary, someone just mentioned at the chat that came out maybe last year or a little bit before, fantastic watch.

Oh, great documentary. A little sad, but definitely worth watching a few. Yeah, okay. So, Brittany Murphy on top. Yeah. I would say, I'd like to be in an elevator with Billy Idol because I think it would be fun to talk music with them and talk about, you know, the sneer how'd you come up with the sneer billy what uh what's the story behind that are you born with the sneer or did you develop the sneer over time tell me about that time you were hanging out

with debby harry what does she smell like yeah she looks like she'd smell it lovely every no mat like get off stage after a two hour concert like lemony lemony fresh just nuzzle her hair well now we're getting creepy but you know she smells good i know she smells good i know it i just but then okay idle. Then Tom Broca. Oh, all right. That's great. I like the order you put me in. Yeah, I mean, I'd feel, you know, I'd be intimidated.

I couldn't talk to any current events because he'd obviously know more about them than I would. So, you know, I'd be like, what do you do on the weekends, Tom? Oh, I like barbecuing. This just had. I like ribs. Breaking news tonight, I made a steak. I mean, it is, it's a little, Oh, little reps, right?

It's a little Mitch McConnell, I admit, where I go with his voice. It is, I know. I need to do a little listening to Tom Brokaw before I can do the Tom Brokaw. I don't have a, I don't have my gateway phrase, which gets me into the Tom Brookes. Yeah, it's hard. You do need a gateway, though. And then between Yule Brenner and Ben Savage. Ah.

I don't know enough about Ben Savage. I just don't know him, so I just don't know what they're. No, but, you know, having him in there and him talking and stuff, I might get a little sleep. before they finally get us out of the elevator. And Yule Brenner, I'm kidding. If Ben Savage is listening, you know, I still would put you number four, Ben, because I think you'd have some great stories.

Sure. And Yul Brenner, I think, would just irritate the living shit out of me. I think he would be hard to be with. I agree. Yeah, yeah. I think he's my last, I think that order is exactly what I would do. I would do that exact same order. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think. You know, we talked for a minute about Westworld and say, that seemed fun, like acting like a robot. and stuff. How cool was that? He'd go. He's fine. He was very good. Yes. I was a cowboy with robot parts, he'd say. Exactly.

And then you did the space world or future world or whatever that one was and you had to play a totally different robot. You played the same robot? I don't even know. It's weird. The way you've done it with the whole elevator thing, my brain has just put them all in there together. You're all hanging out and just you're not talking to Ben Savage

or Yule Brenner much. It's that, it's that what was it the devil movie M. Night Shyamalan, everybody stuck in an elevator movie. Yep. That was actually, I kind of like that. That was actually, it was pretty good. Of his recent stuff that, that was all right.

By God, so much better than that stupid. Was it? Old? Is it? Channing Tatum? Oh, the one you saw. Yeah, trapped. That one is a split. That seems like a split egg. A lot of people like it. A lot of people hated it. We are going to watch it for film sack at some point. You're willing to do that again? Let us do

that one that'd be great well yeah i'll totally do it again not for a while but yeah let it off a little bit mid to late 2025 i'm cool with us watching trap and i'll watch it again and i'll just say here here is my here is a list of my grievances that's right that's right we've got to get the happening in at some point because it's so bad we have to do that yeah yeah yeah yeah i think i saw a tree i think the plants are alive yeah so e-day chanella is the best thing about that movie fight me. She's the best thing about every movie. She is. I love her. Every movie. Every movie should have zoidation. I don't even think elf works without her. That's how good. That's how good she is. She made

elf work. I agree. She did make elf work. All right. Except she was a blonde. She doesn't look right. She just, she's always beautiful, but she just doesn't look right as a blonde. It's kind of like when Katie Perry went blonde. Yeah. Different person. I like that for you. If you were happy with that hairstyle, I love it, and you should do whatever you want. And it's far. for me to say what color anybody's hair should be. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm with you. But it throws me. It throws me when

I see it. It throws me. You're like, you know. Yeah, totally get it. Anyway. All right. Well, we're going to play a game, and we're going to do it done awayless. That doesn't mean we won't have Randy Deluxe here in his place. Randy, good morning and welcome. Good morning, morning, morning. Stream. I am dealing with the sacrilege of

elf doesn't work without something. I'm trying to try to get away from thinking about like of course elf works with someone else okay hold on i'm gonna say this about elf you could take i think this about almost everyone in it i don't think elf works as not that it wouldn't work at all but it doesn't work as well without brittney murphy as that character and i don't think obviously will feral is key to everything or zoie dashnell sorry i want to get brittany murphy on the mind um it doesn't work without james con and the role he's in anybody else i don't work without peter doesn't work without peter doesn't work without peter Dinklage or Bob Newhart?

100% agree on all those points. That's all I'm saying. That's what I'm saying, Randy, this is a movie, this is a movie kind of like, it's like a galaxy, or not Galaxy Quest. Is it Galaxy Quest? Yeah. With the, yeah, Galaxy Quest.

What's wrong with my brain? Doesn't sound right. That's a movie that's the right movie. Exactly. That movie should not work, but it absolutely does. And I wouldn't change a single piece on the border would F it up. That's all I'm saying.

Don't change anything about it. It's a discussion we've had many times. over the years and I'm just always on the side of great filmmakers can make things work if they don't get perfect casting. I'm always, I'm always talking about who could you have also put in that role and you just, you like the art the way it is. Yeah. I get it. Yeah, I think here's the thing though, this is why it's a fun philosophical discussion and there's no real good answer, but think of a movie you've hated and maybe it turns out you hated it because the, it just the wrong pieces were on the board

to continue the wrong metaphor. There was like one member of the cast that was like, oh, that thing just throws the whole movie for me. By the way, Randy, log into the game while we're talking. Oh, yeah, you should log into the game. I'll figure that out. Keep going. Get in there.

While you're doing that, we're going to add somebody to the call. We usually take our fourth person, and I think it's not going to change today. We're going to take our fourth. Let's see who it is. Oh, they're ripped in real quick here. Who we got? One, two, three, four. It looks like Raven TCG is on his way in.

Raven. Oh, yeah. She's up in Minnesota. She builds cool games. Yep. Love that. Love anytime we get anybody here makes any kind of game-based stuff, I get excited. You know?

She got me into Lorcana. That's how cool she is. Oh, nice. Well done. That's great. Also, you're just a great part of the community. Thanks for being such a rad member of the Frog Pants, you know, greater community. Okay.

I had to mute my. Yes. Yes, you're there. I had to mute my YouTube. It was going crazy. That'll happen. Turn to turn to your radio down, down, down, down, down. It's like old school.

Anyway, no, you're fine. I'm really glad you're here, though. Thanks for being our fourth caller today. Thanks. I'm procrastinating. I have to write a really hard letter to a customer. So, I'm testing with my favorite people. Is the customer not always right in this situation?

No, the customer is really not right. They're very wrong. Customers wrong. These dice stink You know you need to do You need to write You need to just tell an AI to do it And then take all your emotion out

Let it do the mean work That there you go That's the use case for AI that I like Well anyway It's lovely having you here We're gonna play this game We got Randy of course Is Randy yes Randy's in

He's an elf lover Look at his name in there That's pretty funny Elf Lover Randy I have to tell Donaway That I'll miss him I know Yeah we'll come for you

He'll never hear this Yeah he'll never know That's the great thing about Brian Dunaway. He does not listen back to anything ever report. That is the truth. I don't either for that matter though. I think I've listened to one of my own podcasts since

like episode six of Coverville. I say, yeah, I can't do this. I do it once in a while, but it's just to like, all right, let's check in, see how, is audio good? Did I hit with all my marks? Like, what happened here? And it's kind of fine, but I generally speaking cannot do it either. It drives me crazy to hear myself talk.

I often wonder, but you, Scott, specifically, with your diarizing. Like if one day when you're old, you'll listen back to your diaries. Is that a verb for diarrhea? Those are for my kids to suss out and make sense of. I don't, you know, when I'm dead, they'll be

digging through those diary episodes and going, can you believe in this one? He said that Brussels came from monkeys or, you know, whatever dumb thing I say. And that's for them. I let them deal with that puzzle. But for today, we got this other puzzle. Sorry, go ahead, Raven. I was going to say, you're truly obsessing about death today. I know,

right? Oh, man. We, well, Well, let's not have the death of Tad Pooley Feud today. There you go. See? Captain Mortality. Positive. It is time to play the Tad Pooley feud. I've surveyed the Tadpool on some nerdy topics.

And Scott and Randy will have to predict the answers that he gave us. It is their job to see how in those answers they can guess. Raven, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with one of these chuckleheads. And if your team wins, you'll get a prize package that includes Mythargia and the Serpent Rogue on Steam. I don't know what either of those. are. Usually have an idea, but I don't know what those are. Yeah. Both of those, courtesy of Kim Q. So, big thanks to Kim Q.

The serpent rogue really does sound like a snake playing rogue, which I think is fun. That's pretty cool. For sure. Yeah. Why not? All right, let's get to the game. And I'm glad you're here for this one, Randy. I mean, I'm sad that Donowie is in here because I think he would be also good at this, but I think you

will offer a very interesting perspective on this. And of course, it doesn't matter what you guys think. It matters what the tadpole thinks. So please, put your hands on your buzzers and give me your best answer to this. We asked 421 Tadpoolers, what is your favorite James Bond movie?

Scott. Skyfall. Show me Skyfall. Number three answer on the board. I will finish the question for Randy because there was a little bit more. What is your favorite James Bond movie? If you don't know any, enter Austin

Powers as your answer. If you don't know any, yeah yes I mean you know my gosh so I mean right that's just that's crushing me but I have to say Austin Powers show me Austin Powers oh that's bad still still way higher than it should okay wow I had to right I had to yeah no I would have to don't feel bad set that up so that you would do it but I wanted to make sure that you that you knew the whole question because I was so sick of I don't know any James Bond movies as far as answers. So I'm like, all right, we're just going to give people an easy

out. This is going to be so fun. I'm a little shocked by that. This is going to be a fun one. A little shock they didn't do that. Yeah. You and me both. All right. So Scott, you and Raven have control of the board. We got eight answers up here. Excellent. And what is?

We got this. Chadd. We totally got this. Favorite James Bond movie. Raven, what pops into your head first? What do you think is up there? Golden Eye. Oh, uh, golden eye. Of course. GoldenEye is up there. People, people think more of the game than they do the thing. but that's okay because it's one of the greatest things ever. Because, again, don't hate me, but the Golden Eye, the movie is not good.

Yeah. It's okay. It's all right, but it's not great. It's not good. It's bad for a James Bond film. It's okay for a film. Yeah, yeah. As a gamer, that's what comes up.

It's not in my personal top 15 James Bond movies. Yeah, right. Save here. Yes, exactly. Yeah. All right, show me, Gordon, I. That's my Tina Turner. Goll and I.

answer on the board. Yay. Did she? She didn't do that. There's no way. Did she do the song for that for Golden? Yeah, she did. Yeah.

Oh, I don't remember that at all. Wow. All right. I know it's like seven years now. You're simply the best. It's like seven years now of asking what is wrong with the tad pool, but this is like really, how have you left? I mean, I'm pretty sure I know what's number one, but how have you got Golden Eye at number two? It doesn't make sense.

Yeah. Pretty crazy. People really do lump the game in there, I'm sure. Like, if you asked the 62 people who said Golden Eye, have you played the Nintendo 64 game, I would say at least 50 of them have and love the game and therefore channeled that love towards the... And that's why I said it.

Yeah, and I agree with that for that self-same reason. All right, I'll pick this one. I think this is going to be easy for number one, although I know that's not more points, but let's go for Casino Royale as number one. Yeah. Show me Casino Royale. Number one answer, absolutely.

I should have guessed that when I had my chance because it's almost like there's a whole generation of movie viewers who's experienced with James Bond starts with what's his name. Daniel Craig. Now this is where it gets weird, Raven. What do you think after this? Because now I feel like it's anybody's game, but what do you think? My favorite and what I remember watching the most of when I was growing up was live and let die. Same. I like living and let die. Living let die.

When you were young in your heart. All right. Let's show me live and let die. Number 10 answer on the board. Big O points for that one right there. I love that because I had the voodoo bad guy in it. He did voodoo. No, Star Mung who was the man with the golden gun.

James Seymour. Jeffrey Holden was the guy. It was the seven-up Corona nut guy. Oh, Orlando. No, no, no. Not Orlando. I'm trying to think of a character.

Clifton James. Shit. Baron Semetti. Thank you for your record. Yeah, there you go. Jeffrey Holder or Jeffrey Holden? Jeffrey Holden? I mean, it way as well be Keith David in my mind.

That's how I picture. I just picture. David or David Keith, which one? I think of Keith David because he's the same kind of character in that Disney movie about the frog. It's Jeffrey Holder. It's Jeffrey Holder. Okay, Holder, yeah. Jane Seymour was Solitaire, and Yafet Koto was the...

Oh my gosh, no way. From Alien. I love him. Right, yes. And that Baltimore crime show before the wire happened. Anyway. And James Bond jumps a speedboat, jumps a motorboat. Yeah, he does.

Right over the Yokel's Sheriff. Whatever that guys did it was. I know he didn't do the Dukes of Hazard thing, but he might as well have. This is the one with the game. Well done. I love it. Nice job. Let's go with, can we do Goldfinger?

Yes. Is that one going to go? Okay, show me Goldfinger. Number five, cleaned up the left side of the board, giving you guys 21 points to Randy's four. Still possible for Randy to pull this one out. Did you know that Goldfinger is the highest rated of all of them? Really?

It does not surprise me. Yeah, that does not surprise me because I think, boy it's really hard because I would put I I'm one of those well I'm not going to say anything because I don't want to give anything else away or or not but it'd be hard for me not to but it would be Goldfinger would absolutely be in my top five sure but I think newer there's a couple things in the newer ones that I would put here exactly that's exactly what I'm saying yeah that's right yeah all right let's see well we're on a roll here um what do you think raven octopusy oh yeah dude I mean come on It's the tadpole. Yeah, it's the tadpole. Plus, they were, I love that one because they were shooting, or they were throwing, like, razor blades at everybody. Can you remember that? It was like, they were like table saws, yo-yo's?

Table-saw yos. And one gets jammed in, like, Roger Moore has a wad of money in his pocket and it's stuck in the wad of money. Something like that is so bad. I'd love that stuff. Mod Adams. Yeah, that's a great one. And no character really named Dr. Pussy. It's her tattoo.

That's her little awkward. Yeah. All right. That's just sounding worse and worse She has eight cats She has eight cats at home That's all it is Oh that's what it is

She's like octum Yeah For the rescue pet For ketties Yeah I don't let this be on the board though This is the one with the circus It's terrible

Well it is the tadpole That's right Because it starts out with the The worst double-O agent Dressed as a clown Making the most noise Running away with a Faberge egg Yep

It's so terrible Please don't let this screen Kong, Kong, Kung, truth for us. All right, she'll be Octopusy. Yeah, baby. Yeah. This is the tad bull. I mean, that's the thing you got to remember.

This is not an accurate list as to the quality of these films. It's most memorable or like what James Bond movie name comes to mind for you first, that kind of thing. I think this might, let's see. So 17 plus 6 is 23 plus the existing four. Yeah, Randy's just been mathematics. eliminated. I'm sorry, Randy. That's all right.

That means that you've automatically won, but we still get to keep playing the game. Zero strikes on the board. How about a spy who loved me? Can I get that? Can I get a spy who loved me? Sure. Show me the spy who loved me. Show me on the doll where the spy loved me.

Number nine, answer on the board. At the end of this, if we clear the board, this will go down as the time Randy picked to Austin Powers. Oh, no pressure, Scott. No pressure. Yeah, no pressure. at all. Did we, have we sacked the spy who loved me? I don't think we had. Hold on.

No, we haven't. We're still, we're on our majesty's secret service. Yeah, we're still waiting for diamonds or forever to come up for us. Yeah. Oh, it's not streaming right now? Yeah, it's been months and months. I've been watching it every week to try to see if it ever streams. The broccoli. The broccoli are sitting on that one, dude. Who knows why? Broccoli. Yeah.

All right. What do you think? I'm steamed about that. I bet you are steamed broccoli. I get it. Hey, Braven. What do you got there for, uh, between Moonwaker and Dr. or no. Oh, yeah, this Moon Raker's got to be up here, right? Because it's so cheesy and stupid. Let's do Moon Raker. All right, Moon Raker. Okay.

All right. Show me, Moon Raker. That's the how it goes. Yeah. It is number six. Okay. All right, Scott, this is all on you. I want to know what Scott and Raven understand about the tadpool right now, because about three of these are actually movies that people consider favorites.

And the others are like, no, you don't actually, no one thinks that's their favorite. No, I don't know. I think I just know. You make your golden eye and octopacy do not belong on this list. Yeah. These are meme picks, and that's how they think. They think in memes. Yes. So number eight, big, big poll here.

Let's go. All right. So what's the one with the skiing at the beginning? Oh, I loved that one. But if I can't think of it, maybe nobody did. Oh. Like another. That's another Roger Moore one.

It is, yeah. And he's, and it's... There's actually a several with skiing at the beginning. At the beginning, there's ones with skiing in the middle, but I think only one of them has skiing in the pre-barrel. I can't name of the second one. Oh, really? Okay.

Oh, I can't think of one either. I can barely... Is it Vito a kill? Is it Vito a kill? I don't know if that's the same one, but... Is that Dalton? It is, right? What I'm doing is I'm processing the theme songs in my head right now,

So I'm like, ooh, I am too. This is how I think about it. Or I, you know what I start doing? I'm like, which one had the Korean guy with diamonds in his face? That's what I do? And I think that was, what was that? Dye another? No, that's not die another day.

That's the new one. Ah, shit, I don't know. I don't know what's good. Eight. Let's go with Vue to Kill and then you can blame me if I mess it up. All right, view to a kill. I got big shoulders. Okay, all right.

Do it. It's a view to a kill. Show me. View to a kill. our first strike and the record we were going for is over it's done sure it's all my fault but now it's on Randy he does get a shot finally you get a chance to give a second answer yeah you can get 11 too which means he gets two shots if you can get it oh that's true yeah yeah I don't know what these people think I I do know that I said on a recent episode of film sec what my favorite

was because it was like the first one that I saw before I started really reading all the books watching all the movies. And so I think I'm going to go with it, although I can't, I don't know. This is so weird. Okay, well, I'm going to go with it. It was for your eyes only, was my. Oh, that's the one I was trying to think out.

Yeah, we just talked about that one with Roger Moore dropping the unnamed Blofeld into a chimney, into an industrial chimney. Yeah, there's something about, maybe it was very like hyperavailable at a time. I don't know. Let's go with For Your Eyes Only. It's not right, but let's go with it. Sounds good. All right. Show me, for your eyes only.

It is our bonus answer. Seven people said it did not make the top ten, but it does give you another guess. Randy, that's awesome. Wow. Okay. By the way, I just put in our Discord chat, the nine movies that have ski scenes, and I can't remember which start with the ski scene. I can tell you.

there's actually one missing from here, too. Yeah, there is. Because the mentioned view to a kill also has a ski scene. What is it? What is it about Brits that think snow skiing is like a big deal? Oh, they love it. It's like, ooh, you'd be a cool chase. Let's do skiing.

Yeah, they're into it, man. It was somebody's idea they just wanted to go to a ski resort for vacation. Yeah, yeah, that's, I, yes. So, who, it needs to be a, I need. a good one here um i can't stand the idea of it not being a good one so let's go from russia with love oh all right good choice all right that's like one of the best yeah it's it's it's i think it might be my favorite of the theme songs too from russia with love yeah uh show me from russia with love boat oh oh yeah nope did uh i could tell you by the way i haven't been telling you what

where these did rank on the list. From Russia with Love is number 16 on the list. And what was the other one that you guys guessed that got wrong? Vue to a kill. Vue to a kill is number 14. Yeah.

Okay. Raven, what do you think here? I'm trying to think. Is there another Daniel Craig that we're just... Well, we didn't say Dr. No. Oh, that's true. We didn't. We did Golden...

We did Goldfinger, golden eye. You know what? Doctor No is a great answer. sir. I like it. I'm going with her. Dr. No. Okay. All right. Show me Dr. No? What is Dr. No?

Number eight answer. That would be another really highly rated one too. Yes. Yes. That's so. I'm feeling very sympathetic now with the tadpool. What are, what are some of the nonsense ones? There's got to be some in here, Brian, in the rest of the list. Yeah. So going down the rest of the list, 12 is on Her Majesty's Secret. service. Monica's favorite

Bond film. Tomorrow Never Dies, Number 13. Die Another Day is number 15. Quantum of Solace, which like Infinity War and Endgame, I bundle. I can't think of Casino Rail without Quantum of Solace because it's a two-part movie, basically.

And that one I think has edged in front of Goldfinger is my favorite Bond. It definitely makes it better if you watch it that way. Yeah, you have to watch it as a pair. You have to watch them back to back. Yeah, I agree. you only live twice number 18 man with the golden gun number 19 underrated by the way man with golden gun is great thunderball diamonds are forever living daylights then we get into chop filter or chop lifter which chop filter

somebody put choplifter okay I know why so there's this running meme joke on play retro at dunaway and I because they probably thought done away would be here so he'd be laughing his head off right now but whenever we play we play mystery audio every week and we have to guess each other other's game that we brought and everyone in the chat always says choplifter every time so that's the joke nice that makes sense now yes um then license to kill i think that oh no living daylights was our first dalton in the list then license to kill no time to die specter uh the spy who shagged me the world is not enough um then jaws jaws oh it's good yes yeah grad's on that one johnny english naked gun 33 and a third. Secret of the U's

on The Hunt for Red October. Good. I am pretty sure that Choplifter was the only game I ever played on the Apple 2. Oh my gosh. Chop Lutcher rule. Yeah. No, because I didn't have an Apple 2, my friend who lived down the street did. I just think it's the only game I ever played

on that. Did he not have a hard hat Mac on there? Because that game was pretty good. I don't remember any other games. Oh, that was your Mario clone, right? Kind of, yeah. It was very well. The construction site that he's climbing up ladder. Yeah, very Donkey Kong style thing. It was like a rip-off, but it was still pretty good on its own.

Yeah. Yeah. Are there any of that are missing here completely? Like, what are all the Brosnan? Do we, so tomorrow never dies is on the list. I've done this several times for film sec. If you order them all by Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer, the bottom seven are all Pierce Brosnan and Roger Moore movies. Like the worst seven movies are those two guys.

Yeah. Wow. People just didn't like non-Shon Connery for a long time. Yeah. That's so funny because growing up, my dad was like a huge Roger Moore fan. And my mom, of course, was the Sean Connery fan. Yeah, yeah.

That's the ones I saw the most were the Roger Moore one. That's how it was in our house too. Roger Moore was the new hotness for my dad. And my mom just loved, you know, he loved Sir Sean Connery until his death. The bottom three are Roger Moore's octopusy, man with the golden gun, and view to a kill. Those are the bottom three. Interesting. There's only 25 actual James Bond films in the list.

And I think Spector was the 25th James Bond films. So there's something, there's one missing. Oh, what's the con. The Connery one that's not canon. Is that it? We'll never say never again, but nobody counts that one. Okay, so we're just not even count. We don't even count that.

We're not even counting yet. Thunderball did get mentioned, which is, let's see. Anyone have an alphabetical list of the James Bond films? I could do it this way. I think, oh, actually, we can click a little little button on Wikipedia, Wikipedia, James Bond films. How did they, what did they miss? I know, I know. They always miss the Timothy Dalton movies.

They always forget living daylights. Yeah, but they got both. of those. What about the quadru pussy prequel? That was a pretty good one. Okay. Yeah. Remember that one? Yeah. Yeah. It's good stuff. Septu pussy. Yeah.

That sounds really bad. It really does, actually. Yeah. Let's never say that again. All right. So, casino real diamonds are forever. Die another day. Dr. No. For your eyes only from Russia with love. Golden Eye, Gold. Finger License to Kill. Live and Let Die. Living Day. Living Daylights. Oh, Living Daylights. Is that the one? No, no, sorry, it was under the, the living daylights.

This ordered them weird with the, the man with the golden gun, moon raker, no time to die, octopussy on Her Majesty Secret Service, quantum solace, skyfall, specter, spy who loved me, thunderball, due to a kill, world is not enough, you only live to find. You skip, tomorrow never dies. Did I? Tomorrow never dies. Maybe that's fine.

Nope, one person, no, seven people said tomorrow never dies. Yeah, okay, never mind. Are there just 25 of them? And there's no 26th? Yeah. I'm sure there's 26 James Bond movies. In fact, there's 27, if you count the old Peter Sellers one. Original Casino, Rale.

I'm sure there's 26. Yeah. Then, did they list the newest one? No Time to Die? Yeah, they said that. Yeah, I don't know. We got to miss it. We got to miss him.

James Bond here. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 23, 45. again. Yeah, no, I'm only seeing 25 on the Wikipedia page. There's, there are, there are 26, I'm sure of it. I want this, this is going to go down as the great, the great mystery of our day. It really is. It is. There's, there's, yeah, the list on Wikipedia lists 25 films and those are the 25 I have in my list. Wow. Maybe somebody was thinking of the, but the Casino Rowell one was really a spoof and it wasn't even, that one I don't, that one's not canon either. Right. And that's always, nowadays, that's considered the 27th, if you count that. If you're counting. All right. We'll figure out the 26th. Yeah, let us know.

All right. I'm going to go fix Wikipedia. Be right back on. All right. We'll see you later. Hey, well done, Randy. You lost. We'll see you later. Literally, we'll see in a few minutes because after Tom comes, you're right back on here. Raven, you are awesome guest. And let me tell you what that means. Congratulations. That means you won. And Brian, remind her once again what they are and what code you'll be sending. Yeah, Mithargia and the serpent rose. you're going to have those in your in your direct messages from me in like minutes, seconds, actually. Wow. And so let us know how they are once you got a chance to play them.

Yeah. Quick before I go. Yeah. Scott, I wanted to thank you for the recommendation for Dragon Age. I did end up getting Veilgard. It was on sale for 30% last weekend. Oh, geez. That's a quite the cut.

But I went back all the way to Origins and started playing, and I've been playing through it. And I am absolutely obsessed. Yeah, Origins is really special. That game is so good. Oh, my gosh. You found something that got Boulder's Gate out of my system for a while. Oh, good. Yeah, no, the original origins is so good.

Oh, my gosh, I love Origins. It looks like crap now. Not crap. There's mods and stuff for the PC version, but it's not as pretty. But the story is so good. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's hard to, again, I think Valgaard is fine, but the story in Origins is

unbelievably good. It's so good. well that's great i'm glad that you uh found that enjoyed it and are having a good time and i can't wait to have you on as a guest again be our fourth caller in the future that'd be fun yeah thanks absolutely love you guys all right we'll see you later right okay there we go now now now uh we got to take a break when we come back from this break tom merritt will join us and uh i've already let him know we're running a little late but he's cool he's all down to clown he is he's cool he's pretty cool guy cool cool with the school yeah he'll bring some tech and some other stuff we'll do

recommendals after that but before all that brian why don't you share a song with us uh happily um boy this is some cool uh guitar fronted rock and roll this is a band called pigeon pit uh brand new single from them called keys to the city and i'm trying to think like a like a plain white tease um john mayor um um um but that song like he does this oh love you new york that one right there and that's not john mayor that is um that is uh Ryan Adams um but it's very similar to that anyway song called keys to the city here is pigeon pit I found a better spot to hold a treasured conversations away from all those spot to hold that treasured conversations away from all those prying eyes

let me drop a pen I got a place to me I leave a pair of bullet cutters under my backs you calm the keys to the city I call the keys to the city baby yeah I can tell where we're going from there looking your eyes wherever I go It stays with me no matter how far along it's been When I can hang my feet 40 stories down I see how far like it's bed I kinda like this time the special way you know a city You only get by walking around the cold let leave somewhere out of sight I found a tall boy's eyes in the park at night

just let the button on his sleeve eyes cut into my thong I want to feed you baby give you what you need they can lock up all the food I made a copy of the key and told the world just make you a criminal when you really try to love someone you don't got to talk about it Ain't nobody need to know Jackie's got a six-pack Another place to go Another route to conversation Tell you what I've been thinking about

Kansas City's just as big as About I feel behind my house McCatee's got a junkyard Danny knows a bando Jackie's got a six-pack Got a water tower only we know I tell you under whispered half tones So something out of Mississippi I found

In a corner of my dark thoughts In an older band of shotgun house And it's raining in a hotel pooling Cases in a shutdown school We watch a fire in a town of Lloyd apartment Cyrus crying like they knew what that meant Dilapidations on the inside A city's choking out the night sky

It's gonna be another late night Whatever makes you feel alive? you're just a boy. This is a serious message. And we're back. Tell me who that was one more time. Yeah, from Olympia,

Washington, that is the country punk max and minimalists pigeon pit who just released their fourth LP called Crazy Arms. And this is the first single from it. It's called Keys to the City. That was

Pigeon Pit. Nice. Everybody should have it. I don't ever want to be stuck in a pigeon pit. No, I don't even know what a pigeon pit would be. Just to assume a pit with pigeons. It just sounds horrible. No. It's like where do you put all your dead pigeons? In the pit. It's in the pigeon pit. Pigeon pit. Speaking of a guy would never do that, it's Tom Merritt joining us. Oh, you know what? I should play his intro. That's important. Here it is. We want Tom. We do want Tom. And good news. He's here. Tom merit, everybody.

What's going on, Tom? How are you? Hide the pigeon Pit, folks. I don't even know. Well, I don't even know what that means. Somebody, is it my kids who always remind me? I'm always like ripping on pigeons. They're like, dad, those are really doves. It just depends on where they are.

Yeah. And I'm like, you know, they're doves with an oil slick. Yeah. One person's dove. There's another person's pissed and pit. That's like saying, you know, tigers are just little cats. Oh, yeah. Good point.

That's a good point. I'm going to tell my, I'm going to see, I'm going to use that next time. This stupid argument comes up with them. There you go. Listen how that goes. Tom Merritt, of course, comes on every Wednesday, talks about the technology news of the day, what big stories are cracking, that sort of stuff.

It's also a fun day because I get to be on DTNS and curious what you brought with you, Tom. What do you got today? Well, I'm really excited to talk to you on DT&S about what you're talking about, the dead robot, but I won't talk about that right now. Instead, the big news right now is that Google

announced Gemini 2.0. Oh, yeah. It is much less than it sounds when I say Google announced Gemini 2.0. The more I dug into it, the more I'm like, so you didn't announce much. Okay. Here's what is happening.

Gemini 2.0 Flash is now available for you to use. The Flash versions of the Gemini models are the small, efficient models. And Google is saying that Gemini 2.0 Flash is just as good as Gemini 1.5 Pro. So that's a big improvement. You know, it's a much cheaper model to run. So you will be able to access it through an API, through the Vertex platform. And if you're not a developer, you can just go to Gemini on the web and try it out at some point today. I think it's launched already.

But it is, that's it. It's not until January that developers will actually get the model to be able to use it themselves. They can only access it through the API. and no word on when we get the other versions like the pro versions of 2.0. They did talk about a lot of coming soon stuff. Project Mariner will use Gemini 2.0. That'll be a Chrome extension.

They can act like an agent. AI agents are kind of considered the next big way of innovation with AI where you can just tell it to do something and it'll do it. So Project Mariner will be able, will be able when it comes out, to use your cursor, click buttons, fill out forms.

So theoretically you could say, go to the Kroger website and buy me some toilet paper, granola, and bananas, and have it delivered this afternoon at three. And then it would go to the website, you know, log you in, add things to the cart, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and then schedule that for you to do. Oh, wow. That stuff, that sounds crazy, but it sounds like that. about like what we should be expecting soon is that kind of automation. That's a great example of agents in your normal everyday life.

A lot of times the examples are very business oriented like, you know, processing your orders in a spreadsheet, which is great if you're the person who has to do that, but usually not something all of us identify. The use of the term flash for this, that seems a little like it's bad marketing. Does that bother you? Well, they've been calling it flash for years now. I just think that because I, my memory is. deep when it comes to internet. You're not playing home star

runner on it. I get that. But like as a as a person who's been around this stuff long enough I flash still it still stings as a thing that was a real problem toward the end, a malware nightmare, Adobe treating it like crap like sure just feels dangerous to use the term flash

but that's fine. It would be like Gemini 2.0 Divix. Yeah Divix. Oh my gosh dude. Yeah or what was the old player? Real player? The real player dude. So it's like saying, hey, Gemini 2.0 real player coming out tomorrow. I don't think most of us will have that visceral reaction.

But you're probably not alone. You're probably not the only one. You'll get over it, though. So to understand this agent thing just a little bit deeper, if I, you know, me or Brian are sitting there and we're like, all right, I'm so busy today, I need my agent to do this thing I always have it to. and maybe I have a preset that says bread, a gallon of milk and some cheese at the grocery store that will then Instacart to me or whatever. And I just hit a button and it says, or I just tell it, do the grocery thing, Larry, and it does it? Like, is it that simple? Is that what we're looking? Is that the future? It's simpler. You don't even have to have it set up.

You could just say to it, Gemini, I need you to get me bread, butter, and bananas from the grocery store. and have it delivered this afternoon, boom, and it goes and does it. Okay, and any kind of, like, issues where the store goes, we're a little short on the butter. It looks like we're not going to have that for your thing, or what brand do you prefer? Because we're out of the brand you usually like, does this, is there a, there's a system in place or will be where. I mean, if you're using Instacart, it's going to be different than if you're using Kroger or that it's going to be different than if you're using something else, right? Yeah, because it doesn't even ask you. They just say, oh, we're out of this one.

Let's give a dishwasher detergent. Well, they send you a text message. So if it's Instacart, the agent is going to process the order. You're still going to get the text messages from the shopper saying, like, man, I substituted your brown rice with dog food. Is that okay? Yes, it's okay. So the agent's just doing the thing that it's set up to do.

It's not going to manage the whole process. And in fact, at this point, they're saying it's going to do it in real time. So you're going to want to watch. They actually said this in the demo. It's like, you're going to want to watch it to make sure it puts 10 rolls. of toilet paper, not a hundred rolls of toilet paper, but overall, it can do things for you in an easier way. And that's what agents are about, is being able to just go execute on stuff without you having to set it up in advance. You can just tell it what you want it to do,

and it'll do it. This is the stuff I like AI for. I like automation of tasks that are mundane and get in your way during the day. I think this is good. I've learned, lots of questions similar to the one I asked just recently about all the variables. But that's the point of adaptive AI models is that these variables will eventually, they, they are part of the process of knowing what you mean instead of what you said or instead of you, if you slurred a word, it will get good enough to go, I think you said 10. Can you verify that for me? You know, like that kind of stuff. That's really interesting to me. So I don't know. Do you feel like somebody's in the most forefront on the agent side? Is it Google? Is somebody else

beating him to the punch? I think it's probably open AI at this point. They've got a lot of agents already out there that you can test and play with. They're making it easier all the time to create agents. They just announced that with their Canva text editor, collaborative editor thing, you can do some agent plug-in stuff from there. So I think what Gemini is trying to do here is say, well, we have an advantage on the browser. So we can put an agent in the browser that can do things for you in the browser. Let's do that. But again, this isn't out yet.

They're even saying you need to watch it. It's not as set it and forget it as we would like at this point. But over the next year, you're going to see people talking about agents, and they're going to come from everywhere. They're going to come from Amazon. They're going to come from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. So even if Open AI probably has the edge right now, there's no guarantee it keeps that edge. It's which agents end up being successful.

There will be things like this that will be. consumer successful and top of mind for people because oh shopping it's a thing we all do there will also be agents that people are going to love in the workplace that you know less less flashy but like you will be able to say you know give me a report on you know how many listeners increased or decreased across the frog pants network and it'll just go and like log into your tools and look at your numbers and you know come back with the report without you having to go dig all that stuff up yeah see that stuff's really interesting to me. I want to be able to say, hey,

imagine we're in the pandemic, early part of the pandemic. Hey, Flash, or Hey, Gemini, P. Flash, Jr. Can you go and get all the toilet paper at the Costco? All of it. Buy it out. Yeah. I don't need any, you know, mac and cheese like usual. I just need toilet paper. Hey, Gemini Macromedia.

Oh, yeah, we're going way back on the Flash. I like it. Well, that's awesome. We'll talk more about it. and more today on the Daily Tech News show. This is a dead robot thing is going to be interesting, so I hope people tune in for that. I've got some thoughts about when cloud-based children's toys no longer function, which is what we're going to get into. Teddy Ruxpin.

I'm going to fight you about it. So stay tuned, folks. Scott and I are going to get in a fist fight about the moxie. Yep. Tom's got a real point counterpoint planned for this thing. Tom, you ignorant. Which means we'll end up violently agreeing at the end. But, you know, it'll be fun while we get that. It will be really fun.

So tune in today, 2 p.m. Mountain Time for the Daily Tech News show. Tom, anything else happening in your world you'd like to tell people about? Oh, yeah. We're doing the last of our experiments that we've been doing with DTNS in advance of plans for, you know, we tweak things every year. And so going into 2025, we're going to do some new things. If you would like to experience those, the experimental DTNS will come. tomorrow in your DTNS feeds and on Patreon with me and Jason Howell doing DTNS in a different way. And then Good Day internet will be slightly different as well. You'll be able to get that

YouTube twitching and Patreon. And that will have Justin Robert Young, Sarah Lane, Rob Dunwood, myself doing another take on DTNS. So this is the last chance for us to try some stuff based on feedback we've been getting from folks. The last chance for you to see what we're trying and give us feedback and then next week we'll be able to tell you like okay we took all the stuff we learned from all of this and here's here's what we're not going to change here's what we are going to change uh for the coming year so check that out tomorrow wherever daily tech news show is found uh that's awesome that's the internet by the way is where you get that on the internet yeah i don't send the cassettes anymore no no uh you know you know them you love them it's tom merritt have a fantastic

week we'll see you next time thank you All right. Well, we did it. And now what we do is we bring Randy back from the dead. We do. We bring Nicole forward like a bishop on a chessboard. I got a lot of chessboard with the scenarios in my head this week. I don't know why. I don't know what's going on with that. But it's going to be fun. I know that for sure. So let's get into it. Here we go. Well, what do you recommend? Time for recommendals. Things we we've seen on streaming services that we think you people at home might enjoy, a slight twist to that kind of thing with Nicole's today, but very similar. And we're very excited to do it. Speaking of which, Nicole's here. Hi, Nicole. Hi. How are you? I'm much better than I was last week. Oh, good. We're glad. I'm glad. As the holidays hurdle toward us, I know that you are a big fan

of baking a lot of things and prepping and hosting. I made bread for the first time. ever. I have gone 48 years and I've never well I mean I made wait a minute during the pandemic you gave me you gave me a jar of sourdough that you had pulled off of your own growth of sourdough yeah didn't you?

I didn't you? Oh you were just using it for the excess like the this is a really important question are pancakes bread oh gee you can't come at us like that with a question like that without warning me holy shit Like sandwich bread.

I've never made like sandwich bread. Can you make a sandwich with pancakes? You can, but is bread, does it need to be baked in order to be bread? Oh my gosh. Does none. Is making a pancake on a griddle the same as baking it? Look, guys, I'm just telling you, I'm made bread for the first time. I know, but we got this.

Nicole is concerned. It's the first time, okay? Yeah, yeah. You make a hot dog a sandwich with a pancake. Right. And the answer to that is absolutely, yes, Brian. Absolutely, you can. Yes, actually that sounds really good, too. Telling you about my breadmaker, I'm very happy. I think it's awesome. Congratulations on the acquisition.

Wait, was there a breadmaker, like an appliance in there? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bought a bread maker for the first time. I like those. Those do a good job. I'm so impressed. So you're all getting bread from me. Sweet. For Christmas. Cool. Excellent. That's great. I just shipped my little, I got some stuff coming to all you guys right now. And it's, uh, I hope it makes for a much more flavorful holiday. Really, Kim is sending us something you mean. Well, she made something awesome.

That's all. Thanks, Kim. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. Combined efforts of mostly Kim. Uh, anyway. Listen, I got Sorvino. I'm happy about that. Oh, yeah. We got the Sorvino. I'm so happy. I found that file. I've forgotten all about it. And I was just like, oh, we have to. What are we doing? We got to make Yeah, we need to each frame that or something with it. Well, anyway, we are about to talk about some recommendals. We're going to start with Brian. Did you even say hi to Randy? Oh, yeah, well, we had them on earlier.

So I kind of, I think I kind of just like threw it all together. Yeah, hi again, Randy. Morning, morning stream. Hi, hi, good. Yeah, he was here earlier where he chose Austin Powers for his answer for our contest down. Have you, have you figured out the 26th James Bond movie? Right. So we were, like, we were talking past each other that the wiki list is,

is not doesn't include never say never again and i was i was talking about what the tad pool is choosing from right what they're yeah what they're so it's just that it's fine so there is no 26 is really as the answer you're saying there's no 26 oh did the tadpool list have never say never again that was the question yes thank you uh well okay james bond no no no no they didn't have never say never again in the list right uh to okay 27 is what rotten tomatoes claims but they're including the stuff we said you can include casino royale and never say never again, which are non-canon and should be stricken

from the world. I'm not really a bond. I don't really like that. You're not a bond girl? You're not a bond girl? No, not a bond girl. I liked red. I mean, that was kind of.

Bondy. Bond-ish. Bond-like? Yeah. Bond-adjacent. I like Bond-adjacent. Yeah. I mean, it's a good comic book, too.

I really like read the comic. Yeah. Anyway, well, let's get right into it. You got a clip here. Do you have a setup for your clip? What do you want? This is a TV series that I snatched out of Scott's hands because I didn't realize that he had been watching it. And we started watching it and freaking love it as Scott does as well.

What you're about to hear is the aftermath of a student in the school who is self-diagnosed with asymptomatic Tourette's syndrome. Perfect. Here we go. So after witnessing that, you still think AT is... KS. You still think it's a real disease? Look, it's actually quite simple. Kayla and Chelsea, best friends since freshman year, right? Side by side, socially speaking. Uh-huh.

Last month, Chelsea's out for a couple weeks. Remember that? The whole time she's gone, all Kayla can hear is, where's Chelsea? Is Chelsea going to be out for much longer? So then Kayla's getting jealous and she comes up with... Asymptomatic Tourette's. And it worked for a time.

But then Chelsea starts rallying everyone to be super supportive of Kayla. And what does that do? Makes everybody talk about how great and caring Chelsea is. Chelsea did the same thing to Renee last year, and Renee is still not back at 100%. You know what I'm saying? Who's Renee? Come on, man.

She goes by Deirdre in the classroom, Renee and the friend group. Keep up, Marquez. It's just so much information. But that's beside the point. It brings us to today, the events of what happened here in your classroom. Who speaks up on Kayla's behalf? Who started making sure everyone was sympathetic to the journey that Kayla was on? Who renamed the goddamn disease?

Chelsea. Kayla's whole gambit to gain sympathy has turned into nothing more than a vehicle for Chelsea's rapid assent to the upper echelon of popularity. That's crazy. You got all this from 20 minutes in my classroom? I only need a 10. okay i do not know who was just speaking but it sounded like sean ashton and that is an amazing hash does anybody use the word hash anymore well no i don't think i ever used it then his name is a guy's name is sean he got you got the first name right yeah it's a sean but the whole

different sean sean i guess you think all shons sound the same wow yeah i guess that's sean it's more about they all sound like they but smoke weed every day so that uh sean patten is there uh he is the gym teacher at this school, which is the show's headlined by Brian Jordan Alvarez as Evan, who's the guy who's just learning about Kayla syndrome and asymptomatic Tourette. This is a show called English teacher. Yeah. And I have such mixed feelings about that scene, too. Yeah, I know.

That goes, has ticks now that I'm just like, oh. Yeah, but what you've got is real. I know, I know. It is, but it is. Like, there's so much in this show that you feel like, you know, you've got students who just out of nowhere will say, I feel attacked when they're not, you know, even being talked to. Right. But, um, and you're like, oh, yeah, okay, that's a thing that does happen. But in this context, it's funny, but it's not always funny.

And like, there's, there's this weird balance. I mean, basically this is, this is, um. Shit out of luck.com. We should give them the name. Oh, yes, I'm sorry. Well, I did say English teacher. Oh, did you? I missed it.

The TV show, yeah, the TV show is English teacher. This is an FX show that you can now see on. Who, you? Got it. But it's, it's Abbott Elementary, but grittier and darker and... AP Bio, kind of. Yeah, even, yeah, less... Boy, AP Bio is a better comparison, but less snarky, less sarcastic.

and and uh brian jordan alvarez is a much more likable teacher than what's his face from it's always sunny and api bio yeah but i but api bio is probably another great example i just started watching api bio i love it's it's so funny um this one's tough because or this is what what makes it different a hey you've got a lead character who is a gay man who isn't even doesn't even fully um doesn't even understand all of the terminology even currently with the LGBT community in some in some points. There's one point where he has to explain to a class and

he kind of gets curfuffled with that. Yeah, it's basically Jen, it's like millennial gay man trying to deal with Gen Z and Alpha Generation in its different gay people. The

whole vibe is different for him and watching him struggle with it is such a great, like there's lessons to it. It's very, it's very good how he does it. It's so good. And it's, and there's, it's awkward, but it's funny and it's heartwarming. And it's, um, it's poignant like it,

you know, it says, yeah, these are where kids are doing these days. It's horrible. Yeah. It's got great heart. Um, you've also got, uh, Stephanie Koenig as, uh, his friend Gwen. She is fantastic. She's like, she's like the best friend that you definitely want to have because she's supportive. She is hilarious. There's a, there's an episode where she has to, um, teach the cheerleading team how to play football for for powder puff and uh her whole entire segment of that is some of the funniest thing some of the funniest stuff i've seen on tv in a long

time and then you've got the principal of the high school played by enrico colin tony love him so much it's so great galaxy quest yes i will be heading back to my planet just shoot me and and some of the other never bad at any role they ever stuck this guy and he's always great and he's like he can even play super dark like um person of interest he was like a crime boss like uh like one of the most deadly people in new york and he pulled it off like you know this guy's normally really really funny and it's like oh god this is a really dark character for him yeah um he was a murderer or an ai the the uh spillberg ai movie he was a killer in that oh i forgot about that wow lots of crazy stuff and dad on veronica maris is some people in the chat room reminding us. Anyway, eight episodes in the first season. That's it. So, boy, is this a quick watch and it's unfortunate because you are left wanting more? But they're

really, really good. They're half-hour episodes on Hulu. Bring some very dark comedy to your holiday season with English teacher. Yeah, it's really, really good. Brian whipped through it quicker than me. I'm still behind a few episodes. So I'm really glad we're finally talking about

it. But I came away from it such a weird thing. We talked about Brian and I did off air, but Brian Jordan Alvarez, I knew only as a TikTok dude. He has a very popular channel on TikTok, and he does mostly some crazy impressions and some other stuff. And he's been in other things. He was in Megan, small roles, that kind of thing. But I saw this trailer and I went, wait, why do I know that guy? Why don't know that guy's face? And I realized, wait, this is that TikTok dude. And he's, this is, he's creator. He's showrunner. He's in it, obviously. Like, this is a revel.

of a great first you know freshman effort it's fantastic so good yeah i mean this is a guy that we're going to be putting up and you know with with the names like um the uh the names that i'm forgetting all of a sudden like the uh two and a half men berf not murphy uh whatever that guy's named two and f men and big bang theory chuck lorry thank you like we'll be putting up in the in the list with some of the show create a really funny sitcom show creators like that guy Yeah, he could be, he really could have that kind of career because this stuff is, it's great. I hope this series lives on for a while. I think it's great that FX is the place that's happening.

It feels like the right place for it. Yeah, it's awesome. So really glad, I'm really glad that, uh, that you got this one. And, and don't get confused. If you do a search for the English teacher, you get a couple old movies, older movies. Uh, don't do that. Just look for English teacher. Don't look for the English patient.

You don't want that one either. That's just, that one either. No, that's just sex in a tub. Yeah. Don't watch it. Reminder that it's really hard to name something when you're, when you're like in the creative process. Getting a name that people are going to connect to is really hard because they're all used. Yeah, they're all used. You have to come up with either something that's so nonsensical known or remember it or you have to be so dominant that your new name. Like remember all the crash movies or like 10 of them? It was like, which crash are we talking about?

My favorite show of 2023 was Lessons in Chemistry and I just couldn't get people to watch it because of the name. yeah yeah by the way um this Stephanie canig was on lessons in chemistry oh no way that's cool nice crossover she's awesome she deserves to be in a million things from now on she does she's mostly in things that she works with this dude on like small stuff little projects a little short films and stuff she needs to break out and be like the next big thing she's so freaking great she's great yeah anyway seek it out it's fantastic ah on the other name i was trying to remember Greg Daniel showrunners show runners who have a style

who do really well with that style. There you go. I'm going to watch it for Enrico Colin Tony. You should. That guy is just anything he's in, I'm all in. Yeah, he's fantastic. Don't sleep on the Sean Patton guy. He's the heart of the thing in a lot of ways. Love him. It's all good. Everything about it is good.

And the students freaking crack me up. A lot of great student actors. And I have a neighbor who's a neighbor teacher, high school teacher, who says that show has nailed the current vibe of high school. Even if you watch it now and you've been away from that for a long time, you just don't know. And it may seem like

oh, they're taking some liberties here. He says, no, no, no. This is he has captured the zeitgeist of what it is to be in high school right this second. Like post-pandemic kids. Like this is it right here. Which is pretty crazy. Anyway. That's scary too, by the way.

And for those of you who are big RuPaul's drag race fans, I know Talley just sent me a giff of of La Ganja Estrana or Lagania Estrana. Trixie Mattel makes an appearance, a very prominent appearance in the second or third episode. Oh, it's a great, a great episode. It's a great episode. Oh, and the principal's so pissed.

It's so good. All right. There's that. Let's dive over to Nicole. Nicole, you saw a thing, but it's a thing without a clip, so you're going to talk about another thing. You explain it. I don't know how this is working.

What do you want to do? All right. So when I was going for my sickness flare, I tried to watch some Christmas movies. One of my symptoms that I have is I have a hard time focusing. So I jumped from two different Christmas movies, and I didn't finish them. There's a Christmas movie on Amazon Prime called Jack in Time for Christmas. And it's like real people.

I mean, they're real people. It's not Jack in Time, right? Not Jack in Time? It's called Jack in Time. for Christmas and it has Michael Boubley in it and I I hate Michael Blubley. I am not

I could not and he plays a jerk in the movie. It's like an hour long but it has the guy from what was the the show we watched Brian on Apple Plus. It was the mystery

keep going We had to, we had to, it was like the detective who done it. And it had, it was two seasons. And the one season, it was a wedding. And the other one was like a high school reunion. The search party. Search party. Yeah, I think it was search party.

So anyway, it has that guy from the wedding in it as Jack. And I don't know his name. Jack in it. But anyway, it's, boy, the blind. the blonde on that show by the way on Search Party is having such a resurgence she was in that bad monkey show she

is in the the newest season of shrinking she's fantastic too by the way so I like her anyway so Jimmy Fallon Rebel Wilson

Tom Davis Michael Blay Jack Whitehall Jack Whitehall that's the guy from search party okay yeah yeah yeah Let's get that thing with his dad and stuff. I started to watch it. And then it was just Michael Boubley being a jerk.

And I was like, I just, I don't know. He seems like a jerk. Can we unpack a little bit? He does have resting jerk face, Boubley. Really? Oh, yeah, he talks to his wife on a live stream. And I'm like, I'm not a Bublai fan anymore.

Like, here's a, I'm going to put an image in our Discord that, Scott, you can share with everybody. This is like one of the first photos that comes up, and it's him trying to smile, but he looks like somebody around him just made a really off-color joke. Oh, yeah, look at him. Or he's got a poop. Or he's in the process of poop.

Yeah. Look at him. He's like, oh, shit, I got a poop. That's very funny. Oh, I think Michael Bouble has gas. It's so cute. He's got him smiling or does he have gas? A little poopoo face. I don't know. I just, there's something my vibe check on him. Yeah. Yeah. It's

going to come out. You're going to, you're going to be able to laugh at all of us when it comes out that he's, you know, got some dark secret and it comes out and you're going to be like, see, I told you. Yep. There you have it. So anyway, that's one of the Christmas shows that I tried to watch. Then I also try to watch Dear Santa on Paramount Plus. And it's actually a Jack Black one. Yeah, it's the Jack Black one where the kid has dyslexia and he says, dear Satan and says, you know, and I swear the kid reminds me so much of Mateo. That's the only reason why I'm watching it. It's a cute little, I mean, it's cute, but whatever.

Has a really, really bad score on everything. Nobody seems to like it. It does. It's not that great, but whatever. And then the other one I start to watch is the one you're going to recommend, Scott. So I'm going to let you recommend that. So I decided to something happened last night on Disney Plus and I thought I'd mention it because it's streaming now. Do you know what I'm, do you know what I'm talking about? Nope.

You don't? You have to tell us. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So do you want to play a clip? Yeah, I can play a clip. So the one you put in there.

Something happened on Disney Plus last night. So this one that you clipped first, which one do you want? The one from... Okay. I mean, I just made the way. All right, here we go. Play this. Okay.

Rule number one. You never saw me like this, even though I still look very cool. You look like a kidney stone. And you look like someone who would know what that is. Now... Well, hello. Bacon.

Okay, I feel like there's some backstory that I need to get caught up on. Actually, you know what? scratch that. I don't want to get attached if you all you know what I mean? Which, which you guys won't. You're not going to do that. I don't even know why I said that. The point is, there's some serious God stuff going down.

So I'm going to go handle my business. All right. So that's from Moana 2, right? That's from the new movie. Of course, it's not streaming, but it will be soon. So if you go into Disney Plus right now, there is a new edition called the fan

appreciation of Moana. And if you go to episode eight, are you on Disney Plus? No, but I can be. No, anyway. So anyway, we're on Disney Plus.

Mark is on Disney Plus. Yeah. So he, I can't remember, Mateo was probably five or six, and he built the Maui Hook. Yeah. And Disney reached out to us and said, hey, we're putting something together.

We would love to feature your video. And so we're in streaming. Oh, no way. So you guys are in here. That's cool. That's really cool. So there's what happened last night. Yeah.

That's awesome. That's what happened last night. We found out last night on Disney Plus. Somebody was like, wait. That's just about it. You got so worried when you said something happened last. I'm like, oh, no. Yeah, what happened?

Everyone's okay. It's a good thing. So, yeah. I even put the, Mark has a longer. I mean, it's on YouTube, but it's a Maui hook from a two-by-four, and we still have it. Oh, yeah, I watched him build this. This is an awesome build, too.

Yeah, it's really cool. It's a couple of years ago, right? Or back when the movie first came out? It was five, so it was six, seven years ago. That's right. Okay. Yeah, his beard is more pepper than salt is the reason I can tell us a little bit older. And Mateo was super tiny.

so it's a two-minute rendition on Disney they blurred out his t-shirt oh look at that yeah no kidding which is funny oh because his first t-shirt is flyer the concourse but his second t-shirt is duck tails but it says dovetails oh wait why did they why didn't like that one out it's because they own that no kidding we can't have any parody product placement of one of our own products right right oh my gosh look how young matteo is in this he's this little dude little guy did uh when you when they aired this did marco you're welcome no you had to say it the email he was the email reply you had to say you're in all caps you're welcome yeah yeah that's awesome dude what a cool thing to find out yeah look at little matteo oh my gosh he's tiny but there's a bunch of fan like makeup of uh different

characters. There's a hey hey clip. Most of them are about 30 seconds. Ours is two minutes. We gave them a full HD video and said, because I think they found us through TikTok. Oh, okay. And then reached out to us.

So, but yeah, they're celebrating Moana on Disney Plus. The Moa, I really, Eva and I went to see Moana too. We really enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun. Brian liked it too, didn't you, Ryan? That was good.

I saw it and thought it was good. Yeah, it was, um, it's good, Moana. It wasn't as good as the first, right. The music wasn't as good as the first. I mean, it's hard to compete with Lynn Manuel Miranda, but, uh, yeah, but, um, God, it's, it's a gorgeously presented, um, piece of film. Like, it is beautiful, but I feel like they set it up for more. Oh, yeah.

So, do you agree that there's a, a chick in the bucket? Are you familiar with the film sect term chicken the bucket, like, uh, something that is introduced. and never returned to and kind of is an unexplained question. Yeah. Yeah. Like the woman and or the god in the cave. Uh-huh. Yep.

Okay, good. It's not just me. All right. Thank you. Oh, man. If you both noticed, now I got to see the movie and see what you're going to talk about. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, oh, great. She's free for the curse and, oh, where is she? What happened? I'm sure it'll probably be on Disney Plus in January.

I mean, oh, what's the life? Actually, Raven does confirm. that there's a TV series coming out about her, about the bat lady. Oh, is that what they're doing?

The clip, the clip of Maui that I gave you about the pig. Yeah. And he's like, I feel like there's some backstory that I missed. I'm guessing that there was like shorts or something that happened with the pig. I don't know. Well, the pig has been around. The pig's been around since the first one, though, right? That pig was always like, it was just like a, oh, yeah.

Are you sure? Yeah, because my daughter hates my daughter. Yeah, the pig. My daughter... It's Alan Tudik. Right. Well, no, Tudik. Wait, I thought Tudik was the bird or the chicken.

Oh, Tudik is, hey, hey. That's right. Sorry, yeah. But I thought the... Bumba this one. I don't think the pig is in the first one. Well, my daughter, the reason I know this is my daughter hates the pig in the first one because she thinks it's a Disney, it's a Disney plushy grab is what she thinks. Yeah, it totally is.

But yeah, the pig is in the first one, but they introduce a second pig in the second. Oh, there's two pigs in the second one? Yeah. Okay. Well, bring on the pigs, I guess. Many pigs. There are many pigs. Many pigs.

Anyway, I'm a fan of Milana. We love it. I just, I know Moana's 2 isn't streaming. Moana 1 is streaming. So watch that. And then watch our fan video. Do it. Go get in there. Episode 8 of Yep.

What's the, let's see, where to go. The name of the full series is called. The fan celebration of Milana 2. There you go. That's awesome that you guys got in there. That's super red. Link, by the way, Quick TMS will have a link directly to the, not that episode.

because you still have to choose it from the list. But the next level up. Fantastic. All right. Let's roll it over to Randy. Randy, we got a clip for you as well. How do you want to set this up, sir? So Michael Boubley grew up in Burnaby, B,C.

And he and his wife got together in 2011. They had two kids. And right after the second one was born, their three-year-old was diagnosed with liver cancer. And so then for years, as they were sort of like fighting that and going through all the difficulties of it. He had this constant concern about appearing in public and, like, smiling and looking like he was okay, right?

Like, how do you appear in public when your child has cancer and you're going through all of that? And so, like, there's all these pictures of Michael Boubley forcing a smile. And it's fascinating to me that that's something that people, like, pick up on. Yeah, you have to do it. You have to get through it, man. Okay. All right.

Next time. As I've been saying for weeks, and I'm going to say every week from now on, I am just watching things that are comforting and make me feel okay because of the rest of the world. And so this time, it's an old TV show. And in this clip, which is the beginning of the series, the star of the show is waking up from a coma. Oh, goodness. That's a heartwarming tale already. Uh, here we go, let's play it. Hi there.

Hi. Hi. How am I doing? You're going to have to tell us. What's your name? Jamie Summers. Do you know us? Oh, you're Rudy and your Michael, but I knew that before.

Right. Let's try going back a little further. Why'd you go to school? Carnegie Tech. it was Carnegie Tech Michael I remember what did you major in education I was going to be a teacher I really remember this Michael my gosh why is this so familiar I'd forgotten what you've told us so I don't remember what you told us the name Jamie Summers should have been the installation oh that's why it's freaking bionic woman duh yeah all right sorry seven million dollar woman when I was a little kid this was in reruns and Lindsay Wagner was was just the most beautiful woman on TV for me. And so, like, here I am. I'm looking for things that are just, like, easy and comforting.

And I noticed this is streaming on Peacock, and I started it. And oh, my gosh, it doesn't matter what you think of this series. I need you to watch it because it looks incredible. The restoration of this TV series on Peacock right now is stunning. It looks like it was just made yesterday with, like, modern cameras and i am shocked to hear that because most of the stuff from that era television wise does not hold up that well now and that's really interesting was it known for that at the time like it must have been shot on film and the film was very well preserved because like it is

like a trip in time it's trippy i was actually like saying over and over during the first episode this is trippy it feels like looking back in time from 50 years it's bizarre like it's so beautiful this this tv show and of course it's the bionic well it's silly right it's ridiculous it's where you get fembots from right that fembots are sourced from this um it actually starts with a retrospective on the six million dollar man so that you're caught up if you haven't seen the six million dollar man and it's really helpful it's really nice so it shows the the episode or parts of the episode of of his show where she made her first appearance right all of it like it gives you a quick five minutes on all of her

on the bionic woman basically yeah yeah but it's like you know lea major's um is very different the character the two characters are very different like there uh it it really kind of skims through a lot of a lot of stuff but it gives you the basis that you need to understand what she's about to go through and what she's about to go through is uh going home she's just she's going to go home to oh hi and try to live her life and of course, her superpowers are going to be constantly called into action. And it's just pretty. I just can't say enough about this.

I can't believe that I haven't really watched it in all my life. Like I say, as a kid, I saw it on TV and reruns here and there. And now I'm just, I'm enthralled. I love those shows, in particular this one. I remember as a kid even knowing that it was like an unusual for a spin-off. to be this good. I remember feeling that. Like, wow, this is actually, this came, this is better than the

Bionic Man thing that it came from, or was inspired by it, or however the hell they did it. I don't remember how they transitioned it. But I remember thinking that at the time, and I'll bet it holds up now. I'm, you know what? I'm into this. I want to see it. Whenever you say Lee Majors, I always think of Scrooge. Lee Majors.

Oh, yeah. Whenever I think of poorly executed Christmas movies, I think of Scrooge. Oh, I love you. I know, but we've had this discussion. I know. Everyone's got a crap on everybody's favorite Christmas movie. I don't know. Yuck, everybody's yuck, everybody's yon.

Not at all. I think everybody should get to love the movies they love, including that one. I wish I liked it. I just can't stand it. Did I just tell you, we went on the Polar Express, and there was a elf named Waffles that asked me, so what's your favorite Christmas movie? And he's expecting me to say Polar Express, and I say, Christmas vacies? Yep.

Yeah. Why not? Wait, you went on the, you went on the Polar Express? How do you do, wait, where is the Polar Express? Is that a singular thing? Does everyone have one in every state? I know there's one in St. Louis. It's at Union Station. And you buy tickets to get on it. And they take you to a very poorly made cut out of the North Pole. The experience is that you're on the train and you're having hot cocoa. It's, you know, it's, you had one here, yeah, where you kind of go on to a train car and they've got screens on the window that goes. Oh, because we didn't have screens. We got to see all the graffiti. Oh, funny. Yeah, no, it technically didn't even move. Like, we went on one part of the train and came out the other part of the train. Oh, funny.

And the screens made it look like we were moving the whole time. Yeah, we definitely moved. And it was, I think Van would love it. Oh, Van would love it. It's great for kids. Oh yeah. Heck yeah. We would do it in a heartbeat. Maybe there is one here. Oh, Heber has one when Megas says. Maybe there is one. Heber's not far. Because we have this train called the Heber Creeper, and they do a lot of seasonal stuff with it. I know. It sounds like a local guy who's like looking in windows and stuff. Yeah. The Heber Creeper. Has he introduced himself on your doorstep yet? Yeah. Heber creeper came last night. His pants are off as usual. If you watch your favorite movie, just say Polar Express. Yeah, Polar Express. Do it. I like the stiff, unaffecting

action of your god yeah uh all right well let's uh dive into my or your thing i just want to sell you a little bit more on bionic woman do it because you're going to work

bobley defense you might you might just think that it is a sort of james bond ripoff and it is yeah but in all the good ways like she has a series of villains and they get more and more weird until

uh you reach the like she has her own uh specter that she's dealing with, right? There are, the fembots are called fembots. There's a villain named Elijah Cooper who's trying to destroy the earth, right? And she's like so on. But ultimately

her biggest villain through the course of the series is herself. She plays the villain also in the name of a woman who is basically given plastic surgery to replace her. And it's

awesome. like it is really good like imagine how bad it would be if whoever's playing james bond right now also played the villain in all the movies you know now that'd be weird wouldn't it it's a little like yeah this is really a really good story because it's like a story instead of just a silliness yeah well that's awesome i'm gonna i think i'm gonna spin it up did you i'm sorry you already said it but where is it streaming again i watched it on peacock i noticed it's also available on Amazon. Okay, excellent. I am definitely going to dive in. I like it.

All right. Let me now play something for you guys. It is a movie that Nicole referred to briefly, but I will now tell you all about it. It is a Christmas film just released on Netflix that we loved. And here is the clip. This is the tale of one of the

most challenging nights of my long career. Dance, you won't get all those sacks down the chimney and what go? Christmas was knocking on Wellington's front door. Come on out! Courtsch! And here are our unfortunate heroes.

Baredette, you're in charge. Yes! Eight key, three hours. Woo-hoo! Oh, hi, Danny. Hi, Sam. You've ruined Christmas lunch for everyone. Everyone, except the turkeys.

Look, you'd have here in an hour. I bet with more presents than Santa. Okay, imagine a Pixar movie, but with no American accents for once. Just a big cast of British people. Some you know, some you don't. A couple of New Zealanders. Just an incredible cast of British, UK, Scottish actors. Just kicking butt.

The movie is called, or the, yeah, it is a movie. I shouldn't say that. It's called That Christmas, and it's written by a very familiar name to people, if you are familiar with his work. His name is Richard Curtis. Now, that doesn't sound familiar to you. Richard Curtis is the guy who created and wrote films like Love Actually and four weddings in a funeral. And others. Just Jones.

Exactly. He is great. He makes great movies. Now, everything I just mentioned is very adult-oriented. Classics in their own right, especially Love Actually, I think. but you know how love actually is about like 14 stories and somehow it all works at it all works like the movie terrible terrible christmas movie disagree oh stop it hard hard disagree my getting my yum yucked over here um i really like that movie partly because take the christmas out of it like i like how he is able like robert altman did this really well too

take about 15 people and somehow make their stories coalesce and work somehow this is a movie like that but for families and kids that really surprised me how well it does that thing he writes and it is to take a bunch of disparate stories and pull them all together in a really meaningful way check out the cast on this thing so uh bill nae plays this lighthouse bill guy he's actually kind of not in it that much but he's in house bill lighthouse bill's amazing brian cox plays santa that was the voice you heard there so succession and you know all that other stuff he's in um a goose con is his dad's dad's he's fantastic anyway oh he's great he was had a great season of taskmaster that guy yeah he's really great um Fiona shaw you know her from harry potter movies she's uh aunt petunia yeah right uh she was in andor as the kind of the mom the mom's mom right or uh not mother definitely the mother figure for yeah but yeah she's his mom adopt adopted mom though right adopted mom yeah i don't like she was his real mom but anyway jody whittaker fantastic actress oh the the recent Doctor Who? Yep. She's great. And then a bunch of kid actors who really kill it.

Rise Darby is in this. He's doing an English accent, which is really funny because I'm just used to his Aussie or his New Zealand accent. Sorry, Australia. I didn't mean to say that. He did a stand-up thing here in St. Louis. It was so great. Yeah, you saw pretty recently, right? You guys went and saw him? Yeah. He's supposed to be great on stage. Anyway, this cast is really, really great. And this thing has heart. It is freaking funny. My wife doesn't laugh at animated kids' movies where they try to be funny. It just isn't a thing she does. Doesn't mean she doesn't like it. She just doesn't laugh. This movie made her laugh multiple times. And I don't know if it's the British take or the what.

I don't know what it is, but she laughed really hard. It's just very sweet. It's got multiple very cool stories that all come together in the end. This is some of the most fun. And we set it and watch this with no expectations. I was like, all right, how's this going to go? And some people's complaints with it are that it is too many stories that is trying to tell. I think it does that beautifully.

And in particular, the story about the teacher at the school in this tiny town played by Fiona Shaw and her relationship with this young boy who is played by, if I can find the kid's name, can't find it. Anyway, the main kid is such a sweet little relationship with a stern teacher and a kid who just moved into town. and doesn't know anyone. It's just such a sweet little story. I love this. It's full of action. It's full of heartfelt moments. It's really well animated. And for once, it doesn't sound like snarky Americans doing a cartoon. Awesome. I loved it. I love it. I love it. I can't wait to watch this. Yeah, this one sounds great. Yeah, really good. Yeah. I just loved it too. Yeah. It's very, very good. Every year I'm looking for something like this. And some years, it's okay. It's usually starring Ryan Reynolds. And you know, I'm talking about like something to watch with the whole

family my kid and his grandparents right so it's like a a big spread of interests and this looks like it's going to fit perfectly yeah yeah really really cool this is the kind of movie that i add to my kind of rotation i've tried to you know it's funny how many christmas movies come out for the season and the ones that i just don't add to like the they don't stick yeah so i mean and then you get some that you're like i can't believe that's in my real like daddy daddy that he's home too I have to watch that movie every year you brought up Ryan Reynolds did you like

spirited I kind of did I like spirited I think there were parts of it that were a little like okay guys calm down but then mostly though I thought that was a kind of a fun we've watched it the last two Christmases and so like I need to take a break from spirited this year

I guess I like it a lot because we've watched it for two years yeah I watched it yeah I think it's all right I came out last I'm missing a year I think two years yeah I think it was 2022

I missed it I missed it I miss it I'm not even know anymore I'm amazed at I'm amazed at how often Restarby comes up on these recommendals

like it's like and I'm just thinking mostly about our flag means death but it's just like the guy can do no wrong I love him yeah no I never get tired of that guy he can do whatever he wants

and I'll watch it I like I mean even Volt the Voltron remake has him in it and it's fantastic yeah yeah he's great in that so yeah anytime he's around what is he saying um he's the kid in bob's burgers that's from new zealand and says you want to pull yourself off a chesty he's talking about his chest hair that he's growing oh my gosh it's such a great role uh pull off a chest he's only in three episodes of bob's burgers but i think of him as a regular it's so memorable his part is so memorable in it uh well anyway there are all your recommendals for the week that you

you can stand and the best part about it is it's all in one place it's quickt ms dot l i go get them get them today and uh watch that cool thing with nicole and her uh her son and her cool i wish i was in it it's just mark and matteo in it but yeah well you know you're there you're you're somewhere feeding the dog who knows uh you were holding the camera probably for part of it right no no that was mark figured out how to do that on his own oh no oh that's a shame I did ask him. I said, oh, you should probably make the oar now for Ava. She would love that. Oh, she would. Tell them now to do it. Tell Dr. Salt and Pepper there to get on it. What's he doing? All right. Best of the family. Look forward to seeing you at least one more time before the holiday, I think.

Yay. I think next week, right? Yeah, next week's still good. Yeah, we got one more. We got one more in us. I think so. We're taking the week of Christmas off, but the one before it, I think we're good. So have a good one. We'll talk to you soon. Randy. big plans for film sack this weekend what do you think yeah a long time ago we watched die hard in a building this week we're going to watch die hard in an airport yeah william sadler dude william sadler and the old denver airport the old stapleton i didn't know what i didn't know that wild that's cool i i wanted to go ahead and announce the forthcoming movies for a lot of reasons but like it occurs to me the very next week we're going to watch a diehard rip-off called reindeer games yeah i actually kind of like

reindeer games, but I really like reindeer games. Yeah, I need to go back to it and see if it's any good. There's so many diehard rip-offs. I just like, I just like the, you know, die-hard on a plane with snakes. You just, I call them by that, you know. That die-hard said a template that I think we're still in the template now. Things still happen. Movies will come out. Liam Neeson. Doesn't matter who. And you're like, okay, what's kind of die-hard in this place and die-hard in that place? On a train. Actually, die-hard on a train is the taking of Pelham 1-2-3, which is like predates die-hard, but whatever. true but the newer one the tony scott one is very diehardy and i'm fine with it that's the thing is this is not a problem die hard everything it's fine with me we sacked we sacked die hard on a bus

yeah that was pretty good what was that one oh yeah speed speed i was thinking it i was thinking to the badass one with uh ttejo in it we've sacked at least two movies that were die hard on a ship yeah yeah under siege many diehards many diehards uh so so check it out this weekend die hard too everybody die harder. Randy, don't die harder. Live harder. Live beaties. Bye. All right. Live, die harder, repeat. Live, die harder repeat. Exactly. All right. We are at a stage of the game here where we have to get the F out. Yeah, we do. I'm going to say this, though. Actually, I have nothing to say. I was going to say something about it. I keep thinking it's Thursday. It's not Thursday. It's freaking Wednesday. It's right. Yeah, we still have more to do. Tomorrow's going to be nuts because I got court right after the show and then later, and then later,

the day. The game awards are tomorrow. Oh, wow. Okay. It's like another three hours of like co-streams we're going to do. So it's going to be nuts. So watch for that fun stuff. Lots of games up for awards and who knows what'll win. That'll do it. Brian, anything else you need before we go?

I got nothing else. Just, you know, getting ready for the Christmas show. I've got a full episode planned. Mostly requests. So look forward to that. Nice. Let's get out here with a song then. What do you got for us?

Okay. How about one that's going out to Christmas? Chris says, hi, guys, no real date or occasion for this one. Triple J released their top 10 covers of the year from Like a Version. And this one was the standout to me. Thanks, guys, have a safe holiday period and try to avoid the plague. Cheers, Chris, Brisbane, Australia. Now, what's funny about this is that the request was sent in four years ago,

and I'm finally getting to this one because it's like, oh, you know, I never played this. I want to play it. And so that's why the, don't try to avoid the plague. It was more poignant four years ago. Oh, he was like right in the pandemic when he said it. He was right in the pandemic at that time. I thought he meant like, oh, the seasonal flu and the sniffly nose.

But no, he was like serious, man. Right. Right. So this is what it's like, I've been sitting on for a while. I was like, oh, I need to get that one in because it's a great song. And now I'm doing it today. This was in 2020 one of the biggest like aversion songs for the Triple J. And it's a great one.

It deserves it. It is Chloe, but that's spelled C-8, I'm sorry, C-X-O-L-E, silly. And it's for cover of the Cranberries zombie. All right, that's going to do it. We'll see you guys tomorrow for a Thursday edition and a windy return. Yay, finally. Yep, on the morning stream. We'll see you then.

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