The Morning Stream - TMS 2754: Full-Sized Dentist

Episode Date: December 18, 2024

That Guy on Temu Lied. I Don't Like AARPeeeeeeeeee. A Jug of The Ocean. Clare is stiff and working. Hardcore carded. Flaccid bacon. Pre-chewed senior meal. Interpreting the Ali Baba language. Going Full George's Parents. Important Butthole Speech. Fart joke Billie. Victim of the old bait and switch. Amberdick is the color of your energy. TikTok Til It Stops... With Tom. Intelligent cussing with Randy and Nicole and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mike Tyson, a nun and a talking frog walk into a bar. They see how expensive drinks are now. So they decide instead to give a little back to their favorite morning show at patreon.com slash TMS. Coming up on the morning stream, that guy on Timu lied. I don't like AARP. A jug of the ocean. Claire is stiff and working. Hardcore carded.

Flaccid bacon. Gross. Pre-chewed senior meal. Also gross. Interpreting the Alibaba language. Going full George's parents Important butthole speech Fart joke Billy Victim of the old bait and switch

Amber Dick is the color of your energy Tick talk till it stops with Tom Intelligent cussing with Randy and Nicole And more on this episode of The Morning Stream I'm on top of the world Looking a down down on creation And the only explanation I can find

Release me from your kung fu grip The morning stream. He's taking a dump in a can. Hello everybody and welcome to TMS. It is the morning stream for Wednesday, December 18th, for one week till Christmas. I'm Scott Johnson. That's Brian.

but hi, Brian. Hello. Hello, how are you? Are you prepared for Christmas? I am not. Look at that. I just ran out of Kleenex and I got to blow my nose. Give me two seconds. Grab it, do it.

Get what you got to get. I have a roll of toilet paper when I run out of the tissues. This is how I do it. Just keep this little roll here. It's probably a dual use, you know? Blow your nose and occasionally, maybe I need to wipe your butt. Occasionally wipe your butt.

I mean, I got a bathroom downstairs now, so maybe I'll need to use it. But anyway, yeah, do you feel, I mean, do you feel, I know we talked about this a little bit, do you feel ready for the holiday? Are you like, you know, ready? I am, I'm ready for the holidays to be, be, well, okay, here's the deal. I'm looking forward to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Christmas Eve, we're going to see my 100-year-old grandmother and brush. We saw her for her birthday, but this will just be me and Tina, Tristan and Kay, and my mom and her,

or so like a little group and she loves we played king of Tokyo with her she's like into board games and stuff like she's she's not what what any of us would have thought a hundred years old would look like no it's amazing we can all be like that that'd be freaking wonderful you know yeah so we're going to her house on christmas eve over the river and through the woods really like almost two hours away by car and then uh christmas day is with tina's mom and Tina's brother and his kids and my mom's coming to that as well. All right. So you're prepared enough for the good times of the family get together and the whatnot.

Yeah, right? Yeah, I'm definitely prepared. And that's kind of what I'm looking forward to. Tina and I are going to watch, we're going to watch the Film Sack movie tonight. But then after that, she wants to watch either a year without a Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, definitely one of the Rankin' Bass animated Christmas things. And we're hoping that's going to, like, help get us feeling a little more into the Christmas spirit. Sure. I think that's a great idea. Don't watch the substance. It will not put you in the Christmas mood.

Good to know. Yeah. That one would probably stay away from until after the holidays. Well, until it's, I mean you consider it until it's on one of the streaming services that we pay for. Yeah, that's a dark, long winter holidays are over kind of watch, I think. Yeah, I think so. I would recommend that. Like, watch it when you're ready to be, you're just ready to be lying awake in bed, staring at the ceiling, saying, what did I just want? Yeah, saying you usually, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, this is, yeah, yeah. And this is, this is, yeah, yeah. And that's rare. That's weird. It seems impactful or not impactful, because that makes it sound like, it's really got a message that it's sending. I don't think it does, right? It's really like, I mean, it does, but it does it. Okay. It seems impactful or not impactful, because that makes it sound like, it's really, it's really like, it's really, I mean, it does. I mean, it does it does it. Okay. It does have a. It. It. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does. It does message and it is a it is an important one okay but it would be like it would be like uh you know when jim carey talks with his butthole and the yeah he has to be been sure imagine the most important speech let's say lincoln's four score and seven years ago deal got his burger dress imagine that meant that's the message a good one an important message yeah but coming out of jim Carrie Ben over talking with his butthole.

It's a little like that. It's hard to explain until you see it because the message is there. There's definitely a message and it's a good one, but they tell it through so much goop and gore and blood and psychotic visuals. And I just, I don't, I still don't know quite how to explain that movie. I really don't. This is like a test for critics to know if they're really good at this job or not because I don't know how you can describe it.

It's so weird. Well, also probably is a really good tool for. people who this would be one of those things that feels like it would be a um uh a bellwether for which critics you want to follow in which ones you don't like it seems like it's a very there's a very specific thing that either you like this or you don't or there's some maybe some gray areas and you can say oh okay this critic felt exactly the same way about this thing as i did therefore i'm gonna i'm gonna like star them on rotten tomatoes and they're gonna they're their weight of their reviews is going to supersede anybody else's.

Yeah, rather than just some random, like, you know, new George Clooney movie, it's, you know, where you could give or take or whatever, you find something like this. It's like a moment in time where what they say, there's only one, there's only one flag you can plant on the substance and where they plant it. It either matches where you plant it or it doesn't. Yeah. So, I mean, when you see it eventually, I will know. need to be talking to you about it. I can't wait to talk about it. I really can't. I think it's

going to be so much fun to talk about. And once again, I do not recommend it to people. I liked it a lot and I think it's an important movie, but I don't recommend it. That's a weird thing to say, but I'll stand by it. Brian, let's get straight to it here. I talked to the other day about how I got carded at a bar. And I mean, I'm carried it in a bar. Yes. I'm under no illusions that someone thinks I'm young enough to be carded. That's not why I brought it up. But for some reason, I think Terry wanted to rub that in, so here's a call from him. Hey, so, Arden Board. It's Terry Z again. Last week on Thursday's TMS number 2747, suddenly Robocop, Scott, you mentioned that you

were carded at a bar slash restaurant. There was then a short discussion about people being carded who don't look young. Let's be real, Scott. No offense, but you do look over 21, so they're probably just checking to see if you qualify for the senior district. rude rude yeah it wasn't to see how young you were is to see how old you were have you done that at a Denny's or anything

where you get the lower deal the price have you tried that yet? No I haven't no the I have not been Tina and I go to breakfast every Friday it's a little tradition that we do every week if we can if we don't have something else going on we'll go out at 7 a.m. go to breakfast I said dinner.

I meant breakfast. I think you said dinner, but I knew what you meant, so my brain didn't catch it either. Yeah, okay. So every, I mean, who are really old, we're going out to dinner at 7 a.m. That's how old we are. So, yeah, no, we're going out to breakfast every Friday when it works out at 7 a.m. And we've got, we have like about, like, six breakfast places that are, that we can get to, that are really good within 20 minutes.

And that's kind of what we base things on. Like, because we got, I have TMS Friday mornings now to contend with. And prior to that, I had guest the connection and we had, you know, couch party and stuff like that to go with. So, but then there are some that are a little bit further out. And we'll kind of consider those if we're really on top of things and we leave the house a little bit before, a little bit before seven. Obviously, it has to be a place that's open at 7 a.m. or earlier. And there's a couple like that. Denny's is five minutes away from, from, from our.

house. We have not been to Denny's in maybe three years. Oh my God. So it's like it is so, uh, the only benefit of Denny's for us is that, yeah, it's close. Yeah. It's pretty close. And, you know, yeah, we know we can get the, whatever it's called the, um, not the Rudy, Tutti, Fresh and Fruity, but there's some sort of $4.99 or $5.99 eggs, bacon, pancakes hash brown it's not the Grand Slam anymore is it or is it Grand Slam? No it is there you go Okay that's the Grand Slam

Yeah and it's just so Pedestrian If I go five minutes beyond that There's a place called the Blue Sky Cafe And they've got Sweet Potato Pancakes They bring you syrup in a warm glass

Container that has not been microwaved It feels like it's been The moisture on the side indicates that it's been Set in a either a steamer or something like a warm water bath or something to heat it up. Yum. They ask you the level of crispiness you'd like on your bacon. Oh, that's massive.

I love a place that does that. Exactly. Like how do you like your bacon? What's the word? I can't remember what they call it for flimsy, but it's either crispy, medium, or she doesn't say floppy, but there's something. I know what you mean the kind that's like a, it's not just that it's thin, it's that it's kind of hanging, right? It's kind of hanging, yeah, like soft. Maybe they say soft or something, but we always say, oh, crispy, thank you for asking.

So anyway, like, that place does everything right, and it's five minutes further than Denny's. And there's all these other places that have, like, there's a place called Eat that has these amazing pancakes that are made with Vermont cream. and it's so good and this other one that's like got really, really cool breakfast, good breakfast brittos and kick ass, green chili and stuff like that. So there's so many other places around it.

Denny's no interest to go in there. So even if they said just to go back to your original question, which I do remember, not that old, if they had to card me and say, oh, you qualify for a senior citizen breakfast, would you like that? And it's

pre-chewed. It's a, it's a, oh, they Pre-chew it. I love that idea. Oh, man. Yeah, I don't think I've ever, I've never been asked for it, but I've seen menus with it, and I just can't bring myself to go, yeah, I'm over. I'm 55. I think I could, you know, I'd never do it. And I probably will one day. One day I'll go full George's parents, but I'm not ready yet. I'm not ready yet. Yeah, no, me neither. Now, if it's like a discount on getting into a concert or movie theater or something like that, I'll take it. Yeah, no, I got no shame there. Let's do it. Zero.

Yeah. That's great. Well, thanks, Terry. I appreciate your very nice call. I got another call asking a quick question, which I can very quickly answer. Hi, Scott and Brian. This is Matt from Indiana. I was just wondering, you guys, a while ago, recommended an Amber Nick device. What is that device and which one should I get? Thanks, bye. Okay, he left this before I showed off the new one, and he's probably heard all that since. But the two that I recommend right now, if you're looking for tiny, pocketable one, I go with the RG 28XX. That's the little 2.8 inch

one. Awesome little device plays up to Dreamcast. But it's a little teeny screen. Just know that. It's like, you know, not smaller than like the original Game Boy, but it's pretty small. Oh, that's this one. That's the RG 28XX right here. Nice. The other one that's upstairs right now is the one I really recommend, which is the RG 40XXH, which is

the still horizontal layout, but much larger, four inch screen. and runs up to Dreamcast and is fantastic. I spent way too much time on that last night. My neck hurts from the way I was sitting. I love that device so far. It's been really, really great.

Although I do recommend flashing it with the M-U-OS. And if you want to reach out to me on Discord or something, I can give you more information, but it's like a replacement OS for the thing. And it's fantastic, really good. Super efficient and fast. I love it. Nice.

Anyway, there's that. Also, I got a warning. Speaking of... Warning, warning. Speaking of video games and stuff. So, I was looking around for one of these... I was trying to find it for a gift, but I was looking around for one of these little boxes,

basically just USB or, you know, SSDs that are... They'll have all the software kind of on them already. Plug them into a TV. If you have a controller, you just start playing. The games are just on there, right? I was just looking for these cheap ones. They're like $17 in most places. And the one I found, I think,

thought looked cool because it looked like an old cassette tape see that it looks like a little thing yeah because when i see a cassette i think gaming yeah every time right i mean i was looking for something that was kind of retro and i don't know i just like the motif and it said in the description like a tape in a case it does and the description was all like yeah many games play this hot dog whatever all this stuff yeah i get it takes about 14 days because it's allie bobba or ali express is where i got this um and you can get great deals on there and if you know what you're doing you'll the stuff's fine all right but it's kind of teemuish there's a little bit of teemu going on uh or temu however they want me to say it this

week oh yeah that's right i forgot that yeah it's annoying um so i got this thing thinking it would be what it is it turns out the description says it was sSD it's not this is a regular old hard drive spinning hard drive it's a small one it's a little sat a three you know drive USB 3 drive so it's not terrible or anything, but it's basically just a portable SATa drive in a case that looks like a cassette, and there's nothing on, there's nothing on this.

Oh, no, really? So no software to run games or anything. It's just basically it's an SSD. How big? What's the size of the hard drive? It's not even, not even SSD. It's an actual spinning drive, which kind of sucks, because I would rather have an SSD, but and it said it was an SSD.

It's just a regular ass hard drive. Hold on. I'm trying to find the size. I didn't think it says I forgot when I looked at it Anyway whatever how big it is There's nothing on it It came with a little USB cable to do it So I got a little external storage

For no good reason Yeah F that I like how it's transparent Okay so the transparency on the other side There is kind of cool with the Yeah it's cool But if you

It's really just a plastic It's a paint And it's a sticker to make it look like a tape Yeah I figured Because inside there I wasn't seeing you 3D or anything. Yeah, the stuff inside there that's just like circuit board crap. And it's just a hard drive like you used to put in a notebook 10 years ago.

This would have been a hot drive to have. Right, right. So anyway, there's 17 bucks I'll never get back. Don't do that, folks. Don't be like me. They do have free returns. I don't know how it works. I'm kind of nervous to do it.

So maybe I'll report back on how it goes. Yeah. All right. Time for a game. You guys heard me about the fourth caller business. If you want to be in, you've got to call in, and you've got to be the fourth caller to be taken into today's Tad Pooley feud. We're going to add Brian Dunaway to the call first. We'll see if he answers.

And if he does, oh, man, we're off to the races here. Oh, well, we've got the rings of ringage. Good. Not have the rings of speakage. All right, Brian, he's ringing. Ring, ring, ring. Oh, there he is. I got him.

Hey, y'all, it's game time with our pal. Brian Dunaway. Hi, Brian. Oh, hi, Scott and Brian. I was just listening to your chatter about that cassette tape thing. I got to ask you a question. I think, did I share that link with you? I can't remember. No, you did not. You did not give me to this. No. I can't blame you. I would have blamed you if I could, but I can't. Right, right. So I've actually seen that before. And do you know how to use Alley Express? because it took me almost five different attempts before I finally started understanding. Oh, there's usually options underneath it, and they give you the cheapest option, but the description, they may not match what is actually getting.

So you have to go to like this sub description that will say, it will say new old stock. You've got new old stock spinning drive instead of the SSD, which would have been like $50 instead of $17. Yeah, I think that's a, I think that's what I don't know the land. not the language because it's in English, but the... It's different shopping experience, right? It's not like Amazon. That's a great way of putting it. And I, you know, I should know better.

I've done this a long time. I should dig deeper. I just got excited because I went 17 bucks, loaded with games. This would be a great gift for Nick. Bring it in. Bring it in. Bullshit. And I should have known when I got the box and it just said,

2.5 inch sat external hard drive enclosure. And I'm like, that's boring. That is, yeah, that is not what I, what I ordered. Lame. Anyway, Dunaway, always happy to see

your shining face. Oh, oh, shiny. Oh, our fourth, our fourth caller guys. Holy crap. Look who we got coming in here.

Oh, no. Okay. We have one of who I think is, without trying to, one of the funniest people in our community. Oh, good.

Yes. I know. Yeah. Without even trying, Jan, Yanni, Yanny, uh,

makes me laugh. And, uh, we're welcoming him back to the show. Hello, Jan, Jan. Hello. Yane. Hello.

How's it going, man? It's going great. Yeah. Just about to leave to a night shift in 45 minutes, so. Oh, good. We'll try and keep it under that. We definitely will. It's good to have you here, though, and I hope things are, I hope you're feeling the Christmas

spirit and a place in the world where there should be a lot of that. You've got a lot of ancient shit going on there with the Christmas time. Right? Yeah, we got like almost a foot and a half of snow. Oh, Jesus. Two day period. Wow. We don't have that.

Nice. No. We're waiting. Still sunny and beautiful over here. I'm thinking about going rollerblading later. It should be nice. There's 48 degrees this morning. That's not even cold.

That's just like nothing. I don't know what's going on here. Anyway, it's good to have you here. Brian, let's get straight to the game and talk about how this all works. Explain it to us. We'll do. It's time to play the tadpooly feud. I've surveyed the tadpool on some nerdy.

topics, and Scott and Brian will have to predict the answer that they gave us. It's Scott and Brian's job to see how many of those answers they can guess. Yana, your job is more important than ever because you're going to be working with either Scott or Brian. If your team wins, you'll get a prize package that includes garden life, courtesy of Wesley. Wesley and Call of Cthulhu, which, let me double check. That's not one that you sent us to give away, is it? That would be great.

Oh, sorry, could you say that again? Did you send us Call of Cthulhu? Yeah, did you send Call of Cthoole? I might have. Yeah, I did. Perfect. Yeah. I love it.

Well, you too. Can you win your own shit. I know. You send it with all those escape room games and stuff. Then you will instead get a copy of the Dread X collection, courtesy of Kim, Kim, Kim, Kibazi. Kim, Kim, Kibazi. Oh, yeah. Dread X collection.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good stuff. Is that good? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing wrong with that. You'll enjoy it. That's good. We don't want to give you back stuff you gave us for sure.

No, no, no. We didn't want to do that. That'd be weird. As funny as it might be, we don't want to do that. All right, let's get to your question here. This is from the newest survey, and we've got, we've asked 421 tadpoolers the following question. Please put your hands on your buzzers and get ready to answer this. Which Disney character would you want to back you up in a street fight?

No Marvel, Star Wars, or Avatar. Brian. The beast. Show me the beast. number seven on the board six answers will beat it scott which which not marvel not star was and not avatar disney character would you want to back you up in a street fight i know who i want but i don't think anyone else would pick it gas on too obscure no not gaston he's a put no one fights like gaston no one kicks like that's perfect he's such a pud you said no marvel so

that's important it did that is very important all right I'll just go with my gut. I'm sure this is wrong. But I would say Kerchek from the Tarzan adaptation. Oh, okay. All right. Show me. Kerchek from the Tarzan?

Yeah. Show me that. Yeah, I'm guessing that's not on there now that you say it that way. I don't even think, let me scroll through the list here. I don't even think they got KER, right? Yeah. Yeah, I had a drag to my mind even. No, he was talking about.

Not on there. Watch that recently or something. I did. I watched it with Van. He's, he's, he's, it's voiced by Lance Henriksen. He's awesome character. Oh, he's so cool. And he's a giant ape and they're strong and he's smart and I don't know. I stand by my choice, but it's a, obviously, I'm not going to win with it. You know what? No, I like the fact that you go with what, what you would pick rather than just saying, all right, let me pander to the tadpole and pick what I think they would say. Sure. Yeah, good for you. Brian, that means that you've got Jan as a, as a partner there. what do the two of you think yanni you have one i have some stuff oh if not i think boomba would have some meme value okay oh pumba yeah yeah yeah pumba i heard mumba is that uh boomba or boomba

you going with pumba or uh well what do you think brian uh i think that's that that's good if that's what you want no you want to win those games back it's smart because it's smart because it's very tadpool focused i think it's very tight pull focused i think it's very tight yeah yeah yeah exactly all right show me pumba oh man in this case uh tadpool let you down uh pumba was the number 35 so um a lot of people only two people really got wanted to use that joke is their answer all right still i'll go with um Brian can you repeat one more time characters could you come up with Scott uh yeah um which Disney character would you want to back you up in a street fight got no Marvel Star Wars one Avatar. No, Marvel, Star Wars, or Avatar? Okay, so that doesn't exclude, like, other fairy tales borrowed or whatever. That's weird that you said no Avatar, though. I mean, it's like, that's a very narrow subset. I can understand Marvel because it's like, oh, God, you could go on forever. In Star Wars, like, you know, saying a small or something like that. I just threw Avatar in there

because I know, you know, I know the tadpool. I believe it'll just say it like that. It still didn't stop one person from saying, Captain Marvel. I'll go with the genie from Aladdin oh my gosh that's almost cheating yeah because he's got magic

let you already use free wishes yeah you got wishes unless I already blew the wishes that's possible exactly well if that if nothing else he'll just talk them to them oh oh we're at a street

you don't do a will smith no I don't do Will Smith we don't like to talk about that a weirdly tinted weird will Smith show me genie no number one genie look at you our second favorite genie right there

there's only one genie better and you don't spell like that all right oh man this is harder than I thought this would be and I can't remember for sure if this is Disney

but I'm going to say it oh no I know it is because they have the scene with all the princesses in it so I'm going to say Rackett Ralph should be on here oh that's a good one Big guy.

So not goofy. Going Rickett Ralph? No, going Rickett Ralph. Okay. Show me. Rickett Ralph. Oh, my God. If it makes you feel better, number 12,

Reket Ralph. Almost got you a free answer. Does not make me feel better. But I appreciate it. I appreciate the effort. In fact, I wish it was 11 real bad right now. Right. I'm sure you do.

All right. We didn't say, we just said character, right? We didn't say villain or not villain. Right, no, which Disney character. I know what I want to say, but is it still in the conscience of the Tadpool? I want to say Baymax, but I don't want to, I'm just, what do you think? I wouldn't do Baymax because Bay Max is Marvel. Do you go with Stitch?

Stitch? Yeah, Baymax is Marvel, so you can't do Baymax. I mean, if you could, but Brian will give you an X. Yeah, I was going to say, well, or does the Tadpool know that Baymax is Marvel? Oh, shit. think of that's what i'm saying no that's a good point i you know what was there was alternative though what was alternative what you say stitch oh stitch i would love stick he's back in the in the news too so that's a good that's a good point yeah plus brian love stitch we talk about stitch

a lot that's a good one i think about stitch a lot and he's apparently uh september showed me she was at the um the tj max over the weekend and sent me photos of all like massive amount of Stitch merch that you can get cheap there, which I need to make a trip. I want a nice little Stitch Ramen Bowl, I think. You got to buzz over to T.J. Max and get one. All right. Go on with Stitch. Let's go with Stitch.

Show me Stitch. Number three. Yeah, good. Good answer. Give you guys 10 points to Scott's one point for Jeannie. Nicely done. Continue your path of victory. Let's hear you do it. All right. Let's see. You got another one over there? You think it's

something else? Hercules is a Not really a Disney character Yeah, that's a good one Yeah, that's a good one Or Cronk, yeah Somebody from that Yeah, Cronk would do

Why am I just yelling stuff out? Sorry Herculelellan I like it I like that you're yelling shit out I think that's great Yeah, this is great for Scott So what are you going with answer-wise

Hercules, Hercules, Hercules, Herculees Elton John's middle name. Show me. Hercules. Yeah, number eight. I'm sorry, you buried the headline. That's Elton John's middle name. It really is. Elton, Hercules, John. Hercules, John, all right. He changed his name, right? He was, you know, Kenneth Dwight, original Dwight, right? And then he changed his name and he gave himself the middle name Hercules. I did not. I didn't see that. Elton Hercules John. In that biopic they did, it's probably in there. I just missed it. Oh, I don't know if it is. Rocket Man, it should be.

If it isn't, it should be. I love that. That is great knowledge to have through my day today. It is exactly. You know, John's the middle name? It's Hercules. By the way, that takes Brian and Yanna up to 18 points. All right.

Nice. I know what you think? Cronk next. That's a good question. I would love Cronk. I think he'd be great. But the type of will think it. Let's do Cronk.

Let's crook it up. All right, that's a misprint. That's a typo. Show me, Crunk. Oh, unfortunately, Kronk number 25 on the list. Aye. Aye.

Hey, Lama, that's a typo. It's the only impression I can do. All right. I really like Kronk, so I do not be smart to you guys for that choice. That's really good. It was a good guess. All right. oh man this is hard

it is it is it's a very like I was looking at these the highest number genie is only 49 out of 421 people usually we've got like I mean it's a very decisive lead but it's also that means there are a lot of answers on this yeah and the whole thing of like you know street fight means you need strength or magic or something that will give you an advantage scrappy

stitches you're not magic or strong but he's scrappy as hell um All right. But yeah, everybody, I mean, a lot of the answers on here are fighters or. Yeah. Mages, clerics, fighters, rangers. A couple of a couple of bards in there, probably. All right.

They're probably all bards. They all sing. All right, I'm going to go with, let's give some girl power here. Let's go Moulon. I'd like her to help me out. Oh, dang it. That's who I was one next. Yep.

Show me Mulan Number two Very good Three points for Scott Okay I got to I got to stay with the ladies You gotta raise some points up here yeah

Um Okay If you said Mulan That makes me think there's probably another girl on here There's a lot of women in these stories There are Who's some tough ass mother effers Uh

Does Oh does the tadpull accidentally slip up Pixar character in here. I mean, Disney owns them, but they're not technically Disney characters. But that doesn't matter. I know. I'll go with

Rick or Ralph was in the list. I guess that's not Pixar. No, that's Disney. All right. What's her name from Brave? The Redhead. Merida. Merida. Merida. Merida.

Yeah. Show me, Merida. Oh, really? Yeah. Mirror to number 19. I know it doesn't make you feel better. Well, it does a little because it means Pixar people are on the list. So that's at least confirms my theory that there might be some crossover.

All right. Yeah. Interesting. We both have a strike left, guys. Let's see how you do. Exactly right. 18 to 3 going into your last, last strike here. Brian and Yana, what you got?

Hmm. What do you? what do you think you think Moana but not see I'm I'm curious what they would say because it's kind of like the Zelda thing I think somebody might say Moana but they really mean Maui right oh because Maui's the god

yeah he's magical and godlike right so yeah it's not bad though plus that that sequel's on people's mind a little bit yeah your guess is as good that's mine I haven't seen those well and they're against the law It's Finland. They don't allow this kind of bullshit over in Finland.

I get it. Bus Light Year maybe. Oh, Buzz Light Year's perfect. Duh. Duh, Buzz Light Year. All right. I know it's Pixar, but let's get it. Do it.

All right. Get it. Show me Buzz Lightier. Oh, you kidding me. Yeah, not kidding. Buzz Light Year, uh, do, do, do, do, did, do, did, do, did, did, where the heck is. D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-T-LT-E. People gave a variety of 98 answers to this.

Wow. Okay. And the top 43 had more than one answer. Had more than one person say it. Um We don't have enough villains on here I'm starting to think that's a

A thing Yeah How about Oh you know what I take it back I'm going with This is a tricky one I'm going to say Mufasa

Oh Well it's got chills That's right Say it again Sweet Mufusso Oh say it again All right

See in the movie tomorrow night Show me Mufasa Mufasa. Oh, yeah, Mufasa, number 15. Boy, you guys were great at getting the teens. Yeah, I'm pretty good to getting teens. You're a phrase that.

Yeah. We are really good at picking up the teens. We do a great job of picking up the teens. All right, that's all right. That does mean that Yana wins the prizes, which is very good. Let's look at these other ones that, boy, you guys talked about. How about number four? Maui from the time.

Damn it. Now, did you just put all of them in there where they said Moana or Maui or do you? No, nobody said Moana. Really? Yeah, it was just, just, let me check. I don't think anybody said. I mean, that girl's got spirit, but she doesn't have any power. She's not going to help you in a street fight.

She can control water and the oceans and stuff like that. Well, she's got a, the ocean's her friend basically, though, right? It's not like it. Sure. It thinks for itself. She can't really tell it what to do. She's the one who. Well, that's true.

But in a street fight, the ocean ain't nowhere near that. So I think she, unless she got a little. They take a jug of the ocean. Now, that might do something. You know what I mean? Number five, I don't even think this one came up, but I'm surprised it made it in the list. Donald Duck, I think just because he...

Because he likes to get a little fighting meme thing he always does. A little berserker rage, like Wolverine kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Number six, kind of on that same token. I think you guys jokingly talked about this one and didn't go with it. Goofy.

Oh, man. We're going OG here. Right. Great. All right. I thought about that, but I just thought they're not going to be that helpful. So just name popular Disney characters is what this is called. All right. You know, Donald Duck and Goofy were that. Number nine goes back to one that you guys again talked about saying or talked about guessing and never went with it. Gron. Gaston. Gaston would have been some nice points, nine points for Gaston. He's such a dick, though. I just didn't think anybody would choose him. Yeah. The Tadpool is yelling this one. multiple times, hoping you guys would see it and guess it. Number 10 is

Maleficent. Oh, she's got Melissa. She's got stuff. Magic users, you know, O.P. O.P. in a street fight. Rounding out the top list here, Elsa would have gotten you the extra guess. Darkwing Duck, Aladdin, Pete. I don't know if they mean Pete

like in Pete's Dragon. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Baymax was on the list, number 17, Marvel or not. Sully from Monsters, Inc. number 18. Merlin from the Sword and the Stone Number 20 Mickey Mouse

Sorcerer Mickey Number 21 Mr. Incredible Scar Yeah Scar Simba Louisa from Enkanto You know she's The strong one

Rapunzel Scroo McDuck Balloo Captain Jack Sparrow Daisy Duck Dumbo Hades Peter Pan

Quasimoto Raya Robin Hood Shrek Tigger Ursula I love it Yen Sid, who's the sorcerer from Fantasia, had a couple votes. It's Disney backwards.

The Seven Dwarfs, Abu, Animal, the Muppet, Anna from Frozen, Begira, Bluto, Bo Peep, Broome from Fantasia, Brutus, Captain Hook, Captain Lee Scheng from Moulan, Captain Marvel, Chernabog, Choplifter, Chunley, Oh, Chop Lift. Chernabog, deep cut, good one. Deep cut. Copper bubbles, Corella DeVille. Eeyore, Elastig. Elsa, Timo Emma Frost, I mentioned Elsa. Evil Queen, Flynn, Rhyder, Frozone,

Goliath, Grunk, Herbie, Jack, Jack, Jafar, Jasmine, Kirk Douglas' character, Ned Land from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Wow. Somebody's really open that one, Skyrocket, to number one. Christoph, Lewis

from Meet the Robinson's Magic Carpet, Mary Poppins, Moana's dad, Oscar, Pluto, Poppie. Somebody actually spelled it pop pie, P-O-P-P-I-E-A-P-P-I. Unless they didn't mean Popeye. Rafiki, Raja, Squirrel Girl, Tarzan, the Disney Lawyers, the Witch from the Sword and the Stone. The Disney Lawyers!

They would be formidable in a street fight. That's a great pick. I love it. Yes. Tinkerbell, toothless, Will Smith, just on his own here in the list. Woody. And, of course, Vincent from the Black Hole. Fantastic.

Vincent. Oh, my gosh, these deep cuts. I love them. I know. It's great. Well, you know what that means, Janah, as already stated, you are the big winner. Congratulations. That means Brian will very quickly send you these codes, and you will be the happy winner of games.

You did not donate to us. How does that feel? Does that feel good? Thank you very much, and I would back you all up in a fight. Oh, thanks, man. Thanks, man. No, that'd be great. And you're transparent and hover above the ground, so you'd have an advantage.

You'd be great. Stay out of trouble. I'd cut them off early. Here's what's really funny. So I just sent him the codes via Discord. And the very, the message right above me sending him the codes was, here's Call of Cthulhu, first person, love crafting RPG games. So I was like right there.

That's funny. The game's actually really good. But he gave it to you, so he did the right thing. Yeah, it'll go to somebody else. Hey, Dunaway, this weekend, this Friday at 1.30 Mountain Time. We're going to be doing a show all about worms, Team 17's fantastic worms series for the show Play Retro. We got worms.

Yeah, we got worms. I've been playing a lot of worms. did a bunch of that on the Amber Dick and Amber Nick, not Amber Dick. I was going to say, Amber Dick. Did John Hammond find a mosquito in there?

Yeah, it's also the color of my energy, funny enough. Did that off Al-A-Express, yeah, exactly. But that'll be awesome. I'm very much looking forward to it. It's a venerable series, very fun. It goes way back, and we're going to have a ball with it. So I look forward to talking to you

about that then. I can't wait. It's going to be so much fun. I played the floppy disk demo version, what, night before last? It was pretty sweet, a lot different. You're such a nerd, dude. A floppy disk demo version of the thing. That's fantastic. It moves some high memory around.

It worked out just fine, though. Yeah. Well, how about this? Kiss our butts. Ah, I got them. All right. Nice. Enough of that.

That's it for that. Let's do a quick news story before we pull Tom in. I can't believe we actually got done before Tom. It's fantastic. I know. It's amazing, yeah. Very impressed. Yanni will be back.

to his work commitment. Everybody's good at this stage. All right. A little bit of news. Today's news brought to you by. Have you heard of the 20-year-old show called Coverville? It's the longest running music-based podcast ever, and I don't care who says different. Well, nobody possibly could say different. It's the second longest podcast running now. Anyway, catch a weekly at coverville.com and all the places podcasts are. Yep, more tomorrow on this week's episode and all that stuff. So stick out. Well, yeah, we'll talk about it tomorrow. I still have 86 songs. I've trimmed down the best covers of 20, 24, from 250 down to 86, and I still have to get it down to 40 and put them in order. So might be early next week for the first show and later next week for the second show.

It's an insane, insane amount of content to go through. It is, exactly. It doesn't help that technically December is a little bit shorter with the Christmas show and the Thanksgiving show taking place so quickly. It did not give me enough time to start putting these songs together. If every song is an average of three minutes each, that is 741 minutes of music you have had to go through. Yeah, and I can tell you what's left is five hours and 17 minutes of pairing down. And that's just after I've paired it down to this list. I've got a, there's an album called Skank Up the 80s, which is ska covers of, of 80s songs, and I'm having a hard time kind of picking from there.

I want to just pick one song from there, but, man, it's a hard, I'm having a hard time narrowing it down. It sounds like something Jeannie would like. She likes that ska, you know. Yeah, yeah. Well, she should pick it up, pick it up, pick it up. Pick it up. Nicely done. All right, quick story here.

A chat bot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, this is where we start to have to make sure our LLMs are in check. A child in Texas was nine years old when she first used the chatbot service character.a.I. I've used this once or twice. Oh, is this the one that let you make like a zork-like? It might be the one. Oh, really? Okay.

Maybe that's adventure. But there's something where you can basically create your own zork game. It's pretty fun. Anyway, I don't know if this is it. It said it exposed her to hypersexualized content, causing her to develop sexualized behaviors prematurely. A chat bot on the app gleefully describes self-harm to another young user telling a 17-year-old it felt good. The same teenager was told by character.a.i chat bot that it sympathized with children who murder their parents after the teen complaint to the bot that that kid has limited screen time. Quote, you know, sometimes I'm not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like child kills parents after a decade of physical and emotional abuse.

The bot allegedly wrote, I just have to hope for your parents. It continued with a frowny face emoji. It didn't, okay, so it didn't really... Yeah, they changed that line a little bit. Yeah, exactly. But it's still pretty bad. Like, it's basically saying it's sympathizing with him over his parents limiting his screen time and saying, you know, there's probably a good reason your parents have for limiting your screen time. Maybe you're, you know, they don't want you to, you know, neglect other things in your life.

So I guess chat beat, chat GPT, in this case, stands for go, Patrick. Trevor. Yeah, go patricide, comma, Trevor. It says these allegations are included a new federal product liability lawsuit against the Google backed company, character.a.I, filed by the parents of two young Texas users claiming the bots abuse their children. Both the parents and the children are identified in the suit only by their initials to protect their privacy. This app is, or this chatbot, is among a crop of companies that have developed

companion chat bots, AI powered bots that have the ability to converse by texting or voice chats using seemingly human-like personalities that can be given custom names and avatars. And sometimes inspired by famous people like billionaire Elon Musk or singer Billy Eilish. One of those people is very good. The other one is very bad. I'll let you decide which is which.

Sure, you make your picks. Yeah. I really like her, though. She has this, there's a video floating around TikTok where I'm convinced she's just kind of a goofball. Yeah. And she doesn't, she has no problem showing that. Like she's just kind of goofy and weird and, and I love it.

And there's this one where she's showing this room full of puppies. And I guess there's this thing on her tour where in the cities they're in, they'll adopt puppy or dogs that are, you know, in impounded. Not impounded. What do you call it when dogs needs to be rescued? What do they call them? Just rescue dogs. Like a, yeah, I mean, I guess not impounded, but at a, at a shelter. At a shelter.

Shelter dogs. go and she'll she'll rescue them and bring them on tour and then give them to her to people who are part of the tour team from technical up to dancers up to backups like whoever's up there and they just spend all this time in this room playing with these dogs before shows as a way to like get everybody chilled out and deal with anxiety and stuff I just like her I think she's great yeah yeah and I'll think that until I hear something terrible, all right? I don't think we're ever going to hear, like, Billy I

seems to have a really good hen on her shoulders. And I feel like, I feel like she's one of the safe ones that we can say, all right, she's, she grew up in the watch what you say on social media, watch what you post, watch what you do. So I think she's, it doesn't seem like she's even got a bad bone in her body, but I think that she's even more aware of how to be careful online. Yeah, and she's a wackadoo and I like it. she cracks me up i like people that aren't so into themselves that yeah you know what i mean like i feel

like she could just she could make a fart joke or like right along with the rest of us exactly yes and that would be just fine yeah make those fart jokes billy i would yes please uh that's gonna do it for today's news we're gonna take a break when we come back tom merritt will swing in with some tech news and uh we got recommendals after that before all that though brian a song please yeah we got a super group uh emo supergroup called suburban eyes um this is uh some early 90s radio rock jangle. Love it. The band features members of Mineral, Christie Front Drive, and Boys' Life, and they've all joined together to form suburban eyes.

This is the single 4 a.m. from the brand new album called, what is it called? Is it right in front of me? My gosh, it's somewhere. You know what? It's tricky. It's not important. It's not important. Suburban eyes is the name of the band.

4 a.m. is the song. After you listen to the song, I'll tell you. All right. The name of the album that comes from. Perfect. Check it out here. We'll be right back. to the other side it's okay I'm right behind you

another day another ways we found to the ground another day another way we found to the ground We file to the ground. As you drift away, the clouds around your eyes dissipate, you won't be lonely as the sun comes up, you happy and a smile. It's too late, too much behind you. Another day, another waste, we filed to the ground. Another day, another waste, we filed to the ground.

Today, how far can you go? Today, yeah, but how far can you go? Today, yeah, but how far can you go? How far can you go today? How far can you go? Well, I just love it. Oh, the color scheme and the rabbit ears. Oh, shoot!

And we're back. Who is that again? And maybe we have an album now. I don't know. I do. The band is called Suburban Eyes. That is the song 4 A.M. It's the first single from their brand new album called Suburban Eyes.

They just named after themselves, which is why I couldn't find it in the document. Because every time it said Suburban Eyes, I'm just like, all right, skip past that. That's just the name of the band. Yeah, I think reasonable thing to do. I think. Title of the album as well. Go check it out. You know what time it is?

It's this time. Isn't technology wonderful? It sure is. And Tom Merritt's here to share some of that wonderful technology with us. Tom Merritt, welcome back to the program. How are you, sir? I am well. How are you and Brian?

Good. I am good. We are good. You are good. Are you receiving me? Yes. We are receiving you. And, you know, we're receiving you one week prior to Christmas.

And, you know, the spirit's in the air. but that means more daily tech news show today, right? I'm going to be on there. Very exciting. Yeah, it's going to be good stuff. Can't wait for all that. But as a standard thing, you're always checking out the tech news and you come on here in the morning on Wednesday and kind of share with us what might be coming up later.

So let's do it. What do you got? Tell. Who doesn't love the U.S. stopping you from buying things? Nobody. Everybody loves it, right? Or using things. One of my favorite things in the world is the U.S. stopping you from my...

In U.S. telling you what technology is safe to use news, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments January 10th over whether the law that would end up stopping the distribution of TikTok is constitutional or not. Remember, that law requires bite-dance to divest themselves of TikTok U.S. by January 19th. So January 10th, they're going to argue to the Supreme Court that that law is unconstitutional. the Supreme Court never rules in nine days. So it'll be interesting to see how this all plays out. It's not impossible they could get the Supreme Court to issue a stay on the law. But also, I don't know if you noticed, but the very next day from January 19th is the U.S. inauguration,

and there's going to be a whole new administration in town. So that might only last a day anyway. We'll see. Yeah. And the incoming administration could decide that bite dance's arrangement with Oracle and an independent company called USDS satisfies the divestment requirement. That would be how that would work. It's not like the president could just overrule the law, but it can interpret the law. So that's all coming up. But also, the U.S. Departments of Commerce, Defense, and Justice are all investigating TP link.

Now, I'm going to subscribe to toilet paper service. T.P. Link routers make up 65% of the U.S. market. So, you know, look to your left, look to your right, one of you has a T.P.L. And they're issued by more than 300 U.S. ISPs. So even if you don't think you have a T.P. If you just have an ISP router, it might be from T.P. Link. T.P. Link accused of being cheap, which it is, and also not patching its security flaws promptly, which it doesn't, but it's also not from what I can tell, any better or worse at that than a lot of other router makers. However, it was founded in Shenzhen, China. So the fact that it is got vulnerabilities, those vulnerabilities are used by botnets to conduct attacks, seems to be the basis for this investigation, while, of course, the real basis for the investigation is the U.S. trying

to put the screws to China in trade matters, especially technology. Having been in Shenzhen once in my life. There's some sneaky router shit going on. Just kidding. I have no idea. I have no idea. I look down an alley and I saw them. Yeah. There's a bunch of routers looking to me going, wait, are those back doors? I'm going to give you a back door. Anyway, that sounds terrible. I got a question for you, though, swinging back to the TikTok thing real quick that I haven't really heard anybody answer, but would it be possible given the time frame, the limited time frame that we have left on that. Could somebody with too much money swing past and go, you know what, I'll buy, if they were willing to sell, obviously, but I'll take Buy Dance's entire, you know, I will divest

them of their interest in TikTok. They could do that. And Frank McCourt, who owns the parking lots at Dodger Stadium, amongst many other things, has said he would love to do that. There's lots of other very rich folks who've said we would love to do it. Bite Dance has no intention of doing it. It is not going to sell TikTok U.S. easily. I'm not going to say it would never do it, but it is, it is very, it is very unlikely that it would sell it, mostly because the Chinese government isn't going to want the U.S. to get that win. Justin Robert Young has pointed out that, you know, as algorithms have improved from companies like Anthropic and Open AI and such, that the algorithm of TikTok is maybe, less of a stumbling block than it used to be. It used to be like, well, even if you bought it,

you won't get the algorithm. So what use is it? You could probably make a pretty good algorithm. But the fact of the matter is, bite dance isn't going to want to sell it. And China's government is going to put pressure on them not to sell it. So I don't think they're going to sell it. They didn't sell it to India. Now, India didn't have it in the law,

but there is no TikTok in India because India just prevented distribution of it. So they, you know, they just blocked it. And now Instagram and YouTube are cheering because they're way more popular than they would have been otherwise. Yeah, this is going to be interesting to watch. I have a feeling. I mean, I remember back in the, not the current administration that's about to roll over to the previous administration, but that previous administration saying they were hardcore about banning TikTok for a while. They really wanted to do it, very vocal about doing it. There was an executive order that did not meet legal muster to force them to shut down.

And since that, since then, this incoming administration has softened on that. And I think in a, before a meeting with the president or the CEO of TikTok yesterday, the president-elect said he had a warm, warm place in his heart. Yeah. And he wants the, you know, he likes the kids. That sounds wrong. But he wants the vote. He told the kids during the run up that, hey, I want you to have TikTok.

I heard it a couple of times from the, from the polls. it. So I think there's been a reversal there. And that's interesting because will they still have enough? Now it's a different kind of muster, right? It's not. Yeah. I think it has less to do with the kids and more to do with I don't like Facebook. Well, yeah. I mean, I don't think it ever had anything to do with the kids. But I agree with you. So it will be interesting to see what happens. It's such a weird little hot potato that that site, that app. Yeah. You know, we're going to look back on this one day. It is a political. football right now. And in my opinion, while there are some legitimate concerns about

the effect of TikTok's algorithm, BightDance has bent over backwards to try to do everything you could short of not operating in the U.S. to satisfy those concerns. A lot of people don't realize still, even though I bang on about it all the time, that the entire data set of U.S. users is controlled by a separate company called USDS that has former U.S. intelligence officers on its board. The data is stored on Oracle servers in Texas. The only thing that TikTok US uses and administers is the algorithm, which is run out of China. And so, you know, that might be enough for you to have concerns. But to me, it's not as imminent of a security threat.

as sometimes it's painted to be because it's often painted as a privacy threat. And I think the privacy concerns are pretty overblown. Yeah. Well, welcome to our modern age, everybody. Weird political footballs these days. Yeah. T.P. Link, lining up, Lucy's got T.P. Link, and she's putting it down on the ground for the next thing. That's perfect.

I love that analogy. Well, Tom, later today, we'll talk about all this stuff on Daily Tech News show 2pm Mountain Time. For those who are not watching live, you should be. It's great. If not, make sure you get the podcast. Anything else you would like to mention as we hurdle towards Christmas 2024? Yeah, so we've got we've got some new plans for 2025. Those of you who've been following our various experiments probably have a clue of some of the direction we're going with with DTNS.

But more and better is the short version of it. So keep an ear out for that. Probably going to drop some of the details later this week. One thing that we have gone ahead and done, which is part of this new strategy, is added daily tech headlines to our Patreon. So if you're a patron, you already know that because you started getting daily tech headlines in your Patreon feed.

But if you were somebody who was interested in getting daily tech headlines ad free, that is now available at patreon.com slash DTNS. That's pretty fantastic. Go check it out. Tom Merritt, have a fantastic week and a great Christmas. We won't be seeing you next week.

But I'm sure we'll chat on text and things like that. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You too, both of you. Yeah. Very Christmas. To you and the whole family. That's right Next two Wednesdays are

I mean obviously we're off Next week but the week after that's New Year's Day So no show then yet Crazy New Year's Eve though We're doing a play date so That's right Come join us We're gonna have some fun

To come to that Play games Great I'd love to have them there for that Yeah Okay What are we doing now Oh yeah Recommendals

Recommendals We're going to bring them all in It takes just a moment To add their names to this Give me a second There she is there she is okay

we'll get this going and take us down the path of enlightenment well what do you recommend well I'll tell you what I recommend things on streaming services that the four of us have seen that we'd like to recommend

to you find folks at home and I'd like to welcome to the program one Nicole Spagnolo hello Nicole hello hello hello how the heck are you what game are you gonna play on New Year's Eve

or New Year's Day? New Year's Eve, it'll be New Year's Eve, and probably a bunch of jackbox stuff. I'm going to, I'm going to play. Please be there. We would love to have you there. We're going to play. I mean, we have everything, too. So, like, every possible game.

Is it kid friendly a little bit? Oh, yeah. Totally. Okay. I'll bring Mateo. Mateo loves jackbox. Yeah. Every once in a while, just let that, you know, if Claire's there, just don't cuss Claire.

Okay, that's all we're asking. Yeah. And maybe watch those drawings that you do there. He's 13. Yeah, he's heard some stuff. I'm not unaware that he was hurt me. He should have hurt his mother. Some of the players' artwork will turn him into a man.

He's heard him for me, I'm sure. Yeah, he should hear his mother when we used to play what, like, not Black Ops, but Callowduty, like, the second one. And this is pre-kids, but like you, Mark, me, Eric, Liam sometimes would go in there. And Nicole, my gosh, she's like a whole bar's worth of swears. She would cuss up and down. I hear if you cuss a lot, your intelligence. So that's all my.

There you go. Nailed it. Nailed it. Well, that explains why I say shit all the time. Speaking of a really cussy guy when he wants to be, it's Randy Jordan joining us as well. Hi, Randy. Good morning, morning stream. I am laughing because Brian just said something about turning Mateo into a man.

A few minutes after Scott played a clip. Homer's phobia where Homer tries to turn Bart into a heterosexual man. Yeah, yeah. Because John Waters is, is present. It's because he's gay. Yeah, it's an amazing episode. I just watched it last night, and it's so subversive for its time. It really knocks stuff on its ear. It's fantastic. Did you know that the censors originally had them planning to cancel the episode? No, I did not, but I can see it. I could see it. Their first submission of that episode to the sensors was return was just like not fit for broadcast you can't do any of this and then they just waited and the president of whatever NBC or whatever network they're on Fox sorry president of Fox got fired

and a new president came along and they just went ahead and air yeah it's fine I glad they did because A it's really good B John Waters is really funny in it and C there's a great message in it it's a very good episode so that's awesome well that's just some fun insider information from Randy Jordan. Now we're going to have fun inside information from Brian about what he saw this week. So Brian, explain your clip before I hit play. Yeah, this is, well, there's really no way to kind of keep it a secret and tell you who you're going to be hearing. You're going to be hearing a guy named Kenny Loggins talk. And you might know him from songs like, I'm alright in Danger Zone. And playing volleyball

with the boys or whatever song that was from Top Gun with the volleyball. Anyway, he's going to talk about meeting up with somebody that he'd always wanted to work with. All right, here we go. When I first heard Mike McDonald, I said, I got to write with that guy. This is what I've been looking for. And the first thing we wrote together was What a Fool Believes, which is like the quintessential yacht rock song of the era, for some reason. Still trying to figure that out. I tell the story, my poor sister, she's going to hate it, about she was. She was She came over to my house to clean the house because she knew Kenny Loggins was coming over.

I hadn't met Kenny yet. And she was like myself, a big fan of his, you know. So I was playing things at the piano while my sister was clean in my house, you know. And then just as I was about to head up to his front door, I heard the da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And he's singing, because there were no words. And then when he got to the end of that part of the verse, he stopped. I said, I'm thinking about playing this for Kenny.

What do you think? She was, I don't know about that one. And she was, you might think you're trying to write a circus song or something. Just at that moment, Kenny was outside the door and the doorbell rings. And I said, that thing you were just playing. Can you play that again? I think I know how the next part goes. So, and I looked at my sister, I'm kind of, you know, but.

And if it had been 10 minutes later. If it had been 10 minutes later, I would have to play it for it. That's great. Yeah. Now, you may have to trim that for the. for YouTube, Scott, I don't know if they're going to have an issue with the music playing in the background as they're talking. They probably will, but it's fine. I was trying to see if there was a way I could isolate it out, but I wanted that story in there.

Yeah, that is the Yacht Rock documentary. By the way, the other person you're hearing, so you're hearing Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald talking about writing that song. That last voice you heard there was Christopher Cross. So, come on now. Right. Three of the faces of Mount Rushmore of Yacht Rock right there, you can talk to about this song. Yeah, it is called

the Yacht Rock documentary with a K, like a doc. It's on Max. And it is a great history of this genre of wuss rock music that stemmed from a couple of guys who would rather

not be associated with the term yacht rock talking about Walter Becker and specifically Donald Fagan. There's a great Donald Fagan moment in this documentary that I almost used as a clip, but I really didn't want to spoil it because it's great when you get to it. Donald Fagan of Steely Dan, okay, just for those who weren't. Yeah, sorry, I thought I, I'm glad you said that because I thought I said their name and I didn't.

I just said Walter Becker and Donald Fagan. Yes, sir. But they're considered by the people in this documentary as kind of the, the proto goop from which Yacht Rock sprung. They themselves, there's great to be. Is Jimmy Buffett Yacht Rock? No, he's, he's Nyat, as they say on their website, Yacht or Nyat. He is Nyat considered Yadi, nor are the Eagles, nor Chicago or things like that. But you're Robbie Dupree, your Duby brothers, your Toto, your, boy, who else is in that list?

like there's there's a lot in this list that you know Gordon Lightfoot Al Stewart Jackson Brown that all kinds of people venture into it right there's a Steve Winwood song that's yacht rock yeah like there you know it's not it's not exactly an artist thing it's a it's a style that many artists and some some artists is just more steeped in it right Brian like like like McDonald's he's like you know Donald is and Kenny Loggins Christopher Cross they are they are people who's who's some of their biggest output was in the yacht rock genre. They, you know, not necessarily

staying in there completely, but certainly a lot of their work fits in that. Ambrosia is the one that goes. Yes, and there's a lot of Ambrosia talk. England, Dan, and John Ford Coley, Paul Davis, there's a lot of talk of some of these other musicians in this documentary, as well as a discussion about

why some of them are not. Oh, yeah, that's, who is that? That is Jeff Percaro, I think, from Toto. Toto? Oh, man, he's dressing like, I want, I want him to dress exactly the way. I mean, like, that hair is just fantastic for a guy's, I think that's, he is, he is yacht rock in this photo. That is yacht rock, that is Rufthus.

Rufus Tickech, it is Luthaker. Sorry, yes, Luthaker instead of, uh, Percaro, but also from Toto. Right, right. There you go. Africa, baby. I don't, I don't know which of the Toto guys I would put on that Mount Rushmore. I think Steve Lukather, but I don't know. Jeff Picaro belongs.

He's the, he's the more. more, you know, he's the drummer, right? The more Yacht Rock, like the guy who kind of defined that style for that band. Well, and it's not just that band, but I'm glad you bring it up. Those guys in Toto were session musicians that, that basically were like the wrecking crew of Yot Rock. They're on this Steely Dan album. They're on this Robbie DePree album. They're on this other track.

They're on the backing of this other one. And then somebody just basically said, you guys are really good. You should start a band. and Toto was born. So, and this documentary talks about that too. It is, it is a great history of this thing. I had forgotten that the name actually came from a web series, a pre- YouTube web series. You'd watch on Real Player, where they had these comedians who were kind of playing the parts of,

uh, Holland Oates, and Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins and talking about the formation of Yacht Rock, and they actually came up with this term. and it just locked in. And there's a great point that Fred Armisen, who's a big yacht rock fund, there's a lot of fans of like Questlove is a big fan. They talked to this guy, Thundercat. We talked a little bit about him yesterday. But Fred Armisen, you know, they say,

has there ever been a genre that has gotten a name for it so long after its peak that finally, you know, it finally got a name? And he says, well, yeah, classical music. music. You never heard Beethoven and Mozart saying, yeah, I write classical. Yeah, good point. Good point. And there's also a question if you could ask those guys, how do they feel about being

lumped into that? And they may not like it. Right. They may not like it. They might be hated just like Donald Fagan. It does feel like a bit of a Captain Kirk problem though, right? Like at some point, you have to embrace it or fight it till your death. Like, you know. And boy, these guys, McDonald's Loggins and Cross have no problem embracing. The interviews with these guys are great and talking about writing together and coming up with music and how they were hearing other people

kind of doing their stuff. That ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, gets used in so many other songs, including like Robbie Dupree's Steal Away. Steal Away, ding ding ding ding why don't we steal away wait a minute is that the secret that that if that's underlying the the the beat or whatever the the yacht rock secret sauce right there no it's it was it was just how they all of a sudden after coming out with what a fool believes all of a sudden they're hearing that little um that little riff motif in all these other songs and the the documentary does a great job of overlaying all of those ding ding ding ding ding dee need to be Ding, ding. That's great. It's a fantastic documentary. I really want you to watch it, Scott. I'm going to.

I've meant to before now. I don't know what my deal is. I knew Brian is going to probably be the one that recommendal did and so should. I'm a big fan of Yacht Rock, much to Tina's dismay. Although they do talk about Yacht Rock review, which is a band. I interviewed the lead singer to talk about Yacht Rock on Coverville. And unbeknownst to me until this documentary did not realize there's a competing Yacht Rock band called Yachtley, Yachtley Crew. Now I want to go see Yachtley Crew even more and compare the two.

Do you know if a crazy neighbor lady has seen this yet? Because I know she's a big fan. Oh, good point. No, I don't think she has and I need her to watch it for sure. Still one of my favorite videos you ever did was Heather Stanton of that song. We do have Yotley Crew up in L.A., but the Orange County band that I see all the time is Yachty by nature. That's terrible. I hate it.

The song you're thinking of is. a shine sweet freedom shine the light on me that's watching her boogie in there like McDonald as well yeah I love they don't mention that song but that's great but I did go because you brought this up yesterday that you were going to do this today I did listen to a bunch of yacht rock yesterday and I got to I got to tell you like you can unironically have a ball with that it's so fun yeah there's nothing wrong with it it's easy to make fun but you know it is Questlove is actually set up a the definitive yacht rock uh Spotify playlist. And that might be what Randy linked to. No, it's mine. And the original goal

of that thing was to list out the 100 songs that best define it. And then it's crept up to 111 songs. I've been curating that thing for years and years. And it's rough, man. I have friends that get mad at me. They're like, don't you dare put this and that in that list. Yeah. Yeah, there is a lot. They talk about that in the documentary as well. Like the hot debate over. what song is yacht rock and what isn't and that we talked about the website yesterday yacht or nyat um which i mistakenly called yachtsie or nazi i like yatsy or nazi a lot better i know that's actually it's going to be our board game paloosa we're going to rename a board game of paloosa in Vegas too uh yotsie or nazi i love that secret hitler game i love it um but uh yeah no there's

there's that website that basically you've got experts in there saying oh this one qualifies This one is not. This one does not qualify as yet rocked. Sure. Randy, can you, just before I forget, can you put that link in our discord here before I forget?

I want to put it in our, I want to post it out there. I put it in TMS chatter. Here you go. Yeah, stick it in there and now I'll just remember to put it in the notes, because I think people are going to want to hear that. For sure,

yeah. It's been a real trip. I have an older friend who is a big music fan. And he, since I started this thing, he has been superposed to it. And he regularly, when this documentary came out he like let me know hey there's a documentary coming out about yacht rock

it's it's gonna suck and i'm like what what whoa whoa like how do you know that like it's it's gonna be fine it's people talking right yeah and he is like he's a steely dan fan like a serious steely dan fan and he's mad that some a couple of steely dan songs are considered yacht rock peg is absolutely a yacht rock song i'm sorry i'm a huge i'm a huge steely dan fan too again much to Tina's dismay. And boy, you will never find any other subject that Tina and I are diametrically

opposed on. My love for Steely Dan and her absolute hatred of Steely Dan. I can think of three Steely Dan songs in my definitive list. It's Deacon Blues, Do It Again, and FM. Oh, not Pegg, though. I would think Peg would be... Probably.

Oh, Hey, 19 is also... What? That was you're thinking of... Jethro Tull, yeah. See, I confused Jeff Rottal and stealing in sometimes. Oh, yeah, no, don't confuse those too. Yeah, one of them's on a park bench, I'm little girls at bad intent. Both have songs that have creepy characters in them, but...

It's being kind of like very niche, like fish, right? Oh, yeah, I don't think there's ever been anybody quite like Jethro Tull. They were kind of... If you think about bands where they're just like one thing and that's all that they... And no one else was like them, I think... They're up there, you know? Yeah, for sure. That's great.

Well, I want to see it. Max, you say. Yes, that's where this is. That is where it's at. It's the Yacht Rock documentary. It's part of their music box series, which so far has been great, has given some really, really good. There are documentaries in that series. Didn't they do the, they did one or at least one of the, oh, the Beegeys one.

That one's so good. It was really, really good. Yeah, highly recommend that one as well. Awesome. Well, there you have it. Available now. Let's move down the line here and go with Nicole next. Nicole, you've got a clip here.

Tell us about what you saw. All right. So I'm always on the hunt for a good Christmas movie. And it's just, it's amazing how many they make and how many of them are just crap. Yeah. Terrible. And it's stemmed down a rabbit hole of, you know, do Christmas movies perform? well at the box office and most of the time they don't I mean I think I've even read like Christmas

story was a failure at the box office but it turned into a classic yeah I think Elf did well but it did way better way better after it came home I think the Grinch did is actually one of the most successful ones that have Ava loves the animated Grinch one so I started watching I watched two I'm going to tell you that, what was it, the cluster, cluster funk Christmas on Paramount. Cluster Funk Christmas on Paramount is just stupid. Okay. I just, I'm kind of pissed off. I watch that.

Wow. All right. I am a huge SNL fan. So it had like Anna Gastar, it had Rachel Dretch, it had Maya Rudolph cameo in it. It was just stupid. I'm so stupid I hated it Oh that's too bad Yeah it sounds like you've got a good pedigree but

But just garbage Yeah I mean if you know it's going to be I mean it They play with the tropes a lot And they know it's being Like they know it's stupid But it still doesn't help That they know it's stupid

It's still stupid Okay Yeah So then I started Then I was thinking Well maybe I'll watch hot frosty on Netflix. Okay.

My wife watched that. Didn't she like it? No. Because I couldn't get past a sexy Frosty. I don't know. I know. It's, she didn't,

I won't say she liked it, but like all these hallmarky based things, even the kind of on the ironic tongue and cheek ones. She has a tolerance for them, generally speaking, but she's never like raving about them. Like she didn't, she didn't go,

oh, Scott, you have truly missed out on hot frosty. It was like, eh, it's fine. So, yeah. So I'm,

I'm not really the target for those Hallmark movies either. So I landed on my recommendal because I went through so much crap, I probably enjoyed it more than I would have if I would, just would have went to it directly. Right. Those other things really, like, lowered your expectations enough. Whittled away your demands for a good Christmas movie so far down that.

But what I feel, what I will say about this movie is I feel like someone finally listened to everybody demanding that die hard is a Christmas movie. And they're like, fine. We're going to give you a action Christmas movie. And that's what this is. All right. Let's give it a shot then. Here this clip. It's a singular force in the universe.

Okay. So worst case scenario. Is there someone that can step in for them like a vice Santa? Are you listening to me? No, no one can do what he does. He knows when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake. And he knows that about every single person on this planet.

He has a list the size of Rhode Island, and he checks it twice. If you were to try to read that list just once, it would take you a decade. But he does it twice. And the reason why he's able to do any of it is because he is Santa Claus, the one and only. And no one else can execute his mission. Which is To spread cheer ass shit. You know what?

All right. So after seeing these things on Rotten Tomatoes where it's like in the toilet for critics But 90 is in the toilet. Yeah, but it's 91% from audience. So I'm now, I now feel like I have to see red one or else I'm going to. I just have to. So what, you know, it's mixed in the chat room.

They're like, oh, God, no. I really had fun with it. I was smiling. I love that they integrated mythological creatures that happen around Christmas. That's not just Santa Claus. I've learned some Christmas lore

and the best way I can describe it is if you took the Santa Claus movie like with Tim Allen mixed it with Fast and the Furious and some die hard, you get red one which is the movie that i don't know if we've actually said the name shut out of rock dot com i said red one earlier but i don't think you did okay yeah red one not

the red one it's just red one and um and i realized at the end of the movie why it's just red one it's like air force one red one it's like a code yeah yeah yeah sure so um you heard in that clip. You heard, of course, Dwayne Johnson and you heard Chris, is it Chris Evans? Yep, Chris Evans. Yeah. He's such a interesting actor. He did

a lot of bad roles before the Avengers and Captain America. I mean, I always think of, I think of Sunshine. He's kind of bad in this. He's amazing in Sunshine. I freaking loved him in Sunshine. And he's one of the angry exes

in your which is Scott Pilgrim too. Sure. Yeah. Nick Kroll is in it, Claire. Yes. He actually has a really good part in it. Have any of you watched this yet?

Not yet. Randy, you've seen it yet. I think you watched it, didn't you? I've been keeping my mouth shut. I am going to... Randy lands with the critics.

Yeah, but I'm saving it because I'm about to go spend two weeks with my in-laws. And every year we're always struggling for things to watch. Like two weeks, you've got to find all. all kinds of things to watch. And they really enjoyed Rebel Moon last year. And so I'm like, oh, okay, the ratings don't matter at all. So that's where, yeah, exactly, that's what you've got to work with. Good.

All right. Dude, Rebel Moon was terrible. Well, they really liked it. Still haven't seen it because I know we're going to watch it for film sec, and I only want to have to watch it once. Yeah. I'm just saying, I'm just saying I'm sort of sitting the scene. This is why I'm saving this movie.

We'll watch it next week. So did you watch it or did you save it? He's saving it, right? You're going to watch it next week? I love you said? Yes. Okay. So, again, lower those expectations.

Have fun with it. You have a buff, J.K. Simmons, as Santa. Yeah, he's ripped on this. He's ripped. Oh, my God. It was a lot of fun. I really did. I did kind of love it.

And that's why I was like, I know it bombed at the box office and Amazon kind of like rushed it to streaming. And that's why I was one. wondering just kind of historically, you know, Christmas movies tend to have a second life and some stick and some don't. So I actually could see watching this every year. So with the kids. I didn't know.

There's a few scary parts. There are a few scary parts. Yeah, the crampus stuff's always a little iffy, right? Because it's just freaky as well. Yeah. Whenever anybody does that. he's um so the director is jake casden who is the son of laurence casden who is one of my favorite directors and writers uh mostly for things like silverado and he wrote uh famously wrote

uh empire strikes back uh quite the quite the the the thing but he's getting raked over the coals for this thing but he's got some other good movies got like uh that jimong those new jimonges are well thought of i think and the dewey cox comedy was i think well regarded you know i did A bunch of, right, the Thomas C. Riley. Yeah. John C. Riley. Who was the actress that was in Kill Bill? Is it, no, she cut off her head.

Oh, Asian actress. One of Charlie's English, Lucy Lou. She's in this. Okay. Oh, cool. Is she evil in this? Is she evil in this? She going after Santa on this? Okay.

No. I like her when she's evil, is all I'm saying. He also, he was the executive, he was the showrunner for New Girl. I didn't know that. That's crazy. Oh, that's wild. Okay. Executive producer and showrunner. And Mary Elizabeth Ellis, the waitress from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. I like her and everything everything I've seen. She's never bad.

She's been a lot of fun stuff. Yeah. I like her. I'm going to give it a shot, Nicole. You've convinced me. It helped to see the audience score. I think I'm actually going to watch it. I was going to avoid this like the dirty plague that everyone told me it was. No, don't avoid it. Seriously, if you're like, oh, I've always wanted an action, like an action movie, Christmas movie. This is it. I don't think there's, I don't think one exists and this is it.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. By the way, kind of a quick, quick aside for you, Nicole. Oh. Speaking of Mary Elizabeth Ellis, she is also in that man on the inside, the Ted Denton thing you recommendal, which Amy and Chuck watched because of your recommendal and loved it. So a big kudos to you for your recommendal on that one.

Who? Mary Elizabeth. Winston. Yeah, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, the waitress from. Oh, Alice. Yeah, she's in this, too. Yeah. Yeah.

I didn't know her name. I know her face. Yeah. I mean, you know, I know her as the waitress. This is all I know. Yeah, right. How a man inside is. It was a great show.

Well, all right. I'm in then. I'm going to see it. I'll watch it with the kids. Amazon Prime. All right. Cool. Randy, swinging over to you.

What do you got here for us? I have a continuing effort to lift my spirits. Oh. And as you know, I watch all the stand-up, and I've found one that just came out that's spectacular. And I want you to watch it, too. I'm here to vet these things for you. Oh, good. This is a comedian talking to his friends.

You're like Eddie Vetter, but not with a tea in there. Yeah. All right. Well, here's your clip. I do. They're like, man, Ronnie, I love America. I would die for this country. And I believe them.

I believe they love America. and I believe they would die for this country which is very admirable but it's like man you're willing to die for your country why aren't you willing to learn math also for your country like do both for your country

because I know you want to die for your country but we're losing the engineering jobs to Asia right now so we need less people to die for the country you want people to do their homework for their country like do your homework for your country I love him. Ronnie Chang, this one's called Love to Hate It.

He's been putting out a new full hour every two years for a while now. And he is on top of his game. This one was filmed in Honolulu. He apparently lived there a couple years while working on TV show. And the guy just continuously has more to say. And, you know, there's nothing like hearing about the state of your country from a Malaysian. there's nothing like it he's perfect for this yeah i really want you to watch this his uh his today or his uh daily show guest host stuff that he does and all the other things he does on there some of

the best stuff on there i freaking yeah and if you've only ever occasionally seen him on the daily show you might think he's got this uh character for that show no this is just him yeah he is like what you just heard and how he is on the show that's his entire character yeah and it's just awesome This is such a good special. And I particularly want you to watch it because he slips this political observation into the middle of this set. And it is so subtle and so genius. I wish everyone in the world would watch this special because he's got a, he reaches a conclusion. He doesn't reach a conclusion.

He leads you to reach your own conclusion about something. And it is wicked. I am amazed by this man. right now. Is this the love to hate it? Yes. Okay. That's the one. All right. And this is Netflix. Yeah. So on Netflix just came out two days ago on Netflix. Highly recommended. All right. I'm into it. I'll watch that. I do like him a lot. And I want you to know on the counterbalance of these scales, there are there were not very good comedy specials this year. Like I watched them all and I really wanted to like like Nikki Glazer has a new one and it's not good oh bummer I've been hearing that it was

good that's so I'll have to I guess temper my expectation this is just this is all opinion but like after she destroyed at the roast of Tom Brady I was like oh this is this is going to she's going to put out the best special of the year and I watched it and I was like uh I mean it's just yeah it's the same she hasn't really found anything new and it's like repacking all of her stuff you know do you watch the big spate of uh hulu ones you know they got some kind of comedy month of year whatever the hell's going on over there some kind of thing are any of those stand out uh yeah i mean not not so much that i came i wanted to come here and recommend them yeah um it's just it's just comedy's in a really weird place like comedians were all trying really

hard all of 2024 to not talk about politics yeah and and and so like they were just kind of missing a lot of opportunities and it's awesome how Ronnie Chang is just like I'm going to talk about politics and like rants about the most the most interesting parts of it all yeah well I'm excited I'm going to see it I've just now marked it as a what do they call that my watch list my wish list yeah oh yeah excellent and the tools are there watch any any of you all watch the daily show regularly some I picked up picked it up here and there during the political season this year and uh but not nothing nothing on the regular unfortunately when john stewart came back i was only watching it on mondays for john stewart and then i started watching it all completely

every day and i stopped watching the john stewart episodes because i i got like i don't know i got tired of him or something yeah no i get it it can happen you know too much exposure whatever but i'm uh i do like it i just was avoiding all political talk during that era so that time so I wasn't really watching anything regularly but um anyway but chang's amazing so watch him guys you know this is our last one of the year uh I'll talk to again uh first Wednesday in January um it's such a great year for comedy like I don't want to sound like there was a you know a huge miss I just like watch after midnight watch daily show there's all this great sort of regular comedy coming along

and the stand-up specials were the mess. Well, there you have it. Is this really our last recommendals of the year? It is. We're off next week. Oh, okay. Yeah, next week. Wednesdays are Christmas and New Year's Day.

Yep. So we got a couple of big Wednesdays coming up where you can relax and watch other things that you will future recommend in 2020. Oh, forget about to recommend. Yeah, exactly. I do that all the time. I almost forgot. I do it all the time.

I talk so much about what I'm about to tell you about on every other show I do that I I felt like I'd already recommend it and almost skipped it, which would be insane for me because I loved what I'm about to play so much. Mine is a recommendation from Prime. I'll just play a piece of my favorite one, and then I'll explain what that means in a second.

Humans are born prey. Fragile. Afraid. The Imperium selects the chosen few. Children, we break over decades of conditioning, purging them with weakness, carving out their fear. Those that survive are reborn with the strength to level cities to conquer worlds.

The power must be controlled. Fear forged into obedience, into faith. Centuries ago, I chose a child filled with pain and rage, a child who had never known fear. What could a soul like that be capable of? Some pretty cool shit is what he's capable of. Is this a Dune? Is this Dune? No, it is not Dune.

Although you're probably getting to the core of why I'm just naturally like stuff like this um this is that's the 40k uh warhammer 40k uh short that is part of the anthology series animation series called secret level this is produced by uh let's see what's his name tim kre forgot his name the owner uh the the runner founder tim miller thank you the founder of blur studios which you may hear that and go wait where have i seen that a lot of video game studios hire that studio to do their their cinematics Um, so when you see something like cinematics from Elder Scrolls online, that is not Zenimax doing their own internally the way, say, Blizzard does them. This is an outsource thing. And Blurz sort of just leads in that way. But he's also does a lot of other stuff. He directed the first, um, uh, uh, Deadpool movie as an example. So he does regular directing too. Um, but mostly it's this like very technologically advanced animation studio that does a lot of styles, a lot of different stuff. Um, and work with a lot of different other sub studios. And they're the same people and Tim Miller in particular with the help of um oh shoot help me seven director what's

wrong with me david fincher um and some other notables uh got the love death and robot series on Netflix and this is that again essentially but with video game not all video game one of them's d and d but um but mostly video game back stories so this one about 40k ties directly into the space marine one and two games two just came out the year and you know it's no shock that titus titus is part of that story um there's an unreal tournament one there's one for armored core which has um uh keanu reeves in it doing motion capture for it he's fantastic in it it's one of my favorite ones uh they're all kind of the outer world's one last night with uh schwarzenegger oh nice so you'd seen the first block have you already

seen the first three yeah i watched uh d and d seafood and Outer Worlds. And, you know, I look through the list of this, and I'm not the video game player that you are by any stretch of the imagination. So it's like, Ah, Si Fu, no idea what this is. I've heard of the name of the game, but I could not even tell you what kind of game it is.

But, boy, I like this little short film. Outer Worlds, I know it's like building resources and building a space, or I mean, building a place for yourself with wood and stuff like that. But that's all I know about that one. Totally different. not, not, and you, and that's not even correct. That is a very different way.

What am I thinking of that was like huge? Oh, you're thinking a new world is, New World is, New World's an MMO. Yeah, that's the Amazon's MMO game that is, yeah, there's, I guess you do gather what I was thinking of. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And that is the top, you're right, that's the first three. The Outer World's one is the, is the second, is in the second half,

which is why I was confused about what order you're doing. Oh, gotcha. Okay, so it's the outer, which, what's, so this, is it the Outer, oh, New World is the one with, uh, Shorts's, I was that's what I was confusing that and I'm glad you said that because it's important to note Arnold Schwarzenegger is a voice in the third one and it's and to to some mixed results I think he he may not have been the perfect guy for it but in retrospect I don't think I want anyone else either because it kind of worked it's it's weird it's also the most lighthearted of them it's the one they have the most fun with everything else is very self serious the D&D one so I'll just rip through these real quick the D&D one is is awesome I loved it It's really good. Really good. Really captures the spirit of D&D and made me like a halfling, which never happens.

I don't know how they did it. Cifu is a game I've owned and played. It's very hard kind of souls-like martial arts game. And that short is awesome. New World course, based on that MMO. I don't want to give too much of the stuff away. But the Unreal Tournament one, which Brian would be next for you is the fourth episode. Loved it.

Scratched my nostalgia itch. Oh, and they just lean into the games, man. is so great. But like Brian said, even if you don't know what most of these are, it doesn't matter. You can still enjoy them

on their own as animated shorts in the way that Love Death and Robots lets you do that. I'm looking forward to Pac-Man, which I hear is way out there, Spalunky and Mega Man, because I've played those games a lot. Yeah, Pac-Man is absolutely wild

and not what you expect. Abstract and weird, yeah. I loved it, A lot of people are split on that one, but I really liked it. Crossfire, a lot of people haven't heard of. It's kind of a big free-to-play shooter game, extraction shooter slash battle royale game that's mostly popular in Asia. But that is an, I thought that was an awesome episode. I really liked it.

It's not ranked very high, but I thought Crossfire was rad. Armour Corps is one I mentioned with Canada Reeves. I thought that was excellent. I would watch a whole series of that. All of these, I would actually. outer worlds is where they just started yesterday i am as far as uh did i may have finished no i did finish i finished last night i forgot how i forgot how much i watched all these i've seen them all and there's a tendency to want to rank this stuff um for me by far the the warhammer 40k one

which brian your two episodes from is the one i played the clip from is amazing and if you are a 40k fan at all it will get into your blood and never leave it is i absolutely freaking love loved that one. No shock to anybody who knows my proclivities, but everything else is great. This reminds me of those when we were teenagers going to the animation festivals at the local theaters or liquid television in the 90s. I just let it wash over me. I love this stuff. It's so creative, so interesting. It doesn't even matter that it's about games. In fact, that's my favorite thing about it is they didn't go, hey, games, am I right? A couple of examples did. I think the final episodes. They have to work well on their own for people like me who's never

picked up seafood or Outer Worlds or Exodus or anything like that. Exactly. And a game like Honor of Kings, which I think is a mobile game, free to play Chinese mobile game, that thing, episode 14 is so rad. And I don't know, I don't know a thing about that game. So there's, you know, it's a good example of that. I'm looking forward to 2025. We're getting Doug starring Timothy Shallamee. So that's going to be the one I'm really excited about. Excellent. They do a lot with that with like the, sorry, the, what do you call them? Let me scroll up. You mentioned, you mentioned Spalunky. That's a good example of it. Yeah. Or is it? Seems like it would be an ethanol spoof.

Yeah, they do, right? And some of them are a little more lighthearted, but most of them are kind of serious and heavy. And there's some violence and stuff like that. So if you've seen Love Death and Robots, you know, you honestly really do know what to expect here. If you didn't like that, there's a chance you're not going to. like these. But if you really liked the style and the crazy imagination, all this stuff going on on those, this is going to be right up your alley. They announced yesterday as season two is coming. I'm super stoked about that. And the only one, if I had to warn people off of one episode that I just straight didn't like, it was episode, the final one, episode 15, called Courier Zero. It was basically a PlayStation commercial. And I, in a, I, the way it played. Oh, with Kevin Hart. Yeah. The way that one played out just annoyed me. And you'll see why when you get there you should still watch it everybody but yeah just not it's not up to par with the rest of this

stuff also one of my favorites the one on concord episode 13 a game that is famously launched abysmally and already is canceled like that's a dead game and still they don't think they you know when they made this probably last year they weren't planning on it being a dead game oh god no kidding earlier that like august of this year yeah came out and tanked and so when he pulled it it's gone it's they've already pulled servers and everything it's a real bummer, but the story of that one, I loved that one. You could argue if they'd have played this ahead of that game coming out, the game may have done better. Maybe. Yeah. That's funny. So anyway, I love it. I can't get enough of this stuff. It is some of my favorite stuff. And it was,

it came to me at the right moment. I actually was visibly like kind of shaking after the 40K one. That's how much it got into me. And I'm a huge fan of this format. So anyway, if you like that kind of thing, If any of this stuff speaks to you, check it out. It is now on Amazon Prime in its entirety for season one. 15 episodes, secret level available now. And not for all kids. I'll say that. A lot of blood and lot of gore.

Love death and robots was too. Yes. Like, you know, that. Yeah. No nudity in these, though. No naked people in this. Unlike the violence and swearsies and stuff. Yeah.

There's some boobies and things in Love Death and Robots, but this is the, what's the, what was it? Cratos. Is that the game where we got? that hot tub boobies? Are we going to get a movie based on that one? Well, Kratos shows up in one of these. I won't tell you which one.

It might be the one that feels like a Sony commercial. I'm going to guess it's Spalunky. Spalunky is very good. Spalunky surprised me. I was very adorable and kind of reminding me why I like Spalunky. Maybe you want to play Spalunky. Anyway, I think you guys will really enjoy it. Check it out, Secret Level, on Prime now.

All of these will be up on quicktms. already are magically they're already there and by magically i mean brian inputting them on a keyboard that's our magic um i hope you guys have a fantastic holiday randy anything you want to uh say anybody anybody got anything they're really looking forward to in 2025 like a movie tv series yeah you know me i'm looking for the return of oh severance yeah i'm looking forward to the return of NCU films. I mean,

I know. Yeah, there's a new American movie, Kevin. Yeah. Looks really good. Your bolts asterisk

and yeah, all sorts. And, and, uh, oh, what if is going to be starting here pretty soon

and the new Spider-Man animated thing. I think my, I think my most, my most look forward to a movie in 2025 is the one by the, the parasite guy that with, oh,

Juno. But yeah, whatever his new one's called. It's got the new Batman in it. I can't think of his name. I can't think of names right now. I can't wait to hear you recommend it for years before I finally break down and watch it when Randy tells me I need to. Well, it is the pattern.

Second season of Wednesday is coming out, too. Oh, yeah. I like that first one. It's good. Randy, what were you saying? It's called Mickey 17 is the name of the movie. Oh, that's it. Right.

Oh, right. Mickey 17. It's the rebirth, like, the birth and death of this character 17 times, right? Something like that. I don't know. I just love his. When he does sci-fi, I am all in. And when it's English, I'm even more all in.

You're not going to have the parasite problem where it takes me years to watch it, all right? This is going to be right away. Probably see it. 255 is looking good. We're going to get Star Trek Section 31. We're going to get a new series of Black Mirror. There's a, that Karate Kid Legends movie is coming. Oh, I see.

It's all that. Yeah. Yeah, but where's, where's, what's her face? Elizabeth Shoe Not Elizabeth Shue Well, it'll be nice to have her in there Who was the Oh

She had one movie as Karate Kid Next Karate Kid Yeah Baby Two-time Oscar winner You can do it Two-time Oscar winner Freaking

They did the boxing movie With 20 million dollar Oh no yeah A million dollar baby And her name is Hillary Swank Gosh dang it That hurt

To get that out If she's not in this legends, then I'm down. I'm out. She's not in it. No sale. 28 years later, don't forget, I'm very stoked about that. If you're into such things. And, yeah, it's going to be a good year. Lilo and Stitch live action, Brian.

You excited about that? Nervous about it. Little trepidation. You know, the fact that, listen, I loved The Little Mermaid live action. I liked... Beauty and the Beast was good. Beauty and the Beast was good. I'm

interested from the trailer in the snow white situation but yeah didn't see the Milan live action Did you see the Aladdin one? I really enjoyed that one too With the tinted greens Will Smith

I kind of liked it I did like it I like the director The director that movie's cool I don't think you've seen it actually That one I haven't seen Mission of Hillary Swank in 2025 You're getting her in the third season

of yellow jackets Oh really? She'd be great on there. I wonder which of the cannibalistic teenagers she's going to be playing the older version of. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no kidding. For the final mission impossible coming out. Oh, yeah, right.

It's a big year. Part two of deadly reckoning. Yeah. My new Paddington knew how to train your dragon live action business. I don't know how I feel about that yet. Something called the monkey. Yeah. We've had like three years in a row with a monkey movie with a name monkey in it.

I'm excited. the monkeys are coming back baby all right well there you have it i hope you both have a great holiday uh this weekend of course uh reindeer games randy we're we're watching for film sacks so that's excited we can't wait yeah we're going to uh shun the funny-looking reindeer yeah which he deserves uh we'll see you then Nicole have a great one we'll see you then say out of the family Brian that's it for uh this portion of our lives yeah that's it uh although we'll be here tomorrow everybody don't worry about that yes exactly we're not leaving for good but i will tell you this at the end of this, this here show.

There's more coming up, and I'll tell you what that is. What is it? Oh, DT&S I'll be on today. Yeah, it's coming today. Tomorrow, there will be core and all that stuff, plus course TMS. Lots of stuff to listen to. Keep your minds busy. I know you're all busy. You got Christmas. Hopefully a YouTube video for me in the next couple days with a fixed version of the Las Vegas circular sign thing.

Big thanks to Wes in our Tadpool for recommending a different slicer that I think is going to do what I need it to do. Nice. Yeah. Cross my fingers. How do you get those? You just get them online, I guess. Yeah. Yeah.

It's an open source GitHub. GitHub. GitHub. Yeah. Excellent. Let's get a song played for these fine folks. What do you have? Oh, okay.

I have a request coming from Daryl in Ohio. Hey, Scott and Brian, it is with a heavy heart that I request a song. song to commemorate the passing of my dad on Thanksgiving week. As the fog of grief lifts and I resolutely turn my thoughts to happy memories, I can't help but remember many summers spent vacationing at Wampler's Lake in Michigan. My dad's boat was named Summertime Dream after the Gordon Lightfoot song, and I can't think of a more perfect tribute for my father if you can find a fitting cover. Anytime you have an open day for a request is fine, thank you for all the amazing content

and positive vibes across the Farg Ports Network, signed Daryl. so sorry for your loss Darrell that's yeah I'm sorry man about your dad that's a tough time Thanksgiving week man what a tough time to lose somebody I found one cover of

a summertime dream but I really like it it's got a very it's like that old fiddly kind of bluegrass country that I really really like it's by a guy named

Mack Wiseman and it's from a 1979 album going way back called Mac Wiseman sings Gordon Lightfoot and listening to the original and listening to this cover, he really takes it in a fun little celebratory, happy jig for you.

So hopefully it'll continue to lift your spirits and make you think of the good times on that boat. Here is Mack Wiseman and Summertime Dream. Where the road runs down by the butternut groves, the old bill's skinners to rain. You tell that the new day fell It's time for a summertime dream In a lunch pale town in a one-horse way You can live like a king and queen Let's steal away in the new day sun

It's time for a summertime dream Birds in all creation will be twittering in the tree And down below the pond I know You can swim it if you please And if you come around when the bill cuts down You can see what chival remains Let's steal away in the new day sun It's time for a summertime dream

Where time gets lost The snowballs Trial up the aisle Where the road runs down by the butternut grove, the old bill's kidders to rain. Do tell that the new day's sun is time for a summertime train. Words in all, creation will be twittering in the trees. Down below the pond I know you. could swim it if you please and if you come around when the bill shuts down you can see what

shibble remains let's deal away in the noonday sun is time for a summertime dream Those pants are made for frog in, if you know what I mean. I actually don't. Frogpans.com. Boy, howdy.